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http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4564647/koch-brothers-take-on-crony-capitalism/?playlist_id=87093 As S. nominated the Koch brothers as Texas oil-men buying votes I wanted to see what Fox had to say. If you see the interview you will no doubt be amazed, as I was, that the fact David ran for Vice-President of the USA in 1960 gets no mention. PS. Elmar is younger than you : )

Its an interesting thought - Neocons believing representative government and economic opportunity remove the root causes of the Jihad, I think of neocons as deeply cynical and interested in only what is good for their country [themselves] and which sometimes means representative govts are a pain in the arse. If it is your own Govt. you skirt around it and if it another county's you subvert it. However taking the cartoon idea for Iraq where there was a solid society the means for organising more effectively against Saddam might have been a handy by-product whilst demonstrating how the world moved on. And shed-loads cheaper than a war : ) Even with adding satellite links for their internal use within the country. However for Libya, which has hte consumer electronics, I am slightly disappointed that the US and UK do not actually provide some weaponry. Perhaps Egypt and Tunisia are working on that.

I have always had respect for his smarts. This is a stonking speech which it would be hard to disagree with. http://www.smartplanet.com/business/blog/smart-takes/schwarzenegger-clean-energy-the-next-great-wave-of-innovation/14634/ Ok so I said it first but he says it better and gets way more publicity : )

Do you do links? : )

I was not aware that anyone was saying that he is not a tad strange. And yes he and the Guardian newspaper had a well-known fulling out so there is no love lost there. But Assange being strange does not mean Wikileaks is a bad idea. Gandhi slept with young girls, Churchill wandered around the house in the nude - not that strange but it is if wou have staff working in the house. Now if we are to attack everybody who is a little strange .... As for informers deaths. I disagree with redacting on the basis that it is a slippery slope to pressured to remove names because you are paid to, or you fear for your life. However I am not totally wedded to the idea of non-redaction, but censorship is a tricky thing, Consider if I put my life on the line to provide some pretty shattering news and then find Wikileaks have removed the names! WTF. As I say a tricky one. BTW did the US, with the foreknowledge granted, save their informants? Have I missed a link on what actually transpired?

How true is that cartoon. : ) iT actually hurts to think what might have been.

BTW Pig -cheeks - are they available in your vicinity? Enough for two or three they cost us about $2US /£1.70 and they are really nice.

Good . I ws going to mention the Engineers. As I understand it Iraq was a fully secular society with female doctors, engineers etc etc before the invasion but in fact it is the Iraqi middle class who are most likely to have fled the country. http://smintheusblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/decapitation-of-secular-iraq.html Accepting that the invasion was a mistake the complete shambles that followed the toppling of Saddam was an even more grotesque horror. Taking over a country and dismantling its existing institutions was mad and guaranteed to cause chaos. phew!

: ) I think its against forum policy to attack other posters by name but I am not sure about suicidal postings! Abneo - 1. I really don't think you are always wrong, after all you have agreed with me some times!. 2. Also I think is an area of intellectula honesty so what people say should be what they believe. 3. If people do get personal then it is normally because they cannot argue adequately - or they are from the Antipodes : ) 4. Anti-US. Well certainly not anti-US actual fighting personnel, Against American cultural imperialism you betcha. Corrupted systems and government yep. PS- sometimes I even agree with you!

I was thinking to myself that making countries better, reducing violence, poverty, inequality, sex discrimination , save endangered wildlife, cut carbon emissions ,and threat to other nations by the simple expedient of wiping out all the current population. "Better" is a such a subjective view anyway. Iraqui losses climbing into the hundreds of thousands, Fallujah contaminated with a huge deformed baby birth rate*, so the benefit ought to be good. So are women better off? No. Are companies trading in arms and oil better off ? Yes Is the health of the nation better - not really. Etc etc. So Assange or anybody else going to Iraq will say this was a totally unjustifiable war. Looking at Afghanistan, another mission where entering into a conventional war and staying has been nothing but a diaster for the Afghans. It may appear to Americans that fighting on foreign soil is better than being a possible target. It is a silly illusion as only drones will be fighting there and the smart people will be plotting regardless. The mission creep is popular with certain sections of the US - arms manufactureres, politicians with plants in theier area, and it provides lots of employment opportunities for the likes of "Blackwater" [now Xe], and young men who would otherwise be unemployed in the US. I do so wish someone had had the smarts to stop mission creep and get the Army working on infra-structure projects in the US. **http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/302052

