2011-11-15, 18:17 | Link #17701 |
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Anyways, I think turnout will be EXTREMELY LOW this election.
Only people who will turn out in force are old heads and people not far from each respective party's base. I think even more people than normal just don't see the point. |
2011-11-15, 18:20 | Link #17702 |
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As said before, it's the SDF, the biggest stadium of the country.
The booing occurs when France plays against one of its former north african colonies (Morocco, Tunisia and especially Algeria) which have large not so well integrated communities in France ... Since last year and the rebirth of Algeria in football, the algerian community tend to riot after the games ... (either to "celebrate" a good result, or to vent on after a bad one) ... How does that make even sense ... Algeria loses to Egypt or whoever and they burn cars in France ? (after rereading myself, I may seem harsh, so I'll to nuance and say those violent incidents are still of small scale and are not representative of the community as a whole) I am not sure we are still accepting to play those countries for friendly games. I don't recall any trouble with sub saharian african countries, but we haven't played any in a while, I think. I only remember Nigeria (former british colony) in the last 5 years. Even if it has never been told officially, I think that's why we playing more friendlies with american countries. (and even got to play the USA last week for the second time time ever). Those games are safer. |
2011-11-15, 18:25 | Link #17704 | |
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His case is a bit different, since it's believed his death was ordered by a gambling syndicate who lost money because of his own goal. |
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2011-11-15, 18:45 | Link #17705 | |
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But I DAMN sure would not take it someone booing the anthem. |
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2011-11-15, 18:51 | Link #17706 | |
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I recon these days the worst hooliganism can be found in Poland. Ties with organized crime and like most hooligans in Eastern Europe very agressive to visiting fans and racist. |
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2011-11-15, 19:09 | Link #17707 |
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I think Britain has the market cornered on hooliganism. English football hooligans are perhaps the most wellknown hooligans in the world. Every world cup the UK always sends out a contingent of police to school the hosting country in how to deal with the English Hooligans. Heck, the English invented football hooliganism (coincidentally, around the same time they invented football).
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2011-11-15, 19:23 | Link #17708 | |
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2011-11-15, 20:03 | Link #17709 | |
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2011-11-15, 21:50 | Link #17710 | |
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Insider trading among Congressional members. While it has been technically legal... it doesn't mean that it has been right. They'll do themselves a favor in getting this thing passed.
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2011-11-15, 23:10 | Link #17711 |
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This is very true, and also very concerning, because as you know there are politicians and corporations out there that are actively trying to make it for people harder to vote. It is called voter suppression and it can only benefit the lunatics of the tea party.
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2011-11-15, 23:16 | Link #17712 |
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Even without any kind of suppression, people just don't vote. Usually because they think it is a waste of time (for one reason or another).
I vote. Even though my vote so far has never counted in a Presidential race. Even if the person I voted for won...the state electoral board did not vote for him, thus my vote did nothing. Effectively anyway. Yet I still vote.
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2011-11-15, 23:25 | Link #17713 |
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Thailand considering reviving 400 year old techniques to prevent future flooding in the capital. This is pretty cool... I wish Houston, New Orleans, and other Gulf cities would take notes...
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/travel/news/2...fe077000c.html
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2011-11-15, 23:45 | Link #17714 |
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I've been to Ayutthaya. It's basically -- well, it is -- an island city right where rivers enjoin. The rivers serve as the city's natural moats in prior times (the successful Burmese assault that destroyed the city was carried in the dry season). There's a reason it was capital; it's almost literally the heart of the central flood plains. With a flood this massive, there's no way Ayutthaya gets spared.
I'm far more worried about Bangkok though to be honest. It's on a lower ground level than Ayutthaya, the canals are much more paved over by the massive urban sprawl, there's so much more people there, many of which live in slums that are right by the remaining clogged, polluted canals, and the area is experiencing the "sinking" phenomenon (not sure what the scientific name is) where excessive usage of underground water results in the land sinking closer to sea level (whereupon Bangkok will either have to undertake expensive seawall projects and alternative water channels for such cases as this particular flood, or witness total disaster). But for the article itself, there's a strain of Thai intellectual thinking in regards to political, social, and economic problems that to look to the past, to "return to harmony with nature," is the solution. Sometimes it is actually a pretty good idea, and it might serve Ayutthaya well locally (if for the off-chance it actually gets implemented through the corrupt local authorities) -- but any project that successfully deals with this kind of flooding needs to be much more than local. It needs to deal with the central floodplains as a whole, to reduce the volume of water that's going to have to go through the congested metropolis of Bangkok in the first place. |
2011-11-16, 05:32 | Link #17717 |
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Arab League meets Assad foes after 69 die in Syria
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...7MD0GZ20111115
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2011-11-16, 10:07 | Link #17718 | |
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2011-11-16, 10:14 | Link #17719 |
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By 2020, all the British soldiers stationed in Germany will have come back to the UK, the Ministry of Defence has announced. But the offspring of soldiers who stayed on after World War II or returned there in the years that followed are making their mark in German society, says Chris Bowlby.
Well it's nice to see Germany accept those who's parents were mixed nationalities in their government.
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2011-11-16, 10:38 | Link #17720 | |
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