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.... Meanwhile, the average joes who aren't rich would have to make the lifestyle changes/sacrifices if all these eco-regs were implemented.
The big time greenies won't because they are just more equal than we are... they are few and we are many, so, their huge impact is less than our combined small impacts. We don't matter! [To them]
This is going to be the next value added tax scam… each step in the production, transportation, processing, packaging, and distribution will add to the carbon footprint until (possibly already) we will produce more pounds of carbon than of product. So I guess we should all just harvest our lawns (use push mowers, please) and have salad. Oh sorry, having a lawn means we need water… all those nasty electric pumps that are powered by the grid that is fed by the coal or NG fired power plants. Good think in CA we have hydro-power… sorry that messes up the streams and effs up the fish runs.Time I guess to crawl into a hole and give our nutrients back to the soil.
Agreed.Add: since the French were more concerned with exploitive trade than settlement they treated the Amerinds more like partners (clients, if you will) than the roadblock that the English saw.
Early in my teaching career I had a lesson that used the story as an example as how our hypothesis must change as we get newer evidence. Several times the new evidence was so far from conventional wisdom or was misinterpreted which lead investigators astray. As you say serious scholars should be looking, but most really don't want to appear fools for chasing this one.Several points in the HC program were approached very scientifically by a geologist to confirm the age of the stone (weather for age of runes and root patterns for burial duration). Just too many things to totally discount it as far as I can see. 'nother one of those things I'd like to hope are really true just because it is such a cool story. At least Ohman wasn't trying to get on a reality show... when they told him it was fake he just shrugged, then went back to the farm and the stone became a stepping stone in the barnyard, so the story goes. :-
.... However, the tablet has also been described as a fake.
Recent History channel show indicates evidence that it may not be a hoax.
The team was officially named the Minnesota Vikings on September 27, 1960; the name is partly meant to reflect Minnesota's place as a center of Scandinavian American culture.
From Wikipedia.
At the time, of lat he's just made out an oaf (the better to glorify FDR) that bumbled us into the depression. Truly a victim of circumstance.
True; his progressive bent was far less intrusive on the average citizen than Wilson and later liberals.
My understanding of the BofP was that the formaliztion (with the CoV) was to prevent anymore Napoleons… to prevent one country from disrupting the Continent; sort of a safety. History shows no continent-wide wars between the CoV and the summer of 1914.
.... And even though people of different classes attended the same service, weren't they seated according to social hierarchy?
Likely but being together at the meeting hearing the same sermon was the big deal.
These revivals seemed to remove these walls and placed everyone on the same footing: submission to God rather than submission to a political leader.
Or religious leader... worth and equality were issues with the government and the church.
Nice opener!
I tend to discount reasons # 1 & 4 above.Secret alliances are a sexy scapegoat but that is all they are. The critical points of the defensive alliances that created the two contending power groups were publicly known. The concentration on secret alliances and clauses and their link with causing the war are a vestige of the Versailles negotiations.
The balance of power issue you mention later is a holdover from the Congress of Vienna... everyone agreed to keep a lid on revolts, and out of each others hair in Europe. The kicker isn't the two main alliances but the deals that weren't public.
Nationalism was an issue for the war termination phase but I don’t know that it contributed much to the outbreak of the war except for the nationalism of the Bosnian Separatists that assassinated the Archduke. If anything, the Great Powers were anti-nationalist, particularly Russia and Austria-Hungary which were multi-national empires.
Maybe in our sense of nationalism or perhaps, more correctly Imperialism (the mother empire not the colonies)... witness the deal to keep Austria-Hungary together and the old bone of PanSlavism.
The outbreak of the war was more about great power rivalry and maintenance of the balance of power than either secret alliances or nationalism.
I will agree; consider the four reasons I listed as the kindling for the fire... F2 getting blown away the match.For ski: Good to remember the Franco-Prussian War; the ill will over this one, and Alsace-Lorraine is huge. Whipping France in six weeks was also a thorn. Bismarck may have handled things differently as he was super-pragmatic and likely would have foreseen the outcome as unacceptable (at least as it panned out).I've always considered the conflict a family feud; the royal families were all related by blood or marriage (and usually both 😮 ...thank you Queen Victoria). Each of the major players had their minions that they had to back and when the threats began they just ballooned into a fight.Austria threatens the Serbs...Russia backs the Serbs...Germany threatens Russia...France speaks up for Russia when the start to mobilize...Germany attacks France through Belgium...England goes in as a signatory of the treaty guaranteeing Belgium can remain neutral...A gross oversimplification, I know, but in essence what played out.
... probably unreachable because many of the people that have government social service jobs are crusaders and...
...are graduates of the system; seems most of the people I talked to at the Welfare office when I worked with county governmnets were former clients... the system paid for their education and they majored in social welfare. Logical, no?
I expect most to consider this the same old soap but you have four main things that combine to drive the world into this war…1) the entangled and often secret alliances among the nations of Europe2) the idea that the use of military force (or threat thereof) was a legit. political tool3) the competition among the nations for imperial holdings (for both economic and political reasons)4) the growing nationalism among minority groups and in Europe generallyBTW, I totally agree about the arms situation... witness the Maxim gun.
