Dipshit of the Week: Greenpeace

Yes it had to happen.

The fantasy that is "climate change" has been blamed for the devastating Australian bushfire's.

Some of our Green politicians will no doubt share the same view as their heroes in Greenpeace but this weeks dipshit award lays squarely on Greenpeace and their fantasy religion of climate change.

Scientists began warning some years ago that Australians should expect fires of a new ferocious order care of climate change.

The threat of climate change is real and serious. And the unfortunate truth is that unless the world takes strong action on climate change immediately, natural disasters like the Victorian bushfires, and the floods in Queensland, will become more frequent. NZ Greenpeace Blog

Really, using politics(the climate change movement is political NOT environmental) as an excuse for people dying is not only a slap in the face for those who died horrible deaths but it is simply a fallacy and hides the fact that the green movement is partly to blame for the Victorian fires and the deaths that followed.

The green movement in Victoria and other states has stopped the clearing of trees around houses that has provided the fuel for these fires, in fact the green movement have even required that trees be planted! An article in The Australian by David Packham, a former supervising meteorologist for fire weather nationwide at the Bureau of Meteorology point this out.

Greenpeace deserve condemnation.

Their interference in peoples lives has caused more death and it just goes to prove the irrelevance and dangerousness of their lunatic ideas has once again hit home.

Green voters, the New Zealand and Australian Green Party and especially Greenpeace have blood on their hands

Shame.

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Love your Customers; Hate your Competitors

The attitude that your business competition is supposed to be looked at as some remote entity that is supposed to be good for all players in the sector in which you compete is not just untrue it is complete and utter bollocks.

I would go even further than that. If you love your customers -and mostly you should otherwise you shouldn't be running a business -then you should at least loathe your competition.

I hate mine with a passion.

It is not that I don't like to compete, I love competition but unless you treat your competition like your arch enemy you are not approaching your business in the correct manner.

The business world has been full of animosity between the fiercest of market players, from Coke vs Pepsi, Ford vs Holden, Chicago Bulls vs L.A. Lakers, Google vs Microsoft and in New Zealand Telecom vs Vodafone.

Everyday should be a battle against your competitor and every opportunity for you to get one up on them or make it harder for them in some way means you are doing what you should.

For craps sake they are trying to put you out of business, why shouldn't you match like for like?

Competing on price and service are two major factors that make good businesses better but advertising or telling his customers that your product or service is better than XYZ company is a great way to undermine his sales growth.

It is taken as granted that you are of course better. There is nothing wrong with yelling that from the rooftops.

If someone asks you what you think of your competitor, be honest, tell them what they are really like, warts and all.

A little bit of nonconstructive criticism pointed at your competition will be good for you and your business.

You can have respect for your competition, nothing wrong with that, taking your competition seriously is the number one rule in a competitive market but putting the boot in at every opportunity, when it is warranted, is also a requirement of good business practice-that is if you want to stay in business!

Tattoo it on your forehead.

I hate my competition!

Your competition sure as hell does.


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c Share Investor 2009

Key keeps his head while others channel Chicken Little

Nothing could be more appropriate than to say about John Key but "right man right time".

Key's financial and business experience is shining through.

The cool head approach that National are pursuing in relation to the current financial crisis is in stark contrast to the Labour Chicken Little's in opposition who are bleating to rush in poorly planned stimulus packages that simply will not work.

We all know that the US bank bailout from late last year didn't work. Obama is passing a new one in 2009. The first one wasn't planned and was rushed.

Labour playing politics with the current economic situation is nothing but more of the same petty schoolboy tactics that sent New Zealand into recession almost a full year before everyone else.

For Labour to say National must be shouting its "stimulus" intentions from the rooftops to reassure the populace is politics for the brain dead and most of us have one thank you very much.

It should be bloody obvious that National are taking the current crisis seriously.

They are taking action rather than talking. Cutting back frivolous spending that Labour has introduced (like fruit baskets daily for all MPs! and a long embarrassing list of other waste) is evidence of that and there will be more considered action introduced as the days, weeks, months and years of this crises play out.

John Key is in his element, he looks comfortable, confident and in Parliament today got the better of the opposition.

He stands out here head above shoulders from other world leaders.

Thank god New Zealand voted him in, the alternative would have been scary.

And catastrophic.

c Political Animal 2009

Scam Watch: Optionetics (UPDATE)

You may have noticed that I use Google advertising on the Share Investor Blog.

I use it because it is easy.

I have now blocked the offending advertising thanks to a reader, please let me know if you can still see them in a URL I haven't thought of.

There is one ad that keeps coming up and I must warn my readers about the company.

It is an options trading package that is over hyped, overpriced and underwhelming.

You can options trade by simply doing it yourself or perhaps buying a book and learning.

The company is called Optionetics and the ad will appear with your local URL depending on the country you are viewing this on.

Long-term readers of this blog might like to know that Philip MacCalister, he of Good Returns and a whole host of other financial websites and a rather underhanded individual when it comes to competing with me, is still spamming me with emails and the latest one was spruiking Optionetics.

Here is the link and the content of the email.

Mind you you cant expect much from a man who endorsed Bridgecorp and a whole host of other failed finance companies.

I DO NOT endorse Optionetics and would advise my readers to take a very wide berth of that company and anyone pushing it.


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Consumer.org.nz - Consumers take

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