As I have repeatedly pointed out, the American military and intelligence leaders say that debt is the main national security threat to the U.S.As I noted in February 2009 and again last December, a number of high-level officials and experts are warning…
Posts Tagged ‘Ottoman Turks’
United States Joint Forces Command Warns that Huge U.S. Debt Might Lead to Military Impotence, Default or Revolution
September 11th, 2010 |
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Turkey threatens to expel thousands of Armenians
March 18th, 2010 |
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Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan threatened the future of thousands of Armenian illegal immigrants currently living in Turkey. Following votes in the U.S. and Sweden branding the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in World War One as genocide, Erdogan has lashed out at the country’s 100,000 illegal Armenian immigrants.
Kosovo police guard Serb monument
March 18th, 2010 |
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Based on a NATO Council decision, KFOR will today hand over its duties related to the protection of Gazimestan to Kosovo police, KPS. The memorial near Priština was built to honor Serb heroes – the fallen soldiers of the medieval Serbian state, who clashed with invading Ottoman Turks in the Battle of Kosovo in 1389.
“More Empires Have Fallen Because Of Reckless Finances Than Invasion”
February 9th, 2010 |
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While Eric Margolis’ entire comment in the Toronto Sun is a must-read, the following two quotes really hit the nail on the head:More empires have fallen because of reckless finances than invasion…If Obama really were serious about restoring America 
A legal separation?
December 1st, 2009 |
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Kosovo’s independence from Serbia is scrutinised in the international court
SAY “Battle of Kosovo” and those who live in the Balkans will instantly recall Serbia’s defeat at the hands of the Ottoman Turks in 1389. So it is clearly no accident that Serbia’s leaders have taken to talking about a new “diplomatic” battle of Kosovo. That fight moved to the UN’s International Court of Justice in The Hague on Tuesday December 1st, which has begun hearing submissions on whether Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia in February 2008 was legal or not.
What the 15 judges have to say will be of keen interest from Catalonia to Tibet and indeed wherever the argument about a people’s right to self-determination appears to clash with a state’s right to preserve its territorial integrity. …
America Is Repeating the Mistakes Which Led to the Fall of the Hapsburg Empire
October 30th, 2009 |
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William R. Hawkins (formerly an economics professor at Appalachian State University, the University of North Carolina-Asheville, and Radford University) argues that America is repeating the mistakes which led to the fall of the Hapsburg empire:Spain wa…
Aug. 26, 1346: First Cannon Fired in Battle, Maybe
August 26th, 2009 |
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1346: Genoese mercenaries fighting under Philip VI of France are surprised, unpleasantly, when they are among the first soldiers in history to come under cannon fire.
It has been claimed that this battle, which occurred near Crécy in northern France early in the Hundred Years War, marks the first use of cannon on the battlefield. Like [...]