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In the Romanian 'canyons of horror'

9 hours ago ago from Romania News Watch

By Bob Wylie Former BBC Scotland reporter It was Boxing Day 1989 and I was sitting in my flat watching the early afternoon news. The leading item was about the execution of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu, the hated communist dictators of Romania. The phone rang - it was my old friend George Galloway, then the MP for Glasgow Hillhead. "Haw Boab fancy going to Romania?" he bawls down the phone. Six words which would change my life. The ...

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Reading About Romania and Transylvania

6 hours ago ago from Bill\'s Blog

I finished re-reading Robert Kaplan's book, Balkan Ghosts. I focused on the section for Romania as I am preparing for our family to travel to Brasov, Romania, located in the Transylvania region of Romania. The book is a mix of travelogue and history. Kaplan visited several areas of Romania, included two of the cities in Transylvania near Brasov. He was there 20 years ago and the book is now a bit dated, but it did give me a good historical ...

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RE: One Nation Under Gawd

11 hours ago ago from LewRockwell.com Blog

Lew, that's a garish painting , Jesus descending upon Capitol Hill with the U.S. Constitution in hand. Divinely inspired? What on earth could be divinely inspired about any plan for government? Is the U.S. government, or the United States of America itself, God's word on earth, God incarnate, the body of Christ made flesh in the moment between the ascension and the eschaton? Is it the church , and we just don't know it? The artist, on ...

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Yes, we ARE serious!

21 hours ago ago from Pro Libertate

As I write this post, we are probably no more than 24 hours away from the government taking yet another move to further control its citizens and deny individuals the freedom to do as they wish. By all reports, what little resistance the Republicans could muster in the Senate has largely melted away, and for Christmas, the United States of America will take a large step towards government control over its health care system. For Progressives ...

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22 hours ago ago from A New World Order Out of Chaos (News Page)

Civil Liberties, Health Care, Food Policies Supreme Court Guts Due Process Protection December 20, 2009 Naked Capitalism - Anyone who is arbitrarily declared a “suspected enemy combatant” by the president or his designated minions is no longer a “person.” Reader Walter passed along this distressing sighting from Chris Floyd’s blog. American civil liberties were gutted last week, and the media failed to take note of it. The development? ...

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