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Latest event with European fare at the movies saw BAFTA awards, in London, going to prominent Americans along with local industry leaders.
European cinema was being showcased in Australia in a touring festival. … Read More »
Oliver Twist, “ungrateful boy”, wanted more to eat, (and was a leader of others); Uriah Heep was “very’umble”, unlike Mr Bumble; Bill Sikes’s Nancy was a tragic figure of those times, and these; something turned up for Mr Micawber, in Australia.
Charles Dickens’s characters, sketched amiably for the newspapers of 19th Century England, gave their creator an outlet for an incisive sense of humour, and a feeling for sufferers of unjust fortunes. … Read More »
The Australian Foreign Minister, Kevin Rudd, has begun a one-week tour in Europe taking in consultations in Brussels on the economic situation, security talks in London and a new bilateral agreement in France, signed on Friday (20.1.12).
NEW AGREEMENT WITH FRANCE INCLUDES PACIFIC, AND THE WESTERN FRONT
An agreement signed in Paris with the French Foreign Minister, Alain Juppe, raised the status of the relationship between the two countries to that of a strategic partnership. … Read More »
When the leaders of two NATO countries engaged in the Libyan campaign went to Libya after the death of Muammar al-Gaddafi (picture), speculation arose as to whether they’d be receiving rewards.
Writer - Daniel Roche … Read More »
The push will be on in the New Year to extend the powers of the European Union, in the hope of it dealing better with challenges like the debt crisis.
More in the short-term, with the threat of a general recession, new efforts will be focused on setting up the permanent guarantee fund, the European Stability Mechanism, by mid-year; and on the possible issue of joint European bonds, guaranteed by governments in a group.
Disputes will go beyond immediate action, to wider ideas of what “Europe” should be, whether a collection of states, or a closer union more on the federal plan. … Read More »
Christmas celebrations in 2011 were marked with calls for the protection of innocents, love of family, and salvaging of the Earth itself.
Pope Benedict XVI in Rome said the earth was “stained with blood”, praying for the victims of war in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa, and for victims of natural disasters.
The Christian festival, as sometimes will happen, saw the creation of martyrs. More than forty people were killed in a round of bigotry and religious hysteria in Nigeria, by bombs set off while they were in church, on Christmas Day (25.12.11). Blasts were recorded in the capital, Abuja, Jos in the centre of the country, and other places, in the North-east. Friction between Christian and Islamic communities in Nigeria has got worse in recent years. … Read More »
Close to a century since Armageddon, the out-break of the First World War - product of a hoax-diplomatic muddle, industrialisation of weaponry, gross callousness and ineptitude in command of troops - commemorations continue strongly, and globally each 11th November.
REMEMBERING THE FALLEN
Reiterating the record:- The tragedy relented with the signing of an armistice at 11 am on 11 November 1918; the outcome so sour to the losers, demagoguery would triumph, and a new round of hostilities would commence after just 20 years, this time fully extending the horror to civilian populations – ending in the nuclear attacks on Japan. … Read More »