ellauri063.html on line 112: Hence, (except for a few years in China after 1949, and Cuba after 1959) these regimes were never popular. Fuck it, NO regimes are popular except for those that hold the reins.
ellauri094.html on line 758: And the stark evil of the atheist Communists becomes even more stark when considering the fact that Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan were fighting for what most wars are fought for: Wealth and Empire. Which is A-OK. The Israeli did the same with the help of Jehovah. The atheist regimes slaughtered their own people simply to impose their will upon their less powerful compatriots. Which the Christians never do. Well, not nearly as many got killed anyway. I guess. Haven't really toted up all the Christian wars. The colonial ones too, and the U.S. neocolonial ones like Korea and Vietnam, or the Desert Storm. Should one use the absolute body count or percentages? Ethics is not an exact science after all. It's more like economics.
ellauri246.html on line 91: At first this poem seems very pastoral, but it was written in the summer of either 1940 or 1941. Sweden was not at war, but had seen Denmark and Norway occupied by Nazi Germany and Finland defeated by the Soviet Union. Ekelöf was firmly opposed to the totalitarian regimes, so see this poem as finding a moment of peace, pineapple and bananas in a time of other people's crisis.
ellauri347.html on line 435: Given that the two powers currently have more to gain from cooperation than competition, being equally hounded buy The West, both Russia and China have chosen to push their differences to the background for the foreseeable future. But the emergence of an ‘axis of authoritarianism’ is not in prospect, our own entente of authoritarian regimes will see to that.
ellauri396.html on line 165: Christopher Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was a British and American author, polemicist, debater and journalist who in his youth took part in demonstrations against the Vietnam War, joined organisations such as the International Socialists while at university and began to identify as a socialist. However, after 9/11 he no longer regarded himself as a socialist and his political thinking became largely dominated by the issue of defending civilization from terrorists and against the totalitarian regimes that protect them. Hitchens nonetheless continued to identify as a Marxist, endorsing the materialist conception of history, but believed that Karl Marx had underestimated the revolutionary nature of capitalism. He sympathized with libertarian ideals of limited state interference, but considered libertarianism not to be a viable system. But anyway.
ellauri435.html on line 447: Given that the two powers currently have more to gain from cooperation than competition, being equally hounded buy The West, both Russia and China have chosen to push their differences to the background for the foreseeable future. But the emergence of an ‘axis of authoritarianism’ is not in prospect, our own entente of authoritarian regimes will see to that.
xxx/ellauri218.html on line 127: The lightning victory in Iraq would lead to a domino effect. Saddam’s collapse would somehow provoke non-Coke democracies to fall throughout the region. The Arab people would magically replace their old, corrupt regimes with US-style democracies - with the help of our troops, of course.
xxx/ellauri423.html on line 257: Teneo's Insights Series provides in-depth analysis on the issues that matter most to CEOs and their businesses. In its early years, Teneo was the subject of controversy primarily over its extensive ties to the Clinton family and the leveraging of those ties for its business purposes. In its later years, the firm has spurred controversy by working for authoritarian regimes in Saudi Arabia and Azerbaijan, as well as provide services to Russian oligarchs. In 2016, Teneo was hired by McDonald's to combat Fight for $15, a campaign to raise the minimum wage. On June 24, 2021, it was reported by the Financial Times that Chairman and CEO Declan Kelly had inappropriately touched six women at a Global Citizen charity fundraising event in May of that year. An investigation was launched, and Kelly was removed from his role on Global Citizen’s board the following day, chaired by Christopher Stadler, an investor responsible for managing CVC Capital Partners’s stake in Teneo. In 2024, Teneo received $4.7 million by the authoritarian regime in Azerbaijan to manage publicity for Azerbaijan hosting COP29. Ettälläsiä uiveloita pitäis US:n miälestä nyt uskoa. Ei perkeletto.
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