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Location: NJ | ALL Wars should be fought this way:
ZURICH, Switzerland - What began as a routine training exercise almost ended in an embarrassing diplomatic incident after a company of Swiss soldiers got lost at night and marched into neighboring Liechtenstein.
According to Swiss daily Blick, the 170 infantry soldiers wandered just over a mile across an unmarked border into the tiny principality early Thursday before realizing their mistake and turning back.
A spokesman for the Swiss army confirmed the story but said that there were unlikely to be any serious repercussions for the mistaken invasion.
"We've spoken to the authorities in Liechtenstein and it's not a problem," Daniel Reist told The Associated Press.
Officials in Liechtenstein also played down the incident.
Interior ministry spokesman Markus Amman said nobody in Liechtenstein had even noticed the soldiers, who were carrying assault rifles but no ammunition. "It's not like they stormed over here with attack helicopters or something," he said.
Liechtenstein, which has about 34,000 inhabitants and is slightly smaller than Washington DC, doesn't have an army.
- THIS is what they get for trusting the compass that comes on their stupid little knives . . . . |
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by cliff:
- THIS is what they get for trusting the compass that comes on their stupid little knives . . . . 
BTW; I agree with fighting all wars this way.
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Location: SE Michigan | Kind of reminds me of what I've heard about the Canadian Armed Forces. They are really friendly. In fact, during maneuvers and reserve training excercises they even take turns carrying the gun. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Friendly Canadian Armed Forces ??.....I got Expelled from a Shopwindow for loitering..that`s what the Cop said.. :D
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Location: Whitecourt, Ab | Brian
We have a gun?... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I went to school with a guy that had been in a German tank crew. Apparently a lot changed after WW2. He said the tanks had Porsche power trains and they'd take them out and race them or jump them. The crew members all had handles sewn into their shirts so they could be pulled out of the tanks. They used to take the guys, especially if they were hungover, and hang them from the cannon and spin the turret around until they got sick. Sounded like it was even more fun than the Swiss army. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Here in Copenhagen ,at this moment ,Life aint so funny,for there is a WAR going on,a Real Life One,Cops against Youngsters,part of the city is a veritable BattleZone,ShopWindows Smashed,Cars overturned and Burning,Bricks Flying thru the air,it Started Yesterday (Friday) at 7 pm,it is now 2pm,and it does not seem to stop soon,Cops even borrowed 20 LightArmoured vehicles from Swedish Police,SameTime,because of this,Demonstrations and Arrests,in Oslo,(Norway) Stockholm and Gothenburg (Sweden)Berlin and Hamburg (Germany)I`m watchin it all on TV Right Now,is actually Happening about 5 minutes (by car )away from where I Live. :(
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Isn't t that exactly what Rummy predicted would happen in Iraq? Or was it Dick? |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | We went thru that during the Guilani adminstration. He armed the police to teeth and attacked at night. He thru out the squats and made way for real estate developers. God save us if he becomes president. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | At the moment it`s 4.30 PM,it has gotten worse,it has spread ,a High School has been vandalized,inventory destroyed,another school ditto,a daycare is on Fire,Big Fires on Main roads,the Activists have gotten reinforcement from Sweden,Norway,mostly Germany,the Cops have gotten Reinforcement from Sweden,I`m Afraid that Guns will be used,and All That,because of a....House!!
Damn them "#¤%& Politicians who have been watching too many Movies,and are totally out of Step with Reality !! :(
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | The squats will lose. The police have the guns. Real estate developers will tear down the squats and build overpriced multi story condos with retail space on the ground floor. If only the police knew they were making cophagen safe for starbucks. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | BTW I (vaguely) remember Giuliano,and Brixton (England) the Difference however, is that those cases did not have back up,Overhere,it has become an International event,Demonstrations against Danish Embassies in all Nordic Countries,Germany,Hell,even al-jazeera is covering it,do n`t know about CNN,I`m watchin`Danski TV.....
