Swedish Member Of Parliament: Leading Politicians Support 9/11 Truth Movement

A Swedish Member of Parliament has pledged support for a new investigation into the events of 9/11, adding that prominent political figures support the view that elements of the U.S. government were involved in staging the attacks.

An article headlined “The U.S. was part of the attack” in the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, highlights comments made by MP Egon Frid of the country’s “Left Party”.

“The U.S. administration knew of the terrorist attack before and was a part of it,” Frid said in an interview with Swedish TV network TV4 on it’s “Kalla Facts” (Hard Facts) programme.

“My curiosity has once again led me in new ways and to top it all, I have new theories about what really happened 9/11″ Frid writes on his blog.

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Farmers jump for joy as milk prices go up but are they out of the woods yet?

Let me start by saying that I’m sincerely happy for those farmers who rely on the price of milk  for their survival. This year at least they won’t go under if the prices hold.

But what if they don’t.

Our mainstream media tell us that we are over the recession. Fonterra’s forecast for the price of milk solids is up and the Consumers confidence is up as are the house prices in Auckland but is this justified?

I’m not an economist but I’m not stupid either so let’s have a look at the news we don’t get in our MSM.

Who is still our biggest customer?

As for most countries the US is our biggest customer and it is important for us that this continue to be so. Why?
the US spend 9 trillion last year. That is phenomenal. Compare that with China the other biggest spender which spend only a paltry 1.3 trillion last year and the third biggest spender India which only spend 645 billion and you get the picture.

We have been told that the US is over it’s recession. The GDP has grown and that so they tell us means that the economy is growing.

But it isn’t. The GDP only stands for the expansion of the gross total money lump to keep it simple but where that money is created is not explained in the figures.

The economy, the real economy, that is the one in which people make stuff that other people need is shrinking and when that happens people stop buying.

The reality is that in the US millions of people are losing their jobs, their houses and their future.
The reality is that in the US millions of people are relying on benefits, have no insurance and medical care and that number is rising dramatically every month.
The reality is that all those people will loose their jobs, not until they have found another job but for years and years because all manufacturing jobs have been “outsourced”.
The reality is that all those countries with those jobs outsourced to them relied on Americans to buy their product and with the American economy collapsing that is not going to happen.

In order to understand the magnitude of the above let’s support that with some figures.

According to the official unemployment figures as many as 10% of the American workforce is unemployed but these figures do not take into account the people who are unemployed for more than three months and those who’ve stopped looking for work. Bloomberg predicts that this figure will grow to more than 13%.

The real unemployment figures are more than 17.5% which means that in the near future the real unemployment will be more like 20%. This means that we are not looking at a mere recession but at a full blown Depression of “Great depression” magnitude with some very important differences.

How many real human beings are we talking about?

We are talking about 16 million people in the US alone. 16 million people with even if they were one of two bread winners have dependants which means that you can easily double that figure of people in dire problems.

Over 7 million jobs have been lost since 2007 and the number is growing with about 300.000 a month.

Those people are all going to loose their benefits after a short period of time and foreclosure numbers are shooting through the roof.

We are talking about millions and millions of people with no future, no means of supporting themselves or their families losing their homes.

One in every 6 workers is now unemployed. That is the reality and it’s only going to get worse.

All those people relying on people to spend money in their little shops or in their expensive shopping mall outlets are going to find that more and more people are going to stay home and not spend money which means a new wave of mass layoffs.

And it gets worse

While in the era of the great depression 80% were living on small family farms and produced their own food now 80% live in urban areas with no access to home grown i.e. free food.

While at the time of the great depression the industrial era was in it’s infancy and the huge range of manufacturing jobs was yet to be developed and the resources seemed endless and cars were only for the rich and everybody wanted one now our resources are depleted, cars are everywhere and manufacturing is gone abroad.

So even with the upward glitch because we are now selling our products to Malaysia I hope that dairy farmer will realise that they need to consolidate and keep out of depth because in the long haul we ain’t seen nothing yet.

The Responsibility of the US in Contaminating Iraq with Depleted Uranium

And that goes for Afghanistan too.

The following text was presented to the Kuala Lumpur International Conference to Criminalise War, Putra World Trade Centre, 28-31 October 2009.

