Stacy Summary: Quality of life index (h/t Fibon11235). Is your country ranked? And do you agree/disagree with ranking (or absence of)?
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@Y’all
one the one!!!
Liechtenstein is a country nobody has even heard of and it’s still better than the UK. Wow.
check out the dollar index and PM price spikes.
More people seem to be getting concerned about the eventual consequences of the financial crisis:
“Everyone I know has major concerns about money. And nearly everyone agrees that it is a scarce commodity. Virtually everyone wants to have more. Even so, most Americans have no interest in learning about the function of money, where it originates, why it fluctuates in value or who has control over our money supply…Throughout history entire civilizations have risen and collapsed based on the quality of their money…many others like myself are more pessimistic and see an eventual collapse of our economy as a real possibility.”
Nice article from BBC’s Peston.
“Given the economic price we’ve all paid for the reckless behaviour of banks, it’s perhaps surprising that we’re not all as angry as the Icelanders.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2010/01/were_all_icelanders_now.html
UK is full of fat lazy tossers. On that basis alone it should be near the bottom on the list.
Yeah photoception, it’s a tiny tax haven. Silly for it to be listed, imo. They might as well have listed small cities too then.
Did somebody give my Gold a viagra?
Jobless claims worse than expected:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/34764587
I don’t see how the US could be a better place to live than Canada. In terms of safety for example, there are very very few tiny specific places in Canada where it is unsafe to be during the daytime. I’m talkin, an alley here, a sidewalk there. And it’s pretty easy to recognize and avoid most of them. In the US there are parts of New York City where Guiliani was concerned about the safety of the military if they were called in. I think this is like choosing a prom king and queen or something.
That may explain gold/$ (see chart)
namarama – that or the US dollar just got a kick in the jibblies.
@daniel
sorry i was refering to jobs data impacting dollar/gold
@s.herbert
January 8th…. agetting lazy… or just not reading the comments anymore???… maybe you need a break…all that quality of life getting to ya’!!
@marietta
Jan 6, 2010 at 9:01 pm
France is the #1 Best Place to Live:
@Chalcedonite
Jan 6, 2010 at 11:06 pm
France is best place to live…
@Fibon11235
Jan 8, 2010 at 6:33 am
@ Mike Liverpool For Yooooou !
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85,000 jobs? “Oy me jibblies!” said the dollar.
Yep, I understood you Marietta.
What’s happened to Gold ?????
Ronron & Mike must be jumplng with Joy
@ronron & @ Phil/G
Good thing is Scientest of Our Era are twerps
First they said an Atom is the smallest particle
then Electron
Then now we at Quarks
Then they say Light travels in Packets to suite this theory
Then they say it also travels like a sinosoidal wave
In All probability those nitwits might be wrong
LOL Dark matter anti matter all I think recently discovered
Hic
Is Gold’s spike an Indication of a scandal gonna come out ???
@Bonn
The scandal is that the economix policies are not working. Hey all Obamamites ? Where are the jobs ? They are at Goldman Sachs and in the Pentagone, and that’s about it. Nothing is working.
@bonn
The spike in gold seems to correspond to the “unexpected” poor jobs number. Jobs report was announced at same time gold spiked. I posted the link above.
@Bonn – it spiked when NY opened; at the same time the dollar fell; it could be the payrolls number . . . or it could be something else; my guess is that it is the payrolls data showing jobs were lost after alleged gains in November
China – gold’s No1 producer and consumer is taking control of the market
“Although Chinese reporting of State holdings can be obscure to say the least as it differs depending on which government entity technically holds the gold. China has in the past not reported official gold reserve growth until the gold is physically moved into Central Bank coffers – if then!
This all makes the estimates of non Central Bank gold supply and demand virtually impossible to assess accurately…given the unknown of where the world’s largest producer’s gold is actually going – depending on what statistics the Chinese are prepared to release to the outside world. Digging too deeply locally could end one in jail, as Rio Tinto’s iron ore pricing negotiators have found out to their cost!
What is apparent…is that the Chinese government and Central Bank is wary of the declining value of the dollar…and is feverishly pushing state entities into diversifying its reserve base – hence the suggestion that all China’s newly mined gold may well be sitting in government coffers – and also why China doesn’t appear to have stepped in to buy IMF gold. It can happily expand its gold reserves surreptitiously which doesn’t rock the markets too much.”
For a anumber of years Ireland was rated high on these lists,
maybe its calculated using the moodys/standards and poor method.
Quality of Life
Eh……Ireland??
Horses for courses,…..yep,..horses for courses! : )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5hATvshoB8
@namarama – the quality of life in Ireland looks pretty dismal to me; costs are verrrrry high and there seems to be quite a lot of violence (from what I read in the local papers anyway); the violence, however, seems more of a UK variety . . . drunken brawls, rather than the LA style gang warfare sort or the going postal variety that you see in the US
Bonn, it’s due to the Jobs data that just came out, Marietta posted a link.
