America. You've just gotta love the way she...

[p_p_man]

keeps bending the rules to suit herself...

From the London Times Thurs 5 December:

Hollywood moguls ban the language of British Bollywood
By Adam Sherwin, Media Reporter

THE British entry for the Foreign Language Oscar has been disqualified after the judges ruled that one of the country’s most widely used languages is not indigenous.
The Warrior, written and directed by Asif Kapadia, tells the story of one man’s spiritual journey from the deserts of Rajasthan to the snow-capped mountains of the Himalayas. It contains only six minutes of dialogue — in Hindi.



ppman

 

[Frimost]

Who gives a Flying fuck pp-man?

Besides, did you actually READ what you wrote there? Duuuuhhhhh....

HOLLYWOOD MOGULS ban so and so not an election was carried out and through a popular vote the American people banned you're stupid little film from whatever category it was supposed to be in. The President did not veto you're lil film, so why do you ascribe the action of some Hollywood d mogul as that of America as a whole. If some British guy liked to fuck dogs in the Ass (not naming names here) would it be right for me to start a thread titled Britain likes to fuck dogs in the ass?

 

[Spinaroonie]

OMG a group does WHATEVER THE FUCK IT WANTS TO!

 

[Coolville]

keeps bending the rules to suit herself...

From the London Times Thurs 5 December:

Hollywood moguls ban the language of British Bollywood
By Adam Sherwin, Media Reporter

THE British entry for the Foreign Language Oscar has been disqualified after the judges ruled that one of the country’s most widely used languages is not indigenous.
The Warrior, written and directed by Asif Kapadia, tells the story of one man’s spiritual journey from the deserts of Rajasthan to the snow-capped mountains of the Himalayas. It contains only six minutes of dialogue — in Hindi.

ppman

Yeah, and they let an Italian language film win the Best Picture award. Their rules are antiquated and due for revision. They don't reflect the reality of multiculturalism at all. The Swedish entry was almost rejected because it's in Russian and most of the film takes place in Russia.
Go figure.

 

[SINthysist]

Quit acting like you live in a country. England is a state.

Europe R.I.P.
Paul Craig Roberts
Thursday, Dec. 5, 2002

Europe as we have known it is disappearing. Soon there will be no France, no Germany, no Italy, no Austria, no Spain, no Denmark, no Belgium, no Holland, no Greece, no Ireland, no Great Britain. Every country will be gone. In their place will be the European Union.

The sovereign countries of continental Europe and Great Britain are products of unique histories and rich cultural distinctiveness. Each country's language, art, literature, philosophy, music, architecture, cuisine and mores reflect the uniqueness of each country's history.

This amazing diversity is to be replaced with an artificial creation that has no history and no language. What is the European Union but a centralized bureaucracy with a monetary unit?

What explains this amazing demise of countries, which, hitherto, were staunch guardians of their national identities?

The initial impetus came from the free trade belief that dismantling tariff boundaries would prevent wars by creating economic interdependence through the European Common Market. From this common market would come more wealth and prosperity to aid the postwar reconstruction of Europe and to thwart communist expansion. Once the Common Market was under way, other arguments and developments turned a plan for economic integration into political union.

Arguments were made that free trade would have differential effects and be unfair unless countries had comparable tax, monetary and budgetary policies. The implication was extra-national law and a common currency.

French fear of Germany fueled determination to bind the countries in political union.

Intellectual and propagandistic assaults on "chauvinistic" national identities eroded country loyalties, while rising anti-Americanism produced a desire for a European superstate capable of resisting U.S. pressures.

Britain's uncertainty of its place in the world, together with the Labour Party's program of dismantling traditional England, placed the United Kingdom in European hands.

The finishing touch to the demise of the sovereignty of European countries is being supplied by a centralized European bureaucracy. Technically, the European Union is a treaty arrangement entered into by sovereign states. But in fact, the European Commission and a European "court" created to arbitrate disputes are creating European law and ruling by edicts. Witness the extraordinary fact that European Union law exists prior to the existence of the European Union state.

The European Union is creating itself by successfully exercising power. Various member countries complain and kick up a fuss, but EU edicts are regularly followed.

For example, since the dawn of aviation, sovereignty has meant the right of a country to control its own air space and the landing rights of foreign airlines. Recently, the "European Court" ruled that member countries had, unbeknownst to themselves, given up the right to enter into treaties relating to air service and declared all existing agreements null and void. The "court" asserted that sovereignty over airspace resided in the European Commission.

