Sad Story

POSTED BY: GinoBiffaroni
UPDATED: Saturday, August 25, 2007 14:45
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JONGSSTRAW

Thursday, August 16, 2007 8:18 PM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
I can't believe an international sex-slave trade still exists....or high stakes dog fighting...

Constantly astonished Chrisisall

Ok...we already knew about the rampant sex-slave trade in Thailand & Eastern Europe...now this too? Between THIS & the one-button internet filth flourishing out there, we really MUST consider than we ARE horribly flawed creatures, doomed as a species, and truly NOT worthy to continue as the dominant life form on the Earth.

CHRISISALL

Thursday, August 16, 2007 8:38 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
we really MUST consider than we ARE horribly flawed creatures, doomed as a species, and truly NOT worthy to continue as the dominant life form on the Earth.

Or that we're all just really horny, not getting enough, and choosing our crazy behaviour to sublimate.

Chrisisall

KANEMAN

Thursday, August 16, 2007 8:53 PM

"The US invasion and the sectarian war have
created thousands of widows in Iraq
When Rana Jalil, 38, lost her husband in an explosion in Baghdad last year, she could never have imagined becoming a prostitute in order to feed her children."

Can't she have her vagina pulled out for this? Don't those camel-jockeys cut off peoples hands and shit for stealing? Not to mention this story reeks more than Ginobiffaroni's feet.....I smell an agenda here. Gold bond anyone?

CHRISISALL

Thursday, August 16, 2007 9:16 PM

My point has been backed up

GINOBIFFARONI

Sunday, August 19, 2007 1:16 AM

many have been critical of news story's from Al-Jazeera, but I think they are par with BBC which style they seem to emulate.

Just read another story about Israel, and not seeing any conflicts or bias

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8606B5EE-86E8-40B9-82D9-83F783A
4F0D5.htm

Now, I'll cut and paste the article for those Americans living in a free society afraid to wind up on a list if they follow the link :

Holocaust victims living in poverty
By Jacky Rowland

Click here to watch Jacky Rowland's report on the
Holocaust survivors' call for more support

The Israeli government has been criticised for "severe shortcomings" in its treatment of elderly holocaust survivors.

A report from the state comptroller's office blamed red tape for preventing effective assistance being provided and urged action to help the ageing victims.

Leopold Rosen measures the world by the pipe that connects him to his oxygen machine. He suffers from several chest complaints dating back to when he hid from the Nazis in a forest in Poland.

The German government pays him compensation every month and he gets a small pension from Israel, but he can barely pay for both his drugs and his food.

"I was born of the 5th of June, 1922. Do I have time to wait for help from the government? There are a lot of people in the same position. They don't have time to wait," he told Al Jazeera.

Holocaust survivors have been trying to embarrass the Israeli government into action.

At a recent event, protesters wore symbols from the Nazi-era to drive home their point.

There are about one quarter of a million Holocaust survivors in Israel and official figures say that one in three of them live below the poverty line.

Dignity

"We don't need any charity. We need for people to live at the end of their life with some kind of dignity," Colette Avital, the deputy speaker of the Knesset, said.

"Even though the problem was not caused by the state of Israel, the state bears a responsibility to its citizens."
"Even though the problem was not caused by the state of Israel, the state bears a responsibility to its citizens"

Colette Avital, deputy speaker
of the Knesset
In many ways the experience of the Holocaust defines the state of Israel but until now there has never been a specific government allowance for survivors. That is something the government says it has been trying to address.

The first problem they encountered was that there was no real definition of a Holocaust survivor. So ministers commissioned a report which found that the state needed to set aside hundreds of millions of dollars to help them.

"It's clear that if it rolls out over a few years, thousands of them will pass away," Isaac Herzog, Israeli welfare minister, said as the government continued negotiations with survivors' groups over plans to increase welfare payments.

"So our intention as a government, is to award a stipend of the highest level as soon as possible to the oldest echelon, that is 80 years or older," he said.

Holocaust survivors occupy a unique position in Israeli society so the government is under particular pressure to help them before time runs out.

Another sad yet true story, with all the money spent on arms in that country ( American money for a large part )
They seem to be lacking in other areas, which really conflicts with what they say they are all about.

FREMDFIRMA

Sunday, August 19, 2007 3:31 AM

Don't I know it, and Congress just approved sending 30 BILLION of our tax money to em to buy more weapons with..

It's insane, is what it is.

They've become the monster that once chewed upon them... some of my allies are current and former refuseniks.

-F

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, August 19, 2007 9:40 AM

I think I saw this story on Lifetime last week. Boy, was it a real tear jerker....

Quote:
many have been critical of news story's from Al-Jazeera, but I think they are par with BBC which style they seem to emulate.

Sure... propoganda emulating propoganda, which had originally emulated propoganda.

Does anybody still even believe anything they see on the news? People should really take a few film classes and learn how big media manipulates the will of the sheep through their storytelling and careful manipulation of the facts....

Do I doubt that this scenario and others like it happen? Not at all.....

But this is one of the few cases where I'm going to have to support Hero and Jongs 100%.... This is pure anti-American bullshit and I won't give it another second of my time. Ask the women over there who have been raped and stoned to death for thousands of years before America's meddling and imperialism just how different their lives are today than they were yesterday.

Shit like this is what's going to make us nothing more than a seat at the UN table. Don't be a hater because you want what I got. Make yourself better and get it yourself....

And for [insert your god here]'s sake, if you're an American, stop hating yourself and your country. We are still great and have the ability to be the great nation we are capable of being. Certain individuals need to be purged is all, and remember, just because it was a Rethug that got us into this shit doesn't mean that the answer in 2008 is a Democrat.

"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack

AURAPTOR

Sunday, August 19, 2007 11:32 AM

Where's a good Companion Guild when you really need one ?

People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

KOILA

Tuesday, August 21, 2007 2:46 AM

I saw something horrible last night on the news last night, it talked about how there are those in China who take 5-6-7 year old girls, starve them and put them in a boxing ring to fight, only after they fight do they get food.

GINOBIFFARONI

Tuesday, August 21, 2007 4:27 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by koila:
I saw something horrible last night on the news last night, it talked about how there are those in China who take 5-6-7 year old girls, starve them and put them in a boxing ring to fight, only after they fight do they get food.

Do you have a link ? looked but couldn't find anything about this ?

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