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Trump is right - stop all Islamic immigration.
WORLD LEADERS RALLY
Leaders have united in a show of solidarity after the attack. Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel tweeted that the Federal Government is “monitoring the situation closely” and “absolute priority goes to the victims and to the assistance at the airport.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron tweeted his condolences, as did Australian leader Malcolm Turnbull.
European Union president Donald Tusk said he was appalled by the bombings in the city where the EU is based.
“These attacks mark another low by the terrorists in the service of hatred and violence.”
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said they were “an attack against democratic Europe,”
“It is an attack against democratic Europe. We will never accept that terrorists attack our open societies,” he told news agency TT in a statement, while his Danish counterpart Lars Lokke Rasmussen denounced the blasts on Twitter as “despicable”.
I just had a look at how the world leaders are going to solve the situation:
If that doesn't end the carnage nothing will .... strong stuff ...... Margaret Thatcher would be proud.
Just reflecting about the degree of media coverage given to bombs in Brussels vs those in say Turkey where more than 200 people have been killed in a few months.
Moral myopia or does it serve them right ?
I think the connection to the French attacks last year and the discovery of a terrorist network in Brussels which is still active does spark disbelief. Turkey is bordering the war in Syria which makes it a participant by proximity so some spill over is a given there regarding the news worthiness.Just reflecting about the degree of media coverage given to bombs in Brussels vs those in say Turkey where more than 200 people have been killed in a few months.
Moral myopia or does it serve them right ?
Turkey, whose relations with Syria had been friendly over the previous decade, condemned its President Bashar Assad over the violent crackdown on protests in 2011 and requested his departure from office. Actually, after 1999 when Bashar Assad's father Hafez al-Assad expelled Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, the relationship between Syria and Turkey warmed.[12] In the beginning of the conflict Turkey trained defectors of the Syrian Army on its territory, and in July 2011, a group of them announced the birth of the Free Syrian Army, under the supervision of Turkish military intelligence
Just reflecting about the degree of media coverage given to bombs in Brussels vs those in say Turkey where more than 200 people have been killed in a few months.
Moral myopia or does it serve them right ?
Not myopia but more a reflection of the frequency of such events and the fact that we empathise more with people that we find similar culturally or closer geographically. We don't report people being killed in a car crash in Nairobi, but would likely report on the same in Australia. Even though you might pause briefly when reading the Australian story and skimp over it, if the accident were in your neighbourhood you would more likely read it in full. Although mass shootings in the US are still reported in detail, I think people in most other Western nations now barely bother reading about them as they are par for the course over there. Bombings in Turkey did get some attention, more than a bombing in Iraq would, but less that the Belgian bombings for these reasons.
I am sure if you were to read any Turkish language newspaper targeted to Australian Turks, they would devote a lot more space to the Turkish related bombings that to those in Brussels.
Not myopia but more a reflection of the frequency of such events and the fact that we empathise more with people that we find similar culturally or closer geographically. We don't report people being killed in a car crash in Nairobi, but would likely report on the same in Australia. Even though you might pause briefly when reading the Australian story and skimp over it, if the accident were in your neighbourhood you would more likely read it in full. Although mass shootings in the US are still reported in detail, I think people in most other Western nations now barely bother reading about them as they are par for the course over there. Bombings in Turkey did get some attention, more than a bombing in Iraq would, but less that the Belgian bombings for these reasons.
I am sure if you were to read any Turkish language newspaper targeted to Australian Turks, they would devote a lot more space to the Turkish related bombings that to those in Brussels.
or maybeMaybe 15 years of something doesn't work mean we ought to try some other means than endless wars for security at home.
or maybe
"Maybe 40 years of migration that doesn't work mean we ought to stop for security at home"
or send the european natives to the US as refugees as it will soon be easier in number.
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We will not be surprised if the bombers are born and bred in Europe and have never been targeted by any middle east warfare
I somewhat doubt the terrorists are German descendants vengefull of Dresden carpet bombing,
Tokyo kids remembering Hiroshima
or serbians bombed in their hospitals by NATO just a few years ago when the US was supporting the Kosovar muslim fanatics (the only good russian is a dead one still being the motto of the US it seems)
So no the ME is not the only reason and probably not even relevant
But when you do not name your ennemy, how can you combat it?
US commanders could not make the difference between Russians and Serbians as they use the same alphabet, and
the idiotic attitude persists in Syria while the bombs explode in Paris/Bruxelle..and more to come..
People are afraid of Donald Trump but the US foreign policy since the Bush years and this includes Obama has been a pinnacle of stupidity and tunnel vision.
Right now, when the Saudis, propaganda masters of the most backward and braindead form of islam, need more rockets to bomb the sh$t out of Yemmenis the US will provide them straight from the US own stocks.
Behind each of these terrorists isthe shadow of our "good friends" : Saudis, Turkey shipping weapons to IS, Qatar, etc etc
With West allies like that , who needs ennemies...And who needs pretext like Syria, or any of these wonderful Arab spring places...
Is this what we might expect in Australia one day soon?
All of a sudden, the most important thing for Obama to do is disarm American Citizens.
Now, why is it so important for Obama to disarm America? Why? Because a disarmed country is ripe for takeover by the Muslim Army that Obama has imported into the United States.
Obama knows this fact and is doing everything within his power to disarm our Citizen Army.
If Obama can't do it legally, he will abuse his power and take every gun from Americans because he knows he must do that to turn the USA over to Islam."
Retribution has been swift: The Eiffel Tower, Brandenburg Gate and the Trevi Fountain have been lit up in the colours of Brussel's flag !! That's gotta strike fear in the hearts of the bad guys, that and the onslaught of reporting by Sunrise and Today.
Meanwhile there is a woman in Melbourne yesterday, who has been daylight abducted and sexually assaulted by a gang of men...... first gen negroid gangs violently running amock in Melbourne....... in NSW a gang of youth who have been extorting money to be sent off to the cause ... and our PM telling us this morning we are sweet from violence, except for the real problem = unions and construction EBAs.... it's all Bill Shorten' and Clive Palmer's fault of course.
Human beings killing other human beings may never be thought out of existence. It has always been and may always be. Good killings and bad killings or the eternal battle between (perceived) good and evil is what we are. Dominance, control, fear, persecution, suppression and pure hate is well and truly part of the human psyche. Can (perceived) evil be taught out of mind or is there a glitch that perpetuates it eternally? Look at the (thought orientated) behaviour of KimJung Un! As an individual his liberty would be taken from him for such behaviour but in 'power' as he is, he will let fellow countrymen suffer for him.So leave the "they hate us because they're evil and envious" stuff to the politicians. We the people can and should think a bit. Maybe then we can stop all these wars and gung-ho speeches about genocide and superiority of Western values and democracy we don't even have.
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We will not be surprised if the bombers are born and bred in Europe and have never been targeted by any middle east warfare
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