Fear the Dead Living – the exodus into Europe

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This is what a modern day Zombie Apocalypse looks like. The horror of the exodus  flooding Europe is as extraordinary as its origins are terrible.

These are not migrants, they are not illegal aliens, they are not refugees – they are survivors from a disaster we in the West have created. The hypocrisy of shutting the gates, of rolling out the barbed wire, of beating and detaining human beings who are fleeing conflict we in the West fuel is an obscenity.

Key says we can’t take any more refugees, but we can help bomb the homelands these survivors are fleeing from. When he says he’s ‘softening’ his position on refugees, he means Farrar has done the polling & opinion is turning against his cruel stance.

The real shock is that the severe drought in Syria which caused the meltdown there and the exodus into Europe has been attributed to climate change.

With climate change approaching tipping points, these extreme weather events will cause more climate survivors fleeing their doomed environments and seeking shelter in the West.

This is Europe trying to cope with just over 300 000 survivors, how will they cope when it’s a million, 2 million, 5 million?

We are an interconnected world, the wars we fuel and the homes we bomb and the pollution we create has global consequences. If we don’t want this exodus, then we need to stop fuelling their wars, bombing their homes and creating the climate change that is destroying their environment.

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When Keys mother fled prejudice to Britain, NZ was here with open arms and a state house. Now he’s PM, he’s closing the door to those same desperate survivors fleeing hate.

Key’s lack of compassion suggests his flag should be barbed wire.

His stance can’t be the people we want NZ to be, this lack of empathy and disregard to suffering is not the country we fight for.

Double the quota, for the millions it won’t make much difference, for those we take in it will mean the world.

51 COMMENTS

  1. It is a very sad situation in the middle east and i don’t think it is going to be resolved with more violence.

    All parties need to put their collective heads together and work out a way forward. B52 bombers and drone strikes only aggravate the situation.

    • The arms industry needs to be seriously addressed. It largely flies under the radar but it is one of the biggest and most powerful forces in the world today. Too many companies, managers and employees need the arms industry to survive in the world today.

      • It’s not the arms industry ffs. This is being deliberately engineered!

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RC1Mepk_Sw

        18 or so months ago when Cameron wanted to invade Syria,The overwhelming public protest forced them to back down. Until they could come up with “plan b” which was the creation of ISIS.

        The disgusting vile bastards who are orchestrating this hell on Earth in the the middle east need to be exposed. The public are being kept in the dark. It’s real, it’s happening and it is not a “conspiracy theory”. China (with it’s military parades yesterday) and Russia know exactly what’s going on. At least Obama has given Iran a chance. The neocons must hate him.

  2. It’s bad enough that our American cuzzies invaded Iraq illegally under false pretences.

    It’s bad enough that we’re seeing destabilisation on a massive scale in Syria and Iraq, leading to a flood of human misery not seen since World War 2.

    It’s bad enough that National is burying it’s head in the sand by not taking in more refugees.

    What is even more disturbing is that there are elements in the US political establishment that want to take military action against Iran. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/04/27/21-percent-of-republicans-want-to-take-military-action-against-iran-what/)

    The consequences of such a lunatic action would dwarf anything happening now.

    • I totally agree Frank, but what makes it especially galling for Kiwis is how we’ve ended up being Uncle Sam’s bum boy.

      In 1914 it was “where Britain goes, we go”

      100 years later it is “where America goes, we go”

      So what do you do if America’s going down the gurgler?

  3. We all need to learn form history than violence is a dead end game.

    However the problem is that the arms suppliers world wide need wars to sell their weaponary, hence it is in their interests to have a number of armed conflicts going.

    If there are no wars and armed conflicts happening where are the big US arms suppliers going to sell their arms stocks.

  4. Reminds me of the fall of the Roman Empire in the West around 400AD, the surge of Germanic “barbarians” outside the border wanting to get in (partly because THEY were being squeezed by other groups further east). The pressure eventually became too great and they simply flooded over the border in a series of waves that eventually over a century or more saw the entire face of Europe radically changed.

