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15 hours ago
Article from a Sydney newspaper 2006 but still valid today in many western countries Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia, as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks. A day after a group of mainstream Muslim leaders pledged loyalty to Australia at a special meeting with Prime Minister John Howard, he and his ministers made it clear that extremists would face a crackdown. Treasurer Peter Costello, seen as heir apparent to Howard, hinted that some radical clerics could be asked to leave the country if they did not accept that Australia was a secular state and its laws were made by parliament. "If those are not your values, if you want a country which has Sharia law or a theocratic state, then Australia is not for you," he said on national television. "I'd be saying to clerics who are teaching that there are two laws governing people in Australia, one the Australian ...
13 days ago
The last day of World War 1 was November 11 th 1918, known as Armistice Day. Despite November 11 th being the last day of the war, on many parts of the Western Front fighting continued as normal. This meant, of course, that casualties occurred even as the people of Paris, London and New York were celebrating the end of the fighting. After three days of intense negotiations in a rail siding just outside of Compiegne, the German delegation that had been brought to the personal carriage of Marshall Ferdinand Foch was ordered by its government in Berlin to sign any terms put on the table by the Allies. Potentially serious social upheaval had forced the government in Berlin into giving out this instruction as people had taken to the streets as a result of chronic food shortages caused by the British naval blockade. Therefore, the German delegation led by Matthias Erzberger signed the terms of the Armistice. This was done at 05.10 on November 11 th . However, the ...
13 days ago
T he final Allied push towards the German border began on October 17, 1918. As the British, French and American armies advanced, the alliance between the Central Powers began to collapse. Turkey signed an armistice at the end of October, Austria-Hungary followed on November 3. Germany began to crumble from within. Faced with the prospect of returning to sea, the sailors of the High Seas Fleet stationed at Kiel mutinied on October 29. Within a few days, the entire city was in their control and the revolution spread throughout the country. On November 9 the Kaiser abdicated; slipping across the border into the Netherlands and exile. A German Republic was declared and peace feelers extended to the Allies. At 5 AM on the morning of November 11 an armistice was signed in a railroad car parked in a French forest near the front lines. The terms of the agreement called for the cessation of fighting along the entire Western Front to begin at precisely 11 AM that morning. After over ...
14 days ago
The following is the Democratic "common good" version of the old favorite, the Ant and the Grasshopper: Remember the ant and the grasshopper? OLD VERSION . . . The ant works hard, in the withering heat, all summer long. He builds his house and stores supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks that the ant is a fool. He laughs, dances and plays the summer away, preparing nothing for the coming winter. Winter comes, the ant is safe and warm. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold. The moral to the story being: BE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOURSELF! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NEW VERSION . . . (sad but true) The ant works hard, in the withering heat, all summer long. He builds his house and stores supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks that the ant is a fool. He laughs, dances and plays the summer away, preparing nothing for the coming winter. Winter comes, the ant is safe ...
23 days ago
I heard on a British TV show that the European Union wants to move the “Green” revolution to its Military. They are preparing to introduce legislation that will force military vehicles to reduce their emissions and to adhere to the existing laws that already apply to commercial cars, boats and planes. This will mean that the CO 2 footprint will be reduced. So we will have cleaner exhaust fumes at the end, while shooting with depleted uranium shells at the front. It must be a great comfort to the enemy that they now will be killed by machines with much improved emissions
