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With friends like the incompetent Obama who needs enemies:

Not so very long ago siding with the leader of another country in an attempt to influence foreign policy would’ve seen Boehner dangle.
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February 21, 2015 2:55pm
OneTrack

Harriet – “NZ has a small muslim population and there wouldn’t be anyone who has been missed.”

But with the progressives, who refuse to admit there might even be a problem (simply because it conflicts with their melting pot ideology), in charge, the high immigration rate is being maintained, and at some point in time they will number 4 million. Will the intelligence gathering be able to keep up then? Especially when Labour and the Greens get in and severely cut back, or even close down, those surveillance activities completely.
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February 21, 2015 3:11pm
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Moody’s Russian sovereign rating downgraded – junk status.

https://www.moodys.com/research/Moodys-downgrades-Russias-sovereign-rating-to-Ba1-from-Baa3-outlook–PR_318857
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February 21, 2015 3:14pm
SPC

Given the problem of Syria is why Islamic State came into existence, confronting Islamic State requires developing a policy on Syria. This is best done at the UNSC level. So what is New Zealand’s policy?

http://21stcenturywire.com/2015/02/19/un-report-reveals-how-israel-is-coordinating-with-isis-militants-inside-syria/
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February 21, 2015 3:15pm
UglyTruth

Israel’s health ministry says around 1,000 Syrians have received treatment in Golan hospitals, but maintains that only civilians are treated. The UNDOF report, on the other hand, says they have seen Israelis treating civilians as well as insurgents, including members of al-Qaida and Islamic State.

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/New-UN-report-reveals-collaboration-between-Israel-and-Syrian-rebels-383926
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February 21, 2015 3:25pm
Nukuleka

Great heavens!! Someone alert John Minto and his rent-a-mob. I just espied a West Indies supporter at the cricket sporting a NATIVE AMERICAN HEADDRESS. The wearing of a Native American taonga is an insult to the mana of the indigenous peoples of the North American continent. I demand immediate action on the part of Mr Minto.

Out with the banners and the megaphones- and get that headdress-wearing supporter before the court of political correctness asap, I say.
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February 21, 2015 3:54pm
Lucia Maria

Poland: Europe Seeks to Counter Russian Media Propaganda

Poland’s foreign minister says European nations are discussing how to counter the Russian propaganda they say is seeping into Europe through Kremlin-backed media.

Observers say Russia’s foreign-language broadcasters like Russia Today television or online media are disseminating Kremlin’s views in order to win backing for its actions in Ukraine.

Polish Foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna said Friday this is “Russian propaganda financed directly from the Russian state budget, and there is this question: how can Europe defend itself?”

He said EU nations are talking about a Russian-language television that would broadcast into Russia.

Under communism, people in Eastern Europe also got news from the U.S.-sponsored Radio Free Europe and Voice of America, which laid the groundwork for later political change.

It’s going to be tough. I’ve seen a number of opinion pieces on RT that play the martyr card, as if countering their propaganda is persecution for “telling the truth”. If the potential consequences were not so serious, RT would be hilarious.
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February 21, 2015 4:25pm
Reid

Given the problem of Syria is why Islamic State came into existence,

Partly. It also came out of the Libyan “freedom fighters” sponsored by Nato and the evil ones who destroyed the most peaceful and best educated country in the ME, and it also came out of Iraq, after Israel had used the US’ blood and treasure to deal once and for all with Israel’s Public Enemy #2.

It’s now got a bit too big for its britches, doing things all branches of Islam except the fanatical Wahhabis totally and utterly condemn plus it doesn’t obey its Israeli and US masters anymore either. Which is why it will need to be dealt with sooner or later, just another failed experiment from the stable of the Muslim Brotherhood, just like the Taliban was.

Must be terribly frustrating these days, being an evil one. They just can’t seem to get any mass slaughter going no matter how hard they try, and no matter how incredibly mindless and stupid are all the Westerners who just stand around bleating in their green fields of happiness and content while the evil ones use their own money to fund forces which eventually, one of these days, will come and slaughter all of those particularly stupid and mindless sheep. Without even doing it the halal way.
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February 21, 2015 4:28pm
UglyTruth

It’s going to be tough. I’ve seen a number of opinion pieces on RT that play the martyr card, as if countering their propaganda is persecution for “telling the truth”. If the potential consequences were not so serious, RT would be hilarious.

