Wow...and here you are, on an obscure anonymous message board, talking to no one. What happened?
By the way, are you still running 95% accuracy on your predictions?
North Korea's Nuclear Weapons
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Wow...and here you are, on an obscure anonymous message board, talking to no one. What happened?
By the way, are you still running 95% accuracy on your predictions?
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traderNik: Wow...and here you are, on an obscure anonymous message board, talking to no one. What happened?
By the way, are you still running 95% accuracy on your predictions?
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October 18, 2006
SouthAmerica: Reply to TraderNik
If you consider it so âobscure and anonymous message boardâ - then why are you wasting your time on this forum?
Don't you have anything else better to do?
To answer your question: No â But when the US dollar reaches US$ 1.40 to Euro 1.00 â I will be running 100 percent accuracy, and not 95 percent as you mentioned above.
Be patient the US dollar will get there. You can bet on that.
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traderNik: Wow...and here you are, on an obscure anonymous message board, talking to no one. What happened?
By the way, are you still running 95% accuracy on your predictions?
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October 18, 2006
SouthAmerica: Reply to TraderNik
If you consider it so âobscure and anonymous message boardâ - then why are you wasting your time on this forum?
Don't you have anything else better to do?
To answer your question: No â But when the US dollar reaches US$ 1.40 to Euro 1.00 â I will be running 100 percent accuracy, and not 95 percent as you mentioned above.
Be patient the US dollar will get there. You can bet on that.
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I see you evaded my question so I will ask it again.
If you are such a hotshot, if you are descended from Royalty, if your family has been in the courts of Kings, if you are widely recognized as an accurate predictor of future events, if you are so widely published as you would have us believe, what are you doing spend hours and hours here posting and responding to those who mock you - people who don't know you and whom you don't know - people whose opinions you seem to be so heavily invested in... and yet you don't know them. I mean, there must be some explanation for it. If you wanted to reach a wide audience there are plenty of other message boards that are more widely read than this one.
This is ANONYMOUS. You are NOBODY. Those who respond to you are NOBODY. Why are you doing this??
I have an average of 1 post a day for the past 4 years. And I do not start countless threads telling everyone how good I am at predicting and how impressive my bloodlines are.
You are the one doing that. Isn't that correct?
By the way... have you talked to spect-hater? He is a big believer in your type of message. You and he would get on well.
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October 18, 2006
SouthAmerica: Reply to TraderNik
You seem to be very concerned on how I reach my audience even if they are just a hand full of people. It looks like you would prefer that I move to some other message board and talk about something else.
I noticed that you never add much to the discussion of the thread where you post â I mean that is worth reading anyway â and you always try to change the subject of the thread for example this thread is about North Korea and nuclear weapons and you keep trying very hard to discuss my family background and the people who I mentioned on hundred of articles that I have published over the years.
Do you work for the US government? For any chance is it part of your job to disrupt the flow of discussion on the message board and try to change the subject of the thread when you donât like what is being discussed?
Or you just donât have the intellectual capability to follow the subject of the thread and you are not able to participate of the actual discussion on the various threads?
It does bother you that I am saying on this thread that if North Korea actually attacks Tokyo, Japan with nuclear weapons â that I am sure the United States will not retaliate in kind, because at the end of the day the United States canât do such a thing?
I go even further â If the North Koreans attack Tokyo with nuclear weapons do you think that the American people would allow the US government to get involved on such a messy nuclear war because of Japan?
I want to remind you that Pearl Harbor still fresh on the minds of many Americans and that many Americans lost a father, a grandfather, an uncle, or some other kind of relative and even friends during the years of war against Japan in the Pacific.
You can bet that if North Korea attacks Tokyo with Nukes the American public opinion wonât be in the side of the United States participating on a nuclear war â mainly when there is a possibility of drawing China into the conflict.
There is not a chance in hell that the United States would get involved on a nuclear war because of Japan. It does not matter that secretary of State Condi Rice is saying today that the US would retaliate in kind if such attack occurs â that are just empty words and empty rhetoric â it is just part of the strategy to try to scare the North Koreans from going ahead with such an attack â but the North Koreans are smarter than that and they have the nukes to prove it.
And if the North Koreans actually drop a nuclear weapon in Tokyo, I am sure that China would sit on the sidelines and also would remember of how nasty the Japanese were to them during Chinaâs Japanese occupation.
I am not anti-Japanese but that are the facts today.
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Just a reminder: JAPAN'S formal war on China began in 1931, and Japan occupied parts of China--two-thirds of the country at its peak--until the end of the war in 1945. The Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal and Chinese war historians estimate deaths resulting from the Japanese occupation at 10 million to 30 million. These figures, which some Chinese activists hope to revise upward, reflect deaths from massacre, attack, forced starvation and germ warfare.
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October 18, 2006
SouthAmerica: Reply to TraderNik
You seem to be very concerned on how I reach my audience even if they are just a hand full of people. It looks like you would prefer that I move to some other message board and talk about something else.
I noticed that you never add much to the discussion of the thread where you post â I mean that is worth reading anyway â and you always try to change the subject of the thread for example this thread is about North Korea and nuclear weapons and you keep trying very hard to discuss my family background and the people who I mentioned on hundred of articles that I have published over the years.
Do you work for the US government? For any chance is it part of your job to disrupt the flow of discussion on the message board and try to change the subject of the thread when you donât like what is being discussed?
Or you just donât have the intellectual capability to follow the subject of the thread and you are not able to participate of the actual discussion on the various threads?
It does bother you that I am saying on this thread that if North Korea actually attacks Tokyo, Japan with nuclear weapons â that I am sure the United States will not retaliate in kind, because at the end of the day the United States canât do such a thing?
I go even further â If the North Koreans attack Tokyo with nuclear weapons do you think that the American people would allow the US government to get involved on such a messy nuclear war because of Japan?
I want to remind you that Pearl Harbor still fresh on the minds of many Americans and that many Americans lost a father, a grandfather, an uncle, or some other kind of relative and even friends during the years of war against Japan in the Pacific.
You can bet that if North Korea attacks Tokyo with Nukes the American public opinion wonât be in the side of the United States participating on a nuclear war â mainly when there is a possibility of drawing China into the conflict.
There is not a chance in hell that the United States would get involved on a nuclear war because of Japan. It does not matter that secretary of State Condi Rice is saying today that the US would retaliate in kind if such attack occurs â that are just empty words and empty rhetoric â it is just part of the strategy to try to scare the North Koreans from going ahead with such an attack â but the North Koreans are smarter than that and they have the nukes to prove it.
