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What is the Toyota Parts Supplier scam?

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Do any real estate developers find the idea of buying a home in Sicily for 1€ exciting, given the tourist potential?

It’s a money trap: “notary and secretarial fees amount to between $2,800 and $4,500” and then have to spend tens of thousands renovating within 3 years. If notary syndicates weren’t ripping people off around Europe I would consider. Buy an old house in Portugal or Azores instead, where it is appraised below €94000 so you never have to pay a penny of the immovable property tax and can renovate at your own pace and the notary charges will be in the hundreds. You can find cheap ruins or fix-up old homes with even large lots for very cheap (€20T to €50T) on secondary islands in the Azores (Pico, St. George etc.) and the Azorean climate is the best in the world (12C to 27C all the time) if you’re not a Florida type beach and desert heat fanatic. Don’t buy from immovable property agents, as you will end up paying so much more and their huge fees and charges. Buy from people: you need to drive around and see inscriptions with phone numbers on their homes. I can send you some photos with those old clunkers for sale if you tell me what exactly you need. I can show you where you can close a purchase at the Notary and the attorney without needing to pay an arm and a foot. Your max expense (notary, stamp duty, tax and lawyer) buying such a home should not be more than €800 or less. So if your dream old house with some land is priced at say €60T (which means no property taxes ever and can live in it for €300 a month or less)) and you negotiate it down to €55T and then with notary (about €600) and lawyer (about €70) you may end up paying a total €55670 and keep the rest of your hard earned cash for renovation, remodelling and construction. No conditions by the local government, who are extremely newcomer friendly and are not greedy at all. For example if you own a truck (Toyota Hilux etc.) in the Azores (useful when you own land) your road tax will only be €26 per year… per year, not per month. Also, Italian tax system will have you vomit blood as my friends have told me stories after living overthere for a decade.

Were the Brits completely incompetent in World War Two, losing every battle until the United States intervened?

Oh, the irony of the question! Actually, the British (and Empire forces) secured ,all three, of the first German military defeats of WWII on land, sea and air – ,El Alamein, The Battle of the Atlantic, and ,The Battle of Britain,. The planning, skill, technical know how, experience and courage to do this whilst fighting in all theatres of war, concurrently, in all corners of the globe and against better prepared forces of vastly superior numbers was an outstanding achievement. Germany’s war was regional by comparison. Japan’s war the same. Italy and ,Vichy, France too. Taking on all the above nations and securing these wins for the democratic free was, by any standard, let alone because Britain was smaller than these pea-cocking belligerents, a feat of pure brilliance. As well as achieving the above three first victories against the ‘unstopable’ German military war machine, Britain achieved that which no other nation in the world could even possibly dream of accomplishing in the early 1940s – namely fighting, at any one time, a global war in the ,Middle East,, the ,Far East,, the ,Indian, subcontinent, the ,Pacific,, ,North Africa,, ,West Africa,, ,East Africa,, the ,North Atlantic,, the ,South Atlantic,, the ,North Sea,, the ,Barents ,and ,Arctic, seas, the ,Mediterranean, ,the, Adriatic, and of course mainland ,Western Europe,, ,Eastern Europe ,and ,Scandinavia, too. However, if being the only military power in human history to achieve the aforementioned is not a convincing enough case for ,broad ,British competence, there are six, additional and more specific ,reasons why British military, ,forces were deemed broadly capable in the early war years as follows: 1. THE ROYAL AIR FORCE The Battle of Britain, was Germany’s first military defeat – it stopped the rot, it showed the world Britain was serious and showed the world that Britain had the capability to punch hard when nobody else seemingly had the capacity, preparedness or inclination to do so. Fighter Command ,– ,The ,RAF, had ,Fighter Command,, the world’s first and only integrated national air defence system using British invented ,Radio Detection And Ranging (RADAR) ,to identify approaching enemy planes at height hundreds of miles away with a centralised command centre to scramble and vector its fighters towards incoming enemy planes to intercept at height. Instead of attributing ,Air Chief Marshall Dowding ,as inventor, Britain simply told ,Hitler, et al ,RAF, pilots ate carrots to improve their vision. Supermarine Spitfire ,–Spitfire, fighters gave ,Goering, such a hard time during ,The Battle of Britain, he famously fielded sardonic requests from his fighter Aces (specifically Galland) for a squadron of ,Spitfires, for ,Luftwaffe, use. German fighter pilots had never faced such capable defence and the ,Spitfire, became ,WWII’s, most successful fighter – able to receive weapon, power, armament and fuel capacity upgrades throughout the six year span of the war. The Japanese ,Zero, on the other hand, once best in class, quickly became outmoded, the ,Messerschmitt 109, was too small for serious upgrades and adequate Soviet and US fighters only materialised late in the war. The US ,Mustang, had a brief appearance by comparison and was so underpowered at altitude it needed the capable British and their ,Merlin, engine to save it from the scrapheap. Avro Lancaster ,–,Meanwhile British aerial bombing took the war to the German doorstep like not even the ,USAF, could achieve. The ,Lancaster, heavy bomber, as well as being an equal ,‘area bomber’, to the US equivalent ,B17 Flying Fortress,, was so much more superior and manoeuvrable that it could fly low level at night through hilly terrain and accurately drop specialised ordnance deep behind enemy lines. Lumbering but equally brave USAF ,B17, pilots could simply dream of accomplishing such operations. Specialised Ordnance ,– ,The British ,Barnes Wallis, invented ,‘Earthquake Bomb’ ,felled German bridges and viaducts like dominos. Operationally known as, ‘Tall Boy’,, it was almost as long as the ,Lancaster, from which it was deployed, fell from great height (breaking the sound barrier), drove itself underground using its armoured nose and exploded deep below the surface creating tremors to collapse structures which had survived tens of conventional ,B-17, missions using many hundreds of bombs (eg. the ,Bielefeld, viaduct). It could pass straight through the fortified hulls of Germany’s largest battleships with an explosion lifting them clear of the water (eg. ,Turpitz,). Meanwhile the, ‘Bouncing Bomb’ ,smashed strategic targets (Oder and Moner industrial dams) also impossible to destroy through conventional, and famously inaccurate, US aerial strategic bombing. De Havilland Mosquito ,– ,The fighter-bomber re-invented aerial bombing itself and was the fastest aeroplane in the world. Mosquito, was the world's only fighter bomber capable of both day and night time precision bombing and equally capable at 30,000 feet as it was at tree top level and, being the fasted plane on the battlefield, needed no defensive machine guns or heavy armour protection. Loss ratio was 4% and the lowest of all allied aircraft types. The plucky little twin-engined ,‘Wooden Wonder’ ,carried a 4,000 pound bomb load, (same as a four engined lumbering ,B17 Flying Fortress,) yet its top speed was, due to its light-weight all wood construction, a whopping, record breaking, 400mph. It was the fastest, most sought after and most versatile fighter-bomber of ,WWII, and the only aircraft where German pilots attributed themselves two kills when they downed one aircraft. The Germans wanted ,Mosquito, so much they captured one, successfully copied it and, in an interesting twist of fate, failed to get the plane into production: British ,Mosquito’s ,ability to target single buildings with pin-point accuracy enabled it to be responsible for destroying the very glue factory used for joining together the wooden parts to the German copy (imaginatively called ,Moskito,),. Moskito ,was therefore rather aptly destroyed by its