[QUOTE=Lee Shore;192441]What the hell is it going to take for the UN to create safe havens for Afghan, Syrian and Iraqi innocent victims displaced by these “conflicts”? It keeps getting worse. Isis is mowing down civilians in Mosul as we speak.[/QUOTE]
USA has a lot of empty spaces, as does Norway, Australia and others. What is holding them back from following the lead of Germany, Sweden and Canada to mention some??
Irrational fear of anybody that doesn’t looks, thinks or worship like them would be a good start.
Never mind that their Constitutions and or/Laws state that there is freedom of religion and from discrimination, or that they have been telling other and less well off countries how to behave for the last 50-60 years.
Don’t dear to call it racism, that not nice. WE ARE NOT RACISTS, WE JUST WANTS TO PROTECT OUR BOARDERS AND WAY OF LIFE.
Spending millions to keep people in need of protection from getting onto you territory so they can trigger an asylum application is rational policy, while spending money to help alleviate poverty is unpatriotic, although it may help solve the core problem of economic migrants.
Even more efficient would be to tear down trade barriers and stop subsidizing farmers in rich countries, thus producing surplus agricultural products that is dumped on poor countries as AID.
Free and fair trade would help both sides to produce and export what they are competitive in, not trying to keep dying industries alive on “life support”.
What an ideal world. It sounds almost like an utopia.
[U]USA has a lot of empty spaces, as does Norway, Australia and others. What is holding them back from following the lead of Germany, Sweden and Canada to mention some??
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Defective human beings bent on destruction. Isis has said they would plant them among the refugees. Maybe they’re saying that so we will reject refugees and thereby somehow promote their agenda. Are you willing to gamble that they are just yanking our chains?
[U]Never mind that their Constitutions and or/laws state that there is freedom of religion and discrimination, or that they have been telling other and less well off countries how to behave for the last 50-60 years.
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Don’t be obtuse. You know very well the laws of a country apply to its citizens, not to every human being from every other country on the planet.
[QUOTE=Slick Cam;192444]Since you have all the answers, shouldn’t you be running for office in Norway?[/QUOTE]
Norway is different from USA. It is Constitutional Monarchy so we don’t have an elected President. The King is Head of State.
We also have a multi-party Parliamentary system, which represent a wide spectrum, from Communism to Far-right Nationalism.(Not all with representation in the Parliament)
Head of Government is the Prime Minister, who are selected from the majority of the Parliament and appointed by the King.
In Norway the elections are for parties and the parties with a majority in Parliament propose a Prime Minister to the King, who formally approve of him or her. (Presently a “her”)
If that person, or the parties forming the coalition Government, loose the majority support they can be replaced, or re-appointed. A vote of no confidence, or defection from the coalition by one or more party, can trigger a change of Government, even without a new election. If no agreement is reached in Parliament, new election can be called outside the 4-year cycle.
Why don’t I run for office?? For one thing I’m getting too old for that sh*t. But more to the point; I have lived outside Norway for most of my life and don’t have enough knowledge of, or contacts within the political establishment to be electable, even on the local level.
Those who are elected are usually politically active from young and build up a following and reputation within a party before the get to the top of the party list at elections, which is far less of a “personality contest” than in the US, at all levels.
[QUOTE=Lee Shore;192446][U]USA has a lot of empty spaces, as does Norway, Australia and others. What is holding them back from following the lead of Germany, Sweden and Canada to mention some??
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Defective human beings bent on destruction. Isis has said they would plant them among the refugees. Maybe they’re saying that so we will reject refugees and thereby somehow promote their agenda. Are you willing to gamble that they are just yanking our chains?
[U]Never mind that their Constitutions and or/laws state that there is freedom of religion and discrimination, or that they have been telling other and less well off countries how to behave for the last 50-60 years.
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Don’t be obtuse. You know very well the laws of a country apply to its citizens, not to every human being from every other country on the planet.[/QUOTE]
The chance of home grown terrorists, or fanatics of all strips, are far greater then that of them being imported with the refugees. In the US especially, the number of people being killed by fanatics and nut cases are far greater than those killed by terrorist, world wide.
Stopping children from countries at war from coming to our countries, or sending them back to an uncertain future, does NOT commensurate with what western civilization claim to stand for, nor with Christianity, for those who claim to be religious.
PS> If we DO turn introvert and isolationist, the terrorists has won the “war” without having to do much, other than post on Twitter and Facebook.
[U]The chance of home grown terrorists, or fanatics of all strips, are far greater then that of them being being imported with the refugees. In the US especially, the number of people being killed by fanatics and nut cases are far greater than those kill by terrorist, world wide.
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So in your opinion, since we already have home grown terrorists and nut cases, we might as well bring some more of them in from outside the country? That’s not rational.
[U]Stopping children from countries at war from coming to our countries, or sending them back to an uncertain future, does NOT commensurate with what western civilization claim to stand for, nor with Christianity, for those who claim to to be religious.
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That’s why we need to establish safe zones for them. Western Europe is already having problems with the current numbers of refugees. Developed countries cannot absorb them all without cracking under the strain.
PS I’m replying in this format because the multi quote feature is not working.
We in Norway have known that Norwegians are superior Navigators since the Viking age. Now it is confirmed by modern science and a computer game: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-37988197
Norway is offering free education to foreigners: http://www.studyinnorway.no/
This should be good news to those that cannot afford an education in the US.
Those who hang on to old and dying industries and don’t see the opportunities in new technology will loose out in the competition for future growth and wealth.
You cannot shoot yourself to wealth, only to debt and misery.
[QUOTE=Fraqrat;193071]Oh Jeezus now they will start building autonomous flying LSV’s (leisure support vehicles) to hyperjet people to their dream Norwegian vacation.[/QUOTE]
Not only to Norway, to all of Europe and beyond. Free competition, the American way.
Are there any recent developments on the ferry / ferries front in Norway? Like with the electric ferry Ampere or MS Color Magic? Or even the Stad Ship Tunnel?
One of the most promising technologies are Hydrogen as power for ferries:
Hydrogen-electric ferry In 2017 the NPRA invite ferry companies to participate in a development competition for a hydrogen-electric powered ferry. - We envisage that hydrogen can be an important zero emission technology for the ferries can not go solely on electricity from the mainland. In the future, we envision a ferry service fleet mix of electric power, hydrogen and hybrid technologies with biofuels, says Director of Roads. - It will still go some diesel and gas-powered ferries on biofuels and hybrid technology, with significantly lower emissions than today, he adds.