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jegga

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I re-read your post and deleted my reply as I'd missed an important qualifier... so as long as NZ finds refugees who will keep us in top quality mince and cheese you're happy? :)</blockquote>
 
Pretty much , there's enough kebab places near me so I'm sorted there for Mid East food.

jegga

Actually since I bought up the standard , there's no mention of Cologne or when you type the name into the search either. I was expecting that guardian article to be up there .

jegga

There were similar plans in Finland, at the end of the article it mentions the inevitable backlash that I'm sure is building throughout Europe
 
 
 
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Asylum seekers who met in central Helsinki to celebrate New Yearsâ€™s Eve â€œhad similar plansâ€ to <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/12088994/Cologne-sex-attacks-Two-immigrant-suspects-arrested-carrying-note-in-German-and-Arabic-saying-I-want-to-have-sex-with-you.html'>commit sexual assault and other crimes as those who targeted women</a> in the Germany city of Cologne, <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/finland/'>Finnish</a> Police have reported.
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Three Iraqi asylum seekers have been arrested for committing sexual assaults during the celebrations in the cityâ€™s Senate Square, where some 20,000 had gathered.
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Security personnel reported â€œwidespead sexual harrassmentâ€ during the celebrations, police added, with women complaining that asylum seekers had groped their breasts and kissed them without permission.
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â€œThis phenomenon is new in Finnish sexual crime history,â€ Ilkka Koskimaki, the deputy chief of police in Helsinki, told the Telegraph. â€We have never before had this kind of sexual harrassment happening at New Yearâ€™s Eve.â€
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He said that the police had received tip-offs from staff at the asylum reception centres.
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â€œOur information from these reception centres were that disturbances or other crimes would happen in the city centre. We were prepared for fights and sexual harrassment and thefts.â€
He said that police had established a â€œvery massive presenceâ€ to control the estimated 1,000 Iraqi asylum seekers who had gathered in the tunnels surrounding the central railway station by 11pm, many of whom appeared to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
Mr Koskimaki said that sexual assults in parks and on the streets had been unknown in Finland before a record 32,000 asylum seekers arrived in 2015, making the 14 cases last year â€œbig news in the city
â€œWe had unfortunately some very brutal cases in autumn,â€ he said. â€œI donâ€™t know so well other cultures, but I have recognised that the thinking of some of them is very different. Some of them maybe think that it is allowed to be aggressive and touch ladies on the street.â€
Jamel Saltne, a Finnish-speaking Iraqi, said that from what he had seen on Arabic social media, police had wrongly portrayed events.
"What happened was not the result of an action planned in advance," he told the Telegraph. "It was totally expected that young men would go to the centre of the capital as that is the best place to celebrate New Year's Eve."
"I'm not accusing the police of racism, but maybe they have received complaints intended to smear people."
The rapes have fuelled anger among some Finns at last year's record asylum figures, with the country registering the fourth highest number per capita in the European Union.
Unarmed militia groups calling themselves â€œSoldiers of Odinâ€, wearing black jackets and hats marked â€œS.O.Oâ€, have sprung up in several towns in Finland where asylum seekers are housed, claiming they want to protect citizens from â€œIslamic intrudersâ€.
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/finland/12088332/Finnish-government-condemns-racist-attack-on-refugees-in-Lahti.html'>Petteri Orpo, Finnish interior minister, condemned the groups</a> in an interview with national broadcaster YLE on Thursday.
â€œThere are extremist features to carrying out street patrols. It does not increase security,â€ he said.
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NTA

The mosque up the road celebrated its 25 year anniversary last year and hosts an annual Australia Day event. Flag raising, anthem, all that.
 
 
Hard to think that they could get that up and running back in the 80s when it was all basically farms, rednecks, and bogans. 
 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baitul_Huda_Mosque,_Sydney'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baitul_Huda_Mosque,_Sydney</a>

jegga

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The mosque up the road celebrated its 25 year anniversary last year and hosts an annual Australia Day event. Flag raising, anthem, all that.
 
