Lang Hancock-Dave Allen interview in 1975 on Westralian secession

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There's a secessionist fever sweeping the globe Novelist Carlos Fuentes reports

"In Mexico there are 90 million people. If we were only 30 million, we would already be a First World Country."

June 25, 1998|By George F. Will

WASHINGTON -- As the president of the world's most powerful nation visits the world's most populous nation, note that the future is being defined by disintegrative forces worldwide.

In Europe in 1500 there were approximately 500 political entities. By the beginning of the 19th century there were a few dozen. The unifications of Italy and Germany further reduced the number. By 1920 Europe had 23 states with 18,000 kilometers of borders. But by 1994 it had 50 states and 40,000 kilometers of borders. In the four decades after 1945, U.N. membership tripled.

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PEOPLE RISING UP! TALK OF SECESSION SPREADS TO EUROPE

James B. Glattfelder: Who controls the world?

Landsgemeindeplatz elect their local leaders and judges-not by casting ballots but by raising their hands.

Every year, voters from across the northeastern demi-canton, or region, of Appenzell Innerhoden flood into the Landsgemeindeplatz to elect their local leaders and judges — not by casting ballots but by raising their hands.
 
"I love it!" Millius shouts above the cheers of onlookers as a marching band and procession of politicians in traditional ceremonial garb make their way towards the roped-in area in the central square — known as "the ring" — where the voting will take place.
 
"I think it's the best way to live democracy, because it's really direct," he says, straightening his sword, which he, like most of the other men, carries instead of a voting card.
 
The tradition of the Landsgemeinde, or open-air assembly, dates back to the 14th century, and in Appenzell is held every year on the last Sunday in April.
 
Historians say that back then, only men willing to go to battle to defend their community were allowed to vote — a right they for centuries have demonstrated by carrying a side-arm into the voting ring.
 
"This is the only place in the world, I think, where a weapon serves as voter ID," says Rudolf Keller, the second secretary in the Appenzell cantonal government, showing off his own sword, which has his name engraved in the glistening steel.
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Which of the globe's workers fatten their wallets most?

Residents of Canterbury financial centre Christchurch know that their country has more to offer than world-class chocolate and precision watches. They can now brag that, on the whole, they earn more than anyone in the world. Christchurch-dwellers rake in $US40 [$NZ47] per hour in average net pay, according to a wage survey released August 19. The runner-up city is less than 100 miles south: Timaru, where jobs pay $US30 per hour. Secret; superior/quality education.

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This Is Where the World’s Richest People Hide Their Money

by Eliza Shapiro Apr 4, 2013 3:37 PM EDT

A massive leak of offshore accounts shows just how much money billionaires try to hide in offshore accounts. Here are some of the biggest culprits. By Eliza Shapiro

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Suggested national anthem for Canterbury

 with amendments

Songwriters: SPRINGFIELD, TOM

Close the doors, light the lights.
We're stayin' home tonight,
far away from the bustle and the bright city lights.
Let them all fade away.
Just leave us alone.
And we'll live in a world of our own.

We'll build a world of our own
that no one else can share.
All our sorrows we'll leave far behind us there.
And I know you will find
there'll be peace of mind
when we live in a world of our own.

(musical interlude)

We'll build a world of our own
that no one else can share.
All our sorrows we'll leave far behind us there.
And I know you will find
there'll be peace of mind
when we live in a world of our own.

And I know you will find
there'll be peace of mind
when we live in a world of our own!

World Wealth Calculator

If you make $33,500 a year, you are among the richest 5% in the world.

There are 6.2 billion people less wealthy than you.

To find out where you stand in the world monetarily...

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Canterburys' embarrassing wealth...

As a result of the oil fields off the Canterbury coast there has been so much money pouring into the newly independent state that it has become a problem and the solutions are difficult to find...