Jobs expectations lead to interest rate and money flow expectations. The consensus idiot (cough) specialist view was neutral news. The rest of us thought bad news or a lie would come out (I was guessing and hoping the latter).
“Professional and business services added 50,000 positions, while education and health services increased payrolls by 35,000. Temporary help employment rose by 47,000.
Manufacturing payrolls fell 27,000 after dropping 35,000 in November. The construction sector lost 53,000 jobs, while the service-providing sector shed only 4,000 workers.”
On the bright side construction isn’t building more spare capacity and many of the Temp workers will never qualify for Employment Insurance benefits, so some of them are dropped from the typically quoted Unemployment stat and many of them won’t return to it soon. Uh, that was sarcasm.
@Bonn
It’s MINUS 85,000 in paradise USA. Quality of life has a lot to do with the job market. And Europe and the USA slowly but surely is becoming a lot like Eastern Europe.
@Photoconception
If you know a little bit about capital markets, banking you know that place is about. It’s micro country, an excuse of a country used by the ultra rich and the mafia, the same thing, to hide their moey. Bono from U2 has probably a bank account there.
“Liechtenstein is a country nobody has even heard of and it’s still better than the UK. Wow.”
Bono has heard about it. The country is the size of a big village.It’s a little bit a joke to consider it as a country.
@ Daniel S
went through it Daniel
I need one more bubble to time my real Estate
That Dummass Obama shoulda just given the money to the Public. Idiot that he is.The rest of the world woulda moaned and groaned but anything better than giving it to a selective few who are apperently doing “Gods Work”
Hic
I forgot for a moment what time the NYSE opens
They did that in India a couple of years back
Indian farmers were given a clean slate
They shoulda just done that in the US
http://tinyurl.com/Indian-Farmers-given-clean-sla
Bonn – speaking of timing I need to be awake during the day so I can buy bullion before it’s 1250 CDN again
Maybe Obama will soothe the gold price down with his economic message today.
The whole thing is a bunch of hot air, quote”In all, 194 countries are surveyed on nine criteria, including the cost of living, culture and leisure, environment, safety, culture and weather.” end quote
How many times do you need to call culture and weather = environment? self sufficiency/production/employment/stability of economy/eroding purchasing power due to greedy bankers/corrupt governments etc? Anyways it’s also based on averages, in all countries are homeless people/even whole new cities in the US or the other way around if you’re a billionaire it doesn’t matter how much something costs because you can never spend all your money (without charity but to reach such amount not having morals and being greedy is a must). Even in the uk you could live on a farm/not in a crowded city, it’s all generalised/relative; even a bigger waste of time than listening to employment numbers/economic predictions of the government. Anyways surprising cayman islands isn’t on there or other tax safe havens.
Somebody might as well have a big cruise ship kept at sea in perpetuity and call that a nation if we’re going to call Liechtenstein, Jersey, etc nations.
@Marc Authier – Bono may, indeed, have a bank account in Lichtenstein, but it is via the Netherlands that he avoids all taxes on his royalty income that would normally have gone to Ireland . . . and, by the way, where is his ‘free’ concert and concern for the people of Ireland? @Danny – has he spoken out on the fraud committed by his fellow bankers against the people of Ireland?
@ stacyherbert
Gangland warfare is actually rife in Ireland. A lot of it being the remenants of paramillitary terrorists musceling in on drug patches. We do have a problem with drunken loutish behaviour but I don’t think its as bad in that respect as the UK.
Am I was thinking of the difference between quality of life for people within nations too and what group they were considering. Cuz for myself as a messed up poor person I bet I’d be dead in the US long ago. I wonder what the list would look like for handicapped people, prostitutes, college educated, etc. They should make lots of em.
@DanielS – already been done: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_(cruise_ship)
And the best part is it can still be done
Obama needs the political will
Put all Goldman Sacks Employess and generally the banking sector under house arrest till we sort the shit out. hes got a 3,000,000 army for what ??
Before that he needs to get into his Nuke Bunker sit underneath the desk And Dish out orders.
He’ll truly become a World hero lol
ROFL PMSL
Hic
@Y’all
All together… 1… 2… 3.
Prince – Joy in Repitition.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZSta271XRs
The more powerful the central bank in the country, the less the quality of life. The more concentrated the wealth and political power, the less the quality of life, No middle class no quality of life.
Scanners: This quote is from a comment in a Telegraph article so no idea of source or accuracy, but it doesn’t sound good.
“The Backscatter doesn’t actually emit X-rays, but little tested T-rays, or THz waves (terahertz waves), which is radiation that is positioned between microwaves and infrared rays on the electromagnetic spectrum. And as would be expected, the Cartel’s scientists and corporate media have ensured that whether or not T-rays severely damage biological systems is to be a controversial subject: this is the usual Cartel stratagem whenever their agenda is on shaky grounds.
