Political leanings

[pacman]

(Torurot @ May 19 2011,05:54) Which shame would you rather
endure: being called a Paddy or living in a slum? Being patronised or
being unemployed? Having your national feelings hurt or having no
chance of a decent education for your kids? I know which options my
aunts and uncles took.

Thanks for that Torurot, an interesting article that explains a lot of things.

It is all rather different to Australia's relationship with our smaller neighbour New Zealand. Though we still attract plenty of aspirational Kiwis looking for better opportunities.

The arrive in their 1000's every year but most of them are very welcome because they are prepared to work hard.

There is one downside though, for every Kiwi leaving home for Oz, it lowers the collective IQ of both countries...      

       

[strocube]

Hey Pacman, yeah, I guess there is a difference, but it's really more about format than content; it's a different style of presentation, but the behavior of the empire, the military machine, and the propaganda remain unchanged. Structurally nothing changes. The only difference really is a slight variation of the rhetoric, that's about it.
Besides, there is really fuck all I can do about any of it, so fuck it. Let 'em get on with their show, I won't be paying attention. It has become meaningless background chatter; left, right, liberal, conservative, whatever.

[Torurot]

It was sent to me by an Irish born lad whose parent emigrated when he was a tot with their tribe for a "better life" in the "colonies" for exactly the reasons outlined in the article, and of course never looked back. Sick of the religious and other divides they occasionally went "Home" for a visit, but never to return.

WRT Kiwis going to OZ, the grass is always greener until you have to mow it It's the wages they hear about, but not everyone wants to work at Broken Hill or work out the "back of Bourke" with two weeks on and ten days off. And the price of bananas.... scandalous!!!!

[Torurot]

Thailand: Corporate-Funded €œPeople€™s€ Movement
June 22nd, 2011 http://cryptogon.com/?p=23161

Via: Land Destroyer:
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011....nt.html

So then it is alarming when these nefarious agents of the global corporate-financier elite have now aligned against yet another nation, Thailand. More alarming is how the progressive activists committed to Thaksin and his political party, are seemingly so profoundly ignorant of the nature of the movement they are helping to propel along and the fact that they are indeed handing the corporate elite yet another nation to despoil.

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[strocube]

No shortage of useful idiots, it seems.

[Torurot]

May as well stick this here as we don't have a trade thread

Rice May Rally Sharply in Wake of Thai Election
July 4th, 2011

Via: Bloomberg: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-0...elections.html

Rice prices in Thailand, the biggest exporter, may rally 56 percent by yearend as the party that won parliamentary elections implements a policy to buy the crop from farmers above current rates, according to a survey.

The export price may climb to $810 per metric ton by Dec. 31, according to a median forecast of six millers, exporters and traders today and yesterday, who commented after Pheu Thai won a majority in yesterday€™s contest. €œWe are ready to implement all policies we have announced,€ Yingluck Shinawatra, who will become Thailand€™s first female prime minister, said yesterday.

Costlier rice from Thailand, which accounts for about 30 percent of worldwide shipments, may increase global food costs while making supplies from rival Vietnam more competitive. A Bloomberg survey last month, conducted during the campaign, suggested a gain to $750 per ton if Pheu Thai were to win.

€œIt isn€™t only Thai prices that will go up, the rest of the world will have to follow,€ Mamadou Ciss, chief executive officer of Hermes Investments Pte, said from Geneva. The price may jump $100 within two months and peak at $700, said Ciss, who correctly predicted in 2006 that prices would double.

Thai export prices are a benchmark for the industry. The price of the 100 percent grade-B variety, which is set weekly, was at $519 per ton on June 29, and has risen as much as 7.3 percent since outgoing Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva called the election. Abhisit€™s Democrat Party won 160 seats in the 500- member parliament while Pheu Thai took 264, with 98 percent of the vote counted.


and in Japan, more Rice than you can shake a stick at! Free irradiation.

Monitoring Rice Situation in Japan: Toshiso Kosako: Come the Harvest Season in the Fall, There Will Be Chaos

Toshiso Kosako: Come the Harvest Season in the Fall, There Will Be Chaos
July 2nd, 2011

You probably know that rice has semi religious significance throughout Asia, but you may not know that Japanese are particularly weird about their rice. To Japanese, it€™s not really rice unless it€™s rice from Japan.

