Who are your favorite occupiers in history?

[JStep]

hrm, youtube bbcode not working? lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1lJd2eL ... ture=share

[FIGJAM]

So, for the doggedly, obstinately ignorant, here's a spoon fed version covering one main demand of the 99%. Not that everyone can agree on it (since that's not the point and is a red-herring distraction from the meat of the issues) but is a recurring theme. (F*in annoying music aside)

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[Bob]

[cowboyangel]

Alaric was actually fair to the Romans. It was Christian thugs who destroyed much of the statuary of Rome.

[theCryptofishist]

Go, Ostragoths, go!

[TomServo]

Not a bad piece of property..Nearly all beach front!


..PLUS! I love their helmets!

[Bob]

Talk about mixed messages.

[Eric]

hrm, youtube bbcode not working? lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1lJd2eL ... ture=share

You need to remove the ampersand and everything after it and it'll work fine: [color=#FF0000]&feature=share[/color]

Interesting discovery though- the BBCode recognizes urls without the tags.


edit: I quoted the wrong post

[theCryptofishist]

Talk about mixed messages.

the "Dresdenia" is particularly ironic

[cowboyangel]

Just read an interesting article about the German defeat at the battle for Moscow in December 1941 that this historian and many others, mark as the true end for Germany.
The guy makes the case that it was the Soviets who really defeated Germany, killing and or wounding about 10 million Germans in their 13 million man force. Fair enough. So much for the Fuehrer's "occupation"..

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php? ... &aid=28059

[Ugly Dougly]

Alaric was actually fair to the Romans. It was Christian thugs who destroyed much of the statuary of Rome.

Yes, definitely he was fair. After he nailed me head to the table, I used to go round every Sunday lunchtime to his flat and apologise, and then we'd shake hands and he'd nail me head to the floor. He was very reasonable. Once, one Sunday I told him my parents were coming round to tea and would he mind very much not nailing my head that week and he agreed and just screwed my pelvis to a cake stand.

[Ugly Dougly]

Talk about mixed messages.

My wife was born in Manchuria (Manchukuo) but her passport says she was born in Japan. How could this be?

Ooh, I get the Dresden reference!

[theCryptofishist]

She was born in a different kind of occupied Japan, I guess.
Interesting about the passport. Were Japanese born in the 30s and 40s in occupied China also issued passports with "Japan" as a birthplace? And if they had won the war, would Burma have been "Japan" as well?

I used to think that my grandmother was born in a town that was Germany when she was born, but was now Poland. Turns out it's still Germany. Ultimately, I think it turns out that those lines we draw on maps are erased and redrawn with some frequency.

[Ugly Dougly]

It's called "hands off, we stole this place fair and square".

Well, she was born in 42, so at that time Manchukuo was Japan. No Chinese citizenship, anyway.

[theCryptofishist]

Pretty much.
to both statements

[Isotopia]

Famous Occupiers??? Let's see... how about the maggots that feast and occupy the corpses of the 1% who grace humanity with their deaths?

Cheesus, do you live in Berkeley by chance?

[cowboyangel]

Famous Occupiers??? Let's see... how about the maggots that feast and occupy the corpses of the 1% who grace humanity with their deaths?

Cheesus, do you live in Berkeley by chance?

used to, now I am on the cover of Time Magazine everywhere.