For two decades, the administrations of the United States of America and the United Kingdom have been waging continuous wars on Iraq to occupy this oil rich country.

The armed forces of those two countries attacked civilians with different kinds of conventional, non-conventional, and banned weapons such as cluster bombs ammunitions, napalm bombs, white phosphorous weapons and depleted Uranium weapons.

Depleted Uranium (DU) is a radioactive and chemically toxic heavy metal. If ingested, inhaled, or it enters the human body through wounds or skin, it remains there for decades.

Within the human body the (DU) particles would be a continuous source for emitting alpha particles. With its toxic effects, published research & epidemiological studies have proved that it causes serious health damages to the human body. Some of the damage to the human body is to lymph tissue, kidneys, developing fetuses, neurological system, the bones, lung fibrosis, and an increase in the risk of many types of cancer and malignancies.

Hundreds of tons of (DU) expenditure have been fired & exploded on Iraqi highly populated areas like Basrah, Baghdad, Nasriya, Dewania, Samawa, and other cities.

Exploration programs and site measurements by Iraqi and non-Iraqi researchers all proved the existence of (DU) related contamination over most Iraqi territories.

Iraq’s Minister of Environment admitted in July 23, 2007 in Cairo that “at least 350 sites in Iraq are contaminated with (DU)”. She added that the nation is facing a tremendous number of cancer cases and called for the international community to help Iraq cope with this problem.

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CNBC, finance and a New World Order

If John Key really came back to lead New Zealand to a better and healthier future he would explain how the banksters are stealing us blind with a fraudulent banking system and he would start to issue our own money rather than allow foreign banks to ride roughshot over us.

But he doesn’t that alone means that he is in cahoots with his former mates.

And this is about what is going to happen:

The CIA, the Taliban and more madness in Afghanistan

We are supporting a corrupt president who only won the “election” because his opponent withdrew. He withdrew from a second election because the same system of election was used that got Karzai elected in the first place was corrupt.

We are fighting in Afghanistan to fight “them” over there so we don’t have to fight “them” over here.

But it turns out that we “the west” are paying for the Taliban to keep the war going and we pay for the Taliban to come over to our side and we even train them to fight on our side.

But it seems the “Taliban” has its own ideas about who the enemy is and that means more casualties on you guessed it, OUR SIDE.

Call me crazy but doesn’t this sound like madness to you?

Foo fighters come out of the closet as 911 truthers! Awesome!!!

Love this song!

 

 

Endgame from Megadeth

My preference for music is absolutely not Hard rock or one of it’s many variants but I thought this one was perhaps something my more hard rock oriented readers might appreciate

 

Silence, standing on the sideline watching crimes being commited. It is time to speak up.

Some things are not to be discussed in Australia according to John Pilger awarded journalist and one of my heroes.

I put it to you that the same goes for New Zealand.

I am a seventh generation Australian. My great-great grandfather landed not far from here, on November 8th, 1821. He wore leg irons, each weighing four pounds. His name was Francis McCarty. He was an Irishman, convicted of the crime of insurrection and “uttering unlawful oaths”. In October of the same year, an 18 year old girl called Mary Palmer stood in the dock at Middlesex Gaol and was sentenced to be transported to New South Wales for the term of her natural life. Her crime was stealing in order to live. Only the fact that she was pregnant saved her from the gallows. She was my great-great grandmother. She was sent from the ship to the Female Factory at Parramatta, a notorious prison where every third Monday, male convicts were brought for a “courting day” — a rather desperate measure of social engineering. Mary and Francis met that way and were married on October 21st, 1823.
Growing up in Sydney, I knew nothing about this. My mother’s eight siblings used the word “stock” a great deal. You either came from “good stock” or “bad stock”. It was unmentionable that we came from bad stock – that we had what was called “the stain”.

One Christmas Day, with all of her family assembled, my mother broached the subject of our criminal origins, and one of my aunts almost swallowed her teeth. “Leave them dead and buried, Elsie!” she said. And we did – until many years later and my own research in Dublin and London led to a television film that revealed the full horror of our “bad stock”. There was outrage. “Your son,” my aunt Vera wrote to Elsie, “is no better than a damn communist”. She promised never to speak to us again.

