The Downside of Anti-Smoking: Why we Shouldn't Stigmatise Cigarettes

Inspired by the April tax-hike on tobacco, I decided to weigh in on the issue itself.

How far we have come in the 21st century in the realm of Western politics. We have a center-right political party making decisions based on "encouraging good habits". Inherently, this is nanny state social policy wrapped in a sandwich of thin-crusted,  pseudo-fiscal conservatism.

As a former smoker, I have a certain amount of comradeship with those wheezing bastards. And one thing you can't help but notice, is a relentless campaign of demonising smokers disproportionately in society. Indeed, I would not be surprised to see an advert cursing the evils of smoking, followed a few adverts later glorifying the taste of Steinlager.

Probable hyperbole aside, I have found a lot of shared attributes of the most vocal and ardent non-smokers, for instance, a strong desire to be "healthy", with the over-inflated, media-enforced, alleged serious negative effects of second-hand smoke, and usually possessing an overweight or underweight build, unhealthy drinking habits, or some kind of psychological chip-on-the-shoulder, or a state-sponsored smug sense of moral-superiority, transmitted by socially sponsored anti-smoker sentiment.

Many anti-smokers will decry the costs that smokers inflict on society with their self-inflicted diseases, and that the public shouldn't have to foot the bill. After all, they're smokers.

But what benefit does the government derive from dissuading people from smoking? Obviously less tax revenue from cigarette sales, is an obvious one. One might argue, "But that is dismal compared to the cost smokers cost our health system!" Not so. Another issue few factor in, when balancing the costs and benefits of smoking, is the fact we have an aging population. This aging population, currently sitting at around 78 for men, and 82 for women as seen below, is a massive drain on the economy via pensions, especially consider that women nowadays aren't having enough kids to replace our own population and the coming pensioner-ship Baby Boom exasperating the issue further. 

Source: Statistics New Zealand: http://www.socialreport.msd.govt.nz/health/life-expectancy.html

According to mainstream medical numbers, smokers die 10 years earlier, which, if this is the case, will cause a windfall for society via dying earlier, as the Czechs have found. A morbid benefit from a bad habit? Maybe. But statistics don't lie. Not to mention the fact that tobacco smoking is non intoxicating substance, making it suitable for smokers to work and function as a normal, productive member of society, at least in the vast majority of cases.

The Myth of Life Eternal:

Anti-Smoker's attitude: "People don't even want to smoke, because of seeing all of the terrible things and diseases that happen to smokers. People have become more health conscious and aware of what can harm them, and they want to avoid being old and decrepit."

I'll let Bill Hicks answer that.

"...I'm gonna tell you non-smokers right now, that I know for a fact that you don't know. And I delight in telling my brothers things they don't know, particularity when they're true... Which this is. Ready? Drum roll......
Non-smokers die.. Every day. Sleep tight!
You see I know you entertain some type of eternal life fantasy because you choose not to smoke, let me be the first to POP that bubble, and send you hurdling back to reality... You're dead too..."

Roman Empire

'Cause the Greeks weren't quite epic enough.

The Geert Wilders Trial

Inspired by this blog post here, encouraging all bloggers who support Geert Wilders to write a post about it.

For those of you who don't know, Geert Wilders, the classical liberalist Dutch politician, is going through trial currently for alledged hate speech, presented in his film Fitna, which essentially showed some Islamic verses and quotes aligned to some video of violent/fundamental Muslim speeches and actions. The Netherlands has turned into a place where even speaking the truth is now illegal, if its offends the sensibilities of Mohammedans and their leftist apologists.

The bigger threat to the Dutch intelligentsia Geert presents is the challenging of the culturally relativist ideology spewed by mainstream society, and a rejection of the notion that Islam is a religion of peace, when in reality, it is an ideology of Submission.

Opposing Islam openly and directly has mean't that not only Geert Wilders faces criminal charges, but he has to live with constant police protection due to the constant threats of death he faces to avoid becoming another Theo Van Gogh.

Here's a clip of the trial on day three.

Man Gatecrashes Feminist Rally.

Notice how feminists are all too willing to play the victim and cry for a man to come and help them when the opportunity arises.

New Zealand Muslims Demand Apology from Minister for Joke

Original article here.

I'd actually be shocked if there was an article about Muslims in the West not demanding something.

Here are the jokes (cracked me up):

1.		“What is the difference between Muslims and Kiwis? Muslims get to commit adultery and get stoned, Kiwis get stoned and commit adultery!”
2.		Mr. Williamson also quipped about the weather being “Shi’ite in the morning and Sunni in the afternoon.”

Muslims demand apology for New Zealand minister's joke

(AFP) – 2 days ago

WELLINGTON — New Zealand's Islamic community has written to Prime Minister John Key demanding an apology for a joke one of his ministers made about Muslims, the Dominion Post newspaper reported Saturday.

The president of the Federation of Islamic Associations New Zealand, Anwar Ghani, said Muslims were "very upset" about the remarks made in a speech by Building Minister Maurice Williamson.
"We brought it to the notice of the PM saying that what was said was highly inappropriate and the minister should be reprimanded and apologise," Ghani told the newspaper.

Williamson cracked a joke about Muslims and the practice of stoning while giving a speech at a building industry awards ceremony last month.

Ghani said he did not think comments centred on religious intolerance were commonplace in New Zealand, but this issue was "a big problem because it was uttered by someone who is regarded as being responsible and a public figure".

A spokesman for the prime minister confirmed the letter had arrived and was being considered.

English Boy Banned from USA for Calling Obama a Prick

Original post here.

British boy gets US ban for calling Obama a ‘prick’

Luke Angel sent ‘abusive and threatening’ email after watching 9/11 show

By Rachel Helyer Donaldson

LAST UPDATED 4:23 PM, SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

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A British boy has been banned from America for life after he sent an email to the White House calling Barack Obama "a prick". Seventeen-year-old Luke Angel, from Silsoe in Bedfordshire, sent the expletive-laden message to the White House after watching a TV programme about the 9/11 attacks.

Unfortunately for Angel, the FBI intercepted the email and contacted police in the UK. No criminal action will be taken against the teenager, but he has been placed on a list of people banned from entering the United States.

