2005.3.11=5[#70]:4703.2.2[#31/60]: 1)LatAm Future. 2)US Texafication. 3)UK History. 4)Ancient Europe.

Even warmer: Up 8:00am. Emails and topics below all day long again. But going to o.h., so there were a little excuse for not continuing my preparation for tax/trust after #1. 6:35pm 2 home, then Mei left for computer class 7-9pm (3 days a week). Just finished emails, and almost ready to leave for o.h. Then dinner, bed 11:50. 1) Latin American Future: (1) "The biggest mistake in the history of American foreign policy...", THE INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER, P.O. Box 510518, Punta Gorda, FL 33951, USA, Bob Chapman; international_forecaster@yahoo.com: http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=24121 "" THE INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER editor Bob Chapman writes: On November 10, Russia took the lead role in coalition with China, India and Brazil to challenge the super-power supremacy of the US. The footprint of Russia and China on South America has begun. Brazil and Venezuela are very open to the coalition concept where these large countries support each other in terms of trade, economics, international politics and defense. This coalition is composed of 75% of the world population and 80% of its natural resources. Iran is about to join the coalition due to their US$200 billion energy deal with China. -Brazil and Venezuela can no longer be pillaged at will, nor any of South America. We also believe that in 1?years when Pan and Fox are out of power in Mexico, in spite of NAFTA, there begin a shift toward the new coalition. In the future, when US elitist interests attempt to overthrow governments and assassinate their leaders, the US can expect retaliation and retribution. Fortress America, the one-world concept of a United Canada, US, Mexico, Central and South America is dead, as is FTAA. We wonder if Chinese or Russian intelligence were responsible for Venezuelan intelligence having advance warning of the shoot-down of President Chavez flight as it was in route to NYC to the UN. -Had George and the neocons been successful, it would have been just another murder for profit, which is par for the course for elitists. That was followed by an agreement between Russia and Venezuela regarding military equipment, which included 50 MIG-29 fighters. The elitists, of course, went ballistic. Twenty-nine of those MIG, SMTS have the very latest Russian technology such as a Plasma Stealth System and carry the devastating SS-N-26 NYX,?unstoppable Mach 2.9 ramjet anti-ship cruise missile, which can knock out maritime targets over 120 miles away ... it is capable of sinking an aircraft carrier. -With the oil and gas deals between China and Iran and Venezuela, these two countries have come under the protection of China. This coalition is going to is isolate America as others join the coalition ... this is the biggest mistake in the history of American foreign policy. These fighter planes from Venezuela or Cuba are capable of protecting South America from hostile US advances in the region ... it also puts the Gulf Coast of the US now in harm's way. "" (2) Latin American Socialism: "IN-DEPTHT: The political challenge of the 21st century: Building a democratic, humanist socialism", by Derrick O'Keefe, Seven Oaks, Canada [ http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/transactions/3/sevenoaks.shtml ]; March 8, 2005: http://www.sevenoaksmag.com/features/54_feat1.html "" We have to invent the new socialism for the 21st century. Capitalism is not a sustainable model of development. Hugo Chavez, March 4, 2005' In recent months, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has begun to explicitly advocate for socialism, marking a significant development for both the Bolivarian Revolution in that country and for the broader international movement. "" "Chavez seeks Iran economic ties", BBC News; March 10, 2005: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4336169.stm 2) USA Texafication: "The Texafication of the USA", BY RONNIE DUGGER [" the founding editor and publisher of The Texas Observer and a current member of the board of the Texas Democracy Foundation. He is the author of The Politicians: The Life and Times of Lyndon Johnson and On Reagan: The Man and His Presidency.], The Texas Observer; 12/3/2004: http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=1829 "" The United States will become just like greedy, reactionary, racist, poverty-blighted, religion-ridden Texas? "" 3) UK History: (1) "The Changing British Population", BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/society_culture/society/launch_ani_population.shtml "" Play the animation, and track how key events in British history have affected the size of the British population. "" (2) "British History", Wise Choice: http://www.wisechoiceuk.com/history.asp (3) The British Empire: Timeline", Stephen: http://www.britishempire.co.uk/empire.htm http://www.britishempire.co.uk/timeline/timeline.htm (4) "Welcome to History UK - the History of Britain!", Historic-UK.com; MARCH 2005: http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/index.htm "" Every month we present new feature articles relating to the history of this green and pleasant land. Living HistoryOne of the most enjoyable ways to experience history first hand is to attend one of the many Living History displays and re-enactments taking place this year. Browse here for details of just some of the excellent events taking place this month and next around Britain. "" (5) "Scottish Timeline", BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/timelines/scotland/neo_bronze.shtml "" Neolithic and Bronze Ages4000 - 751 BC Iron Age750 BC - AD 43 Romans in ScotlandAD 80 - 399 Beginnings of Scotland400 - 999 Early Medieval1000 - 1285 Wars of Independence1286 - 1370 The Stewarts1371 - 1487 The Reformation1488 - 1602 Stuarts1603 - 1713 North Britons and Jacobites1714 - 1836 Victorians1837 - 1900 Modern Scotland1901 - 1944 Post WWII1945 - 2001 Neolithic and Bronze Ages Neolithic and Bronze Ages c.4000 - c.750 BC The first farmers appeared in Britain around 4000BC, marking the beginning of the Neolithic (new stone age) period. It was at this point that the landscape of Scotland began to be shaped into the way we see it now. Before farming began, Scotland was covered with woods of varying kinds and a wide range of animals lived here - bears, wolves, elk, wild cattle, wild pig and smaller mammals such as squirrels and hedgehogs. The first people began to colonise Scotland about 8,000BC. "" 4) Ancient Europe: (1) "CROMAGNON RACE", LoveToKnow 1911 Online Encyclopedia. © 2003, 2004: http://16.1911encyclopedia.org/C/CR/CROMAGNON_RACE.htm "" The Cromagnon race may thus be, as many anthropologists believe it, early neolithic, a type of man who spread over and inhabited a large portion of Europe at the close of the Pleistocene period. Some have sought to find in it the substratum of the present populations of western Europe. Quatrefages identifies Cromagnon man with the tall, long-headed, fair Kabyles (Berbers) who still survive in various parts of Mauritania. He suggests the introduction of the Cromagnon from Siberia, arriving in Europe simultaneously with the great mammals (which were driven by the cold from Siberia), and no doubt following their route. "" (2) "Celtic Europe: An online resource for students", by Leigh T. Denault: http://us.f416.mail.yahoo.com/ym/login?.rand=5itkj3iqq6vkq "" With a great deal of inconsistency, classical sources provide tantalizing but incomplete information about the peoples called Keltoi and Galatatae by the Greeks, and Celtae or Galli by the Romans. Two thousand years ago, the term Celt was used specifically for peoples inhabiting continental Europe; the denizens of England and Ireland were not to be called "Celts" until seventeenth and eighteenth-century linguistic scholarship began to identify the inhabitants of the pre-Roman British Isles as Celtic peoples. "" "" Celtic culture lives on through the languages and traditions of the Celtic peoples of the British Isles. Although many of the Celtic languages are now exinct, six Celtic languages still exist today. These are classified into two categories: Q-Celtic, or Goidelic, and P-Celtic, or Brithonic. ""