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    European Politics Thread.

    http://www.f-16.net/f-16_news_article652.html http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi....4_48770 http://www.eubusiness.com/imported/2003/05/110234/ http://www.hri.org/news/greek/mpab/2002/02-05-28.mpab.html#02 http://www.americanhellenic.org/modules.php?name=News&new_topic=3 http://www.f-16.net/f-16_news_article1240.html http://www.f-16.net/f-16_news_article1228.html http://www.f-16.net/f-16_news_article1073.html http://www.f-16.net/f-16_news_article697.html http://www.f-16.net/f-16_news_article596.html
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    Bus hijack in Athens

    They're lucky that they escaped unharmed, especially considering what we usually do with bus hijackers Although, unlike the previous two times, the hostage situation was this time in Athens, rather than somewhere out in the wilderness. Perhaps they didn't want to have a shoot-out in a built-up area?
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    European Politics Thread.

    Let's just hope their economy shapes up until then Btw Denoir, I don't know if you're aware of it or not, but Turkish aircraft continue to perform aggressive maneuvers into Greek airspace almost daily, ignoring the jurisdiction of Athens Air Traffic Control, harrassing passenger jets and sometimes engaging in dogfights with our planes. Am I right in thinking that Brussels can/will ask them to stop this before negotiations proceed?
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    European Politics Thread.

    I don't think the EU can work when one EU member does not recognise the existence of another EU member. Now that Cyprus is part of the EU, couldn't they cause a ruckus in the EP and demand that foreign troops be removed from her soil, so they can work out their internal problems with Turkish Cypriots by themselves, without interference from Ankara or Athens, but only help from Brussels?
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    Bus hijack in Athens

    No we don't have a history of fuck-ups, certainly nowhere near as bad as Delta Force or German police pre-GSG-9. We've been dealing with these fools for years, they will never understand. Bet ya someone's gonna try it soon again. Only that guy will get shot dead quickly, to get the message across.
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    Dying For Your Country

    Bad day at the office Jinef?
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    The Purple Heart Battalion

