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You have to remember Regans record in office.His embrace of the religious right led the Republican party down the path that ultimately led to Trump being elected.The invasion of Grenada and the illegal support for terrorists in Nicaragua also took place on his watch. The US also backed the invasion of Lebanon by Israeli which led to the massacre in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.The US assurances to the PLO to secure their withdrawal from Lebanon explicitly mentioned protecting the camps.Some of those those Palestinians who witnessed the massacres went on to form Hezbollah a fanatical outfit that had no intention of any compromise with Israel.Then we have the fact that the national debt tripled under Regan , his handling of the HIV/AIDS health crisis was criminal in its negligence (sound familiar ?) and the Iran contra affair.Not exactly the good old days.
Yeah, well we all make mistakes but I'd rather him than Trump anyday.
 
They weren't mistakes Chas .in a choice between Trump and Beelzebub i would choose neither :fearscream:
 
They weren't mistakes Chas .in a choice between Trump and Beelzebub i would choose neither :fearscream:
Anything would be better than Trump, he treats America as just another one of his companies.
 

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What i'm seeing is vote Trump or vote for those who control the media = a mess of people voting against something rather than for something , everyone objects to something on the menu so lets all starve :thumbup:

Its a media pantomime some states declared won or lost still have enough uncounted votes to let Kayne West win .
 
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Not just confined to States, we have some here that spew bile every day, that try to ruin our country
 
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What i'm seeing is vote Trump or vote for those who control the media = a mess of people voting against something rather than for something , everyone objects to something on the menu so lets all starve :thumbup:

Its a media pantomime some states declared won or lost still have enough uncounted votes to let Kayne West win .
So Fox news isn't media .glad you cleared that up for me.Even some Republicans are calling out his lies now.As for the UK press remember the role of Murdoch , who owns Fox.
 
On November 8, 1895, German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923) becomes the first person to observe X-rays, a significant scientific advancement that would ultimately benefit a variety of fields, most of all medicine, by making the invisible visible.
 
Rupert Bear celebrates his 100th Birthday today.
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On this day in1989 The Berlin Wall is breached after nearly three decades dividing the city
 
Today is Armistice day the commemoration of the signing of the peace agreements that ended the first world war. the last surviving British veteran , who died in 2009 Harry Patch said :
" When the war ended, I don't know if I was more relieved that we'd won or that I didn't have to go back. Passchendaele was a disastrous battle—thousands and thousands of young lives were lost. It makes me angry. Earlier this year, I went back to Ypres to shake the hand of Charles Kuentz, Germany's only surviving veteran from the war. It was emotional. He is 107. We've had 87 years to think what war is. To me, it's a licence to go out and murder. Why should the British government call me up and take me out to a battlefield to shoot a man I never knew, whose language I couldn't speak? All those lives lost for a war finished over a table. Now what is the sense in that? "
Who now can remember or explain why this war started in the first place.
 
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Started with the assignation of Arch Duke Ferdinand of somewhere in somewhere else best i could remember
 
An accident of circumstance that brought historic fear of Russia's influence to the fore causing a domino effect .

It was Napoleons fault i reckon .
 
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On this day, 11 November 1887, four of the Haymarket martyrs were executed in Chicago. They were anarchist labour organisers framed for a bombing by authorities because of their role in the fight for the 8-hour day. The holiday, International Workers Day on May 1 each year, commemorates the martyrs.
 
On this day in1984 Plans are announced to phase out the £1 note after more than 150 years
 
On this day, 16 November 1989 six Jesuit scholars/priests, their housekeeper and her daughter were murdered by the US-backed military in El Salvador. The priests were considered "subversive". After the soldiers killed them, they tried to make the murders look like the work of left-wing guerrillas.
That same week, at least 28 other Salvadoran civilians were murdered, including the head of a major union, the leader of the organisation of university women, nine members of an Indian farming cooperative and ten university students.
The Jesuits were murdered by the Atlacatl Battalion, an elite unit created, trained and equipped by the United States. It was formed in March 1981, when fifteen specialists in counterinsurgency were sent to El Salvador from the US Army School of Special Forces. From the start, the Battalion was engaged in mass murder. A US trainer described its soldiers as "particularly ferocious....We've always had a hard time getting [them] to take prisoners instead of ears."
In December 1981, the Battalion took part in an operation in which over a thousand civilians were killed in an orgy of murder, rape and burning. Later it was involved in the bombing of villages and murder of hundreds of civilians by shooting, drowning and other methods. The vast majority of victims were women, children and the elderly.
The backing of these despotic regimes was meant to "protect" the USA , the greatest superpower from the "danger " of Communism on it's southern borders .
 
On this day, 18 November 1949, security forces massacred 21 striking miners and a bystander at the British government-owned coal mine at Enugu in Nigeria. The miners, many of whom were British Army veterans who served in Southeast Asia, had occupied their mine demanding backpay . In addition to 22 deaths, 51 people were wounded .This occurred under a Labour government whose first response to the strike was to sack all the miners.
 
On this day in 1994 The UK’s first national lottery draw is televised live.
 
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