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Joementum posted:The producers of this "film" gave Ron Paul a silver coin and he mocked Ben Bernanke with it at a hearing. They're very proud of themselves. That is some of the worst voice acting I have ever heard, and I've spent most of my life watching anime.     
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Italian aircraft manufacturer Piaggio will begin flight testing on a UAV conversion of it's distinctive Avanti executive turboprop.  Can't sell a bizprop in this market, but will be interesting to see who will buy an Italian bizdrone.
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Border-chat: the Korean DMZ is actually quite interesting: The famous bridge to nowhere.  The North side. The soldiers are facing each other so neither can defect.  The South side. The soldiers are half-obscured to provide a smaller target and alert the South if needs be.  It's quite interesting how sub-national borders also have this effect.  This is the A74(M) road in Scotland, taken a few years ago. For about ten years, the motorway ended about 200 yards south of the English border, creating a six mile gap of motorway which now runs unbroken from London to Glasgow (through four different numbers), because of how the project was laid out.
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a bad enough dude posted:As an American tourist wandering through an older part of Antwerp I went into a cool looking bar that was painted yellow and had a giant black lion painted on it. I'm young and had longer hair then, and immediately got stink-eyes from a bunch of old men at the bar. Nevertheless me and my brother ordered a beer in English and sat down, when I realized the wall was covered in literal nazi propaganda and other fascist poo poo, including a poster honoring SS veterans. I finished my beer fast and got out of there. It's funny because the most explicitly separatist bar here in Rennes, capital of Brittany, is pretty much the exact opposite in its political leanings. The owner is a member of the local Antifa and the spokesman for a socialist, separatist party. It's named for the first revolt against French authority after Brittany was annexed to France in 1531.  They hold benefits for leftist causes, such as a book release party for this book about a militant Lebanese communist who is in French prison.  They hold meetings with groups like the "Friends of Kurdistan of Brittany"  They sell minority language music, mostly groups with anti-fascist messages.  They sell separatist and lefist literature.  The decor on the walls is mostly pictures of PKK fighters in Turkey. Here are some of the ones they use.  It's a pretty LF sort of place.
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Pink Floyd's The Final Cut is essentially a Roger Waters solo album against war and Margaret Thatcher. Produced some pretty good tracks and music videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghFN1UFtQho
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The President of Titan sent this letter to the French minister for Industrial Recovery:
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If you know Dutch, you should probably watch the interview/documentary made with Fortuyn before his death. I'd suggest not taking platitudes about 'power-seeking' at face value. The man's politics are basically to the left of our current cabinet, and he would've made a drat fine concessionary choice for a working class voter disillusioned with postmodern capitalism.     
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So last night my union voted on a new contract and strike authorization. The union represents engineers and "techs" (non engineering white collar labor). The engineers accepted the contract, the techs voted to strike. This debate contains a lot of emotion that extends beyond the contract. The union successfully negotiated away all but one of the major changes, yet still demands a strike. It's difficult to match the outrage the union demands, and this work force split is even more of a mess. 
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Speaking of borders The border between Sweden, Norway and Finland. It's called Treriksröset in Swedish, Treriksrøysa in Norwegian and Kolmen valtakunnan rajapyykki in Finnish. Roughly translated to three-country-cairn. It's the world's most northern tripoint. It's Sweden's most northern point and Finland's most western point. It's also part of EU's outer border because Norway isn't part of the EU. All three countries are part of the Schengen co-operation which means that you can travel across the borders without a passport. Therefore you can walk around the cairn without having to bring a passport. Norway and Russia(who was administering Finland at the time) raised a monument of stones in 1897, Sweden didn't add stones until 1901 because they couldn't agree with the Norwegians about the boundaries. The cement dome was built in 1927. The three stones from the different countries. Finland's is from later because they weren't independent when the cairn was raised. I don't know why they added it in 1926 though, perhaps someone can inform me on that.   
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SSJ2 Goku Wilders posted:If you know Dutch, you should probably watch the interview/documentary made with Fortuyn before his death. I'd suggest not taking platitudes about 'power-seeking' at face value. The man's politics are basically to the left of our current cabinet, and he would've made a drat fine concessionary choice for a working class voter disillusioned with postmodern capitalism. Uh, what makes you think Fortuyn was anti-capitalism? Quite the contrary--the closest analogue in the U.S. was probably libertarian: free-market economics, anti-regulation, small government, liberal drug policies, hefty dose of xenophobia about immigrants and Muslims.  
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Earth fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Jun 18, 2014 |
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Earth fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Jun 18, 2014 |
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 A picture of the Landsgemeinde of the Swiss canton of Appenzell-Innerrhoden, its highest political organ. The Landsgemeinde is an assembly of all eligible men and women in the canton (it has only about 15,000 inhabitants) that gathers once a year to elect the cantonal authorities and vote on political matters. Attendance is compulsory. Once widespread, only two cantons still retain their Landsgemeinde; the others abolished it during the 20th centuries for practical reasons. The Landsgemeinde of Appenzell-Innerrhoden is especially infamous for voting against women's suffrage in the canton. In 1990. Only a couple of months later it was instituted nonetheless however, when a federal court forced them to do so.
