Its because they consistently throw rocks and such at police. From the ground and apartments.
There are also groups that regularly set cars on fire then throw down rocks, stones at the firemen and police.

New Zealand votes to keep its flag with a British Union Jack rather than a native silver fern

March 24, 20168:00pm

Ian Horswill and wires,News Corp Australia Network

NEW Zealand has voted to keep its current flag by 57 per cent to 43 per cent in the result of a nationwide poll.

More than 2 million people voted in the ballot to decide whether to keep the British Union Jack on their flag or replace it with a silver fern.

The current flag has been the national symbol since 1902. It was up against a new design that was winnowed from more than 10,000 entries submitted by the public.

Support for the current flag was strongest in Maori electorates, including Te Tai Tokerau (78.5 per cent) and Tamaki Makaurau (77.5 per cent), .

Other areas strongly in favour of keeping the current flag included Mangere (70.8 per cent), and Manukau East (67.4 per cent), Newstalk ZB reported.

In Prime Minister John Key’s Helensville electorate, 56.6 per cent of people chose to keep the current flag.

Those advocating change argued the flag was a relic of the nation’s colonial past and too similar to Australia’s flag.

Those favouring the status quo said the new design was uninspiring or an attempt by Prime Minister Key to create a legacy.

The Change the Flag Party’s Tim Holden said he was “ecstatic” more than a million people voted for change.

“Maybe not now, but in the future ... It’s really heartening,” he said.

Within an hour of the referendum result, 61 flags by Kyle Lockwood, who designed the silver fern alternative, were on sale on the website TradeMe.

TWO-YEAR FLAG DEBATE

• $NZ26 million ($A23.18 million) — total cost of the flag referendum process

• 10,292 number of flag designs entered overall

• 40 number of flags on the Flag Consideration Panel’s long list

• 5 alternative designs in the first referendum

• 48.78 per cent voter turnout for first referendum

• 2,119,953 number of New Zealanders who voted in the second flag referendum

• 67.3 per cent voter turnout for second referendum

• 13.4 per cent winning margin of the incumbent flag

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/new-zealand-votes-to-keep-its-flag-with-a-british-union-jack-rather-than-a-native-silver-fern/news-story/1c60f62ba1e5d3d71bb3266455ac4eb8

Based Winston Peters.

Thank you based New Zealand, hope it quashes any desire for a change here.

so, put them in jail

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Its hard to catch them, they should send in the military.

Islamic State claims suicide bombing on football stadium in Iraq that killed 29

March 26, 201612:44pm

A SUICIDE bomber blew himself up in a soccer stadium south of the Iraqi capital on Friday, killing 29 people and wounding 60, security officials said, as the military announced new gains on the ground against the Islamic State group.

The bombing took place during a match in the small stadium in the city of Iskanderiyah, 50 kilometres from Baghdad, the officials said. Medical officials confirmed the death toll. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to talk to the press.

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack via a statement posted online, SITE intelligence group, a monitoring organisation, reported.

IS has been waging a campaign of suicide bombings in and around the capital as Iraqi forces and their allies battle the militants in the north and west of the country.

A video circulating Twitter claims to show the moments before the bombing and cuts out as a loud explosion can be heard.

The bombing came as Iraqi military spokesman Yahya Rusoul announced that Iraqi troops and Sunni tribal fighters recaptured the town of Kubeisa in western Anbar province from the Islamic State group. A day earlier, IS fighters were pushed out of a string of villages in Iraq’s northern Nineveh province under cover of heavy coalition air strikes.

Iraqi ground forces are working to build on recent gains in Anbar and prepare for an eventual push on the northern city of Mosul, the largest city held by the militants in the “caliphate” they declared across parts of Iraq and Syria.

The U.S.-led coalition estimates that IS has lost 40 per cent of the territory it once held in Iraq and around 20 per cent of its territory in Syria. Analysts and coalition officials say they expect that as it loses ground on the battlefield, it will turn to more insurgent style attacks in Iraq and internationally. On Tuesday, bombings in Brussels claimed by IS killed 31 people and injured nearly 300.

http://www.news.com.au/world/middle-east/islamic-state-claims-suicide-bombing-on-football-stadium-in-iraq-that-killed-29/news-story/5c453a41ffb04966cebb15ab65eb7922

Let's see what sort of mental gymnastics Quickflick performs this time.

:lol: of course. Blah blah Western geopolitical blah causing violence blah blah something about the us :lol:

Football is an evil western invention

Raids uncover evidence of Europe-wide jihadist cell

In the wake of the bombings in Belgium this week -- and increasing criticism of officials for their inability to thwart those attacks -- police in the last 24 hours have made at least four arrests in a series of raids in Belgium and four other countries across Europe.

New evidence shows disturbing evidence of just how big the terror network is across Europe.

CBS News' Allen Pizzey reports from Brussels that, as the effort to break the terrorist cell that carried out the bombings goes on, Belgian officials are coming under increased scrutiny and criticism for what is being seen as a series of intelligence failures.

