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Since none of the parties in the election are actually agreeable, one man actually speaks sense. He may be a tad bit too idealist and a little too full of himself at times from what I saw in TV, but Baskin Oran actually says something different than everyone else. I would vote for him if he was...

Turkey is electing its new president with the highest possible amount of controversy - dare I say Bush 2000 proportions?? Hmmm election of a president to be decided in court.. I am a bit uneasy. ------------------------------------- Turkish MPs fail to elect president, vote challenged at...

Although I realize that any thread that doesn't have anything to do with the US is doomed in FYM, I'll take my chances and launch this thread. EU Summit is closing in, and with the current state resembling nothing less than 'paralysis', one can only wonder what's going to come out of it, for...

Kissinger is a scary character but he has also joined the now quite large group of people who are stating the obvious. Of course, this apparently hasn't been so obvious to many in the US adm. and its supporters. He is right about the fact that US can't just withdraw, because of several reasons...

Never thought you'd see the day? Well, here you go! It seems that it is not only adherents of one particular religion that need to get their fix of the action. You have to admit, has much more shock value than your average 'evil extremist muslim terrorist eats baby' type of news dished out by...

ok, so we got 2 albums in 6 years, that makes 22 songs and about 10 singles. Best of 1990-2000 had 3.5 + 0.5 (passengers) albums in it. achtung had 6 singles, 2 from ATYCLB, 5 from POP and 3-4 from zooropa, as well as 2 others from passengers. its been, by anyone's standards a more productive...

hey people.. im dont usually expose details of my life online, but hey it cant be that bad :) so here i go. well, anyway, here's where im at. i was dead drunk last night, partied till 4, only to come home with two girls i dont really know. apparently they were fans of my radio show. i think...

after 30 hours of intensive diplomatic traffic and one to one negotiations (thats how long it takes to convince one austrian about turkish membership) with austria, britain was finally able to start the negotiations with turkey about 4 hours ago. now, this was just the beginning, literally, so...

..of my country being pushed around by the EU. i thought entering EU would be beneficial to us, but i just might have been wrong. it seems to me that they are trying to stall the negotiations by throwing us problems that we can not solve, asking us to make concessions, eventually advocating a...

i lived in sommerville, MA, for a month, so the report seems sort of odd(not that there werent vagrants, but whats there to attack in somerville??) anyway it seems like a republican's ultimate solution: knock off vagrants off the streets AND stop terrorists! yeehaw! U.S. Says Terrorists May...

Germans pine over Zoo Station Planners see its demotion as just another step on the road to reunifying Berlin. By Andreas Tzortzis | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor BERLIN – It's one of West Berlin's most enduring icons. When the Wall stood, it was the only link between East...

Airliner crashes in Venezuela CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- A passenger plane crashed in remote western Venezuela with 152 passengers aboard early Tuesday, an aviation official said. It was unclear whether anyone survived. The West Caribbean Airways plane was headed from Panama to Martinique in...

Turkish scholar's detention contested ISTANBUL -- In a rare display of cooperation, more than 200 international academics and intellectuals have sent a letter to the Armenian president urging the release of a Duke University scholar who went on trial this month in the former Soviet republic...

i am preparing a new radio show for the fall season, and i was kind of tossing some ideas around with a friend and we came to a point where we had to agree to disagree. the question is, what is good music? how can we know that we are listening to objectively good, quality music? is it simply...

IAEA to resume Iran crisis talks The UN nuclear watchdog is due to hold a second day of crisis talks on Iran's nuclear programme, after its resumption of operations at its plant at Isfahan. The IAEA wants to persuade Iran to resume a voluntary suspension of uranium conversion at the facility...

...you may be a lover but you aint no dancer! look out!

ok, here is what happened in switzerland: Turkey's foreign minister, Abdullah Gül, has criticised Switzerland for briefly detaining a Turkish politician on suspicion of violating Swiss anti-racism laws. Doğu Perinçek, who is leader of Turkey’s Workers’ Party, has twice denied that the...

I know that this isnt exactly big news globally, but I thought this would interest some of you. I've been waiting for this to resolve for the last couple of weeks, and finally, the highest official in the Turkish judiciary is elected, chief justice is a woman, and she is a graduate of my high...

token thread. a thread about nothing. lets see what happens.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8284173/ Great news! Women found a way to circumvent men in the series of events that ensure the survival of our kind. This means, in the coming year women will realize that they don't need us at all, and all men will have to turn gay! I dont understand women who...

BBC says Bush is going to pledge $674 million. Everyone knows that is simply not enough. Britain might be partners in crime with the US in Iraq, but at least their conscience remains intact. If the administration doesnt step up to meet the challenge, the country so called leadership of the free...

i dont want to lose my war child status !! :(

this guy is just amazing. i listened to a handful of his songs (he only has 2 albums) and they just blew me away. you should check out his cover of tears for fears' mad world, very well done. also, pills, heroes & heroine, no poetry are very good songs as well. highly recommended.:wink:

ok, i know we have several dutch here, and i was wondering how they voted in the referendum, and why. if we could gather 5 votes together, we could then extrapolate it to a nation of... uhh.. 15 million :uhoh: if the dutch reject it as well, the EU constitution will be pretty much dead. this...

so the french said no to the european constituition, and it seems like the dutch will do so too. the rejections in two of the original member states could cause turmoil in the union. what do the europeans here think? how would you like to see EU progress over the next decade? constitution, yes...