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RE: US supporting freedom and democracy? US against ter... - 1/2/2013 1:38:48 AM   
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All I can say is that my impression of the Dutch is that they are very pro-monarchy and all the opinion polls suggest that too.
Strange how last time I was in Weert, people were wearing Orange scarfs and other paraphanalia which had Hup Holland! written on them.


*off topic*

The Dutch people have a love/hate feeling with the monarchy. They cost lot of money and people hate that in a crisis.
At the same time a monarchy conflicts with a democracy in some peoples eyes. The goverment also try to reduce the influence of our Queen.
At the same time they want her to use her relations with other countries to enhance trade.
It is all double.

Hup Holland is mostly used when soccer is involved. It means something like "go holland". We keep confusing the world with all the names..lol.

About size of Holland. I visited cities in China that have more people then the whole of The Netherlands (or low lands as we are below sea level).
Size doesn't say a lott, when it comes to history. If you read back, you will be suprised how much of the world we had once. ( including parts of New York)

Any one interest for Friesland and Limburg. They don't want to be part of the country anyway :P

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RE: US supporting freedom and democracy? US against ter... - 1/2/2013 1:57:49 AM   
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Any one interest for Friesland and Limburg. They don't want to be part of the country anyway :P


The narcissum of small differences as Freud called it.

The needs for Europeans to be unique and different from each other is rather depressing and self destructive.

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RE: US supporting freedom and democracy? US against ter... - 1/2/2013 3:30:09 AM   
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The needs for Europeans to be unique and different from each other is rather depressing and self destructive.



Blinks .......... Are you suggesting everyone just becomes "European" and throws away any vestiges of heritage ? I see that as a worse scenario than keeping our differences. The depressing thing is suggesting we are all the same, the UK and Latin nations, or UK and Eastern European nations have nothing in common.

The only place we might have that is within Northern Europe.

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RE: US supporting freedom and democracy? US against ter... - 1/2/2013 4:33:27 AM   
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RE: US supporting freedom and democracy? US against ter... - 1/2/2013 5:06:25 AM   
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Too angry to post.



???????

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RE: US supporting freedom and democracy? US against ter... - 1/2/2013 5:08:51 AM   
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The needs for Europeans to be unique and different from each other is rather depressing and self destructive.



Blinks .......... Are you suggesting everyone just becomes "European" and throws away any vestiges of heritage ? I see that as a worse scenario than keeping our differences. The depressing thing is suggesting we are all the same, the UK and Latin nations, or UK and Eastern European nations have nothing in common.

The only place we might have that is within Northern Europe.


We (Europeans) all are Europeans with regional differences. Shakespeare, Newton, Rembrandt, Mozart, da Vinci, Gallileo, Goete, Pasteur, Capernicus, Chekov etc etc etc all out grew their nation to contribute to the European cultural tradition. I enjoy Europe's diversity as much as the next person but we should not forget that diversity when it becomes too precious, is destructive and it has already contributed to two catastrophic wars which detroyed the continent.

I'm English because that is where I come from and nothing will change that, not even the fact there is no such thing as an English government or any political recognition in any international political forum of a country called England. The fact that England doesn't exist in the eyes of the UN or EU, doesn't make me less English.


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RE: US supporting freedom and democracy? US against ter... - 1/2/2013 4:42:53 PM   
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Exactly Meat, so why throw away our uniqueness ?

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RE: US supporting freedom and democracy? US against ter... - 1/2/2013 4:48:15 PM   
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All I can say is that my impression of the Dutch is that they are very pro-monarchy and all the opinion polls suggest that too.

Strange how last time I was in Weert, people were wearing Orange scarfs and other paraphanalia which had Hup Holland! written on them.


Well, yes the poll suggest that, but the reality is otherwise... most of the Kingdom of the Netherlands well... maybe i didn't put it right with saying hate or dislike... its more that we really don't give a shit about the royal family.
With other words, yes we prefer something else, but actually don't really care about the way it is now.

Hmm i think that you went to Weert on a "special" day then becouse normaly nobody wears those ugly scarfs;)
(I live only 30km away from Weert so...)

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Yup! Frieslanders remind me of Scots, for every whinging and whining about their uniqueness. At a population of 600,000 though, Frieland doesn't even have the population of a large city. Oh, and it was the Franks who subsumed Friesland and broke it into three, not the Dutch, who just inherited a part of Friesland.


Did i say the Dutch ripped Friesland apart?
No, I only said that Friesland and Limburg don't like the Netherlands the most out of all provinces simply becouse they once where countries.
For Friesland it was a very long time ago... but yes they are still whining about it.
As for Limburg it isn't that long ago, but then it was called Limbourg. this contained Dutch Limburg, Belgiums Limburg and a piece of Germany.
I don't know the exact time or the reason that it is gone today, but i will look for it if you would like to know it.


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RE: US supporting freedom and democracy? US against ter... - 1/2/2013 4:54:35 PM   
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The needs for Europeans to be unique and different from each other is rather depressing and self destructive.


I find it rather good to define the one culture from another, if we wouldn't protect our heritage then why would there even be countries in the first place?

I would rather visit a place that is holding on to its culture then i would visit a place where 100s of cultures are mixed and it simply looks like a place without any culture..