And if the North Koreans actually drop a nuclear weapon in Tokyo, I am sure that China would sit on the sidelines and also would remember of how nasty the Japanese were to them during Chinaâs Japanese occupation.
I am not anti-Japanese but that are the facts today.
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Just a reminder: JAPAN'S formal war on China began in 1931, and Japan occupied parts of China--two-thirds of the country at its peak--until the end of the war in 1945. The Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal and Chinese war historians estimate deaths resulting from the Japanese occupation at 10 million to 30 million. These figures, which some Chinese activists hope to revise upward, reflect deaths from massacre, attack, forced starvation and germ warfare.
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October 19, 2006
SouthAmerica: South Korea is on the right track and they should not abandon their goal of merging with North Korea into a country in a peaceful way.
This is the right way of doing it with investments and by developing close ties with the North.
The South Koreans must have grasped by now that the merged Koreas (North and South) armed with nuclear weapons will be a country with a lot more international clout than a merged Korea with no nukes. The South Koreans should welcome the fact that the North Koreans were able to develop nuclear weapons and they should not be afraid of them.
The South Koreans also know that the nukes are much more of a threat to Japan than to South Korea. If the North Koreans ever use one of their nukes will be against Japan and not South Korea.
The Japanese should be worried about the North Korean nuclear threat, and they should ask Washington to stop all this pressure against North Korea to try to destabilize the North Korean government. If the system started collapsing in North Korea because of US foreign policy against that country â Japan might be the country that will pay a heavy price if North Korea decides to attack Tokyo with nuclear weapons.
If the North Koreans actually managed to nuke Tokyo, and as a result you have one million casualties, from the US perspective that would be considered just as âCollateral Damageâ a term used here in the United States by the mainstream media to justify and be more acceptable to the American people the killing lots of innocent people.
It is easy to accept the killings of women, children, and senior citizens when it is justified as just âCollateral Damage.â
âCollateral Damageâ â Itâs acceptable, as long it does not involve the killing of a member of your family â but itâs O.K. when it is against someone elseâs family.
I can imagine what the South Koreans and the Chinese must be thinking when Condi Rice comes around to ask them to implement âUS Resolution 1718â against the North Koreans.
At least they will not say to Condi Rice what they are really thinking about this entire US/North Korea crisis, because they are a very polite people and as a matter of courtesy.
But if Condi Rice gets the drift then she will understand that the sooner she takes her flight out of town the better it will be for her.
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âSouth Korea Says It Will Continue Projects in Northâ
By THOM SHANKER and MARTIN FACKLER
Published: October 19, 2006
The New York Times
SEOUL, Oct. 19 -- The government of South Korea told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice today that it had no intention of pulling out of an industrial zone and a tourist resort in North Korea, even though both put hard currency into the pocket of the Pyongyang regime.
During a press conference with Ms. Rice, the South Korean foreign minister, Ban Ki-moon, said he explained "the positive aspects" of the industrial park at Kaesong, and also described how the tourism zone around Mount Kumgang was "a very symbolic project" for reconciliation between the two Koreas.
If Secretary Rice was disappointed by the statement, her public comments instead emphasized the importance of the U.S.-South Korean alliance. The goal, she said, is not to elevate tensions on the peninsula, but to implement sanctions under a Security Council resolution as a multinational effort forcing force North Korea to return to 6-party negotiations and end its nuclear program.
"I did not come to South Korea, nor will I go anyplace else, to try and dictate to governments what they ought to do in response to resolution 1718," Ms. Rice said after meetings with President Roh Moo-hyun and Foreign Minister Ban, recently chosen as the next secretary general of the United Nations.
"What I do think is very important is that everyone take stock of the leverage that we have to get North Korea to return to the six-party talks and negotiate seriously the dismantlement of its nuclear weapons programs," she said.
Ms. Rice is in the region to press for strict enforcement of the Security Councilâs punitive sanctions against North Korea for its nuclear test last week. Her toughest job will be convincing South Korea and China, which differ with the United States on how to engage the Northâs reclusive Communist regime.
Ms. Rice is scheduled to fly on Friday to Beijing, where news service reports today quoted the Chinese foreign ministry as saying that a Chinese envoy met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and delivered a message from Chinese President Hu Jintao.
A foreign ministry spokesman, Liu Jianchao, said he had no details of the message conveyed by State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan, who flew to Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, on Wednesday.
âThis is a very significant visit, against the backdrop of major changes on the Korean peninsula,â Mr. Liu said.
Mr. Tang had met with President Bush at the White House last week to discuss North Koreaâs nuclear test.
Secretary Rice said today that she had received no official report from the Chinese government on Mr. Tangâs visit to Beijing. But she expressed certainty that he delivered a strong message that North Koreaâs "behavior is unacceptable."
North Koreaâs official news agency described the meeting with Mr. Tang as âfriendly,â Agence France-Presse reported.
South Korea and China hold the key to the effectiveness of the sanctions, which were passed Saturday after intense negotiations, because they share the longest borders with North Korea, and are by far its biggest economic partners. South Koreaâs trade with the North reached $1.06 billion last year, more than double what it was in 2000.
But while Washington has long called for further isolating the North to discourage its nuclear ambitions, South Korea has taken a different course. Its decade-old policy of engagement has aimed to ensure peace on the Korean peninsula by opening the North to trade, investment and economic interdependence.
Last weekâs nuclear test raised calls within South Korea to re-examine the policy. But officials in Seoul have said the U.N. sanctions will not end broad economic and trade contacts with the North, a position still widely supported by South Korean public opinion.
In particular, South Korea will press forward with two large investments across the demilitarized zone, its heavily fortified 154-mile border with the North: an industrial park at Kaesong, and a tourism zone around Mount Kumgang.
State Department officials, however, describe the tourism zone in particular as a conduit for cash for North Korean leaders. The project, which opens an ancient Buddhist holy mountain and hot springs to foreign visitors, has earned North Korea more than $456.9 million in precious hard currency, according to the South Korean company that developed it, Hyundai Asan.
On Wednesday, Song Min-soon, a security advisor for President Roh, said that the project "is not a policy to be changed following somebodyâs order to do this or that."
"We are not deviating from the international community only because we differ with a certain country," he told reporters.
"Iâm not going to name that country," he added, though the context made it clear he was referring to the United States.
In his comments alongside Ms. Rice today, Foreign Minister Ban did acknowledge that South Korea was still waiting for more specific guidelines from a United Nations sanction committee now working on details of implementing the resolution.
But many in South Korea see the United States as trying to drive a wedge between the two Koreas, fueling a resentment that has contributed to the Sunshine Policyâs popularity here. At the same time, South Korean conservatives have criticized the two investment zones as providing funds for the Northâs nuclear program.
