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Kea

The Met Service has warned the 20 year freezing storm is on track to strike NZ. I hope none of our elderly perish as so many have in Europe.

http://about.metservice.com/homepagerss/
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June 18, 2013 4:20pm
thedavincimode

I better put another bucket load of coal on the fire.
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June 18, 2013 4:32pm
nasska

Don’t be a piker Davinci…..make it two!

Think of those poor old buggers freezing to death just so we can be ruled by Helen & the UN. 🙂
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June 18, 2013 4:35pm
Rowan

Judith @ 8.18
Agree with you on principal but disagree that it was a one sided bungled investigation based on tunnel vision. The investigation was very thorough and Lundy was not arrested for about a year until the case was built. This is not comparable to a Bain, Watson or Thomas case which had such a poor incompetent investigation. I think Lundy probably did it but the case is not that strong and probably not BRD IMO.
To the retarted ex dentist @ 8.30
Daddy wasn’t wearing headgear! this was NEVER suggested apart from by the CS witchhunt. Talk about being brainwashed by a cult! the ‘funny’ hat was a crown exhibit to show the bullet trajectory. You lot are good for entertainment though!
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June 18, 2013 4:38pm
Manolo

A feminazi whinges: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10891193
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June 18, 2013 4:44pm
Pete George

This might seem over the top but may maybe that’s necessary to get through to some people (and some still won’t get it).

A shameful week to be a man

That’s in Aus.

Mostly I dig being a man. It’s awesome. And being a middle class white man? Holy crap. I don’t need to buy a lottery ticket because I won all the things just by turning up. But sometimes … I dunno. Sometimes I am ashamed to have a dick, and I’m not talking about that time I woke up in a crowded train carriage with a gigantic travel stiffy.

This last week, it’s been a shameful dick week.

I mean, what is it with you losers? Do you genuinely hate women? Or are you just too stupid to live and breed? I mean that literally. The gene pool would be better without you. Yes, Sattler, I’m looking at you.

And your mate, Akerman. And that restaurant owner with the sub-moronic sense of humour.

And the misogynist fools the Chief of the Army is talking to here. And that slobbering waste of human skin married to Nigella Lawson. And seemingly 95 per cent of the communters on Youtube. And the army of dickless wonders stinking up Xbox Live.

And the celebrated rapists of rugby league. And that soccer coach with the delightful Dark Ages twist on marital relations. And and and …

Well, you get my point.

Or you don’t, because you are a misogynist dickless wonder who thinks the last week is all just a feminazi PC plot, or even worse just a bit of fun, or just what everyone is saying anyway. That’d be you, Piers, that last one. At least Sattler had the nads and the lack of sense to front Gillard personally and destroy himself in an explosion of shameful stupidity. Your smarmy, weasel words on the ABC’s Insiders, basically gargling and spitting up Sattler’s word vomit all over again don’t even get the grudging Jackass points that his suicidal performance demanded.

Seriously. What is up with you people?

All of you.

Do you not have wives and daughters? Do you not love them and want the best for them? OK. Scratch that. In Saatchi’s case we already know the answer.

Maybe the way out of this strangely primitive cultural moment in which we find ourselves isn’t to talk to, or even consider the actions of the so-called men in question. Maybe it’s the rest of us have some ‘splaining to do.

Because the truth is the world is not solely populated by misogynists and homophobes and embittered, deeply stupid and potentially violent males. It’s also full of calmer, gentler, more intelligent and wiser men who know better than these fools and who are perfectly capable of standing them down. Men who want better for women because so many of the people they care most about in the world are women.

Where are these blokes when a man puts his hands around a woman’s neck and starts to squeeze? Where are they when some idiot demeans and disrespects a prime minister, not because of what she’s done, but because of what she is? Where are you guys? Because if you just stepped up and said no at the very moment that it’s happening, not later, but right then and there, some of this wretched dickishness might finally die out.

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/opinion/blogs/blunt-instrument/a-shameful-week-to-be-a-man-20130617-2oemq.html#ixzz2WXYrIp4U

Obviously not “all of you” or us are to blame. And I don’t think its as bad in New Zealand – but it can be awful here too.

