[QUOTE=kaine123;36238888]Must have loved that woman a lot to give up a fucking throne.[/QUOTE]
Sources close to both the king and the woman (can't remember her name, Wallis someone or someone Wallis I think) said that she only wanted the king for his money.
[QUOTE=Mortson;36244677]Sources close to both the king and the woman (can't remember her name, Wallis someone or someone Wallis I think) said that she only wanted the king for his money.[/QUOTE]
Aww, that's fucking cruel.
[QUOTE=Mortson;36244677]Sources close to both the king and the woman (can't remember her name, Wallis someone or someone Wallis I think) said that she only wanted the king for his money.[/QUOTE]
Wallis Simpson - She couldn't marry him and become Queen because she was a divorcee.
[QUOTE=Mortson;36244677]Sources close to both the king and the woman (can't remember her name, Wallis someone or someone Wallis I think) said that she only wanted the king for his money.[/QUOTE]
I doubt that a bit, since they were married for 30+ years until his death. If that was true, their marriage probably wouldn't have as long as it did.
An 8 year old boy in Iran was caught stealing bread at a market and was punished by getting his arm crushed by a car.
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[QUOTE=OwnedByTheDog;36249787]An 8 year old boy in Iran was caught stealing bread at a market and was punished by getting his arm crushed by a car.[/QUOTE]
Yet you're able to treat women like dirt over there and get away with it.
I would normally be blaming Iranian society, the parents who let this happen etc, but I just want to cry! This is fucking cruelty beyond words!
That kid looks barely 4, let alone 8.
Oh my god, I want to cry. That poor boy.
It's things like that which cause people to develop racist views.
I say light them up
[editline]8th June 2012[/editline]
with bullets
[editline]8th June 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Stockers678;36237720]Won't we be out of Afghanistan by then? Unless we start a war with Iran or North Korea I guess[/QUOTE]
This is true, and I've thought about this, but I don't really know.
To be perfectly honest, I want to go fight in Somalia more than anywhere in the world.
[QUOTE=OwnedByTheDog;36249787]An 8 year old boy in Iran was caught stealing bread at a market and was punished by getting his arm crushed by a car.
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That's fucking terrible
God damn you don't need to quote it all and make us suffer through it again.
Apparently it was street magic? [url]http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_caught_stealing_bread3.htm[/url]
[quote][B]Analysis[/B]: The preceding images, originally published on the Iranian news website Peyke Iran in 2005, are presumably authentic, though the text of the email doesn't jibe with that of the original news story and appears to have been fabricated after the fact.
According to a note from a Peyke Iran spokesperson posted on the Little Green Footballs blog last November, the young boy whose arm was run over was not being punished for a crime. He was, in fact, part of a "Maareke giry" or street magic act, and allegedly performed the stunt for money (note the gentleman speaking into a microphone in image #1). A seventh and eighth picture in the series, showing the child shaken but otherwise unharmed after the ordeal, were omitted from the forwarded email but were part of the presentation on Peykeiran.com (where all the images are attributed to photographer Siamak Yari).[/quote]
[QUOTE=jaybuz;36253607]Apparently it was street magic? [url]http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_caught_stealing_bread3.htm[/url][/QUOTE]
Oh.....
The worst part is, is that there really is no way of solving any of this without completely fucking up one side.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;36233503]After WWII Soviet influence increased in Asia. Korea, and Vietnam are 2 of the countries that become communist. The North's both eventually invaded their southern parts. The US in an effort to stop the "Domino effect" helped the Souths. In Vietnam, it started small. Just a few green berets training the south in combat and such. [B]When a US ship was attacked off the coast[/B], it escalated into a full scale war. Went on from the 60's until the 70's and was some of the most brutal fighting seen by the US. Flame based weapons like napalm and flame throwers were used heavily. Chemical agents like Agent orange were also used, they would drop them to deforest an area so helicopters could land, but it eventually would cause cancer in people. Thousands of dead US soldiers every month, on top of massive civilian casualties. Booby traps, like punji sticks, bouncing betties, and grenade traps. Both sides would do things like putting a active hand grenade under a dead mans helmet. So when the medic or officer comes to collect the dog tags and he takes the helmet off, it would probably kill him. Also putting land mines under bodies. A terrible war.[/QUOTE]
I'd just like to point out that the US ship (The Maddox) was attacked on 2nd August, as it neared North Vietnamese waters, and fired the first shots at the North Vietnamese boats.
