Most wice men is old, and I guess to trust an former Hitler youth is a leap many who was young when that group was running the stage have their suspection wel in hand...
The whole thing with this pope is suspectius if you ask me. Why could not they have shoosen another, more "round" to the next pope?.. He might have been firm in his belife, but way over his head on this.. Today even a pope are mutch more than just an man who ar a strong beliver in the roman chatolotic church And mutch of what have been coming out lately, is fishy if you ask me..
Thanks, Have been looking for this all over the place
But it is maybe an insult to say the ferengi is like the republicans.. Most Ferengi have "some" symphaty about them, most republicans, in power have non...
It tend to more easy to have ressourses to give peopole a decent service, when you dosen't have an empire to run all the time.. It is expensive to be in sharge of the largerst military power on the planet.. The US, as current have the same military power as the 20 other of "top payer of military hardware" combined... And then even many are talking about expanding the US military even further.. Why should US do that, when US allready have biggest most mean military force on the planet as it is... Who are US so afraid of, that you have to expend it so big?
Wel, im not sure but I think, in Norways case it have been the "glue" who have binded everybody togheter.. In the early 1900s when Norway as a nation was new, it also had alot of political grifiences between the rich and the pooor... And Norway was a really political melting pot where radicals was on the brink of open revolt.. A poor country with a population who was hungry for anything.. Then in 1905 we got our first King in more than 500 year, who was king in Norway!.. And he might not be the "smartes" of the shoices we had when we elected our king, but he was defently the most clever one, and he must have been a first rate politican, becouse he not just managed to be welcomed as a king, but also, for the most part to be loved by most peopole, even when their political ideology was 180 degrees of a kingship.. And he semented that trust from the popole in the world war two, where he first flattely denied to kneel for the germans, then had to flee up to Northen parts of Norway. And then in UK was our maybe best diplomat by all means.. And he was welcomed in June 1945 with the cheer of norwigians, who have never been at the same large crowd ever.. And in 1948, when the cold war was in ful, and he was asked what to do with the comunists, who then was in Parlament with 11 reps.. He just say, why should I do something with them, they are still my peopole.. That was a gigant leap for a man who officially in 1917-1920 had seen hes first cousin Tsar Nicolay 2 of Russia been shot, with most of his family by the red forces.. And who publically had told parlament that NO norwigian king was to wisit Russia before the communist was out of power.. In 1993 the first norwigian King, our Harald vas in Russia for the first time... I doubt that Haakon 7 of Norway belived it should go 70 year before it was over in Soviet then... Olav V, our old king - who I rembember best and who had been king all my life when he died in 1991 also segmented the trust most peopole had to him and the royal familiy by acting both as a King, but also to do what is his duty.. And he was respected by most pepole.. Even my old fosterfather, who was "red" to the bone - was sad when he told me that our king had died.. He died allmoust on the eve of the first golf war - and Harald have later told that his father was REALLY worried about what could came of that, becouse he was old enough to rembember Sept 1939...
For the most part, the power lies not in the hand of the King, but rather in the hand of the Parlament. But the king have a important role, and have some say when new laws passes his desk to be signed into laws.. But many of his duties, specially when it came to the political roles is mostly sermoniel, and he dosen't have to mutch REAL power.. But inderectly all 3 kings we have had to this days, have had great power, even signifant power when new laws are put into effect.. Many have used this "back-channel" to both let the king know when things happend in parlament, but also to know what the king is thinking about cases.. And we have the freday meeting at the Palace where our king, and all the ministers are in plenum to diskuss what is important, and new from the parlament.. In most cases the modern King in Norway as the head of state, and the first between equals.. He dosen't have to mutch directly power, but have signifant indirectly power, by the fact that he should be adviced by the Parlament.. But that power is also mutch up to eath King to use. Olav V of Norway used this mutch more than our current King Harald V of Norway.. But the kingship is far different today, than it was when Olav was around I guess.