Boian Aleandrov, of the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los alamos National Laboratory, however, has a very decided opinion regarding the dangers of T-rays: He tells us that T-rays tear apart human DNA.
Alexandrov, and his team at Los alamos, say that although the forces that T-rays exert are small, their resonant effects can “unzip” DNA strands, tearing them apart, thus creating bubbles in the strands that significantly interfere with gene expression and DNA replication. And whatever that means, it doesn’t sound good.”
I wonder what kind of criteria they used for this list. It says la dolce vita – the sweet life – so this seems to mean that Italy is a better place to live than Norway, despite all the social safety nets in Norway. It is also surprising to see that the Chech Republic is better than say Sweden. But, as a Norwegian , I agree that the good life is not all about social services and safety nets and all kind of claims and hand outs, on the contrary, these things can make a place dull and put false expectations and beliefs in peoples heads.
Sweden @ 30???
Give me a break!
And, what? Sweden has the highest cost of living in the world?
A 0? Don’t be ridiculous!
I guess they messed up the values, because if Sweden would get the same score as e.g. Japan (lowest number of all countries) we would get a weighted final score of ca. 75 and jump 10 places in the ranking.
Clowns.
@Pete – they say the criteria also includes variety of landscapes and things to do in the country and the quality of services in towns across the country; and also the quality of the food . . . obviously Italy scores high on food (should be the highest in Europe, imo) and also in the variety of the landscape
@Y’all
from the after comments … my fave!!!
“What a childish, pointless debate ! (so is that top list by the way, as different cultures provides different priorities for every country !
I just took a look at this article in order to find in the comments what I expected to : ridiculous and laughable national pride, either french, british or american”
@ DEDO
yo i replied (sensibly!
in the other thread..
sg do not ever group the french along with the british and americans ty
we r most surely of a superior caliber
France no:1 yeah why not, the only problem I see with France is that its full of French.
Ireland cost of living is high but so then are the wages, scenery lovely if somewhat wet, for my money though the SW of Germany has it, great food (influenced by neighbours, Italy, France, Austria, and Switzerland), great scenery, although it too suffers like France in that its full of Germans.
don’t know why Belgium is so high on the list…well the beer is good but that can’t be it. This country is a mess.
@henk – plus, it’s boring as hell without much scenery
@Y’all
I suppose the most important thing… when you go to live in another country is being able to understand and speak the language… also understanding the culture well enough so you can make a real contribution to that society… otherwise you will always be just…
Jimmy Cliff – Sitting In Limbo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRoJyaZW6SA
What is the point of Belgium?
@Alister.
Superior in your stupidity buying stocks and real estate anyways. And selling all Bank of England gold at fire sale prices. I hope you are joking ?
Superiority complex is the worst thing in life. You can be sure you are dealing with a bubble in a country or an economy when people become convinced they are something special. I call it “the choosen people” syndrome, the “Mosses complex”. There is no such thing as “superior” people.
Each is special. And each of us can be “superior”. We are ALL powerful. It’s just that we don’t use our power. Inferiority is a state of mind. I personnally just aspire at being myself “neither superior nor inferior”. These comparitive studies are a joke. They mean nothing.
@henk …. Belgium
I guess they’re pretty happy as main recipient of EU money !
I was in Antwerp and Calais some 25 years ago … parts looked as of nothing had been done since WW2 !
Of course, at tat time ca. 1980, the Belgian state was BK.
Income taxes were as high as 80% .. the black market in Gold was flourishing !
I suppose the EU money rescued them , just in time !
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I don’t see how the US could be a better place to live than Canada. In terms of safety for example, there are very very few tiny specific places in Canada where it is unsafe to be during the daytime.
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Of the 192 UN Nations, assuming all are counted in this list — the US would have to be around 150. It does not belong on this part of the list.
When hyperinflation and peak oil collapse the fragile agricultural system in the US it will be worse off than Rwanda — but will look prettier.
My Canadian friend living in the US avoids all contact with Americans as the population no matter how rich or educated (or poor and backward) is phycotic and cannot be trusted.
Sorry , this is off topic but CNBC must be getting nervous about internet rumors because they actually talked about the rumor of the US govt proping up the stock market. They talked to an “expert” who of course totally dismissed it.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1380087585&play=1
Of cours he doesn’t adress any EVIDENCE that the govt is proping things up.
@Stacy
@Danny – has he spoken out on the fraud committed by his fellow bankers against the people of Ireland?
Not to my knowledge. Bono walks between the raindrops in this country. I remember when he was caught with the evading tax story he made some token donation to an Irish charity (@david might correct me there). All very condescending.