Bedfordshire police spokeswoman Sarah Wilkinson said the email "was full of abusive and threatening language" but added that the incident was basically a case of a boy "being silly".
"We were informed by the Metropolitan Police and so we went round to see him," she added. "He said 'oh dear, it was me'."

Plea to help young Maori and secure our economic future- Article and Response

Original article here.

This very PC article shows the strange reasoning of the leftist NZ perspective, as the creator of the article in question assumes the burden of fixing the economic issues of  Maori and Pacific Islanders lies solely in the hands of current tax-payer. But one of the interesting points, bolded below, is their high birth rates contrasted with European NZ. What the author failed to take into account was that indeed, the high birth rates aligned with Maori and P. Islander is mostly to their own and the country's own economic detriment. When you have more kids than you can afford and you have no qualms about taking welfare payments for it, you're sticking yourself in a financial hole, and you're draining the state's tax coffers, additionally.

The idea portrayed in this article is to throw money and education to the current Maori and Pacific Islanders, and hope they're good to our aging white NZ population in our later years.

What I see is that a push for more educated and financially stable couples to have more kids is more preferably, easier and realistic, and an encouragement of those less stables to not have as many kids, as ultimately, throwing money at a problem that can be at least mostly placed at the feet of culture (not valuing education highly, but valuing big families) is no fix at all.

However, I do agree a more educated Maori and Pacific Islander (and NZ in general) population would be to our benefit, as it would potentially lower unemployment, reduce crime, push us into a more knowledge-based niche of the global market, and lower their birth rates to comparable levels to white NZ, as more educated people tend to have less kids and focus on a more urban lifestyle where cost of living is more important than having a family.

 New Zealand as a whole is around its population carrying-capacity at around 5-5.5 million, and considering our Clean Green image and agricultural/horticultural/virticultural based economy, we should aim to try and keep as much land as possible for those purposes, as this brings in the money, and not focus on some kind of big NZ policy, through birth rates or immigration, which would eat up the land resources without the benefit of an independent revenue source.

But this is the problem: Is the long-term benefits of an overhauled education system worth the short-term costs (in the eyes of the public), and do we have a culture that will make the most out of this kind of push for education?

Plea to help young Maori and secure our economic future
By Simon Collins
5:30 AM Monday Sep 13, 2010


Former Children's Commissioner Cindy Kiro has made an impassioned plea to invest more in Maori children - for the sake of New Zealand's economy.

She told a conference on welfare reform that Maori were "the canary in the coalmine", losing their jobs and being thrown on to welfare benefits before others when the economy was hit by recession.

The Maori unemployment rate leapt from 10.1 per cent in March 2008 to 16.4 per cent this June, while the national average unemployment rose from 3.9 per cent to 6.8 per cent.

The total of working-aged Maori on benefits rose 5.4 percentage points, from 23 per cent to 28.4 per cent, while the number of working-age non-Maori beneficiaries rose from 7.7 per cent to 9.3 per cent.

Dr Kiro, now an associate professor at Massey University's School of Public Health, said these differences were driven by a wider increase in inequality in New Zealand since the late 1980s.

"Maori and Pacific families and individuals are among the most deprived and this is part of the macroeconomic environment that we need to address," she said.

Income inequality grew steeply when unemployment last peaked in the late 1980s and early 90s.

Social Development Ministry figures showed it peaked in 2001, came down slightly with rising employment and Working for Families tax credits up to 2007, then worsened again with the recession.

Incomes were now as unequal again as they were in 1998, and among the most unequal in the developed world, although still slightly more equal than in 2001.


Professor Kiro said the ageing non-Maori population, combined with relatively high Maori and Pacific birth rates, meant the future NZ economy would depend on today's Maori and Pacific children.


"Quite apart from the moral imperative, we have an undeniable self-interest in making sure they grow up well-educated and well-adjusted. They must, to look after us oldies when it comes time.

Awesome Futuristic Weaponry.

Enoch Powell, Political Titan or Shameless Opportunist?

 For those of you who are not familiar with Enoch Powell, he was an English politician who emerged at a cross-roads in the English political system. A member of the Conservative party during the 1960s, he was most famous for his "Rivers of Blood" speech, predicting that the policy of mass immigration of non-Western immigration to England would first result in segregation, then massive violence. He was certainly right about rivers of blood.



He soon left the Conservative party on principle in 1974, alledgely due to their taking England into the EEC (later the EU). One can gather from him, in my opinion, a more modern version of Nietzsche with the influences of classical Greek thinking about Statesmanship and nationalism.

I feel like Enoch represented the working class during the debacle on mass-immigration regardless of whether he was just taking a populous stance or not, and inherently, his opposition used his frank language as a prototypical tool to instigate the widespread political abuse of the 'race card' to stifle any criticism of mass immigration and facilitate far-left radical groups to combat it on the streets. Inherently, he was used to push a socialist agenda by the elites, of isolating and supplanting the native britons' traditionally conservative viewpoint.

Socialist Traitor Julia Gillard to Remain as Australian PM

Original article here.

Turns out mainstream Australians didn't see beyond Gillard's guise, and she was able to secure a minority government coalition. Need I remind everyone she was charged with treason and was a member of the Socialist Forum during her university days. Perhaps she's a mini-Obama.

Labor to form Aussie government

By MSN NZ

Tuesday, September 07, 2010 5:30:00 PM

Labor has successfully formed a minority government in Australia after clinching the support of independents Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott.

Massive Earthquake in New Zealand, $2 billion dollars worth of damage

The city of Christchurch suffered from a earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 on the Richter scale on the 4th of September. Only 2 people were seriously injured, and one death by heart attack have  been reported. According to the PM, around 100,000 houses have been damaged in the earthquake and resulting aftershocks.

Compare this to the Haiti earthquake, with a magnitude of 7.0, killing 230,000 people and injuring 300,000. It appears we have our shit together presently.

Ironically, the New Zealand Dollar still remained strong during all of this.

