Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: floo on March 22, 2017, 03:26:14 PM
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39355940
This is HORRIFIC. :o
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Had posted thread and then saw this.
And possibly a car crash as well. Have a lot of friends that could have been around the the HoP, and as Walter has noted his daughter is nearby
At this stage, we need more details.
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Sadly it was only a matter of time before the UK had a nasty incident like this.
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The UK has lived with this kind of incident for as long as I can remember.
My thoughts are with all concerned.
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Had posted thread and then saw this.
And possibly a car crash as well. Have a lot of friends that could have been around the the HoP, and as Walter has noted his daughter is nearby
At this stage, we need more details.
well my daughter is safe but is not allowed to leave her office at the moment, my thoughts are now with those who have been affected
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I'm glad she's ok.
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I'm glad she's ok.
thank you , she's my baby x
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JEEZ !
have you heard the BBC trying to milk it for a story , no wonder journalists come in for a hard time . Wait until you can provide NEWS you desperate twats .
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Just heard the news, at work so just caught up in my break.
Glad Walters daughter is ok.
We don't know what it's about yet, could be a mentally disturbed person, rather than a terrorist, won't hold my breath though.
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Exactly one year since Brussels terror attack, sounds significant.
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Glad Walter's daughter's OK. Latest is that one woman has died after the bridge incident.
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Just heard the news, at work so just caught up in my break.
Glad Walters daughter is ok.
We don't know what it's about yet, could be a mentally disturbed person, rather than a terrorist, won't hold my breath though.
I'm next to an airbase , and I saw a QRA go up TYPHOONS good in the air but not on our streets
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I'm next to an airbase , and I saw a QRA go up TYPHOONS good in the air but not on our streets
I have to turn off the BBC NEWS now it is becoming offensive . Too many grad students , and old hacks trying to make a name for themselves
especially that LAURA CUENSBERG She will confirm the earth is flat if it means she will have work
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I have been looking at some of the images that are on a newspaper website, and I'm seeing pictures of ordinary people showing huge compassion and bravery in helping the injured. One man (it seems) has caused devastation but many more will be remembered for the goodness they've shown today.
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I have been looking at some of the images that are on a newspaper website, and I'm seeing pictures of ordinary people showing huge compassion and bravery in helping the injured. One man (it seems) has caused devastation but many more will be remembered for the goodness they've shown today.
and I like making plum jam
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Just seen that one person has been rescued from the Thames.
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JEEZ !
have you heard the BBC trying to milk it for a story
It is a story, no milking needed.
no wonder journalists come in for a hard time . Wait until you can provide NEWS you desperate twats .
The constant requirement for instant news caused by 24 hour news channels and social media has led to the demand to publish anything, verified or not as soon as possible. This would be an interesting topic for a thread, but I don't want to derail this one any further.
I hope your family all come through this safely.
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Obviously the comments on Yahoo News aren't the best place to look for evidence of people whose though processes are quicker than that of the average earthworm, but I did think this perhaps the most spectacularly stupid comment of the day so far.
If police had guns, that first officer would not have been shot.
So the police that shot the attacker were armed with dandelions and tickling sticks then.
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Beggars belief.
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It is a story, no milking needed.
The constant requirement for instant news caused by 24 hour news channels and social media has led to the demand to publish anything, verified or not as soon as possible. This would be an interesting topic for a thread, but I don't want to derail this one any further.
I hope your family all come through this safely.
thanks , my daughter is not affected . Start your thread , my particular most annoying person is LAURA CUENSBERG
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Obviously the comments on Yahoo News aren't the best place to look for evidence of people whose though processes are quicker than that of the average earthworm, but I did think this perhaps the most spectacularly stupid comment of the day so far.
If police had guns, that first officer would not have been shot.
So the police that shot the attacker were armed with dandelions and tickling sticks then.
My understanding of the event is that the dead policeman was armed.
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My understanding of the event is that the dead policeman was armed.
Reports say he was not armed.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39359158
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You are right - my earlier comment is not correct. I made it because my recollection was that I had seen a senior Scotland Yard official making a statement. He had been asked whether the dead officer was a member of the armed response unit and he had replied "yes".
However, my earlier response was my immediate response to the incredibly stupid comment referred to earlier. I apologise for my mistake.
