General Debate 21 November 2015

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Captain Mainwaring

Wake up everyone.
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November 21, 2015 8:06am
Odakyu-sen

Zzzzzzzzzzzz….
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November 21, 2015 8:10am
Awww C-mon

http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11548868

Season’s Greetings?? Stuff that it’s Christmas!!
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November 21, 2015 8:13am
Nukuleka

According to a Herald report the migrant settlement agency Arms has decreed that the sensibilities of its recently arrived clients must not be offended by hearing that obscene word ‘Christmas’. It is to be banned and that hideous greeting ‘happy holidays’ is to take its place. And who is close behind in support of all this nonsense? Why none other than that Trojan Horse of the progressive movement, Dame Susan Devoy. It seems that Dame Susan’s view of good race relations is to drive a wedge between immigrants and the rest of us by telling those choosing to come and live amongst us that they have no need to assimilate and have no need to embrace kiwi culture. Surely the woman realises that Christmas is a kiwi tradition that is celebrated by Christians and non-Christian alike.
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November 21, 2015 8:17am
wreck1080

Why did the st Luke’s expansion get non notified resource consent.

My understanding of the law (from a lawyer) is that if a resource consent is minor in that it is inconcievable that anyone will object then a non notified consent can be given.

I had to get consent from neighbours to get a minor thing on my house done but st Luke’s can massively expand without needing consent?????

Would a lawyer care to say how they can issue non notified consents for such a large development?
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November 21, 2015 8:23am
Chuck Bird

Some interesting reading on Derryn Hinch’s Facebook for those not in New Zealand.
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November 21, 2015 8:23am
Inandout

ISIS must be causing chaos within the world tourist industry, and the Pacific area will probably be the destination of choice from now on. Angela Merkel has played her part, and though EU tourism will recover somewhat, the damage has been done.

‘While the disruptions will be temporary, France can scarcely afford any significant interruption in the stream of visitors entering the country. It is the world’s most-popular tourist destination, with foreigners spending over 42 billion euros ($45.3 billion) in 2013, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs says’.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-16/paris-terror-risks-slowing-recovery-as-tourists-take-fright
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November 21, 2015 8:27am
kowtow

nuku

Migrant settlement agency. I love how these people and their multiculturalist allies are always pushing “celebrating the diversity” of others’ ‘cultures” , but at the same time refuse to want to celebrate or embrace the host culture.

Treachery.
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November 21, 2015 8:29am
Keeping Stock

@ Chuck Bird – I hope you realise that your 8.23am post exposes DPF to the risk of being a party to a breach of name suppression. Go and play your vindictive games at your own risk, not his.
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November 21, 2015 8:29am
Chuck Bird

@Nukuleka

Is the Herald item about Christmas online?
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November 21, 2015 8:29am
billmurray

Now Mali, war has been declared on the West but we sit back and take it, the west needs a call to arms, Daesh territory and strongholds in Syria ‘needs boots on the ground’ war.
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November 21, 2015 8:32am
EAD

I thought this image is a good riposte to the Guardian article DPF linked to yesterday that tries to “prove” that just because a few Muslims got caught in the Jihadis crossfire, ergo, we have nothing to worry at all from 3rd world demographics:

http://imgur.com/043omBA.jpg

But don’t worry, it gets worse. In the “right wing” Daily Telegraph, Bob Geldof blames “young people” for Islamic terrorism. Not young Muslims, just young people in general. He then goes on to say that his generation fought for peace and justice. It was your generation who let the Islamic menace into Europe you bloody idiot. The blood on the streets of Paris is on your hands, not the youth of today’s.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/paris-attacks-sir-bob-geldof-blames-young-people-in-bizarre-rant/
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November 21, 2015 8:32am
kowtow

Only 20% of them are Syrian. Good luck to the German authorities deporting the other 80 %. And even the Syrians would have been safe in Turkey ,Jordan , and Lebanon.

What a farce.

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/not_syrian_not_refugees_and_a_syrian_peace_deal_wont_stop_them/
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November 21, 2015 8:35am
Inandout

Nukuleka: Next you will see all local bodies have instructions from central government to discourage Christmas decorations. These wanky migrant organiser keep using the word ‘inclusive’, so how about the migrants seek to be included in our centuries old traditions?
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November 21, 2015 8:36am
Inandout

billmurray: Just don’t mention Christmas.
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November 21, 2015 8:36am
stephieboy

Nukuleka, however Herald report adds this comment,

“…However, AUT Professor of Diversity Edwina Pio said expunging Christmas by New Zealand organisations “is a bridge too far”.

“I would strongly urge organisations to display their respect, not by erasing the word Christmas, but by being more inclusive so that they keep Happy Christmas, but then also remember to wish individuals for Diwali, Eid Mubarak, Buddha Purnima, Happy Hanukkah and other faith-based festivals,” she said.

“I think New Zealand often bends over backwards in their aim not to offend minorities in terms of terminology.

“Erasure does not mean equality. In fact, erasure does not show respect for the heterogeneity that is New Zealand.”

The Anglican Dean of Auckland, the Very Rev Jo Kelly-Moore, said people should be looking into the real message the Christmas greeting brings, “one of peace, hope, love and joy” in these troubled ”
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11548868

Sanity is allowed to a makes it’s presence felt .

However am sure the last point about the true meaning of Christmas by the Anglican Dean could be lost on our anti multiculturalists
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November 21, 2015 8:37am
Chuck Bird

@KS

Vindictive? You make me sick.
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November 21, 2015 8:46am
Manolo

Muslim love in Mali:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3326708/Jihadists-gunmen-launch-grenade-shooting-rampage-hotel-Mali.html
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November 21, 2015 8:46am
Manolo

@stephieboy: In your opinion, how many Muslim refugees should NZ receive?
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November 21, 2015 8:48am
kowtow

You reap as you sow.

Govt policy is to bring this scum in thereby endangering its own citizens.

Why is the NZ gummint upping airport security, because of its own immigration policies!

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/620925/Police-hunt-ISIS-terrorists-attack-Swedish-capital-Stockholm-Scandinavia
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November 21, 2015 8:50am
Keeping Stock

I may not agree with the law Chuck, but I respect it. By all means publish the name of the suppressed person yourself, but do not use someone else’s blog as a conduit to break the law. Hiding behind DPF’s coat-tails is poor form.
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November 21, 2015 8:53am
Stars And Stripes

If NZers don’t start taking a stand and pushing back against this pro immigrant anti NZer nonsense very soon we will surrender our country to refugees and other assorted riff raff who want to turn it into exactly what they left in their home country.
Good place to start would be to get rid of all these gov’t commissioners like Devoy and racist organisations like the Human Rights Commission who having nothing to offer besides working tirelessly to try and erase any trace of being a NZer.
This is the sort of ridiculous crap which happens in a society driven by leftists who are all trying to be more PC than each other.
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November 21, 2015 8:54am
Manolo

And yet the lamentable weakling Obama refuses to say the words:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/260915-poll-two-thirds-say-us-is-at-war-with-islamic-terrorism

The majority of Americans say the country is at war with radical Islamic terrorism, according to a new poll taken in the aftermath of last week’s terrorist attacks in France.
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November 21, 2015 9:01am
stephieboy

Manolo, that should be” Al Qaeda love in Mali” . Muslims are not terrorists as DPF very capability and pertinently reminds us in the “ The Muslim victims in Paris .“ thread

ISIS must very pleased with your brain dead contributions fanning the flames of fear , hate and mistrust. We might ask are you by chance a deeply embedded covert ISIS operator ?

