Affentitten
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JonS and SO live in Wellington, IIRC, so they are not in any danger. But I think SO might have relatives in Christchurch.
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It doesn't matter why they might have got socialist, the climate of the time was reds under the bed and so they got rid of probably the best leader that Iran ever had. It's not so much a grudge that is the problem as a major credibility issue. The coup still today allows Iranian leaders like Amahdinejahd to say "Oh sure, they SAY they want to bring you democracy. But look what the USA has meant by that in the past. Another great idea from the country that brought you the Shah and SAVAK".
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No, much further back. I forget the year—I think it was the early '50s, but at the moment I am too rushed to go look it up—the CIA assisted a coup that overthrew a democratically elected moderate socialist government and reinstated the Shah with his secret police and all the modern instruments of repression. Not to make too much of a case for the mullahs, who are probably nutjobs in their own right, but it's not hard to understand why they might carry a grudge against us.
Michael
Mossadeq 1953. The USA felt he was getting a bit too commie. But yes, it basically set up the mother of all hypocrises.
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I don't think the truth will ever be known, short of interviewing everyone in Libya and cross referencing. Libya is very much like the system in East Germany or 1984: everyone is informing on everyone else and there is a big devolution of accountability down to the local street/neighborhood committees. There are umpteen different security agencies dealing with internal and external security and nobody knows who to trust. The numbers of people who disappear through this system are anyone's guess.
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Some background reading on the Colonel (and I don't mean Sanders.)
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we saw today about the Libyan Air Force strafing the crowd...just awful.
In the past the LIbyan airforce has been used to strafe.....the Libyan army.
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The phone's been ringing hot today with media wanting to talk about Libya. Sadly it had to take the NZ quake to bump it off the agenda.
I'm not so sure that Gadaffi will be ousted, at least without a bloodbath. If he does go, I think it will be more likely that a key defence force strongman will step in to take his own chance. But Gadaffi has been pretty active over the decades in purging anyone in the military with an ounce of ambition.
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Sexual attractiveness and proclivity based upon appearance can be misleading. I mean, you've got guys who LOOK gay, but aren't (like JonS) and then there are ones who LOOK straight, but aren't (like Stalins Organist).
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Maybe we should just close all public schools, dissolve the military, and eliminate the postal service, because those are all socialist things too. I don't want my tax dollars going to pay for some dumb little kid's education and I certainly don't want it going towards paying for people to deliver OTHER people's mail. And if I want an M16 I'll buy one myself, I don't want my money going towards buying other people M16s. Bunch of freeloaders all of them.
And while we're on it, we should definitely dissolve the FBI and DEA and actually all fire and police departments because I don't want my money going towards people spying on me, or solving OTHER people's murders. Let their families solve them. Let their families rescue them out of fires. It's my money, the government can KEEP THEIR HANDS OFF IT.
And don't forget to ban the media. It's all biased lies anyway.
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Just wondering what and how the proof of ID works when you become a candidate in the first place? eg. Anyone in Australia who was going to run for office would have to offer up-front proof of citizenship from amongst a given series of documents. Did Obama not have to do that?
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another who was shot in the back and murdered while ostensibly dealing with deputies to his front over a warrant (Milton William "Bill" Cooper of Operation Majority and author of BEHOLD A PALE HORSE),
If by "dealing with" you mean "blazing away at with a handgun and wounding after posting notices online threatening armed resistance to any officers attempting to serve warrants".
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Then try Antarctica: A Nazi Base by Jim Marrs http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/antarctica/antartica24.htm also in English His writing forms the first part, and I believe the rest is additional material, some of which is quite remarkable.
Remarkable is one word for it:
Opinion is sharply divided about the final fate of Neuschwabenland. Some argue that the Nazis abandoned their Antarctic sanctuary in the 1960s and moved to sites in the Andes. Another group claims that the Antarctic Reich still exists and has grown into "a civilization under the ice," home to about 3 million people of German and Ukrainian descent. It's supposed to be somewhere in the Mühlig-Hoffman Mountains, adjacent to the ruins of Kadath, a city founded by settlers from the lost continent of Atlantis.
