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29th September 2012, 02:20 PM
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The Shrinking Red Duster.
I found this interesting article in my files, I have had it a few years now.
it is by Stan Pierce
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The Shrinking Red Duster.
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From having 300,000 Sailors in 1956 it went down to less than 60,000 and most of them are Chief Engineers and Navigation Officers. The jobs that British Kids could get a start in life and a sense of adventure was given to Asians for a few dollars a week.
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It was all planned in 1975 by the United Nations in a paper entitled `The Lima Agreement`.You can read about it on the Internet, just type in that name.
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The well suited gentlemen in the United Nations spelled out without asking the British people to vote on it that they were going to transferr the productive abilities of the Wealthier Nations to the poor nations.
Very nice of them.
We used to go to war over someone trying to abscond with what we had built up over Centuries. That was what we had a big Royal Navy for.
We had a very impresive history to do with ships and Sailors to look after our interests, but these Limp Wristed wimps on our Parliament gave our History away because devious jumped up Accountants in the United Nations thought we should play fair and share our wealth.
They got the front men on the Podium to make it look like a gesture of good will to the Worlds poor.
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If you stole a tin of beans from the supermarket without paying you would be locked up, but these kind gentlemen with an education quietly stole our history of Seamanship from under our noses and gave it to Asians who then subverted us further by dumping their shoddy goods on us so that caused further shut downs of our businesses and Factories, then the Devious ones got seats on the Boards of the Companies that took over the shoddy goods manufacturers, and it was all done legally in a Democracy.
So men in suits and horn rimmed glasses sat behind the desks and designed ships half the size of Wales and registered them in countries that cannot even provide clean drinking water for their own people.
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So from one Queen Elizabeth to another Queen Elizabeth the great Maritime Nation of Britain has come to an end, without one cannon ball being fired to prevent it.
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Sad isnt it, and we are supposed to a Democratic country.
Brian.
Last edited by Captain Kong; 29th September 2012 at 02:26 PM.
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29th September 2012, 02:42 PM
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It's not all that bad Brian!......................we are now a true FLAG OF CONVENIENCE !!!!!! (the bad news is we are not even classified as a good FOC)
Bill
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29th September 2012, 07:06 PM
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Earler this year, the 1000th ship was registered in the Isle of Man, some of them huge bulkers and tankers, which will never go near, but if you buy a superyacht, I understand it has to go to be examined before it can be registered there. If I win the lottery, I may just try for Manx registry, and nationality, it is after all just 10% tax rate!
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30th September 2012, 01:51 PM
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. This is a VERY INTERESTING, account of the Lima Agreement which affects Everyone. For Australia also read Britain and USA etc.
.I couldnt get the link to the song to come on. just high light it and paste in google.
.1.7.11 The Lima Agreement Audio - Leon Pittard
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.GOOGLE.....The Lima Agreement | Fairdinkum Radiofairdinkumradio.com/?q=node/20Cached
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The Lima Agreement. 1.7.11 The Lima Agreement Audio - Leon Pittard. G'day fellow Australians,. Do you treasure your freedom and liberty? If you do and you ...
The song at the start had me choked listening to the words, with a glass of Gin I could have wept.
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The article gives an understanding of how ALL the people in the Western World have been conned by the Politicians.
Give all the jobs to countries like China, Philipines, Thailand and so on and spread immigration across the planet.
Called the `New World Order`.
All our Politicians and Goverments know this and have signed up to it without telling the people. Democracy? it stinks.
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.The Lima Agreement
1.7.11 The Lima Agreement Audio - Leon Pittard
G'day fellow Australians,
Do you treasure your freedom and liberty? If you do and you are a citizen of this once great country then this study is for you.
As you have just heard from this great aussie song, the Veteren is questioning why he went to war.
Last edited by Captain Kong; 30th September 2012 at 02:01 PM.
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1st October 2012, 05:57 AM
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[ FLAG OF CONVENIENCE !!!!!! (the bad news is we are not even classified as a good FOC)
Bill[/QUOTE]
And fast using that convenience, sometimes refered to as going down the toilet?


Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
World Traveller

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1st October 2012, 09:20 AM
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Well John, how can I follow that!! Good one.
Brgds
Bill
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