The Australian silence has unique features.

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Buy a $ 15.000 health insurence or go to jail.

The new medicare laws passed by congress contain the following ways in which to enforce people to spend a minimum of $ 15.000 a year for their health care in the US.

So if you are one of the 30 million unemployed and on benefits or food stamps for a limited period before you are kicked out of the system at least you will have a bed and some grub in the future when they haul your ass into one of the privately run prisons. Or will you?

Apparently this is the capitalist idea of “free healthcare” for everybody but it sounds like a scam to me.

oday, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail.  The JCT letter makes clear that Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.

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Was the Fort Hood massacre a mutiny?

The massacre at fort Hood this week has been painted by the MSM as a lone Muslim psychiatrist gone mad because he was send overseas and while shouting Allah Akhbar (God is great) shot randomly at soldiers. Not only that the man allegedly was a member of the same Mosque attended by three of the hijackers of 9/11 and was attending services by the same Imam as the three hijackers.

All this comes with the news that Obama is nearing the point at which he is going to send another 34.000 poor souls driven into the army by poverty to the Afghanistan hell hole.

It all sounded a bit too nicely fitting in the Muslims are bad and we have to fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here paradigm to me so I started to do a bit of a google and out came all these strange oddities.

First of all there was the rapport that the man had been shot heroically by a police woman who was shot four times in the legs and still managed to bring the mad man down with four shots and than the correction later that they found the suspect on a golf course. Heuh?

A soldier goes on the rampage in an armed US fort and lives to tell the tale and goes on to play golf?

Then there was the initial news that there were three or even five shooters which was quickly played down.

This is Governor Perry of Texas stating that one of the shooters was killed while two others were in custody.

You would think they’d make sure he wasn’t telling nonsense at an official press conference wouldn’t you?

Also it came out that the FBI had been given the name of the alleged perpetrator six months ago?

So what the hell was really going on there?

These are some of the rumours surfacing on the web at the moment.

Is it possible that a group of soldiers started a mutiny and the MSM don’t want the idea to catch on? And as they say a crisis is also an opportunity.

My blog in the “fall of the Republic” by Alex Jones

OK, it’s primarily good for my own Ego but of all the blogs in the world to get a screen print with my name in it about something I wrote about New Zealand being only the 20th most police monitored state in the latest film of one of my heroes is pretty awesome.

Thanks S. for pointing that out to me.

Study: In US, 90 percent of black children will be fed by food stamps

Does this sound like a receding recession to you?

Nearly half of all US children, including an overwhelming majority of black children, will eat meals at some point during their childhood paid for by food stamps, an indicator of poverty, a study showed Monday.

“If you get food stamps, you are by definition in poverty and your household doesn’t have many assets,” said Mark Rank, a co-author of the study with Thomas Hirschl of Cornell University.

“The fact that half of American children at some time during their childhood find themselves in this position really ought to be a wake-up call to America,” he told AFP.

The study found that 49.2 percent of all American children will at some point live in a home that receives food stamps.

Among black children and children living in single-parent households, the percentage is much higher: around 90 percent live in homes that receive food stamps at one stage or another.

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If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck….

The saying goes that if it walks like a duck, quack likes a duck and looks like a duck it, in all probability, is a duck.

So if a fat man, dressed like a member of the ruling elite becomes the first Carbon billionaire you are in all probability looking at a man who is a rich, fat money grabbing member of the oligarchy.

Huh?

Have a look at this man. Does he look like a global warming fighting, tree hugging Greenie to you?

No, I didn’t think so. Yet he has taken the world by storm with his “Inconvenient truth” tour. An energy wasting epic tour worthy of the biggest rock bands and he has singlehandly convinced the rest of us to believe that unless we spend loads of money buying “Carbon credits” our planet would self destruct.

Meet Al Gore, the man who it seems is in control of Carbon elimination, it seems since he is set to become the first “Carbon” billionaire.

Now I am fully convinced that we as a species have damaged our habitat in some places to the point of irreversibility and we have to change the way we live and interact with our environment. In fact I do so every day, but when a member of the ruling elite gives up the election to the presidency of the most powerful country in an election which is clearly stolen and ends up as a billionaire because of “global warming” I smell a rat.