very namesake ,Mosquito,. It could strike so accurately it was used in a mission to breach a single prison wall deep behind enemy lines, a thousand miles from Britain, enabling the break-out of 200 important POWs and resistance fighters to escape imminent execution. Called ‘Operation Jericho’, it was the world's first precision bombing operation taking the avoidance of collateral damage as core mission priority,. Mosquito, was even sent on a mission to bomb ,Herman Goering, in a recording studio in Berlin during his scheduled live radio address to the German people. If one listens to the recording of the station on the day of the attack, an explosion can be heard in the background, then there is a commotion (where one imagines ,Goering, being ushered out of the room) and, finally, the ‘live’ address switches to a ,Wagner, pre-record. This is the sort of operation the ,USAF, has only recently mastered using high tech drones, laser guided bombs and ,GPS, guided missiles to assassinate high ranking ,Taliban, and ,ISIS, commanders. I apologise for digressing, I think I was supposed to be discussing British incompetence. Pilot Numbers ,– ,Furthermore, Britain, an established and outward-looking nation with global friends, could call upon a network of courageous pilots from around the world (,Canadians, Americans, Barbadians, Irish, Australians, Jamaicans, Kiwis, South Africans ,and, Rhodesians) ,to help fly its planes whereas Germany, a new up-start nation, had few friends. Astonishingly Hitler, Germany’s supposed head of state and international spokesperson,, ,had never been abroad (apart from sitting in a muddy trench in the ,Somme) ,and was possibly one of the worlds most insular politicians. Not many crossed the globe to fight for the ,Luftwaffe. Pilot Assassins ,– ,Accordingly the ,RAF, had ,Polish, fighter crews — the war’s most tenacious and revengeful pilots. The result? ,303 Squadron,, ,WWII’s, highest kill rate fighter unit. They did not fly ,Spitfire, and their statistics are a real testament to the ,Hawker Hurricane, which had a tighter turning circle to the ,Messersmitt 109, and, with an incredible eight ,Browning ,machine guns, had devastating firepower. Hawker Hurricane ,– ,Famed for its simple wood and canvas construction, the sturdy fighter could be patched up after battle and turned around in minutes and, contrary to popular belief, the fighter was responsible for downing the highest numbers of ,Luftwaffe, in the ,Battle of Britain,. Hurricane ,was to become the war’s most versatile, rugged and enduring fighter. It was the world’s first monoplane fighter to launch from a ship (during The Battle if the Atlantic using rockets) and was capable of taking 8 machine guns, cannon, rockets, bombs and incredibly accurate and quick firing twin ,auto loading 40mm, ,anti-tank guns ,under each wing ,– ,yes, on a fighter! Whilst B-17 carried 50 calibre machine guns [think bullets the size of a thumb] the plucky little British fighter carried shells as wide as a fist. In North Afrika the twin 40mm cannons wreaked havok against the Panzer IV and the Tiger alike at El Alemain. When an even bigger version of the same gun (the 6 Pounder anti–tank gun) was mounted on ,Mosquito, it was called, ‘Tsetse’, ,after the biting fly, and could fire 55 rounds per minute (America has only just mastered this technology with the cannon firing AC130 Gunship). Despite being intended for use against ,U-boats ,it was also deadly against tanks. In an attacking dive, firing a shot per second, pilots had time enough to accurately loose off up to seven armour piercing shells to open up thinner top-side tank armour like a ,Yanky, can of Heinz. It took the US until the 1970’s to develop their equivelent A10 Thunderbolt tank-buster ‘Warthog’ and the 1990’s to develop the C130 Gunship. Aircraft Production ,– ,However, perhaps the ,coup de grace, the British most capably served the ,Luftwaffe, was deftly dealt from a desk in London by ,Lord Beaverbrook, (,British Minister of War Production,). His efficient simplification of ,RAF, aircraft production methods was arguably the single most important contributing factor to winning ,The Battle of Britain,. Wooden ,Mosquito,s and ,Hurricane,s could be produced by plentiful furniture, cabinet and piano makers in dispersed and abundant rural artisan workshops and, as a result, were impossible for the ,Luftwaffe, to locate and destroy. Meanwhile Canada produced hundreds of Mosquitos due to its plentiful timber and skilled woodworkers whilst Australia did the same. Germany on the other hand found themselves in the very war they had spent 10 years preparing for and had no friends to call upon for equivalent aid. Furthermore, the Germans used centralised city factories (to build overly complicated planes) which the ,RAF, bombed mercilessly. Throughout the war, ,RAF ,fighter production increased capacity, ,whilst ,Luftwaffe, production numbers reached a plateau then descended in decreasing circles. Furthermore, a German slave labourer production force purposefully built in errors to their manufacturing and, as a result, ,Luftwaffe, pilots often lacked confidence in their own aircraft. With early warning detection, vectored interception, strategic bombing, ship launched aircraft, decentralised (and international) aircraft production, the Merlin engine, uncomplicated aircrfaft, specialised ordnance and a wide pool of trained pilots there is no doubt the RAF was the most widely capable airforce of WWII. I’m sorry — we were supposed to be talking of British incompetance and I must have got sidetracked by those pesky British flyboys. Let’s dig the dirt on the Royal Navy instead, afterall surely their being the most powerful naval force on the globe was just bluster? 2. THE ROYAL NAVY British naval forces were the world’s most potent and revered military sea force and the German, Kriegsmarine,, outnumbered 20 to 1, rarely left harbour as a result (unless doing so below the surface in ,U-Boats,). The Italians of course did the same whilst Vichy France dithered and had her ships sunk. Those German ships which did leave harbour were deftly hunted down and sunk by the British. Every major battleship the ,Germans ,put to sea (Scharnhorst, Graf Spee, Tirpitz, Gneisenau and Bismark) was systematically located, chased and destroyed by the superior and more experienced ,Royal Navy, which had smaller, more agile, more experienced and more capable ships as opposed to ,Hitler’s, tactically useless vanity projects built for show. Italian ships rarely showed up to their own war until ,Hitler ,kicked up such a fuss the, ,Italians were forced to leave harbour and put on a show – those that did were all sunk by the, ,British at ,Taranto,. The ,Royal Navy,, the only navy in the world at the time which trained for night operations using ,radar,, boarded one of the many ,Italian, ships before it sank and found all hands drunk and incapacitated. Indeed ,Taranto, was the massacre it was partly because the Italians, thinking the approaching ,Royal Navy, ships on the horizon were friendly, signalled their fleet’s position with a location flare. It was not a day known for Italian ‘competence’. After 1942, using the world’s most advanced ,code-breaking,, ,long range sea-planes,, ,escort carriers,, the world’s first ,air-to sea-radar, (,centimetric radar ,using the ,cavity magnetron,), ,sonar,, forward firing ,‘hedgehog’, ,depth-charges, ,and the world’s first sea launched monoplane fighter ,(all British inventions) the ,Royal Navy, and the ,Royal Air Force, finished off those lurking underwater too. The ,Battle of the Atlantic, destroyed German hopes of a blockade hereby completing Germany’s second defeat. The ,Battle of the Atlantic, involved the methodical scanning of every square metre of the ,Atlantic Ocean ,and required patience, determination, planning, organisation, courage and the home invention of many new technologies. Don't forget that ,The, ,Battle of Britain,, as way of narrative for a halting of the invasion of mainland Britain, is a romantic fiction. It was the deterrent capability and size of the ,Royal Navy, which ensured, even without air superiority, that Britain could fend off invasion (think Ruhr river barges against British, ,naval destroyers — the bow wave alone would have swamped them). It is widely accepted that the Germans did not ever have the capability to invade Great Britain with or without air cover or air superiority. 