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villager

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2. Just as Reagan's ascension essentially finished the U.S., so did Thatcher's basically end England

Reply to Octafish (Reply #1)

Fri Nov 6, 2015, 04:53 PM

Nov 2015

...the demise may still be unfolding in slow motion, but I think what was set in motion will finally end with the break-up of each respective empire, later this century....

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Guardian: Chile admits Pablo Neruda might have been murdered by Pinochet regime [View all] villager Nov 2015 OP

Neruda was one of our time's great minds. Octafish Nov 2015 #1

Just as Reagan's ascension essentially finished the U.S., so did Thatcher's basically end England villager Nov 2015 #2

All that progress gone -- in the name of free-market capitalism. Octafish Nov 2015 #3

In 50-100 years, when a thorough and objective history of the post-WW II era is written hifiguy Nov 2015 #13

US tax dollars at work EdwardBernays Nov 2015 #5

The Chicago Boys in Chile: Economic Freedom's Awful Toll Octafish Nov 2015 #9

:( EdwardBernays Nov 2015 #10

All of this. hifiguy Nov 2015 #11

Of course they killed him malaise Nov 2015 #15

Truth. Octafish Nov 2015 #19

The Falklands War and the Grenada Invasion MinM Nov 2015 #17

Spot-on analysis, MinM. Just Cause for Panama was third appetizer... Octafish Nov 2015 #18

Michael Moore:Our Military Has Not Won a War Since World War II MinM Nov 2015 #20

I suppose it's good they admit it BainsBane Nov 2015 #4

In the same way that Ted Bundy or John Wayne Gacy hifiguy Nov 2015 #6

Exactly. villager Nov 2015 #8

Pinochet must have been crazy FLPanhandle Nov 2015 #7

His good friends Dick and (especially) Henry hifiguy Nov 2015 #12

Yup. Accessories to murder. villager Nov 2015 #14

K&R for the original post and subsequent informative posts and links. JEB Nov 2015 #16