Open Culture (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
20 years ago, the dominoes fell in Eastern Europe. Not long after the Wall fell in Berlin, a non-violent revolution got underway in Czechoslovakia. The Velvet Revolution took just a matter of six weeks (November 17 – December 29, 1989). It was fast and bloodless, and it put on the world stage Václav Havel — [...]
The Reference Frame (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
I have used the term "Climate Velvet Revolution" for " ClimateGate " in a newspaper article ( EN ) of mine that was printed at a few places. The analogy is obvious. The Velvet Revolution - the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia - was started when students were beaten by the communist cops. The Climate Velvet Revolution began when it turned...
Gateway Pundit (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Czech President Vaclav Klaus says global warming is a “politician’s myth.” He also compared environmentalism to the ideology of communism. Klaus sat down with Peter M. Robinson from the Hoover Institution in November. Via Story Ballooon: In retelling his experience of living through the Velvet Revolution, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the lifting of the [...]
•eat•read•play•• (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
" In VR [velvet revolution] , it is not just the Abbé Sieyès who survives. Louis XVI gets to keep a nice little palace in Versailles, and Marie Antoinette starts a successful line in upmarket lingerie. " Timothy Garton Ash in a recent article in the NY Review of Books, explaining one of the differences between old-style revolutions and velvet revolutions....
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
... to know; the initial business case for virtualization was so compelling that it created a kind of velvet revolution within IT which allowed operations teams to automate systems at unprecedented levels while network teams were shackled by manual configurations, committees and manually-updated spreadsheets. Increased density and movement will create problems as it crosses a threshold...
Powell's Books: Overview (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
's profoundly moving memoir goes beyond the limited story suggested in its subtitle to interweave a vivid autobiography and a brief history of Iran before and after the 1978-79 revolution. Potential readers should not be put off by fear of a depressing tale of horror; this is, above all, a story of faith -- in the human capacity to withstand mistreatment and in what people working together against...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
... with the February 1948 coup which ushered in the totalitarian regime and ended with the quick-fire Velvet Revolution of 1989 that toppled communism. "We wanted to pay respects to the people who suffered under the totalitarian regime," said Glenn Spicker, a
spydrzweb (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
From before the Velvet Revolution...bottom is stamped "1990."
Hullabaloo (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... such a powerful bond that Havel actually credited him with being part of the inspiration for the Velvet Revolution that freed Czechoslovakia from Soviet domination. So a month or so later I was on the reception line cracking up President Clinton with an off-color joke and then sitting in the East Room next to Dick Lugar who was dancing in his seat to a red hot performance of Dirty...
democrats.com (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... Guild, John Podesta, MoveOn, Veterans for Peace, National Accountability Network, Code Pink, Velvet Revolution, and the Salt Lake Tribune.
