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Deculturation by Immigration or an ‘Etatiste’ Assault on Civic Society: Heather & O’Donnell on Rome’s Collapse
brusselsjournal.com - 4/1/2009
Deculturation by Immigration or an ‘Etatiste’ Assault on Civic Society: Heather & O’Donnell on Rome’s Collapse
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Two recent books on the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West at the end of the Fifth Century speak trenchantly in many ways to the current condition of Europe and North America. Peter Heather’s Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians (2007) and James O’Donnell’s ...
twitter.com - 4/5/2009
BNO News (BreakingNews) on Twitter
— twitter.com — Reuters: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the North Korean missile launch is a provocative act... with grave implications. 14 minutes ago from BNO Headquarters AFP: Rescuers say they have pulled 60 survivors from the rubble in Italy. So far, ... (more) BNO News (BreakingNews) on Twitter

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alertnet.org - 4/6/2009
Reuters AlertNet - Italy muzzled scientist who foresaw quake
— alertnet.org — By Gavin Jones ROME, April 6 (Reuters) - An Italian scientist predicted a major earthquake around L'Aquila... weeks before disaster struck the city on Monday, killing dozens of people, but was reported to authorities for spreading panic among the ... (more) Reuters AlertNet - Italy muzzled scientist who foresaw quake

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Death toll in Italy quake reaches 260
news.yahoo.com - 4/8/2009
Death toll in Italy quake reaches 260
— news.yahoo.com — L'AQUILA, Italy Aftershocks from the earthquake that has killed at least 260 people in central Italy sent... new fears through the tent camps that shelter thousands of survivors, and Pope Benedict XVI said Wednesday that he would visit the shocked and ... (more) Death toll in Italy quake reaches 260

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Gates of Vienna — ... What Caused Rome’s Collapse: Immigration or Centralisation? by Thomas F. Bertonneau […] The Roman Empire in the West did not, in fact, suffer fatally from an illegal immigration problem, as Heather posits; it suffered, as O’Donnell argues, from rampant aggression by a criminal politician from the Bosporus who, long before Louis XIV, believed in the notion, “l’état c’est moi.” In the demonic self-aggrandizement of the incipient étatiste regime in the District of Columbia, ...

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