10 hours ago by glamur_sotona

Частенько слышу "вот, в стране Х пенсии большие, а у нас?" Под странами Х обычно используются Германия Швеция... Общемировая реальность, это когда налоги работающего населения наполняют фонд для выплат пенсий сегодняшним пенсионерам. Т.е. если усреднить, то пенсия пенсионера зависит от того, сколько ...

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23 hours ago

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23 hours ago by G

“Sucking the Soviets into a Vietnamese quagmire. …” In 1979, Robert Gates, then CIA director, discussed U.S. efforts to get the USSR into war in Afghanistan. Through clandestine tactics, the Gates-led CIA aided the Taliban to fight the Soviets. After engaging, the Soviets wised up and left. Now, the ...

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2 days ago by Sarah Palin News

The Reagan Reversal Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War User Ratings and Reviews 4 Stars Very interesting and informative I’ve never been a Reagan fan, but Beth Fischer portrays this former president in a way that explicates Reagan’s many complexities. Essentially, Fischer debunks the myth th ...

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3 days ago by Pat Frost

Though I know the big news today is Obama’s announcement and introduction of his national security team, I would like to first discuss a story that’s been sitting in my ‘post queue’ for quite some time, the releasing of US National Security Agency (NSA) archives, and I will get to the new Obama team ...

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5 days ago by David Davis

David Davis Norwich City Council (what is that, please?) say that “Hair Dressers” can’t offer their customers free glasses of mulled wine, or beer. if they do, “undercover officers” will grass them up, and send them to jail for 6 MONTHS or fine them £20,000. I don’t know what the world is coming to. ...

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29 days ago by debster03

I’ve been on a Yelena Mukhina phase lately. Of course, as a huge fan of Soviet gymnasts, it’s only natural that I would admire her as well. She was a lovely gymnast, dancer, and person. She was also incredibly daring. Seriously, who would have the guts to throw a full twisting double back on a ’70s ...

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31 days ago by David Davis

David Davis Here’s Gerald Warner today. I also flagged up this pretentiously socialist rubbish now going on, a couple of days ago. Gerald is especially good, and far better than me, about the importance and fundamemtalness of Latin (and by implication other languages from which we have extracted loa ...

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32 days ago by Alexander

Did anybody play the original Red Alert: Command & Conquer ten years ago? It had an amusing premise: Albert Einstein went back in time to eliminate Adolf Hitler. Altering the time line had unfortunate consequences however, for with Hitler removed, Stalin and the Soviet Union tried to take over the w ...

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34 days ago by supremerat

The enemies of comrade Joseph Stalin like to claim that he killed between 50 to 60 million people during his 29 year rain as Premier of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).But the truth is that it was impossible for that to happen. The population of the Russian Empire in 1917 was around 1 ...

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