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RE: US supporting freedom and democracy? US against ter... - 1/2/2013 5:01:20 PM   
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The Dutch people have a love/hate feeling with the monarchy. They cost lot of money and people hate that in a crisis.
At the same time a monarchy conflicts with a democracy in some peoples eyes. The goverment also try to reduce the influence of our Queen.


True.

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At the same time they want her to use her relations with other countries to enhance trade.
It is all double.


they? you mean the gouverment of the Netherlands, the people couldn't care less about such thing.

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About size of Holland. I visited cities in China that have more people then the whole of The Netherlands (or low lands as we are below sea level).
Size doesn't say a lott, when it comes to history. If you read back, you will be suprised how much of the world we had once. ( including parts of New York)


True.

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Any one interest for Friesland and Limburg. They don't want to be part of the country anyway :P


True and not true... Yes Friesland and Limburg want to be independent (Limburg would rather be with Germany to)
But its also the Netherlands itself that acts like Limburg and Friesland are not part of the countrie
(look at the media and the things that the queen does when she visits Limburg/Friesland)
Also, Limburg and Friesland have a lot of things that all other provinces don't have.

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RE: US supporting freedom and democracy? US against ter... - 1/3/2013 3:54:12 AM   
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I do remember a discussion I had with an English person (who insisted on being called "English," as he resisted the term "British") who was a very staunch proponent for monarchism. His views seemed very conservative, like an arch-conservative here in the U.S., with a great deal of zealous support for property rights.

America's anti-monarchist attitudes have obviously subsided in the past century or so, but I doubt that very many here would want a monarchy, constitutional or otherwise.



I don't think you have to be conservative to support a constittional monarchy, you just have to think of political presidents from other countries to make one reconsider a republic with a political head of state, which I suspect would prove fatal in uniting a country such as Britain and would more likely increase division. I can't imagine any Brit on the left uniting behind a President such as Reagan or Bush or even Sarckozy or Chirac, the office would become so tainted and lose all respect.


But then, if this is the case, how can you say that the monarchy has no power? How would it increase division within Britain if they had a President instead of a monarch, if the monarch has no power anyway? What difference does it make? Is the monarchy just some sort of meaningless affectation, and if so, what does it say about the British political consciousness?

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I can imagine Americans being against a monarchy, most seem to think George III was leader of the British during the war of independence when in fact he had no power to speak of, the British Parliament had the power.


The reason for this is most likely due to the way the Declaration of Independence is written, specifically mentioning the King and the list of grievances against him. The Declaration only mentions Parliament indirectly, towards the end of the document, when it references “our Brittish [sic] brethren.”

I don’t know if the British ever actually denied anything written in the Declaration; their only response was to send troops. I don’t think Parliament or the King ever wrote a rebuttal, did they?



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The power is all on paper though I suspect if one political party tried to usurp power, the monarch would be able to step in with the support of the people fully backing him/her.


Well, it would seem to me that since the military takes an oath to the monarch, then they would be duty bound to follow the monarch’s orders, no matter what those orders might entail or whatever the circumstances. Am I wrong about that?


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Victor Emanual didn't so much get rid of Mussolini, as The Grand Council of Fascism who voted Victor Emanual's powers back which enabled him to get rid of Mussolini. The war had not only been lost but had been a disaster for Italy so Mussolini was on the way out whoever was in power.


True, but my main point here is that the monarch does have some kind of moral influence in the eyes of the people. They could use their position as a kind of bully pulpit. They would definitely have the ears of the top politicians and others in leadership positions. If the King wanted to meet with the Prime Minister or address Parliament, would he not have been able to do so? Could they have just shunned the King so cavalierly like that? It just doesn’t seem likely something like that would happen that easily.

But I could be wrong about that, so I welcome any input or feedback you might have. I must admit that this gray area tends to make me wonder, because if the monarch has no power, why have one at all? What’s the point? Is their whole job just to sit there and look pretty?

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Not much of an advertisment for having a republic is it? Though the weakness of a republic succumbing to successful ambitious men goes back to ancient Rome.


I think that any government, regardless of what form it takes or what system is used, can be usurped or fall due to the corruption of human beings. Humans operate governments, and as the saying goes, power corrupts. Humans have shown themselves to be quite corruptible, even those who have royal blood.

I favor republicanism over monarchism myself, although I’ve had this discussion before on another message board.

Of course, the Weimar Republic was a weak republic, and they really didn’t have any reliable system of checks and balances, which are necessary to prevent any single individual from holding too much power. Term limits for President also help.


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Capitalism effectively enslaved the population (in Britain) by confiscating common land and resources, in a process where labourers couldn't profit from their labour, their bosses did. It was chaertists, socialists and christian groups who fought redress while capitalists fought every inch of the way to keep their stolen assets. Even today, capitalists resist modified Land Value Tax because their assets increase more in value while idle than when productive, land and resources underpinning all wealth.


I think that capitalism has evolved to some degree, at least here in the U.S. Slavery and indentured servitude are long gone. Sweatshops and child labor have been outlawed. Unions are legal, and workers have the right to collectively bargain. There are minimum wage laws, OSHA requirements, overtime, FMLA, ADA, and other reforms which protect workers.

Granted, none of this came easily. Some capitalists have been rather stubborn, fighting tooth and nail against any kinds of reforms (not to mention causing a Civil War). But capitalists have had to adjust.


