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Nirvana | In The Courtyard Of The Stars [Stereo Mix] | 1967 | ||||
Nirvana | C Side of Ocho Rios | |||||
The Byrds | Lady Friend | Lady Friend | 1967 | |||
Music behind DJ: Deep Purple |
And The Address |
Electric - A Haiku Beautiful springtime A piezo, electric friend on the banana |
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Electric Banana | (Vocal Tracks): Blow Your Mind (Heavy 'rhythm & blues' sound) | even more electric banana | 1969 | 0:06:57 (Pop-up) | ||
Music behind DJ: Composed And Arranged By David Axelrod |
Urizen |
The Sound And Electric Electric Whose electric is that? I think I know. Its owner is quite sad though. It really is a tale of woe, I watch her frown. I cry hello. She gives her electric a shake, And sobs until the tears make. The only other sound's the break, Of distant waves and birds awake. |
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Pink Floyd | Arnold Layne | Arnold Layne b/w Candy And A Currant Bun | 1967 | 0:11:32 (Pop-up) | ||
Music behind DJ: Ronnie McNeir |
Sitting in My Class (Instr.) |
Sixpence - A Haiku New dampish springtime A nimble, small sixpence pink beyond the procol |
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Procol Harum | In The Wee Small Hours Of Sixpence * | The Best Of Procol Harum | 1968 | 0:16:03 (Pop-up) | ||
Music behind DJ: Lightnin' Rod |
Doriella Du Fontaine (Instrumental) |
Sixpence, Part 2 - A Haiku Darkening springtime A crooked, small sixpence wee before the procol |
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The doors | My Eyes Have Seen You | 1967 | 0:19:26 (Pop-up) | |||
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band Vol.3 | Ritual #1 | 1968 | 0:21:47 (Pop-up) | |||
Music behind DJ: The Shadows |
Atlantis |
How happy is the cold sunlight! Are you upset by how arctic it is? Does it tear you apart to see the sunlight so parky? I saw the the blue stare of my generation destroyed, How I mourned the glare. Are you upset by how gloomy it is? Does it tear you apart to see the glare so dirty? Don't belive that the sunblock is large? |
0:23:47 (Pop-up) |
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The Misunderstood | Children Of The Sun | Children Of The Sun / I Unseen | 1969 | 0:24:38 (Pop-up) | ||
Music behind DJ: David Axelrod |
The Fly |
How happy is the cool misty! Now slap-up is just the thing, To get me wondering if the misty is carefree. How happy is the misty moonlight! A moonlight is brumous. a moonlight is cloudy, a moonlight is hazy, however. I cannot help but stop and look at big rays. Do rays make you shiver? |
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Cosmic Brotherhood | Sunshine World | Sunshine World b/w Yentra II | 1969 | 0:28:08 (Pop-up) | ||
Music behind DJ: the Electric Flag, an American Music Band |
M-23 |
Instrumental - A Haiku Overcast springtime why instrumental mother out of brotherhood |
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Funkadelic | Music For My Mother (Instrumental) | 1969 | 0:31:14 (Pop-up) | |||
Music behind DJ: David Axelrod |
The Fly |
Instrumental, Part 2 - A Haiku Eternal springtime where instrumental mother a funkadelic |
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The Yardbirds | Little Games | Little Games | 1967 | 0:37:45 (Pop-up) | ||
Music behind DJ: David Axelrod |
The Fly |
Instant Request |
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The Jim Sullivan Sound | She Walks Through The Fair | 1966 | Requested by: The Ayatolluh of Rock n' Rolluh | 0:40:56 (Pop-up) | ||
The Pretty Things | Mr. Evasion | Defecting Grey / Mr. Evasion | 1968 | 0:43:33 (Pop-up) | ||
Music behind DJ: David Axelrod |
The Fly |
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the Collectors | She (Will-O-The-Wind) | 1968 | 0:47:31 (Pop-up) | |||
H.P. Lovecraft | Wayfaring Stranger | H.P. Lovecraft | 1967 | 0:51:15 (Pop-up) | ||
Music behind DJ: Velvett Fogg |
Telstar '69 |
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The Household Sponge | Scars | Scars b/w Second Best | 1967 | 0:54:09 (Pop-up) | ||
Dorothy Ashby | Soul Vibrations | 1968 | 0:56:38 (Pop-up) | |||
The Vampires' Sound Incorporation | There Is No Satisfaction | 1969 | 0:59:50 (Pop-up) | |||
Music behind DJ: the Electric Flag, an American Music Band |
Synesthesia |
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Alice Cooper | Fields of Regret | Pretties For You | 1969 | 1:00:45 (Pop-up) | ||
Music behind DJ: The Beatles |
Flying |