Pravda did a piece a while ago echoing claims from Veterans Today that a dump of information showing US involvement in carrying out 9/11 is is likely.

http://www.pravda.ru/news/world/northamerica/usacanada/07-02-2015/1247485-0/ (Google Translate)

News »US and Canada
US fears Russian publication of satellite photos of the tragedy of 9/11
07.02.2015 | Source:
To Pravda.Ru

Russia to unveil evidence of involvement of the US government to

American experts believe that despite the fact that relations between the US and Russia reached the worst point since the Cold War, Putin delivered until Obama only minor troubles. Analysts believe that this “calm before the storm.” Putin is going to hit once, but he’s going to hit hard. Russia is preparing the release of evidence of the involvement of the US government and intelligence services to the September 11 attacks. In the list of evidence includes satellite images, the website secretsofthefed. com.

Published material can prove malice government towards the people of the US and the successful manipulation of public opinion. US government planned to attack, but spent her proxy. So that an attack on America and the people of the United States looked like an act of aggression of international terrorism.

The motive for deception and murder its own citizens served as US oil interests in the Middle East state corporations.

The evidence will be so convincing that they fall on the previous cases to manipulate public opinion in order to achieve selfish private interests.

Russia proves that America is no stranger to expose and kill its citizens in order to achieve a pretext for military intervention in the foreign country. In the case of “the September 11 attacks,” the evidence will serve as satellite imagery.

If successful, the consequences of Putin’s tactics would be for the US government’s most unsightly. The government’s credibility will be undermined in the cities will begin mass protests, turning into an uprising, paint a picture of American analysts.

And as the United States will look on the world political arena? The validity of America’s position as a leader in the fight against international terrorism will be undermined than immediately take advantage of rogue states and Islamic terrorists.

Do not be confused by such unsightly scenario, the actual development of the situation could be much worse, experts warn.
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February 21, 2015 5:01pm
Reid

This is funny.

It’s only the license fee but hey, what does it say when the court has absolutely no choice but to agree with a staggering 911 anomaly that only people like Captain Bananas and stephie could possibly pretend never ever happened in any way whatsoever because it just couldn’t have so it didn’t, despite the fact a court said it did.

How inconvenient.

http://worldtruth.tv/uk-man-wins-court-victory-over-bbc-for-911-coverup-broadcast/

Newsflash to stephie, Captain Bananas and other assorted morons: Criticism of other articles on worldtruth.tv or of worldtruth.tv itself doesn’t constitute criticism of this article and if you think it does this is why I have called you morons.
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February 21, 2015 5:06pm
stephieboy

Reid, phooey.In March 2011 there were peaceful protests in Alleppo arising out of similar in Lybia and Tunisia etc. Like Gadaffii Assad responded with an iron fist shooting and killing many of them.Civil War ensured with the opposition breaking up into a number of factions of varying extremes .One of those were Al Qaeda – al Nursa supported by other a Sunni extremists especially from Iraq.Intersestingly Hamas supported them and the civil war escalated into a largely Shia ( Assad ,Iran ,Hezbollah Lebaonon ) versus Sunni ( Iraq and various Gulf states ,Taliban too )

Into the complex mix of factions stepped Putin backing Assad and the Shia.The US decided to back moderate factions such as the Free Syria Army etc but refused to send e.g Air to surface missiles least they fall into the hands of Al Qeada al Nursa and their other Sunni extremist allies .The refusal to send those missiles certainly blunted the moderates effectiveness and has enabled Assad to prolong the civil war and maintain an upper hand .

Into that complex mix out popped the Sunni ISIS who grew out of Al,Qeada in Iraq and owe their fanatical Ideology that grew out if the Iraq war 2003-8 and a quest for an ancient bygone caliphate .
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February 21, 2015 5:06pm
stephieboy

Ugly trutth , Oh deary me Pravda ? Now who owns and operate the former Soviet propaganda mouth piece ?
Once you have figured that out take a deep breath , rest ,relax and go and figure yet again !
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February 21, 2015 5:12pm
Shawn Herles

“One thing people like Captain Bananas and stephie are blissfully and stupidly unaware of is the disinformation that is spread all the time by people who want to distract the sheeple from the truth and keep them focused on their green green pastures of content so they keep bleating and maaing away and not bothering the important people.”

One group of conspiracy nutters accusing another group opf conspiracy nutters of being “disinfo” agents is exactly why people who think don’t take conspiracy nutters seriously.

“Alex Jones is one of those disinformation agents and always has been, but I’ve often seen Captain Bananas and stephie ignorantly proclaiming him as if they’re not aware of his status. Which is quite stupid of them really.

I have no idea what Alex Jones thinks or says. I have never bothered to read him.

“Because how can you possibly accurately analyse the veracity of anything in a given field if you don’t even understand the basics of the field itself.”

Your “basics” is just your subjective opinion. Nothing more.

“Of course Captain Bananas and stephie aren’t alone, most of the sheeple are also with them in this appalling and particularly stupid ignorance. But it’s just Captain Bananas and stephie and a few others vociferously hallucinate they know the answers, when clearly, they have absolutely zero idea at all. And that’s just wrong.”

