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April 14, 2013
15:03 • 2 months ago
synecdoche:

justin bieber is my favorite person in the entire world

People are pretty angry about that last line.

synecdoche:

justin bieber is my favorite person in the entire world

People are pretty angry about that last line.

November 29, 2012
16:45 • 6 months ago
September 12, 2012
22:25 • 9 months ago
This is a strong boost for the agenda that we have laid out for the Netherlands, to go on with our policy in this splendid country.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte • Discussing his party’s electoral victory early Thursday morning. The conservative VVD party held a plurality of the country’s 150-seat parliament, holding 41 seats, two more than its closest rival, the Labor party. The election, largely seen as a referendum on the debt crisis, also proved to be a bellwether of far-right influence, with anti-Islamic politician Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party losing a third of its 24 seats. Meanwhile, the anti-austerity Socialist party kept steady at 15 seats.
May 30, 2012
10:08 • 1 year ago
It is important in our view that those responsible for criminal misconduct on a massive scale are not given a volume discount.
Prosecutor Brenda Hollis • Discussing why it was likely that she would appeal the decision by the Special Court for Sierra Leone to sentence former Liberian leader Charles Taylor to 50 years in prison for war crimes charges. (Hollis had wanted an 80-year sentence.) Taylor’s lawyers also plan to appeal. One point to be made here — Taylor is the first former head of state since World War II to be convicted of war crimes, and as a result, the court had no frame of reference in sentencing him. (edit for correction)
March 3, 2011
10:06 • 2 years ago

  • cause Three Flying Dutchmen (sorry), attempting to rescue Europeans stuck in the country, were captured by Libyan forces last Sunday – the first sign of Libyan forces going after Westerners.
  • reaction The Dutch government has actually kept this story under wraps; it didn’t break until a newspaper discovered it. There’s a fear the Libyan government might use the pilots as propaganda tools. source

 

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