Before I start my week of pissing people off….my morning harvest……
Today I shall attempt to touch on the on-going situation of the refugees….I realize that this subject is one that creates lots of passionate responses…all that I ask is that the reader put aside any preconceived thoughts and actually read and think about the situation the world is facing.
The refugees from war have made the pages of the idiotic Right blogs and “papers”…..they are most concerned that some of these people may show up in a town near them….of course most of these dolts seem to think that all these people are after a “free ride” in America or worse…they are all terrorists in waiting to go and commit some heinous crime….
I have several friends in the Middle East….Lebanon, Iraq, Palestine and Jordan and when we talk not one has ever asked about the “free stuff” the government gives out. Maybe it is just the people that I know….but I do not think that is the case.
There have been reams of research on why these people have joined the ranks of the refugees……and all the research does not feed the lunatics and their far-fetched theories….but these people have never let facts get in the way of their disguised hatred…..
They, the deniers, are most critical of anyone who tries to help the world understand the refugee situation…the many aspects from economics, to climate to armed conflict……but fortunately their hateful words do not explain the reasons or the events and all they are doing is helping the idiots feed a delusion…..
If European policymakers are to address the migration crisis effectively, they must understand that it is a crisis largely born out of war.
The West’s current focus on the refugee crisis in Europe obscures the larger truths of a global crisis of displacement that endangers the international order. This is a crisis largely born out of war, and one that will be with us for decades to come. Understanding this reality is essential if Europe is to mount an effective response.
Deadly conflict, above all, is driving the massive exodus of refugees. Wars in Afghanistan, Somalia, and Syria alone were responsible for more than half of the world’s refugee population as of mid-2015. Forty million people—two-thirds of the world’s forcibly displaced—are displaced within their own countries by conflict and violence. The Middle East, with its political upheaval and conflict in recent years, has seen the fastest increase in forced displacement. Since March 2011, the Syrian war alone has accounted for almost 12 million displaced people, one-fifth of the world’s total displaced and over half of the country’s population.
Refugees are victims….not criminals…..and to paint them as criminals is doing a huge injustice to mankind. Do you want others making snap judgements on you?
If they want to hate then they should not hide behind some made-up garbage….tell the world the real reason you hate these people.
Is it their religion? Maybe it is the color of their skin…..maybe even that they are homeless….just what makes them so undesirable?
I have no wish to sound cynical……
But, the blame game is alive and well……which is why a lot of the people will be voting ‘out’ in the UK ref:
They simply fail to see the wood for the trees……a common ailment…so the ‘media’ uses this tool to stir up racism….and more popular votes…very few people see the real issues….they cannot look further than their own noses….not been trained to see the bigger picture….’sides it would not suit the ‘powers’ to educate the population beyond Mac Donalds and celebrity news…far too dangerous…..and in the meantime the people are eager to swallow marshmallows….and not being satisfied they ingest more and more in the vain hope that they eventually find substance…
Here,in the U.K. I would not say we hate…we are by and large a tolerant society..
None the less,as you know I will be voting out…..because I simply do not believe in organizations/neo-liberalism/empires or the far right that are creeping up in Europe ….
To end on a more positive note…grin
Maybe we have to look at the ‘rat’ analogy….The ethologist John B. Calhoun coined the term “behavioral sink” to describe the collapse in behavior which resulted from overcrowding. Many [female rats] were unable to carry pregnancy to full term or to survive delivery of their litters if they did. An even greater number, after successfully giving birth, fell short in their maternal functions. Among the males the behavior disturbances ranged from sexual deviation to cannibalism and from frenetic over activity to a pathological withdrawal from which individuals would emerge to eat, drink and move about only when other members of the community were asleep. The social organization of the animals showed equal disruption.
Do I sound like the dubious?
I confess to sharing one of the above qualities..I am an individual who emerges to eat, drink and move about only when other members of the community are asleep.
Good post chuq..
Glad you liked it…..
This explains …Alice In Wonderland.
A ‘must watch’ as they say….
Propaganda & Engineering Consent for Empire with Mark Crispin Miller
// … https://youtu.be/F7HmFH-Wo1s via @YouTube
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Gosh… refugees are victims? Oh, right. They are. Okay…. See, now, isn’t that simple? Too bad anyone who continues to watch television isn’t capable of any such logical, tolerant train of thought….
Lady P. certainly hit it in one. Nail, head, hit, done, and done well. Her reference to the Calhoun experiment is the perfect illustration of our modern world. I believe it has reached the point where the illustration has become reality; rather than vice versa, life now imitates art.
Haters gonna hate; as long as anyone believes in “us” vs. “them”, regardless of what the difference is based on, (skin color, country, who has the biggest imaginary friend, etc….), conflict will continue, for there are simply too many crazy motherfuckers in the world to keep it from happening.
I, too, mostly only come out when my DNA mates are asleep…. Fortunately, that pretty much happens 24/7 now; I find most everybody is asleep, even when awake….
gigoid, the dubious
Oh, forgot.. Nice tomatoes… I see at least two sandwiches, and a good start on a pasta sauce there….
Yum.
gigoid
Thanx but after I posted it I thought it might be a bit thoughtless…refugees are suffering from lack of food….just did not strike me as inappropriate until later….I apologize….chuq
I’m so glad I was taught properly as I grew up….chuq
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What happened to:
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Good question but that label needs to be removed..it No longer applies….chuq
thanx for the re-blog….I appreciate the help….chuq