Saturday, January 5, 2013

5 January - Proud British Heritage

Traditional Family Values Parade (Photo credit: Fritz Liess)

Family Values (Photo credit: opk)

CONservative governMENt (Photo credit: i_follow)

IRISH CANADIAN RANGERS, 199th Canadian Infantry Battalion (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Photographs of the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Map of the United States Air Force bases, Royal Canadian Air Force bases and NATO Dispersed Operating Bases in France from 1951 to 1966. Français : Carte des anciennes bases de l'OTAN en France de 1951 à 1966. Česky: Mapa zobrazující letecké základny NATO ve Francii mezi lety 1951 a 1966. Lambert-93 projection ; RGF-93 datum (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The territories that were at one time or another part of the British Empire. The British Overseas Territories are underlined in red. Русский: Территории, когда-либо бывшие частью Британской империи. Названия Британских заморских территорий подчеркнуты красным. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Political cartoon. Title: "The next favor. 'A flag to suit the minority.'" French tricolor is given greater prominence than the Union Jack, and the maple leaf is surrounded by two fleurs-de-lis... (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

US Navy 090306-N-8933S-284 A guest instructor debriefs students from the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation and Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School after a field training exercise (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

US Navy 090306-N-6359M-193 Students from the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation and students from the Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School conduct a joint assault on a simulated narcoti (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Anti-Margaret Thatcher badge (Photo credit: dannybirchall)

Mary Ann Vecchio gestures and screams as she kneels by the body of a student, Jeffrey Miller, lying face down on the campus of Kent State University, in Kent, Ohio. On publication, the image was retouched to remove the fencepost above Vecchio's head. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Best-of Canadian Conservative government blunders for 2012

24 Percent Majority: 2012 Best Of - Week 87 - Dec 25-Jan 1

This little blog is my attempt to keep track of all of the comings and goings of Canada's Conservative government. Every week I spend an hour or two putting together a weekly round-up of the bad things done by the Conservatives in the name of "fiscal responsibility" and "family values". Honestly, there's always so much material to work with that it practically writes itself.

Eark_the_Bunny

Someone should hold a contest to see who has the awfullest "conservatives", Canada or the USA.

Antinous / Moderator

Aren't Canadian conservatives the droppings of US conservatives?

opit, Jack-of-all trades and master of none

Nope. People tend to forget that the court system was/is the same throughout the British Empire* - and that precedents in one country are legal precedents in another. That should tell you more than you want to know about a similarity that should be inescapable when noting degree of resemblance.
NATO countries soldiers are interchangeable as well - serving in each others' armed forces. And intelligence services are united by secret decree. Then there is the matter of the so-called ACBA armies....for the names of the countries which pioneered that integration.
Add in disinformation operations and shared 'intelligence' and the appearance of individuality erodes as quickly as shared UN protocols.

* I should have noted more clearly that the USA shared legal precedents for years. Interestingly, until 1961 citizens of Britain were automatically citizens of Canada.

ldobe

Wow.
And I thought the Canadians were a benevolent and peaceful people.
Perhaps they are (I've never had a bad time during my travels in B.C., hell, even the cops are nice, even when I'm caught speeding with no excuse). But I guess politics attract the worst kind of scum available, no matter how nice the local people are on average.

Which is about the way I feel about most 'Americans'. Heck - they don't even HAVE an individual name, unlike the United States of Mexico as an instance - and I remember waaay too much about JFK, RFK and Martin Luther King as decent men sacrificed to the Mafia as much as Jimmy Hoffa was. The peanut farmer was the last one to resemble a decent President with some internationalism of view. Reagan ran the Contras upsetting governments of countries in Central and South America and secret arms trade through Iran. I'm not sure that wasn't 'international aware' as well as the School of the Americas !

The Kent State shootings—also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre—occurred at Kent State University in the U.S. city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970.

More at Wikipedia

Jackson State killings

Protests against the Vietnam War

School of the Americas Watch

A group devoted to closing and monitoring the US military's "Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation", which has trained Latin American dictators.

soaw.org

Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation - Wikipedia, the free...

Until 2000, the United States Army School of the Americas (USARSA) was the principal training school for U.S. and Latin American military and police personnel in a variety of small unit tactics and leadership courses.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Institute_for_S...

School of Americas

School of the Americas: School of Assassins, USA. " We routinely had Latin American students at the School of the Americas (SOA) who were known human rights abusers, and it didn't make any difference to us."

thirdworldtraveler.com/SOA/SOA.html

US Army School of the Americas

When conventional methods-- elections, plebiscites, national referenda--fail, or when the results threaten the oligarchy, the US Army's School of the Americas, a shadowy but formidable war factory billeted at Fort Benning, Georgia, can help.

pangaea.org/street_children/latin/SOA.htm

Blunders

College essay blunders! Just as you should know what to do, you should also know what NOT to do! Here are some of the biggest blunders students make in their essays