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Thracian

Thracian

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Why were they depressed?

 

Another one. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/anguish-mum-son-betrayed-tories-7222660

 

Although IDS office now saying there was a 'mix up' and he will visit her after all.

 

 

 

You are so crass. You don't know anything the circumstances, the people involved,or the hurt other people are feeling including those who might have made mistakes.

People kill themselves in prison - do you just blame the judge who sentenced them! This is a tragedy and sounds as if it's been a sad and sorry saga all along. It doesn't need your kind of political cheapshot.     

Rincewind

Rincewind

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They are two different stories.

 

For the first I asked what I thought was a reasonable question as to why were they depressed  and the circumstances.

The second was to do with IDS and a mother with a severely disabled son who has had her ILA cut by half and wrote to IDS as he is her MP to visit. They replied he does not do home visits. She is unable to go to his office as it is above a shop with no wheelchair access plus she can no longer afford a carer for her son if she went on her  own. His office has now retracted what they said earlier and he will make a home visit. 

So they are just two sad stories, the first that I was not the OP.

Rincewind

Rincewind

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Do you think the benefit system is too generous? Not for all it seems. She is a full time carer and a mother in her forties who had to give up work to take care of a young daughter and was recently widowed to man who worked all his life until developing terminal cancer. She also had to take care of her husband when he became ill.

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/if-youve-ever-said-the-benefits-system-isnt-harsh-enough-you-need-to-hear-about-my-life-as-a-widowed-a6825946.html

 

There are a few abusing the system but there comes a point when the cuts start to hit the ones that are most vulnerable.

Have we become a nation of 'me firsts? I would hate to think so and do not believe it either the posters on here in in the country as a whole.

Guest MattP

Guest MattP

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There have barely been any cuts, welfare spending is actually still rising.

Where would you make cuts from Ken?

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Thracian

Thracian

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http://www.iraqinews.com/arab-world-news/saudi-warplanes-arrive-turkey-ankara-supports-sending-ground-troops-syria/

Saudi is a Sunni stronghold.

Turkey is Sunni dominated.

Turkey's Erdogan wants a caliphate, rather like IS

IS is Sunni dominated.

Iran is Shia dominated and themselves active in Syria.

Iraq army is Shia dominated but trying to be inclusive.

For me this is becoming the most horrific tinderbox with Russia being so active in Syria and Nato being obliged to come to the defence of Turkey if attacked.

The story sounds seems relatively mundane among the rubble of stories about the wartorn Middle East.

But the consequences are ever more potentially horrific and may yet suck the whole world from China to America intothe seething black hole that is Syria.

Thracian

Thracian

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http://www.iraqinews.com/arab-world-news/saudi-warplanes-arrive-turkey-ankara-supports-sending-ground-troops-syria/

Saudi is a Sunni stronghold.

Turkey is Sunni dominated.

Turkey's Erdogan wants a caliphate, rather like IS

IS is Sunni dominated.

Iran is Shia dominated, themselves active in Syria and surely certain to be more involved now.

Iraq army is Shia dominated but trying to be inclusive.

For me this is becoming the most horrific tinderbox with Russia being so active in Syria and Nato being obliged to come to the defence of Turkey if attacked.

The story sounds seems relatively mundane among the rubble of stories about the wartorn Middle East.

But the consequences are ever more potentially horrific and may yet suck the whole world from China to America intothe seething black hole that is Syria.

And right on cue:

http://www.iraqinews.com/arab-world-news/russia-we-will-deliver-s-300-missiles-to-iran-soon/

Meanwhile more on Turkey's seemingly conflicting role as the Kurds close in: http://www.todayszaman.com/diplomacy_russia-claims-turkey-supplies-isil-via-syrian-town-of-azaz_412502.html?

Thracian

Thracian

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It's an opinion but different aspects and reference to the developing situation are everywhere. And I've mentioned months ago that sooner or later we'll have to decide whether we're with Ankara or the Russians, Saudi or Iran, Sunni or Shia.

