mhaze It appears you get your world history knowledge from Hollywood movies.

The Lusitania was classified as an auxiliary warship, her identity had been disguised, and she flew no flags. She was a non-neutral vessel in a declared war zone, with orders to evade capture and ram challenging submarines.

The sinking caused a storm of protest in the United States because 128 American citizens were among the dead. The sinking helped shift public opinion in the United States against Germany and was a factor in the United States' declaration of war nearly two years later. After the First World War, successive British governments maintained that there were no munitions on board Lusitania, and the Germans were not justified in treating the ship as a naval vessel. In 1982, the head of the British Foreign Office's North America department finally admitted that there is a large amount of ammunition in the wreck, some of which is highly dangerous and poses a safety risk to salvage teams.

The Germany put notices in American newspapers that it was going to be a target because of the cargo.

http://www.corbettreport.com/the-wwi-conspiracy/

http://www.corbettreport.com/episode-348-the-wwi-conspiracy-part-two-the-american-front/

http://www.corbettreport.com/episode-349-the-wwi-conspiracy-part-three-a-new-world-order/

The 1st one will give info about the Lusitania

** Doubt if you will educate yourself, but if you do all claims are supported by links to the hard evidence on the pages. **

It will give you an indication of how the world really works most politicians really did not want war but it was other people that did and they got their way.

Foxy, your naive, sweet, girlish, childlike mindset gives you away, once more.
To re-align your thinking; There can be NO reason or excuse for a person to die or suffer at the hands of any medical practitioner, Doctor, Nurse and all the other branches of medicine.
It is inexcusable and unfathomable to even begin to believe that this kind of thing is happening AT ALL!
If this example of complete incompetence and irrelevance towards the public is as described by these reports, then I am right once more that Aussies are inept and incapable of attaining or rising to a level of maturity and focus which would even come close to mediocre.
I am going to keep putting this place, and it's people, down, until they rise to the occasion and 'man up' to their responsibilities.
Until then my assessment of this place and it's people stand.

Toni

"//as the shutters (whatever) are opened an hour earlier.//

But they're also shut an hour earlier"

Not around here, we enjoy the late sunshine.

//To re-align your thinking; There can be NO reason or excuse for a person to die or suffer at the hands of any medical practitioner, Doctor, Nurse and all the other branches of medicine.//

Actually, there are lot of reasons. Medical practitioners aren't wizards, mate. Frankly, it's a wonder that so many people come out of hospitals alive, given the condition they generally enter in. Nobody goes to hospital for a mild cough, except new mums with their first child.

Think about it: if you're sick enough to be admitted to hospital, your chances probably aren't great to begin with. It just comes down to a numbers game: are you better off staying home and avoiding treatment and malpractice and trying to cure your ailment with herbal teas and crystals, or are you better off going to the hospital and receiving treatment with a slight risk of malpractice? If the risk of your ailment killing you outweighs the risk of malpractice killing you, I'd side with the treatment and associated risk.

But by all means, please feel free to stay home and cure your own diseases through the power of positive thought, ALTRAV. As much as it would pain me to see you eschew conventional medicine, if you think that's what best then go for it. Armchair Critic knows a lot more about alternative medicine than I do, you might like to ask him about it.

//Not around here, we enjoy the late sunshine.//

And the early darkness, apparently.

Why not just adjust your shutter opening routine by an hour during daylight savings?

I'm pretty sure you're clever enough to understand basic principles of astronomy and navigation. Surely you can work this one out for yourself?

I wish I had studied the language of the 'left' at school, because I'm having a dandy of a time trying understand some of the sarcasm and innuendo being bandied around on this topic.
For example, what the heck does 'But I don't think we should close our eyes, and hold our noses and swallow something who's odour tells us it is obviously rotten either'.
I didn't do 'sarcasm 101' at school, it must have been a 'left' subject, so I have trouble with nonsensical sentences.
I do however know the difference between 'The right' and obviously the other MUST be 'The wrong', aka the left.
I may have already told the story of how the 'left' came to get a 'bad rap'.
It derives from the Latin word 'sinistra' and later the very same word was adopted in the Italian language.
Long story short it meant 'left' and later and to this day it also means 'sinister'. HAH.
No seriously, look it up.
So all you righties, guess what?
It's official, (well it always has been, just that the left don't want anyone to know they're wrong-ens, not a good look, you see)the left are and have always been 'sinister', or bad!