    <span style='color:green'>After the attacks on Pearl Harbour on December 7, 1941, all Japanese-Americans were reclassifed as hostile aliens and thrown into concentration camps and barred from enlisting for military duty. However, soon the army required higher manpower and started an initial experiment with 1329 Japanese-American soldiers forming the 100th Battalion. After finishing training in the US, the 100th was shipped out to Africa on September 2, 1943. In the meantime, by excelling at training and making themselves known as one of the hardest training units in the entire US military, the powers that were decided to form the 442nd Infantry Regiment, against solely composed of Japanese-Americans. After three weeks of impressive work in North Africa, the 100th was then shipped (now attached to the 34th "Red Bull" Division) to Italy. In Italy, the 100th had to endure hard battle after hard battle, fighting at Monte Milleto, and afterwards facing the 29th Panzer Grenadiers near San Angelo d'Alife. On January 24, 1944, the 100th faced its most famous -and bloodiest- battle of all - the Battle for Monte Cassino! When Monte Cassino finally fell in February, the 100th had been in battle for 5 months. These five months saw a 61% casualty rate - of 1329 original men in the 100th, by the end of February only 521 could be mustered. The 100th fell back to Naples and waited for the newly formed 442nd to finish training and ship to Italy. They finally arrived in June and the 100th and the 442nd were merged into a single unit. Thus replenished, they embarked again for battle. After heavy fighting at Belvedere, Luciana, and Livorno, the 442nd was pulled back for a rest and was presented with a Presidential Unit Citation. After fighting at the Arno River in August, 1944, the 442nd moved to France for an attack in the Vosages Mountains. While in France, the 442nd was detached from the 34th Division and attached to the 36th Division of the Seventh Army. Given the assignment to capture the town of Bruyeres, the 442nd fought a bitter house to house battle and captured over 200 German soldiers. Their bloodiest battle occured during their rescue of the "Lost Battalion". The First Battalion of the 36th Division had been given the assignment to clear a ridge deep in the Vosages, but had been cut-off by the Germans. The battalion, the 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment (a former Texas National Guard unit), had been cut off since October 24,1944. The other two battalions of the 141st were unable to break through. The 100th /442nd, was ordered to rescue the Lost Battalion in a real-life "Saving Private Ryan" mission (More men were lost in the 100th/442nd in the rescue operation than there were to save in the 1st of the 141st.). In five days and nights of continuous combat trying to save the "Lost Battalion", the 100th/442nd RCT had suffered more than 800 casualties. In the 3rd Battalion, Company K had 17 riflemen left and Company I had eight riflemen left. Sergeants commanded both companies; all the officers had been killed or wounded. The 2,000 men on the casualty list included 140 killed. In spring, 1945, the 442nd was sent back to Italy. The 442nd was made part of the U.S. 92nd Infantry Division, which also included the all-African American 370th Infantry and the all-white 473rd Infantry. 1 Mounting a diversionary attack in the Appenine Mountains, the 442nd took their assigned objectives cracking ther German defensive line. By May 2, 1945 the war was over in Italy. These Japanese American units suffered an unprecedented casualty rate and received over 18,000 individual decorations. Many were awarded after their deaths for bravery and courage in the field of battle. Among the decorations received by the 100th/442nd soldiers were one Medal of Honor, 52 Distinguished Service Crosses, 560 Silver Stars, 28 Oak Leaf Clusters to the Silver Star, 4,000 Bronze Stars and 1,200 Oak Leaf Clusters to the Bronze Star and, perhaps most telling of the sacrifices made by these gallant soldiers, 9,486 Purple Hearts. The 442nd Combat Infantry group emerged as the most decorated combat unit of its size in the history of the United States Army. For its service in eight major campaigns in Italy and France, the 100th Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team earned eight Presidential Unit Citations. In June 2000, President Clinton awarded an additional 20 Medals of Honor to members of the 100th Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team. This was the result of a re-examination of the files of dozens of Japanese-American soldiers to see if any of them might have been denied awards because of possible prejudice. One of these recipients was Hawaii's U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye, whose right arm was shattered by a grenade while successfully destroying three German machine gun nests.</span>
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    Bus hijack in Athens

    Read above
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    Dying For Your Country

    Glad you see it that way. Thus you agree that Patriotism does have its positive uses In medieval times, you had no choice. You were a subject of your King. I still think it was not patriotism or nationalism, but simple greed by the powers that were that led to the creation of the empires. Who were the benefactors of those empires anyway? No one but the kings. Country values mostly. Greeks and fascism don't go together too well, I would hate to see Greece associated with it. As for my own rights, if I was living in Greece, yeah sure, that too. But as I'm not, it would be for my family's freedom and rights, and my country's ideal. It's not my "glorified" view of it. It's the dictionary definition along with my own experience that chose to mostly follow the wikipedia article on it. There's Patriotism, sure, but there's also Nationalism, Fascism, Chauvinism etc. No? The students slaughtered in 1973 were true patriots, standing up against the regime, refusing to accept the illegal government's authority. Most of these students (many of which I know through my number) remain positively left-wing (some of them are commies ) but at the same time they are fiercely patriotic, without falling into the nationalistic/chauvinistic trap. It's not about how good Greece is. She has given me much pride, through history, through her natural beauty, through our fantastic football achievements But in the end of the day, I am not blind. I know it's not the "best" country (the whole concept of "best" country is rubbish anyway), especially for a foreigner it can be a lot to take in, I am not oblivious of the fact that we're one of the poorest nations in the EU, whilst also being one of the most expensive But in the end of the day, that doesn't matter. There is no competition out there where you have to excell others. You simply have to work hard to excell yourselves, and the rest will come with time. No, I'd call you a patriot
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    Bus hijack in Athens

    Mafia. That's why there hasn't been a hijack in 5 years. In both cases they were done within 6 hours. When are criminals going to realise that taking a bus hostage has only one outcome - dead hostage takers Fools
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    The Purple Heart Battalion

