The best video I’ve seen so far. White male suicide is SUPER high in the States. 😦
More guns, more gun deaths.
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best refugee housing
Let’s say you have to flee your country.
Where would you go?
You’d cross the border hoping to return to your home, family and friends as soon as possible.
To a clean, safe refugee camp.
Former soldier and UN observer Neale Sutton and businessman Andrew Hamilton’s self-designed “Humanihut” was last week plucked from relative obscurity to be on the Disrupt 100 list, an index of the most promising start-ups around the world. …
After securing a $50,000 grant from the South Australian government, the pair then engaged Adelaide company Applidyne to create “proof of concept” drawings based on their specifications.
The final product is a robust family-sized hut that can be set up in five minutes, with a village of 2400 huts designed to be set up in three days, inclusive of power, water and sewage. Their calculations show that one shipping container can hold 16 Humanihuts.
“When you unpack the 16 huts, the shipping container is then reconfigured to be the shower, washing and cleaning facilities for those people living in those 16 huts. We bring our own water treatment plant that can reuse 85 per cent of the “black water” for showers and toilets,” said Sutton. …
South Australian entrepreneurs seek to improve refugee lives with Humanihut
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The Humanihut Shelter System is an inexpensive, innovative and robust shelter system for people at their time of greatest need.
Thanks Mary.
aftermath of Orlando
WHEN (xxxx) killed 49 people in a gay nightclub in Orlando on June 12th, did he commit the bloodiest mass shooting in modern American history, the worst ever attack on gay Americans or the deadliest act of Islamist terrorism since 9/11?
… the answer seems obvious: the attack was all three of these things.
It was also an early test of how a President Trump might handle a crisis if elected in November. One of the finest moments of George W. Bush’s presidency was when he went to an Islamic centre six days after 9/11 and issued a call for tolerance and unity. Mr Trump’s first thought was to exploit the shooting to score a point:
Psychopaths lack empathy. The Donald is a clinical psychopath.
No matter what happens, he only thinks of himself. 😦
… the shooting shows that America has a unique vulnerability to lone-wolf attacks because of its gun laws. In France two people were killed the day after the Florida attacks by a man who claimed inspiration from IS. He wielded a knife. Armed with an assault-rifle and a semi-automatic pistol he could have killed many more. In America (xxxx) was able to walk into a local gun store and buy everything he needed to kill or wound 102 people, without breaking any law.
Economist – Aftermath of a tragedy
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definition of ‘terrorist’
This guy is a terrorist.
He killed 9 people in a Church stating that “Blacks have to go.”
This guy is a terrorist too.
I believe he mainly hates Gays. But since he mentioned inspiration by ISIS I’d certainly call him a Jihadist, as well.
There shouldn’t be any confusion on the definition. What we need to be talking about is how to stop future mass shootings. 😦
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I don’t want Gundamentalist prayers
JOHN PAVLOVITZ:
Gun lover, please don’t tell me you’re grieving along with me today too. I just don’t buy it. You’re welcome to mourn, but I don’t think I want your company right now.
If you’re still against greater gun control measures—I don’t want you to grieve alongside me today.
If you’re part of the zealous, gun-glorifying community—I don’t want you to grieve alongside me today.
If you’re a militant, unrepentant NRA apologist—I don’t want you to grieve alongside me today.
If your right to bear arms ultimately matters more to you than the human wreckage strewn about movie theaters and shopping malls and elementary schools and and nightclubs and hospitals—I don’t want you to grieve alongside me today. …Why I Don’t Want Gun Lovers Grieving Another Massacre Alongside Me
stop using the term ‘Eastern Europe’
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Frank Schaeffer, the man who helped create the religious right
This rings true to me. A very important interview.
Frank Schaeffer is the son of radical evangelical cleric Francis Schaeffer, who was instrumental in creating the modern anti-abortion movement and forging the alliance between the Republican party and evangelical Christians.
Schaeffer has repudiated reactionary politics and become an advocate for social justice. In this riveting, 5.5 minute interview with Full Frontal’s Samantha Bee, Schaeffer lays out the history of the reactionary right in America, and the consequences of the alliance between evangelicals and finance capitalism, from Fox News to the Iraq War.
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Iraq worse off today than under Saddam
A total waste of American tax dollars. The USA was attacked by terrorists from Saudi Arabia and Yemen … so G.W. Bush attacked a different nation, one which did not even like bin Laden. 😦
They ruined Iraq.
Made the region far less stable. Saddam Hussein was terrible. But most people in Iraq would agree they were better off with him than since. 😦
Watch an excellent BBC mini-documentary – How did Iraq get so violent?
where’s Edith when you need her?
Thanks Dave. 🙂
the World hates Trump
Just back from my 3rd trip overseas in 2016, everyone I meet abroad hates Donald Trump.
Paul Thomas – New Zealand Herald in July, 2015
Trump personifies everything the rest of the world despises about America: casual racism, crass materialism, relentless self-aggrandisement, vulgarity on an epic scale. He is the Ugly American in excess. …
Drumpf fans, I expect, are happy when the world hates the USA. And that’s sad. 😦
Rick McCharles 