Thats right at war with “Radical Islamic Terrorism “. and not Islam and not all the world’s 1.6 bi;lion Muslims( as you fondly believe
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November 21, 2015 9:03am
Chuck Bird

@KS

I do not respect a corrupt judiciary.
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November 21, 2015 9:07am
Harriet

“….I would strongly urge organisations to display their respect, not by erasing the word Christmas, but by being more inclusive so that they keep Happy Christmas…”

Coles and Woolworths in QLD are a fucken joke — the last couple of years they have played Christmas carols — without the words!

Those fuckwits have reduced Christmas to ‘instrumental only’ — yet every other day of the year they have music — with the words!

I can’t wait till their stupid fucken staff start wishing me a ‘Merry Christmas’ –

I’m going straight to store management “Tell your fucken staff to hum seasons greetings you ignorant fuck!” 😎
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November 21, 2015 9:17am
iMP

COLIN CRAIG SOAP OPERA. Whaleoil has an exclusive, a reply from ‘Grandma” to Craig’s threats of defamation against her.

http://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2015/11/exclusive-grandma-strikes-back-your-move-mr-craig/
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November 21, 2015 9:22am
Nukuleka

stephieboy: The final 6 or so paragraphs of the Herald story you refer to were not included in the version I read at around 7 am- they have been added since. We will all note that the Herald is now getting in a dig at Christians by reporting that the numbers of Christian in NZ have declined- without actually pointing out what is far more pertinent to the story and that is the blindingly obvious fact that Christmas is Christmas is Christmas to Christian and non-Christian Kiwis alike.

‘Would you like a piece of my happy holiday cake. Here’s your happy holiday present. I’m putting up my happy holiday tree. ‘Silent Night’ is a famous happy holiday carol.’

Stupid Susan Devoy.
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November 21, 2015 9:24am
Pongo

Pointless article from what must be under endowed man in Stuff as their lead business article a call to boycott Mark Weldons wine, the hatred of anyone succesful must run deep in this journo…seriously someone sends an annonymous email and this is the lead story because it hates on a rich white guy.
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November 21, 2015 9:25am
Jack5

I thought I had been reading here that child abuse in NZ was largely committed by Maori.

Yet on the front page of the Christchurch Press today an article comes with a photograph of little kids, and four of the five are white.

What is the true position on child abuse in NZ?
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November 21, 2015 9:27am
Yvette

Confidentiality of sources?

New Zealand Herald columnist John Roughan has been forced to release recordings of his conversations with Prime Minister John Key as part of a court case relating to the “teapot tapes”.
Roughan had refused to surrender transcripts and recordings used for his biography John Key, Portrait of a Prime Minister. He was asked for the documents a year ago under the discovery process for a defamation case being taken against Mr Key by freelance photographer Bradley Ambrose.
The Privacy Commission told the columnist last week that his book did not meet the criteria for the Privacy Act exemption which allowed journalists to protect their sources.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11548827

And from the same item –
Dirty Politics author Nicky Hager successfully argued last year that his book was a “news activity”.

What the hell is “news” – newly received information about recent events?
Or biased information, with-held at the time of its discovery, but released to disrupt an Election?

Perhaps the judges concerned should have read up on the definition of propaganda –
chiefly derogatory information, esp. of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view
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November 21, 2015 9:27am
Harriet

Oh those Russians!

I like Putin as he reminds me of Golda Meir — he doesn’t take any shit that the Koran serves up. None of it!

Golda was born in Kiev too! 😎
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November 21, 2015 9:38am
stephieboy

Harriet, if Golda Meir was born in Kiev that would make her a Ukrainian Jew . Not Russian. She resigned as a consequence of the Yom Kippur war which caught Israel seriously unprepared .
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November 21, 2015 9:54am
Gabby

Wasn’t Johnsboy’s hagiography The Big Book of Pony Tails released in an election year? When did the police raid Johnsboy’s house and seize his files? Nothing to hide nothing to fear? How’s he protecting a source if the recordings are known to be conversations with El Ponorino?
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November 21, 2015 10:00am
Harriet

“….Dame Susan Devoy…..”

1) It’s been roughly 5110 days since 7/11.

2) There have also been over 25,000 terrorist attacks in that time — 5 per day — every fucken day for long 14yrs.

3) The Koran alone serves up ALL 25,000 attacks.

4) People with toothpaste tubes in their on board luggage are ALL viewed as potential terrorists by Dame Devoy’s colleagues in govt.

5) Dame Devoy thinks the NZ public SHOULD NOT view ALL Koran readers as potential terrorists.[well that’s the message she is sending]

Well Dame Devoy —- the public aren’t as stupid as the govt —- the public will view Koran readers as they see fit.

Good luck with your new job Dame Devoy. 🙂
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November 21, 2015 10:03am
wiseowl

happy christmas to all

wreck.
The government gave more power to councils to designate consent decision making to staff.

Pesky people who used to be affected are now snuffed out.While there were some who abused the system it was usually easy to sort out who they were.
Decisions now made in back rooms and goodness knows what goes on in the process.
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November 21, 2015 10:04am
Shawn Herles

It’s long past time we abolished the the office of the race relations commissioner. It was never about genuine racial reconciliation, but just another weapon for the multicultural Left to wage it’s culture war against all things Western, and against European Kiwis.

I think we should also think seriously about sending Devoy to ISIS held territory.
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November 21, 2015 10:10am
stephieboy

Harriet, yes there have since 9/11 ( not 7/11 ) Terrorist attacks . it would be helpful to examine why the are happening and what may be done to end them . Robert Fisk following attempts an answer . Not all of it I agree but still is worth reading ,

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/isis-blinds-journalists-with-its-barbarity-but-we-must-continue-to-report-10468294.html

Not all Muslims are potential terrorists as you wrongly suggest . It if was the case then we would be all in deep, deep trouble., Your attempt at understanding is lamentable and pathetic which will help ensure the problem never gets solved .

He has commented that the US has concluded a multi $ billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia . That could be part of the problem . Meddling in the Middle East.
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November 21, 2015 10:12am
Paulus Gnome

Jack – ‘I thought I had been reading here that child abuse in NZ was largely committed by Maori.