In a show of support for the engagement policy, Kim Geun-tae, the chairman of South Koreaâs ruling political party, the Uri Party, said he plans to visit the Kaesong industrial park on Friday. The park, where South Korean-owned factories use cheap North Korean labor to make goods like leather bags and shoes, has been less controversial than Mount Kumgang because it is seen as doing more to push the North toward a market economy.
"It is an action to symbolically show that the inter-Korean economic cooperation projects must continue," Mr. Kim was quoted as saying by the JoonAng Daily newspaper.
The United Nations Security Council sanctions bar the sale or transfer of material that could be used to make nuclear, biological and chemical weapons or ballistic missiles. It also bans international travel and freezes overseas assets of people associated with the
The difficulty in fitting South Koreaâs economic involvement with the North under the new Security Council sanctions stems from the fact that the trade and tourist zones are not directly linked to North Koreaâs programs to develop unconventional weapons and build ballistic missiles, but the hard currency earned from those projects certainly helps prop up the regime.
Later Thursday, Secretary Rice was to have dinner here with her counterparts from South Korea and Japan, Minister Ban and Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso.
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October 19, 2006
SouthAmerica: South Korea is on the right track and they should not abandon their goal of merging with North Korea into a country in a peaceful way.
This is the right way of doing it with investments and by developing close ties with the North.
The South Koreans must have grasped by now that the merged Koreas (North and South) armed with nuclear weapons will be a country with a lot more international clout than a merged Korea with no nukes. The South Koreans should welcome the fact that the North Koreans were able to develop nuclear weapons and they should not be afraid of them.
The South Koreans also know that the nukes are much more of a threat to Japan than to South Korea. If the North Koreans ever use one of their nukes will be against Japan and not South Korea.
The Japanese should be worried about the North Korean nuclear threat, and they should ask Washington to stop all this pressure against North Korea to try to destabilize the North Korean government. If the system started collapsing in North Korea because of US foreign policy against that country â Japan might be the country that will pay a heavy price if North Korea decides to attack Tokyo with nuclear weapons.
If the North Koreans actually managed to nuke Tokyo, and as a result you have one million casualties, from the US perspective that would be considered just as âCollateral Damageâ a term used here in the United States by the mainstream media to justify and be more acceptable to the American people the killing lots of innocent people.
It is easy to accept the killings of women, children, and senior citizens when it is justified as just âCollateral Damage.â
âCollateral Damageâ â Itâs acceptable, as long it does not involve the killing of a member of your family â but itâs O.K. when it is against someone elseâs family.
I can imagine what the South Koreans and the Chinese must be thinking when Condi Rice comes around to ask them to implement âUS Resolution 1718â against the North Koreans.
At least they will not say to Condi Rice what they are really thinking about this entire US/North Korea crisis, because they are a very polite people and as a matter of courtesy.
But if Condi Rice gets the drift then she will understand that the sooner she takes her flight out of town the better it will be for her.
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âSouth Korea Says It Will Continue Projects in Northâ
By THOM SHANKER and MARTIN FACKLER
Published: October 19, 2006
The New York Times
SEOUL, Oct. 19 -- The government of South Korea told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice today that it had no intention of pulling out of an industrial zone and a tourist resort in North Korea, even though both put hard currency into the pocket of the Pyongyang regime.
During a press conference with Ms. Rice, the South Korean foreign minister, Ban Ki-moon, said he explained "the positive aspects" of the industrial park at Kaesong, and also described how the tourism zone around Mount Kumgang was "a very symbolic project" for reconciliation between the two Koreas.
If Secretary Rice was disappointed by the statement, her public comments instead emphasized the importance of the U.S.-South Korean alliance. The goal, she said, is not to elevate tensions on the peninsula, but to implement sanctions under a Security Council resolution as a multinational effort forcing force North Korea to return to 6-party negotiations and end its nuclear program.
"I did not come to South Korea, nor will I go anyplace else, to try and dictate to governments what they ought to do in response to resolution 1718," Ms. Rice said after meetings with President Roh Moo-hyun and Foreign Minister Ban, recently chosen as the next secretary general of the United Nations.
"What I do think is very important is that everyone take stock of the leverage that we have to get North Korea to return to the six-party talks and negotiate seriously the dismantlement of its nuclear weapons programs," she said.
Ms. Rice is in the region to press for strict enforcement of the Security Councilâs punitive sanctions against North Korea for its nuclear test last week. Her toughest job will be convincing South Korea and China, which differ with the United States on how to engage the Northâs reclusive Communist regime.
Ms. Rice is scheduled to fly on Friday to Beijing, where news service reports today quoted the Chinese foreign ministry as saying that a Chinese envoy met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and delivered a message from Chinese President Hu Jintao.
A foreign ministry spokesman, Liu Jianchao, said he had no details of the message conveyed by State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan, who flew to Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, on Wednesday.
âThis is a very significant visit, against the backdrop of major changes on the Korean peninsula,â Mr. Liu said.
Mr. Tang had met with President Bush at the White House last week to discuss North Koreaâs nuclear test.
Secretary Rice said today that she had received no official report from the Chinese government on Mr. Tangâs visit to Beijing. But she expressed certainty that he delivered a strong message that North Koreaâs "behavior is unacceptable."
North Koreaâs official news agency described the meeting with Mr. Tang as âfriendly,â Agence France-Presse reported.
South Korea and China hold the key to the effectiveness of the sanctions, which were passed Saturday after intense negotiations, because they share the longest borders with North Korea, and are by far its biggest economic partners. South Koreaâs trade with the North reached $1.06 billion last year, more than double what it was in 2000.
But while Washington has long called for further isolating the North to discourage its nuclear ambitions, South Korea has taken a different course. Its decade-old policy of engagement has aimed to ensure peace on the Korean peninsula by opening the North to trade, investment and economic interdependence.
Last weekâs nuclear test raised calls within South Korea to re-examine the policy. But officials in Seoul have said the U.N. sanctions will not end broad economic and trade contacts with the North, a position still widely supported by South Korean public opinion.
In particular, South Korea will press forward with two large investments across the demilitarized zone, its heavily fortified 154-mile border with the North: an industrial park at Kaesong, and a tourism zone around Mount Kumgang.
State Department officials, however, describe the tourism zone in particular as a conduit for cash for North Korean leaders. The project, which opens an ancient Buddhist holy mountain and hot springs to foreign visitors, has earned North Korea more than $456.9 million in precious hard currency, according to the South Korean company that developed it, Hyundai Asan.
On Wednesday, Song Min-soon, a security advisor for President Roh, said that the project "is not a policy to be changed following somebodyâs order to do this or that."
