tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267356.comments2023-11-30T03:44:36.213-05:00EU-DIGESTUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger188125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267356.post-90073273875921067252016-09-01T09:33:27.470-04:002016-09-01T09:33:27.470-04:00Cook should be the one to be slammed in jailCook should be the one to be slammed in jailEU-Digesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05680206002384504243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267356.post-73709275897134842172015-11-15T08:43:37.190-05:002015-11-15T08:43:37.190-05:00In total agreement. However, as these cretins star...In total agreement. However, as these cretins started this, the world must now unite in destroying the evil that is DAISH.Graemehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15163741451813771921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267356.post-49945492598430326022015-11-14T10:24:50.895-05:002015-11-14T10:24:50.895-05:00The opinion writer's affection for buzz words,...The opinion writer's affection for buzz words, e.g., "corporate-owned," and for partisan bogeymen, e.g., Blair, Bush et al, reveals that he is not speaking above the fray as he poses, but engaging in the day-to-day political. Specific to Europe, perhaps the present terrorism represents not a war on "political hypocrisy" but a fervid embrace of enmity. Just as radical Muslims rage against modernity, Europe practices its own version of resentment. Here is how Fr. James Schall, S.J. puts it: <br /><br />"Eric Voegelin, in Science, Politics, and Gnosticism, remarked that the origin of modern ideology lies in a lack of courage, in a loss of faith of Christian men in the reality of the transcendent order as presented in that faith. This subsequent ideology causes the death of an Europe unwilling to preserve what it is."Enjolrashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14641741510099901905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267356.post-89794052395985918982015-09-17T10:30:25.132-04:002015-09-17T10:30:25.132-04:00Bottom line on the GOP debate is just the opposite...Bottom line on the GOP debate is just the opposite of EU Digest's conclusion, proving democracy is alive and well like never before in America: The debate was a win not for any one candidate, but a big win for the Republican Party. Rarely has so much talent, so much vigor, so much diversity, been on display. It is hard to imagine Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton–or Barack Obama–on stage with the Republicans, engaging in what is often a free for all. Democrats don’t debate, Republicans do.<br /><br /><br />“We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back.” —Thomas JeffersonFGHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04715616494331025850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267356.post-87296793018348330732012-10-23T07:33:59.440-04:002012-10-23T07:33:59.440-04:00Destructive cult or benign religion?
The *Cult...Destructive cult or benign religion?<br /><br /> The *Cult* word gets overused,but in some cases it is appropriate.<br /> The definition of a destructive religious cult is like alcoholism-if booze controls you instead of the other way around you are an alcoholic.<br />I was in the Watchtower society Jehovah's Witnesses,they are not benevolent and won't let you leave their organization in peace.The Jehovahs are not without scandals-child abuse,deceptive mind control tactics, sex scandals, money scams, general bad behavior.<br />Is it a cult?<br /> If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck.... <br />Danny HaszardDanny Haszardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14261799967881410663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267356.post-67974931827956835382012-10-15T02:24:04.209-04:002012-10-15T02:24:04.209-04:00It's always amazing to see how narrow - minded...It's always amazing to see how narrow - minded some presumed internationlist look at the world. What kind of nationalism are you talking about? About French one which is proud of not signing the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages pushing those languages and cultures to desappear or about Catalan or Basque nationalisms which defend and impulse their own cultures and languges in word of diversity and solidarity.<br />Who's head is the ugly one?inakihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17528058257056211405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267356.post-37688381214769515502012-08-12T14:11:01.199-04:002012-08-12T14:11:01.199-04:00I am so proud of being British, but I am also pro...I am so proud of being British, but I am also proud of being a European; the medal tally for the EU really does show how much soft power Europe projects, and is a hint as to ware the real economic and political power lies in the world.<br />Add to the fact that Europe has a bigger economy than the US or China and that our combined standing army is one of the largest in the world, it makes one realise that the EU is a silent super power, destined to become a mega power in the next 50-100 years! All we have to do is get our act together.