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Well, in 1998 I didn't have many problems either. Since then, the banks claimed, the laws had changed. It wasn't just bad customer service, since this was not one bank but several. And all of them referred to the law as an excuse for their bad service. Bad customer service also exists: like bank employees who do not know what continental ID cards look like (airport police do) or how long an IBAN (account) number is. It seems that al

Irish Banks in Misc JoeUser Forums

The below is an email I sent to the Irish Banking Authority after I have been a customer of Irish banks for a year. Ireland is often cited as an example for successful deregulation and one of the most free countries in Europe. I have come to think that this is actually a myth. --- The following is not a specific complaint, merely a short summary of t

Reply to When did Nazis become left-wingers? in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

Kingbee, I don't believe that Britain is to blame for Arab expansionism. And as for Nicaragua or the rest of the Americas, I have not even addressed any of that. So why bring it up as if if I was somehow wrong about it? As for me launching a "scam", I'm afraid I don't know what you are talking about. You might have read all I wrote, but you CERTAINLY did not understand much of it. You repeatedly brought up issues that have either not

Reply to When did Nazis become left-wingers? in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

"You may be surprised how closes Hitler and Stalin was." No, I wouldn't be. I just wrote an article titled "Pan-Nationalism" which outlined how Hitler and Stalin were led by the same basic philosophy. Alas, that philosophy is not at all left-wing. "and your headline wasnt intentionally provocational?" Where did I say that it wasn't? You have to understand that there is a difference between a provoking headline and an

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Kingbe, you are becoming more impolite, which leads me to believe that your motivation is not to clarify misunderstandings but to provoke. But let me try to clarify a few things anyway: 1. I did not only "survey" three people in front of a McDonald's. If you have somehow missed the major demonstrations against the Iraq war over the last few years, then I am sorry for assuming that it was widely known, but the problem of Neo-N

Reply to When did Nazis become left-wingers? in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

Kingbee, I clearly have not communicated well enough. I specifically mentioned left-wingers and Neo-Nazis as two groups who at the moment share a common enemy. Why does this make them the same? It does not, necessarily. My point is only that the worst of the Neo-Nazis is the same that is the worst about left-wingers. Had I titled this differently, I would have made a different point. Since the point I wanted to make was already in

Reply to Pan-Nationalism in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

Dr. Guy, it appears that some readers have a problem with understanding the very first point of my article. It's probably my fault because I didn't make it clear enough, mentioning it only in the tag line and then labouring under the assumption that it was a given: "Culture of nation against nation of culture" The major point is this: pan-nationalism relates to beliefs of superiority of one race over others. This belief is n

Reply to Pan-Nationalism in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

"The inevitable question in nationalism is who is part of the nation. If the US annexed all of Canada except Quebec, would you call that nationalism or imperialism. Would it be pan-nationalism?" The inevitable question is the one answered by your current fuhrer or "spiritual leader" or great bazoonga or whatever he calls himself. I'm afraid there is not much room for rationality in that answer. If the US annexed all of Canada (exc

Reply to Pan-Nationalism in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

"The prefix Pan- means "all-encompassing," and therefore not exclusive." Pan-nationalism, as defined in my article, is a nationalism philosophy targeting the nation in its widest sense, thus the "pan". I don't care whether my article is consistent in the light of your definitions. It doesn't have to be. It only has to eb consistent in the light of the definitions I use. Pan-Arabism exists. That it isn't successful can have a

Reply to When did Nazis become left-wingers? in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

"I am curious - in what area did this incident with the protestors occur? I don't know if this McDonalds you visited was in Germany or the states." According to my article it was Dublin, Ireland. It's the McDonald's in Swan Centre, Rathmines, Dublin 6. I live just up the road. "How are the left wingers and Neo-Nazi's connected by a common enemy?" Look up some Neo-Nazi Web sites and see what they have to say about the

Reply to When did Nazis become left-wingers? in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

Enigmagnetic: my observation was not about whether a given region was a melting pot or not but about whether there is intolerance or not. I do not know whether rural areas are now more or less rascist than big cities in America. There is possibly a trend which makes cities more tolerant in general. But this doesn't have anything to do with my comparison between Europe, the UK and Ireland, and the US.

