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OverLords and Americans
Sorry don't know the movie but will now look for it.
Sorry I am bored with everything that must be done....
How many Americans does it take to change a lightbulb?
Overlords sounds like DarkLords only different - the "Bane" of our lives.
How appropriate! Overlord was "organised" - take a lot of soldiers and throw them at beaches until the Germans run out of bullets or get overrun - by all American Ike in very British Bushy Park next to NPL/Hampton Court. They created a SHAEF Gate and there are still USAAF and Eisenhower Memorials.
D-Day casualties were LOWER than planned ......
Bushy Park still contained this US Military base until the mid 60s, now all you can see is a 30 foot circular plinth and flag in a remote corner of the park. Its on the Bushy Park map.
Anyway, the American's pillaged with a culturally correct approach for the 20th Century - which left us with two less tower blocks and global terror as the exploited got pissed off and also enabled by the system that oppressed them (we never did that, just sent a gunboat, hung the ring leader with "pour encouragee les autres" label round his neck) and made another local the top guy, with 50 or so warships in total and some resilient civil servants, tea and gin and tonic and the Martin Henry rifle of course.).
As the Americans fade the Chinese will do the same pillaging under their "non-interventionist" approach in the 21st. They sure have the funding. Outside IT, as this is, is the story of the Black Hole of China, its just sucking in global liquidity by direct and back door methods like a black hole eats a star.
Don't you love people complaining about the expat Chinese living in their own private communes abroad - like the Roaman's in their Villas and Forts, Norman's in their Castles, Brits in their hill stations and Americans in their PXs and St John's Wood haven't done the same.
Hello!
We better get nuclear power before we can no longer afford fossil as 2 Billion people go up two decades of consumption of energy in 40 years and the city moves to Shanghai....
Nothing to do with boring old tech, sorry.
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