<br />Technologically, Europe is every bit as advanced as the US and is ahead of China; we have a space program, lead in many scientific fields, have a cultural impact that is global, have some very advanced technology in the Hadron Collider, the type 45 destroyer, and Astute class submarines of the RN and have world beating companies like Airbus, Roles Royce, BMW, and so on.<br />I feel Britain should take a more constructive role in leading and shaping the EU so that this future mega power is more like us than the French or Germans and that smaller countries like Latvia and Croatia are assured a bigger say.<br />Don't get me wrong, I'm still very pro-British, but I just cant see how we make the EU a better place if we are not fully engaged and not fully involvedBritish21https://www.blogger.com/profile/05944073106688694405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267356.post-88078150175934162642012-08-04T23:42:30.938-04:002012-08-04T23:42:30.938-04:00The accident was caused by the co-pilot induced st...The accident was caused by the co-pilot induced stalled glide condition and remained in that condition until impact. To recover from stall is to set engine to idle to reduce nose up side effect and try full nose down input. If no success roll the aircraft to above 60° bank angle and rudder input to lower the nose in a steep engaged turn. Pilots lack of familiarity and training along with system malfunction contributed to this terrible accident. Also the following contributed to the accident<br />(1)the absence of proper immediate actions to correct the stalled glide<br />(2) Insufficient and inappropriate situation awareness disabling the co-pilots and the captain to become aware of what was happening regarding the performance and behaviour of the aircraft<br />(3)lack of effective communication between the co-pilots and the captain which limited the decision making processes, the ability to choose appropriate alternatives and establish priorities in the actions to counter the stalled glide<br />During most of its long descent into the Atlantic Ocean, Airbus A330-203 was in a stalled glide. Far from a deep stall, this seems to have been a conventional stall in which the Airbus A330-203 displayed exemplary behavior. The aircraft responded to roll inputs, maintained the commanded pitch attitude, and neither departed nor spun. The only thing the Airbus A330-203 failed to do well was to make clear to its cockpit crew what was going on.Its pitch attitude was about 15 degrees nose up and its flight path was around 25 degrees downward, giving an angle of attack of 35 degrees or more. Its vertical speed was about 100 knots, and its true airspeed was about 250 knots. It remained in this unusual attitude not because it could not recover, but because the co-pilots did not comprehend in darkness, the actual attitude of the aircraft. The co-pilots held the nose up. If the co-pilots had pushed the stick forward, held it there, and manually retrimmed the stabilizer, the airplane would have recovered from the stall and flown normally.<br />Air France complained that the copilots did not have enough time to analyze the situation. Gravitational stalled glide does not allow timeouts, to thoroughly discuss the situation to find out what went wrong. The co-pilots - 37 year old David Robert and 32 year old Pierre-Cédric Bonin missed the cardinal rule that first they must fly the airplane, and after start analyzing the situation, since a falling airplane is not going to wait for them. If they did not understand the instruments, then instead of pondering on it they should have come to the quick conclusion that they did not understand those instruments, and apply the unreliable airspeed procedure clearly prescribed for that situation, which is a blind, given thrust and pitch setting for the given configuration, and let the airplane fly itself, and only after get to analyzing what went wrong, and by the time they finished, the root-cause (pitot icing) would have probably cured itself. It was the safe solution to the problem, but not applied.<br />The Airbus A330 performed exactly as it was designed and described when the stall warning cut out at the end of valid values, except the co-pilots did not know it. Unfortunately, it happens too often with catastrophic results that pilots are not familiar with the systems of their own airplane, such as in the case of American Airlines 587 over Queens, which was clearly the airline’s fault.<br />Air France also argued that the stall warning system in the A330 is too “confusing”. Every modern airplane is quite a confusing piece of machinery. It is full of buttons, levers, all kinds of red, yellow, green lights with buzzers, and a host of other indicators and controls inside, which can look very confusing indeed, but it is the pilot’s duty to reign on them, or not to be pilot.Nalliahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07214871963050537496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267356.post-72245378830419398382012-01-10T05:52:57.203-05:002012-01-10T05:52:57.203-05:00Dont worry, those who think that global warming is...Dont worry, those who think that global warming is happening and those who dont should have the same plan of action: do nothing. See <a href="http://pol-check.blogspot.com/2012/01/limits-to-growth.html" rel="nofollow">The Limits to Growth</a>.