Cuba offers assistance the bush heads offer anarchy

[Azrael23]

You come from a small Island. The only power and prestige you get is due to your association with the US.

And as India and China take their place among the table of great powers Europes influence will keep withering.

You barely count.

YES SLAVE!!!

EMPIRE IS ALL THAT COUNTS

FORCE OF ARMS IS ALL THAT COUNTS

POWER IS ALL!!!!!

(f*ck off darth vader )

 

[Streathamite]

From what I've read Chinese state planning looks ahead at minimum to the next generation - 25 year - and as far ahead as the next 500. The US simply doesn't have the cultural nous to do that because it's history has been centred around the short term aquisition of 'stuff' (be that next Q share price or oil for the next 10 years) not around a unified strategic vision of country and culture - yes it plans things like resource sourcing (see Chomsky) but it pretty much leaves it's corporations to do as they please when it comes to expansion. Again, from what I've read China sees the world differently, and as Violent Panda pointed out on this thread

I'd say this is due to history & culture; both of these gear chinese govt towards taking a very long-term view
apols for typo-edit, KS

 

[kyser_soze]

I'd say this is due to history & culture; both of these gear chinese govt taking a very long-term view

Here's an interesting little thing I read in New Scientist a couple of weeks ago...

UCLA did a study on how people perceive pictures, and found that Japanese and Chinese people focus on background and wider context, Euros and US focus on the central subject.

Yeah, agree with your comment on culture and history - both of which the US serverely lacks too.

 

[mears]

Which island is that i wonder????. I`m not English boss and don`t come from G.B. so your wrong on that score for a start. I do come from the European contenient ( which is much bigger than your religious state) and you still have not answered a single question put to you....
If this is the best you can do with your " USA all of the time" mantra......god help your fellow country men who don`t subscribe to your point of view...
I actually feel sorry for you!!! All your rethoric has been laid bare in your country`s ( and presidents) inability to even save the lives of your own citizens...its remarkable to watch.....
And i hope the political fall out makes your fellow americans realise what a twat they have as a president....

What questions are those? Looking at this thread I see someone called me a twat and warned me not to visit Britian.

SO what are those questions?

 

[ViolentPanda]

What questions are those? Looking at this thread I see someone called me a twat and warned me not to visit Britian.

SO what are those questions?

What's that mears, not addressing any of the more salient replies to you US/China cretinism on this thread?

How very surprising!

 

[nino_savatte]

What questions are those? Looking at this thread I see someone called me a twat and warned me not to visit Britian.

SO what are those questions?

If you came out with the same shite as you do on Urban, you'd get a fist in your face at the very minimum.

 

[oi2002]

You come from a small Island. The only power and prestige you get is due to your association with the US...

and the Riverdance, don't forget the Riverdance.

 

[oi2002]

Maybe it's a shortcoming of americans to make tallies of people this way. British barely count.

Problem is, you seem to do the same thing inside your own country, as we've seen from your treatment of the poor in the southern states this past week.

Calling C1 a Brit is a bit savage. C1 is an Irish Republican from Belfast and that's on an even smaller island mostly goverened by clowns even more subservient to DC than the lickspittle occupant of No 10.

He'll be off to Sligo to dig up the Semtex so he will.

 

[cemertyone]

What questions are those? Looking at this thread I see someone called me a twat and warned me not to visit Britian.

SO what are those questions?

what happenend your USA all of the time shit...your citizens are lying dead in dirty water and you have been held up to look like a third world country...even afganistan is OFFERING YOU AID.......fuck off twat...com back when you now what your talking about...oh how the present sitution makes me laugh at your impearilist contry laid bare and looking stupid

 

[Streathamite]

What questions are those? Looking at this thread I see someone called me a twat and warned me not to visit Britian.

SO what are those questions?

you DO know there's another European nation to the west of the UK, don't you.
and the advice to not visit the UK was simple common sense.
you'd last a day.

 

[mears]

what happenend your USA all of the time shit...your citizens are lying dead in dirty water and you have been held up to look like a third world country...even afganistan is OFFERING YOU AID.......fuck off twat...com back when you now what your talking about...oh how the present sitution makes me laugh at your impearilist contry laid bare and looking stupid

And those questions?

 

[fela fan]

If you came out with the same shite as you do on Urban, you'd get a fist in your face at the very minimum.

You're often out of order nino, as you are here again. Why are you preaching violence? Why on earth should mears have to contemplate getting a fist in his face for expressing his opinions? Thank fuck i can do my talking in thailand where fists are not an option for the 'wrong' opinion.

There really is a problem in britain with free speech and having opinions that are outside the accepted boundaries. Pilger is excellent at analysing it. Urban75 is excellent at proving it.

 

[herman]

And those questions?

Tell us again just in case it has not sunk in-
just which economic system do you believe in?

 

[fela fan]

This thread is showing a few things up.

Posters on the one hand appear to be expressing sympathy for the affected in these floods, while on the other hand using verbal violence in the attempt to batter someone they don't agree with.

Furthermore there also seems to be an undercurrent of glee that america is suffering. I am as anti-america as anyone, but only towards their foreign policy.

For those who like to aver they have a humanitarian streak in them, fine, but i see a violent streak too.

 

[herman]

This thread is showing a few things up.

Posters on the one hand appear to be expressing sympathy for the affected in these floods, while on the other hand using verbal violence in the attempt to batter someone they don't agree with.