Why is it possible for a man who advocates sustainability to all of us to live in an unsustainably huge house (which he only adapted to “sustainable” green standards at a huge cost after he was criticised for it), fly around the world in a private jet, and end up with a bank account that you and I can only vaguely imagine?

Why is the money we have to spend on Carbon credits going to individuals and not to fighting the worst effects of “Global warming”?

How many hundreds of thousands of square miles of rainforest could be replanted giving millions of people jobs restoring natural habitats reviving the natural Carbon absorbing mechanisms of our planet if that money in Al Gore’s bank account went to indeed fighting the worst effects of “Global warming”?

I know that it is sacrilege to go against the current religion of Global warming but I hope that you agree with me that these questions need an explanation before people like Al Gore and his oil and banking oligarch mates extract another dollar from us  for their fake Carbon TAX scam.

They walk like ducks, quack like ducks and look like ducks for god’s sake let’s start treating them like ducks.

I’m planting lots of trees and I am creating a sustainable food forest on my little piece of land and I’ll be damned if I give a cent to these scamming rich fraudsters for their Global Warming Scam.

I suggest you do the same.

The last days of the empire

The elite on last days of the Roman empire were narcissistic and utterly depraved and decadent and it is hard not to draw parallels with the current wave of elitist decadence and the demise and destabilisation of our economies.

With wars waged by the ruling elite to conquer the remaining resources, corrupt appropriation of our tax dollars  and the attacks on any form of compassion and communal care for the sick, the elderly and the poor we are currently observing  the end of the western civilisation as we know while the celebrities and the minions of the rich party through vast fortunes and we the “normal” people, the workers, the farmers, those of us who make ends meet are being systematically robbed of all the values we hold dear, of whatever little bits of savings we managed to put aside for a rainy day.

I am not opposed to parties whether they be Halloween or Christmas or our birthdays and I’m happy if that includes dressing up and making merry with food and drink but if you just take a look around the world how our obscenely rich elite with their minions celebrate in decadent opulence while millions of people perish in their wars of greed and conquest I feel ill and the Guillotine is beginning to become very atractive in my eyes again.

Here are some links to Halloween parties around the world. Here, here, here and here.

This and this is what some rich people consider to be an OK sum to spend on a mere restaurant meal.

Sterilise underclass to stop child abuse – Michael Laws

Who is this guy? On his photos I see this vain oldy looking guy trying to look young with his pathetic black crayoned eyes (which I have to confess I find charming on gothickly inclined young males) and he comes out with all this crap. Does he not have advisors who can tell this Nationalistically challenged sad sack of shit when to engage his brain before he opens his mouth.

And when will New Zealand Pakeha’s distance themselves from a man who espouses the same claptrap as the Nazi’s when the sterilised and killed all those they thought of as the unworthy underclass?

Wanganui Mayor Michael Laws says giving the “underclass” money to be sterilised will address our child abuse problem.

Critics last night labelled the suggestion “totalitarian”, “draconian” and “reprehensible”, and questioned his appropriateness as a city leader.

Mr Laws said the children of beneficiaries, drug addicts and criminals had little chance in life. He was speaking five days after the death of two-year-old Wanganui boy Karl Perigo-Check, the son of a convicted murderer and gang member.

“If we gave $10,000 to certain people and said ‘we’ll voluntarily sterilise you’ then all of society would be better off. There’d be less dead children and less social problems.

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Mind Your Tweets: The CIA Social Networking Surveillance System

I have never liked those bubbly give me more private information social websites.

That social networking sites and applications such as Facebook, Twitter and their competitors can facilitate communication and information sharing amongst diverse groups and individuals is by now a cliché.

It should come as no surprise then, that the secret state and the capitalist grifters whom they serve, have zeroed-in on the explosive growth of these technologies. One can be certain however, securocrats aren’t tweeting their restaurant preferences or finalizing plans for after work drinks.

No, researchers on both sides of the Atlantic are busy as proverbial bees building a “total information” surveillance system, one that will, so they hope, provide police and security agencies with what they euphemistically call “actionable intelligence.”

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Afghanistan, a lost war and the low morale of the troops that have to fight it.

