Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
Orson Scott

Comment preview: I just read the formal announcement made by North Korea. It mainly accuses him of forming a network to plan a coup against Kim. He is accused of trying to establish the reputation of a reformer while secretly working to harm the economy of the North. Th ....


Comment preview: >Convoy of trucks rocking up in the middle of the night outside the Krrmlin. Apparently Russian flag removed from Kremin Palace building and stange murder allegedly by finance ministry security contractors of Boris Nemtsov that can only reasonably frame ....


Comment preview: Just a couple of things: 1) You make it sound like the US gave medals to the Vincennes crew as a result of them shooting down the Iranian plane which is not true. They were awarded medals for years of service in a combat zone. 2) The US was initially reluc ....


Comment preview: > Returning to Russia he worked for the KGB at Leningrad University, but then was recruited as an aide by the liberal mayor Anatolii Sobchak, his former law professor. On the first day of the August 1991 coup, Putin resigned from the KGB. [Source](http: ....


Comment preview: Probably the most vital stage - in any coup situation - at which the Republicans had a chance of winning completely over the Nationalists was at the buildup and coup itself. Manuel Azana, the President of the Second Spanish Republic, was hesitant in reacti ....


Comment preview: heres an army information brief Good morning, BG /u/MericaMan4Life, I am LTC /u/rdb2005, your assistant G2. This is a TOP SECRET briefing with Sensitive Compartmentalized Information under XXXX. I will brief you on the surrender of Japan in WWII. Japan did ....


Comment preview: This is what I imagine: It's TSM vs Samsung Blue in the finals. The record is 2-2 and the energy in the air before game 5 is absolutely electric. The teams are tense; the crowd even moreso. The teams are preparing for champ select when the crowd goes silen ....


Comment preview: And let's not overlook their home field mistakes. [Lindsey Graham,](http://www.vox.com/2015/3/11/8193751/lindsey-graham-military-coup) a sitting U.S. Senator, just said that as president his first act would be to deploy the U.S. military against Congress t ....


Comment preview: I can't really answer your larger question, but one specific example of what you're asking about occurred in Iran in 1953. The CIA overthrew a democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, who was poised to usher in a new era of government by ....


Comment preview: It could be argued that the Revolution betrayed Arnold long before Arnold returned the favour. Arnold was consistently competent and yet was passed over time and again for accolades and awards, often even having his accomplishments claimed by braggarts wit ....


Comment preview: The Shah was terribly brutal. If his police caught you with any Russian book (he was afraid of communism) you were taken away, and probably never seen again. In 1953 the people of Iran elected their own prime minister Mossadegh. The Shah went into exile i ....


Comment preview: Elephant behavioral psychologist here! The elephant in the background is not trying to teach the calf to walk. If you pay close attention to the body language, she is actually in an aggressive stance. I would think that if we had a wider angle, then we' ....


Comment preview: > Their coup isn't as power grabbing as you make it out to be though Their coup is absolutely power-grabby and unjustified, positioned when it is and with the facts the Jedi actually have. > Dark side of the force they already had suspicion that Palp ....


Comment preview: From an American perspective, I'd say the CIA-staged coups in Guatemala and Iran in the 50's under President Eisenhower. But especially the one in Iran. It totally gives context for the sentiment felt in the middle east towards Americans (and Brits/the wes ....


Comment preview: Someone already said something to this effect, but I'm going to repeat it: while this is a lovely read, it really doesn't/shouldn't apply to ANY modern couple outside of extremely religious communities. All relationships go through these stages (regardless ....


Comment preview: I would like to see **Espionage** fleshed out to be a very important part of the game once they are unlocked. **Early Eras** * **Highwaymen** - steals gold produced from from enemy Trade Routes or provides 1 Luxury for you with 1/2 the Happiness from it * ....


Comment preview: It's easy for Marines to say this when comfortably pondering the situation, but it wouldn't be nearly this simple in actuality. They would be given information stating that the protesters were going to throw the country into chaos, that they were violating ....


Comment preview: I knew Romania tried to be neutral but basically played the "oh, looks like Germany's gonna win, we should ally with them" card, but I didn't know the extent. Quite interesting actually: > In summer 1940, a series of territorial disputes were resolved ....


Comment preview: There was a clause which stated that in the event of a re-alignment of Polish borders, the Soviet Union would take the eastern half and the Germans the western part; this was in effect a division of the country between its two neighbours. Naturally, Stalin ....


Comment preview: Your take: uneducated horny Thai guys pissed off at western plumbers fucking their women. My take: it's closer to being about money. Thaksin subsidised the farming areas quite heavily in his time as PM. Yellow shirts (who pay much of the tax that runs th ....


Comment preview: Just so everybody knows, Project Cybersyn was the result of the Chilean government's, well, complete rejection of the Soviet style command-and-control approach to economics. Cybersyn was the result of a project to find an alternative means to run the econo ....


Comment preview: A highly qualified and intelligent politician with an open ear for the struggle of the lower class gets disillusioned when the fact sinks in that total power will one day be given to the bratty and prejudiced son of the current ruler, a man who has banned ....


Comment preview: The *velociraptor* stage. Most people go through that in primary school, but not me. There I was in Grade 9, using my binocular vision to stalk prey through locker rooms and leaping from ambush points in the bushes to disembowel fellow students with my sic ....


Comment preview: **THIS IS MISINFORMATION!** >The one the people favoured was Capriles (and allegedly won the election and has proof). Why don't you show it then?! **Maduro won** the election with 50.8 per cent of the vote against Capriles' 49.0 per cent, the difference ....


Comment preview: Boy oh boy, are you in for a treat. It just so happens that I am studying for a university course on a related subject (Civil-Military Relations), so I am going to use your question as a platform for my exam revision (and hopefully your education). So it's ....