No, what is wrong is assuming you have a handle on the truth when in reality it’s all just theories based on theories based on theories. Assuming you are more intelligent than others just because you choose to swallow those theories is monumental arrogance.

“Newsflash to stephie, Captain Bananas and other assorted morons: Criticism of other articles on veteranstoday.com or of veteranstoday.com itself doesn’t constitute criticism of this article and if you think it does this is why I have just called you morons.”

Veterans Today is a Jew hating racist rag. There is zero reason to take anything it says seriously. That does not make Stephie and I morons, it makes us moral.

Newsflash to Reid, being a Jew hater who mindlessly swallows any old crap written on a conspiracy site so long as it justifies your racial hatred does not make you intelligent. It makes you sadly and pathetically typical of the sort of evil people who carried out pogroms and the Holocaust.
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February 21, 2015 5:16pm
Shawn Herles

“Pravda did a piece a while ago echoing claims from Veterans Today that a dump of information showing US involvement in carrying out 9/11 is is likely.”

So, a Kremlin controlled state propaganda rag mirrors the opinions of a pro-Russian racist Jew hating rag,

Well, I’m shocked. Shocked I tell you! No really…… 🙂

Meanwhile, back on planet Earth……
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February 21, 2015 5:19pm
UglyTruth

One group of conspiracy nutters accusing another group opf conspiracy nutters of being “disinfo” agents is exactly why people who think don’t take conspiracy nutters seriously.

Says the apologist for US terrorism who lied about a non-existent explanation for the persistent heat of the destruction of the WTC towers.
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February 21, 2015 5:24pm
SPC

UT, lies about having evidence are not unique. And long part of the tool kit of propagandists.
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February 21, 2015 5:34pm
Manolo

stephieboy will be (un)happy: http://www.nydailynews.com/giuliani-claims-obama-influenced-communism-article-1.2123541
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February 21, 2015 5:41pm
Shawn Herles

“Says the apologist for US terrorism”

LMAO!!! 🙂

You spend a vast amount of time on KB making excuses for and trying to cover up Islamic terrorism. That’s real terrorism by the way.

“who lied about a non-existent explanation for the persistent heat of the destruction of the WTC towers.”

You mean the explanation you have been given repeatedly but refuse to accept because it does not fit the non-facts of your conspiracy theory?

Ugly, EAD and Reid, the Kremlin’s obedient little sheeple! What was the name Stalin gave to people in the West who swallowed Kremlin propaganda? USEFUL IDIOTS.
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February 21, 2015 5:43pm
UglyTruth

You spend a vast amount of time on KB making excuses for and trying to cover up Islamic terrorism…

For example?

You mean the explanation you have been given repeatedly …

What was the crux of the explanation?
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February 21, 2015 5:47pm
SPC

manolo, RG just told the American people that he was unfit to win the Republican Party nomination, let alone be President.
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February 21, 2015 5:49pm
SPC

reid, if misreporting is a valid excuse for not paying the BBC licence fee in the UK, within a year no one will be paying it and they will have to fund it directly from tax revenue.
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February 21, 2015 5:51pm
stephieboy

Ugly Truth , it matters not a wit to yoy that Pravda is a Kremlin run and operated Propoganda machine and the irony the bjzarre Veterans Today freely operates from the USA .

Niow why should we accept your bizaare hollow flat earth theories then accept your uundectible ,unobservable mimi nukes without causing any serious radiation burns or injuries and without any noticeable or serious and abnormal spke/ increase in cancers .?

Those hotspots easily explained by the combination of Airline impacts and the serious burnings and damage flowing from the impacts .

PS you should begin a correspondence with Pravda and Vterans Today advancing your hollow flat earth theories .Am sure Putin, the Kremlin and coy will give them a most welcome reception .

Also epidemiological studies from Atlanta etc that confirms your alkeged spike in Cancers post WTC collapse ?
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February 21, 2015 5:52pm
Lucia Maria

UglyTruth,

If America wanted war, they’d be in there pulverising the Russian military in Ukraine right now. That they are still dithering about what to do (maybe more sanctions?) just proves that America is not really that into war. Especially with all the pretexts that Russia have given to date.

Stop focusing on 9/11 and just look at the actions of America, not what the conspiracy sites and Russia tell you.
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February 21, 2015 5:53pm
Viking2

An interesting piece of maori History.

Date: 1897

Ref: PAColl-1892-77

Photograph of a Maori group in the porch of the large two-storied house at Papawai Pa, Greytown; Richard John Seddon stands to the left of the group

Papawai was the seat of the Maori Parliament in the 1890s; it later fell into disrepair in the years following World War One

http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22907194

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so the Tainui are really pretenders to the throne. Mostly trash.
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February 21, 2015 5:55pm
SPC

Does anyone have a plan to resolve the mess in Syria? This is the base for Islamic Sate not Iraq.

