Category Archives: politics

war ain’t cheap

March 13, 2008 – 19:44

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3 trillion dollar. That’s what the war on terror has cost the US of A until today. I can’t even imagine how much that is, but if nobel prize winner Joseph Sitglitz says so, I bet he ain’t bullshitting. Check the link and google news for the details but you can [...]

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scary stuff

February 5, 2008 – 20:28

No not huge hairy spiders crawling on your face at night, or mutating radioactive zombies (although those would be rather scary), but more real life stuff.
The possibility of a Christian reverent becoming president of the US of A. FTW! As if it wasn’t bad enough already with the currently inspired by Christianity-when-it-suited-his-cause Bush Jr.
Creationism anyone? [...]

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not split up yet

October 13, 2007 – 13:39

We haven’t split up yet, just in case you’re wondering how that small country named Belgium has been up to lately. Turns out it wouldn’t be such an easy task after all. I read this article in the local paper that stated that if Flanders would separate itself from the rest of what would still [...]

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belgium on the verge of a breakup?

August 25, 2007 – 15:32

Even though I’m not really into politics that much, currently we are having a very interesting political episode going down in our little country.
If you know Belgium you also know that the country is split up into several parts, making things rather complicated to govern.
As the federal elections took place a few months ago and [...]

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