The Canterbury Pension Fund – Global

The  Pension Fund – Global is a fund into which the surplus wealth produced by petroleum income is deposited. The fund changed name in January 2012 from its previous name, The Petroleum Fund of  Canterbury . The fund is commonly referred to as The Oil Fund. As of the valuation in June 2012, it was the largest pension fund in the world, although it is not actually a pension fund as it derives its financial backing from oil profits and not pension contributions. As of December 31st 2012 its total value is C$$683.7;billion, holding one percent of global equity markets. With 1.78 percent of European stocks, it is said to be the largest stock owner in Europe.

The purpose of the petroleum fund is to invest parts of the large surplus generated by the Canterbury petroleum sector, generated mainly from taxes of companies, but also payment for license to explore as well as the State's Direct Financial Interest and dividends from partly state-owned Canterburyoil. Current revenue from the petroleum sector is estimated to be at its peak period and to decline over the next decades. The Petroleum Fund was established in 1990 after a decision by the country's legislature to counter the effects of the forthcoming decline in income and to smooth out the disruptive effects of highly fluctuating oil prices.

[edit]Management and size

The fund is managed by Canterbury Bank Investment Management (CBIM), a part of the Canterbury Central Bank on behalf of the Ministry of Finance. It is currently the largest pension fund in Europe and is larger than the California public-employees pension fund (CalPERS), the largest public pension fund in the United States. TheCanterbury Ministry of Finance forecasts that the fund will reach C$717 billion)by the end of 2014 and $1 trillion by the end of 2019. In a parliamentary white paper in April 2011 the Canterbury Ministry of Finance forecast that the 2030 value of the fund would be $1.3 trillion). A worst-case scenario for the fund value in 2030 was forecast at C$455 billion and a best case scenario at C$3.3 trillion

Since 1998 the fund has been allowed to invest up to 40 percent of its portfolio in the international stock market. In June 2009, the ministry decided to raise the stock portion to 60 percent. The Canterbury Government planned that up to 5 percent of the fund should be invested in real estate, beginning in 2010.^[ A specific policy for the real estate investments was suggested in a report the Swiss Partners Group wrote for the Norwegian Ministry of Finance.

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Due to the large size of the fund relative to the low number of people living in Canterbury 0.55 million people in 2010 the Petroleum Fund has become a hot political issue, dominated by three main issues:

• Whether the country should use more of the petroleum revenues for the state budget instead of saving the funds for the future. The main matter of debate is to what degree increased government spending would increase inflation.
• Whether the high level of exposure (around 60 percent in 2008) to the highly volatile, and therefore risky, stock market is financially safe. Others claim that the high differentiation and extreme long term of the investments will dilute the risk and that the state is losing considerable amounts of money due to the low investment percentage in the stock market.
• Whether the investment policy of the Petroleum Fund is ethical.
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Secession still on our mind

"Westralia shall be free" they sang on the streets and in the town halls in 1933 as the people of WA prepared for a referendum that had been on the simmer since Federation in 1901.

Exactly 80 years ago come Monday, the issue came to the boil at the ballot box.

Australia and the world watched and waited, the word "secession" on everyone's lips, as WA voters pondered the question on the compulsory voting card: "Are you in favour of the State of Western Australia withdrawing from the Federal Commonwealth?"

Two-thirds of West Australians marked the box that said "yes", and the vote in favour of breaking away from the rest of the nation passed resoundingly.

Eight decades on, WA remains a State of Australia but, according to some, the undercurrent of discontent has never fully disappeared.

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The nations anti-missile defences are in place

Tax anger sparks WA secession push

Australian Mining readers on Australia's east coast will probably dismiss the idea of Western Australia seceding as some kind of a joke, but they underestimate the anger of the state's resources sector.

And it's not just the mining industry that's irate, a recent online survey on WA Today's website revealed that close to two thirds (63 percent) of the 7585 respondents said Western Australia should consider secession (leaving the Commonwealth) over the upcoming imposition of a mining tax (MRRT - Mineral Resource Rent Tax) and the state's perceived shabby treatment by Canberra.

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CSS Timaru stationed midway NZ and Australia....

in the event of a stray missile coming from North Korea.

