Enron's exploits in Latin America are nearly as bad as ITT or United Fruit. Heard on the neds this morning that Enron had the wife of a man who was resisting Enron's incursions dragged out of her house -- naked and 2 months pregnant -- and beaten.
Also, Yoda's clothes disappered with him, but Obi-wan's fell to the floor.
Then again, maybe it has something to do with how many layers you can take with you when you die. Like tighter clothes dissappear, but loose robes and blankets don't. But wasn't Obi-wan's ghost wearing that same robe that Vader wiped his 'KISS'-brand boots on?
The accents were unmistakably Chinese, and the Queen was (as has been pointed out) clearly dressed as a Tibetan.
This freaks me out to no end. Star Wars terminology was used extensively to characterise the cold war, now it looks like Lucas has chosen the next evil empire for us.
I wouldn't think this was anything but typical American paranoia of powerful non-whites if both America and China weren't being extremely beligerent to each other right now.
DU is radioactive by the Pentagon's own admission. Not only that it is HIGHLY toxic, and causes kidney problems, birth defects, and very high rates of cancer. I guess you'd call it "Gulf War Syndrome". Hundreds of thousands of pounds of this crap is now strewn in and around Baghdad, causing an unprecidented level of these problems in the civilian population. A mini-Chernobyl, without the explosion.
Wag the Dog has got to be the worst thing that ever happened to Americans' collective consciousness. Now whenever there is an international conflict, people go "aha! this is a coverup for some scandalous presidential tabloid story!", which is usually the polar opposite of the truth.
Now the Corporate Republic of America can rape loot and plunder abroad with impunity, and the American people will simply redouble their efforts to comprehend the Starr Report.
I've read such real-time war reports, and there are folks from many countries helping out. For instance, there is a "corridor" that runs down the Czech Republic that NATO planes take on the way to Serbia. Spotters in that country would identify the types of planes, what they were carrying, and which direction they were going. Spotters further along would verify, etc.
The only reason I'm responding to this thread is because my name is on it...
If the assertion is that the Serb government has no authority over regions that are mostly ethnic Albanian, then the same should apply to regions of the US that are mostly ethnic hispanics or ethnic african-americans. Do you see what I was trying to say now? Both of these ethnic minorities in the US didn't exactly come under the sway of the American colonies under voulontary circumstances.
Clinton starts the NATO-Yugoslav war so that the US will maintain relevancy in a strengthening European Union. Britain is strongly for it because it is afraid of being eclipsed in the EU by a much stronger Germany.
D'oh! This war is going badly, and more than half of Italians and a full 97% of Greeks want O-U-T OUT! The new Czech and Hungarian members are also having second thoughs. There goes NATO...
But wait! If we can get a foreign scary power or two to decry NATO expansionism, and threaten to contain it, then the unraveling NATO will be scared back under the US's military umbrella. The US won't face losing everything it worked for after WWII under the Marshall Plan, and we can spend a ton more on arms to combat the new foreign threat.
Sound like a dream-come-true for the US and the defense contractors? It's happening.
I see. So your assertion is that the UN charter is not intended to be binding, but just a set of nice ideas? Wow, you're the first person I have encountered who believes this.
If I can refresh your memory, it was precisely the violation of section II against Kuwait (a UN member) that led to the UN mission against Iraq. Up until very recently, the world, NATO countries included, has viewed the charter as binding and has done a decent job of enorcing it.
As a matter of fact, NATO is using the UN charter itself extensively in it's defense against Yugoslavia in the World Court of Justice. The Netherlands, for example, is invoking section 7 of the charter saying it gives NATO the right to invade (dubious, but I won't argue it here), and also a 1992 UN resolution saying that FRY does not automatically assume the vacancy left by SFRY when it ceased to exist (and FRY is therefore not a UN member). Israel was created by a UN resolution, does that make it's existence illegal if the UN has no authority?
90% ethnic Albanian is pure poppycock. Even if it were true, that would mean the US would have no authority in New Mexico, S. California, DC, Puerto Rico, or any other place where white folk are in a minority.
The flag highly the series firmly closed S. A. marched with calmly fixed step Kam'raden the red front and the reaction shot Marschier'n in the spirit in unsern series also
The road freely the brown asking ALL ions the road freely the storm department department of it schau'n auf's heel cross fully hoping already millions the day fur liberty and fur bread starts
To the letzen mark now appeal blown for the fight steh'n we all already ready soon to flutter Hitler flags Uber all roads the farmhand shank lasts only more short time
The flag highly the series firmly closed S. A. marched with calmly fixed step Kam'raden the red front and the reaction shot Marschier'n in the spirit in unsern series with
Woohooo we got a few atom bombs and now we're a "Powerful Country"
Well, that about sums it up for England and France. So I suppose the US is the only country that qualifies as powerful. Don't break your arm patting yourself on the back...
Re international law: are you saying that a country cannot wage war on another country without the UN approval? I don't think so. Regarding the Geneva convention, I don't think NATO *targets* schools and hospitals. It hits them occasionally, sure, but specifically targeting them? Again, I don't think so.
"I don't think so" has got to be my favorite argument. Go read section II of the UN Charter (www.un.org) and get back to me.
Popular support for NATO is eroding quickly. You don't think if NATO had hard proof of atrocities it wouldn't show them?
NATO hears rumors, and then puts it forward as fact. If there is no evidence of mass killing, its pretty stupid to assume it happened anyway just because NATO says so.
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My wife is Japanese too, and she just loves Leo.
Of course the Japanese think some lame guy who snaps his fingers is entertainment, and that Hosokawa Fumie has large breasts.
'Nuff said.
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All hail leader Kibo!
Enron's exploits in Latin America are nearly as bad as ITT or United Fruit.
