Luckily Hindus tend to be pretty peacful people, so as long as this was meant with no disrespect I don't think too many Rock Steady Crew records will be burned in Mumbai.
Surely the point here is not "dependency" but the potential for volatility in the commodity pricing.
At the mercy of Opecs price/production decisions.
Also if the oil you pay the Saudis for in US dollars is then handed over in part to fund religious intolerance and terrorism whouldn't THAT be of greater importance than some semantic double talk about the myth of dependency?
People should be able to do drugs if they wish,it's only a crime because it's been designated so.
If it hadn't been for prohibition the US would not have had such problems with organised crime. Make a thing illegal it doesn't go away and it becomes the preserve of criminals.
Irrespective of all that,this incareceration may have been illegal,but the grammar of the headline is a true crime.
Firstly I had a weirdly clear memory of this, as I was in Australai and in a Bar late in the evening.
A mate came running down the road saying there had been an accident with the world trade centre.
we all looked to the horizon before my mate could add "The WTC in New York not in Melblourne CBD".
We went inside and all huddled around the tv sushin people so we could hear what had happened.
I ooked at the footage of the planes striking the towers and said "That'll be Bin Laden" I didn't pronounce it correctly as I'd only read about the guy.
Over the next few days I got some very odd looks from people who couldn't understand how I'd known he was behind it.
Reading is a powerful magic it'd seem.
It was a surreal night.
And one other thing.
The guy who posted above me here under the delightful user name of Muslims Suck.
Keep it up fella, it's thinking like that and voting in accordance with that vitriolic garbage that will havethe US hooked into more and more wars more and more death more and more suffering of your own people.
You can NOT beat a terrorist force, you can not beat a terrorist force that is willing to die for it's beliefs.
Not that easily said from a Lazy Boy "I'd die for my beliefs" but actually covered in C4 and ball bearings and blowing yourself up.
The Soviets were beaten by these sorts, no one in the Red Army wanted to fight against people who would run at tanks with an AK47 and 2 satchel chargfes tied to themselves.
It annihilates morale.
No terrorist force has evr been defeated by force of arms.
They are brought into the mainstream they are appeased they are elected.
Look at palestine look at israel look at Northern Ireland.
All governed by one time terrorists.
And AQ are no different. Sure they talk a mean rhetoric of a global islamic state, but that will never happen, the idealogues die and more moderate voices are heard, young blood cools as parenthood dawns.All parents want their kids to be healthy happy educated and have a future.
Even terrorists.
So all of your swagger and aggresion serves only to make you feel better, but in doing so you and those who hold your cartoon ideaology are brewing up trouble and strife that you won't have to deal with, your troops will have to deal with.
So effectively you and your armchair general sound a likes serve only to make thijngs harder on troops you purport to support.
A good deal less about your religious pogrom, your espoused genocide from all such swerer minds might help to if not calm things then at least stop hitting the hornets nest thinking it a pinata.
"To strike out in anger and to suspend your own laws m,akes you the same as the terrorist."
Was going to edit that.....
An act of vengeance is an act of terror, to be better than your enemy you must rise above.
When the US Army rolled into the concentration camps in world war 2, they didn't decide to just string them up and burn do-nuts in their Willys Jeeps.
No the rules of law both martial and civil were applied.
It marked out the US as not just the victors, but the MORAL victors, who rose above the mire and distinguished themselves and their country in theor conduct.
Ah.... I suppose I have some very rarified ideas regarding the USA.
In my book any place that Thomas Pane held in such regard has to be doing something right.
Raises cup of tea in salute to the USA,
raises small glass of Jameson's in memory of the dead of September the eleventh.
that must be the most singularly dense fecking thing I have ever seen posted anything on Neatorama.
You actually believe that the murders of nearly three thousand people from nearly every country in the world means NOTHING to ...well the REST OF THE WORLD?
Your self pity adn Emo "Woe is me they don't understand" bull sh*t is both a humiliation to you, and an affront to to, well basically everyone who is NOT YOU.
Regardless of the subsequent war, regardless of the lack of any discernible connection between the two, regardless the dead on both sides of that debacle.... I can not concieve of a a single human soul that did not , to quote Kenobi, Cry out at once.
Here's the thiong.
And actiually listen.
When there is a terrorist attack, THAT is the moment for calm.
It is what defines a leader rather than an elected official.
To strike out in anger and to suspend your own laws m,akes you the same as the terrorist.
you can have no higher ground when you are in the pit with them.
Trust me, I grew up through the IRA's campaign, also the reasdon I find the US's stance on funding terrorists risible, as the US bank rolled the IRA for 35 years...So is it ok to bomb women and children when they don't live in New York?
But When a govt suspends the law.... very bad things follow.
N.Ireland was proof of that.
For every diploc court made a new recruit, every raid and body search of a mother made the son swear vengance, every indignity suffered made resolve harden.
I am just trying to draw a crrellation between the suspension of rights and of law and the exacerbation of the situation.
I wish all of you USAmericans my best, I hope you restore your constitution, bill of rights and democracy. Find peace and diplomacy to work beter for you than war, and care for those broken on 911.
As far as I recall NYC water from tap/fawcet is good. Unlike London where in hot summers the water can be chemically significant enough to be on the pill.
As a Scot this was disgusting.
Also the air there make their water look like Scottish Springs finest.
Liberatarian think tank.
Hmmmmm
Surely the point here is not "dependency" but the potential for volatility in the commodity pricing.
At the mercy of Opecs price/production decisions.
