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<p>The mosque up the road celebrated its 25 year anniversary last year and hosts an annual Australia Day event. Flag raising, anthem, all that.</p>
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<p>Hard to think that they could get that up and running back in the 80s when it was all basically farms, rednecks, and bogans. </p>
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<p>Good on them.The best bit from that wiki link, </p>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">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 </span><i>Loyalty to Homeland</i><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> leaflets. Australia Day celebrations at the mosque includes a flag-raising ceremony, the singing of the national anthem and a barbecue.</span></p> -
Looks like you Kiwis have a handle on how to manage the migrant crisis...<br><br>Utilise the natural resources of the country to help apprehend the buggers.<br><br><br><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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From the BBC - it says fugitives here but the headline stated migrants.<br><br>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.<br><br>The driver, initially pulled over for speeding and having no licence plates, evaded capture for 90 minutes.<br><br>The fugitives even managed to continue after road spikes deployed by officers destroyed one of their vehicle's tyres.<br><br>They were finally halted by the sheep, which blocked the road entirely as they were being moved to new pasture.<br><br>In a coincidence, the sheep were reported to be owned by a local police officer from Queenstown.<br><br><br><br><br>All four fugitives were arrested.
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<p>Looks like you Kiwis have a handle on how to manage the migrant crisis...<br><br>
Utilise the natural resources of the country to help apprehend the buggers.<br><br><br><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></p>
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<p>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></p> -
<p></p><p></p><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]<br><br>
Sam Jones in London, Erika Solomon in Beirut and Kathrin Hille in Kazan<br>
January 22, 2016 11:55 am<br><br>
Just weeks before his death on January 3, Colonel-General Igor Sergun, director of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency, was sent to Damascus on a delicate mission.<br><br>
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 dictator’s most powerful international protector, believed it was time for him to step aside.<br><br>
Mr Assad angrily refused.<br><br>
Two senior western intelligence officials have given the Financial Times details of Sergun’s mission. The Russian foreign ministry referred a request for comment to the defence ministry, which said it was unable to comment.<br><br>
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: “No, that’s not so.â€<br><br>
Russia’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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
It is a dramatic reversal of fortunes. News of the secret proposal delivered by Sergun — a choreographed transition of power that would maintain the Alawite regime but open the door to realistic negotiations with moderate rebels — added to a growing mood of optimism among western intelligence agencies in late 2015.<br><br>
For the US-led coalition fighting Isis, it seemed that accommodating Moscow could break years of diplomatic deadlock over Mr Assad’s removal — a move Washington views as a precondition to cooling the sectarian tensions in Syria and Iraq that have fed the jihadi insurgency.<br><br>
Moscow’s military intervention in the conflict in support of Damascus in late September, many in Europe and the US reasoned, had reached its limit. “Mr Putin had taken a look under the bonnet of the Syrian regime,†one senior European intelligence official told the FT “and found a lot more problems than he was bargaining for.â€<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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 Tehran’s growing regional influence at the cost of its own leverage for months.<br><br>
People close to the Syrian regime say suspicions about Russia’s intentions have been growing in Damascus for some time. “That mood of elation when Russia first got involved lasted for a while, but then people got more pessimistic,†said one Damascus businessman. “Assad’s people started to realise that having the big brother defending them meant he could also demand things of them too.â€<br><br>
Mr Assad has also been scrupulous in rooting out any powerful figures who might one day stand as an alternative to his leadership.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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 Assad’s home town, said Mr Landis.<br><br>
“He 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,†Mr Landis said. On his return to Damascus he was taken from the airport by security agencies.<br><br>
“That seemed to be a sign that Assad was not going to allow Russia to pick the next president,†Mr Landis added.<br><br>
Moscow is frustrated. “It has become quite clear that part of an eventual political solution is that Assad has to step aside at some point, although we don’t think that it has been decided yet when that should be,†said a Russian authority on Syria who is involved in Moscow’s diplomacy. “Ever 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€<br><br>
