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I don't think there's anyone in North America that hasn't seen this photo now. It's kind of iconic and in Canada has started a huge push for the government to take in more refugees. (Which the idiot Harper is avoiding.)

France stated that it will take in 24,000 refugees.

Nice one, France!

lol, I have a hard time caring for things that aren't even happening in my own country. I really hope we don't let any more of those refugees in. It's not fair to us, because we don't even have resources for our own people, and it's not fair to them, because we don't have resources for them to thrive and succeed.

oh
so that's dandy, when the taxavoiding corporations lean on taxfunded militairy to get there plans working for them, and all that in the name of holy money, praise pollution and slaughter !

Those Syrian folks deserve to be treated as human beings---just like we deserve to be treated as human beings.

How would you feel if you were bombed out of your own home?

I am not nationalist by any mean but this is a spot on:

poor little girl

Funny how the news in the west works.

This, 10,000 times over.

In my middle age, I have become hateful, cynical, and beyond conservative enough to make Rush Limbaugh at least wince. Notwithstanding, I am completely sickened by my country's stance on this situation.

People are so desperate to escape this war that they're willing to risk this, because THIS BEATS THE ALTERNATIVE. Yet here we Americans sit, in our little suburbs with our little First World problems, and howl that we are barely getting by ourselves (oh bull f*****g s**t, I realize there is poverty in America, but dammit there is poverty and then there is THIS) and scream that OH NOES, THERE MIGHT BE TERRORISTS AMONG THEM!! !

WHERE, exactly, in the name of bloody blue f**k do we think terrorists come from???? Ultimately, we are going to create and admit more terrorists by turning a blind eye to this than we ever could by opening the door to the desperate.

I can put my spoiled Western self in those shoes much more easily than I want to think about, and I am not OK with this. I am not OK with ignoring this. This is not of God, or of the abstract quality referred to as "humanity." This is not OK.

In other thoughts-- in most of the world, through most of human history, children have not been sheltered from LIVING this, much less viewing images of it. Not my place to make parenting decisions for others, but it is my considered opinion that we do our children a grave disservice when we hide their eyes from the sorrows of life. Strength, resilience, and empathy do not develop in a vacuum; furthermore, I wonder how much we want to protect them, and how much we really only wish to protect ourselves from the awkwardness and discomfort of having to explain it to them.

That picture is the reason peoples hearts are reaching out to the Syrians and why we are opening our doors to so many refugees.

So how would you feel to learn the mainstream media are deliberately taking advantage of the West's good nature?
How would you feel about people finding a little dead boy, then instead of covering him and treated him with dignity, they moved his corpse to use him as the "Poster Boy" of the refugee crisis?

http://diversitymachtfrei.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/media-manipulation-exposed-invader.html

It shouldn't TAKE a drowned 3-year-old "Poster Boy" to get people to give a damn. Especially people who have so much that we can afford to consider a family having to share one car or not being able to afford cable TV or multiple devices to be "disadvantaged" or "in poverty."

If we didn't live in our posh little swallow's nest with the delusion that our First World problems (however justifiably important they may be to us, being as we're in the First World and they are our problems) are the biggest, most devastating, most important things anyone could have to face, it WOULDN'T take a dead 3-year-old (not like he's the first, the last, or the only) to get people's attention.

What SHOULD matter is that we can get civilians out of the way until the dominionist theocrats and the corrupt monarchs are done shooting at each other, give them some skills, and teach them a better way.

This IS our war too. We've been playing at court with the corrupt monarchs for a few generations now. We helped make them; we helped make the mess that made the Arab Spring and gave Islamic State et al such fertile ground in which to grow and reproduce. WE DID THAT. We helped make this mess; we have an obligation to help clean it up. Not to take sides and send in military force, because frankly both sides are completely f*****g sick and twisted, like trying to choose between Stalin and Hitler. But to do something about the humanitarian crisis and to make an effort to teach the actual values and skills that might ameliorate this mess somewhat by the time the next couple of generations come along?? Yes, that's our responsibility too.

You can't tell me that ALL of them are on one side or the other and completely unwilling to learn. I don't believe that. Most of them just want to eat and play and work and send their kids to school without worrying too much about whether they'll make it home (or through the night) alive. You get the occasional dominionist bent on divine glory and the occasional fat rat, but by and large, that's all most people want. Give them the opportunity to get it, and you've got happy people.

Yes I hate how people are now only really beginning to give the Syrian Crisis attention. It sick what they did with the boys body. Makes me think of Nightcrawler. He should have been given a proper discrete burial.

I always wonder with these big sweeping pieces of media coverage of world tragedies- how does one train one's attention? What piece of human anguish do you attend to? Something at home or abroad? something local or the other side of your country? How do we pick when it is all terribly sad and "undeserved"? (Note: I personally do not think that ANYONE deserves tragedy or suffering but we have this word that almost denotes that in "certain cases a person would". such as when people say: " Oh, they don't deserve that" - does anyone really?)

From Charlie Ebdo -




1 - So close to target... on billboard: Promo! 2 kids meals for one 1 price.

2- The proof that Europe is Christian: Christians can walk on water, while Muslim kids sink.

Yet that seems to apply only to non European Muslims; when there was a war in Croatia/Bosnia with Serbs, everyone was happy to protect the muslims. Not sure why geography matters so much when people's lives are at stake but apparently it does.