quote:Originally posted by Triton: A Trans-Pacific Tunnel Hooray!
I think that we will have statehood for Puerto Rico and Canada before statehood for Australia, making Australia the 53rd state.
By the way, what is this fear with Indonesia that I keep reading about in the Australian press? I remember seeing what looked like a radical conservative web site from Australia that warned of the dangers of an invasion from the brown Muslims from Indonesia and that Australia would become an Indonesian colony? Are these people dismissed as mentally ill in Australia or is there a real fear of such a scenario?
Yes, mentally ill. At least scare/hate mongerers. And of course, the ones with the more outrageous claims get the most press. There's a lesson in there somewhere!
I agree Puerto Rico and Canadia ( ) first!
And yes, add 6 states and 2 territories.
Infact - the likely hood of something like that ever happening - is quite remote. And for the record I would see a state succeeding and becoming it's own country before Australia becomes a part of the US!
And wouldn't it then be The United States of America and Australia?
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Australia doesn't have nuclear weapons... and we only have one nuclear reactor which is only used for scientific purposes...
Oh and that indonesia thing - I think (as I mentioned) some stirrers like to promote the fact that the largest muslim nation on earth and the third most populous country on the planet lies about 800km? off the coast! If they decided to invade - they'd be welcomed by a slice of happy desert. A desert roughly the size of Europe.
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This sounds like the kind of thing we get over here all the time. Basically a load of bollocks; I can't really see any country, especially one of the more developed ones giving up it's independance in order to be absorbed by the US. On the other hand my country is a member of the EU (shortly to be USE).
quote: How can Australia become the fifty-first state of the US when it's already the sixth country of the UK?
England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales=4 +Australia=5
Unless you count Canada.
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Certain requirements are needed to gain statehood...population being the major one Guam is lacking.
Except it should be pointed out that a few of the CURRENT states in the USA have fallen below the minimum requirement needed for statehood. So really the population thing should be thrown out.
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Or the states themselves. Like, say, Utah, and every other state with a population less than two million. 8)
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"England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales=4 +Australia=5
"Unless you count Canada."
I do. GB, NI, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. If you have the Union Jack in your flag or you put Queen Elizabeth on your money, you're still in the British Empire. Which, I suppose, means Fiji and Tuvalu go in there, too. And an arguement could be made about Hawaii, I suppose.
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There are a bunch of other (little) places as well, I think. Hawaii would be nice... Although they actually have their own king over there (and their own seccession movement, apparently.).
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If the Canadian territories became states, would we have to take Quebec too?
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Wraith I know that the European Economic Community (EEC), and now the European Union (EU), have been slowly working towards creating institutions and a common currency for a united European state, but do you tink it will really happen?
I get the impression from reading The Economist, the only European newspaper that I have access to, that there are politicians in the United Kingdom who continually place road blocks and barriers to prevent the UK from participating in European political integration. Do you think that citizens in the UK will accept political integration with the continent and a European Prime Minister and legislature, instead of a British one?
I always wanted to ask this because I fear that my perception may be distorted by reading a conservative publication.
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Wozzle, I don't think that the "unique society" would tolerate becoming part of the United States. Look how much trouble the Quebecois are causing for Canada.
But seriosly, some questions to our Canadian friends, is the threat of Quebec succession real? Is there enough desire in the province to create a nation of Quebec? Or are the people with these feeling in the minority and the majority of the citizens of Quebec want to stay in Canada and consider themselves to be Canadians? Sorry for my ignorance, but I only hear pieces here and there of what is going on in Canadian politics.
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Even the proponents of Quebeci (I am like a media pioneer!) independance don't seem to take it all that seriously.
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"England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales=4 +Australia=5
"Unless you count Canada."
I do. GB, NI, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. If you have the Union Jack in your flag or you put Queen Elizabeth on your money, you're still in the British Empire. Which, I suppose, means Fiji and Tuvalu go in there, too. And an arguement could be made about Hawaii, I suppose.
You said the sixth country of the UK, nothing to do with the Commonwealth or the Queen. The United Kingdom is comprised of the countries of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, plus the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. Hence, you are stupid. And smell. And are fat.
Quebec separatism has taken it UP TEH BUTT!!1! as of late and is not presently a viable political movement.
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