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12-31-17, 06:50 AM | #7531 | ||
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12-31-17, 06:55 AM | #7532 | |
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12-31-17, 07:02 AM | #7533 | |
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12-31-17, 07:07 AM | #7534 |
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Welcome to STEED's world.
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12-31-17, 07:25 AM | #7535 |
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12-31-17, 08:28 AM | #7536 |
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What many people do not understand, foreigners and Germans alike, is to what degree WWII has destroyed any German self-identity, and wish for it. The German idealization of the big, nation-less continental supertstate is owed to the fact that Germans want to melt into this big community for one reason only: to no longer be German. this wish is due to two reasons: lacking knowledge of German history which is much more than just one and a half decade of Nazi terror, and the devastation that the experience of the nazi regime has left in the German psyche (that now is almost non-existent).
Instead of concluding that next time Germans need to fight, they should make sure they fight for the right and the lawful, for justice and for freedom, they said: "Never no fighting again never no more, no matter what" ("Nie wieder Krieg"). Which of course then necessarily implies that it is better to tolerate evil than to confront it and actively stand up against it with more than just love parades and public igniting of candles. At the same time there is this German, still present, missonary spirit, the belief that the world just sits in waiting to follow the idealistic exampels set by Germany. Our forefathers were the perfect monsters, now we want to be the perfect penitents and the perfetc world-improvers. But in a way this attitude is not different from the supremacist belief that the Nazis based their ideology on. This often gets not understood by non-Germans . And not by most Germans anyway. But it explains why Germany gets pulled over the table in the EU so often, and why it accepts and allows it, and why the views on power and EU are so different in the UK and Germany. I stick to it: the germans are hysterical romanticists. I read some months ago a quote by Napoleon, where he said, in his time already, that although the Germans sentmentally are one of the most sympathetic people in Europe, they probbaly also are the dumbest of them all: you only need to throw them any parole you imagine, and then you can see them going after each other in most merciless, brutal fashion, and no mere claim can be absurd enough as if Germans neverthelss would not most enthusiastically believe it. Considering the many, partially already spoiled, claims and promises made about the EU and other things like certain practical implications of environment or alternative agricultural policies, especially the last part of Napoleons assessment is still so very much true. Hysterical romanticists. Mark my words: Germany still is dangerous to the world, and especially Europe. Not militarily, but it again leads the continent into its demise. By other means than by war, but still. "Identity" is something that has historically grown, it cannot be artificially prescribed and commanded for and replaced by bureaucrats according to their latest, newest, coolest short time ideology. That is what the EU rejects to understand. Because it would be a death sentence to its high-flying plans.
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12-31-17, 08:44 AM | #7537 |
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You can not resist free beer and a good laugh.
And now prediction time... Local elections will see a up turn for Labour and a down turn for the conservatives. Round two of Brexit will weaken Maybot even more but she will remain as PM. Old JC will continual to declare he is ready for government. While that dodgy movement takes charge of the Labour party. LibDems will in most part will be lost in the maze and from time to time pop their head up to prove they are still here. SNP may step up more pressure on PM May and the DUP will get its way on getting more money. More resignations and sacking in the government go without saying and scandals you can bet your ass there will be.
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12-31-17, 07:37 PM | #7538 |
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2018 is here so lets get stuck in...
Beer all round. Normal service will resume soon.
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01-01-18, 06:24 AM | #7539 | |
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Here's the Mail's take on this story. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti....html?ITO=1490 Brexit boost my arse.
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01-01-18, 03:19 PM | #7540 | |
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01-01-18, 03:21 PM | #7541 | |
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Now this is a seismic shift in the right direction.
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01-02-18, 06:40 AM | #7542 | ||
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FAT CATS STRIKE BACK...
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Oh come off it with that old one.
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01-02-18, 06:47 PM | #7543 | |
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I get the impression from all of them that none of them know how to fix this problem.
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01-02-18, 07:05 PM | #7544 |
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What was it that started the outbreak of the US debt crsis before 2007 - wasn't it about Clintonian order for banks giving credit to buyers of houses who by their income could not afford to buy houses or pay back credits...?
In 2000, I moved into my current flat, as a leaseholder. Four years later, I bought it. I paid the price in full in cash, so to speak, did not take any credit. I still think this is trhe only way to realyl, honestly buy things of material value. You cannot buy what you cannot afford. That simple. Cannot pay the price? Get somethign else that is cheaper, or save more money. Nobody would ever have needed to "save my dream" - by triggering a mortgage crisis. Dreams do not give you claim. Realising them for you is not something the others owe to you. You have to realise your dream by yourself.
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01-03-18, 07:49 AM | #7545 | |
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This situation at this time of year is predictable but Mr Hunt has been the Health Secretary for quite a while now improvements are long overdue. He's also got the thickest teflon coat in the cabinet.
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