1916- German chancellor Bethmann Hollweg described Britain's war aim as " our existence as a nation is to be crushed," he told the Reichstag, "militarily defenceless, economically crushed and boycotted by the world, condemned to lasting sickness that is the Germany which England wants to see her at her feet. Britain wanted to see france weakened by being bled to death, to have all the allies doing slave work for england, and to secure the submission off all the neural states of Europe. 'Great Britain is of all the most egoistic and fiercest , the most obstinate enemy. The german statesman who would HESTITATE to use against this enemy every available instrument of battle that will really shorten the war- such a statesman should be HANGED.'"
Chlorine gas was first used by the germans on the war front on april 22 1915, the earliest victim were some french-african troops. The second use killed 2000 Canadian troops and cause a mutiny in the French Senegalese ranks against their white officers.
in 1916, Georgi Zhukov, who earlier won the St Geroge's Cross for bravery , was injured by a mine while on a mounted reconnaissance patrol. He would later receive the surrender of Berlin in 1945 as chief-of-staff of the Red Army
in 1917- Hermann Goering shot down his first british aircraft in the air above the battlefield at age 24. He would shot down 17 more british and french aircraft throughout the duration of WW1 , and earned the Pour Le Merite, which was the highest German award for bravery. He was to be the future Head of German airforce during WW2
1917 may 25- the first German airstrike using aircraft over london
German Erich Remarque, who later wrote his novel 'All quiet on the western front' 12 years later, had fought at Third Ypres where french and british troops repeatedly failed to overrun the german trenches position
on the eastern front in 1917, future Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess, was shot through his chest, his 3rd war injury in a year, while the 1st 3 american soldiers killed by German bullets were Corporal Gresham, Private Enright and Private Hay.
1918- When german troops entered the french town of Soissons, which was 40 miles from paris, retreating french troops shouted out to the advancing americans re-inforcements not to bother as the war is over since paris are already in full range of the German artillery. After russia surrendered under lenin's order, german soldiers once fighting on the Eastern front were deployed immediately to the Western front to participate in a decisive offensive to wipe out France and end the war before more American troops land on the continent and threaten Germany. Unfortunately for germany, all their 3 main offensive failed and allied troops continue advance towards germany, and resulted in their surrender soon after that.
27 April 2007
8 April 2007
communism and poverty
in early 1848, in london, a 29 year old German philosopher Karl Marx, along with his 27 year old textile-manufacturer friend Friedrich Engels published the pamphlets later famously known as the Communist Manifesto. Days later, revolutions broke first in France, removing the French monarchy, and later in some other parts in Europe..
"a dictator is there to control the revolution; a revolution is there to put in a dictator.."
now, despite the fact that the practise of communism in itself has been altered and the system of running changed varying to different former communist nations prior to the breakup of the Berlin wall and China's first direct civilian flight to US on a commercial plane(2 of the many examples of the beginning of a softening communist grip and a more capitalist entry), there are still the infamous North Korea that has still been making the Headlines in global news.
nationalist, monarchy and democratic nations' governments fear poverty
but communist nations' governments fear wealth..
the reason for many uprisings against leadership in many countries in the early part of the 20th century was mainly led by the middle class..okay let me tell you this first..the world has been circling around this 'imaginary' system of the 3 caste or group. There are firstly the richest and most powerful group but has the least percentage population, second is the middle class with the average wealth and power, third is the poorest and least educated people.
all along since the first society appear, the first group has always wanted to hold onto that place for as long as possible, the second always wanting to fight for the place of the first group and the last eyeing only at most for a spot in the 2nd group. Most of time the 2nd group, due to lack of financial resource or military power, resort to using,mis-leading and 'cheating' the 3rd group into pushing the 1st group out of power on the pretext of fighting for the rights of the 3rd group, and after that, kicking the 3rd group back to where they once were after assuming power. And due to the fact that they don't want people to overthrow or revenge them, they control the nations with an iron fist, eliminating former 1st group members and even friends in the 2nd group which may oppose or capable of opposing them. These were what happened to almost all of the communist nation in the beginning..decades of purges, executions, labour camps,the secret police breaking into homes at night, disappearance of people and breakdown of families...
the new leaders, the once 2nd group people knew this very well themselves as they were once a part of it in the widely proven belief : when people have the free time, luxury of having enough food, wealth in their pockets, they will start to want to THINK for themselves and challenge the leadership.
sure, at least 7 large-scale and major famines had struck the few communist states altogether since their beginning and most outsiders believed that it was due to these famines and other natural disasters that cause these nations to be poor and having a starving population when the communist grip was at its peak..
