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terrorism in pakistan

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  • #62
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    Project Werewolf wrote: »

    Well not everyone can afford to use Boeing 737s laden with passengers to spread their message of peace and love so us westerners will have to make do with those peace bombs.


    well seeing as the CIA was funding bin laden until tge mid 90s and israeli troops were training the taliban in the late 80s we in the west seem well able to afford passenger laden 737's.


  • #63
    Aquarius34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,595 ✭✭✭Aquarius34


    Dostoevsky wrote: »
    Pakistan, India and Afghanistan seem to be barbarous places, most particularly the way they treat women. In fact, above all else the way they treat women. But this "terrorism" malarkey is, well, for readers of the British/rightwing tabloids.



    That's not true at all, especially in India. There is so much stereotype and judgment we impose on the eastern world. I know many Muslims and especially Indians who treat their women very well. It's religion that has it all f*cked up. Note in India most people are Hindu and are not Muslim. So women in India do not cover up like they do in Islamic countries. I don't agree with the treatment of women in some of those Islamic countries. But who we are we to judge, we have huge problems of our own to deal with too, and I am sure they could point out major flaws in our society over here. I think people in Eastern world would be far better off if we stopped invading them and let them live their own lives..

    I agree with you on the "terrorism malarkey" That term gets overused in the media to keep people in fear and in paranoia. But the real terrorists are the USA/uk/ROME triangle raping, murdering and invading these third world countries.


  • #64
    Madam_X
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    Who are we to judge? I'll judge the atrocious treatment of women, and men and children in particular countries all I like, thanks. The people themselves sure as hell aren't going to be speaking highly of it either.
    Yes we have problems in this country. No they are nothing like the problems in, for example, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, the Congo, Somalia. Would the people suffering in those societies give anything to live in a country as free as this? Yes.
    Does criticising such brutality mean we think Ireland is perfect? No.


  • #65
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    MadsL wrote: »

    That pesky Earth having resources. Look at Mars, no suicide bombers there....

    Not true.

    Mars will never be free until the sands run red with Earther blood


  • #66
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 426 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Aquarius34 wrote: »
    That's not true at all, especially in India. There is so much stereotype and judgment we impose on the eastern world. I know many Muslims and especially Indians who treat their women very well. It's religion that has it all f*cked up. Note in India most people are Hindu and are not Muslim. So women in India do not cover up like they do in Islamic countries. I don't agree with the treatment of women in some of those Islamic countries. But who we are we to judge, we have huge problems of our own to deal with too, and I am sure they could point out major flaws in our society over here. I think people in Eastern world would be far better off if we stopped invading them and let them live their own lives..

    I agree with you on the "terrorism malarkey" That term gets overused in the media to keep people in fear and in paranoia. But the real terrorists are the USA/uk/ROME triangle raping, murdering and invading these third world countries.

    Yes it is true in the case of India. India is an absolutely shocking country and I would nearly go as far as to call it a failed state. The hatred and unfair treatment of Muslims by some Hindus in disgusting. Hindu nationalism seems to be on the rise there.

    Are you saying Hindus respect women more than Muslims? Highly doubt that, look at the huge number of females aborted annually.

    The partition of British India was not that long ago and that was pretty barbarous. Not to mention the vile and cruel actions of the Indian military in Jammu and Kashmir (still ongoing).


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  • #67
    Tombo2001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,238 ✭✭✭Tombo2001


    Deleted User wrote: »

    Are you saying Hindus respect women more than Muslims? Highly doubt that, look at the huge number of females aborted annually.

    ).

    I'd second that......from my limited experience of both countries....(about two months in each).....you are much more likely to see a woman wearing a burka in Pakistan than in India.....you are much more likely to see a woman doing hard physical labour e.g. cracking rocks on the side of the road with a pick axe in India......

    Either way, its a mans world in both countries.

    One additional point, I'd also mention the lot of children here also.....child labour would be common in both countries......and that means hard, physical labour....


  • #68
    Tombo2001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,238 ✭✭✭Tombo2001


    Worth possibly noting that the Irish Times ran an editorial on Chaos in Pakistan yesterday.

    :)


  • #69
    Jonny7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,696 ✭✭✭Jonny7


    Seaneh wrote: »
    its no surprise that this bombing wasnt reported in the west.

