Showing posts with label Wall Street Journal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wall Street Journal. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

FLOODING IN SERBIA AND CROATIA AND BOZNIA HERZEGOVINA : MY HEART BREAKS FOR THE PEOPLE

RECORD FLOODS FORCING MORE EVACUATIONS : WALL STREET JOURNAL BLOG

“Much of Bosnia and Herzegovina, eastern Croatia and Serbia are underwater with an imminent threat of spillover into the neighboring countries,” the bank said, adding it would consider increasing its investment program for the Balkans beyond the €1.2 billion ($1.64 billion) originally planned for this year."

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35,000 people and counting have left behind their pets, livestock, valuable, homes, cars... the Balkans have historically been at war and now more people are effected than in the wars...  It is time to pull together, no matter what.

The experience of loss here is so profound, I ask myself what are these people going to do?

If there is money to rebuild, then they must consider the Climate Changes that seem to be wrecking havoc with the weather all over the world and they must build high up.  If natural features of geography do not allow this, then artificial mounds must be build.

  

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

SON OF THE LAST HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR, OTTO HABSBURG PASSES at 98

By SETH LIPSKY WALL STREET JOURNAL July 6 2011

"The death of Otto von Habsburg takes from us one of the most admirable figures of the 20th century. The son of the last emperor of Austria-Hungary, he died on Monday at the age of 98." (That's yesterday!) ...Habsburg got elected to the European Parliament in 1979..."

Link to the breaking article by clicking on the title of this post!