A brief word on the Deep State

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The Deep State is not a new invention by the Alt-Right – it’s the same Military Industrial Complex Dwight Eisenhower warned of in 1961 but with mass surveillance .‬

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  1. I support getting rid of the ‘Wellington and Washington swamps.’

    Build a better world with no ‘dirty politics.’

  2. Y’know I get similar arguments from retired service personal only they want a four frigate navy and I tell them pretty much what I’m going to say now. There is no nation that’s into precinct development, it’s all single block development. If you look at the great developments of New Zealand like State Housing, Auckland was home to the 1990 commonwealth games, A couple of Rugby World cups, some Americas cups, these where all precinct developments. But we’ve now got architects who want there monuments. So they don’t care about the whole precinct they just want there stand alone tower and they don’t worry about its relativity to the street scape. See I don’t believe there’s a place for “the market” in town scape development. I think developers should only have the right the community confirms on them and no other rights. Where as in a broad economy the market forces matter a great deal. But developers dragging plot ratios out of little sites they happen to get on with city planners with at that particular time and all of that sort of thing is basically why we’ve got cities that are less human scale, more impersonal and in the end uglier.

    And what we can do about it is abit like Beth listening to Jakes claims that she’ll be back, y’know? the thing for people to do and say is we’ve had enough. I think the Beautiful New Zealand is being straggled to death and is almost out of life. People are now defining beauty as what ever they can see on there device or whats in there house or with in a studio but low expectations of public beauty. And when ever we get a government dishing up bread queues which is basically what they do, where we’ve got these separations between health, building and provider but no over all responsibility for the final product. And when ever we get this dichotomy of power with in local government I don’t think we’ll ever see it no matter how honorary central government may be.

    So the banks do create money out of thin air but as long as that new money is in line with goods and services and implementation of new technologies and there fore is adding value and now we’re talking about business investments and productive loans. And if this happens we’ll have low inflation and low inequality. Countries that achieve loaning money for productive purposes whether it be Germany for the last 200 years or east Asia for much of the last century then you’ll find loans made for productive purposes. So when bank lending is focused for productive purposes the economy booms as opposed to speculation.

    The contrast is banks lending for consumption then there’s demand for goods but there’s the same amount of goods and services and you’re creating inflation, that’s well understood and central bankers watch that a little bit and what’s less understood is mortgages or money creation for financial transactions or purchasing ownership rights. Now that’s a problem because you’re creating new money but not goods and services and giving people more purchasing power over existing goods there fore you must push up asset prices. You can almost draw correlating lines between asset prices or land prices or any kind of chart and they will match pretty closely with “debt to the GDP” and that also create the inequality. So the banks lend for unproductive spending and New Zealand is so dominated by it. So lending has to be categorised so we can look at where the money is being spent. So if lending is forwarded for productive purposes we get low inflation, low inequality and financial stability.

    Because there’s no small and medium sized banks New Zealand has weak small to medium sized business enterprises and we are stuck with speculation. So we need to create small banks because they are the natural lenders to small business.

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