United States

no sinking of the oceans, but a major sell out of the terrain-ownership. For example, California has already been sold to the Europeans. I think. Of course this you say is laughable and maybe it is but I think that property is valueable and from what I understand the Japanese, for example, have done regarding their automobile and ship production, to German and other markets make it inevitable for property ownership. And America, lets face it, is broke. So thats what I mean by America not being around.when it will be completley owned by Japanese or Russian Markets or trade, Middle East money for example will be exploded on that day the bible refers too. The Attack on the Dome of the Rock. So after THAT mishap there will be ,ahh..let's say..great division

also when you do a bad thing, there's voodoo. And I think The US Administartion or Government has done some bad things which may result in some sort of karma which it definetly has coming to them. So somewhere in there i just see, perhaps a newer America. But I definetly see something happening to The USA within that time frame

Petrovsk Mizinski wrote: KoS wrote: Yeah, just look Australia. Sorry, had to make that joke. Eh even if you weren't joking I wouldn't take offense to it, it's true. This country is racist as f**k, even though they have you believe it isn't. It always has been and probably will be for a long time. Other Aussies can come in and defend Australia, but speaking as an Australian myself there is a lot of stuff about this country that doesn't make me proud to be an Australian

Same here as regards Italy, even if - as I said in my previous post - there are a lot of things I don't agree with here in the US. As to the rest of Europe, it was in today's news that an openly xenophobic party got a truckload of votes in the Dutch elections, and unfortunately it's not the only one to be so successful. In many ways, it's the media's fault (at least it is in Italy), since they seem to enjoy throwing fuel on the fire of people's ingrained fear and distrust of those who are different.

On the other hand, no country in Europe would ever dream of passing a law according to which anyone who enters their borders is to be considered an intending immigrant. This situation is hurting the USA as a tourist destination - and the economy would hugely benefit from boosting the tourist industry. Every time I travelled here before moving for good, I was afraid I could be turned away for some reason or the other (since border authorities have unlimited powers in this sense). It has happened to a lot of white Europeans with good financial standing - a guy from Rome was even thrown in jail for a week, and he had done absolutely nothing wrong. 

I like US a lot, specially the north part.

stonebeard wrote: LinusW wrote: I should start a thread asking how you all feel about Sweden.... Lots of good metal, lots of bad metal. Lot of wonky hipster pop music. Cold. Healthy. Happy. Yep, that's about it.

Let me tell you about Sweden, only country where the clouds are interesting... Big Brother says it's the place to go.


Maybe I shouldn't make fun of a country in which two of my aunts are born and living.

Greece is not to be complained about, since the country has been swindled by a bunch of economical vultures (on the other way, the Greek people is complaining about their government and I can understand them). 

CPicard wrote: Greece is not to be complained about, since the country has been swindled by a bunch of economical vultures You are right, and not only by Brits, Germans and Americans; also by Greek people. (on the other way, the Greek people is complaining about their government and I can understand them).

I, as a Norwegian living in Greece, think that corruption is the biggest problem in this country. I absolutely prefer Papandreou to to Karamanlis, but he is not doing enough to fight it. That much said, many Greeks prefer corruption to taxes …

Let's have in mind that we may not confuse governments with nations and/or people.

Thanks!

 

CPicard wrote: Greece is not to be complained about, since the country has been swindled by a bunch of economical vultures (on the other way, the Greek people is complaining about their government and I can understand them).

Are you talking about Goldman? Because while I wouldn't be upset if the Goldman Sachs building burned to the ground, what they did was a very small percentage of the chicanery Greece and other EU countries were engaging in to avoid the day of reckoning. If you weren't talking about that, a country is its government, and if I can't complain about that, what can I complain about? Because I won't accept not complaining at all.