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 Syria’s leader.<br><br>
Dmitri Trenin, head of the Carnegie Moscow Center, said: “For Putin, the intervention in Syria was never about keeping Assad in power, it is about getting the Americans to acknowledge Russia’s key role in settling this conflict, and that’s being achieved through the Vienna process.<br><br>
“But it looks premature to engineer a coup in Syria — I don’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€<br><br>
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<div><span style="font-weight:bold;"><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></span></div>
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<p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Anders Ygeman said that charter aircraft would be used to deport the migrants over several years.</p>
<p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">"We are talking about 60,000 people but the number could climb to 80,000," Swedish media quoted him as saying.</p>
<p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Some 163,000 migrants applied for asylum in Sweden in 2015, the highest per capita number in Europe.</p>
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<p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Anders Ygeman said that charter aircraft would be used to deport the migrants over several years.</p>
<p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">"We are talking about 60,000 people but the number could climb to 80,000," Swedish media quoted him as saying.</p>
<p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Some 163,000 migrants applied for asylum in Sweden in 2015, the highest per capita number in Europe.</p>
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<p>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 "<span>Tillräckligt rättvis Guv, det är en rättvis cop</span>" in Swedish? I don't like their chances of doing that 400 times without incident.</p> -
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<p>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?</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>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. </p> -
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Now if this had been done before the new year's molestathon the screams of racism would have been deafening.<br><br><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><br><br><br>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.news.com.au/world/europe/masked-gangs-attack-child-migrants-in-sweden/news-story/9aa82bffc92b15fa7ac27029c9475221'>http://www.news.com.au/world/europe/masked-gangs-attack-child-migrants-in-sweden/news-story/9aa82bffc92b15fa7ac27029c9475221</a></p>
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<p></p><p></p><blockquote class="ipsBlockquote"><span style="font-family:LiberationSerifBold, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;color:rgb(41,41,41);font-size:19px;">A GROUP of masked men believed to belong to a Neo-Nazi gang stormed Sweden’s main train station and bashed foreigners, including children, to “punish†migrants over the weekend.</span>
<p style="font-family:LiberationSerifRegular, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:19px;color:rgb(41,41,41);">Wearing all-black balaclavas and armbands, the men “gathered (in Stockholm) with the purpose of attacking refugee children,†Stockholm police spokesperson Towe Hagg said.</p>
<p style="font-family:LiberationSerifRegular, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:19px;color:rgb(41,41,41);"><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/hundreds-of-masked-men-beat-refugee-children-in-stockholm-a6843451.html'>The Independent</a> reported that “hundreds of masked men marched through Stockholm’s main train station on Friday evening, reportedly beating up refugees and anyone who didn’t appear to be ethnically Swedishâ€.</p>
<p style="font-family:LiberationSerifRegular, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:19px;color:rgb(41,41,41);">“I saw maybe three people who were beaten. That was no football brawl or something similar. They targeted migrants. I was quite scared and ran away,†a witness told the Aftonbladet newspaper.</p>
<p style="font-family:LiberationSerifRegular, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:19px;color:rgb(41,41,41);">The paper quoted another witness as saying:</p>
<p style="font-family:LiberationSerifRegular, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:19px;color:rgb(41,41,41);">“I was passing by and saw a masked group dressed in black ... start hitting foreigners. I saw three people molested“.</p>
<p style="font-family:LiberationSerifRegular, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:19px;color:rgb(41,41,41);">The Swedish Resistance Movement, a Neo-Nazi group, carried out a number of assaults on migrants in Stockholm on Friday amid rising tension over the country’s refugee influx, Swedish police said Saturday.</p>
<p style="font-family:LiberationSerifRegular, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:19px;color:rgb(41,41,41);">The Swedish Resistance Movement claimed responsibility for the attacks in a<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://www.nordfront.se/huliganer-spoar-kriminella-invandrare-i-centrala-stockholm.smr'>statement</a> online:</p>