But if more of us speak up and challenge male crap more often then some of the crappy males amongst us might get the message that it’s not normal male behaviour, and it’s not good male behaviour.

And it’s a filthy look for all of us when most of us don’t deserve it – as long as we’re prepared to do something to stop it.
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June 18, 2013 4:54pm
KiwiGreg

I’ll play

“the northern Hemisphere averaged 0.78 degrees C. above normal, placing it tied for 11th warmest on record.

March 2013 was the 10th warmest on record for the southern Hemisphere, averaging 0.52 degrees C. above the 1951-1980 average.”

So you think comparing 2013 with “the 1951-1980 average” is somehow a meaningful statistic?
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June 18, 2013 4:58pm
Judith

Dennis Horne (1,359) Says:
June 18th, 2013 at 9:33 am
@Judith. I would have thought the fisting with associated trauma and bleeding would have constituted rape, she would not have consented. But what would I know, I’m only a dumb dentist. Police were concerned some lawyer would get him off, perhaps? Someone really clever…
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It was a disgusting crime resulting in terrible injuries, I am surprised at the sentence, which is why I would like to see the judges statements.

Perhaps this will assist you Dennis. According to law, rape only occurs when the penis is inserted, however, sexual violation, which carries the same penalty of mx.20 years may also apply. And dentists from my experience aren’t dumb, in fact my one talks so damn much I wish he was! 🙂

128 Sexual violation defined
“(1)Sexual violation is the act of a person who—
“(a)rapes another person; or
“(b)has unlawful sexual connection with another person.
“(2)Person A rapes person B if person A has sexual connection with person B, effected by the penetration of person B’s genitalia by person A’s penis,—
“(a)without person B’s consent to the connection; and
“(b)without believing on reasonable grounds that person B consents to the connection.
“(3)Person A has unlawful sexual connection with person B if person A has sexual connection with person B—
“(a)without person B’s consent to the connection; and
“(b)without believing on reasonable grounds that person B consents to the connection.
“(4)One person may be convicted of the sexual violation of another person at a time when they were married to each other.
“128AAllowing sexual activity does not amount to consent in some circumstances
“(1)A person does not consent to sexual activity just because he or she does not protest or offer physical resistance to the activity.
“(2)A person does not consent to sexual activity if he or she allows the activity because of—
“(a)force applied to him or her or some other person; or
“(b)the threat (express or implied) of the application of force to him or her or some other person; or
“(c)the fear of the application of force to him or her or some other person.
“(3)A person does not consent to sexual activity if the activity occurs while he or she is asleep or unconscious.
“(4)A person does not consent to sexual activity if the activity occurs while he or she is so affected by alcohol or some other drug that he or she cannot consent or refuse to consent to the activity.
“(5)A person does not consent to sexual activity if the activity occurs while he or she is affected by an intellectual, mental, or physical condition or impairment of such a nature and degree that he or she cannot consent or refuse to consent to the activity.
“(6)One person does not consent to sexual activity with another person if he or she allows the sexual activity because he or she is mistaken about who the other person is.
“(7)A person does not consent to an act of sexual activity if he or she allows the act because he or she is mistaken about its nature and quality.
“(8)This section does not limit the circumstances in which a person does not consent to sexual activity.
“(9)For the purposes of this section,—
“allows includes acquiesces in, submits to, participates in, and undertakes
“sexual activity, in relation to a person, means—
“(a)sexual connection with the person; or
“(b)the doing on the person of an indecent act that, without the person’s consent, would be an indecent assault of the person.
“128BSexual violation
“(1)Every one who commits sexual violation is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 20 years.
“(2)A person convicted of sexual violation must be sentenced to imprisonment unless, having regard to the matters stated in subsection (3), the court thinks that the person should not be sentenced to imprisonment.
“(3)The matters are—
“(a)the particular circumstances of the person convicted; and
“(b)the particular circumstances of the offence, including the nature of the conduct constituting it.
“129
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June 18, 2013 5:02pm
publicwatchdog

Here you go Kiwibloggers 🙂

ANTI-FLUORIDE campaign LIFTOFF!

My ‘Open Letter /OIA request to Professor Sir Peter Gluckman :”Upon what ‘science’ are you relying to support fluoride in water?” should get a reply before 5pm, Wednesday 10 July 2013.
_________________________________________________________________________________________________

Dear Penny

Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 dated 12 June 2013, which has been forwarded to me.

