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Post by roddy byers on Nov 24, 2011 10:22:24 GMT
Does having a job make you a bad person?
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Post by mrclaypole on Nov 24, 2011 10:28:49 GMT
saw an advert for a program by Ian Hislop telling the story of when Bankers weren't all crooks, during Victorian times they apparently gave a lot of their wealth/profits to help those less well off. Think it was on BBC4 or summit, will try and track it down on iplayer. I read a book that told the story of how the very same family (Rothschilds) financed the Third Reich and supplied the oil to them so that they could carry out the Blitz on London and Coventry. After the war they were the same family who lent the money to the U.K to rebuild after the very same Blitzkrieg they funded, thus plunging the U.K into massive debt for nealy 60 years afterwards. So if you really want to know who won the war, it was them, you cant lose if you finance both sides.
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Post by Hugh on Nov 24, 2011 16:48:04 GMT
Keep digging and you will find all sorts of intertwined political relationships throughout history; enough to obscure everything to your chosen view.
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Post by phillyj on Nov 25, 2011 11:17:02 GMT
saw an advert for a program by Ian Hislop telling the story of when Bankers weren't all crooks, during Victorian times they apparently gave a lot of their wealth/profits to help those less well off. Think it was on BBC4 or summit, will try and track it down on iplayer. I read a book that told the story of how the very same family (Rothschilds) financed the Third Reich and supplied the oil to them so that they could carry out the Blitz on London and Coventry. After the war they were the same family who lent the money to the U.K to rebuild after the very same Blitzkrieg they funded, thus plunging the U.K into massive debt for nealy 60 years afterwards. So if you really want to know who won the war, it was them, you cant lose if you finance both sides. blimey, didn't realise that.
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Post by roddy byers on Nov 25, 2011 12:06:15 GMT
Did i tell you my Grans house got distroyed in the Cov Blitz?
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Post by mrclaypole on Nov 25, 2011 12:10:54 GMT
I read a book that told the story of how the very same family (Rothschilds) financed the Third Reich and supplied the oil to them so that they could carry out the Blitz on London and Coventry. After the war they were the same family who lent the money to the U.K to rebuild after the very same Blitzkrieg they funded, thus plunging the U.K into massive debt for nealy 60 years afterwards. So if you really want to know who won the war, it was them, you cant lose if you finance both sides. blimey, didn't realise that. Fraid so.........
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Post by mrclaypole on Nov 25, 2011 12:13:40 GMT
Did i tell you my Grans house got distroyed in the Cov Blitz? No, I saw that doBanana Milkshakeentary on the Cov blitz, it mustve been hell for the poor people of the town. My uncle was very young at the time and lived in Birmingham, he made a wax recording of the bombs going off in Coventry, he said it could be heard even 20 odd miles away and the sky was lit up like a giant dome of red and orange light. He kept that recording for years untill his daughter broke it when she was a toddler. Can you imagine what a historical doBanana Milkshakeent that would be now?.
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Post by skabbygirl on Nov 26, 2011 10:11:31 GMT
My Nan spent 6 months in an Anderson shelter in London, very grim.
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Post by crazycurtis on Nov 28, 2011 5:38:50 GMT
ever see the movie ' gran torino' clint eastwood. that reminds me of my dad, i'm always up for argument with that old I Know who my parents ar. but the korean war messed his head up pretty bad. nothing like what england went thru in world war 2. us 'yanks' over here have been spoon fed for the last 100 years or so.....
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Post by phillyj on Nov 28, 2011 9:31:02 GMT
Did i tell you my Grans house got distroyed in the Cov Blitz? Did all the family make it out ok? My Nan & Grandads house suffered structural damage when a Doodlebug came down in a field close by. Cracks were still in the walls when I used to go round there 40 years later, his notion was that if the explosion couldn't bring it down, then the cracks weren't that bad!
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Post by roddy byers on Nov 28, 2011 11:22:50 GMT
Yep no one got hurt.
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Post by occupation on Nov 29, 2011 16:45:48 GMT
i think just being american makes me nervous. the party might be over for my generation. We're all Americans now
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Post by Hugh on Nov 29, 2011 17:57:58 GMT
Except me. eh
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Post by roddy byers on Dec 4, 2011 14:28:24 GMT
What a State to get in..
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Post by occupation on Dec 7, 2011 1:58:32 GMT
Well I have this lady friend who's American and I flipped and said some things about the U.S. basically I told her it was a cross between a brothel and a toilet and that if she thought Nazi Germany was bad etc she should look around, and, she was very upset and I felt bad and so to get back into her good books, because she's a really nice girl I said Britain is also a cross between a brothel and a toilet too and she thought I was just saying that so I told her look, we don't have a democracy either. David Cameron is a racist Tommy The Tanker and is spoiling for a war on Iran and is thus no different from Obama. She still wouldn't believe that I really meant it and I had to describe how the British empire transformed thriving economies around the world such as India into dust bowls and that the best thing the British could do would be to shut its political trap since America when all said and done was made in Britain. Then she told me there were lots of fat obese Badly Packed Kebabs in America so I was forced to admit that Brits are mostly fat Rather Large Bottomd pie eating crooked toothed drunks who drive around in 4X4s and chuck burger boxes out the window as they speed at 90mph in a 40mph zone and only seem to give a Hong Kong Phoey when you smack them hard in the gob sending their dentures flying across the supermarket carpark or Moto service pitsplop. Then we both agreed that the French faired no better with all their nuclear powerstations and their stupid right wing dictator Nicolas Sarcastic. And then there's Germany of course. In the end we concluded that we were ruled by turds no matter where you lived and that we ourselves were Arnold Chicken Shortsed because not only were we ruled by them, we... continued on page 99
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