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Most pre-20th century wars passed most populations by, the ones that didn't, were the religious wars, particularly the 30 years war which saw the Germn population reduce by 30%. Ironically the seed for unity and militarisation of he German people as a form of defence. Capitalism caused social unrest throughout Europe, most regions experiencing revolutions and social upheaval on a scale not seen before. In fact it is claimed only WWI saved Britain from revolution.

I am struggling to think of a European war started by communists or socialists. Communisn and socialism came about as a reaction against the brutality of capitalism.


Yes, I agree, although in areas where the government intervened and reined the capitalists in, it’s been possible for capitalism to exist with legal reforms to protect workers and consumers. By reining in capitalism, it didn’t have to get to the extreme where capitalists were wiped out entirely.

But I suppose the question is, can capitalists restrain themselves, or does it require governmental intervention to keep them reined in?

I’m not sure that I agree that most pre-20th century wars passed most populations by, although it would be kind of a digression to go over that in detail. Clearly, as technology and industry improved, the tools and machines of war became more deadly and devastating. The same greed and desire to make war was constant throughout, but it’s just the machines that got better.

I would also consider that imperialism was a factor, at least as far as German militarism was concerned. They could clearly see the size of Britain’s and France’s empires, and they wanted to muscle in on their piece of the action.

As for European wars started by communists, that may be debatable. We still can’t forget Stalin’s pact with Hitler which divided Poland and started World War II, along with the Soviet attack on Finland and annexation of the Baltic Republics.


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The alliances were supposed to stop war, in the same way NATO and the Warsaw Pact were meant to stop war.


I’d like to think that by the time NATO and the Warsaw Pact were formed, we learned a few things from past mistakes. The previous alliance system didn’t really work too well, as it turned what should have been a relatively minor dispute into a world war.

I don’t think that would have happened with NATO or the Warsaw Pact, something like Turkey and Bulgaria going to war and propelling both alliances into full-scale conflict. Both sides were restrained and kept all member nations within the same fold.


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Well, there is a common European culture though I am sure there are plenty of Europeans who would deny that but I would counter with the claim, Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Mozart, Balzac, Goete, Beethoven, Dickens etc etc have risen above their nations and are the product of a pan-European culture.


In that sense, a lot of that same culture was borrowed and brought over to America and has become part of our culture, too.

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Well, there is no way the whole world is against America, many European would like to be more like America not less but they tend to be people on the right rather than the left. Personally I find a lot to admire in US culture, though I am not enamoured with its politics but then I am not enamoured with European politics. Why things tend to be directed at the US is because US has the power and people see the US pulling the strings of European governments.


From the US side of the pond, power seems a bit more nebulous. While you might see the US pulling the strings of European governments, it’s hard for us to know who’s pulling the strings of our government. Conspiracy theorists have all kinds of…theories. I don’t know what to believe anymore. We know the politicians are full of shit, but the people keep voting them in, and nothing ever really changes.

Corruption abounds. It seems to only get worse and worse. I could go on a long rant just about local corruption here in my own city and county, but then there’s the state and federal government as well. It almost has the air of scavengers feeding on a beached whale.


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RE: US supporting freedom and democracy? US against ter... - 1/3/2013 4:31:38 AM   
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Interesting musings. I do think that while the USA is in Europe and interfering in the ME it stops Europe's leaders from acting like leaders. It also stops the unification of Europe by playing different countries off against each other. When Rumsfeld started talking about old Europe and new Europe, depending on which one supported America more (or at least the Bush administration), he was just stoking up anti-Americanism. Just as if the EU openly supported the Democrats as opposed to the Republicans would stoke up anti-European feelings in America.


To some degree, that already seems to be happening. I think that outsiders have been rather vocal about U.S. politics and the choices made by voters. I’ve heard numerous times from Europeans that what is considered “moderate” in the United States is considered “right-wing” in Europe.

I don’t recall what Rumsfeld may have said about old Europe or new Europe, but that’s just the opinion of one man in one administration.

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Its a fact of international politics, if you are interfering in a region other than your own, you are going to be resented, its not just an anti-American thing, it is how international politics works. If you have troops in a country too long, even if they came originally to help, eventually they will be seen as an occupying force, it is the nature of such things independent of whether those soldiers are American, Russian, British, french or whatever.


I’d like to see the U.S. pull all of its troops out of foreign lands and return to the United States, but nobody wants to hear that kind of talk. Even liberals are enablers of these interventionist, interfering activities, even if they may be a little less hawkish than the conservatives seem to be. Both factions essentially agree on most things, at least as far as the U.S. international position is concerned. Few people really seem willing to think outside of the box, since we’ve doing this for generations.

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RE: US supporting freedom and democracy? US against ter... - 1/3/2013 5:46:48 PM   
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Zonie, the following link may help although it is still a bit confusing to those who dont understand our system.

http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/role/parliament-crown/

For intance lets talk about The Crown Estate.

At least one US poster insists this means the Queen or her successors own everthing belonging to the Crown. The answer is that they do,but ONLY while they are reigning monarch. That said, although they "own" Crown lands, they make no revenue from it. ALL revenue made goes back to the tax payer. The Royals also have no power to sell this land, and indeed dont run it. Thats done by a board of commissioners appointed by Parliament.

