The World is on the brink!

[noco]

Things turning nasty:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-worst-ever-meltdown-as-bull-market-shows-age



And back home, housing approvals down 24% the last 12 months. Combine that with growing unemployment from manufacturing and mining then the loss of jobs coming in the building industry will spell big issues for all of us.

Ha haaaarr, but we have Turnbull's "jobs and Growth x 100" and allowing tax breaks to the wealthy, so where's the problem Ralf

Like the workers friends the Green/Labor left socialists coalition killing of jobs at Hazalwood and business leaving South Australia due to lack of continuity of power.

The good old working friends in the unions have slowing killed our manufacturing over the past 60 years.....Made it too expensive to make anything here so the good old unions forced the manufacturing jobs off shore.....So don't complain about the loss of jobs.

The mining industry is governed by commodity prices and would you believe the price of coal is rising which means more jobs...Now ain't that good news?

Is it any wonder building approvals are down when the CFMEU helped to add 30% more cost to build.....The good old unions, the friends of the workers, have made housing affordable.

There is the problem my friend.

 

[luutzu]

It is as scary as hell.

Available on ITV or torrent.

 

[Tisme]

Pundits are predicting we won't see Xmas:


http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/planetx

 

[luutzu]

Pundits are predicting we won't see Xmas:


http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/planetx

It's "Holidays". Will accept "Season's Greetings".

 

[luutzu]

It is as scary as hell.

Available on ITV or torrent.

There was a segment in the doco where, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, China was one click away from having some five of its cities wiped off the map from Okinawa.

Apparently, some rogue commander on Okinawa ordered the six nuclear tipped missile - one was directed at Russia - be hot and ready. He was going to have it launched but some duty officer override the command by ordering two of his own troops to blow anyone who touches the button. Then senior command got hold of it and arrest the rogue.

And I thought Dr. Strangelove was some Hollywood fiction.


Then there's the treatment and experiments on the Marshall Islanders. Guinea pigs for nuclear weapons. What crazy fark would do that to people. It's Nazi concentration camp experiment shiet.

Honestly, no wonder the US people are screwed.

 

[nioka]

Like the workers friends the Green/Labor left socialists coalition killing of jobs at Hazalwood and business leaving South Australia due to lack of continuity of power.

The good old working friends in the unions have slowing killed our manufacturing over the past 60 years.....Made it too expensive to make anything here so the good old unions forced the manufacturing jobs off shore.....So don't complain about the loss of jobs.

The mining industry is governed by commodity prices and would you believe the price of coal is rising which means more jobs...Now ain't that good news?

Is it any wonder building approvals are down when the CFMEU helped to add 30% more cost to build.....The good old unions, the friends of the workers, have made housing affordable.

There is the problem my friend.

"Is it any wonder building approvals are down when the CFMEU helped to add 30% more cost to build.....The good old unions, the friends of the workers, have made housing affordable."

And another 30% has been added by bureaucracy with red tape, council charges, contributions and regulations.

 

[Tisme]

"Is it any wonder building approvals are down when the CFMEU helped to add 30% more cost to build.....The good old unions, the friends of the workers, have made housing affordable."

And another 30% has been added by bureaucracy with red tape, council charges, contributions and regulations.

Yes that's correct. While labor input cost as reduced in real terms over the past decades, the amount of overhead has increased. e.g:

Allowance for affordable housing;
Road infrastructure is only partially subsidised whereas it used to the council or main roads activity;
Reticulation of water and power is on the developer (used to council or electricity provider);
New technologies readiness, e.g. NBN;
Certifier fees;
Engineering fees;
Increased onerous regulation through the Building Code of Australia (BCA);
More tiers of consultancy and authorsisations;
Greater desire for higher profits by developers;
licencing of trades and prohibition of the jack of all;
etc.

The labour component has actually reduced as a % of the build and mechanisation has enabled that as has better methods and materials of the build.

THe J section of the BCA has put a lot of focus on energy efficiency and that means lots of architectural considerations, aspect orientations, low capacitance materials, high insulation properties,etc.

The modern building has loads of technology ready infrastructure.

Anyone who really wants to know why things cost so much more than when dinosaurs walked the earth, just have to compare a residential/commercial building of the 70s to their counterparts now to see there are loads more features and build components.

 

[explod]

Looks like the US Empire is gasping its last:

What The Russian Hacking Report DOESN'T Say

by George Washington
Dec 29, 2016 6:30 PM
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Today, the Department of Homeland Security and FBI released a report alleging Russian hacking.

The report itself is only five and a half pages long in large print (with another 7 pages for future security recommendations).

It’s important to note what the report does NOT say …

It does NOT allege any of the following:

• It doesn’t claim that it’s accurate. Instead, the report starts with a disclaimer, and uses the same type of weasel words – “as is”, “does not provide any warranties of any kind regarding any information” – that someone selling a lemon uses when he doesn’t want to talk about the fact that the blasted thing won’t run and doesn’t want to get sued for intentional misrepresentation or wilful concealment:

• It doesn’t mention Wikileaks … not even once. In other words, the report does not allege that the Russians gave any Democratic Party or Podesta emails to Wikileaks

• It doesn’t raise the fact that recent intelligence service allegations that Russia hacked the NSA and Germany turned out to be false

• It doesn’t address the fact that Russia is too sophisticated to have used widely- known hacking methods (and wouldn’t have prominently paid tribute to a famous Russian intelligence officer within the hacking code), and that anyone could have copied these methods and names

• It doesn’t address the fact that top NSA whistleblowers say that the NSA possesses records showing exactly how the emails went from the Democratic Party to Wikileaks, as it tracks all electronic communications in the U.S.

