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In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed. They produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.

(c) Orson Welles – The Third Man (1949)

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Welfare state viewed as a land of allowances. But in fact it is a land of fixed&protected minimal wages.

Считается, что Welfare state - это пособия. Отнюдь. Welfare state - это гарантированная минимальная зарплата.

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It looks like we will be stupid enough to expel Arafat.

"Occasionally you have to live with problems without solving them," Peres said.

And he is right. Any action against the murderer will only make us worse, while inaction completely paralyze PA as a potential negotiation partner and give us time to build the fence and kill the terror leaders.

On other hand people are tired of all this crap and want something to be done. Fucking democracy :)

И небо с неба хрясь - Zhang Yimou's movie Hero

Щас спою о фильме "Герой". Не о его красотах, разумеется. И не о "превосходной пародии на идею боевого искусства" как определил его кто-то еще.
(  А о лозунге Все под небом  )

Recent NY power outage reminded me the famous Chinese movie "Hero".
(  The main philosophical idea of the film is a slogan All-under-one-sky  )