Tony Blair: "Islam is the World's Greatest Threat"

English Defense League Leader Interview

Sorry about the lack of recent activity readers, here's something on the anti-Islamification movement of England, lifted from Vlad Tepes.

Tapes of Ground Zero Mosque Imam Defending Osama, Extremist Islam

Original article here.

Imam Rauf's Newly Discovered Explosive Audio Tapes

Steve Emerson has unearthed 13 hours of audio tape of Imam Rauf. Emerson and his team of investigators has spent the past four weeks going through the newly found material. Rauf  is a "radical extremist cleric who cloaks himself in sheep's clothing."
Among the shocking revelations Emerson's team will reveal next week -- they found Rauf:

Defending wahhabism - a puritanical version of Islam that governs Saudi Arabia
Calling for the elimination of Israel by claiming a one-nation state, meaning no more Jewish State.
Defending Bin Laden's violence
Demonstrating that there is a lot more to this man than merely a cleric. 

The American public now sees the "deception perpetrated by all these Islamic groups that claim they are against violence and terrorism and insist that their rights be respected but in reality are fronts for the Muslim Brotherhood."

Emerson states there is "definitely fraud involved in the entities that Rauf created in the last decade that are co-mingled." Emerson took it to the IRS, who said, "you have a case."

There is intel that the shady developers, the Gamal brothers, will be going to radical Islamic organizations to serve as connectors -- CAIR,  MPAC -- so that they do their bidding for the money.

The mosque "is going to be a magnet for radicals." Emerson is not opposed to the building of mosques. He is "opposed to the building of radical mosques."  ......"Unfortunately 80% of the mosques in the United States are controlled by the Wahhabists. That's the reality. No one wants to admit it. They're the ones that attract terrorists."

Listen to Emerson here on Bill Bennett (hat tip El Marco)


Steve Emerson, head of the Investigative Project, has created a much-needed resource on Islamic terrorism in the USA here. Read this, explore the mosques and understand the fights being waged by concerned Americans against Muslim Brotherhood beachheads under the guise of mega mosque construction.

EDIT: Here's some of the tape...

Childhood Abused Linked to Gayness-Study

Original link here.

Interesting article covering what a lot of us might know already. The most interesting thing for me, is the low % of gays relative to straights, whereas the stereotyped percentage of population is around 10%, this study only found around 1.4% identified themselves as gay or bisexual, but interestingly,  2-3% claiming same-sex relations. Goes to show how artifically inflated that 10% might be, and why wouldn't it? There is an undeniable political element to gay organisations, what better way to get people to take you more seriously if they think you constitute a larger proportion of the population?

Childhood abuse and homosexuality linked in study

By Jarrod Booker

4:00 AM Friday Jul 23, 2010

Rainbow Wellington is warning against jumping to conclusions regarding the link between child abuse and homosexuality. Photo / APN

A study linking childhood abuse and attraction to the same sex does not mean homosexuals are "made rather than born", a gay rights group says.

The New Zealand Mental Health Survey by the University of Otago in Christchurch has found that people identifying themselves as gay, lesbian, bisexual or having had same-sex encounters are more likely to have experienced events such as sexual assault and violence in the home as children.

But national advocacy group Rainbow Wellington says it should not be assumed that people become attracted to the same sex as a result of those traumatic childhood events.

"Although I have no doubt that the religious right will leap to the conclusion that this goes to show conclusively that homosexuals are made rather than born, I don't think that's the conclusion you could draw," said chairman Tony Simpson.
"Most of the research I have seen suggests that you are, in fact, born into a particular orientation."

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Study researcher, Associate Professor Elisabeth Wells, said the more adverse events experienced in childhood, the more likely someone was to belong to one of the groups other than heterosexual.

Associations between those groups and adverse events were found for sexual assault, rape, violence to the child, and for witnessing violence in the home. Other adverse events, such as sudden death of a loved one, serious childhood illness or accident, were only slightly associated with non-heterosexual identity or behaviour.

"People who either identify themselves as homosexual or bisexual, or have had a same-sex encounter or relationship, tend to come from more disturbed backgrounds," Associate Professor Wells said.

The study questioned 13,000 people aged 16 and over on mental health issues. Ninety-eight per cent of the respondents identified themselves as heterosexual, compared to 0.8 per cent identifying themselves as homosexual, 0.6 per cent as bisexual and 0.3 per cent as "something else".

Experiencing a same-sex encounter was more common than identifying as either homosexual or bisexual. Nearly 2 per cent reported they had been in a same-sex relationship, while another 3 per cent reported having experienced a same-sex encounter.

Family First spokesman Bob McCoskrie said there should always be concerns around the possible outcomes of childhood abuse.
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American House Speaker Wants Investigation into GZ Mosque Opponents

  Original link here.

Nancy Pelosi: Mosque Opposition Should Be Investigated

By Shannon Bell

 

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi wants an investigation, mosque opposition investigation that is. In an audio interview in San Francisco, Pelosi lamented the fact that she was asked about a New York City “zoning issue” while trying to talk about some of the wonderful San Francisco area projects going on. She also wants to know how this simple “zoning issue” has become a “political issue.”

First of all, if Nancy Pelosi doesn’t see that the ground zero mosque debate is more than a simple New York City zoning issue, the woman is loonier than I suspected. How could she, the President, or anyone else for that matter genuinely categorize the Cordoba Initiative as a simple “zoning issue?” This is disingenuous at best, but I wouldn’t want to accuse the democrats of being untruthful about something.

Here’s what Pelosi said, you can listen to the audio clip here:

“There is no question there is a concerted effort to make this a political issue by some. And I join those who have called for looking into how is this opposition to the mosque being funded,” she said. “How is this being ginned up that here we are talking about Treasure Island, something we’ve been working on for decades, something of great interest to our community as we go forward to an election about the future of our country and two of the first three questions are about a zoning issue inNew York City.”

Nancy Pelosi wants an investigation into Mosque opposition, but not only that she wants to know how this opposition is being funded. Fair enough, Nancy. Let’s disclose how theground zero mosque itself is being funded. Bloomberg thinks that’s un-American. But it’s perfectly alright to want to know how something that 70% of the country is against is being “funded?”
If you want to know about the funding for ground zero mosque opposition, Nancy Pelosi, investigate this. This is what is funding the opposition to the mosque. Some of us, a lot of us, still remember.
 

