> Congo’s riches fuel its war – Christian Science Monitor Coltan – the article mentions several valuable resources available in The Congo: timber, gold, diamonds, cobalt, copper, tin, and coltan. What the heck is coltan, anyway? Sounds like a cross between a jazz musician and an anime robot. Reading up on coltan using Wikipedia, I…
> European Union to Be Led by Former Soviet Satellite – NYTimes.com Here is an interesting idea: What if the United States had a rotating presidency? Read the article above, then get back here and read this. From the article we learn that the European Union has a rotating presidency. Right now, everyone’s favorite European,…
When talking Southwest Asia in World Geography, discussion of religion must ensue. When talking religions of Southwest Asia, Judaism must be discussed. When talking Judaism, the influence of the Persians must covered. Got to follow the money trail. As our story opens, the Hebrews are slaves of the Babylonians. The Babylonians are attacked or invaded…
>A modern treatment of an old story has made its way to television. Crusoe, a new offering on NBC, depicts the adventures of Robinson Crusoe, a man washed up on an isolated, uninhabited island after his ship sinks. Crusoe is based on Robinson Crusoe, a novel written in 1719 by Daniel Dafoe. The island in…
>I care. This is another one of my pet geography peeves, the misspelling of “Israel“. It is not “Is-real”; It is “Isra-el”. And there is a good reason for this. “El” means god. Specifically, “El” is the true God, the God of the Hebrews, and thusly, of Christians and Muslims. Other forms exist as “Elohim”…
>My tirade continues. Ok, look, just to reiterate, to compare the United States with Poland is like comparing apples and bowling balls. Nothing wrong with Poland; I’m sure the people there are wonderful. I would love to visit sometime. But, Poland is Poland and the United States is, well, like no other country on the…
>While most of the world has been distracted by events in Iraq and Afghanistan, Africa has been challenged by forces within and without. The Democratic Republic of the Congo, the largest state in southern Africa, is the site of the deadliest conflict in the world, surpassing even the Iraq War and Afghanistan, combined. Since 1998,…
I was setting up Google Earth for my lecture/discussion on the Middle East last night and noticed a funny new icon I had not noticed before. In Google Earth, I always click on icons I am unfamiliar with just to see what happens. Maybe not always a good idea. I trust Google explicitly, though ….…
>Who says one man can’t make a difference? Okay, well, a lot of people say that. What happens when one person tells another that they CAN make a difference, but they have to go to Pakistan first? What you get, at least in this case, is the US proxy war against the Russians, with Afghanistan…
>In Tikrit, you lead your squad after some guys that attacked your checkpoint. Not because you want revenge, but because you are following orders. Three Humvees in pursuit of a little Datsun pickup with three perps inside with AKs. The squad chases them through town, down a narrow alley, where the perps flee their truck…
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