Also if the oil you pay the Saudis for in US dollars is then handed over in part to fund religious intolerance and terrorism whouldn't THAT be of greater importance than some semantic double talk about the myth of dependency?
Just a thought.
In the 70s is was being refered to a the greenhouse effect, then global warmning when the phrase climate change is closest to accurate.
Didn't styop your twice unelected president from sticking his fingers in his ears and hu8mming.
He'd no doubt roll out his entirely faux country boy schtick and agree that no one knows the land like a good ol' US Farmer.
I'll trust the scientists thanks.
People should be able to do drugs if they wish,it's only a crime because it's been designated so.
If it hadn't been for prohibition the US would not have had such problems with organised crime. Make a thing illegal it doesn't go away and it becomes the preserve of criminals.
Irrespective of all that,this incareceration may have been illegal,but the grammar of the headline is a true crime.
A mate came running down the road saying there had been an accident with the world trade centre.
we all looked to the horizon before my mate could add "The WTC in New York not in Melblourne CBD".
We went inside and all huddled around the tv sushin people so we could hear what had happened.
I ooked at the footage of the planes striking the towers and said "That'll be Bin Laden" I didn't pronounce it correctly as I'd only read about the guy.
Over the next few days I got some very odd looks from people who couldn't understand how I'd known he was behind it.
Reading is a powerful magic it'd seem.
It was a surreal night.
And one other thing.
The guy who posted above me here under the delightful user name of Muslims Suck.
Keep it up fella, it's thinking like that and voting in accordance with that vitriolic garbage that will havethe US hooked into more and more wars more and more death more and more suffering of your own people.
You can NOT beat a terrorist force, you can not beat a terrorist force that is willing to die for it's beliefs.
Not that easily said from a Lazy Boy "I'd die for my beliefs" but actually covered in C4 and ball bearings and blowing yourself up.
The Soviets were beaten by these sorts, no one in the Red Army wanted to fight against people who would run at tanks with an AK47 and 2 satchel chargfes tied to themselves.
It annihilates morale.
No terrorist force has evr been defeated by force of arms.
They are brought into the mainstream they are appeased they are elected.
Look at palestine look at israel look at Northern Ireland.
All governed by one time terrorists.
And AQ are no different. Sure they talk a mean rhetoric of a global islamic state, but that will never happen, the idealogues die and more moderate voices are heard, young blood cools as parenthood dawns.All parents want their kids to be healthy happy educated and have a future.
Even terrorists.
So all of your swagger and aggresion serves only to make you feel better, but in doing so you and those who hold your cartoon ideaology are brewing up trouble and strife that you won't have to deal with, your troops will have to deal with.
So effectively you and your armchair general sound a likes serve only to make thijngs harder on troops you purport to support.
A good deal less about your religious pogrom, your espoused genocide from all such swerer minds might help to if not calm things then at least stop hitting the hornets nest thinking it a pinata.
Is that Elizabeth Street in the CBD?
That was a really nicely measured post.
A Proud Italian enough to love your language , worldly enough to laugh into your svizzera at the nonsense.
Salut!
Was going to edit that.....
An act of vengeance is an act of terror, to be better than your enemy you must rise above.
When the US Army rolled into the concentration camps in world war 2, they didn't decide to just string them up and burn do-nuts in their Willys Jeeps.
No the rules of law both martial and civil were applied.
It marked out the US as not just the victors, but the MORAL victors, who rose above the mire and distinguished themselves and their country in theor conduct.
Ah.... I suppose I have some very rarified ideas regarding the USA.
In my book any place that Thomas Pane held in such regard has to be doing something right.
Raises cup of tea in salute to the USA,
raises small glass of Jameson's in memory of the dead of September the eleventh.
that must be the most singularly dense fecking thing I have ever seen posted anything on Neatorama.
You actually believe that the murders of nearly three thousand people from nearly every country in the world means NOTHING to ...well the REST OF THE WORLD?
Your self pity adn Emo "Woe is me they don't understand" bull sh*t is both a humiliation to you, and an affront to to, well basically everyone who is NOT YOU.
Regardless of the subsequent war, regardless of the lack of any discernible connection between the two, regardless the dead on both sides of that debacle.... I can not concieve of a a single human soul that did not , to quote Kenobi, Cry out at once.
Here's the thiong.
And actiually listen.
When there is a terrorist attack, THAT is the moment for calm.
It is what defines a leader rather than an elected official.
To strike out in anger and to suspend your own laws m,akes you the same as the terrorist.
you can have no higher ground when you are in the pit with them.
Trust me, I grew up through the IRA's campaign, also the reasdon I find the US's stance on funding terrorists risible, as the US bank rolled the IRA for 35 years...So is it ok to bomb women and children when they don't live in New York?
But When a govt suspends the law.... very bad things follow.
N.Ireland was proof of that.
For every diploc court made a new recruit, every raid and body search of a mother made the son swear vengance, every indignity suffered made resolve harden.
I am just trying to draw a crrellation between the suspension of rights and of law and the exacerbation of the situation.
I wish all of you USAmericans my best, I hope you restore your constitution, bill of rights and democracy. Find peace and diplomacy to work beter for you than war, and care for those broken on 911.
Universal health care.
As a Scot this was disgusting.
Also the air there make their water look like Scottish Springs finest.
black snot,
he was hit in the eye as a tween and one eye changed colour in that quite remarkable way.
I love Siamese cats as they are, if thourough bred, Cross eyed.
It's a a very sweet attribute.
glad you liked
And I stand corrected.
man I have to get back to Melbourne.
Overpowering need to sit under the palm trees at Greasy Joes in Saint Kilda and sink a few Coopers Red.