Furthermore there also seems to be an undercurrent of glee that america is suffering. I am as anti-america as anyone, but only towards their foreign policy.

For those who like to aver they have a humanitarian streak in them, fine, but i see a violent streak too.

If there is any glee on here then it must be said that it is disgraceful. Though if I may be a pedant the only thing the US as a whole is suffering is a few more cents on a gallon of petrol. For what those who were affected by the storms were forced to endure and suffer the regime should hang their heads in collective disgrace whether that is a local democrat or a national republican.

May I add that I am in no way personally anti-American and they only represent one strand of a wider swivel eyed fixation with the free market and neo colonialism.

 

[nino_savatte]

You're often out of order nino, as you are here again. Why are you preaching violence? Why on earth should mears have to contemplate getting a fist in his face for expressing his opinions? Thank fuck i can do my talking in thailand where fists are not an option for the 'wrong' opinion.

There really is a problem in britain with free speech and having opinions that are outside the accepted boundaries. Pilger is excellent at analysing it. Urban75 is excellent at proving it.

Ah, Mister Holier-than-thou strikes again. When I want your opinion I'll pull the chain.

As usual you rush to conclusions. I did not say I would personally punch mears but someone else might. Perhaps you think mears is actually "expressing his opinions" but most sensible people on Urban (I don't include you in this category) think he's a spiteful little troll. Wake up and smell the coffee, you auld hippy.

 

[fela fan]

Ah, Mister Holier-than-thou strikes again. When I want your opinion I'll pull the chain.

No need to expend any energy mate on chains and the wotnot, i'll give my opinion when i want to, just like always eh man.

 

[nino_savatte]

No need to expend any energy mate on chains and the wotnot, i'll give my opinion when i want to, just like always eh man.

Not much a reply, fela, and you even edited out the right bits of my post. Shame on you.

 

[fela fan]

Not much a reply, fela, and you even edited out the right bits of my post. Shame on you.

Yeah, what a shameful character i am.

And who knows what's 'right' in this world? I happened to edit out the bits i didn't want to reply to, nothing to do with owt else. It's called freedom to listen. Or not.

 

[cemertyone]

This thread is showing a few things up.

Posters on the one hand appear to be expressing sympathy for the affected in these floods, while on the other hand using verbal violence in the attempt to batter someone they don't agree with.

Furthermore there also seems to be an undercurrent of glee that america is suffering. I am as anti-america as anyone, but only towards their foreign policy.

For those who like to aver they have a humanitarian streak in them, fine, but i see a violent streak too.

Only because it holds them up to be not the first nation but the 20 or 25 nation in the world..anti americanism you say..to fucking right and if the bill for reconstructing New Orleans comes from the defense budget all the better....

 

[pk]

You come from a small Island. The only power and prestige you get is due to your association with the US.

And as India and China take their place among the table of great powers Europes influence will keep withering.

You barely count.

You typically stupid ignorant under-educated Yank cunt.

If it wasn't for Britain, you would be speaking Spanish, and you'd have the GDP of Venezuela.

Europe has done fine for many thousands of years - your problem is that you seem to think your new continent is indestructable - think to yourself whether the United States will really exist in 200 years time?

I seriously doubt it.

Your population cannot even get of it's overfed arse to change the TV channel, and your kids are all shitting Ritalin.

More smears from Mears, nothing unusual, you're no different from pbman, except you dribble less, and use a spellchecker more.

 

[nino_savatte]

Yeah, what a shameful character i am.

And who knows what's 'right' in this world? I happened to edit out the bits i didn't want to reply to, nothing to do with owt else. It's called freedom to listen. Or not.

Naw, it's called "making it up as you go along"...isn't that right?

 

[fela fan]

Naw, it's called "making it up as you go along"...isn't that right?

Yep, in a nutshell, just like life mate...

 

[cemertyone]

Yep, in a nutshell, just like life mate...

Funny thing is when you challenge them to make good on there ideology...sucks they go all quite...aint that right MR feel ya up fan....
Where you gone boy???? you gone all quite on us...surprise there then..perhaps your so busy helping all those poor down-trodden fellow citizens of yours in New Orleans you don`t have time to post ..

 

[fela fan]

Funny thing is when you challenge them to make good on there ideology...sucks they go all quite...aint that right MR feel ya up fan....
Where you gone boy???? you gone all quite on us...surprise there then..perhaps your so busy helping all those poor down-trodden fellow citizens of yours in New Orleans you don`t have time to post ..

It seems you are talking about me. I live in thailand, and if i go all quiet on urban, i'm doing myself a favour and getting out to live my life in a country where this is a mantra.

So no, i'm normally busy enjoying life mate.

 

[ViolentPanda]

It seems you are talking about me. I live in thailand, and if i go all quiet on urban, i'm doing myself a favour and getting out to live my life in a country where this is a mantra.

So no, i'm normally busy enjoying life mate.

Nah, he's talking about our "rightwing" Amrican board members, the ones that all seem to have mysteriously shut up since their boy in the White House has been shown up (again) for a selfish cretin.

 

[fela fan]

Nah, he's talking about our "rightwing" Amrican board members, the ones that all seem to have mysteriously shut up since their boy in the White House has been shown up (again) for a selfish cretin.

Yeah well that's what i thought, but it was confusing with his use of the word 'fan'. Plus he was replying to a post of mine that was replying to a non-american.

At least that makes much more sense what you say. Good.