Chinese General Warns Govt. To Take on Western Democracy to Survive

Blue-Collar Workers Won't Build Ground Zero Mosque

Video lifted, with permission, from the excellent Vlad Tepes Blog.

Its a refreshing sign that the people of New York are countering the forces of Islamic triumphalism, not through depending on their [weak] government and laws, but through their own means and actions.

Gay Bar Planned Next Door to Ground Zero Mosque

Original article here.

Fox News Host Announces Plans for Muslim Gay Bar Next to Ground Zero Mosque

by Juli Weiner

August 10, 2010, 9:45 AM

Proposed mosque site. Photo by Haley Cohen.Important news in the annals of publicity stunts today, as Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld announced on his blog—the truly unfortunately named “Daily Gut”—that he has aims to open a Ground Zero–area gay bar catering to Muslim men in the space next to a proposed mosque. “As you know, the Muslim faith doesn't look kindly upon homosexuality, which is why I’m building this bar. It is an effort to break down barriers and reduce deadly homophobia in the Islamic world,” the Red Eye host wrote, identifying the bar’s raison d'être. “After all, the belief driving them to open up their center near Ground Zero, is no different than mine.” Ahem.

Gutfeld insists, multiple times, that he is “dead serious on this one,” and announces that he has “spoken to a number of investors” about the project. (For what it’s worth, Red Eye’s Andy Levy corroborates Gutfeld’s earnestness.) Reactions to the proposal have been mixed. Mediaite’s Jon Bershad, for instance, characterized the idea as “brilliant,” explaining, “just because I support Muslim Americans in their fight against anti-Islam prejudice, doesn’t mean they shouldn’t get a few dings for their religion’s own prejudice against homosexuals.” The conservative Hot Air blog, itself against the construction of the Ground Zero mosque, provides a helpful gloss: the gay bar is, metaphorically, a mosque equivalent. According to the site, both the bar and the cultural center “needlessly [inflame] cultural tensions in the ostensible service of liberal values” and both “celebrate tolerance regardless of the sensitivities of the surrounding area.” In any event, the stunt will certainly put Gutfeld on the map, if not, necessarily, his Muslim gay bar.

NZ Soldier Killed in Afghanistan

Original article here.


Soldier Tim O'Donnell killed in Afghanistan

'He was a bloody good bugger'

By JONATHON HOWE and MICHAEL FORBES

The family of a Kiwi soldier killed in Afghanistan says they are numb following his death.
Lieutenant Tim O'Donnell, 28, was killed when his three-vehicle patrol was attacked with explosives, rocket propelled grenades and gunfire in north-east Bamiyan Province overnight.

Two other soldiers, Lance Corporal Matthew Ball and Private Allister Baker, suffered serious injuries but are expected to survive. A local interpreter with the patrol was also hurt.

At a press conference at Linton Army Camp today, Mark O'Donnell said his son - honoured for his valour during a skirmish in East Timor - had wanted to be in the army since age four.

Mr O'Donnell said he talked to his son before he left for Afghanistan.

He said to be brave ''but not dead brave''.

''I told him I wanted him to come home. He just laughed and patted me on the back.''
Lieutenant O'Donnell's uncle Barry O'Donnell said the Government should not ''turn tail and run'' because of one casualty. 

''I don't think you can go into these ventures without thinking there is going to be casualties, and as soon as there is one, change your mind and run away.'' 

Mark O'Donnell said the army had a job to do in Afghanistan. 

''It would be a waste of Tim's life if we pulled out now.'' 

The family were feeling numb, with the devastation expected to set in over the next few days, he said.
Condolences from the Prime Minister and high ranking military officers had helped ease the pain.

Host of Top Gear Makes A Burka Crack

Original article here.

Gotta love Top Gear, even if you don't like cars.

Jeremy Clarkson joins burka debate

Jeremy Clarkson has provoked a flurry of complaints after telling Top Gear viewers he saw a woman wearing a G-string and stockings beneath her burka.

By Ben Leach
Published: 9:12AM BST 28 Jul 2010

 

Clarkson's comments came after both France and Belgium announced earlier this month that they are introducing bans on veils Photo: BBC

 

The episode, which was broadcast on Sunday night and featured guest appearances from Hollywood stars Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, was watched by more than six million people.

Clarkson, along with co-presenters Richard Hammond and James May, had been discussing how drivers are distracted by female pedestrians.

He said: “This is an important bit of news, I really want to bring this up. People imagine that the most dangerous time of the year to drive is November or perhaps February - dark nights, fog, ice.

“But we were talking about this the other day and we think the most dangerous time to drive a car is round about now. Sunny skies, light breezes, girls wearing short skirts, because the thing is, you can't not look. You can't physically not look."

Hammond then said: “You can physically not use your mobile phone and it's easy not to drive home when you've had 18 pints of lager. But when you're driving along and a girl walks past, you have to look.

"Actually, do you not think that here, there is actually a case for the burka? Because then the problem would go away.”

Clarkson replied: “No, no, no. Honestly, the burka doesn't work. I was in a cab in Piccadilly the other day when a woman in a full burka crossing the road in front of me tripped over the pavement, went head over heels and up it came, red g-string and stockings. I promise that happened. The taxi driver will back me up on that.” 

By Monday morning, seven viewers had already contacted the BBC to complain. Several viewers posted messages criticising the comments on Twitter, including Lily Allen, the singer, who called his remarks “distasteful”. 

[JD: Lily Allen? More like Dhimmi Allen! Ha ha ha.]

NZ Needs to Keep Secret Tech From China, Says US Expert

Original link here.

Johnny Dissidence:
Articles like this interest me a lot, because in this era of cheap Warehouse goods, we don't truly appreciate the real cost of buying cheap Chinese imports: Our own industries and jobs. You can observe the massive migration of job and industry in the USA especially; the biggest consumer nation in the world has all but lost most of its major industrial capacity.

