that must be on the so called social media, which I wouldn’t know about. The so called mainstream media that i daily visit one hardly hear or read any praise for trump.. I hear some in the Swedish media also praise Trump
grzegorz wrote:Bao wrote:Excellent article from 2015, Chomsky is not afraid to say the truth. Though he is maybe too kind and modest and just give a glimpse of it. Well worth reading.
Chomsky says US is the world's biggest terrorist
Chomsky explains everything anyone ever needs to know about the US.
Steve James wrote:Look it up.
Steve James wrote:, if the UK is given physical embodiment, it's called Britannia. (Common knowledge for Brits).
https://www.godchecker.com/roman-mythology/BRITANNIA/. She is the personification and patron deity of the British Isles. No sooner did the Romans invade Britain than they had to invent a goddess of the place to apologize to. The locals probably found this very strange behavior.
Britannia found a new lease of life during Victorian times when she became a symbol of stiff-upper-lipped Empire-building. Somehow the Victorians never managed to invade Rome so she is still waiting for a chance to get her own back.
Trick wrote:Steve James wrote:Look it up.
Another possible origin of the name America ? Closely linked to Brittany(Britannia?) https://www.britannica.com/place/Armorica
grzegorz wrote:I was reading some on Churchill and it sounds like he had the thinking of what would have been typical for an colonial Englishman of his time.
I spent some time on a former English colony in the islands and as expected those of English descent thought much the same as their grandparents did. I suppose the South here is probably similar among some land owning families.
Not sure why they would want his statues removed but obviously Churchill symbolizes something to some people that I was not aware of.
Perhaps, as pointed out, we should have no more statues.
The irony is it used to be said that history is written by the winners yet we can see that you can only silence history for so long. Eventually most of it will come out.
Steve James wrote:Trick wrote:Steve James wrote:Look it up.
Another possible origin of the name America ? Closely linked to Brittany(Britannia?) https://www.britannica.com/place/Armorica
No. America was named on the map after Amerigo Vespucci.
Britannia was the Roman name for what's now Britain. Gallia was the Roman name for what's now France. Hispania was the Roman name for Spain. In Britain, the name was personified as a woman.
New York is not Old York. The same way New England and New Jersey are named after English places because they were named by Englishmen. America was named by Italian map makers.
Old York in England was named by Danes or Vikings. The meaning of York has nothing at all to do with New York in America.
Steve James wrote: Britannia was the Roman name for what's now Britain.
Bao wrote:About the rapist, murderer and terrorist Columbus...:
Letter from C:
“As soon as I arrived in the Indies, on the first Island which I found, I took some of the natives by force in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts...
...They would make fine servants… With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.”
Here's the whole letter:
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/coretext ... RQFUsYtdqw
Michele de Cuneo, close friend to C:
“While I was in the boat I captured a very beautiful Carib woman, whom the said Lord Admiral gave to me, and with whom, having taken her into my cabin, she being naked according to their custom, I conceived desire to take pleasure. I wanted to put my desire into execution but she did not want it and treated me with her finger nails in such a manner that I wished I had never begun. But seeing that (to tell you the end of it all), I took a rope and thrashed her well, for which she raised such unheard of screams that you would not have believed your ears. Finally we came to an agreement in such manner that I can tell you that she seemed to have been brought up in a school of harlots.”
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