"We are not deviating from the international community only because we differ with a certain country," he told reporters.
"Iâm not going to name that country," he added, though the context made it clear he was referring to the United States.
In his comments alongside Ms. Rice today, Foreign Minister Ban did acknowledge that South Korea was still waiting for more specific guidelines from a United Nations sanction committee now working on details of implementing the resolution.
But many in South Korea see the United States as trying to drive a wedge between the two Koreas, fueling a resentment that has contributed to the Sunshine Policyâs popularity here. At the same time, South Korean conservatives have criticized the two investment zones as providing funds for the Northâs nuclear program.
In a show of support for the engagement policy, Kim Geun-tae, the chairman of South Koreaâs ruling political party, the Uri Party, said he plans to visit the Kaesong industrial park on Friday. The park, where South Korean-owned factories use cheap North Korean labor to make goods like leather bags and shoes, has been less controversial than Mount Kumgang because it is seen as doing more to push the North toward a market economy.
"It is an action to symbolically show that the inter-Korean economic cooperation projects must continue," Mr. Kim was quoted as saying by the JoonAng Daily newspaper.
The United Nations Security Council sanctions bar the sale or transfer of material that could be used to make nuclear, biological and chemical weapons or ballistic missiles. It also bans international travel and freezes overseas assets of people associated with the
The difficulty in fitting South Koreaâs economic involvement with the North under the new Security Council sanctions stems from the fact that the trade and tourist zones are not directly linked to North Koreaâs programs to develop unconventional weapons and build ballistic missiles, but the hard currency earned from those projects certainly helps prop up the regime.
Later Thursday, Secretary Rice was to have dinner here with her counterparts from South Korea and Japan, Minister Ban and Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso.
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October 20, 2006
SouthAmerica: I wonder what The New York Times article means by âbolster its relationship with the United Statesâ.
The Chinese already has the United States by the balls in many ways; first, China is keeping the US economy afloat by lending the US government a ton of money. Besides if the US is not allowed to buy stuff from China then which country has the capability to ship all the stuff that Americans buy from China?
Wal-Mart would have to shut its doors, since 90 percent of what you see on the shelves of Wal-Mart stores in the US comes from China â What Wal-Mart is going to do if they are not allowed to buy all their goods from China?
When you are a borrower with a capital âBâ such is the case with the US today in relation to China, then you donât have much leverage against your master and the country that is keeping your economy afloat in many ways.
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âChina seems set to harden stanceâ
By Joseph Kahn - The New York Times
Published: October 19, 2006
BEIJING China is prepared to escalate pressure on North Korea in coming weeks, including reducing oil shipments, if the country refuses to return to negotiations or conducts more nuclear tests, Chinese government advisers and scholars who have discussed the matter with the leadership said.
If Beijing does take a tougher line on its neighbor and longtime ally, it will very likely bolster its relationship with the United States. Washington has urged China's leaders to use all the tools at their disposal to bring additional pressure on Kim Jong Il, the North Korean leader.
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SouthAmerica: On October 19, 2006 The New York Times published an article âU.S. Objections Lead Spain to End an Aircraft Deal With Venezuelaâ and the article said:
ââ¦The aircraft deal, which involved the sale of 12 military transport planes, was signed as part of a broader agreement between Spain and Venezuela that was valued at about $ 2.1 billion dollarsâ¦.â
The Bush administration did block the sell of these aircrafts from Spain to Venezuela at cost of over $ 2 billion dollars and a lot of jobs for the Spanish economy.
Hugo Chavez has a very good opportunity right now to do a major humanitarian gesture and at the same time to play hardball with the Bush administration. He can announce immediately to the world that Venezuela is donating oil and money to North Korea to help keep the North Korean economy afloat during this period of hardship for North Korea - and he can work the details for the oil delivery with the Chinese.
North Korea should go ahead and follow up with a second nuclear test to show to the world that North Korea has sovereignty and as an independent nation North Korea has the right to do such a nuclear testing on its own territory. Besides North Korea it does not have to follow any international agreement since North Korea has officially unsigned their country from the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. North Korea is not breaking any international agreement.
Why the United Nations is not also imposing very tough and severe sanctions against the other states that donât belong to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty such as Israel, India, and Pakistan?
The UN is turning itself into a pathetic circus and should not be taken seriously when they are passing severe sanctions against other countries on behalf of the United States such as âUS Resolution 1718.â
If the United Nations wants to be taken seriously by the other countries from around the world then letâs see similar resolutions against Israel, India, and Pakistan. If they decide that it is not necessary to do that then they can take âUS Resolution 1718â and stick it on a place that never sees any sunshine.
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October 20, 2006
SouthAmerica: I wonder what The New York Times article means by âbolster its relationship with the United Statesâ.
The Chinese already has the United States by the balls in many ways; first, China is keeping the US economy afloat by lending the US government a ton of money. Besides if the US is not allowed to buy stuff from China then which country has the capability to ship all the stuff that Americans buy from China?
Wal-Mart would have to shut its doors, since 90 percent of what you see on the shelves of Wal-Mart stores in the US comes from China â What Wal-Mart is going to do if they are not allowed to buy all their goods from China?
When you are a borrower with a capital âBâ such is the case with the US today in relation to China, then you donât have much leverage against your master and the country that is keeping your economy afloat in many ways.
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âChina seems set to harden stanceâ
By Joseph Kahn - The New York Times
Published: October 19, 2006
BEIJING China is prepared to escalate pressure on North Korea in coming weeks, including reducing oil shipments, if the country refuses to return to negotiations or conducts more nuclear tests, Chinese government advisers and scholars who have discussed the matter with the leadership said.
If Beijing does take a tougher line on its neighbor and longtime ally, it will very likely bolster its relationship with the United States. Washington has urged China's leaders to use all the tools at their disposal to bring additional pressure on Kim Jong Il, the North Korean leader.
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SouthAmerica: On October 19, 2006 The New York Times published an article âU.S. Objections Lead Spain to End an Aircraft Deal With Venezuelaâ and the article said:
ââ¦The aircraft deal, which involved the sale of 12 military transport planes, was signed as part of a broader agreement between Spain and Venezuela that was valued at about $ 2.1 billion dollarsâ¦.â
The Bush administration did block the sell of these aircrafts from Spain to Venezuela at cost of over $ 2 billion dollars and a lot of jobs for the Spanish economy.
Hugo Chavez has a very good opportunity right now to do a major humanitarian gesture and at the same time to play hardball with the Bush administration. He can announce immediately to the world that Venezuela is donating oil and money to North Korea to help keep the North Korean economy afloat during this period of hardship for North Korea - and he can work the details for the oil delivery with the Chinese.