Is NZ just going to send a few trainers into Iraq and sit on its hands in the UNSC? Talk about a minnow that talked a big game and then under delivered.
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February 21, 2015 5:55pm
Andrei

No Shawn it was Lenin who coined the term useful idiots, not Stalin.

And whether you like it or not there is no getting around the fact that the USA since 1991 has bombed at least eight countries while the evil Russkis haven’t bombed anyone

In fact the only time the Russian military has operated outside its own borders was in 2008 when the American puppet Saakashvili flattened Tskhinvali on the first day of the Beijing Olympics thus starting the South Ossetian war

Incidentally the American puppet Saakashvili is in Kiev as we speak, acting as an economic advisor to the American Puppet Poroshenko.

Funnily enough the Government in Georgia have requested his extradition to Tbilisi to face corruption charges but Kiev is not going to honor the existing extradition treaties.

You couldn’t make this shit up if you tried
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February 21, 2015 6:01pm
Gulag1917

“If America wanted war, they’d be in there pulverising the Russian military in Ukraine right now.”
Rambo USA always seems to leave nuclear armed nations alone for some reason.
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February 21, 2015 6:02pm
UglyTruth

Does anyone have a plan to resolve the mess in Syria?

Public knowledge of the underlying security issues relating to a political state using religion to achieve its ends.
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February 21, 2015 6:06pm
big bruv

So it appears that a gang member/prospect has been shot and killed in Hamilton.

Care factor…..zero. The world is a far better place without the POS.
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February 21, 2015 6:06pm
Reid

If America wanted war, they’d be in there pulverising the Russian military in Ukraine right now.

This just shows everyone how appallingly unversed and naive you are in geopolitics Lucia, for only someone with such ignorance could make such a statement.
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February 21, 2015 6:06pm
big bruv

“Does anyone have a plan to resolve the mess in Syria? ”

Carpet bombing seems a bloody good option.
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February 21, 2015 6:08pm
Andrei

Stop focusing on 9/11 and just look at the actions of America,

I agree lets look at the actions of America

Things like “Operation Merciful Angel” where Yugoslavia was bombed non stop for forty days and forty nights while President Clinton committed adultery in the Oval Office
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February 21, 2015 6:08pm
Lucia Maria

SPC,

Nearly a century ago Hilaire Belloc outlined an argument that if the original Crusades had managed to take Damascus, then Islam would have been vastly reduced in power and probably withered and become impotent a lot sooner. This is because Damascus, apparently, due to the geography of the area, allows for reinforcements from Asia. Here’s the quote:

For Syria is the keystone. To hold Syria permanently, with sufficient recruitment and armament, is to cut the bridge between Asia, including the men of the desert, and North Africa. Syria strongly held makes the enemy hold over Egypt impossible, for Syria strongly held is the holding also of the neck between North Africa and the Levant. Syria strongly held cuts all advance from Asia towards the Bosphorus, for it flanks the highlands of Anatolia. Syria strongly held is the recovery of the Roman East. Had the Roman West been able to conquer Syria and hold it strongly now after this first enthusiasm of the Crusades, Islam would have been thrown back to where those other enemies had been before the defeat of the Byzantines on the Yarmuk. But that splendid effort-the last effort was to fail.

Invading Syria in today’s times might be a little difficult, considering that Syria is allied to Russia and Iran.

Is NZ just going to send a few trainers into Iraq and sit on its hands in the UNSC? Talk about a minnow that talked a big game and then under delivered.

I don’t know that NZ was ever going to do more than that. We are an insignificant military power.
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February 21, 2015 6:13pm
stephieboy

Gulag , yes i the US is not to keen to have a nuclear Armageddon that you seem to be keen and the Kremlin lie machines ( RT, Sputnik, Pravda etc ) ?

Gosh Andrei , Ok the former Soviet Union flooded with US puppets .?

Yeah right ! And those puppets and allegations Tiblis etc you source from where precisely ?
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February 21, 2015 6:14pm
Shawn Herles

“Things like “Operation Merciful Angel” where Yugoslavia was bombed non stop for forty days and forty nights while President Clinton committed adultery in the Oval Office”

That was the bombing operation carried out after Serbia tried to commit genocide against against an entire ethnic group and was putting them in concentration camps and starving them?

Funny how you missed that part out.
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February 21, 2015 6:15pm
Lucia Maria

Andrei,

From Wikipedia:

The official NATO operation code name was Operation Allied Force; the United States called it Operation Noble Anvil,[41] while in Yugoslavia the operation was incorrectly called “Merciful Angel” (Serbian Cyrillic: Милосрдни анђео), as a result of a misunderstanding of nomenclature which was only temporary.[42]

The NATO bombing marked the second major combat operation in its history, following the 1995 NATO bombing campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The 1999 bombings led to the withdrawal of Yugoslav forces from Kosovo, the establishment of UNMIK, a U.N. mission in Kosovo and put an end to the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s.