 
Hard to think that they could get that up and running back in the 80s when it was all basically farms, rednecks, and bogans. 
 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baitul_Huda_Mosque,_Sydney'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baitul_Huda_Mosque,_Sydney</a>
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Good on them.The best bit from that wiki link, 
 
Ahmadiyya Muslim Association Australia national spokesman Aziz Omer said, "We are loyal to Australia and we want our kids to be loyal to Australia", with association members delivering 500,000 Loyalty to Homeland leaflets. Australia Day celebrations at the mosque includes a flag-raising ceremony, the singing of the national anthem and a barbecue.

Catogrande

Looks like you Kiwis have a handle on how to manage the migrant crisis... Utilise the natural resources of the country to help apprehend the buggers. <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/A978/production/_87848334_87848333.jpg'>http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/A978/production/_87848334_87848333.jpg</a>

Tim

Wot's all that about, Cato?

Catogrande

From the BBC - it says fugitives here but the headline stated migrants. A flock of sheep has come to the aid of New Zealand police, stopping a car-load of fugitives who had led officers on a high-speed chase across Central Otago. The driver, initially pulled over for speeding and having no licence plates, evaded capture for 90 minutes. The fugitives even managed to continue after road spikes deployed by officers destroyed one of their vehicle's tyres. They were finally halted by the sheep, which blocked the road entirely as they were being moved to new pasture. In a coincidence, the sheep were reported to be owned by a local police officer from Queenstown. All four fugitives were arrested.

jegga

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Looks like you Kiwis have a handle on how to manage the migrant crisis... 
Utilise the natural resources of the country to help apprehend the buggers. <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/A978/production/_87848334_87848333.jpg'>http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/A978/production/_87848334_87848333.jpg</a>
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Its made the top 10 kiwi things that ever happened <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/76154270/the-10-most-kiwi-things-that-have-ever-happened'>http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/76154270/the-10-most-kiwi-things-that-have-ever-happened</a>