In an operation that played out in full view, Belgian police shot a man who was spotted with a suspicious bag at a tram stop Friday.

Cell phone video taken by terrified eyewitnesses in an overlooking apartment shows police approaching and then a young girl stepping out of the tram stop shelter and being led to safety and then armed police move in.

The incident was one of three targeted raids in an area where earlier in the week police found a bomb-making factory they said was connected to the Brussels airport and subway attacks.

The raids have uncovered what is being described as "alarming" evidence of a Europe-wide jihadist cell connected to the attacks in Belgium as well as those in Paris in November.

Two brothers who died as suicide bombers in the attacks in Brussels last week were known to police as petty criminals and potential terrorists.

Ibrahim El Bakraoui, who blew himself up in the airport, had been arrested and deported from Turkey and labelled a "foreign terrorist fighter."

His brother Khalid, who died in the subway attack, was subject to an international arrest warrant after the Paris attacks.

Officials have told CBS News that the brothers were on the radar of U.S. law enforcement.

DNA found on a suicide vest and a piece of cloth at the Bataclan concert hall massacre in Paris and a bomb at the Stade de France stadium was that of Brussels airport bomber Najim Laachraoui.

In a stark contrast to other places where jihadi terrorists have struck, there has been no militaristic flag-waving in Brussels and no real backlash against Muslims.

​A young girl lights a candle at the Place de la Bourse following attacks in Brussels, Belgium, on March 22, 2016.

As the Belgian prime minister put it in a speech to Parliament, "freedom ... the rule of law and tolerance are more than ever our reference points for moving forward together."

But moving forward is a slow process. With a manhunt on for at least two missing suspects, the authorities announced that Brussels' airport won't open before Tuesday at the earliest.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/brussels-attacks-raids-uncover-alarming-evidence-europe-wide-jihadist-cell/

Edited by Joffa: 26/3/2016 11:07:43 PM

The bitter fruits of alienation: Belgium’s struggle is the problem of our age
Martin Conway

Saturday 26 March 2016 09:00 UTC

The larger picture is the degree to which social inequality has generated its own dynamics of marginalisation and radicalisation


“What we feared has happened,” remarked Charles Michel, the prime minister of Belgium, in the immediate aftermath of the horrible and violent attacks on Brussels airport and the Maelbeek metro station on 22 March.

Yes, indeed. Nothing is less surprising than that the vortex of terrorism and repression that has developed since the November 2015 attacks in Paris should have resulted in these new violent attacks.

But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t consider how these circumstances came about. These events reflect several, much longer-term issues.

First of all, there is the ever more emphatic pursuit of a level of security that can never be achieved. European leaders from François Hollande to David Cameron are promising somehow to wipe away the threat of terrorism from Europe. That of course cannot happen. Only those who believe most naively in the capacities of Europe’s current intelligence structures – hovering over the incessant noise of email, mobile phone messages and the twittersphere – will believe that what has come into existence can be willed to disappear.

There is indeed a police problem – one above all of capacity and coordination – but the solution to Europe’s security crisis can never simply be more security. That has to be combined with more imaginative efforts to look at the origins of the problems. And that of course means that Europeans need to look at themselves and the societies they inhabit.

Long incubation

Brussels was not randomly selected for this attack. It is a prosperous, peaceful and predominantly secular city. In many ways it embodies the values that many in 21st-century Europe hold dear. But it is also home to radicalised minorities.

Most bars on most nights of the week within easy reach of the Maelbeek metro station will contain a cross-section of the successful young generations of Europe. They mix in those easily permeable domains between European institutions, lobbying and journalism.

But think also of those who are not present in those bars: the micro-communities of Europe’s margin. Some of those are well established and familiar; but others are emphatically more recent – notably the arrival in the poorer districts of central Brussels of populations from North Africa and the Middle East. These are people with relatively little interest in the society they now inhabit. And indeed Belgium seems to have little to offer to them, beyond the immediate and insubstantial opportunities of transient employment. They are the expendable populations, and they know themselves to be that.

Molenbeek

Which brings us inevitably to Molenbeek. That one commune of the 19 which constitute the city of Brussels should have come to symbolise all its problems is in many respects unfair. What has happened in Molenbeek could easily have happened in the neighbouring communes of Anderlecht or Schaerbeek. But the wider reality is indisputable – inner-city communities often lack clear structures of governance, social solidarity and opportunity.

There is a Belgian and a European explanation for that. The Belgian dimension must focus on the manifold complexities of the Belgian state. It is inefficient and simply lacks the capacity to provide effective governance to many of the most disadvantaged populations who now live on its territory.

Belgium is not, by contemporary European standards, a conventional state. It lacks an instinctive ethos of centralism. Belgians know themselves to be diverse and are rightly proud of the fact that they do many things at a local, rather than national level. That works when the participants sign up to rather basic values of co-existence, but it fails when they contain populations who do not experience the basic amenities and opportunities which draw people into the European social contract.