Yet on the front page of the Christchurch Press today an article comes with a photograph of little kids, and four of the five are white.’

simple; it is not PC to point out an inconvenient truth about the brown bro’s. There, sorted.
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November 21, 2015 10:15am
Shawn Herles

“it would be helpful to examine why the are happening”

ISLAM.

“and what may be done to end them”

Kill all Islamic terrorists. Close the borders to all Muslim immigration.
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November 21, 2015 10:16am
All_on_Red

It’s funny. When Devoy was appointed, she was condemned by the Left and supported by the Right. Now, after having undergone “re-education” by her colleagues, she is being condemned by the Right and defended by the Left.
Shawn is right, just get rid of the whole office. It’s pointless.
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November 21, 2015 10:19am
Ross12

Has the NBR got a new editor recently ? Their political items used to be fairly balanced or they had two people from opposite sides writing on the same issue to give balance but it seems the staff writers are now heading the way of the NZ Herald.
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November 21, 2015 10:20am
lolitasbrother

There is quite a lot of news over Putin visiting Paris, and President Xi’s position, both leaders coming out on the offensive, over Islam , ISIS Middle East terror. New Zealand Immigration will need much more pro action than Michael Woodhouse is up to. We need a policy of no Immigrants Islam. No Islam. None .
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November 21, 2015 10:20am
Harriet

“….Not all Muslims are potential terrorists as you wrongly suggest…”

Well the Koran has served up ALL 25,000 attacks since 9/11.

Wasn’t it you who said yesterday to someone “Keep your head in the sand.”?

And that is what Dame Devoid is suggesting to an unarmed NZ public – keep your head in the sand!!!

Fuck that stephie — we’ll protect you gays from idiots like Devoid – and from Koran readers. 😎
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November 21, 2015 10:21am
stephieboy

Shawn Herles , yet another of your black and white simplistic Christian Fundamentalist solutions . The Republican End of times conflagration and fireworks display in the Middle l East come 2017 will surely be the mother of all displays .

Susan Devoy actually does son useful work ,

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/-gutless-and-ignorant-dame-susan-slams-damage-to-jewish-graves-6236028

Or do you think people should have the right to desecrate Jewish graves etc with impunity ?
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November 21, 2015 10:25am
flipper

We should NOT place all blame on Devoy for all her silly comments.

The problem is that scrapper from the “wrong side of the tracks” in Rotorua is as thick as proverbial pig ****.

Her comments are developed and produced by the left wing cadre of “policy analysts” in the HR office.
The problem is that she does not have the intelligence or any other ability to argue against them, or tell them, and her equally left wing wussy boss, Chief HRC David Rutherford, to get stuffed.

Now I wonder which genius of a Minister appointed both. 🙂
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November 21, 2015 10:27am
stephieboy

Harriet, I would just like to remind of the rules on Kiwiblog about abusive and defamatory posts !

Your posts are both highly abusive and highly defamatory of me .

You’ve not only lost the argument but is seems your head !
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November 21, 2015 10:29am
Jack5

Re flipper at 10.27…

I agree it is likely that Dame Devoid is a cat’s paw of progressives in her office, some of them with a Marxist background.

Shut the office down!
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November 21, 2015 10:32am
Jack5

Re the Stephieboys at 10.29…

Which one of you do you allege were defamed, or was it the lot of you?
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November 21, 2015 10:33am
Shawn Herles

Stephie,

I am not a fundamentalist, though I already know you have no clue what the word actually means. Nor do I believe in the Dispensational “End times” stuff. Nor do most of the Republican contenders for the nomination, and nor do any of the conservative sources I use. This is just, once again, an example of your inability to think outside of the tiny bigoted box you put conservatives in so you don’t have to do any serious thinking, or make serious responses to me, or the other people you denigrate on KB.

The truth is that Islam has, since it’s birth, been a religion of violence and terror, to a degree that almost no other religion in history has. The current wave of Islamic terrorism is just the latest manifestation of that.

When faced with an enemy that carries out the kinds of atrocities that ISIS does, war is the only answer. The fact that you cannot see that, but the Left Wing, Socialist leader of France can, speaks volumes about how far you have your head stuck in the sand.

As I sad a couple of days ago, instead of barraging others with dumb questions, why don’t you tell us how you think the issue should be solved? But you can’t, can you? Because you have no serious answer. Only blind devotion to Obama’s failed policy, and blind devotion to your remarkably simplistic and naive multicultural ideology.
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November 21, 2015 10:36am
Odakyu-sen

“….Not all Muslims are potential terrorists as you wrongly suggest…”

Words are merely symbols that we use to represent concepts and ideas.

Here, the problem arises over the word “Muslim.” Clearly, we do not all assign the same concepts and ideas to this word. If the diversity of the concepts and ideas that we ascribe to a word goes beyond a certain limit, then the usefulness of that word in meaningful dialogue starts to break down.

The word “Muslim” is too broad a term to be much use. (Maybe that’s the reason why the politicians avoid it.)
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November 21, 2015 10:38am
Shawn Herles

“Harriet, I would just like to remind of the rules on Kiwiblog about abusive and defamatory posts !

Your posts are both highly abusive and highly defamatory of me .”

Fuck stephie you are a grade A hypocrite. Every time you call me an end times fundie, or claim I want to wage holy war against the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims, that is defaming me. I have never advocated that. Every time you accuse someone of being a racist for opposing Obama’s policies, or showing concerns about Islamic immigration, you are defaming them. You have claimed Manolo wants to start a chapter of the KKK in NZ. That is defaming him.

And this sickening attack: “Or do you think people should have the right to desecrate Jewish graves etc with impunity ?” is defamation stephie. You know how pro-Jewish I am you sick fuck.

You dish it, so you have zero right to whine when it is dished back.
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November 21, 2015 10:39am
starboard

Here is the true face, and race, of child abuse in NZ

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/72157112/staranise-waru-the-cause-of-a-babys-death-unresolved-for-10-years
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November 21, 2015 10:43am
lolitasbrother

For a ferocious attack on Islam, Lindsay Perigo for once leaves the intellectual finery, and outlines a Social and political War strategy.
eg quote …. “Declare war on Islam. Not “radical” Islam, but all of it—the whole stupid, stinking savage superstition in its entirety. That’s where the threat is coming from and that’s what must be confronted ” unquote
Thats just a starter .. here it is below

http://www.solopassion.com/node/10115
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November 21, 2015 10:47am
Shawn Herles

Be warned stephie. If you are going to start shouting defamation when folks throw some of the shit you throw back at you, I may be tempted to drag your sorry ass to court myself. Unlike you I post under my real and full name, and unlike you I would actually have a case.
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November 21, 2015 10:47am
Harriet

“…..Fuck that stephie — we’ll protect you gays from idiots like Devoid – and from Koran readers….”

