Does history Rhyme?

[gerald]

New York City - support for a peoples homeland -

I do not mean to imply that both are the same, or that the consequences will be the same, but the similarity of the trappings and music is interesting.

Events 73 years apart.

Today - "The Golden Dawn" - in New York City - two interesting videos http://xanyc.org/ with music.

1939 New York City, Madison Square Garden

http://www.google.com/imgres?num=10&hl= ... JZM&imgurl

music http://www.youtube.com/verify_controver ... 1348449189

[gerald]

Spanish Civil War 1936-39 --- 76 years later - 2012 People of Catalonia talk and demonstrate for secession.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War 1936-1939
The conservative, strongly Catholic Basque country, along with Galicia and the more left-leaning Catalonia, sought autonomy or even independence from the central government of Madrid.


Today
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-09-2 ... referendum

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19564640

[Trevor]

Remember what Mark Twain said: "History may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes." There was also an attempt at independence that was crushed in a previous crisis war, 1640 to 1659.