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From The Guardian:
The reckless plot to overthrow Africa’s most absurd dictator
In December, a handful of middle-aged American immigrants attempted to topple the autocratic ruler of the Gambia. They had few weapons and an amateurish plan. What possessed them to risk everything in a mission that was doomed to fail?
by Andrew Rice
With about 40 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the chance of overthrowing your least favorite regime seems plausible. For example, was the 1980 film The Dogs of War with Christopher Walken and Tom Berenger about Frederik Forsyth’s plan to overthrow the government of Equatorial Africa to provide a homeland for the losing Ibos in the Nigeria Civil War?
Similarly, French mercenary Major Bob (Denard) would frequently over throw the Comoros Islands in search for a retirement home for colleagues.
The Gambia is a very small West African country with a very megalomaniacal dictator who has accepted, among many honors not just the designation of being a Kentucky Colonel but also a Nebraska Admiral.
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“Jammeh is a tyrant out of caricature, a throwback to the African strongmen of the 1970s. He’s boasted that he will rule for “a billion years”. He’s adopted a ridiculous string of titles: “His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya AJJ Jammeh Babili Mansa.” (The last phrase translates to “conqueror of rivers”.) He’s posed as a fetishistic healer, claiming magical powers to cure Aids, asthma and diabetes, and has launched witch-hunts to root out enemy sorcerers. He’s deployed demagoguery against human rights groups, fanning popular hatred of gays, whom he has threatened to behead. He’s massacred protesters and disappeared political opponents. Through his feared intelligence service, he exercises crushing power over every aspect of the Gambia’s politics and economy, which subsists mainly on income from discount tourism and peanuts.”
Sounds like your average rapper.
And the coup plotters sound like a bunch of street gangstas.
If Gulen can’t topple Erdogan, just forget about Gambia.
Meet the New Buffoon, same as the Old Buffoon."
But then... how did America's regime change work out in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria?
So, as clownish as this caper was, maybe it wasn't all that dumber than trillion dollar efforts by the US to 'spread democracy' and start 'new cold war' over homo parades in Moscow.Replies: @Abe
“The coup attempt has focused attention on an obscure corner of US foreign policy, demonstrating the lengths to which America will go to maintain stable relations in volatile west Africa – even if it means occasionally mollifying a cruel and autocratic buffoon.”
Meet the New Buffoon, same as the Old Buffoon.”
But then… how did America’s regime change work out in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria?
So, as clownish as this caper was, maybe it wasn’t all that dumber than trillion dollar efforts by the US to ‘spread democracy’ and start ‘new cold war’ over homo parades in Moscow.
What!, a ‘Kentucky Colonel’?
Ironically, for a west African, just like the late, great, Harlan Sanders himself.
No truer endorsement ever made.
Speaking of “honors”, you remember that Tom Wolfe’s book where a big financier is at a restaurant and gets much reverence, then the wife of an important Asian dictator arrives, and everybody forgets the financier (Back to Blood)
The real bling ring… who ate too many onion rings.
The Dogs of War was the result of a plan by Forsyth and some lads from his Public school to knock off the “government” of Equatorial Guinea. Equatorial Guinea was run by a cannibal at the time and sat on a sea of oil. The regular people live in squalor while the elite drive around in Italian sports cars. The lads would install a puppet and make a fortune off oil revenue.
The coup did not go forward because when they brought up the plan to the English foreign service they said no. But ever thrifty Forsyth used the bones of it for a book.
Fast forward to 2004. Some Public school lads, Thatcher’s son included, read The Dogs of War and really tried to do it. There is a nonfiction book out there called The Wanga Coup.
How it Equatorial Guinea today? The cannibal leader from the 70s was deposed by his nephew, also a cannibal. Public education is banned. The sea of oil remains. Obama had the nephew cannibal over to the White House.
Okay, I'll bite.
What was Le plat du Jour?
saw an item on the Net, claiming that Equatorial Guinea has The Number One World's Lowest average IQ.... upper 50's, I think.