The british Royal House is a far different thing.. That behavour Would never have been acepted in any of the scandicanvian country's.. Not even a fraction of what have happend in the British Royal family would have been accepted... But then again, the british royal familiy have a whole different tradition in the british comunity than in scandinavia I guess
And all tree kings, have had as their "Nametag" the word Alt for Norge. Everything for Norway. It is on all coins and was the tittle Haakon 7 used when he was elected as King of Norway in 1905. Diclotican
True.. The social democratic system is far from perfect But at least it is a system where most peopole have what they need, regardness of what "Place" in the comunity you are in.... But it is also a place where everyone have to be educated enough to understand things... And many belive that the government is little to control frik over what they want or dosen't want us to do. As one of your country men once told me, that he was thingking of Norways political system as a form of Communism Light... Wel, it is a system who both the conservatives, and the liberales suport for the most part, it is more in what form they want to make it... From the Right to the Left our system of governance have a great deal of suport.. And I doubt that "fremskrittspartiet" would be in government office anytime soon (a rather right/liberalistic party)
And have I told, we have also a Monarc as our head of state?.. The current King is Harald V of Norway.. Who have been a good king, maybe not that BIG as his father, but after some stumbling in the early days a rather good king after all... But the times have shanges since Olav V was king... And I thing Harald V have been doing it better than most belived him to do in the early days...
The system, who work in my neck of the wood is sosial-democraty, a system where the government have a large part of what happend in a country, but where the private also have a large part of the economy.. At present the system is 40/60, where the private is in sharge of 60 percent of economy, but where the government, by laws and by economical ties have a 40 percent shunck of what exist on the marked... It means also that the government have a large role in the economy, becouse the state is the most "powerfull" part of the marked and can in some degree have oversight over the system.. The Government also have a lot of control over the Bank systems, mostly becouse in the early 1990s the State had to help out the banks who in other means would have broken down becouse of economical troubles.. After the economy was fixed, the government ended up with a large responsibility, even after selling out a lot of stocks to the private, the government had a lot of stocks, and desided that they wanted to keep an aye on what the banks did... Today the banks is solid as rocks, or at least solvent. And our economy have survived withouth been hit to hard by the ressesion.. Some hit have the economy had, but compared to most others, we are still in the green economical... Thanks to a government who dosen't spend to mutch - and have a lot of money in the bank
But to be fair, in my neck of the wood, the STATE have allways had a large control over the economy, even when the formal rule was not to easy from our capital in Kopenhagen, the government even then had a fair control of what happend in Norway... Specially economical, and the State have allways been there to build up things, like our mines, our roads and so on. No private enterpise have been rich enough to by themself build the infrastructure....
It is not a perfect system, but it works.. And we also have a decent "workers right" in our neck of the wood. Mutch thanks to our different government who since the 1800s have build up the econical and public system we have today.. Its a lot of proes and a lot of nais in the system.. But for Norway it works.. Pretty well to.. our welfare system is something most americans would find amazing if they ever was to wisit Norway.. And maybe unbelivable.. For in most part, it is little unbelivable our welfare, and healtcare system..
In many instanses the NAZI doctors, and scientists was given just that, and NEVER facing anything resemtling a train by US or any of the other powers.. The most known was off course put to trail by either the eastern powers, or the western powers.. But thousands of willing murderes and killers, who between 1933 and 1945 had killed thousands, ten of thousands by "medical experiences" Specially in the consentration camps of the east, the use of prisoners was numerus.. As in the rest of the consentration camps in the whole of europe...