    It was heavily reported
    ffs tge biggest terrorist grouo in the world are routinely bombing people in northern Pakistan and then bombing the emergency personal who happen to respond to the explosion.

    This is an uncorroborated story doing the rounds on partisan sites.
    thousands killed in the last few years and nobody reports that either.

    It's reported and monitored by several different organisations. The true figures are difficult to ascertain exactly because of propaganda on both sides.
    well seeing as the CIA was funding bin laden until tge mid 90s and israeli troops were training the taliban in the late 80s we in the west seem well able to afford passenger laden 737's.

    The CIA, Mossad, KGB; MI6 were extremely active, especially during the Cold War period, unfortunately many facts get misconstrued and information gets exaggerated in the tiresome argument to prove that "the West is hypocritical" and to blame for virtually everything.

    A lot of the violence in Pakistan can be traced to the past, foreign countries (like the US) do hold a certain amount of accountability toward this.

    However Pakistan is having it's own domestic war, on many fronts, politically, ideologically and geographically. The drones can go away, but these problems won't.


  • #70
    Tombo2001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,238 ✭✭✭Tombo2001


    63 people killed when a bomb went off in a vegetable market in Quetta.

    Thats the same town where 250 people were killed by a series of bombs 5 weeks ago.

    This is a town not much larger than Dublin.


  • #71
    Tombo2001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,238 ✭✭✭Tombo2001


    Terrorist incidents in Pakistan since the last post 2 months ago:
    • February 17 — Eight people were killed in target killings in Karachi on Sunday, Dawn reported the next day.
    • February 18 — gunmen in police uniforms attacked the compound of a senior government official killing four security guards were killed in Peshawar. Two explosions occurred. Eight more people died in targeted killings in Karachi. Two blasts in Karachi injured at least two people. In a separate incident, prominent Professor of Vitreoretinal Surgery, Dr. Syed Ali Haider and his 11 year old son, Murtaza, were shot dead, while on the way to Murtaza's school. It is suspected that the attacks were carried out by the banned Sunni extremist group.
    • February 26 — A police official says a blast at a Sufi shrine in southern Pakistan has killed two people.[40]
    • March 3 — A powerful explosion ripped through a crowd of Shiites as they left a mosque in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, on Sunday, killing at least 45 people.
    • Main article: March 2013 Karachi bombing
    • March 9 — A blast happened in the Jamia Chishtia mosque during Zuhr prayer in Peshawar, killed four at board and at least twenty seven injuries. Bomb was detonated in the walls of mosque.[42]
    • March 11 — A suicide bomber blew himself up near a police van in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least two people and wounding 10, police said.[43]
    • March 15 — Pakistan officials say say a bomb blast in the country's largest city Karachi has killed three people and wounded five others.[44]
    • March 18 — A suicide bomber blew himself up in a courtroom in the north-westPakistani city of Peshawar, killing four people and wounding 47 others, officials said.[45]
    • March 21 — A car bomb exploded amid scores of people lining up at a food distribution center in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 17 people and injuring 28 others in what appeared to be a rare attack on Pakistanis displaced by the country’s war against insurgents[46]
    • March 22 — A bomb planted on a motorbike killed six people and wounded another 15 on Friday in a crowded Pakistani market in troubled southwestern province Baluchistan, police said. [47]
    • March 24 — At least 17 Pakistani soldiers were killed when a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden water tanker into a check post in the restive North Waziristan tribal region of the country. [48]
    • March 29 — Twelve people were killed and 28 others sustained injuries when a suicide bomber attacked the convoy of the commandant of Frontier Constabulary (FC) near an army checkpost on the Fakhr-e-Alam Road in Peshawar Cantonment here on Friday. [49]
    • March 30 — A suicide bomber on Saturday struck a police patrol in a town of Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan, killing a policeman and wounding six others, police said.[50]
    • March 31 — The principal of a private secondary school in Ittehad Town was killed and several children, including his daughter, were injured after an attack and shooting at the school on Saturday morning in Karachi.[51]
    • March 31 — Two persons were killed and six others, including a former provincial legislator, injured in a bomb blast in Pakistan’s restive northwest on Sunday, police said.[52]
    April – June 2013
    • April 2 — At least seven people have been killed in an attack by dozens of militants on an electricity plant in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, officials say.[53]
    • April 4 — Suspected militants threw a grenade at a vehicle carrying paramilitary security officers in Karachi (southern Pakistan) on Wednesday, killing three and wounding three others.[54]
    • April 10 — Gunmen shot to death a policeman protecting a team of female polio workers in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, the latest in a series of attacks on people working on the U.N.-backed vaccination campaign, police said.[55]
    • April 11 — Fakhrul Islam, A Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader, who was a candidate for Pakistan’s upcoming polls, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in southern Sindh province on Thursday, police said..[56]
    • April 13 — A bomb planted in a bus killed at least eight passengers and wounded seven others in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, police said.[57]
    • April 14 — A Pakistani police officer says a bomb blast has killed a local leader in an anti-Taliban political party ANP in the northwestern Swat valley


