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Politics - Jerome - 20-09-2016
Personally I think the only way (as brutal and cruel as it seems) is to turn off the taps. If you constantly hold a safety net under a nation or continent, nothing will ever change. It's like dealing with an alcoholic - he/she only wakes up when he/she realises there is no place left to go. We've had Band Aid and Live Aid and God knows how much financial aid - has it helped? Not one bit. All these states are worse off now than they ever were. So where has all the money gone? You might think it has gone to the local politicians but I think the so-called relief and charity organisations have a lot to answer for and are pocketing most of it. In Ireland there are many, many examples of people collecting money for so-called good causes but the heads of these 'charities' are robbing people blind.
Politics - Ruby - 20-09-2016
CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:Africa was the "cradle of civilisation", its now an empty cradle!
Errr, nope - thatâs not quite right.
There are a few places that are referred to as âcradles of civilizationâ, the area between the Tigris and Euphrates being one of them (Iraq, nowadays) and ancient Rome another; and we all know what happened there â lots of fiddling and fires!
The âcradle of humankindâ is surprisingly still here, in South Africa (i.e. nobodyâs stolen it ⦠yet, lol!).
Politics - Lovely Linda - 20-09-2016
Oceansoul Wrote:He patted himself on the back for assuming the attack was a terrorist bombing, how could he have known that if he wasn't a part of the investigation? He just assumed. It doesn't matter which candidate sounds the alarm, it is better to wait until there is some definitive evidence, JMO. Right now, I'm more concerned about how he feels about racial profiling now which he seems to support in the wake of these attacks.The governor called it a terrorist attack. What else could it have been. Whether international or homegrown, anyone who causes terror by planting bombs is a terrorist. Did we not learn anything from 9/11. We have to stop trying to be so politically correct and call a terrorist what he or she is or we are going to be in more trouble. It's just a matter of time.
Trump did not pat himself on the back. He just called it what it was. So did Hillary.
I think his supporters and then some already knew it was a terrorist attack. He did not tell them something they did not already know.
Politics - Lovely Linda - 20-09-2016
"Nobody knows what is exactly going on" Trump did not call the person a Muslim. He only said bomb.
[video=youtube;CL2SpGZz6xQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-CL2SpGZz6xQ[/video]
Politics - Oceansoul - 21-09-2016
Jerome Wrote:Some people were so poor they would be walking around the supermarket in the nude. I kid you not. Also heard of a case where kids use McDonalds fries containers for shoes. The poverty is staggering. All due to government corruption. Everyone thinks Africa is poor, and there are countries that are poor, but the majority have vast resources. The power and the wealth is held by a few government cronies. The people are forgotten. In the Congo, if your family do not bring you food if you are incarcerated - you starve. Pure and simple. Africa is a strange continent indeed. it has the means to feed the world if it was managed correctly and yet it can't feed itself. Like that clown Mugabe who has completely destroyed an entire country. Zimbabwe used to be the breadbasket of Africa - now it's the basket case of Africa. Inflation reached 500 billion percent at one point and they had to print 100 trillion dollar notes.
I'm sorry to hear about this. I don't understand stand people who keep money out of the hands of the people and keep them impoverished, it's sick and heartbreaking that they get away with it. Robber barons.
Politics - Oceansoul - 21-09-2016
Lovely Linda Wrote:The governor called it a terrorist attack. What else could it have been. Whether international or homegrown, anyone who causes terror by planting bombs is a terrorist. Did we not learn anything from 9/11. We have to stop trying to be so politically correct and call a terrorist what he or she is or we are going to be in more trouble. It's just a matter of time.
Trump did not pat himself on the back. He just called it what it was. So did Hillary.
I think his supporters and then some already knew it was a terrorist attack. He did not tell them something they did not already know.
I don't care who said what, it's my opinion that it's best to wait until you know something. Imagine the firestorm that would've been created if President Obama made a flippant tweet like that and then it turned out to be wrong. Also where exactly did I say not to call a terrorist attack, a terrorist attack? I said wait until you have some evidence first before opening your mouth, if the evidence points towards it being a terrorist attack then that is what it is. Thought that was common sense. Of course this event will be used as political fodder now.
Anyway, moving on.
Politics - Oceansoul - 21-09-2016
Meanwhile in Ghana, Africa, some students at the University of Ghana want a statue of Mohandis Ghandi removed because Ghandi made racist remarks about Africans and held open animosity towards them too. There is a petition online for people to sign if they agree with the removal of the statue. He was pretty racist, tbh.
Politics - Lovely Linda - 21-09-2016
Oceansoul Wrote:I don't care who said what, it's my opinion that it's best to wait until you know something. Imagine the firestorm that would've been created if President Obama made a flippant tweet like that and then it turned out to be wrong. Also where exactly did I say not to call a terrorist attack, a terrorist attack? I said wait until you have some evidence first before opening your mouth, if the evidence points towards it being a terrorist attack then that is what it is. Thought that was common sense. Of course this event will be used as political fodder now.Sorry Oceansoul!
Anyway, moving on.
I was not talking about you not calling a terrorist attack a terrorist attack. I was talking about all of us. That is why I said WE.
Politics - CRAZY-HORSE - 21-09-2016
Regardless of whether ISIS had links to it or not it was a terrorist attack by definition...
A terror attack is defined as an attack that is designed to create terror, and that is what it was and those who commit those incidents are by definition terrorists.
Politics - CRAZY-HORSE - 21-09-2016
Oceansoul Wrote:I'm sorry to hear about this. I don't understand stand people who keep money out of the hands of the people and keep them impoverished, it's sick and heartbreaking that they get away with it. Robber barons.
They get away with it because any opposition to what they're doing results in State sanctioned murder and genocide,
The people are in a lose-lose situation, they are the real refugees when they escape IMO
We, in the Western World cannot imagine the horrors they endure just to live to see the next sunrise...well actually, I shouldn't have said 'live', instead, I should have said "exist".
Without sounding racist, the vast majority of those countries in that position are either black or Asian.