“… Your posts are both highly abusive and highly defamatory of me ….”

Are you kidding me?

I think you may mean the posts from yesterday – where I said you were a ‘poof’ because you were backing ‘wholesale islam’ and therefor not thinking about gay men being murdeded by Koran readers.

Seriously, you gay blokes are better off under a nation that has Christianity as a dominant religion instead of Islam. Muslims centuries ago planned invasions – that were more than a century away from being achieved!! They play the long game.

In other words stephie — it’s the next generations of gays that will feel the heat if Islam gets a hold in NZ. I just get real pissed how you and milky turn a blind eye to gays being beaten and killed by muslims — while you both have claimed ‘victimhood’ yourselves in NZ. It’s not a game. Cheers.
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November 21, 2015 10:48am
trout

@wreck1080 St. Lukes Mall obtained a Plan change back in 2010. I recall there were hearings at that time.
http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/SiteCollectionDocuments/HD2PM8WestfieldStLukes20101117.pdf
It is likely that they are now doing work that is permitted as of right because it complies with the change.
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November 21, 2015 10:50am
kowtow

We’re being reminded that not all muslims are terrorists , true , but we’ve all been informed that the terrorists are islamic ,very islamic.

Remember the excellent What isis Wants article.

“The reality is that the Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic. Yes, it has attracted psychopaths and adventure seekers, drawn largely from the disaffected populations of the Middle East and Europe. But the religion preached by its most ardent followers derives from coherent and even learned interpretations of Islam”

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isis-really-wants/384980/
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November 21, 2015 10:51am
stephieboy

Islam has not always been a religion of violence and terror as the Medieval Crusades amply testify .

War with ISIS. ? Is that not happening now or do you think it should be say nuclear or yet another US led full scale invasion of Iraq with Syria and Iran added to the mix as many of your fellow ” Christian” Republicans believe. .

What should the left wing socialist leader of France be doing differently Withdraw form Mali , suspend bombing raids against ISIS etc, Stop security operations against ISIS terror cells etc, etc ?

How the issue to be solved ? Certainly not with your Far Right Republican front page bombast and rhetoric Certainly not demonising other religions and peoples as you and the US Far right media are so expert at ! How can they and you help fight ISIS when you both so blindly hate Islam ?
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November 21, 2015 10:51am
Shawn Herles

“Islam has not always been a religion of violence and terror”

Yes it has stephie. Unlike you I am actually very familiar with Islamic history. Unlike you I have actually read the Quran, from cover to cover. You are wrong stephie. Unforgivably, stupidly wrong.

“as the Medieval Crusades amply testify”

The Crusades were a response to Islamic war against the Christian East.

Idiot. You know nothing stephie.
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November 21, 2015 10:57am
Fletch

A German researcher studies the NASA GISS data on global warming, and yes, it has been “massively altered” to show warming when there is none.

Veteran journalist Günter Ederer writes a piece reporting that massive alterations have been found in the NASA GISS temperature data series, citing a comprehensive analysis conducted by a leading German scientist.

These results are now available to the public. Professor Dr. Friedrich Karl Ewert. Source: University of Paderborn Ederer reports not long ago retired geologist and data computation expert Professor Dr. Friedrich Karl Ewert began looking at the data behind the global warming claims, and especially the datasets of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS). Ewert painstakingly examined and tabulated the reams of archived data from 1153 stations that go back to 1881 which NASA has publicly available – data that the UN IPCC uses on which to base its conclusion that man is heating the Earth’s atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels.

According to Ederer, what Professor Ewert found was “unbelievable”: From the publicly available data, Ewert made an unbelievable discovery: Between the years 2010 and 2012 the data measured since 1881 were altered so that they showed a significant warming, especially after 1950. […] A comparison of the data from 2010 with the data of 2012 shows that NASA-GISS had altered its own datasets so that especially after WWII a clear warming appears – although it never existed.”

Ederer writes that Ewert particularly found alterations at stations in the Arctic. Professor Ewert randomly selected 120 stations from all over the world and compared the 2010 archived data to the 2012 data and found that they had been tampered to produce warming. The old data showed regular cycles of warming and cooling over the period, even as atmospheric CO2 concentration rose from 0.03% to 0.04%. According to the original NASA datasets, Ederer writes, the mean global temperature cooled from 13.8°C in 1881 to 12.9°C in 1895. Then it rose to 14.3°C by 1905 and fell back under 12.9°C by 1920, rose to 13.9°C by 1930, fell to 13° by 1975 before rising to 14°C by 2000. By 2010 the temperature fell back to 13.2°C.

But then came the “massive” altering of data, which also altered the entire overall trend for the period. According to journalist Ederer, Ewert uncovered 10 different methods NASA used to alter the data.

The 6 most often used methods were: • Reducing the annual mean in the early phase. • Reducing the high values in the first warming phase. • Increasing individual values during the second warming phase. • Suppression of the second cooling phase starting in 1995. • Shortening the early decades of the datasets. • With the long-term datasets, even the first century was shortened.

The methods were employed for stations such as Darwin, Australia and Palma de Mallorca, for example, where cooling trends were suddenly transformed into warming. Ewert then discovered that NASA having altered the datasets once in March 2012 was not enough. Alterations were made again in August 2012, and yet again in December 2012. For Palma de Majorca: “Now because of the new datasets it has gotten even warmer. Now they show a warming of +0.01202°C per year.” Using earlier NASA data, globe is in fact cooling

http://www.climatedepot.com/2015/11/20/massively-altered-german-professor-examines-nasa-giss-temperature-datasets/

The original piece in German –

http://www.achgut.com/dadgdx/index.php/dadgd/article/sind_die_klimadaten_manipuliert#When:15:45:00Z

So don’t tell me the Earth is warming. Lies, and damned lies.
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November 21, 2015 10:59am
Shawn Herles

For stephie’s desperately needed education.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7y2LRcf4kc
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November 21, 2015 11:01am
Harriet

“…..Islam has not always been a religion of violence and terror as the Medieval Crusades amply testify …”

LOL.

The Crusades ENDED 700yrs ago.

