What on Earth is going on in the world today? It's gone mad

[britbox]

What does that mean for the New Zealanders, please? I'm asking as my cousin & her family went to live in New Zealand.

Labour have formed a coalition with New Zealand First. One of the main policies is to cut immigration numbers... New Zealand was seeing 70,000 people arrive per year. New Zealand First wanted this slashed to 10,000... looks like Labour are compromising with a figure around the 20,000-30,000 range. The new Kiwi PM is also the youngest female Prime Minister in the world.

 

[Horsa]

Labour have formed a coalition with New Zealand First. One of the main policies is to cut immigration numbers... New Zealand was seeing 70,000 people arrive per year. New Zealand First wanted this slashed to 10,000... looks like Labour are compromising with a figure around the 20,000-30,000 range. The new Kiwi PM is also the youngest female Prime Minister in the world.

Thank you very much for your information.

 

[Nekro]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/1...-assaulting-10-year-old-girl-in-bathroom.html


lol and Bogus the Rodent on mugraysworld is campaigning for these freaks.... When there was some article about little girls freaking out when some beardy tranny freak went into their locker room he said letting in a lesbo would be similarly bad just lol, like the lesbian has a penis.... yeah, +lesbian has more empathy for women.... +she was born a woman at least, but what does that matter for Bogus, the Zionist Propadandist from mugraysworld.....and to do a "thought exercise" (typical manipulative beaky stuff) to convince people to let big bearded freaks into little girls' locker.....

Parents were stupid too, they let themselves be brainwashed by the zionist filth and believed that degenerate was a harmless woman.....What a surprise, he's not, and what a surprise, he's attracted to girls.....

 

[Horsa]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/1...-assaulting-10-year-old-girl-in-bathroom.html


lol and Bogus the Rodent on mugraysworld is campaigning for these freaks.... When there was some article about little girls freaking out when some beardy tranny freak went into their locker room he said letting in a lesbo would be similarly bad just lol, like the lesbian has a penis.... yeah, +lesbian has more empathy for women.... +she was born a woman at least, but what does that matter for Bogus, the Zionist Propadandist from mugraysworld.....and to do a "thought exercise" (typical manipulative beaky stuff) to convince people to let big bearded freaks into little girls' locker.....

Parents were stupid too, they let themselves be brainwashed by the zionist filth and believed that degenerate was a harmless woman.....What a surprise, he's not, and what a surprise, he's attracted to girls.....

That's dreadful & disgusting. I hope the poor girl is o.k.

 

[Moxie]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/1...-assaulting-10-year-old-girl-in-bathroom.html


lol and Bogus the Rodent on mugraysworld is campaigning for these freaks.... When there was some article about little girls freaking out when some beardy tranny freak went into their locker room he said letting in a lesbo would be similarly bad just lol, like the lesbian has a penis.... yeah, +lesbian has more empathy for women.... +she was born a woman at least, but what does that matter for Bogus, the Zionist Propadandist from mugraysworld.....and to do a "thought exercise" (typical manipulative beaky stuff) to convince people to let big bearded freaks into little girls' locker.....

Parents were stupid too, they let themselves be brainwashed by the zionist filth and believed that degenerate was a harmless woman.....What a surprise, he's not, and what a surprise, he's attracted to girls.....

It's astonishing what you are willing to believe. And post.

 

[Moxie]

I recently got back from a week in Puerto Rico. The people there need a lot of help, even though they're doing a great job of working together within their communities. They're still at just over 10% power on the whole island. Note that I took these pictures about 3 weeks after the hurricane hit.

 

[britbox]

10% power? That's incredible in this day and age. US Federal Government needs to get it sorted.

 

[Moxie]

10% power? That's incredible in this day and age. US Federal Government needs to get it sorted.

Latest report has them at 20% power, but that has gone up and down. Still a large portion of San Juan, even, is without power.

 

[Moxie]

Puerto Ricans don't pay the same taxes that we pay in the regular States, but they do contribute some $3.4 billion to the US Treasury. They are surely owed more than they're getting from the US Fed. There are 2,000 FEMA workers in PR, for 3.4 million Puerto Ricans. This is not enough. Right now, people there are just in survival mode. But soon they will make decisions about what has to change in a big way. If being in bed with the US doesn't protect them enough, when the rubber meets the road, there is a lot of talk about rethinking the relationship.

