Anyone Who Really Wanted To See It Could See It.

Anyone who really wanted to see it could see it.

Everything that results from this in the present is the result of a process of omitting unutilised opportunities for the common future.

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Mutual forgetting and mutual forgiveness can solve the problems of both.

Even if it sounds impossible, bring those who were and are responsible to justice and start again.

This without mutual recompense of suffering, no matter how great it was, will only create new hatred and incomprehension.

Jimmy Carter in 2007. This is the man who brokered the most important peace deal in Israel's history. Israel's existence as an apartheid state isn't new. It isn't some "Communists in College don't know history" talking point bullshit.

As Carter says, Americans don't know this because they don't want to know. We've been able to ignore and look past the Apartheid because it was just too easy for us not to look.

It has only grown worse in the past 17 years.

A very impressive Japanese samurai war armour Mogami Dou Gusoku from the Hosokawa clan around - fabric, iron, leather. - Mito ju Yoshinobu - Japan - around 1700

細川藩の鎧「最上道具足」（布、鉄、革）。- 水戸稚児義信 - 日本 - 1700年頃

There are days when I just feel like I've been sucked dry.

Vampires simply know no self-control!

Lusy's last sentence could have been written in dracula.

Abraham „Bram“ Stoker more or less

In 1890, Stoker met the Hungarian professor Arminius Vámbéry, who told him about the legend of the Romanian prince Vlad III Drăculea (Dracula). From this character, Stoker developed the figure of the vampire Dracula. Stoker worked on this vampire novel for seven years until it was published on May 18, 1897.

John William Polidori, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker can be regarded as the founding fathers of the modern vampire myth. While the former aroused general interest in the figure of the vampire, it was Bram Stoker who shaped the specific image of the vampire.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873), known as the author of classic ghost and vampire stories, especially “Carmilla”, the story of a lesbian vampire that inspired Bram Stoker's “Dracula”, among others, dispenses with all spookiness in “The Murdered Cousin” and - anticipating Alfred Hitchcock's technique of suspense - allows tension to arise solely from the announced horror, which is inevitably fulfilled step by step.

The Vampyre" is a short work of prose fiction written in 1819 by John William Polidori

This is what equality looks like!

Taiwan has nothing to do with China, it is not China because it is a democracy.

No matter what XI pulls out of its hair as a historical justification on the basis of such claims, Europe would still be Roman.

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For a free and democratic Taiwan, let the other democracies realize that they can only stand together against the dictatorships.

China is overestimated and overestimates itself and that is exactly the point where it will tip over without outside influences. The Chinese youth have been given the promise that if they study they can practice what they have studied. Somehow apolitical, but not if the promise cannot be kept by the Communist Party XI. There are already measures on the part of the CP to bring all these unemployed academics who are supported by their parents to the countryside to work in inadequate jobs. These are still only measures and not coercive measures, but that can change at any time.

If parents are no longer able to support their children, dissatisfaction will increase, to the detriment of the CP. Many young people in China are seeking internal migration and thus a new sense of purpose, as the Communist Party's promise of prosperity and a future has not been fulfilled for them. The party is currently allowing this to happen without intervention, but if they realize the potential and impact it may have on the future of the CP's existence, violence will follow. What they do to other parts of the population, they will do to the youth and put them in re-education camps. So China has a huge problem because their promise that the fate of the party is linked to the prosperity of the people will be broken.

In addition, government spending is immense, not only for the gigantic army but also for all the infrastructure projects that were not necessary. In addition to the environmental problems such as clean air or water.

China is a giant with feet of clay.

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That is its weakness, no matter how puffed up it is in relation to the West.

President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan thanks drag queen Nymphia Wind for a great performance

DW reports that Taiwanese drag queen Nymphia Wind (妮妃雅‧瘋) and winner of the TV series “RuPaul’s Drag Race” has performed a medley of songs for outgoing President Tsai Ing-wen, thanking her for being the island’s “mother.”

As you can see from the video, the President enjoyed the performance very much. The president is clearly a strong supporter of the queer and trans communities.

Drag queens, led by "RuPaul's Drag Race" winner Nymphia Wind in yellow, perform for Taiwan's president Tsai Ing-wen at the presidential office in Taipei, Taiwan. 

Photo: Wang Yu Ching/Office of the President.

And then religion came into the world and with it the claim to absolute truth.

Those who possess the absolute truth do not allow any other truths.

This is the root of all evil.

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Foreign policy of the Donald Trump administration - Wikipedia

NBC News

Trump responds to accusations he called dead American soldiers ‘losers’

As he was returning from a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, President Trump said the report that claimed he called dead U.S. service members

Democrats

Trump’s MAGA Veepstakes: VP Contenders Stood By Trump As He Called Veterans “Suckers” and “Losers” - Democrats

Trump has spent a lifetime mocking the US military.

That's a fact.

He said it. He said all of it.