Posted on 04/09/2008 4:17:49 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Because “Free Tuva” sounds like a hair product.
What’s their flag look like?
Lol!
I might be screaming at that chick myself. I don’t get those folks who came out with the chi com flags. Ra Ra! Yeay, country I ran away from that oppresses dissenters! I wish they would stand on my neck and beat me!
You could hold a quilting bee in San Francisco and you’d have a group of protesters show up!
Can't disagree with that.
I would like to really do something about the ChiCom threat to us however.
We should be shifting the purchase of products from Red China (the real China is in Taiwan), to central or South America.
We should be encouraging those countries to beef up their manufacturing capabilities for the types of products that China currently makes.
I hate funding China's military buildup.
Looks like “Free Tuna!”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuva
The Soviet Union annexed Tuva outright in 1944, apparently with the approval of Tuva's Little Khural (parliament), though there was no Tuva-wide vote on the issue. The exact circumstances surrounding Tannu-Tuva's incorporation into the USSR in 1944 remain obscure. Salchak Toka, the leader of Tuvan communists, was given the title of First Secretary of the Tuvan Communist Party, and became the de-facto ruler of Tuva until his death in 1973. Tuva was made the Tuvan Autonomous Oblast and then became the Tuva ASSR on October 10, 1961. The Soviet Union kept Tuva closed to the outside world for nearly fifty years.In February 1990, the Tuvan Democratic Movement was founded by Kaadyr-ool Bicheldei, a philologist at Kyzyl University. The party aimed to provide jobs and housing (both were in short supply), and also to improve the status of Tuvan language and culture. Later on in the year there was a wave of attacks against Tuva's sizeable Russian community, resulting in 88 deaths. Russian troops eventually were called in. Many Russians moved out of the republic during this period. To this day, Tuva remains remote and difficult to access.[3]
Tuva was a signatory to the March 31, 1992 treaty that created the Russian Federation. A new constitution for the republic was drawn up on October 22, 1993. This created a 32-member parliament (Supreme Khural) and a Grand Khural, which is responsible for foreign policy and any possible changes to the constitution, and ensures that Tuvan law is given precedence. The constitution also allowed for a referendum if Tuva ever sought independence. This constitution was passed by 62.2% of Tuvans in a referendum on December 12, 1993. At the same time the official name was changed from Tuva (Тува) to Tyva (Тыва).
The Republic of China (Taiwan) has never officially recognized the Russian claim, and maps made in Taiwan have often included Tuva (along with Outer Mongolia) as part of China. This claim, along with the Taiwanese claim to mainland China, has been largely ignored since the early 1990s.
I think I know why.
True, Carter was one of the worst Presidents of the 20th century, especially due to the fact he let fascist regimes run circles around him and sucked up to communist tyrants, like when he sold out the Panama Canal and stood helpless while the Iranians took our guys hostage. The LONE exception, of course, is when Carter grew a spine during the 1980s Olympics and told the Soviets to go shove it. He might have been re-elected if he did that for four years, but fortunately we had Ronaldus Maximums replace him and tell the truth to the "evil empire" for the next eight years.
>> Carter calls for a boycott of the Moscow Olympics on Meet the Press in 1980. He urged that the Games be moved to another country, postponed or canceled unless the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan. <<
Amazingly, Carter actually went through with his threat and made an official announcement confirming the boycott on March 21 after the Soviets called his bluff. The boycott was a remarkable success in embarrassing the communist regime. Rather than the boycott falling on deaf ears, over 62 nations followed the U.S. lead and participated in the Olympics boycott. Additionally, as a form of protest against the USSR intervention in Afghanistan, 16 other countries sat out the opening and closing ceremonies of the games, making their athletics march in the Opening Ceremony with the Olympic Flag instead of their national flags, and the Olympic Flag and Olympic Hymn , thus replacing the Soviet anthem during those presentations. Altogether, only 81 nations participated in the Soviet Olympics— the lowest number since 1956. It was a huge slap in the face to the communist regime and an embarrassment to the USSR propandanda mill, and the backlash they faced was the beginning of the downfall of the once great Soviet empire.
>> Dreams were stolen in 1980 <<
That would be news to thousands of talented atlethics who participated in The Olympic Boycott Games (titled the Liberty Bell Classic) , an well-watched event especially created by the U.S. to give those hard-working athletics from boycotting nations an alternative to the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. It was a nationally covered event hosting the same sports as the Olympics, but held at event held at the University of Pennsylvania.Participating nations included the United States, Canada, Taiwan, Eygpt, Thailand, West Germany, Sudan, Kenya and many others. It began on July 16, shortly before the 1980 Summer Olympics opened on July 19. In several events, the times were better than those in Moscow, such as American Renaldo Nehemiah's time of 13.31 in the 110m hurdles ahead of East German gold medal winner Thomas Munkelt's time of 13.39. Participates in the Olympic Boycott Games were awarded the same style of Gold,Silver, and Bronze medals to honor their sportsmanship. A similar event was held in 1984 by boycotting countries of the 1984 Summer Olympics, called the Friendship Games.
>> Forward by former Vice President Walter Mondale" <<
Gotta hand it to Fritz Mondale, the only man in U.S. history to be defeated in all 50 states, to make Jimmy Carter look good. Lemme guess, Fritz thinks things would have soooo much better if we had simply sucked up the Soviets in 1980, but as second-in-command of the United States he was powerless to stop #1. Poor guy.
Boycotts CAN force change in evil regimes:
1980: 
USSR
1990:
Free Russian state
1979: 
Russians enter Afghanistan
1989: 
Russians leave Afghanistan
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