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A Political Refugee From the Global Village : Last thoughts on slavery, in the USA, Russia and Mauritius
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A Political Refugee From the Global Village. An Englishman in love with Bucharest's blowsy charms. Saturday, 18 July 2015. Last thoughts on slavery, in the USA, Russia and Mauritius. The Comte de Tilly said that to begin ones life by being raped is a very poor school for virtue. Slavery is a very poor school too and it takes more than a generation for the descendants of former slaves to be able to overcome the lessons slavery teaches. This comparison indecently belittles the Holocaust, but it explains th...
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A Political Refugee From the Global Village : Paul Gottfried on U.S. presidents
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A Political Refugee From the Global Village. An Englishman in love with Bucharest's blowsy charms. Wednesday, 22 July 2015. Paul Gottfried on U.S. presidents. Paul Gottfried interests me. He said that, unlike England, with its essentially medieval social structure, America was made by. Protestant sectarians who neither had nor desired a medieval past and whose descendants have turned into celebrants of progress, commerce and human rights. Progress, commerce and human rights depress him and depress me....
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A Political Refugee From the Global Village : Why I support the Confederacy in the U.S. Civil War
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A Political Refugee From the Global Village. An Englishman in love with Bucharest's blowsy charms. Saturday, 18 July 2015. Why I support the Confederacy in the U.S. Civil War. In 1864, Confederate General Patrick Cleburne said that if the South lost,. Of course this is what has happened, especially since the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. The Civil War was a terrible tragedy and could have been avoided, by statesmanship on both sides, but Lincoln could have allowed the South to secede. O. Of racial ...
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A Political Refugee From the Global Village : Weekend in the Delta
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A Political Refugee From the Global Village. An Englishman in love with Bucharest's blowsy charms. Tuesday, 4 August 2015. Weekend in the Delta. 8206;The habit of ignoring nature is deeply implanted in our times. I had to find some special occupation, some kind of work that would not force me to turn away from the sky and the stars, that would allow me to discover the meaning of life. Pelicans and storks. Wild horses. Wild boars. Even wild cats, that catch fish. One drawback though. It is not on the ...
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A Political Refugee From the Global Village : The social media mob loves the hunt as much as Cecil's killer
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A Political Refugee From the Global Village. An Englishman in love with Bucharest's blowsy charms. Thursday, 30 July 2015. The social media mob loves the hunt as much as Cecil's killer. But attitudes change and that's fine. There is more kindness nowadays towards animals and in general than there used to be and this is good, but also a sense which is very worrying that the difference between man and beast is not absolute. That's what the mob on the internet thinks. I remember reading an Edwardian travel ...
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A Political Refugee From the Global Village : The three worst US Presidents of all time
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A Political Refugee From the Global Village. An Englishman in love with Bucharest's blowsy charms. Wednesday, 15 July 2015. The three worst US Presidents of all time. I often heard that Grant was the worst US President, or Buchanan or Andrew Johnson or Harding but none of these were the worst. The worst was George W Bush, very closely followed by Abraham Lincoln, closely followed by Wilson. Someone recently said Tyler was the best. Perhaps. Though if I were Texan I would regret the annexation of ...Hoove...
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A Political Refugee From the Global Village : Would a federal democratic Ottoman Empire work better than Greece?
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A Political Refugee From the Global Village. An Englishman in love with Bucharest's blowsy charms. Tuesday, 21 July 2015. Would a federal democratic Ottoman Empire work better than Greece? It would have all the oil. Imagine no Gulf States, no Israel, no Saudi Arabia, no Syria, no Iraq. Just the Ottomans and Persia. I wonder if my Romanian friends think that would have been better for Romania than Communism. Of course, Wallachia and Moldavia were never really IN the Ottoman Empire. Rejoicing in our joy, n...
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A Political Refugee From the Global Village : 226 years today since the fall of the Bastille
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A Political Refugee From the Global Village. An Englishman in love with Bucharest's blowsy charms. Tuesday, 14 July 2015. 226 years today since the fall of the Bastille. It’s 226 years today since the fall of the Bastille. By the time it 'fell' the Bastille had not been a political prison for years, but a sort of old people's home and lunatic asylum for a very small number of well-connected old and mentally ill people. The decision had already been taken to close down the Bastille to save costs. His athe...
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A Political Refugee From the Global Village : 25 reasons why I love living in Romania, in no particular order
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A Political Refugee From the Global Village. An Englishman in love with Bucharest's blowsy charms. Monday, 15 April 2013. 25 reasons why I love living in Romania, in no particular order. Clearly the people are the main reason for liking any country, though the countryside and the crumbling inner city of Bucharest come close behind. In Romania under Communism television only broadcast for two hours a day. Romania has so far escaped the worldwide cultural revolution. Romania is not at all cool. Is utterly ...