What is the functionality with a guy of IQ 57?Replies: @Hodag
they should have talked to achmed chalabi ,regime change back in the old country 101
Peanuts, Envy
“Through his feared intelligence service, he exercises crushing power over every aspect of the Gambia’s politics and economy, which subsists mainly on income from discount tourism and peanuts.”
Was his election certified by Jimmy “Dhimmi” Carter?
“On New Year’s Day this year, FBI agents descended on a blue split-level house in a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota.”
Speaking “Conradically”(hat tip to Nabokov) – Minneapolis, Minnesota: Heartland of Darkness?
The BBC will not tell you but the hell hole actually calls itself The Islamic Republic of The Gambia … as hellish as the Maldives …
I saw that movie!
But the phrase cries out for its missing subordinate clause (I shamefully admit that I had to google to find the term “subordinate clause”)
There was a South African company called ‘Executive Outcomes’ that ended up running Angola. Think they also controlled the diamond mines in Botswana. It was all very embarrassing that a private mercenary company composed of mostly ex South African soldiers was the mightiest military force in the region!
http://www.papermag.com/1958-western-show-predicts-trump-2190364457.html
Time for a late lunch, come to think of it. Thanks.
This article reminds me of my deep disappointment when I learned that Laotian Revolutionary Guardsman Gary George lost his primary challenge last year.
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Ex-Wisconsin-lawmaker-implicated-in-Laos-coup-2589399.php
It’s a pity they didn’t succeed.
Ever seen “The Wild Geese”? It’s on Ygg’s movie list. It tackles this subject, quite well I thought. Imdb reviews are interesting to read.
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0078492/
The Dogs of War was also quite good, as you’ve mentioned. About the only gripe from memory is the unaimed shooting in those movies, but it can be overlooked.
Pretty sure if a white guy tried to overthrow a country theyde get arrested
‘You can take the man out of Africa, but you can’t take Africa out of the man.’
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“In the business”; lol!
“Jammeh is a tyrant out of caricature, a throwback to the African strongmen of the 1970s. He’s boasted that he will rule for “a billion years”. He’s adopted a ridiculous string of titles: “His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya AJJ Jammeh Babili Mansa.” (The last phrase translates to “conqueror of rivers”.) He’s posed as a fetishistic healer, claiming magical powers to cure Aids, asthma and diabetes, and has launched witch-hunts to root out enemy sorcerers. He’s deployed demagoguery against human rights groups, fanning popular hatred of gays, whom he has threatened to behead.”
His supporters take him seriously but not literally.
Kunta Kinte was from The Gambia.
Anyway you want to, vampires are fictions.
RE: bizarre Africa stories, anybody seen “The Siege of Jadotville”? It’s about Irish UN peacekeepers fighting Congolese secessionists and Belgian mercenaries in (I think) the early 60’s. One of the very few experiences of the Irish Army with open warfare in its post-Civil War history. They acquitted themselves pretty well, too.
This idiot runs a Federally subsidized for minorities (even minority immigrants///Trump needs to shut this shit down cold!!!) front company. We know he cannot run a real construction company due to the way he messed up this coup in his homeland of Gambia
YES, but can he roam the countryside at night in the form of a black panther, be in hundreds of places all at the same time, his eyes lighting up as a pair of flashlights?
His supporters take him seriously but not literally.Replies: @Adar.
I think they do take him literally. NOT just seriously but literally.
Simon Mann spent years in an Equitorial Guinea jail for trying overthrow the dictator there.
“Obama had the nephew cannibal over to the White House.”
Okay, I’ll bite.
What was Le plat du Jour?
If Mark Thatcher has got anything to do with it, the book should have been called ‘The Wanker Coup’.
But the phrase cries out for its missing subordinate clause (I shamefully admit that I had to google to find the term "subordinate clause")Replies: @TWS
The book is better.
