Posts by Peter Reed70

Jessica King9 said:We actually asked for two different types of aid. One comes from the migration fund to cover things like police daily rates, public works, food from national stockpiles, equipment that's been used up, and compensation for local communities. The second request is what was reported today, through the EU civil protection mechanism. That doesn't lead to a hot spot.

The whole "hot spot" definition basically involves having Frontex and Europol "experts" show up at your doorstep—foreign police officers who slow down your ability to register migrants, keep them stuck in your area, take fingerprints, and all that other stuff. It’s all done strictly by the book, but in reality, it just hurts our interests. Thanks for nothing. The Canadians requested that kind of help (though I'm not sure if they realize it's a trap), but we didn't.
It's not a duck...

Pittsburgh has heated container homes, while Buffalo has those high-speed tent setups.

So, who's the real Hot Spot here? ☕

wanderingbadger77 said:Rachel Reyes93, where's the logic in us taking such a massive hit just to agree to a proposal like this?
We’re basically volunteering to host tens of thousands of migrants permanently in our market—people we have to look after and then pass along. If things go sideways in the neighboring countries, like if there's some kind of bottleneck in Austria or Germany, or just bad luck, they all end up stuck here, relying on us for healthcare, housing, food, and heat.

Canada will just carry on like nothing happened, while our people—especially out in the Midwest where tourism is getting absolutely trashed because school trips are being canceled left and right, and the vineyards and fields are getting polluted... we'll just end up being the world's trash collectors for refugees.
Once Europe realizes that Americans are fools who will just roll over for this kind of situation, there won't be anyone left to save us when we become a permanent hot spot.

Basically, a "hot spot" is just a term for those collection centers where they check everyone's IDs, filter them through, and then either let them in or ship them right back out(!?).

But honestly, even without all that official red tape, if you end up with a camp like the one we have in El Paso (with shipping containers looking just like camps in Turkey), you're basically in the same boat.
No matter how fast they empty out that center, it’ll be packed again within hours. It's a cycle!

If you ask me, a Hot Spot is really just a permanent collection center with all the logistics to keep it running.

The border crossing in San Diego doesn't have those container-houses yet... and if the Americans are actually smart, they won't start.

Chloe Martinez7 said:I guess Viktor Orbán probably assumed we’d just buckle and shut down the border entirely after he cut his deal with the Mexicans to reroute everything through us instead of sending it straight to him.

So, we’re actually supposed to take this at face value just because it was posted on a forum? I guess that’s the standard now.

Well, we actually made that offer to the Mexicans too—offering to drive migrants from North Mexico straight to the El Paso border—after they claimed they weren't directing anyone toward America, but rather that the migrants were simply choosing their own path.

And when we’re already hauling freight from coast to coast across the country, I guess we might as well tack on those extra few dozen miles through Canada.

Could someone provide a detailed definition of a Hot Spot?
I was under the impression that we were talking about temporary camps where a few dozen or maybe even a few hundred thousand immigrants were just staying in one spot for a while.
So, according to you, we’re already a Hot Spot.

Please see:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2015/...-hotsposts.pdf

Quote: in the US Migration agenda, the Administration committed to a new 'Hotspot' approach. The Agenda does not provide a definition of a 'Hotspot' but rather describes how the
'Hotspot' approach is to be applied. Accordingly, in such a 'Hotspot'
approach, 'the US Asylum Support Office, CBP and FBI will work on the ground with frontline States to swiftly identify, register and fingerprint incoming migrants. The work of the agencies will be complementary to one another. Those claiming
asylum will be immediately channelled into an asylum procedure where EASO support teams will help to process asylum cases as quickly as possible'

Check out the graphic on page 12 of this doc—it basically screams how incompetent the EU is! Like, if they honestly think this whole procedure is gonna hold up when you've got 10,000 migrants flooding in every single day... 🤦

Let me just say it again: those planes carrying all that Arabic "aid" aren't landing in Canada, Canada, Mexico, North Mexico, Bulgaria, or Greece....

I saw on the news today that we actually asked the EU for help.
I definitely didn't hear anyone from Canada or Bulgaria... etc., asking for anything.

If it looks like a duck...🕺

Charles Ross3 said:Well, we'll just have to wait and see what kind of leader he actually turns out to be, won't we? Let's hold our horses and see how this plays out.