  5. +100 Great Post…and the destruction of Libya was appalling!…Sarkozy , Cameron, USA and NATO countries must take in those fleeing from this country…which was once prosperous with a very good standard of living and education

    …as well as refugees fleeing for their lives from Syria , Iraq, Afghanistan

    … and now Israel wants to take out Iran!…Israel also must also take in a huge quota of these refugees …because Israel has been behind and supported the destabilisation of Syria and the Middle East

  6. A horrible situation getting worse by the day. If ever there was a situation that needs international co-operation to find a solution, this is it. Even taking in more refugees from the Middle East is probably not going to help much in the long run. I hope the political will to fix this will become apparent.

  7. Blaming “The West” is a bit simplistic, don’t you think? Why not blame Islamism or Saddam or Nazism?

    Anyway, all that is irrelevant. Fact is these refugees are fleeing from an intolerable situation. The actual cause doesn’t matter unless we can do something to stop the cause.

    Apart from the above I’m with you on this one. There is no reason why we can’t accept more of these refugees. And shame on us if we don’t.

    • I take your point about being pro-help these poor buggers.

      Unfortunately the only universal law is cause and effect which always applies everywhere in a relativistic universe.

      But what I am curious about is why you feel the need to deny the “what caused it” thread.

      I am British and as a child growing up in the 1950s had plenty of first hand experience of how we viewed the middle east and how we acted towards the middle east (as a Brit I mean).

      It is to me a fact of life that Britain, and then later the USA, certainly sowed the wind for just about most of the 20th Century.

      We are simply now reaping the whirlwind…

      So what in the above is untrue or inaccurate?

      That’s a genuine invitation, not a left hook…

    • It’s an interesting question; undoubtedly the battle for the soul of Islam is important, the shadow play of Sunni and Shia is the main driver. But the West could choose not to cameo, and yet we do again and again, instead of letting the Saudis fight their own wars and spend their own money dealing with the displaced and dispossessed.

    • P.s True horror on RT News a body of a little migrant boy has washed up on a popular tourist beach. His sister and mother also drowned.

      Why don’t the large cruise ships put these people up for a while? Can the rich fat white people put their holiday cruising money towards putting these people up on cruise ships and show some dignity. Honestly this is the beginning of the end we are seeing, this capitalist society who’s rich arseholes making all the political decisions for us won’t share or help anyone or thing other than rich mates of course. We as a fucken species will be in a life boat soon thanks to this ‘system’ of stupidity.
      We will all go down like the titanic in the end. Rich people on life boats and poor locked down to drown. Listening to the band right up till the end. Not listening to the truth. This migrant situation proves it, easy to drop drone bombs but not able to organise the chaos after. Typical of a system that now the rose tinted glasses have fallen off the world is watching the inhumanity of capitalism in action which will do nothing because there is no money in it.
      Around two hundred species are going extinct every day, and we all carry on as normal. ‘Act normal everyone’, when will a revolution happen? When will people storm the beehive and get rid of dickhead Key and all other capitalist leaders around the world taking all of us down. We will make up in the collective grave of the 6th mass extinction. The human race is now a major stupid joke! Nothing at all to be proud of. We can’t even help ourselves. The system is rotten, now we see what it’s doing to us and life on earth and it’s not looking good. Nothing but business as usual, wiping a collective arse on the earth and letting people drown who are fleeing war.

      • Tell us what you are doing Kate….

        Rich western people have computers, many poor people don’t have water, so you could sell you computer (and all the other non-essential items you have) and donate the money…

        Or is it easier to tell other people to do something….

        The Gates foundation (and many other high achieving, now, rich people) has done more to offer honest useful assistance to the poor than self-righteous net commentators like you.

        So come on tell us all about your contribution to improving the world. Nothing much to date perhaps, well work harder then you can give more.

