History Forum / General / British History / February 2006

Tonight C4 showed the first of a mini series on the UKs Home Guard, with the
lads being trained by a motley collection of men from the First WW, then by
those with experience from the Spanish Civil War.
Of course our concern for left wing infiltration outdid our immediate

Slick Willie at his worst -- and waffling.
DSH
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"I am writing too in the hope that my telling this one story will help you

"Doing a Geoffrey" - travelling 150 miles in a bus to be protected by
Gardaí from 300 drunken knackers, not speak on political matters, then
get back on the bus and go home to say how not scared he was.
M.

Well may he bleat that thugs rained on his parade. That was unfortunate.
But I'm glad it was stopped either way. It was sectarian in essence.
Let Geoffrey attend at work and do his f.cking job, instead of colluding
with MI5/Special Branch and PSNI-RUC to bring down democratically ...

I have been a subscriber to this newsgroup for a good number of years,
but I am intending to unsubscribe.
Instead of discussions about British history, as the name suggests, this
newsgroup has been hijacked by the loud-mouthed morons of the USA,

Anyone familiar with ancient Greece is likely to know about Alcibiades, the
nephew of the great general Pericles who led Athens during its heyday in mid
fifth century BC. Alcibiades not only was high born, he was also a natural
leader with many talents. Few could resist his charm ...

National Security Archive Update, February 21, 2006
CIA REMOVES 50 YEAR OLD DOCUMENTS FROM OPEN STACKS AT NATIONAL ARCHIVES
For more information:
Matthew Aid, William Burr, Meredith Fuchs

"Vaughan Sanders" <vjs@jamie-san.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:...

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article346214.ece
'The Americans are breaking international law... it is a society
heading towards Animal Farm' - Archbishop Sentamu on Guantanamo

... said the president at the white house, a wholly-owned subsidiary of
saudi arabia
Thanks to WilliamS in alt.politics.economics for that non-subtle Ironic
Subjet Line and Post

POLLS DON'T IMPEACH PRESIDENTS; PEOPLE DO!
It don't mean a thing if their phones don't ring
by thepen
http://www.opednews.com

Hippo,
Andre Marty was the guy who vetted people going into the International
Brigades, right?  Stalin's Enforcer.
There is a street in Paris named after him -- or was.

Again, what a sharp group of historically minded people here. I will try to
visit more often.
I'm responding this way because my news server is not letting me reply to
messages.

Apparently the Austrians disagree
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200602/s1574392.htm
Jamie

http://www.democraticunderground.com/crisis/06/049_bw.html
Slicing Away Liberty: 1933 Germany, 2006 America
February 21, 2005
By Bernard Weiner, The Crisis Papers