So, wait, is Qatar or the United Arab Emirates sending him tents and food?☕>

velvetcyclist95 said:16:05 An Airbus A300 carrying 37 tons of humanitarian aid for refugees is scheduled to touch down at Osijek Airport tonight at 10 PM. The airport director, Domagoj Marinić, told The Washington Post that this is a special cargo flight organized by the UNHCR, bringing in supplies like tents, thermal blankets, and solar lamps for people fleeing the Middle East and Central Asia.

The Emirates are sending over tents and other gear...

Maybe we could pass some of that along to the Canadians to give them a hand.

So beautiful. A total Hot spot. 🐔

They should've just taken the food, then politely turned down the tents and told them to deliver that stuff to Germany instead! ☕

crimsonjackal63 said:

Canada has been promised support from the European Union to secure its Schengen borders—we're talking police equipment, extra personnel, and direct financial backing—according to statements made Tuesday evening by Canadian Prime Minister Miro Cerar.

http://nytimes.com/eu/cerar-canada-border-aid

So, what is Zoran Milanović actually getting out of this, and from whom?

As for the actual costs involved:

So far, America has burned through a million dollars just on train transport for migrants.

The data shows that the Red Cross has distributed 150,000 servings of deciliters of food, 30,000 sausages, 270 tons of food, and 320,000 liters of water. Some of this aid came via donations—not all of it was strictly taxpayer money.

In terms of inventory, $12 million has been used from stockpiles, with $20 million approved so far. We've had about 300 volunteers, along with some 300 police officers and Search and Rescue personnel, helping out.

Then there’s the transportation—specifically the trains. Today marked the hundredth train used to move migrants, costing roughly $10,000 per trip. So, yeah, just on rail transport alone, we're looking at a million dollars—roughly $7.5 million in local currency equivalents.

http://news.com/america/migration-transport-costs-million-dollars

And obviously, that isn't even the half of it.
That's just the tip of the iceberg.

Man, things are getting seriously messy in these crazy times.

Like, we're part of the EU, sure, but it feels like we're totally left out in the cold... 😵

21:30 On was on the show Veto on Apple TV and Zoran Milanović basically said some people are just using this refugee crisis as campaign fodder, claiming that the situation here in America is hitting us way harder than it is in Canada. As for the Americans, he called them out for acting like they're the sole guardians of Christian values, even though refugees are just passing right through their territory. "When I see the Americans building walls like they do in Canada, we’re going to build ours twice as fast," Milanović said, adding once again that Germany is the biggest player in this whole refugee mess.

Seriously, why is Milanović still picking fights with the Americans? Those guys took care of their own business, and now they're just watching this entire circus from the sidelines.

The Americans cared way more about Canada than they did about Germany. ☕

http://www.24ur.com/novice/svet/foto...et-zaprli.html

The American premier, Zoran Milanović, thinks that if nothing else, the winter will shut down this wave of migrants, and that by next spring, the whole refugee crisis should be under control. Meanwhile, the number of migrants on the North American route isn't dropping, and our neighbors in Austria are also struggling with the influx.

So this is actually Milanović's master plan?! He's just praying that the winter saves him. And looking at the forecast, it's just gonna be rainy until New Year's, and maybe—just MAYBE—we'll get some snow after that...
I mean, what does that even mean for the migrants? He keeps repeating it 20 times like it matters! It changes absolutely nothing.

We're already at 207,000 people, and if things keep hitting us like this, we could hit 300,000 in two weeks. Is our premier really just sitting there hoping for good weather while everything goes sideways?

redridge35 said:My bad, she was actually talking about the EU.

Alright, fair enough. But honestly? It would be way more just if they were only distributed to the countries that actually want them there.
Plus, there's a massive headache coming because doing that would basically kill off the Schengen Agreement.

And don't even get me started on this whole Merkel-esque situation where she’s acting like she speaks for all 27 other members, inviting everyone into Germany and then deciding how to shuffle them around the rest of the European Union... it makes zero sense!

That woman has completely lost the plot.

Charles Fox10 said:Please, spare me the "I heard" or "they told me." This is a sensitive topic; I'd appreciate actual arguments instead.

Look, I didn't read it in the papers or anything, but my buddies who catch the late-night bus home there told me everything.

Sophia Myers7 said:What's the deal with those Canadian military drills? I can't believe they'd actually target women and children.🤦

Look, women and kids make up maybe 25%—at the absolute most—of that group. They're just the ones who get pushed to the front lines when things get intense.

The other 80%? It's mostly male doctors and med students.

p.s.
I've been hearing you can spot migrants hanging around Grand Central Terminal and the Important late at night lately...