Yesterday a bomb exploded in Peshawar, Pakistan. It killed 91 people mostly women and children who were at a market. Another bomb exploded in Afghanistan, in the heart of Kabul. It killed 19 people, mostly UN workers wh0 were living in the guest house which was targeted by the “Taliban”.

New Zealand troops have been send into the gold standard of all Quagmires for nothing more than John Key’s street cred. What do I mean by that?

John Key wants to play with the big boys. He wants after his stint as our MP helping the big boys with the looting of this country to leave these Islands and make bucket loads of money and he has to prove he has the balls to be accepted by the international murderous elite. So they say, as with every gang initiation, you can prove you’re game by giving us a couple of dead bodies. Guess who are going to be those dead bodies. Yep, New Zealand’s finest: young well trained New Zealand men who should be with their families in the service of the protection of these Islands instead of in the Quagmire that is the war in Afghanistan. But instead they will come back in body bags all so John Key can climb another step in the Bankster gang.

Never mind that troops on the ground are losing their morale and feel that their presence in Afghanistan serves only to prolong the war and does nothing to help the people of Afghanistan.

Never mind that the US is engaged in illegal acts of aggression and extra judicial murder in Pakistan with drone attacks which are the cause of huge collateral damage (that is the murder of innocent bystanders such as children and women)

Never mind that the generals of both the US and the UK in Afghanistan all say that the war is going to last at least another 10-20 years.

Never mind that the CIA is torturing people to the point of death and kept them alive just so they could torture them some more or that the brother of the Karzai, Afghanistan’s corrupt president, is on the pay list of the CIA and also one of the biggest drug lords in that god forsaken country

John Key will disappear after his stint as NZ PM  into the blue yonder over the bodies of those troops to become even more obscenely rich and he will do so over the bodies of those young men he send to Afghanistan.

You mark my words.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1223469/Six-UN-staff-killed-wounded-Taliban-rocket-attack-Afghan-guesthouse.html

Do you feel manipulated by any chance? I know I do.

Yesterday I zapped passed NZTV only to zap away quickly again when I saw Bill English’s ugly mug spread all over the screen. I don’t know about you but doesn’t it strike you as odd that a disgraced financial predator who shamelessly rorted the system for his own benefit (including an extra $ 20.- cleaning money) is now being promoted as the defender of good old fashioned economic values and is given 135 minutes of free air time?

If a minister can promote himself so shamelessly on a government owned TV sender without any balancing views what does that say of the state of independence of that sender? A minister in a powerful position he has seen fit to abuse for years and now in a powerful position to promote his political agenda without any opposition spells the end of independent news gathering and information. It spells PROPAGANDA in big ugly capitals. It spells MANIPULATION and the pushing through of unpopular “YES, WE CAN” measures that you and I will feel in our wallets but which will make the rich of this country and the rich of the international elite richer.

If you feel manipulated with the appearance of Bill English on TV like he did yesterday that is because you are.

Labour is crying foul over a TVNZ promotional advertisement in which Finance Minister Bill English appears as the poster boy for a series of programmes on the economy.

The 60-second promo has screened on some prime-time shows, including One News, and features Mr English talking about his hopes for the economy and how New Zealand can grow out of recession.

He ends by saying “We’re nearly through the tough times and things are looking up … together, us Kiwis can do it.”

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In Arizona, death row may soon be run by private industry

The State of Arizona, seeking to close a $2 billion budget gap, is planning to open bidding on all but one of its prison facilities.

Included in the offerings to private firms is an opportunity to manage the captivity of those condemned to die: a move that, for the first time ever, would put a U.S. state’s death row in corporate hands, according to The New York Times.

“While executions would still be performed by the state, officials said, the Department of Corrections would relinquish all other day-to-day operations to the private operator and pay a per-diem fee for each prisoner,” the Times added.

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The fall of the Republic and the emergence of the New World Order. John Key anyone?

This is the latest film of Alex Jones. It is an exploration in the functioning of the Federal Reserve and its fraudulent machinations to gain control of the worlds resources and the destruction of the US of A in order to establish international monetary control and a control grid of massive proportions around the world. The new powers of the police in New Zealand nothing more than an extension of the controls already put in place to control the US, UK and Australian population when our system will begin to unravel leaving millions upon millions without jobs, housing and food.

