When George Marshall, Truman's secretary of state and former commander in chief of the US army visited Harvard to receive his honorary title in June 1047, the decision wasn't deemed too important by the press. The historians say his hosts at the university didn't know what he would say in his speech. But that speech marked the beginning of changes ( Read more... )

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Herkese merhaba! Greetings, all! I'mma occupy you with this Turkish issue once more. The Sultan keeps being on top of the news these days, so I figured I could tune in as well, what with living just next door to him, and being able to personally smell the scent coming out of his smelly ass.

See, Erdogan was, at least on paper, democratically ( Read more... )

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A very ingenious invention that would possibly prevent lots of traffic accidents involving pedestrians immersed in their own parallel words, a.k.a. smartphone activities:

Really tells a lot about our modern culture, doesn't it? Some'd argue the general gene pool just too a major hit LOL.

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Polish leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski and his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban have called for a cultural counter-revolution aiming to overcome the cocktail of crises that the EU is fasing. Brexit is a fine opportunity for starting this process, Orban said during a recent summit. And Kaczynski says UK's decision is not a mere sign of the change of ( Read more... )

What's a burqa, and does it have a place in our place? That's the question that a number of European societies have been pondering about for some time. In Germany for example, some province ministers of the interior have decided to ban the controversial headgear as part of the measures to counter Islamic radicalization. Other countries already have ( Read more... )

We have heard a lot of radical Islam in Europe lately. Yesterday's attack in Munich provided another reason to talk about it. But few have spoken of the reversed, the Islamisation of radicalism. I am talking about marginalised people who seek for an incentive to oppose society as a whole - and often find the appropriate ideological excuse for their ( Read more... )