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

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (68783)	11/29/2010 4:17:33 AM
From: TobagoJack	5 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217774

Perhaps all is a yawn to a typical person residing in new Zealand, as would to one living on Iceland, until not, when it is too late. Many senior citizens in HK are aware of the general price level of gold, and vitally so. I dare say most new zealanders of all ages do not know and are not vital. Such is the way to decline, gentle decline, sleepy yawning decline, sweet terminal tropo decline. Good night.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (68783)	11/30/2010 5:47:39 AM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217774

Wikileak was a big yawn as predicted. Well done Mq. Very prescient. New Zealand was mildly disappointed because there has not been much publication of secret commentary about New Zealand and the politicians. Prime Minister John Key pointed out that NZ would get a glowing report in his usual calm and sensible way: nzherald.co.nz <He was briefed "at a very high level" about one or two of the New Zealand cables. However, he would not be drawn on their content, saying he preferred to wait to see if they would be released. "We don't know all of the details in them but there's bound to be one or two comments in there that might lead to embarrassment at the most but nothing more serious than that." There were several cables sent around the 2008 election, likely to include the embassy's assessments of new Prime Minister John Key and his ministers. Mr Key said he had not been told about that assessment in detail "but I'm sure it will be glowing". He said he would be concerned if the WikiLeaks disclosure put peoples' lives at risk. It was the job of diplomatic posts to report back to "the mothership". "There's always a bit of colour and artistic licence about that. So certainly I'm sure some of those cables will cause agitation in some of the centres they've been sent from and some embarrassment, but take it with a grain of salt." > So far, there have been zero surprises and nothing of consequence. Zigbineiw Brzezinski [spelling something like that - Google is probably banned so I can't find out] tried to construct an intellectually sophistic argument that evil-doing intelligence services would use the leak to slip in some sore point points to inflame particular situations or something or other thereby making the Wikileak a catastrophe. As he pointed out, although it's a catastrophe, the situation is not serious. Mqurice