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...money and power rule." He warned that "unless humankind radically changes its ways within the next several decades, civilization will perish in filth or wars." Adamec's grievances were many: violence in movies and on TV, environmental pollution, the U.S.-led war in Iraq, bullying and drug use in Czech schools. But the effect of his actions has been unmistakable. In the past seven weeks, five more people in the Czech Republic have set themselves ablaze, and three have died: Vera Jedlicková, 50, burned herself near her family plot at Brno's central cemetery on March...
Currently reading: “Beowulf” (in Czech translation...
...CZECH REPUBLIC...
...Czech Republic They became known as the "Cibulka lists" - some 200,000 names of alleged collaborators and officers of Czechoslovakia's communist-era secret police (StB) - named for Petr Cibulka, a former dissident turned free-lance StB hunter who published them a decade ago. Although the Czech government once forced Cibulka to stop posting them on his website, it's now putting its own version online. On March 20, the Czech Interior Ministry (www.mvcr.cz) will post names of some 100,000 alleged StB collaborators, as well as 9,000 organizations the communists spied on at home and abroad. An online...
...people have been going to Europe this year for spring break. I sent a bunch of people to Germany, the Czech Republic, France and some went to London...