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  • #72
    positron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,598 ✭✭✭positron


    Tombo2001 wrote: »
    When I was over in India, I found that a lot of people were very well clued in to what was happening in Northern Ireland; and were quite interested to ask questions about it to understand it better.

    I grew up in India and had heard of the conflict in Norther Ireland. I am afraid this might offend some, but honestly that was the only thing I had heard of "Ireland". And of course it was not in this great detail, or even the context was missing - it was more in the way of neighbors fighting each other in the name of religion and other historic divides.
    Dostoevsky wrote: »
    Pakistan, India and Afghanistan seem to be barbarous places, most particularly the way they treat women. In fact, above all else the way they treat women. But this "terrorism" malarkey is, well, for readers of the British/rightwing tabloids.

    That statement is so wrong - it's like saying Mexico, USA and Canada has a guns culture and problem. Afghanistan is absolute basket case, Pakistan a failed state with multiple military coups and a terrorist breading ground where ordinary people struggle on a daily basis to stay above it all, where as India is a rapidly improving dynamic nation of so many different groups of people that is a shining example of democracy, despite all the challenges of a resource-poor developing country.
    Deleted User wrote: »
    Yes it is true in the case of India. India is an absolutely shocking country and I would nearly go as far as to call it a failed state. The hatred and unfair treatment of Muslims by some Hindus in disgusting. Hindu nationalism seems to be on the rise there.

    Are you saying Hindus respect women more than Muslims? Highly doubt that, look at the huge number of females aborted annually.

    The partition of British India was not that long ago and that was pretty barbarous. Not to mention the vile and cruel actions of the Indian military in Jammu and Kashmir (still ongoing).

    I doubt if you could be wrong-er if you tried! India a failed state? A successful democracy since independence in 1947, huge election turn out everytime, complete media independence, solid judiciary that is totally free from politics, powerful central bank that is free of politics, developing at a rapid pace over the last decade or so, modernizing by leaps and bounds, standard of living going up every year, supporting a huge population, dozens of various religions, fast becoming center of R&D for the world.. a failed state? LOL!!

    India is not without it's problems. There are religious intolerance in certain parts. There have been riots in the past where thousands were murdered. But ignoring the 99.99% of the 1.3 billion that is improving their life slowly but surely can not be ignored. And in no way you should compare India to Pakistan or Afghanistan. It's like comparing USA to Mexico and Honduras.


  • #73
    jam_mac_jam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,735 ✭✭✭jam_mac_jam


    Irish media is very narrow compared to other countries. In particular TV and radio. When is the last time you even heard news from France or Germany that wasnt connected to Ireland. If you didnt have the BBC you would never know what was going on. It is quite common to have the top story some ****e about what the croke park agreement is doing today or Tom Cruise being seen in Dublin or other such ****e.


  • #74
    Spanish Harlem
    Site Banned Posts: 99 ✭✭Spanish Harlem


    ^^^^

    "Irish news media reporting on mainly Irish events" shocker.


  • #75
    jam_mac_jam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,735 ✭✭✭jam_mac_jam


    Spanish Harlem wrote: »
    ^^^^

    "Irish news media reporting on mainly Irish events" shocker.

    Person obviously never out of their own country unable to compare media shocker.


  • #76
    Tombo2001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,238 ✭✭✭Tombo2001


    positron wrote: »
    I grew up in India and had heard of the conflict in Norther Ireland. I am afraid this might offend some, but honestly that was the only thing I had heard of "Ireland". And of course it was not in this great detail, or even the context was missing - it was more in the way of neighbors fighting each other in the name of religion and other historic divides.



