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Non sibi sed patriae

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

This is the actual radio conversation of a US naval ship with Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October 1995.
Radio conversation released by the chief of naval operations, 10-10-95.
 
CANADIANS: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the south to avoid a collision.
 
AMERICANS: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the north […]

Wanna buy a land in U.K?

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

Her majesty is now selling fertile lands to us!
I found this advertisement in a Tunisian newspaper, an Emirati real estate company selling lands in Great Britain to any Tunisian who is able to buy; those lands are tax free, with good infrastructure and have no issues with law.
I don’t understand what did happen to them […]

Israel is a terrorist State … According to U.S. code (!!??)

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

Wikipedia says: (Source from Democracy Now)
Edward Peck. Former U.S. Chief of Mission in Iraq and ambassador to Mauritania expressed the following opnion, “In 1985, when I was the Deputy Director of the Reagan White House Task Force on Terrorism, they asked us — this is a Cabinet Task Force on Terrorism; I was the […]

The Guardian: Armed gang takes £40m in cash depot raid

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

An armed gang escaped with up to £40m million in a raid on a high-security cash storage depot yesterday in what is thought to be one of the biggest robberies in history.
 
During a meticulously-planned operation, the depot’s manager and his family were abducted by two groups of men posing as police officers, while other […]

Bush has the lowest IQ of any modern president of the United Stats

Friday, February 10th, 2006

Jokes are not so wrong. Although the source is not reliable, the has a great part of reality.
These are the IQ’s of each US. president of the last 50 years, according to the study:
 
Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) : 147
Harry Truman (D) : 132
Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) : 122
John F. Kennedy (D) : 174
Lyndon B. […]

The Guardian: 12 million workers have reading age of children

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

 
Up to 16 million adults - nearly half the workforce - are holding down jobs despite having the reading and writing skills expected of children leaving primary school, a new report reveals today.
(…)
The report highlights poor quality of provision and teaching as a major reason for lack of progress. “The quality of provision for […]

Churchill’s Quotes

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

If you are going through hell, keep going.
 
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
 
The further back I look, the further forward I can see.
 
The price of greatness is responsibility.
 
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
 
In time of war, when […]

The Hours

Friday, December 30th, 2005

Meryl Streep is one of the best actresses I have ever watched. I have already seen a movie of her with Robert de Niro (Falling in Love, 1984), Al Pacino (Angels in America, 2003) and Denzel Washington (The Manchurian Candidate, 2004); so I thought how a movie with Nicole Kidmann can be?
I was […]

Best time for wine

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

In success you deserve it, and in defeat you need it.
Winston Churchill

All in all you’re just another brick in the wall

Friday, December 9th, 2005

Every Pink Floyd’s fan must remember the Wall’s scene when pupils were singing
We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave the kids alone
Hey, Teacher, leave us kids alone !
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall
All in all you’re just another brick in the […]


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