The reasons goods are so cheap in China is because of several things: The very low wages for employees, the lack of a proper welfare state and the lack of scruples of a lot of Chinese businesspeople. When you pay for a more expensive US/New Zealand made product, you're paying the social welfare costs that come with it.

Another downside to importing heavily from China is the insistence of Chinese to effectively "steal" the business models/ideas/processes/innovations of foreign entities operating on their soil; it forms a sort of tax for the privilege. China essentially acts like a big sponge, but the life blood of other (especially Western) nations are being soaked up. Indeed, maybe more Chinese will be employed, but that doesn't exactly benefit us in the West if it means our jobs are the ones going. It also means the investment in infrastructure and "trickle-down" effect of company profits and taxes is not benefiting the people as much, if at all.

Unfortunately, there's very little that can be done by the average person, except shunning Chinese products. But the low price label is a heavy attraction to consumers, and until people decide that that is not enough to warrant buying Chinese made goods, it'll be up to innovative businesspeople or even the State to take up a semi-protectionist stance on the imports, and even that has its own problems.

Warning to NZ: Keep technology secrets safe from China

By Tamsyn Parker

5:30 AM Monday Aug 2, 2010

Usha Haley. Photo / Supplied

An American expert in trading with China says New Zealand needs to protect its unique technologies and industries or it could permanently lose them to Chinese buyers.

David Cameron: Spineless Career Dhimmi.

I picked up this marginalising speech Chairman Cameron gave in Turkey, about Turkey's EU prospective membership. It has all the usual leftist tricks in it: If you oppose a rapidly Islamifying nation joining the EU, you're either a: xenophobic racist, a "protectionist" or don't understand Islam. Speeches like this indicate to me that indeed, the Muslims are supposed to something like the revolting underclass in the socialist intelligentsia's plans for the new "EUSSR", overthrowing their evil white masters who... work hard to pay their benefits and tolerate and acquiesce to their entitlement status.



Of course, this will work about aswell as trying to get a dog to play a card game, except halfway through the game the dogs go feral and lunges for the jugular of its trainer. Islam in itself, is a divisionary ideology. Its the Muslims against the non-Muslims first and foremost, Sunni verses Shia, nation verses nation, tribe verses tribe, family verses family. If some how the neo-soclialist elite did manage to put down the natives and remove their force, the Islamists would target them next. Who wants to be ruled by a bunch kaffir socialist pansy scum? I know I sure wouldn't, especially if Allah commands me to be ruled by him and him alone.

Not only would Turkey's membership into the EU be a horrible mistake, it would effectively be like letting in a second trojan horse (the first being mass Muslim immigration), except this time, the trojan horse is just a battalion of armored, spear and sword equipped elephant-mounted soldiers saying "Yeah, we're you're friend, don't worry." With occasional shoutings of "ALLAHU ACKBAR!" and "KILL THE KAFFIR!" in the background, steadily getting louder.

$9 Billion Iraqi Rebuilding Funds Unaccountable by US

Original article here.

US can't account for US$8.7bn in Iraqi funds

11:23 AM Wednesday Jul 28, 2010

AGHDAD - The US Defence Department is unable to account properly for over 95 per cent of US$9.1 billion (NZ$12.43bn) in Iraqi oil money tapped by the US for rebuilding the war ravaged nation, according to an audit released overnight.


The report by the US Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction offers a compelling look at continued laxness in how such funds were being spent in a country where people complain basic services like electricity and clean water are sharply lacking seven years after the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.

Sacked Australian Liberal Party Candidate Stands By Anti-Islam Comments

Original article here.

Sacked Liberal stands by Muslim comments

By Jean Kennedy

Updated 7 hours 1 minute ago

Sacked: former Liberal candidate for Chifley David Barker. (Liberal Party)

The sacked Liberal party candidate, David Barker, says he stands by anti-Islamic comments he made about his opponent in the Sydney seat of Chifley.

Opposition leader Tony Abbott says Mr Barker is "gone, finished" as a candidate after he posted the remarks on Facebook and attacked his opponent's Muslim faith.

He announced the Coalition's new candidate in Chifley will be 41-year-old small businesswoman Venus Priest.

Labor candidate Ed Husic describes himself as a non-practicing Muslim.

Turkish Police to be Sent to Maintain Law in Islamic Germany

The following article was lifted with permission from the excellent blog, Gates of Vienna.

The initial German translation of the article can be found here.

North Rhine-Westphalia: Turkish Police in “Problem” Districts


Because problems that have “immigrated” are not being taken care of any other way, Turkish police in their own uniforms will be deployed in “problem districts” of NRW. Why not just hand over our police to Turkey? In business, it’s called “outsourcing.” It’s great, saves money.

Die Welt reports:

The German police union intends to send Turkish police into so-called “problem districts” in North Rhine-Westphalia. They are supposed to deal with ethnic Turkish youths.

China and Russia Poised Forming an Economic Counterbalance to US Power?

Not many bloggers seem to focus on China as a credible threat to the West: It's all Jihad and commies. But a historically power-hungry, exploitative (economically, resource and human-wise) nation like China is worthy of being warranted a closer inspection by us. It is indeed a threat, but a long term threat, and justly deserving of more attention and a closer eye by any Conservative/right wing bloggers or internet news source.

Greek Blogger Murdered, Leftists/Anarchists Suspected

Here's the original article, apparently its not even safe to speak your mind on the internet now if you're a Greek.

Troktiko – Controversial Greek blog administrator is assassinated

Posted by Lucius "Guns" Fabrice on July 19, 2010 ·

Greek journalist Socrates Giolias has been assassinated. 

BREAKING NEWS – The administrator of the most popular political and social blog in Greece, “Troktiko” – the Rodent – was assassinated after being shot with 20 bullets.

Known for its controversial political articles, stigmatizing the former, right wing government of New Democracy, Troktiko became the most popular, Greek-owned destination in Greece. With an Alexa ranking of 869 globally, Troktiko.blogspot.com surpassed many international web sites in traffic.

The administrator of Troktiko, journalist writer and radio producer Socrates Giolias aged 37, was executed with a barrage of bullets, outside his residence around 5:20am local time today, in Ilioupolis – a suburb of Athens, in Greece.

