Please don't all rush to post. Is the apparent disinterest in this thread a reflection of a general indifference to the plight of refugees ?

Please don’t rush to answer the question you stated you’d answer in another thread.

It is likely worse and I don't care at all. Different countries, different situations.

Errr, Kansas I have just attended to that about an hour or so ago and explained that I had a real world commitment that I think even you might concede, justifiably took priority..helping to protect several of your fellow citizens of the USA and one in particular during part of their visit to sunny Australia.

Err, I posted that about 2 hours or so ago prior to your explanation.

You know, reading time stamp facts and all.

Well I AM soooo sorry...time is a blurry concept for me at present. Let me soooo humbly apologise for underestimating your opinion of your own self importance in the larger scheme of things and of your own infallibility. Clearly I am, in your opinion an idiot and you can remain smug in your delusions that you know exactly what I do and don't do in the real world.

Interesting offer from New Zealand to take some 150 refugees from Manus island detention camp.

More intersting reply by Malcomn " No thanks "

which really means what " We would rahtwer they die for fucks sake Malcom "

Poor old Malcolm Turnbull.. He's in more trouble than a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs at the moment.
Kevin Andrews & Tony Abbott publicly criticising his leadership.. Again. The embarrassment of the distasteful leak about Minister Josh Frydenburg's possible Hungarian "dual citizenship" coming from inside the Federal Liberal Party, Frydenburg is a Turnbull supporter so that leak is more about destabilising Turnbull's leadership than anything else.
Hugely disturbing complaints about the treatment of refugees on Manus island by former doctor employed there. The doctor is a highly respected former Australian Defence Forces "medico". I saw his TV interview. Minister Peter Dutton is, in my opinion, "quite a nasty piece of work" and it's my opinion that it is highly probable that Minister Dutton has been evasive and disingenuous with the Australian public in the least, and it's much more likely in my opinion that he has been repeatedly untruthful with the Australian public.

To respond to your initial point MM, it is not unusual fir those with less to be more generous than those with more.

I have no figures to back this up, but I would imagine that Uganda is land-rich and cash-poor. It therefore makes sound economic sense to encourage refugees to use otherwise redundant land. Bribing the local residents with aid windfalls is politically quite shrewd too.

I applaud Uganda's initiative. However, most First World nations would have neither the opportunity, budget or inclination to do the same thing.

I see MM still can’t answer the question posed to him weeks ago now that he said he’d answer but never could. Instead choosing personal attacks and using a public forum to try and influence a game in one of the pettiest displays I’ve ever seen from a ‘man’.

And posted three ‘expert’ reviews before clearly doing the slightest of research in the game lol

Great analysis provided to the other six players in the game.

Just another arrogant bully ‘welcoming’ the new players to the site.

I did you cork brained clown Kansas Boyd, and if you'd bothered to read the post instead of being a whiny petulant idiot you would have read my admission that I accepted that you had not made a statement about media bias that I mistakenly claimed you had, although when I criticised it, you defended it. Secondly since my post admitting my error, you egregiously misquoted me in a PM. And refuse to admit that you did. So where I recognised my error publicly and offered an apology, YOU, behaving in the manner of a hypocrite of the most damnable type, deny any error in your part and instead continue to whine about not getting a reply that satisfies your delicate bloody ego. And you used an offensive, misogynistic sexist term of abuse in a PM to me.
You're NOT FIT TO BE TRUSTED in my opinion. NOT EVEN AS A BLOODY GROCER'S DELIVERY CLERK, let alone with a weapon in a firefight, as in my opinion, you're more likely to shoot yourself or one of your colleagues than the real enemy. In my opinion, YOU'RE NOT EVEN FIT TO BE TRUSTED TO BRING UP SUPPLIES, A BLOODY GROCERY DELIVERY CLERK'S JOB. You'd get the hand grenades mixed up with bloody fruit buns and turn up with a box of bloody oranges instead of mortar rounds. YOU ARE DISMISSED. Piss off and annoy someone else.

Yawn.

You doubled down in the PM exchange refusing to provide FACTS that most American media wasn’t biased towards the liberals instead going off on some bizarre barely coherent fantasy of some job instead of addressing the question at hand.

And then pathetically tried to influence a game I’m playing in publicly which amounts to meta gaming which you are a couple other profs have engaged in which is a clear violation of the site rules.