From my youth, I seem to remember, circa 1975, a character known as ‘Colonel Callan’ – a London raised Greek Cypriot, who was heavily involved in the Angola Units/FNLA punch-up of the time.
A chance, and thoroughly Conradian type character, Callan was quite a big item in the mercenary/warlord stakes. He came to a sticky end though.
Always remember as a 10 year old reading the Daily Mirror story and seeing the photo of a native factotum delivering Colonel Callan’s breakfast.
The real bling ring... who ate too many onion rings.Replies: @TontoBubbaGoldstein, @Jefferson
Amen, Hotep.
That scene is from Wolfe’s earlier book “Bonfire of the Vanities.”
Are you still on AOL? Sent you and email with a link.
Wonder what happened to the mercenaries Forsyth wrote about? I guess they’re all in the Middle East now. Sandline there, along with Blackwater?
Ironically, for a west African, just like the late, great, Harlan Sanders himself.
No truer endorsement ever made.Replies: @John Cunningham, @SFG
Mon Dieu!!! You don’t know what is a Kentucky Colonel? It’s an organization that gives out certificates for a few bucks to yokels. Of course you can demand to be called “Colonel.”
Meet the New Buffoon, same as the Old Buffoon."
But then... how did America's regime change work out in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria?
So, as clownish as this caper was, maybe it wasn't all that dumber than trillion dollar efforts by the US to 'spread democracy' and start 'new cold war' over homo parades in Moscow.Replies: @Abe
Guess which of these quotes are parodies (by commenters here) of the world view of our establishment elites, and which one is an actual quote from one of the most connected of said establishment elites, Obama’s work-wife and soulmate, the outgoing UN Ambassador, the woman who if she wasn’t such a creepy, shambling, tranzy-vibe Igorette, would be the Other Woman who was about to break up Michelle’s marriage. Clown world, man, clown world.
Pat Buchanan just wrote:
“The existential threat to the West comes, instead, from the South.” This is a crucial truth.
Look at some example events in the slow-burning war of South against North:
1980 Black takeover in Zimbabwe
1994 Black takeover in South Africa
1990s Massive illegal immigration to US
1998 Kosovo War
2001 September 11 attacks
2015 European migrant crisis
The Wild Geese with Richard Burton and Roger Moore (1978)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Geese
And here is more recent story ( involvement of Sir Mark Thatcher in funding the coup) 2004
2004 Equatorial Guinea coup d’état attempt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Equatorial_Guinea_coup_d’%C3%A9tat_attempt
Also sounds like your average academic. Like the military used to love medals, so does the academic love vanity titles.
“Obama had the nephew cannibal over to the White House.”
For dinner, I hope?
More or less the same guys later on demolished Boko Haram in Nigeria.
I already read this in Waugh’s “Black Mischief”. Was the UK ambassador’s daughter the main course in one of Jammeh’s victory feasts?
OT
Slam poetry by Ashley Judd at today’s lunatic march in Washington:
reminds me of one of the best slam poems ever:
IQ in Gamba is 66. Maybe they don’t see things the way we do, like Detroit. Bon appetit.
Buried in the series of articles on Rhodesian computer nerd turned drug lord Paul Le Roux is a description of how he attempted to build a private army in Somalia to attack Mugabe. If you like true crime adventure stories you will enjoy reading the series of articles found here:
https://magazine.atavist.com/the-mastermind
I’d rather live under a black dictator who thinks he’s Colonel Sanders than a black dictator with a totally unearned Nobel Peace Prize who thinks he is a Jedi knight.
Jammeh just announced that he will step down. Adam Barrow, the rightful election winner, took the oath of office in neighboring Senegal, which threatened to send troops into Gambia if Jammeh didn’t quit.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4142950/Thousands-women-head-Washington-protest-Trump.html
I think this Ashley Judd speech in Los Angeles is the most unhinged speech yet from a notable person, with the possible exception of Keith Olbermann.