According to his wife, who gave a shocking testimony to police, several individuals, dressed up and posing as security personnel rang their home doorbell to inform him that his car was being stolen; as soon as he followed them he was gunned down. The individuals escaped in a Honda Civic which was later found burned up.

Geert Wilders Launches International Organisation Against Islam in The West

Geert Wilders has launched an international organisatin to unite the anti-Islam groups in the US, England, France, Holland and Germany.

Pakistan: Top Dog for Dog Sex Googling

I open my email today, and look what I find! This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, I don't think.


Sexy Web Searches? Call it Pornistan


By Kelli Morgan




Published July 13, 2010


| FoxNews.com


Pakistan has banned content on more than a dozen websites because of offensive and blasphemous material. The Muslim country, which has laws on dress codes, ranks as the top country to proportionally search for certain sex-related terms.

This article was updated on July 14.

They may call it the "Land of the Pure," but Pakistan turns out to be anything but.


The Muslim country, which has banned content on at least 17 websites to block offensive and blasphemous material, is the world's leader in online searches for pornographic material, FoxNews.com has learned.

“You won’t find strip clubs in Islamic countries. Most Islamic countries have certain dress codes,” said Gabriel Said Reynolds, professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Notre Dame. “It would be an irony if they haven’t shown the same vigilance to pornography.”

So here's the irony: Google ranks Pakistan No. 1 in the world in searches for pornographic terms, outranking every other country in the world in searches per person for certain sex-related content.

Pakistan is top dog in searches per-person for "horse sex" since 2004, "donkey sex" since 2007, "rape pictures" between 2004 and 2009, "rape sex" since 2004, "child sex" between 2004 and 2007 and since 2009, "animal sex" since 2004 and "dog sex" since 2005, according to Google Trends and Google Insights, features of Google that generate data based on popular search terms.

The country also is tops -- or has been No. 1 -- in searches for "sex," "camel sex," "rape video," "child sex video" and some other searches that can't be printed here.

Obama's Plan for NASA: "To Reach out to Muslims"

Some satire from the Canadian free press (Thanks to Vladtepes for uploading the link):

NASA Unveils New Plan for Muslims in Outer Space

 By Daniel Greenfield  Tuesday, July 6, 2010 


Original link here.

Barack H. Obama
666 Pennsylvania Ave
Washington, DC 20006


Dear Sir,

I cannot tell you how much we appreciate your budget cuts, your cancellation of the space shuttle and any replacement launch vehicle for it, forcing us to rely on Russian Soyuz ships and their space program, which can’t even seem to dock with the ISS Space Station.

Your wise decision in this regard, as well as your cancellation of any return trip to the moon, has caused us to reevaluate many of our programs, including the search for intelligent life on earth. We understand of course that space exploration must take a backseat to more important matters, such as bailing out the car companies and banks who contributed to your campaign. And of course the White House entertainment budget. Your historic actions since taking office have truly challenged us as an agency. We can only hope to one day be able to return the favor.

After carefully reviewing your new priority for NASA, to reach out to Muslims and make them feel good about “their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering”, which consisted mainly of ripping off Greek and Indian science, and passing it off as their own, we have developed a comprehensive plan for utilizing the talents and abilities of Muslims to further the goals of this nation’s goals space program, which you so articulately described as “That Outer Spacey Thing”.

Masochistic White Liberals Join Together with Mexicans To Counter Columbus Day in US

An interesting portrayal of the brainwashed masochistic liberal whites in the US on Columbus day, joining with Mexicans in some good 'ol fashionated white hate. I don't yet know what purpose these white liberal self-haters will perform in the future, but I'm sure, if their "dream" comes true, they will be given a hands-on demonstration of how the third world really celebrates their racial diversity.

Murderer sues for compensation

Original article here.
By David Fisher

4:00 AM Sunday Jul 11, 2010


The inmate who murdered a teenager in the back of a prison van has been paid $20,000 in legal aid to sue the Government for abuse he claims to have suffered as a child.

George Charlie Baker, who is serving a minimum 18-year jail term for the 2006 killing of Liam Ashley, has now been approached by the Ministry of Social Development to negotiate a settlement.
A ministry spokeswoman said: "The ministry has offered to work with Mr Baker to resolve his claim. This offer is open to any person who believes they came to harm while in state child welfare care."
Baker made the claim after being sent to prison for the brutal killing of Ashley, 17.

After the attack, Baker told security guards: "[Brother] you better pull that guy out, I just killed him. He isn't breathing." Ashley later died in hospital.

Verbal Abuse Now a Crime in France

Original article here.

Insults illegal under new law in France

Friday, July 02, 2010 10:30:00 AM

By MSN NZ Travel staff

Husbands could be jailed for insulting their wives under a controversial new law in France.

The law makes it illegal for partners to insult each other or threaten physical violence, according to the UK Telegraph.

Under the new legislation offenders could face up to three years in prison and a fine of $NZ135,000.
The law, which applies to both married couples and cohabiting partners, has been unanimously approved by French MPs.

US, Israel Warships in Suez May Be Prelude to Faceoff with Iran

Original article here.


by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Published: 06/20/10, 5:37 PM / Last Update: 06/20/10, 6:08 PM

Egypt allowed at least one Israeli and 11 American warships to pass through the Suez Canal as an Iranian flotilla approaches Gaza. Egypt closed the canal to protect the ships with thousands of soldiers, according to the British-based Arabic language newspaper Al Quds al-Arabi.



One day prior to the report on Saturday, Voice of Israel government radio reported that the Egyptian government denied an Israeli request not to allow the Iranian flotilla to use the Suez Canal to reach Gaza, in violation of the Israeli sea embargo on the Hamas-controlled area.

EDL Protest Muslims Protesting Returning UK Soldiers

Look at the thug on the left at :30 seconds in, notice he has a wooden bar in his hands, but the police don't dare to arrest and disarm him! And then contrast that with the physical and disrespectful treatment of the EDL by the police...

American Area Along Border Ceded to Mexicans.

Original article here.

