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The Guardian reports:
At least 19 people were killed and more than 50 injured after an explosion in the foyer area of a crowded Manchester concert hall, which left hundreds of people fleeing in terror. [...] Police said they were dealing with a possible terror incident and counter-terrorism officials were assessing what caused the explosion. Investigators from the police and the domestic security service MI5 were part of the investigation.
Greater Manchester Police statement:
I can confirm the details of events tonight that we currently know. At around 10.33pm last night we received reports of an explosion at the Manchester Arena in the city centre. It was at the conclusion of an Ariana Grande concert.
Currently we have 19 people confirmed to have died and around 50 people injured.
The injured are being treated at six hospitals across Greater Manchester. My thoughts are with all those who have been affected and we are doing all we can to support them.
[...] We are currently treating this as a terrorist incident until we know otherwise. We are working closely with the national counter-terrorism policing network and UK intelligence partners.
Unnamed sources, who have not been directly quoted are widely reported as suspecting this incident was a suicide bombing.
Multiple senior U.S. law enforcement officials briefed by British authorities told NBC News that forensic evidence at the scene — including a body found at the blast site — indicated a suicide attack. British and U.S. law enforcement officials said they believed they had tentatively identified the bomber.
U.S. officials said initial reports indicated that some of the casualties might have been caused by a stampede of concert-goers.
Sky News reports:
Officers carried out a controlled explosion at nearby Cathedral Gardens shortly after 1.30am, but have since confirmed the item they found was abandoned clothing and not suspicious.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Tuesday May 23 2017, @01:26PM (5 children)
If you find yourself at the bottom of a multicultural pit and as an inevitable result the bodies of your children are starting to stack up, might want to stop digging as a first priority.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday May 23 2017, @08:24PM (4 children)
Where do you live that's mono-cultural? I wonder because multiculturalism is a hobby horse of yours. I am willing to bet that you eat pizza, chow mein, hamburgers, and hot dogs. You probably watch TV shows and movies that have non-white characters. The video games you play all do, unless you only play Stormfront-approved games. I'm also pretty darn sure that wherever you live, there are even real, live non-white people. I know there are in the town I grew up in, and it was in what the Stormfront folks call the "American Redoubt;" there were 30 years ago, and there are even more now.
How pure is your racial and cultural daily life, that you feel so threatened by the Other? Do you refuse to eat anything but Cornish pasties and Spotted Dick? Do you bristle when somebody offers you beer made by those degenerate Papists, the Irish? Do you mock Italians by asking them where their wrench and Donkey Kong are?
Because unless you do, then surprise! You're a multiculturalist.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 23 2017, @09:16PM (1 child)
There's a huge difference between consuming pizza, chow mein, hamburgers, hot dogs. TV-shows, movies, videogames, beer, wrenches and Donkey Kong. And wanting to have the people or culture that created or practice these things in your country or neighborhood.
Absorbing specific parts of a culture that you have chosen yourself volunteerly is completely different than having customs forced upon you or having them next door. Or even having large groups of people that don't subscribe to social minimum standards and continually goes to lectures that tech them that you shall be killed and the government overthrown. A significant part will also rob you and rape your women. And if you don't like those practices then.. you are against multiculturalism?
There's also a confusion on multiethnicity and multculturalism. A better predictor for success is multiideas.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday May 24 2017, @01:09PM
Its also worth pointing out that multicultualism is only used as a cudgel to bash in more people who cannot live in civilized society because they keep spontaneously exploding or knifing people or driving into people.
Its critically important to point out that the political justification for multiculturalism is solely the people who aren't allowed in legally anymore but can live in a civilized society. Whereas the actual result of modern political multiculturalism is solely and exclusively the importation of only the people who can't live in a civilized society and spend all their time raping, looting, and exploding.
If multiculturalism meant importing more Polish plumbers, yeah sure. The mean time between spontaneous explosion of Polish people is what, maybe a century or more? Wasn't one of the anarchists who blew up a bomb at the NYSE about 125 years ago a Pole? So we can set an observed floor for spontaneous explosion of Poles at a minimum of a century or so. I'm willing to tolerate that level of spontaneous explosion, which is likely an extreme over-estimate, in exchange for Polish food and their somewhat hot women and obviously the service of Polish plumbers. Poles are OK, and even the bad ones are still OK-ish.
Now there's another ethnic group, lets see if we can guess who, where the mean time between spontaneous explosions is about a month. Wonder who that might be. I got a plan! Lets import even more! Because we're not stacking up enough dead bodies!
I just find it fascinating that politically speaking multiculturalism means you can't import a plumber or a scientist from Europe but we must, absolutely must, increase our import of people we know are about to explode.
What good do we get out of all the death?
Its sort of a marginal cost thing. If drinking a gallon of water per day keeps you alive in the desert, I guess we need to drink ten gallons a day of paint stripper. What, you say people are dying from drinking paint stripper? WTF is wrong with you, all liquids are equal and you really seemed to enjoy drinking water, are you some kind of closet liquid-ist? We need to start drinking 20, 30, maybe 40 gallons a day of paint stripper. Children are dying in the streets? Well not all paint stripper kills children, we need 50 gallons a day of paint stripper! Look at the incredible rewards we're getting from this, theres ... um ... well ... social status signalling on twitter, yeah thats right.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 24 2017, @04:16AM (1 child)
It's worth noting that you don't need to be a racist, or even oppose immigration in any form, to be opposed to multiculturalism. You just need to hold the belief that people operating under disparate codes of conduct and with different social mores will often come to conflicts which, if allowed to grow unchecked, threaten to tear society apart.
Nothing says you can't forge a new national culture from disparate parts; multiculturalism is the ideology that you don't have to, but rather that various different cultures will coexist peacefully despite their myriad ideological disagreements.
There's a reason David Cameron came out against it a number of years back [newstatesman.com], and it's not that he's a secret Nazi.
There's an important middle ground to be found here, but both sides are too busy rattling sabres to actually get any productive work accomplished.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday May 24 2017, @01:17PM
The modern national socialist view of that is we really like the other cultures... over there. And visiting them ... over there... is a fun vacation. And its great to economically trade with them and all that.
Most of multiculturalism is just being anti-white anyway. Wake me up when some lefty wants to block bust and annihilate Chinatown because obviously Chinatown would be improved by busting it up and replacing Chinese culture with a fusion of other cultures. Multiculturalism is only used as a weapon against white people, never any others, ever. Its just dolled up academic and dry racism against white people.