Breaking News from 1983.
click to enlarge and read the news as it would have been 23 years ago. If we'd had the same attitude as our "allies".
posted by David at 00:45
Saturday, August 12, 2006
click to enlarge and read the news as it would have been 23 years ago. If we'd had the same attitude as our "allies".
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6 Comments:
For me, this is your best ever post in the "current affairs" category.
btw didnt some blogger get into deep doo-doo for doing something similar to a BBC website page - or are you too hoping for greater exposure?
6:56 am
if a milti zillion pound organization like auntie feels threatened by me (with a grand total of about 12 visits a day) then I think they need to worry about their position.
8:38 am
Lovely work. The Noraid(?) building would have been a perfectly legit target by the standards the US was using re their own enemy of the day (Libya was it?) back then.
And partly as a historical comparison to when a similar situation arose, but mainly just because you never hear about it, quick historical question. Which nation's army is the only one to have successfully invaded the US capital and burned the Whitehouse to the ground?
9:07 am
I could google it, but that would rather defeat the point. I remember something about the Whitehouse being rebuilt. At a guess I'd say it was something to do with the Irish. But I'd much rather think it had been down to our friends in Israel. Go on then. Put us out of our ignorance....
8:18 pm
The red-coated British Army, during the Britain-vs-US War of 1812, a very minor part of the Napoleonic Wars. Marched down from Canada, and were finally stopped at New Orleans. It's kind of related to your most excellent news page because the US supported British enemies - France, obviously, and Britain decided to punish them for it. Neither of the participants could really claim any sort of victory, and the whole thing wasn't of much strategic importance in the greater whole of the Napoleonic campaigns. Still, the fact that fighting was taking place in the New World as well as in the Middle East, Far East and all parts of Europe: Central, Southern and Northern and into Russia as far as Moscow does lend support for the Napoleonice Wars to be classed as the real first world war. Perhaps the zeroth world war?
By the way, your "other news" headlines are exceedingly droll!
8:56 pm
Hat's off dude! Nice work.
12:27 pm
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