The government lets the bankers get away with it in this country, never mind Bono ‘avin a go at them.
One does get very frustrated sometimes with Ireland’s “sur it’ll be grand” mentality.
@Marc,These comparitive studies are a joke. You wouldn’t be saying that if you were Belgium teeheehee.
Life is cheap in the land of the American Imperialists item number 317,837:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1241555/In-mourning-Casey-Johnsons-fianc-e-Tila-Tequila-accused-cashing-lovers-death.html
Don’t be shocked by the high number, this is only in the 12.044%ile range of the overall body of evidence.
What. No Brazil, Russia, India, China (BRIC) in the “top 25″?
Ireland desserves bankruptcy when I think about Bono and U2. U2 is very funny name. I think it’s the way they call their unemployment insurance in this busted country. Hey Bono you should pay your taxes in Irelant “you to”. I can’t stanf that U2 bloodsucker. With
We don’t pay attention to the Daily Mail most of the time, why should we care now.
Anyway, check this out… (getting very tribal now!)
Cork enters ‘Lonely Planet’ guide as top 10 place to visit
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/1103/1224257963102.html
Stacy, the most boring place on Earth might be Saskatchewan in Canada.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9xI5lOQCSY&feature=related
I was teasin one that they should make a hill or plant a tree or something, and apparently someone did get so bored they made a hill.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstrap_Ski_Hill
Outtah garbage rofl.
@ Photoception
Liechtenstein is a country nobody has even heard of and it’s still better than the UK. Wow.
Dude if I’m not misstaken thats the place with all the banks where stolen money of politiciians goes and sits
@ anynone plz clarify I gotta go buy me Whisky
now that I read about a freakin Supernova
Hic
ROFL
“Liechtenstein is a country nobody has even heard of and it’s still better than the UK. Wow.”
However, compared to Switzerland it is a classical Bizantne autocracy.
Government needs to be a little more organic to fully serve its people, and Andorra and other European microstates have this problem.
I should be lower on the list for this reason.
the U.S. should be #1 in the Quality of Denial rankings.
Typo fix:
Government needs to be a little more organic to fully serve its people, and Andorra and other European microstates have this problem.
Andorra and Litchtenstien (etc…) should be lower on the list for this reason.
@ Phil
well I’m going to Antwerp at least once a month and still think nothong has been done since WW2. Income tax is still very high. We had in Holland also 80 % but that one came down to 53 %. Still not worth for me to work to hard for the Dutch state.
So for Bono it is a tax heaven in Holland. But for the people who work it is still not funny!
Ireland desserves bankruptcy when I think about Bono and U2. U2 is very funny name. I think it’s the way they call their unemployment insurance in this busted country. Hey Bono you should pay your taxes in Irelant “you to”.
I can’t stand that U2 bloodsucker. Without remorse about Ireland. I hope the place goes to pots, and implodes.
They used in right wing circles in Québec and Canada ad nauseam (and Icelant too) always talk about Ireland as role model to follow ! Luckily electors are not that stupid. At least pour l’instant.
One house out of three is completely empty.
@Y’all
left this then!!!
jan 6th 10.57pm
‘anybody who takes the right wing shit that is the daily mail seriously needs there head examined… the paper that supported hitler and also mosely here in the UK… the daily mail had a saying ‘Hurrah for the blackshirts’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPlEIryW8zA
just wondering … Obama last year was given a chance for change and chose to bail out the bankers instead.
the start of this year he seems to be given that choice again with Geithner and from what I have read securities fraud … does he make the same choice and side with Capital or does he say enough .. I blew it last time … second chance I am going to take it … and Hope the people are there for cover.
You are either with the people or against us.
Canadian provinces I hate to spell:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatchewan
And its too cold to live there.
That said, Quebec province is not worth living in either unless you are Catholic, French and not from Europe — otherwise the racism is worse than the USA. Montreal, once the 2nd city of the Empire has now been replaced by Toronto.
@David – The only problem with Antarctica is that it’s full of snow. This city is empty.
If one correlated this with a similar index of how nations cared for their children in the past, that might be interesting.
Liechtenstein as a tax haven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XakRaBbvCFg
Hic
I just spotted another sighting of those infamous Elderidge Cleaver pants!
In this video of the extended version of the Andrea True Connection hit “More, More, More” (1976) at 3:21 up pops an album cover which includes the shot. The album is ‘Super Hits of the 70′s – Have A Nice Day, Vol. 17′.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIXHks5z8Tw
Dolce Vita UK: http://joshfulton.blogspot.com/2010/01/whats-new-in-british-police-state.html
Marietta – gotta love the “expert”. My favorite example is of the Fifth Estate CBC white wash of 9/11 when it addressed the conspiracy theory that a plane never hit the pentagon. They did this by referring to an expert’s opinion without even bothering to show or name the expert or even go over evidence. Just a simple blanket statement, like “our expert said the damage was consistent with having been caused by a plane”. Oh , okay. Your expert. Guess that settles it then.