THINK AGAIN...
from the earlier passage i did mention about the new rulers fearing the revenge of the others, so even if there are no disaster of famines... i firmly believe they will do whatever it takes to make sure the distribution of products/ rations are always a lot less than necessary, leaving the population to starvation rather than with any inch of an abundance.
in simple terms, by continuing creating a starving population, people will have to work harder and longer hours at the industrials and agriculture work rather than thinking about overthrowing the government...agree?
so now..what about the "WEALTH" mentioned earlier..well they manage to direct the extra product produced that month into the military and continuing creating a very unsecure and pre-war environment with an enemy so that it creates that unity and loyalty to the nation(seldom found in peace time nations) and that anyone who dares to oppose the meagre rationing has a simple charges to him: treason. The rest of it, ie the complains and bitter remarks on the communist government by individuals, are taken care of by the secret police, and even the fear of denouncing by even your children(who has been sent to special boot camps to be brainwashed) to the police is enough to make everyone keep quiet during the 'golden days' of communism.
this may be one of the jigsaw puzzle piece to why news reports of millions of children being malnourished and starving to death since the first communist nation began(namely the former soviet union), never stops leaking to the outside world.
i will tell the early days and prior to world war 1 in the nxt passage...err...soon as i can
"a dictator is there to control the revolution; a revolution is there to put in a dictator.."
now, despite the fact that the practise of communism in itself has been altered and the system of running changed varying to different former communist nations prior to the breakup of the Berlin wall and China's first direct civilian flight to US on a commercial plane(2 of the many examples of the beginning of a softening communist grip and a more capitalist entry), there are still the infamous North Korea that has still been making the Headlines in global news.
nationalist, monarchy and democratic nations' governments fear poverty
but communist nations' governments fear wealth..
the reason for many uprisings against leadership in many countries in the early part of the 20th century was mainly led by the middle class..okay let me tell you this first..the world has been circling around this 'imaginary' system of the 3 caste or group. There are firstly the richest and most powerful group but has the least percentage population, second is the middle class with the average wealth and power, third is the poorest and least educated people.
all along since the first society appear, the first group has always wanted to hold onto that place for as long as possible, the second always wanting to fight for the place of the first group and the last eyeing only at most for a spot in the 2nd group. Most of time the 2nd group, due to lack of financial resource or military power, resort to using,mis-leading and 'cheating' the 3rd group into pushing the 1st group out of power on the pretext of fighting for the rights of the 3rd group, and after that, kicking the 3rd group back to where they once were after assuming power. And due to the fact that they don't want people to overthrow or revenge them, they control the nations with an iron fist, eliminating former 1st group members and even friends in the 2nd group which may oppose or capable of opposing them. These were what happened to almost all of the communist nation in the beginning..decades of purges, executions, labour camps,the secret police breaking into homes at night, disappearance of people and breakdown of families...
the new leaders, the once 2nd group people knew this very well themselves as they were once a part of it in the widely proven belief : when people have the free time, luxury of having enough food, wealth in their pockets, they will start to want to THINK for themselves and challenge the leadership.
sure, at least 7 large-scale and major famines had struck the few communist states altogether since their beginning and most outsiders believed that it was due to these famines and other natural disasters that cause these nations to be poor and having a starving population when the communist grip was at its peak..
THINK AGAIN...
from the earlier passage i did mention about the new rulers fearing the revenge of the others, so even if there are no disaster of famines... i firmly believe they will do whatever it takes to make sure the distribution of products/ rations are always a lot less than necessary, leaving the population to starvation rather than with any inch of an abundance.
in simple terms, by continuing creating a starving population, people will have to work harder and longer hours at the industrials and agriculture work rather than thinking about overthrowing the government...agree?
so now..what about the "WEALTH" mentioned earlier..well they manage to direct the extra product produced that month into the military and continuing creating a very unsecure and pre-war environment with an enemy so that it creates that unity and loyalty to the nation(seldom found in peace time nations) and that anyone who dares to oppose the meagre rationing has a simple charges to him: treason. The rest of it, ie the complains and bitter remarks on the communist government by individuals, are taken care of by the secret police, and even the fear of denouncing by even your children(who has been sent to special boot camps to be brainwashed) to the police is enough to make everyone keep quiet during the 'golden days' of communism.
this may be one of the jigsaw puzzle piece to why news reports of millions of children being malnourished and starving to death since the first communist nation began(namely the former soviet union), never stops leaking to the outside world.
i will tell the early days and prior to world war 1 in the nxt passage...err...soon as i can
6 April 2007
What's next!!
Can our world handle all the natural disasters in the world?
If government bodies don't do enough now to reduce effects causing climate change, which has been proven to be a major cause of all these 'natural' disaster..
this may happen..