North Korea should go ahead and follow up with a second nuclear test to show to the world that North Korea has sovereignty and as an independent nation North Korea has the right to do such a nuclear testing on its own territory. Besides North Korea it does not have to follow any international agreement since North Korea has officially unsigned their country from the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. North Korea is not breaking any international agreement.
Why the United Nations is not also imposing very tough and severe sanctions against the other states that donât belong to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty such as Israel, India, and Pakistan?
The UN is turning itself into a pathetic circus and should not be taken seriously when they are passing severe sanctions against other countries on behalf of the United States such as âUS Resolution 1718.â
If the United Nations wants to be taken seriously by the other countries from around the world then letâs see similar resolutions against Israel, India, and Pakistan. If they decide that it is not necessary to do that then they can take âUS Resolution 1718â and stick it on a place that never sees any sunshine.
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Your 'audience'?? My goodness...
I couldn't care less what you do or don't do. If I see people posting garbage, I will try to respond. I think you're very much like the Z-Troll, in the sense that the 'community' you have here is the only one you have, either in the real world or in the pretend world. You are unlikely to give up the only community you have.
Ah, I see. So evidently you don't understand the idea that when someone makes a statement like 'If Al Gore had been in the White House, we would be ushering in a new era of peace and prosperity in partnership with North Korea', anyone who reads it is naturally going to get some information about the source, so that it can be understood in context. In this case, the context is a minor message board troll that enjoys posting fabrications about his friendship with rulers of South American countries, about his family and it's pre-eminence, about his breeding, about the Kings and Queens he has lunched with, about his statements that his own predictions are 95% accurate, and about his being widely published and a well respected political commentator. Once we have established that the source is not credible, we can better understand the arguments being presented. I am simply pointing out that you aren't a credible source. There are plenty of people on here, including some with whom I vehemently disagree, whose opinions I respect. I will always give their statements careful consideration.
I shouldn't worry in this case, because there isn't one member on this site that is stupid enough to believe that the Beloved Leader would be doing anything different than what he is doing now. He runs a closed country that acts as his personal fiefdom. He is playing a game with the U.S.; there is no reason for him to engage in peaceful acts or those which encourage PROSPERITY among his subjects. PROSPERITY is the LAST THING the Beloved Leader is interested in offering his subjects. This is so self evident that in my opinion, the fact that you suggested otherwise indicates that you may be another zEvader type who makes statements he knows to be false simply in order to provoke a response. This is what children who have been neglected do. Angry responses are better than no response at all.
With regard to my contributions here... I really hate to tell you this, but this statement reveals the fact that you never leave Politics & Religion and browse elsewhere, in the other forums.
Are you seriously suggesting that you believe it possible that an agent of the U.S. government would post on these boards in an effort to disrupt anti-American propaganda? Is this what you are suggesting?
I guess the answer to that is that although I feel that I do have the intellectual capacity to follow the subject of a thread, I don't see anything in this thread to follow. To tell you the truth, having seen a sampling from your threads, I don't bother to read through them. It's telling, however, that when I randomly click on a thread which I have never viewed, and it turns out to be one of yours, I always see two things.
1. Outrageous assertions drawn from thin air
2. Repeated statements by you about how you are descended from Latin Royalty and that your bloodlines are superior, how your predictions are 95% accurate, and how you are personal friends with many heads of state.
I hope that clears things up for you.
In the end, the one question which I have asked you repeatedly, the one question which you will never answer is this -
Why? Why do you spend so much time posting all these bizarre theories on an ANONYMOUS message board. You have no 'audience' here, except for those that bash you, which from a quick review seems like about 90% of those who post in your threads.
Now why would anyone carry on with something like that, in a place where what he says will never matter...?
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traderNik: about his family and it's pre-eminence, about his breeding, about the Kings and Queens he has lunched with,
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October 20, 2006
SouthAmerica: I know a lot people recent the people that have a similar family background as I have - what is considered to be the nobility and the upper class, but that is history. And you have to deal with that an not me.
My family history is a fact, is real and it is documented over and over again.
History is history, and you can't change the past, we can change only the future.
I never said that I had lunch with any of these people who have died long time ago. They are just part of my ancestry.
By the way, do you know what I mean by ancestor?
Ancestors are the people who came before you on your family tree. That is why there is a bloodline connection with these people who lived on the past.
Let me try to clarify this connection with the past for you â For example Jose Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva (The Patriarch of Brazilian Independence) He fought very bravely during a number of years in Portugal under the command of the Duke of Wellington and they defeated the French armies under the command of 3 different Generals on tree different French invasions of Portugal during that time.
They have all documented and it is on the record about all these battles and they have documented how close Jose Bonifacio came from getting killed in battle â he earned many honors as a great warrior. He was always in the frontlines and was one of the first ones to charge against the enemy and he was an inspiration to his battalion.
If Jose Bonifacio had died on one of these battles during that time as a direct descendant from him I would not be here today including my sisters, my father, my fatherâs mother and so onâ¦None of us would have been born since we are all descendants of the second daughter of Jose Bonifacio.
Someone after reading one of my articles asked me a question about how many noble people I had as my ancestors. After a quick compilation from books about our family and information on other historic sources I was able to come up with a short list of people whom I listed below. Probably there are many more people that I left out and I have not included in the list.
Going back in my family tree I had many important ancestors, for example:
I am 4th generation from Senator Jose Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva
(He was the grandson of The Patriarch of independence)
I am 5th generation from Martim Francisco Ribeiro de Andrada
(He wrote the document declaring the independence of Brazil)
I am 6th generation from Jose Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva (Patriarca da Independencia) (He is responsible for the independence of Brazil from Portugal)
I am 4th generation from Senator Francisco Souza Queiroz - Barão de Souza Queiroz
I am 5th generation from Brigadier Luiz Antonio de Souza - Barão de Souza Queiroz
I am 5th generation from Senator Nicolau Campos Vergueiro (Regent of the Empire).
I am 9th generation from a younger brother of Dom João lV (Bragança Dynasty)
I am 12th generation from Dom João III (Aviz Dynasty)
I am 10th generation from the 7th Duke of Bragança
I am 11th generation from the 6th Duke of Bragança
I am 12th generation from the 5th Duke of Bragança
I am 13th generation from the 4th Duke of Bragança
I am 14th generation from the 3rd Duke of Bragança
I am 15th generation from the 2nd Duke of Bragança
I am 16th generation from the 1st Duke of Bragança
(The 1st Duke of Braganca was a son of Dom Joao I )
I am 17th generation from Dom João I and his Queen Philippa of Lancaster
(Portuguese King and his English Queen)
I am 18th generation from John the Gaunt (Lancaster Dynasty) father of Queen Philippa. (He is the father of Queen Philippa of Lancaster)
Royal House:
Dom João I and Dom João III were both kings of Portugal from the Aviz Dynasty.
