Tag: Poland
A Non-Emergency Fundraiser (Or, Why Ron Paul has no chance in hell) [Editorial]
pO157.
Posted to Etcetera on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 10:02:36 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
I spent a good portion of my Friday evening at a fund raiser at some banquet hall. You know, the ones everybody gets guilted into going to, or possibly for the open bar serving only wine in a plastic cup or Canadian beer by the pitcher. The good thing is the evening allowed for lengthy introspection after which I realized a 3rd party candidate has little to no shot in this country for the foreseeable future.
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Can Germans Be Victims Of World War II?
MayorBob.
Posted to Legal on Sat Jan 06, 2007 at 08:29:35 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
More than sixty years after the fact, a group of people calling themselves WWII victims are seeking legal redress. No, these aren't the survivors of the Nazi killing machine in the Holocaust. And they're not the rightful owners of pre-WWII artwork and fortunes confiscated by the Germans during the war. These are descendants of Germans - Germans who claim they were expelled from their homes at the end of the war. Their insistence on recovering what they believe belongs to them, although unsupported by their government in Berlin, has rubbed many nerves raw in Warsaw.
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There are two certain things in life, death and taxes and taxes.
pO157.
Posted to Etcetera on Sun Jul 23, 2006 at 03:30:04 PM EST. RSS.
Poland has inked a deal to end the double taxation of its citizens who have been residing in the UK since its entry into the European Union a few years ago.
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