If you don't like to listen to prediction..don't carry on reading
If you disapprove with my prediction..send me a comments
If you take things too personal and read it too in-depth..don't say i never ask you to stop scrolling down for this article
people living near coastal areas will start moving inland..thousand of miles of land from the sea will be flooded and a few communities of people who decide to stay due to whatever reason(eg their livelihood on fishing or discrimination from inland communities(which may be of a different nationality or culture)) onto the few highlands surrounded by flooded sea water. In less than 100 thousand years, those people who still live there may mutate into aquatic-humans..briefly said..people will have foot like duck webbings and their fingers may turn into 2 small flippers while their arm start to change shape to fit their needs underwater. People who manage to move inland will remain almost the same as far as i think...
Okay..if you studies botany or history..you may come across this article..
"the first plants which is capable of photosynthesis appear not at the beginning of the world but is after a few billion years after that" or that the first creature to walk on land appear from the sea"...
all of us used to take for granted that most plants is already able to photosynthesis, but at the beginning, plants are not able to do that..it's only after a change of habitat or 'gene' that cause the plants to mutate or modify itself into photosynthesis-capable..
when someone mentioned of a cloned child or mammal, something that is new or out of unknown..it draws large resistance from religious and human-rights group..I do agree that it is not really morally-right to create a living things in that way. However we must also consider the fact that living things do mutate and modify themselves as their way of living change over thousand of years or when science reaches that level, we are also living things, if it really happen on a large scale( a whole community created from clones), It will be terrible to imagine but possible to happen..
..and whether that mutation or change in human beings is a curse or blessing..nobody knows
If government bodies don't do enough now to reduce effects causing climate change, which has been proven to be a major cause of all these 'natural' disaster..
this may happen..
If you don't like to listen to prediction..don't carry on reading
If you disapprove with my prediction..send me a comments
If you take things too personal and read it too in-depth..don't say i never ask you to stop scrolling down for this article
people living near coastal areas will start moving inland..thousand of miles of land from the sea will be flooded and a few communities of people who decide to stay due to whatever reason(eg their livelihood on fishing or discrimination from inland communities(which may be of a different nationality or culture)) onto the few highlands surrounded by flooded sea water. In less than 100 thousand years, those people who still live there may mutate into aquatic-humans..briefly said..people will have foot like duck webbings and their fingers may turn into 2 small flippers while their arm start to change shape to fit their needs underwater. People who manage to move inland will remain almost the same as far as i think...
Okay..if you studies botany or history..you may come across this article..
"the first plants which is capable of photosynthesis appear not at the beginning of the world but is after a few billion years after that" or that the first creature to walk on land appear from the sea"...
all of us used to take for granted that most plants is already able to photosynthesis, but at the beginning, plants are not able to do that..it's only after a change of habitat or 'gene' that cause the plants to mutate or modify itself into photosynthesis-capable..
when someone mentioned of a cloned child or mammal, something that is new or out of unknown..it draws large resistance from religious and human-rights group..I do agree that it is not really morally-right to create a living things in that way. However we must also consider the fact that living things do mutate and modify themselves as their way of living change over thousand of years or when science reaches that level, we are also living things, if it really happen on a large scale( a whole community created from clones), It will be terrible to imagine but possible to happen..
..and whether that mutation or change in human beings is a curse or blessing..nobody knows
5 April 2007
saving the environment- the WM way?
A few years back, a US representative for a global warming conference was slapped with a cake on his face by a female pro-environmental protestor. She lamented that although the US was the highest producer of green house gases, they didn't do anything about it and yet pushed the blame to small developing countries. That incident, shown on the evening local chinese tv news, interested me..and perhaps you..
I should be around age of 15 or 17 then i couldn't remember vividly...a time when I,or WE, are spending time and interest only in our hobbies like flying kites, watching animes, hopping and jumping around everyday in full color and texture of what a perfect life is...including the few mundane process of doing homework.., a lot to look forward to the future..your career, future family...
until when tv news,documentaries and info-advertisement and promotion campaigns of companies or politicians started to bombard us with cynical and naysayer's prediction and depiction of the horrific future of the world UNLESS we start doing something about it...
Yup..GLOBAL WARMING is kinda getting out of control, the beautiful but unlucky polar bears are drowning, coastal cities are threatened to be wiped out by cyclones with record scale of damage, inland places faces desertification, thousands of small and vulnerable species of frogs,birds,insects and fish will bid their last farewell within 30 years from now,temperature will rise by 15 degrees by end of century, or we will only need 1% of the global GDP to solve the environment problem now than to spend a few times more global GDP to handle the crisis 10year down the road..
Up to now..what have you been wanting to speak?
That what i said above, is too terrible to be digested, aren't polar bears well kept in the zoo, aren't life in our city almost the same?..why must u say such terrible things of the future?