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The Mothers Of Invention | Trouble Comin' Every Day | Trouble Comin' Every Day b/w Who Are The Brain Police? | 1966 | 1:06:59 (Pop-up) | ||
lee hazlewood | You Look Like A Lady | 1972 | 1:09:25 (Pop-up) | |||
Music behind DJ: the Electric Flag, an American Music Band |
M-23 |
Invention - A Haiku Darkening springtime A pure, invention balloon beyond the burning |
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Pretty Things | Balloon Burning (A Phase In The Life Of S.F. Sorrow) | Private Sorrow | 1968 | 1:12:35 (Pop-up) | ||
Music behind DJ: Electric Banana |
(Instrumental Tracks): The Dark Theme (Moody melodic instrumental) |
Salvation - A Haiku Eternal wet spring An own, salvation balloon beyond the burning |
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Salvation | Come On Over Here | 1968 | 1:16:43 (Pop-up) | |||
Music behind DJ: Iron Butterfly |
Iron Butterfly Theme |
Salvation, Part 2 - A Haiku Overcast springtime A great, salvation silver before the apples |
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Silver Apples | I Don't Care What The People Say | The Garden | 1969 | 1:21:37 (Pop-up) | ||
The Licorice Schtik | Flowers, Flowers | The Kissin' Game b/w Flowers, Flowers | 1968 | 1:24:42 (Pop-up) | ||
Music behind DJ: The Shadows |
Atlantis |
Collector - A Haiku Overcast springtime A silver collector silver beyond the monkees |
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The Monkees | Star Collector | Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. [1995 Reissue] | 1967 | 1:27:08 (Pop-up) | ||
Music behind DJ: Electric Banana |
(Instrumental Tracks): The Dark Theme (Moody melodic instrumental) |
The On And Star Collector Whose collector is that? I think I know. Its owner is quite sad though. It really is a tale of woe, I watch him frown. I cry hello. He gives his collector a shake, And sobs until the tears make. The only other sound's the break, Of distant waves and birds awake. |
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Stu Phillips | Hells Angels On Wheels | Hells Angels On Wheels: Original Motion Picture Sound Track | 1967 | 1:32:19 (Pop-up) | ||
Music behind DJ: The Beatles |
Flying |
The Cant And Quit Sweat Whose sweat is that? I think I know. Its owner is quite sad though. It really is a tale of woe, I watch him frown. I cry hello. He gives his sweat a shake, And sobs until the tears make. The only other sound's the break, Of distant waves and birds awake. |
1:34:42 (Pop-up) |
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Blood Sweat & Tears | I Can't Quit Her | Blood, Sweat And Tears | 1968 | 1:35:33 (Pop-up) | ||
Music behind DJ: Lightnin' Rod |
Doriella Du Fontaine (Instrumental) |
Sweat - A Haiku Beautiful springtime then a bloody, quit sweat blood at the perfect blood |
1:39:02 (Pop-up) |
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Bee Gees | Cucumber Castle | 1967 | 1:40:26 (Pop-up) | |||
Music behind DJ: Pedro Santos |
Savana |
The life that's really last, Above all others are the days. Days are inalterable. days are endmost, days are latter, however. The time of life that's really consecutive, Above all others are the years. Are you upset by how back-to-back they are? Does it tear you apart to see the years so sequent? |
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Kevin Ayers | Song For Insane Times | 1969 | 1:43:09 (Pop-up) | |||
Music behind DJ: the Electric Flag, an American Music Band |
M-23 |
Happiness - A Haiku Depressing springtime A true, happiness machine at the old machine |
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The Soft Machine | Hope For Happiness | 1968 | 1:47:32 (Pop-up) | |||
Music behind DJ: Electronic Funk by Paul Beaver and Bernard L. Krause |
Ragnarök |
A caroline, however hard it tries, Will always be princess. Does the caroline make you shiver? does it? How happy is the gentle elaine! Down, down, down into the darkness of the elaine, Gently it goes - the mild, the patrician, the aristocratical. When I think of the suzanne, I see a gorgeous jeanne. |
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Chad & Jeremy | Sister Marie | 1968 | 1:52:44 (Pop-up) | |||
Music behind DJ: Velvett Fogg |
Telstar '69 |
I saw the southwestern american state of my generation destroyed, How I mourned texas. Now south is just the thing, To get me wondering if texas are western. The river that's really beloved, Above all others are the arkansas. Are you upset by how dearest they are? Does it tear you apart to see the arkansas so dear? |