While Islamic slaughter has been going on for 1400 yrs — right up till the morrow! 😎
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November 21, 2015 11:04am
trout

Judge in Cairns trial seems to be less than convinced that Cairns is guilty of perjury; he is also pissed that Vincent gave evidence under false pretences (pretend fear of being charged when this was not the case).
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11548966
He has given good excuse for the jury to find Chris not guilty. The only evidence is hearsay and swings on witnesses telling the truth; no actual proof of match fixing.
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November 21, 2015 11:05am
stephieboy

Kowtow, This at the beginning of the article ,

“The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it.ad of the article,”

And following your quote ,

“…Virtually every major decision and law promulgated by the Islamic State adheres to what it calls, in its press and pronouncements, and on its billboards, license plates, stationery, and coins, “the Prophetic methodology,” which means following the prophecy and example of Muhammad, in punctilious detail. Muslims can reject the Islamic State; nearly all do. But pretending that it isn’t actually a religious, millenarian group, with theology that must be understood to be combatted, has already led the United States to underestimate it and back foolish schemes to counter it. We’ll need to get acquainted with the Islamic State’s intellectual genealogy if we are to react in a way that will not strengthen it, but instead help it self-immolate in its own excessive zeal.,,”

If care to read the artcle a lot more carefully and not selectively you will see that ISIS has similar parallels with other ideological movements and fanaticism such as the Khmer Rouge , Rwandan Genocide and of course Nazism. The latter also on much larger scale .

But good luck with your personal holy war against international Islam . It will last well beyond the days you finally expire soaking up all your energies and time along with it.
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November 21, 2015 11:08am
LegioXII

There will come a day when those who have helped to perpetrate Islamic terror on the peoples of Europe and the West, the degenerate leftist slime, spouting multiculturalism and demanding Muslim immigration to our homelands, Islam’s useful idiots, will be held to account for their crimes.

This stephieboy creature should keep it’s mouth shut, or face the consequences when that day comes.
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November 21, 2015 11:12am
starboard

For all muslim..welcome to NZ

http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/christmas
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November 21, 2015 11:13am
SGA

Shawn Herles at 10:36 am

I am not a fundamentalist, though I already know you have no clue what the word actually means. Nor do I believe in the Dispensational “End times” stuff. Nor do most of the Republican contenders for the nomination, and nor do any of the conservative sources I use. This is just, once again, an example of your inability to think outside of the tiny bigoted box you put conservatives in so you don’t have to do any serious thinking, or make serious responses to me, or the other people you denigrate on KB.

FWIW, I have a similar reaction when you get on one of your anti-atheist rants and raves.
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November 21, 2015 11:14am
stephieboy

Harriet, name specifically when Islam has been terrorising ISIS style and slaughtering Christians since 700 AD ? OK we might include the Armenian Genocide 1915 ( remembering also the Greeks did massacre Turks in kind then ) ,but carry on with the specifics ?
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November 21, 2015 11:15am
RF

Can someone confirm if the following is correct.

Maori are prepared to accept organ transplants but refuse to be donors.

I have heard this from several sources and find it hard to believe.
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November 21, 2015 11:16am
LegioXII

‘Having established the theological basis for Muslim oppression of Christians, Ibrahim reviews the endless historical examples of these crimes. He cites one medieval Muslim historian reporting that “30,000 churches were burned or pillaged in Egypt and Syria alone” in just two years. During the Abbasid rule (in 936), “the Muslims in Jerusalem…burnt down the Church of the Resurrection [believed to be built atop the tomb of Christ].” Ibrahim notes the “1453 conquest of Constantinople by the Ottomans and the subsequent attack on…the Hagia Sophia and its transformation into a mosque.”’

http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/08/21/the-muslim-war-against-christians/#
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November 21, 2015 11:19am
stephieboy

Legio XII you yesterday introduced us to an interesting fellow, a Romanian ultra Nationalist Corneliu Zelea Codreanu. He founded the Legion of the Archangel Michael otherwise known as the Iron Guard .A Fascist organisations that unlike it’s counterparts in Germany and Italy rooted itself in the religious beliefs and mysticism of the Romanian Orthodox Church . It also preached a virulent anti semitism and ant communism Codreaanu himself became a victim of the complex crossfire of turbulent Romanian politics when King Carol II had him assassinated in 1938.

However the Iron Guard lived on culminating in a rebellion that also saw a 1940 program of Jews in Bucharest . About 125 Jews were murdered with 30 hang up in a meat packing house strung up on hooks . The Iron guard labeled them “ kosher “ which included a 5 year old girl . A witness to this dreadful event was the US Ambassador to Romania . The Romanian Prime Minster Ion Antonescu ( conductor ) quickly suppressed the rebellion . Yet the same leader formed an alliance with the Iron Guard , both responsible for exterminating over half of Romania ’s 700,000 Jews.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Guard
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November 21, 2015 11:19am
EAD

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened” – Winston Churchill

Here’s an interesting one for all you anti Islam brigade (by that I mean those who just attack Islam rather than those who “look” behind the curtain to see who is encouraging the destruction of the West via 3rd world immigration) – regular Spectator, Times and Telegraph writer Douglas Murray has just written in the J-Post addressing the Jews on the spreading awareness of the JQ

http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/comment/149678/the-real-refugee-problem-bigotry

When the European migration crisis reached its latest peak earlier this year, a Jewish friend said to me: ”This will come round to hurt the Jews – you’ll see.” At the time, I dismissed it. ”The only group this might affect are Muslims,” I replied. He knew better. ”You’ll see,” he warned. And now I have.

I’ve been writing about the migration crisis for a long time. It is a complex moral and strategic issue with few easy answers. But something is changing and, although I am not Jewish, I like to think I have been enough of a friend and developed enough of an understanding of the Jewish community in this country to be allowed to issue a warning of sorts.

The problem with the migration crisis is that the politicians are trying to follow public opinion, but the public do not know what we want. Do we want to be unprecedentedly generous or unprecedentedly fearful? Are the incomers like 1930s German Jews or are they just 21st-century economic migrants? Most of us think they are a bit of both and so our thoughts fluctuate. This makes the debate not only fractious but prone to dangerous swings.

In the summer, when the tragic photo came out of a young Syrian boy washed up on the shores of Turkey, some vocal Europeans had a spasm of ”let them in.” Others said, ”be careful”. But the heart overruled the head. And can do again. The next turn of the wheel was always going to be when the migrants were associated not with humanitarian warmth but terrorist atrocities. Now they are.

How, then, could a migration of millions of Muslim men (in the main) from not only the Middle East but sub-Saharan Africa, have any negative effect on Jews? The first aspect is obvious: among those populations there will be many who bring the hatreds and suspicions of Jews that are inculcated in their homelands and faith. In time, this will lead to more attacks like that on the Jewish school in Toulouse (2012), the Jewish Museum in Brussels (2014) or the Jewish food-market in Paris (2015). But here, wider public sympathy will go to the victims of these attacks rather than their perpetrators.

Yet another theme has bubbled up which it genuinely shocks me to discover. For many Jewish groups and Jewish leaders have been taking a conspicuous lead in welcoming refugees. Some initiatives – such as that to save Christian children in the Middle East who are being ”cleansed” from the region – are hugely admirable and widely appreciated. But it is specific and needed. Other initiatives and statements from Jewish leaders and groups appear to be welcoming any and all refugees and equating the plight of 1930s Jews with all 21st-century migrants. This is not just a misreading of history but an incorrect application of history. It also sets up a dangerous linkage between Jews who are already in Europe and an increasingly unpopular, current European migration policy. Allow me to relay some recent personal anecdotes. They do not add up to an analysis but they are scents of something I believe is now in the wind.

