Forum: History, Cultures, & Military

Disabled service-connected veterans got a 3.6% increase for 2012. Monthly compensation for 100%, or total and permanent, is $2,769. This is still not enough. Gas prices have skyrocketed, and everything else has gone up. A new generation of disabled vets is returning from Afghanistan and Iraq....

rednecks down here had money-were unpopular-had the old southern values-we were taught to repudiate those values-they were racist non collectivist individualistic-anti cosmopolitan-basic "know nothing" republican values then came jimmy carter and the redneck rockers and comedians and reagan i...

http://www.historytoday.com/janet-hartley/napoleon-russia-saviour-or-anti-christ Interestingly enough, Napoleon suppressed Democracy at home in France while trying to export the ideals of the French Revolution abroad. This article seems to suggest that, while Napoleon considered an abolition...

B3zSrtgmlB0 This is the first in a three part series on Stalingrad from the German's perspective. Its very chilling! The German Sixth Army, a force of 350,000 men entered the city. And through the lunacy of Adolph Hitler only 6000 ever returned to Germany. One instersting detail I learned...

I saw this film this weekend and it blew me away! Anyone else see it? The film is supposedly based on a true story. Anyway I really wonder how much of it is indeed true? Psychic soldiers? The New Earth Army? Incorporating Barney in inhumane torture? ...

Burning the Holy Qur'an and demeaning the Prophet? Of course they become incensed. Why? Read on. Or don't. Or skip down to MY LONG, BORING POINT, WHICH I MAKE WELL, IF I DO SAY SO MYSELF: Incidentally, he had no witnesses to this revelation of 23 years (except for "Jibril", obviously,...

http://www.fortfreedom.org/h16.htm I emailed the owner of the site above, asking for permission to post this but did not get a response. Its an interesting read. The author of this piece, Nikolai Tolstoy is a distant relative of the famous Russian writer who lives in England. He was the...

I'm trying to do research on Golden Valley, Arizona. All I can find online are current figures and data. What I need is a historical perspective of the area. I've written the GV Chamber of Commerce (since their website is down) but received no reply. Anyone here familiar with the history of...

http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/news-when-monsters-come-out-play-bulgaria I have long been fascinated by this tradition. I was not however aware that they entered people's homes :eek: I'm guessing this day isn't popular with the police department :hmm: Btw check out the photos as they...

http://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/conflicts/07-02-2012/120436-equatorial_guinea-0/ The article also mentions that Equatorial Guinea has "large and virtually untapped reserves of natural gas, timber, gold, bauxite, diamonds, and tantalum" Looks like Equatorial Guinea might become an OPEC...

http://www.europe2020.org/spip.php?article653&lang=en http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassili_Kononov This is the case of a Soviet Partisan Vassili Kononov who burned alive 9 Latvian Villagers. He was convicted in 2008 for this crime and the conviction was upheld by the European Court of Human...

Alarm bells are ringing in some quarters here as China becomes more assertive in waters near the Korean Peninsula. Beijing reportedly wants to include a submerged rock effectively controlled by Korea in regular maritime patrols near the peninsula and deploy its first aircraft carrier there in...

We have people wanting to kill other people for NO RATIONAL REASON. Is there a satanic force behind the madness? Is the satanic force disguised, for occult reasons, to fool humanoids to achieve the objectives of the freemasons who have lineage going back thousands of years? zlgu68aKahY

7th Fleet's commandship, USS Blue Ridge visited Korean Navy's First Fleet after participating in the ROK-US Combined forces military exercise. USS Blue Ridge soldiers visited the Donghae(East Sea) emphasize the continued cooperation between the US and The ROK. Blue Ridge Soldiers are scheduled to...

xv8oxKwjils This is one of many conspiracies uncovered by Count Tolstoy. This man went to trial for holding on to his beliefs, and lost in a rigged trial. He wrote and exposed the criminal activities of the western allies in the handing over Russian and Yugoslav captives to be slaughtered by...

Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering won bids to build four 35,000-ton next-generation support tankers for the British Royal Navy worth a total of US$700 million on Wednesday. This is third-largest order ever recorded in Korea's defense-related exports, following an order for $1.08...

Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin says North Korea might commit provocations the birthday of late North Korean founder Kim Il-sung on April 15th. The minister made the remarks while visiting the First Army Command and the Navy’s First Fleet. He said North Korea might launch provocations to...

Georgia is a democratic state, you say. It is wonderful country and wonderful people, you say. This wonderful people will degrade and disband soon. Living standards of that wonderful people is as low as some where in Africa. Those Georgian authorities are very proud of so-called "free" medical...

Emile Zola was a fascinating man, from what I have learned thus far. If not for Zola, Dreyfus would probably have never left Devil's Island alive instead of "only" spending 5 years there. One of the most famous headlines and articles written in the 19th century: ...

Well I wanted to talk about something important to me. The airforce. My dad served in the Airforce as a engineer Staff Sergeant as I plan to serve in the Airforce as well. Please tell opinions here. I also have a small tribute I made. Not as well as my newest ones but it was a original one. ...

http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/beaten-track/news-most-incredible-tank-graveyards The bonus picture from Puerto Rico is worth a look on its own merit. I'm surprised Laotian tank cemetery made this list :eek7:

I was thinking of adopting the Chinese culture since they seem the ONLY possible hope to stop the BEAST. Plus I love Chinese food.

Hamas 'Mickey Mouse' Killed by 'Terrorist' Jews http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wiBwQ9fiho I probably posted this before, but many older threads are stuck in the memory hole for now...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFW3ZNC8sjw Merry Christmas, douchebag. :|