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  Court case Jehovah's Witnesses Norway kicked off

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  https://cne.news/article/2827-court-case-jehovah-s-witnesses-norway-kicked-off.

  norwegian jehovah's witnesses are in court this wednesday and thursday.

  they are fighting the government's decision to remove their registration as a religious community.. .

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  cofty

  Thanks Barbara.

  The religious community shuns members when they leave the group. That means that family members and friends are forbidden to contact them. The exclusion practice can also be applied to baptised minors if they break the community's rules. The State Administrator argued that these practices violated members' freedom of religion and harmed children's rights by socially isolating them.

  Difficult to argue with that. It's hypocritical of them to demand religious freedom while denying it to others. Hopefully the court will uphold the decision.
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  England v Ukraine

  by BoogerMan in

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  so nice to see thousands upon thousands of fighting-age ukrainian men managed to escape the war and reach wembley to support their national football team yesterday.

  things must be improving, eh?.

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  Putin is there because of things *we* did

  I disagree. Putin was always going to bring Ukraine back into 'mother Russia'. Unless the cost is made too high he isn't finished.

  It is beyond doubt that Ukraine is not a shining beacon of democracy and rectitude. It is equally certain that people will profit from the war but Putin must be stopped. Two things can be true at once. World events are not good guys versus bad guys.
  
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  England v Ukraine

  by BoogerMan in

  1. social
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  so nice to see thousands upon thousands of fighting-age ukrainian men managed to escape the war and reach wembley to support their national football team yesterday.

  things must be improving, eh?.

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  Simon - Am I an idiot and fool because I hold a different view of the cost/benefit of opposing Putin?
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  England v Ukraine

  by BoogerMan in

  1. social
  2. current

  so nice to see thousands upon thousands of fighting-age ukrainian men managed to escape the war and reach wembley to support their national football team yesterday.

  things must be improving, eh?.

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  cofty

  What does the West get out of it?

  Putin is hurting by his abject failure to sweep through Ukraine as he believed he would. His military weakness has been exposed. Thousands of Russian military personnel - including senior officers - are dead and billions of dollars worth of his hardware is destroyed. Not one American or British soldier has died. Bargain of the century.

  I understand what Ukraine gets out of it - lots of free military hardware costing billions of pounds/dollars.

  It's not like they are putting the weapons in a cupboard and counting them every night like they were gold coins. They are using them to hurt Putin at the cost of Ukrainian lives. Many of them knew as much about combat a year ago as you and I do.

  Let's imagine that in 5 years time, Argentina invades the Falklands. Would Ukraine give us some military hardware and equipment, or help us in some other way?

  Unless Argentina posed a threat to the security of Ukraine probably not.

  Putin and Xi are the main enemies of liberal democracy and freedom. Ukraine is Putin's biggest problem.
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  England v Ukraine

  by BoogerMan in

  1. social
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  so nice to see thousands upon thousands of fighting-age ukrainian men managed to escape the war and reach wembley to support their national football team yesterday.

  things must be improving, eh?.

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  cofty

  Have a read at the following article by Dr Neil Melvin, Director International Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute, former senior adviser at the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Energy Charter, the European Union and the United Nations.

  Nationalist and Imperial Thinking Define Putin's Vision for Russia..

  "Putin has become convinced that his historic role is not just to overcome the end of the Soviet Union, but to undo the Bolshevik nationalities policies that laid the foundations for the contemporary state system of Eurasia."
  
  
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  England v Ukraine

  by BoogerMan in

  1. social
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  so nice to see thousands upon thousands of fighting-age ukrainian men managed to escape the war and reach wembley to support their national football team yesterday.

  things must be improving, eh?.

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  cofty

  Putin is a Eurasian nationalist - see 'Black Wind, White Snow - The Rise of Russia's New Nationalism' by Charles Clover.
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  Scotland's New First Minister is Racist

  by cofty in

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  here he is in holyrood ranting about how scotland is too white.

  he is the 'continuity candidate' who will carry on sturgeon's woke agenda.

  this does not represent the people of scotland.

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  The good news is that the project of breaking up the UK has suffered a serious setback.
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  England v Ukraine

  by BoogerMan in

  1. social
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  so nice to see thousands upon thousands of fighting-age ukrainian men managed to escape the war and reach wembley to support their national football team yesterday.

  things must be improving, eh?.

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  cofty

  Putin wants all of Ukraine and if he gets that the Balkans are next.

  The spirit of Neville Chamberlain has risen.
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  Scotland's New First Minister is Racist

  by cofty in

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  here he is in holyrood ranting about how scotland is too white.

  he is the 'continuity candidate' who will carry on sturgeon's woke agenda.

  this does not represent the people of scotland.

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  cofty

  Here he is falling over inside Holyrood - the ugliest building in Edinburgh estimated to cost £40m and ended up costing £439m

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  Scotland's New First Minister is Racist

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  here he is in holyrood ranting about how scotland is too white.

  he is the 'continuity candidate' who will carry on sturgeon's woke agenda.

  this does not represent the people of scotland.

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  cofty

  Here he is in Holyrood ranting about how Scotland is too white. He is the 'continuity candidate' who will carry on Sturgeon's woke agenda. This does not represent the people of Scotland. The SNP movement is in crisis.

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