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Re: Non-EU europe thread (with Russia, Israel and Australia included)
« Reply #495 on: February 02, 2016, 01:00:12 pm »

Can't we just be optimists and pretend that we can all be friends? D:
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Re: Non-EU europe thread (with Russia, Israel and Australia included)
« Reply #496 on: February 02, 2016, 01:37:13 pm »

Can't we just be optimists and pretend that we can all be friends? D:
Nuh uh. In the grimdarkness of Eastern Europe, there is only war.

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« Reply #497 on: February 02, 2016, 04:51:11 pm »

Can't we just be optimists and pretend that we can all be friends? D:
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Everyone can be friends with everyone, it still won't stop them going to war. Consider the triple alliance and triple entente giving each other Christmas gifts and playing football over the trenches, some mechanisms move that once they get going defy the wills of the people that set them in motion.

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« Reply #498 on: February 03, 2016, 01:32:33 pm »

You'll also still have warhawks(large range of reasons here) within the various factions pushing back against the peace loving hippiesmore sensible people and there are people/companies who do profit from war.
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« Reply #499 on: February 03, 2016, 02:08:54 pm »

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Why does she have warts.
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« Reply #500 on: February 03, 2016, 06:03:37 pm »

My fovourite Ukrainian minister resigns claiming that he is his forced to appoint corrupted individuals in his team

It looks like the beggining of collapse of the current coalition and I expect new parliamentary elections before the end of the year.  Something worse like Maidan 3.0 or real junta can happen but I don't think that it is very likely.
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« Reply #501 on: February 03, 2016, 06:37:28 pm »

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Why does she have warts.

Those are supposed to be tears, I think.

Should have done the anime waterfall tears.
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« Reply #502 on: February 03, 2016, 10:04:29 pm »

This just in: Australia's High Court has cleared deportation of asylum seekers from the mainland to offshore detention centers. In response, nearly a dozen Anglican churches have offered sanctuary to those at risk of deportation, in hopes the PR disaster of police officers storming holy ground to drag people out will discourage officials from acting.

http://www.9news.com.au/national/2016/02/04/07/50/anglicans-offer-asylum-seekers-sanctuary
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« Reply #503 on: February 03, 2016, 10:35:32 pm »

This just in: Australia's High Court has cleared deportation of asylum seekers from the mainland to offshore detention centers. In response, nearly a dozen Anglican churches have offered sanctuary to those at risk of deportation, in hopes the PR disaster of police officers storming holy ground to drag people out will discourage officials from acting.

http://www.9news.com.au/national/2016/02/04/07/50/anglicans-offer-asylum-seekers-sanctuary

Where are those 'offshore detention centers'? On the great barrier reef?
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« Reply #504 on: February 03, 2016, 10:50:19 pm »

The most (in)famous is the Nauru Regional Processing Centre, though there are others.
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« Reply #505 on: February 04, 2016, 04:57:15 am »

Note that the group of refugees about to be deported are mostly babies and children born in Australia (and their immigrant parents). The court ruled that it's okay to deport babies and children, against a child's mother who filed a lawsuit.

http://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/australie-mag-doorgaan-met-uitzetten-baby-s-asielzoekers~a4237803/
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« Reply #506 on: February 04, 2016, 07:02:54 am »

Human rights? Pffft. Lol UN, come at me bro.
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« Reply #507 on: February 04, 2016, 12:54:11 pm »

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Why does she have warts.

Those are supposed to be tears, I think.

Should have done the anime waterfall tears.
The circles are supposed to be err... 'cute' blush things, representing cute girls looking cute. The rest are sweat drops.
Also not entirely accurate, ISIS love a bleach and attak the titan after all.
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« Reply #508 on: February 04, 2016, 01:29:17 pm »

BBC is now apparently making Cold War-esque anti-Russian films again, this time about how Putin shall attack Latvia for reasons unknown and nuke British troops in process.

The Russian official review was really predictable, though. The full film can be found on Russian streaming sites like Rutube.
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« Reply #509 on: February 04, 2016, 09:40:06 pm »

Note that the group of refugees about to be deported are mostly babies and children born in Australia (and their immigrant parents). The court ruled that it's okay to deport babies and children, against a child's mother who filed a lawsuit.
No, they are not mostly babies or children. There are 54. Letting them stay because good feels completely ignores that letting them stay encourages more human traffickers to send people across the Indian Ocean to Australia where most will perish, it is the retardation of Germany to repeat the mistake that resulted in tens of thousands dying in the Meditteranean and millions overcoming Europe to do the same in Australia. They give them medical treatment needed and send them back. Australia has to deal with a few dozens, Germany cannot deal with its millions - when at first Germany need only deal with tens of thousands, and before that thousands. In just two years Australia ended human trafficking from the Middle East and Southern Asia, sending hundreds on a perilous journey by boat to the promised land, by simply promising all who arrive will be sent home. No one is willing anymore to pay thousands to traffickers for a place they know will return them. The asylum seekers they have now are ones that arrived before they enacted this policy.

Human rights? Pffft. Lol UN, come at me bro.
Every single one of those boats passes through Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. They are not even allowed to dock on the islands of those three countries, and if they are caught the human traffickers amongst them are executed and everyone on board deported. Yet Australia shows them this compassion, and are attacked for not showing more by giving them permanent residency.

The people who attack them will never be placated, they only attack Western countries.
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The Anglican "problematic" reverend amongst the 10 Churches offering a self-proclaimed sanctuary for 30 people who can be removed with no consequence. The Anglican Church is currently mired in 5th columnists who unironically call for the de-Christianization of the Anglosphere, just as the Irish Catholic Church tried convincing the Irish that they weren't dismantling their beliefs.

This just in: Australia's High Court has cleared deportation of asylum seekers from the mainland to offshore detention centers. In response, nearly a dozen Anglican churches have offered sanctuary to those at risk of deportation, in hopes the PR disaster of police officers storming holy ground to drag people out will discourage officials from acting.
Trying to play PR with a media that has already taken its side is pointless, least of all on unholy ground. Those that play on puppet strings will find they will only ever become just that - a puppet. I also do not see who loses face in a successful bipartisan policy, as cowering to appease problematic progressives with no power could be no greater humiliation to all of Australia.

BBC is now apparently making Cold War-esque anti-Russian films again, this time about how Putin shall attack Latvia for reasons unknown and nuke British troops in process.
The Russian official review was really predictable, though. The full film can be found on Russian streaming sites like Rutube.
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