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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
What do you think to Cecil Rhoads idea that a sophisticated combined anglo-empire (US, UK, AUS, CAN) should rule the world?
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Woland Special user 680 Posts |
Include India as a multi-cultural natio n (actually mroe of an empire in and of itself) that has been able to assimilate some of the best practices and traditions of the Anglosphere, notably the independent judiciary and parliamentary democracy, much to its advantage.
Also I think that most observers would agree that there is no former British colony, in Africa at least, that was not better off under actual British administration . . . Hhowever, the point is not to put the world under the hegemony of the Anglosphere, but to encourage all of the nations and peoples of the world to study and learn from the Anglo-American political tradition. From the Magna Carta to the U.S. Constitution, there is a priceless heritage of political philosophy that actually works! Peace out. Woland |
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts |
Will we still get to watch Desperate Housewives?
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Destiny Inner circle 1429 Posts |
Well the Rhoads Scholarship has been a great success but Rhoadesia is long gone. Maybe we could hold a seance at the grave of Rhoads and his last boyfriend. Perhaps it is the legacy of Rhoads (I hope I'm not glorying too much in the misspelling) which causes Mugabe's hatred of homosexuals, but then Mugabe has never need much excuse to hate anyone.
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Nosher Loyal user 261 Posts |
Rhodes was a polite white supremacist with quite a few strange and unsavoury ideas. He also at one time wanted America to rejoin the empire and believed that eventually Britain, USA and Germany would rule the world.
In this century, I think this anglo-empire idea sounds more Randy Rhoads than Cecil Rhodes.
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
So what does that mean? Does he have your vote or not?
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Destiny Inner circle 1429 Posts |
"Hhowever, the point is not to put the world under the hegemony of the Anglosphere, but to encourage all of the nations and peoples of the world to study and learn from the Anglo-American political tradition.
From the Magna Carta to the U.S. Constitution, there is a priceless heritage of political philosophy that actually works!" I agree totally and was thinking about this on the weekend in regard to religion. I came to the conclusion we all remain subjects of Caesar 2,000 years after. The British and other European Empires were just offshoots of the Roman Empire and Roman thinking defines much of our life to this day. |
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HerbLarry Special user Poof! 731 Posts |
"I hate the Romans!" Brian Cohen
You know why don't act naive.
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts |
I love the smell of imperialism in the morning.
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
You are not the only one.
Anglo spy fusion: Operation Empire Challenge, C4ISR OTM executive summary, 26 Nov 2008 Summary Operation Empire Challenge 2008 was a sophisticated combined anglo-empire (US, UK, AUS, CAN) space, air and ground intelligence and targeting fusion operation to test next-generation warfare. Despite the involvement of four countries and over 70 military and intelligence related organizations in the United States alone, the operation was not reported in the press. http://mirror.wikileaks.info/wiki/Anglo_......ov_2008/ This restricted document presents the Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (C4ISR) executive summary from one of the groups involved, the US Army's C4ISR "On The Move" technology demonstration unit. While essentially a budget purloiner, written in the worst military buzz-phrase language, it does provide some details of the broader operation.
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ringmaster Inner circle Memphis, Down in Dixie 1974 Posts |
The only way to get health car reform.
One of the last living 10-in-one performers. I wanted to be in show business the worst way, and that was it.
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts |
I don't know if we could all get along. Most Canadians I've heard from seem to hate the US with a deep seated passion.
Plus, China is probably not likely to roll over for it. They have power. A lot of power.
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
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thorndyke Regular user Canada 147 Posts |
Critter, as a Canadian I assure I do not hate Americans.
Ah, Sir Cecil, I went to a public school named after him. I was not aware of his Homosexuality (as referred to by destiny), but at the time period I was a student, the school yard taunt of "You homo!" suggests it was something the teachers would have been reluctant to mention. Maybe our world has grown up a little since then, maybe not. Not sure if I like the idea of an anglosphere, would hate to miss out on the things other people could bring to the table. |
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts |
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On 2010-12-13 18:22, thorndyke wrote: Sorry, that part was kind of a bad inside joke.
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
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On 2010-12-13 17:18, ringmaster wrote: :) I think we are moving into a new momty python world order.
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
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On 2010-12-13 17:28, critter wrote: Dang I've been caught.
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Natural Mystic Special user Atlanta, GA 509 Posts |
Rhodes to Hell
http://www.slate.com/id/3305/ "Martin Shaw, who plays Rhodes, has said in interviews that he interpreted the character as a combination of "Hitler, Napoleon, and Saddam Hussein." Anthony Thomas, the white South African who wrote the screenplay and the accompanying biography of Rhodes, admits that Rhodes fills him with "self-disgust," and that studying him was "a descent into evil." Shorthand clichés of demonology abound: One episode begins with Rhodes, his eyes unnaturally pale, stroking a lion cub on his lap--just like the sinister Bond villain Blofeld, so fond of caressing his Persian cat as he plotted nefarious deeds."
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Steve_Mollett Inner circle Eh, so I've made 3006 Posts |
Rule the world?
I don't know why we think we own the place; we're just squatting on it 'till we croak.
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
What is going to happen is the black man will rise up against the white man (sorry, Asians and Hispanics will be spectators) in a conflict that will be called Helter Skelter. A group of white people will go into the desert and hide in caves until their numbers become 144,000 and they will then come out and find the world in chaos and take over the leadership and thus rule the world.
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