During an episode of Question Time last month, the historian Simon Schama made a somewhat haughty and personal attack on my Spectator colleague Rod Liddle. Specifically, he chided Rod (who was urging wariness of letting into the country anybody who wants to come here) for allegedly turning his ”suburban face” away from the troubles of the world. This was a little rich, and I said in print that it is all very well for Professor Schama to swan into Britain and tell us to take millions of migrants because he can always head back to his well-off (and distinctly white) neighbourhood in the US.

When the piece went viral, the replies included an element that was new and seized on an aspect of Schama that never occurred to me. ”One law for the Jews, another for the rest of us” was the nub of it. Well, Schama is a distinguished public figure and can say and think what he likes. Nobody else needs to feel responsible for him.

A couple of weeks later, the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, got into a row with his country’s most successful son. At a time when Orban was under huge pressure from his electorate not to let thousands of migrants into the country, he upbraided George Soros for being behind the many ”open borders” NGOs which were putting pressure on Hungary. In reply, Soros confirmed that, yes, whereas Orban thought migrants the problem and borders the solution, Soros did indeed think borders the problem and migrants the solution.

In reporting this exchange, the same theme emerged. ”It’s all very well for the Jews. They have Israel where only Jews can go and all the time they’re destroying our own religious and racial identity in Europe.”

This will come round to hurt the Jews, you will see

And another theme started to come up which I never thought I’d hear in my lifetime: ”Ah – the rootless, cosmopolitan Jew.” Searching online I find that this is indeed becoming a theme. A video watched hundreds of thousands of times on YouTube excerpts an interview with a Jewish academic in Sweden who explains that Europe ”has not yet learned how to be multicultural.”

She goes on: ”Europe is not going to be the monolithic societies that they once were in the last century. Jews are going to be at the centre of that. It’s a huge transformation for Europe to make. They are now going into a multicultural mode, and Jews will be resented because of our leading role.”

This remains a minority opinion for now. But here comes the bigger problem. Only seven per cent of Britons surveyed in a recent poll said they wanted immigration into Britain to increase. It is impossible to say what direction Europe is going to go in the near future, and we are all going to have to be on our guard and spend time countering bigotries and hatreds that could spill out in any direction. But the open-heartedness of so many Jews must also be countered by more vocal and visible even-headedness. In particular, this constitutes a careful warning that it could yet be a problem for European Jews if their leaders and visible figures get ahead of (and are seen to be the progenitors of) a mass movement of peoples that looks likely in the near future to go unimaginably sour, thus bearing out my pessimistic Jewish friend’s worst fears.
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November 21, 2015 11:21am
mikenmild

What, Lego has found some more fascists to admire? Not really a surprise, stephie.
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November 21, 2015 11:21am
Harriet

“….Harriet, name specifically when Islam has been terrorising ISIS style and slaughtering Christians since 700 AD ?…’

They have been specifically slaughtering all and sundry since 700ad.

It’s funny how you lot never bring up Jews where past Islamic history is concerned. can’t you keep it honest?
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November 21, 2015 11:22am
LegioXII

The Islamic disease has always been at war with the rest of the world, and with Europe. Here is the truth.

MUSLIM CRUSADES Started Four Centuries Before the Western Crusades: Islamics Launched their Crusades in 630 A.D. Western Crusades started in 1095 A.D. to Stop Muslim Invasion

https://factreal.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/muslim-crusades-started-four-centuries-before-the-western-crusades/

Timeline of the Islamic Crusades: The Truth about Islamic Imperialism

http://www.answering-islam.de/Authors/Arlandson/crusades_timeline.htm

War Without End: A Brief History of the Muslim Conquests

http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=7022

HERE’S A HISTORY LESSON: On The War Being Waged By Islamic Terrorists

http://clashdaily.com/2015/11/heres-a-history-lesson-on-the-war-being-waged-by-islamic-terrorists/
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November 21, 2015 11:24am
Kimbo

@ stephieboy (@ Nukuleka)

Nukuleka, however Herald report adds this comment,

“…However, AUT Professor of Diversity Edwina Pio said expunging Christmas by New Zealand organisations “is a bridge too far”…

The Anglican Dean of Auckland, the Very Rev Jo Kelly-Moore, said people should be looking into the real message the Christmas greeting brings, “one of peace, hope, love and joy” in these troubled ”
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11548868

Sanity is allowed to a makes it’s presence felt .

However am sure the last point about the true meaning of Christmas by the Anglican Dean could be lost on our anti multiculturalists

Hmm. Dr Pio clearly comes from a migrant community that does celebrate Christmas – indeed, you could argue the Pacific Islands are about the last bastion of Christendom! – so that probably colours her (sensible) perspective.

But the Anglican Dean says the Christmas message is one of “peace, hope, joy and love”. Yeah. But it is equally one of judgement. “Peace on earth and good will to men” (Luke 2:14) in its biblical context is not talking in the first instance about human relationships/multi-culturalism (although it does have that downstream possibility/implication). Instead, it is referring to God’s attitude towards humanity, which was previously hostile due to disobedience and sin. The incarnation – God adding human nature to himself in the form of Jesus Christ – is God’s pledge that he has drawn as near to us as is possible, and will now redeem and renew us…as long as we join ourselves to Christ by faith. But if not, we remain under his judgement – indeed, due to conscious rejection of his gospel/”good news”, our judgement is even more severe.

So the “message” is inclusive and multicultural – all who want to be joined to God, whether Jew or Gentile, black or white, rich or poor, female or male may do so. But it is also exclusive. Through “Christ alone” as the Reformers asserted.

Which makes me ponder Nukuleka’s and others assertions on this page that Christmas is a “national holiday”. What we have now has be overlaid with centuries of tradition, including the philosophical filters of the 4th and 5th Centuries AD where the Trinitarian and Christological formulas were first codified. Yet I don’t see the wider public debating or discussing, say, the Athanasian Creed

http://anglicansonline.org/basics/athanasian.html

…as part of their “Christmas observance”. Why not? Seems to be the obvious thing to do if you are going to try and discern the “real message”. And if not, then isn’t foisting it on pagans and non-Christians…unholy?!

The original Christmas message should be as both hope-filled or offensive as it was in the 1st Century AD. It depends on how you react to it. It is not a “national” holiday. Instead it is a vestige of Christendom, that has essentially be been de-sacralised to make it palatable to as many as possible. If that is the case, then like the observance of Pentecost (arguably just as an important feast in the Church) I see no reason for Christians to object to elements being further discarded to fit the requirements and beliefs of new non-Christendom observing New Zealanders.