        • Capitalism is causing Climate Change. My message is about climate change and this unfolding disaster is mainly what Martyn’s post is about.
          What am I doing you ask. I don’t have any kids. I have a very very low carbon footprint living off-grid. I don’t shit into fresh water and even pee is recycled here. I don’t eat animals very often. I grow my own food. I live on a rain water harvesting system. I work from home, my work is to capture what we are losing, thank god some people out there still really appreciate the painted expression. You know cultural expression that thing of the past, that thing money grabbers deem unimportant.
          I would give these migrant people a room in my house if they could be let into NZ.
          What the fuck are you doing? Other than trolling? You can’t eat or drink money, thats the problem. Climate change induced drought started this mess in Syria. Money hungry greedy western capitalism is destroying our planets biodiversity and ultimately that will end in our extinction in the not far off future. http://Www.naturebatslast.com get a grip on what is happening outside your little money, fantasy delusion good luck.

        • False arguments from you, TIC. And it all amounts to deflecting from you simply not caring a toss, and trying to justify it to yourself.

          After all, if you weren’t trying to validate your own selfishness, why would you bother writing your rubbish?

          It sure as heck ain’t for our benefit.

        • Oh look, another troll extolling the virtues of being a selfish prick with no conscience.

          How the fuck did we ever raise selfish bastards like you, I don’t know. Then again, I think you’re doing this for kicks.

  8. It’s certainly an interesting theory.

    They’re having a drought in Aussie too at the moment but as far as I know they’re not killing each other… 😉

    For my part I think it’s the inevitable outcome of a despotic regime which was installed in the 1960’s and protected through the cold war by Russian communists. The Assad regime brutalised the population right from the start.

    • The Aussies are reaping the climate change whirlwind as we all will eventually.

      Hmmm… Despotic regime… Well now we can always pick and choose our despotic regimes can’t we?

      General Tito was generally regarded as a despot but the outrageous brutality of the Serbs was not fully realised until communism fell. Good guy or bad guy?

      Saudi Arabia is most definitely despotic (beheadings, amputations, hangings, repression based on gender) but they just happen to have a shit load of oil under their arses so they’re the good guys.

      Look across the ditch. Proto-Fuhrer Abbott certainly acts in a despotic way (terrorism laws, concentration camps for asylum seekers, a free reign to a corrupt police force) and he does it using the machinery of state. Good guy or bad guy?

      And now I come to think of it, our own Dear Leader is behaving in a despotic manner as well. Using the machinery of state to illegally spy on his citizen’s, unilaterally engaging in an illegal war, illegally engaging in sexual harassment, condoning illegal activity by his police force. But he’s a fair dinkum Kiwi bloke with a smile. Good guy or… nah just a bad guy.

      Naturally, all considered as good strong leaders. Don’t discrimminate on poor ol’ Bashar al-Assad; he’s small fry compared to some of the shits out there and over here…

      I do not have a chip on my shoulder…

      I hate all despots equally, including the unseen ones…

    • I think that refugees from Iraq flooding over the border into Syria at the same time as the drought… maybe that had something to do with the destabilisation?

      And we can place the creation of Iraqi refugees squarely at the feet of the USA, Great Britain and Australia. The “Coalition of the Willing”.

      • With those refugees from Iraq came also ISIS and their fellow travellers, who exploited the growing discontent in Syria from 2011 onward, to establish themselves in Raqqa and other places in Syria, and then eventually dominated the fight against the Assad regime, plus against some other insurgent groups, plus against their version of “gentiles” or “unbelievers”, who were forced to swiftly conform and join Islam, or face extra taxes, or in some cases crucifixion or decapitation.

        I also believe, that it was more the political and social situation under the Assad regime in Syria, that was most likely aggravated by the consequences of the drought, that was the REAL cause for the escalation, the civil war and now the resulted refugee crisis.

        Europe’s blame lies more in the distant past, after the WW1 events, of dividing up the region along lines they chose to draw, ignoring ethnic and cultural ties between populations living there. It is too easy to blame “the west” for everything happening there. That said, “the west”, same as others that have means to assist, have a humanitarian responsibility to carry.