The Cheney Gene: Are they the Borgia’s of our time?

Alexander VI with his daughter Lucrecia and his son Cesare

The Borgia pope Alexander VI and his family were notorious for their wanton violence and greed. When the pope died his quarters were walled up for centuries and whether her reputation was deserved or not Lucrecia Borgia was the iconic face of poisonous evil rumoured to have a hollow ring which was filled with poison for her to release in a glass of wine of her next victim.

Today Cheney and his daughters seem to be filling the place nicely as the manipulate and enrich themselves over the misery of untold millions throughout the world.

Liz Cheney, Debra Burlingame, and William Kristol have launched a new neocon site, Keep America Safe to “make the case for an unapologetic approach to fighting terrorism around the world, for victory in the wars this country fights, for democracy, freedom and human rights, and for a strong American military that is needed in the dangerous world in which we live.” Among those associated with the group are Michael Goldfarb, Aaron Harison, and Justin Germany.

Numerous things are troubling about this group, but one stands out. None has ever served in the military. Just like Dick Cheney, when their nation called, they discovered that they had priorities other than military service; yet they have no problem with beating the war drums and sending other people’s children into battle. The most well-known neocons also fall into this group. The only prominent neocon who has served in the military is Norman Podhoretz. Numerous members of Congress are also in this group, especially those in the Republican leadership. If you want to know who they are, go to the chickenhawk database.

I propose that all of these people be referred to as possessors of the Cheney Gene. It is an unidentified gene

Cheney and Daughter

that turns the belly yellow when country calls. It is possessed by people who when called to serve say, Hell no, I won’t go. People who possess this gene have given the word “conservative” new meaning. Historically it has meant save the status quo, the old regime. Now it means save my skin.

These people are experts on war from afar. Some of these people have held high diplomatic and Pentagon posts. Dick Cheney, James Schlesinger, Harold Brown, William Cohen, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, John R. Bolton, Elliott Abrams, Doug Feith are some of the most prominent beaters of war drums who have never served. All are neocons who chose to save their own skins; all have the Cheney gene.

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The Hegelian dialectic: Problem(Crisis) Reaction, Solution. The NWO tool of choice.

How does the ruling elite get what they want? Simple. They create a crisis, everybody gets scared and then they present the “solution”. In the case of their privatisation agenda of the National government these last few weeks the ACC “Crisis” is a case in point.

Here is how it works:

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Daily Show: Afghanistan is ‘the gold standard for quagmires’

A Sunday morning laugh with a serious undertone. Our optimist in chief John Key thinks we can sort this puppy (Or fuck this chicken according to Jon Steward) in 18 months

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Countries with the Biggest Gaps Between Rich and Poor. Oh Oops,Is that New Zealand on the 6th place?

While our National MP’s paint a picture of New Zealand as a country were everybody has a shot at luxury if only you will work for it and that you’re only poor because you won’t and therefore you don’t deserve medical assistance, free evening classes and counselling if raped when poor this research shows a different picture.

In fact New Zealand according to this rapport is the country with the fastest growing inequality amongst the UN member states.

Funny that, eh?

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The U.N. Development Program recently came out with a report looking, among other things, at income inequality worldwide.

The UNDP ranked countries and regions based on a number of factors, including their Gini coefficient, named for Italian statistician Corrado Gini.

We have listed the world’s most advanced economies based on their Gini score, with zero marking absolute equality and 100 absolute inequality. Scandinavian countries, Japan, and the Czech Republic have the least amount of inequality. The U.S. is among the most unequal, but it’s not No. 1. To see which economy is, read on.

Top 11 Countries With the Biggest Gaps Between Rich and Poor

No. 1 Hong Kong

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Gini score: 43.4

GDP 2007 (US$ billions): 207.2

Share of income or expenditure (%)

Poorest 10%: 2.0

Richest 10%: 34.9

Ratio of income or expenditure, share of top 10% to lowest 10%: 17.8

Renowned for its high concentration of Rolls-Royces, expensive real estate, and posh shops, the Chinese special administrative region has plenty of rich who enjoy showing off their wealth. However, Hong Kong also has one of the largest public housing sectors in the world, with about half the population living in government-supported or -subsidized housing estates. The city has no minimum wage—except for domestic helpers from the Philippines, Indonesia, and other countries.