<p style="font-family:LiberationSerifRegular, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:19px;color:rgb(41,41,41);">“Today were therefore 200 Swedish men to mark the North African “street children†raging around the capital’s main railway station,†it read.</p>
<p style="font-family:LiberationSerifRegular, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:19px;color:rgb(41,41,41);">“Police have clearly shown that they lack the means to repress their progress and we now see no other alternative than to hand out punishments they deserve.â€</p>
<p style="font-family:LiberationSerifRegular, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:19px;color:rgb(41,41,41);">Police had beefed up their presence in the city centre, deploying anti-riot and helicopter units after learning that extremists were planning “aggression on unaccompanied migrant minors†in the city late on Friday.</p>
<p style="font-family:LiberationSerifRegular, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:19px;color:rgb(41,41,41);">Police spokesman Towe Hagg said by midday police had not received any complaints of assault but one 46-year-old man was arrested after striking a plainclothes officer.</p>
<p style="font-family:LiberationSerifRegular, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:19px;color:rgb(41,41,41);">Swedish Interior Minister Anders Ygeman condemned the “racist groups which threaten and spread hate in the public spaceâ€, adding that “one must respond stronglyâ€.</p>
<p style="font-family:LiberationSerifRegular, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:19px;color:rgb(41,41,41);">“This is a disturbing trend in society,†Ygeman said in a commentary published by news agency TT.</p>
<p style="font-family:LiberationSerifRegular, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:19px;color:rgb(41,41,41);">Three further people were briefly detained for public order disturbances and one more faces charges for carrying a knife.</p>
<p style="font-family:LiberationSerifRegular, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:19px;color:rgb(41,41,41);">As many as 100 people, their faces covered, had descended early Friday evening on the Sergels Torg pedestrian square, a popular meeting point for young people, including migrant youths.</p>
<p style="font-family:LiberationSerifRegular, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:19px;color:rgb(41,41,41);">Aftonbladet quoted witnesses as saying the masked group targeted “people of foreign appearance†and handed out leaflets urging the infliction of “deserved punishment on children of the North African street.†The website Nordfront, an online forum for the Neo-Nazi SMR movement, said its “sources†had revealed that around “100 hooligans†from the AIK and Djurgarden football clubs had gathered Friday in order to “sort out the criminals coming in from North Africa.†After initially taking a generous stance on migration — the country of 9.8 million is among the European Union states with the highest proportion of refugees per capita — Sweden has in recent days said it expects to expel tens of thousands of people over several years as it struggles to cope with the influx.</p>
<p style="font-family:LiberationSerifRegular, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:19px;color:rgb(41,41,41);">Booed by dozens of “anti-fascist†activists, some 200 people gathered in Stockholm on Saturday to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Stefan Lofven as well as the acceleration of migrant deportations, an AFP journalist said.</p>
<p style="font-family:LiberationSerifRegular, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:19px;color:rgb(41,41,41);">The number of new migrants entering the country has plunged since Stockholm on January 4 introduced systematic photo ID checks on train, bus and ferry passengers coming in via Denmark.</p>
<p style="font-family:LiberationSerifRegular, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:19px;color:rgb(41,41,41);">The toughening of policy comes against a backdrop of rising concern over conditions in the country’s overcrowded asylum facilities.</p>
<p style="font-family:LiberationSerifRegular, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:19px;color:rgb(41,41,41);">Officials also called for greater security after an employee at a refugee centre for unaccompanied youths was fatally stabbed earlier this week.</p>
<p style="font-family:LiberationSerifRegular, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:19px;color:rgb(41,41,41);">After initially taking a generous stance on migration — the country of 9.8 million is among the European Union states with the highest proportion of refugees per capita — Sweden has in recent days said it expects to expel tens of thousands of people over several years as it struggles to cope with the influx.</p>
<p style="font-family:LiberationSerifRegular, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:19px;color:rgb(41,41,41);">The number of new migrants entering the country has plunged since Stockholm introduced systematic photo ID checks on travellers on January 4.</p>
<p style="font-family:LiberationSerifRegular, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:19px;color:rgb(41,41,41);">The toughening of policy comes against a backdrop of rising concern over conditions in the country’s overcrowded asylum facilities, and officials called for greater security after an employee at a refugee centre for unaccompanied youths was fatally stabbed earlier this week.</p>
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