Many of them, who was put in the spotlight, even managed to evade capture, and helped either by the Vatican, or by other means to running to securty, in America.. Some even got true to The United States of America. And was naturalized before long, and when it was discovered what monster they had been, a couple of decades after, the US government did everything in their power to defend them from extredating to a waiting train in Europe.. Many infamous docks who had been in US for many years, in some instanses even 2 or 3 decades before the spotlight get into them, was defended by the comunity, who could not understand why this upstanding american was been accused of this horrible act of murders.. Even when dusins of vitnes was willing to travel - by own means to US to testifize against them, the US government, local Law enforcements and in many cases local District Attornities was NOT willing to even look at the case.. But in some cases the evidences was to grave, and some of them was either sent back to Germany to face trail - after years of figthing for extredating. Or faced trail in US. Who in many cases ended with a plea barging. Or the brave Doctor killing himself before sentending, so he could cheat the fact that he was looing for a long prison time...
The Dictatorships of South America also had their share of murders slaughters who had given a hell of pain to thousands, ten of thousands, maybe houndred of thousands of european between 1933 and 1945. Dr Mengele was maybe the most known case, but he was not alone.. And it is a point that Dr Mengele in the 1960s was so secure of his own saftey that he lived in town, as himself.. No different name.. But in the name of Josef Mengele MD. But in the end he had to run for cover in the jungle of Urugay, where he was placed by the government, and had to pay for hewly guard to protect him against they who wanted him to justise.. The end was that he drowned in a lake when he was swimming.. Even tho many belived him to live long after 1980...
And the pressure was enough to get the aircraft elected as our "new fighter" even tho it is more like a fighter-bomber than a fighter as we are in need in.. And the little I know about that bird, it is a aircraft that would be good to bomb enemies, but rather bad to be a interceptor, that we need to show our collour, but not to treathen our advesaries to a fighting war.. We need modern aircraft that is true, even our F16 Falcon MLU4 fighter need repleasment sooner or later, even then the MLU upgrade was making it the most agile aircraft prodused in our neck of the wood (rumor is that the MLU upgrade made it better than even the US Falcon) it is a aircraft that is old, in fact the aircraft is the same age as I am 33 year and counting .
Mostly we need a jet fighter who is agile, and can intercept, and show who is in charge in our Barents sea area, who is twice the land mass of Norway.. We have the sovernigy of a large part of the Barents area, and we need a aircraft that can made it posible to make it clear who is in charge in the area.. Not a bomber whos duty is to blow up the emeny.. The F35 could do the job, and scare the hell out of the ruskies at the same. But what we really need is to make a messeage, not to scare them to unessesary actions, like have fighter jets with the Bears and so on.. We dosen't need to Fuck up what friendship we have today with the russians... We dosent have the large army, or the large airforce the US have, and is a rather smal country compared to most european country... And if the russians got really pissed off... Wel I hope they never do...
If I had been in sharge I would shoosen the Gripen heads down... No doubt.. And if the Specs for JAS 39Grien N is to belived, it would be a heck of a aircraft for the norwigian royal airforce.. And far sheaper than the US counterparts even when we shoosed the aircraft as our next aircraft. Now the aircraft would be even more expensive than orginaly planed.. It wil make the friendship between two scandinavian country who have been friends in more than 100 year now, even tho we also have been enemies in old times. And the swedish stole half the area of Norway in the 16 and 17th century... Baahus, Herjedalen Jemtland respectibility.. But since 1660 the border have been the same, and is the most solid border in the world it looks like. And we had passport free zone between Sweden and Denmark and Norway allmoust 40 year bfore the EU got the same idea
But it looks like we are been fucked over - again as we orginaly was with the F16.. But the F16 at least was a aircraft who we made some money on.. With the F35 it looks more and more that we have just to accept an aircraft, where most of the specks is "clasified" even for the Norwigian airforce.. And where most of the reparis have to be made by Locheed Martin, not by our own ground crew.. Who WIL be an disadvange if our friendship for some reason or another was to be bad...
When they can act like that when we are friends, and allied for more than 60 year, I fear the day the US find out that we are not good friends of them longer. Or we shoose a path who are less close to the US, and maybe more close to the rest of the EU.. That day wil come, when EU would be more important for our security than US.. Maybe not today, but it wil come a day we cant trust US more than 50% or maybe far less at any given time...