Christ called Christians to make disciples of all nations…not try and preserve the vestiges of a past political order that have little, if any, benefit in fulfilling his mandate, and when doing so brings unnecessary distraction and strife.
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November 21, 2015 11:30am
LegioXII

Are the creatures calling themselves stephieboy and mikenmild homosexual special friends?
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November 21, 2015 11:34am
SGA

RF at 11:16 am

Maori are prepared to accept organ transplants but refuse to be donors.
I have heard this from several sources and find it hard to believe.

Grant Kereama provided Jonah’s transplanted kidney, so not sure how wide spread this is in practice.
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November 21, 2015 11:35am
Reid

Pollard released, against the wishes of the entire US intelligence community. Even Bush 43 didn’t cave but Obama has. Wouldn’t be surprised if this was part of the package to get the Iranian deal through.

Murderous neocon bastard traitors.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/21/world/jonathan-pollard-released.html?_r=0
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November 21, 2015 11:39am
Kimbo

@ Reid

Pollard released, against the wishes of the entire US intelligence community. Even Bush 43 didn’t cave but Obama has. Wouldn’t be surprised if this was part of the package to get the Iranian deal through.

Murderous neocon bastard traitors.

Maybe he and Modecai Vanunu can swap notes…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Vanunu
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November 21, 2015 11:42am
Harriet

“…..Christ called Christians to make disciples of all nations…not try and preserve the vestiges of a past political order that have little, if any, benefit in fulfilling his mandate, and when doing so brings unnecessary distraction and strife….”

True….but this is back to the public square thing where the govt promotes, permits, or prohibits what goes on in the public square.

How on earth are Christians able to make disciples of all nations when very little religion is now allowed in the public square?

albeit private enterprise — ‘instrumental Christmas carols only – no words’ — coles & Woolworths ect stores Australia wide.

David Jones[it could be Myers I can’t remember] has been laughed out of Sydney for it’s crap Chrismas window display — where every previous year it has been outstanding – a NSW tradition to see it. NSW population – around 5 million. NSW muslim population – around 80,000. NSW atheist population – same as it has been for a decade or more.
It reads like NSW police[govt] are having a say in things.
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November 21, 2015 11:46am
mikenmild

Lego
I’ll keep details of my sexual interests private, thank you. If you are interested in meeting homosexuals, perhaps you could ask starboard about his Hagley Park haunts.
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November 21, 2015 11:46am
Reid

Bush and Cheney knew about the 911 attacks months beforehand, says George Tenet, Head of the CIA at the time.

“Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” The CIA’s famous Presidential Daily Brief, presented to George W. Bush on August 6, 2001, has always been Exhibit A in the case that his administration shrugged off warnings of an Al Qaeda attack. But months earlier, starting in the spring of 2001, the CIA repeatedly and urgently began to warn the White House that an attack was coming.

By May of 2001, says Cofer Black, then chief of the CIA’s counterterrorism center, “it was very evident that we were going to be struck, we were gonna be struck hard and lots of Americans were going to die.” “There were real plots being manifested,” Cofer’s former boss, George Tenet, told me in his first interview in eight years. “The world felt like it was on the edge of eruption. In this time period of June and July, the threat continues to rise. Terrorists were disappearing [as if in hiding, in preparation for an attack]. Camps were closing. Threat reportings on the rise.” The crisis came to a head on July 10. The critical meeting that took place that day was first reported by Bob Woodward in 2006. Tenet also wrote about it in general terms in his 2007 memoir At the Center of the Storm.

But neither he nor Black has spoken about it publicly in such detail until now—or been so emphatic about how specific and pressing their warnings really were. Over the past eight months, in more than a hundred hours of interviews, my partners Jules and Gedeon Naudet and I talked with Tenet and the 11 other living former CIA directors for The Spymasters, a documentary set to air this month on Showtime…

I’ve read At the Centre of the Storm and yes, Tenet is relatively equivocal about what exactly they knew. You can fairly conclude from that book that (mostly) Cheney heavily gilded the lily on the WMD intel, basically making it up. Something that Blair is now about to be prosecuted for, which is why he recently apologised for his part in taking the UK into it, not because he felt guilty, but to try to mitigate his own culpability. But in the book Tenet glosses over what they actually were told. But now, he comes clean.

Hopefully a few more sheeple will awaken as a result. Most of them of course will keep baaing and bleating in their green green meadows of false peace and false hope.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/11/cia-directors-documentary-911-bush-213353
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November 21, 2015 11:49am
LegioXII

Having been presented with the truth re the history of Islamic war the stephieboy creature has slunk away with it’s tail between it’s legs.
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November 21, 2015 11:50am
stephieboy

Harriet (6,748 comments) says:
November 21st, 2015 at 11:22 am

Try and be honest and document and source when Islam has engaged in acts of ISIS styled terrorism since 700 AD

Jews ? Yes they received punishment and persecution a plenty in Medieval Chrsitian Europe and not forgetting Tsarist Christian Russia

Now Golda Meir born in Kiev ,Ethnically a Russian or Ukrainian ?

The ‘iron lady” and the Yom Kippur war ?
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November 21, 2015 11:56am
flipper

trout (1,049 comments) says:

November 21st, 2015 at 11:05 am

Judge in Cairns trial seems to be less than convinced that Cairns is guilty of perjury; he is also pissed that Vincent gave evidence under false pretences (pretend fear of being charged when this was not the case).
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11548966
He has given ….

******

If the Jury says “Not guilty” there are going to be some awfully embarrassed journos / bloggers in NZ and elsewhere.

Guilty on what we have seen reported? In my view “not proven”.

But gambling (mainly on horses) has been endemic in cricket (too much loose time on their hands when not fielding) and commentators for a long time. The leap from one form to another is small so the sooner it is stamped out in cricket the better.
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November 21, 2015 11:56am
Kimbo

@ Harriet

…How on earth are Christians able to make disciples of all nations when very little religion is now allowed in the public square?…

Harriet, I like you, and your posts are amusing, but that statement is manifestly complete crap! Are NZ Christians arrested for proclaiming the gospel/winning converts as in the 1st Century? Are our churches closed? Are Christians in the West, and in NZ in particular beaten in the streets, deprived of possessions, or denied the even-handed justice of the courts as the Apostle Paul suffered when he first proclaimed the Gospel?! And Paul didn’t want any favours from Rome – just the recognition Christians were no threat to Caesar’s rule, and the right to be left in peace to proclaim the gospel – which has always been the Church’s role, not Caesar’s!

Currently persecuted and martyred Christians in the Middle East and North Africa would look at your statement and shake their heads in wonderment. Some around here want to resist the encroachment of Islam – and fair enough. Give Islamists an inch and they will take a mile. As I’ve said many times, we have sufficient law on the statute books to protect everyone’s rights and freedoms in our non-sectarian constitution – all it will require are politicians and magistrates of sufficient courage to resist when the challenge comes (and re-negotiating some of the details about the observance of Christmas ain’t necessarily it).

