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Old May 17th, 2010, 12:12 AM posted to alt.activism.death-penalty,uk.politics.misc,soc.retirement,rec.travel.europe
O'Donovan, PJ, Himself
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On May 16, 6:46*pm, "O'Donovan, PJ, Himself"
wrote:
On May 16, 6:13*pm, "O'Donovan, PJ, Himself"
wrote:





On May 16, 5:39*pm, "O'Donovan, PJ, Himself"
wrote:


On May 16, 4:23*pm, "O'Donovan, PJ, Himself"
wrote:


On May 16, 3:51*pm, wrote:


freeisbest wrote


* * *YOU rightards spent out the U.S. Treasury because YOU wanted
soviet free-market-hating godless evil commonists absolutely
destroyed... and the Soviet Union was absolutely destroyed. *YOU
turned Russia into a desperate free-market sewer.
* * *Now you're blubbering about it... and at the same time planning
to bring down Europe if you can.
* * *Unbelievable.


Reagan Cold War Myth


Under the assumption that the Soviet Union could not then outspend the US
government in a renewed arms race, Reagan strove to make the Cold War
economically and rhetorically hot. Many analysts argue that the eventual
collapse of the Soviet Union was due more to the re-emergence of separatist
movements under glasnost, an inherent weakness in communist economic theory,
and the depressed global price of crude oil, on which the Soviet economy
during those years depended heavily. Furthermore, Reagan's much heralded
military buildup that increased American military spending by 8% per annum in
fact did not appear to have the planned effect of forcing the Soviets to
mirror American growth: according to CIA estimates, Soviet military spending
leveled off at a growth rate of 1.3% per annum in 1975 and remained at that
level for a decade, although it more than tripled to approximately 4.3% in
1985 through 1987 (though spending on offensive strategic weapons continued
to grow at 1.3% during that period), before returning to 1.3% in 1988.


Perhaps more startling, Reagan's military build up, coupled with his fierce
anti-soviet rhetoric, contributed to Soviet near-panic reaction to a routine
NATO exercises in November 1983, ABLE ARCHER 83. Though the threat of nuclear
war ended abruptly with the end of the exercise, this historically obscure
incident illustrates the possible negative repercussions of Reagan's
"standing tall" to a nuclear power. Some historians, among them Beth B.
Fischer in her book The Reagan Reversal, pin ABLE ARCHER 83 as an incident
which had a profound effect on President Reagan and his turn from a policy of
Confrontation towards the Soviet Union to a policy of rapprochement.

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Old May 17th, 2010, 06:20 AM posted to alt.activism.death-penalty,uk.politics.misc,soc.retirement,rec.travel.europe
Vardhini K Sriraman
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Default From Canada: "Europe Reaps What It Sowed"- barely 30% of Europeans work

Are you having fun talking to yourself?


"O'Donovan, PJ, Himself" wrote in message
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On May 16, 6:46 pm, "O'Donovan, PJ, Himself"
wrote:
On May 16, 6:13 pm, "O'Donovan, PJ, Himself"
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On May 16, 5:39 pm, "O'Donovan, PJ, Himself"
wrote:


On May 16, 4:23 pm, "O'Donovan, PJ, Himself"
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Old May 20th, 2010, 10:06 PM posted to alt.activism.death-penalty,uk.politics.misc,aus.politics,soc.retirement,rec.travel.europe
F.M. Arouet
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Tis PJ O'Donovan wrote:
[bla, bla, bla, blaaaahhhh, bla, bla, blaah]

Your damned country is bankrupt like all of us. Like Uk, Japan even
China is sitting on enormous bubbles. You are printing money, trillions
of worthless paper.
Babe we're all doomed thanks to Goldman Sucks and Co and thanks to your
pervers system.


--

"Banking Establishments Are More Dangerous Than Standing Armies."
- Thomas Jefferson
"While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have
now passed through the worst -- and with continued unity of effort we
shall rapidly recover. There has been no significant bank or industrial
failure. That danger, too, is safely behind us."
- President Hoover 1930
Thanksgiving Menu 2010: Great Depression Grand Siècle 1933 méthode
creditoise soupe
Mélange Of Frozen Markets
Scared Investors In Bottomless Pit With Caramelized Investments
Sorbet Trio Of Shock, Disbelief And Insolvency
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Old May 20th, 2010, 10:53 PM posted to alt.activism.death-penalty,uk.politics.misc,soc.retirement,rec.travel.europe
Bill Bonde {Colourless green ideas don't sleep furiously)[_3_]
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"F.M. Arouet" wrote:

Tis PJ O'Donovan wrote:
[bla, bla, bla, blaaaahhhh, bla, bla, blaah]

Your damned country is bankrupt like all of us. Like Uk, Japan even
China is sitting on enormous bubbles. You are printing money, trillions
of worthless paper.
Babe we're all doomed thanks to Goldman Sucks and Co and thanks to your
pervers system.

So the whole world is bankrupt because it owes itself money?
There's something wrong with that theory. One reason we have
sovereigns is to operate outside the market in a god-like manner.
Of course it's not perfect but it does allow options where none
might otherwise seem to exist.
 




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