And the August 4th 'attack' that prompted the U.S to enter the war didn't even happen.
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Guys might like this.
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The first photograph of the White House, 1846
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Children gaze an at American Paratrooper holding a grenade launcher.
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Pearl Harbor survivor being treated for burns.
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GI machine gun crew in action against German defenders in the streets of Aachen
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German soldier with his arm blown off on the Eastern Front
Somebody wanted more pictures of D-Day and there is a bunch on the subreddit.
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US Army soldiers recovering the bodies of dead comrades at Omaha Beach
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British Soldiers at Gold Beach
Wounded Knee Massacre, South Dakota
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[QUOTE=RagamuffinIIII;36251501]It's things like that which cause people to develop racist views.[/QUOTE]
It just makes me feel like I want to take control of my own country and fucking invade anywhere where shit like that happens. Not invade them for my country's own gain, but to spread Reason and eradicate peoples negative, destructive mindsets. But I'd have a bit of a task to do in my own country involving that first which is the shitty thing. The world is full of shit.
[QUOTE=jaybuz;36253607]Apparently it was street magic? [URL]http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_caught_stealing_bread3.htm[/URL][/QUOTE]
I'm not completely sure whether to believe that, I mean the kid does genuinely look in pain.....
I'm a bit late on the Vietnam War veteran stories thing, but my uncle was in the Australia SAS and did all those black ops and behind enemy lines sorties that the SAS were trained to do.
He wakes up every night because of nightmares or night terrors based on the stuff he saw. And I after I first learned about the Vietnam war at school and came home talking about it to mum, she made sure I knew not to talk about it in front of him because it fucks with his emotions and state of mind.
[QUOTE=J AC1D;36259067]It just makes me feel like I want to take control of my own country and fucking invade anywhere where shit like that happens. Not invade them for my country's own gain, but to spread Reason and eradicate peoples negative, destructive mindsets. But I'd have a bit of a task to do in my own country involving that first which is the shitty thing. The world is full of shit.
I'm not completely sure whether to believe that, I mean the kid does genuinely look in pain.....[/QUOTE]
This mindset quickly becomes corrupted. Do you think the U.S. originally invaded places simply because of just personal gain? Believ eit or not, but people high up in the political system felt the same way you do.
[QUOTE=1chains1;36259855]This mindset quickly becomes corrupted. Do you think the U.S. originally invaded places simply because of just personal gain? Believ eit or not, but people high up in the political system felt the same way you do.[/QUOTE]
Honestly, I doubt so. I don't think it's just about "personal gain", but I can hardly imagine politicians ordering an invasion only because of their "feelings".
[QUOTE]Survivor of the Hutu death camp in 1994, photo taken by James Nachtwey.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=1chains1;36259855]This mindset quickly becomes corrupted. Do you think the U.S. originally invaded places simply because of just personal gain? Believ eit or not, but people high up in the political system felt the same way you do.[/QUOTE]
I don't completely agree with that. The US Government to my knowledge and opinion has always, or almost always invaded places to prevent threats to changing its way of life. For example Vietnam, to prevent the spread of Communism. They use moral reasons and threat scares to gain support in invading Countries where they can take its resources, for example Iraq. I recall one of the reasons for invading Iraq was that they suspected that Saddam Hussein was in possession of "Weapons of mass destruction", plus because of all the bad shit he was obviously doing, but I don't believe for a second that the US Government would use its resources and sacrifice American Soldiers lives just to put a stop to the reign of some bad man in the Middle East. There has to be something for the US to gain. There is a fuck load of shit going on in Africa and has been for years, but does the US care enough to "liberate" those people? No, because there is no threat to the US way of life emerging anywhere in Africa, nor does it have any resources worth claiming. No Nuclear Weapons where found in Iraq and the US was free to take as much of Iraq's Oil as they wanted.
