‘Business confidence dips sharply
Business confidence is falling sharply, a new survey shows, with the number of companies experiencing a fall in activity in the last three months jumping 11 per cent since June.
…..The survey, considered by economists to be the most thorough and accurate reflection of business confidence in New Zealand, painted a grim picture of the economy.’
Meanwhile, the NZ taxpayer forks out millions to send athletes to this:
“We swear by the Southern Cross to stand truly by each other and fight to defend our rights and liberties.” HERE
H/T Patrick Carroll A Matter of Opinion
‘Massive street brawl in Adelaide after first Miss Africa beauty pageant
FOUR men suffered stab wounds as a day of intermittent violence following South Australia’s first Miss Africa pageant erupted into a vicious all-in brawl.
Up to 100 people armed with with knives, tyre levers, clubs, makeshift batons and a bedpost fought a pitched battle in Adelaide’s Bent Street near the Austral Hotel early today.’
AND:
‘Three men are in hospital after a brawl between up to ten men in Sydney’s inner-west early today.
Police were called to Cabarita Wharf just after 4am following reports of a fight between two groups of Middle Eastern men.’
How many “refugees” are given homes in Australia on the pretext that they’re fleeing violence in their homelands, only to bring violence to their gullible hosts? If the Somali gang problem is any indicator, there’s one hell of a lot of them.
Part of the difficulty in countering this is the fact that a vast army of social workers, counsellors and lawyers, teachers and so on, has grown to service the “needs” of these primitive assholes and there’s no way they’re going to let go of what promises to be an endless source of income.
It would be interesting to see just how many of these “refugees” are still on the public tit–say–three years after arriving in Australia.
Stop importing shit–and for those who are already here, conviction for a violent crime should result in immediate deportation.
‘Freedom of speech is indispensable and the people’s desire for democracy “irresistible”, China’s Premier Wen Jiabao said on Sunday as he brushed aside criticisms that Beijing is curbing such rights…’
‘Forget Sydney or Melbourne’s ‘seedy underbellies’, Adelaide boasts far more bizarre and macabre crimes …
Drawing from his ten years experience as a court reporter at The Adelaide Advertiser, Sean Fewster lifts the lid on some of the most attention-grabbing, shocking and puzzling crimes from the past decade. The cases include:
• the murder of a transvestite truck driver by his two lesbian lodgers after an argument over a camera
• the prosecution of an elderly couple who grossly mistreated their pets (120 dogs and six pigs).
City Of Evil changes your view of Adelaide as a peaceful, civilised ‘city of churches’, where there’s no need to lock your doors at night.’
Aah…Adelaide. Yes. So pretty, so….civilized.
Where the corruption and violence are hidden either beneath the well-manicured gardens and streets of the city and affluent inner suburbs, or tucked away out of sight in the endless miles of outer suburbs and developments– which have had a character bypass.
Where lawyers and judges and politicians get together with Old Money and form an unholy alliance with a savage criminal class which provides for their deviant wants, and in return receives protection and special favors.
Where even to write about the dark underbelly is to risk ostracism, the loss of a career–or worse. Where dismembered bodies turn up in barrels hidden in a bank vaults or are found floating face-down in the pretty Torrens river…and the investigator’s leads point to politicians or members of the judiciary and then mysteriously peter out…
Where one can go waterskiing on the muddy strip of water known as the Murray River or north to the Barossa Valley to sample the wines–and stuff-all else. Swimming? The bloody Southern Ocean is freezing all year round and in any case Carcharodon carcharias puts something of a damper on that idea.
The water’s undrinkable. The climate miserable. The place is full of smug greenies and snaggle-toothed thugs.
It’s nearly 3000km to Perth in one direction and 1700km to Sydney in the other. And well worth the effort.
Best place to get out of Wabbit was ever in.
a full-grown Northern Saw-whet Owl. More on these cute critters HERE
‘A Fox News poll released Friday shows that 54 percent of voters say they would vote for someone else rather than re-electing Obama if the presidential election were held today. That’s up from 47 percent in a January poll and 31 percent in April 2009.
Thirty-nine percent would vote to re-elect the president now, down from 43 percent in January. That’s a dramatic drop from the 52 percent who felt that way in April, at his term’s 100-day mark.’
From an article in the Pipeline and Gas Journal:
It was a Trojan program inserted into SCADA system software that caused a massive natural gas explosion along the Trans-Siberian pipeline in 1982. A newspaper reported the resulting fireball yielded “the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space.”
‘Brain injury turns lout into perfect man
BEFORE hemorrhage heavy drinker was angry man. Now he’s teetotal and does cross-stitch.
…..Tracey says it’s turned me into a better person,” he said.’ source
For starters, Twacey obviously wouldn’t know what a man was if one bit her on the leg. And if the definition of the “perfect man” is one who does cross-stitch while stone-cold sober, then we’re in deep shit. He may have been brain-damaged but Twacey and the journo don’t have a brain between them.