Note the bolded parts.

Would you rather the war had continued?
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February 21, 2015 6:16pm
UglyTruth

If America wanted war, they’d be in there pulverising the Russian military in Ukraine right now.

Who do you mean by “America”? The Obama administration, the US military, or the people of the USA?

Stop focusing on 9/11 and just look at the actions of America, not what the conspiracy sites and Russia tell you.

The reason that 9/11 is so important is because of the evidence of treason by state actors and compliciity by the MSM. It’s ludicrous to think that the state can be trusted to investigate such betrayal, so it falls to the people to do it.
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February 21, 2015 6:17pm
Shawn Herles

LMAO!!! 🙂

So a quick Google showed that Gordon Duff, the one man band behind “Veterans Today” is considered by some conspiracy theorists to be a Jewish disinfo agent working for Mossad!!

You really have to be thick as a brick to take any of this crap seriously.
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February 21, 2015 6:17pm
UglyTruth

Carpet bombing seems a bloody good option.

Go play in heavy trafffic, fucktard.
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February 21, 2015 6:19pm
Shawn Herles

“It’s ludicrous to think that the state can be trusted to investigate such betrayal, so it falls to the people to do ti.”

It’s ludicrous to think that real experts who understand physics can investigate 911, so it falls to people who think the Earth is hollow and alien lizard people run the world to do it.

There, fixed it for you! 🙂
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February 21, 2015 6:20pm
Scott

Just to defend the Filipinos in New Zealand and we have many in our church, they come to NZ for a better life, they work hard and they look after their families. What they don’t do is get drunk, take drugs and not turn up for work and then expect to get the dole. Unlike some New Zealanders I know.
The sad fact of the matter is that most young kiwis will not work in dairy farms because they don’t like the early starts.
The other sad fact is that there is plenty of work for even unskilled labourers in Christchurch and Auckland where they are crying out for workers. No able bodied young male should be out of a job, there are plenty in those two cities.
If kiwis won’t work then Filipinos will. It seems a shame I admit and why we still pay out the dole is a mystery to me? Especially when the government will give you 3k to go to Christchurch!
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February 21, 2015 6:22pm
Shawn Herles

“And whether you like it or not there is no getting around the fact that the USA since 1991 has bombed at least eight countries while the evil Russkis haven’t bombed anyone”

Ahem…Georgia? Chechnya? The Ukraine? Political bullying and cyber attacks against the Blatic states?

Not to mention that over the course of the 20th century Russia murdered more people and enslaved more countries than the rest of the world combined.
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February 21, 2015 6:26pm
Andrei

That was the bombing operation carried out after Serbia tried to commit genocide against against an entire ethnic group and was putting them in concentration camps and starving them?

Funny how you missed that part out.

Perhaps I missed it out because its not true.

See when Germany reunited the East German army was integrated into the German army and its existing weapons were now surplus perfect being transported to places where the West wanted to cause problems

So they were transported to Northern Albania and from there to Kosovo where they did what they were supposed to do, create mayhem

And when the legitimate authorities tried to restore order they were demonized and eventually the justification for the smashing of Yugoslavia was established

NATO now occupies Kosovo which like everything America touches has become a failed state.

In fact the anniversary of Kosovo’s independence was celebrated last week by Germany sending police to its borders to keep the people of Kosovo in Kosovo and out of the EU, particularly Germany

You couldn’t make this shit up if you tried
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February 21, 2015 6:28pm
UglyTruth

You really have to be thick as a brick to take any of this crap seriously.

Says the liar who pretends that an arguments exists which refute the facts of the excess energy of the WTC destruction in 9/11 and of Paul being a false apostle.

And let’s not forget his apologetics for state corruption, denying the theism inherent in the common law.
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February 21, 2015 6:29pm
Gulag1917

“Kremlin lie machines ( RT, Sputnik, Pravda etc ) ?”
One has to sort the wheat from the chaff in Western media as well because the media have a tendency to exaggerate eg. lie.
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February 21, 2015 6:29pm
Andrei

BTW Shawn Chechnya (Чече́нская Респу́блика) is a constituent part of the Russian federation
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February 21, 2015 6:33pm
fylde

Wellington super city – Celia would be worse than Len Breshnev in Akl if possible
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February 21, 2015 6:34pm
UglyTruth

It’s ludicrous to think that real experts who understand physics can investigate 911

http://www.storyleak.com/911-commission-report-fraudulent-investigation-and-intentional-coverup/