    .


    Interesting post Positron.

    How come you grew up in India? (Maybe you are Indian of course :)).

    Wherabouts?


  • #77
    positron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,598 ✭✭✭positron


    Yep yep yep. Kerala. :)


  • #78
    Tombo2001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,238 ✭✭✭Tombo2001


    Very good. I went on holidays there a few years back. Very nice place. More developed than most parts of India, I would add.


  • #79
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 426 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    positron wrote: »
    I doubt if you could be wrong-er if you tried! India a failed state? A successful democracy since independence in 1947, huge election turn out everytime, complete media independence, solid judiciary that is totally free from politics, powerful central bank that is free of politics, developing at a rapid pace over the last decade or so, modernizing by leaps and bounds, standard of living going up every year, supporting a huge population, dozens of various religions, fast becoming center of R&D for the world.. a failed state? LOL!!

    India is not without it's problems. There are religious intolerance in certain parts. There have been riots in the past where thousands were murdered. But ignoring the 99.99% of the 1.3 billion that is improving their life slowly but surely can not be ignored. And in no way you should compare India to Pakistan or Afghanistan. It's like comparing USA to Mexico and Honduras.

    I don't believe my statements are wrong. Successful democracy? Haha, one word, Kashmir.


    Rapid development? Hardly, especially in comparison to China. Also factor in the benefits India had when given independence and also its head-start by being a democracy/capitalist state, not a communist one. China has alleviated poverty more and continues to do so, India still relies on foreign aid (yet spends billions on unnecessary projects). 2012 saw slowing growth and a falling rupee, coupled with loads of corruption scandals.

    Not to mention the various villagers/tribes/cultures/religions situation where people adhere to strange practices like one woman being married off to five brothers (happened to a friend of a friend). This crazy stuff is widespread.

    India is a great place if you are an English speaking, urban dweller with connections and part of the upper class. The majority of Indians are born poor and with no prospects. India has a long long way to go before it can call itself a successful state.


  • #80
    wretcheddomain
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    Why focus on the Irish media for? This so-called 'problem' is the same for *all* media. Do you think Pakistani television is going to cover Irish stories or are they more likely to focus on countries which they share cultural, linguistic, religious and economic links with? This is the same in every country so get over it and close the thread.


  • #81
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,424 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    I've been hearing this for the past week with all the stuff about Boston.

    People saying why the Boston bombings are getting hours of air time in Irish television where only 3 people died compared to a series of explosions in Iraq where 31 people died. If you stop and think a little bit more, it's simple to understand why the media everywhere does this.

    The media isn't one free international public service who is sworn to broadcast all disasters regardless of who's interested. Their aim is to get as many viewers as possible, the more viewers they get, the more money they make. The only way to do this is to report on stories that most people are interested in.

    Now, which story will get most viewers in Ireland? A bomb going off during the Boston marathon where 100 something Irish people took part, in a country with tens of thousands of Irish emigrants and millions of Irish descendants or a series of explosions in Iraq?

    The fact that it's called the news also has something to do with it. If you turned on RTÉ at 6 every evening for all your life to see "In today's news: another explosion in Iraq where more people died following a different explosion yesterday..and last week and the week before but stay with us because we'll be talking to our Middle East correspondent again to find out why this keeps happening" You won't watch the news, you'll change the channel to something you're interested in. They will only get viewers if they keep reporting on new and shocking stories.

    It's sad but it's the truth. People who say "It's sooo wrong that they talked about x for this time, they should have reported y more" you just won't watch it, you'll lose interest and they'll lose money.


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  • #82
    Lenin Skynard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    wretcheddomain wrote: »
    Why focus on the Irish media for? This so-called 'problem' is the same for *all* media. Do you think Pakistani television is going to cover Irish stories or are they more likely to focus on countries which they share cultural, linguistic, religious and economic links with? This is the same in every country so get over it and close the thread.

    I completely disagree with this.

    I've noticed the Irish media are much worse than others when it comes to complete lack of international news. The Guardian in the UK, Channel 4, even Euronews and RT all have excellent international news coverage and it's not all drawn on linguistic lines.

    Coverage of the Boston thing this week was actually quite poor on RTE. It was a big story but was really only given a few five minute slots while the Halapanavar inquest and personal insolvency legislation were covered inside-out and upside-down constantly, with every possible "pundit" having to have their say.

