European News and Poland Thread 2

He wasn't. He was born at Blenheim Palace possibly prematurely. His birthplace was a bleak attic room prepared for his birth. His parents had planned for him to be born in their London home however Jenny Churchill went into labour after a rough carriage ride at her husband's family home in Oxfordshire.

The thing about the dance is an urban legend that originated with the internet. In Randolph Churchill's own words:

" Lady Randolph] had a fall on Tuesday walking with the shooters, and a rather imprudent and rough drive in a pony carriage brought on the pains on Saturday night. We tried to stop them, but it was no use.' Neither the London obstetrician nor his Oxford auxiliary could arrive in time, although it was over twenty-four hours to the birth from the onset of labour pains, and the baby was born very early on the Monday morning with the assistance only of the Woodstock country doctor"

snopes.com/fact-check/winston-churchill-born-dance/

A strange thing to post. 1874. Not exactly news...

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Bigger question would be why would it matter, especially to Poles.

@Lenka
I was wondering the same. What relevance in Poland about the location of someone's birth150 years ago.

I always stand corrected and thank you.
He WAS born in a home where a dance was held, however, it was held three days prior to his birth, which took place in a downstairs bedroom.

My reading comprehension isn't the best before my morning coffee.

The same. It improves after the third cup.

This story has been going round since the internet started. It may be due to confusion about the room. It was one where coats had been stored previously.

European Natural Gas prices soar by almost 40% after fire at a key U.S. export terminal.
Not good.

This recent Wprost (Straight) magazine cover caused a little commotion in European media, the editor claims. Macron and Scholz are playing good policemen with Putin in bloodbath.

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It's entirely too diplomatic....making it seem that Macron and Scholz aren't directly following orders from Putin...

I've heard Macron would help to end the blockade of Odessas's harbor....that would be something.....that leaves only Scholz.....

@Bratwurst Boy

Scholz is a good man. After Schroder, we thought it would be a very long time before there was another such friendly leader. Now it seems that the best is still yet to come!

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A very good cover. Their behaviour won't end well for them.


Exactly. They are his puppets and fear the power shift in the west that will follow a russian defeat.

@Bobko

Neither the Sovietunion, nor the GDR or the DSF survived the test of time....for lotsa reasons!

The thing is the motto on that picture was still for decades the foundation for "Wandel durch Handel".....german stoopids really believed trade and friendship with Russia would mean peace....Putin showed them how wrong that thinking was!

The E.U. is definitely in turmoil.
Boris Johnson is still in charge.
But behind closed doors, rivals are plotting his ouster.

Sure. Boris fu*ed it up. First him, then Biden and now Putin. Seams that all who have time jump on EU as on always available wh*re.

You Brits will enjoy this as I sure did.
Adam Lambert and Brian May - The Queen Platinum Jubilee Party 2022

youtube.com/watch?v=j3guQ2Ufbxw

....just like Western idiots - I meant "democracies" - believed that opening doors to China and letting them swallow their manufacturing will turn China into a "democracy"...hahahahahaha...How do you spell "Western idiots" in German?

Not really? They were greedy and wanted to make a lot of money on Asian cheap labour. They were racist and belived in a white man superiority, people from China won't be able to build their econmy without western technological mastery and organization. Well they copied, stole and emulated and here we are.

If you call that stupid you are right!


That not the whole picture, they aslo wanted USA out of Europe and joint German -Russian coperation involving whole Europe.
Their calulation misfired but those were not stupid. Howere politicks are not an equation it is an art.

Na ja.....Germany isn't so unified in their hate of the US as is probably France.....at least half of it (not meant geographically at all) are real fans of that transatlantic friendship and cooperation...and know what they owe to the US!

But yeah....cheap energy from Russia plus cheap labour from Asia....it was a heady seduction, it will be hard to wean themselves off of that again...


Not that differently actually: "westliche Idioten"! :)

Following the relatively light twenty year sentence Ghislaine Maxwell has received for sex trafficking underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein, prosecutors representing the victims have said that the 'next target' should be British Royal Prince Andrew.

Now that would be justice however we all know better.

I suppose it is European news given that Ms Maxwell (born Ms Hoch) is half Czech half French.

Unless she is in a special section, she may get a lot of love there.

Who was Prince Andrew born to ?

queenie and the racing manager by all accounts

And a mass shooter in a Copenhagen shopping centre. :-(

can't anyone collect some dna on the sly?

and.... did they do it in a stable?

Does anyone need to?

Even mentioning it reminds one of those full people who pull you aside and whisper that the Iraq war was really all about oil as if nobody has ever guessed that and it was a great revelation.

It's idle speculation that has slowly filtered down the social scale for decades and is nobody's business except the people in question

Actual secrets are too private for you to ever hear about.

I always hoped it was because that would have made some kind of sense.... the official justifications were all batsh)t insane


she's not being supported the way she is to be discreet.... juicy nasty details are what the public demands!

my curiosity is best visualized here (starting at 0.18...)

youtube.com/watch?v=BYoFjTXk5bI

Anything like that may come into the public domain after a couple of centuries.

What's this that I hear about Horis getting fired ?
How will the Brits survive without such a haircut.

Good to know that the British public has enough class that a pathlogical liar without morals or principles as PM is bound to fail sooner than later.