In order to avoid international trade sanctions, Japan imports rice, but the rice is generally not consumed in Japan. Most of the foreign rice is stored in vast warehouses in Tokyo. Some is exported as foreign aid. Some is used to make alcohol products and livestock feed. The rest is kept for emergencies.

Here is a Business Week piece from 2008 that describes Japan€™s rice stockpiling practices:
http://www.businessweek.com/globalb....137.htm

To understand Japan€™s role in deflating the rice market, it helps to visit the warehouses rimming Tokyo Bay. It€™s here in temperature-controlled buildings that Japan keeps millions of 30-kilogram vinyl bags of rice that it imports every year. Tokyo doesn€™t need rice from the outside world: The country€™s heavily subsidized farmers produce more than enough to feed the country€™s 127 million people. Yet every year since 1995, Tokyo has bought hundreds of thousands of metric tons of rice from the U.S., Thailand, Vietnam, China, and Australia.
A Rice Imbalance

Why does Japan buy rice it doesn€™t need or want? In order to follow World Trade Organization rules, which date to 1995 and are aimed at opening the country€™s rice market. The U.S. fought for years to end Japanese rice protectionism, and getting Tokyo to agree to import rice from the U.S. and elsewhere was long a goal of American trade policy. But while the Japanese have been buying rice from farms in China and California for more than a decade, almost no imports ever end up on dinner plates in Japan. Instead the imported rice is sent as food aid to North Korea, added to beer and rice cakes, or mixed with other grains to feed pigs and chickens. Or it just sits in storage for years. As of last October, Japan€™s warehouses were bulging with 2.6 million tons of surplus rice, including 1.5 million tons of imported rice, 900,000 tons of it American medium-grain rice.

What will be the implications of the radioactive desecration of Japan€™s precious rice?

Japan€™s population is remarkably docile and content to calmly and quietly swallow government lies. Obedience to authority, the desire to avoid discord, and the sense of an obligation to sacrifice oneself for the general good of the nation are difficult to comprehend by outsiders.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/...20076634.shtml

But this rice thing€¦

There is definitely potential for a wildcard result here.

Via: Wall Street Journal:
http://online.wsj.com/article....24.html

A former nuclear adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan blasted the government€™s handling of the crisis, and predicted more revelations of radiation threats to the public in the coming months.

In his first media interview since resigning his post in protest in April, Toshiso Kosako, one of the country€™s leading experts on radiation safety, said Mr. Kan€™s government has been slow to test for dangers in the sea and to fish, and has understated certain radiation threats to minimize clean-up costs. In his post, Mr. Kosako€™s role was to advise the prime minister on radiation safety.

And while there have been scattered reports of food contamination€”of tea leaves and spinach, for example€”Mr. Kosako predicted there will be broader discoveries later this year, especially as rice, Japan€™s staple, is harvested.

€œCome the harvest season in the fall, there will be a chaos,€ Mr. Kosako said. €œAmong the rice harvested, there will certainly be some radiation contamination€”though I don€™t know at what levels€”setting off a scandal. If people stop buying rice from Tohoku €¦ we€™ll have a tricky problem.€

Mr. Kosako also said that the way the government has handled the Fukushima Daiichi situation since the March 11 tsunami crippled the reactors has exposed basic flaws in Japanese policy making.

€œThe government€™s decision-making mechanism is opaque,€ he said. €œIt€™s never clear what reasons are driving what decisions. This doesn€™t look like a democratic society. Japan is increasingly looking like a developing nation in East Asia.€

Specifically, Mr. Kosako said the government set a relatively high ceiling for acceptable radiation in school yards, so that only 17 schools exceeded that limit. If the government had set the lower ceiling he had advocated, thousands of schools would have required a full cleanup. With Mr. Kan€™s ruling party struggling to gain parliamentary approval for a special budget, the costlier option didn€™t get traction, he said.

€œWhen taking these steps, the only concern for the current government is prolonging its own life,€ Mr. Kosako said.

[Torurot]

For those of you who follow U.S. politics

Another useful US politics site.  The fake US budget "problem" is very tiresome, very fake.    

http://thinkprogress.org/

[Torurot]

I'm amazed that no one especially our U.K. readers haven't commented on the "situation" currently occurring in the other Kingdom.

[BlueBallz]

Just a bunch of welfare chavs running riot. Why?? Because they can!!! I am certain the populace had a legit beef in regards to the origianl incident that lit the torch paper. The enemies of civilised society saw an opportunity to steal stuff and cause mayhem. Simple as.....

BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!!!

[katoeylover]

dead right. wankers, opportunist cunts. who are now getting all they deserve.

[Tomcat]

Just let me take over

People wouldnt be very happy , but at least the Trains would run on time

[TEXASMAC]

The USA stock market. This week I made $5000.00 then I lost $6000.00. At the end of the week my 401K is up $25.98.

[Torurot]

A useful site for How many Quid/$$ was a pint in 1960 in todays money etc

Current Value of Old Money
http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/RDavies...t/howmuch.html

A frequent question is "how much would a specified amount of money at a certain period of time be worth today?" The sources listed below are useful in attempting to answer this question.

[Tomcat]

Sirs

Its a good job you dont live in the UK.

I watched that Clown Ed Moribund last night make the worst speech i have ever heard for a politician. That poof Tony Blair and GBrown have ruined  the UK and Labour have the cheek to say they made a few minor errors.. what an understatement. Moribund cant get out of it either as he was part of advisory commitees when these idiots were in power

Blair was a champagne socialist same as that other smarmy fucker Mandelson. Why any working class man would vote for them is beyond me.



Yours faithfully

Henri Renardeux
Tunbridge Wells


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news....ng.html

[Torurot]

Speaking of that useless piece of shite.....


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news....as.html


Tony Blair's job in jeopardy as Palestinians accuse him of bias


Tony Blair's future as Middle East peace envoy was in jeopardy after the Palestinian Authority said it was set to sever all contact with him because of his "bias" towards Israel.

By Adrian Blomfield, Jerusalem

9:26PM BST 28 Sep 2011


The senior echelons of the Palestine Liberation Organisation are expected to meet in the coming days to discuss a proposal to declare Mr Blair persona non grata, officials said.

Predicting unanimous support for the motion from the entire
Palestinian leadership, they said the intention was to isolate the former prime minister to such an extent that his position would become untenable.

Mr Blair has been viewed with an element of distrust by some
Palestinians ever since his appointment as the envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East €“ the mediating body comprising the United States, the EU, the UN and Russia €“ on the day he left Downing Street in June 2007.

But antagonism has mounted over allegations that he lobbied European powers to vote against a Palestinian bid for statehood submitted to the United Nations in New York last week. "We have been extremely unhappy and dissatisfied with Mr Blair's performance since he became envoy, but particularly in the past few weeks," a senior Palestinian
official said.

No formal request for Mr Blair's dismissal has been made to the Quartet, and it is likely the Palestinians will come under intense US and European pressure to change course and desist from making a public pronouncement on his ostracism.

But Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, has shown himself to be less amenable to American appeals than in the past. Considerably bolstering his once-flagging domestic popularity, he withstood a barrage of US anger in recent weeks to press ahead with
his bid for statehood, despite threats in Washington to cut
Palestinian aid.

Given the growing contempt in Palestinian circles towards Mr Blair, humiliating the former prime minister would only prove more popular. If Palestinians were to persist in refusing to meet Mr Blair, it is hard to see how he could continue to do his job effectively.

"There is no one within the Palestinian leadership that supports or likes or trusts Tony Blair, particularly because of the very damaging role he played during our UN bid," a second Palestinian official said.

"He is considered persona non grata in Palestine. Although we can't prevent him from coming here, we can hopefully minimise the role he can play because he is not a mediator, he is totally biased on one side.€

Palestinian anger towards Mr Blair exploded into the open last week when Nabil Shaath, a senior negotiator, denounced him for peddling a US-backed peace plan that failed to call for a halt to Israeli settlement building.

€œHe sounds like an Israeli diplomat sometimes,€ Mr Shaath said.

Mr Blair has courted controversy in recent weeks after it emerged that he carried out a secret correspondence with Col Muammar Gaddafi, the ousted Libyan leader, using Quartet notepaper.

Mr Blair has played the role of international peace mediator with some swagger, maintaining a personal staff of more than a dozen at a five-star hotel in East Jerusalem.

But he has reportedly been frustrated that his role has been confined primarily to the economic sphere. His major breakthrough has been persuading Israel to remove some of its West Bank checkpoints.

He is understood to have hoped to assume the more political role played by George Mitchell, President Obama€™s special envoy, who resigned in May. If Palestinian claims are true, his efforts to persuade European powers not to back the statehood bid may have been an attempt to burnish his credentials in Washington.

An aide to Mr Blair declined to comment on the Palestinian accusations.