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on the German Spiegel site, one commented that the only time the two names come up in recent Google is both attended the Bilderberger dinner.

And what's positive about being for nuclear disarmament?  What are the alternatives, agnostic? Pro armament?

To me she seems an intelligent society woman.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Thu Nov 19th, 2009 at 04:17:59 PM EST
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what's positive about being for nuclear disarmament?  What are the alternatives, agnostic? Pro armament?

Well, actually, in the UK you could be in the CND, or you could be in love with the "Independent Nuclear Deterrent" and want to keep Trident and (now) want to buy a new round of it, like most of the rest of the British Establishment.

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Nov 19th, 2009 at 04:20:17 PM EST
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And what's positive about being for nuclear disarmament?

It's at least somewhat subversive, anti-authoritarian and, shall we say it, communisticky (especially in the "better red than dead" 80s)

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Nov 19th, 2009 at 04:26:35 PM EST
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O, noes! They appointed an anorak to an EU top job!

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Nov 19th, 2009 at 04:29:57 PM EST
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Surely you mean "better dead than red".

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Nov 19th, 2009 at 04:44:40 PM EST
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That was the argument: the "better red than dead" label was stuck onto anyone who was not fiercely anti-communist and/or who opposed anything advocated by the "better dead than red" crowd. Anyone who sought middle ground was accused of thinking "better red than dead" and therefore untrustworthy.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Thu Nov 19th, 2009 at 05:50:43 PM EST
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