Full coverage of the U.N. Security Council Emergency on Iran Jan. 5. https://youtu.be/2FHojWiUsuA
For someone with a demonstrated paucity of knowledge on the subject you have altogether too much to say in my opinion. Complex matters require complex explanations, too complex to undertake with someone so obviously, chauvinistically wedded to the ...
Your reply indicates a one-dimensional view obviously gleaned from the popular press. The vast majority of Iranians are perfectly happy with their system of Government because they understand it and it delivers what most of them want. Reformists poll about...
"1. An unelected Ayatollah in office for life with more real power than the President" Simply not true. The Spiritual Leader is elected by and can be removed by the eighty eight member Assembly of Experts (a sort of constitutional watchdog body), elected ...
Marandi is, like most Iranians of my acquaintance, rational and realistic. The interviewer comes across as a schill, a proponent of Western propaganda.
"Why there won’t be a revolution in Iran Regime change is unlikely but what is in play is setting the scene for a further renewal of economic sanctions " http://www.atimes.com/article/wont-revolution-iran/
A "democratic Jewish nation" is an oxymoron. No state can be both democratic and dedicated to one racial/religious identity.
“When I met Boteach, I was immediately convinced that he was totally unsuitable,” Gross wrote to me, in an email. “He was totally self-obsessed and lacked any form of objectivity. He turned the Chabad house into a vehicle for his self-promotion and self-...
" a thousand (give or take a few centuries) years of oppression and Pogrom’s," This is a myopic view of History that ignores both the oppression of other races and indigenous peoples that was commonplace in many eras and certain facts such as the period (...
Supporters of the Israel project confuse "spiritual connection " with proprietorship. To the best of my knowledge, "spiritual connection" has never been legal tender in real estate transactions in any part of the World or in any part of History.
"No “nationalist” Jewish historian has ever tried to conceal the well-known fact that conversions to Judaism had a major impact on Jewish history in the ancient period and in the early Middle Ages. Although the myth of an exile from the Jewish homeland (...
Trotter's got her number: http://bowalleyroad.blogspot.co.nz/2015/04/fixing-cyfs-paula-rebstock-is-asked-to.html
Yess! Get it out there. Send links to the youtube clip to all your friends, request it on radio, keep playing it, get the hits up there. Daren is, akshully, one of the best living kiwi exponents of electric blues. His other stuff deserves a listen and he's...
"They underestimated Winston Peters and his Northland roots." I think this is a key to why so many National voters jumped. You have to understand Northland and the lines of power and influence that run through it. There are old Pakeha/Maori families whose ...
Bad week for National: Brazil has demanded an explanation from New Zealand after reports New Zealand's foreign intelligence agency the GCSB spied on its campaign to get Brazilian diplomat Roberto Azevedo elected as Secretary General of the World Trade ...
LOL. You are welcome to visit "at my house" and I think you might find it congenial!!
"If the language had reflected western modes of speech, then sure, I could see how it could have been made into something humorous." Y'mean like this: That’s what Nelly Furtado was aiming to do when she put the phrase in her song “Maneater.” “That’s such a...
Thank you North. I have often observed that the Left has a habit of disintegrating every time it reaches critical mass and it is just such trivial disputes as this that does it. In my view, the appropriate response would have been "I find this in bad taste...
I think this has gone far enough. As someone who has devoted much of my almost seventy years actively fighting against all War and all its horrors, against those who would make thought or humour a crime and who has given years (yes, years) of my life to ...
Much appreciated, thanks.
Ahhh. I get it. Mea culpa. My apologies to Bill and all the bigots who have had their prejudices reinforced and to the ladies of the night who have been harmed by any resultant behaviour on the aforesaid's behalf. ......he said, backing away slowly.
Ok. I'm a simple fellow. We've got that out of the way. Now can you explain how it " feeds and reinforces prejudice”
Having driven past Willow Jean and Winnie with stencilled phalluses inserted orally beside an un-graffitied Osbourne billboard I suggest this statement is incorrect.
First you will have to explain to me how it " feeds and reinforces prejudice". Then explain how it is that calling JK a "motherless fuck" in no way insults or degrades his mother who undoubtedly made great sacrifices in raising him despite the unprincipled...
"Why the fuck do you think it ‘works’, and is considered ‘funny’, when prostitution is invoked by the use of hackneyed lines from Hollywood associated with, typically, Vietnamese women looking for Johns from ranks of US conscripts?" For the simple reason ...
I suppose it is my total freedom from prejudice that allows me to find humour in clever jokes, whatever the genre, particularly when they lampoon the stereotype that most applies to me. Pity there are not more jokes that pillory the precious populace who ...
Love this: http://i.imgur.com/Z1TpzVD.png [lprent: providing context for the following discussion. ]
I think there is a World of difference between pre-election inter-party deal making which deprives the people of their right to choose and this situation.
"the most interesting change this might bring about will be within NZF." This was what I had in mind. There is an entire organisation there that has some momentum but it is largely built around Winston. It will be up for grabs sometime in the next cycle. ...
Not sure I agree Pas. Northland is tory by default. I think there are only 2,500 cockies, may of whom lean alternative. Lots of crafty/alt horticulturists, most leftists drained off by the Maori roll. Don't forget they returned Vern. I think they respond ...
Been trying to buy Winston on iPredict at under 60% probability for a week. No chance. Time to consider the long-term implications of this by-election going against the Nats. Some have speculated that 2017 might see some serious money/political capital ...
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