Its raining bombs. The MIC did very well during Nam. Millions of Asians died for a pack of lies (Gulf of Tonkin). The sky pilots (men of the cloth) stayed busy with their hypocrisy.
Interesting programme on BBC radio today about how it was the Christian (Protestant) countries which espoused and spread the capitalist ethos in the 19th century. Sky Pilots indeed. Protestant work ethic. Bah.
Dr Livingstone from your neck of the woods had one convert in all his time in Africa. His archive must be near you. He was mapping his own trade route pipelineistan. :-)
The Livingstone Heritage Centre is 25 miles from here. I've never had any time for colonialists of any shade as you probably know and have never visited it. A more interesting man is General Gordon, also Scottish. He wasn't just an anti-Muslim militarist as it happens. Although a staunch Protestant, he saw his role as purely a servant of the state, not really as a crusader. Gladstone and the government never trusted him although Queen Victoria thought he was a hero. Strangely he was happy to work with the poor in London for years before he was sent to Sudan. As a postscript, if the Mahdi hadn't died of natural causes after defeating Gordon and the British Empire at Khartoum, he would have become a Bin Laden-like figure for the nascent Islamist movement at the time.
Its raining bombs.
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Millions of Asians died for a pack of lies (Gulf of Tonkin).
The sky pilots (men of the cloth) stayed busy with their hypocrisy.
Interesting programme on BBC radio today about how it was the Christian (Protestant) countries which espoused and spread the capitalist ethos in the 19th century. Sky Pilots indeed. Protestant work ethic. Bah.
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Livingstone from your neck of the woods had one convert in all his time in Africa. His archive must be near you.
He was mapping his own trade route pipelineistan. :-)
I watched it last night. Very interesting how his diary and mind set changed.
ReplyDeleteThe Livingstone Heritage Centre is 25 miles from here. I've never had any time for colonialists of any shade as you probably know and have never visited it. A more interesting man is General Gordon, also Scottish. He wasn't just an anti-Muslim militarist as it happens. Although a staunch Protestant, he saw his role as purely a servant of the state, not really as a crusader. Gladstone and the government never trusted him although Queen Victoria thought he was a hero. Strangely he was happy to work with the poor in London for years before he was sent to Sudan. As a postscript, if the Mahdi hadn't died of natural causes after defeating Gordon and the British Empire at Khartoum, he would have become a Bin Laden-like figure for the nascent Islamist movement at the time.
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