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To: E. Charters who wrote (21477)	10/12/1998 3:21:00 PM
From: Richard Mazzarella	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116764

Chatters, <<Let em starve.>> Some of your Judeo/Christian charity? It's the people that are suffering, not the wealthy who embezzled the money. IMO pray very hard that you are never put in such a difficult situation. Can you say “military takeover”? Anything to get gold up? I think I'll save your quote for one of your pig stock picks.

To: E. Charters who wrote (21477)	10/12/1998 8:18:00 PM
From: Charliss	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116764

EC, >> Let them die and starve. Less to feed next year. IF we give them a handout they become like Indians. Dependent on it.<< This is the thinking of a dinosaur- your own fear and self pity speaking. Also, when you mention "Indians," I take it you are talking about our country's Native Americans? >>tell them, sorry we have to feed our own and there are homeless and poor in our country. Bye.<< What are you personally doing in this regard? Charliss

To: E. Charters who wrote (21477)	10/12/1998 11:21:00 PM
From: kingfisher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116764

E.C. I second that.I have disliked those commies since I was 8 years old and living in Canada we had air raid training lessons at school to prepare for a nuclear attack during the Cuban missile crisis in 1961.I sincerely believed we were soon going to die.It will take at least 1 more generation of russians before they come to their senses and realize that it takes hard work to create wealth and there is no free lunch!They have double the natural resources of Canada but chose to squander all of their opportunities.It is time they pay the piper. Let them threaten us with their nuclear weapons...cheap thugs . Better dead than red. Richard

To: E. Charters who wrote (21477)	10/13/1998 2:00:00 AM
From: Serge Collins	Read Replies (7) \| Respond to of 116764

E.Charters, My friend, you have a lot to learn about life in spite of your self-deluded belief that you know it all. That Russia has badly mismanaged the money we lent them is without doubt a fact, however the Russian people are not to blame. The blame lies in great part on the West, yes that's right the West that made unconditional loans to a country run by a drunk and his cronies, who in turn stole this money and ferreted it out of the country at the expense of the populace. We are to blame for supporting Yeltsin over his adversaries and now we are paying for it. It's a bit of deja vu as the West (re: USA) has a habit of doing this. Future loans will have to be administered by Westerners without interference by the apparatchik still "ruining" the country. The mobsters who stole the loot should be dealt severe sentences (the gulag would be a good place for them). But turning our backs on the Russian people is not a solution. They have suffered enough this century through revolution, communism and WWII. By the way, as Westerners we are deeply indebted to Russia and its tremendous sacrifice in defeating fascism. Americans and others often take the credit for defeating Hitler but any serious student of history knows that it was Russia that stood alone against the evil of the Third Reich while the Western powers were content to let the Russians bleed the Nazis white. That my friend is a fact NO ONE should ever forget.

To: E. Charters who wrote (21477)	10/14/1998 12:30:00 AM
From: Eashoa' M'sheekha	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116764

Did You Know?... Stalin's original name was Josif Djugashvili. In 1913 he began using the pseudonym Stalin meaning "Man of Steel". Benito Mussolini, during the First World War, was an editor for an Italian newspaper partly financed by the British and French. At that time he was an opponent of the Germanic Central Powers (he also served in the Italian army until wounded). Heinrich Himmler, the evil head of the Nazi SS, was once a chicken farmer. You've heard of suicide or kamikaze bombers - but how about suicide battleships!? On 7th April 1945 off the island of Okinawa the Japanese battleship Yamato, which had not been given fuel for its return journey home, arrived with several other ships to attack the American fleet. The Yamato, which was one of the two largest battleships ever built, and her accompanying ships, were sunk by American aircraft before they reached their target. Adolf Hitler was a teetotaler, vegetarian and non-smoker. Although many people refer to the Allied D-Day landings in Normandy as "Operation Overlord", the operation was actually called "Operation Neptune". The landings were originally known as Overlord, but in September 1943 the codename was changed to Neptune, and Overlord from then on was used to refer to the general Allied strategy in northwestern Europe. Despite what you might see in the movies, the regular German Army (Wehrmacht) did not usually use the Nazi salute. Only after the July 1944 attempt on Hitler's life were they forced to use the Nazi salute as standard. Virtually everybody knows the name of the B-29 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima - the Enola Gay - but how about the one that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki 3 days later? This B-29 was known as "Bock's Car", and Nagasaki was not its original target - the intended target city was Kokura, which escaped as the bomber was under orders to attack only a clear target and the city was shrouded in smog at the time. Nagasaki was the first alternative target city. After suffering heavy losses during the airborne assault and capture of Crete, Hitler never again committed his airborne troops to large-scale operations and they were instead used as ground infantry. On January 17th 1942 Churchill was nearly shot down by the enemy and then his own airforce. During a return trip from the United States, his flying boat veered off course and came close to German anti-aircraft guns in France, after this error was noticed and corrected, his aircraft then appeared to British radar operators to be an enemy bomber. Six RAF fighters were scrambled to shoot him down, but fortunately for Churchill they failed to find him. One of the American light cruisers anchored at Pearl Harbour during the Japanese attack of December 1941 was the Phoenix. The Phoenix survived the attack virtually unscathed, however, more than 40 years later she was torpedoed and sunk by the British submarine Conqueror in the South Atlantic. The Phoenix, at the time of her demise, was of course known then as the General Belgrano.