3. BRITISH LAND FORCES ‘Tommy’, ,– first won admiration from the Germans during the defence of ,Crete,. Such heavy death toll was inflicted upon German paratroopers that ,Hitler,, to save repeated loss of face and to maintain troop moral, never again fielded his beloved and legendary ,Fallschirmjäger, paras in their true role again. However, although the ,‘Tommy’ ,also won gritty admiration from the German ,Africa Korps, ,he was not the fiercest fighter for three very good reasons – 1). With a smaller army less risk can be taken – simple, logical and sound British thinking 2). The British valued the lives of their soldiers thus leading to further caution. Only megalomaniacs like ,Stalin, Hitler ,and ,Tojo, sacrificed their soldiers in the thousands for the sake of pride. 3). Unlike Russia or Germany, British, ,forces were not desperately defending their homeland and families from invading barbaric hordes. They were, in the main, capable civilians intervening and mediating in someone else’s fight – they were not interested in mainland Europe’s continual fetish for extreme and authoritarian politics (,Napoleon, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Franco...,). 4). Britain did not indoctrinate or politicise their youth with violent and hateful propaganda. This meant the Tommy was a soldier and the Wermacht were murderers. To compare the two is not to compare like for like. So, that is the ,reason, why the British ,‘Tommy’, is often known for his caution and now I will discuss its ,effect, and why the world should breathe a sigh of relief for British ,caution, in war. Thanks to stubborn resilience and refusal to ‘come to terms’ with ,Adolf,, the ,British and Her Empire, were the only ones fighting ,Germany ,for a whole year. After the fall of France, ,Hitler ,had expected an ‘understanding’ with, ,Britain, ,and, she being isolated, Hitler did not expect Britain to fight on. The British however, unlike many European nations, were CAUTIOUS to accept defeat and CAUTIOUS to chummy up with Germany and, with a moderately sized army, CAUTIOUSLY fought on against numerical superiority. So, those critical of, Tommy ,‘caution’ should be forever grateful for it – if it had not been for this British trait the British Expeditionary Force may have been squandered with gung–ho tactics — thankfully a CAUTIOUS tactical withdrawal enabled Britain to fight efficiently without the worry of underperforming allies to her flanks. Without this attribute there would have been no stepping stone to ,D-Day, and no saving of modern democracy (‘Greater Europe’ would now either be communist or fascist – which way it would have gone would be a good discussion in this forum). Indeed gung-ho Americans, ,wanted ,D-Day, in 1943 and British CAUTION persuaded them this was pure folly and therefore saved ,D-Day ,from being history’s largest combined forces military disaster. Obsequiously caving under pressure from ,Stalin ,to start a second front, the ,Americans, wanted ,D-Day, in ,Calais, in 1943. The British, thanks to their experience of the ,Dieppe Raid, and the more sober strategic influence of their ,Field Marshall Alan Brooke,, dug their heels in and told the ,Americans, they were ill-equipped, ill-advised, untrained and very unready. The Allied ,D-Day, armada, if launched in 1943 as per ,US, wishes, would have been seriously challenged by ,U-boats,, there would have been no ,Higgins, landing craft, not enough landing troops, not enough tanks, not enough air cover and the ,Luftwaffe, was not even yet defeated… I could go on – US strategic planners were naive at best. British planning, experience, patience and willingness to play the long game meant that both the eventual timing and planning for ,D-Day, were impeccable. So, all those who enjoy their fascist free daily lives – let’s give a cheer for British CAUTION. However, all this having been said, the ,‘Tommy’ ,had many guises. Many of them feared by their opponents for very good reason: Commandos, ,– Hitler hated British, Commandos,. So much that a directive was issued for all ,Commando, captives to be shot on site and even in surrender. No such unit had ever been seen in the world and the ,Commando, was a new type of military thinking – soldiers chosen for their individuality. The ,Commando, raid on ,St Nazaire,, successfully eliminating ,Tirpitz, and ,Bismark, from the war in the Atlantic wa,s, so audacious, ,it is referred to by historians as ‘,The Greatest Raid of All’. Special Forces, – the ,SAS,, or ,Special Air Service, (previously the ,Long Range Desert Group, or ,LRDG,), was a constant thorn in ,Rommel’s, side. ,Sterling’s, ,SAS ,achieved in a single night that which the ,RAF, would achieve in a month (at ,Fuka, they destroyed 18 fighters in a single raid and estimates for the total ,SAS, tally for the North Afrika campaign are as high as 350). No such unit had ever been seen and the ,SAS, were the most elite soldiers of ,WWII,, as they remain so to this day. Paratroopers, — British ,Paras, fought like devils during ,Operation Torch ,and ,Operation Market Garden ,– battle hardened German SS Panzer Divisions admiringly nicknamed them ,‘Rote Teufel’ (Red Devils), after their fighting spirit and distinctive red beret. Ghurkas, ,— Feared most for his ,‘Kukri’ ,knife, the ,Ghurkha, was respected perhaps most of all for his hand-to-hand and close quarter combat. It is said that they are the most fearsome soldiers in the world, partly because of the ,kukri’s ,notoriety for severing human heads. Glider-borne Troops, ,— Best in the world. The taking of ,Pegasus Bridge,, a successful moonlit landing in a field smaller than football pitch on the dawn of ,D–Day,, was the only ,Allied, operation on a par with spectacular German glider-borne achievements at ,Fort Eben-Emael, in Belgium 1939. Anzacs and Canadians, ,— tenacious, reliable and brave. Possibly the ,Allies, most revered infantry fighter. Without the hard earned lessons of Dieppe, D-Day might not have been a success. Artillery, – the following objective views of German commanders, who faced both Russian and ,Allied, artillery, leave no doubt that the British were the best in the world. In April 1944 the ,Red Army's, spring offensive had been broken up by Germany’s powerful armoured reserve of ,SS Panzer Corps, consisting of ,9 Panzer Division, ,A,nd ,10 SS Panzer Division,. Fearing an ,English Channel, invasion, the they were withdrawn and moved to Normandy – thereby exposing the German front line and leading to a Russian breakthrough. How did these elite German troops fare against the British who had now accumulated unprecedented experience gained over five years of fighting? “…the firing power of a British division can hardly ever be compared to that of a Soviet armoured division…” ,Walter Harzer Chief Staff Officer, 9 SS Panzer Division,, “because the British support by aircraft and artillery was far superior to anything the Soviet could ever offer us…” Captured German tank crews believed the British gun crews were using a ,‘Gattling’, field gun – not an unreasonable supposition because the British had developed the self-loading, fully automatic, ,6 Pounder, anti-tank gun with a furious rate of fire for both the ,Mosquito, bomber and the ,Hurricane, fighter. “…down came a barrier defensive fire such as we ‘East Fronters’ had never known; the Russians never had as many guns as this and they did not use them in this way; and then came a thick smoke screen. Our attack folded at the foot of a hill before we had even got onto the slopes.” ,Willi Fey, Tank Commander. In spite of three years on the Russian front, for Lieutenant H. Holler, ,“…because of the terrible bombardment”, this ,“had been the worst day of the war.” The German armoured divisions were to experience the same fate at the hands of ,RAF Bomber Command, during the ,Battle of the Bulge,. Pictures of the biggest German tanks show them tossed around like toys. These assessments and experiences are the result of diligent ,British, artillery training (British artillery regiments had the experience of ,WWI, and countless other operational deployments) and years of design refinement – the ,25 Pounder Field-gun, was world renowned and the most accurate mobile artillery piece of ,WWII ,(the German ,88mm, was not artillery but an anti-tank gun). The Russians famously used the terrifying ,‘Stalins Organ’ katuscha, rocket launchers mounted on the backs of trucks. This makeshift solution was cheap to produce in numbers, highly manoeuvrable, terrifying to see and even worse to hear. However, a bit like an ,ISIS Toyota Hilux, mounted gun-platform, it was an improvised and makeshift solution, incredibly inaccurate and the crews were without the ,Royal Artillery’s, hundreds of hours of meticulous live-fire training on ,Salisbury Plain. 