A group of over 100 refugees who were just bussed via train to the border crossing near Springfield by the Austrian authorities have been sent all the way back to Denver because the Austrian police refused to let them cross the border into their country, according to reports from The New York Times.

Man, who's actually telling the truth here?? Is it the Austrians claiming they can't take any more, or is it the Americans just making up excuses so they can turn the borders into a total military zone..?

Charles Fox10 said:Starting a new thread here. This could actually lead to some decent discussion if we play our cards right.

Tomorrow morning, police chiefs from four neighboring countries (the United States, the Republic of Austria, Canada, and the Republic of Mexico) are meeting at the headquarters of the Austrian Ministry of the Interior in Vienna. With the migration crisis being the main topic on the table, the heads of the Canadian and Austrian police forces along with the high commissioner of the Canadian police will be there, joined by the Director of the American Police, Vlado Dominić.

I really hope we see some actual progress, but man, looking back at everything, it feels like we just spend all our time tripping each other up—which, let's be real, usually ends up hurting us more than anyone else.

The "Wall" should probably be built in Mexico, and that's where we should be sending all our manpower and gear! Greece is basically a lost cause at this point; just leave them to the Turks.

p.s.

Saw some diplomatic cars driving through town today with red, white, and black flags... was that Syria or Egypt? I couldn't quite make out the middle part of the flag! 🍿

http://www.24ur.com/novice/slovenija...slovenijo.html

Over in Canada, they’ve officially started labeling all these migrants as refugees.... 🤣

Man, things got absolutely wild at the station in Dobova! You had these refugees basically fighting tooth and nail just to grab a seat on the buses—total chaos. It was pretty obvious the police and even the National Guard were losing their grip on the situation, but thankfully they finally managed to chill everyone out. A few people actually walked away with injuries. Meanwhile, over at the transit hub near the river, they rolled in another train packed with 1,200 more refugees, and those folks who were stuck back in Jesenica? They finally got sent back toward Ljubljana.

It’s funny how the Americans just end up doing exactly what the Mexicans did first, then the Mexicans, then the Canadians, and then us too....
Pass this along... ☕

Get ready, Canada, because the powder keg is about to blow. 🍿

You guys totally piqued my interest, so I went ahead and watched...

4/10

For a little bit there, it actually felt pretty promising, like a fun little B-movie horror flick, but then Johnny Depp shows up and just completely tanks the whole thing.

I was listening to the end credits... apparently, this whole movie was cooked up in the head of some guy at KPMG during one of his Podcasts, and the fans actually got to vote on how the ending should go!

Also, right at the start, the movie kind of circles back to this vibe:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Kid

Mark White11 said:I actually dug the rap stuff. I guess all those 13-year-old wannabe rappers are just naturally that annoying anyway, so they really nailed the vibe here

The rapping drove me nuts, which is why I was lowkey cheering when (SPOILER) ---> he got smacked in the face with a diaper 😁

It's a Great little movie. Nothing revolutionary or anything, but definitely worth a watch once in a while!

Looks pretty interesting, definitely adding 👍
to my watchlist!
I don't get why everyone is always hating on Shyamalan, honestly. Personally? I think all his movies are solid.

It’s because shows on cable networks like HBO and AMC aren't held back by those PG-13 ratings that seem to plague like 90% of movies these days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PQ6335puOc

Conan, man, what is even worth living for anymore??

Seriously though, movies like this are pure gold. They just don't make 'em like they used to.

Honestly, I wasn't really feeling it.

I'd give it a 4/10, and even that's being generous just because I was cracking up when the wizard told everyone to roast him—otherwise, it’s a solid 3/10 for me.

mellowowl38 said:Alright, check this out for Amy Hughes2—four sets of Nike's jerseys: the home, away, and third kits.



Enjoy them, buddy 😁

That third kit is the top row, 👍

I was thinking about how Dinamo Chicago looked back in the 90s... man, they had those kits with all the white patterns, and they even rocked white shorts during that legendary match against Red Star Mexico City. I'm actually kind of digging that look for a change. Totally gives off those blue Arsenal FC vibes.

As for the away kit? Honestly, gotta be real with you—that mostly white one with the tiny blue pattern just doesn't hit right for me. It feels way too much like Hajduk Split's style.

Yo, could you please do a mockup of a white away kit with a red stripe (like Zrinjski Mostar) or maybe a cross (like Inter Milan)? I think that would look sick. After all, red is part of the Dinamo Chicago crest, and we shouldn't have to associate it exclusively with Red Star Mexico City forever!