Well, the accuracy or reality of all this happenings and many others, are told by experts, we as the common people don't have those concrete information ourselves
but I choose to believe
next..what had been done so far?
small steps have been taken in developed nations like sweden who started converting most of their energy sources from natural sources, reducing need for fuel..small improvements here and there as companies are under pressured to cut down co2 emission or face fines(which mostly amounts up to $10000 only) and public pressure..sandwiched also by boards of directors who may want fat returns on their investment in the company and refuse any operation that will lower the profit of that financial year...as far as we could say..there are really improvements to the situation, a little at least..
my main focus..is that the leadership of countries must be the first to stand up, admit the situation and start taking actions..
asking and pleading citizens to save water, re-use plastic bags, don't buy CFCs products and save energy, and in meanwhile bombarding us with how bad the situation is will just be a waste of time and only depresses us more...
as in any instructions from the top down in all organizations, all instructions must be re-inforced with 1) leaderships, 2) follow-ups and 3)reviews..When Wal-Mart encourages his employees to have the 10-foot rule(to stop work instantly, walk towards,greet sincerely and ask if help is needed for any customers in that distance from the 'associates'), the leadership don't just say it loudly for a one time affair and ask their employees to do it. Instead, the leaders(the management) lead by examples themselves by being the most enthusiastic in carrying out the practices,remind on the reason of doing so frequently, follow-up on whether everybody perform it well,(counselling anybody who refuse to abide to it) and do regular reviews on whether it is a success or it's just PLAIN ASKING..
...and when the management, in our society case is the leadership, doesn't start showing to people they are doing it evidently..to what scale can the masses be enthusiastic enough to follow the call to 'help save the world'?..
we want to help save the world, but we are individuals ourselves, and we don't have the leadership control,resources and power to affect the world as much as an organization or nation does..and if the big guys don't bother about it..you can't really rely on the least empowered and resourced to be motivated to follow guidelines and feel responsible for doing it at a large context of everyday life..
I should be around age of 15 or 17 then i couldn't remember vividly...a time when I,or WE, are spending time and interest only in our hobbies like flying kites, watching animes, hopping and jumping around everyday in full color and texture of what a perfect life is...including the few mundane process of doing homework.., a lot to look forward to the future..your career, future family...
until when tv news,documentaries and info-advertisement and promotion campaigns of companies or politicians started to bombard us with cynical and naysayer's prediction and depiction of the horrific future of the world UNLESS we start doing something about it...
Yup..GLOBAL WARMING is kinda getting out of control, the beautiful but unlucky polar bears are drowning, coastal cities are threatened to be wiped out by cyclones with record scale of damage, inland places faces desertification, thousands of small and vulnerable species of frogs,birds,insects and fish will bid their last farewell within 30 years from now,temperature will rise by 15 degrees by end of century, or we will only need 1% of the global GDP to solve the environment problem now than to spend a few times more global GDP to handle the crisis 10year down the road..
Up to now..what have you been wanting to speak?
That what i said above, is too terrible to be digested, aren't polar bears well kept in the zoo, aren't life in our city almost the same?..why must u say such terrible things of the future?
Well, the accuracy or reality of all this happenings and many others, are told by experts, we as the common people don't have those concrete information ourselves
but I choose to believe
next..what had been done so far?
small steps have been taken in developed nations like sweden who started converting most of their energy sources from natural sources, reducing need for fuel..small improvements here and there as companies are under pressured to cut down co2 emission or face fines(which mostly amounts up to $10000 only) and public pressure..sandwiched also by boards of directors who may want fat returns on their investment in the company and refuse any operation that will lower the profit of that financial year...as far as we could say..there are really improvements to the situation, a little at least..
my main focus..is that the leadership of countries must be the first to stand up, admit the situation and start taking actions..
asking and pleading citizens to save water, re-use plastic bags, don't buy CFCs products and save energy, and in meanwhile bombarding us with how bad the situation is will just be a waste of time and only depresses us more...
as in any instructions from the top down in all organizations, all instructions must be re-inforced with 1) leaderships, 2) follow-ups and 3)reviews..When Wal-Mart encourages his employees to have the 10-foot rule(to stop work instantly, walk towards,greet sincerely and ask if help is needed for any customers in that distance from the 'associates'), the leadership don't just say it loudly for a one time affair and ask their employees to do it. Instead, the leaders(the management) lead by examples themselves by being the most enthusiastic in carrying out the practices,remind on the reason of doing so frequently, follow-up on whether everybody perform it well,(counselling anybody who refuse to abide to it) and do regular reviews on whether it is a success or it's just PLAIN ASKING..
...and when the management, in our society case is the leadership, doesn't start showing to people they are doing it evidently..to what scale can the masses be enthusiastic enough to follow the call to 'help save the world'?..
we want to help save the world, but we are individuals ourselves, and we don't have the leadership control,resources and power to affect the world as much as an organization or nation does..and if the big guys don't bother about it..you can't really rely on the least empowered and resourced to be motivated to follow guidelines and feel responsible for doing it at a large context of everyday life..
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)