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I predict that war starts when Putin tries to absorb the Baltic States and not before.
The situation is getting worse and worse. No need to wait for the Baltic states ...http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27259614
If I can go back to the topic; I think that this “guiltiness” seems to be quite a “modern” criteria in the way that today everyone “must” feel guilty about something, no matter how old the event or whatever it can be, but you are the guilty one.What the Romans did to Christ happened according to the rules of the time, Pilate just complied with what the priests decided about Christ's fate. (Didn't he wash his hands about this matter?) Local authorities wanted him dead, he complied in respect with local laws.As the authority of a Roman province, the Romans were in charge of keeping law and order, and regarding the Roman tolerance towards "foreign" religions, I don't think they were particularly against Christ himself but they just tried to appease the local authorities in order to "save" a local peacefulness. The Romans did not condemn Christ.
I've heard of this as well. I think that those who criticise the existence of Israel as a state, are considered as part of a “new antisemitism”; even if for some critics this “new antisemitism” is also used as “exploiting antisemitism in order to silence debate and to deflect attention from legitimate criticism of the State of Israel”
What is that aqueduc doing in such a remote area? How far was the Roman settlement from it? It should have been something more important than a simple villa?
This is a mobile infantry shield.More amazing designs here: http://bashny.net/t/en/19625
The first one is a kind of sound locator: Before radar, the first practical means of detecting airplanes at a distance at night was by listening to the noise of their engines with the aid of horns.The second one is part of a searchlight radar from the outset, a short-range, height-finding unit expressly designed for fixed antiaircraft defenses such as coastal batteries or other static positionsMore details here: http://www.skylighters.org/howalightworks/I can hear you weeping ... 8)
Phid, don't say that the painting is actually the one hanging in your kitchen… :-[http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-26848889
Weird! I didn't see the guy when I checked the first time … ???I hope it's not another restoration by Cecilia Gimenez!http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-19674622
Is it about the “symbolic” mess on the floor ? (broken eggs, cut flowers, bubbles, etc) or because they are smoking, flirting (old guy and young girl dancing) in front of children (sooo anti-PC)? Or for being the origin of the expression “Jan Steen’s Household” that describes any merry but messy home, in Holland ?
The parallel between Russia and Nazi Germany over Crimea and the Sudetenland's annexion makes me think about the other side of the “axis“:China has established an air defence identification zone (ADIZ) over a swathe of the East China Sea, including islands controlled by Japan. China has claimed a U-shaped swathe of the South China Sea - creating multiple overlaps with areas claimed by the neighbouring countries.But Beijing has said its right to the area come from 2,000 years of history where the Paracel and Spratly island chains were regarded as integral parts of the Chinese nation. What were the reactions?
Let's see what will be the next move. European countries may have to look again at defence budgets since rules of game have changed.If it's not too late already.
In recent decades, respect for European explorers, such as Christopher Columbus, has waned, likely because these once-romanticized swashbuckling adventurers killed people, eradicated cultures, and “discovered” places that people (for example, the natives) already knew about.
So bad, ask Vladimir Vladimirovich P what he thinks about it ::)Is guilt (emotion) part of Western civilization only?I wonder why everything seems to be bad when it's about westerners ...