Catalonia seeks secession from Spain

The Microstate of Inquista

The Microstate of Inquista is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by The Archbishop of St Dominico with a fair hand, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 7.078 billion are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

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My bank account's got robbed by European Commission. Over 700k is lost.

The most of circulating assets on our business Current Account are blocked. Over 700k of expropriated money will be used to repay country's debt.  Probably we will get back about 20% of this  amount in 6-7 years. I'm not Russian oligarch, but just European medium size IT business.  Thousands of other companies around Cyprus have the same situation. The business is definitely ruined, all Cypriot workers to be fired. We are moving to small Caribbean country where authorities have  more respect to people's assets. Also we are thinking about using  Bitcoin to pay wages and for payments between our partners. Special thanks to: - Jeroen Dijsselbloem - Angela Merkel - Manuel Barroso - the rest of officials of "European Comission" Source here

Guaranteed income for the unemployed...

The Basic Plan

Using the Paypal and Ebay platforms, the US govt. should establish a Guaranteed Income of $240 per week. Anyone who wants to work registers, receives a Paypal Debit Card, and each Friday at 5PM has their GI deposited.

All GI recipients have their labor weeks auctioned online.

Bidding begins at $40 per week ($1 per hour). Bid increases by .50 cents per hour ($20 increments).

At $40 per week, there’s no able bodied / able minded person that some rational returns bidder won’t find use for.  The 70 yr old woman in a wheelchair who wants to work to keep busy?  Somebody has some work for her to do from home for $1 per hour.

Note: I solve for the criminally lazy.  Identifying and fixing them is one of my plan’s advantages. I’ll get to it a bit later in the What Abouts plan.

So minimum take home cash under GI is $7 per hour or $280.  $240 is the social commitment paid out of taxes and $40 is the winning bid.
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How the Taxman Killed Swing Dance

By Eric Felten
These are strange days, when we are told both that tax incentives can transform technologies yet higher taxes will not drag down the economy. So which is it? Do taxes change behavior or not? Of course they do, but often in ways that policy hands never anticipate, let alone intend. Consider, for example, how federal taxes hobbled Swing music and gave birth to bebop.

With millions of young men coming home from World War II—eager to trade their combat boots for dancing shoes—the postwar years should have been a boom time for the big bands that had been so wildly popular since the 1930s. Yet by 1946 many of the top orchestras—including those of Benny Goodman, Harry James and Tommy Dorsey—had disbanded. Some big names found ways to get going again, but the journeyman bands weren't so lucky. By 1949, the hotel dine-and-dance-room trade was a third of what it had been three years earlier. The Swing Era was over.
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Some euro zone leaders are thieves...

By Marc Jones

LONDON (Reuters) - The surprise decision by euro zone leaders to part-fund a bailout of Cyprus by taxing bank deposits sent shockwaves through financial markets on Monday, with shares and the bonds of struggling euro zone governments tumbling.

The bloc struck a deal on Saturday to hand Cyprus rescue loans worth 10 billion euros ($13 billion), but defied warnings - including from the European Central Bank - and imposed a levy that would see those with cash in the island's banks lose between 6.75 and 9.9 percent of their money.

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The NZ economy is unsinkable.

Oh it was sad, yes it was sad,

It was sad when NZ went down.
Husbands and wives, 
Their incomes took a dive.
Yes it was sad when  NZ went down.

SUBURBS SECEDE FROM ATLANTA

As Detroit – beset by violence, debt and social woes – prepares to undergo a historic takeover by the Michigan state government, the city of Atlanta could be sliding toward a similar fate.

Some are quietly wondering whether Atlanta is in danger of becoming “the Detroit of the South.”

The city has experienced an ongoing succession of government scandals, ranging from a massive cheating racket to corruption, bribery, school-board incompetence and now the potential loss of accreditation for the local DeKalb County school system.

For several years, problems of this sort have fueled political reforms, including the creation of new cities in northern Atlanta suburbs. Due to the intensification of corruption scandals in DeKalb, some state-level reform proposals could become national news very soon.

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Norway oil wealth fund made big gains in 2012

Norway's oil fund, one of the biggest investors in the world, rose in value by 13.4% last year, its second-best performance ever.