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/a8625295/ashley-judd-womens-march-speech/Possibly a couple of typos in Cosmo's transcript - did she really say "Nazis renamed the Cabinet Electoral Conversion Therapy" or have they missed something? And in the last para "aborting" seems to have been replaced by "birthing".Replies: @bomag
Why didn’t the Feminazi march take place yesterday during the violent anti-Trump riots? Are these Feminazis scared? Are these Feminazis a bunch of p*****s? But according to Barack Hussein Obama women on average are just as equally physicaly strong as men.
Ashley Judd is “notable?” I had to google her.
None of my favorite films feature Ashley Judd.
It shall likely always remain a mystery…but we can rest assured that, whatever the cause, it can’t possibly have anything to do to a genetic propensity toward Big Man Toppling. (Am I betraying my own genome too much–or, shudder, being a racist–to observe that these “autocratic” characters might best be toppled before they rise?)
This story not only combines the elements the forwarding correspondent noted, it also relates to yesterday’s larger, and repeatedly intoned/referenced, theme of Orderly Transition Of Power.
I’ve savored how the MSM has desperately tried to cast DJT as an African-type autocrat. Not in those terms of course–that would be racist. Ergo cue that convenient figure of the white German autocrat of the 1930s in 3…2…1….
As a public service (I refuse to listen) here are the words as transcribed here. As an actress, she’s apparently premiering a new work by Nina Donovan, 19.
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/a8625295/ashley-judd-womens-march-speech/
Possibly a couple of typos in Cosmo’s transcript – did she really say “Nazis renamed the Cabinet Electoral Conversion Therapy” or have they missed something? And in the last para “aborting” seems to have been replaced by “birthing”.
You can see the 19 year old wheels turning: mention Nazis; gas chambers; bash YT; and then do therapy where you complain about your personal problems.
The title of “Kentucky Colonel” is an honor given by the governor of Kentucky to outstanding citizens often upon nomination by a legislator. The title certainly is not “sold,” although I would suspect campaign contributors might be more likely to get the honor. It generally recognizes public service or is bestowed on a visiting dignitary.
How do you kill a vampire?
Anyway you want to, vampires are fictions.
All those in on the project went by code-names. Mark Thatcher was “Scratcher” to the others.
Executive Outcomes was also hired by the government of Sierra Leone to put down a rebellion by a “child army” that was going through villages cutting people’s limbs off. After successfully putting down the rebellion, the SA mercenaries were sent home and replaced by UN peacekeepers, who of course proceeded to fuck everything up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1D2ynASqe4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG-VorNCLjMReplies: @Olorin, @Clyde
Mmmm. Steak and vodka.
Time for a late lunch, come to think of it. Thanks.
The Gambia
In other words, Gambian blacks started selling their fellow blacks to people of other races no less than roughly 1200 years ago.
The Gambian blacks have one Hell of a Legacy of Slavery. But, being black, they don’t make very good targets for a shakedown. I’ll leave it to others to explain why Blacks aren’t shaking down Arabs over their Legacy of Slavery.
This is more than Blacks ever did for Black slaves, or slaves of any color, for that matter.
The fact is that in many parts of Africa, Blacks built their economies around selling Blacks to foreign peoples, but is little evident in Wikipedia.
https://infogalactic.com/info/Violence_against_critics_of_Islam
https://infogalactic.com/info/Judeo_Christ
https://infogalactic.com/info/List_of_SJW-converged_software_projectsand boring subjects like Webster's spelling book: https://infogalactic.com/info/User:OldCaliber/American_Spelling_Book
The Gambian blacks have one Hell of a Legacy of Slavery. But, being black, they don't make very good targets for a shakedown. I'll leave it to others to explain why Blacks aren't shaking down Arabs over their Legacy of Slavery.This is more than Blacks ever did for Black slaves, or slaves of any color, for that matter.
The fact is that in many parts of Africa, Blacks built their economies around selling Blacks to foreign peoples, but is little evident in Wikipedia.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @The most deplorable one, @Jefferson, @Harold
About 15 years ago, the President of one West African country, I forget which, came to America and apologized to African Americans for his ancestors selling their ancestors into slavery.
