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Post by walnut on Aug 2, 2019 17:16:37 GMT
Good post ↑↑
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Post by nautonnier on Aug 3, 2019 9:04:50 GMT
Another remainer video. I had the good fortune to live in North Wales for a couple of years and get to know the real Welsh locals (nothing like rough shooting and dogs to bring people together). Very friendly people contrary to the impression that the media would have you believe. The most 'rabid' Welsh Nationalists in North Wales were usually those that had grown up in Liverpool or Chester and returned back to Wales and a new found identity and language. However, the Welsh in Aberteifi Ceredigion could sometimes have extremes of 'Nationalism' for example insisting that STEM subjects like Mathematics and Chemistry were taught in Welsh and having to invent new words to do so - so was it still Welsh? Further South in Swansea and Neath the area had far greater proportion of English and was not any more nationalistic than Yorkshire or Cornwall (or any other of the old Dukedoms) The Nationalism is occasionally fanned by media and politicians wanting a particular narrative but in reality the boundaries have faded. Just before the outbreak of the War for Southern Independence, a South Carolina legislator was asked for his thoughts on secession. He famously answered ... "South Carolina is too small to be a republic, and too large to be an insane asylum". Today, Europe contains 8 states (with specialty names and functions) smaller than Wales's 8,000 sq. miles. In 1860, his comment in regards to a republic may have been largely true. His asylum comment was and is undoubtedly true. Our largest insane asylums are no bigger than 470 sq. miles (New York City and Los Angeles city). For the record, I note that the combined area of England, Scotland and Wales (~91 k sq. mi.) is only 15% larger than the State of Missouri (79 k sq. mi.). Subtract Scotland and that figure is 73%. The air distance from the south coast of Wales to the north is less than the distance from Columbia, MO to St. Louis, MO. Width wise, it is about two MO counties wide. Practically spitting distance. Our own "Little Dixie" area of Central Missouri comprises 6 counties totaling nearly 4000 sq. miles (which was settled largely out of Virginia) ... about half the size of Wales. We also have a Germanic problem to the East (Communist exiles from the German Revolution of 1848), who took the Union side in 1861-65. Much bloody work was done by partisan bands against Union invaders from 3 sides. "No Quarter" was the written operational rules of Union forces from 1863 on. The American collegiate football rivalry between the University of Missouri - Columbia (the Tigers) and the University of Kansas - Lawrence (the Jayhawks) is a more recent cultural event with its roots in the fight for Bloody Kansas. The latter being the only University I know of that named its athletic teams after a terrorist group. From the Celtic perspective, the "Orange Order" might be comparable. As for Wales, we can sympathize ... although our suppression did not span centuries, as we seized control back from the post-war radical Reconstructionists ca 1874 when Francis Marion Cockrell (last commander of the 1st Missouri Confederate Brigade) retook the 2nd US Missouri Senate seat and held it for 5 terms. The typically shortened American temporal perspective. Around here there are still many who can trace ancestry back to the "early days" ... a whole nearly 200 years. How much more so in Wales. where Britains were fighting off Saxons since the 500s. I am assuming they are better schooled in their "long" history than us? "How much more so in Wales. where Britains were fighting off Saxons since the 500s. I am assuming they are better schooled in their "long" history than us? "It would be nice to think so. However, the dumbing down has continued apace in UK as in the USA. The Welsh Nationalists (back in the 70's sometimes called the 'viet-taff') attempt to enforce Welsh language on everyone even changing French place names to the Welsh spelling (Beaumaris) and some English place names (Valley). However, if they were asked about their actual history then you see that they were more supporting the local team rather than knowing how things became as they were. Another issue of course is the population disparity, Wales at 3 million people compared to ~5 million in Scotland, ~ 20 million in Northern Ireland and London Metropolitan area ~18 million - this from a modern political perspective puts them low on the pecking order. Some of the UK history from back in and around the time of Cromwell does not make pleasant reading and tends to be avoided and/or romanticized on both the winning and losing sides. The result is a permeating ignorance of what the true origins of the arguments were between different groups. The same has happened in Scotland with only a few knowing or concerned with the origin and demise of the Clan system (and the mistrust of certain Clans). That's not to say that some are not remembered: "In 1978, the Chief of Clan Keith and the Commander of Clan Gunn signed a peace treaty at the site of the Chapel of St. Tayrs, ending the feud between the two clans which began in 1478".
