[ SECRET POST #2677 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2677 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[The Scribbler]


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02.
[bioshock infinite: burial at sea]


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04.
[True Detective]


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08.
[fire emblem/super smash bros]


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10.
[World of Warcraft]


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12. [SPOILERS for Hannibal]



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13. [SPOILERS for Bioshock: Infinite]



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14. [SPOILERS for Game of Thrones]



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15. [WARNING for rape/abuse I'm assuming? Ramsay/Theon stuff]
http://i.imgur.com/Xo0GSkI.png



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16. [WARNING for mental illness/hospitals]



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17. [WARNING for depression]



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18. [WARNING for eating disorders]



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19. [WARNING for rape]

[Game of Thrones]








Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #382.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The USA's use of nuclear weaponry is actually part of the reason New Zealand and other South Pacific countries aren't allied with them any more. Testing nukes on tiny little islands is a bigger deal when you *live* next door to those tiny little islands, after all. It would be interesting to see that as a background for the bad guys.

[(Anonymous)]

TIL! Makes quite a bit of sense.

[(Anonymous)]

Today you learned wrong. New Zealand is a US ally.

[(Anonymous)]

No, it isn't. They share membership in some groups, but they themselves are not allies and haven't been for almost thirty years. There has been a thawing of relations lately and talk of trade agreements, but that's not a treaty and they are not official allies. To quote a CSIS article:

"The bilateral security relationship is now comparable to pre-1985 levels of cooperation. Speaking at the conference, former deputy assistant secretary of state Randy Schriver labeled this cooperation an alliance “in all but name.” He was the only speaker who assessed the security relationship in this way.

Other panelists noted that resuming a full alliance would not necessarily be in the interests of either the United States or New Zealand. They argued that New Zealand finds value in its independent status in its relations with China, India, and other Indo-Pacific powers." (http://csis.org/publication/pacific-partners-outlook-us-new-zealand-partnership-alliance-all-name#commentary)

Poke around a bit. Read news articles. Although the USA seems keen to sweep that under the mat and presents them all as pals, NZ media shows a much more professional relationship that is nowhere near as buddy-buddy as the 'basically an alliance' relationship touted by the Americans.

Perhaps the most compelling evidence, for me, is that when I was *in* New Zealand, *at* the Te Papa Museum, it was explicitly stated that they were *not* allies in an exhibit. That was in 2011, and I'm sure such a monumental switch, if it had happened in the last three years, would be *somewhere* online.

[(Anonymous)]

Explain why NZ is run by the US's corporate interests dept, and the US copyright enforcement team? It doesn't even answer to the US government, that is too far up the chain for NZ. US Corporate lawyers order NZ police and security teams around.

[(Anonymous)]

New Zealand? *New Zealand* isn't allied with the US? They are part of the Five Eyes partnership (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes). That is literally about as allied with the US as you can get.

[(Anonymous)]

In that very wiki, Five Eyes is described as a "supra-national intelligence organisation that doesn’t answer to the laws of its own countries".

Belonging to it, and continuing to do so after 20 years despite the fact that two of the countries had dissolved their formal ties and treaties, is not the same as an alliance. The same is true of them both dealing with NATO.

The fact that both countries avoid using the term 'allies' at all is a more telling fact, despite the recent thawing of relations. Even the new agreement from October of last year isn't technically a treaty. They're presented as such, just without the word, in American media, but not in NZ articles. The only time I can see anyone having used it was this case, which I have copied directly from Wikipedia.

"In July 2008, Condoleezza Rice, the United States Secretary of State, visited New Zealand, which she referred to as "a friend and an ally". The New Zealand Herald reported that the use of the word "ally" was unexpected, as United States officials had avoided it since the ANZUS crisis."(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand%E2%80%93United_States_relations)

Until I see proof that both agree they are allies, I am going to continue to go with what I saw with my own eyes at the Te Papa Museum: They are not allies and have not been since the fallout over nuclear vessels in New Zealand waters.