The United States of Europe – Whose idea was it actually?

Posted by on Jul 1, 2012 in blog | 0 comments Now the BBC is coming right out with it – United States of Europe – and claiming it’s GERMANY’S idea! The aptly named Guido Westerwelle (the leader/guide of the western wave – a cruel irony in this name; he might just as well be called Mr Trojan Horse) and the others in the German transatlantic elite are happy to carry this can, so once again Germany’s elite will lead its people...
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Niall Ferguson spills the beans on the EU Project

Posted by on Jul 1, 2012 in blog | 0 comments Niall Ferguson spills the beans on the EU Project http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article34798.html “Europe is essentially an anti­populist, if not anti­democratic phenomenon. European integration has always been a project of the elite that has been foisted on national electorates……” And what of those who dreamt up the single currency wheeze in the first place? Shouldn’t they now be...
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Video: Kaspar Hauser – Child of Europe

Posted by on Jul 1, 2012 in videos | 0 comments Terry Boardman explores one of the great 'what if' questions in European history. In 1828, a teenage boy was found wandering around the streets of Nuremberg, Germany. He was unable to communicate at first but later was able to reveal that he had been held in a dark cell for most of his life. Five years later, he was murdered at the age of 21. This boy, who was found to have remarkable personal qualities, was actually the rightful prince of Baden. His abduction and later murder would play a decisive role in obstructing positive developments in Germany and Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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The Balance of Spiritual Combat – China’s Cultural Challenge to the West in the 21st Century

Posted by on Jul 1, 2012 in east west issues, most recent | 0 comments © Terry Boardman   This essay appeared as an article in “New View” magazine Winter 2005/6     The Crucible of the 13th Century Many have recognised the great debt owed by western natural science to the spiritual stream of what has been called Islam, but which in fact is far broader than that of just the 7th century Arab conquerors of the Middle East, since it includes the...
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The 21st Century: American Dreams? European Imagination? Asian Contempt?

Posted by on Jul 1, 2012 in east west issues, most recent | 0 comments   © Terry Boardman  September 1997   The recent death of Diana, Princess of Wales has led many in the media to claim that ‘a quiet revolution’ has been taking place in Britain, and that Diana was a symbol of this. We now have a chance to consider Britain’s identity, they say, where we want to go as a people in the 21st century, and they reflect on how we are becoming...
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