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Typhoon wrote:If only they had a safe rheuuuum.

Zat was not my talk.

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You're right. In the mean time, it's important to undermine, obstruct, and establish the narrative. What I meant is that in a democratic country the power may be changed at election time, and at no other time. Democrat Congressmen will obviously obstruct in Congress, like Reps did before them. That...

Zack Morris wrote:Good! I hope these patriots make the Monkey-in-Chief's life as miserable as possible.

Next presidential elections are planned November, 2020. And mid-term elections less than two years from now.

Just saying.

Iranians giving up their superior culture and moving to the West? Really? Do you have any data points that would suggest that this has EVER happened? ;) even once? :P Oh it wouldn't be about abandoning any culture whatsoever. I would think of it more as adoption of a successful innovation. Come to ...

A French police sniper has accidentally shot and injured two people during a speech by President Francois Hollande in western France. The shot was fired as the officer moved position on a roof about 100m (328ft) from a tent where Mr Hollande was speaking in the town of Villognon. The bullet went th...

Liberal democracy losing its appeal? :? :lol: From a link posted by HP, Pepe Escobar reporting about a conference in Teheran That was the background for serious discussions on how Iran (resistance against injustice), China (remixed Confucianism) and Russia (Eurasianism) are offering post-Enlightenme...

Funny Similar to the Cthulhu campaign ahead of America's presidential elections last year: people who are disgrunted about the range of candidates and dream about something else. Only they put it in a more favourable - in their view :) - direction. That being said, their site counts 43,000 signatur...

Will vote for a rather new party, Forum Voor Democratie (Forum For Democracy) that comes closest to my views on various issues. I'm thinking of translating their program in English and post it here. https://forumvoordemocratie.nl Interesting. Automatic translation of the Dutch language Wiki page ab...

(what the polls say) Yes, it looks extremely probable that the second round will be between Le Pen and another candidate. And very probable that Le Pen will have arrived first at first round. Then, polls about the second round become most important, either Fillon (rightist, pro-EU) vs. Le Pen or Ma...

Simple Minded wrote:Evidently, surfing the web does increase one's open mindedness........

That's a nice way to put it!

How long is Lithuania under sanctions that selling a HP printer to Lithuania would be a crime, or Lithuanian funds from export being confiscated by West and America ? So is Iran a technology powerhouse, or is Iran so restricted by economic sanctions that they prevent it from developing? You can't a...

Alexis, You ask the impossible. Too many diverse data points. It would be the same as asking if Europe is becoming great again. Which data to use, which data to ignore? Actually it wouldn't be too difficult to find a little number of relevant datapoints summarizing the status of American greatness ...

That is, as far as technological exports are concerned, Lithuania weighs 38 times as much as Iran, with 1 /27th the population's . I'd be more impressed if "Lithuania" didn't mean "all the German companies that didn't go to Poland, Hungary or Romania". I'm not saying Lithuania i...

That is why America's manufacturing declining and not because Mexican dishwashers and strawberry pickers stealing American jobs Iran has now established it's own "Silicon Valley" .. with unlimited resources and special privileges, Iran would love to woe back all the iranian experts back h...

Here is, not a progress report, but a "Progress required" statement.



This "Wealth production" and "Trade balance" thingy will need to be improved.

Lots of threads to discuss Americans' internal disputes. Which is fine and all, however I would like to remind that: - Internal strife may be amusing, or not so much, but should anyway not take precedence on reports about actual progress , or lack thereof - US Internal strife may be amusing, but les...

Mr. Perfect wrote:But I did notice that she did not boycott her home country for this.

People leaving in glass houses, and all that.

The Netherlands present their country to President Trump

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Interesting. Keep us updated, please. :) If you can read French, and / or if automated translation works well enough for you, I highly recommend this blog about all things military or technological regarding China : EastPendulum.com Around end last year, there was e.g. this piece about a new record...

The alert is supposed to have been given by Japanese individuals who saw large numbers of F-15J, F-4J, F-18 and E767 take off from several Japanese AF bases. News here from Japanese sources - 8 Chinese military planes spotted flying over Tsushima Strait Eight Chinese military aircraft, including st...

According to a generally well-informed poster on a French military forum here, almost a hundred fully-armed military aircraft from Japan, China and US are supposed to have scrambled today to meet over the Eastern China Sea. :shock: Nothing yet on English- nor French-speaking news sites. The alert is...

This was a just killing. Assassination of public and private leaders is a legitimate response to policies that cause death, suffering, and loss of livelihoods. Shame on you. I'd rather have a bit of pity. Zack Morris' rant was born of anger resulting from swallowing up without critical thinking a t...

falling demand You do seem to take more than a passing interest in intimate life of the Japanese nation. :) Fortunately, CS is polite and such. Beware, because not all characters of Japanese origin are ;) https://img.ifcdn.com/images/f0eda80418f9e1c150fff020623574c1d56b7e30865d6db52e6c2dfe92804d0f_...

When we look at the world, the US faces hostility from Wahabists and China. Hostility from Wahabists? Obviously. Now how is China hostile to the US? China is an economic competitor to the US (and others). That's not hostility. Or else, Americans and Europeans would have to be considered hostile to ...

On this eve of Christmas, a newspaper here published a very interesting and enlightening conversation with the historian Jean-Christian Petitfils. I have found it useful to translate it to English. Here is the original: What do we know about Jesus of Nazareth? . Christmas is the celebration of the b...