    • Maybe Assad doesn’t deserve a Nobel Peace Prize like the war-monger Obama but how do you know he is such a despot. We have all relied on the mainstream media to form our opinions of these people, the BBC etc. They have been proven liars and propagandists for Washington. See this Link http://beforeitsnews.com/9-11-and-ground-zero/2013/09/uk-man-wins-court-case-against-bbc-for-9-11-wtc-7-cover-up-video-2440298.html
      The BBC has also been proven to be misleading in its coverage of MH17 and the Ukrainian crisis.
      The fickleness and hypocrisy of America is highlighted in this link
      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10283045/John-Kerry-and-Bashar-al-Assad-dined-in-Damascus.html
      I think the European refugee crisis can be laid squarely at the door of NATO and the USA.

  9. Maybe a military/medical/scientific consideration of the problem is required. I not mean war. I mean identify the cause of the problem and fix that. It it an international responsibility. NZ taking a few more refugees wont really help but if we were part of an international solution problem solving force ( The UN?)then maybe that would succeed.

  10. ‘NZ taking a few more refugees wont really help’

    tell that to the 200 or so the PM might now consider taking after considerable pressure.

    This is the sort of response we got during the boycott of SA products, ‘this makes life worse for the blacks’
    Mandela had said we want the shackels removed not loosened.

    The UN useless, so long as the dominant 5 can veto anything.

  11. “These are not migrants, they are not illegal aliens, they are not refugees – they are survivors from a disaster we in the West have created. The hypocrisy of shutting the gates, of rolling out the barbed wire, of beating and detaining human beings who are fleeing conflict we in the West fuel is an obscenity.”

    While climate change may also play some role in this, I doubt we can make a simplistic conclusion that this would be the main reason for the masses of refugees now streaming into Europe.

    First of all it is the ongoing war there, on many fronts, insurgents against the Assad regime, the Assad regime against them (using crude barrel bombs as part of their “armaments”), but also between various groups fighting there.

    It is the failure of the west, plus other involved parties, to take measures to end the war, and simply throwing bombs from planes will not do the job, as IS can still find the “leisurely” time to destroy ancient monuments and archaeological sites without being stopped. The UN is incapable of resolving the war, as Assad is still supported by Iran and the security council member state Russia, and the west has got into collaboration with some Arabian Gulf states, who have their agenda, and support Sunni Islamist forces.

    The war there is a bit like a replay of the Cold War, where various vested interest parties pull strings, and keep the fighting going on, and where IS pursue their agenda, of building a “Caliphate”.

    To blame all this simply on “the west” and Europe is not quite appropriate. There may be some governments in Europe who bear some ultimate responsibility due to past activities in the region, that led to the mess, but blaming “the west” is too simplistic.

    Also are not only the Europeans the main polluters, on a per capita basis the US leads the way in pollution, and Obama has so far done far too little, to address the issue. There is much pollution also coming from China and India, so are we going to blame them as well for the refugee streams from Syria, Iraq and elsewhere?

    And one other major problem that has been one due to lead to sustainability issues for years is the still rather high birth rate in a large number of Middle Eastern countries. Populations there would not be able to exist without some revenues from the petroleum wealth in some states being “shared” through economic and other activities with neighbouring states.

    The populations in many places keep growing, and will not be sustained in future, as there is limited fertile land, with or without global climate change impacting on this also.

    And yes, this will just be the beginning, while Europe still lives in comparable wealth, much of humanity is living in abject poverty, and under social and economic duress.

    To solve the crisis, the wars must somehow be stopped, through supporting groups that may have deserved goals, and that can stop IS, and through negotiations, where possible. All else, like only reacting and offering humanitarian support and taking in refugees, will not solve the main core issue, the war in Syria, parts of Iraq, the fighting also in Yemen, parts of Libya, Sudan and elsewhere.

    Coordinated, decisive action is needed, but sadly I do not see this being organised and done.