4. BRITISH PLANNING Nobody planned combined armed military forces like the British. ,Dowding's ,revolutionary ,National Air Defence System, is replicated today the world over largely unchanged (indeed the system is now used to defend the US and those who operate it have British ‘competence’ to thank for). All the while ,Monty's ,only equal for the planned set-piece battle was ,Zhukov, and nobody matched Britain's global sea planning capability – the ,Graf Spee, was sunk off Argentina, the ,Gneisenau, bombed and left to rot in Kiel, the ,Turpitz, sunk in Norway, the ,Scharnhorst, in the arctic and the ,Bismark, damaged and scuttled in the ,Bay of Biscay, – no stone was left unturned and every threat systematically eliminated. These deftly sunk German battleships were larger, better armoured and more powerfully gunned than anything the British had but German sea planning and doctrine was inexperienced, incorrect and all for show. Hundreds of years of British naval fighting showed that smaller ships were more agile and, when well commanded, were more efficient in battle. Vanity doesn’t run deep in British naval doctrine and it was naive of an upstart new nation like Germany to dream of taking on a sea-dog nation like Great Britain. The Italian navy, even larger than the German ,Kriegsm,a,rine,, also rarely daring to leave harbour, seldom got a look in. The Battle of the Atlantic ,was won in much the same way as ,The Battle of Britain, – through the highly organised mapping of every square mile of the ,Atlantic Ocean, (using British invented ,Radar,) and the subsequent meticulous deployment of search planes, systematically combing designated grids and by destroyers doing the same all in search of ,U-Boats,. This took diligence, patience, planning and organisation at the highest level all the way down to the operational crews. It was perhaps, due to the size of the ocean and invisibility of ,U-Boats,, an even greater organisational task than ,Dowding’s ,brainchild national air defence in ,The Battle of Britain., Fewer people know about it because depth-charges, aptly named, ‘Hedgehogs’, ,are not as sexy as ,Spitfires. The Battle of Britain, El Alamein ,and ,The Battle of the Atlantic, were British led military successes – on land, at sea and in the air, in close succession. They were also Germany’s first three notable defeats. ,D–Day ,came next and ,Operation Overlord, (the sea-borne element of ,D-Day,) was the biggest sea invasion in history. The task to plan and lead the operation was given to the ,Royal Navy – ,its formation date of 897 ,A,D (by ,King Alfred the Great ,to beat the ,Vikings,) on the application form was deemed just enough to pip the ,US ,naval application for the job to the post. 5. BRITISH ESPIONAGE SOE (Special Operations Executive) ,spying and ,Bletchley Park, code-breaking were the best in the business and pretty much the only people in the business. When Hollywood release fictitious movies featuring US submarines capturing the German ,Enigma, don’t you believe it – no such event occurred. It was the ,Royal Navy, which achieved the coup. My grandmother worked at ,Bletchley Park, and Hollywood’s lying fantasists owe her, her peers and the ,Royal Navy, an apology, indeed some share of royalties would be appropriate – Britain made America the super power it is via ,Lend Lease, but our charity can only go so far. Bletchley Park ,– ,British espionage capability at ,Bletchley Park, shortened the war by a popularly accepted 4 years. Conversely the US information collecting machine, having failed to head their own direct warnings of imminent Japanese attack, does not see ,Pearl Harbour, as its greatest moment. Germany’s 4th defeat, – Bletchley, also provided the Russians with the German battle plan for the attack on Moscow, helping Russia to win its very first battle. I think at the time the Russians were also using the 1,924 ,Hawker Hurricanes, Britain sent them before the US had even started with their military aid. So it could be said that Britain indeed helped secure the first four German defeats. Germany’s 5th defeat, – ,After this Russia was forewarned, through ,Bletchley Park, again, of German troop build up at ,Kursk,. A British spy, ,John Cairncross,, leaked the information to Moscow and Russia subsequently achieved its first victory in battle on open ground through advanced warning, planning and preparation – a truly appropriate gift from the British. Shall we agree then that Britain had a hand in Germany’s first five defeats? SOE, – ,Meanwhile ,SOE, were more tactical than ,Bletchley, – they ended Germany’s ambitions to create a nuclear device at ,Vemork,, blew up power stations, once halted submarine production at Bordeaux for a month, helped persuade ,Hitler ,that the ,D–Day, and Sicily landings were to happen hundreds of miles away (operations ,‘Mince Meat’,* and ,‘Fortitude’,) and stopped Panzers from reaching ,D–Day, beaches without firing a shot (,Das Reich SS Panzer Division ,began its advance through France towards the beaches and ,SOE, agents siphoned off the axle oil from the division's rail transport cars replacing it with abrasive grease – all of the rail cars seized). On another occasion a German supply train, again loaded with tanks, was sent to the wrong destination using only a forged document. However, often shots were fired – ,SOE, assassinated ,Heydrich,, blew up the ,Gorgopotamos, rail bridge (carrying vital supplies for ,Rommel's ,desert army) among many other bridges, railroads and docks. Three ,SOE ,agents even took 12,000 German ,POWs, in Genoa. More generally,, SOE ,so harassed ,Axis ,powers that thousands of troops were pulled from the front lines to guard railways, storage depots, and factories, while the British in contrast simply relied upon pensioners to protect such facilities. SOE, agents were real, James Bonds ,and, as such, even had a ,‘Q Branch’, which supplied submersible kayaks, camel dung disguised road mines, the single shot cigarette pistol, radio sets disguised in logs, pieces of coal containing dynamite and they even invented ,‘carborundum’, abrasive grease which, when smeared on locomotive axles, brought trains to a standstill. Indeed the agent behind ,Operation Mincemeat*,, ,Ian Flemming,, went on to write the ,James Bond, saga*. So the fiction that is Jason Bourne doesn't even get close. Colossus ,– ,However, it was ,Bletchley,, the British ,Colossus, (world’s first computer) and teams of amateur chess players, crossword enthusiasts, linguists and eccentric individuals who broke the ,Enigma, and ,Lorenz, cyphers. ,“Ultra intelligence produced at Bletchley shortened the war by two to four years, and that without it the outcome of the war would have been uncertain” ,Hinsley, 1996. 6. BRITISH POLITICAL CLOUT Thankfully the British and Commonwealth fighter had ,Winston Churchill ,behind him. ,Churchill,, unlike many of his foreign counter-parts, was a political heavy-weight – an intelligent, considered, educated, sophisticated, hard working, dedicated and humorous man who understood armed forces’ tactical and strategic requirements. No soldier wants a ,Hitler,, a ,Stalin,, a ,Mussolini, or a ,Franco, behind him (the only political megalomanic that has ever been good for a soldier was ,Napoleon, – possibly the world’s greatest ever military leader and Britain saved Europe from him too). Dictators seldom make good military minds. Allowing ,Hitler,, a bitter, ill-educated, un-travelled, simplistic, nihilistic, corrupted, ego-centric megalomanic to influence, define and control a nation’s military doctrine is a strange thing. This rather undistinguished Corporal, acting as Commander-in-Chief to an entire nation, was addicted to amphetamines, paranoid, socially droll and thought he could lead a nation from his telephone in a bunker. He also blindly thought that he was a good tactician. When he visited Paris in 1939 after the fall of France it was his first time abroad (apart from sitting in a trench in the ,Somme,). Ouch – a nation’s international spokesperson who had never been abroad – that’s incompetence! Perhaps ,Hitler’s, angst is explained by the disclosure of a document noting a conversation in the 1960s