2 deaths, 90 injured confirmed in an appearent terrorist attack on the London Tube and the Bus system. They were both hit by explosions multiple times. Fucking terrorists

Watching Sky News Now

Atleast 6 Consecutive Explosions.. Sad

BBC World is saying that there have been 7 confirmed explosions and that people are still trapped underground in Tube stations. They reckon it's also possible that several trains have collided in the confusion.

All kinds of fucked up shit in London today

Damn, it looks like the death toll is rising. CNN is reporting that rescuers are seeing more fatalities.

My heart goes out to all Brits who may read this.

We just need to turn the middle east into a sheet of glass. Let them try again in about 5000 years when the radiation wears off.

That's the most ignorant, idiotic comment I've read on these boards in quite some time.

We need to remove Western influence from any country in the Middle East that doesn't want Western influence. That's all these groups want, relief from foreign countries fucking with their politics. It's not a big ask.

LOL Go cry me a fucking river.

I think it's your own countrymen that lost 3 major buildings, 5000 civilians and 1000+ military personal to the War On Terror so far.

Who do you think's crying that river, you witless monkey?

LOL Well considering that us dropping a nuke anywhere, much less the middle east, would be the end of life as we know it, I just wrote that to see what you fuckers would say. Congratulations, you jumped right on the bandwagon. I wish we would get out of Iraq and go find Osama. Yeah Saddam was a dick, but he didn't blow up half of New York. At least these attacks don't seem too bad so far. I guess we'll really only know the total of the devastation once they pull those people out of the subway that they are talking about on the news.

Nah I posted the exact same quote on my forums to see what people say over there also. Nobody has responded yet, but it will interesting to see.

Of course you're right, it's as near-sighted to say "everyone in the middle-East hate the West!" as to say "all Muslims are potential terrorists". Which I why I prefaced it by saying any country that doesn't want Western influence.



Yeah, back-peddle now you gutless motherfucker. Did you know the Allies (as we were nostalgically called in '91) dropped depleted uranium warheads on Southern Iraq during the Gulf War? Hundreds of thousands of kids are now dying of childhood cancers that weren't present in the last generation, all denied basic medical care for a decade because of the US-sponsored UN embargoes on Saddam (and cancer medication somehow falls under dual-use substances). Bush Snr is actually under investigation by The Hague for war crimes because it happened during his presidency (wait not common knowledge in the USA? Not surprising! ) So y'know, maybe we could have saved a few kids some pain & suffering by just nuking their parents. Maybe your plan isn't such a bad one afterall.

Removing Western influence isnt the answer. These little groups shouldnt be able to dictate what people in Middle Eastern countries get to influenced by. Many people there are happy with Western influence. Why remove it simply to appease a small groups of troublemakers who care not for the opinions of the greater part of their compatriots?

Much as I agree the way forward is not with fighting, but with dialogue and peaceful actions, completely wilting and giving these groups all they ask is not the answer. Especially not when these people have little regard for anyone that doesnt see things their way (non-extremist compatriots), and would likely take advantage of the situation for their own good, and not that of the Middle Eastern region as a whole.

Edit: Great, clarify while I'm typing my response, bastard. Well, still...Middle Eastern countries that dont want Western influence? How do you determine that? By the government in place? By the will of the people despite what the government dictates?

Proof please. Not saying I don't believe it, but just would like something to quantify your claim.

Google is your friend

"According to official figures, American troops alone fired at least 14,000 rounds (or 40 tons) of DU ordnance in Kuwait and southern Iraq during Operation Desert Storm. Independent scientists have estimated that US warplanes fired more than 500,000 DU rounds over Kosova, half of which detonated. Elevated radiation levels were reported during and soon after the Kosova war. In 1999 scientists in northern Greece and Bulgaria reported above-normal radiation levels whenever the wind blew from Kosova."

Try looking for yourself next time, monkey.

I dunno Dags, I think there's got to be enough land in the world that we can put people who want this kind of thing here and people who want that kind of thing there and the need for conflict is never an issue. It's probably quite simplistic and people have ties to their land but I dunno, why can't peoples who want different things just move to where they can live however they want?

LOL yeah that site wouldnt be biased or anything.

The use of depleted uranium in the US army (ammunition and tank shielding) is a well-known fact.

Look here

It quotes official figures and sadly I'm not on the Pentagon's press release list. If you want to find out the same informatio from another source, gtfomf and find it you lazy little ingrate.

Actually, I'll do the hard yards for you (as you're no doubt used to someone else doing for you) and let you click any of the options at the end of this link

The death toll is now up to at least 40. This is so sad.

That's the type of information I was looking for. Although we did use it, it still says at the bottom of that article that the consequences of using DU are unclear. Some people (Iraqi and US) exposed have had health problems, while others have not.

OMG, because people who have been exposed to a source of radiation have not gotten sick it must mean it's harmless!!!!

I'd suggest you grow a few brain cells, but I realise the futility of that. Exposure to lower levels of radiation do not always produce singularily consistent clinical outcomes in all persons irradiated to varying levels. Some people will not show any short-term symptoms but will suffer from the effects of said radiation further on during their life.

From CNN:

The statement said Islam and "Arabism" could "rejoice for it is time to take revenge from the British Zionist Crusader government in retaliation for the massacres Britain is committing in Iraq and Afghanistan."

"The heroic mujahideen have carried out a blessed raid in London," the statement said, translated from Arabic.

"Britain is now burning with fear, terror and panic in its northern, southern, eastern and western quarters. We have repeatedly warned the British Government and people."

The statement said the group had carried out the attack after exerting "strenuous efforts over a long period of time to ensure its success."

"We continue to warn the governments of Denmark and Italy and all the Crusader governments that they will be punished in the same way if they do not withdraw their troops from Iraq and Afghanistan," it said. "He who warns is excused."


Bring it on, you crazy sandniggers. I'll take you on myself if you come near Ohio.

I never said its harmless, I said its unclear how harmful it really is. Which is exactly what the article that was linked to said. I'd like to see a study done on what the effects our weapons had on our guys and the iraqi population, but I doubt that will ever happen as long as we are running the place.

My sis missed her train to Kings Cross this morning... scary stuff.

Wow. Glad to hear she was late, Ternian.

Begin the World War will.

These sandniggers are merely responding to ongoing state terrorism.

Check and mate. Well said.

edit: but that's only cos they told us that in school. my world history teacher was crazy. he once dressed up as Osama bin Laden to try and teach the class about his motives and such, and the next day his class got tagged with pro-USA bullshit.

I disagree. Living in a Western country where you can read and write, eat regularlyand drink clean water, you already have a massive advatage on half the world's population. On top of that you can use the internet to reach people who think differently and try to persuade them to a more rational way of thinking. If you feel like you're powerless, consider the ability the poor fuckers locked in factories sewing Nike shoes in Indonesia have to effect change.

Given that you seemed to completely and utterly miss IU's point, perhaps you ought to try reading his post again.

This is unfortunate.

Maybe the "read/write sentence" didn't apply to you. I know you need to feel like you disagree with me on everything because of....I dunno.....whatever.....but seriously dude, get a fucking clue.

Quit being so fucking dense. If this is a comedy routine, it's not working. The "point" of his paragraph was quite fucking clearly that if you can read and write, eat regularly and drink clean water, you already have a massive advantage on half the world's population. Not a goddamn thing there about living in America exclusively.

Try staying on topic for a change. This thread isn't about your ass-backwards myopic view of American life.

Are you crack or what?
When did the French, Italians, Canadians, Germans, Belgians, Spanish, Australians, English and umpteen other industrialised nations in Europe, Nth America & Oceania lose the freedom to education, food and clean water? Where the fuck is your head? It's getting embarrassing now, plz stop.



But you're arguing for the sake of arguing, you don't stand a chance of changing anyone's opinion about anything here because we see you for asshat you are!

Well I'm here to tell you my context: not limited to Nth America & Canada but include Europe and Oceania. You're the kind of small child who read encyclodpedia's that I encouraged my friends to beat on in high school.

When do you plan on migrating to apoa with the rest?

:gb2apoa: plz

So Wikipedia, which is edited by average people, and therefore open to all the bias and retardedness of average people, is an "official" source?

Besides, its quite obvious that the wikipedia reference is just referring to the short-sighted opinions of some Americans that anything existing outside of the North American continent is just strange and foreign and should be treated as lesser than American (See: George Dubya and his band of neo-conservatives fucknuts).

In mainstream terms "Western" refers to North America, Oceania, Europe. Mainly those places dominated denominationally and culturally by caucasians. Other than that you have Asian and Middle Eastern and blah blah blah.

Wikipedia is usually fine, it's just that cod doc didn't quote the wikipedia article in it's full context. He even cut it off mid-sentence.

Western Countries

[Depending on context, the Western countries may be restricted to Canada and the United States, the member countries of the European Union, Switzerland, Iceland and Norway. A broader definition might extend to include Australia and New Zealand. It is sometimes extended to include the wealthier (per capita) democratic Latin American and Caribbean countries, South Africa and Israel...]

He's just being deliberately idiotic. No one could be that stupid.

Anyone who is of the mind that Wikipedia is a valid source of information for an arguement is completely deluded. Unless something is regulated and has some sort of editorial process it is in no way a valid reference (and no, just because it is "self-regulating" does not cut it any more than a generic web page does, and if in doubt I'd suggest you go have a look at some of Wikipedia's SW related entries, there are some massively glaring errors in them).


And as a lesson in educating your dumb arse, "Western" countries are those that are of the classification of "First World" countries with political leanings that are in line with that of capitalism region of the political spectrum.

The 'official' demarkation of a "First World" country is defined by a mix of it's GDP, population, government, industrialisation and a few other factors. It's been too long since I have had to study anything that was linked to political/economic definitions so I'm a bit rusty on it, but it mainly refers to Northern America, the UK, large amounts of Europe (especially now with the advent of the EU), Russia and a couple of the former Soviet states, and a few of the Oceanic members of the British Commonwealth. As far as I can remember India and Taiwan if it escapes from Chinese control and gains full independance were the only Asian countries that were approaching "First World" standards a few years ago (although both have separate but large stumbling blocks from reaching that point).


Nowdays in general terms "Western" is used to identify the major capitalist based countries around the entire world, not just one tiny section of the globe.

So go and actually learn a little bit about what you are going to be talking about before typing away at your keyboard and proving to us all just how stupid you really are.

lol coddoc doesn't live at mf anymore

And what praytell is the western hemisphere since you can arbitrarily draw any line you like down the globe? If you actually take a look at most maps they use the IDL as the centre of the map, thus making Australia, Eurasia and Africa the 'western' hemisphere, and the Americas the 'eastern' hemisphere.

The terminology comes from the sociopolitical divide in Europe where the "Eastern Bloc" countries were those that were under the general rule of Communism and thus lied on the eastern end of Europe and butting onto Russia, whereas the "Western Bloc" countries were the UK, France, Holland, Spain, etc. all residing in the western section of the European continent.

I enjoyed the argument until this point:



grow some balls, ass.

I enjoyed your commentary until this:



Who the fuck asked you?
If you want to continue, bring it to Res/Militia.
Until then, stfu.

Bro, this isn't a big deal. I just think you're an ass. Telling people--on a Star Wars message board--that you told your friends to beat people up in high school for you doesn't make me want to take this anywhere.