    As for New Zealand, the middle class continue to delude themselves, that all is OK, that we are far away from all this, and will not be affected. John Key can rely on the anti refugee sentiment that exists among a large part of the population, especially towards Muslims. Most wish to maintain their livelihoods like they are used to, and keep all trouble out of sight.

    New Zealand is sadly a country of much hypocrisy, as the discussion about the refugee quota shows, all discussion is about a few hundred more or less, and that is just a sick “joke”, when looking at about 50 million total refugees worldwide.

    But the day may come, where the boats will reach our shores also, if Syrians and others can make it across the Mediterranean, others will cross Torres Strait and other strips of ocean between South East Asia and Australia, and they can continue through Australia, one day, and then continue across the Tasman.

    Maori did manage to cross the seas, why not some desperate refugees, in the more distant future?

  12. US/UK/NATO are backing ISIS. We know this because the leaked 2012 DIA document tells us they are.
    This, the ‘new middle east’ the odious BUSH promised us on the back of Free Falling 911.
    NATO flew 26,500 sorties on the ‘Libya mission’ March 2011[wiki]. “The Libya mission”. Sounds so grand. Mass murder. Targeting Hospitals. Water. infrastructure. Syria the same. jihaddistUS/mercenary sniper team provocateurs were reported going in from Turkey and Jordan – trained there by US special forces (boilingfrogspost.com) to crank that up at the very beginning. Just as Al Bahgdadi was in trained Georgia-according to his Father. Duplicity everywhere. Ukraine too with Ass.Sec.State NULAND and 5 billion (“Fck the EU”) U$AID into the Svoboda Fascist coup. Covert right from the start. over a million refugees into Russia. (they didn’t run West.) AlQaeda? who are they ? Trained and armed by CIA/ISI. To go do the ‘strategy of tension’ – acts of public sabotage.:murdering civilians. What are those ‘250 SAS Brit-Provs DOING dressed as ISIS?( DailyMail) except to manufacture NATO R2P in on ASSAD, meanwhile controlling the very crescent between Syria/Iran-just what US/NATO want them to do.
    Its still about Iran. Syria. Russia. There is a WAR on. Remember this. Operation GLADIO is NATO . Their mandate was and is to create terror. To attack civilians in countries designated . And ask yourself this. these millions running from the dogs of war ? were they running from Hussein? from Ghaddafi? from Assad before we went in and blew the ME apart?

  13. Talk is cheap, sure we can all pretend to care when we see images of suffering but aren’t most people being hypocrites.

    It’s easy to suggest cruise lines act as temporary homes but it’s totally ridiculous, would the twit who wrote that like to take in refuges and the homeless to sleep in their bed, I doubt it.

    How many people here have made their spare bedroom or living room floor available to people in need.

    Most people are selfish, most people don’t admit it but I do.

    I have worked for 40 years, through times of great difficulty, at the moment I have a reasonably peaceful and comfortable life, I don’t want to lose that.

    If I woke up tomorrow and saw a tent city springing up in the playing ceiling opposite my home and business I would be furious.

    My business, income. and peace would be threatened and I don’t want that.

    If other people are so good they would be prepared to take people into their homes, sell everything they have and give away their money, or allow tents on their lawn good luck to them but I wouldn’t do it.

    So good people I would be interested to know what you are doing (other than write and talk) don’t tell me what I should do, tell me what you are doing.

    Maybe when I hear about your personal sacrifice I will be inspired to be less selfish.

    • “Talk is Cheap” – thousands of refugees and migrants have come to New Zealand since the country was colonised – by ship.

      Then we took in thousands more, by boat, before, during, and after World War 2.

      Then we took in more, by boat, after the doomed Hungarian Uprising in 1956. One of those boats – a Red Cross ship – arrived in the middle of a freezing wintry night, berthing at Christchurch. Those aboard had nothing aside from the clothes they wore and a few meagre donations via the Red Cross. They knew no one in this country; spoke no English; and had no idea what was ahead of them.