between German ,WWI ,doctor ,Johan Jambor ,and his priest. Although it was known ,Hitler ,suffered a groin injury in the ,Somme,, evidence suggests that he was, 'monorchic' ,- the medical word for the condition of only having one testicle. ,Blassius Hanczuch,, a friend of ,Jambor,, said the doctor blamed himself for saving ,Hitler's, life. He said: ,“they fought in the Battle of the Somme. For several hours, Johan and his friends picked up injured soldiers. He remembers Hitler. They called him the ‘Screamer’. He was very noisy. His abdomen and legs were all in blood. Hitler was injured in the abdomen and lost one testicle”., Ouch – a nation’s war leader with misgivings about his manhood – that’s incompetence! Churchill, on the other hand was a well connected, adept and worldly statesman who amused and charmed people, bringing nations together by diligently, patiently and relentlessly rallying them. He wrote numerous letters to ,Roosevelt ,every week keeping him informed of his European cousins’ fight to save freedom and democracy. During the war alone he visited leaders and troops in the ,US, Yalta, Moscow, France, Gibraltar, and ,Casablanca. ,When the ,Luftwaffe, bombed London Churchill stood on the rubble to publicly address his fellow Britons with stirring and motivating addresses, by contrast ,Hitler ,ranted from a bunker. ,Churchill, did not release ,Diktats, through intimidation down long telephone lines but instead met, cajoled and encouraged whole nations for support. And this he did capably because he was affable, educated and of officer class. The little corpral was, by comparison, very out of his depth. Whilst never inter-fearing in day to day tactics, ,Churchill, never-the-less, and through the correct military hierarchical channels only, introduced the world to new military concepts. One being the tank,. ,Another the ,Commando, raider – a highly successful elite force tasked with ,‘setting Europe ablaze’ ,— no other nation had an equivalent. ,Churchill, was the architect of clandestine operations due to his experience as an adept army officer fighting against the ,Boers,, original partisan and clandestine fighters of asymmetric warfare. Unlike ,Hitler,, ,Churchill, had balls and was prepared to use them (he even wanted to land in the first wave on ,D-Day, and was scolded by ,King George V, for it). He was able to make extremely brave and difficult decisions for strategic betterment — after the collapse of France, and fearing French battleships would fall into German hands, ,Churchill, gave the lack-lustre French navy in North Africa an offer to sail to Britain to join the good fight. The French, being French, refused and so he gave them an ultimatum to join the allies, sail to a neutral harbour or to be sunk. The French famously chose the latter option and ,Churchill, took the brave, necessary and militarily correct decision to follow through. Within days all Americans knew the British were serious in continuing the fight and Roosevelt felt he had the mandate of the people to enact ,Lend Lease,. Thus the beginning of the end was put into motion. Churchill, also single handedly kept Spain out of the ,Axis, by threatening ,Franco ,and his then war-wrecked and fragile recovering economy with a ,Royal Navy ,blockade. ,Franco, wisely took siesta for the next six years. Churchill, is known by some to have been a war mongering bull-dog and, we're that the case, he was just the man for the moment. I would say however that his attributes were more subtle. ,Churchill’s, portrayal of the ‘miracle’ of ,Dunkirk, in such a positive light was not blind British bull-dog bravado but the nuanced and PR-adept positioning of Britain as a capable nation worthy of American financial investment so as to continue the fight. What a salesman he was. I might advise the writer of this question to read his history with specific regard to the competence of Germany’s military hierarchy. If he did so he would see that: —Whilst sober, patient, competent and forward thinking British men like ,Dowding ,were, for five pre-war years, carefully preparing their nation with untested and ground-breaking military doctrine, innovation and invention Germany devised an airforce centred round a one-trick-pony ,Blitzkrieg ,tactic only relevant to invasion and unable to defend its people. —Whilst skilled, revengeful and unforgiving ,RAF, pilots from ,303 Squadron, such as ,Sgt Josef František, were busy confirming 17 kills (in ,The Battle of Britain, alone) many of his counterpart ,Luftwaffe, pilots were busy getting blitzed on crystal meth. —Whilst capable and measured British men like ,Lord Beaverbrook ,carefully, diligently and painstakingly ensured their nation had enough planes to survive impending doom Germany’s ,Luftwaffe, big man ,Hermann Goering, was busy injecting himself with morphine from his gold syringe. —Whilst defiant ,Winston Churchill, skilfully cajoled the free world in unity little man ,Adolph, was taking amphetamines to get out of bed in the morning and dopamines to get back in at night – famously the man was so high on ,Eukoda,l (an opiate with a bigger kick than heroin) on ,D–Day, that he could not be roused until midday. —By 1945 the ,Temmler, factory, which produced ,Pervitin, (official metamphetmine for the German people), had manufactured a staggering 35 million pills. Germany was ill and ‘competence’ is not an attribute often given to addicts. So, when a ,Yank, tells me ,‘Uncle Sam taught Britain to fight’,, I have to politely laugh and, with sardonic good humour, pretend I think he is joking – knowing that being a ,Yank,, he doesn’t understand the irony of his own premise. After all,, ,it was ‘incompetence’ and naive isolationism that made the US ill prepared for war – the Japanese attack on ,Pearl Harbour ,had been forewarned but US military hierarchy did not listen. Subsequently ‘green’ US forces entered into ,WWII ,in North Africa with some of the war’s most ignominious defeats and required the experienced British to share their hard earned war-fighting knowledge with them. This the British were of course happy to do – however, clearly a provision should have been made that, in return, future generation ,Yank ,be taught his wonderfully short history a little better. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– * Operation Mincemeat (later made into a film ‘The Man that Never Was’) was conceived by Commander Ian Flemming, a Royal Naval Officer tasked with dreaming up clandestine operations against Germany. A tramp’s body (Glyndwr Michael, who had committed suicide in Kings Cross, London) was disguised as Captain (Acting Major) William Martin, a British Officer, and ejected from a Royal Navy submarine close to the Spanish shore and not far from Gibraltar knowing Spanish fishermen would hand the ‘soldier’ to Spanish authorities who in turn would hand the body to German agents. German agents conducted a post mortem in Madrid and concluded he was a British officer drowned after a plane crash as sea. The ‘British Officer’s’ brief case chained to his wrist was filled with Allied ‘secrets’. The body was given countless props so as to make the story believable – letters and photos from a fictitious English girlfriend, English train tickets, a London laundry ticket, an English postcard, a British made wallet etc. These ‘secrets’ led the Germans to believe that the imminent Allied landings at Sicily were to happen hundreds of miles elsewhere on the Greek mainland. Hitler, as a result, moved much needed troops, tanks and fighters away from Sicily where the landings were need to take place. Hitler moved 10,000 soldiers to Sardinia alone and to mainland Greece many more. Michael Howard, described Operation Mincemeat as “perhaps the most successful single deception operation of the entire war”. The British had expected 10,000 killed or wounded in the first week of fighting in Sicily — only a seventh of that number were injured; the navy expected 300 ships sunk in the action but they lost 12. The predicted 90 day campaign was over in 38 days. The man who dreamt up the operation was Commander Ian Fleming who went on to write a book. The main character was a suave British spy called Commander James Bond and much of the detail was based upon Flemming’s own operational spying experience. So, in summary and by way of a message to all you Yanks: James Bond is real – Jason Bourne just a wonderful schoolboy fantasy want for a history the nation is without but wished it had.