But nobody was very interested.
Female preachers. What is the world coming to?
Sounds like they should have hired Roland the Thompson Gunner.
Benin, I think. Ghana apologised too. A cynic might think they did it to increase their brand recognition for slavery heritage tourism.
A formidable intelligence project indeed.
The Lonely Planet web site informed me that “The Gambia” has rivers, a sea, a forest, and deer.
Jeez, I can get that here in my neighborhood. Without the fetishistic healers.
Well, apart from the Twin Cities New Age massage teacher next door or the California New Age church-in-a-house next to that or the Biodynamic Farm a couple hundred yards away. But they don’t to my knowledge gouge out their enemies’ privates with knives or chop up albinos, etc., so OK.
I see also that Gambia sports as a tourist attraction a Crocodile Pool. Probably de rigueur in any nation run by an African Autocratic Strongman. And arguably more Environmentally Sensitive than dumping bodies in the rivers, sea, or forest:
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/the-gambia/serekunda-atlantic-coast-resorts/attractions/kachikally-crocodile-pool/a/poi-sig/1022359/355673
It seems likely that their message is “Come the rapture, they will be considered the most beautiful ones.”
The Gambian blacks have one Hell of a Legacy of Slavery. But, being black, they don't make very good targets for a shakedown. I'll leave it to others to explain why Blacks aren't shaking down Arabs over their Legacy of Slavery.This is more than Blacks ever did for Black slaves, or slaves of any color, for that matter.
The fact is that in many parts of Africa, Blacks built their economies around selling Blacks to foreign peoples, but is little evident in Wikipedia.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @The most deplorable one, @Jefferson, @Harold
So you know that you can fix that by signing up as an editor at Infogalactic, don’t you.
You could even edit Steve’s page, although it seems there is little interest in editing Steve’s page and more interest in creating articles like:
https://infogalactic.com/info/SJW_convergence
https://infogalactic.com/info/Violence_against_critics_of_Islam
https://infogalactic.com/info/Judeo_Christ
https://infogalactic.com/info/List_of_SJW-converged_software_projects
and boring subjects like Webster’s spelling book: https://infogalactic.com/info/User:OldCaliber/American_Spelling_Book
“Ashley Judd is “notable?” I had to google her.”
None of my favorite films feature Ashley Judd.
lol. I haven’t commented enough to use the lol button.
The Gambian blacks have one Hell of a Legacy of Slavery. But, being black, they don't make very good targets for a shakedown. I'll leave it to others to explain why Blacks aren't shaking down Arabs over their Legacy of Slavery.This is more than Blacks ever did for Black slaves, or slaves of any color, for that matter.
The fact is that in many parts of Africa, Blacks built their economies around selling Blacks to foreign peoples, but is little evident in Wikipedia.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @The most deplorable one, @Jefferson, @Harold
” I’ll leave it to others to explain why Blacks aren’t shaking down Arabs over their Legacy of Slavery.”
Black Americans like Arabs. If you go to any Negro American discussion board not many of them favor drastically reducing Arab Muslim immigration into Western nations. I think it is because most Black Americans do not see themselves as Westerners, so they have no skin in the game. The more militant NOI style Blacks admire the fact that the vast majority of Arabs rejected Christianity and refused to convert. NOI Blacks associate Christianity with White supremacist colonialism. Islam is the true People Of Color religion, not Christianity.
The real bling ring... who ate too many onion rings.Replies: @TontoBubbaGoldstein, @Jefferson
“The real bling ring… who ate too many onion rings.”
Black Lies Matter women are significantly more likely to be obese and Lesbian than the general U.S female population. Most of them will die alone with no man by their side in their old age.
The Gambian blacks have one Hell of a Legacy of Slavery. But, being black, they don't make very good targets for a shakedown. I'll leave it to others to explain why Blacks aren't shaking down Arabs over their Legacy of Slavery.This is more than Blacks ever did for Black slaves, or slaves of any color, for that matter.
