tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24396159141693300752010-03-09T11:53:51.181Zstuff about thingsPaul Iddonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08574529177907510476pauliddon.net@gmail.comBlogger212125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2439615914169330075.post-30725570952099515462010-02-27T17:50:00.006Z2010-03-03T19:07:17.980Z

I wrote this article a while back for my new site 'These Times We Live In', it doesn't really fit into the style of that blog (or this one) and is more of an ill prepared rant, that being said I think the title really sums up the situation and is really on it's own worth a thousand words!Ah Palestine, the land of which isn't called Palestine, but if you're a Zionist and follower of the belief of

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Eight years of war with Iran had left Iraq as a clear victor even though it hadn't gained anything from the war but casualties, Iraq had been at war with Iran for 8 years since it launched it's first wave and invasion in September 1980, before being forced to accept the ceasefire on August of 1988 after being on the offensive against Iraq for six years Iran had lost 60km of ground past the Iraqi

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The landings by the Allies led by the American and British forces on the 6th of June 1944 on the golden beaches of Normandy in northern France weren't only important because of the fact it gave the Allies a solid foot hold on Western Europe in which they could from there fight the Nazi's on a second front to that of their allies the Soviets, the Allies had a landing force of 175,000 men crossing

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An interesting proposal was put forward by the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.A future Trans-Atlantic security pact, RT gave an interesting analysis suggesting that this will in turn end NATO once and for all: If this came through this would mean a new peace of our time breakthrough, one we haven't seen since the fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago, however since then Russia and the west

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As the "the Naughties" come to close one has to wonder if the world has become better, worse of indifferent, we as a people (in the west) have become used to the American occupational wars being waged in Iraq and Afghanistan (and the subsequent (sometimes daily) casualties that go with them), the former one has to wonder with detailed hindsight was a wise move to any stretch of the imagination.

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The most familiar image relating to the turning point of World War II in the Western world is the iconic image of American and British forces landing at the beaches in Normandy as they proceeded to liberate France from Nazi oppression, however what they fought through was an already war ravaged Europe, it took them six months to conquer what the German Army did in six weeks! Not only was that

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The Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker is an impressive Russian air superiority fighter, first flown in 1983 it was designated to compete with the American teen series fighter such as the F-15, even today it is still well up there (along with it's variants and later models of similar design) and boosts a long 3,530 km range, heavy armament, sophisticated avionics and high agility.The Su-27 in a sense is

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Iran has recently rejected the IAEA-backed proposal regarding it's nuclear program, with the major failure of nuclear talks (that started last October) from both sides.Along with this Israel has been the biggest hypocrite of all time calling for the disablement of Iran's nuclear program by force "if required", whilst ignoring the fact that they themselves illegally possess nuclear weapons of

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Neville Chamberlain Prime Minister of Britain 1937 to 1940 is known almost entirely in today's world for appeasing Adolf Hitler and letting the Nazi's have Czechoslovakia, before they went on to crush the rest of Western Europe, but what exactly was it that Chamberlain did wrong? Is this rhetoric used by those against Obama or any other politician for that matter factual correct? The interesting

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Cast your mind back to 1991, the Soviet Union was on verge of collapse, Germany was reunited after nearly half a century, Bush Senior announced a New World Order was coming upon us, also there was a war going on in the Gulf, in January 15th the infamous Operation Desert Storm begun, the power structure in the Middle East was about to change drastically. By the time the ground offensive begun

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On September 30th of 2002 an Iraqi Air Force (IrAF) Soviet made MiG-23 Flogger flown by an unknown pilot broke it's course from it's bombing mission and turned towards the Tharthar lake, there Saddam and his entourage were staying in the luxurious al-Tharthat Palace. As he went for an attack run hoping to kill Saddam the pilots sturdy airplane was hit by a MANPAD fired by one of the palace guards

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Since hearing that Britain will build two supercarriers by at least 2018 about two years ago I haven't since figured out a proper reason for them. Planned to have a deck configuration of 36 F-35 Lightning II STOVL fighters, costing nearly £4 billion. You could certainly argue that even though there is no war for them today maybe in the mere future Britain could have another war like the Falklands