Is it risky buying a car with more than 220,000 miles, and it had only one owner?

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Do I need driver insurance to drive someone else’s car or is my car insurance enough?

Try this site where you can compare quotes: //INSURANCECOMPAREQUOTES.US/index.html?src=compare// RELATED How much would motorcycle insurance be for a 17 year old? I was looking at either a 2011 Kawasaki Ninja 650R, a 2011 Yamaha FZ6R, or a 2009 Suzuki SV650SF. I live about 50 miles away from Washington D.C. in the suburbs. My grades are A’s and B’s and I’m in 2 AP classes. I’ve never had any traffic violations for a car, not that it really matters when dealing with a motorcycle.” Where can I get an insurance quote for my Toyota hilux? GoCompare and other sites don’t list it when I try to quote car insurance… Im in the uk Michigan Auto Insurance Premium almost twice as much as quote!? I’ll do my best to summarize my situation, and am using estimates for days and amounts… I received a quote for auto insurance for $590 for a 6 month period from an independent auto agent. When I received my insurance policy and premium price it way nearly double (over $1,100). I cancelled the policy within a week after receiving the huge increase in premiums. Because of the time it took for me to receive my new premium and the 5–7 days for me to cancel, I received a bill for an amount due of roughly $40.00. I previously had auto insurance through the company/agent but it was for a different vehicle and paid a month in advance. My question is, why am I responsible, and how am I responsible for the premium that is so much higher than what I was quoted? I didn’t sign any paperwork, I called over the phone and had the agent switch the policy based on the new quote. Auto insurance played a huge factor in budgeting for the vehicle and I feel that I was ripped off. I should be getting a credit for the 10 days that I did not use, not having to pay more for the days I did use. Thanks for any advice you’re able to provide!” Car Insurance For 17 Year Old?!? So im doing my driving lessons but am so worried about insurance. I want to go on my dads insurance who has maximum no claims bonus. The car I will be driving is a 1.2L Vauxhall Corsa SXI (52 Plate). The cheapest quote I have had is 4000. I was just wondering if any of you guys know the cheapest insurance provider or can help me in anyway at all or tell me the best thing to do? Im willing to do a Pass Plus if that helps? Thanks. Car insurance for a volkswagen beetle?? Ok so i want to get a volkswagen beetle, but it will be my first car. I know that if i get tone that’s old enough i don’t have to pay road tax. but how much would it cost for a 17yr old’s insurance? thanks” Do you think if I worked at McDonalds I could be able to afford a mustang GT and pay for car insurance? I want to buy a mustang GT. I prefer a 99–01 year. Which would probably cost me about 400–500 a month paying car payments and car insurance. I’m only 16 years old. But I plan on getting a job when i’m 18 and buying a car. I also need to get my GED, which I start taking classes for that next fall.. because I dropped out of school for specific reasons I wont talk about here. If I work 6 hours a day and earn 7.40 an hour for 5 days a week, thats about 880 bucks a month. Plus my parents could help me out a little. I would use all the money I get from work for the car payment, insurance and gas. Would I have enough money?” Would having a Dodge Charger raise your insurance cost? I’m almost 17 and got my liscense a few months ago and I can get pretty much any reasonble car i want. I’m leaning on getting a used charger (not new cos im prob gonna reck it or at least mess it up). I was just wonder will it raise my insurance up just bc its a Charger? (I already know my age and new driver will be more expensive) How do you get insurance? How do you the following insurance Health insurance dental insurance homeowner insurance car insurance life insurance I know health insurance, dental insurance, and life insurance you can get as benefits from your employer. How do you get car insurance and home owners insurance. How much does health insurance pay for if you had to go to the hospital. Do you get medical bills from the hospital for you to pay how much you have to after your insurance pays for most of it.” What is the likely penalty for a new driver caught without insurance? i know you get 6–8 points but what im really interested in knowing is what happens with the license ie if it is revoked, how long on average is the ban before you can sit the test again?” Can i sign up 2 cars with the same policy? for car insurance or it has to be separate? i have 2 cars and i have 4 years no bonus claim, and it was fine and everything, today the insurance company phoned me and said i can only use my 4 years claim on one car only and if i try insuring the other car it would be like no claim so it’s like you just received your license with no experience. do you think i could sign one car with an insurance company and the other car with another insurance company?”

Is Australia really as wonderful as Aussies say it is?

