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Brunobear
The US can always rejoin the British Commonwealth of nations along with India, Pakistan, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and about fifty others. I am sure its contribution would be welcome at Commonwealth, "Heads of Government", talks. I note the birthplace of President Obama, Hawaii, still carries the British Union flag in the corner, similar to Australia and New Zealand and numerous others.
The US, like Australia, Canada and New Zealand especially benefited enormously from the cultural, language, scholarship, parliamentary and legal practices it inherited from Great Britain. There are just too many benefits to mention.
But for King Louis 16th, of France's trumped up interference with US/British affairs in 1776 with a French Naval blockade on British troop supplies, which finished up costing him his bloated navy, his head and the Monarchy and the French bloodletting that followed with the French Revolution in the 1790's, the US would have remained a valuable independent part of the British Commonwealth and its work for good around the world. Canada, New Zealand and Australia did not have to have a phony war of independence, Britain has always given us everything we asked for, including independence. But we are not historically averse to paying taxes for the common good.
The majesty and grandeur of the Royal Wedding was witnessed by billions, not just hundreds of millions, around the world. The soldiers that participated in their historic uniforms are not just for show, they are actually front line combat troops that participate currently in the war in Afghanistan to bring it peace and democracy too.
God save the Queen Elizabeth, the Monarch of Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand et al.
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Brunobear
Disillusioned: I am an Aussie too, and am glad "the Chaser" was rejected by the ABC. They are not funny or witty. Their whole style is about ridicule and mocking, which is typical Sydney. Why would Australians per se want to have what was a majestic event of unmatchable grandeur interrupted and tainted by their nauseous childlike, secondary school boy antics.
More than 25% of Australians tuned in to watch the wedding on TV and many more gathered in pubs and clubs to enjoy it, many dressing up for the occasion. It was a spectacle that Hollywood could never match, nor could any other Country. The biggest Australian TV audience ever by a long way.
If you knew anything about British History then you would be grateful that Australia is a child of Great Britain and all that Great Britain delivered Australia, the freest and wealthiest country on the planet.
God Bless Australia, and God Save the Queen.
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Brunobear
123chachacha. You seem to be adopting a cynical attitude to PM Gillard's visit. Australia has made no secret that it seeks a free trade agreement with Japan which would be good for the majority of both countries. The greatest good for the greatest number, as it were. I don't imagine you can find a country that is more direct and open than Australia. The main impact of her visit must be to lend moral support to the people of Japan in a crisis and to suggest Australia would seek to exploit it, please let us all know how? She is doing what any decent person would do. Why spoil it! The baby will treasure that photo when it is older, as will the family. Good luck to it!
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Brunobear
The US provides 50% of all aid to the world and 70% of all cash aid in an emergency. The American military were on the ground it seems and helping immediately. They did the same with the Indonesian Tsunami. They diverted a Marine assault force heading to Iraq to assist the Indonesians with a huge number of helicopters, a force only the US can and will deliver.
Japan asked for aid from its western allies, the US, Australia, New Zealand and it came instantly. With 127 million people it is obvious Japan would be able to do most of the rescue work itself, but don't be so petty as to knock friends who come immediately to you aid in a crisis.
We received wide news coverage of the earthquake and Tsunami in Australia. All we saw was the Japanese people and authorities stoically handling themselves with dignity and calm in a crisis and the US and Australia et al immediately coming to Japan's aid with serious military hardware assistance. Where were the rest of the world? Waiting for the US military to do all the heavy lifting in a crisis as usual. You can always get a quote from a nitwit who would winge even if he got a front seat in heaven. "They shalt be done on earth as it is in Heaven" - that is what the US Military did. They are true and ever reliable "Good Samaritans". God Bless America I say!
I am glad the US has maintained a strong military presence in the Pacific and South East Asia since the forties. Certainly made me sleep better at night nowing US Marines and Navy are out there.
I just wish the US aircraft carrier the USS Ronald Reagan would call in on my City Melbourne, We would love to say thank you!
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Brunobear
Australian PM Gillard's visit to Japan and the warm reception from the Emperor, the Government and your PM truly represents how much we have in common and the level of mutual respect.
Given Australia's ability to provide Japan a wide range of abundant food stocks, most Australian's cannot understand Japan's need to come down to the Southern Ocean and poach whales. It makes only a fractional contribution to the amount and variety of food Japanese consume. There is virtually no one on earth eating it. The inward looking handful of people involved are doing far more harm than good. Why bother?
Japanese are welcome to invest in food production in Australia but have always been a bit shy, partly because of Japanese Government restrictions on overseas investments by insurance companies etc., the big investors. Free it up and we will both benefit.
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Brunobear
Perhaps we could take this one step further and invite everyone affected by the divorce to attend and state how it will impact on them. The Husband and wife can detail how they are going to divide up the wealth spoils and income to ensure the children, if any, are okay. They might also try and publicly explain what went wrong and admit to their mistakes if they are serious about moving on with a clear head.
