34 Killed, 170 Injured in Brussels Airport & Metro Bombings

Started by Flacko, Mar 22, 2016, in Life Add to Reading List

  1. pittsports87
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    Mar 22, 2016
    This is an insane story, an American teen who was injured in these most recent attacks was at the 2013 Boston Marathon where he was a block away from the bombing and he was in Paris during the terror attack last year. I couldn't imagine going through that once in my life, let alone 3 times before I turned 20.
    https://gma.yahoo.com/american-morm...terrorism-210307474--abc-news-topstories.html
     
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  2. Soldier
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    Mar 22, 2016
    That's crazy. It reminds me of the guy who survived both the Nagaski and Hiroshima bombings in 1945

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Yamaguchi
     
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  4. ArthurDW
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    Mar 23, 2016
    Meanwhile in a refugee camp in Greece;

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  5. Michael Myers
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    Mar 23, 2016
    Great that they got one of them alive (same as the guy they arrested a few days ago).
     
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  6. Flacko
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  7. Eazy
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    Mar 23, 2016
    interesting that a boy who speaks arabic or urdu who is squatting in Greece wrote a sign in English
     
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  8. ArthurDW
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    Mar 23, 2016
    Most refugees speak English you idiot. Why do you think they want to get to great Britain at all costs?
     
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  9. Flacko
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    Mar 23, 2016
    Pretty sure they learn English too in their countries
     
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  10. Eazy
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    Mar 23, 2016
    any evidence "most refugees speak English"?

    and its because UK gives them generous benefits and doesn't ask them to assimilate
     
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  11. Flacko
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    They are not allowed to claim mainstream welfare benefits. Asylum seekers benefits are paid by central government's National Asylum Support Service (NASS) and not from local council taxes, this is to cover their accommodation and support costs. A national report of asylum seekers and refugees, revealed 85% experience hunger, 95% cannot afford to buy clothes or shoes and 80% are not able to maintain good health.
     
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  12. ArthurDW
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    Cause I know refugees? Cause there's a rerefugee in our house and he told me about their situation? Because he said to me they want to get to great Britain because of the language?

    Do you really think they could get trough Europe without money and without speaking English?
     
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  13. Eazy
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    what do they expect for free?
    yes
     
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  14. Flacko
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    Saying they get generous benefits is a lie.
     
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    I think giving people free money for making it into your country illegally is criminally generous
     
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  16. Flacko
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    You're not in their shoes. They are escaping war zones. It's not even a lot since they can barely survive on it. Stop trying to push your agenda.
     
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  17. Eazy
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    @Flacko the Syrians and Afghans are escaping war zones, the north africans, pakistanis, eritreans etc are not

    but enough.......the Brussels bombers were Belgian citizens. My point in bringing up the English sign was that many pics of migrants are staged photo ops. The 8 year old boy did not write a sign in perfect English letters about a city he has probably never heard of, but the adult european photographer likely did
     
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  19. ArthurDW
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    What do you mean illegally? They're war WAR refugees, a country is legally obligated by the Geneva convention to give asylum to refugees
     
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    Mar 23, 2016
    They are illegal, because most of them didn't go through asylum procedures.

    It's not like you flee from the warzone, step on the foreign soil and you're automatically a refugee. This is much more complicated.
     
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