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07442010719863995872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267356.post-32657447026004511862012-01-07T12:53:04.808-05:002012-01-07T12:53:04.808-05:00This undertaking would be like divorcing your pare...This undertaking would be like divorcing your parents. I really do not think that jamaica is ready for such drastic measures right now.<br />What do you think?Sirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11349746922229723426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267356.post-23059663079421501912011-10-09T00:31:25.082-04:002011-10-09T00:31:25.082-04:00While recent stock market troubles may have prompt...While recent stock market troubles may have prompted economists to call for a "debt jubilee" or a "bondholders haircut", debtors in the third world have been calling for a jubilee for decades. <br /><br />In America: governments, businesses, individuals are now buried under a mountain of debt. A mountain of debt that will never be repaid.<br />Who will borrow when they can't make the payments on the debt that they have already? The math alone calls for a system reset, a debt jubilee.<br /><br />Investors are already losing... in a rigged monetary casino that rewards usury, speculation, and currency manipulation while looting main street.<br /><br />There is a moral principle that debts should be honored. That is, debts between businesses that buy and sell real products, not bundled ponzi schemes, debts between individuals, between friends and businesses that know each other to be rational and moral, debts based on investments where there is a rational expectation of return. <br /><br />There is also a moral principle that unjust debts should be cancelled, and usury legislated against. Debts that are 'odious', debts based on fraud, debts to dictators, debts arranged by oligarchs without the consent of the general population (the 99 percent who have been left out of the equation), debts based upon compound interest upon compound interest, that should have been written off long ago, the debts need to be cancelled in a general jubilee.Jim Briggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10004896446996376634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267356.post-49107054815154781502011-08-12T06:41:33.729-04:002011-08-12T06:41:33.729-04:00Thanks for portraying me as a "Turkish nation...Thanks for portraying me as a "Turkish nationalist" and "Euro-sceptical". True, I am a nationalist if you define it as someone who tries to maximise his country's interest and promote the well-being of his people. Also, as someone who attempts to see how the future trends are evolving and suggest where you should be amidst the shifting centers of power. True, I am a Euro-sceptic despite the fact that I worked on Turkey's customs union with the EU when I was a Turkish diplomat, that I studied at College d'Europe as a Jean Monnet fellow, Bruges, which is the breeding ground for EC's Eurocrats and that I have been working with the EU institutions for more than 30 years.<br />Nothing is black-and-white. We need to be open to wider spectrum of options and analyse the present and future with an open mind, without being the prisoner of one single perspective. I hope that this article I penned a few years ago has added to the body of knowledge and spiced the perennial debate on Turkey's EU accession from the perspective of a "devil's advocate".<br />kind regards<br />Mehmet Ogutcu<br />Londonmehmet öğütçühttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07054203527873977320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267356.post-69100093952760551772011-06-27T19:04:12.740-04:002011-06-27T19:04:12.740-04:00ENDING ISRAEL'S ACCESS to EU markets will end ...ENDING ISRAEL'S ACCESS to EU markets will end ILLEGAL BLOCKADE<br /><br />Israeli law does not, and cannot, extend either to Gaza or to international waters. The blockade is a 'collective punishment' that is according to the UN illegal under the Geneva Conventions and international law. This Israeli siege, now in its 5th year of punishing over a half a million Muslim families, is only able to be implemented as a result of the extraordinary economic benefits of having being afforded the privilege, as a non European state, of being given access to the combined markets of the 27 member states of the EU.<br /><br />This privilege should be immediately withdrawn by the EU, whereupon Israel will once again revert to being just a small insignificant Mediterranean state of just 8m - unable to mount any illegal blockade against an innocent indigenous people.colindale londonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15434949774337597243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267356.post-27012388042558245872010-10-28T10:52:33.796-04:002010-10-28T10:52:33.796-04:00It's great how Arnold Schwarznegger now that h...It's great how Arnold Schwarznegger now that he has nothing to lose is taking a very feisty attitude toward the oil companies.Ruth Axtellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14792344925778428818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267356.post-46727216321108759582010-04-02T22:01:48.192-04:002010-04-02T22:01:48.192-04:00Chinas agenda is not only USA, but also Europe, an...Chinas agenda is not only USA, but also Europe, and BRIC countries.