We will respond to your query as soon as is reasonably practicable within the 20 working days allowed,

(before 5pm 10 July 2013).

Yours sincerely

……………………………….
Communications Officer
Office of the Prime Minister’s Science Advisory Committee
PO Box 108-117, Symonds Street
Auckland 1150, New Zealand
_______________________________________________________

12 June 2013

‘Open Letter’ / OIA to Professor Sir Peter Gluckman from Auckland Mayoral candidate Penny Bright:

“Upon what ‘science’ are you relying to support fluoride in water?”

OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER’S SCIENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, KNZM FRSNZ FMedSci FRS
Chief Science Advisor

Dear Professor,

I read with interest your following ‘Media Release’:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1306/S00035/sir-peter-gluckman-statement-of-flouride.htm

“Media release
12 June 2013

“The science of fluoride in water is effectively settled. It has been one of the most thoroughly worked questions in public health science over many decades,” says Sir Peter Gluckman, the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor.

In a statement released today on the issue of fluoride in public water supplies, Sir Peter reiterates the scientific facts, saying “it is absolutely clear that at doses used in New Zealand to adjust the natural level to one that is consistent with beneficial effects (0.7-1.0mg/litre), there is no health risk from fluoride in the water.”

So why is there any issue at all?

Sir Peter points to the importance of the values debate around fluoridation, but warns that this should not be misrepresented as a scientific debate. …”

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Can you please provide the information which confirms you have read the following research:

1) http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2013/439490/

“..chronic effects of fluoride involve alterations in the chemical activity of calcium by the fluoride ion. Natural calcium fluoride with low solubility and toxicity from ingestion is distinct from fully soluble toxic industrial fluorides …”

“Industrial fluoride ingested from treated water enters saliva at levels too low to affect dental caries. Blood levels during lifelong consumption can harm heart, bone, brain, and even developing teeth enamel.
The widespread policy known as water fluoridation is discussed in light of these findings. ….”

2) http://www.slweb.org/50reasons.html

50 Reasons to Oppose Fluoridation
Dr. Paul Connett
Professor of Chemistry
St. Lawrence University, NY 13617

_________________________________________________________________________________________________

FYI – I have spent some hundreds of hours researching the decisions of the Ministry of Health and Watercare Services to use Waikato river water as a ‘raw’ source of drinking water supplies for the Auckland region.

I respectfully suggest that you read the following document which I prepared for a meeting of the Auckland City Council Finance and Business Committee back in October 2002, so that you can understand why a number of persons, such as myself, do NOT trust either the Ministry of Health, or Watercare Services Ltd, when it comes to safeguarding public health and drinking water supplies.

http://www.occupyaucklandvsaucklandcouncilappeal.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Waikato-Amended-ACC-Presentation-18-10-02.pdf

FYI – as a 2013 Auckland Mayoral candidate, I do NOT support the fluoridation of public drinking water supplies.

Penny Bright
‘Anti-corruption / anti-privatisation’ campaigner.

…………………………………………………..

http://www.occupyaucklandvsaucklandcouncilappeal.org.nz/?page_id=152
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June 18, 2013 5:11pm
Kea

Here you go Kiwibloggers

ANTI-FLUORIDE campaign LIFTOFF!

LIFTOFF to where I wonder ? She is already on another planet.
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June 18, 2013 5:16pm
Manolo

P.G., you might have lost your idol Dunne, but not your deep anti-male bias. Shame on you.
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June 18, 2013 5:20pm
graham

Well Pete, I’m glad to see that YOU are finally starting to “get it”. You have gone from comments which suggest that possibly the majority of men “aid rape”, to the above comment that “it’s a filthy look for all of us when most of us don’t deserve it”

Good for you.
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June 18, 2013 5:23pm
thedavincimode

Mad Hatter Waterwoman.

I’m all for non-bulk medication of the populace; whether it be bread or water. But have you considered the prospect that it’s the LSD and not the fluoride that did this to you?
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June 18, 2013 5:26pm
Kea

And that slobbering waste of human skin married to Nigella Lawson.

