- What in your opinion is the single biggest issue facing the world over the next ten years?
- Facing the West?
- Facing New Zealand?
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Thursday, 20 April 2006
What's important?
Here's three questions to get your brain cells ticking this morning, and my info about you lot updated. Feel free to think about them over the day and post your answers a bit later. I'll try and keep quiet about your answers and try and act just like a filing clerk here:
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1) Downsizing big Goverment.
ReplyDelete2) Standing up for the values that underpin the success of the West against those forces bent on destroying it.
3) Winning a fucking World cup in the Rugby....oh and that stuff in questions 1 and 2. ;-)
Ten years? short time frame
ReplyDeleteWorld - Jihadist nuclear terrorism
West - Jihadist nuclear terrorism
NZ - Rising welfare & government slowing NZ growth and increasing socialism.
1, 2, and 3: The Whig's political status.
ReplyDeleteWorld - who'll replace prez G. W. Bush.
ReplyDeleteWest - exploding swarthy gents with wrap-around head gear.
NZ - don't even get me started. The usual right wing litany of grumbles. Friggin Labour yada yada...
World - Poverty
ReplyDeleteWest - Slow capitulation to minority interests
New Zealand - The consequences of recent economic decisions (ie, unemployment, higher taxes, lower standard of living, lower individual freedom)
Kimble
World: Islam, especially Iran who quite probably will acquire a nuke and use it.
ReplyDeleteWest US: if the rhino's don't get booted, Dems will get back.
West Europe: at lowest low fertility, there's nothing that can be done anymore.
NZ: economic growth. With less and less young people in this world, the workers will get to choose. They will choose the countries where they can get money. NZ has to compete if it wants to afford at least 2nd world health care and state pensions. Unfortunately the majority in NZ isn't really concerned about getting and retaining skilled workers, so we might end us as yet another pacific island. Still a beautiful one, but poor. While we could have been beautiful and rich.
Heres my thoughts:
ReplyDelete+ Money supply going even more nuts! Resulting in economic collapse!
+ Socialism --> Fascism --> WAR! --> STARVATION!
+ MOB RULE
Cheers,
DAMO
1,2,3 - Big oil company corruption. You ain't seen nothing yet. They wield massive power and are only just starting to bite.
ReplyDeleteThat will fall on deaf ears on this blog of course (fast becoming the most reactionary in NZ) - just blame the ragheads.
If this wasn't limited to 10 years, the obvious answer (to me) is environmental problems due to climate change.
ReplyDeleteWorld - Oil prices spiking, lack of credible cheap alternative leading to intensifying geopolitical instability.
West - Adapting lifestyles to ultra-high cost oil economy.
New Zealand - Transforming industrial and agricultural sectors to low-carbon emission model in wake of wide ranging international agreements on climate change mitigation.
You asked.
It's always so amusing to see a greenie getting concerned about the price of oil.
ReplyDeletedenmt, we don't care about the price of oil. Nor that we're running out of it. And we didn't care that Paris should have been covered in 5 metres of horseshit either.
1 Islamic fanticism.
ReplyDelete2 Islamic fanatcism.
3 socialism & over sized goverment
What in your opinion is the single biggest issue facing the world over the next ten years?
ReplyDeleteIslamism.
Facing the West?
Personal identity and human action in a new information technology age.
Facing New Zealand?
Rick Giles.
The World - Nuclear war
ReplyDeleteThe West - Corruption of government, erosion of rights
New Zealand - Continuing ballooning of state welfare
The WORLD: Islam, and the lack of alternative fuel and transportation methods
ReplyDeleteThe WEST: Islam
NZ: The drooling beast - the Welfare state. The dumbing down of the population even further by the government-run mass brainwashing centres. Expect no change in the political climate until more children get a REAL education and see through what has been done to us - unfortunately that will never happen.
The World: More wars and bigger wars.
ReplyDeleteThe West: Terrorism
New Zealand: The continuation of kiwi's dealing their freedoms away to some of the most ridiculous politicians on the planet - are we beginning to wake up and seeing how much we are duped?