New and Improved Blogazine

Dear readers,

Some of you who visit this site may have noticed that the activity has diminished and that it has been a while that I posted anything of interest.

This is because I have finally made the plunge and opened an account at bluehost.com in order to professionalise my blogging.

I spend a huge amount of time behind the computer and until now I did so for free. This meant that I had to rely on my better half to support me and I think it’s time this changed.

So in order to hopefully make it a little lighter on him I have decided to include ads in the lay out of my blog.

Added to that I wanted to be able to embed Audio and this is als something that is not allowed on the free WordPress blogs.

So if you want to read my blogazine (Combination of Blog and Magazine) feel free to visit the new and improved version here and if you find anything of interest feel equally free to visit the sites of my advertisers.

The new blog will undoubtedly have some broken links and I will be working on improving the blog in the future but I have started to post my new posts on the new site.

The information on this blog will stay available but the blog itself will not be updated any more.

Our green clean image only counts for something if we get tourists or why our Nature reserves will be mined.

While bloggers around the NZ blogosphere rail against the oh, so predictable privatisation (excellent article, hattip to the Standard) of the National parks so that international corporations can rape and pillage them, leaving New Zealand with nothing but environmental disasters and hardly any monetary gain it pays to point out that one argument namely our green clean tourist image will suffer if this happens is only worth something if there is a tourist market.

The fact that no blog seems to doubt that there will be one in the next say ten years is what is really shocking to me.

It seems that New Zealanders have absolutely no idea of what is really going on in the rest of the world and how that will effect our tourism industry but when it finally dawns on the naive New Zealand population all that is left is the destruction of our pristine wildernesses in order to satisfy the international banking and mining worlds hunger for whatever we have left as NZ’s assets. and the one leading the attack will be their local boy John Key.

So for those of you who ant to learn here are some links to the real world out there.

Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Soros and the Euro. Just to mention a few disasters in progress.

Tory peer Lord Ashcroft finally admits he’s a non-dom

According to the Daily mail a non-Dom is someone who lives in the UK but claims his residence is in another country. Lord Ashcroft denied he was a non-Dom because they cannot take part in the political process and since Lord Ashcroft is both a peer of the realm and the biggest Tory financier he is very much involved in  UK politics. In fact he is very much involved in Anglo-Saxon politics as he has also been visiting John Key on several occasions and has travelled with English politicians to Cuba in order to help facilitate communication. Not only that; he is a shareholder and participant in the Carlyle group whose members also include the Bush family and the bin Ladens.

In order to qualify for participation in UK politics and to be able to take place in the house of Lords one has to officially reside in the UK and pay taxes on your earnings. Lord Ashcroft claimed that he was doing so but when ordered to provide proof he had to come clean and it turns out that he has not paid a single dime to the UK tax man.

While this does not surprise many his status as the biggest financier of the Tories and his involvement on the highest level of government begs the question as to why the Tories and our own PM want to have anything to do with a lying. tax dodging, sleazebag such as “Lord” Ashcroft.

I can only come up with one answer: They are all made of the same clay. They are all lying, tax dodging sleazebags.

Not only that he, when found out, had the audacity to say he would pay his taxes but only if the Tories win the next election.

Tell you what why don’t we stop paying our taxes and tell the bloody arrogant lot that we will start paying again when they have been replaced by a revolutionary interim government of “we the people” and only when all of them have been meeting with the Guillotine and the bankers (including “Lord” Ashcroft) can no longer parasite on what “we the people” slog for everyday of our lives.

And no, I’m to principally against tax but when it just disappears into the pockets of a bunch of rich prick banksters instead of paying for schools, roads and stuff that we really need such as hospitals and social support for the weakest amongst us I get very, very pissed off.

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Tory peer Lord Ashcroft faced calls to quit the Lords today after finally admitting he is still a ‘non-dom’ for tax purposes.

The Tory deputy chairman was branded a ‘tax dodger’ and accused of being ‘unpatriotic’ after ending months of speculation by coming clean about his tax status.

The billionaire businessman, who is also the Tory party’s biggest donor, denied that paying tax in the UK was a condition when he was handed a peerage in 2000.

But he said he would pay tax here on all his earnings if the Conservatives win the next election.

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Afghanistan bans coverage of attacks, will detain offending journalists

Brilliant. As predicted it isn’t going very well in Marjah. The Taliban Afghani resistance (Only hit this link if you want to know what the Afghanis resistance has to say about what is really going on in Afghanistan) as was also predicted wasn’t going to take the destruction ( a la Fallujah) of one of their oldest cities laying down.

No empire ever won in Afghanistan and they’re not going to win this time either.  No matter how calm our Rambos stay ( I wonder if Apiata got “how to appear calm in front of a camera” training during his media training) in the face of danger (FFS does anyone really write this shit?).

So in order to help our Prime minister being open about what NZ is doing in Afghanistan without having to tell us anything the Afghani government has come up with what every corrupt, deviant and propped up regime the US has ever supported: it has put out an edict to stop reporters from reporting whatever the hell we are doing over there.

“Afghanistan announced a ban on news coverage of Taliban strikes on Monday, saying such coverage only emboldened the Islamist militants, whose latest strikes killed six in the southern city of Kandahar,” Reuters reports.

Journalists will only be allowed to cover the aftermath of Taliban attacks with permission from the National Directorate of Security (NDS) spy agency, the agency said. It threatened to detain journalists who film attacks without permission and confiscate their equipment.

“Live coverage does not benefit the government, but benefits the enemies of Afghanistan,” NDS spokesman Saeed Ansari said. The agency summoned a group of reporters to announce the ban.

No filming will be permitted while attacks are under way, and live broadcasts will be banned even from a distance, Ansari said.

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