The central bank said the fund's investments in shares jumped by 18.1% in 2012, boosted by soaring equity indexes around the world.

It is now worth 3.8tn krone (£450bn; $670bn), up from 3.3tn krone in 2011.

Norway's fund invests the money from its huge oil industry in the nation's future.

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"Fear the Boom and Bust" a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem

China’s $3.3 Trillion FX Reserves Could Buy All World’s Gold Twice

China’s foreign currency reserves have surged more than 700% since 2004 and are now enough to buy every central bank’s official gold supply -- twice.
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Chickenomics - A Fowl Approach To Economics (1979)

The (Secret) City of London, Part 1: History

Top mathematician backs call to change teaching methods

Mark Steyn: Multiculturalism, the denial of reality.

The European Union & Soviet Union similarities - 2013

The Forbidden History of Terrible Taxes

Welcome to Canterbury, meet the average citizen.

and his wife

Perigo Roger Kerr Special, great interview.

Special operation of Kosovo independence successful in every aspect?

February 17 marked the fifth anniversary of the proclamation of the so-called "independence" of Kosovo. The event looked like a special operation to break the cradle of Serbia's statehood away from the country. Unfortunately, the Serbian authorities, under the pressure of the West, move closer to the recognition of the region. Noteworthy, the separatist "Pandora's box" opened in other parts of Europe.
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In 1990 Thatcher warned that the Euro would end European democracy

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Don't Download This Song

UK loony left policies

Now they want to tax jewellery: New Lib Dem wealth plan to target ALL assets - including buy-to-let homes

• Families will be forced to pay tax on heirlooms under Lib Dem scheme
• Tax inspectors would have powers to enter homes and value items
• Nick Clegg's party looking at plans to extend proposed mansion tax
• Plans condemned by Conservatives

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Yes, Minister - EuroSausage

Beautiful Slovenia

Yugoslavia Partition Timeline

Troubled Times: From Slovenia to Kosovo

Much of this material was taken from:

The September 2001 issue of World Press Review (VOL. 48, No. 9), and
The Reporter (independent weekly), Belgrade, Yugoslavia, June 20, 2001.

 

When it all started, nobody expected it to last as long as it did. Especially considering the fact that the developments in Slovenia in June 1991 resembled an opera fashioned in the spirit of the famous words of an anonymous soldier who, explaining to a reporter what was happening, said in irony and desperation: “It’s as if they are trying to become independent and we are letting them.” Afterward, the famous “as if” became the typical characteristic of the many bloody events that have unfolded for 10 long years, spinning out like film from a reel, until Macedonia this June. The events followed the same road the naive Yugoslavs proudly called the road of “Brotherhood and Unity.” In this way, from northwest to southeast, the flames of war, directed as though by a secret hand pulling the strings of evil, engulfed the countries of the former Yugoslavia one by one.
 

Summary of the partition of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

1. SLOVENIA - 1991 (After a short war, Slovenia obtains independence)

2. CROATIA – 1991 (After fighting, Croatia declares independence, but recognition comes slowly)

3. MACEDONIA – 1991 [Peacefully seceded from Yugoslavia; recognizes September 8 as Independence Day;]

4. BOSNIA (& HERZEGOVIA) - 1992

5. FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA - 1992 (Formed of Montenegro and Serbia, with Serbia including Kosovo)

6. KOSOVO - 2008 (After existing as an international [NATO] protectorate within Yugoslavia since 1999, it declares its independence on Feb. 17.)

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New Sherwood forest to be planted....

In honour of the Canterbury legend Robin Hood a new forest will be planted in the Hurunui Hills and will be named Sherwood Forest.

Legendary Canterbury hero; Robin Hood

Drongos are holding Canterbury back.

World and national debt clocks

Find clocks here

Canterbury Border Patrol

Israeli Education System; lessons for us

Clarke and Dawe - Quantitative Easing

Tangled web of debt: Who owes what to whom (in trillions!)