The problem with the US in my view (and any other country for that matter) is that the people in power are Rich, they have been brought up in a Capitalist country where they are taught to live in Competition with the rest of humanity and not Cooperation. This system creates people who know nothing other than to be selfish, to know no limits to gain and to do absolutely anything to gain or maintain their power/wealth.
What the world needs I think, are leaders, and eventually people who have reached Enlightenment. Meaning people without Ego, Greed, Resentment etc, people who are in complete control of their Emotions and desire.
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Nachtwey has taken many iconic photographs.
I recommend everyone who reads this thread check out a movie called "War Photographer". It follows him as he shoots some war photographs.
[QUOTE=J AC1D;36260376]I don't completely agree with that. The US Government to my knowledge and opinion has always, or almost always invaded places to prevent threats to changing its way of life. For example Vietnam, to prevent the spread of Communism. They use moral reasons and threat scares to gain support in invading Countries where they can take its resources, for example Iraq. I recall one of the reasons for invading Iraq was that they suspected that Saddam Hussein was in possession of "Weapons of mass destruction", plus because of all the bad shit he was obviously doing, but I don't believe for a second that the US Government would use its resources and sacrifice American Soldiers lives just to put a stop to the reign of some bad man in the Middle East. There has to be something for the US to gain. There is a fuck load of shit going on in Africa and has been for years, but does the US care enough to "liberate" those people? No, because there is no threat to the US way of life emerging anywhere in Africa, nor does it have any resources worth claiming. No Nuclear Weapons where found in Iraq and the US was free to take as much of Iraq's Oil as they wanted.
The problem with the US in my view (and any other country for that matter) is that the people in power are Rich, they have been brought up in a Capitalist country where they are taught to live in Competition with the rest of humanity and not Cooperation. This system creates people who know nothing other than to be selfish, to know no limits to gain and to do absolutely anything to gain or maintain their power/wealth.
What the world needs I think, are leaders, and eventually people who have reached Enlightenment. Meaning people without Ego, Greed, Resentment etc, people who are in complete control of their Emotions.[/QUOTE]
Do you think we just barged into Iraq and just started pumping oil from the ground and taking it back home for ourselves? It doesn't work like that.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;36260424]Do you think we just barged into Iraq and just started pumping oil from the ground and taking it back home for ourselves? It doesn't work like that.[/QUOTE]
What exactly gave you the impression that I thought that? I don't have any idea what exactly happened (and I assume you don't either), though I think that an incentive for invading Iraq was to take possession of its resources.
[QUOTE=J AC1D;36260456]What exactly gave you the impression that I thought that? I don't have any idea what exactly happened, though I think that an incentive for invading Iraq was to take possession of its resources.[/QUOTE]
"US was free to take as much of Iraq's Oil as they wanted."
Not every person in the US government is an evil mastermind who's only goal is to be evil and steal oil from the poor brown people. With that said, not every one of them is a saint either. Not everything is a sinister as you think it is.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;36260518]"US was free to take as much of Iraq's Oil as they wanted."
Not every person in the US government is an evil mastermind who's only goal is to be evil and steal oil from the poor brown people. With that said, not every one of them is a saint either. Not everything is a sinister as you think it is.[/QUOTE]
Erm yeah, I am pretty sure they would have been quite free to take as much as they want.....
I don't think at all that every person in the US government is an "evil mastermind" and I don't feel I give you any reason to think that I do. There are no doubt some good, moral people there, though what I do think is that the current Capitalist way of life in countrys, not just the US, which requires unlimited growth, forces governments to take advantage of these other nations resources to fuel its system until its eventual crash when there is nothing left to fuel it.
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