    The Irish media, in particular RTE are really dropping the ball on this IMO.


  • #83
    wretcheddomain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    Lenin Skynard wrote: »
    I completely disagree with this.

    I've noticed the Irish media are much worse than others when it comes to complete lack of international news. The Guardian in the UK, Channel 4, even Euronews and RT all have excellent international news coverage and it's not all drawn on linguistic lines.

    You gave it away when you said that - of course there are different degrees of it with some countries slightly more or less guilty than others but my point was that all countries to some degree do this and to that extent it appears you agree with me. In addition, I never said it was split purely along linguistic lines, I cited many other reasons than that so please don't misrepresent my position.


  • #84
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,424 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Lenin Skynard wrote: »
    I completely disagree with this.

    I've noticed the Irish media are much worse than others when it comes to complete lack of international news. The Guardian in the UK, Channel 4, even Euronews and RT all have excellent international news coverage and it's not all drawn on linguistic lines.

    Coverage of the Boston thing this week was actually quite poor on RTE. It was a big story but was really only given a few five minute slots while the Halapanavar inquest and personal insolvency legislation were covered inside-out and upside-down constantly, with every possible "pundit" having to have their say.

    The Irish media, in particular RTE are really dropping the ball on this IMO.

    You can't compare the Irish media with the UK media. UK obviously has much more connections with the Middle East and Asia than we do and there is an audience there that wants to hear stories from there, unlike Ireland.

    Also the UK media is massive, the Irish media consists of mainly RTE and TV3 and 6 or 7 newspapers, our chances of variety of media is obviously much less than the UK. The UK audience is also 10 times larger than the Irish audience so there are always more people interested in different things. We don't have any of that, in a small country of 4.5 million, we'll get a mix of what most people want to see.


  • #85
    NuckingFacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


    This is about Obama/CIA drone attacks killing over 3500 people so far, right? Obviously.


  • #86
    Lenin Skynard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    Nimrod 7 wrote: »
    You can't compare the Irish media with the UK media. UK obviously has much more connections with the Middle East and Asia than we do and there is an audience there that wants to hear stories from there, unlike Ireland.

    Also the UK media is massive, the Irish media consists of mainly RTE and TV3 and 6 or 7 newspapers, our chances of variety of media is obviously much less than the UK. The UK audience is also 10 times larger than the Irish audience so there are always more people interested in different things. We don't have any of that, in a small country of 4.5 million, we'll get a mix of what most people want to see.

    I wasn't comparing the Irish media to the UK media as such, I used two examples of UK media outlets, a French one and a Russian one. I understand that these are bigger countries with a wider spectrum of international ties than Ireland but you could take the recent Boston situation as an example. Boston is probably the most Irish of foreign cities but the coverage over the last few days has been minimal. You only need to have a look at the threads in recent days about Boston to see that everyone was watching Fox, CNN, Sky News and the BBC for coverage.

    The fact that the Irish media make very little effort to cover international news isn't necessarily an indication of what "most people are interested in" and that's a poor assumption to base your viewpoint on. In my opinion they're just doing a bad job and are behind the curve. A good example of an Irish news outlet that does have good international news coverage would be thejournal.ie, and the popularity of that site has been soaring in the past year or so.


  • #87
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,424 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Lenin Skynard wrote: »
    I wasn't comparing the Irish media to the UK media as such, I used two examples of UK media outlets, a French one and a Russian one. I understand that these are bigger countries with a wider spectrum of international ties than Ireland but you could take the recent Boston situation as an example. Boston is probably the most Irish of foreign cities but the coverage over the last few days has been minimal. You only need to have a look at the threads in recent days about Boston to see that everyone was watching Fox, CNN, Sky News and the BBC for coverage.

    The fact that the Irish media make very little effort to cover international news isn't necessarily an indication of what "most people are interested in" and that's a poor assumption to base your viewpoint on. In my opinion they're just doing a bad job and are behind the curve. A good example of an Irish news outlet that does have good international news coverage would be thejournal.ie, and the popularity of that site has been soaring in the past year or so.

    Okay I do agree that RTE's coverage of international news is rather poor but it all goes down to the same thing. RTE is rather small and get it's money from license fees and the government but you know yourself how the people are reluctant to pay license fees and moan everytime a journalist is sent abroad.