Tim

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">[b][url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/735b4746-c01f-11e5-9fdb-87b8d15baec2.html?siteedition=uk#axzz3yJwJqThX]Vladimir Putin asked Bashar al-Assad to step down[/url][/b] 
Sam Jones in London, Erika Solomon in Beirut and Kathrin Hille in Kazan 
January 22, 2016 11:55 am 
Just weeks before his death on January 3, Colonel-General Igor Sergun, director of Russiaâ€™s GRU military intelligence agency, was sent to Damascus on a delicate mission. 
The general, who is believed to have cut his teeth as a Soviet operative in Syria, bore a message from Vladimir Putin for President Bashar al-Assad: the Kremlin, the Syrian dictatorâ€™s most powerful international protector, believed it was time for him to step aside. 
Mr Assad angrily refused. 
Two senior western intelligence officials have given the Financial Times details of Sergunâ€™s mission. The Russian foreign ministry referred a request for comment to the defence ministry, which said it was unable to comment. 
But on Friday, in response to a question from a journalist, asking if the Russian leader had asked Mr Assad to step down, a spokesman for Mr Putin said: â€œNo, thatâ€™s not so.â€ 
Russiaâ€™s failed gamble in Damascus left Mr Assad more entrenched than before, and hopes for a diplomatic solution to the vicious civil war appear again to be ebbing away. 
UN officials have spent the past week lowering expectations that the talks between the warring factions planned for January 25 in Geneva will go ahead, let alone produce a breakthrough. 
It is a dramatic reversal of fortunes. News of the secret proposal delivered by Sergun â€” a choreographed transition of power that would maintain the Alawite regime but open the door to realistic negotiations with moderate rebels â€” added to a growing mood of optimism among western intelligence agencies in late 2015. 
For the US-led coalition fighting Isis, it seemed that accommodating Moscow could break years of diplomatic deadlock over Mr Assadâ€™s removal â€” a move Washington views as a precondition to cooling the sectarian tensions in Syria and Iraq that have fed the jihadi insurgency. 
Moscowâ€™s military intervention in the conflict in support of Damascus in late September, many in Europe and the US reasoned, had reached its limit. â€œMr Putin had taken a look under the bonnet of the Syrian regime,â€ one senior European intelligence official told the FT â€œand found a lot more problems than he was bargaining for.â€ 
However, Russia overplayed its hand, the official said, and Mr Assad made clear to Sergun that there could be no future for Russia in Syria unless he remained as president. 
In his dealings with the Kremlin, Mr Assad has adopted a strategy of playing one foreign power off against another. His trump card on this occasion was Iran. Russia has been nervous of Tehranâ€™s growing regional influence at the cost of its own leverage for months. 
People close to the Syrian regime say suspicions about Russiaâ€™s intentions have been growing in Damascus for some time. â€œThat mood of elation when Russia first got involved lasted for a while, but then people got more pessimistic,â€ said one Damascus businessman. â€œAssadâ€™s people started to realise that having the big brother defending them meant he could also demand things of them too.â€ 
Mr Assad has also been scrupulous in rooting out any powerful figures who might one day stand as an alternative to his leadership. 
The disappearance of Abdel Aziz al-Khair, an Alawite dissident, was a striking example, said Joshua Landis, a Syria analyst from the University of Oklahoma. 
Mr Khair, a leading member of the National Co-ordinating Body, a political grouping dedicated to negotiating with Mr Assad to achieve democratic change, was from a prominent family in Mr Assadâ€™s home town, said Mr Landis. 
â€œHe went to Moscow in 2012 and then he went to Beijing. It seemed clear to everyone they were checking him out as a potential Alawite replacement to the current regime that could assure the Alawite community,â€ Mr Landis said. On his return to Damascus he was taken from the airport by security agencies. 
â€œThat seemed to be a sign that Assad was not going to allow Russia to pick the next president,â€ Mr Landis added. 
Moscow is frustrated. â€œIt has become quite clear that part of an eventual political solution is that Assad has to step aside at some point, although we donâ€™t think that it has been decided yet when that should be,â€ said a Russian authority on Syria who is involved in Moscowâ€™s diplomacy. â€œEver since President Assad was flown in to be received by our president last year, his attitude has been less than satisfactory, and this does interfere with our efforts towards a political solution.â€ 
But the Kremlin is also pragmatic, note many foreign policy experts, and its intervention is as much about projecting itself on the international stage as it is about determining Syriaâ€™s leader. 
Dmitri Trenin, head of the Carnegie Moscow Center, said: â€œFor Putin, the intervention in Syria was never about keeping Assad in power, it is about getting the Americans to acknowledge Russiaâ€™s key role in settling this conflict, and thatâ€™s being achieved through the Vienna process. 
â€œBut it looks premature to engineer a coup in Syria â€” I donâ€™t see how that would help the political process as there are not enough opposition people who can accept the regime if it gets just a different figurehead.â€ 
Meanwhile, says one British diplomat, with no palatable strategy for withdrawal, Russia appears to be doubling down on its military intervention, leaving the prospect of a negotiated peace as far from reality as it has ever been. </blockquote>

Tim

<div><a class="" href="http://www.afr.com/news/politics/world/greece-quarantine-to-halt-migrant-flow-20160126-gmdz6m">Greece quarantine to halt migrant flow</a></div>

NTA

<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35425735'>Sweden 'to expel up to 80,000 failed asylum seekers'</a>
 
 
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Anders Ygeman said that charter aircraft would be used to deport the migrants over several years.
"We are talking about 60,000 people but the number could climb to 80,000," Swedish media quoted him as saying.
Some 163,000 migrants applied for asylum in Sweden in 2015, the highest per capita number in Europe.
Of the approximately 58,800 cases processed last year, 55% were accepted.