I also saw you ask Meat if the Monarch could have asked to address Parliament..... He could have asked to see the Prime Minister but since the English Civil war no Monarch can enter Parliament without its permission. The Monarchy is infact neutral, politically speaking. The Prime Minister is the leader of the Government and has De Facto control of the armed forces.

I hope this helps, any questions just shout.

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RE: US supporting freedom and democracy? US against ter... - 1/3/2013 6:41:49 PM   
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The US always said that its supporting freedom and democracy and that its against terrorism, but facts tell different...

A list of countries in wich the US wanted to overthrow the gouverment (in some cases they succeded)

* = US succeeded in overthrowing the gouverment.

-Africa-
Egypt 1957
Congo 1960*
Ghana 1966*
Angola 1975
Angola 1980
Zaire 1975
Seychelles 1979-1981
Chad 1981-1982*
Libya 1980
Somalia 1993
Sudan 1993-1998
Eritrea 1998-2000


-Asia-
China 1949-1950
Indonesia 1957-1958
North Vietnam 1945-1973
Cambodia 1955-1970*
Laos 1958-1960*
Indonesia 1965*



-Europe-
East Germany 1950
Albania 1949-1953
France 1965
Greece 1967*
Portugal 1974-1976*
Bulgaria 1990*
Albania 1991*
Yugoslavia 1999


-Oceania-
Australia 1973-1975*
Fiji 1987*



-Middle East-
Iran 1953*
Syria 1956-1957
Iraq 1963*
South Yemen 1982-1984
Iraq 1991
Afghanistan 1980*
Afghanistan 2001*
Iraq 2003*
Iran 1979
Syria 2011-today


-South America-
IrBritish Guiana 1953-1964*
Ecuador 1960-1963*
Brazil 1962-1964*
Bolivia 1964*
Chile 1964-1973*
Bolivia 1971*
Suriname 1982-1984
Ecuador 2000*
Venezuela 2002*



-Mid America-
Guatemala 1954*
Costa Rica 1950
Dominican Republic 1963*
Cuba 1959-today
Costa Rica 1970-1971
Jamaica 1976-1980*
Grenada 1983*
Nicaragua 1981-1990*
Panama 1989*
Haiti 2004*



A list of all kinds of Wrong dictators/Kings/Presidents and Prime Ministers that where supported by the US

*Africa*
Mobutu Sese Seko Dictator of Zaire 1965-1997
Mohammed Siad Barre Military Dictator/President of Nigeria 1985-1993
GEN. Sani Abacha Dictator of Nigeria 1993-1998
Hastings Kamuzu Banda Dictator of Malawi 1966-1994
Laurent-Désiré Kabila President/Dictator of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 1997-2001
Gnassingbe Etienne Eyadema Dictator of Togo 1967-2005
Felix Houphouet-Boigny Dictator/President of the Ivory Coast 1960-1993
Hassan II King of Morocco 1961-1999
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo President/Dictator of Equatorial Guinea 1979-present
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali President-Prime Minister/Dictator of Tunisia 1987-2011
Anwar El-Sadat President/Dictator of Egypt 1970-1981
Hosni Mubarak President/Dictator of Egypt 1981-2011
Ian Smith Prime Minister of Rhodesia (white minority regime) 1965-1979
Pieter Willem Botha Prime Minister of South Africa (white minority regime) 1978-1984, President 1984-1989
Daniel Arap Moi President/Dictator of Kenya 1978-2002
Haile Selassie (RAS TAFARI) Emperor of Ethiopia 1928-1974
William J. S. Tubman President/Dictator of Liberia 1944-1971
Samuel Kanyon Doe Dictator of Liberia 1980-1990

*Asia*
Mohamed Suharto Dictator of Indonesia 1966-1998
Ngo Dinh Diem President/Dictator of South Vietnam 1955-1963
GEN. Nguyen Khanh Dictator of South Vietnam 1964-1965
Nguyen Cao Ky Dictator of South Vietnam 1965-1967
GEN. Nguyen Van Thieu President/Dictator of South Vietnam 1967-1975
Tran Thiem Khiem Prime Minister of South Vietnam 1969-75
Bao Dai Emperor of Vietnam 1926-1945, chief of state 1949-1955
Lee Kuan Yew Prime Minister/Dictator of Singapore 1959-1990
Emomali Rahmonov President/Dictator of Tajikistan 1992-present
Nursultan Nazarbayev President of Kazakhstan 1990-present
Islam A. Karimov President/Dictator of Uzbekistan 1990-present
Saparmurad Atayevich Niyazov President/Dictator of Turkmenistan 1990-2006
Marshal Luang Pibul Songgram Dictator of Thailand 1948-1957
Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachron Prime Minister/Dictator of Thailand 1957-58, 1963-1973
Chiang Kai-Shek President/Dictator (Nationalist) of China 1928-1949 and President/Dictator of Taiwan 1949-1975
Chiang Ching-Kuo President/Dicator of Taiwan 1978-1988; Prime Minister 1972-1978
Deng Xiaoping De facto ruler of China from circa 1978 to the early 1990s
Ferdinand Marcos President/Dictator of the Philippines 1965-1986
Syngman Rhee President/Dictator of South Korea 1948-1960
GEN. Park Chung Hee President/Dictator of South Korea 1962-1979
GEN. Chun Doo Hwan President/Dictator of South Korea 1980-1988
Sir Muda Hassanal Bolkiah Sultan of Brunei 1967-present
GEN. Lon Nol Prime Minister/Dictator of Cambodia 1970-1975
Pol Pot Dictator of Cambodia 1975-1979
MAJ. GEN. Sitiveni Rabuka Dictator of Fiji 1987-1999
Askar Akayev President of Kyrgyzstan 10/27/1990-2005