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You are right - my earlier comment is not correct. I made it because my recollection was that I had seen a senior Scotland Yard official making a statement. He had been asked whether the dead officer was a member of the armed response unit and he had replied "yes".
However, my earlier response was my immediate response to the incredibly stupid comment referred to earlier. I apologise for my mistake.
Apparently there is a lot of misinformation out there.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/janelytvynenko/heres-the-misinformation-spreading-about-the-london-attack?utm_term=.ncMLLkrvl#.qg6zzvlx1
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The police, and everyone else appears to be armed in the US, in consequence gun crime atrocities are common. I am glad our police are not routinely armed.
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Odd to hear victims described as foreigners by Michael Fallon
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The apple does not fall far....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39361079
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That is stupid and broders on slander.
Not surprising but I am in a way surprised, I thought Trump's children were better than him.
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That is stupid and broders on slander.
Not surprising but I am in a way surprised, I thought Trump's children were better than him.
Anything produced by Trump is bound to be tainted! >:(
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The Mash does well
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/london-in-grip-of-normality-20170323124711
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Trying to carry on as normal is putting two fingers up to extremist scum.
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Of course civilians get killed elsewhere
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/us-air-strikes-mosul-230-civilians-killed-dead-isis-held-iraq-battle-islamic-state-a7646011.html?cmpid=facebook-post
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Trying to carry on as normal is putting two fingers up to extremist scum.
Says Floo, starting to sound like an extremist.
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Says Floo, starting to sound like an extremist.
Nope.
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Trying to carry on as normal is putting two fingers up to extremist scum.
Yup it is quite amazing how quickly people do get back to normal too. They still have to go to work & live their lives but dont ever feel quite the same if they've been close to a terrorist attack. The general feeling is that lightening wont' strike in same place twice. (Same applies to other disasters, i remember the Kings Cross fire & aftermath. Another girl &I couldn;t get in to work & when we found out why, realised how lucky we were but others travelling on different route were less so.)
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Yup it is quite amazing how quickly people do get back to normal too. They still have to go to work & live their lives but dont ever feel quite the same if they've been close to a terrorist attack. The general feeling is that lightening wont' strike in same place twice. (Same applies to other disasters, i remember the Kings Cross fire & aftermath. Another girl &I couldn;t get in to work & when we found out why, realised how lucky we were but others travelling on different route were less so.)
Not sure about never feeling the same. I have been in proximity to three bombs when they went off, and while one was a bit pathetic, the other two were pretty scary. Never realm changed how I felt about the places.
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There are some worrying features about this attack which are apparently unaddressed by the "standard" model of terrorism. Trump-like (or even Brexit-like) restrictions on immigration would not have prevented this attack. Nor would security checks at airports.
We appear to have a perception that people who commit terrorist acts are young - this man was middle aged and born in Kent. We perceive terrorists to be heavily armed or are wearing explosives under their clothes - this man carried kitchen knives and drove a motor vehicle. The seemingly commonplace could be becoming the weapon of choice.
No doubt Trump would say "Stop Muslims from driving motor vehicles ..."
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Not sure about never feeling the same. I have been in proximity to three bombs when they went off, and while one was a bit pathetic, the other two were pretty scary. Never realm changed how I felt about the places.
I was in London on the day of the 7/7 attacks. In fact, I got on a Circle line train at Paddington quite normally and was made to get off at Bank (I had been on my way to a merchant bank near Liverpool Street) which means my train must have passed the one with the Edgeware Road bomb in it and was behind the one with the Aldgate bomb.
We were locked in the bank's office all day and let out around 5pm. I then walked to Waterloo Station which was quite an odd experience because there was no vehicle traffic of any kind in central London and thousands of pedestrians walking, mostly in silence. There was the usual rhetoric and hysteria in the papers about London being in fear and panic, but I saw none of that at all. I just saw people trying to get home.
The next day everything was back to normal and as with you, it didn't change the way I felt about London or the underground at all.
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More information is coming out about the killer - I wonder what his sources of income were.
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I'm confused by the calls for the government to have access to WhatsApp's encrypted messages (eg Amber Rudd on the Andrew Marr programme).
Surely the police have access to Masood's phone, and must have broken into it to be able to see that he was on WhatsApp? If not, are they are not able to break into the phone?.