@Stacy, Re: Dolce Vita UK
As you’re aware there’ll always be a portion of the populace that will endorse this system or that system,..like I said, horses for courses !
@Max Power
It’s you the racist. Québec is a fantastic place. More interesting that many places in the universe. And the food is fantastic. 10,000 restaurants. Great night life. Great food. Great beer. Even wine produced in the south and extreme norg. We produce 144 different type of cheese. The best cheese in the world comes from Québec city, Portneuf Québec. You little anglo-saxon racist. You know nothing about french culture in Québec. Nothing. Probably a freakin anglo-quebecer or a Westerne canadian WASP. We call them Westmount Rhodesians.
In Holland we say Belgium’s purpose is to allow us to adapt on the way to France
I thinks Italy’s maffia is a minus. But the US with no social network, no insurance, its cut throat mentality and corrupt government is a laughing stock. A friend would ask me ‘what is N’? Did they only ask people at the gulf club?
@Snoot
I think we will have decivilisation in most of the world. But that said, it is just an economist wet dream to have a global monetary union. It requires increasing force projection and therefore can not be stabile or selfsustaining.
I just got a message from within one of the polynesian governments literaly saying they expect to be ‘wiped out’ by climate change effects within a decade.
@Max Power
You are an ignorant. I wouldn’t live in Saskatchewan. The place is boring as hell ! No Just for laugn festivals. No International Jazz festivals. No culture. NOTHING. You big ignorant racist. You eat too much Big Macs.
UPS cutting 1800 jobs TODAY. Quality of life is going way down in the USA. Way down.
Yes Stacy, life here in New Zealand is great, especially at Christmas and New Year when the Summer sun shines brightly, in fact we should be number one. It would be better if we had a gold market of course, being the worlds least corrupt country. We do have plenty of gold but we keep it all mixed with quartz underground. Oh and we have the white gold that middle class Chinese folk have an increasing propensity to drink. and France? Gimme a break, they’re a bunch of terrorists!
Very funny piece by joshfulton. Thanks stacy!
I ve noticed that silver has been holding its gains against the dollar better than gold as of late. Is silver ready to close the gap?
Hey Marc fuck any mooses lately.
But that said, it is just an economist wet dream to have a global monetary union.
Exactly what do you mean by a ‘global monetary union’, ME?
@snoot
Are you talking in circles?
Strike 2? : http://presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=115603§ionid=3510203 interesting btw how the individuals are sued and not the entire company. Private contract killers the mafia commercialized to protect special interest with violence whoever is paying them. Although the military industrial complex makes trillions each year, and seem to have diplomatic immunity (why would any one be allowed to commit crimes? even for a politician is creating opportunity) the bankster/pirates of goldman sachs have shown the best way to rob a bank is become one with imaginary bets then use your cronies in government to bail you out if the insurance/bets fail.
@Mike
France ? A bunch of terrorist ? That’s why I presume Stacy and Max live in Paris ? What’s going on this morning ? Mike go get a brain.
You rednecks are soo funny. If you don’t eat USA’s crow and bullshit, you automatically a “terrorist”. The anglo-saxon is indeed very very sick. Mike you eat too much ammonia tainted meat.
@ME:
No. Are you hearing in circles?
It should be easy enough for you to define what a ‘global monetary union’ is according to ME perceptual acuity. Go on.
The point that is being missed by all of these “Quality of life indexes” is how the nation state concept is slowly eroding while the world village concept becomes more and more of a reality as each year passes. Regardless of which country you’re in, you’re still being subjected to the same issues and problems as every other country in the world, and more so as time goes on. This “best” country BS is just more PTB spin to keep people in the dark.
@Y’all
Ah-Ha Ha… do ever get the feeling you have been cheated!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiXl-UiIufE
@Max Power
http://www.gouv.qc.ca/portail/quebec/international/general/immigration/immigrer_au_quebec/vivre_au_quebec/?lang=en
What a hell ! You have to learn a foreign language. Quel drame !
It’s very difficult to learn another language for some anglos, specially french. Don’t know why. 25% of “english” words comme from the “méchant” french language. Mike and Max Power aller vous faire voir. A lot of Klu Klux Klan members this morning.
@Snoot
I like to let my words do the talkin..
Well, abcnews reports that the Nigerian airplane thong guy is charged with “…the attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. That weapon, according to the government, was an explosive hidden under his clothing…” http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9509717
That’s 25 % come from french. And another 25 % from latin.
http://www.gouv.qc.ca/portail/quebec/international/general/immigration/immigrer_au_quebec/vivre_au_quebec/?lang=en
Naturally you anglo-saxons think that you invented everything.
