Category: Historical Events

A Society Without Money. Or Brains.

Great Moments In Socialism Historical Events Uncategorized 28 Comments

Cambodia was to return to ‘Year Zero,’ and recover its former glory, removed from the modern world and the unnecessary corruption of its influences. In order to facilitate the eradication of capitalism, the National Bank was blown apart and all forms of money were banned. Marriages were now arranged by the state, and children were taught to obey the government instead of their parents… By May 1978, the effort to produce a communist system of agriculture had failed utterly and the population was starving… Throughout this period, the emptied city of Phnom Penh stood as a ghost town, a reminder of a lost civilisation of business and commerce.

Matthew Blackwell on the megalomaniacal horrors of the Khmer Rouge. One of these.

Strange Bedfellows: Western Leftists & Islamic Totalitarians

Baiting The Left Historical Events Insufferable Twits 15 Comments

There’s an old adage that “my enemy’s enemy is my friend”. This seems to be about the only way to explain why Leftists in the West, particularly much of the MSM, have dismissed the cries for freedom of Iranians:

Starting last Thursday, Iranians by the hundreds of thousands began expressing that disappointment along with rising anger — risking their lives by staging protests in more than two dozen cities across the country. As I write this, an estimated 15 protestors have been killed by government forces. Hundreds have been arrested.

Much of the Western media has downplayed this upheaval. Others have asserted that the protests are just about “a sluggish economy” and “an increase in the price of eggs” — in other words, apolitical and non-ideological.

The chants being heard in the streets tell a different tale. Among them: “We don’t want an Islamic Republic!” “Death to the Dictator!” “Mullahs Must Get Lost!” “The Clerics Act Like Gods!” Death or freedom!” “Leave Syria, think about us!” “Not Gaza, not Lebanon, my life for Iran!” Also this statement of grim determination: “We will die. [But] we will take back Iran.” No, it’s not just the economy, stupid.

The more you tighten your grip….

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Will Spain let them go? I think probably not.

Catalonia will declare independence from Spain in a matter of days, the leader of the autonomous region has told the BBC.
In his first interview since Sunday’s referendum, Carles Puigdemont said his government would “act at the end of this week or the beginning of next”.
Meanwhile, Spain’s King Felipe VI said organisers of the vote put themselves “outside the law”.
He said the situation in Spain was “extremely serious”, calling for unity.

Spain is exploding

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Today was supposed to be the day of a referendum on separation of Catalonia from Spain. It didn’t go well.
Catalonia is in the NE region of Spain. Way, way, way back it was its own country (actually Marches), the Catalan Counties. These were for the most part a result of Charlemange’s need to hold the line from the Umayyad Moors in Aquitaine.
A marriage later joined what France didn’t have with Aragon. Much later Aragon joined with Castile when Ferdinand married Isabella. The union became known as Spain. Together they finished the Reconquesta of the Iberian Peninsula.
Catalonia and its main city of Barcelona, was the last region to fall to Franco’s Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War, after which the war ended.

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