*Europe*
Francisco Franco Dictator of Spain 1939-1975
Antonio Salazar De Oliveira Dictator of Portugal 1928-1968
COL. Georgios Papadopoulos Prime Minister/President/Dictator of Greece 1967-1973

*Latin America*
Anastasio Somoza Garcia Dictator of Nicaragua 1937-1947, 1950-1956
Anastasio "Tachito" Somoza Debayle Dictator of Nicaragua 1967-1972, 1974-1979
Manuel Estrada Cabrera Dictator of Guatemala 1898-1920
GEN. Jorge Ubico Castaneda Dictator of Guatemala 1931-1944
COL. Carlos Enrique Castillo Armas Dictator of Guatemala 1954-1957
GEN. Jose Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes President/Dictator of Guatemala 1958-1963
COL. Enrique Peralta Azurdia Military Junta, Guatemala 1963-1966
COL. Carlos Arana Osorio Dictator of Guatemala 1970-1974
GEN. Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia Dictator of Guatemala 1978-1982
GEN. Jose Efrain Rios Montt Dictator of Guatemala 1982-1983
Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arévelo President/Dictator of Guatemala 1986-1991
Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez Dictator of El Salvador 1931-1944
COL. Osmin Aguirre Y Salines Dictator of El Salvador 1944-1945 and CIVILIAN-MILITARY JUNTA, EL SALVADOR 1961-1962
COL. Arturo Armando Molina Barraza Dictator of El Salvador 1972-1977 and JUNTA, EL SALVADOR 1979-1982
Alfredo Félix Cristiani Burkard President/Dictator of El Salvador 1989-1994
Tiburcio Carias Andino Dictator of Honduras 1932-1948
COL. Oswaldo Lopez Arellano Dictator of Honduras 1963-1975
Roberto Suazo Cordova President/Dictator of Honduras 1982-1986
GEN. Omar Herrera-Torrijos Dictator of Panama 1969-1981
GEN. Manuel Antonio Morena Noriega Dictator of Panama 1982-1989
Augusto Pinochet Ugarte Dictator of Chile 1973-1990
GEN. Jorge Rafael Videla Dictator of Argentina 1976-1981
COL. Marcos Perez Jimenez Dictator of Venezuela 1950-1958
GEN. Alfredo Stroessner Dictator of Paraguay 1954-1989
Alberto Fujimori Dictator of Peru 1990-2000
Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier Dictator of Haiti 1957-1971
Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier Dictator of Haiti 1971-1986
GEN. Rene Barrientos Ortuno President/Dictator of Bolivia 1964-1969
GEN. Hugo Banzer Suarez Dictator of Bolivia 1971-1978
DR. Getulio Vargas Dictator of Brazil 1930-1945, 1951-1954
GEN. Humberto De Alencar Castello Branco Dictator of Brazil 1964-1967
Carlos Prio Socarras Dictator of Cuba 1948-1952
Fulgencio Batista Dictator of Cuba 1933-44, 1952-1959
Gerardo Machado Morales Dictator of Cuba 1925-1933
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Dictator of the Dominican Republic 1930-1961

*Middle East*
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Shah of Iran 1941-1979
Saddam Hussein Dictator of Iraq 1969 (1979)-2003
GEN. Mohammed Ayub Khan President/Dictator of Pakistan 1958-1969
GEN. Agha Muhammed Yahya Khan President/Dictator of Pakistan 1969-1971
GEN. Mohammed Zia Ul-Haq President/Dictator of Pakistan 1977-1988
Pervez Musharraf Dictator of Pakistan 1999-2008
Abdul Ibn Hussein I King of Jordan 1952-1999
Turgut Özal Prime Minister of Turkey 1983-1989, President 1989-1993
Sheik Jabir Al-Ahmad Al Sabah Emir of Kuwait 1977-2006 and Prime Minister of Kuwait 1962-1963, 1965-1978
Fahd Ibn Abdul-Aziz Al Saud King and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia 1982-2005





And lets take a look at terrorism...

Take Al-Qaeda: US supported them in Afghanistan agains the SU (after that they named themselfs officially Al-Qaeda)
Then they "fought" them in Afghanistan, wich eventually only made them bigger and stronger becouse the US killed thousends of innocent people.
Now the US is back supporting them in Syria.

Whats up with that?

There are lots of examples like this one, in the long term its just a fact that the US supported/supports them... with or without "fighting" them.



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vow such a primitive sheeple really exist,like kdsub???????????,son be marching into fema camps

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ORIGINAL: Politesub53

Zonie, the following link may help although it is still a bit confusing to those who dont understand our system.

http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/role/parliament-crown/

For intance lets talk about The Crown Estate.

