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As fa as I understand the concept of the Keystone XL it is that it would get the oil from both Canada and the Bakken down to the gulf coast where most of the country's refinery capacity is at.
The whole thing with the Crimea is it is a sphere of influence struggle. Modern Israel was a backwater until the Israelis made the desert flower. The problem in Israel is racial hatred not resources. I think there is a bit of Arab envy that the Israelis are showing the Arabs to be the losers they are in there too.Russia is upset because they think the EU got to close o their backyard in the Ukraine and now they are trying to counter that with threats of force. It is the same thing that started the war in 1853. Just some of the actors are different.
Keystone XL would go through the Bakken formation as well as bring oil from the Canadian tarsands. Thank the liberal idiots for doing their best to destroy the economy by keeping commodities prices high. The price of oil affects the price of everything else. Environmental policy ensures that transportation costs remain higher than they need to be thus costing investment in other sectors.The difference is that Rockefeller wanted a monopoly and his competitors could find a workaround, now there is not one.
So, does anybody think the Western democracies are looking any more resolute now than they were in 1938? We probably won't see war this year, but I think we are building up to one.
The Chinese were using rockets in the 9th Century. That is the first use to which they put gunpowder.
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
So true, and yet so SAD at the same time.
This piece in the Telegraph has it half right. The West does not just look weak, they are weak because there is not a single Western Leader willing to put their foot down. The question is where will the next Munich Agreement be signed and will Poland again be the European country under threat that convinces the rest of the world that a country is not to be trusted?
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.
Yes, you are right. The communist ideal probably does stretch at least as far back as ancient slave revolts. I had not even thought about Utopia as being one of the drivers of modern communist thought. That is a very good and valid point as well. I guess the best answer is that so many people and cultures have had a finger in the creation of modern communism that it would be best to call it a European/American Creation. I include American because their are plenty of academics and others in the US that still admire communism for some reason. You still hear people complain that problem is not the ideology/theory but its application and that if someone just "did it right," then all would be well. They even spout such pap with a straight face.
Communism is German in origin, or if you really want to stretch it, it is French. The first true socialists were Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Charles Fourier, and Henri de Saint-Simon. Don't forget the Paris Commune of 1871 and there was also a French guy that tried to set up a socialist Utopia in the 1830's but I can't remember his name.Russia originated Leininist-Marxism. A more virulent strain than the western European variants.
Isn't religious iconography a Russian specialty? What about… That is about all I can think of except Vodka.Oh yeah, the Amber Room too. Of course, that is probably at the bottom of a swamp now.
So she is not the last, but the oldest. The tagline threw me off for a second because I know that there are thousands of Holocaust survivors still alive.
You would have to ask Aeth about the European position on whether morality trumps law. I have a decidedly American view of the whole thing, and a conservative American view at that. Many of my German friends think I am some kind of barbarian because I don't swallow the kool-aid and follow the pacifist, sheeplike party line that passes for free thought in modern Germany.I believe there was a blanket amnesty for low-level Germans that had completed the de-Nazification process. However, I think the prevailing view in most of Europe at the highest levels is that a no only lasts until they get around to it again like they did with the EU constitution.
No, I ran across the reference when looking up Louis Zamperini's story.