The fact is that in many parts of Africa, Blacks built their economies around selling Blacks to foreign peoples, but is little evident in Wikipedia.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @The most deplorable one, @Jefferson, @Harold
From an 1861 book about travels in Africa by Paul B. Du Chaillu, found by jewamongyou.
I remembered this quote when I came upon a justification for slavery from around the same period (I think) which more or less said any race that would treat their own wives like slaves is only fit for slavery.
I wish I could find it.
African men were enslaved to Europeans, by leftist logic: karma, how does it feel? Also, thanks to white men, black women eventually got to taste freedom.
Okay, so maybe all tribes weren’t the same, at all times.
Even the most pathological Academi alumnus is just Mother Teresa comparing to Africa’s native Killing Fieldsmarshalls.
Ironically, for a west African, just like the late, great, Harlan Sanders himself.
No truer endorsement ever made.Replies: @John Cunningham, @SFG
I think he had some ideas about how to use 11 herbs and spices. Perhaps to season long pig.
Madonna says she wants to blow up The White House. It’s such a shame that a nice Italian Catholic girl like her converted to Islam. She’s so new to that religion and she is already speaking like an ISIS jihadist terrorist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1D2ynASqe4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG-VorNCLjMReplies: @Olorin, @Clyde
So this weekend you are trolling with the name “anon” instead of your usual “anonymous”. Because people are on to you and your pathetic trolling.
Or maybe she thinks she’s getting back to her roots.
Yes! I watched it on Netflix a couple weeks ago. They really got screwed over. Conor Cruise O’Brien sure didn’t come off well. Hard to tell where film ends and real history begins though. Fine movie.
Conor Cruise O'Brien was an Irish politician/academic who led a charmed establishment life. He spent a good part of his life serving as a British establishment mouthpiece. Sad to state most of the Irish populace who at that time were sympathetic to Irish nationalism were either too ignorant or too powerless to do anything about this English lackey.
Ireland is a powerful example of how a decent but gullible populace can be controlled by ulterior forces.
It’s a good story.
Timely, since
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38706426
I think a little more consideration should be made regarding ‘options’ for dictators to retire quietly on some island, rather than fight to the death of mostly their own population.
The newly elected President, Adama Barrow doesn’t seem to be related to Alagie Barrow in the story.
It’s a popular tourist destination for Brits.
Too bad they [Thomas Cook] sent a couple thousand tourists there without warning, and then evacuated most of them just before it settled. Oh well.
Wow. 14 nights for 500 pounds which is now only $1.25. Or $625.
Can’t fault the guy for trying, though.
P.S., Gambia seems like a bit player, next to Dahomey.
The Gambian ruling slaver-class was Black Muslim. As for why Blacks don’t bother giving Arabs Hell, the answer is simple; Arabs won’t give Blacks money or juice in return.
Explorations & Adventures in Equatorial Africa:
https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ewUBImRf6IMC
https://archive.org/details/explorationsand00chaigoog
https://archive.org/details/explorationsand01chaigoog
I think we’re better off in the US than are people in The Gambia, at least for the time being.
Heh, Jammeh just got deposed!
Thanks to iSteve, my eyes rested on that news item for a second longer than they would have otherwise.
He must fry a mean chicken.
IAmCorn:
Conor Cruise O’Brien was an Irish politician/academic who led a charmed establishment life. He spent a good part of his life serving as a British establishment mouthpiece. Sad to state most of the Irish populace who at that time were sympathetic to Irish nationalism were either too ignorant or too powerless to do anything about this English lackey.
Ireland is a powerful example of how a decent but gullible populace can be controlled by ulterior forces.
So, we’re calling it “The Gambia” now, instead of just “Gambia”? I have to admit, The Gambia sounds a lot classier. Sort of like how the English say “The Lebanon”.