SO how many informers died? Or is it a supposition? And if you like in an information war and transparency being important I do wonder if there is not an argument to say that casualties happen. But on a far far smaller scale than going to war. Reverting to odd ball heroes both Gandhi and Churchill might also be tarnished. abneo3sierra you said that things might be different if Assange had gone to the front-line - surely it would have been better for everyone if GWB, and Cheney, and Blair, had some conception of how awful war is. None of them has ever served.

So stressing the health services following increased prescription rates ...

Assange is indubitably strange however if we look at many of the heroes of previous generations such as Churchill and Gandhi then they too may have been pilloried for some of their personal behaviour. And curiously the idea of sending Assange into the field and getting facts right surely should be better aimed at GWB. : ) I am sure if he had actually fought he may not have been as gung-ho for Iraq. And as for Cheney - five deferments!! http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/01/politics/campaign/01CHEN.html?ex=1398830400&en=1c0259e620183dd6&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND But in the battle between the little guys, who have strong suspicions to believe we are being screwed over, and the big guys; he is the only man we have. And I suspect it takes a flawed man to have got Wikileaks up and running whilst most of us play safe with jobs and wife and family. Incidentally are there official figures on how many informers were named and executed?

I actually don't like being gloomy. My preference is for of escapist books, movies, and TV programmes : ) My Fair Lady as a favourite movie! Terry Pratchett for author ..... Unfortunately as one grows older you realise that all the beliefs etc you held when in your teens, twenties and thirties are shown to be either wrong or grubby. It is either that or the world has become a much nastier world. In fact it is a bit of both.! I suppse I could post just jokes and funny articles but deep within me has always been a desire for knowledge, and for happier/better mankind. Given I lhave the time available I have given into the temptation of sharing what I think are important articles. Now they always say you cannot change someones mind. I think that is bollocks as sometimes people simply do not know enough to have formed a hard view on the subject. Knowledge is hugely important but few people have the time to pursue it - particularly in those earlier decades when growing-up, the opposite sex, and a career are the primary importances. I certainly know Other Means learned something relating to his own health from one of my threads. I like to learn, and I find it interesting to read anyones comments as besides possible being factual!! they also provide an insight into a persons mind and perhaps there social conditioning. It helps if you can frame them - Pešadija - possibly Serbian or Hungarian aged 20 - so what you type adds to the picture I have of someones mind.

It seems strange that the Northern European countries who are primarily non-religious have a more encompassing society than the US which is probably the most nominally religious of the advanced countries. Certainly also the one with the highest belief in the Devil. So on the face of it, for the poor and suffering, it is better to live in a irreligious educated country. : ) Is the loss of moral compass due to bad examples for children growing up? I do believe so and watching the occasional childrens televison I am amazed at the commoness of showing bad behaviour as normal behaviour. I know for the purposes of TV its much better to have children behaving badly than children being well-behaved so what we are showing children as they grow-up is bad behaviour. And role models - phew - drugs sex and no long term consequences. How wonderful would these people look if banged up in gaol/jail for 12 months instead of a few weeks in detox/rehab. Our local extremely smart actress Jonnae Lumley had an insight which got some flak: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/celebritynews/8352571/Joanna-Lumley-were-raising-lazy-children-with-no-morals.html Actually curiously on topic this spoof may have an answer: http://www.theonion.com/articles/stephen-jay-gould-speaks-out-against-science-papar,266/

I just realised that if the pre-order is only shipped from the US then there may well be additional charges. AFAIR when I had CMBO by the time I paid UPS and tax it was £15-20 extra. So 50% more cost. However I suppose if the game is downloaded the back-up disk and manual may be valued under 15£ and thereore not attract import duty????