 

[britbox]

Puerto Ricans don't pay the same taxes that we pay in the regular States, but they do contribute some $3.4 billion to the US Treasury. They are surely owed more than they're getting from the US Fed. There are 2,000 FEMA workers in PR, for 3.4 million Puerto Ricans. This is not enough. Right now, people there are just in survival mode. But soon they will make decisions about what has to change in a big way. If being in bed with the US doesn't protect them enough, when the rubber meets the road, there is a lot of talk about rethinking the relationship.

I can imagine... Pretty atrocious handling of the disaster.

 

[Moxie]

Another thing I feel compelled to comment on is the official death count. I believe it stands at 48. This cannot be right. Here is an article about it, but even so I think that measures it low. We were in a small town, no bigger than Hoboken, NJ, that told us they had 18 people missing. In another town where we were recording an interview, a person who was on machines to keep them alive died because of lack of power, while we were there. That's 19 in my anecdotal experience of two towns. And other people have told me that the morgues are so full, that they can't process even people dying of natural causes for 3 weeks. Also, when we were collecting our luggage and equipment off of a cargo plane, we waited our turn after seeing a coffin being loaded into a hearse. I'm sorry...I was only there for 1 week. Is it possible that I saw or learned of 20 of the 48 dead in my own personal experience? I don't think so.

 

[Federberg]

I largely endorse this article. I've mentioned a number of these points over the years...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/b...l-times-robert-swannell-carolyn-a8014616.html

 

[Horsa]

I recently got back from a week in Puerto Rico. The people there need a lot of help, even though they're doing a great job of working together within their communities. They're still at just over 10% power on the whole island. Note that I took these pictures about 3 weeks after the hurricane hit.

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That's dreadful. I hope as many people as possible get back to normal as quickly as possible & that not many people & animals are killed. Lives are worth more than money. Money can be re-gained through hard work in time. People & animals can't. I know we need money to live on but we haven't always had it. We used to barter before money came out. It's just a means of exchange at the end of the day which we wouldn't need if everyone could work together & share things equally but I can't see that ever happening though it would be bliss as would world peace. I'd love to help but unfortunately can't. I can't pray for them either as I'm an atheist but I send good wishes & thoughts their way hoping things improve for them soon.

 

[britbox]

I largely endorse this article. I've mentioned a number of these points over the years...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/b...l-times-robert-swannell-carolyn-a8014616.html

Yup, I think the proof in the pudding was the way the GFC was handled. Nobody learned the lessons from that. If Capitalism works, there has to be a pretty big social contract... and we aren't seeing anything remotely like one.

 

[Federberg]

Yup, I think the proof in the pudding was the way the GFC was handled. Nobody learned the lessons from that. If Capitalism works, there has to be a pretty big social contract... and we aren't seeing anything remotely like one.

Exactly. It wasn't handled meritocratically at all. The rich were protected and compensated for the losses they were responsible for creating. The poor were asked to pay with not just their taxes but their jobs. The very idea that now Trump wants to give a huge tax break to the rich is just appalling. The link between risk and reward has been broken. What we have now can no longer be called capitalism, it's some perversion of socialism, but the subsidies go to the wealthy

 

[Obsi]

What we have now can no longer be called capitalism, it's some perversion of socialism

Bullshit.

 

[mrzz]

Another thing I feel compelled to comment on is the official death count. I believe it stands at 48. This cannot be right. Here is an article about it, but even so I think that measures it low. We were in a small town, no bigger than Hoboken, NJ, that told us they had 18 people missing. In another town where we were recording an interview, a person who was on machines to keep them alive died because of lack of power, while we were there. That's 19 in my anecdotal experience of two towns. And other people have told me that the morgues are so full, that they can't process even people dying of natural causes for 3 weeks. Also, when we were collecting our luggage and equipment off of a cargo plane, we waited our turn after seeing a coffin being loaded into a hearse. I'm sorry...I was only there for 1 week. Is it possible that I saw or learned of 20 of the 48 dead in my own personal experience? I don't think so.

Thank you very much for this personal account, Moxie. I am glad you found your way to help somehow.

On a side note, I am still appalled by the scene of Trump tossing toilet paper on the airport.

 

[Federberg]

Bullshit.

you disagree? Please tell me why?

 

[Obsi]

you disagree? Please tell me why?

Imbecile, read this https://www.britannica.com/topic/capitalism

 

[Moxie]

Thank you very much for this personal account, Moxie. I am glad you found your way to help somehow.

On a side note, I am still appalled by the scene of Trump tossing toilet paper on the airport.

It was paper towels, but, yes, it was such a condescending display of tone-deafness, and his general germaphobic inability to really touch people. I only spent 8 days in PR, but about the last thing I needed was a paper towel.