@Good, ME. I like to let my eyes to the readin, but you’re avoiding the question.
Stella says she done took a poll and the reseedents round here say that this here place is right nice fur all that matters like fishin and spittin and drinkin beer and cussin. She says that poll is fur sissies that hold up their picky-fingers on their tea-cups and cross their legs even when they’z men. She says they eat frogs round here too, but they don’t call is “cuisine”.
@Joe … This “best” country BS is just more PTB spin to keep people in the dark.
100% correct .. was going to post the same.
Normally the table correlates with the highest tax rates … to make those people paying feel happy.
Strangely enough, only YESTERDAY on German TV MS News …. Headinles : “The Germans want to pay high or higher taxes! ”
Can you believe it !
OMG!
Here some froggie legs Cleetus done fried up fur last Friday’s beer-drinkin-frog-eatin-get-together:
http://misscongeniality.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/fried-frog-legs-400.jpg
What? They gotz better frogs in France?
@that this here place is right nice fur all that matters like fishin and spittin and drinkin beer and cussin.
nice. I need to be happy with less your telling me.
The political hairdresser returns:
http://davemiller.org/drawings/hairdresser/cheap_cuts.png
The return of the political hairdresser:
http://davemiller.org/drawings/hairdresser/cheap_cuts.png
@Skippy:
Less is more when you’re happy! France can’t sustain that lifestyle without siphoning all of the uranium from Iran…oh. Well, never mind. Stella says a perty sunset is the best here in the winter: it’s salmon-pink and red. That’s free!
the fact the us is 7 immediately discredits the table . but having said that, as a french austalian im quite happy with it otherwise haha
huffanpuff huffanpuff, woowoo. all aboard. lose some money when you move your money. fucking suckers.
@Y’all
the Norman Conquest not only being a military but linguistic…they made french the official language…not that we ever spoke it…but did import about 10,000 french words into our language… was sometimes spoken in court and by kinda aped by the upper classes to this day!!!
@Snoot. you see any frogs, let them go or ship them to me.
S&P on a springboard. within a coil
dang it ..manipulation by time.
the worst form of manipulation. having to wait.
need to go for a walk.
@ronron what’s your argument against switching banks? I’ve never paid a fee to open a new account, so as long as you don’t switch to a bank that has higher monthly fees, what’s the issue?
@marc and Y’all.
oops cooking dinner while reading… sorry if I misread your post… thought you was talking bout french words in UK language!!!
mrs/ms frances : u seem to have gone nuts over misinterpretation. i have responded in other post. please make sure u read what i said prior to my last post to you to actually catch my drift…………………………..very very off
@TsarCaustic. all your money goes on the big screen no matter what bank. so is your time worth anything? you think small banks are not controlled by the big boys. your deposits are not held at the bank you use. how else can i put this.
@SG
“Dieu et mon droit” “Honnis soit qui mal y pense.” Nice.
Sometimes I think you are still at war with France. Englis speaking Canadians still hate the small population left in Québec. Some of them want us erased from the face of the earth.
Still in their 100th year war mode. When is not the Arabs, it’s the “méchant” frenchen. David ? You have a sexual problem ? I didn’t know that you suffer from zoophilia. It’s a very common problem with the British and horses too.
Face book Sucks
Myspace is better designed than FB
Its more Robust.
Cheap skates probably not upgraded thier Server’s
Esp when GFC -Global Financial Crises is happening
More peeps tend ta try and find solace on the net
Hic
Well I’m off too play Poker
Hic
@MarcAuthier. i love montreal and have many french canadien friends. your paranoid.
@ronron… ok got that, I thought you were talking about something more direct/immediate that might argue for one bank over another, but I agree, if you’re an average depositor in the public banking system, you’re just as screwed no matter where you are.
The more the unemployment explodes in the USA and Europe, the more the stock racket celebrates. Yeah it’s a big scandalous fraud. It’s a psychological rape. Wonder how much S&P crap the FED bought this morning. Who are they kidding ?
Lololol
“Supernova ” sounds like an East european sexy Tennis player.
Lololol
Hic
@MarcAuthier. meet you at thursdays for a bottle of red.
@Y’all
How crap is this.. I was at the newsagents 10 mins ago and two dunderheads were having a conversation about the ‘mail’ article… besides the fact they agreed that france was a backward looking racist country… one of em said the france probably paid to get voted top of the list… Spooky… really I couldn’t make this up… well maybe… but not while cooking dinner!!!
Here’s some irony: Mort Zuckerman is right now on bloomberg talking about the new unemployment numbers in the US, and also arguing that US H1B restrictions should be relaxed so foreign students who graduate can stay in the US and get jobs.
@ronron
Read the comments please. I am not paranoid. I said the SOME english-canadians, SOME ronron. Please. Read again. I dis not say ALL. Ronron ? “Honnis soit qui mal y pense.”