The investigation was delayed, underfunded, set up to fail, a conflict of interest and a cover up from start to finish. It was based on testimony extracted through torture, the records of which were destroyed. It failed to mention the existence of WTC7, Able Danger, Ptech, Sibel Edmonds, OBL and the CIA, and the drills of hijacked aircraft being flown into buildings that were being simulated at the precise same time that those events were actually happening. It was lied to by the Pentagon, the CIA, the Bush Administration and as for Bush and Cheney…well, no one knows what they told it because they testified in secret, off the record, not under oath and behind closed doors. It didn’t bother to look at who funded the attacks because that question is of “little practical significance“. Still, the 9/11 Commission did brilliantly, answering all of the questions the public had (except most of the victims’ family members’ questions) and pinned blame on all the people responsible (although no one so much as lost their job), determining the attacks were “a failure of imagination” because “I don’t think anyone could envision flying airplanes into buildings ” except the Pentagon and FEMA and NORAD and the NRO.

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NIST has classified the data that they used for their model of WTC7’s collapse, but that’s OK because knowing how they made their model of that collapse would “jeopardize public safety“.
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February 21, 2015 6:36pm
stephieboy

Andreo , “Chechnya (Чече́нская Респу́блика) is a constituent part of the Russian federation ” ?

Yeah, much like Putin’s thinking about the Ukraine, Crimea and maybe adding another scalp like Belarus , Georgia and the Baltics ?
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February 21, 2015 6:53pm
Manolo

Good advice: http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/02/20/hillary-clinton-begins-process-of-vetting-herself/?_r=0
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February 21, 2015 6:54pm
Manolo

Also on US politics: this RINO should be history soon.
http://observer.com/2015/02/chris-christie-finds-himself-squeezed-not-just-by-bush-but-by-walker/#ixzz3SKCyRfJI
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February 21, 2015 6:56pm
big bruv

Ugly

You really are in desperate need of professional help.
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February 21, 2015 6:58pm
stephieboy

Uglyb Truth, a cursory glance at you link is full of the usual Corebtt based Conspiracy allegations . cover ups etc,etc without a shed of actual evidence .

Anything I missed like the 4,000 Jews failure to turn up for work , the Dancing Israelis ,conforming your mini nukes etc etc?

“NIST has classified the data that they used for their model of WTC7’s collapse, but that’s OK because knowing how they made their model of that collapse would “jeopardize public safety ” ???

Source and documentation please ?

In here ?,

http://www.nist.gov/el/disasterstudies/wtc/wtc_finalreports.cfm

PS Atlanta for disease control epidemiological studies cancers post WTC collapse ?
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February 21, 2015 6:59pm
Manolo

@Bruv: The nutter is inside the madhouse, but somehow got the keys to the computer room.
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February 21, 2015 7:01pm
nasska

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9kkh77grmh6bqqp/UT%2012.JPG?dl=0
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February 21, 2015 7:31pm
Harriet

Hey Ugly,

Who ya gonna believe?

Us – or your own severed head? 😎
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February 21, 2015 8:08pm
cha

stephieboy will be (un)happy:

This Rudy Giuliani?.

Ask Regina Peruggi, the second cousin he grew up with and married, who was “offended” when Rudy later engineered an annulment from the priest who was his best man on the grounds, strangely enough, that she was his cousin. Or ask Donna Hanover, the mother of his two children, who found out he wanted a separation when he left Gracie Mansion one morning and announced it at a televised press conference.

Or ask Judi Nathan, his third wife, whom he started dating while still married to Hanover and New York mayor. In two SUVs, he and an entourage of six or seven cops traveled 11 times to Judi’s Hamptons getaway at a taxpayer cost of $3,000 a trip. That’s love.

[…]

The onetime presidential candidate also revealed at the party that Obama “doesn’t love America,” an echo of a speech he’d delivered to delirious cheers in Arizona a week earlier when he declared: “I would go anywhere, any place, anytime, and I wouldn’t give a damn what the President of the United States said, to defend my country. That’s a patriot. That’s a man who loves his people. That’s a man who fights for his people. Unlike our President.”

Rudy may have forgotten the half-dozen deferments he won ducking the Vietnam War, even getting the federal judge he was clerking for to write a letter creating a special exemption for him. And remember Bernie Kerik? He’s the Giulaini police commissioner, business partner and sidekick whose nomination as homeland security secretary narrowly preceded indictments. He then did his national service in prison.

[…]

Giuliani went so far as to rebuke the President for not being “brought up the way you were and the way I was brought up through love of this country,” a bow no doubt to the parenting prowess of Harold Giuliani, who did time in Sing Sing for holding up a Harlem milkman and was the bat-wielding enforcer for the loan-sharking operation run out of a Brooklyn bar owned by Rudy’s uncle.

