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Britain sucks for the young...
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rgraham666
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Canada didn't do all that well.
It will be getting worse too.
It will be getting worse too.
pop_54
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minsue said:
Only just pipped the US though Min
It's mainly due to the 'mock' socialist society that we are in such a state... This crew in government now who claim to be the peoples party and socialist are a bigger load of crooks and conn men than any so called right wing party we've ever had in power... Britain doesn't just suck for the young it sucks 'period'...I chuckle at the statement that Britain is a wealthy country... it is if you're a stock broker, foreign investor, government minister/politician or government hanger-on, or insolvency accountant... The real people are the highest taxed and most shit on in the free world at the moment... It's no wonder kids never see their parents cos they both have to work full time just to pay the mortgage and fucking council tax...
As for kids running riot and drinking, etc, etc... you don't want my rant on that one, it'll only offend the politically correct among us
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pop_54 said:Only just pipped the US though Min
I chuckle at the statement that Britain is a wealthy country... it is if you're a stock broker, foreign investor, government minister/politician or government hanger-on, or insolvency accountant... The real people are the highest taxed and most shit on in the free world at the moment... It's no wonder kids never see their parents cos they both have to work full time just to pay the mortgage and fucking council tax...
As for kids running riot and drinking, etc, etc... you don't want my rant on that one, it'll only offend the politically correct among us
<hugs Pops>
Agree with everything you say
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Who does UNICEF suck for?
(Not totally facetious - UN agencies are often something very different from what they want you to think they are.)
(Not totally facetious - UN agencies are often something very different from what they want you to think they are.)
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Roxanne Appleby said:
I forgot to mention UNICEF senior employees in the rich list didn't I
We didn't need anyone to tell us though... It's been quite obvious to all how things have degenerated over the years since I was a kid... And we were genuinely poor back in those days, financially speaking, but we had respect for our elders, respect for ourselves, respect for the law... We were also a bloody sight healthier and a lot less stressed out.
(57 of us ther wer... livin int shoe box ont side of motorway)
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Not sure how they weigh the factors there. With the current state of failing basic education (both private and public seems to fuck it up), increasing unemployment and poverty for older teens and young parents, and a rampant language based class abyss between young first generation immigrants and the rest of society, I'm suprised we swedes got so high. If I could choose, I'd probably raise my contribution to the gene pool in Norway.
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If you think the UK is bad for children, read this!
Taliban flee battle using children as shields: NATO By Terry Friel
Wed Feb 14, 8:40 AM ET
KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban fighters used children as human shields to flee heavy fighting this week during an operation by foreign and Afghan forces to clear rebels from around a key hydro-electric dam, NATO said on Wednesday.
The Taliban have used human shields before, but never children, local residents say.
The fighting occurred during Operation Kryptonite on Monday, an offensive to clear insurgents from the Kajaki Dam area in southern Helmand province to allow repairs to its power plants and the installation of extra capacity.
"During this action ... Taliban extremists resorted to the use of human shields. Specifically, using local Afghan children to cover as they escaped out of the area," Colonel Tom Collins, a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), told reporters in Kabul.
The Kajaki Dam fighting was in an area where 700 mainly foreign fighters, including Chechens, Pakistanis and Uzbeks, arrived from Pakistan this week to reinforce Taliban guerrillas.
NATO also said it killed a senior local Taliban commander and several comrades in a pre-dawn air-strike on Wednesday between the dam and the rebel-held town of Musa Qala to the west, but denied residents' accounts civilians were also killed.
TARGETING REBEL LEADERS
The leader, identified by police and tribal elders as Mullah Manan, was involved in the capture of Musa Qala 13 days ago and clashes around Kajaki.
NATO said its soldiers saw 11 bodies, all fighting-age males, dragged from the wreckage by Taliban fighters. Provincial police said Manan and at least eight more Taliban were killed and that they had no word of civilian casualties.
But local residents and elders said civilians also died.
"It is a well-known enemy tactic to try to blame civilian casualties on ISAF forces," Collins said in a statement.
"We continue to conduct specific shaping operations -- to go after specific Taliban extremists, the leadership who are impacting the enemy's operations," he told reporters later.
The Interior Ministry said it has also arrested a Taliban leader in the province of Khost.
The Kajaki dam has seen major fighting in recent weeks between the Taliban and NATO forces, mainly British and Dutch.
NATO-led forces have been conducting operations in the area for several months to allow reconstruction on the dam and the power transmission lines to boost output, after fighting halted repair and development work last year.
The Taliban cannot destroy the dam, which would also flood a large area of the Helmand Valley, but its tactics are aimed at making it too unsafe for work to go ahead.
The dam was first built on the Helmand river in the 1950s.
Its hydroelectric plants, with a generating capacity of 33 megawatts, were installed in 1975. Once fully operational, the dam will bring electricity to 1.8 million people, NATO says.
Taliban flee battle using children as shields: NATO By Terry Friel
Wed Feb 14, 8:40 AM ET
KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban fighters used children as human shields to flee heavy fighting this week during an operation by foreign and Afghan forces to clear rebels from around a key hydro-electric dam, NATO said on Wednesday.
The Taliban have used human shields before, but never children, local residents say.
The fighting occurred during Operation Kryptonite on Monday, an offensive to clear insurgents from the Kajaki Dam area in southern Helmand province to allow repairs to its power plants and the installation of extra capacity.
"During this action ... Taliban extremists resorted to the use of human shields. Specifically, using local Afghan children to cover as they escaped out of the area," Colonel Tom Collins, a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), told reporters in Kabul.