      I know you don’t give a shit – that is plain to see. Just count yourself lucky you will never be a refugee.

      Are you ashamed of yourself for such selfishness?

      Actually, you probably already are, judging by your hiding behind a pseudonym. I wouldn’t have the nerve to put my name to your comments either.

    • No, “Talk is Cheap”, most people are NOT selfish,. YOU are selfish.

      And getting your jollies at the same time at others’ expense. Troll.

  14. Did you see that poor little boy dead on the beach?

    Yes my friend, I did. Anyone who is still human, can only weep – for what we have allowed to happen. All in the name of 9/11 and the bullshit endless “war on terror”. Weep for a 3-year old boy, as one person wrote about it, “May this beautiful child rest in peace – and may we all be forgiven for our dastardly parts, either by acts of commission or omission, in failing to help him.”

    If the death of that little boy doesn’t change us and the world……….nothing will. We are lost as a society. We are nothing without a soul.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uet5PVAZ1Eo

    • Weeping it like praying….might make you feel more righteous but does it do anything.

      I have a son, he was 3 once, but the reality is I will continue to live in my comfortable house, drive my car, eat food several times a day, turn on the tap for clean water…..

      Basically most of us will carry in with our lives and hope someone else does some thing.

      Have you seen the programs about the mercy ships, it’s heartbreaking, but are we prepared to close our hospitals and send our medical resources to countries that have zero health services…..I doubt it.

      The fact is I spend more on my dogs health care then most people get spent on theirs. Am I going to stop taking my dog to the vets (cost me $450 to have his teeth cleaned last week) and send the money to the mercy ships….no.

      So talk, prayers and tears are cheap, and meaningless, tell us what you are doing that achieves anything useful.

      We live in a rich country and I am very thankful for that, I can talk the talk, but will I put my money where my mouth is and give up my comforts for other people….no.

      I want my son (and my dog) to have good access to health care, I want a home, I want sanitation, I want my car, I want a fridge with food in it…and all my other comforts… I know there are millions of people who have none of this but I still want to keep what I have.

      I admire people like Peter Singer, and others, who have worked out a way of giving that is very thoughtful and generous but I am to selfish to follow their example.

      Someone showed me a drone today, $1,000, so will I donate the $1,000 to refuges or buy a drone – well actually neither, I am modernising my kitchen.

      Should I continue to give money to animal charities and divert it to humans…..it’s a legitimate question and one of many dilemmas we face from our privilege position.

      We can make decisions for ourselves, or lecture other people on what they should do.

      So easy to want other people to do something, I am not that much of a hypocrite, I understand that many people want to protect their own standard of living, I am one of them.

      If you’re better than that you will do more than me.

      • Kind of a long-winded way to say you can’t be arsed helping others?

        You’d rather spend $450 on a dog’s teeth than helping others? Hmmmm, you’re right about one thing; I wouldn’t put my name to what you’ve written either.

      • Nimby, you seem to be taking an almost perverse please in telling us what a selfish prick you are.

        Personally, I’d swap the likes of you for 100 refugees any day. Someone like you has no right to live in a country like this.

  15. this could destabilize Europe with the economic problems Europe is facing i see the march of the far right across Europe the Europeans will not tolerate this influx when they are unemployed this is explosive Nazis will make Isis look like a picnic

    • Yes, you are right, this is something that many here do not see yet, as that “silent majority” in most European states is also not that welcoming towards new “migrants” or refugees, as the term may be correct. This does indeed cause immense pressures on the EU now, and they are as divided as ever, so how can they come to any agreement to re-allocate refugees and share the burden, when you have the likes of Victor Orban take such a hard line as is shown here:
      http://www.dw.com/en/orban-refugee-crisis-is-a-german-problem/a-18691306

      I consider this to be the beginning of the end of the EU as we have known it, they struggled already to come and find a unified approach to the Greek debt crisis, which was more like a dictate by the purse string holders and creditors, to get back what they think they must claim back, but which will never be able to be repaid.

