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Parodite wrote:Copenhagen Imam on Eve of Terror Attack: The Prophet Engaged in War, Not Dialogue, with the Jews:

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In the old days these people were simply put on lithium in closed mental institutions. Don't know what happened, but now they speak to gullible masses gathered in club houses who absorb the verbiage of a madman as if it is truth raining down from heaven. Of course a good place to be when you want to investigate how madness looks from the inside.

Endovelico wrote:

Parodite wrote:In the old days these people were simply put on lithium in closed mental institutions. Don't know what happened, but now they speak to gullible masses gathered in club houses who absorb the verbiage of a madman as if it is truth raining down from heaven. Of course a good place to be when you want to investigate how madness looks from the inside.

Since shooting those bastards is considered uncivilized, how about expelling them to whatever hell hole they came from?...

Typhoon wrote:Keep on kowtowing . . .

Endovelico wrote:

Typhoon wrote:Keep on kowtowing . . .

I thought we had already settled that...

Typhoon wrote:I thought that the Pill of Murti-Bing was a purely work of fiction. Apparently not.

The Captive Mind begins with a discussion of the novel Insatiability by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz and its plot device of Murti-Bing pills, which are used as a metaphor for dialectical materialism, but also for the deadening of the intellect caused by consumerism in Western society.

noddy wrote:the nordics and baltics do not deserve to have their own countries, they should submit to russian interests and remain isolated from all world groupings lest russia feel itself impotent.

Endovelico wrote:

noddy wrote:the nordics and baltics do not deserve to have their own countries, they should submit to russian interests and remain isolated from all world groupings lest russia feel itself impotent.

A bit like the way you feel about Timor, isn't it?...

noddy wrote:

Endovelico wrote:

noddy wrote:the nordics and baltics do not deserve to have their own countries, they should submit to russian interests and remain isolated from all world groupings lest russia feel itself impotent.

A bit like the way you feel about Timor, isn't it?...

portugese post colonial impotence is of less concern.

australia didnt see it worth fighting indonesia over one your colonies, your are correct... maybe that was a mistake, i certainly believe irian jaya/wet papua are a tragedy.

noddy wrote:you are trying to draw a linkage between http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timor_Gap and the 300 years of colonial exploitation and abuse under portugal with putins russia.

sounds absurd, love to hear it.

Endovelico wrote:

Typhoon wrote:I thought that the Pill of Murti-Bing was a purely work of fiction. Apparently not.

The Captive Mind begins with a discussion of the novel Insatiability by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz and its plot device of Murti-Bing pills, which are used as a metaphor for dialectical materialism, but also for the deadening of the intellect caused by consumerism in Western society.

Apparently it applies to Japanese society too...

A Finnish political party that campaigned against ambitious climate change policies won the second-highest number of seats in parliamentary elections on Sunday, in a vote in which global warming became a polarizing issue.

The Finns Party did even better than predicted by recent polls during the campaign. It was almost tied in the popular vote with the winning party.

Although the Finns, a right-wing populist party, is unlikely to be part of a new government, its performance Sunday may give it more of a voice in the country’s politics.

The vote reflected a growing fragmentation among voters.

While the other eight parties running for office endorse strong measures to fight climate change, the Finns Party seized on the issue as a new front in culture wars. It argued that aggressive climate change policies are an elitist approach that hurts the working class.

A similar dynamic set off the “Yellow Vest” protests against a fuel tax increase in France. And Germany’s far-right party, Alternative for Germany, has assailed the science behind clean-air policy.

Denmark, which aims to only accept refugees under the UN's quota system, has drawn strong criticism from the United Nations and human rights groups alike as its immigration policies have toughened over the past decade.

However, the Danish model has become more popular as anti-immigration voices have gained traction across the Nordic region.

The Swedish government is looking towards Danish immigration policies as the country battles gang violence caused by "an irresponsible immigration policy and a failed integration," Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said last month.