From Meccania to Atlantis - Part 5: From Screeching Cats to SDG
From the desk of Takuan Seiyo on Fri, 2008-12-19 21:08
The Chinese conundrum
This is the proper space for continuing with a chapter named Exodus, but we will defer that subject. The holiday of Christian redemption approaching, the day the German-Jewish philosopher-theologian Franz Rosenzweig called “a day of entry into eternity,” it behooves us to take notice.
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Duly Noted: Success Cannot Be Handed to You
From the desk of Paul Belien on Sat, 2008-12-20 09:59
1. Christian Klar, a famous terrorist of the German Red Army Fraction got life for the murder of nine persons. (He performed retail, not wholesale.) The German government, acting in the name of the unconsulted people, will let him go in January. Demonstratively, aside of his capture, the as-ever arrogant Klar, regrets nothing. One wonders whether some of his contempt is not justified in view of the imbalance between the forgiveness extended and his withheld recantation.
The Politics to Watch in Europe
From the desk of Paul Belien on Sat, 2008-12-20 09:44
Anti-Semitism is on the rise in Europe. This cannot be denied, although the media prefer to downplay one of its main causes: the Islamization of Europe. Last week’s Economistreferred to the problem (though only in passing) in an article on Muslims in Europe where it mentioned fights between Muslims and Jews in rough parts of northern Paris.
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