14-11-2015, 11:38 AM
Holland has declared that it was ISIL who attacked. How they concluded this so quickly was not said.
Death toll now 130 and expected to rise quite a bit. Many seriously injured not expected to survive.
Some gunmen and their support teams still somewhere out there...
Thousands of troops and all police in the Paris streets
Almost nothing moving in Paris that isn't official transport
Yes, the fact that similar events in non-Western countries gets little attention is striking and is known as racism and this superiority 'thing' Western nations have and have had for hundreds of years. It also has to do with religion - Islam being the one considered 'outside' the Western realm; at other times, and still to some extent, Judaism was/is too. All of the 'us vs. them' is the real heart of the problem.
Death toll now 130 and expected to rise quite a bit. Many seriously injured not expected to survive.
Some gunmen and their support teams still somewhere out there...
Thousands of troops and all police in the Paris streets
Almost nothing moving in Paris that isn't official transport
Yes, the fact that similar events in non-Western countries gets little attention is striking and is known as racism and this superiority 'thing' Western nations have and have had for hundreds of years. It also has to do with religion - Islam being the one considered 'outside' the Western realm; at other times, and still to some extent, Judaism was/is too. All of the 'us vs. them' is the real heart of the problem.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass