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2017-05-24 Europe
Europe's denial of Islamic terrorism threat perplexes security specialists
[Wash Times] The Manchester massacre underscores complaints from counterterrorism analysts that Europe has fallen into denial about the threat of Islamic terrorism.

For instance, London Mayor Sadiq Khan is on record as saying terrorism is "part and parcel" of urban life.

Furthermore, London police said in March that they could not assign a motive to a vehicle attack in which a Muslim British citizen followed the Islamic State tactical playbook by driving an SUV over pedestrians on crowded Westminster Bridge.

After the Brussels airport/subway bomb attacks in March 2016, U.S. officials said the Belgian capital was behind the times in basic intelligence-sharing.

Manchester Arena, with the largest capacity of any venue in Great Britain, exercised little security in the areas where people gathered before entering the concert Monday night. The foyer is where 22 concertgoers were killed and 119 others were injured by a suicide bomber. Fans said there was virtually no physical inspection of bags and knapsacks at the gates
Posted by Besoeker 2017-05-24 07:44|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ]  Top

#1 The introduction of oral contraceptives in the 1960's has resulted in a steady population decline in the west. If the zeks will not reproduce, new immigrants (from regions that still produce) must be imported. It is the only method of sustaining 'big government.' Long-term social and cultural outcomes are of no consequence to a politician. Those who live inside the castle walls enjoy a totally separate social and cultural environment.

Anyone remember the term "acceptable losses?" We are now openly told by the MSM that we must... "get used to" terrorism. It's all simply a cost of doing business.

What is so perplexing ?
Posted by Besoeker 2017-05-24 08:00||   2017-05-24 08:00|| Front Page Top

#2 King Arnulf bureaucrat:
[Hy-Brasil EU is sinking, everything is collapsing and exploding] Everyone stay calm! This is not happening!
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2017-05-24 08:59||   2017-05-24 08:59|| Front Page Top

#3 , new immigrants .. must be imported.

TWADDLE! The population can fall as well as rise. What matters is GDP per head. There's an optimum population density and when exceeded population can fall without any economic problems (quite the opposite!)
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-05-24 08:59||   2017-05-24 08:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Theoretically, BP, I agree with you. But the actions of the elites would seem to indicate that they don't. The obvious conclusion for the natives is that they are under attack not only from the colonists but from the elites.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-05-24 12:47||   2017-05-24 12:47|| Front Page Top

#5 It's not a matter of economics, but of psychology. If they've to admit being wrong about Muslims, they'll have to examine the rest of their beliefs.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-05-24 12:59||   2017-05-24 12:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Just to explain. A falling population lowers rents.
This is normally good for the wealth of the population but bad for the establishment. The reverse is also true.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-05-24 14:00||   2017-05-24 14:00|| Front Page Top

#7 But Muslims consume a lot more than they produce, BP!
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-05-24 14:14||   2017-05-24 14:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Zeks?
Posted by Harcourt Angoluting9366 2017-05-24 14:34||   2017-05-24 14:34|| Front Page Top

#9 zek

noun
1.
(in the former U.S.S.R.) an inmate of a forced-labor camp.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-05-24 14:41||   2017-05-24 14:41|| Front Page Top

#10 First heard that term in a Jack Reacher novel
Posted by Frank G 2017-05-24 14:50||   2017-05-24 14:50|| Front Page Top

#11 >But Muslims consume a lot more than they produce, BP!

What they consume comes from taxpayers. The main benefit they consume is the rent paid, extra population density has a vast effect on rents.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-05-24 15:00||   2017-05-24 15:00|| Front Page Top

#12 The problem isn't population density for Socialist Europe, it is its age.

The youth are having fewer kids, but the older population pretty much is staying the same. There simply isn't enough workers to support their socialist structure anymore. So they have to import workers to keep it propped up. But by doing so are hasting their own doom by committing cultural suicide.
Posted by DarthVader 2017-05-24 15:01||   2017-05-24 15:01|| Front Page Top

#13 Is there a cogent description (I'm not about to try reading economists' papers) of phenomena, you can recommend BP?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-05-24 15:08||   2017-05-24 15:08|| Front Page Top

#14 What percentage of these "immigrants" are actually working and what percentage is on the dole? It is very obvious why, after WWI why immigrants were needed but not so obvious, except in Germany, why so many were needed after WWII.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2017-05-24 15:20||   2017-05-24 15:20|| Front Page Top

#15 You need to define "working" DB.

The immigrants serve as middlemen between the taxpayers and the elite pockets.

Vis a vis BPs rent scenario. It doesn't matter where the imms get their money, work or the dole (aka taxes) it winds up in the rentees, aka elite, pockets.
Posted by AlanC 2017-05-24 16:01||   2017-05-24 16:01|| Front Page Top

#16 @Grom Ricardo's Law of Rent.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-05-24 16:38||   2017-05-24 16:38|| Front Page Top

#17 Thanks
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-05-24 16:51||   2017-05-24 16:51|| Front Page Top

#18 "In a world where we subsidise failure,"
Intones a deep voice from a trailer,
"The least, always starving,
Insist we keep carving,
Obese in their ghetto regalia."
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2017-05-24 16:57||   2017-05-24 16:57|| Front Page Top

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