@MarcAuthier. ok. thursdays for wine.
A bit more detail to the rating http://www.internationalliving.com/Internal-Components/Further-Resources/quality-of-life-2010
New Martin Armstrong essay out…
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24916208/Behind-The-Curtain-The-Full-Monty-Part-Three
@ronron
When someone like Mike says that France is a terrorist state, I react. And no Québec is not hell on eath, because you have to learn a foreign language. What’s the problem ?
You can’t accept Ronron the fact that some of you are racists in English-Canada. Some of you want even to ger rid of french language. Yes. C’est comme ça ronron. They really are. Québec is not a hell hole and french as a english are very interesting interesting languages to learn. Again Ronron I said SOME not ALL of them. What’s it with you ?
More.. data.. http://www1.internationalliving.com/qofl2010/
Suckiest plase to live : Somalia
@MarcAuthier. i have invited you to my favorite montreal resturant. peace. i love quebec. do some french dislike the english.
your deposits are not held at the bank you use
But one would prefer to be in a bank where the deposits not held are upheld by some guarantee. FDIC is broke. Small banks are holding commercial mbs and need to respond to basel mandates: not a good condition for survival. The small banks do not have IRB for risk management but rely on S&P ratings for their onus. Switching money to small community banks at this stage in our economic catastrophe because of some scene anecdote from It’s a Wonderful Life is rather silly.
@ronron
“Ronron petit rond.” There is nice song in french that’s starts this way. Yeah and guess what ronron, I have also english-canadian friends. And do regularly do businees with people from Vancouver. I can’t stand people vomitting on Québec because it’s catholic and french speaking. I hate this type of protestant ulstermen comment from Max Power. Our paranoia is nothing compared to the one in the USA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9MOIBJ3LXg&feature=related
@Snoot. hahahahaha. thanks.
@MarcAuthier. I LOVE QUEBEC. ya falla. peace.
Willem Buiter warns of massive dollar collapse
Americans must prepare themselves for a massive collapse in the dollar as investors around the world dump their US assets, a former Bank of England policymaker has warned.
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He said investors would, rightly, suspect that the US would have to generate major inflation to whittle away its debt and this dollar collapse means that the US has less leeway for major spending plans than politicians realise.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/4125947/Willem-Buiter-warns-of-massive-dollar-collapse.html
I wonder what demographic this poll is pointing to.
For retirement and the elderly, health care costs, insurance, utilities……..are huge factors.
I don’t know what the healthcare is like in France….? Stacy, can you comment on that? Are you having to carry private insurance?
In the research that I have been doing for retirement Uruguay has low housing prices, lower utilities and very good healthcare.
Anybody with more info?
Snow (1963) Great footage with a Train plowing massive amounts of snow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl4pJwcE7JI
These not so united states vary quite a bit from parish to parish,
seven describes america about as well as the red/blue
paradigm. St. Louis averaged with San Francisco = 7?
This hides the vast disparity of life in these states of amnesia.
The Haves http://top100.relocate-america.com/
And the haven’ts http://www.walletpop.com/insurance/most-dangerous-states
Hello casino gulag!
@Y’all
some good research… here!!!
The Spirit Level – why equal societies almost always do better.
http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/resource/the-spirit-level
@Mike
http://patrick.net/forum/?p=27754
Iceland now classified as a terrorist state by UK.
France is not in the list. Neither Québec. This really a moronic friday. Apparently Gordon Brownie is quite a moron. It’s a true story. Iceland as a terrorist state.
@ frances ps who is Cicoux s?
gotcha
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hélène_Cixous
Train Snow Plowing 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QenN5DVuLtw
Just wanted to say, there is a wealth of current news info and bantering here at the “French Connection” chat room … (accept for the pub room cussing) ya’ ll are high spirited informed community. A compliment to all …
Cheers!
@ marc
Regarding Iceland, this was the plan all along, that’s why the banks need govt to collect their booty. If you don’t pay your taxes you’re a terrorist, if you don’t pay your other bills you’re just a bum, which is still legal, for now.
Bloomberg is defending tinny tim’s lack of trasnparency right now, but at least they’re talking about the aig scam.
LOL it is the MAIL.. what they print is propaganda.
Any where in France will do.. or Spain..
I remember doing my M.Sc and I went into halls. They like to mix people up, so we had a kitchen shared with, Chinese, Korean, French x2, German, Spain. Once we read this article that compared suicide and unemployment and France was the worst, high suicide and high unemployment, but Spain had the highest unemployment and low suicide. So we all asked the Spanish guy why this was?, He said its simple, there is always another party to go to in Spain.. !!
Yep somewhere hot with parties, sounds good…
I wish I spoke French… but hay, when I go round the world I take a phrase book and struggle and smile like a idiot. But genuine, trying …everyone helps laughs and I always get the order. You make to many friends to easy that way.