Heard on the neds this morning that Enron had the wife of a man who was resisting Enron's incursions dragged out of her house -- naked and 2 months pregnant -- and beaten.
Oh, and in the NW they NEVER STOP CALLING YOU!
He had his saber on the 'maim' setting when he was in the cantina.
Also, Yoda's clothes disappered with him, but Obi-wan's fell to the floor.
Then again, maybe it has something to do with how many layers you can take with you when you die. Like tighter clothes dissappear, but loose robes and blankets don't. But wasn't Obi-wan's ghost wearing that same robe that Vader wiped his 'KISS'-brand boots on?
The accents were unmistakably Chinese, and the Queen was (as has been pointed out) clearly dressed as a Tibetan.
This freaks me out to no end. Star Wars terminology was used extensively to characterise the cold war, now it looks like Lucas has chosen the next evil empire for us.
I wouldn't think this was anything but typical American paranoia of powerful non-whites if both America and China weren't being extremely beligerent to each other right now.
Yup. And the dark lord with mystic powers who fights with a sword is clearly samurai. Look at his helmet for chrissakes.
Montenegro shares communications infrastructure with Serbia.
DU is radioactive by the Pentagon's own admission. Not only that it is HIGHLY toxic, and causes kidney problems, birth defects, and very high rates of cancer. I guess you'd call it "Gulf War Syndrome". Hundreds of thousands of pounds of this crap is now strewn in and around Baghdad, causing an unprecidented level of these problems in the civilian population. A mini-Chernobyl, without the explosion.
Shoo, fascist troll.
Now the Corporate Republic of America can rape loot and plunder abroad with impunity, and the American people will simply redouble their efforts to comprehend the Starr Report.
Very effective use of the net, I'd say.
From the CIA World Factbook
Telephones: 700,000
Telephone system:
domestic: NA
international: satellite earth station-1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations: 27 (public or state-owned 1, private 26)
Radios: 2.015 million
Television broadcast stations: 8 (state owned 1, privately owned 7) plus 1 Satellite TV down link and 48 cable distribution systems
Televisions: 1 million
Here is what they have:
Ethnic groups: Serbs 63%, Albanians 14%, Montenegrins 6%, Hungarians 4%, other 13%
Religions: Orthodox 65%, Muslim 19%, Roman Catholic 4%, Protestant 1%, other 11%
Languages: Serbo-Croatian 95%, Albanian 5%
This is also interesting:
Geography-note: controls one of the major land routes from Western Europe to Turkey and the Near East; strategic location along the Adriatic coast
The only reason I'm responding to this thread is because my name is on it...
If the assertion is that the Serb government has no authority over regions that are mostly ethnic Albanian, then the same should apply to regions of the US that are mostly ethnic hispanics or ethnic african-americans. Do you see what I was trying to say now? Both of these ethnic minorities in the US didn't exactly come under the sway of the American colonies under voulontary circumstances.
Clinton starts the NATO-Yugoslav war so that the US will maintain relevancy in a strengthening European Union. Britain is strongly for it because it is afraid of being eclipsed in the EU by a much stronger Germany.
D'oh! This war is going badly, and more than half of Italians and a full 97% of Greeks want O-U-T OUT! The new Czech and Hungarian members are also having second thoughs. There goes NATO...
But wait! If we can get a foreign scary power or two to decry NATO expansionism, and threaten to contain it, then the unraveling NATO will be scared back under the US's military umbrella. The US won't face losing everything it worked for after WWII under the Marshall Plan, and we can spend a ton more on arms to combat the new foreign threat.
Sound like a dream-come-true for the US and the defense contractors? It's happening.
If I can refresh your memory, it was precisely the violation of section II against Kuwait (a UN member) that led to the UN mission against Iraq. Up until very recently, the world, NATO countries included, has viewed the charter as binding and has done a decent job of enorcing it.
As a matter of fact, NATO is using the UN charter itself extensively in it's defense against Yugoslavia in the World Court of Justice. The Netherlands, for example, is invoking section 7 of the charter saying it gives NATO the right to invade (dubious, but I won't argue it here), and also a 1992 UN resolution saying that FRY does not automatically assume the vacancy left by SFRY when it ceased to exist (and FRY is therefore not a UN member).
Israel was created by a UN resolution, does that make it's existence illegal if the UN has no authority?
90% ethnic Albanian is pure poppycock. Even if it were true, that would mean the US would have no authority in New Mexico, S. California, DC, Puerto Rico, or any other place where white folk are in a minority.
In English:
The flag highly the series firmly closed S. A. marched with calmly
fixed step Kam'raden the red front and the reaction shot Marschier'n
in the spirit in unsern series also
The road freely the brown asking ALL ions the road freely the storm
department department of it schau'n auf's heel cross fully hoping
already millions the day fur liberty and fur bread starts
To the letzen mark now appeal blown for the fight steh'n we all
already ready soon to flutter Hitler flags Uber all roads the farmhand
shank lasts only more short time
The flag highly the series firmly closed S. A. marched with calmly
fixed step Kam'raden the red front and the reaction shot Marschier'n
in the spirit in unsern series with
Well, that about sums it up for England and France. So I suppose the US is the only country that qualifies as powerful. Don't break your arm patting yourself on the back...
without the UN approval? I don't think so. Regarding the Geneva convention, I don't think
NATO *targets* schools and hospitals. It hits them occasionally, sure, but specifically
targeting them? Again, I don't think so.
"I don't think so" has got to be my favorite argument. Go read section II of the UN Charter (www.un.org) and get back to me.
Slightly off-topic, but scary. here
The 1998 CIA world factbook puts the entire Albanian population of Kosovo at 800,000.
NATO hears rumors, and then puts it forward as fact. If there is no evidence of mass killing, its pretty stupid to assume it happened anyway just because NATO says so.