At least one US poster insists this means the Queen or her successors own everthing belonging to the Crown. The answer is that they do,but ONLY while they are reigning monarch. That said, although they "own" Crown lands, they make no revenue from it. ALL revenue made goes back to the tax payer. The Royals also have no power to sell this land, and indeed dont run it. Thats done by a board of commissioners appointed by Parliament.

I also saw you ask Meat if the Monarch could have asked to address Parliament..... He could have asked to see the Prime Minister but since the English Civil war no Monarch can enter Parliament without its permission. The Monarchy is infact neutral, politically speaking. The Prime Minister is the leader of the Government and has De Facto control of the armed forces.

I hope this helps, any questions just shout.


well you have a few aspects correct to varying degrees.

the monarch has the power to dissolve the government if she wanted to. LOL

Granted she has all these admistrators just like we do to take care of the daily operations.

Lots of people eat lots of puppy chow and believe the monarch is nothing more than a figurehead, ah huh!



quote:

Escheat
Escheat is a common law doctrine that operates to ensure that property is not left in limbo and ownerless. It originally referred to a number of situations where a legal interest in land was destroyed by operation of law. so that Ihc ownership of the land reverted to the immediately superior feudal lord.

Most cominon-law jurisdictions have abolished the concept of feudal tenure of property, and so the concept of escheat has lost something of its meaning. Even in England and Wales, where escheat still operates as a doctrine of land law, there arc unlikely to be any feudal lords to take property on an cschcal, so that in practicc the recipient of an escheated property is ihe Crown.
The term is often now applied to the transfer of the title to a person's property to the state when the person dies intestate without any other person capable of taking the property as heir. For example, a common-law jurisdiction's intestacy statute might provide that when someone dies without a will, and is not survived by a spouse, descendants, parents, grandparents, descendants of parents, children or grandchildren of grandparents, or great-grandchildren of
grandparents, then the person's estate will escheat to the state.

In some jurisdictions, cscheat can also occur when an entity, typically a bank, credit union or other financial institution, holds money or property, and the property goes unclaimed, for instance, by lack of deposits, withdrawals or any other transactions for a lengthy time in a liquid account. In many jurisdictions, if the owner cannot be located, such property can be revocably escheated to the government.

In business, it is the process of turning over unclaimed or abandoned payroll checks, or stocks and shares whose owners cannot be traced, to a state authority (in the United Slates). A company is required lo file unclaimed property reports with state annually and, in some jurisdictions, to make a good-faith effort lo find the owners of their dormant accounts. The escheating criteria arc driven by individual state regulations.

Origins in feudalism
In feudal England, escheat (pronounccd ccshcet) referred to the situation where the tenant of a fief died without an heir or committed a felony. The fief reverted to the King’s ownership for one year and one day. by right of primer seisin, after which it reverted lo the original lord who had granted it. From the lime of Henry III. the monarchy look particular interest in escheat as a source of revenue.

Fief = fee
simple = type of contract

quote:

In English law, also adopted in the US a fee simple (or fee simple absolute) is an estate in land, a form of freehold ownership. It is the way that real estate is owned in common law countries, and is the highest ownership interest possible that can be had in real property. Allodial title is reserved to governments under a civil law structure. Fee simple ownership represents an ownership interest in real property, though it is limited by government powers of taxation, eminent domain, police power, and escheat, and it could also be limited further by certain encumbrances or conditions in the deed.[citation needed] Fee simple ownership interest may be limited by government powers through a shift from allodial title to fee simple, such as when uniting with other property owners acceding to zoning restrictions and municipal regulation.[citation needed]


ha! wiki finally has it LOL

see america just like in england!

Instead of defaulting to a "feudal lord" it defaults to a corporation!

See how slick we abolished feudalism? We gave it a different name!

the state!


people in america think that when they own land its theirs and it is nothing more than english law transferred here!

the word owner mean INTEREST in something, you all dont own anything! Just interest in things!




From the 12th century onward, the Crown appointed eschealors to manage escheats and report to ihe Exchequer, with one esc heat or per county established by the middle of the 14th century. Upon learning the death of a tenant, the escheator would hold an ’inquisition post mortem" to learn if the king had any rights to the land. These were often preceded by a "writ of diem clausit extremum" issued by the king to seize the lands, and hold the I.P.M. If there was any doubt, the escheator would seize the land and refer die case to Westminster where it would be settled, ensuring that not one day's revenue would be lost. This would be a source of concern with land owners when there were delays from Westminster.


English common law Thus, under English common law. there were two main ways an escheat could happen:

1. A person's property escheated if they were convictcd of a felony (but not treason, when the property was forfeited to the Crown). If the person was executed for the crimc. their heirs were ineligible to inherit. (In most common-law jurisdictions, this type of escheat has been abolished outright. For example, the rule has been abolished in the United States under Article 3 § 3 of the United States Constitution, which states that attainders for treason do not give rise to posthumous forfeiture, or "corruption of blood”.)

