Elections are coming up. What are we thinking?

[Banditbandit]

Yeah I thought you were talking about that. Now, how is your memory?
Why were the GCSB doing it?
How was it illegal?

They were doing at the request of the police who were acting under court issued warrants to gather evidence on people strongly suspected to be involved in illegal activities.

Why was it illegal? A technicality. They thought they were allowed to assist the police under warrant. Turns out they were wrong and changes have been made.

It was not unsupervised mass surveillance for dodgy reasons as you are trying to imply. It was not the GCSB abusing it's power and peaking at peoples nude pxts. It was not some GSCB guy checking on his ex's gf or anything like that at all.

So, your comment is pretty wide of the mark.

Question: Do you sleep in your tinfoil hat?

Naaa .. an agency set up to uphold the law MUST also follow the law - technicality or not. No-one and no organisation is above the laws ...

When was the last time you got off a traffic ticket by convincing a cop it was a "technicality"?

[Mr Revhead]

I see you chose to ignore the point of my post.
I will address you again when you address the point

[Hinny]

Bloody hell man, do you read what you write?!
What is your motivation? I seriously hope you don't believe all you write.

Ahh! - Classless and clueless.

[Hinny]

Ladies and Gentleman we stand in the presence of genius

Well thankyou.
The best balance of payments in 37 years could be regarded as being indicative of good times. Could also, I guess, be indicative of the poverty in this country with lower discretionary spending available to the average punter resulting in lower import payments.
One can be assured that the cost of imported oil will not be cheaper because we supported the invasion of Iraq nor the terrorists in Libya.

[Oscar]

Not that I would stoop to calling you a retarded myopic fucktard I can imagine others might.
Your opening line was indeed a strange interpretation of my post, and you have an equally strange interpretation of the current state of this economy. You are making out like it is doing well! It's probably too much to expect that you would back these assertions up with some facts, isn't it? If the economy was doing well I would anticipate the Minister of Finance crowing about his success, not trying to blame the previous govt. for the parlous state of the economy. It has been stated that this govt. has the worst financial record in our history and this guy is blaming the previous govt.

As for your 'proof' that London has the most Billionaires did you bother to read the article you quoted?
Only 1 of the top ten Billionaires on their list was from Britain. The other 9 were from India and Russia. My source was Piers Morgan and so we have proof coming from the equivalent of the Truth and The Herald. ie not that reliable. Sure those guys may have homes in London but that is like Australians 'pinching' our artists and calling them their own or NZ 'pinching' Islanders for the All Blacks and calling them Kiwis.
The number of Billionaires in London doesn't advance your theories much either considering the state of the British economy. Debt of 400% of GDP - It's FUCKED. No wonder they have to join with the US to go and pinch the resources of other countries. As what has been labelled as the most Fascist country in the world they are arguably a prime example of the failure of the very system you are trying to promote as the ideal.
The US with a debt of 230% of GDP has a get out of jail card in the petro dollar. Hence the need to get rid of Saddam Hussein and Muamar Qaddafi. Each of them wanting to get away from oil sales in dollars one could argue would have led to US financial collapse.
Again it is a prime example of the failure of the capitalist system. When one realises that the capital in the US economy is a lot like monopoly money then the point becomes more relevant. These 'banksters' merely print money . Who they are is unknown. Never audited by the US govt. A seemingly bizarre situation.

That is the longest admission of being wrong I have ever seen.
You said Mumbai has the highest number of billionaires - just the latest unsupported and incorrect statement from you and your hysterical lefty cohort.

And speaking of incorrect - the ratio of debt to GDP in the UK is about 90%.
http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/uk_national_debt
And the US ratio is somewhere between 70 and 100%% depending on how it's calcualted.


Are you a liar or stupid or both?

[Oscar]

Bloody hell man, do you read what you write?!
What is your motivation? I seriously hope you don't believe all you write.

He pulls most of his "facts" outta his arse.

[yokel]

The level of insanity in this thread would be fucking hilarious if you cunts weren't the voting public.
All hope for humanity is lost

[unstuck]

The level of insanity in this thread would be fucking hilarious if you cunts weren't the voting public.
All hope for humanity is lost

Agree with the first part of your statement at least.

[yokel]

Agree with the first part of your statement at least.

That last bit was just for dramatic impact ha

[mashman]

The level of insanity in this thread would be fucking hilarious if you cunts weren't the voting public.
All hope for humanity is lost

Fortunately the majority of the voting public have a conscience and when offered an alternative that'll level the playing field, they're going to desert the current party's in droves. Can't wait.

[pritch]

The level of insanity in this thread would be fucking hilarious if you cunts weren't the voting public.

Who are you calling voting public?

[Banditbandit]

I see you chose to ignore the point of my post.
I will address you again when you address the point

So, your point was not clear then. Are you able to make your point clearly so I can address it?

[yokel]

Who are you calling voting public?

The lemmings that line up to put a piece of paper in a box

[Swoop]

My source was Piers Morgan...

Good.
Fucking.
Greif.

Nobody with any credibility can use morgan as a reference.

[Laava]

Fortunately the majority of the voting public have a conscience and when offered an alternative that'll level the playing field, they're going to desert the current party's in droves. Can't wait.

You're going to have to wait. There is no signs of anything better than the encumbents on the horizon.