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And don't forget to free Portugal too...

It would be a mistake to think that the Confederacy was a one issue state. There was a lot more to the Confederacy than slavery and I, for one, feel that something important was lost when the Confederate States were forcibly reincorporated in the USA. So, please continue flying the confederate flag ...

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re: Popes Earl Butz said it best, in another context, decades ago He no play a da game, he no make a da rules. Reading some of our shogun's posts is like watching a black and white second rate movie from the '50s. It wasn't any good or funny then, and it is even worse now. But what can you expect f...

blink. it reads like a anglogermanic treatise on whats wrong with the greeks to me. words are easy, implementing is the bit others are cynical about. I think the only proper, acceptable response to those leaders who wish to change culture is Seig Heil! To change culture???!!!... That's going back t...

noddy wrote:

Simple Minded wrote:
ignorance also needs no sales staff.......

ignorance is hard work, constant vigilance is required.

Russian Non-Invasion Causing Concern in European Capitals by Rob Slane http://russia-insider.com/en/russian-non-invasion-causing-concern-european-capitals/ri8139 [This article originally appeared at TheBlogMire] Tensions across the Baltic States and Poland have reached fever pitch in recent days as...

Greece’s Proposals to End the Crisis: My intervention at today’s Eurogroup Posted on June 18, 2015 by Yanis Varoufakis http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2015/06/18/greeces-proposals-to-end-the-crisis-my-intervention-at-todays-eurogroup/#more-8055 The only antidote to propaganda and malicious ‘leaks’ is tra...

Importing camels to California might be good business...

This one's for Endo: Portugal must become a link between Romania's businesses and less accessible markets in Africa and South America, according to the speech held by Mihai Daraban, president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania (CCIR), at the Romania-Portugal business forum. The even...

Executive Summary of the report from the Debt Truth Committee 17 June by Debt Truth Committee http://cadtm.org/Executive-Summary-of-the-report In June 2015 Greece stands at a crossroad of choosing between furthering the failed macroeconomic adjustment programmes imposed by the creditors or making a...

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Interesting, but Portuguese is spoken by roughly 250 million people, of which 200 million in Brazil, 21 million in Angola, 25 million in Mozambique and 10 million in Portugal.

CIA torture appears to have broken spy agency rule on human experimentation Spencer Ackerman - Monday 15 June 2015 12.33 BST http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/15/cia-torture-human-experimentation-doctors The Central Intelligence Agency had explicit guidelines for “human experimentation” b...

Snowden, Putin, Greece: It’s All The Same Story June 14, 2015 - Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 7:09 pm http://www.theautomaticearth.com/2015/06/snowden-putin-greece-its-all-the-same-story/ Through the last decades, as we have been getting ever more occupied trying to be what society tells us is de...

Alexis, Good posts. But this is what "Europe" has become. The European ideal was one of cooperation and solidarity among the many nations which had joyfully killed each other for centuries. Some of us thought there was an European civilization, and that on such a civilizational foundation ...

Faster Than Light: China's Hypersonic WU-14 Getting on Pentagon's Nerves 21:11 14.06.2015 http://sputniknews.com/military/20150614/1023358426.html China's new hypersonic weaponry may have the potential to neutralize US strategic missile defenses due to its unparalleled capability of maneuvering to ...

“Greeks are not real Greeks” claims German WELT, favoring a DNA-based EU-membership Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Very Mix http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2015/06/14/greeks-are-not-real-greeks-claims-german-welt-favoring-a-dna-based-eu-membership/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&...

Having been colonized by Japan was the greatest deal ever for Korea!... Those ungrateful Koreans! They should be ashamed of themselves!... :D During the post-World War II period, Zainichi Koreans faced various kinds of discrimination from Japanese society. Due to the San Francisco Peace Treaty,the J...

On 75th Anniversary of Soviet Russian Occupation, Balts Must Remain Vigilant

Looking under the bed remains highly advisable...

Philae comet lander wakes up http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33126885 The European Space Agency (Esa) says its comet lander, Philae, has woken up and contacted Earth. Philae, the first spacecraft to land on a comet, was dropped on to the surface of Comet 67P by its mothership, Rosetta, ...

(...) The IMF spiked an attempt by Juncker to broker a compromise allowing Greece to defer 400 million euros ($451 million) of cuts in small pensions if it reduced military spending by the same amount, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung reported, citing unidentified people with knowledge of the...

noddy wrote:...Japan has great relationships with the countries it went to war with...

Yes... Japan has a great relationship with South Korea..., not to mention China...

Japan's Prime Minister Is Decadent and Depraved Lisa Marie White Fri, Jun 12 | 3,788 33 http://russia-insider.com/en/japans-prime-minister-decadent-and-depraved/ri7960 Since the United States and its pals in the Justice League G-7 have decided to double-down on standing up to “Russian aggression,” ...

Three charts that show Iceland's economy recovered after it imprisoned bankers and let banks go bust - instead of bailing them out by Hazel Sheffield - Wednesday 10 June 2015 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/three-charts-that-show-icelands-economy-recovered-after-it-imprisoned-banker...