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http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/08/04/putin-issues-ultimatum-threatens-war-over-erdogans-support-of-isis/ EXCERPT: :Russian President Vladimir Putin in a meeting with the Turkish Ambassador issued a verbal ultimatum calling for an immediate end to Turkey’s support for ISIS and violations of Syria...

The problem with Jon Stewart is that there is quite a difference between being really intelligent - or funny - and trying to sound intelligent - or funny - without quite being able to... I'm sure any self-respecting liberal (in the American sense of the word) would often feel very embarrassed listen...

Bloom View | Putin's Food Fight Russian President Vladimir Putin has mounted a new campaign in his propaganda war with the West: The highly publicized destruction of imported food, which the government banned last year in retaliation for Western economic sanctions. This time around, though, his con...

Simple Minded wrote:The ignorant, but well intentioned do-gooder is often the most vicious of tyrants.

I love generalizations...

A true rugged individualist only has an ego.. not a "wego" alias group-ego. They only care about themselves. However also groups - where people think almost alike and individual interests are aligned - can behave like one single rugged individualist. They only care about the group they be...

http://readthespirit.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/religious-holidays-festivals/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/hiroshima-photograph-released-for-Americans.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/05/22/article-2328834-19ECAAFD000005DC-734_634x499.jpg Some war crimes will never be brought to trial...

Media Terrorism in Greece Must Be Stopped 11:42 04.08.2015(updated 12:32 04.08.2015) ATHENS (Sputnik) – Speaking of the situation in the week running up to the July 5 referendum on the country's bailout proposals, Kretsos noted that some channels reported that seven people out of 10 intended to vot...

Washington’s Fifth Columns Inside Russia and China by Paul Craig Roberts It took two decades for Russia and China to understand that “pro-democracy” and “human rights” organizations operating within their countries were subversive organizations funded by the US Department of State and a collection ...

Parodite, Have you already read Umberto Eco's "Numero Zero"? [ISBN-10: 1910701092] http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51dLXWHIREL._SX324_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg It refers to Gladio and its supposed activities. This is a novel but Umberto Eco is known for his care with facts, so you may fin...

How is TPA? Is Angola relatively free now? For African standards Angola is not too bad, but democracy is still a very relative concept. But it could very well become a showcase for success and moderation in Africa. There are no tribal conflicts, no linguistic or religious divisions, there is a uniq...

YMix wrote:By this point I'm very much in favor of reconsidering this whole European Union thing. The CNSM makes democratic elections a sham.

It's up to us to get rid of the damn thing and to replace it with a Mediterranean Union based on solidarity and independence in respect of northern Europe and the US...

I doubt this will interest any of you, but this is the list of news sources I currently use: Press (mostly online): - The Guardian (UK) - New Statesman (UK) - Libération (France) - El Pais (Spain) - Expresso (Portugal) - TASS (Russia) - RT (Russia) - Press TV (Iran) TV - Portuguese channels - RT (Ru...

A rugged individualist is someone who doesn't give a damn about anyone else. Who thinks he is entitled to exploit everybody else as long as he can get away with it. However rugged individualists can accept associating with others. It's called a wolf pack... If conditions are right, rugged individual...

I have long felt that ideologies are the crutches of idiots. People who can't think on their own just repeat whatever idiocies have been invented by those who try to make complex things seem simple, so that they can more easily control everybody else. In fact people do not need ideologies. All they ...

Independent expert confirms that the "impossible" EM Drive actually works FIONA MACDONALD - 28 JUL 2015 Over the past year, there's been a whole lot of excitement about the electromagnetic propulsion drive, or EM Drive - a scientifically impossible engine that's defied pretty much everyon...

Doc wrote:Multiculturalism is dead.

Good riddance... I am all in favour of syncretism and eclecticism...

http://www.popsci.com/sites/popsci.com/files/styles/medium_1x_/public/import/2013/images/2011/06/Screen%20shot%202011-06-14%20at%2012.00.08%20PM.png?itok=gHlBV_zs The new gigantic radio telescope being built in China... http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-06/inside-fast-soon-be-worlds-big...

(...)If you spent less time trying to soothe my low self-esteem, and more time rallying the northern yurps to help the southern yurps, then they wouldn't complain so much........ right? Its not that they don't like what you are doing to them, they just want you to do more of it..... :o Sometimes in...

Seeing where I live, should I buy a load of popcorn or build myself a nuclear shelter?... :twisted: You should first and foremost read proper military analysts since you seem to be interested in these matters :) On everything military, Pepe Escobar does not even qualify as a amateur. He just doesn'...

I draw Parodite's attention to the following article: http://joostniemoller.nl/2015/07/hoe-schaakspeler-poetin-het-mh17-spel-wint/ I do not post it here because it is in Dutch, but I wonder what Parodite has to say about it. It seems to indicate that Russia knows very well what happened to the MH17 ...

tho last i heard portugal had got over the hump and was in the good books with the vampire squids of banking, so you might get left out of the broke and offloaded bit. Don't you believe it! At the present rates of interest Portugal will keep having to borrow more money just to pay the interest... S...

claim belgium as part of greater dutchieland thusly taking control of the EU and then offload the southerners. worst case you get some nice beer. We are very much looking forward to being offloaded by the "barbarians"... Of course we may then become a bit isolated, as we will not be able ...

Consistency is "our" strong suit... doubly so when all of endo's prescriptions require society to organise itself in a way that makes everyone useful and respected, with all people are invested in fairly. *that* takes a lot of oppression to make happen, our natural way is much less altrui...

Don't you worry...

One of these days people will rearrange things, as they did in 1789 and in 1917... You may not like the outcome but the oligarchs will get their due...

Now to the next stage... http://clg-jean-joudiou-chateauneuf-sur-loire.tice.ac-orleans-tours.fr/eva/sites/clg-jean-joudiou-chateauneuf-sur-loire/IMG/UserFiles/Images/photo-revolution-francaise.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Qv537r6Rw6M/TwHMFhaIePI/AAAAAAAAAPs/NoYrBYwU104/s1600/6a00d83454a03269e20134...