The Redemptionists believe that Adolf Hitler escaped from Berlin in April 1945, traveled to southern Argentina in a U-boat, and from there traveled to Neuschwabenland in a Nazi flying saucer. Hitler supposedly lived in Antarctica until 1952, when he reportedly traveled to the moon and met with aliens from space.
These aliens took him to Aldebaran, 68 light-years from Earth. According to the legend, some day Hitler will return with an Aldebarani space armada.
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I don't think Gadaffi will depart as meekly as Mubarak. On a superficial level the political mechansims are similar between the two countries in terms of how the varying elites are managed. However things are a lot more rpressive in Libya and I expect that even if the Brother Leader were ousted, Gadaffi 2.0 would step in. He'd just be a General or an Air Marshall instead of a Colonel.
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Good graphics on the mean and gear. The mountain rising sheer out of the flat terrain could have done with a bit more work.
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You see, when you talk about red wings and sex, I immediately think of what it meant when I were young. As in "I earnt my red wings last night."
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Climate change is not the same thing as global warming. Nor do single points describe a trend.
The thing is, if I'm even agreeing with people from The Land That Time Forgot, it shows that they are on the right track.
(PS: met quite a hotty from Massey University at a conference yesterday....)
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being asked questions by a guy with a foreign accent
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wondering if questions might be trick questions
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brain freeze due to being put on the spot
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editing out all the correct answers
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looking like a nation of idiots
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Besides, it's effectively in the rest of the world's interest to promulgate the idea that America has the Western world's monopoly on "don't know and don't care to know" people.
At least some of the geographically and educationally challenged Merkuns are
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So, the people here support the "trusted, old dictatorship for the sake of stability" argument? With no exceptions?
My posts didn't say that.
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In short, it is all too possible that matters will get steadily if gradually worse until a major cataclysm occurs, when matters will suddenly get a whole lot worse.
Michael
Did you feel that way about Egypt when you were standing there on the beach watching the Red Sea consume Pharaoh's army?
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Yeah, control went to the army. yay. I mean, would you be happy with this outcome if you cared about democracy or transparent processes of gummint? An opposition that has sat it out for the last thirty years is unlikey to be able to form any sort of functioning cabal, reinstalling the present gummint is unpalatable to the "I confuse emotions with thoughts" mob informed by the world press: the military has the game stitched up. What a **** up.
The army is a relatively honest broker in Egypt and enjoys the confidence of the people. The big news really is the supension of the state of emergency that has been used by the government for the last 30 years to bypass the rule of law. The opposition hasn't 'sat it out' through choice either, since the emergency laws effectively forbid certain types of party and candidates.
The real issue here though is that whoever gets the power has still got a basket of **** to deal with: a hugely overpopulated and impoverished nation with a very narrow and weak economy.
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What abour Percy?
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It's a few years old now and yes, it's the dumbest answers and yes, I could put the same thing together on the streets of Sydney. Funny though. There is a slightly scarier one about 9/11
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but isn't there some odd quirk in trademark law
There are plenty of quirks. Back when I worked for Beyond 2000, I was sitting in an airport cafe having breakfast and when my croissant arrived, the little single serve butter thing (for some reason) said Anchor Butter: Beyond 2000 and in a font that was pretty close to our logo.
I called our elgal department's attention to it and they eventually decided they couldn't sue because of the lack of difference between our products (butter vs. a TV science show).
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Being a corporate lawyer is largely about justifying your existence by pointing out the bogeyman in every shadow.
President Hosni Mubarak steps down?
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Yes there are plenty of examples, but the Iranian one is particularly damaging because it still resonates today in a region where American troops are in harm's way. Guantanamo detention was a similar issue of "Do as I say, not as I do" that was a virtual recruiting ad for extremists.