No. 2 Singapore

Gini score: 42.5

GDP 2007 (US$ billions): 161.3

Share of income or expenditure (%)

Poorest 10%: 1.9

Richest 10%: 32.8

Ratio of income or expenditure, share of top 10% to lowest 10%: 17.7

Singapore is one of the world’s most open economies, and it suffered badly following the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers last year. Recently, though, the city-state’s economy has rebounded, with GDP growing an annualized 14.9% rate in the third quarter compared with the previous quarter.

No. 3 U.S.

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Gini score: 40.8

GDP 2007 (US$ billions): 13,751.4

Share of income or expenditure (%)

Poorest 10%: 1.9

Richest 10%: 29.9

Ratio of income or expenditure, share of top 10% to lowest 10%: 15.9

The share of income for the top percentile of Americans was 23.5% in 2007, the highest since 1928, according to Emmanuel Saez, a Berkeley economist who won the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal in April. Income for the top 0.01% hit a record-high 6.04%. And the recession may be exacerbating income inequality.

No. 4 Israel

Gini score: 39.2

GDP 2007 (US$ billions): 164.0

Share of income or expenditure (%)

Poorest 10%: 2.1

Richest 10%: 28.8

Ratio of income or expenditure, share of top 10% to lowest 10%: 13.4

Gone are the days when Israel was one of the world’s most egalitarian societies. Early Labor Zionist pioneers built kibbutzim for Jewish immigrants, but those collectives have fallen on hard times. The growing number of haredim, or ultra-Orthodox Jews, with large families and men who study the Torah rather than work has worsened the inequality problem.

No. 5 Portugal

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Gini score: 38.5

GDP 2007 (US$ billions): 222.8

Share of income or expenditure (%)

Poorest 10%: 2.0

Richest 10%: 29.8

Ratio of income or expenditure, share of top 10% to lowest 10%: 15.0

While Portugal emerged from recession in the second quarter, the unemployment rate tops 9%. The ruling Socialists retained power in elections last month but lost seats to parties on the far left.

No. 6 New Zealand

Gini score: 36.2

GDP 2007 (US$ billions): 135.7

Share of income or expenditure (%)

Poorest 10%: 2.2

Richest 10%: 27.8

Ratio of income or expenditure, share of top 10% to lowest 10%: 12.5

According to the OECD, New Zealand had the biggest rise in inequality among member nations in the two decades starting in the mid-1980s. The country’s economy emerged from recession in the second quarter, but with growth of just 0.1%, the central bank is likely to keep interest rates low until well into 2010.

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Taliban increases in strength

9 years ago the coalition of the killing willing ousted the Taliban with a mere 10.000 troops. Today more than 65.000 foreign troops are stationed in Afghanistan there are even more than that in Mercenary numbers and still most of the Country is under Taliban control. Does that sound like “we ” won the war to you?

Not only that but the number of Taliban warriors is growing there are now 25.000 full time warriors and many more “part time” warriors.

McCrystal, Obama’s hand picked head thug wants 65.000 more troops to impose total control over some 30 million people and Obama is stepping up the attacks with unmanned drones into Pakistan even though it kills a lot of innocent people. This will only help increase the numbers of the Taliban as people loose loved ones and take up a gun for revenge.

McCrystal may not get 65.000 troops but 45.000 are being discussed.

Pakistan is claiming some “victories” against the Taliban while they attack Taliban strongholds with another 30.000 troops.

No empire ever won in Afghanistan. John Key proclaiming eminent victory in 18 months is a joke designed to keep the gullible New Zealand public from asking serious questions about our involvement.

U.S. military create live remote-controlled beetles to bug conversations

That big ole Huhu bug that keeps buzzing around your window? You’ll never look at it the same way again. LOL.

Spies may soon be bugging conversations using actual insects, thanks to research funded by the US military.

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has spent years developing a whole host of cyborg critters, in the hopes of creating the ultimate ‘fly on the wall’.

Now a team of researchers led by Hirotaka Sato have created cyborg beetles which are guided wirelessly via a laptop.

