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Independence from Denmark key issue in Greenland vote
TheLocal.dk ^
| 24 April 2018 09:27 CEST+02:00
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Posted on 04/24/2018 10:47:19 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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posted on
04/24/2018 10:47:19 PM PDT
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Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
04/24/2018 10:59:16 PM PDT
by
Amberdawn
(If Leftists Didn't Live By Double Standards, They'd Have No Standards At All.)
To: Olog-hai
Why on earth should an independent Greenland be part of “Europe”?? It’s not in Europe.
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posted on
04/24/2018 11:01:19 PM PDT
by
Enchante
(FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
To: Olog-hai
I wonder how they’ll do without the subsidy from Denmark.
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posted on
04/24/2018 11:03:07 PM PDT
by
Cowboy Bob
("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
To: Olog-hai
The neocons will insist that we send in troops to keep “the homeland” safe.
To: Olog-hai
Man, that place will sure hold a lot of Somalian and Syrian, ah, “refugees”.
To: Forgotten Amendments
Too late. USAF is already the most powerful military in Greenland. See: Thule AFB
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posted on
04/24/2018 11:11:41 PM PDT
by
faithhopecharity
("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
To: Olog-hai
With a gross domestic product of $2.2 billion in 2015, an independent Greenland would be the poorest country in Europe along with San Marino. San Marino is not poor. It's GDP is $1.9 billion, but the GDP per capita is $49K -- in comparison the GDP per cap of the USA is $61K and of Japan is $40K.
San Marino is definitely not poor
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posted on
04/25/2018 12:21:50 AM PDT
by
Cronos
(Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
To: Olog-hai
If anyone would benefit from global warming, it would be Greenland.
To: Enchante; Olog-hai
If they leave Denmark, they do not automatically get entrance into the EU. Most likely they will not be allowed to join the EU - Spain will veto (as it wants to prevent Catulnya separatists from getting ideas)
Danish "rule" has been really light since WWII. The locals are for all purposes independent except they get a lot of money from Copenhagen (akin to how Northern Ireland gets a lot of money from London); they can maintain their language and culture. I don't see any benefit for them to be de jure independent (in contrast to Catalunya where I see some benefits)
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posted on
04/25/2018 12:31:01 AM PDT
by
Cronos
(Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
To: Cronos
I wouldn’t think so. I was referencing the line in the article which said that an independent Greenland would be the poorest country in Europe. I would not have considered them in any way a part of Europe without the legalistic Denmark connection.
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posted on
04/25/2018 12:38:16 AM PDT
by
Enchante
(FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
To: Enchante
The original article calls them the poorest in Europe with San Marino - but that was a wrong statement -- their budget is $2.2 billion with a population of just 55,000 - so GDP per capita is $40K per person.
That's the same level as Israel - a country with a smaller population has a lower GDP
ditto for San Marino which has a GDP of $1.9 billion but a population of 33,562
Europe is really a human construct geographically, but if one was to talk about culturally then Armenia and Georgia and Israel (all part of Asia geographically) should be included as should Greenland.
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posted on
04/25/2018 1:27:47 AM PDT
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Cronos
(Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
To: Olog-hai
“... when to secede, and how to do so without impoverishing the island.”
“Rich in unexploited natural resources, Greenland...”
“... when to secede, and how to do so without impoverishing the island.”
“Rich in unexploited natural resources, Greenland...”
“... when to secede, and how to do so without impoverishing the island.”
“Rich in unexploited natural resources, Greenland...”
Nope, I don’t see any way either.
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posted on
04/25/2018 2:37:03 AM PDT
by
Moltke
(Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
To: Moltke
Wow. Average high temperature of Ilulissat, Greenland in July = 52.5 F. Average yearlong temperature = 30.86 F.
To: Olog-hai
If Greenland really plans to declare independence, the Russians will be right there offering all sorts of inducements to let them explore the resources under the ice.
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posted on
04/25/2018 3:55:37 AM PDT
by
Truth29
To: Cronos
“San Marino is definitely not poor”
I was thinking the same, thanks for the numbers. I didn’t think San Marino was poor, so I was right, and the IDIOT LEFTIST who wrote the article must have figured that absolute GDP is how you measure wealth of a country.
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posted on
04/25/2018 5:34:06 AM PDT
by
BobL
(I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
To: Olog-hai
If Denmark leaves Greenland, we need to occupy the place — for strategic reasons.
And maybe joint “condiminium” rule with Canada would be an option.
But if we and the Canadians maintain a 100% hands-off posture, the Chinese will surely try to take over the mineral resources — while maybe letting the Russians have Thule.
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posted on
04/25/2018 6:22:28 AM PDT
by
Hawthorn
To: BobL
Yup. I’d like to think it was an innocent mistake. But if absolute GDP is the measure of wealth then India and Nigeria are far richer than Switzerland.
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posted on
04/25/2018 6:56:11 AM PDT
by
Cronos
(Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
To: Hawthorn
If Denmark leaves Greenland, we need to occupy the place for strategic reasons. Just as we occupied Denmark's Iceland at the outbreak of WWII.
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posted on
04/25/2018 7:05:40 AM PDT
by
Does so
(Let's make the word Mohammedism--adding it to other ISMs...)
To: Olog-hai
"More than 2.5 million years ago Greenland looked like the green Alaskan tundra, before it was covered by the second largest body of ice on Earth," the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory said in a statement Thursday. And supposedly it's now threatened by global warming? Yeah and Faeries wear boots!
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posted on
04/25/2018 8:28:03 AM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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