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Caricature Map of the Great War

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This artistic and wonderful map of Europe in 1914 showing the countries of the Great War is a masterpiece.

Visit the creator's website for more and the ability to order prints if you like.

The Clanker Powers:

Germany is a massive military machine with weapons aimed outwards to all surrounding countries. It points threateningly at Britain, not so much as a sign of direct aggression, but more as an indicator that it was now Germany’s turn to start a grand global Empire to challenge the world’s current one.

Austria Hungary is an aggressive armoured giant, teetering on shoddy foundations. It is also the primary aggressor in a land grab against Serbia, with two bayonets piercing the border.

The Ottoman empire is a teetering automaton, collapsing under the weight of a paranoid and ungainly spying network that gazes at Europe through many lenses and spy glasses.

The Swiss watch ticks away the time, comfortable to wait it all out.

The Darwinist Powers:

Britain is an militaristic lion with a Roman Imperial italic-type helmet. It sits upon a mound of riches gathered from its Empire.

France’s elephant beast (wearing the French kepi they started the war with before adapting their firefighter helmets) is influenced by the Elephantine Colossus built for the Universal Exhibition of 1889 in Paris (later it ended up going to the Moulin Rouge.)

Russia is a huge imperialist bear, rotting and filled with maggots.

Serbia’s imagery is an indicator of the huge amounts of civilian deaths and suffering they’ll find themselves subject to.

Norway and Sweden are both Scandinavian trolls in the style of John Bauer, an inspirational illustrator from the era who produced a lot of phenomenal work during the war.

Portugal is a parrot for the Entente trying to goad a slumbering Spain into the war.

Ireland looks askance to Britain and brandishes a shillelagh. An indicator of their very rough relationship at the time, and of their upcoming involvement with the Central powers.

Italy is a clutch of snakes with intents on the Central powers despite existing agreements. A foreshadowing of their arrangements at the secret 1915 Treaty of London where they were promised land in exchange for involvement. It was heavily influenced by Italian Prime Minister, Antonio Salandra’s open policy of serving Italy’s "divine self-interest."

Keith Thompson Art

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Pat Buchanan Apologizing for Hitler.

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Pat Buchanan has gone ahead and apologized for Hitler, claiming he sought no empire or wider war with Europe, and had merely benign interests of German unification at heart:
Indeed, why would he want war when, by 1939, he was surrounded by allied, friendly or neutral neighbors, save France. And he had written off Alsace, because reconquering Alsace meant war with France, and that meant war with Britain, whose empire he admired and whom he had always sought as an ally. As of March 1939, Hitler did not even have a border with Russia. How then could he invade Russia?

Included in the many historical inaccuracies in the article, he went so far as to blame the Holocost on the ALLIES, stating “Hitler wanted to end the war in 1940, almost two years before the trains began to roll to the camps.”

After Hitler conquered Poland, he HAD the border with Russia.  Hitler stated many times his ambitions to continue the war and the "expansion of the German Empire".

THIS is the person that previously ran for President?  THIS is the respected Repbulican leader?  THIS is someone who's paid for his political commentary?  If he can't even research historical facts and speeches to get something this well documented correct, why is anyone listening to him?

This is the same man who asked by Rachel Maddow why it was that 108 out of the 110 United States Supreme Court justices have been white, stated:

I think white men were 100% of the people who wrote the constitution, 100% of the people who signed the Declaration of Independence, 100% of the people who died at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, probably close 100% of the people who died at Normandy. This has been a country basically built by white folks.

So because minorities were oppressed throughout history, white men somehow deserve to be the Supreme Court justices.  I don't know.  I can't follow the thinking there.

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Crazy Birther Claim #2

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Ok, so the birthers not only claim Obama was born in Kenya and not Hawaii, but they have an argument for even if he was born in the US.

His father, who did not live in the United States for more than a couple of years, was a subject/citizen of Kenya/Great Britain at the time of Barack’s birth and afterwards, AND further, as Barack himself admitted on his website during the 2008 campaign, Barack was therefore born SUBJECT TO THE GOVERNANCE OF GREAT BRITAIN.

The FACT that he was not born of TWO US CITIZEN PARENTS is all that matters. The question of his birth certificate is a distraction (a distraction fostered by Obama’s supporters?) that ought not to occupy our time and resources.

Except this is not so, and has already been debunked before.

Not only does it make no sense (if Britain changed the law so that anyone born in America was also a British Citizen, would no one be able to become President?  It's our laws that matter, not theirs.),  but Obama is not even the only/first President to only have 1 American parent.  There have been 7,  that's SEVEN, Presidents of the United States with 1 parent a US Citizen and the other a foreigner.

Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
James Buchanan
Chester A. Arthur
Woodrow Wilson
Herbert Hoover
Barack Obama

I'm sorry some people not only don't understand the law, but also can't do a little research.

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