I`m gonna hit the sack...will post tomorrow..G´night all... :(
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by rededdie:
We have a gun?... Yes we do. They lent it to our armory so the cadets could see what it looked like.
Prime Minister Harper has promised to buy at least two more like it. If the Yanks can spare them...and will take his credit card. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Hi Vic,
Hope things settle down soon. It's really sad how little news we really get in the USA, and even more sad that most people in the USA do not realize how little news we really don't get.
I don't think it's political, and this thread will not go that way, but it does have to do with money and time. I think it would be really cool if there was a news station, somewhere, that was 24/7, truly world news. There seems to be this trend to repeat all the headlines with an hour. Well that's the problem. Even without commercials and or on-seen reports, a reported reading headlines could probably read headlines of hours on end without repeating. Then 1/2 the day is taken up with the talking heads too.
I for one am very frustrated with the Entertainment that is disguised as news. I hate to say this, but although Al Jazeera seems to have their own agenda at times, at least the events of the world are presented so one can see "something" is going on "someplace" and maybe use other sources to research. I just went "WORLD" sections of CNN which had 12 headlines of which about 1/2 were entertainment news. MSNBC had 35 headlines of which most were real news, and then Al Jazeera has around 35 REAL NEWS headlines, no fluff.
The only thing I could find on Denmark was a broken link to EuroNews. Google had the headline link to Euronews, but the link was dead. Props go to one of my favorites... SkyNews who did not have a current headline on the story, but did have one from a couple of days ago.
Finally, the Drudge Report. A seeming plethora of almost too much info.... nothing on the current Denmark story.
My point... it shouldn't be this hard to find news of the world around us.
Hmmm an idea for a thread.... |
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Location: North Carolina | One would hope that will be the end of that whole deal, but I'm not betting on it. |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | I don't know but I'm sure they will have room for that before they tell us about the troubles in Denmark. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Mr. Ovation quote- "It's really sad how little news we really get in the USA, and even more sad that most people in the USA do not realize how little news we really don't get."
A few years ago, I caught a glimpse of the news Telemundo or Univision in espanol... Top Story; The President of Columbia(?) had been assassinated!
Came home, and this was on NONE of the over-the-air network nightly news. It was the President of a nation, in our hemisphere, that is supposed to be one of our allies... No mention.
USA News is not 'news'... It is entertainment.
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Location: SE Michigan | It's really sad how little news we really get in the USA, and even more sad that most people in the USA do not realize how little news we really don't get.
Check out the BBC World News which is broadcast on most public TV stations (PBS). They actually present the news as if the US was not the center of the universe. They also sometimes have those hot babe broadcasters with cool British accents. It's very different from CNN or the major networks. |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | Funny this should come up. We watched "Good Night, and Good Luck" last night. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by Old Man Arthur:
USA News is not 'news'... It is entertainment. It's called Info-tainment, and it's all the rage here too. The modern version of 'Bread and Circuses.' |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Brian T-- I listen to BBC News on NPR every night as I go to sleep. That's were they actually tell you WHY the whole world hates the US. Or at least they find it hard to believe that we have fallen so far. But they have faith that we'll come to our senses. Around 2009.
Willard-- I just bought Good Night and Good Luck, I hope to watch it sometime in my "free" time. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Oops! Wrong button! |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | The whole world does not hate the United States of America.
In my case, it's more like bitching about family.
Others are just angry (or jealous) about the beautiful Preamble to the Declaration of Independance ...especially 2.1
There is no one reason, and most of it....like all anger, hatred, fear, and bigotry...springs from ignorance. ...and it goes both ways.
The only reason everyone likes Canadians is...Canadians who >don't travel well< :rolleyes: are automatically assumed to be American.
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Location: ranson,wva | the chinese place just down t5he street from my house got robbed about 2 weeks ago....a waiter got shot in the leg....i just heard about it over the weekend...go figure.....jason |
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