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Nazi Motorcycles

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Who knows their motorcycles?   I noticed this on the street in Gythion.  My first thought knowing how proud the Greeks are of their resistance to the German invasion and occupation is that this is a war trophy.  I have seen this before in towns on Crete, BMW motorcycles proudly displayed in front of shops as a monument to their expulsion of the Nazi occupiers.  But that was decades ago and I don't remember the details of the models used by Germany during World War II.
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The French Election, be scared, very scared

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       Liberté, égalité, fraternité , the motto used to call the French people to fight for freedom and a new and enlightened government in France in 1790 resonates still today in the hearts of people, if not in the practice of their nations. Emanuel Macron's victory in the French election against Marine Le Pen with a margin of 58.5% to her 41.5%, that is  18,779,641 to 13,297,760 votes, was  a wide margin, but one so close that it should send shivers down your spine.       Why should this scare you?  Le Pen's self-identification in a 2017 BBC interview was, " The policies that I represent are the policies represented by Trump and Putin ". She embraces policies of nationalism, exclusion of immigrant populations, self-interest over the communal good of her nation, censorship of speech, and internationalism. I will be blogging later about the importance of an internationalist goal for the future, but in simplest terms, we cannot ...
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