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World War II veterans honored in West Covina

Veterans is a term more used in the USA than in Britain to describe people who have served in the armed forces. The USA celebrates 11 November (Armistice Day in Britain and the Commonwealth) as Veterans' Day to honour all men and women who have served in the US armed forces, without implying that they have seen active service. Many veterans of the Gulf war have had to fight to gain recognition of the serious medical problems they have suffered as a result of ‘Gulf War Syndrome’ which covers a wide range of symptoms and has yet to be properly explained but may well be a result of prophylactic injections given in preparation for chemical and biological warfare. Veterans today can still find reintegration into civilian society a long and hard process but the organizations established after WW I are still very active and can offer much-needed support to returning soldiers." http://www.answers .com/veterans?gwp= 11&ver=2.4.0.6 51&method=3  (16 hrs ago | post #3)

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Hindu devotees plan for mass animal sacrifice in Nepal invites ...

I wish this. Let us show our ignorance by making use of Topix forum to get out of our arrogance.  (16 hrs ago | post #7)

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US Troops Killed In Iraq And Kuwait

The Ghost Rider Of course i am a rational person who observe the world without violence. I live in Köln where another date is more old and that is 11-11-11 I had lost a close family friend on 11th sept. But it is over. I am dead against all the criminals whether the individually motivated or organized or approved by the handful of few civilized governments. ONE DEATH is too much for me. By death i mean this banal well organized death  (16 hrs ago | post #7)

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Merkel, Trabants celebrate wall fall

I live in Germany and I follow the 51 state of USA . I mean the UNITED Germany. JFK is a poor guy whose death is still ............... Then after a long break one actor came as a revolutionary to tear down the wall. Obama got my respect for skipping this funny show of unity celebration  (18 hrs ago | post #3)

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Reagan's Berlin Wall speech opened doors to Soviet relationship

Oh the noble actor. You had made USA as the best country in the world!!!!!  (18 hrs ago | post #2)

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US military: 2 American pilots die in Iraq

Bush is the culprit who had made this mess. Decent people arou8nd the globe knows this unpalatable fact. I feel so sorry that the Missions had miserably failed and killed the innocent people in Iraq  (18 hrs ago | post #4)

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Indian influence at work in Afghan intelligence: Musharraf

Sorry to go offensive If i were in the helm of offers In India i would have behaved better In china i would have shown the way back to NATO In Singapore I would have aligned with the poor workers. In Pakistan I would have asked more help In Bangladesh I would have begged for normalcy and decency. In Ruassia I would have cautioned about this misadventure. I live in Germany and watch the banal politics.  (18 hrs ago | post #3)

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Germany celebrates day Berlin Wall collapsed, paving the way fo...

I wish to die in Germany due to my infatuation of my one and only darling wife. 20 years had elapsed. Now still the citizens of Germany are struggling to get rid of the non-christian commercial culture . I Love my wife and she loves me as well. I am sick of this dirty drama. Civilization is not a free-lance journalist report.  (19 hrs ago | post #6)

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G20 ministers: Let stimulus roll

I appeal all those financial Intellectuals ( restricted to G7 or G8 or G20) to keep yopur country clean. I had visited most of your G20 . We are fed up to see the same old faces and sip the unpalatable soups.  (19 hrs ago | post #9)

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Germany celebrates day Berlin Wall collapsed, paving the way fo...

I am a German due to my beloved wife. Neither my beloved German wife nor I wish to waste my time for this drama about reunification of Germany. I am still happy that Germany is not a banal HITLER's land  (19 hrs ago | post #5)

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US Troops Killed In Iraq And Kuwait

Let me beg the Topix chatters to give me a clear views about this war in Iraq. Let me also get clarification from all the member countries of Nato who happens to be the chat member in topix to give me a candid, clear logical and decent aim of this war  (19 hrs ago | post #2)

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Mrs. Bush: History will vindicate her husband

Dude...what? English language is not my language.. I have enough historical facts in my room here where from I type this . Most of the unknown intellectual and innocent Americans had failed to reach the HOUSE . I mean failed to get limelight. Those historians who wish to produce an objective history about BUSH should come to Germany and talke with me for a day or two  (19 hrs ago | post #50893)

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Sri Lanka woos Indian beauty queens

It is not a battle ground which is the subject of this thread. It is about wooing the Indian beauty queen. I had seen many bewitching and tantalizing queens in Colombo. Why the hell a war -torn island needs a queen while the politics is infested with personality-cult?  (20 hrs ago | post #546)

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China Hopes U.S. Keeps Deficit to Appropriate Size

As an Indian I can explain the role of indian politics. A country like India had more problems than any other country around the globe. So the Non-alighnment slogan is dead. Pro Gandhi is gone. Problems are aplenty . Still the social injustice is there. Naturally to keep those bollywood dreamers in good mood the poltical bigwigs should dance according to the invisible God.  (20 hrs ago | post #10)

US Politics

'If The Election Were Held Today Obama Would Lose'

Devil Dawg Just a quote to think over. "How rich—and powerful—have today’s rich become? Some numbers can help tell the story. In 1974, the most affluent 1% of Americans averaged, in today’s dollars, $380,000 in income. Now let’s fast-forward. In 2007, the most recent year with stats, households in America’s top 1% averaged $1.4 million, well over triple what top 1% households averaged back in 1974—and, remember, this tripling came after adjusting for inflation. Americans in the bottom 90%, meanwhile, saw their average incomes increase a meager $47 a year between 1974 and 2007, not enough to foot the bill for a month’s worth of cable TV. The bottom line: top-1% households made 12 times more income than bottom-90% households in 1974, 42 times more in 2007. The numbers become even more striking when we go back a bit further in time and focus not on the top 1%, but on the richest of the rich, the top 400, the living symbol of wealth and power in the United States ever since America’s original Gilded Age in the late 19th century. In 1955, our 400 highest incomes averaged $12.3 million, in today’s dollars. But the top 400 in 1955 didn’t get to enjoy all those millions. On average, after exploiting every tax loophole they could find, they actually paid over half their incomes, 51.2%, in federal income tax. Today’s super rich are doing better, fantastically better, both before and after taxes. In 2006, the top 400 averaged an astounding $263 million each in income. These 400 financially fortunate paid, after loopholes, just 17.2% of their incomes in federal tax. After taxes, as a group, the top 400 of 2006 had $84 billion more in their pockets than 1955’s top 400, $84 billion more they could put to work bankrolling politicians and right-wing think tanks and Swift Boat ad blitzes against progressive candidates and causes. How could America’s super rich have so little, relatively speaking, back in 1955 and so much today? What has changed between the mid 20th century and the first decade of the 21st? http://www.dollars andsense.org/archi ves/2009/1109pizzi gati.html When the horse need a treatment Obama the rider of that horse is not a doctor  (20 hrs ago | post #409)