I'll bet you that the refugees cause more harm in general criminality than they do in terrorist activity. Politicians are out of touch on this, but so are political people. You're too locked in on ideologies and the ephemeral world of ideas and the press to notice what's going on in the street which is altogether more basic and worldly.
Bad comparison. You can't compare war-torn immigrants with the Greeks. It's human to feel more sympathy for a terrified Syrian than it is for a 53 year old retired civil servant from Athens. This has nothing to do with religion. Syria is in the midst of a war and Greece is cleaning up after a party(which Germany catered for).
It's complex combination of cynical(and wrong)economic thinking and actual compassion mixed in with guilt.
Some Germans will see a source of cheap labour in refugees which will enable Germany not to adapt to new world conditions - don't adapt by transfering workers from overheating factories/offices and into under-supplied services, but to simply create a race to the bottom situation of too many workers in both manufacturing and services - yet most just feel sympathy.
Who knows, though. Australia and New Zealand are even more exposed to China. Their comparatively better living won't offset against any major problems in the far east. And US shale boom could offset against being a moron. A glut of cheap energy means that you would become far more competitive without actually being any better.
The best situated are Australia and New Zealand having either made many corrections already or not made as many mistakes to begin with - such as sending mediocre kids to get a degree in something worthless.
Migrants and the EU are not responsible for all the 2.2 degrees in sport science nor are they the reason why your wife can't keep out of the shopping mall.
The majority of the West will see its standard of living decline to meet in the middle with the rising developing world. The EU and immigration are features to a much greater change in the world.
You can be in a first world country outside the EU with tight borders, but if you're earning a living you will feel the effects of globalisation - which for yesterday's western people meant cheap foreign goods and incomes subsidised by debt to stimulate demand, and for today's western people means lower wages and worse condition.
And irrelevantly true. The point of a Democracy and the right to protest is so that no matter what the government does the people remain forever blameless. The nation can do one thing but at the same time act like it didn't want to. Genius!
This doubles when the Europeans who will suffer most from the refugee crisis weren't even either alive or old enough to vote at the time. And if you strip to the bare-knuckles it would not matter if we were wholly and directly responsible for killing your family and everyone you care about, we still wouldn't let you in to lay one finger on ours.
True, but if it wasn't America it would be somebody else. And as far as empires go, America hasn't done an evil job, they were not so brutal and never has an empire imploded in less time. The American is so far off being the best that they didn't stay at the top for very long.
There's no need for us to stoop so low. ISIS may be honourless dogs who execute prisoners at point-blank range, but we are not. Stamp out this ill-disciplined and barbaric behaviour, don't give it a licensce.
I don't recall any stories from my grandfather which involved shooting captive prisoners in the second world war. Nor any of his conscript buddies after being bombed by Germans night after night for years. 60000 have signed the petition for Blackman - what's the betting most of these are boring and lonely(for a reason)civvies? The kind of bland miserable d*ck who read Andy Mcnab.
I prefer his foreign policy and I like the 30% of his domestic policies which are not necessarily the undoing of the world(such as part renationalising the railways).
But this doesn't excuse the 70% which are the undoing of the world. I believe Jeremy will become a word for mistake. Oh no I've just done a jeremy, I've jezzed that right up, and so on.
He has no context for his anti-austerity platform and austerity is good because we can't rely on politics to spend money wisely. But if you had an eye for a good investment and the practical common sense to make an investment actually happen on time and under budget we could borrow more and cut less. Corbyn has neither of these.
The reason why we use the private sector and not the state is because the state has to obey the letter of the regulation which makes achieving anything hugely expensive and grossly inefficient. The Chinese could build an entire city with the resources Corbyn would use to build one railway branch.
And this is one reason why no system of British government, be it of the left or the right, can maintain the British standard of life as the rest of the world rises up. There needs to be a coming down to earth in our attitudes towards work and education and in almost everything we do. We have to become practical and efficient if we want to succeed in government or industry and Corbyn is the complete opposite of working practicality. They say he's a plain-speaker, but he's not down to earth, he's pie-in-the-sky.
A small price to pay for more of that enriching, strengthening, diversity. Bring on our poor and vulnerable, let us prepare their arses for a vibrant pounding.
Because it's a fraud, that's why. The refugees are not stopping at safety and they're aiming for luxury, they're trying to move up several social classes whilst on the run, which isn't actually being a refugee.
The Arab world should be doing a Dunkirk-style tactical withdrawal like the Iranians are doing. Allowing refugees to retreat to re-arm and re-group and then sending them back into the fray.
In this case the few terrorists that get in will be a minuscule fraction of the overall harm. And you convince too few and and conserve too little by taking such a narrow view of self-preservation.
I don't see the point in scaremongering in a world of real danger. So often the Right sensationalises petty threats and minor issues in the world and forms the flip-side of a Left which trivialises or generously excuses the great dangers.
The West can't defend moderate Islam by killing Muslims(even bad Muslims). This is a fight Islam has to have with itself.
I don't know about terrorists coming in with the refugees. That concern seems a distant second for me. My concern is that the refugees are the people who should be standing up to ISIS, more importantly, they are the only people who can stand up to ISIS. What will the middle east of 2020 look like if they keep falling back?
Exactly. It never was a foregone conclusion that the refugees would flood into Europe, they do so now because we offer an easy escape for those unwilling to accept fate and face reality(and in doing so offer a massive advantage for ISIS).
Riddled with disease is preferable to being uncool in a young man for getting laid. If I had to be one thing or the other I'd take my chances as a virally vibrant snake.
As a girl grows older her personality pulling power goes form bordering insignificance to moderate importance. A hot young girl could be as cool as AIDS, but so long as she doesn't have real AIDS, she'll find a man to sleep with her.
As a boy grows older his personality pulling power goes from very important to extremely important.
If he doesn't make it look easy, he's doing it wrong. If she's not much of a challenge, he won't be around for long.
Is it actually easy? For a few, yes. It's a bit like asking if it's easy for all women to look as good as Megan Fox. A world where all men had what it took to be a player would equal a world filled with Megan Fox.
Correction: most of us accept blank-slate creationist religion today despite that fact it was proven to be complete garbage over a century ago. Rationally we've gone backwards for the sake of palatability which is another sign that we're a spent force.
Genes still play a part, of course. Occasionally you find someone at the bottom who doesn't belong there and you also find people in the middle/upper with the temperament of a prole. There are people born poor who are artsy or dreamy mind over matter types and there are people born rich who are earthy or steely matter over mind types. But usually the opposite is the case.
More accurately it's what you grow up with which determines this. The self-made rich man retains the base sensibilities of poverty and it's what helps them to become so ruthlessly thrifty, clear-sighted and competitive, and the bourgeoisie loser in life who descends into poverty never really becomes streetwise and remains forever doe-eyed.
Poverty isn't a mystery to the poor. If they were to say that they're rich in mind, knowledge or experience they would be being somewhat sarcastic. Matter is very much in your mind when you'd don't have any and the people who say mind over matter don't usually have money matters.
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RE: "I have a Dream"
Owning my own mansion and hosting wild parties that go beyond fun and actually get quite nasty.