The only problem is if the husband brings his bit of fluff along. The beauty that sexually seduced him at the office, when seeking a good provider with a steady job and income for herself, always in blind and total disregard for the welfare of the current wife and kids. I imagine some of the Divorce cake may end up all over her. A bit like the old "stocks" for villains, I suppose. It would be good to let her see and hear the distress she has caused. Same for the tradesman that has been "backdooring" the husband during the day and will be moving in to his house.
If it was a recent marriage, maybe we could get out gifts back. Especially any cash and for the parents, the wedding costs.
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Brunobear
It is amazing how many people around tbe World will tune in to this historical event. The Pomp and pageantry of Britain is something to behold. As an Australian, who one day will have Prince William as our King, it never ceases to impress me of the bonding force of the British Royals for the offspring countries of Britain like Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and even to a large extent, the USA. The US would still be part of the British Commonwealth if they were not so historically mean about paying taxes. The Emperor in Japan is a source for strongly uniting the Japanese people just the same. It is a system that has stood the test of time. It will be an exciting event to watch even for republicans who will be watching in droves, the hypocrites. I urge the Japanese people to tune in for a great emotional spectacle like the rest of the world. Good on NHK!
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Brunobear
If the US was serious about energy it would put a $2 a gallon Federal excise on petrol and force Americans out of their gas guzzlers and into a smaller vehicles that use just 25% of the fuel per mile the average US car does, and join the commonsense of the rest of the world. That would generate a trillion dollars a year and help the Federal Government towards balancing their massive budget deficits.
The US has abundant supplies of coal and has to look to genuine reliable resources from within its own border for its future. The Californian idea of getting 33% of the base load power from wind or solar is rubbish. It is too expensive and unreliable, and has to be subsidized heavily by someone and will send more Californian jobs to China etc., including the research and making of solar panels. The State of California is in dire financial strife and they come up with this! Get your taxes on the rich up substantially and start living within your means before playing Russian roulette on energy and producing power the declining US middle class cannot afford. Man made warming is a physical impossibility on a world scale. We are only 2000 years away from the start of the next ice age which will coat the US in deep ice. It will take that long for any impact of a reduction in carbon dioxide gas to occur anyway even if it was a real issue. But no one else on the planet is really trying. We used far less resources just 40 years ago when we made our own lunch, put it in the paper bag we got from the fruit shop, and wrapped our rubbish in biodegradable newspaper when binning it. Oh how life life was so much simpler and cheaper then and commonsense was common.
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Brunobear
I simply wish Islamic women in the West would just cease wearing that appallingly ugly political and religious statement headgear. In relations to Western Moslem women, it seems to me it is a form of appalling insensitivity, and traitorism to all those tens of millions of oppressed women in strident Middle Eastern Islamic countries that have no choice at all on so many restrictive lifestyle factors. Something the strident western headgear wearers are free not to suffer. Ironically it is mainly non-moslems that won and guarantee that freedom and gender equality, that attracts them to the West.
I also wish that anti-social recent creation, "the hoodie" would be banned in my Country, Australia, as it seems to be always present with street crime and anti-social behavior and causes public fear when people cannot see who is under it. Hoodies makes it difficult for the Police to identify offenders from security cameras.
Many Moslems are about thirty to forty years behind us in the west in their ways but are catching up, advancing like we did. The young will not put up with the State and religious oppression their parents sadly suffered throughout the petty dictatorships of the Middle East which in twenty years will be just a memory. There is a lot of very good Moslem people in all countries and I wish them all a fair go as long as they extend the same to me.
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Brunobear
Australian football (The Big Game: Big scores, big number of players, big ground, big crowds) is easily the most exciting game to watch and play in the world. Soccer (The small Game: small players, small ground, small crowds, small or no scores) is just a snooze fest. The soccer World Cup should be called the European, African and South American trophy as hardly anyone in China, India of SE Asia are interested or play it. Basketball is the only game that can really be called the world game because it is played everywhere.
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Brunobear
Japan will not have a debt crisis like Greece. The two economies are like cheese and chalk - Greece virtually doesn't have an economy - it has been sponging off Europe.
Japan has funded its massive public debt by borrowing from within Japan from personal savings where interest rates are controlled, whereas Greece borrowed offshore with no control over rates payable. I know Japan has spent massively on public infrastructure, roads, bridges, schools etc., but that does not explain a public debt of 218% (US$9 trillion) of GDP (US$4 trillion)?
Just as China has been committing "Mercantilism" against the US and other Western economies, by reducing its exchange rate to 14% of what it was 25 years ago, to wipe out US manufacturing, Japan seems to have been guilty of the same thing by using public debt to finance the sale of manufactured exports way below actual cost, since the early 1980's. China refuses to let its exchange rate float and Japan will keep subsidizing it's "giant manufacturers", loss making exports and the public debt will worsen. You are both slowly killing the goose that lays you, the golden egg - the US economy.
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Brunobear
I don't know why people put these crosses up in religious buildings for Jesus. If Jesus does return to earth, the last thing he will want to see is another cross!