Uptick in Violence Forces Closing of Parkland Along Mexico Border to Americans

Published June 16, 2010

| FOXNews.com

About 3,500 acres of southern Arizona along the Mexican border is closed to U.S. citizens due to increased violence in the region.

The closed off area stretches 80 miles along the border and includes part of the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge. It was closed in October 2006 "due to human safety concerns," the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Wednesday in response to news reports on the closure.

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu told Fox News that violence against law enforcement officers and U.S. citizens has increased in the past four months, further underscoring the need to keep the 80 miles of border land off-limits to Americans.

The refuge had been adversely affected by the increase in drug smugglers, illegal activity and surveillance, which made it dangerous for Americans to visit.

"The situation in this zone has reached a point where continued public use of the area is not prudent," said refuge manager Mitch Ellis.

Sikh Council plans legal action over turban ban

Here's an interesting article. What is more interesting, other than the actual ban, is the Sikhs reaction.  to it. Basically, if something doesn't go your way, sue sue sue.


By Michael Dickison and Katherine Irvine

4:00 AM Thursday Jun 17, 2010

The Sikh Council of New Zealand is taking legal action against the Manurewa Cosmopolitan Club after the club voted against changing a policy that effectively ban's turban-wearing Sikhs from its premises.
Secretary Verpal Singh said the community would seek legal representation from the Human Rights Commission following an incident last November when a Sikh, Karnail Singh, was refused entry to a function in his honour at the club because his turban violated its "no headwear" rule.

Manurewa Cosmopolitan Club manager Patricia Rangi said she was not aware of any legal proceedings and would not comment until she had heard more.

Prisoners convert to Islam for jail perks

Original article here.
Prisoners convert to Islam for jail perks 
Richard Ford, Home Correspondent 
 June 8, 2010
Inmates are converting to Islam in order to gain perks and the protection of powerful Muslim gangs, the Chief Inspector of Prisons warns today.

Dame Anne Owers says that some convicted criminals are taking up the religion in jail to receive benefits only available to practising Muslims.

The number of Muslim prisoners has risen dramatically since the mid-1990s — from 2,513 in 1994, or 5 per cent of the population, to 9,795 in 2008, or 11 per cent. Staff at top-security prisons and youth jails have raised concerns about the intimidation of non-Muslims and possible forced conversions.

Dame Anne’s report, Muslim Prisoners’ Experiences, published today, says that, although several high-profile terrorists have been jailed recently, fewer than 1 in 100 Muslim inmates have been convicted of terrorism.

She says that prison staff are suspicious about those practising or converting to the faith and warns that treating Muslim inmates as potential or actual extremists risks radicalising them. The report says: “Many Muslim prisoners stressed the positive and rehabilitative role that Islam played in their lives, and the calm that religious observance could induce in a stressed prison environment. This was in marked contrast to the suspicion that religious observance, and particularly conversion or reversion, tended to produce among staff.”

Israel Board Gaza "Aid" Flotilla, Met with Violence

Recently, an IDF Seals detachment boarded a Gaza bound AID vessel and firefighting ensued. The leftist media made out that the Israelis initiated the shooting, but alternative sources point otherwise.

Here's a Fox (I know) report of it.


Here's a closeup of the action.


Here's what "AID" was found on the vessel.


It amazes me how the lefties can spin anything to their whims, and the fact people believe it.

Massachusetts Governor Cosying up With Radical Islame

A Massachusetts Governor embracing an extremist Muslim group (MAS), whom the leader of encourages violence against arresting officers and has had links with extremism.

China Welcomes Kim Jong Il with Open Arms,

 Original article here.

China's Insult to South Korea 

Written by Lee Byong-chul

Monday, 10 May 2010

Beijing rolls out a red carpet for Kim Jong-Il 

China's decision to roll out a glitzy welcome mat for the North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has stunned and shocked South Korea's leaders, ignoring South Korea's anger over the sinking, undoubtedly by the north, of a South Korean navy patrol ship on March 26 with the loss of 46 lives.

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak was not given any hint from his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao at a Shanghai summit meeting, hardly a week ago on May 1, that Kim was on his way to Beijing. It was on May 2 that the 68-year-old North Korean leader's clandestine visit initially went public.

Beijing's actions constitute the truncation of debate about controversial and complex issues over North Korea. Whatever China's motive might be, it is obnoxious for the Lee government, which has continued a decades-long effort to get along with Beijing, and which has vowed to investigate the mysterious explosion in a scientific and objective manner. In the face of widespread suspicion of North Korea's involvement, the highest-ranking political leaders of both North Korea and China have disregarded the South's concerns and hastened to meet with each other.

Obama: War on Terror is Over

 Original article here.

President Barack Obama has rejected George W. Bush’s doctrine that placed the “war on terror” at the centre of American foreign policy,

By Toby Harnden in Washington
Published: 10:00PM BST 27 May 2010

Barack Obama Photo: REUTERS

The US president has instead replaced it with a softer approach stressing “new partnerships” and multilateral diplomacy.

“Our long-term security will not come from our ability to instill fear in other peoples but through our capacity to speak to their hopes,” Mr Obama said in a message introducing a new national security strategy.

9/11 Mosque Approved by Board

Its becoming clearer and clearer that Islam's symbolic occupation (knocking down a symbol of the West and erecting their own) of the 9/11 attacks are coming to fruition.

Original article here.

Board approves mosque close to Ground Zero 

 Published: 12:02PM Thursday May 27, 2010

The New York Post is reporting that a community board in New York's Manhattan borough has granted its symbolic approval to the construction of a mosque close to the site of Ground Zero.
Ground Zero was where the World Trade Centre buildings once stood and which were destroyed by Islamic terrorists on September 11, 2001.

Pakistan Restores Limited Control to Facebook After Blocking it for "Blasphemous Material"

You might remember a little while ago a little hoop-lah over the "Everyone Draw Mohammed Day" In Pakistan, leading them to block the site. Well, they've brought it back up with a nice dosing of censorship. My apologies for a lack up of updates recently.

Original article here.

Pakistan to restore YouTube, block certain videos

By MUNIR AHMED (AP) – 14 hours ago

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan will restore access to YouTube but will block videos offensive to Muslims that are posted on the video-sharing site, the government said Wednesday.

