Darkpriest

I'd probably change their mascot, if I had my say. Atheists have a mascot ? Maybe this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster

Qistina, a question. Which Islam would you consider the least militant? Would it be Shia? if so, why?

Looks like the killed "spy" was in fact a Chechen. Putin's pupet, Kadyrow, declared that they will not let it slide and they will find the guily ones and kill them. This might be the "Russian" boots on the ground if they will decide to deliver on the payback threat.

Nah, Russians won't send the troops in. they will deploy however some long range artilery to support advances of Syrian Army and its allies. Russians can fight asymetrical war. They do not really care about some collateral damage. their public opinion will most likely suck it up, especially after what Turkey did.

This one is kind of sad aftermath: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2015/12/witch-hunt-poland-barely-visible-refugees-151201111826928.html people do not recognize if someone is an arian christian from Syria or a muslim Syrian, and they just went by the "color". I really have nothing against non-muslim or secular muslm people from that region, they suffered enough over there, through all those hundreds of years.

i guess this is what some Americans think? http://theweek.com/articles/591808/turkey-now-huge-liability-nato--america http://www.valuewalk.com/2015/12/war-is-coming-russia-arms-its-jets-in-syria/

Looks that thanks to this immigrant crisis EU might suspend the Schengen free travel for the next two years on some intra EU borders. They will be talking about it on Friday... Also it seems that Sweden thinks about closing the bridge linking it with Denmark

I like what I see so far:

because threads like sexy women were removed

Poor Bruce i like his naive full bright color world view. Do not update too much plz!

You clearly missed the factor of WW2 and political situation in Europe in the aftermath of it... and what was one of the core issues starting that war.

O wish every game had such a simple level design as doom and DS series. I mean asid of quake and system shock those are easily the top ones when it comes to FPP/TPP design.

I have various tastes. When going out for a 'party night', I usually get some variance of Long Island or vodka with some vermouth (usually Martini bianco) and lemon or a classic of JD and coke.. When I feel like having a guest for a dinner it is some dry red wine (usually one of Bordeaux), if just to sit and talk, then it's some Rum (usually 7y dark Havana Club on ice) or some whiskey (it's hard to get a good scotch like Highland park here, so i usually go with gold Johnnie W.) or some semi-dry wine (here i give preference to the guest, usually a woman). On a rare occasion if some good friend (a woman mind you) comes by and I want to celebrate something nice I pull out the red label Heidsieck. there are some other things i drink as well like green apple cider or beers like Guiness (dark) or Tyskie (lager)

.....yeah. (volume) https://youtu.be/HgZIvjFlHMM?t=3m8s https://youtu.be/74GRowG4SSc?t=20m3s yeah, well in defense of implossion, it has a control factor when you go high prime magic, and you can set ups stacks for some AoE dmg from units. I remember playing with it when i had a wizard town, and using it to stack for my mages blasts, carnage. Unfortunately yeah, it is fairly underwhelming. I think that either Limbic underestimated the amount of work needed on the project -OR- more likely Ubi had a very restricted budget for this franchise after HoMM6 failure Sad though.

and what is a problem with double nationality if you take into account that WW2 ended 70 years ago? So you probably have people of near that age and their kids having double nationality. it's logical given the historical events. Again, giving the land to the Jews was easier than push for their assets in Europe, especially in East EU. At the same time allies wanted to punish former Nazi allies in the region. It was not the brightest idea, but there it is, we now have to somehow cope with it. (and several others dumb US ideas regarding that region in most recent times)

@Qistina Well the thing with Jews and the creation of Isreal is quite complicated. You need to understand that what happened to Jews in early 20th century in EU and then during the WW2 was a genocide level of murder and loss of assets. These things are very recent, as we still have people who remember those times and lived then. On the political scene there was a drive to somehow restore the sense of humanity and give something to them. The biggest problem was that the Western allies decided to trade off Eastern Europe to Soviets in return for a peace. No one was willing to go into another war with yet another totalitarian regime, ESPECIALLY when that regime was at the peak of military mobilization and military production capabilities. USA were too weak to tackle on that alone and Western countries were economcially and demographically ruined in 1945. This made things with Jews difficult. On the one hand you want to somehow support them, but on the other hand you cannot return to them their lands and possessions in Eastern Europe. Someone got this bright idea then, that if Western countries still have colonial grasp and "winners advantage" on the Middle East, they can give the Jews in a trade of the ancestoral land and it would be a huge success of propaganda at the same time releasing the pressure from Western countries (mainly USA) to push for lands and assets in Eastern Europe. Personally I think it was a bad decision, they should have just made the hard call and cut it there. Instead that push for the country of Israel was the first thing that pushed our history into the more combatant Middle East and was the inital spark for hatred towards USA and Western countries. The thing with Western Crusaders taking away Jerusalem from Muslims resonated in the native muslim poplation there, as indeed the only time when muslims lost control over that area was during the time of Crusades... even during the colonializm era no one was taking away their land there and removing muslims from access to various 'holy' places, it was just a matter of outside governance, and population there could have lived with it. Taking away land though and giving it to infidels was something completely different. If USA created Israel together with former colonial powers, they had to help to protect it. It was just a matter of pride and sustaining the positive propaganda about helping a nation to get their freedom, of helping the ones who were mercilessly murdered by Nazis. And it all was very recent. There were no such actions taken agains any other population in the world during that time (aside of Polish society, which was basically beheaded and crippled, by both Nazi and Soviets, and later betrayed by the same people how they fought side by side as refugees against Nazis on the Western and African front, because no one was willing to go into another war) EDIT: The treatment of Eastern Europe by Western "allies" is also one of the reasons why CEE countries do not really want to take on burden that Western EU countries took upon themselves with this multi-culti project, which seems to have heavy flaws and produces unwilling to assimilate communities. They just got their freedom 20 years ago and even the EU governance is a sensitive matter. While the economic benefits are a welcomed trade off, additional burderns are resisted and this makes sometimes for comparisons of EU structures to Soviet themed Euro-kolhoz.

