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[Cosmic Eagle]

Originally Posted by Vallen Chaos Valiant

Russian Today was also using "Terrorist" to describe the new faction in Ukraine. Despite exactly zero terrorists acts being committed by them. In fact recently RT had been entirely unwatchable because Putin had been going heavy handed with the propaganda. There is almost no actual news reporting in away way in recent weeks by RT.

It should be noted that the EU would help their credibility a lot by booting out those Fascists in the Maidan...just saying...

[Dhomochevsky]

I think you are a bit confused about the kind of direct influence EU has over anything that goes on there (hint: it's pretty much non existent).

A lot of examples reaching back as far as the french revolution, but also recent 'arab spring' have shown that such movements are prone to be taken over by extremists.
If it was a popular movement to begin with, then it is only the non-extremist masses who can prevent this.
Direct intervention from outside forces seems to rarely do anything good. Rather it plays into the extremists hands.

[Cosmic Eagle]

Originally Posted by Dhomochevsky

I think you are a bit confused about the kind of direct influence EU has over anything that goes on there (hint: it's pretty much non existent).

A lot of examples reaching back as far as the french revolution, but also recent 'arab spring' have shown that such movements are prone to be taken over by extremists.
If it was a popular movement to begin with, then it is only the non-extremist masses who can prevent this.
Direct intervention from outside forces seems to rarely do anything good. Rather it plays into the extremists hands.

No no...I don't mean meddle directly but not you know....openly support such people? Or at least say something? Would make them look less clueless about everything in general

[ganbaru]

Upbeat Buffett eyes big acquisitions after record Berkshire profit
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...A200EX20140301

Iran backtracks on reports of kidnapped guards' release
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...A210F620140302

New threat to Brazil's breadbasket: a pesky caterpillar
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...A1Q19L20140227

[SeijiSensei]

Originally Posted by Cosmic Eagle

No no...I don't mean meddle directly but not you know....openly support such people? Or at least say something? Would make them look less clueless about everything in general

A number of EU member states have legislators with similar views.

[JokerD]

Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest against army service

So you don't want to get drafted because you want to stay at home and read books..

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by JokerD

Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest against army service

So you don't want to get drafted because you want to stay at home and read books..

Comparing them to our girls here, I think at least they are willing to read books.

[Irenicus]

Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

Comparing them to our girls here, I think at least they are willing to read books.

Maybe so, but Singaporean women don't go around demanding their country maintain a hard line policy against their neighbors in a permanent state of low level military conflict while flat out refusing to share in the burden of fighting.

I tend to think maintaining your cultural way of life is fine to an extent, unless and until you demand that your countrymen work to maintain the economy you live in, fight in your defense, fund your healthcare system, while you do nothing of the sort, with your contribution being of some vague cultural value and nothing else, and there's a million of you. It's like Japan and its aging crisis, except these are young men perfectly capable of work and war. Utterly unsustainable.

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by Irenicus

Maybe so, but Singaporean women don't go around demanding their country maintain a hard line policy against their neighbors in a permanent state of low level military conflict while flat out refusing to share in the burden of fighting.

But they maintain a hardline policy of being coddled and "treated like a lady", and that we men serve our 2 years so they can live a good life like they have now. Princessy little bitches.

I tend to think maintaining your cultural way of life is fine to an extent, unless and until you demand that your countrymen work to maintain the economy you live in, fight in your defense, fund your healthcare system, while you do nothing of the sort, with your contribution being of some vague cultural value and nothing else, and there's a million of you. It's like Japan and its aging crisis, except these are young men perfectly capable of work and war. Utterly unsustainable.

I agree that is hypocrisy alright. In fact, I do remember reading that there is a "holy battalion" of orthodox devout Jews where the only women in the camps are their wives. Not even female officers are allowed.

So why can't they be drafted into that unit?

[Seitsuki]

Technically aren't they just NEETs? I totally understand how they feel! I don't like the outside either!

[ganbaru]

U.S. court rejects BP appeal over Gulf spill losses
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...A230IR20140304

At White House, Israel's Netanyahu pushes back against Obama diplomacy
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...A220C920140304

[RRW]

Rachel Canning, 18, claims her parents, Sean and Elizabeth Canning, threw her out of their Lincoln Park, N.J., home last year and stopped paying for her private high school, where she excelled as a cheerleader and lacrosse player. But Sean Canning says Rachel left voluntarily after she refused to abide by simple rules of the house.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...#ixzz2v0PitJtX

[sneaker]

where she excelled as a cheerleader and lacrosse player

[Libros]

Originally Posted by RRW

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...#ixzz2v0PitJtX

^Talk about a slow news day. Ugh, spoiled brats.
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Florida girl, 14, savagely beaten by three adults after being suspended from school: police

Horrible news but at least those monsters were thrown in jail.

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Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu resists President Obama on peace compromises before White House meeting

[Tiberium Wolf]

The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary

Nice story here. I like this quote from him:

"Luckily I'm not educated," he tells students. "If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future."

[Anh_Minh]

Originally Posted by Tiberium Wolf

The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary

Nice story here. I like this quote from him:

"Luckily I'm not educated," he tells students. "If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future."

It's fashionable to harp on education (and this guy certainly earned it...), but really, you get plenty of uneducated people who are neither curious nor entrepreneurial. And educated people with either or both of those qualities.

[ganbaru]

Obama budget sets up election-year clash with Republicans
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...A2309B20140304

Ecuador $9.5 billion ruling against Chevron was corrupt: U.S. judge
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...A231CZ20140304

[Libros]

No more national parks as Tony Abbott pledges to support loggers as the 'ultimate conservationists'

D.C. Council votes to eliminate jail time for marijuana possession

Al Franken warns against Com-Warner Cable merger, citing history of broken promises

This Man Has Served 20 Years—and May Die—in Prison for Marijuana

Poudre School District destroys records to deny special needs family's access

Boy points finger like gun, gets suspended

Follow up article about the spoiled brat suing her parents. Judge Denies Tuition Money, Child Support For NJ Teen Suing Parents

[Tiberium Wolf]

This is what the Internet actually looks like: The undersea cables wiring the Earth

Nice pics there. I didn't know we had so many under water cables. I though we had 2-3 linking major land masses.

[konart]

Putin among Nobel Peace nominees
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...A231R920140304