<br /><br />Chinese government will do anything including all its citizens to skip one meal a day to subsidize their exports to other countries and ruin their economy.<br /><br />It is time the world wakes up to this modern communist's business game.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08566762830848122674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267356.post-75097016906666595972010-03-22T08:19:38.208-04:002010-03-22T08:19:38.208-04:00It's about time.It's about time.Ruth Axtellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14792344925778428818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267356.post-61911197708954083302010-01-24T14:14:02.709-05:002010-01-24T14:14:02.709-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Judyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06826039617719276680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267356.post-61289747667124462122009-12-02T22:28:45.968-05:002009-12-02T22:28:45.968-05:00The Russian Military-Cargo planes are also availab...The Russian Military-Cargo planes are also available. The South African thought-process included three years of leasing Russian planes to give service while the EADS plane completes. That is why their number was so much higher than the EADS numbers.BeachRiderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16710230261346780278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267356.post-77265549865434168402009-11-08T07:10:53.152-05:002009-11-08T07:10:53.152-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11505113739040522391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267356.post-71114024056027404142009-10-31T14:33:20.236-04:002009-10-31T14:33:20.236-04:00It's not clear whether those who can't get...It's not clear whether those who can't get connection can sue the government for the violation. This matter should really be look upon.Wolfgang mullerhttp://www.mobilitypass.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267356.post-43800528414240584352009-09-24T11:01:32.973-04:002009-09-24T11:01:32.973-04:00Hello, and thank you for your article. I completel...Hello, and thank you for your article. I completely agree with your statement that people do not actually understant what the reform is about. However, the fact is that there is more than 15% of Americans with no health insurance coverage. Therefore, I really appreciate that Mr.Obama at least tries to do something.<br /><br />All the best,<br /><br />Lornelife insurance brokerhttp://lsminsurance.ca/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267356.post-57738523748815827352009-09-23T18:23:02.939-04:002009-09-23T18:23:02.939-04:00just let's work towards freedom in this county...just let's work towards freedom in this county so that their people can stay there or go back to their homeland...this would make them happy.susan bankshttp://www.vacationrentalsad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267356.post-84491382016061056442009-09-19T16:58:49.107-04:002009-09-19T16:58:49.107-04:00I do guess they want us bury alive? Or, what??? We...I do guess they want us bury alive? Or, what??? We need all the protection we can get due to the hate they have for us and our "Freedom"!!! Help!!!rob fletcherhttp://www.vacationrentalsad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267356.post-81972270992828593282009-09-17T03:47:54.535-04:002009-09-17T03:47:54.535-04:00Erdogan's AKP is more and more like an elected...Erdogan's AKP is more and more like an elected dictatorship. They use government funds -indirectly, via the Calik group- to finance "friendly press" while they are imposing huge fines on the press who is even slightly critical. Press is not the only victim of this opressive regime. <br />AKP also use the Ergenekon investigation to lock up University Professors, Writers, Journalists and anybody else who is critical of the regime.<br />Even worse, AKP do all these with the support of USA and EU.Orkut Tasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267356.post-42112096347259409362009-09-08T07:49:44.401-04:002009-09-08T07:49:44.401-04:00Then why call it a democracy? I am just as outrag...Then why call it a democracy? I am just as outraged over the current state of affairs as anyone. Yet, I truly believe that tearing down institutions and regulating pay is not the answer and will lead to a decline in productivity, morale, and any entreprenuerial spirit.<br /><br />The question that needs to be addressed is "where was the Board of Directors" for these companies? Why did they not take a more active role in understanding the company they were supposed to be guiding? Are these jobs ceremonial or functional? <br /><br />We could be punitive and do as you suggest-tear them apart and regulate pay structures. I was taught that every action has a consequence. In the US, I would rather we stop all the bail outs. Stop printing money! It is akin to getting a cash advance on your Visa in order to pay your other bills! Let these groups fail. Yes, that will cause lots of trouble but in the long run, we will rebuild and be better. On the current course, we will just be over-regulated, and broke with no motivation to do anything about it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com