Slightly unrelated report about Sauds: http://news.yahoo.com/german-spy-agency-warns-saudi-shift-impulsive-policies-150428080--business.html and then another related to refugees in Germany: http://news.yahoo.com/refugees-promised-land-life-germany-harder-expected-142953876.html

I would put this in the rumors section, interesting if true, but still only rumors until anything official can be extracted: http://www.nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/russia-getting-ready-send-120-additional-combat-aircraft-14488

Can't argue with the above, I don't deal with any type of construction business (especially when it combines all of Baltic states and Poland in one basket), so I have to trust you on this one. I can only tell what I see from perspective of finance and some other bigger global corporations.

Yeah, but back on topic, these kind of changes might be induced among more countries in the EU, and it will happen mainly due to failed immigrant policies and disregarding the needs of own less wealthy and less educated population in favor of immigrants. We need to remember that in democracy each vote has the same power and it is easier to manipulate people who are relatively poor and uneducated. This is why I worry that another big economic crisis will just collapse the EU even to the state of after Great Depression in 30s of 20th century, but this time instead of jews we will have muslims, but unlike the times of WW2 muslims have their own countries which are very protective of their brothers in faith. We also cannot forsee right now how the internal conflics will go, when the immigrants have more kids, and have them earlier than more secular native europeans. In addition, immigrants strongly entrenched in their cultural values and religion are willing to go further in defense of their way of life, than more lenient eu society, which after the period of 2 world wars and the cold war is trying to stay away from any conflicts as far as possible unless forcefully drawn into them, and even then only for the least amount of time needed for it to die out in the public perception. This makes us fairly poor at dealing with internal threats.

Not really Turkey related, but ISIS seems to have capture and beheaded a Russian: http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/isis-releases-video-purportedly-showing-beheading-alleged-russian-spy-n472921

Dude....seriously? Poland suffered from hyperinflation after the USSR collapsed and yet Poland transformed itself. Poland is considered a success story. Who would be prejudiced against Poland ....sorry but I don't understand all the EU historical bias Poorer people from richer EU countries that see Poles as cheaper competitors on same jobs, which is not unfounded as it is not uncommon to see polish metal workers, builders, welders etc. to be hired build things in richer EU countries, because they are cheaper than local craftsmen with same skills. It's not uncommon that they will get even better quality for less cost. With more opened borders that is one of a factors why a lot of companies are willing to move their Offshore operations or Shared Service units to Poland. Even though they will pay more in Poland than lets say in Mauritius or India, they will get significantly higher quality in terms of accuracy, deadlines etc. There are already big corps moving their operations from lets say Ireland, which was a success kid in 90s. I think IBM is the most notable example.

Dude....seriously? Poland suffered from hyperinflation after the USSR collapsed and yet Poland transformed itself. Poland is considered a success story. Who would be prejudiced against Poland ....sorry but I don't understand all the EU historical bias Well, we would have to start with the fall of Roman empire and all the later conflicts that shaped the map of Europe until the last balkan conflict in 1990s. that's around 1 600 years of history Bruce

Can't argue with that (the 1935-1939 period), but then again Great depression gave birth to worse things, like Nazism, and it still was better than other EU countries, hence Jews migrated to USA. It's fairly natural that populism will be looking for easy solutions regarding worsening living conditions to find the guilty ones of it. Sad, but still it should not overshadow the general history. The worst thing in all this, that the current leaders of the ruling faction think of Pilsudski as the shining example, yet they missstep in so many areas he was good at, for example the case of anti-semitism.

From the founding of the Kingdom of Poland in 1025 through to the early years of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth created in 1569, Poland was the most tolerant country in Europe.[5] Known as paradisus Iudaeorum (Latin for "Paradise for the Jews"), it became a shelter for persecuted and expelled European Jewish communities and the home to the world's largest Jewish community of the time. Still, as Poland regained independence in the aftermath of World War I, it was the center of the European Jewish world with one of world's largest Jewish communities of over 3 million. Antisemitism was a growing problem throughout Europe in those years, from both the political establishment and the general population.[12] full thing in here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Poland There were some clashes and misunderstandings, but if it would have been incredibly anti-semitic, the populace would not grow by 500k of jewish migrants between 1921 and 1938.