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I don't often register to conspiracy theories with hollow evidence, I register to things that make sense, some things don't however, such as the no plane theories, but something I've often had a mixed opinion on was the collapse of the World Trade Center towers themselves and how fast they came down. Was as put by this incredibly annoying guy who witnessed the whole thing as simple as it really

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It's been a long time since America fought a war where it was under any serious threat, and that was World War II, following that war mainland USA was left virtually unscathed after emerging victorious. However the threat in 1940 was the biggest direct threat to the United States in recent history: In the liberation of Western Europe the Americans were on the side of common decency and actually

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Vela Hotel satelliteOn September 22nd 1979 a "double flash" of light that was detected by an American Vela satellite in the South Pacific between South Africa and Antarctica.The Vela satellite network was established by the United States in the 1960s for the specific purpose of monitoring compliance with the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty.Though each satellite’s intended lifespan was only eighteen

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During the German conquest of Western Europe in 1940 and the early months of 1941 one country remained untouched right in the centre of the fascists 'Fortress Europe'. Click to enlargeYou could argue that Switzerland wasn't conquered by the Nazi's for the same reason they didn't invade Sweden, that being that Switzerland was neutral, but the difference is that Switzerland was directly in the

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NY TimesYesterday in Fort Hood in Texas a United States army soldier opened fire and killed 13 of his fellow troops and wounded a further 30 more before being killed himself, several rumours have come about a handful suggesting that he had argued with military colleagues who supported the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and had tried to prevent his own deployment. This follows more deaths of

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The F-14 Tomcat was correctly dubbed the MiG killer in it's time, it was big and could host six large long range supersonic AIM-54 missiles that would kill any nimble MiG before it could even get close to any US position, built to defend aircraft carriers in the high seas the F-14 armed with the AIM-54 could hit airborne targets dead on 100 miles away, targets including fighter jets, supersonic

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The USS New York sailed up the Manhattan river today, it's commissioning ceremony watched over by relatives of 9/11 victims, along with members of the emergency services and the public, while it's motto being "Strength forged through sacrifice. Never forget."This ship partially made with steel from the Twin Towers will probably be shipping marines to Afghanistan, while bearing with it the

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With Cuba being more open in the past year than in a long time in it's history a steady agreed transit of visitors from both sides it might not be long before Cuban citizens can visit their relatives in the United States, before Cubans living in America weren't allowed go back onto the island. But throughout 1980 a massive transit of Cuban citizens were shifted from Mariel Harbor near Havana

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The Battle of Midway was truly the most decisive war in the Pacific which turned the tide against the Japanese for the first time since their attack on Pearl Harbor the year before, the war saw a lot of action at sea of vast proportions, one ensign George Gay really ended up right in the middle of it all seeing some key events from the Battle of Midway. Launching an attack on Japanese carriers

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A proposed invasion of Australia was considered by the IJN (Imperial Japanese Navy) before they instead opted to attack the much smaller Midway Island in the Pacific was actually bought about in the early short days of Japans victories against the Allies. But could it have worked?When you think about the size difference and the distance it seems very far fetched, even though the Imperial

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The above video is interesting in it clearly gives a non bias standing on how Fox News is as it is today. Now I couldn't really care less about the American media, and there is nothing I like better than people who criticize Obama for the fact he is fighting an endless war in Afghanistan with no clear objective and breaking various electoral promises, but even I can't stomach the outright lies

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In 1983 Ronald Reagan delivered his speech initiating the Strategic Defense Initiative system dubbed 'Star Wars', this envisioned a hi-tech defense ground and space defense network, but throughout the years it has changed from global to regional, Ronald Reagan who among other things claimed to have seen UFO's when he was a child living in California had hinted at clear aims to make SDI as a

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During the bombing of Iraq back in 1991 during Operation Desert Storm a flight of B-52Gs launching from and returning to Barksdale AFB, Louisiana, struck targets inside Iraq. This was at the time the longest distance combat mission in history: 35 hours and 14,000 statute miles round trip, the pilots were practically home on time for their dinner with their family. A record at the time it was

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