well, the fighting and the gang factions will always happen when there's no law or order to prevent those people. it happened in New Orleans and it happened after the tsunami. it's an ideal time for criminals to operate. other instances of fighting have occured because of a lack of food/water. desperate people will do anything to survive. there have been several reports of cannibalism although the media isn't reporting that too much. it's easy for us to wonder why these people don't act in a more humane fashion but then look at what happens when we have petrol shortages. or how quickly our infrastructure falls apart when we have a drop of snow. those are just minor things but even then we see reports of people fighting in garages or at stations trying to get the last train home. imagine what would happen here if we had something on the scale of haiti.
i guess you missed all those reports about the survivors digging through rubble with their bare hands to rescue people. or the doctors and nurses operating in the open because the hospital collapsed. or the kitchens that were operating until the food ran out. it's easy to sit back and judge but a comparison with america is ridiculous. they have an infrustructure and the wealth to provide emergency services. haiti doesn't. of course there's looting. what else should people do when there's no one to help? sit and starve? i know what i;d be doing if i was in that situation. i'd be out smashing in the windows of the nearest supermarket if it meant i'd get food and water. so would you. so would everyone on here.
it goes both ways. i've had women freaking out because i didn't answer their emails. angrily demanding explanations for not replying. it never occurs to them that maybe i'm just saving them from more misery.
i guess the main motive has always been to grab profits and land. that's usually the cause for most wars. the definition of the enemy is so vague (probably deliberately so,) that any group or nation who steps out of line could find themselves in trouble.
Well, according to the media who showed scenes of devastation and some bleeding Haitians (black people) for about 40 secs then cut to the really important story which was about an American journalist (white, classically trained, liberal intellectual) who upon hearing the dreadful news rushed off to rescue his wife (white, classically trained, liberal intellectual,) who was trapped in a building. Of course, the first thing he did before leaping into action was to email a slideshow of him and his wife to Good Morning America. And so, the real story of human suffering is ignored in favour of a live on air report by Mr.Thorn as he drove to his wife. Subtext - It's ok folks. Panic over. No white people were harmed.
i've come and gone, come and gone since oct 2008. i guess if i'd followed the herd i'd be a "senior" member by now but who needs that. it's always better to avoid cliques
i shared a flat with a mate a few years back and when the landlord decided to sell the place we both ended up out on the street. I remember feeling a bit jealous that his parents immediately took him back in. That he was lucky enough to have parents he could turn to. Was he a mummy's boy? no. He just had no other options open to him at that point. luckily for me his mum took me in as well until i got another flat.
Looks like institutional style blockwork to me. No doubt the orderlies tried to disguise the crazy by removing her crayon portraits of Barbara Streisand
Mcintyre sucks. He's a lazy, talentless hack who relies on others to write his jokes. He has zero respect amongst stand ups. Good stand ups - Daniel Kitson. Jerry Sadowitz. Rob Newman.
well, there really is money. If you went down to your bank right now, you'd find that most of the money they had was not in the form of dollar bills, but rather in the form of securities, like deposits, investments, shares, and other things of value. Actually paper money is only a small part of the money supply in the world.
A government can print as much money as it wants to - but what happens if they print money that they don't have anything of value to exchange it for is that the money becomes worthless - this is what happened when the Confederate States just printed money after their reserves of gold and silver ran out, and what happened in Germany in the 1920s - you had to have a shopping bag full of bills to buy a loaf of bread - this is called "Hyperinflation".
To avoid having this happen, governments closely regulate the supply of money. In the USA they do this by the Federal Reserve (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_reserve) - The Federal Reserve sets the prime rate of loans - how much interest you can loan money out for. Also, it makes sure that banks have enough reserves to cover their accounts, and monitors the way money is transfered between banks and other financial institutions, including exchanges of money from one country's currency to another. Sources:
Can you tell me which global bankers would be involved in brankrupting entire continents? I'm sceptical of that because i'd assume a global bankers job is to increase profits for their shareholders and company while seeking out new territorys to do business in. So, uh, if a global banker was actively reducing income streams and revenue then i think he'd be fired pretty quickly.
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RE: Projected- Over a Billion Dollars Donated to Haiti, Do you think in Ten Year's...???
well, the fighting and the gang factions will always happen when there's no law or order to prevent those people. it happened in New Orleans and it happened after the tsunami. it's an ideal time for criminals to operate. other instances of fighting have occured because of a lack of food/water. desperate people will do anything to survive. there have been several reports of cannibalism although the media isn't reporting that too much. it's easy for us to wonder why these people don't act in a more humane fashion but then look at what happens when we have petrol shortages. or how quickly our infrastructure falls apart when we have a drop of snow. those are just minor things but even then we see reports of people fighting in garages or at stations trying to get the last train home. imagine what would happen here if we had something on the scale of haiti.