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1:03:07 You mean following the earthquake in New. 1:03:09 York starts with an earthquake? Bird, snakes and airplanes. Is the airplane going on? Is there any freaky stuff going on with birds or snakes? Probably. I don't think any of this should be in the episode, by the way. This is outtakes. This is extra. I don't really know how to end this. Did you want to end with we didn't start the fire?

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15:02 To be specific, this means that as we head into victory gundam and try to get a sense of the zeitgeist in Japan and the world during and just before the show's creation, I will be looking at the period from the release of f 91 on March 16, 1991 until the first episode of victory aired on April 2, 1993. Just over two years. Beginning with politics and economics around the world, there was an ongoing crisis involving international pressure on Iraq to disarm postgulf war. Iraq had accepted the terms of UN Security Council resolution six eight seven, which, in addition to calling for the destruction or removal of all of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons, also banned ballistic missiles with a range greater than 150 iraqi soldiers, blocked official inspectors only to allow those inspectors access some weeks later, fueling suspicion that they had simply moved or destroyed evidence of noncompliance. Joint forces from the United States, Great Britain, and France conducted airstrikes against iraqi surface to air missile sites. And this back and forth that never quite broke into a new war continued throughout this period. There was civil war in Algeria and Afghanistan. Us military and UN peacekeeping forces were in Somalia. In South Korea, after student protester gang Kyung day was beaten to death by police, mass protests and riots in Seoul forced the resignation of the acting prime minister, and multiple pro democracy student activists immolated themselves in protest against President no TeU's regime in Los Angeles, California. In the United States, the acquittal of four police officers on trial for the beating of Rodney King leads to six days of riots and the deployment of more than 10,000 responders from the California National Guard, the US military, and several federal law enforcement agencies. The trial and subsequent riots brought attention to issues of police brutality and racial tension. In La, the Mount Pinatubo volcano erupted in the Philippines, killing hundreds of people and causing global cooling of nearly half a degree celsius. The Ethiopian Civil War, Mauritania, Senegal border War and cambodian Vietnamese war came to an end, as did the twelve year salvadoran civil War with the signing of the Chapultopec Peace Accords in 1992 and the ten year lebanese hostage crisis ended with the release of the last two hostages. Also in 1992, the indian government undertook liberalization of the country's economy. Mexico, the United States, and Canada finalized the North American Free Trade Agreement commonly known as NAFTA, and Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Paraguay signed the Treaty of Asuncion, establishing the south american trade bloc Merco Sur. With the signing of the Mastricht Treaty in February of 1992, the European Union was founded. In these couple of years, North Korea, South Korea, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands, and Micronesia joined the United nations, although the negotiations to end apartheid in South Africa wouldn't conclude until November of 1993. In 1991, enough of the system had been dismantled that the UN lifted economic sanctions against the country. Czechoslovakia separated into the Czech Republic and Slovakia after years of unrest and conflict between its constituent republics and the central government, and a series of revolutions and declarations of sovereignty by those republics. In late 1991, the leaders of three founding members, Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine, declared that the Soviet Union no longer existed. Eight more republics joined this declaration soon after, and by the end of the year Gorbachev had resigned and the soviet parliament had voted to end itself. Less than two months later, in early February of 1992, US President George H. W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin formally declared the end of the Cold War, and this whole period was marked by deescalation between the two countries and their allies or blocs, including the signing of a second strategic arms reduction treaty. I'm sure some of you are wondering why I haven't yet brought up the yugoslav wars. As I mentioned in the introduction, Tom is of the opinion that the yugoslav wars had a particularly strong influence on victory gundam, and so we'll get their own separate research piece or pieces during the season. For now, I'll summarize by quoting the Wikipedia page because I really like how the writer or writers phrased it. Quote the yugoslav wars were a series of separate but related ethnic conflicts, wars of independence, and insurgencies that took place in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1991 to 2001 that both led up to and resulted from the breakup of Yugoslavia in mid 1991. In science and technology, the Internet was still largely confined to research institutions, but in August of 1991, CERN announced the first ever website info CERN Ch, and.

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03:10 After a major undersea earthquake, two massive waves were racing

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01:00 played after the earthquake? It was San Andrea's fault.

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01:11 What do you call a man from Mexico with a

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03:00 when he got to Mexico another one? I hear John

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06:01 have that, but in Mexico, I was like. 24:28 I was still in Mexico and they knew about it.

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01:53 Republican Congress from Marjorie Taylor Green tweeted, the earthquake and

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30:16 over several earthquake fault lines. 02:44 Republican Congress from Marjor Taylor Green tweeted, the earthquake and

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13:03 daily into Mexico and Yuma, Arizona to get dental. 02:01 across from the river is Mexico, and there's one crossing 02:10 the biggest border crossings to Mexico in terms of like

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11:23 the country here, not the Mexico. 15:00 The governor's just pushing them out to New Mexico, Arizona,

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34:54 God, I'm pretty sure it's the US Mexico border. So

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15:22 from from and I remember that was in Mantanillo, Mexico.

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17:37 the entire world, number one US, number two Mexico. They

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33:33 terms of like an earthquake level.

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1:03:00 on the map. There's a work trip to Mexico with 1:03:15 Where would you go in Mexico or worldwide anywhere? But

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1:11:09 I think I just felt an earthquake in my apartment

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49:42 where Barrett Robins go. I think he went to Mexico. Yes,

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08:12 from earthquakes. However, the earthquake was on the other side

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1:41:29 nee, alle waren mit bei Mexikaner Airlines mit ausgestattet und die haben das benutzt in Mexico City.

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47:54 strongness of the genes in their hair because in Mexico,

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01:35 Guatemala and Mexico. 16:52 Mexico City, places 06:19 guy in Mexico who had a

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33:24 like when I was in Mexico

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1:05:43 arrived in Mexico. 55:43 mask thing from Mexico.

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1:35:20 Mexico. 24:17 like Mexico, 16:32 six weeks in Mexico.

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26:50 earthquake

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