British opponents to European Union argue that constitutionally a British government cannot surrender Britain's sovereignty to the European Union and that any such transfer is an act of treason.

These opponents, many of them legally learned, might well be correct. However, the test of sovereignty under international law is given by the answer to the question: "Are the edicts of the European Union regularly followed in the territories over which the EU claims governance?" If the answer to this factual question is "yes," then the European Union is the sovereign.

Many wonder what public choice model or theory of government behavior explains the willingness of national politicians to give up power by ceding sovereignty to the European Union. The surrender of sovereignty has dire implications for the British, because it means the end of the due process, habeas corpus and trial by jury protections to which they are accustomed.

For the United States, it means the loss of our most important ally and the rise of a competitive state and reserve currency. Blind to the challenges that Europe will soon be hurling, the United States is preoccupied with Iraq, an insignificant state that can project neither military nor economic power.

No politician comprehends the implications of the demise of European sovereignties. Gabriel Kolko in his latest book, "Another Century of War," puts his finger on the problem:

"Those who become the leaders of states are ultimately conformists on most crucial issues, and individuals who evaluate information in a rational manner – and therefore frequently criticize traditional premises – are weeded out early in their careers."

Thus does the United States initiate war in the Middle East while ignoring the rise of major rivals, China and the European Union, capable of terminating U.S. hegemony in the Pacific and the Atlantic.


Dr. Roberts' latest book, "The Tyranny of Good Intentions," has been published by Prima Publishers.

Copyright 2002 Creators Syndicate, Inc.

 

[Mad_Jack_Rabbit]

Dr. Roberts' latest book, "The Tyranny of Good Intentions," has been published by Prima Publishers.

Copyright 2002 Creators Syndicate, Inc.

Wasn't Dr Robert the subject of a Beatles song?

 

[Coolville]

Europe R.I.P.
Europe as we have known it is disappearing. Soon there will be no France, no Germany, no Italy, no Austria, no Spain, no Denmark, no Belgium, no Holland, no Greece, no Ireland, no Great Britain. Every country will be gone. In their place will be the European Union.

What a load of codswallop. The writer (and the poster) clearly suffer from a lack of experience and knowledge about the subject. Fortunately, the 380 million citizens who live, on a daily basis, in the EU, have a different opinion. (with the exception of various brit eurosceptics).

 

[SINthysist]

And then...

Bang Bang Maxwell's hammer came down up his head!
Bang Bang Maxwell's hammer made sure he was dead...






Yeah Cool. We here in KANSAS had that impression too.
Then we had Our Civil War and now we KNOW who's in charge!
You'll have your awakening too. Like us probably about four years too late. you may be quicker or slower than us. Time will tell who the bright ones are !

 

[Coolville]

Dr. sinthysist's latest rant, "The Tyrant of Misinformed Intentions," has been published by Hustler Publications.

 

[Mad_Jack_Rabbit]

Sin,

Do you believe that we should all maintain out national identities and boundaries?

 

[takingchances42]

On paper, the European Union ought to be awesome. Germany, Britain, France, Spain... all the powers that dominated the world for so much of the last five centuries coming together into effectively one large nation. Culturally, militarily and economically, the EU should be the world's new superpower.

The key words being "should be". In practice the EU is showing itself to be the superpower of regulation. A bunch of tired nations coming together to agree to allow themselves to be ruled by an uberbureaucracy, down to the smallest detail, in a way that isn't even all that democratic.

The biggest new economic impact of the EU so far has been in challenging mergers of multinationals, creating a second set of hoops for major US and European corporations to jump through.

Slow economic growth, high structural unemployment, militarily irrelevant, with far less innovation than one would expect from a population that wealthy and well educated... the EU will be an increasingly less important third wheel in the world, as the American century is supplanted by the Asian century (and millenium?).

 

[Coolville]

On paper, the European Union ought to be awesome. Germany, Britain, France, Spain... all the powers that dominated the world for so much of the last five centuries coming together into effectively one large nation. Culturally, militarily and economically, the EU should be the world's new superpower.

The key words being "should be". In practice the EU is showing itself to be the superpower of regulation. A bunch of tired nations coming together to agree to allow themselves to be ruled by an uberbureaucracy, down to the smallest detail, in a way that isn't even all that democratic.

The biggest new economic impact of the EU so far has been in challenging mergers of multinationals, creating a second set of hoops for major US and European corporations to jump through.

Slow economic growth, high structural unemployment, militarily irrelevant, with far less innovation than one would expect from a population that wealthy and well educated... the EU will be an increasingly less important third wheel in the world, as the American century is supplanted by the Asian century (and millenium?).