      As decisions within the EU need to be agreed to by all governments and Parliaments, there is NO solution in sight now, to solve this refugee crisis that will take massive proportions over the coming weeks and months. With winter nearing, tens of thousands will try to get through to Germany, Sweden, the UK and other places before the weather will make it impossible to travel without much shelter and money.

      Europe is going to be finished, and right wing extremists are waiting, to take over the sentiment of the hard hearted people, and try to win elections. Nationalism will be on the way back, in at least some states there. The whole world is heading for a repeat of past mistakes we only know from history lessons and books. Fasten your seat-belts, it will get ugly.

      Human rights are treated with contempt already, even in places like Germany, the UK, France and so forth, we are just seeing the beginning of a far greater disaster.

  16. I fear for future generations – so far we have left them a huge mess.
    By doubling our quota, it will be a very small step in a better direction.

  17. All wealthy nations need to urgently come together, as they did during the Second World War, to help these refugees. That is the only humane thing to do. But they also need to look at the root causes of the crises and the part we have played; for example, the war in Iraq and the bombing of Libya, and also climate change. If we think things are bad today, climate change is going to make it a whole lot worse tomorrow. Experts estimate that hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, would have to move if global temperatures are allowed to continue to rise – that means severe and extended conflict. The Middle East and the Nile Delta are extremely vulnerable to sea level rise and of course there will be severe drought in Africa. Closer to NZ, not only will the sources of livelihood for our Pacific neighbours be undermined, but the very existence of some countries. So if you want to do something meaningful to help, sign petitions and join campaigns to increase our refugee quotas, but also get involved in the fight to tackle climate change while there is still some time left.

  18. Even without any war at all the result would be little different – the hordes would be on the march anyhow, fleeing from homelands that have no food, or water and have become intolerably hot, thanks to global warming.
    Now all the failings of our government become apparent. We are doing nothing about global warming, nothing to take in refugees, who could easily be accommodated by reducing the 50,000 migrants we are now taking per year. And we continue to faithfully support all the misguided foreign policies which the USA has inflicted on the third world.
    Facing a world crisis, all we get from John Key is cant and humbug. It was only a short while ago he was deliberately stirring up hatred against refugees by claiming that a boat load of them, about 5000 kms away were ‘possibly’ (how he loves that word) heading our way.

  19. Gosh, we as a Nation are truly being exposed as being the spoilt rich kids we are. Our little patch may have been geographically protected from the escalating crisis of refugees and migrants around the world, but no matter what we do from here on in, there is no way that we will be able to remain isolated from the cost of Climate Change and the impact of war. Our Government has been only too happy to pay our dues to the Club, by spending millions on sending troops to Iraq to assist in an illegal military conflict. Rather than focus on providing humanitarian aid, we have instead chosen to participate in fanning the flames, and I think John Key’s crazed ‘Get some Guts’ taunt, should be ever more appropriately chucked back at him right about NOW!!

  20. After a history of involvement in conflicts which resulted in refugees fleeing to its neighbours, Israel now has the opportunity to extend a friendly hand and reciprocate as a host country to those fleeing the brutality of war. – See more at: http://www.fmreview.org/syria/plotner#sthash.H64OJMbE.dpuf

    Defying UN resolutions on the rights of refugees to safe haven.

    The international refugee crisis has put a further spotlight of the racist nature of the Israeli state. The world’s only remaining apartheid state.

    Israel is a signatory to the UNHCR the United Nations Convention on Refugees, Israel is in the region where many of the refugees are from, but Israel is missing from every single list of nations that have agreed to take refugees.

    http://www.resettlement.eu/news/focus-syria

    http://www.novinite.com/articles/154197/Syria+Refugee+Quotas+in+Another+17+Countries+-+UNHCR

    In particular Israel is the only state bordering Syria refusing to a take any refugees fleeing the conflict there. Not one.

