In his book „The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire“ the writer Edward Luttwak is describing the strategical measures of Byzantine to survive more than a millenium in eternal war. Based on this book this post describes the basic situation. Byzantine always have been a comparibly weak empire as it lacked of large human resources […]
A „distant and safe“ country? This sounds like the kingdom of the elves far in the west, where they sail too when they are fed up with all the ongoing trouble in Middleearth. I could not have guessed more wrongly. This article is about New Zealand a boring bunch of islands in the middle of […]
Miep Gies was the woman who sheltered Anne Frank and her family during the time of Nazi terror. She died on Monday 11th. This made the author to write an obituary. After giving more information about her life and deeds he requests action. Action which like Gies has shown would be possible against the genocide […]
Of course homeland security could not be outsourced that easy as other combat duties. But it is OK to have guest contributors in the homeland security blog, especially if it is just a watch blog and if the guest is a member of the Homeland security himself. So this article is written by Lt. Vinicio […]
What I secretly feared more than presenting political blogs was presenting economical blogs. Now I meet an even worse fate: a blog on economic and politics. And if that were not enough I got right to one of the masters of that field: Paul Krugman himself. Wee. So his first question to me is „Too […]
This is a kind of teaser too. But at least this collection of headlines leads to other articles which may be worthwile to read. I won’t, as I have to be careful to follow my path and not get mislead from my way by those Will-O-Wisps which are links within the article.
Teasers are teasing me. So I do get to know that „The Small Business Majority […] and the Main Street Alliance […] gained prominence on Capitol Hill and at the White House“. And also there is a conference „to kill a proposed tax on large stock and derivative transactions“. So the most important think of […]
„Hotline on call“? – how about „Dial H for Hotline“? „Steele’s Book Timeline Doesn’t Fit“. Not the timeline of the content is in question but the timeline of writing the book. „Michael Steele said today he wrote the book before he took over the national party last January.“ We all know that there are several […]