Pete George, if the pretentious gold digging bitch grabbed her husband by the throat, what is the bet you would assume he had done something wrong ?

It is guys like you who are a disgrace to men and no one has less regard for your type than women themselves.
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June 18, 2013 5:27pm
graham

Upvote for making me laugh out loud, thedavincimode.
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June 18, 2013 5:31pm
F E Smith

What defence lawyers now realise is, focus on one piece of evidence. Not 100.00% explained? The sky falls in.

Dennis, I generally like most of your comments, but that bit that I quote above is either hyperbole or else shows a real lack of understanding about the work of defence lawyers in jury trials.

Also,

No, Judith, I do not underestimate the Toffs at the Privy Council.

Well, you do appear to. Any person with an understanding of criminal law knows that the first Bain trial was a miscarriage of justice. It may or may not have come to the right conclusion, but the process itself was very flawed. Moreover, a lot of us at the defence bar have real issues with the way that Mr Guest conducted the defence. His comments of a year or two ago were appalling, regardless of whether they were right or wrong, but that is separate from what many of us consider to be his poor performance at the first trial.

Whether the second trial got the correct verdict is neither here nor there (and, as always, is not something that concerns me), but I can say that it was much better run than the first one.
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June 18, 2013 5:33pm
Kea

Pete George, here is a woman who will explain a few things for you. Listen to some of her youtube talks and open your mind. She is well worth listening to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RozEFVPDxeg
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June 18, 2013 5:45pm
nasska

Moderate cleric Hashan Rowhani has won the Iranian Presidential elections with promises of modernisation & reform.

In the interests of hygiene, stonings will now be carried out with rocks wrapped in cling film.
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June 18, 2013 5:55pm
Pete George

Manolo – there’s nothing “anti-male” about wanting men to behave decently and non-violently. It’s just anti insensitive old age males who promote or accept male violence as normal.
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June 18, 2013 5:59pm
Pete George

Pete George, if the pretentious gold digging bitch grabbed her husband by the throat, what is the bet you would assume he had done something wrong ?

It would be a very ignorant bet.

It is guys like you who are a disgrace to men and no one has less regard for your type than women themselves.

You speak for “men” and “women themselves”? No. And you’ve proven a number of times to be pro violence and strongly anti-women.
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June 18, 2013 6:04pm
Kea

Pete George, you old sleaze bag, are you really that desperate to gain female attention that you have to launch into these attacks on men ?

Do you really thing that is what “women want” in a man ? A guy who parrots hard line feminist doctrine ? You really have a whole lot to learn about women.
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June 18, 2013 6:09pm
Dennis Horne

@Judith. I admit I had in my mind a medical and thus broader definition or rape; with good reason:

World Health Organization defined it in 2002 as “physically forced or otherwise coerced penetration – even if slight – of the vulva or anus, using a penis, other body parts or an object”.

In 2012, the FBI changed their definition from “The carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will.” to “The penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape
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June 18, 2013 6:11pm
Kea

And you’ve proven a number of times to be pro violence …

PG you lying old shit. Where have I done that ?

Is it because I hold you to account for bashing men ?

Is it because I do not think loving, fathers, sons, brothers, boyfriends and husbands are rapists and that men who go and die in foreign shit holes defending our society are not neglectful fathers ?
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June 18, 2013 6:16pm
kowtow

Yep the “moderate” cleric is so moderate he won’t stop enriching their uranium…..hahahaha .

Redefining rape. I think bringing anuses into the definition means that men can be “raped” too.Previously it was something else. Equality and all that.It’s a sign of “progress” don’t you know?
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June 18, 2013 6:34pm
Kea

kowtow, Iran has not attacked anyone for hundreds of years. The last war they had was with Sadam, who used chemical weapons. Saddam was supported by the USA in his attack on Iran. The US is currently raging war all over the Middle East, right next door in Afghanistan and in Africa. The US and Israel have threatened to attack numerous times. The Arab states are also hostile to them.

There is no country that has more justification and reason to possess nukes.
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June 18, 2013 6:47pm
nasska

Kea

Last night SPC had a rush of blood to the head or got his meds right & posted this gem on GD….

….”Kea, its Lebanon and Iran that have boots on the ground – no other country does. And Russia supplies weapons to Syria’s regime.