Which part of Europe do you live in?

 

[Coolville]

Sin,

Do you believe that we should all maintain out national identities and boundaries?

Merely asking that question is strange. Thousands of years of cultural identity don't disappear because they build a parliament in Brussels.
There is no risk of losing it. That's the crazy talk of British EuroScecptics.

 

[takingchances42]

Which part of Europe do you live in?

I am reasonably well read, particularly with regard to economic news. Tell me where I'm wrong?

 

[SINthysist]

That's Dr. Sin...

And yes, I believe we should.

I believe our federal government is too big, too ripe for the picking, and as such too holy of a grail for those who would be The One Great Leader that our nation has always deserved. As such, I have always submitted that for the ultimate freedom of our people, the OTHER side should have won the war and am secretly ashamed that my state allowed itself to be blinded and guided by a one-issue topic, slavery, when the real argument was and remains States Rights and the limited role of government as penned by our founding fathers. We freed one group of slaves that we could all share a yoke.

You should fight to the death this EU while you have a chance. Once you lose the supremecy of your "State" government you lose control of your life and destiny which will be subjegated to the will of peoples WHO CARE NOT FOR YOUR WAY OF LIFE, BELIEFS, OR TRADITIONS.

 

[Coolville]

I am reasonably well read, particularly with regard to economic news. Tell me where I'm wrong?

On many points. The whole "ruled by an überburearocracy" chestnut exposed your well-read butt...

There is a whole dialogue about this on "Europeans, Educate me please" thread. So forgive me for not having the energy to start the same discussion again.

In short, Brussels doesn't pass laws. They suggest them. It is up to the individual nations to vote on them in their national parliaments and reject them if they see fit. There are some nations who are faithful to the laws, in the interest of building and maintaining the all important standardisation. The Scandinavian countries pass between 95-97% of the laws. France is at about 70%. Even Britian is in the 80's.

The militarily irrelevant thang is based on your assumption that military strength is the be all, end all. We prefer to toss our cash into aid.

I have to stop there... read the other thread... it's long, but it's informative and it dispels many myths.

 

[SINthysist]

But as Dr. Roberts pointed out, once you start expecting those suggestions, then the expectation builds and suddenly, boom, they're the sort of suggestions you can't refuse or you get sanctioned.

Example. Our central government taxes gas out the wazoo, then will not turn the funds over to the states for roadwork unless they enact certain suggested laws...

[Edited to add - The corollary being that if you don't comply, they'll give your tax dollars to states that do giving them a leg up on you, so to speak.]

Insist your countries/states maintain well-regulated militias to guard against tyranny.

 

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[SINthysist]

Like I said before, America has already been down this road and you see where it's gotten us. Universally hated as the new Imperial Rome...

 

[Coolville]

America spends more on African aid than the whole of Europe.

America has been the biggest contributor of aid to Afghanistan for 10 years

The Europeans don't lead anything in the world, they're on our coat tails for everything

I bet their rapid reaction force will be REAL scary ahahah

amazing how dreadfully misinformed English ghetto dropouts can be despite having access to the internet.

 

[SINthysist]

amazing how dreadfully misinformed English ghetto dropouts can be despite having access to the internet.

Hanns... A gift! A new sigline! I love mine! Another Coolville original!

 

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[SINthysist]

Sort of helps take the edge off of debates...

 

[miles]

Does anyone work harder at being a pissyboy whiner about meaningless bullshit than you, pp?

What a cunting bitch. Must be time for tea and crumpets with the old ladies.

 

[takingchances42]

On many points. The whole "ruled by an überburearocracy" chestnut exposed your well-read butt...

There is a whole dialogue about this on "Europeans, Educate me please" thread. So forgive me for not having the energy to start the same discussion again.

In short, Brussels doesn't pass laws. They suggest them. It is up to the individual nations to vote on them in their national parliaments and reject them if they see fit. There are some nations who are faithful to the laws, in the interest of building and maintaining the all important standardisation. The Scandinavian countries pass between 95-97% of the laws. France is at about 70%. Even Britian is in the 80's.

The militarily irrelevant thang is based on your assumption that military strength is the be all, end all. We prefer to toss our cash into aid.

I have to stop there... read the other thread... it's long, but it's informative and it dispels many myths.

So, pretty much everything I read in the Wall Street Journal daily about Europe in recent years has been a myth?

Thanks for enlightening me. I will definitely read a Literotica thread for the correct answers that have obviously eluded the world financial community.