But it is that social contract which has been stretched to breaking point and beyond, in Belgium and elsewhere, over the past 20 years or more. The replacement of structures of social solidarity with the relentless logic of the market, have hollowed out the ways in which the poorer communities of Brussels and many other cities across Europe have invested in their larger collective existence.

There are of course many reasons for that, most obviously the way in which the scale and diversity of migration has transformed cities into communities where there is no identifiable majority. But the larger picture, in Brussels and elsewhere, is the degree to which social inequality has generated its own dynamics of marginalisation and radicalisation.

In Molenbeek, as in many other disadvantaged communities, the emergence of cultures of militant Islam has been less a stand-alone phenomenon than the product of wider phenomena of poor schooling, limited economic opportunities and consequent petty criminality.

Confronting the real task

Previous manifestations of terrorism in Western Europe have had immediate and tangible origins. The conflicts between communities in Northern Ireland and between Basques and the Spanish state are two of the most well-known causes of the 20th Century.

It is tempting to see the current waves of terrorism as very different – the result of the sudden invasion of militant Islam. But in many respects the origins of the current violence remain just as local. They lie in the willingness of young men of immigrant populations to turn the quasi-criminal expertise learned in their formerly marginal lives to more political and violent ends.

For some, such radicalisation leads to Syria and back. For others, there is no need to travel further than across the cities of Brussels and Paris from the neighbourhoods of the marginalised to the bars, music venues and metro stations of the comfortable classes.

All of which suggests that the problems that we – a pronoun which is more exclusive than we are often inclined to recognise – confront today are not going to go away soon. The current terrorism is so amorphous and so shallow in its political affiliations that it may fade away, as those drawn towards it today are attracted to the more immediate opportunities of tomorrow.

But it is more likely that the breaking up, arrest and imprisonment of particular networks of individuals will simply be replaced by other such groups, who will similarly find in particular languages of Islam the vehicle for their angers and their emotional rejection of wider society. Putting back together Europe’s social contract might take longer than any of us would like to think.

-Martin Conway is Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Oxford, UK. This article was first published at TheConversation.com/uk.
- See more at: http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/bitter-fruits-alienation-belgium-s-struggle-problem-our-age-725139628#sthash.FqN3cu0E.dpuf

Why are so many of these people already suspected terrorists and convicted criminals? I mean, why not just fucking arrest them? Mons Manis had how many assault charges laid on him and yet our piss weak legal system just let him go.

Pretty big deal with regards to the war against isis in syria
Syria, Russia reclaim Palmyra from IS


- See more at: http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2016/03/28/syria--russia-reclaim-palmyra-from-is.html#sthash.1QK1wEn6.dpuf

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

they are cooked units. isn't it just some dude based in london? lel

72 Killed in Pakistan Terrorist attack

'So, What do you think of Pakistan?'


'Its pretty fucked up' - Maya Zero Dark Thirty

Because our legal system is there to protect criminals and insult victims.

This is what happens when bleeding hearts force imprisonment to become about rehabilitation instead of brutal punishment.

It is unfortunate ignorant people like Milo have so many followers on social media.

Well his comment was very misinformed, over generalised and poorly worded ... that better?

Where has been fairly ignorant?

I've always found him to be the type to thoroughly research his stuff before wading into wars.

-PB

Milo is fucking based m8

Prisoner who 'carved jihadist slogan into inmate's forehead' should not be isolated, expert says

Sounds like these two were probably not the best cell mates.

Russia: Three Suicide Bombers Blow Up near Police Station

April 11, 2016, Monday @ 11:37 in World

A member of the local security structures informed that three suicide bombers have blown themselves up near a police station in the Stavropol'skiy area (southeastern Russia). He said that the suspects were most probably terrorists. They activated the explosive devices around 10:40 am local time. There have been no casualties nor injured among the people or the forces, the city police informed. According to Russian media, there had been 4 attackers, two of whom have been liquidated. - See more at:

http://www.independent.mk/articles/30297/Russia+Three+Suicide+Bombers+Blow+Up+near+Police+Station#sthash.f6VqB4iY.dpuf

Kosovo a hotbed of terrorist activity again, and right on europe's doorstep. As someone who was there during the war, the serbs tried to warn everyone, but they were rewarded with nato bombing them.

another day in Baltic sea

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let hope Obama does the right thing, and let his Air forces move some F-22 Raptor, to Siauliai for 1 or 2 week holiday....this would drive the Russian fucking nuts



Edited by adrtho: 28/4/2016 03:44:57 AM

Sperm Donor families file lawsuits

Pope Francis travels to the Island of LESBOS to show support for [size=1]refugees[/size]

What? Were we expecting something else? :-k \:d/

Top Navy official: Russian sub activity expands to Cold War level

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/15/politics/mark-ferguson-naval-forces-europe-russian-submarines/

What a charming fellow.


http://www.rappler.com/nation/politics/elections/2016/130271-duterte-cut-ties-australia-us

Edited by Heineken: 21/4/2016 06:59:03 PM