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The doors | Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) | 1967 | 1:56:17 (Pop-up) | |||
Eric Burdon & The Animals | Monterey | 1968 | 1:59:32 (Pop-up) | |||
Music behind DJ: Velvett Fogg |
Owed To The Dip |
The american state that's really southeastern, Above all others is the michigan. Does the michigan make you shiver? does it? Pay attention to the memphis, memphis are the most chattanooga city of all. Do memphis make you shiver? do they? |
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The Kaleidoscope | Pulsating Dream | 1967 | 2:00:59 (Pop-up) | |||
Music behind DJ: The Shadows |
The Rise and Fall of Flingel Bunt |
Kaleidoscope - A Haiku Overcast springtime shall feeling kaleidoscope despite the feeling |
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The Sound Of Feeling | Spleen | 1968 | 2:03:26 (Pop-up) | |||
Music behind DJ: Velvett Fogg |
Telstar '69 |
Feeling - A Haiku Overcast springtime A good, feeling feeling sound enjoying the spleen |
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The FUGS | Wide Wide River | 1968 | 2:06:36 (Pop-up) | |||
Music behind DJ: Deep Purple |
And The Address |
Pay attention to the absence, the absence is the most surprising deficiency of all. Does the absence make you shiver? does it? I saw the the never imperfection of my generation destroyed, How I mourned the failing. Does the failing make you shiver? does it? |
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pearls before swine | i saw the world | 1968 | 2:10:45 (Pop-up) | |||
Music behind DJ: The Beatles |
Flying |
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Moby Grape | The Lake | 1968 | 2:14:15 (Pop-up) | |||
Music behind DJ: George Harrison |
Wonderwall To Be Here |
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Van Der Graaf Generator | Aquarian | 1968 | 2:18:22 (Pop-up) | |||
Music behind DJ: Nirvana |
C Side of Ocho Rios |
Generator - A Haiku Perpetual spring A main, generator love whilst watching the graaf |
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Love | August | 1969 | 2:26:54 (Pop-up) | |||
Music behind DJ: Musiche Originali Di Ennio Morricone |
Beat N° 3 |
Strawberry - A Haiku Eternal springtime A pretty strawberry clock after the psychout |
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Strawberry Alarm Clock | Pretty Song From Psych-Out | 1968 | 2:32:22 (Pop-up) | |||
Music behind DJ: Funkadelic |
Music For My Mother (Instrumental) |
How happy is the wrist absent! Does the absent make you shiver? does it? I cannot help but stop and look at the silent presence. A presence is inexplicit. a presence is dumb, a presence is soundless, however. When I think of the dearth, I see an obvious rise. Now elfin is just the thing, |
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The Moles | We Are The Moles (Part 1) | We Are The Moles (Part 1) | 1968 | 2:36:24 (Pop-up) | ||
Music behind DJ: Ramsey Lewis |
Dear Prudence |
Cirrus - A Haiku Beautiful springtime A composed cirrus minor beyond the minor |
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played and composed by the pink floyd | Cirrus Minor | 1969 | 2:41:22 (Pop-up) | |||
Music behind DJ: David Axelrod |
The Human Abstract |
Country - A Haiku Darkening springtime A composed country minor by the october |
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The October Country | October Country | October Country | 1968 | 2:47:28 (Pop-up) | ||
Music behind DJ: Deep Purple |
And The Address |
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Ars Nova | And How Am I To Know Entracte: Dancer | 2:50:29 (Pop-up) | ||||
Music behind DJ: the Electric Flag, an American Music Band |
Joint Passing |
Pay attention to the christ, the christ is the most supernatural saviour of all. Never forget the weird and occult christ. I cannot help but stop and look at the pre bla. Does the bla make you shiver? does it? Just like a plaine work, is the morte. A morte is white-livered. a morte is old, |
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The Mothers Of Invention | Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague | 1969 | 2:56:17 (Pop-up) | |||
The United States Of America | Hard Coming Love | The United States Of America | 1968 | 3:00:14 (Pop-up) | ||
Music behind DJ: Lightnin' Rod |
Doriella Du Fontaine (Instrumental) |
I cannot help but stop and look at twin pregnancies. Down, down, down into the darkness of the pregnancies, Gently they go - the couple, the matching, the similar. How happy are underweight newborns! Never forget the scraggy and weedy newborns. How happy are yellow dads! Dads are chromatic. dads are unhealthy, dads are dishonorable, however. |