Though Rudy cited Harold throughout his public life as his model (without revealing any of his history), he and five Rudy uncles found ways to avoid service in World War II. Harold, whose robbery conviction was in the name of an alias, made sure the draft board knew he was a felon. On the other hand, Obama’s grandfather and uncle served. His uncle helped liberate Buchenwald, which apparently affected him so deeply he stayed in the family attic for six months when he returned home.

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/wayne-barrett-rudy-giuliani-love-article-1.2122253
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February 21, 2015 8:17pm
cha

# Lucia

http://www.defenseone.com/threats/2014/09/how-russia-revolutionizing-information-warfare/93635/
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February 21, 2015 8:24pm
UglyTruth

Uglyb Truth, a cursory glance at you link is full of the usual Corebtt based Conspiracy allegations . cover ups etc,etc without a shed of actual evidence .

http://911blogger.com/news/2010-07-12/nist-denies-access-wtc-collapse-data

http://cryptome.org/nist070709.pdf

FINDING REGARDING PUBLIC SAFETY INFORMATION
Pursuant to Section 7(d) of the National Construction Safety Team Act, I hereby find that the disclosure of the information described below, received by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”), in connection with its investigation of the technical causes of the collapse of the World Trade Center Towers and World Trade Center Building 7 on September 11,2001, might jeopardize public safety. Therefore, NIST shall not release the following information:

1. All input and results files of the ANSYS 16-story collapse initiation model with detailed connection models that were used to analyze the structural response to thermal loads, break element source code, ANSYS script files for the break elements, custom executable ANSYS file, and all Excel spreadsheets and other supporting calculations used to develop floor connection failure modes and capacities.

2. All input files with connection material properties and all results files of the LS-DYNA 47-story global collapse model that were used to simulate sequential structural failures leading to collapse, and all Excel spreadsheets and other supporting calculations used to develop floor connection failure modes and capacities.
~
Patrick Gallagher Director National Institute of Standards and Technology
Dated: JUL 09 2009
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February 21, 2015 8:39pm
nasska

Osama Bin Laden died on 2/5/2011…..what a momentous day!

Wait a minute… 2+5+2=9. And it was the year 2011.

9/11!!!!

I should be a conspiracy theorist. 🙂
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February 21, 2015 8:50pm
UglyTruth

Osama Bin Laden died on 2/5/2011…

Osama Bin Laden Pronounced Dead…For the Ninth Time
James Corbett
2 May, 2011

When Obama pronounced Osama Bin Laden dead in a televised announcement heard round the world last night, he was at least the ninth major head of state or high-ranking government official to have done so.

Given Bin Laden’s documented kidney problems and consequent need for dialysis, government officials, heads of state and counterterrorism experts have repeatedly opined that Osama Bin Laden has in fact been dead for some time. These assertions are based on Bin Laden’s failing health in late 2001 and visible signs of his deteriorating condition, as well as actual reports of his death from the same time frame.

https://www.corbettreport.com/osama-bin-laden-pronounced-dead-for-the-ninth-time/
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February 21, 2015 9:08pm
UglyTruth

You really are in desperate need of professional help.

You don’t have the first clue what I need.
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February 21, 2015 9:10pm
Nostradamus

Nasska:

2+5+2=9. And it was the year 2011.

I should be a conspiracy theorist

And then UglyTruth chimes in:

Osama Bin Laden Pronounced Dead…For the Ninth Time

When it comes to conspiracy theories, Nasska, UglyTruth will blow you out of the water every time!
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February 21, 2015 9:12pm
nasska

I have much to learn Nostra. 🙂
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February 21, 2015 9:14pm
Gulag1917

Food for thought
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EBsDIsNE5k#t=127
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February 21, 2015 9:34pm
Nostradamus

Johnboy will be interested in this article:

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong leader C.Y. Leung, nicknamed the “wolf” by critics, said residents of the Chinese-controlled city should be more like sheep after a year “rife with differences”, including months of sometimes violent pro-democracy street protests.

Leung was delivering a Lunar New Year message on Wednesday to mark the Year of the Sheep, or Goat, in the Chinese calendar that is based around 12 animals of the zodiac.

“Last year was no easy ride for Hong Kong. Our society was rife with differences and conflicts,” he said.

“In the coming year, I hope that all people in Hong Kong will take inspiration from the sheep’s character and pull together in an accommodating manner to work for Hong Kong’s future.”

He described sheep as “widely seen to be mild and gentle animals living peacefully in groups”.

Chambers dictionary describes a sheep as “a creature that follows meekly, is at the mercy of the wolf or the shearer and displays tameness of spirit”.

