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leveymg

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8. The lessons of WW2 have been largely forgotten. This is an age of legal and humanitarian decline

Reply to JEB (Reply #5)

Mon Jun 20, 2016, 12:07 PM

Jun 2016

Most western leaders don't even make lip service to refugees and international law. Everyone on the move is merely a "migrant," except for those with money. They're "investors," and welcome everywhere the American Express Card is.

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Refugee Planet: There Have Never Been This Many Displaced People on Earth [View all] JEB Jun 2016 OP

Chaos. CJCRANE Jun 2016 #1

Intentional policy? JEB Jun 2016 #2

The UN Refugee Treaty is openly violated by state interdiction and refoulement leveymg Jun 2016 #3

It's much easier to use refugees JEB Jun 2016 #5

The lessons of WW2 have been largely forgotten. This is an age of legal and humanitarian decline leveymg Jun 2016 #8

Every decision is based on money. Sad and ruinous. JEB Jun 2016 #10

Because there has never been this many people on the Earth FLPanhandle Jun 2016 #4

Unfortunately that looks like the graph ofa population JEB Jun 2016 #6

Yep. FLPanhandle Jun 2016 #7

If it were a stock market index, one would call this a "bubble." What usually follows is a "crash." leveymg Jun 2016 #9

I studied evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. hunter Jun 2016 #11

Just one of many reasons why I became an antinatalist Dalziel3979 Jun 2016 #15

This message was self-deleted by its author Dalziel3979 Jun 2016 #14

So many people, so many guns, so much carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses. hunter Jun 2016 #12

Think of it as a business oportunity. nt JEB Jun 2016 #13