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the brussels journal home english notable quotable nederlands contact about eu and us a relationship of concern from the desk of george handlery on sun 2015 05 31 20 27 much to their detriment americans like to ignore the world accordingly they do not appreciate reminders that like it or not the rest of the world is out there worse some of its leading leaders have rabies and bite aware of the provocation duly noted has often indulged in its own version of globalism in doing so the european union had received much attention if by your unearned luck you are an american reader you wonder why the eu should be of concern to you the evolvement of the union will determine the quality of that entity and thereby its worth as a major ally a federation might emerge that will in a future crisis be neutral against the usa if some of this is true the way europe s content will develop is of geopolitical significance be reminded that europe is a major world player however by its choice it punches well under its weight class with 500 million inhabitants and members rated as leading economies and with three of them listed among the great powers england france and germany europe matters it also counts as it had generated the forces that made the modern world the renaissance the reformation the industrial revolution modern science from rocketry to cybernetics is besides some key components of democracy europe s contribution to the present at the same time two world wars and some of destructive systems of mass murder fascism national socialism and communism are also european products continue reading 7 comments 276640 reads perils and their perspectives from the desk of george handlery on fri 2015 05 01 11 28 it is risky to take the rickety boat from africa to europe nevertheless masses embark on a journey to a dream that dissipates once reached unshaken by the perils the goal remains to enter an assumed paradise the participants put themselves in harm s way and antagonize hosts that have rolled in the welcome mat a part of the resulting horror story is that while the corpses are real the response remains superficial that is so as the matter is handled as being accidental temporary and limited in scope official europe s response is a palliative that even ignores the next election coping with the challenge begins with a rational perspective to be had by stepping back from pc s shibboleths solutions that work emerge once moralizing posturing is replaced by cool headed measures continue reading 1 comment 113147 reads run for peace from the desk of george handlery on wed 2015 04 01 22 33 does this sound like an admonition such as in run for good health since the writer has experienced the university of oregon s legendary bill bowermann moreover since ever since he stuck to daily running and weight lifting interrupted by reading russian such a call would be understandable it is not common knowledge before inventing nike the coach popularized jogging no the subject here is not related to physical exercise although if it might be relate to an aspect of our mental health the topic is the way we allow negotiations to undermine our security and imperil our existence it seems that we america europe and advanced systems repeat the errors of the 1930s the implication is that a link unfolds between the present and the past yes history is open to abuse bad history assumes that history will repeat itself by itself it does not and when it does it did not have to and was avoidable a mutant of this is when history the warning precedent is overlooked by the ignorant misinterpreted by the confused or misunderstood by the superficial continue reading login or register to post comments 344841 reads what is wrong here from the desk of george handlery on mon 2015 03 16 13 34 those that peruse numerous news sources run into reports that cannot be true should not be true but that are nevertheless true in time a bouquet accumulates to be shared with those that can laugh even if it hurts 1 the eu is ready with sanctions if ukraine ceasefire violated announced many recent deaths ago the headline about chancellor merkel the threat by germany s leader who is undistinguishable from her leftist coalition partner sounds good not unlike putin duly noted is unimpressed the small print it is always what matters tells why earthquake watchers register no trembling under the kremlin to keep moscow off tranquilizers also to prevent the scramble of scared chickens in the coop a qualifier is inserted to unleash retaliation the violation must be serious experience suggests that we have to do with a definition that is as flexible as is the meaning of is in clinton speak the criterion of serious is only fulfilled if russia s consents that her violations have been serious conclude the atlantic alliance is back in its favored slumber mode continue reading login or register to post comments 95383 reads justice and common sense from the desk of george handlery on fri 2015 03 06 13 10 for long a plea for the recognition of a kurdish entity has been in duly noted s pipeline the kurd s impressive valor and the injustices meted out to them to create stable conditions constitute a moral imperative to present this piece it is tempting to plead here what cannot be dismissively attributed to ones ethnicity local roots are a trap if a theme to which one is related is handled the local bias is used to discount an informed thought process knowing too much is a charge that claims that immersion results in bias at the same time a removed background brings another disqualifying charge it is that being far from the subject you do not know enough to speak up if these ideas hold water no one is to be trusted there is a criterion to judge presentations that the reader is not independently familiar with ask if the references to points that are within the grasp of the educated are plausible are the signals that pass through such contacts points undistorted by that standard much that represents a global view of a local matter can pass muster continue reading login or register to post comments 98703 reads the structure of education is the structure of faith from the desk of thomas f bertonneau on sun 2015 03 01 21 31 this is the first in a series of three essays intended to critique selected aspects of the prevailing modern worldview of the west s ubiquitous liberal regime in the present essay i am interested in the prevailing modern view of education i argue that various pre modern ways of understanding education address their topic with a good deal more penetration than that achieved by the modern view which tends to insipidity in a follow on essay to this one i will address the question how revelation is related to reality a third essay will devote itself to a discussion of memory considered as an institution the one thing that modern educators including modern college and university educators know best is that faith has no place in education faith the term by which