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The attitude, which still survives, of Britain and America towards Irish neutrality is actually pretty interesting, especially in that it is a largely manufactured one.

The American ambassador to Ireland at the time was a Mr. David Gray. Gray was extremely atypical for American ambassadors to Ireland in (at least) one major regard: he thoroughly disliked Ireland and the Irish (the feeling was mutual) and was personally convinced that the Free State was all but a Nazi puppet regime. His theories and proposals were completely at odds with the OSS, MI5, and the British Admiralty. This is not to be surprised at, as Gray was in the habit of getting his own advice from séances.

The reality of the situation was that Ireland was quite literally doing everything it could to assist the British (later Allied) war effort short of officially declaring war. Given the strategic situation in the early years of the war, and the limited usefulness of the antique (and southerly) Irish bases, Ireland was considered more helpful out of the war than in it.

Ireland agreed, that all communication to the continent would go through one cable - through Britain. After Ireland seized their transmitter, this was the German embassy's only remaining line of communication with Berlin, using codes that the British had already broken (meanwhile, the British were free to use their radio transmitters). Further, the German embassy in Dublin was busy sending a flood of information on British shipping, supplied by Irish 'supporters' who were themselves supplied by MI5. The British objected strongly to Gray's demands that Ireland close the embassy for this reason.

Ireland's G2 shared completely with their Allied intelligence counterparts throughout the war. To counter Gray's machinations, the leader of the American's OSS, Gen. Donovan, wrote to Roosevelt to ensure that the true picture was kept in mind - 'The co-operation in intelligence matters offered and given by the Irish has been very full. It should be pointed out that we did not offer the Irish information in return and have given them little'.

Ireland's Lookout Posts also tracked German air traffic in the Irish Sea and Atlantic, which they transmitted in code via radio to Dublin. The British were secretly given the code, as well as being allowed to set up radar stations along the Cork and Donegal coasts, station observer sea-planes at Foynes, and station air-sea rescue boats in Killybegs. Further facilities were offered, but never taken up. To top all of that off, the Irish were prepared a secret fall-back base in Tipperary for the RAF to continue to operate from in the event of an invasion of Britain itself.

While spared from German attack, Irish food and manpower was free to move to Britain where it was desperately needed. Some 70,000 men volunteered for the British armed forces, while another 200,000 filled out Britain's war economy (while America, it bears noting, remained neutral also). These are huge numbers when one considers Ireland's working (male) population.

So where does this feeling of animosity come from? It comes directly from Gray, and indirectly from a decidedly ungracious agreement between Roosevelt and Churchill.

In 1943, at the height of the U-Boat threat, the Canadian High Commissioner to Ireland suggested that if Roosevelt asked for Irish bases, De Valera might say yes. Roosevelt ran into strong opposition for a genuine request to Ireland to officially join the Allied war effort from his State Department, the Chiefs of Staff, and the OSS, as did Churchill from his advisers. British top brass maintained that the Irish bases would be more trouble than they were worth, and dismissed the idea.

Gray nonetheless seized on the scheme because he personally felt that De Valera would say no, and that would make him look bad. He went home to the US and explained to Roosevelt and Churchill a plan to publish a letter condemning Ireland for not turning over its naval bases in New York on August 14th of that year. They, in turn, thought it politically useful that De Valera be brought low in the estimation of Irish-Americans, to ensure he could not cause Anglo-American difficulties over the Irish Partition issue after the war. It was explicitly a propaganda effort for American consumption, as explained later by Gray in his own cover letter.

The letter was duly published on March 10th, 1944 (when the bases were no longer needed anyway). It did huge damage to Ireland's reputation abroad - especially amongst its target audience of Irish-Americans. It also put paid to any hope of a resolution to the Irish border question, and solidified anti-Irish feeling in Britain and among the Unionist population of Northern Ireland.

Churchill, ever the hawkish Imperialist, was delighted, and expounded upon the theme (while partially drunk) during his speech on VE Day where he congratulated Britain (i.e. himself) on not invading neutral Ireland and taking her bases by force - as he had directly threatened to do in 1939 when he needed someone else to blame for the loss of the Royal Oak at Scapa Flow (about as far from Ireland as it is possible to harbour your fleet anyway).

> This was indeed a deadly moment in our life, and if it had not been for the loyalty and friendship of Northern Ireland we should have been forced to come to close quarters with Mr. de Valera or perish forever from the earth. However, with a restraint and poise to which, I say, history will find few parallels, we never laid a violent hand upon them, which at times would have been quite easy and quite natural, and left the de Valera Government to frolic with the German and later with the Japanese representatives to their heart's content.

