The royal family is huge now ... they all had a bunch of kids once the oil money started flowing. And of course, not all of them can really live like the oldest generation, but neither do they expect to work for a living in any way.

I think they've backed themselves into a huge corner *within* their family as well as with regard to their overall population.

OK, for the record now... precisely which groups have claimed responsibility, and which groups have been blamed by the various governments, for these actions to date?

Indeed, in the first four years of his six-year commitment, Bush spent the equivalent of 21 months on active duty, including 18 months in flight school. His Democratic opponent, Vice President Al Gore, who enlisted in the Army for two years and spent five months in Vietnam, logged only about a month more active service, since he won an early release from service.

Incidentally, Bush flew with the 111th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, which was attached to the 147th Fighter Wing, based in Houston, Texas. While Bush's unit never got called to Vietnam, the 147th was. From 1968 through 1970, pilots from the 147th participated in operation "Palace Alert" and served in Southeast Asia during the height of the Vietnam War. The 147th came off runway alert on Jan. 1, 1970 to start a new mission of training all F-102 pilots in the United States for the Air National Guard.

Bush enlisted as an Airman Basic in the 147th Fighter-Interceptor Group at Ellington Air Force Base, Houston, on May 28, 1968 - a a time when the 147th was actively participating in combat in Vietnam. However, one can not train overnight to be a pilot. Bush completed basic flight training and then, from December 1969 through June 27, 1970, he was training full-time at Ellington to be an F-102 pilot.

Bush volunteered to serve in a unit at the very moment it was seeing combat in Vietnam, and only a restructuring of the unit's mission before he completed his flight training made it unlikely he would fly in combat. And he was never AWOL - he completed his required service and even served beyond the minimum.

"President Shevardnadze issued a statement from his office that says, "The armed attack on the president has ended without casualties. President Shevardnadze is alive. An armed coup has occurred in Georgia."
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Only trouble here is that it occurred on live television, and everyone saw it. No arms. Not even remotely a question of casualties.

I wonder how long it will take some news service to take the fallacious implications of this statement seriously.

In most countries the Global Justice Movement is led by the communities most affected by corporate globalization (primarily low-income communities of color). However in the US and Canada, the Global Justice Movement appears to be dominated by young white people from middle and upper-income class backgrounds.

"Interestingly, this [Islamic subversion] is centered in the tri-border region of Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil. For decades, this isolated region was best known to the outside world as a leading refuge for fugitive nazi war criminals. It is also a center of drug-smuggling, gun-running, and organized crime of all kinds."

"Just what attracted the Islamo-fascists to that isolated region in the first place is open to speculation, but the tri-border region was a most notorious refuge for fugitive nazi war criminals for several decades. The nazis are mostly dead now, but it is possible that Hizbollah moved in and took over their networks in the area before these faded completely.
Certainly, there were documented contacts between Hizbollah and Argentine neo-nazis during the 1990s. This provides a direct link between the current Islamo-fascists and the Third Reich."