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Brunobear
Was this a "shotgun wedding" but the groom pulled out. The guardian of this 21 year old filly then went to the police? Seems there is no fury like women scorned. I expect the horse has been canned for its dalliances and will be available on your supermarket shelf soon like many other aging horses.At least he she will keep dogs happy now.
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Brunobear
I don't want anybody hurt, and I mean anybody.
Don't think for one minute that a psychotic emotional national leader will hesitate to drop a nuclear bomb on a neighbor if conditions suit. Reason has long gone out the door by this point. I appreciate "history" is banned on JT, so read up yourself for example on Hilters's plan to kill off everybody in Poland, Ukraine etc., and fill the place with Germans. But people should never been held accountable for the actions or proposed actions. We just talk about the latest insane tit for tat.
skipethong: Why is it that the large Jewish and Islamic Arab communities live in peace, prosper, go to the football together, and choose not to live in enclaves? All people on earth a valuable, very valuable!
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Brunobear
Israel "has a history" of disproportionate actions or responses for perceived self advantage. When they reach the insane point of being unable to resist the temptation to use one on a neighbor, because they always have to go that bit too far, there will be a retaliatory nuclear response from its enemy (within the Islamic world) at some point thereafter. That is the "promise land" promise that has been consistently delivered on Israel over the past 5,000 years and will inevitably follow. Then the matter of Israel will be tragically be just history again. The world will survive from a few nuclear bombs with little impact on the rest of us. It should make front page headlines in the press. Someone will build a museum on the bomb sites. Prayers will be said. The dogs will bark and the wagon will move on.
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Brunobear
skipthesong: Yes, I was talking tongue in cheek in that comment. Sorry to confuse you!
Posted in: Biden: Israel free to set own course on Iran
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Brunobear
As much as I don't want the spread of nuclear weapons, the fact is the nuclear gate is now wide open and the nuclear horse well and truly bolted. I would prefer Iran not to have nuclear weapons as chosen by my country, Australia, which has had the ability to produce them since the nineteen fifties, but chose not to. Iran is a sovereign State too, just like Russia, the US, Britain, France, China, Pakistan, India and Israel, all whose chose to stockpile nuclear weapons, two in the tens of thousands. It won't be long before numerous countries have them. Then perhaps every country will be too scared to show aggression.
The young people of Iran will gradually bring it into the secular twenty-first century if just left alone to do it. The person who will most inspire them to do so, is President Barak Obama. A man for the young people of the world. The best orator America has produced.
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Brunobear
What is the story? Israel behaving as though it has a divine right to start WW111. Its current behavior is a replica of its last 69 years of aggression against anyone who stands in its way. If it had clean hands until now, the thread of my argument would be different. I don't want to see anyone suffer from what is no more than cultural idealogy and outrageous population growth in an area that cannot support it. The culture has a long, long history of self inflicted destruction. There are 6.5 billion other people battling to survive on this planet, not provoking battles with their neighbors.
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Brunobear
SezWho? Israel must know what it is doing. Surely they would not move half the world's 14 million population of Jews to Israel in recent decades and call on the rest to come to this small arid "promised land" while being publicly belligerent to its increasingly smarter and organized near neighbors, thus putting 7 plus million Israeli's at risk, unless they thought they were safe. Yes, I know they have been wiped out in Israel on many occasions in the distant past, the last being 70AD but the Arab world has to learn to take whatever Israel serves up, Remember the the 1940's holocaust. Chosen by God, as was their land of Israel for them and a bit more, their indiscretions therefore should be overlooked. Okay so they flattened thousands of homes in neighboring Lebanon two years ago and recently 14,000 homes in Gaza, they were a bit over enthusiastic. The have to plan for the future. If the 11 million US citizens entitled to move to Israel under Israeli law did, they have to house them somewhere; wouldn't they? Virtually the whole Jewish Russian population has shifted to Israel over the past 20 years, why not the US ones. Yes, it places pressure on scarce potable water supplies and residential land so whats wrong with just taking a little bit of the West Bank, and next year some more. Are you suggesting that crowding all these Jewish connected people into this tiny arid stretch of land is not the wish of God? If Iran fails to get on with its neighbors, and seeks nuclear power, obviously God would call on Israel to do something about it.
If I was an Israeli, I would be careful indeed in 2009. The world is changing. The Arab world will not operate for ever as a dis-organized self interested poorly armed rabble as they did in 1948. I would be suggesting a different, more circumspect and conciliatory course and send the Jewish settlers somewhere else, and just use Israel for a holiday and to be entombed in as they did 100 years ago. Bravado is just a word.
Moderator: Please stop giving us history lessons on these threads. You are to focus your comments on what is in the story.
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Brunobear
Israel is entirely responsible for its own actions. No one else. It does not seem to care about international reaction to anything it does. Nor does it observe UN resolutions. It is silly to say the US is equally responsible or an accomplice. The US acts for the common world good. Israel only acts for the sole benefit of Israel and those it seeks to attract there.
sabiwabi and Helter Skelter. Are you guys nuts?
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