Bono just won’t shut the bloody sunday hell up http://tinyurl.com/y9ouhe7
TAM is up on youtube, what?
NB Southern Railway – Plow Extra Jan 2/08 Spectacular
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djTgTyCSOF4
@reverend max
you know it’s easy to live in another country for a long time and still not understand the people or the culture… for instance punk rock … the sex pistols final performance… was texas 1978… bear that date in mind the next time you claim punk attitude and spirit… was influenced by shitbag mrs thatch and or neo liberalism… back in the day… that bitch never got into power till 1979… for future reference!!!
@SG – reverend max?
OTE … On the Edge with Max Keiser . . . and Chris Powell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHSug0NGXHE&feature=sub
Nice show Max.
If India and China are slowly trying to get out of the US$ into real assets, then I suppose it would be in the interests of the US to “speed up” the crash.
Looks to me like they’re really trying hard !
@s.herbert
I can’t tell if you’re smiling???
The fed said dont worry the paper gold is really back by gold
heres their proof
http://cache4.asset-cache.net/xc/AB002544.jpg?v=1&c=NewsMaker&k=2&d=54B8609CBDA55A2858341C7D14385E46E30A760B0D811297
Man Face book sucks
I can’t play me poker
Bastards
lol QUOTE “I can feel it coming…” Very Entertaining!!!!!!!
http://fofoa.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2010-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&updated-max=2011-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh9nKTnRQEI
old news?
@ Marc
I was being tongue in cheek , bit silly, I agree with you utterly.
Hey Marc, you French Canadians have been accused of a lot of things, but having a sense of humour is not one of them. Oh and I do apologise for my earlier remark, when I wrote have you fucked any moose lately, I had meant to write had you fucked any good looking moose lately. Guffaw, chortle, snigger.
Geithner Asked to Testify on AIG E-Mails by Towns 8 January 2010 (Bloomberg) http://tinyurl.com/ya9k9rq
U.S. Economy: Payrolls Unexpectedly Dropped 85,000 in December 8 January 2010 (Bloomberg) http://tinyurl.com/ye5d7hd
Turner Plan on ‘Socially Useless’ Trades Make Bankers See Red 8 January 2010 (Bloomberg) http://tinyurl.com/y8uyfuh
Bank of America Expects Record Bonuses for Some Staff 8 January 2010 (Bloomberg) http://tinyurl.com/yaadgum
London’s Investment Banks Double Pay to Lure Back City Talent 8 January 2010 (Bloomberg) http://tinyurl.com/yccswuj
Schwarzenegger to seek permanent pay cuts to replace worker furloughs (The Sacramento Bee)http://tinyurl.com/y9656oj
@david
As always, an effortless put down. I was gonna ask marc had he ever picked his teeth off the ground with 10 broken fingers but I’m above that kind of talk you know.
Unlike most from the US, I have had the opportunity to travel outside of the country. It really does change one’s view of home.
Belgium- I liked it, especially Antwerp- a city built for people, not cars. I am biased, however, because I love history, art and music. Want to go back.
Germany- I wouldn’t mind living there, and I speak the language. I am sure some of the family is still around.
Iran- Um, lived there a year, long ago. I would like to visit again someday, but not live there.
From where I sit, there are places not far from me that remind me of the poorer parts of Tehran when I was there: truly third-world conditions. Sad, but the poor are paying the price of empire.
Reading this thread reminded me of
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G3Y–71wSc
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What is the point of Belgium?
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Hercule Poiriot and Tintin I suppose…
Whistler’s homeless relocated ahead of Olympics
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/01/08/bc-whistler-homeless-olympics-relocate.html
As Olympic organizers in Whistler, B.C., gear up for the 2010 Winter Games in February, the area’s homeless are being forced to relocate.
Whistler’s homeless usually live in their cars or find shelter in the village’s parkades and parking lots. But with the Games around the corner, Olympic organizers are taking over roads and parking lots, displacing them.
That has social services agencies in Squamish, about 40 kilometres south of Whistler, scrambling to provide emergency shelter and help find housing in the area.
Peter Harker is the only homeless outreach worker in the region.
“I think it’s uncomfortable for some communities to say there’s homeless, when there’s an image you want to keep,” he said.
“[Squamish has] become a catchment for the homeless in Whistler.”
At least two dozen homeless people from Whistler have already relocated to Squamish, where there is an emergency shelter open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
“The fact they have a safe place to come to, of course it’s going to help them,” said Melinda Peters, co-ordinator of The Helping Hands Society.
Harker said the Games have actually been good for some of the area’s homeless.
“There are a group of people who’ve found work up in Whistler in the last-minute push to get the Games on the road,” he said.
Most of Whistler’s homeless are expected to return once the Games are over.