A number of high-profile websites were blocked in Pakistan last week over offensive content, such as a Facebook page that urges users to post images of Islam's Prophet Muhammad. Many citizens supported the crackdown, but some questioned why entire sites were blocked rather than specific pages or videos.

Man Incapable of Controlling Arms and Legs Accused of Sexual Abuse

A sociopathic female judge accuses a man with cerebral palsy (wheelchair bound) of sexually assaulting her. Here is a strong demonstration of how Western female privilege and their ultimate power of claiming victimhood in any situation reigns supreme - even when it comes to a disabled man being the "abuser". A victim complex and judicial power= bad combination.

NSW Reverend says Ban the Burka

Original article here.

Right says Fred Nile, ban the burqa

May 14th, 2010.
THE Reverend Fred Nile will introduce a Bill to parliament calling for a ban on the Islamic burqa head and body veil.

A Little Fun With Animation.

 Here's a video I made for fun, mocking the retardation of far-leftists debating techniques.

David Horowitz Verses Muslim Jewish Genocide Advocate

 This is indicative of the attitude of native born Islamic extremists to their controversial ideas and the shameless public revelation of them. She doesn't even attempt to use taqiyya. T

Ground Zero Mosque Developer Has Muslim Brotherhood Connections

Hey fellows. Its been a bit of a while since I last posted on here, had a bit of busy week with study. This is an interesting development, the developer of the Ground zero mosque has Islamificative links.
Original article here.

Ground Zero Mosque Developer and Muslim Brotherhood

Written by Alyssa A. Lappen

Friday, 14 May 2010 16:13

The prospective developer of a $100 million, 13-story mosque 600 feet from Ground Zero presents himself as a Muslim moderate (1). Yet Kuwait-born Faisal Abdul Rauf also boasts of his issue from an "Egyptian family steeped in religious scholarship" (2). Indeed, Feisal Rauf's Muslim Brotherhood provenance, radical by definition, is as authentic as it gets.

Rauf's father, Dr. Muhammad Abdul Rauf (1917-2004) - an Egyptian contemporary of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna - conveyed to Feisal his family's long tradition of radicalism, which he acquired at Islam's closest equivalent to the Vatican, Al-Azhar University. The elder Dr. Rauf studied and taught there before fleeing Egypt in 1948. That year, Feisal Abdul Rauf was born in Kuwait.

Feisal Rauf has planned for some time to further develop his father's U.S. Islamic expansionism. In 1990, Rauf opened the tiny al-Farah Mosque at 245 West Broadway in lower Manhattan. Area residents did not even notice the mosque until 2006, when the New York State Liquor Authority (SLA) refused to license a new bar on the same block and started yanking others' liquor licenses (3).

Rauf attended grammar school and high school in the UK and Malaysia, according to his biography. He probably first lived in America only in 1965, at age 17, when his father moved from Malaysia to New York to plan and head the Islamic Cultural Center (not built until the mid-1980s) (4). Rauf then obtained a BS in physics at Columbia University (5). In 1971, the family moved to Washington, D.C., where Rauf'sfather headed the Islamic Center on Massachusetts Ave. (6) His father, buried in Suitland, MD, at the for-profit Washington National Cemetery, also founded three Malaysian Islamic studies programs, including the International Islamic University of Malaysia (7).

Rauf's early UK education and familiarization with American popular culture and values made him an acutely adept practitioner of Islamic taqiyya - deceptive speech and action to advance the interests and supremacy of Islam (8). To further that Islamic advancement, Rauf in 1997 established the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA). His Kashmir-born wife Daisy Kahn, an interior designer by profession, has run the organization since 2005 (9).

BNP candidate defends against Muslim thugs

BNP candidate shows major balls in defending himself against some savage Muslims.

Media Lied: Mosque still to be Build

The media lied totally about the mosque plans being scrapped: I'm guessing word got out from the government to placate the EDL protests, they were arrested and now the EDL are demonstrating outside the police station.

Original article here.

Muslim group vows mosque will be built

Tuesday 4th May 2010, 11:30AM BST.

The Dudley Muslim Association today said it would proceed with plans to build a new mosque on derelict land in Dudley unless the council comes up with a “viable” alternative.

Chairman Khurshid Ahmed was speaking after Dudley Council announced an agreement had been reached not to pursue controversial plans to build a mosque with 65ft minaret in Hall Street but

Dudley mega-mosque plan is scrapped

The EDL has scored a massive victory over the forces of Islam with the plans for the mega-mosque being scrapped. Despite the massive Islamic response of violence, (covered up by the pathetic UK media and blamed on the EDL) the EDL managed to pull through. Congratulations guys!


The message clearly demonstrated by this is if you put enough of a fight, you will eventually win.

EDIT: A lot of EDL members are suspicious towards this sudden action, so celebration might be a little premature.

Original article here.

Dudley mosque plan is scrapped

Monday 3rd May 2010, 11:30AM BST.

Plans to build an £18million mosque in Dudley town centre have been scrapped, the Express & Star can reveal today.

Muslim Riot in Dudley over Mega-Mosque Protests

Okay, so I haven't covered this story much, but basically the EDL, an anti-Islam group, staged a protest in Dudley to oppose the building of the Mega-Mosque, which prompted 1000s of Muslim in Dudley to start rioting and causing violence, and the pussy ass government apparently issued a media black out on the situation, days before the election. Hopefully this gets out and demonstrates how impotent the current UK government is, and how they want to suppress the event. Here's the original story.

Political upheaval to delay burqa law

Original article here.

4:00 AM Saturday May 1, 2010
BELGIUM: Belgium's Lower House of Parliament yesterday banned burqa-type Islamic dress in public, but the measure faces a challenge in the Senate which will delay early enactment of the law.

Christian Democrats and Liberals in the Senate questioned the phrasing of the law, which holds no one can appear in public "with the face fully or partly covered so as to render them no longer recognisable".

The Al Qaeda Reader author interview

Excellent video from Fox with Raymond Ibrahim, talking about Islam's true nature and Al Qaeda.



Picked up from Vladtepes.