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Post by Red Brigade on Oct 6, 2009 13:35:34 GMT -5
What matters is the standard of living and not whether the "country" is better. China is the second economy in the world, I don't think many people would envy the Chinese though.
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Post by Red Brigade on Oct 6, 2009 13:17:13 GMT -5
Kastorianos, I totally agree with your last post. It seems Greece is stuck on the two names that has run their governments for decades. And I agree about Karamanlis. I believe he was the one that really cared for Greece in a very long time. The problem he had was guilt through association, that is his people being involved in those scandals lately. I do not really know why he called for the snap elections. He said he called a snap election because PASOK would either way go for elections on February and the country couldn't afford to be in an election process for the next 6 months. This is the official explanation. The real explanation is that the economy was in very bad shape. Karamanlis must have believed that the margin wouldn't be so big, so he went for election now to lose it. Then until February, he thought that PASOK would have been discredited because the economy would be in a very bad shape and he would have better chances to get re-elected then. But he didn't believe that the difference would be 10.5%. Nobody could believe it.
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Post by Red Brigade on Oct 6, 2009 13:12:28 GMT -5
This is not about "caring" for Greece. I know a 90 year old woman who cares a lot for Greece but she is incapable of doing anything else. This is about having the mechanism to run the country. Not empty rhetorics. PS I accidentally modified your post when I was trying to quote you.
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Post by Red Brigade on Oct 3, 2009 5:07:15 GMT -5
It doesn't matter what you people support. Right now the United States is building a huge military facility in that country. They also have one of the biggest embassies. It is reported that it will the place where Afghan and other suspected "terrorists" will be relocated for questioning. The United States would never allow instability in that country.
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Post by Red Brigade on Oct 3, 2009 5:00:12 GMT -5
Russia has 3,909 nuclear warheads.
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Post by Red Brigade on Oct 3, 2009 4:46:38 GMT -5
Ozkurt, actually, yes, historically 2 M Turks were killed by Armenians
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Post by Red Brigade on Oct 3, 2009 4:40:21 GMT -5
She forgot to add that they blamed it on the communists.
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Post by Red Brigade on Oct 3, 2009 4:31:39 GMT -5
So in this sense, the USA is the only country of its kind with such a perfect UNION, therefore the wealthiest in the world. It is so perfect that different States have different Laws.
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Post by Red Brigade on Oct 3, 2009 4:30:42 GMT -5
In fact, Germans and French hate eachother more so than Alabamans hate New Yorkers. We are not living in the '30s.
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Post by Red Brigade on Jul 9, 2009 3:38:12 GMT -5
We are the richest, educated and the most civilized.
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Post by Red Brigade on Jul 7, 2009 7:13:10 GMT -5
I was not talking to you son.
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Post by Red Brigade on Jul 7, 2009 7:00:13 GMT -5
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Post by Red Brigade on Jul 6, 2009 17:08:53 GMT -5
They should be deported back to Germany. They know how to deal with them.
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Post by Red Brigade on Jul 6, 2009 16:56:50 GMT -5
These people are delusional. It's a miracle that they can actually function in the real world.
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Post by Red Brigade on Jul 6, 2009 16:51:03 GMT -5
In his blog he wrote that NYT twisted his statements. He writes that what he wanted to say is that the majority of the population living in Athens were Arvanites.
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Post by Red Brigade on Jul 6, 2009 16:45:47 GMT -5
The question doesn't really make sense because nationalities mean different things in different periods of history.
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Post by Red Brigade on Jul 6, 2009 16:39:30 GMT -5
If you are a tourist.
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Post by Red Brigade on Jul 6, 2009 16:36:54 GMT -5
History has been written and can not be manipulated by extreme nationalists.
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Post by Red Brigade on Jul 6, 2009 16:29:59 GMT -5
Seems that every time Turkey tries to "influence" Bulgarian elections the anti-Turkish parties grow stronger and stronger.
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Post by Red Brigade on Dec 20, 2008 8:42:59 GMT -5
This is a complex social event, a rebellion as most people here believe, and it can't be dealt with oversimplifications.
I don't have time to write much. You must examine what happens in parallel with the economic situation, the political nepotism, the corruption in all the branches of power (judicial, political, executive) and the Church.
When the ministers don't respect the very laws that they themselves legislate, when the priest is not following his own morals and when the policeman, arguably the last ring of the chain, to whom the society has granted the right to have the monopoly of violence in order to protect the citizens and exercise the laws, breaks the laws and constantly gets away with it you will have nothing less than a rebellion. Because this isn't about the 300 anarchists.
The actions that a policeman must take are strictly defined by the laws. There is no law written somewhere saying "shoot 15 year old kids". You don't shoot someone even if he is a rapist. Not because it is "right" or "wrong". But because it is against the laws. It is as simple as it gets. And if you break the laws, you must pay. Whether you are a policeman, an anarchist, a poor or a rich.
And this is the main problem that drives everyone mad. None of those who have some sort of power pay for their actions when they break the laws.
This is what this rebellion is about. I don't know what news coverage you get there, but this is not about 300 anarchists. The people say that we had enough of your shit. If the only way to get justice in this country is like this, to hell with it. You will pay for all the shit you caused.
Because in case you aren't aware this is not the first time such thing occurs. And especially the youngsters are afraid that once more, the one who is responsible is going to get away with it. This is why the protests occur.
Three years ago the same happened in France. 3 kids, and I means kids 7-12 years old, were playing with their ball. The police suddenly came and asked them to approach, they got scared (and this tells us a lot about the way the people face the police), they run, the policed chased them and they fell on an electrified wire and they died. And then all hell broke loose.
The rebellions will not stop until the reasons that trigger them are not removed.
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