You wanna know why – Iran wants a pipeline to the Mediterranean Sea. And others to supply the Asian market also.

Then it can close the Persian Gulf to Saudi oil and make a killing as oil prices rise. Of course nukes enable a country to get away with this.

Russia also benefits if Saudi oil supply is blocked as they too benefit from higher oil prices – in fact the mere possibility of blocked oil supply out of the Gulf enables them to get oil supply contracts and better prices

The US wants a pipeline to the Sea via Syria for northern Iraq/Kurdish are oil.

Now, why is Saudi Arabia opposed to a Shia axis with control of pipelines across Iraq into Syria and the Mediterranean Sea …?

Obama is not determining the US position, he is merely agent for the US/western interest here.
Vote: Thumb up 1 Thumb down 0″….

My personal opinion is that no theocracy should be allowed air rifles, never mind nukes as all Godfreaks are missing a few parts between their ears. SPC’s theory however, is as good as any I’ve read on the rationale behind the push for nuclear weapons.
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June 18, 2013 7:10pm
Johnboy

Nigella would have to be every sensible mans dream. Huge tits, tidy waist, arse to die for, huge bank balance and she can do whats needed in the kitchen too. No intelligent man would do anything to lose an asset like that! 🙂
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June 18, 2013 7:12pm
Johnboy

Maybe she can’t chop wood very well! 🙂
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June 18, 2013 7:13pm
SPC

Kea, while Iran may not have started a war in recent times – the arming of Syria and Hezbollah when connected to the language of threat to the existence of a state on Syria’s and Lebanon’s borders is not innocuous and hardly the action of a nation seeking only its own security.
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June 18, 2013 7:15pm
SPC

manolo, I note the personal hostility when I expressed support for the PM’s position – that while loan to value ratios were a good idea they should not be applied on first home buyers (or if they were, not to the same extent).

I indicted a preference for 10-16.5% rate on first home buyers and double that rate (20-33%) for those investing in second or third or fourth properties.

Anything to declare about leveraging existing assets to speculate on property and playing your part in creating a housing bubble?
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June 18, 2013 7:20pm
Kea

SPC, last time I checked the god infested USA was the one arming religious nuts all over the Middle East and Africa. They are currently supporting a radical Muslim overthrow of Syria.

You are attempting to justify attacking Iran based entirely on speculation. The fact is they have attacked no one. The US has attacked numerous countries and the only nuclear armed state in the region is Israel. They are simply facts and require no speculation. None of what I said does require speculation. (Facts are like that)

Do I want Iran to have nukes ? No. Am I anti the US or Israel ? No. But that does not mean I will accept bullshit as truth in order to be seen to support what I believe in. The fact is US interventions are not working out and are making things worse. There has been enough war and it needs to stop. You disagree, then you go there and kill some rag-heads yourself.
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June 18, 2013 7:32pm
Kea

nasska , both SPC and Reid have recently come up with some good theories about the actions of Obama. They may be right.
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June 18, 2013 7:36pm
Kea

Johnboy, Nigella is gorgeous. I am sure she would have married a 70 year old guy who tries to throttle her, if he was a plumber or something.
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June 18, 2013 7:40pm
nasska

Kea

The thing that makes sense is that an Israel/Iran nuclear tit for tat must end up with both countries resembling a couple of sheets of glass.

There has to be another explanation & SPC’s is as good as I’ve seen.
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June 18, 2013 7:43pm
Kea

nasska, I really do not think Iran or Israel want war. Israel is the jewel of the region and they fought hard to build what they have. Iran is not some desperate third world shit hole with nothing to lose either. It is a proud nation with a rich history. What would they gain from war ?

America is a different story. They are the wild card in the pack. I like Americans, when they stay in America making apple pie and bothering God. They do not export well.
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June 18, 2013 7:47pm
nasska

…”I like Americans, when they stay in America making apple pie and bothering God. “….

Amen brother!
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June 18, 2013 7:53pm
SPC

Kea, it is untrue to say that I have attempted to justify an attack on Iran – so much for your position being one based on facts …

Especially when we are actually debating the matter of Syria and the motives of the players.