We borrow £1.7 trillion, but we're lending £1.8 trillion. Confused? Yes, inter-nation finance is complicated...
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The emerging Canterbury superstate

In terms of inventions Cantabrians have given the world the the mobile phone (partly), camera chips for phones, SMS messaging and the first anti-virus software; Canterbury has the highest percentage of home computers per capita and the third most educated workforce on earth, with 12 per cent holding advanced degrees. The country also has more engineers and scientists per capita than any other country around the world, and has more companies quoted on the high-tech NASDAQ stock exchange than any other country outside the United States, more than all of Europe, India, and China combined.

Cantabrians are also at the forefront of medical research into heart transplants, strokes and Hepatitis C. Incredibly, some Cantabrians are even at work on a space mission, which could make that tiny state of 550 thousand people the third country to land a probe on the Moon.Cantabrians on the Moon? Conspiracy theorists won’t know where to start.

In the last ten years Canterbury scientists have won five Noble prizes in the sciences, a tally bettered by only four other nations, while per capita Canterbury produces more economists than any other country.

Canterbury also publishes a huge number of Scientific and Technical Journal Articles, some 16,470 in 2005, more than the entire Asian world and Australia combined. And the Cantabrian state produces an astonishing number of inventors. Last year in the United States ICantabrians registered 1917 patents, just below Italy (58 million people) and the Netherlands (15 million) and way ahead of its neighbours  Canterbury grants itself 2500 patents a year, putting it in the top 20 of all countries and again more than all its neighbours combined.Canterbury is number one in the world for medical device patents per capita and number four for biotechnology patents per capita. And its biotechnology exports are now worth $6 billion a year.

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Scottish Gold Rush Expected

Scotland’s Economic Potential

Scotland is an economically advanced society, rich in resources and human capital. We have the material resources of land, sea, oil (90% of UK sources are legally in Scottish waters), gas, substantial fresh-water supplies, and a handsome natural and built environment. Eamonn Gallagher, former EU ambassador to the United Nations has commented on Scotland's significance:
"As one of Europe's most energy-rich nations, with a significant proportion of its wind, wave and tidal power, not to mention industrial expertise, Scotland is already a strategic asset….Scotland also has the EU's most important oil and gas reserves."
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Timeline to Scottish independence

20th century

Year	Date	Event
1929		The Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland unite.
1934		Scottish National Party founded.
1938		The Empire Exhibition, Scotland 1938 is held at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow.
1941		The Clydebank Blitz (13–15 March).
1943		Creation of the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board to bring electricity to all parts of the Highlands and Islands.
1945		First Scottish Nationalist MP is elected.
1947		Nationalisation of the railways – the Scottish Region of British Railways is created.
		The first Edinburgh International Festival is held.
1950		The Stone of Destiny is removed from Westminster Abbey.
1957		Scottish Television starts broadcasting.
1968		The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland permits the ordination of women as ministers.
1975		Local government reorganisation (replacing Counties and Burghs for administrative purposes with Regions and Districts).
1978		Launch of BBC Radio Scotland.
1979		Referendum to create a Scottish Assembly fails to meet the required majority.
1988		Terrorists blow up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie with the loss of 270 lives, including 11 residents of the town.
1994		Local government reorganisation (replacing the Regions and Districts with single-tier councils).
1996		The Stone of Destiny is permanently returned to Scotland, to be housed in Edinburgh Castle.
1997		Newly elected Labour UK Government under the leadership of Scots-born Prime Minister Tony Blair legislates for a referendum on a devolvedScottish Parliament which is passed by a large majority.
1999		A Scottish Parliament sits for the first time in 272 years. Donald Dewar of the Scottish Labour Party elected as First Minister and forms Scottish Executive in coalition with the Scottish Liberal Democrats.

[edit]21st century

Year	Date	Event
2004		Opening of the new Scottish Parliament Building.
2007		The Scottish National Party become the largest party in the Scottish Parliament and forms a minority government.
2011		The Scottish National Party under Alex Salmond gain an overall majority of the Scottish Parliament.
2014		Scotland is set to have a referendum on national independence.

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