Do you think he might have served as a role model for some Russians?
On a more serious note, this just tells us a: avoid/do not pay taxes. b: don't trust people claiming to be the government. c: delete all emails unopened.
"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class thug for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902–1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents".
Smedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881 – June 21, 1940), a Major General in the U.S. Marine Corps, and at the time of his death the most decorated Marine in U.S. history.
What was the Lawyer doing in the secret pictures taken by the school laptops? Cocaine, the children, padding the bill? Anything is possible,and not a clue in the article.
Yeah, what with all the abductions of suspects from foreign countries, secret detention camps, torture and whatnot they should definitely be blacklisted by all civilised nations.
Yeah, you had to dance across the moon, fighting angry parents whilst avoiding a Chinese spacecraft trying to fry you. If you got hit there was quite the realistic clip of Michael on fire.
1: Almost every resistance-movement in history has a nuclei of (ex)-military. Weapons are available in a (recent) war zone for (ex)military. They will get support from their enemies enemy. 2: See one. 3: Hitler never had any interest in Greece. It's just that Mussolini almost got his ass kicked. 4: If you think the retaliations in France were bad, check out the history of the resistance in the Balkan, Bjelorussia and the Ukraine. The French resistance was instructed not to rise before D Day, but I agree they would have been slaughtered by the German Western reserves.
"Both the Soviet loss in Afghanistan and the US loss in Vietnam was due to foreign intervention". That depends on your definition of foreign intervention. But, more importantly, as an occupying force there will ALWAYS be foreign intervention, until you conquer that final capitol. "You cannot defend yourself from air attacks with hunting weapons and AK-47s". No no no, you've got it completely backwards in my opinion. You cannot fight an enemy armed with only hunting weapons and AK 47s from the air. "Think on how both Afghanistan and Chechnya went down". You mean the place "where Empires go to die" and the province that manages to still resist the Russian Army and plant bombs in Moscow after ten years of no hold barred "anti-terrorist operations". They went down? When? I must have missed that news. As for the American Army v The Populace: I think a large part of the Army would desert and bring some hardware. But that depends on the "casus belli", or should we say "casus rebelli".
Well, I disagree with that viewpoint too. The Roman Empire fell due to many causes. Rome turned to negotiating and bribing enemies because it was (or seemed) the cheaper option. The Eastern Roman Empire did much the same thing, and did not fall for one reason alone.
As for the divisions held up by resistance; I was referring to the amount of troops needed to pacify a given occupied territory, not actual attacks against divisions. As you stated, actual full-scale attacks didn't happen until after the invasion in Western Europe (if then), but I would see the extensive sabotage and executions of collaborators as "direct action".
"Holding them up ? Oh dear. For how many minutes ? Perhaps a day ?" How about permanently? In Yugoslavia alone some 30.000 men were stationed just to fight the Partizans and the Cetniks. In every occupied country the need for troops to protect the war effort GREW each year, as draconic countermeasures drove people INTO the resistance. In Serbia, 7000 "communist terrorists" were shot by the Germans (in Kraljevo), after 70 German soldiers had been killed. By November 1942, Tito's resistance-army stood at about 100,000 soldiers and was known as the People's Liberation Army. It had its own college for training officers, women's and youth organisations and even a naval section that operated along the coast of the Adriatic Sea. Increase the pressure, increase the resistance. It's a shame people are stupid and have no real knowledge of history, otherwise we might learn something here.
There's no such thing as "the Roman State" historically over the time-frame you suggest. First seven kings (Monarchy),The First Republic(Senate, 510 BC until 23 BC - almost 500 years), The Roman Empire (Military Dictatorship, 49 BC-AD 476),and The Eastern Roman Empire (Religious Dictatorship? until AD 1453). All these entities had different styles of leadership, rules, laws, goals and even geographic locations. Even during the Roman Empire, which you seem to allude to, oppression created dissent, and violence was met with violent resistance. Three entire veteran Legions(15.000 men) disappeared in the German forest at one time.
and I, for one, won't play Civ V in the foreseeable future. Why? Because I still haven't beaten Civ III at Deity, and have not even started on Civ IV. On a more serious note, I think the graphics on Civ IV and now V are actually detrimental to the game. It's like going to war with the wrong kind of map. As an old board- and war-gamer I prefer my maps and graphics simple. Top-down, no (fake)3D, animated, colourful shrubberies or flocks of birds please. It's nice and all, but I'm trying to annihilate the free people of Earth and I can't find my Panzerdivisionen and Stealth-bombers. Somebody execute that game designer!
