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Qatar World Cup: over 900 workers died already, could be as high as 4000 by kick off
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Qatar World Cup: over 900 workers died already, could be as high as 4000 by kick off
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news...88/?no-ist

Quote:More Than 900 Workers Have Already Died Building Qatar’s World Cup Infrastructure

The International Trade Union Confederation says that if conditions don’t improve, at least 4,000 migrants will die before kick-off

As if the circumstances surrounding the Qatar World Cup weren't sickening enough already.
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RE: Qatar World Cup: over 900 workers died already, could be as high as 4000 by kick off
I hate to say it but appalling as it is I'm not surprised. Happens all the time in these Middle Eastern oil countries, where these builders (often immigrants from South and South-East Asia) are basically in slave conditions. Dubai was built on almost slave labour.

Shame it takes this to get the media to actually notice and talk about it.
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RE: Qatar World Cup: over 900 workers died already, could be as high as 4000 by kick off
Gee, who could have foreseen that? Oh, that's right. Everyone but FIFA did foresee that. It's either that or FIFA is run by total whores that turned a blind eye as long as Qatar made sure the price was right.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: Qatar World Cup: over 900 workers died already, could be as high as 4000 by kick off
Is there any sensible reaction to that but to boycot it?
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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RE: Qatar World Cup: over 900 workers died already, could be as high as 4000 by kick off
I hope people don't forget this when 2022 comes around, would be very depressing if there wasn't a boycott
“The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an individual you have to surrender for the sake of group thought. And when you suspend your individual beauty you also give up a lot of your humanity. You will do things in the name of a group that you would never do on your own. Injuring, hurting, killing, drinking are all part of it, because you've lost your identity, because you now owe your allegiance to this thing that's bigger than you are and that controls you.”  - George Carlin
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RE: Qatar World Cup: over 900 workers died already, could be as high as 4000 by kick off
Yeah it's sickening. FIFA is one of the most corrupt organisations on the planet. They'll just expect people to ignore/forget all this shit by the time it comes around. I hope these air conditioned stadiums are worth it.
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RE: Qatar World Cup: over 900 workers died already, could be as high as 4000 by kick off
I saw this type of thing in Saudi Arabia. They treated foreign workers as bad as they could get away with - which often was dependent on which country the worker was from. I knew a lot of guys from British Aerospace over there. One of them decked one of the Mutawah (religious police) - knocked him out, cold. He was on a plane back to the UK the next day, deported. If it had been a Filipino or such, the offender wouldn't have been on a plane - he would have been in a jail cell and may have never come out.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

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RE: Qatar World Cup: over 900 workers died already, could be as high as 4000 by kick off
You know how it's like, as long as there profit FIFA doesn't give a shit about the working class's dignity.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you

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RE: Qatar World Cup: over 900 workers died already, could be as high as 4000 by kick off
Why the hell would the World Cup be held, of all places, in Quatar?
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RE: Qatar World Cup: over 900 workers died already, could be as high as 4000 by kick off
So we can have après-ski parties and christmas-themed world cup parties at the same time.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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