    Red Oct mentioned something about them in a post earlier on, I read around a bit, and found it fascinating enough to decide and condense some information into an informative post, which you may add to, discuss, criticise, slate, whatever I like writing, and for the first time in months I actually have the time again, so here you go. It's within the forum's intended purpose too, plus I got all the handy mod tools, so you can't stop me Look into the forum history, I have been doing this sporadically over the last three years.
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    Dying For Your Country

    The end of colonialism and other large empires You could say that patriotism was the thing that led to colonialism and large empires. No, you can not say that. It was greed, and nothing else. Patriotism is, amongst other things, the hindsigh to fight your own government if it becomes a threat to your country. For example, if I had around in the 60s/70s, I would have openly fought against the military dictatorship in Greece. Similarly, if I had been around in 1941, I would have been one of the first to enlist and rush to the Albanian border to stop the Italians. I think you are confusing Patriotism with some other concepts: You still haven't answered me - using Patriotism to destroy those empires. Is this good or bad?
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    HBO's Band of Brothers: Pacific War

    What's the USO exactly?
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    Dying For Your Country

    The end of colonialism and other large empires
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    A beer stops a molotov coktail fire

    Pouring liquid on burning petrol, sounds like a great idea Closing before someone gets hurt
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    European Politics Thread.

    Freedom of the press/freedom of speech. Which I'm sure you agree is a good thing to have even if all press and all speech isn't to our liking Freedom of speech to individuals - I wholeheartedly agree. However, foreign nations have no right to have a voice in a different country. Or do you disagree?
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    European Politics Thread.

    This made me laugh, conjured an image of Bin Laden on a motorbike Source of information? Radio Free Europe is a CIA operation, it had the aim to undo everything communist.I am not quite sure what it does now, but its still CIA owned and still spouting off CIA approved rubbish. It or its sister stations were involved in countless of coups in South America as well. Just another propaganda machine. I am disgusted that the EU doesn't want to shut it down.
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    New oil spill in Alaska!

    Ship is fine....still Not anymore!! That's the same ship!!! US Coast Guard tried helping...those are the remains of a Seahawk. The crew made it fortunately. 600,000 litres of heavy petroleum have left the wreck already! Full story here! The environment has barely recovered from the Exxon Valdez spill, now they have to face the next disaster I hope clean-up methods have improved in the last 15yrs and that the impact on the local environment will be less severe than last time.
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    14 year old boy tries to sell bomb

    Bull, He knew what he was doing, try him as an adult. I'm sick of people saying 'He didnt mean it, he's too young too understand what he did', and then point the finger at video games because no one wants to take the blame for being sh1tty parents. *Waves fist angrily* Take an advice from your older brothers across the pond (just this once please ) If you don't make sure that parents care for their children, your country will go down the gutter. On one hand, we have a problem called Chav in England, mostly caused by horrendous/non-existing parenting. On the other hand, we have parents that try teaching their children discipline by smacking them for making a booboo, who then end up not seeing their kid for 12 weeks because some retard in the social services decides he's a menace to the kid. He now faces prosecution for assault Teach kids discipline, bring them up properly. Please
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    European Politics Thread.

    Radio Free Europe is a CIA operation. He is funding it. There you go, he's CIA Source: http://www.canadiandimension.mb.ca/extra/d1207hc.htm If you check out the companies themselves, you will find the same ties.
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    European Politics Thread.

    Wouldn't be surprised if Soros was or is part of the company I really doubt the national governments you just cited gave their endorsement, probably more likely that they are just using their men in those countries Still rakes of typical backstage politics
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    Best song ever...  |-)

    This is totally spam
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    Number of pepole on earth.

    What happened in the early 60's
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    European Politics Thread.

    Same old trickery by CIA and State Department, what a surprise. Shame it didn't work on Chavez though, ey Seriously, why do you have to get involved in everything. Why can't you just stay at home and acknowledge the UN as a higher authority, just like everyone else does
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