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Post by missouriboy on Aug 3, 2019 15:02:10 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Aug 3, 2019 21:06:18 GMT
Unsurprising as the events were late 60's and very early 70's predating internet. However, this article may be of interest (Viet Taff only used in caption to a photo) winterof79.blogspot.com/2010/10/welsh-militants-and-para-militaries.htmland from a pilot who used to fly from Brawdy, a now closed Royal Navy Training Airfield on the SW coast of Wales not far from Fishguard www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=1670582&i=8200Needless to say the 'viet taff' was treated as somewhat of a joke - but the few Welsh involved possibly 200-300 took things very seriously. The reason that they did not expand and become similar to the Irish Republican Army is that they had very little popular support. Ireland's history is full of injustices that can be fanned into grievances, the same is not true of Wales.
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Post by sigurdur on Aug 5, 2019 4:45:10 GMT
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Post by Ratty on Aug 5, 2019 6:26:49 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Aug 5, 2019 9:19:03 GMT
But this is the entire purpose of the climate scam - if they can force Australian (and UK and US etc) smelters to close but not Chinese or Russian then it has achieved its purpose. "A shocking statement was made by a United Nations official Christiana Figueres at a news conference in Brussels. Figueres admitted that the Global Warming conspiracy set by the U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, of which she is the executive secretary, has a goal not of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity, but to destroy capitalism. She said very casually:
“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution.”
She even restated that goal ensuring it was not a mistake:
“This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history.”"www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-03/un-official-admits-global-warming-agenda-really-about-destroying-capitalism Australia should wake up - or it will be completely deindustrialized (Ehrlich tm)
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Post by nautonnier on Aug 5, 2019 17:00:35 GMT
Here is your starter question.... Name the longest alliance in history between two counties..... "Portugal and England — and subsequently the United Kingdom, after the Act of Union in 1707 — enjoy probably the longest-standing alliance in the world, dating back to at least 1386 and the Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Windsor between King John I of Portugal and King Richard II of England. It is arguable that this treaty merely formalised a friendship dating back hundreds of years before even that, however, to the Siege of Lisbon in 1147, when English crusaders helped to liberate what is now the Portuguese capital from the Muslim Moors.
The Portuguese have published something of a love letter to the British, playing down the “uncertainty” which Brexit may bring and assuring them they will always be “#Brelcome” in Portugal.."www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/08/05/watch-portugal-reassures-brits-on-brexit-life-is-about-uncertainty/
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Post by nautonnier on Aug 8, 2019 10:11:59 GMT
Just look at the emperor's new clothes !! "An establishment rebellion Why the elite loves the eco-warriors.
London’s Victoria and Albert Museum has acquired a number of artefacts associated with Extinction Rebellion (XR), the protest group campaigning to reduce Britain’s carbon emissions to ‘net zero’ by 2025. Apparently, just nine months since Extinction Rebellion’s first public stunt, its paraphernalia deserves to be housed alongside some of the world’s best art and design works of the past 5,000 years. "www.spiked-online.com/2019/08/08/an-establishment-rebellion/Worth a read- and of course revisit in 5 years
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Post by nautonnier on Aug 8, 2019 10:14:51 GMT
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Post by Ratty on Aug 8, 2019 12:39:26 GMT
I'm alright Jack. There's a 2,000 kilometer corridor for them to fill before it affects me. PS: The People's Republic of Victoria is run by a rabid socialist crew called Labor (= Democrats). IRMC!
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Post by nautonnier on Aug 11, 2019 17:02:52 GMT
Japan now? "Growing poverty in Japan In the House of Councillors election held on July 21, 2019, I voted for the recently founded Reiwa Shinsengumi party led by Taro Yamamoto . Why? According to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW), 57.7% of families, 81% of single mothers and 1 of 7 children feel impoverished. These are shockingly dismal social and economic indicators for one the richest countries on the planet. Part of this is due to an increased tax burden that have made people unhappy and poorer while the super rich profit from tax cuts. Moreover, Japanese finance minister Tarō Asō suggested that Japan could even learn from constitutional changes made by the Nazi party! Japanese president Shinzo Abe spends time on the golf course. In contrast Taro Yamamoto, leader of the newly minted Reiwa Shinsengumi party, helps out at soup kitchens and fights for Japan’s many forgotten citizens."notrickszone.com/2019/08/11/japan-may-soon-add-to-growing-roster-of-major-world-leaders-who-doubt-climate-alarmism/
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Post by missouriboy on Aug 12, 2019 12:44:44 GMT
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Post by acidohm on Aug 12, 2019 17:13:21 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Aug 12, 2019 18:06:13 GMT
Surprised that communications are still up. Are they getting sloppy? Or are those just food relief trucks?
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