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RE: Not a terrorist act

The Port authorities must have known this Conrad and both pilots were American citizens apparently.

RE: Not a terrorist act

Rubbish.


U.S. President Joe Biden pledged that the federal government will pay the full cost to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, ...

What did you expect him to say ?Surely any President in Office would have said the same under the circumstances. The fact that this has happened in an election year is beside the point.

RE: Not a terrorist act

Firstly I objected to the poster's opening post with my comment on post 4 .It shows no respect whatsoever to the people who lost their lives. How anyone can mock this accident with comedy is totally beyond my comprehension.

Secondly this is NOT a terrorist attack it's a tragic accident . What has it got to do with Politics?

Thirdly Where is R.F?

RE: Not a terrorist act

In the wake of tragedy, politics has no place.

RE: Not a terrorist act

Look at the speed of the lights flashing ........far too fast. You cannot compare this gif to the actual speed and you can also see the smoke pouring out from the cargo ship and lights flashing on and off as the whole ship suffered loss of power apparently.

Deffo questions to be answered Conrad as apparently this cargo ship had a similar accident in Antwerp in 2016,

RE: How Trump is following Hitlers playbook

I think some are rather blind as to support Trump and Putin...one wants to be a dictator and the other is a dictator pretending to hold fair elections (the opposition ends up poisoned or falling out of a tall building)
It is hard to support any male politician or circus ring leader (Trump) who brags about grabbing women's pussies or has to pay restitution to those he sexually violated...or supporting to curtail women's rights and blame immigrants and other minorities for the problems within the USA...it is something that Hitler repeated and continued to do until people were conditioned to hear it...Trump uses the word vermin numerous times to describe others...including calling Mexicans rapists and bad hombres ( that is in Hitler's play book)...it makes extermination easier...

So once again I see mainly white male members here support Trump and Co...and have no problems with the sexist/racist agenda he supports...not to mention that whole riot/instigation of Jan 6th that caused injury and death...Trump and his supporters were responsible...

Trump's only agenda is about him...he will endorse whatever BS that the evangelicals want as they support him...The far right Christians in the Republican Party want control and Trump is their vessel...

RE: Is it true England is a permanent Welfare State and anyone who works there is a sucker.

Ffs, no it's not true, you muppet.

If you are too poor to pay your rent and/or council tax you can get some, or most paid. It's not a perfect system, mind. There are caveats that have really caused problems for some of the most vulnerable, like people who need an extra room for a severely disabled child with lots of medical equipment, but don't necessarily qualify for that space according to the gender/age of siblings. Also, it can be difficult to find the right sized property to rent - there are few one bedroom properties for single people to rent.

I've never heard of anyone getting free utilities, but there were some subsidies for the poorest people coming out of covid into a winter of huge price hikes.

We have food banks. They work by shoppers buying an extra item, or two to drop in a donation box on their way out, or volunteers collecting today's date produce from supermarkets. I'm not sure of the criteria for being able to use a food bank. It might be some kind of benefit, but that would exclude those who are working and whose income covers everything except enough food to keep them going, so I don't know. It's not state welfare anyway, it's the community doing it's best to look after others.

We have the NHS, so yes medical services are free for everyone. In Wales we have free prescriptions and some free medications under the Common Ailment Scheme from pharmacies. I'm not sure what the other GB countries do, but I think Scotland is much the same as us and in England you get free prescriptions if you have a chronic illness like diabetes. We certainly don't let people keel over in the street for want of a bit of medicine, or treatment. We're not monsters and it would be a short-sighted way to run a country anyway.

In Wales we can get a bus pass if we're over 60 years old, or disabled, likewise there are concessions on the trains. There are also minibuses to get people to hospital appointments. Luckily when my dad was having dialysis having had his guts held together with mesh and a wish, my mum was still able to drive him to the out of area specialist unit. Otherwise he would have been propped up in the minibus for most of the day as it went round all the towns and villages. It would be pretty psychopathic to leave folk dying of kidney failure on their bathroom floor because they couldn't get to the hospital for dialysis.

We have the Citizen's Advice Bureau and other charitable organisations that help with all sorts of legal and social issues. Government funded Legal Aid is quite restricted, for example you can't get legal representation for family court issues, but clerks will advise you in house. I assume you can get Legal Aid for criminal trials.

If you voluntarily leave your job, you won't be entitled tax credits, or any of the other forms of unemployment benefit. If you lose your job, it's of a barely subsistence living standard. You're expected to look for work full time and it can be time consuming trying to get enough food, etc. to live. There's certainly not enough money for luxuries like heating and hot water in the winter.

If you want to pull up the ladder on the UK's most vulnerable whilst stuffing you maw on one of those ridiculous take aways you like to show off, I'm afraid you're out of luck. We have a halfway socially responsible system because it's both the right and the sensible thing to do.

RE: Sincerity vs hypocrisy

You do need Anger management classes.

RE: Is Norway really too White?

This is the same as asking “Is Nigeria really to Black?”

RE: Winter is not coming!

Why can't people read history and science. The earth changes. DUH. Greta is a nut job. Just saw news on melting glacier. And scientists say even is all pollution, change happened tomorrow... it will still melt. We can NOT stop it. My farm once lay under an inland sea. Once was jungle. Once buried under a glacier. Know what? It all happened BEFORE humans made the scene!