Let’s not beat around the bush: There are worse places to live. Clearly Australia would make it top of the list. Alone the fact that it is a (true) democracy and a rich society and therefore you have rights propels it to the top 50 in the world. After that it gets more complicated because now we are talking best out of North America, Europe, Oceania and a few Asian countries. I moved here after having spent a few amazing holidays and of course very high expectations given all the rave and, well, rose tinted glasses after a holidays And I must say that after that there are a few basic facts about Australia, for which Australians cannot necessarily do anything about, and others that, to me, doesn’t make Australia a top 10 or even top 20. All of these things are obviously personal and others may feel about it differently End of the world - and you feel it If you want to be somewhere that sets a trend or where you can influence bigger issues, you are somewhat limited. This goes from politics, to culture and even access to certain specialty products. Some of these can be imported (products) at a cost … others may just mean you have to contend yourself with Australia being your market. Nature is beautiful and vast, but impractical, aggressive, fairly limited and hard to get to This seems contradictory and it also highly depends where you live but let me illustrate the point. Access: If you have a job that is more office oriented, you probably will end up in Sydney or Melbourne. And due to Australian Urban Planning (everyone wants a house) these cities are huge, congested and hard to get out from. You want to get out to somewhere? You often end up driving just 1–1.5 to be out of the city. Want to go go further you have to add that on top and then you also have to get back, so double that. Compare that to a major city to Europe and you get my point: getting from a city center to the outskirts of a major city in Europe can be as short as 10–20 mins Vastness: Great if you have the time but really hard to see something different. You end up with the same sort of 2–3 types of landscapes everywhere and have to fly to do something else. Even within Australia there isn’t all that much diversity. Yes it’s great, it’s really really great! But not really accessible. Limitations are transport (you always end up having to drive and/or fly and then drive). Aggressivity. I wouldn't call Australia wild. There aren’t any bears or wolves (although there are Crocodiles), but for the most part you just get attacked by 1000s of flies and then there’s mosquitoes or spiders etc. I never thought I’d say that but hell I think flies are the worst. If you are in the outback on a hot day, you’ll know what I mean. You end up in your vehicle with aircon waiting for the sun to set. Sure you can go to the coast but how much coast can you do before it gets boring. Speaking of coast: there aren’t all that many places on the coast that aren’t either freezing, wild with currents and waves, or with crocs or sharks and if you do find a spot, it’s full of tourists. The irony is there’s plenty of beautiful empty beaches - for the most part they are either like a painting (can look at it but not use it), filled with people (no real advantages to Europe or Asia), or very far away from where you live. Now you could say that’s my problem… sure it is but it is a problem for most people who have to work in the CBD Urban sprawl I touched upon it in terms of accessing nature. But this really should have its own category… the commutes are terrible and usually require driving. The Australian average commute is 66 mins! By the end of the week you basically just added another work day just commuting! It also means that accessible places are unaffordable. Which brings me to the next category Housing and affordability Not only is Australia expensive; when it comes to houses it’s through the roof expensive. The average household debt is top of the world at 250%. Renters in Australia have no rights at all, expect landlords sending in their agents every few months. You have no right to even hang up some wall art. There’s no stability - you basically are changing houses every year or if you do find a nice landlord you’ll stick with him because you know the stories! Nanny State and Police State There’s just rules about everything and constantly rules change depending on the time of the day. They also often make no sense. Take the common pub for example; it is illegal to be drunk in a pub. If you are drunk in a pub the pub owner can be fined $50,000 and lose his license… welcome to the country of nonsense rules just to micro manage everyone. But there’s worse. For example Police allowed to fly with their helicopters just to patrol the streets, causing noise pollution and just way more oversight than necessary. By the way: helicopters flying over your house at 3 am is a common occurrence. In one Neighbourhood in Melbourne a group once counted several hundred flights a day! While this is an extreme it’s not the only issue with police just being ever present. You get arrested you get thrown into a dark Bin specially constructed in the boot of a car… stuff like that makes you think. Speaking of rules, if the police stops someone on the freeway, they expect everyone to slow down from 110 to 40 while driving past the 5.5 meter long police car. They say it’s to protect the officers on ads. And I can’t help wonder how safe that is for the people driving past if they actually slow down this quickly while someone behind you may not pay attention. By the way you can get fined if you don’t in some states. Also news channels consistently interview cops as if they’re heros of society. It’s not that I am anti cop or anti policing. It’s just something I never saw anywhere. Ot in Asia (not in China, Hongkong or Singapore) and not in any European country. Here it is every single day for whatever reason … All this is probably a hangover from being an ex penal colony and it is annoying. Media Diversity and Politics While there is worse (America I’m looking at you), Australia is the birthplace of Murdoch and the Murdoch Empire. He basically owns everything and if it isn’t him it’s that other billionaire. Politics are small minded and cringe worthy to a point I can’t losten to it. I’ll add more but these are my top points EDITS/ADDITIONS: SUV’s, 4WD, AWD’s mania You do not need an 4WD in 95% of Australia. Even when you are a regular outdoor camping kond of person the 4WD only areas are mostly just dirt roads. Very rarely do you actually need a 4WD. There are, obviously, people who do need a 4WD or a SUV. For most people this is just an enormous waste and adds to the ecological disaster. Especially in cities like Sydney or Melbourne it is incomprehensible why everyone seems to want to own 1 or even 2 per family. Toyota HiLux is basically the best sold car in Australia. For all those who don’t live in Australia HiLuxes are basically those ugly Pickup Trucks ISIS used to haul their warriors across Syrian Deserts. They’re massive, uneconomical, and act tight inside. It’s simply ridiculous. It’s generally a car society. People drive their bums to the post office to post a letter and wonder why they’re all overweight. They sit in the car and run their engines for air-conditioning. There are signs of improvements, cycling is getting more popular but is yet to reach mainstream. It’s still an oddity - people are still somewhat surprised of Bicycles with backseats for kids and the fact that I cycle my daughter to Kinder every day - it’s so far away! (It’s not it’s barely 5kms).

How is a country subjugated?

Here is one i found earlier. by *Sean McFate* Mercenaries are back! After a three-century hiatus, sensible people are once again realizing that renting an army is cheaper than owning one: the ,United States, in Iraq and Afghanistan, Putin in ,Ukraine, and ,Syria,, even ,Nigeria, against Boko Haram. It’s boom time, boys! But why work for someone when you could be king? Countries are ripe for the plucking these days, from the ,Crimea, to the ,Gambia, to large swaths of the ,Middle East,. Just don’t be an ,amateur, about it. Here are some tips to be a professional coup maker. 1. Choose your country., Select a country that has been consigned to the trash heap of history, preferably one without strong regional allies. The discerning mercenary looks for the following qualities in a potential selection: exploitable natural resources, corruptible and/or incompetent military, and at least one functional airstrip. To facilitate recreational activities, make certain your target country has a good brewery, beautiful beaches, and women ,sans, veils. Although this rules out central Africa, most of the Middle East, and some of Asia, you’ll have a much more enjoyable war with beer, bathing, and babes. 2. Find a warlord and co-opt him., Taking over a small country can be exhausting work, so don’t do it alone. Local knowledge (and muscle) is best. Win a ,native strong man, to your side. This is the easiest part. He will handle the recruitment of local talent and interrogation of sources, and will generally keep trains running on time. To make him dependent on you as the access agent, exploit his vulnerabilities. Common leverage points include: hookers, ,cocaine mountains,, tankards of favorite libations (,Chivas Regal, for the English speakers and ,Hennessy XO, for the French ones), ,chromed AK-47s,, a ,supercar fleet,, ,statues of himself,, and excessive flattery to foster images of ,megalomaniacal grandeur,. 3. Secure funding., Unless you’ve got oodles of cash in unmarked bills lying around the ,chateau,, you’re going to have to find someone else to pay for your king-making enterprise. The ,U.S. government, might bankroll your private army, and ,USAID will throw money at anything,. Be sure to mention “capacity building” using “holistic modalities” that establishes the “rule of law” to “counter violent extremism” and deny “terrorist safe havens” in your proposal. List your strongman as an “implementing partner” with the highest respect for human rights. ,They won’t check,, so it’s alright. Another good bet are ,Big Oil, companies, especially if you fabricate “third party” geological surveys indicating strategic-reserve levels of oil. If everything else fails, seek out the ,son of a former British Prime Minister, who is politically connected, massively rich, galactically stupid, and fancies himself a latter-day Lawrence of Arabia. Or better yet, ,Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater and now working for China. 