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Ho Chi Mint posted:Pink Floyd's The Final Cut is essentially a Roger Waters solo album against war and Margaret Thatcher. Produced some pretty good tracks and music videos. Crying shame Pink Floyd is defunct, they made some great music back in the day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bqZFp7dWbg
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Command Ant posted:That is some of the worst voice acting I have ever heard, and I've spent most of my life watching anime. Throw some labels on these, you got some all purpose political cartoon templates. 
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Earth posted:Double post... Dammit. Good. Way to go workers, keep those metrics up! eta: doing my part right now! 
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Earth posted:Double post... Dammit. 
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Gullous posted:So last night my union voted on a new contract and strike authorization. The union represents engineers and "techs" (non engineering white collar labor). Hey there Boeing employee! I'm a consultant working for one of your subsidiaries in Texas. After a monthly meeting yesterday, I asked the manager if the battery issue was trickling down to the subsidiary. He said that Boeing's big issue is dealing with the potential strike from the engineers and IT people. Me and a coworker were absolutely stunned that IT folk and engineers formed a union considering how libertarian they tend to labeled as online.  Is it normal to have stickers that advertise one position over another so close to the ballot box?
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poemdexter posted:Hey there Boeing employee! I'm a consultant working for one of your subsidiaries in Texas. After a monthly meeting yesterday, I asked the manager if the battery issue was trickling down to the subsidiary. He said that Boeing's big issue is dealing with the potential strike from the engineers and IT people. Me and a coworker were absolutely stunned that IT folk and engineers formed a union considering how libertarian they tend to labeled as online. Don't worry Texas worker! Today the Legislature introduced a bill that would reaffirm your right to work. No longer will you have insidious union bosses forcing you to organize to protect your collective rights! I mean they already can't in Texas but now they super-ultra-can't! Seriously the rhetoric anti-labor parties use to try to convince workers that unions are this evil force that attempts to enslave the worker make me almost physically ill.  
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Earth fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Jun 18, 2014 |
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Hey look its a Boeing employee party! I'm non-union so none of this effects me. Union members lamenting the loss of the pension for new employees.
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seiferguy posted:Hey look its a Boeing employee party! I'm non-union so none of this effects me. 
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http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/02/19/1607601/pizza-guns-discount/  
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Earth posted:This was posted in the meme thread. You guys should have it, too. Men's rights being trampled. It's horrible.  
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Because someone posted that nazi-SS cafe in Antwerp a couple pages back, a similar news item from Hungary: Starting in May, you will be able to display swastika, SS-insignia, or the red star in public again, lifting a ban that was instituted after the fall of the iron curtain in 1989. I mentioned the "red star" because the ban concerned "symbols of tyranny". Apparently a communist politician fought for his right to display it, and the hungarian court decided that nazism and communism is all the same bullshit anyways, so here you go. The extreme right wing is already pretty strong in Hungary, so this makes me puke in my mouth. http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2013/02/20/hungary-court-annuls-ban-on-fascist-communist-symbols/?mod=emergingeurope Have some guys from the Jobbik party 
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Here's one of those out-of-touch the Hague political elites coddling a filthy foreign animal   While good old normal Dutch ducks go uncoddled 
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ekuNNN posted:Here's one of those out-of-touch the Hague political elites coddling a filthy foreign animal He was lucky he was even let into Australia; it was basically just his high profile that let him in the end. quote:THE anti-Islam campaigner and politician Geert Wilders has challenged the Immigration Minister to meet him during a speaking tour of Australia this month.    
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It's like watching them self-destruct under the weight of so many lies, and now nobody knows what they should be saying. I half expected someone off camera to start shouting "Go to commercial!" but I suppose that's all done with hand signals. There are lots of good reasons not to rape...   "A man with a gun has more fun" and other poorly thought out catchphrases.
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Someone write an alternate history where Newt followed his heart and decided to become a zookeeper instead of a politician. 
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Vladimir Poutine posted:He was lucky he was even let into Australia; it was basically just his high profile that let him in the end. Here he is before the most recent election:  Here he is directly after:  
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A handy, colorful guide to rhetological fallacies.
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Command Ant posted:That is some of the worst voice acting I have ever heard, and I've spent most of my life watching anime. I got all of these cards when I was like 7-8. My mom saw 'Dinosaurs' on the pack and never thought to actually look at them, which is ridiculous because this was the package art:  Had dinosaur nightmares for years. JamesJBuffalkill fucked around with this message at 03:18 on Feb 21, 2013 |
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"The fall of workplace discipline wrecks transport" "So it was, so it will be!"  "Opportunities for the talented - under Capitalism, Opportunities for the talented - under Communism"   "The people’s revenge. The enemy won’t escape!"  "The children of freedom" 
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