THE MEANING OF OZ - All you need to know!

Apoplexy

Well people, get used to it, because this is the price of a "Multicultural Society" and violent protest is the culture of this group.

The Great Barrier Reef is on the brink of being turned into an industrial zone, with huge new coal ports and shipping routes waiting to be approved. These developments are the result of plans to rapidly increase Australia’s coal exports. The coal will be mined in Queensland’s Galilee Basin and shipped overseas via the Great Barrier Reef.

A new Greenpeace investigation has revealed the full damage these new coal mines would have if they go ahead. The Galilee Basin mines threaten our World Heritage Reef ...

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Greenpeace’s investigative findings:

There are nine mega coal mines proposed here, five of which would be bigger than any mine currently operating in Australia.

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Rose coloured glasses? Better that than your white blindfold.

Show me the descrated war graves in Turkey (a muslim country with an islamic govt) and WE ATTACKED THEM.

Where did Turkey come into this thread ? Actually I was thinking of the desecration of war graves in Libia . If thats how they want to behave in their own country, that's fine.

How old are you? I've assumed you're at least my age. How can you forget that the vietnamese reffos were going to overrun us, or the wogs, or those chinese miners, or those pesky english settlers?

My age ? Why does it bug you ? You have asked me this before. You assumed I was at least your age but you don't mention your age, not that I am curious. I don't recall any of the above groups rioting in our streets because they were offended about something.

That Pauline Hanson had some good ideas, heh?

Yes she had some good ideas and also some radical ones that I didn't agree with. Her popularity scared the dickens out of the establishment. The retalliation was swift and brutal. They even managed to get her in jail.

I have no doubt there are muslims as bigoted/ignorant/intolerant/shallow small picutre thinking/isolationist as you - it's the mindset that's the problem, nothing else.

So these are the names you have called me so far in this thread ...
Bigoted
ignorant
intolerant
shallow
small picture thinking
isolationist
And of course msolga would add " racist " because she confuses race with religion.
I believe I haven't reverted to name calling, but I guess you are just using your right to free speech as I am using mine.


Oh and in reference to Joe(Can't think of anything)Nation's thread about would you post what you say on A2K under your real name - in this case; yes I would.
I really don't understand what you are on about with reference to Joe Nation.
Do you want me to publish under my real name ? Is that what you are on about ?
If so, why is that important ? I suspect "hingehead" is not your real name.
You have said nothing in this thread to cause me to alter my views. of course If I don't see things as you do, I am bigoted in your eyes.

I don't expect you to change your mind. You barely have one from what I've seen . For example - my entire point is that you are tarring all muslims with same brush. You say they desecrate war graves. I say they don't in Turkey. You exclaim 'Where did Turkey come from? I'm talking Libya! (spelt badly)'. So you make a distinction there, but everywhere else it's 'they're all the same'.
Actually, it was you, hingehead, who first brought up about war graves in Turkey, not me.
Not knowing what you were on about, I replied that war graves were desecrated in Libia. (sic) Thank you for correcting me on that. I apologize for not correcting your grammar regarding capitalization in your previous post and this one.
I have enormous respect for Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. A great man.
So just stick to the facts and don't let your fertile imagination run away.


You call it name calling. Well how would you describe some that thinks a quarter of the world's population is a monobloc of reactionary insanity because of its religion - based on the actions of how many? Tens here? Did you ever consider how many muslims didn't protest?
As I said before, it is everyone's right to protest peacefully. Pick up any newspaper from around the world and see the violent demonstrations and the placard holders threatening beheading and other forms of atrocities and notice which religion is involved. The general public has had a gutful of this rabble demanding special privileges and treatment. I am exercising my right to free speech and if you don't like it, too ******* bad.

I could get all psychological and call you a 'concrete thinker' - everything is simple black and white, yes/no.
Concrete thinking is seen in those who are unable to generalise, but didn't you just accuse me of generalising earlier?

Joe Nation posed the question whether we would post exactly the same things if we weren't anonymous. I said I thought I would in most cases but I might tone it down for politeness. In this case I won't.
Won't tone it down or won't relinquish your anonymity? I guess the latter.
I reiterate, your opinions on this matter are unimpressive and unsurprising. Your apparent inability to see anything more than the superficial and react knee jerkily makes me think you listen to Alan Jones and went to the rally against carbon tax. Even your Hanson apologism provides me with good reason to pigeon hole you - but unlike you I'm pigeonholing one person based on what they say - not an entire community based on the actions of a few.
So you suffer from "concrete thinking" with regards to Alan Jones, carbon tax, and Hanson ?
With regards to Hanson, you say you pigeon holed her but by default, the rest of her supporters are ok ? Your words :-
but unlike you I'm pigeonholing one person based on what they say - not an entire community based on the actions of a few.
Do you know any muslims? (you ignored that question)
Yes I do, and all the males carry knives too. They might be model citizens, but they will do as they are told by their spiritual leader and they will freely tell you this.

I'm 50 by the way. I have muslim friends. My mother was a german refugee but I have no language or culture from her. I come from a working class background. I worked in a factory for five years. I worked with a guy like you. Not a bad man. But unable to see outside himself and unwilling to expose himself to accept any opinions but his own and unwilling to form his opinions with broad evidence. He used to give blood. Until the HIV scares. That made no sense to me, and he wouldn't be argued with. He was content to live in the box of his own ignorance.
Unfortunately you don't see the irony in your physiological evaluation of your work mate. You have described yourself perfectly .
“unwilling to expose himself to accept any opinions but his own and unwilling to form his opinions with broad evidence"
I suggest that there is plenty of “broad evidence” from around the world that you should consider.
God I'm waffling. Sorry about that. Sorry you think the way you do.
Don't feel sorry because one day you will realise that there are people who think differently from you for a variety of reasons. Maybe they have a broader experience than you do.

Double PS

Remember the vietnamese took over cabramatta and sold heroin and were all members of the triads. The italians were mafia drug lords - when they weren't stealing our business or undercutting them. Don't get me started on the yugoslavs

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Do you know any muslims? (you ignored that question)

Yes I do, and all the males carry knives too. They might be model citizens, but they will do as they are told by their spiritual leader and they will freely tell you this

Concrete thinking is seen in those who are unable to generalise, but didn't you just accuse me of generalising earlier?

I am exercising my right to free speech and if you don't like it, too ******* bad.

in your physiological evaluation