Chinese officials have repeatedly stressed the need for a harmonious society in the former British colony, which returned to Chinese rule in 1997.

Oh dear – telling people to be like sheep – that Lunar New Year message won’t do much for democracy in Hong Kong!

I wonder, though, what his strategy will be when the lunar cycle switches to something more exotic – like, say, the year of the dragon?
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February 21, 2015 9:35pm
nasska

Johnboy’s days of promiscuous sex are over Nostra.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/njmo8emryq0vuuk/Sheep%2068.gif?dl=0
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February 21, 2015 9:43pm
Nostradamus

Father fears for son who joined Islamic State

The loving father had hoped his eldest son – who he described as a bright and friendly young man – would one day become a successful businessman. But instead, the 23-year-old has traded his university studies for a career in violent jihad under the tutelage of the Islamic State and its murderous commanders.
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Exactly how Sheglabo started on the slippery slope towards extremism is not entirely clear but his links to radical hate preacher Junaid Thorne cannot be ignored. The father said he remembered his son bringing Thorne to their home around mid-last year.

It was around that time Sheglabo also started to become more secretive about his private life. His parents and siblings were not allowed to be friends with him on Facebook and he often would not tell them where he was going or who he was seeing when he went out at night. He was also spending a lot of time at the gym and training in martial arts.

But when he told his family last month that he was going camping for a few days, his parents suspected nothing was afoot. That was the last time they saw their son. As the days passed without any contact, they decided to call police.

Police eventually got back to them to inform them that he had left the country but his final destination was still unknown.

Then, early last week, police knocked at their door with the news that would turn their world on its head. They were shown Sheglabo’s newly set up Twitter page, which boasted proudly of his arrival in Iraq, along with the images of him ready to do battle. The area where he is based – Al-Furat province – was captured by Islamic State last year and is ruled by the group with an iron and bloody fist.

I’ve read another article – this one – that quotes Foreign Minister Julie Bishop as saying that:

– about 90 Australians are fighting with IS;
– another 20 have been killed in battle; and
– about 100 more have had their passports cancelled.

It’d be interesting to see comparable statistics for New Zealand.
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February 21, 2015 9:51pm
cha

It’d be interesting to see comparable statistics for New Zealand.

Bye bye.

In fact, Islamic State is such a perfect organ for draining the surplus reactionary-male rage from a certain demographic of the secular West that you can’t help wondering, sometimes, if it’s a Western invention. I doubt that; just because IS has turned out to be useful to Western security services doesn’t mean they created it. But it has become extremely useful, a sort of global kidney, drawing in and filtering out a pool of potentially troublesome young males. And all done far away, in the bowels of Syria. But only if places like Canada have enough cold-blooded sense to let this piece of luck keep doing its job. And that means only one thing: business class upgrades for every male under 25 with a record of jihadist rants and a one-way ticket to Istanbul

http://pando.com/2014/10/24/the-war-nerd-how-do-you-deal-with-wannabe-jihadis-an-upgrade-to-business-class/
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February 21, 2015 10:07pm
ngatimozart

big bruv (14,343 comments) says:
February 21st, 2015 at 6:08 pm
“Does anyone have a plan to resolve the mess in Syria? ”

Carpet bombing seems a bloody good option.

Not a good option. Good air raid shelters can usually protect from carpet bombing. You still have to put boots on the ground to root the enemy (who ever they are) out and carpet bombing provides them with heaps of cover plus it makes it hard going for your forces. In todays world it also leaves you open for war crimes allegations and possible prosecution.
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February 21, 2015 10:10pm
ngatimozart

Lucia Maria (2,800 comments) says:
February 21st, 2015 at 5:53 pm
UglyTruth,

If America wanted war, they’d be in there pulverising the Russian military in Ukraine right now. That they are still dithering about what to do (maybe more sanctions?) just proves that America is not really that into war. Especially with all the pretexts that Russia have given to date.

Stop focusing on 9/11 and just look at the actions of America, not what the conspiracy sites and Russia tell you.

No they wouldn’t because that would kick off World war 3 and in all probability a nuclear war. However Putin is pushing and pushing which is concerning with the British Defence Secretary stating:

He said there was a “real and present danger” that Russia could repeat the tactics used to destabilise Ukraine against Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. That could involve deploying irregular troops, cyberattacks and inflaming tensions with the Baltic states’ ethnic Russian minorities. He called Russian President Vladimir Putin “as great a threat to Europe as Islamic State”, he said: “We’ve got to be ready for both.” The incursion by the aircraft comes days after the Royal Navy intercepted a Russian warship near UK waters. In January two Bear bombers flew over the English Channel.

The three Baltic states are part of NATO so that does make any Russian actions against them more serious because it could be perceived as casus belli, meaning an act of war against the states who would then invoke the NATO Treaty.
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