John the Gaunt was king of England from the Lancaster Dynasty.
The two Emperors of Brazil also were descendants of the 7th Duke of Bragança, since the 8th Duke of Bragança became Dom João IV king of Portugal.
Here are some more facts about my ancestors and Family History.
The Souza Queiroz family branch also has documented that the Senator Francisco Souza Queiroz - Barão de Souza Queiroz is a direct descendant of Alfonso VI â King of Spain and his wife Isabel of Seville.
In 2005 some of my cousins got in contact with me because our family is in the process of writing various books documenting the history of our family and the impact that they had in Brazilian history.
I just received a book published about our family at the end of last year. One of my cousins who is senior columnist for the âO Estado de Sao Pauloâ (The newspaper in Brazil equivalent to The New York Times in the US), he told me that there are right now six historians in Brazil doing research and writing books about our family and on the genealogic tree of the Barao de Souza Queiroz (one of my great-great grandfathers).
The historians found some interesting information regarding the ancestors of the Baron de Souza Queiroz and they included various kings of Spain. They were able to trace his ancestors all the way to Alfonso VI â King of Spain around 1095. The interesting information about that particular ancestor is that he married the Muslim Princess Zaida (b. 1071- d.1103) â the daughter of Muhammad III (Abu-l-Kasim) Al-Mutamid, King of Seville. Muhammad III born in 1040, in Seville, Spain, and after the Spanish drove him out of Spain he became the Emir of Morocco and he died in 1095, in Aghmat, Morocco at age 55.
When Muslim Princess Zaida married Alfonso VI â King of Spain, she was baptized Catholic and they changed her name to Isabel of Seville, and in 1092 she had a son who later became king of Spain.
I find interesting that the historians in Brazil were able to trace de ancestors of my great-great-grandfather â the Baron of Souza Queiroz all the way to the year 1095.
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Note: Rodrigo DÃaz de Vivar (Vivar c.1040 â Valencia, 10 July 1099), known as âEl Cidâ Campeador, was a Castilian nobleman, then military and political leader who conquered and governed the city of Valencia. Rodrigo DÃaz was educated in the royal court of the Castile and became the alférez, or chief general, of âAlfonso VI,â fighting against the Moors in the early Reconquista.
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The Baron of Souza Queiroz had eleven children and my great-grandfather was the Baronâs youngest kid.
My great-grandfather Carlos de Souza Queiroz, married Maria Flora de Andrada e Silva.
Maria Flora was a daughter of Jose Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva (The Young).
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As you can see my family tree includes many important people in Brazilian, Portuguese, Spanish, and English history. I also know that a branch of my family is also descendent of the Spanish Hapsburg Dynasty as documented by the historians in Brazil.
All the above ancestry is from my fatherâs side of the family. On my motherâs side of the family we also had senators and other important people from Brazilian history.
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History of Portugal
RULERS OF PORTUGAL
YEAR
Alfonso VI of Castile (1095 - 1128)
Burgundy dynasty
* Alfonso I (1128 - 1185), from 1139 king
* Sancho I (1185 - 1211)
* Alfonso II (1211 - 1223)
* Sancho II (1223 - 1248)
* Alfonso III (1248 - 1279)
* Diniz (1279 - 1325)
* Alfonso IV (1325 - 1357)
* Pedro I (1357 - 1367)
* Fernando I (1367 - 1383)
regent (1383 - 1385)
Aviz dynasty
* Joao I (1385 - 1433)
* Duarte (1433 - 1438)
* Alfonso V (1438 - 1481)
* Joao II (1481 - 1495)
* Manoel I (1495 - 1521)
* Joao III (1521 - 1557)
* Sebastiao (1557 - 1578)
* Henrique I (1578 - 1580)
Habsburg dynasty - personal union with Spain
* Felipe II (1580 - 1598)
* Felipe III (1598 - 1621)
* Felipe IV (1621 - 1640)
Braganca dynasty
* Joao IV (1640 - 1656)
* Alfonso VI (1656 - 1683)
* Pedro II (1683 - 1706)
* Joao V (1706 - 1750)
* José I Manoel (1750 - 1777)
* Pedro III (1777 - 1786)
* Maria I (1777 - 1816)
* Joao VI (1816 - 1826)
* Pedro IV (1826)
* Maria II (1826 - 1828)
* Miguel I (1828 - 1833)
* Maria II (1833 - 1853)
Braganca - Coburg dynasty
* Ferdinando (1837 - 1853)
* Pedro V (1853 - 1861)
* Luiz I (1861 - 1889)
* Carlos I (1889 - 1908)
* Manoel II (1908 - 1910)
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traderNik: about his family and it's pre-eminence, about his breeding, about the Kings and Queens he has lunched with,
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October 20, 2006
SouthAmerica: I know a lot people recent the people that have a similar family background as I have - what is considered to be the nobility and the upper class, but that is history. And you have to deal with that an not me.
My family history is a fact, is real and it is documented over and over again.
History is history, and you can't change the past, we can change only the future.
I never said that I had lunch with any of these people who have died long time ago. They are just part of my ancestry.
By the way, do you know what I mean by ancestor?
Ancestors are the people who came before you on your family tree. That is why there is a bloodline connection with these people who lived on the past.
Let me try to clarify this connection with the past for you â For example Jose Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva (The Patriarch of Brazilian Independence) He fought very bravely during a number of years in Portugal under the command of the Duke of Wellington and they defeated the French armies under the command of 3 different Generals on tree different French invasions of Portugal during that time.
They have all documented and it is on the record about all these battles and they have documented how close Jose Bonifacio came from getting killed in battle â he earned many honors as a great warrior. He was always in the frontlines and was one of the first ones to charge against the enemy and he was an inspiration to his battalion.
If Jose Bonifacio had died on one of these battles during that time as a direct descendant from him I would not be here today including my sisters, my father, my fatherâs mother and so onâ¦None of us would have been born since we are all descendants of the second daughter of Jose Bonifacio.
Someone after reading one of my articles asked me a question about how many noble people I had as my ancestors. After a quick compilation from books about our family and information on other historic sources I was able to come up with a short list of people whom I listed below. Probably there are many more people that I left out and I have not included in the list.