But, please, don’t insult those who suffer real persecution in parts of the world by moaning and grizzling that we are “not allowed”, and the implication New Zealand or Australia or UK or French Christians are persecuted. We are not. Insulted and ridiculed, or ignored and treated with indifference? Yep, certainly. But then that is a the price you pay for the freedom we enjoy in our current political and social environment. And long may that be the case!
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November 21, 2015 11:59am
Witness

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. – Isaiah 41:10
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November 21, 2015 11:59am
stephieboy

Lego X11. am here live and well ready to debate with you about the terror threat of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims !

Wasn’t it interesting about Corneliu Zelea Codreanu and his successors in the Iron Guard ?

Thoughts ?
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November 21, 2015 12:00pm
Witness

Israelis Reeling from Deadliest Wave of Terror Yet

“ALON SHVUT, Israel — Israel suffered its deadliest day yet in the current wave of terror. Five died in two separate attacks Thursday, including an American teenager studying in Israel.

Ezra Schwartz came to Israel to join a program co-sponsored by the Jewish Agency and the Israeli government. The head of the Jewish Agency, Natan Sharansky, said his death was even more tragic because Schwartz came to be part of the vibrant Israeli experience.

On Thursday afternoon, a 24-year-old Palestinian terrorist from nearby Hebron began shooting at cars in the next lane with an automatic rifle. He killed Ezra and two others, a Palestinian and an Israeli, and wounded seven.

A video caught the aftermath when Israeli police surrounded the terrorist.

Earlier in the day, two Israelis died in Tel Aviv when 36-year-old Raed Mahmoud walked into a worship service and began stabbing people during afternoon prayers. He worked in a restaurant next door.

Hamas praised both of the attacks, which came almost one year to the day after a major terror attack on a Jerusalem synagogue killed four during morning prayers.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the terrorists will pay a price for these attacks, and Israeli officials continue to blame incitement by the Palestinian Authority and its political party, Fatah.

Fatah recently held a rally honoring the terrorist responsible for the first two murders in this recent upsurge of violence.

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz tweeted that the Palestinian Arab terrorism is simply the same radical Islam as ISIS.

Many Israelis agree.”

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2015/November/Israelis-Reeling-from-Deadliest-Wave-of-Terror-Yet/
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November 21, 2015 12:03pm
Witness

Escaped Yazidis Share Chilling Tales of ISIS Captivity

“KANKLE REFUGEE CAMP, Kurdistan — A military campaign against ISIS is giving hope to the Iraqi people known as the Yazidis that one day they’ll return home.

In the summer of 2014, Islamic State captured the city of Sinjar, the main city of the Yazidi people, forcing women into sex slavery and training boys to become ISIS fighters.

In just one day, thousands of Yazidis went from living in their ancient homeland to a refugee camp.

After ISIS captured Sinjar, most Yazidis were displaced to refugee camps, some housing as many as 20,000. Some of the refugees made harrowing escapes from the hands of ISIS.

‘He Treated Me Like an Animal’

One 19-year-old woman we named “Nazda” to protect her identity, told CBN News none of the girls went willingly.

“So when they were selling us girls, the buyer would come in to take his slave,” Nazda recalled. “If any of us refused, they would beat us very badly. No one went with the buyers willingly.”

Nazda spent 10 months as a sex slave of an Arab man after ISIS sold her for the equivalent of $800.

“The man was really, really bad. He treated me like an animal,” she said. “He had four wives and they had no sympathy for me. I was beaten and treated very badly.””

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2015/November/Escaped-Yazidis-Tell-ISIS-Horror-Stories/
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November 21, 2015 12:08pm
stephieboy

Witness , however those kind of attacks have existed almost at the beginning of Israel in 1947 .Very sad and a big concern . Not necessarily linked to ISS

Some of have wondered why Israel l has not already taken the battle to the Islamic State sending in their armies ?

Thoughts ?
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November 21, 2015 12:10pm
starboard

“I’ll keep details of my sexual interests private,”

MM=gloryhole
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November 21, 2015 12:18pm
mikenmild

starboard
Perhaps you could explain your ‘glory hole’ to Lego – he seemed interested.
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November 21, 2015 12:21pm
stephieboy

Witness , you could find this interesting from an Israeli perspective ,

What Israel Must Do About ISIS

ISIS well understands that the Internet and social media have become key in the battle for hearts and minds.

Merav Michaeli Nov 18, 2015 4:16 AM
What Israel Must Do About ISIS
ISIS well understands that the Internet and social media have become key in the battle for hearts and minds.

Merav Michaeli Nov 18, 2015 4:16 AM,

http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.686719
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November 21, 2015 12:21pm
Kimbo

@ Witness

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. – Isaiah 41:10

OK, I’ll bite.

Witness, I realise as you are a member of the AOG our biblical interpretation principles and practices are likely to be different at key points and moments. Nonetheless, I like Isaiah chapters 40-55, including that particular verse and I draw regular inspiration and instruction from it. Nonetheless, I’m intrigued at how you have ‘plonked” Isaiah 41:10 down here, as if it has some direct and immediate significance when, in the first instance it was directed to the exiled Jewish community during the last years of the Babylonian Captivity (approximately 540 B.C.).

As “a text without a context is nothing but a pretext”, and “a text cannot mean what it never meant”, perhaps you’d like to enlighten us how that original context relates to the current situation, and, more importantly, to whom does it immediately apply (Kiwi Christians? The modern secular state of Israel? Kiwiblog readers? New Zealanders?)…especially when your citation of the text would seem to imply there is some pressing application that fits the context of our present discussions (Christmas observance? Muslim immigration? US Republican candidates?).

This should be interesting, although I suspect, when seeking to “engage” with a Pentecostal, I know what I’m going to get in response…
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November 21, 2015 12:22pm
wikiriwhis business

Cruella Deville Bennett stunned into silence by Andrew Little.

https://insightnz.wordpress.com/2015/11/15/watch-andrew-little-tear-paula-bennett-to-shreds-in-parliament/
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November 21, 2015 12:24pm
wikiriwhis business

” Nonetheless, I’m intrigued at how you have ‘plonked” Isaiah 41:10 down here, as if it has some direct and immediate significance when, in the first instance it was directed to the exiled Jewish community during the last years of the Babylonian Captivity (approximately 540 B.C.). ”

” I am the Lord and I change not”
“Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever”
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November 21, 2015 12:26pm
Ross12

Trout and flipper

Re the Cairns case. I saw the reported comments from the Judge and was a little surprised. But I have not followed the case in detail — isn’t Cairns up for perjury and not match fixing, as such ?
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