Costard - I would imagine in NZ there are too many avenues to spend your advertising money now and therefore they yelp for aid. We have the same in the UK where product placement and increased adverts are meant to be the cure. The laugh is the more adverts you put on the less likely I think people will watch. The article says simply on the DTC adverts the average viewer in the US sees 16 hours a year. Has anybody considered that the explosion of commercial channels and satellite was bound to have this affect - less revenue. And NZ does not have much population anyway so it probably has world level costs but a tiny market. Perhaps a straight feed from the BBC channels with some local content would improve things : )

“I told my family I never want to live hooked up to a machine and surviving on liquids, so they unplugged my computer and poured out my wine.” — Laurie Spugnardi Hey life is serious And ignorance is bliss!

No not hatred for Australians but: http://www.alternet.org/story/149909/how_does_the_drug_industry_get_away_with_broadcasting_those_deceptive_ads?page=entire It seems to me that the US is going down the pan and it is an object lesson to countries who might be tempted to believe that unfettered capitalism is OK. Or that the law and politicians are some form of defence. See article for the introduction of drug advertising.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_last_surviving_World_War_I_veterans_by_country There is a Pole who fought in the Pole vs Soviet wars aged 111 [ well he was younger when he fought] The Polish–Soviet War (February 1919 – March 1921) was an armed conflict with Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine pitted against the Second Polish Republic and the Ukrainian People's Republic, four states in post-World War I Europe.

I am an aetheist but do consider myself moral. I do dislike religions believing that without them one is destined to be "immoral". If we look at Mr Kasuga we can see that being religious is not a preventitive to corrupting actions. Possibly one might argue that because the Catholic religion allows for absolution it is the relligion best fitted for rogues. My non-religion does not provide for that kind of weaseling out. Please note that war-mongerer Tony Blair became RC after leaving office. If it were only the war ... but he also presided over a unsupportable housing boom and lax policing. There are many studies on peer-pressure and models of co-operative and loose cannon behaviour. In all of them there is a requirement of penalties to prevent anti-social behaviour. I think we can safely say that punishment is not being enforced and this has helped to a decline in moral behaviour. I have to say I think the media world can take a lot of credit for bringing about this change. Though big business and corrupt politicians should not go uncredited.

There have been several huge threads on guns and armour penetration on both CMBB and CMAK forums so I suggest you read these as your point is probably already been answered. The most important thing missed by most is that ammo eveolved throughout the period so depending what date you are referring to may have a different penetration than an ealier or later date. Also bear in mind armour quality changes during the war and also 80mm of rolled armour is not the same as 80mm of cast armour. So for for every date if you would just like to roll together the type of cap on the shell, the armour type , the quality of armour, plus the angle, and of course compensating for rising and falling shot, then you will get an approximation. I have many military books but they all refer pretty much to the same information which of course was carried out at a point in time and therefore had no hope of being the last word on the matter - they could only report on what happened in their trial. I would just play the game and enjoy it for what it is. I am sure CMBN will improve on CMAK.

I do agree the odds would be on an Allied survivor - but then we are talking a single exception being needed. Also that post WW1 there were emigrants from old Europe who lived in the US, Canada etc. So .... depending on pension arrangements for the combatants/or the eagerness of local press there may be Serbians living in the US, or Japanese on the West Coast yet to be recognised. But of course they were Allies. Not forgetting Rumania and Portugal, though I must admit I do not know if any of the above had a front-line troops or naval units active.

Amusing to see the list of countries who may have a WW1 veteran vet still alive - not one mention of the Triple Alliance members or of Russia. : )

I think the problem that is often glossed over is that in a perfect market - willing buyer willing seller everything is rosy. Unfortunately the necessary perfect market does not exist if someone manipulates the information or outright lies. I think the chief problem, other than lack of moral direction, suitable penalties, is that trades are conducted at speed which easily outstrips rational thought and the consideration of information. If trading wer restricted to 30 minutes a day then information and rational consideration could be made before the next dealing session. As it is robo-dealing is generating a huge amount of activity but not any real value. If I am sounding Luddite it is because we have been lead to believe that speed of things happening is actually some sign of goodness, of quality of thought. I think thats a load of crock.