Going back in my family tree I had many important ancestors, for example:
I am 4th generation from Senator Jose Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva
(He was the grandson of The Patriarch of independence)
I am 5th generation from Martim Francisco Ribeiro de Andrada
(He wrote the document declaring the independence of Brazil)
I am 6th generation from Jose Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva (Patriarca da Independencia) (He is responsible for the independence of Brazil from Portugal)
I am 4th generation from Senator Francisco Souza Queiroz - Barão de Souza Queiroz
I am 5th generation from Brigadier Luiz Antonio de Souza - Barão de Souza Queiroz
I am 5th generation from Senator Nicolau Campos Vergueiro (Regent of the Empire).
I am 9th generation from a younger brother of Dom João lV (Bragança Dynasty)
I am 12th generation from Dom João III (Aviz Dynasty)
I am 10th generation from the 7th Duke of Bragança
I am 11th generation from the 6th Duke of Bragança
I am 12th generation from the 5th Duke of Bragança
I am 13th generation from the 4th Duke of Bragança
I am 14th generation from the 3rd Duke of Bragança
I am 15th generation from the 2nd Duke of Bragança
I am 16th generation from the 1st Duke of Bragança
(The 1st Duke of Braganca was a son of Dom Joao I )
I am 17th generation from Dom João I and his Queen Philippa of Lancaster
(Portuguese King and his English Queen)
I am 18th generation from John the Gaunt (Lancaster Dynasty) father of Queen Philippa. (He is the father of Queen Philippa of Lancaster)
Royal House:
Dom João I and Dom João III were both kings of Portugal from the Aviz Dynasty.
John the Gaunt was king of England from the Lancaster Dynasty.
The two Emperors of Brazil also were descendants of the 7th Duke of Bragança, since the 8th Duke of Bragança became Dom João IV king of Portugal.
Here are some more facts about my ancestors and Family History.
The Souza Queiroz family branch also has documented that the Senator Francisco Souza Queiroz - Barão de Souza Queiroz is a direct descendant of Alfonso VI â King of Spain and his wife Isabel of Seville.
In 2005 some of my cousins got in contact with me because our family is in the process of writing various books documenting the history of our family and the impact that they had in Brazilian history.
I just received a book published about our family at the end of last year. One of my cousins who is senior columnist for the âO Estado de Sao Pauloâ (The newspaper in Brazil equivalent to The New York Times in the US), he told me that there are right now six historians in Brazil doing research and writing books about our family and on the genealogic tree of the Barao de Souza Queiroz (one of my great-great grandfathers).
The historians found some interesting information regarding the ancestors of the Baron de Souza Queiroz and they included various kings of Spain. They were able to trace his ancestors all the way to Alfonso VI â King of Spain around 1095. The interesting information about that particular ancestor is that he married the Muslim Princess Zaida (b. 1071- d.1103) â the daughter of Muhammad III (Abu-l-Kasim) Al-Mutamid, King of Seville. Muhammad III born in 1040, in Seville, Spain, and after the Spanish drove him out of Spain he became the Emir of Morocco and he died in 1095, in Aghmat, Morocco at age 55.
When Muslim Princess Zaida married Alfonso VI â King of Spain, she was baptized Catholic and they changed her name to Isabel of Seville, and in 1092 she had a son who later became king of Spain.
I find interesting that the historians in Brazil were able to trace de ancestors of my great-great-grandfather â the Baron of Souza Queiroz all the way to the year 1095.
***
Note: Rodrigo DÃaz de Vivar (Vivar c.1040 â Valencia, 10 July 1099), known as âEl Cidâ Campeador, was a Castilian nobleman, then military and political leader who conquered and governed the city of Valencia. Rodrigo DÃaz was educated in the royal court of the Castile and became the alférez, or chief general, of âAlfonso VI,â fighting against the Moors in the early Reconquista.
***
The Baron of Souza Queiroz had eleven children and my great-grandfather was the Baronâs youngest kid.
My great-grandfather Carlos de Souza Queiroz, married Maria Flora de Andrada e Silva.
Maria Flora was a daughter of Jose Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva (The Young).
***
As you can see my family tree includes many important people in Brazilian, Portuguese, Spanish, and English history. I also know that a branch of my family is also descendent of the Spanish Hapsburg Dynasty as documented by the historians in Brazil.
All the above ancestry is from my fatherâs side of the family. On my motherâs side of the family we also had senators and other important people from Brazilian history.
**************************
History of Portugal
RULERS OF PORTUGAL
YEAR
Alfonso VI of Castile (1095 - 1128)
Burgundy dynasty
* Alfonso I (1128 - 1185), from 1139 king
* Sancho I (1185 - 1211)
* Alfonso II (1211 - 1223)
* Sancho II (1223 - 1248)
* Alfonso III (1248 - 1279)
* Diniz (1279 - 1325)
* Alfonso IV (1325 - 1357)
* Pedro I (1357 - 1367)
* Fernando I (1367 - 1383)
regent (1383 - 1385)
Aviz dynasty
* Joao I (1385 - 1433)
* Duarte (1433 - 1438)
* Alfonso V (1438 - 1481)
* Joao II (1481 - 1495)
* Manoel I (1495 - 1521)
* Joao III (1521 - 1557)
* Sebastiao (1557 - 1578)
* Henrique I (1578 - 1580)
Habsburg dynasty - personal union with Spain
* Felipe II (1580 - 1598)
* Felipe III (1598 - 1621)
* Felipe IV (1621 - 1640)
Braganca dynasty
* Joao IV (1640 - 1656)
* Alfonso VI (1656 - 1683)
* Pedro II (1683 - 1706)
* Joao V (1706 - 1750)
* José I Manoel (1750 - 1777)
* Pedro III (1777 - 1786)
* Maria I (1777 - 1816)
* Joao VI (1816 - 1826)
* Pedro IV (1826)
* Maria II (1826 - 1828)
* Miguel I (1828 - 1833)
* Maria II (1833 - 1853)
Braganca - Coburg dynasty
* Ferdinando (1837 - 1853)
* Pedro V (1853 - 1861)
* Luiz I (1861 - 1889)
* Carlos I (1889 - 1908)
* Manoel II (1908 - 1910)
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suuuuuuure...
I just wanted to point out - I was right. You did in fact avoid the most important question, the one I said you would avoid.
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TraderNik: You have no 'audience' here, except for those that bash you, which from a quick review seems like about 90% of those who post in your threads.
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October 21, 2006
SouthAmerica: Reply to traderNik
That is from your point of view, but not from mine.
I receive many direct emails from people discussing things directly to me, and many of them tell me on their private emails that they are not posting their opinions on this forum because they donât want to be flamed or criticized by many regulars that they donât agree with their opinions.
