Posts by Just thinking
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jb & Ben - wildly off topic
As the resident Germans here do you have any info on the Germans expelled from Prussia, now Poland?
I have found a silence from some other sources I've asked & and shrill responses from others.
It seems ethnic cleansing (either way) is not a particularly polite or precise process.
We identify as Polish but have mixed Polish/German heritage and under Prussian Kulturkampf were incouraged to leave & did.
The towns of Warmaria/Masuria-East Prussia that we were from are now populated by displaced Ukranians.
From what I've found it seems many who share my maternal families identity were removed anyway or denied citizenship.It all seems very messy with no redeeming aspects to it on any side you care to look.
I would greatly appreciate any info or pointers you may have.
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pollywog - offensive and absurd in three comments total. You're on the wrong site, please leave.
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They've only withdrawn permission for the extracts by Witi Ihimaera, doesn't that leave it open some what?
Snapped.
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We all need T-shirts with our own names on them too.
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Climate Change does not exist.
Ming the Merciless does!
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I hope you guys like Rye bread?
If the latest nuanced reports of a warming world that melts the ice caps leading to our cooling, plus sea level rise come to pass?
It would be a good starch.Before that happens we need to work through the transition period.
Isreal has already had the first water war (OK it was more of a skirmish). Most water wars are civil wars, at the moment.
We dont feed our dairy stock from nz source feed, same with pigs etc
Our animal feed comes from the cheapest international source, including GE and palm oil waste.
And food production is based on fossil fuels. As fertiliser, tillage. transport and packaging.
We should really start to move away from that.
If suddenly our seas became too toxic for most life, the fish fall to the bottom, do you think the next civilisation will use us as fossil fuel in a few million years?
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Andy - we're in more than broad agreement.
I'm not really interested in stablising the climate. If it happens all well and good, but we should start looking for a better form of existence and plan for change.Beware of the Hybrid. They cost more on the enviroment than conventional cars. Bicycles are still good.
My nihilist tendancies temp me to buy an early 1970s V8. The thought being, the quicker we use up the 'cheap' fuel the quicker renewables will come on board.
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Morgan seems to be rowing his own boat, one oar and pulling on it with all his might, after the rest of the crew went for a swim. If he pulls hard enough he might create a vortex to suck himself in, otherwise he's just saying - loook at meee!
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I have Minarets in my neighbourhood there is no problem.
Riccarton has numerous Christian Churches, Buddist Centre, Mosque, and for the devout dollar devotees a Westfield shoppingmall.
As was the case in Switzerland there is no call to prayer.
There has been issues with a fundy Anglican band of Bell Ringers in Avonhead last year, but that faded away. -
Andy - I'm being lazy and haven't read or understood your last, but I do have one question.
Whether natural or anthropogenic do you and those whose opinions you value accept the climate is changing?
I suspect there are very few who seriously doubt this.
The rate of change is little more than arguing over the speed the car is travelling into the brickwall.
Therefore even those who are not convinced of anthropogenic climate change should also do all possible to achieve the best outcome for the earth and subsequent generations?