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On a different note, I've just put Chrome on my PC, (instructions from my 'fixer' as MS is clogging it up too much) and now MSE is on THAT OTHER screen, I can't bear it !! can someone please oblige with the distructions to get back to the older and better format.
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Click on User CP then at the bottom of the list you will see Manage Version. Click on that and you can switch between formats.
Was it stone horses, or the bronze "Freedom" horses, at the Airlift Museum, in Berlin?
To me this all sounds a little implausible, but I could be wrong, it wouldn't be the first time. :cool:
An Iraqi acquaintance tells me that that Iraq is issuing passports to its citizens at the rate of 100,000 a week and many people have already left the country and millions more are intending to. He's been back there very recently, his information may or may not be reliable.
John Ruskin
Veni, vidi, eradici
(I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
The truth is it was a vessel stopped at Crete on it's way to Libya, probably the rebels in Misrata, so Exactly the opposite direction to the route taken by the the refugees and migrants.
http://www.customstoday.com.pk/greece-coast-guards-detains-ship-carrying-over-5000-firearms-ammunition/
Personally - I'm not even wondering if that is what will happen. This has just guaranteed it is indeed what will happen.
On another tack entirely - and it is the refugee crisis that has sealed the fact that Britain will be voting to come out of the EU. It may have been more "touch and go" - though I thought it likely we would be coming out before this all went ballistic. There's no "touch and go" about it anymore - we ARE definitely coming out and there is no option for it. It is the only way we can exert control over who/how many/when/etc people come into Britain. We have to be able to decide, on an individual basis, who lives here. We are then free to decide to take genuine refugees and any economic migrants that would be of benefit to us and reject any who look like they might possibly be Isis or economic migrants that wouldn't benefit us.
The migrant situation is not as crucial to me. The fact that we have a xenophobic government is already pandering to the far right is bad enough. The other aspect is that these people are leaving their homes as a last resort. Think of it as bugging out en masse. We have discussed this here and I personally will not plan to bug out unless absolutely necessary. This is what the millions from Syria and elsewhere have done.
I have been wondering exactly the same thing to be honest. I do not have a vote here, unfortunately. I think that the more the crisis brings troubles to the Greeks , the more likely they are to vote for the Golden Dawn. Whoever is in, I think there is massive trouble ahead, not just for Greece but for Italy and others too.
I have just been reading the news from Europe and it seems that there are huge issues going on. Most worrying was this quote I saw from the EU ... Germany's interior minister is backing the idea of cutting European Union funding to countries that refuse to share the burden of hosting refugees.
Several EU countries, particularly in the former Eastern bloc, have rejected calls from Germany and the EU's executive Commission for mandatory quotas to spread refugees out among the 28-nation bloc.
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said Tuesday there needs to be discussion of how to exert pressure. He told ZDF television that the countries rejecting quotas often receive significant amounts of EU funding.
He said that Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has suggested -- "and I find that right" -- that "we should talk about (them) getting less money from the structural funds."
I have been thinking for a while that the migrants have been used as a political weapon against Greece, Italy and some other countries. This has sort of confirmed my fears.... we take back all the migrants or they do not give any of the money we have suffered five years of austerity for.
On a more personal note, I shared an article online saying that putin thought the migrants were the biggest threat to Europe so far. I got two really nasty threatening messages from Muslim female fundamentalists threatening me via my Facebook. I have reported and blocked both of them.:eek:
I am having serious doubts about going to London and Glasgow this year for Christmas and New year. I would be safer staying at home on this island, which may well get cut off this winter.