modern educators when they use it invariably mean christianity is in the prevailing view inimical to education a clinging bogey to be banished at the institution where i teach a mid tier state college in the northeast official edicts have banished all signs of easter and christmas substituting for the latter the bland notion of winter holidays in december the president annually sends all faculty and staff a calculatedly inoffensive winter holidays greeting via email for what it is worth for many years i have regularly received an unambiguous merry christmas message from a long distance colleague at the university of tehran under the auspices of whose department i had the good fortune a few years ago to chair a dissertation continue reading 1 comment 93132 reads no guns who benefits from the desk of george handlery on sat 2015 02 21 14 37 this column likes to assert that the threat to our way of life does not reflect the muscles of its enemy materially the challenger is too backward to upset the world order this applies whether the foes meant are marxists traditional ethnic imperialist russia religious supremacist islamists or third worldists who blame their poverty on those that escaped it through their own efforts whatever the chance of these for success might be it flows from the fashionable self flagellation of the developed world although non western societies join eagerly the western model that they adjust to their traditions the ranks of the progressive world s enemies are swelling potentially in the future case of china but presently mainly from russia and the islamists a challenge unfolds this dispute is partly cultural it can pit islam or a secular religion marxism against modernity in the latter area russia s militarized resentment of models beyond her control is the chief threat tactically islam s hostility might be more brutal and confrontational nevertheless it does not compare to russia s as the islamist cannot produce the armaments they need to crush the infidels continue reading login or register to post comments 78548 reads jihad s ace cards unmasked from the desk of george handlery on wed 2015 02 04 16 39 advanced societies find it difficult to respond to islam s fundamentalists the credit is not due to the fanatics yes the cards they hold are used ruthlessly and cleverly and they score spectacularly however the real super weapon of the radicals is their victim s mind set our professional wise guys are at a loss how is the violence generated in a muslim context to be registered without insulting its source we have here something that by our culture s prejudice should not exist moreover rationally evaluated islamism is self destructive such calculations reflect our civilization s parochial inability to comprehend those defined by a stone age past the reaction is we would not act that way how come that they do that astonishment provokes a search for the normal world s contribution that must have provoked what appears to be irrational continue reading 1 comment 92999 reads the web of soothing lies from the desk of george handlery on wed 2015 01 21 04 31 a lesson from mankind s experience is that all past generations have lived interesting times popular amnesia likes to lose sight of this therefore we think our day s vicissitudes are unprecedented that said it appears that we are departing from the cast of the past in a way that shatters patterns below follows a move through time to the discernible future in our present during the development of western civilization our relationship to authority changed significantly we went from chaos to submission and then once order returned we grew into a participatory system based upon delegated power this is the condition of our day that might be surpassed through that new departure continue reading 13 comments 97970 reads breaking with the past from the desk of george handlery on wed 2014 12 31 10 20 forgiveness not met by regret implies subjugation the practical use of history is its distorted exploitation this abuse accompanies the following discourse about the present perceived developments that disturb the world order and our holiday peace produce sundry responses some are echoes of a fictitious past that nets new soothing errors in fact or logic that cater to self deceit if that is so then a purpose can be to avoid the challenges of self protection behind this hides the attempt to skip the effort that self defense causes problem solution by denial ties to a vice of our culture to wallow in the luxury that isolates failures from their unpleasant consequences this lets the pc infected to excuse criminals as the victims of society while the cornered policeman that confronts him becomes a violent racist a symptom of this decadence which helps us to avoid our duties we encounter in miss educated children parents are too lazy to educate their kids so they raise them to become brats the theory is that if it feels good it is right to do it even if the results are wrong indulgence in inaction is wrapped in excusing slogans these pretend that a nothing that should not be happening is occurring and b that to say no could warp the child s psyche therefore the little tyrants are badly socialized and for that reason their misdeeds grow as they mature continue reading login or register to post comments 65779 reads 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 next last who we are the brussels journal is written by europeans living in as well as outside europe the brussels journal is published by the society for the advancement of freedom in europe safe a swiss non profit organisation recent comments nog een inconvenient truth 5 years 34 weeks ago an inconvenient truth 6 years 3 weeks ago to ko 10 years 6 weeks ago to ivan daraktchiev 10 years 9 weeks ago sometimes a banana us just a banana 10 years 14 weeks ago ko 10 years 17 weeks ago perspective please 10 years 28 weeks ago to curtis 10 years 28 weeks ago thanks for the compliment 10 years 28 weeks ago where is everybody 10 years 36 weeks ago popular pieces today s run for peace the structure of education is the structure of faith american democracy v european oligarchy the web of soothing lies the rape of europe all time danish imams propose to end cartoon dispute jihad against danish newspaper first trio married in the netherlands war of the cartoons belgians in a pickle former soviet dissident warns for eu dictatorship sweden the triumph of cultural marxism the rape of europe swedish welfare state collapses as immigrants wage war run for peace about the brussels journal scandinavian update israeli boycott muslim cartoons eu and us a relationship of concern the myth of the scandinavian model danish cartoon affair letter from a muslim down with america the anti american dance 2 take note cardiff we are all danes now allah takes over catholic church the cartoon hoax denmark moderate muslims oppose imams cartoon case escalates into international crisis user login username 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