Recent content by Vextra

With all due respect, I still find this "Second Holocaust" theory absolutely objectionable. David Irving has done a marvellous job, i feel, with his research into the alleged deprivation of food, the use of mobile gas chambers, etc, none of which, I hasten to remind you all, have been found...

Sutcliffe! The Musical, as seen in the Crime episode of Brass Eye. The catch is, Peter Sutcliffe comes on stage at the end, and says how he is so very sorry for all of it.

*The Japanese Plan to set the Forests of California alight with Weather-balloons laden with bombs, timed just right to go off when above California.

I too am intrigued by this. With McCain in power, it makes me wonder if they'd even bother going into Iraq in the first place, especially if they get Osama in the Winter of '01. As to Afghanistan, I suspect it will remain a sinkhole, but perhaps a stronger, more willing Coalition, might be able...

I think it might have been possible to create the scenario you describe in the First Gulf War. Had the US not spent weeks-months beforehand softening both Iraq and Iraqi-held Kuwait with massive aerial firepower, it is entirely possible that the Iraqis would have been able to hold a defensive...

Wait, that sounds familliar... didn't they make like 3 or 4 of those movies already in OTL? :p Space Cowboys aside, I think that space millitarization really is totally impractical, no matter how much money you throw at it. Remember, they were talking about Orion Spaceships and Nuclear Missile...

Also watching with keen interest. Given how I'm researching Ireland and the IRA for my own personal curiousity, This timeline could not have come at a better time. I hope you don't mind if i take notes from your ATL for my own research. :D

This is a Discussion more than a True WI or AH Challenge or anything of the sort, and one I hope to keep reasonably apolitical, if at all possible. Basically, a Friend forwarded a reasonably good ditty by the Wolfe Tones. However, when I looked for more songs by this band, It became quickly...

Please. The Conservative Party was a dead horse. John Major is arguably one of the most boring and uninspiring men to have ever lived. It is highly unlikely that, had the stars aligned unfavourably and somehow prevented Kinnock from obtaining power, we would have had anything but four more years...

I have to agree, however reluctantly, with my deranged and deluded bourgeois capitalista friends here. It is unlikely that a man such as Iosef Dzhugashivili had the ability or willpower to ascend to such ranks. At pest, he'd have remained Editor of Pravda, with promotion to Treasurer of the...

True, but I know next to nothing about the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and anyway, Tito is much more interesting IMHO. :P But if you want to be a Captain-Literal, I have no objections to Kingdom of Yugoslavia-wanks. :D

With a POD no earlier than 1945(obviously), create as powerful and as long-lasting a Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as possible. Bonus points if it out-lasts the USSR (plausibly) and manages to reasonably gain Albania or Bulgaria. Some suggestions as to how this might be...

I think Powell, ironically, sabotaged his chances of becoming Prime Minister with the Rivers of Blood speech. He made the speech out of a growing personal frustration with the administration at the time, and out of a desire to draw attention to himself. I don't necessarily view Powell as an...

I read a book once called Fatherland, about a Nazi Germany covering most of Europe. It was really good, and had Britain as a nazi-supporting country or something. Maybe Seallion was successful in that Timeline? Also, why don't more people write books about Nazi Germany? There's hardly any...

Conspiracy Hour! New Coke IS Coke Classic! Ingredient X was removed because the Illuminati determined that the continous reformulation of America's beloved beverages and snack foods towards increasing blandness would lull the masses into apathy and laziness. More seriously, New Coke...