    Every time they see a main reporter reporting from a foreign city, people here go ape****. The election of the new Pope is a prime example.

    How can they report on international stories properly without proper funding and with people who insist Donnybrook is where all the sources on the Middle East can be found?

    Sky, CNN and BBC etc has journalists based in scores of countries and can get their own sources and footage, RTE is too small to have most of that.


  • #88
    Tombo2001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,238 ✭✭✭Tombo2001


    positron wrote: »
    I grew up in India and had heard of the conflict in Norther Ireland. I am afraid this might offend some, but honestly that was the only thing I had heard of "Ireland". And of course it was not in this great detail, or even the context was missing - it was more in the way of neighbors fighting each other in the name of religion and other historic divides.



    That statement is so wrong - it's like saying Mexico, USA and Canada has a guns culture and problem. Afghanistan is absolute basket case, Pakistan a failed state with multiple military coups and a terrorist breading ground where ordinary people struggle on a daily basis to stay above it all, where as India is a rapidly improving dynamic nation of so many different groups of people that is a shining example of democracy, despite all the challenges of a resource-poor developing country.



    I doubt if you could be wrong-er if you tried! India a failed state? A successful democracy since independence in 1947, huge election turn out everytime, complete media independence, solid judiciary that is totally free from politics, powerful central bank that is free of politics, developing at a rapid pace over the last decade or so, modernizing by leaps and bounds, standard of living going up every year, supporting a huge population, dozens of various religions, fast becoming center of R&D for the world.. a failed state? LOL!!

    India is not without it's problems. There are religious intolerance in certain parts. There have been riots in the past where thousands were murdered. But ignoring the 99.99% of the 1.3 billion that is improving their life slowly but surely can not be ignored. And in no way you should compare India to Pakistan or Afghanistan. It's like comparing USA to Mexico and Honduras.


    Positron on your comparison above regarding India vis a vis Pakistan, I'd have to disagree with you. The United States is one of the wealthest countries in the world, and Mexico is very much a developing nation. India and Pakistan are both extremely poor countries, and if India is a little bit wealthier in GDP per capita terms than Pakistan, i dont think that would be much consolation to the several hundred million Indians who live in poverty.

    I've spent a bit of time in both and I couldnt say India was noticeably wealthier, the abiding memory of both is of shocking poverty.....

    Nuclear programmes, putting shuttles into space, having billionaires like the Mittals buying up London, and having thriving IT hubs like Bangalore dont change the fact that a majority of Indians live in poverty by any international comparison.

    One final point......if it is such a thriving democracy, how come the prime minister role is almost a birthright for members of the ghandi family.
    .


  • #89
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,424 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Lenin Skynard wrote: »
    You only need to have a look at the threads in recent days about Boston to see that everyone was watching Fox, CNN, Sky News and the BBC for coverage.
    Nimrod 7 wrote: »
    Every time they see a main reporter reporting from a foreign city, people here go ape****. The election of the new Pope is a prime example.

    Ladies and gentlemen, I give you..the viewers

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056934856


  • #90
    goose2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    wadefuq wrote: »
    Another example of our press ignoring a story would be that of the typhoon in the phillipines in December, over 300 people dead and another 400 missing... However the "mega storm" in New York was news for a week.. our medias love in with all things American annoys me at times, anyway, thats a story for another day, apologies for being off topic

    Not to mention that Sandy was a real hurricane in the Caribbean and wreaked far more destruction there, it was weaker when it hit the U.S. It's Ok for American media to focus on NY, it's their country, but it's bizarre for Irish media to do the same.
    Spanish Harlem wrote: »
    ^^^^

    "Irish news media reporting on mainly Irish events" shocker.

    No, Irish/US/UK events. No other countries exist except in relation to those three (and usually just to the US)


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  • #91
    Arcsin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 112 ✭✭Arcsin


    goose2005 wrote: »
    Not to mention that Sandy was a real hurricane in the Caribbean and wreaked far more destruction there, it was weaker when it hit the U.S. It's Ok for American media to focus on NY, it's their country, but it's bizarre for Irish media to do the same.



    No, Irish/US/UK events. No other countries exist except in relation to those three (and usually just to the US)


    Why would it be bizarre for Irish media to focus on New York?


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