There has been no US intervention in Syria to date, the fighting that has occurred there is an internal matter, blaming the Americans because the Damascus regime chooses to use military force against unarmed protestors and provoke an armed uprising is pathetic.

The flow of Moslem insurgents to the support of locals has little to do with the Americans and their support for democracy in the region – and the flow of weapons comes mostly from Arab sources, a little from Europe.

Of course the issue as it now stands is whether the Americans will support a no fly zone – and the terms of it. It could prevent Syrian advances, it could prevent either side from advancing – and thus maintain a cease-fire.
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June 18, 2013 7:56pm
Dennis Horne

F E Smith (2,582) Says: June 18th, 2013 at 5:33 pm.

… the first Bain trial was a miscarriage of justice. It may or may not have come to the right conclusion, but the process itself was very flawed.
It’s a matter of record the first trial was a miscarriage of justice. The Privy Council decided the jury might have been influenced some evidence they didn’t hear. How often would that not be the case?

[Guest’s] comments of a year or two ago were appalling, regardless of whether they were right or wrong …
Guest spoke the truth but process is more important than truth.

Whether the second trial got the correct verdict is neither here nor there …
The legal system is a cult.
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June 18, 2013 8:00pm
Johnboy

I love Americans and am glad they didn’t stay in America when they saved us from the Japs.

I will be equally glad if they do the same to whoever is next to have a go at us.

Of course I am not a sad wee leftie fuckwit who lives in lala land! 🙂
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June 18, 2013 8:01pm
nasska

The wedding date was set and the groom’s three
mates – a chippie, a sparky & a dentist were
deciding what pranks to play on the couple on their
wedding night.

The carpenter figured sawing through the slats of their bed
would give them a giggle or two.

The electrician decided to wire the bed – with
alternating current, of course.

The dentist wouldn’t commit himself, but wore a sly
grin & promised it would be memorable.

The nuptials went as planned & a few days later,
each of the grooms mates received the following
note:

Dear Friends

We didn’t mind the bed slats been sawn….the electric shock was only a minor setback but I swear by God Almighty that I’m going to kill the bastard who put Novocaine in the KY jelly.
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June 18, 2013 8:02pm
Kea

Johnboy, when was the last time people in Syria, Mali, Iran, Afghanistan etc, had a go at us ? How many times have we had a go at them ?
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June 18, 2013 8:05pm
nasska

….”I love Americans and am glad they didn’t stay in America when they saved us from the Japs.”…

I’d go along with that but I reckon that sometime over the past sixty years the buggers have lost the plot JB. Personally I look at what happened in Vietnam…it was all downhill from there. 🙂
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June 18, 2013 8:05pm
Johnboy

Not at all nasska. Everybody knows that dominoes don’t fall uphill! 🙂
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June 18, 2013 8:08pm
Johnboy

Bruce Ferguson said it all today. When you are a little nonentity like NZ you need big friends.

Forget that at your peril.
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June 18, 2013 8:10pm
Kea

There has been no US intervention in Syria to date,

SPC, are you drunk or just being silly ?

I have posted numerous press releases from the US saying they are intervening and promising to intervene some more. They are giving the imported Islamist mercenaries hundreds of millions in aid. They have promised weapons and military strikes. They are preparing to establish a no fly zone for to assist the rebels. I could litter this post with links and cut n’ pastes, but you can look it up yourself on main stream pro US Obama worshiping news sites. And this is just what Obama admits to. We all know what a sneaky darkie he is and how he uses the CIA for much of his dirty work, eg the drone war.
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June 18, 2013 8:11pm
Kea

Johnboy, how are things going for the US in Afghanistan ? As good as Vietnam ? How about that Saddam guy they supported, how did that work out in the end ?

Afghanistan was a broken poor fractured country before the US invaded it. Yet the situation there has gone from bad to worse for the US. I have been looking into how things are going and I can tell you it is far worse than I thought. Afghanistan makes Vietnam look like victory.

If you really cared about our Yank buddies you would want them home safe asap !
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June 18, 2013 8:18pm
Johnboy

Vietnam was just a continuance of Korea Kea and though it cost 50,000 odd American lives it made the Chinks realise they could not overrun all of Asia by force. In that respect it was a strategic success if not a tactical one. The Chinks have since carried on their war against us by other methods.

