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Ridding your country of a brutal, corrupt puppet dictatorship propped up by said aggressive, invading force?
I think most people would see that as a valid reason to kill and die for. Hell, said aggressive, invading force even convinced their young it was worth to go kill and die to do the invading, should be a piece of cake to convince those being attacked
Not even that complicated, pretty much summed up by "no women no children"
I think you will find, that apart from the paedophiles themselves, they are universally loathed. Probably more so by criminals.
The last place a paedophile wants to be is locked up in prison.
The UK term is "Mandy" "mud" or MD.
Ecstacy (which I have never ever heard used) refers to what should be MDMA in pill form along with some binders and is usually referred to in the UK as "pills" or "Es". I believe the US prefers the terms "rolls"
>the heroin in the Netherlands that was being sold as cocaine, and which lead to several deaths. How on earth can you buy coke and get heroin? No one buys coke and then rakes up a monster line, everyone does a dab test (lick finger, stick it in the powder and taste it)
Heroin tastes nothing like coke. Heroin sells for more so why mix it in?
The best you have to not be ID'd and "kinda headless" is slimer or selenium to XVFB, which aren't really headless but sort of
[edit] slimer [AND] selenium to [OR]
Dismantling them won't do a damn thing, they are a product of the political system we have, not the cause. Get rid of one letter agency and another will appear. If have to go for the cause
It has been the same for any outwardly expanding empire, from the British, French, Spanish, German in more recent times back to the Roman / Greek days.
The first rule for near constant warfare, get the flags out, get the crowds chanting....
"N-H-S N-H-S" *
*NHS - National Health Service for the UK
Before Blix was sent in, again the cover of "International" weapons inspection (note, not US inspections) were subverted by the US spying and constant attempts to discredit the results if they were wrong (wrong as in not the US version of events) [2]
[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2966639.stm [2] http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/07/world/us-spied-on-iraq-und...
I doubt the US really wants to get more involved with troops on the ground (yet again) see as how well that has turned out at every attempt in the last 20 years.
With the easing of sanctions, expect to see better cooperation - probably through intermediaries admittedly or Iran taking the fight to ISIS, stopping their progress.
That should probably read "the great pariah in Latin America". Is there a country in the whole region the US hasn't overthrown, tried to overthrow, propped up a right wing dictator, funded death squads in the last 70 years?
I am failing to think of one....
oh come on. That was not the fear (although perhaps "portrayed" as that, but it was never the fear by those who commanded the action. The fear was he wanted to use the profits of the resources of their country to benefit the people of the country. This would never do as the profits were being directed to Britain and the US.
It is like China overthrowing the US government because they wanted the control of the oil and profits from the surge in the US oil industry due to fracking.
Then framing the attack and overthrow of a sovereign, elected government as something to do with US being aligned with a fictitious enemy
Israel has it's religious fundamentalists (just like the rest of the region).
Is militarily aggressive, disregards civilian life, commits war crimes, disregards international law and opinion (with impunity due to the US and their veto - and forcing other countries to at least abstain from votes), has actual developed the nuclear bomb, is destabilising to the region, discusses attacking their neighbours (sorry not attacking - pre-emptive...
Yet this is never questioned, nor discussed from what I can tell. They are "the good guys" so the rules are different for them.
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Nor is it a view held only by "techies".
The sit down, do nothing, consume group of the general population is large. There is a lot of money in keeping them as they are.
Countless times we were invited into peoples homes, fed, all but force to stay the night and left with foods / sweets. Aware of the taroof system we refused as didn't want to burden them but even going passed the customary 3 refusals they still insisted.
A few occasions we were offered money to help us on the way when they heard about our journey (around the world).
This happened in cities / villages from the upper classes to just normal people.
One particular instance comes to mind of camped on the outskirts of a small dirt road village near the Persian gulf. About 7.30 we were woken up by a banging on the van. On looking out the window, a small woman dressed head to toes in a chador (black cloak covering everything but the face) insisted we come to breakfast and shower. The wife was still sleeping so we politely declined. 30 minutes later she came back, more banging and insisted, confused why we hadn't come yet, we need to eat and have to shower. She all but grabbed the wife by the hand and dragged her to her house. She put on a mighty fine spread for breakfast. Took our daughter to show her to the neighbour, then took her to the shop to buy food for the lunch she would cook for us. She called her husband, got him to come back from work (he spoke a little English). Put the cable tv and got out a secret stash of homemade red wine and some whiskey. Am not really a big drinker and 8.30am is a bit early for wine and whiskey, but I think I only refused once.
Our experience was repeated by all other overlanders we met who had passed through Iran.
I don't think "mare" is that insulting either, an insult-lite at best.
Used in relation usually to being stubborn.
"come on, do your homework, you're stubborn like mare / you stubborn little mare"
Russia is coming back at the main bogey man, don't you read the news?
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But I imagine they are more like "sat in a room in a house near the beach"
Same as a normal office, just a better view.
Well that is how it is for me living by the beach in the tropics. I can see the surfing point, I can see the parachutes pulled by speedboats, just a distraction and increases the desire to be "there" and not staring at a screen trying to fix bugs. Sometimes, I just move the table to face the wall.
And don't get me started about trying to work in a bar / cafe / restaurant near the beach. Mosquitos, noise, disturbance, tuts from staff that you are sitting there too long not buying enough.
Each to their own though. I suppose I am jealous of the posts that imply you can work 4 hours on tropical island, earn a western wage and live like a King. Which is far from the case in my experience. Even if I know these posts are trying to sell something based on this dream, or convince themselves they are doing the right thing (despite what they may hear from friends and family)
I dear say some contractor with fantastic contacts and get a great paying contract with a couple of phone calls. Most people don't have this.
But we found from all walks of life, from people in the cities, villages people were friendly, aware of the issues, had a sense of progressive thinking. I wouldn't say "pro western" as such on the whole, the higher middle / upper classes yes, but that is true for all countries. But definitely not anti-western and definitely a desire to live without western interference.
One question we were asked over and over again, "why do the west governments not like Iran", "we they say we are evil"..... it was hard to sum up politely "well your country stopped doing as it waws told for the "interests" of foreign governments and unfortunately for you, your country sits atop vast quantities of natural resources that were wanted..."
A failure of the so called "free press" that does not delve into the root causes of issues. When the news talks about going to war to "protect our interests", it is not explained what this means.
When a brutal dictator must be removed, it is not explained how they consolidated power so profusely and with whose help.
When the horrors of the Mexican cartels are shown (quite rarely for British news considering the death rate) the logical conclusions are not drawn.
And the average person does not ask questions, just consume what they are told
--- Based on mainstream news outlets and using my parents as a base for my generalisations
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But the status quo must benefit some, otherwise it would be changed.
You are got going to get the middle classes, the average parent on side by talking about some peasant farmer half way around the world. They cannot imagine it, it does not seem real.
But talk to them about their kids, or kids of family members / friends that is something they can relate to and possibly know of a few examples indirectly
An aggressive, invading, external military just whilst it is makes financial sense.
Religion and morality do not come into it
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