JC

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<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35425735'>Sweden 'to expel up to 80,000 failed asylum seekers'</a>
 
 
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Anders Ygeman said that charter aircraft would be used to deport the migrants over several years.
"We are talking about 60,000 people but the number could climb to 80,000," Swedish media quoted him as saying.
Some 163,000 migrants applied for asylum in Sweden in 2015, the highest per capita number in Europe.
Of the approximately 58,800 cases processed last year, 55% were accepted.
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Yikes. So how does that work? Will a planeload of disaffected blokes just sit quietly on the plane while it flies them somewhere they don't want to be while saying something like "TillrÃ¤ckligt rÃ¤ttvis Guv, det Ã¤r en rÃ¤ttvis cop" in Swedish? I don't like their chances of doing that 400 times without incident.

gollum

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Yikes. So how does that work? Will a planeload of disaffected blokes just sit quietly on the plane while it flies them somewhere they don't want to be while saying something like "TillrÃ¤ckligt rÃ¤ttvis Guv, det Ã¤r en rÃ¤ttvis cop" in Swedish? I don't like their chances of doing that 400 times without incident.
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From what I've seen you can pack them really tightly on a boat. Its like, 2 trips of the InterIslander. 3 tops

Catogrande

Yes Sweden. Good luck in finding those 80,000 illegal immigrants. Restraining them, keeping them contained and then shipping them out. After all we are talking law abiding, people respective of your national mores. Plus of course it's not like you've pre-warned them at all is it?

jegga

On the plus side Sweden seems to have finally woken up to the problems these shitheads are creating in their country . Whatever trouble these scumbags cause when they round them up are going to harden the authorities attitudes against them , I sense tazing and police dog bites in their immediate futures before they get shipped off to whatever Middle eastern shithole they came from.

gollum

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On the plus side Sweden seems to have finally woken up to the problems these shitheads are creating in their country . Whatever trouble these scumbags cause when they round them up are going to harden the authorities attitudes against them , I sense tazing and police dog bites in their immediate futures before they get shipped off to whatever Middle eastern shithole they came from.
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Trouble is the tide will turn REALLY fast the first time it gets shown on telly. One guy cowering in front of a police dog as some kids cry while being held by a woman. They probably wont even be his kids. Get that photo, stick it on the front page & game over. Its like getting a shot of a dead toddler washed up on a beach.
 
People want them deported. But nicely. And you can't forcibly deport people nicely. Western society is still too soft to deal with that shit, and yet we can't help demand the press show it to us. Internment camps in the west only worked because the public didn't know about them. Soft fluffybunnies.

jegga

I'm not so sure about that anymore with the way they've behaved over the years and it's escalated as more of them turned up . I think its just aslikely to be gangs of Arab scumbags throwing rocks at riot police when they come to deport a hate preacher . 
If they get tazed and deported too for being thugs I'm struggling to see a downside .

Rancid Schnitzel

Now if this had been done before the new year's molestathon the screams of racism would have been deafening. 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3418820/Cologne-carnival-organisers-hand-leaflets-telling-migrants-not-rape-women-urinate-public-wake-New-Year-sex-attacks.html'>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3418820/Cologne-carnival-organisers-hand-leaflets-telling-migrants-not-rape-women-urinate-public-wake-New-Year-sex-attacks.html</a> 
I think this situation has reached a turning point. Not only have people in Sweden and Germany suddenly realised the insanity of this policy, it seems many of these "refugees" realise that they've been sold a lemon.

jegga

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Now if this had been done before the new year's molestathon the screams of racism would have been deafening. <a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3418820/Cologne-carnival-organisers-hand-leaflets-telling-migrants-not-rape-women-urinate-public-wake-New-Year-sex-attacks.html">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3418820/Cologne-carnival-organisers-hand-leaflets-telling-migrants-not-rape-women-urinate-public-wake-New-Year-sex-attacks.html</a> 
I think this situation has reached a turning point. Not only have people in Sweden and Germany suddenly realised the insanity of this policy, it seems many of these "refugees" realise that they've been sold a lemon.</blockquote>
 
Ffs.

The Silver Fern

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