• It doesn’t address the fact that top former NSA and CIA officials (and Wikileaks) claim that these were not hacks at all … but rather leaks by American insiders

• It doesn’t address American intelligence services’ less-than-stellar history of truthfulness, and the fact that they routinely skew intelligence to justify preordained policy outcomes

• It doesn’t address the fact that – according to the Los Angeles Times – the U.S. interfered in foreign elections 81 times between 1946 and 2000 … compared to only 36 times by the Ruskies

• It doesn’t address the fact that most Americans aren’t buying the whole claim that the Russians hacked our election

In other words, the report really doesn’t say much of anything …

Just crap for the sheeple

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-29/what-russian-hacking-report-doesnt-say

 

[Tisme]

Just crap for the sheeple

That's what the Russians want you to think.

 

[explod]

That's what the Russians want you to think.

When people realise its the CIA behind ISIS the game will be up.

Weapons of massive destruction anyone. When people are in real trouble nowhere to be seen. But to control oil, gas and arms supplies the US is all over it.

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

The world is not on the brink comrades. You are all very pessimistic. I remember Joe, Winston and Franklin sitting down at Yalta in 1945 and sorting out Europe. Now those times were scary. Very scary. Once ole Obama is out of the way and Trump and Putin get together it will be all good. Dismantle the UN, contain China and have many of our exports go to the UK and USA and we'll be sweet.

 

[luutzu]

That's what the Russians want you to think.

I thought Putin was quite clever not kicking US "diplomats" out of Russia in retaliation to US outrage at being spied on.

Show he's not one for political theatre. Guess that's why the Yanks don't like him too much.

 

[moXJO]

I thought Putin was quite clever not kicking US "diplomats" out of Russia in retaliation to US outrage at being spied on.

Show he's not one for political theatre. Guess that's why the Yanks don't like him too much.

Made Obama look like an idiot. Glad Obama is going, he rubbed the rest of the world the wrong way with lies and deception. Australia has firmly had it's nose shoved up America's ass for too long.

 

[prawn_86]

Made Obama look like an idiot. Glad Obama is going, he rubbed the rest of the world the wrong way with lies and deception. Australia has firmly had it's nose shoved up America's ass for too long.

Living in America the last three years, Obama has been way better than any alternative. I hate to discuss politics (as they are all useless) but in such a divided nation like the US you need someone calm and collected who is actually trying to do what is best for the country (not himself or lobbyists)

 

[moXJO]

Living in America the last three years, Obama has been way better than any alternative. I hate to discuss politics (as they are all useless) but in such a divided nation like the US you need someone calm and collected who is actually trying to do what is best for the country (not himself or lobbyists)

I agree that there hasn't been an alternative. I think the pc echo chamber that was built by the dems will cause a lot of division in the future.

On the world stage he has pushed some very questionable directions.

 

[prawn_86]

On the world stage he has pushed some very questionable directions.

I dont know much about foreign policy so cant really comment on it.

But within the US he has tried his hardest to improve the life of average Americans, and constantly been blocked by others who are not willing to even try and work with him

 

[MrBurns]

I dont know much about foreign policy so cant really comment on it.

But within the US he has tried his hardest to improve the life of average Americans, and constantly been blocked by others who are not willing to even try and work with him

That's been my observation also
Gun control blocked
Universal health care blocked
A lot of people think Trump will be good I'll believe it when I see it

 

[Wysiwyg]

No talk of the NK intercontinental ballistic missile goal near completion? The threat to oust U.S. from Asia? This dude is loose cannon no. 1 in the world.

 

[Tisme]

That's been my observation also
Gun control blocked
Universal health care blocked
A lot of people think Trump will be good I'll believe it when I see it

Taking the mature city states like New York out of the equation, American do tend to imitate and take cues from an all powerful consumer and entertainment industries. This is really hard for Australians to understand because we are inherently a cynical bunch. There are some really great things we would do well to copy, for instance the willingness to have a crack at wealth creation, the genuine capacity to have a conversation amongst themsleves, but there are some really dumb characteristics that would be at home in nonsense hero movies where individual freedom comes at any cost to the rest of the community.

 

[luutzu]

Taking the mature city states like New York out of the equation, American do tend to imitate and take cues from an all powerful consumer and entertainment industries. This is really hard for Australians to understand because we are inherently a cynical bunch. There are some really great things we would do well to copy, for instance the willingness to have a crack at wealth creation, the genuine capacity to have a conversation amongst themsleves, but there are some really dumb characteristics that would be at home in nonsense hero movies where individual freedom comes at any cost to the rest of the community.

I don't think Americans are having much freedom at all. They think they do, but not really. And that's how the ruling elite likes it.

That's why the gov't, in the name of freedom and liberty, set out to destroy all kind of social safety nets; where it's dog eat dog; greed is good; every man for himself.

So while it sounds like it's to advance individual freedom... you're not free if education costs your parents a fortune, healthcare can bankrupt you, and nobody nohow will lift a finger for you if you got no cash.

Americans are being duped, big time.

Unfortunately it worked so well over there our own captains are emulating the worst aspects of it in their attempt to let freedom reign for those with cash and slavery for those who are too lazy or too far from power and privileged to enjoy all them user-pay where it's obvious, and payers can't get "hand outs" when they most needed it.