Iraq and Afghanistan are just modern versions of the Great Game with different teams. Iran, when it happens, will be the same! 🙂
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June 18, 2013 8:26pm
thedavincimode

nasska/kea

A nice burley trail but it doesn’t appear to have brought an old moocher to the surface.
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June 18, 2013 8:27pm
kowtow

Syria. Not oil but gas.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-16/mystery-sponsor-weapons-and-money-syrian-rebels-revealed
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June 18, 2013 8:35pm
Kea

it made the Chinks realise they could not overrun all of Asia

LOL 🙂

What next, stopping the Europeans taking over Sweden ? If you mean the “Chinese” then I am afraid your a few centuries too late. They did that before the Europeans “over ran” the Americas.

When you suggest Iran will be the same as Korea, Afghanistan and Vietnam, do you mean a miserable failure ? I wish you were right, but I fear it may be worse than that. Especially if Russia decides to draw a line in the sand [pun]. Iran is not a bunch of poor rice farmers or primitive goat herders, both of which America has lost against.
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June 18, 2013 8:37pm
Kea

kowtow, but but but, Is it not about women’s rights and democracy ? !!!
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June 18, 2013 8:42pm
Johnboy

Live your dream Kea. You exist now because some Yanks/Poms/Aussies/etc. died for your parents sake.

Scoff as much as you like but that type of situation will happen again one day and it may not be that far away. 🙂
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June 18, 2013 8:47pm
cha

When you are a little nonentity like NZ you need big friends.

The alternative was the Bob Semple tank.

http://youtu.be/V-nSxFimoHg
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June 18, 2013 8:48pm
Johnboy

Perhaps the Red/Yellow/Green Feathered Unrigged Lure may do the trick Leonardo? 🙂

http://www.bitefishing.co.nz/FEATHER-LURES.html
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June 18, 2013 8:51pm
Johnboy

Bobs tank was too hi-tech for us cha. This was more our scene! 🙂

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvpppCyAgE0

Had anti-aircraft capability too! 🙂
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June 18, 2013 8:58pm
Kea

Johnboy, I appreciate the past efforts of the war mongering imperialist American infidel pigs. But we much look at each situation on its merits. It is silly to support something that is not working, simply because they helped us out in the past, just as we helped them.

If I thought the US could prevail in the Middle East and improve things, then I would be more supportive. But that is clearly not happening and global security is worse for their efforts, not better.
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June 18, 2013 9:00pm
SPC

Kea, the events in Syria are domestics that others have since got involved in – it is the Americans who have yet to get involved.

kowtow, not just a gas pipeline but an oil pipeline from the Kurdish/northern Iraq area. As well of course as the Iranians wanting pipelines to the Mediterranean Sea (no one is really opposed to these pipelines in concept, just the prospect that players advantaged if the Persian Gulf route was disrupted might have less reason to ensure continued access – paranoia on all sides).

There are three Sunni Moslem factions (maybe more) – Moslem Brotherhood related, Wahhabi, and al Qaeda related.

There maybe a connection between the Egyptians and the Qatar position, gas pipelines and Moslem Brotherhood. This would explain the Egyptian President calling for a no fly zone and cutting diplomatic relations with Syria.
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June 18, 2013 9:00pm
Johnboy

Nonsense Kea the black President is just begining to flex his muscles.

It is a brightish new day for the guardians of freedom.

Just sit back and wait for the game to be played to the end! 🙂
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June 18, 2013 9:04pm
cha

The Schofield tank perhaps.
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June 18, 2013 9:05pm
Johnboy

I wonder if the ‘Mr Anderton’ in your link was Jim’s dad cha?

Imagine that….A shopping trolley engineering empire built on the back of global conflict!!!!!

No wonder Jim is so respected in the South! 🙂
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June 18, 2013 9:09pm
Kea

SPC, German Intelligence claims 95% of the rebels are imported. Which matches with reporters recognising so many of the faces from previous conflicts in other countries. America is involved and denying it is just plain silly. Do you think no one else can do a google search ? I will not even bother to insult the readers intelligence with supporting links.