2. If a person had no heirs to receive their property under a will or under the laws of intestacy, then any property that they owned at death would escheat. (Again, this rule has been replaced in most common-law jurisdictions by bona vacantia or a similar concept.)
Escheat can still occur in England and Wales, if a person is made bankrupt or a corporation is liquidated. Usually this means that all the property held by that person is 'vested in' (transferred to) the Official Rcccivcr or Trustee in Bankruptcy. However, it is open to the Reccivcr or Trustee to refuse to accept that property by disclaiming it. It is relatively common for a trustee in bankruptcy to disclaim property where freehold property (such as the common
parts of a block of flats) would ordinarily pass to the trustee to be realised in order to pay die bankrupt's debt, but die property is, for example, split into leased flats which give the landlord an obligation to spend money. The bankruptcy of the original owner means that the freehold is no longer the bankrupt's property, but the disclaimer destroys the freehold estate, so that die land ceases to be owned by anyone and becomes land held by the Crown in demesne. This situation affects a few hundred properties each year.

which of course is how this country is controlled outside out government, by defaulting on loans that were never paid.

Although such escheated property is owned by the Crown, it is not part of the Crown Estate, unless the Crown (through the Crown Estate Commissioners) completes' the escheat, by taking steps to exert rights as owner.


dont we love to play with that word owner? They are not the owner until they exerts their rights of ownership! Of course we realize that they owned just about everything east of the missy sloppy yeh?




Thankfully in America we are FREE!!!!!!!FREE!!!!!!!FREE!!!!!!!FREE!!!!!!!FREE!!!!!!!

Wisconsin constitution

Territorial property. SECTION 2. The title to all lands and
other property which have accrued to the territory of Wisconsin
by grant, gift, purchase, forfeiture, escheat or otherwise shall
vest in the state of Wisconsin.

Ultimate property in lands; escheats. SECTION 3. The
people of the state, in their right of sovereignty, are declared to
possess the ultimate property in and to all lands within the juris-
diction of the state; and all lands the title to which shall fail from
a defect of heirs shall revert or escheat to the people.


another fun word PEOPLE its just a fucking word! May as well call it king!


Territorial property. SECTION 2. The title to all lands and
other property which have accrued to the territory of Wisconsin
by grant, gift, purchase, forfeiture, escheat or otherwise shall
vest in the state of Wisconsin.

Ultimate property in lands; escheats. SECTION 3. The
king, in its right of sovereignty,
are declared to
possess the ultimate property in and to all lands within the juris-
diction of the state; and all lands the title to which shall fail from
a defect of heirs shall revert or escheat to the king.

the king states self protection:

Attainder; ex post facto; contracts. SECTION 12. No bill
of attainder, ex post facto law, nor any law impairing the obliga-
tion of contracts, shall ever be passed, and no conviction shall
work corruption of blood or forfeiture of estate.

another one of my favorites!
this is the state of wisconsin man!

Feudal tenures; leases; alienation. SECTION 14. All
lands within the state are declared to be allodial, and feudal ten-
ures are prohibited.
Leases and grants of agricultural land for a
longer term than fifteen years in which rent or service of any
kind shall be reserved, and all fines and like restraints upon
alienation reserved in any grant of land, hereafter made, are
declared to be void.

several cases on the books, on grounds that if the land is allodial people should not have to pay taxes. you can wipe your ass with this constitution. They didnt bother to tell you WHICH PEOPLE and it aint joe plumber!

That and allodial in wisconsin doesnt mean what it does in the rest of the world.


yep a shit pile by any other name is still shit pile :)





there polite now you can have a state of wisconsin in your back yard the constitution is ready to go!

Seems to me they put all the land from virginia into the crown trust before they ceded it to the us corporation, never came back out of that black hole however. LOL


But we do not believe the king and state are one in the same do we?


quote:

The ideal King of the english common- law represents the power and majesty of the whole community. His fiat makes laws2. His sentence condemns. His judgments give property, and take it away. He is the state'. It is true, that in the exercise of these powers, the real King, to whom they are necessarily entrusted, is advised, directed, and controlled by others.

But in the contemplation of law the sovereignty and undivided power of the state are in the King.
' Attorney-General's Speech in Hardy's Trial. Howell's State Trials, xxiv. 246.

2 In an argument before the Court of King's Bench, in 23 Edw. III. it was said, " Que le roy fist les leis par assent dez peres et de la commune, et non pas lez peres et la commune." Y. B. 23 Edw. III. i. 3. b.

8 " The person of the king, in name, is the state.

He is to all intents and purposes the sole representative of the state." Solicitor-General's Speech in Hardy's Trial. Howell's State Trials, xxiv. 1183.


see it gets a little tricky because the smarter people get and realize how they are getting fucked the more deceitful the law has to get to retain power on top.

King/state no difference as much as that eats americans and sends them into denial like worms in the rotten wood that it is.



democracy and freedom!


this gets fun when people actually start to look into these things ;)


hey democracy and freedom all the way!


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May I point out that since the end of the Cold War, the United States military has been subject to the whims of the President of the United States and whatever his diplomatic agenda was.

Prior to that, the United States was in the business of propping up various governments or completely replacing them with puppets.

The result of all that political and military maneuvering is that we have become untrusted by most countries, and the target of international terrorists.

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they just tried that with chavez. he was slotted to have an "accident". the people in ven kicked them out. put chavez back in and then chavez had russian air force running sorties.

people think that john perkins is just some joke, not.

read my above post if you want to see the origins of it all.

the prez always did have that power and over the reserves as well.

critical parts of government documents relaating to the "man" and natural rights have been long removed and replaced with mob policy.

anyway I was not going to post on this one.

enjoy

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ORIGINAL: Zonie63

But then, if this is the case, how can you say that the monarchy has no power? How would it increase division within Britain if they had a President instead of a monarch, if the monarch has no power anyway? What difference does it make? Is the monarchy just some sort of meaningless affectation, and if so, what does it say about the British political consciousness?