It drives you nuts that you canât figure out what I am doing on this forum â That alone gives me immense pleasure, because you are ânot smart enoughâ to figure it out.
My ideas might seem bizarre to you and I bet you never had an original thought on your life â the difference between you and I is that you are a follower, and I never been a follower in my life and I never been part of the herd.
I have a lot of material that has been published and I am not afraid to be wrong once in a while, but I have been right a lot more often than wrong, and it is all on record, besides it is silly to expect anyone to be right 95 percent of the time â I donât know anyone who is that good, even the best are not right 95 percent of the time.
To tell you the truth I donât give a shit about your opinion, I canât remember even once you making an intelligent contribution to the discussion on this forum. And I believe you have a problem following the subject on most threads based on your comments.
Enough about my family, and friends and letâs go back to the subject of this thread â North Korea and nuclear weapons.
Our local newspapers, were saying today that the leader of North Korea was sorry about North Korea's nuclear test. And The Financial Times of London published an article âSouth Korea and US still at odds over Kim punishment.â
When I was reading that article on the FT I was thinking the United States want to put Kim Jong Il in time out in the corner looking at the wall with a little hat on hid head saying bad boy.
This entire BS about Kim Jong Il being sorry is laughable â since when this guy gave a shit about anything that the Bush administration said or did to scare his regime?
If I was in the shoes of Kim Jong Il right now I would follow up with another nuclear test â but this time a larger one. That would be my way of saying go to hell.
The South Koreans have already grasped that they are not the potential target for a North Korean nuclear attack, since an attack in South Korea would kill many relatives of the people from North Korea, and would not shake the entire international financial markets to its foundations and cause a meltdown â but an attack against Tokyo would produce a major meltdown on the entire global financial system.
The Japanese should worry about such an attack, because they are the perfect target for that purpose, and they are in reach of the North Koreans nuclear weapons.
A country like North Korea has been preparing its people for over 50 years for the big showdown with the United States â And finally, it is time for showtime.
The entire world knows that this is a "US/North Korea nuclear crisis" - I donât know of many countries from around the world that are afraid of a North Korean nuclear attack.
Which countries have made a big deal about North Koreaâs nuclear test so far? Only Japan for obvious reasons and also Australia. But everybody knows that Australia does not count since when the United States say to the Australians jump, they just ask how high, or rollover and they ask how many times.
Kim Jong Il canât back down now, and he has to continue his nuclear tests, because if he does not continue with the nuclear tests the entire world would think that his nuclear weapons program has been a big failure â and that all his people were able to build was a big firecracker.
The South Koreans already had that big "scandal about cloning" that turned out to be a big dud.
And now the North Koreans canât afford to become also discredited - it will be embarrassing for the Korean people, and their scientific pride is riding on being able to develop this nuclear weapon. If they fail the world will think the Korean people make a lot of noise, but they are not able to deliver the final product.
At this point the South Koreans should get behind North Koreaâs efforts to develop nuclear weapons and hope that these nuclear weapons are the real thing and that they work â otherwise the Koreans will be demoralized in the scientific world if these nukes also tuned out to be a bunch of duds. The Korean people pride and âscientific reputationâ are at steak here.
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TraderNik: You have no 'audience' here, except for those that bash you, which from a quick review seems like about 90% of those who post in your threads.
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October 21, 2006
SouthAmerica: Reply to traderNik
That is from your point of view, but not from mine.
I receive many direct emails from people discussing things directly to me, and many of them tell me on their private emails that they are not posting their opinions on this forum because they donât want to be flamed or criticized by many regulars that they donât agree with their opinions.
It drives you nuts that you canât figure out what I am doing on this forum â That alone gives me immense pleasure, because you are ânot smart enoughâ to figure it out.
My ideas might seem bizarre to you and I bet you never had an original thought on your life â the difference between you and I is that you are a follower, and I never been a follower in my life and I never been part of the herd.
I have a lot of material that has been published and I am not afraid to be wrong once in a while, but I have been right a lot more often than wrong, and it is all on record, besides it is silly to expect anyone to be right 95 percent of the time â I donât know anyone who is that good, even the best are not right 95 percent of the time.
To tell you the truth I donât give a shit about your opinion, I canât remember even once you making an intelligent contribution to the discussion on this forum. And I believe you have a problem following the subject on most threads based on your comments.
Enough about my family, and friends and letâs go back to the subject of this thread â North Korea and nuclear weapons.
Our local newspapers, were saying today that the leader of North Korea was sorry about North Korea's nuclear test. And The Financial Times of London published an article âSouth Korea and US still at odds over Kim punishment.â
When I was reading that article on the FT I was thinking the United States want to put Kim Jong Il in time out in the corner looking at the wall with a little hat on hid head saying bad boy.
This entire BS about Kim Jong Il being sorry is laughable â since when this guy gave a shit about anything that the Bush administration said or did to scare his regime?
If I was in the shoes of Kim Jong Il right now I would follow up with another nuclear test â but this time a larger one. That would be my way of saying go to hell.
The South Koreans have already grasped that they are not the potential target for a North Korean nuclear attack, since an attack in South Korea would kill many relatives of the people from North Korea, and would not shake the entire international financial markets to its foundations and cause a meltdown â but an attack against Tokyo would produce a major meltdown on the entire global financial system.
The Japanese should worry about such an attack, because they are the perfect target for that purpose, and they are in reach of the North Koreans nuclear weapons.
A country like North Korea has been preparing its people for over 50 years for the big showdown with the United States â And finally, it is time for showtime.
The entire world knows that this is a "US/North Korea nuclear crisis" - I donât know of many countries from around the world that are afraid of a North Korean nuclear attack.
Which countries have made a big deal about North Koreaâs nuclear test so far? Only Japan for obvious reasons and also Australia. But everybody knows that Australia does not count since when the United States say to the Australians jump, they just ask how high, or rollover and they ask how many times.
Kim Jong Il canât back down now, and he has to continue his nuclear tests, because if he does not continue with the nuclear tests the entire world would think that his nuclear weapons program has been a big failure â and that all his people were able to build was a big firecracker.
The South Koreans already had that big "scandal about cloning" that turned out to be a big dud.
And now the North Koreans canât afford to become also discredited - it will be embarrassing for the Korean people, and their scientific pride is riding on being able to develop this nuclear weapon. If they fail the world will think the Korean people make a lot of noise, but they are not able to deliver the final product.
At this point the South Koreans should get behind North Koreaâs efforts to develop nuclear weapons and hope that these nuclear weapons are the real thing and that they work â otherwise the Koreans will be demoralized in the scientific world if these nukes also tuned out to be a bunch of duds. The Korean people pride and âscientific reputationâ are at steak here.
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