I agree with many of your points but you need to stop talking shit. Secular Syria is under attack from US (& others) backed radical Muslims. Accept it and move on.
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June 18, 2013 9:20pm
mandk

Kea @ 5.45
Thanks for this.
It’s great to hear a woman speaking out against the feminazis.
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June 18, 2013 9:23pm
Kea

mandk, yes and she is very good at it. Some of her videos are brilliant.
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June 18, 2013 9:32pm
Reid

you need to stop talking shit. Secular Syria is under attack from US (& others) backed radical Muslims. Accept it and move on.

Yeah it’s a no brainer and always has been since way before it started and anyone who doesn’t know it either knows fuck all about how the ME works or is being disingenuous because they don’t want to admit that everything about Israeli foreign policy is poison because they think that if you say something like that it means you’re anti-semetic which is the most fucked in the head thing ever but for some reason some idiots really do think like that.

Anyway, here’s the ex-French Foreign Minister telling us what everyone who knows anything about the ME already knew, and before you object that, of course PressTV would say that, note that PressTV is merely reporting an interview that happened on FrenchTV, der.

And if you think it’s shocking or peculiar that the UK would be leading the charge two years before any of the rebels fired shots, then you should educate yourself because the UK’s the brains behind a lot of dirty things but because they know what they’re doing they hardly ever take headline news, they leave that to places like the US.

http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/06/16/309276/uk-planned-war-on-syria-before-unrest/
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June 18, 2013 9:37pm
Kea

Ex-Muslim (President of Islamic Youth Organization, Palestine).
He is one of the young founder of Hamas.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHF-aqszO7Y
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June 18, 2013 10:01pm
Dennis Horne

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/freedom-fighters-cannibals-the-truth-about-syrias-rebels-8662618.html
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June 18, 2013 10:14pm
cha

Jim was born in Auckland so who knows JB.
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June 18, 2013 10:20pm
Kea

I thought I would take Griffs advice and listen only to alarmist “scientists” fully on the AGW payroll. Here is what I found 🙂

Well, I have my own article on where the heck is global warming…The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming
at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.”
—Dr. Kevin Trenberth, IPCC Lead Author, disclosed Climategate e-mail, Oct. 12, 2009

“I’ve just completed Mike’s [Mann] Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s [Briffa] to hide the decline.”
—Dr. Phil Jones, Director of the Climatic Research Unit, disclosed Climategate e-mail, Nov. 16, 1999

“Also we have applied a completely artificial adjustment to the data after 1960, so they look closer to observed temperatures than the tree-ring data actually were…”
—Dr. Tim Osborn, Climatic Research Unit, disclosed Climategate e-mail, Dec. 20, 2006

“…If you look at the attached plot you will see that the land also shows the 1940s warming blip (as I’m sure you know). So, if we could reduce the ocean blip by, say 0.15 deg C, then this would be significant for the global mean—but we’d still have to explain the land blip…”
—Dr. Tom Wigley, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, on adjusting global temperature data, disclosed Climategate e-mail to Phil Jones, Sep. 28, 2008

“We, therefore, do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added (i.e. quality controlled and homogenized) data.”
—Climatic Research Unit web site, the world’s leading provider of global temperature data, admitting that it can’t produce the original thermometer data, 2011

– See more at: http://www.masterresource.org/2013/06/revisting-climategate-climatism-falters/#sthash.Ci4heUkN.dpuf
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June 18, 2013 10:32pm
Griff

The practice of quoting out of context, sometimes referred to as “contextomy” or “quote mining”, is a logical fallacy and a type of false attribution in which a passage is removed from its surrounding matter in such a way as to distort its intended meaning.

By the way some Ngapuhi found the missing heat 😆

When considering OHC data to 2000 meters, our results are consistent with previous studies. ► We find no evidence that the global flux imbalance has declined significantly. ► We find no evidence that the CO2 feedback is inconsistent with climate models.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0375960112010389
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June 18, 2013 11:16pm
SPC

Reid, Dumas knows squat. He claims the motive for anti-Syrian regime attitudes in the UK is because they are pro Israeli. The British Foreign Office is known for being anti-Israeli. The British policy in the ME was based on two factors, imperial continuance and oil. The former is no longer an issue.

Think Constantinople and Russia 19th C, think oil and gas pipelines 21st C.
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