Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Snowshoe who wrote (25562)	11/22/2007 3:33:31 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217638

Snow, I think M's issue is not about the whales.. I doubt he cares about them actually.. It is the (I think) issue of first nations holding up on one hand 'The Old Ways' to block things they do not like on the pretext of decimating animal populations or destroying habitat blah blah..... Meanwhile on the other hand they will use the most modern of technologies themselves, drastically removed from any old ways, for so called traditional activities... Not too many seals hunted today with kayak and harpoon.. A nice modern boat and or skidoo coupled with a good rifle is in order... They often want to have their cake and eat it too.. If that is his point I agree with him. blackie

To: Snowshoe who wrote (25562)	11/22/2007 9:03:39 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 217638

It's fakery that bothers me. I like the idea of living wild. Many people do. After doing it for a while, they head back to the city to restock on anti black-fly and mosquito chemicals. I'm not vegetarian and don't intend to join PETA. I'm okay with eating whales too. I suspect they would be delicious and nutritious. The difficulty with many of those old treaties is that they were racist in nature, with the tribes being left alone, but simultaneously becoming part of the collective, based on race. As though the racial aspects would remain. Of course boy meets girl, they go for a drive in a car, one thing and another and next you know the tribe's a mess. Fiddler on the Roof and all that. Romeo and Juliet. I am hopeful that such racist tribal treaties might turn out to be a pressure point for individual sovereignty in the greater communities, to the extent of Tradable Citizenships. That would give the tribes a way of maintaining their properties and tribalism. It would work well for the country at large too. I might have to become a Maori. Mqurice

To: Snowshoe who wrote (25562)	11/23/2007 1:54:31 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217638

A sample of how things will develop in England: Step Nr. 2. Payback the liquidity injection. Central Bank makes liquidity available to avoid total collapse. Northern Rock can't pay the liquidity back to Central Bank because THEIR money went to haven... Depostiors, however, sent £4.1 billion in deposits in the six months to September 30, (a 96 per cent increase on the same period last year) into the coffers of Nationwide double the normal monthly take — as panicked savers transferred their cash from Northern Rock to the UK’s biggest building society. In the end the Bank of England gave money to Northern Rock which is tranferred to Nationwide. But look closely: "Yesterday, it emerged that Northern Rock’s borrowing from the Bank of England could have risen to £26 billion, up £1.1 billion on the previous week." That means that only £4.1 billion is still in the banking system. Where are the remaining £21.9 billion? Why was not Northern Rock liquidated? I think the governemt feared shock wave, wet in paralisys and is now pushing the problem with the belly. That means Northern Rock will milk Bank of England and then will be dumped, money went to heaven. Tax payers will pay the bill...