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Is it right for the media to use images of refugee tragedy?
buctootim replied to Saint-Armstrong's topic in The Lounge
There is an antagonistic relationship with the PKK who want an independent country and have committed terrorist / freedom fighter acts to get it. One nation Kurds like the HDP are in government. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/turkey-president-approves-interim-pre-election-cabinet-agency-164315352.html?.tsrc=lgwn#TfR8fKK -
Is it right for the media to use images of refugee tragedy?
buctootim replied to Saint-Armstrong's topic in The Lounge
You seem to be in difficulty again. That site confirms, not contradicts, my figures. England is the most densely populated country in Europe. Scotland is relatively sparse so overall the UK is not especially high but the issue is that refugees largely don't want to go to Scotland, most want to go to London. -
Is it right for the media to use images of refugee tragedy?
buctootim replied to Saint-Armstrong's topic in The Lounge
No I used a Telegraph article as the basis and then to be sure it was accurate I fact checked it using those websites and added in a few countries which were missing, like Spain. Fact checking is a great discipline, it can avoid all sorts of problems, like accusing people of being wrong and making a bit of a tit of yourself. Having the most public outpouring of grief or most dramatic twitter post has zero correlation to doing the most to help. In the NHS vocal lobbyists who insist you must put millions into a particular group NOW otherwise PEOPLE WILL DIE have no concept of directing resources to where they will have most impact. They are called shroud wavers. The truly destitute and desperate are still in Syria, unable to move. Those with money to leave and travel, mostly young men, are not who need our help most. Helping the vulnerable - children and the old in refugee camps with food, medical aid, shelter and after the war with rebuilding is what the priorities should be. Taking a few thousand out of their culture, language and family networks and dumping them in rental properties in Solihull is not a better solution than directly helping millions in country with aid. It just makes less good tv and the twitterati are denied an opportunity to feel like they changed the world. -
Is it right for the media to use images of refugee tragedy?
buctootim replied to Saint-Armstrong's topic in The Lounge
various sources. Here are couple that say I am right. http://countryeconomy.com/demography/population/netherlands http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/netherlands-population/ -
Is it right for the media to use images of refugee tragedy?
buctootim replied to Saint-Armstrong's topic in The Lounge
Most of what you've written is wrong. Population density is just one Number of people expected to be living per square kilometre in 2015 - by country England - 419 Holland - 408 Belgium 369 Germany - 226 Italy - 205 Poland - 123 Portugal - 116 France - 105 Spain 92 Romania - 89 Bulgaria - 66 -
Goal here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYMp4Qg2Twg
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Ronald and Erwin in drag... (yes, really)
buctootim replied to Saint-Armstrong's topic in The Saints
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Ronald and Erwin in drag... (yes, really)
buctootim replied to Saint-Armstrong's topic in The Saints
Based on that I'd rather have Erwin than Frieda -
Is it right for the media to use images of refugee tragedy?
buctootim replied to Saint-Armstrong's topic in The Lounge
It is a an interesting and relevant question. If you want to generate an emotional response you need a picture. If you want to understand a situation you need to read. A picture is usually misleading without 1000 words of context. The appalling picture of two drowned children rightly moves people. Why did they die when the family were no longer in fear of death in Syria and were already safe in Turkey? Around 240,000 people die every day, 85 million pa, most of them prematurely from treatable causes. How many of those get their picture in the paper? and as a result how many people care about them? Should UK aid be a lottery - whoever gets their picture in the paper first - or should it be more thought through than that? -
Is it right for the media to use images of refugee tragedy?
buctootim replied to Saint-Armstrong's topic in The Lounge
Exactly this. Most 'refugees' are not from Syria, its primarily an economic flow. Malaria is a problem we can fix, and dengue and river blindness - and whilst we are at it stop bribing African dictators to give European industrial trawlers access to their waters and so starving their people. Addressing the causes not the symptoms is rule 1 in the aid handbook. -
CONFIRMED - Virgil Van Dijk joins on Five Year Deal
buctootim replied to Brizzie Saints's topic in The Saints
In MLG's opinion. IMO VvD has picked up bad habits in the SPL - lots of rampaging runs neglecting his defending. He's capable of better, for me the question is whether he can get his performances back up to where they could and should be. -
Just back from three weeks in France. All the major supermarkets sell the kind of bacon you cant get in the UK anymore - thick slices, smoked with rind on, some with those chewy bits of cartiledge. I bought four packs back with us...
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CONFIRMED - Virgil Van Dijk joins on Five Year Deal
buctootim replied to Brizzie Saints's topic in The Saints
Its Virgil surely?? -
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