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Dr Guy: I was referring to the legal meaning of the German unification. Legally Prussia was not German, which is why a prince of the Holy Roman Empire (until 1806) could be king of Prussia (you could not be king of a land inside the empire). Ethnically Prussia was also different from Germany but later got mixed. The old Prussian language was replaced by German in the 1700s. German tribes (rather an organised order sent by the Holy

Reply to Pan-Nationalism in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

"If nationalism is opposed to colonialism and imperialism, and pan-nationalism is a form of imperialism, then wouldn't that make pan-nationalism an oxymoron?" I don't get it. It was you who claimed that pan-nationalism is a form of imperialism. That was not an undisputed fact and not a part of my discussion at all. It was also you who found that nationalism is opposed to imperialism, yet you insist that pan-nationalism is imperialism.

Reply to When did Nazis become left-wingers? in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

It's about common enemies. Today's "left" and today's Neo-Nazis have the same enemy: the USA and George Bush. Both groups protested the war, and for the same reason: because it was the allies vs a fascist dictator. And neither group seem to be very interested in protesting some of the worse wars in the world, like the civil war in Sudan. Where was the left when Saddam invaded Kuwait? Whether or not agreeing with the Nazis about foreig

Reply to Pan-Nationalism in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

Diamondback, you have a weird definition of "nationalism". I believe what you mean is a "democratic nation state". And who said pan-nationalism wasn't imperialist? Whether it is or not has nothing to do with my definition of it. And where does the idea of "who don't see themselves as one people" come from? The majority of Germans in World War 2 certainly saw themselves as one people. And most Arabs appear to think of themselves as one

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Scatter629, If Britain tried to take over all countries once inhabited by English settlers, while legally, that is under its own law, exterminating non-English minorities in these lands, Britain would be pan-English or possible pan-Anglosaxon. Note that the British Empire does not qualify because it a) was not an attempt to unify all lands that were considered "British", b) was an attempt to unify several peoples under one law, and c) was, a

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Note that further faults in the history of "Reality 101" (who seems to be at the beginning of his course) are known to me. I didn't list the lot. I do, for example, know that the USA did not "crush Germany into poverty". Anyone who knows anything about the end of World War 1 knows that the USA were not those who imposed the terms.

Reply to Pan-Nationalism in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

Dr. Guy, it should be interesting to learn whether World War 1 did indeed create even more problems than the ones I have found so far (they were easily seen). Perhaps after pan-Arabism is beaten we will find the next instance of the disease. The main point is, of course, that although World War 2 was worse than the first, at least World War 2's result was an answer. In World War 2 the disease's outbreak was beaten, in World War 1 it w

Reply to Pan-Nationalism in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

Reality 101, a few things: 1. World War 1 _was_ a war between nations. The other three big wars I mention are wars between ideologies. 2. The Soviet Union was born in 1917, not in World War 2. 3. Gulf War 1 started when Iraq invaded Iran in around 1980. 4. It wasn't the United States who gave land to the Jews, it was the League of Nationa and later the United Nations. The United States were not even in the

Reply to Pan-Nationalism in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

I clearly haven't communicated well enough. I wasn't referring to one people ruling over another but specifically to one people in itself. Any other peoples in the area would not be part of the resulting pan-nationalist entity. Pan-slavism is nationalistic because Slavs are of the same bloodline. It has nothing to do with culture. In fact, I tried to explain that a culture is the opposite of the concept of pan-nationalism (hence the tag line "

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Eastern Diamondback, if you find the idea oxymoronic, I probably haven't been clear enough. There is a difference between nationalism and pan-nationalism. All pan-nationalism is nationalism, but not all nationalism is pan-nationalism. Nationalism can be patriotism, based on one (current) country and connected to a culture rather than a race. The United States are nationalist in that sense. But pan-nationalism is based on a n

Reply to When did Nazis become left-wingers? in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

Dr Guy, I have posted the longer article. Reiki-House, exactly.

Pan-Nationalism in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

"If the US had invaded, say, Bolivia - Osama bin Laden would have completely ignored it. And those who would have claimed invading Bolivia had nothing to do with the War on Terror would have been correct." - Michael J. Totten World War I was simple. It was the last great war between nations, each fighting for their own interests. There was no objective good

Reply to When did Nazis become left-wingers? in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

Dr. Guy, link away! Although I don't think my article is good enough; I should have invested more time in writing it. I expect to write a longer, more sophisticated article on the subject later. NJever, there are intolerant right-wingers and intolerant left-wingers. But my point is that they seem to have joined forces. Perhaps "left" and "right" are no longer or never were usable descriptions of political movements. I am, in the words

When did Nazis become left-wingers? in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

On my way to McDonald's today (I had a coupon for a free Bigmac), I met this group of war protesters. Three youngsters who made their point against the American occupation of Iraq. I actually talked to them. It took me one minute to figure out that I was everything they despise. I was born in West-Berlin. I have been a left-winger until having been "convert