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Normandy, the Kurds and the Fascist Toilet
10-Oct-19 Around the World, Germany, Great Britain, Grief, History, Hubris, Politics, Quotable, Random Shots, Society, The Nation, United States, White Supremacy

Normandy 2019

Tragically brilliant.

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Ausrufung Republik: Philipp Scheidemann proclaims the Republik, 9 November 1918
10-Nov-18 Around the World, Germany, Grief, History, Hope for the Future, Hubris, Politics, Politics and Elections, Racism, Society, White Supremacy

9 November: Schicksalstag

In the next few days, there will be much remembrance of the events of 100 years ago—the end of World War I. Not as much in the U.S., where World War I is like the Korean War, a largely forgotten conflict, even though 115,516 Americans died between 1917-1918, along with over 320,000 sickened, most in the influenza epidemic of 1918.

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Message in a Bottle picture
20-Sep-18 Around the World, Germany, History, Hope for the Future, Hubris, Loss, Society

German Roofer Finds Message from Grandfather

A message in a bottle on the roof of a Goslar, Germany, cathedral was found by the grandson of the

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11-Dec-17 Deutsche Welle, Germany, History, Hubris, Meaningful Labor, Politics, Politics and Elections, Polls, Quotable, Quote, Random Shots, Rants, Society

They Don’t Like the New ‘America First’ As Much As They Did the Lindbergh Version

So let’s see if I’ve got this. Germany, a country in which there are still many women alive who were raped by invading Russian Red Army soldiers and in which the human products of those rapes are still living, now trust … Russia more than the United States.

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