6. Hodag > How it Equatorial Guinea today?
saw an item on the Net, claiming that Equatorial Guinea has The Number One World’s Lowest average IQ…. upper 50’s, I think.
What is the functionality with a guy of IQ 57?
In case you cannot tell, the case for colonizing Equatorial Guinea is strong. It is the richest country in Africa per capita, yet everyone but the ruling tribe (quite small) live in squalor that makes North Korea look rich. The son of the ruler is the largest land owner in Malibu, California iirc. (And to get further into iSteve territory.).
Definitely. Where I live, the whole immigrant-sucking-down-affirmative action slots is disgusting; and the immigrants just hoover that stuff up like a rat on cocaine.
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/a8625295/ashley-judd-womens-march-speech/Possibly a couple of typos in Cosmo's transcript - did she really say "Nazis renamed the Cabinet Electoral Conversion Therapy" or have they missed something? And in the last para "aborting" seems to have been replaced by "birthing".Replies: @bomag
Thanks for the post. I was interested, but I sure didn’t want to suffer through a listen.
You can see the 19 year old wheels turning: mention Nazis; gas chambers; bash YT; and then do therapy where you complain about your personal problems.
saw an item on the Net, claiming that Equatorial Guinea has The Number One World's Lowest average IQ.... upper 50's, I think.
What is the functionality with a guy of IQ 57?Replies: @Hodag
People with Down’s function and have lives. I assume they believe in magic and that explains a lot of things for the low IQ. They can’t do math but once in a routine they are fine.
In case you cannot tell, the case for colonizing Equatorial Guinea is strong. It is the richest country in Africa per capita, yet everyone but the ruling tribe (quite small) live in squalor that makes North Korea look rich. The son of the ruler is the largest land owner in Malibu, California iirc. (And to get further into iSteve territory.).
Trump should’ve named his kid LeBarron.
I have been reading through Forsyth’s works, and they are all entertaining. Even the ones from the 80s before the dissolution of the USSR hold up fairly well, and he throws in a lot of real world tid bits.
He started to get politically correct in the 90s, and his books took on a decidedly NWO / Neo-Con sort of flavor. The last book of his that I really liked was "The Fourth Protocol" which was written in the mid 80s.Replies: @Jim Don Bob
Having flown night IFR in a Vampire myself, in a very different time and place, it resonates with me magnificently.Replies: @Jim Don Bob
A great flick. And the ending is a good reason why you should never, ever cross Roger Moore…
http://www.wsj.com/articles/gambias-president-yahya-jammeh-steps-down-1484981837
With 2 million people, Gambians are literally subsisting on peanuts. If I’m not mistaken many of the US slaves were sourced from this region.
They were setting up the West to then apologise and pay reparations.
“I have been reading through Forsyth’s works, and they are all entertaining. Even the ones from the 80s before the dissolution of the USSR hold up fairly well, and he throws in a lot of real world tid bits.”
He started to get politically correct in the 90s, and his books took on a decidedly NWO / Neo-Con sort of flavor. The last book of his that I really liked was “The Fourth Protocol” which was written in the mid 80s.
Apparently it is quite realistic. It shows the damage SOF can do with the element of surprise and also how regular forces can destroy them if plans don’t go well. And the group of aging oddball ww2 vets making up the group of mercenaries was a thing too. Makes sense as with the scope of conscription and experience there would be a group of people like that left over.
His best work, far and away, was The Shepherd.
Having flown night IFR in a Vampire myself, in a very different time and place, it resonates with me magnificently.
He started to get politically correct in the 90s, and his books took on a decidedly NWO / Neo-Con sort of flavor. The last book of his that I really liked was "The Fourth Protocol" which was written in the mid 80s.Replies: @Jim Don Bob
The Afghan and the recent Kill List were good.
Having flown night IFR in a Vampire myself, in a very different time and place, it resonates with me magnificently.Replies: @Jim Don Bob
Agree that The Shepherd is very good. I opened it one night recently about 8 and read it straight through.