Sunday 15 April 2012
inรบtil
Saturday 14 April 2012
widget
redux or a man, a plan, kofi annan
While I have respect for the former United Nations’ Secretary General and hope that his mission does help stop violence and blood-shed, there is something decidedly unsavoury and inscrutable about the ways in which Western concerns are being manifest presently—along a continuum of interference and strategy—for the future of Syria and the whole region. If reports and accounts by the opposition are accurate, the present regime’s clinging to power is probably serving no one, but a peace negotiated by the US and the UN could be a very suspect treaty indeed, who may well be basing their assessments off of another disgruntled Curveball character (DE/EN). Since Western involvement with Libya, there has been a marked departure from the uprisings and revolutions of the Arab Spring, which took much of the world unawares, and like bankers and speculators trying to profit from the controlled-collapse of distressed and overburdened markets, petroleum-politicians are wanting events to unfold or crumple on their terms.
catagories: ⚛️, ๐บ๐ธ, ๐, foreign policy, revolution, Wikipedia
Thursday 12 April 2012
jump-start
catagories: ๐️, lifestyle, transportation, travel
Wednesday 11 April 2012
penal colony
catagories: ๐ช๐บ, ๐ฌ๐ง, ๐บ๐ธ, foreign policy
aberglaube or friggatriskaidekaphobia
catagories: ๐ง , holidays and observances, language
rosamunde
One would assume that all cultural trappings of a place are as old as the hills, however, like Oktoberfest, Biergรคrten in Germany just marked their two-hundredth anniversary this year. The German brewing purity laws had already been in effect for centuries when Bavarian King Maximilian I allowed that brewers could serve beer from their cooling vats in January of 1812.