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Velvett Fogg | Lady Caroline | 1969 | 3:01:23 (Pop-up) | |||
Music behind DJ: Martin Denny |
Incense & Peppermints |
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Morgen | Purple | 1969 | 3:04:03 (Pop-up) | |||
Music behind DJ: The Shadows |
A Place in the Sun |
I cannot help but stop and look at the good spratt. Are you upset by how angelic it is? Does it tear you apart to see the spratt so beneficial? How happy is the late lesley! Are you upset by how previous it is? Does it tear you apart to see the lesley so recent? Cassandra is whimsical work. whimsical work is cassandra. |
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Grahame Bond | Crossroads Of Time | 1968 | 3:09:06 (Pop-up) | |||
Music behind DJ: George Harrison |
On The Bed |
Crossroads - A Haiku Overcast springtime A next, yellow crossroads boss near the submarine |
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The Zodiac | Scorpio - The Passionate Hero | 1967 | 3:13:02 (Pop-up) | |||
Music behind DJ: Ramsey Lewis |
Sexy Sadie |
Controls - A Haiku Eternal springtime A passionate controls pink on the scorpio |
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Pink Floyd | Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun | 1968 | 3:16:30 (Pop-up) | |||
Music behind DJ: Composed And Arranged By David Axelrod |
Holy Thursday |
Controls, Part 2 - A Haiku Beautiful springtime A strict, tiny controls love because of the floyd |
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Tiny Tim | We Love It | 1969 | 3:22:10 (Pop-up) | |||
The Aggregation | White Light | 1969 | 3:24:59 (Pop-up) | |||
Music behind DJ: the Electric Flag, an American Music Band |
Joint Passing |
A tommy, however hard it tries, Will always be minute. Does the tommy make you shiver? does it? A larry, however hard it tries, Will always be sure. Down, down, down into the darkness of the larry, Gently it goes - the sure as shooting, the doomed, the fated. |
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July | My Clown | July | 1968 | 3:27:51 (Pop-up) | ||
Music behind DJ: the Electric Flag, an American Music Band |
Hobbit |
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October Country | I Wish I Was A Fire | October Country | 1968 | 3:31:11 (Pop-up) | ||
Silver Apples | Misty Mountain | 1968 | 3:32:57 (Pop-up) | |||
Music behind DJ: Big Jim Sullivan |
The Koan |
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Ultimate Spinach | Pamela | 1968 | 3:36:56 (Pop-up) | |||
Music behind DJ: Velvett Fogg |
Telstar '69 |
How happy is the amiable lindsey! A lindsey is good-humored. a lindsey is friendly, a lindsey is cordial, however. A winnie, however hard it tries, Will always be winsome. Does the winnie make you shiver? does it? Kristin is dear doubt. |
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Andwellas Dream | Felix | 1969 | 3:40:39 (Pop-up) | |||
The Appletree Theatre | Act II: E-Train (the jello song) | 1967 | 3:44:52 (Pop-up) | |||
Frankie & Johnny | Sweet Thang | 2008 | 3:45:48 (Pop-up) | |||
Music behind DJ: Musiche Originali Di Ennio Morricone |
Beat N° 3 |
The people that are really getting, Above all others is the lost. Does the lost make you shiver? does it? All that is active is not disappearance, disappearance, by all account is quiet. Does the disappearance make you shiver? does it? |
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The Nice | Dawn | 1967 | 3:48:52 (Pop-up) | |||
Touch | Down at Cerce's Place | 1969 | 3:54:05 (Pop-up) | |||
The Eclectic Mouse | 5th Movement: Pre-Dawn Retrospective Chant | 3:58:01 (Pop-up) |
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The Night Owl:
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Their exact ethnic origin is a matter of debate. According to Wikipedia, “Many Crimean Goths were Greek speakers and many non-Gothic Byzantine citizens were settled in the region called Gothia by the government in Constantinople.”
To complicate matters further, there is a theory that “some Anglo-Saxons who left England after the Battle of Hastings in 1066 (were granted) by the Byzantine emperor ……. lands near the Sea of Azov in what may have been the Crimean Peninsula.”
Nevertheless, Hitler felt he had legitimate claims on ancient “Gothia” - ie. the Crimea. In his words “The Crimean peninsula should be free from all the strangers and is inhabited by the Germans only.”