    And for a long time the Israeli government has been persecuting refugees fleeing the conflicts in Sudan and Eritrea.

    http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel/.premium-1.649688

    Though the second world war has been long over, the Israeli state has a law called ‘The Right to Return’ in which Israel allows open immigration to those of European ancestry who convert to Judaism, or who can claim Jewish ancestry.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Return

    Allowing free entry to (mainly) white American, European and Russian people claiming Jewish Ancestry and mainly (white) Jewish converts, maintaining the apartheid state of Israel means refusing genuine refugees from Syria or the Sudan, standing aside to watch many perish making the dangerous crossing over the Mediterranean.

    http://mondoweiss.net/2015/07/detains-american-because

    As the conflict in Syria enters its fourth year, Israel remains Syria’s only neighbour which has still not accepted displaced persons and refugees fleeing the armed conflict. – See more at: http://www.fmreview.org/syria/plotner#sthash.H64OJMbE.dpuf

    • Israel has wanted Syria destroyed because it was a powerful country and Assad is a friend of Iran and the Palestinians

      Israel has a lot to answer for in the destabilisation, crimes against humanity in the Middle East …and its influence on the USA foreign policy in the Middle East

      If refugee numbers were to be allocated to those countries who have caused the problems in the Middle East ….Israel should be at the top of the list to take the most refugees….followed by USA, Britian and France

  21. In 50 years time if anybody is still here, our grand children will ask, why didn’t People speak up and tell the truth? Why couldn’t they see what was going on? By the time we are all wise enough to understand how evil the world is , Its time for the next generation to go through the process of being thoroughly disillusioned.

    This is very likely the start of WW3, and we are still not being allowed to speak up and tell the truth.

  22. China knows it, (and just showed the world that they know it yesterday). The Russian people know it, and the people in the Ukraine, along with Victoria Nuland, She Knows it too! people in the middle east know it. Assange and Snowden know it. Michael Hastings knew it but got blown up in his car for knowing it. Qaddafi knew it, and got destroyed because he wanted to help his people with his wonderful “man made river” and creation of an African currency based on the Gold dinar. (The best country to live in, in Africa) He may have been a dictator but he looked after his people. Nearly forgot the 100,000 plus Chinese in Libya, don’t know if they came into the equation in some way.

    No matter the hell on Earth they create for the people of the World Our corrupted Western Governments and controlled news media, and journalists, who only print the news allowed by their employers are the cause of this, because they don’t allow us to know the truth also , they don’t care if the public are informed or not. Wouldn’t it be a passion for a Journalist to tell what they really know? they are not all Jack Tames surely? Didn’t they once have a dream to help make the world a better place?

    If we truly had a free and open News Media and a fully informed Public We wouldn’t have all this trouble in the World, Because we would be informed about what the hell was really going on, without being branded conspiracy nuts for not believing the lies we are constantly being fed.

  23. While most Americans are good and decent people their government is not. It is not democratic and it it is not the home of the free and the land of the brave. It is a super power controlled by a military industrial,media/banker complex that has deceived the world that it is protecting it while actually conspiring to further enrich itself at the expense of the lives of everyday people the world over. Recently the American ambassador warned Americans in NZ to be wary of the TPPA protests and a possible backlash against them. They don’t have to worry. It is the duplicitous politicians ambassadors and the like who should worry. The USA is leading the charge to WWIII and pretending that Russia and China are the threat, Russian and Chinese society may not be what we want in NZ but I don’t think they are forcing this on us. America/John Key however is advocating terrorism/safety, evil/good where “if you are not with us you are against us” world.Supporting Washington in it’s drive to survive and thrive at the expense of everyone else in the world is a path to disaster. The USA may have 700 Military bases the world over but once it loses the blessing ,it has squandered, of the world reserve currency what will it have. A whole lot of disaffected underpaid military personnel. NZ needs to wake up and establish itself as an independant country NZ politicians need to free themselves from the USA if they want any respect. Europe is headed for a disaster( refugees,Ukraine) because its leaders cannot bring themselves to divorce America. Lets not make the same mistake

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