As a WW2 history buff I say to thee respectfully the history of WWII contradicts EVERY POINT you've made.
"At which point did WWII partisans ever become a threat the third reich"? When they were killing soldiers left and right, blowing up transport and supplies, generally holding up whole divisions that could have been at the front?
"They were, at no point, capable of even attempting to attack any significant groups of German soldiers". Really, read a book or two. There where literally thousands of attacks on significant German forces, in Russia, in the Balkan, in France.
"And the groups collaborating with the Nazi's dwarfed, in almost all of Europe, the resistance". And the group that did nothing whatsoever dwarfed all the combined Nazi's AND the resistance. Your point?
As for Roman and other Fascist tactics in population decimation, complete control and massive retaliations against any and all resistance; That works so well that these Empires still thrive and survive, and are seen as admirable examples we should look up to. Idiot.
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Luckily, we have averted disaster, by poisoning almost all the fish outside the cave...
Maybe they've unfrozen Boris Grishenko...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c0K5SZNvWc
Do you think he might have served as a role model for some Russians?
On a more serious note, this just tells us
a: avoid/do not pay taxes.
b: don't trust people claiming to be the government.
c: delete all emails unopened.
so what's new?
Dick Cheney appears and predicts;
"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class thug for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902–1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents".
Smedley Darlington Butler
(July 30, 1881 – June 21, 1940), a Major General in the U.S. Marine Corps, and at the time of his death the most decorated Marine in U.S. history.
Clicking an ad turns you gay, unless you're at c:
It's the only way to be sure...
Well to be fair, everybody is a massive douche, save you and me, and even thou art a bit of a douche.
This is in no way a troll. It's a reasonably stated opinion you may or may not agree with.
"no balls to mess with the real nasty ones."
Fuck the Disney Corporation!
Satisfied now?
What was the Lawyer doing in the secret pictures taken by the school laptops?
Cocaine, the children, padding the bill? Anything is possible,and not a clue in the article.
Yeah, what with all the abductions of suspects from foreign countries, secret detention camps, torture and whatnot they should definitely be blacklisted by all civilised nations.
"three times larger sounds like 1g + 3g to me"
How so? Three times larger can only mean 3 x 1 g.
Puritans are less repressed and repressive than Roman Catholics.
This is your endorsement? Hahahahahaha.
Please stop trying to make everybody a victim of your own personal frustrations.
It's not our fault you can't get laid.
There is no Communist China.
Yeah, you had to dance across the moon, fighting angry parents whilst avoiding a Chinese spacecraft trying to fry you. If you got hit there was quite the realistic clip of Michael on fire.
1: Almost every resistance-movement in history has a nuclei of (ex)-military. Weapons are available in a (recent) war zone for (ex)military. They will get support from their enemies enemy.
2: See one.
3: Hitler never had any interest in Greece. It's just that Mussolini almost got his ass kicked.
4: If you think the retaliations in France were bad, check out the history of the resistance in the Balkan, Bjelorussia and the Ukraine. The French resistance was instructed not to rise before D Day, but I agree they would have been slaughtered by the German Western reserves.
"Both the Soviet loss in Afghanistan and the US loss in Vietnam was due to foreign intervention".
That depends on your definition of foreign intervention. But, more importantly, as an occupying force there will ALWAYS be foreign intervention, until you conquer that final capitol.
"You cannot defend yourself from air attacks with hunting weapons and AK-47s".
No no no, you've got it completely backwards in my opinion.