Nice to know that our next figher posible wil be more than twice the expencive that we more or less was told to buy by the US ambassador in 2007. He more or less treatend with that our close friendship would be harmed if we dosent was buyng into the marvelous F35... Who Norway wil buy 48-55 fighter of..
And we could have gotten, for the new price of F35 more than twice the numbers in JAS Grippen, a swedish fighter jet, who in my humble oppinion was far more capable to what Norway have to deal with And when it came to the Stealth Issue I guess Norway and Sweden could have geting up with something.. After all we do have sea born ships, who are better and more stealty than everything the United States have at the moment.. When we can build stealt ships, we can use the same tec at building fighter jets with Stealth... Sweden have the fighter jet, we have some knowhow.. Togheter we could be something of a force...
But I guess Locheed was happy when Norway desided to go for a fighter jet, who is beginning to be as expensive as an F22, with far less capability than the US F35 wil be given - becouse US dosent trust Norway with the best - even tho we the last 60 year have shown that we are trustwortly as few...
The world is larger than United States of America. Even tho Im grown up in good old american cars - and have enjoyed a lot of your amazing muslecars from the 1970s and forward in my life.. I have my manual transmission, and wil problerly have an manal transmission in the car for a long time...
But, it is a fact that the car wil be far different than it is today... in 20-30 years time the whole car experience can be a different one than today...
Or it can be as it allways have been, but with the difference that in 20-30 years time we wil have other form of fuel than today...
True, but now is Svalbard a part of Norway then, With Bear Isle-land (Bjørneøya) and some other iselands.. It is the Law of Norway who are the norm in Svalbard, and even the russians who have a sivilian base there, have to accept the soverniegny of Norway when it come to the rule of law.. Have been that sice The Treay of Svalbard was signed in 1929..
And we also have a isleland in the pasific.. Bouvet Island is Norwigian land.. Even tho it is not mutch to say about it really
But why should Norway loose our krone, to get into a currency who for the moment looks like it wil go the same way as the doodoo?, if not the whole of EU step in and work the economical bit out little better than they have been doing the last couple of years... Many of the poorer EU country have an economy who are a mess withouth end and a crash in many of the memberstates is more than just an fear some politicans have on their mind... Greece are in trouble, so are most of the former eastern block country who are in EU or want to be member of the union...
Norway have a healty economy, mutch thanks to strong laws and disiplined policy since the early 1990s when our banks allmoust fall over, becouse of the "party of the decade" from the middle of 1970s to the middle of the 1980s.. And the law are there today, and have made the banks in Norway some of the most safe banks to operate from...
Not to say we also have an government, who for the most have been on the safe side, even when we had some conservative in power, when it came to money... And today we have a lot of money in the bank, to a rainy day.
And we dosen't go to war anymore, we save a lot of money that way.. Even tho we are active in Afghanistan as part of the NATO force there..
First Norway have to wote, to go into EU, and I seriousy doubt that wil come anytime soon...We are happy campers as it is, outside of Eu. And i also doubt seriosy that we wil loose our krone for Euro...
And the "tribe mentality" that the different nations is a part of, wil survive for a long time after EU is dead in the water.. But EU have been doing some good to, it is far more easy today to travel from Vardø to Gibraltar. From the Scottish Isles to the border of Russia than it have been since the roman times.. Most european want that freedom, and they also want to be in peace with eatch other, as a result of trade and the posibility of movment. But a POLITICAL union, where you are just a group in a bigger union is far out in the future for most europeans.. Yes EU do have a parlament, a court and something that can be taken for a forreign policy outside the union.. But it is still far from what you would say a political union where the Parlament itself make rules and laws.. It is the different country who in the end "own" their own laws..
Maybe in the future it can be different, but today I would say that most of the members would not go farer than they have been doing allready..
And I woted NO in 1994 when Norway woted for or against EU...