Simplistically, the monarchy has been shed of political power and takes a role in the constitution of making sure no political party usurps power, in theory the monarch acts as a referee. In the American system the President is a politician first and foremost and in Britain would probably be seen as ideologically biased, which the American president is, if they have nbothered to formulate and ideology, Reagan gave most Europeans the impression he formulated policies based on instinct and prejudice.

quote:

ORIGINAL: Zonie63

Well, it would seem to me that since the military takes an oath to the monarch, then they would be duty bound to follow the monarch’s orders, no matter what those orders might entail or whatever the circumstances. Am I wrong about that?


In theory but in reality Parliament decides what the military does. However, should a political party decide to use the military to gain permanent power, the power of military allegiance would come into play, the monarch's responsibility is to defend the constitution.

quote:

ORIGINAL: Zonie63

True, but my main point here is that the monarch does have some kind of moral influence in the eyes of the people. They could use their position as a kind of bully pulpit.



Victor Emanual was a fascist puppet which is why after the war a plebiscite voted away the monarchy. No doubt if Victor Emanual had been his own man and resisted the fascists, people would have wanted to keep the monarchy.

quote:

ORIGINAL: Zonie63
But I could be wrong about that, so I welcome any input or feedback you might have. I must admit that this gray area tends to make me wonder, because if the monarch has no power, why have one at all? What’s the point? Is their whole job just to sit there and look pretty?


They have the moral power of being above political partizanship and if they act wisely, as in defending the constitution, they will have the power of the people behind them that no purely political party can muster. (In theory)


quote:

ORIGINAL: Zonie63
I think that any government, regardless of what form it takes or what system is used, can be usurped or fall due to the corruption of human beings. Humans operate governments, and as the saying goes, power corrupts. Humans have shown themselves to be quite corruptible, even those who have royal blood.


True. The power of the monarchy relies on the quality of the monarch but it is in the self interest of the monarch to defend the constitution. As we have seen with Victor Emanual, his fall was down to his allowing himself to be used as a puppet.

quote:

ORIGINAL: Zonie63
I favor republicanism over monarchism myself, although I’ve had this discussion before on another message board.

Of course, the Weimar Republic was a weak republic, and they really didn’t have any reliable system of checks and balances, which are necessary to prevent any single individual from holding too much power. Term limits for President also help.



The Weimar republic was the most democratic government the west has ever seen but with economic crisises and external hostility from the victors of WWI, particularly France and Belgium, with their humiliating accupation of the Ruhr Valley, it had little chance of succeeding.

quote:

ORIGINAL: Zonie63
I think that capitalism has evolved to some degree, at least here in the U.S. Slavery and indentured servitude are long gone. Sweatshops and child labor have been outlawed. Unions are legal, and workers have the right to collectively bargain. There are minimum wage laws, OSHA requirements, overtime, FMLA, ADA, and other reforms which protect workers.

Granted, none of this came easily. Some capitalists have been rather stubborn, fighting tooth and nail against any kinds of reforms (not to mention causing a Civil War). But capitalists have had to adjust.


Capitalists adjusted because they had to adjust but they still resist and capitalism is still the enemy of the majority of people as one population is played off against another.

And ironically, in this capitalist crisis, capitalist debt has been socialized meaning the corporate capitalism is socialism for the rich and brute capitalism for the poor, who are the ones who have to pay for capitalist folly.

quote:

ORIGINAL: Zonie63

Yes, I agree, although in areas where the government intervened and reined the capitalists in, it’s been possible for capitalism to exist with legal reforms to protect workers and consumers. By reining in capitalism, it didn’t have to get to the extreme where capitalists were wiped out entirely.

But I suppose the question is, can capitalists restrain themselves, or does it require governmental intervention to keep them reined in?


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ORIGINAL: Zonie63
As for European wars started by communists, that may be debatable. We still can’t forget Stalin’s pact with Hitler which divided Poland and started World War II, along with the Soviet attack on Finland and annexation of the Baltic Republics.


Stalin was supposed to be a communist, Hitler a fascist who believed in the private market and private corporations working on government contracts, largely how western governments employ corporations today (even the US, maybe more so the US with its military-industrial complex). Both were what they were through convenience of politics, not through any ideological belief. They were the same, both were dictators. They both were where they where through the failure of capitalism but was one communist and the other capitalist? Only in name at best.

quote:

ORIGINAL: Zonie63

From the US side of the pond, power seems a bit more nebulous. While you might see the US pulling the strings of European governments, it’s hard for us to know who’s pulling the strings of our government. Conspiracy theorists have all kinds of…theories. I don’t know what to believe anymore. We know the politicians are full of shit, but the people keep voting them in, and nothing ever really changes.

Corruption abounds. It seems to only get worse and worse. I could go on a long rant just about local corruption here in my own city and county, but then there’s the state and federal government as well. It almost has the air of scavengers feeding on a beached whale.



I can't argue with any of that, there is too much corruption over here too.

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this gets fun when people actually start to look into these things ;)



Ive snipped the bits you got wrong.

Youre spouting bullshit as well as trolling.....good luck with that.


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