4. Create a shell company., To get people to give you huge amounts of cash, you need the pretense of legitimacy. Have a look at the advertisements in the back of the ,Economist, magazine. For $398 you can have your own ,offshore company in the Bahamas, and go scuba diving too. Make sure your offshore company is located in a country with no extradition treaties. That will come in handy later. Branding note: Don’t call your new company something obvious like ,Sharp End International,. Choose something vague and dull using any combination of the following words: operations, options, strategy, group, global, international, solutions, or just use the name of your college ,alma mater, or a famous statesman. Nifty combinations might include Harvard Operations Group (HOG) or Polk International Strategic Solutions (PISS). 5. Raise your mercenary army., More likely than not, there is a huge labor pool of raw talent in your country’s neighborhood. Don’t bother with a TV or radio recruitment campaign (they won’t have electricity), billboards (no roads), or posters in villages (they can’t read). Instead, lean on your local strongman to put the word out in the ungoverned countryside through the beer delivery trucks, who intrepidly venture where CIA agents don’t dare and are beloved by everyone. Initially, you’re going to need some battle-hardened combatants, preferably from disenfranchised ethnic groups or tribes that used to be in power and are surly about it. Anyone identified by Human Rights Watch as a systematic violator of human rights is a sure bet for real talent. Offer $100 a rebel (in crisp U.S. greenbacks), an all-the-enemies-you-can-kill deal, and promise a massive keg party at the end of it. That should do the trick. A few hundred recruits will do in the beginning, and the rest will join at gunpoint later. If you have trouble making your numbers, ,children are easily pressed into service,. Alternatively, you can always ,start your own cult,. You will soon learn that your new recruits have a great deal of shooting experience, but little ability to shoot accurately. You will have to break bad habits, such as: shooting with one hand over their eyes, shooting their legs off, shooting colleagues, and ,disco-shooting, — a technique involving shooting AK-47s while ,dancing, in the middle of a firefight. Expect to lose one quarter of your recruits during basic rifle marksmanship. Whatever you do, don’t give out the grenades until game-day. Remember — your army doesn’t have to be well trained, just better trained or crazier than your adversary’s army. If you’re lucky, you’ll be squaring off against an ,American trained force,. If you are operating in Africa, you will find that most of what you require can be purchased cheaply and easily at the village market. For example, an AK-47 should cost no more than $20 or a small goat. Other equipment to procure includes: ammo, RPGs, crew-served weapons, and the ,ubiquitous Toyota Hilux pickup truck with .50cal attachment, (aka a “,technical,”). Avoid pistols, as they tend to be used against you by overly ambitious subordinates, typically once you have seized power. If you have problems sourcing equipment, try the local United Nations mission, who spend months collecting weapons from former warring parties. For a little ,baksheesh, ,UN peacekeepers (especially those from South Asia or Nigeria) are often willing to under-report a few tons of weapons. If all else fails, go on a shopping spree in Eastern Europe. Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania are best. Avoid Russia. Ukraine is busy. Also, don’t bother with the middleman: go directly to the weapons factory. Expect to spend a lot of tush-time in dilapidated, four-prop AN-12 cargo planes flying with the aid of a Garmin suckered to the windshield. Bring earplugs. Pack a lunch, a few briefcases of cash, and some firepower in case the deal goes bad. While in flight, do not be alarmed by the drunken crew smoking on your live-ammo crates while drinking homemade slivovitz that tastes vaguely like distilled hydraulic fluid. This is normal, and you will be expected to participate. 6. Develop a propaganda campaign., You can count on the international press not caring about your country-to-be, unless white tourists are killed. However, noisome Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), such as Amnesty International, may raise a stink after your ,coup,, so pre-empt them by offering a counter-narrative to the complacent press. Claim that you “nobly plan to restore hope to a beleaguered people, victimized by a serial human rights abusing, terrorist-loving tyrant.” Be sure to flash pictures of ,starving babies, with flies on their faces to attract Hollywood celebrities to your cause. Include some combination of the following buzz-phrases in your press release: “local ownership,” “human security” and “good governance.” For NGOs who fail to get the message, don’t order a “disappearance” of their staff, as they will only use this against you. Instead, arrange for a ,sex-scandal, involving the NGO’s country director, small native boys, and YouTube. With luck, the entire NGO will be declared ,persona non grata,, and kicked out of the country by dawn. 7. Stage your coup., Once you’ve passed out the hand grenades, fueled up the technicals, and verified that your army is high on dope (you can’t stop this so you might as well channel it for the cause), you are ready to stage your ,coup d’etat,. Most fragile states are so accustomed to ,coups, that all you really need to do is take over the radio station and the Presidential Palace to achieve local “buy-in.” First, attack at dawn, when government forces will be hung-over and thus incapacitated. Second, take out the cell-phone towers. You will find that this eliminates 99% of the government’s ability to communicate (the last 1% comprise of hand-signals and verbal abuse). Third, drive madly down the main streets shooting into the sky and cursing wildly. This is standard ,coup,-protocol, and signals to the citizens: “Armed coup in progress; please remain inside your homes.” Fourth, expect a final stand of semi-sober, loyal government forces at the palace front gate. This will be a paltry but fearless force of the president’s “elite” inner-circle bodyguard. Usually this means about a hundred deranged child soldiers who worship the president as father and king. The best way to defeat these mini-monsters is to take cover and taunt them via bullhorn, calling them names (e.g., teeny squirt, virgin-boy, lil’ pecker, mini-me-men, etc.). Inevitably, they will become enraged and shoot all their ammo at you. When it runs out, crash down the gates and crack heads. Fifth, go straight to the president’s bedroom and dig him out from under his pile of whores (caution: ,he may be dressed as one of them,). He will appear much smaller in real life than on TV, so it might take a while to recognize him. Almost immediately (within the hour) conduct a “war crimes” trial followed by a good old-fashion hanging, Saddam Hussein-style. A minimal level of pageantry is important. For some reason, the international community respects this more than a bullet to the head. Finish up with a national feast, involving free beer from the local brewery, indigenous dancing, and virginal sacrifice (if culturally appropriate). 8. Cement your position., To your surprise, you will find that the citizenry will continue on with “business as usual.” However, you will have to act immediately to establish your authority among pesky rivals by eliminating the opposition entirely and making a few examples of ambitious allies (e.g., your co-opted warlord). You must do this on the same day as the ,coup,, which will send ripples through the countryside, contain most of the bloodshed to a single day, and make good press. Avoid becoming a global pariah by joining a “coalition of the willing” and/or becoming a U.S. partner in the “War on Terror” or whatever they call that now. Instead, volunteer your country as a secret U.S. air base or CIA prison center in exchange for Washington’s political cover at the United Nations and lots of military aid (it worked for ,Pakistan, and ,Egypt, for years). 9. Do some nation building., In order to avoid a ,coup, yourself, you will need more than repressive secret police — you will need to generate some Gross Domestic Product for your country. If you can grow them, poppies or coca leaves yield more revenue than, say, rice or whatever the World Bank is pushing these days. And then people will ,pay you not to grow them,, so it’s “win-win.” However, becoming a narco-state is so yesterday. Instead, consider turning your country into an offshore tax haven for hedge funds and oligarchs. As the ,British Virgin Islands, shows, laundering billions of dollars will not only pay handsomely, it will also put you in tight with the Fortune 500 cocktail circuit, who will pay to develop ultra-posh scuba resorts on your beaches, right next to your banks. Of course, this will land your new nation on the ,Financial Action Task Force, blacklist, but think of this as free advertising. Lastly, shore up customer confidence by not signing quaint extradition treaties. Let them know that they always have a “home away from home,” if they must suddenly flee their country. You may have missed out on the Arab Spring wave but you might get lucky with an African Spring, Latin Spring or Asian Spring. You will soon realize that once you have a vote in the United Nations, you can do whatever you want — enjoy! 10. Bask in your victory., You will find that ruling a small country is akin to being a rock star. Give yourself a new name in the local language, like “,Rooster Who Gets All the Hens,,” and even name your new nation after yourself like ,Cecil Rhodes did,. You will have hoes-a-plenty, drugs, money, a private jet, an entourage, and no responsibility. People will expect you to misbehave, so don’t let them down. Sean McFate is the author of ,The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order,.

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