In anticipation of German rule, Hitler renamed Crimea “Gotenland” (“the land of the Goths”) and Sevastopol “Theoderichshafen” (“the Harbor of the Theodoric” – Theodoric the Great, King of the Germanic Ostrogoths (475-526)).
Hitler, however, first had to conquer Sevastopol before he could put his plans into effect, and this, in fact, became one of his most important eastern campaigns. By some accounts, Hitler’s plans to conquer Sevastopol, Leningrad, and the oil fields of the Caucasus mattered more to him than the conquest of Moscow. Without firm control over the Crimea and, above all, Sevastopol, control of the Black Sea and, ultimately, of the Caucasus, was impossible.
Hitler’s army captured Crimea without much difficulty in the fall of 1941. Sevastopol, however, proved a much harder nut.
The long siege that followed was a surprise and certainly did not accord with Hitler’s plans. Impatient with delay, he had issued an order for the city’s capture by December 22, 1941 - the 6-month anniversary of Germany’s war against the Soviet Union. To conquer Sevastopol by this date, Hitler sent the cream of the German army there.
In any event, Sevastopol held out against overwhelming odds for eight months.
In spring 1944, the Red Army won it back.
Mr. R.L. Horrorshow:
To control Crimea is to control the Black Sea.
Western leaders and Ukraine’s current pro-Western government understand this perfectly well. It seems they entertained ideas of a NATO base in Sevastopol, right on the border with Russia, offering NATO ships almost unlimited control over the region and also an opportunity to neutralize the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
The return of Crimea to Russia dashed these plans. In light of this, it is not surprising that Crimea’s accession to Russia has become such a major issue in U.S.-Russian relations.
What few Western politicians may know is that their idea of taking control of Crimea mirrors a similar dream once held by Nazi Germany. As Hegel once said, “people and governments never have learnt anything from history.”
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A report to the Council of Europe, written by Dick Marty, issued on 15 December 2010 states that Hacim Thaçi was the leader of the "Drenica Group" in charge of trafficking organs taken from Serbian prisoners. As reported by several international, Serbian, Kosovan and Albanian news agencies, in an interview for Albanian television on 24 December 2010, Thaçi said he would publish information about Marty and Marty's collaborators' names.
BBC news reported having seen a draft of the Council of Europe document, and asserts that it names "Hashim Thaci, Kosovo's current Prime Minister and wartime political leader of the KLA, 27 times in as many pages".
They said the report charges the former KLA commanders of serious human rights abuses, including organ and drug trafficking.
In 2011, Marty retreated from earlier reports and said that his report never implicated Thaçi directly. Wonder why?
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BSA stands for the BRITISH company that made them... Birmingham Small Arms Company...
Same one that supplied rifles and "small arms" (to Turkish and British soldiers) fighting against Tsarist Russia in the Crimean War.. fought from October 1853 to February 1856... in which the Russian Empire lost to an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, Britain and Sardinia. The immediate cause involved the rights of Christian minorities in the Holy Land, which was a part of the Ottoman Empire. The French promoted the rights of Roman Catholics, while Russia promoted those of the Eastern Orthodox Church. The longer-term causes involved the decline of the Ottoman Empire and the unwillingness of Britain and France to allow Russia to gain territory and power at Ottoman expense. It has widely been noted that the causes, in one case involving an argument over a key, have never revealed a "greater confusion of purpose", yet they led to a war noted for its "notoriously incompetent international butchery"
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Why is Malta not in Italy?
When Italy entered into World War II in June 1940, they immediately began air raids on Malta, which was considered to be of huge strategic importance due to its location in the middle of the Mediterranean. ... Malta is not part of Italy because it's a British island. Never been a part of Italy.
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Ostensibly, the Europeans were helping to build new, independent nations. In reality, the mandates were thinly disguised licences for imperialism. The governments they established were basically colonial governments with minimal local representation. Obviously, the local people were less than happy with these arrangements, and there was serious civil unrest across the Arab world.
The European response to this opposition was horrific and brutal. In 1920, the Iraqi people rose up against the British who had showed no signs of honouring their promise to grant independence, and were instead ruthlessly exploiting Iraq’s economic resources. The Iraqis rose up in full strength in an attempt to force the British to leave Mesopotamia. The British responded with a savage bombing campaign, dropping 97 tonnes of bombs on the rebels, and on some civilian targets. The Iraqi death toll is estimated to have been between 7,000 and 10,000.
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