PoliSci Nerd Freakout
An International Relations student's scrapbook. Over the course of reading and writing and researching, and just plain living I discover all kinds of interesting facts and figures and quotations that I'll never end up using in a report or a presentation. This is my place to share them. I hope you like it. I'll also probably share random shit I find interesting like kittens or game of thrones, potential followers have been warned.
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Matt Smith’s character is Danny Foster a researcher working for a Labour MP. But looks like in his off hours he’s “Fellatio Politico”
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Holy shit, there’s a show on Netflix called ‘Party Animals’ with Matt Smith in it, about British Politics. I MUST WATCH THIS.
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Photo reblogged from Pictures of War
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Quote reblogged from Snake-Eyes DamascusBe yours the glory of victory followed by disaster and ruin, be ours the inglorious traffic of industry and an ever-growing prosperity… The age of chivalry is gone; and an age of economists and calculators has succeeded.George Canning, British Foreign Secretary to the French chargé d’affaires, 1823. (via snakeeyesdamascus)
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Post reblogged from Too school for cool
I’m pretty sure every time I write that America sold weapons to a country, about 4 key questions later I write the sentence ‘American weapons sold to … in … used against them’
History revision is slowly killing me, but I’m so close to finishing. Just 3 more years to cover then I’m done.
Brazilians?
Possibly Uruguayans? Although Operation Condor involved both to a degreeConsidering we’re one of the largest arms dealers on the planet I think there are plenty of countries we’ve sold to without fighting: the UK, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Canada, Japan, South Korea. Israel depending on what they used to sink the USS Liberty.
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Link reblogged from Its all just a ride!
I watched this last night and i noticed a few things.
In it they tried to say that the iraq war “mistake” was solely down to one iraqi informant “curveball”, who appeared on the program and confessed everything he said was a lie. Can you really believe that the U.N and NATO made their decision on…
Neither NATO nor the U.N. invaded iraq, so maybe that actually shows that they’re more credulous than you take them for. As for Cuveball’s effects on the US, he hardly caused the war just enabled. It wasn’t that he was a good lier, it was that he was telling them what they wanted to hear. As far as a post cold war treaty on spies I’m not sure exactly what you’re talking about, please elaborate which treaty you’re talking about.
