Menalaus said:

If things can be helped it'll be through people holding their ground and doing what little they can through the system. Running away doesn't help change foreign policy

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TheMule73 said:

How easy is it to get more then just a 3 month visa or whatever for these countries mentioned? Don't a lot of countries require you to have a solid job lined up before being granted a long-term/permanent stay or can you just really pick a country and move there? I feel like its harder then that, but I have no knowledge on this.

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Toe_Jam said:

Global_Roaming said:

If anyone ever visits this place, PM me and I'll give you directions to my outdoor shroom patches (handily located near a tourist site, for your convenience).

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What species (out of curiousity)? Is it a native, or did you make yourself a nice little outdoor grow of some sort?

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Global_Roaming said:

Toe_Jam said:

Global_Roaming said:

If anyone ever visits this place, PM me and I'll give you directions to my outdoor shroom patches (handily located near a tourist site, for your convenience).

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What species (out of curiousity)? Is it a native, or did you make yourself a nice little outdoor grow of some sort?

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Just cubes - make 'em myself with spent subs. I just crumble and spread them around and within a week they pop up. Not spreading out much due to no cows, which is good.

Toe_Jam said:

That's another reason I couldn't go there I think though, when WWIII breaks out, or some hyper-radical local group of ethnic purists comes to power, you're basically unprotected. I doubt the U.S. govt would do too much to protect radical expatriates.

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Very interesting topic this - too much to go into here, but to make a call on that stuff you really have to look into the geopolitical and strategic landscapes carefully. For instance, Micronesia is right by Guam (basically a major US military/missile base that covers the Korean peninsula and South China sea) and Kwajalein in the Marshall islands (another US military base with serious tracking systems), and not too far from Hawaii. Also Micronesia (zero military capability) has a treaty with the US that includes control of airspace and national defence obligations. China is right by our doorstep and continually trying to expand their sphere of influence (eg. trying to bypass Guam with direct flights into one of the Micronesian islands via a questionable business venture). Earlier this year, my corporate overlords sent me a security alert warning of nuclear attack (I'm serious), when North Korea was playing brinkmanship with South Korea (and by default, the US).

And on topic, for what its worth, I believe that the US has been accelerating the erosion of civil rights for the last 12 years; and IMO it's political apathy and a willingness to be deceived on the part of the American general population that is to blame. Poor education, corporatized media, and expert manipulation of the American national ego/psyche are contributing factors. What I see in the US (from an outsiders perspective), is the return of a form of McCarthy-ism, but the joke is on the American people because while you look in the shadows for terrorist threats, you're being led down the path of an Orwellian future, which is far more insidious than communism. I'm also willing to bet that as the US economy becomes less globally dominant (due to contraction, recession, meltdown, currency crisis, or simply due to the rise of India and China as economic powerhouses), the US Government will continue to play misdirection with the American people by whatever means they can (terrorist threats today, who knows what the mechanism will be 10 years from now - threat of environmental catastrophe maybe?)

For the record (and for the PRISM operators), I'm not anti-American, and I'm just as critical of my own home nation (Australia) but for different reasons.

Sorry for the long post - this stuff is an interest of mine...

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That was a worthwhile read, always feel free to elaborate

Only time will tell.

Jesus_Animal_The said:

Whats your view on communism?

Nice post btw pris

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Toe_Jam said:

I got this thing with asian women though, it's probably cause some problems. :evilgrin:

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Toe_Jam said:

Funny you said the thing about "orwellian future" Gloabal_Roaming, I've been thinking just how relavent 1984 is recently.

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mpd said:

New Zealand. 

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BlindSophist said:

I have some folks who live in New Zealand... they relocated there from South Africa, but regardless it is a clear improvement. They live on a friggin' boat and they're constantly sending postcards of all the amazing pacific islands they like to visit. They swim with dolphins and shit.

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Menalaus said:

Just saw a commercial on Youtube which was essencially anti-Iranian propaganda.

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