The Strong do what they will; the Weak suffer what they must.
- Thucydides
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“If you want to free a society, just give them internet access. Because people, the young guys, you know, are all going to go out and see biased media, see the truth about other nations and their own nation and they’re going to be able to contribute and collaborate together.”
Curation of international news, visuals, music - and our stories and conversation.
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Promise of obviating past
 
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“At a news conference, Mr. Jagland said the committee had “no ambitions” that the $1.2 million prize would solve the multibillion-euro crisis, and suggested that the origin of Europe’s current economic uncertainty was the United States.

“There are many things to say about the economic crisis — where it originated, for instance,” he said. “It started in the United States, and we had to deal with it.”

He added, “It started with Lehman Brothers.”

Thorbjorn Jagland - Chairman of the Nobel Prize selection Committee, former Norwegian Prime Minister 

Nobel Committee Awards Peace Prize to European Union - NYTimes.com

I don’t know he is misquoted or mistranslated (well, suppose he probably can speak English) - or 

Well, Europeans bought those securitized debts - from USA - and also quite many of them went for real estate bubble or similar ‘credit (debt or even cooked-books) based’ bubble scheme too. 

Though true if Lehman wasn’t dropped that way - the unfolding could have been quite different. 

But I really don’t know far up north in Norway - the ex-prime minister really understands the mechanisms of how this global catastrophe was prepared (by many)

Or just speaking out of ill-informed mind, ignorance and Anti-American sentiment. 

Very puzzled. 

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