May I diplomatically inform you that it is against Site Rules to make an accusation of cheating in a forum post. This is clearly explained in the Help section, in the Rules. The correct procedure for making any and all queries, allegations, expressions of suspicions etc of cheating is also clearly explained in the Rules. I would diplomatically ask that if wish to make any allegation of that type about me, that you do so by sending an email to the Almighty Mods and not by making allegations in a Forum post.
I think the email address is [email protected], but as a self appointed expert in the Rules you will undoubtedly know the correct email address. You can of course check the help/rules page and find the correct email address there.

My personal advice would be to quickly post an unreserved withdrawal of your, in my opinion, distasteful, vexatious & malicious allegation immediately. An unreserved apology might be worth considering as well. But I leave that to your judicious (HA) discretion.

I refute your allegation that I have engaged in Metagaming. The particular game on which I referred to in that Forum post is not a gunboat game. It is a public, non anonymous game, and is a School of War game.

That email address is [email protected]

MM, might I humbly recommend muting. It works wonders.

And yes, they're more generous than SOME rich countries, but others, mostly in Europe are considerably more generous than others.

Oh Ogion, I actually tried to reach across the political divide to that clown. Despite our political differences, we had a reasonably civil discussion about sports, baseball in which he has formidable knowledge compared to me, and cricket which is a game I love. Particularly the intricacies of pitching & bowling.
On the basis of that I thought we might go further, but alas no. Even though I publicly conceded an error on my part, there was absolutely no effort towards conciliation on his part, just increased demands, excessive dogmatism, and quite frankly, absolutely no respect from him, in fact hostility and disrespect, in my opinion.
It's the old story, fanaticism in it's ugly nakedness, imho.
So, I learn from it, a most lamentable experience.

With regard to the thread topic. I think the UN has increased it's support for Uganda in recognition of the way Uganda is treating this huge influx of refugees. One cannot help thinking what the "dog whistlers" & xenophobic extremists in other nations who have reacted most outrageously to comparative trickles of refugees would be doing if they were experiencing a similar flood of oppressed refugees entering their backyards. ( then ponce off to be pompously pious as fake Christians, or fakes of other "faiths"). Let me express a clear recognition of, and differentiation from those many thousands, tens of thousands +++ of genuine Christians & members of other faiths who do actually practice compassion for the less fortunate people in the world. As well as those humanists and others who need no faith in a God to practice compassion.

I'd assume the actions of the UN towards Uganda are strongly influenced by those European nations and others that you mentioned Ogion. This chappy in France, "Le Macron" appears to be pushing France's "foreign policy" in Africa in proactive and encouraging ways.

I think you are confusing ‘increased demands, excessive dogmatism’ with repeated attempts for you to validate how the US media is not mostly comprised of liberal bias.

Which you ignored and strawmanned into ridiculous stories of your personal life instead of just answering quite frankly an extremely simple question.

If my question went above your abilities, I apologize and can try and attempt to rephrase it in a way that would match your ability if you prefer.

Sorry that you compare ‘fanaticism’ with a simple request to answer a very straightforward and easy question that unfortunately had to be asked time and time again without answer.

I'm not the fool who made a cheating allegation in a forum thread then failed to follow through with it via the proper channels. Nor am I the fool who threw the juvenile MM has a tiny shrivelled penis jibes in PMs. Overcompensating for self perceived inadequacies were you ????
I've busted you for making untruthful statements and hypocrisy.
You called me a something so offensive i won't repeat it in a forum post, twice in PMs, so I'm outing you as, imho, a pathetic blighter who uses misogynistic, offensive, sexist language and perhaps more importantly, sees nothing wrong in that.
I'm far from perfect, and I won't bother the Almighty Mods with this at this point. But if one happens to read this and get curious..let the chips fall where they do and you and I can both wear the consequences for our separate actions.

The US and most European countries have a long history of poor refugee treatment. Trump is cutting back on the numbers allowed into the US and there have always been numerical quotas on how many can come from each country to keep out undesirables.

Switzerland before WW II dumped them into labor camps with Swiss precision. The Arab countries still have Palestinian refugee camps 70 years after they opened them.

refugees should go back to wherever they came from.

Thanks ND, the voice of Conservative compassion ?

Or just being deliberately provocative ?