Outline an alternative scenario by all means. I'm all ears and would truly love to hear it or any kind of solution to the mess. I can't believe the weaponry detail for a minute but day-by-day you can see the germs of this situation developing and the clear difference between public stance and private aims of different factions.

Egypt is clearly aware and has distanced itself from any concept of being involved in a war with Syria but eventually different nations may be pushed one way or another by their majorities if big powers clash any harder.

http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160209/1034478496/loud-clear-erdogans-ultimatum.html

http://www.globalfirepower.com/country-military-strength-detail.asp?country_id=Saudi-Arabia

Thracian

Thracian

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It's an opinion but different aspects and reference to the developing situation are everywhere. And I've mentioned months ago that sooner or later we'll have to decide whether we're with Ankara or the Russians, Saudi or Iran, Sunni or Shia.

Outline an alternative scenario by all means. I'm all ears and would truly love to hear it or any kind of solution to the mess. I can't believe the weaponry detail for a minute but day-by-day you can see the germs of this situation developing and the clear difference between public stance and private aims of different factions.

Egypt is clearly aware and has distanced itself from any concept of being involved in a war with Syria but eventually different nations may be pushed one way or another by their majorities if big powers clash any harder.

http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160209/1034478496/loud-clear-erdogans-ultimatum.html

http://www.globalfirepower.com/country-military-strength-detail.asp?country_id=Saudi-Arabia

Surely there's no way NATO will support Turkey on this but a decision will have to be made and it will likely have massive consequences whatever. Germany is already re-muscling for the first time since the end of WW11.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/feb/21/l-todd-wood-nato-getting-scared/?

Thracian

Thracian

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Surely there's no way NATO will support Turkey on this but a decision will have to be made and it will likely have massive consequences whatever. Germany is already re-muscling for the first time since the end of WW11.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/feb/21/l-todd-wood-nato-getting-scared/?

It must be so hard to know who your allies are over there....

http://www.todayszaman.com/national_daily-turkish-border-officers-cooperate-with-isil_412973.html

MC Prussian

MC Prussian

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An Uzbek nanny kills the four-year old daughter of the Moscow woman she had been working for, then parades the kid's head around in front of a metro station before her arrest:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3469100/Woman-black-burka-holding-child-s-severed-HEAD-shouting-Allahu-Akbar-shuts-metro-station-Moscow.html

 

It's incidents like this that make you doubt humanity. Rationality and common sense still prevail, though.

Thracian

Thracian

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An Uzbek nanny kills the four-year old daughter of the Moscow woman she had been working for, then parades the kid's head around in front of a metro station before her arrest:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3469100/Woman-black-burka-holding-child-s-severed-HEAD-shouting-Allahu-Akbar-shuts-metro-station-Moscow.html

 

It's incidents like this that make you doubt humanity. Rationality and common sense still prevail, though.

I'm surprised you think so. I'd say the bloodbaths of recent decades have been a disgrace to humanity and the kind of people supposedly sane, rational thinkers elect or accept as their leaders, not just here but in so many countries.

A leader without wisdom is like a cock without blood. It is a joyless experience for all involved.

Alf Bentley

Alf Bentley

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Not sure if this should be in the "amusing news stories" thread or "sad news stories", but "sad" in the modern sense covers both: http://www.iol.co.za/news/world/son-accidentally-shoots-pro-gun-mom-1995899

 

"Florida - A four-year-old boy accidentally shot his mother in the back, leaving the passionately pro-gun woman badly wounded and facing possible charges, Florida officials said on Wednesday.

Staunch gun advocate Jamie Gilt, 31, who just a day earlier had boasted online about her toddler's shooting prowess, was cruising down a major thoroughfare with her son in the back when he shot her on Tuesday. The bullet went through the seat cushion".

 

According to the gun lobby, she'd have been safer if she'd had a gun, too, so that she could shoot back. That's how the argument goes, isn't it?

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