The Kajaki Dam fighting was in an area where 700 mainly foreign fighters, including Chechens, Pakistanis and Uzbeks, arrived from Pakistan this week to reinforce Taliban guerrillas.
NATO also said it killed a senior local Taliban commander and several comrades in a pre-dawn air-strike on Wednesday between the dam and the rebel-held town of Musa Qala to the west, but denied residents' accounts civilians were also killed.
TARGETING REBEL LEADERS
The leader, identified by police and tribal elders as Mullah Manan, was involved in the capture of Musa Qala 13 days ago and clashes around Kajaki.
NATO said its soldiers saw 11 bodies, all fighting-age males, dragged from the wreckage by Taliban fighters. Provincial police said Manan and at least eight more Taliban were killed and that they had no word of civilian casualties.
But local residents and elders said civilians also died.
"It is a well-known enemy tactic to try to blame civilian casualties on ISAF forces," Collins said in a statement.
"We continue to conduct specific shaping operations -- to go after specific Taliban extremists, the leadership who are impacting the enemy's operations," he told reporters later.
The Interior Ministry said it has also arrested a Taliban leader in the province of Khost.
The Kajaki dam has seen major fighting in recent weeks between the Taliban and NATO forces, mainly British and Dutch.
NATO-led forces have been conducting operations in the area for several months to allow reconstruction on the dam and the power transmission lines to boost output, after fighting halted repair and development work last year.
The Taliban cannot destroy the dam, which would also flood a large area of the Helmand Valley, but its tactics are aimed at making it too unsafe for work to go ahead.
The dam was first built on the Helmand river in the 1950s.
Its hydroelectric plants, with a generating capacity of 33 megawatts, were installed in 1975. Once fully operational, the dam will bring electricity to 1.8 million people, NATO says.
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It can't be that bad, surely. There's a total trend of Britain/America bashing, I wouldn't be surprised if it was symptomatic of that.
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Seamus123 said:
"I never gave anybody hell. I just told them the truth and they thought it was hell." Harry Truman.
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Apperently many of the questions were suspect like - 'Do you like school?' 'How anxious are you?' Lets guess what a teenage would answer to thise questions!
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pop_54 said:
Got it in one Pop!
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Considering what an overflowing bucket of piss and corruption the UN has become, I'm surprised they have the cojones to criticize anyone about anything.
Much less how countries are 'failing their children'.
Compare the original UN charter to it's track record. Abject failure at everything except spending other peoples money.
Get off the stage and STFU, UN, your 15 minutes have expired.
Much less how countries are 'failing their children'.
Compare the original UN charter to it's track record. Abject failure at everything except spending other peoples money.
Get off the stage and STFU, UN, your 15 minutes have expired.
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The UN is not perfect. No human institution is.
But without it we return to the international anarchy that characterized the world before WWI.
Should that happen that new anarchy will end the same way as well. And this time all the major powers involved have weapons of mass destruction.
To quote Henry Cabot Lodge, Republican Senator and ambassador to the UN, "This organization is created to keep you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven."
But without it we return to the international anarchy that characterized the world before WWI.
Should that happen that new anarchy will end the same way as well. And this time all the major powers involved have weapons of mass destruction.
To quote Henry Cabot Lodge, Republican Senator and ambassador to the UN, "This organization is created to keep you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven."
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I'm not surprised
British kids don't really have a childhood anymore.
In the education system, they're assessed constantly from the age of 5 upwards - not because it'll help them, but because it provides governments with the necessary numbers to crunch and manipulate, and then project as evidence that they're doing a good job of governing the country.
There are far fewer school trips. after-school clubs and other youth organisations. Why? Because we've become a nation of such legal parasites that people are too scared to set them up.
We're constantly blurring the boundaries of childhood and adulthood - bras for seven-year-olds, clothes with lewd messages scrawled across them...
There's a growing tendency to turn children into status symbols - lavish ££££ birthday celebrations, designer clothes and haircuts, top range cellphones, I-Pods, and increased parent competitiveness when it comes to sporting events or academic excellence.
Because of the housing shortage, most of the parks and green playing spaces are vanishing. There's nowhere for them to go in their leisure time, apart from on the streets, where they incur the wrath of local residents and cement their status as outcasts.
I'm not surprised they're unhappy - in a knee-jerk response to the uncertainties of the world around us, we're raising them in a bubble with shallow ideals and a complete lack of any excitement.
Unless you have super-cool parents, it must suck to be young in Britain.
British kids don't really have a childhood anymore.
In the education system, they're assessed constantly from the age of 5 upwards - not because it'll help them, but because it provides governments with the necessary numbers to crunch and manipulate, and then project as evidence that they're doing a good job of governing the country.
There are far fewer school trips. after-school clubs and other youth organisations. Why? Because we've become a nation of such legal parasites that people are too scared to set them up.
We're constantly blurring the boundaries of childhood and adulthood - bras for seven-year-olds, clothes with lewd messages scrawled across them...
There's a growing tendency to turn children into status symbols - lavish ££££ birthday celebrations, designer clothes and haircuts, top range cellphones, I-Pods, and increased parent competitiveness when it comes to sporting events or academic excellence.
Because of the housing shortage, most of the parks and green playing spaces are vanishing. There's nowhere for them to go in their leisure time, apart from on the streets, where they incur the wrath of local residents and cement their status as outcasts.
I'm not surprised they're unhappy - in a knee-jerk response to the uncertainties of the world around us, we're raising them in a bubble with shallow ideals and a complete lack of any excitement.
Unless you have super-cool parents, it must suck to be young in Britain.
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