Dafuq. No reasonably well educated person could make this statement. Outside of NK, that is.klr wrote:...
"South Korea exists because America invaded Korea, killed millions of people, divided the country and continues to garrison South Korea with military bases, nuclear weapons, chemical and biological weapon.”
George Galloway is actually very well educated.FBM wrote:Dafuq. No reasonably well educated person could make this statement. Outside of NK, that is.klr wrote:...
"South Korea exists because America invaded Korea, killed millions of people, divided the country and continues to garrison South Korea with military bases, nuclear weapons, chemical and biological weapon.”
LOL -- does Galloway not remember that Korea was ruled by Japan until 1945, and then divided in two by the Soviets and the Americans after WW2? Then North Korea invaded South Korea. The UN Security Council voted to help South Korea, and then with the US shouldering most of the non-ROK troop burden, they came in and pushed the North Koreans almost to the Yalu River. If it wasn't for China coming in on the side of the North Koreans, we'd have only one Korea today -- a Democratic one and not some monstrous regime in the North.FBM wrote:Dafuq. No reasonably well educated person could make this statement. Outside of NK, that is.klr wrote:...
"South Korea exists because America invaded Korea, killed millions of people, divided the country and continues to garrison South Korea with military bases, nuclear weapons, chemical and biological weapon.”
Not very well educated in history, seems.klr wrote:George Galloway is actually very well educated.FBM wrote:Dafuq. No reasonably well educated person could make this statement. Outside of NK, that is.klr wrote:...
"South Korea exists because America invaded Korea, killed millions of people, divided the country and continues to garrison South Korea with military bases, nuclear weapons, chemical and biological weapon.”
He's just not reasonable.
Coito ergo sum wrote:LOL -- does Galloway not remember that Korea was ruled by Japan until 1945, and then divided in two by the Soviets and the Americans after WW2? Then North Korea invaded South Korea. The UN Security Council voted to help South Korea, and then with the US shouldering most of the non-ROK troop burden, they came in and pushed the North Koreans almost to the Yalu River. If it wasn't for China coming in on the side of the North Koreans, we'd have only one Korea today -- a Democratic one and not some monstrous regime in the North.FBM wrote:Dafuq. No reasonably well educated person could make this statement. Outside of NK, that is.klr wrote:...
"South Korea exists because America invaded Korea, killed millions of people, divided the country and continues to garrison South Korea with military bases, nuclear weapons, chemical and biological weapon.”
How the FUCK does he blame the US?
Galloway -- one reason I'm glad he would say something like he just said there is that it ought to clearly illustrate to everyone what a wanker he really is and what an apologist for totalitarian despots he really is. He's a piece of shit, always was and always will be.
Exactly what "research" is involved in economics anyway? I wouldn't have thought there was much to research with respect to the movement of little green pieces of paper. Makes me wonder why the hell there's a Nobel Prize for economics. It's not as if economics has produced anything remotely resembling the achievements of physics, is it?klr wrote:Clinton Huxley wrote:Preliminary to the LSE getting a £10m donation for the Kim Jong Un Centre for International Relations and Ballistics.klr wrote:Yup.Clinton Huxley wrote:I like the bit where the LSE say this has damaged their reputation. This is the institution that accepted donations from Gaddafi"s son....klr wrote:John Sweeney is a well-known investigative journalist, whose past credits include delving deep into the wonderful world of Scientology. If the LSE students didn't cop to what was going on, that's their problem.
On the NK side, the trip was organised - needless to say - by an organ of the NK regime. So it's not as if the students were ever going to get an accurate picture of what the country is like. Why did they ever bother to go in the first place?
They'd need it. The LSE is well down the UK rankings when it comes to research income. It's not even in the same division as the rest of the big universities it's supposed to be on a par with. That's what comes from specialising too much in the social sciences.
Which almost certainly testifies to the utter stagnation present within this field.Clinton Huxley wrote:It amuses me that a school of economics can't raise money.
Is it a science? I don't recall much in the way of empirical research being conducted therein. Unless you count the terms of office of various right wing politicians as "experiments". Though I suspect most people with functioning brain cells wouldn't want much to do with either Thatcher or Pinochet.klr wrote:Carlyle didn't call economics "The dismal science" for nothing. He must have been referring to its meagre potential for research earnings.Clinton Huxley wrote:It amuses me that a school of economics can't raise money.
FBM wrote:Then there's the flair of North Korea:
Well you know the meme about Asians purportedly being diminutive in that respect ...klr wrote:Now that's some serious medal bling.
Methinks our fraternal comrades are trying to compensate for something with the ridiculous number and size of those medals. And the over-size hats as well.
Which fantasy parallel universe does Galloway live in again?klr wrote:George Galloway distinguishes himself again:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/04 ... 50682.html
Controversial MP George Galloway has praised the "cohesive, pristine, innocent culture" of North Korea and blamed the US for "war mongering" to engineer the current crisis on the peninsula.
The MP for Bradford West gave the analysis earlier this week on his "Comment" show for the Iranian state-funded Press TV, when asked whether he thought the US was more dangerous than Kim Jong Un's bellicose state.
"We have to examine exactly who is threatening whom," he said, first reported by the Daily Caller. "Because one of the things I learnt on my two visits to North Korea, is that this is an extraordinarily cohesive political entity and society.
"They are courageously refusing to bow the knee to big power diktat and domination."
He added the caveat that he "does not agree with the North Korean system. I've been there, I've seen it up close and personal.
"But there have been achievements in North Korea, they have a satellite circling the earth. They have a nuclear power industry, even though they suspended it on false promises from President Clinton and US statesmen.
"They have a cohesive, pristine actually, innocent culture, a culture not penetrated by globalisation and Western mores.
He accused South Korea of being a "puppet state" of the US, adding: "I am much more afraid of the United States of America and so are most people in the world.
"North Korea has no intention to harm any of us. North Korea’s problem is with South Korea.
"South Korea exists because America invaded Korea, killed millions of people, divided the country and continues to garrison South Korea with military bases, nuclear weapons, chemical and biological weapon.”
"I believe that this is a United States trumped up little crisis,” he said. “They have pushed and pushed North Korea into a corner."
A YouTube clip of the segment has been widely tweeted, with many pouring scorn on Galloway's comments.
Galloway reiterates that he would not "like to live in North Korea".
"Not least because they certainly don’t believe in God in North Korea,” he continued.
It always amuses me that an intelligent firebrand like Galloway buys into the God business so much.Calilasseia wrote: ...
Which fantasy parallel universe does Galloway live in again?
Oh, and I love the fact that he wouldn't want to live there, despite what he hypes as its "cohesive, pristine, innocent culture", because they don't think an imaginary magic man is real. Of course, Hitchens famously described North Korea as a theocracy, the difference between it and other theocracies being that they actually had evidence for their gods.
Dafuq?Rum wrote:This is so toe curling I can hardly watch it..
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