Enlarge   Researchers at UC Berkeley have implanted surveillance equipment into beetles that allows them to control where they fly

Using implants, they worked out how to control a beetle’s take-off, flight and landing by stimulating the brain to work the wings.

They controlled turns through stimulating the basilar muscles on one side or the other to make the wings on that side flap harder.

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Deformed babies in Fallujah

Depleted Uranium and White Phosphorus were used to conquer Fallujah in the rampage that ensued after the murder of four Blackwater Mercenaries.

This will be happening for oh, the next 45 billion years. The next country to get more and more deformed children is Afghanistan. And just so you understand how bad it is really going to get: the soldiers who fought in these wars and who are lucky enough to survive will bring the dust with them to all the countries they are from.

That means it’s only a matter of time before here in Nuclear free New Zealand we will see the same horrific deformities and cancers. Welcome to the New World Order.

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Did the US just attack Iran?

Jundullah a group closely linked to al Qaeda and based in Pakistan claimed the responsibility for the suicide attack which killed six Iranian top commanders and several tribal Sunny and Shia chiefs.

While in the Western press Jundullah is without fail painted as a Sunni resistance group intend on defending or liberating the Sunni minority it is a group funded by the CIA according to several news sources.

The U.S. government effectively attacked Iran yesterday after its proxy terror group Jundullah launched a suicide bomb attack against the Iranian Revolutionary Guard at their headquarters in Pishin, near the border with Pakistan.

Leaders of the Al-Qaeda affiliated Sunni terrorist group Jundullah have claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in Iran that killed over 40 people yesterday. The group is funded and trained by the CIA and is being used to destabilize the government of Iran, according to reports out of the London Telegraph and ABC News.

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Historic 9/11 Debate with Bigard, Laurent, Kassovitz and Harrit on French TV

While here in New Zealand we still believe in the sugar coated version that 19 bad Muslims flew two planes into buildings collapsing three buildings into a pyroclastic flow in freefall speed and while planes were able to do that in New York a plane disintegrated into a vapour when it collided with the Pentagon and brave passengers brought down a plane to save their fellow Americans after they phoned their loved ones  with phones that could not have transmitted from the hight they were flying all the while uninterrupted by the most well armed army in the world because they were “confused” for more than two hours the rest of the world including the people of the United States are waking up to the real horror of that day:

The three WTC buildings were blown up with Nano and normal Thermite. We don’t know what really happened at the Pentagon because we are not allowed to see the hundreds of video’s and whatever happened to flight 93 we don’t know but no plane crashed into that field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

You have until October 28 to learn French because French TV France 2’s “L’objet du scandale” with Guillaume Durand will air a historic debate over the official version of the 9/11 events.

On one side: 4 people with the hard task to defend the official version. On the other side, Jean-Marie Bigard,  Mathieu Kassovitz, Éric Laurent and special guest Niels Harrit will tell France and the world why they don’t support the official theory and why they find it disturbing.

This is already a victory for the Bigard/Kassovitz camp who challenged the French media to organize a fair debate over 9/11 after being vilified by many French journalists because of their positions on 9/11. They have been called many names and even received dead threats. But no serious journalist was able to challenge them on their positions and to seriously make a case against them. Now will be their chance, and like Bigard mentions in the below video, “good luck to them.”

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Fraudulent Afghan Election Raises Odds Against U.S. “Success”

So if the Taliban were not involved in 9/11 and al Qaeda is now “spread” all over the Muslim word then why did we send New Zealand’s finest to prop up a corrupt government?

The fraudulent Afghan election of last August 20th has delayed the possibility of a new regime taking over promptly to replace the corrupt rule of the discredited, U.S. hand-picked President Hamid Karzai.

The ballot box stuffing has blunted a key aspect of President Obama’s stated desire to bring about domestic reform there, not just to wage war, in that tortured nation.

While the recount drags on over what the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) called “clear and convincing evidence of fraud,” Pentagon officials are claiming the Taliban is growing ever stronger and they need tens of thousands of additional troops. General Stanley McChrystal, the Afghanistan commander, warned of possible “mission failure” without them. Civilians continue to die from U.S. air strikes aimed at Taliban targets as well as Taliban explosives and U.S. troops continue to die in record numbers in the fighting. Each day brings fresh headlines detailing the slaughter.

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