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Heaven and hell are eternal places because they are always present at the extremes of human existence, for better or for worse. People are constantly choosing between them, although they are generally not conscious of that in an articulated manner.
Anybody seen this crap yet? [Link] - Assuming the link works - tis from Congressman Matt G - oh boy....oh boy oh boy o boy... ~ ps - the link goes...
At a recent pro-Palestine protest at UNC, where officers were protecting the American flag, an officer is allegedly caught on camera spitting on a...
Clarke claimed the letter had been a parody mocking the controversial book The Bell Curve . That book must really hit home to a weak mind, she has...
The avalanche got moving. God help those poor Ukrainian souls who happen to be in its way ...
The Russians did it, the Russians did it !!! :O :O :O Or maybe it was inept affirmative-action-diversity hires ... :O
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East Germany was a vassall of the Soviet Union, thus the KGB was superordinate. This "Stasi officer" crap in a below-zero-level tabloid is nothing but sand in your eyes. In the 09's, Putin was heavily involved in gangland activities while being advisor to the mayor of St. Petersburg. And don't forget the "caucasian terrorist" bombing affairs in Moscow during his presidential periods. It is ridiculous to believe he was not in the know.
I'd like to comment on this:
" strange that Putin is looking towards the right in the picture rather than straight ahead at the camera, which is normal practice for official identity documentation. "
It is quite possible that this was normal for official IDs.
I live in one of the past Warsaw-pact countries (not Germany), and the normal practice here for official ID's photos was actually looking slightly to the side, so part of the profile and one ear (left) had to be visible. It was a requirement, hence the word "practice" doesn't do the justice. Just like the formal requirement now is to look forward, and this is called the biometric photo. The change was made quite some time after the fall of communism, I believe with the advent of facial recognition software, and also to make it more compatible with most other countries. First it was changed for passports only, then also for personal IDs, issued by government, which are mandatory here.
Actually, it seems that some photo studies still make the one with partial view of left profile, they call it "non-biometric", and these are intended for non-governmental ID, for example school IDs. However, the electronic student IDs (used for higher education students) have the same formal requirements as official personal ID and passport, i.e. frontal view (biometric photo).