http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=1762 We of course all understand it, being intellectuals. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 17:47:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=1762&cpage=1#comment-6129 Thu, 24 Jan 2002 00:18:17 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=1762#comment-6129 Well, the price-fixing is largely, like Bauke said, only temporary and to prevent people (feeling) cheated in the course of the introduction of a new currency. So you’d have to imagine the Feds setting prices while replacing the dollar with something else at the same time.

]]> http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=1762&cpage=1#comment-6128 Wed, 23 Jan 2002 20:11:36 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=1762#comment-6128 It

]]> http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=1762&cpage=1#comment-6127 Wed, 23 Jan 2002 00:34:49 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=1762#comment-6127 Petition against the Czechs, yeah, nearly a million signatures, not bad in a country of 8 million eh? Sponsored by the far-right party here, ostensibly out of concern for the dangerous design of the Temelin nuclear plant (same design as Chernobyl), in fact (because opposition to the plant is understandably high here) a populist ploy to gain voter support with an eye to breaking up the current far-right/right coalition and holding early elections, in the hopes of either improving their position (that of the far-right) in any future coalition with the right, or with another party. Or maybe something else. I mean, nothing like politics in Belgium, right? I don’t think any sane person here actually imagines that Czech EU membership can be blocked, without completely stopping the EU expansion (which the far-right, coincidentally, opposes) (it would have to stop expansion, since it is an all-or-nothing process, either all 8? candidate countries are accepted, or none are) and harming Austria. The far-right also doesn’t like the Czechs because of the Benesch decrees, according to which the Sudeten Germans were kicked out of Czechoslovakia after WWII and all their property confiscated, among other things. It’s all tied in there, behind what looks like a sane referendum on the surface.

]]> http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=1762&cpage=1#comment-6126 Tue, 22 Jan 2002 22:55:38 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=1762#comment-6126 wow. that’s really odd to think about and perceptive of the european conglomerate to have thought of that. although, all you older countries just seem to think more about effects. wisdom of age, possibly.

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