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We also talked a little about Ukraine and Russia, and other historical places to visit in Belgium; like the new museum in Bastogne, La Gleize museum, and the fort of Loncin, in Liege area.This year is dedicated to the 100 anniversary of WWI, the first "industrial war"?http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KAz5f4IdUHchttp://www.december44.com/en/history_battle_of_the_bulgela_gleize.htmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_de_Loncin
It was a very good time indeed. For a first meeting, time was a bit short to start historical debates while struggling with meals, beers and the little lutin.
Take the test: Which political tribe are you?Pollsters Populus have come up with a new way of tapping into the mind of the electorate.The technique is called segmentation and - like many political tools - has been perfected in the United States.http://populuslive.spss-asp.com/mrIWeb/mrIWeb.dllIt seems that I belong to the Optimistic Contentment one
And Happy birthday to you all ! You are confusing me with your calendars … and congratulations for your “egregia cum laude” 7000 posts !Bach, Marais, Lully, Pachebel, Purcell, Albinoni, Vivaldi, ... Baroque music is so tremendous.
Modern warfare?I find this article interesting when stating that The entire operation was very cleverly planned and carried out. But there is absolutely no doubt what it was - a remarkable, quick and mostly bloodless coup d'etat.http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26644082No wonder why the "West" has been voiceless, useless since
Election officials say 95.5% of voters have backed joining Russia in the referendum but Russia reports on alleged vote rigging!Shall they evoke a massive electoral fraud to explain the 5% no? Let's be optimistic: the free world already took sanctions: the US ordered the freezing of assets and travel bans on 11 individuals, while the EU imposed such sanctions on 21 people. The EU's potential sanctions list is thought to include more than 100 people!!!I'm optimistic, I smell Victory (or is it just gas?) :'(
A new study sponsored by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the prospect that global industrial civilisation could collapse in coming decades due to unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly unequal wealth distribution.“The fall of the Roman Empire, and the equally (if not more) advanced Han, Mauryan, and Gupta Empires, as well as so many advanced Mesopotamian Empires, are all testimony to the fact that advanced, sophisticated, complex, and creative civilizations can be both fragile and impermanent.”Do you think this could be plausible ?http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/14/nasa-industrial-civilization-headed-for-irreversible-collapse/
After today's referendum in Crimea, let's see if retaliations will be applied as promised. Retaliations often mean a strike back.
Moscow – As unidentified soldiers increasingly control Crimea , the international community has asked Vladimir Putin to act according to international laws. The latter replied in the affirmative by committing to not humiliate the international community but only in a very relative and proportionate way. To which extent the international community will be ridiculed in the Crimea crisis? For Moscow, this should be very relative and limited in time. "We will do everything so that this humiliation is effective but still fast " said for his part, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev who wanted to give goodwill gesture to the Duma , eager to reassure about the humiliation to come for the international community . "Russia wants to show others that the country has grown and knows now how to humiliate the international community quite worthy " declared on the other hand President Vladimir Putin.Europe , the United States and NATO are concerned about the situation in Crimea and expect to be humiliated any time regretting a lack of communication by the Russian authorities in the way they will be humiliated. " We need details of this humiliation. Numbers, specific points on which we can discuss " worried the Secretary General of the Atlantic force . Already humiliated during the war in Georgia , Europe blamed Russia. "We had agreed on a certain level of humiliation , but Putin had not kept its promises . It is feared that in addition to humiliation, he starts to really make fun of the international community, and it's not very nice " analyses an expert .Russian promises to humiliate in a relative way only seems nothing to reassure European countries and international experts. According to them, this attitude is already in itself a form of hidden humiliation, which then would add to the humiliation to come. "If this is true, it is still quite humiliating" mumbles a European diplomat.This is the next step
The telling thing is what will the Western Democracies DO as Russia becomes ever more involved in the internal affairs of a neighbor state? Russian actions in the Crimea yesterday would have been a causus Belli just 50 years ago.
I agree about what will Western Democracies do? Nobody in the streets to support the people of Ukraine, noone seems to be ready to leave a comfortable-soft nest to demonstrate any empathy with what is happening there.If the crisis is about to increase with more Russian troops in Crimea, the EU reaction will probably be few shocked or disgruntled speeches, nothing more...
Another charge of Balaklava ?In the heart of Europe, a revolution is occurring. Is the old continent waking up or is it just some convulsions?
The French guy you're mentioned is probably Claude-Henri de Saint-Simon .If you look at the origins of communism, some trace it back to ancient times: e.g. - the Spartacus slave revolt in Rome and the 5th century Mazdak movement in Persia.Communist ideas can also be traced back to the work of 16th century English writer Thomas More, in his treatise Utopia (1516). Even the puritan religious group like the "Diggers", in the UK, advocated the abolition of private ownership of land.Of course you also have the French touch with Jean Jacques Rousseau; and later, following the upheaval of the French Revolution, communism emerged as a political doctrine. (there is always a Frenchman when something awfwul happens ... 8)What I wanted to say is that the 1917 October Revolution in Russia was the first time any avowedly Communist Party, in this case the Bolshevik Party, seized state power. And gave us MacCarthyism as well.