You cannot fight an enemy armed with only hunting weapons and AK 47s from the air.
"Think on how both Afghanistan and Chechnya went down".
You mean the place "where Empires go to die" and the province that manages to still resist the Russian Army and plant bombs in Moscow after ten years of no hold barred "anti-terrorist operations". They went down? When? I must have missed that news.
As for the American Army v The Populace: I think a large part of the Army would desert and bring some hardware. But that depends on the "casus belli", or should we say "casus rebelli".
Well, I disagree with that viewpoint too. The Roman Empire fell due to many causes.
Rome turned to negotiating and bribing enemies because it was (or seemed) the cheaper option.
The Eastern Roman Empire did much the same thing, and did not fall for one reason alone.
As for the divisions held up by resistance; I was referring to the amount of troops needed to pacify a given occupied territory, not actual attacks against divisions. As you stated, actual full-scale attacks didn't happen until after the invasion in Western Europe (if then),
but I would see the extensive sabotage and executions of collaborators as "direct action".
And, to put a quick end to this thread, the answers to all (y)our questions;
http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/faq.html#governmentrequestsfaq
"Holding them up ? Oh dear. For how many minutes ? Perhaps a day ?"
How about permanently? In Yugoslavia alone some 30.000 men were stationed just to fight the Partizans and the Cetniks. In every occupied country the need for troops to protect the war effort GREW each year, as draconic countermeasures drove people INTO the resistance.
In Serbia, 7000 "communist terrorists" were shot by the Germans (in Kraljevo), after 70 German soldiers had been killed. By November 1942, Tito's resistance-army stood at about 100,000 soldiers and was known as the People's Liberation Army. It had its own college for training officers, women's and youth organisations and even a naval section that operated along the coast of the Adriatic Sea. Increase the pressure, increase the resistance. It's a shame people are stupid and have no real knowledge of history, otherwise we might learn something here.
There's no such thing as "the Roman State" historically over the time-frame you suggest.
First seven kings (Monarchy),The First Republic(Senate, 510 BC until 23 BC - almost 500 years), The Roman Empire (Military Dictatorship, 49 BC-AD 476),and The Eastern Roman Empire (Religious Dictatorship? until AD 1453). All these entities had different styles of leadership, rules, laws, goals and even geographic locations. Even during the Roman Empire, which you seem to allude to, oppression created dissent, and violence was met with violent resistance. Three entire veteran Legions(15.000 men) disappeared in the German forest at one time.
and I, for one, won't play Civ V in the foreseeable future. Why?
Because I still haven't beaten Civ III at Deity, and have not even started on Civ IV.
On a more serious note, I think the graphics on Civ IV and now V are actually detrimental to the game. It's like going to war with the wrong kind of map. As an old board- and war-gamer I prefer my maps and graphics simple. Top-down, no (fake)3D, animated, colourful shrubberies or flocks of birds please. It's nice and all, but I'm trying to annihilate the free people of Earth and I can't find my Panzerdivisionen and Stealth-bombers. Somebody execute that game designer!
As a WW2 history buff I say to thee respectfully the history of WWII contradicts EVERY POINT you've made.
"At which point did WWII partisans ever become a threat the third reich"?
When they were killing soldiers left and right, blowing up transport and supplies, generally holding up whole divisions that could have been at the front?
"They were, at no point, capable of even attempting to attack any significant groups of German soldiers".
Really, read a book or two. There where literally thousands of attacks on significant German forces, in Russia, in the Balkan, in France.
"And the groups collaborating with the Nazi's dwarfed, in almost all of Europe, the resistance".
And the group that did nothing whatsoever dwarfed all the combined Nazi's AND the resistance.
Your point?
As for Roman and other Fascist tactics in population decimation, complete control and massive retaliations against any and all resistance;
That works so well that these Empires still thrive and survive, and are seen as admirable examples we should look up to.
Idiot.
Or a "+1 mnemonic enhancer" in this case.
If you classify "OK" as a "text".
If you want to call "OK" a "text".