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Tell me about the moral bankruptcy ymix. Obama today #1 Barack Obama: "I think it’s important to understand that you can’t have 100 percent security and then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience. We’re going to have to make some choices as a society." Obama yesterday #2 Barack ...

I flunked three questions; scored 21.

I've read that the Pope was a vicious critic of Nestor and Cristina Kirchner.
One more reason to celebrate!

Torchwood wrote:I am off to Brazil for a couple of weeks on business. Will let you all know my impressions

There is a new PM for You , Torchwood.

Inequality in Latin America is high, and little of it "trickles down" - because the rich mostly consume imported goods and services, insulating the poor from the rich in terms of downstream flow of revenue. ... I doubt that the plutocrats would be much concerned with lifting the "scu...

...maybe bRICS or eve RICS.
Brazilian GDP grew only 0,9%, a very disapointig number , even with credit stimulus from the government.
And the inflation is rsing, currently now at 6%/year...

Westerners - and apparently also some Japanese - look at South American countries and only see their middle and upper classes. The poor are invisible, as relevant as flies or ants. So, anything which improves life for the poor is wasteful, as that money should better be used to "produce" ...

VP starts election campaign claiming Chavez was infected with cancer by his enemies. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/05/us-venezuela-chavez-idUSBRE92405420130305 Venezuelan vice president says Chavez was infected with cancer by foes :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: Year, probably by the CIA, that...

after reading some posts in this thread I was almost convinced that all racists , murders andwar criminals were Israelis. ;) . So what are you convinced of now? The narrative for pro-Israeli and anti-Arab propagandists has been that Israel is morally superior to the people it systematically oppress...

Models don't count, you need to hit the beach. Endo's neolithic statue is %66 correct, lose the pregnant belly but keep the, ahem, top and bottom. I have hit the beaches the night clubs have dated and am married to a brasileira. Brasilian men prefer women with slight figures and smaller breasts. In...

Ah, it appears either the moderators or the forum software edited quotes from the IDF soldier, replacing a certain popular expletive with "lavender." Well, I'm sure we can all figure it out. Another story was published today about the IDF t-shirts (that is t-shirts made privately by membe...

But IMVHO warrior qualities are included in use of guns..... Owning a gun doesn't make you a warrior. . . . Indeed. One of the most famous American soldiers, Alvin C. York , enlisted as a conscientious objector. The deadliest soldier in recorded history was a five foot tall Finnish farmer, Simo Häy...

Over on our Alaska forum, a member posted that ". . referring to gun ownership as a 'gun culture' it gives a negative connotation." As a life-long gun-owner, shooter, and hunter, I don't equate gun ownership with a "gun culture," but I do believe a genuine, sort of subterranean ...

Ahhh, Cuba,lovely island. Too bad it's the longest dictatorship in L. A. Cuba's political regime is the Cubans problem, not yours or America's... And it could even be that a majority of Cubans prefer to have little money but be sure of having a job, free education and good health care for all, even...

Coldweather coming, enki, do you have enogh blankets for tonight?

It seems that the israeli Air force has been busy lately:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/OB01Ak02.html

Siria and Iran have condemned the attack, sraelis said they they destroyed a convoy of trucks carrying modern anti aircraft missiles heading to lebanon/Hizbula.

The only difference between an AR platform rifle and any other semi-auto rifle is only a matter of perception. Nothing more. So then an assault weapons ban would only infringe on perceptions, not civil liberties. ;) No, actually, it would infringe on the second amendment, as there is no middle grou...

Chavez ´s clinical condition continues to deteriorate and he is not comming back to Venezuela. Meanwhile, Venezuelan government on january 9th decided to threaten and prossecute again TV channel Globovision, considering as "hate speech" a short series of videos released by the channel abou...

Today Paris saw a massive demonstration against gay marriage, more than 300 thousand participated.

http://infograficos.estadao.com.br/uplo ... /57723.jpg

You're making my point that Bushmasters are sold to black trenchcoated neophytes as shit-tier basement media collection defenders for the coming Z-warz. Actually in CT the Bushmaster was sold to a schoolteacher mom. I can't possibly be making your point, no one has any data to back it up, least of ...

Fred Reed has always some interesting things to say about this matters: "Today I’m going to explain why gun-control is not only entirely reasonable but also certain to be effective. Only the ignorant can deny this. First, some orientation. Cement-headed NRA types need to recognize, and state ma...

I don't know if it belongs here or in the Europe thread, but even in peaceful Switzerland one mentaly disturbed man killed 3 women and wounded two man with a gun.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/0 ... 01987.html

ABC news from Spain informs that Chavez vital signs deteriorate very fast and that he is in a coma. A infection complicating a recurrent cancer can result in death very soon, I predict he doesn´t have many days left. Altough I,m a 100% anti Chavez, I pray for him, God has mercy for him. Chavism with...

Viewing this perma-conflict from afar, one that is as relevant to me as the Uruguayan War, one can make two observations: 1/ Israel has overwhelming military superiority: both resources and technology; 2/ In part for this reason, outside of the US, in particular the Jewish [understandable] and Rapt...

Hamas military leader, Ahmed Jaabari, was killed today when a Israeli missile hit his car.
hamas said that the Israeli action opened the gates of hell.

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