(It bears mentioning that Ireland did not commence any diplomatic relations with Japan at all until the mid 1950's.)

It is a sad lesson in propaganda that the same bitter message is still put about today. In response to Churchill's bravado, De Valera himself put it best:

> I would like to put a hypothetical question-it is a question I have put to many Englishmen since the last war. Suppose Germany had won the war, had invaded and occupied England, and that after a long lapse of time and many bitter struggles, she was finally brought to acquiesce in admitting England's right to freedom, and let England go, but not the whole of England, all but, let us say, the six southern counties.

> These six southern counties, those, let us suppose, commanding the entrance to the narrow seas, Germany had singled out and insisted on holding herself with a view to weakening England as a whole, and maintaining the securing of her own communications through the Straits of Dover.

> Let us suppose further, that after all this had happened, Germany was engaged in a great war in which she could show that she was on the side of freedom of a number of small nations, would Mr. Churchill as an Englishman who believed that his own nation had as good a right to freedom as any other, not freedom for a part merely, but freedom for the whole--would he, whilst Germany still maintained the partition of his country and occupied six counties of it, would he lead this partitioned England to join with Germany in a crusade? I do not think Mr. Churchill would.

> Would he think the people of partitioned England an object of shame if they stood neutral in such circumstances? I do not think Mr. Churchill would.

> Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

> Could he not find in his heart the generosity to acknowledge that there is a small nation that stood alone not for one year or two, but for several hundred years against aggression; that endured spoliations, famines, massacres in endless succession; that was clubbed many times into insensibility, but that each time on returning consciousness took up the fight anew; a small nation that could never be got to accept defeat and has never surrendered her soul?

Sources:

• Behind the Green Curtain: Ireland's Phoney Neutrality During World War II
  
• Wings Over Ireland: Story of the Irish Air Corps
  
• Prime Minister Churchill's Broadcast on "Five Years of War"
  
• De Valera's Response to Churchill

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Other mammals have been evolving for as long as we have, as has brain function. I'm reading a really interesting book on animal intelligence, by Franz DeWahl, "Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are"

The answer seems to be, not until we gave up expecting to measure animal intelligence from a human POV, and instead started looking at the world from the given species' POV.

Turns out, animals are just as smart as we are when researchers stop expecting, for instance, chimpanzees to pass a facial recognition test--for human faces instead of chimpanzee faces.

The bias? Thinking that human faces are so "distinct from one another" so any other species should be able to recognize human individuals, right? Turns out, wrong!

Chimps recognize their own species' faces every bit as easily as we recognize other humans'.

And even then, think how often humans have tried to claim that "all Asians look alike" or "all Africans look alike" or "all Europeans look alike." No, they've just been "othered" the same way other species' individuals are "othered,"--other species "other" us, as well.

So, yes, it's obvious that adult animals that live around humans recognize when that human is a baby and act accordingly. After all, they've been raising their own young all those millions of years, too.

>The whole "ask for a lawyer" business is kind of overstated. The only thing a lawyer will advise you is to not say another word to the police. That's the entirety of the benefit of calling a lawyer. (Also, in circumstances where it's not clear that you've been detained/arrested, the lawyer will instruct you to ask the police if you can leave, and if offered the chance, to do so).
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>Edit: you should still call a lawyer, because you're always better off with advice tailored to your situation than without it. I'm just pointing out it won't stop the police from asking the questions.

James Duane of the famous Don't Talk to the Police video recommends in his book You Have the Right to Remain Innocent that you should explicitly ask for a lawyer instead of pleading the fifth. He cites a supreme court decision that makes it so the fifth amendment no longer has the protections it used to have. Explicitly stating you want a lawyer and then remaining silent is your best option.

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That is the one I got. I honestly don't remember exactly why I picked this over everything. But it works perfectly as expected. Videos overlap by like 2 seconds so nothing is ever missed. It is sleek enough that people won't notice it. The only argument against it is that it doesn't have a rear view camera, but I doubt that's really important. As long as you can prove you did not do anything dumb to cause the accident, you're in the clear.

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Did you know that bamboo forests will only flower once every 65 - 120 years? After flowering they litter the forest floor with a deep bed of bamboo rice (also known as green rice). The existing bamboo will then die out, as if to give the new bamboo room to grow.

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> That's a pretty big safety failure isn't it?

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