So Russian President Vladimir Putin immediately demanded an official apology from the Dutch government for ignoring Borodin s diplomatic immunity. The rabble rousing Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky called on his followers to smash the windows of the Dutch embassy in Moscow.

Trans Dniestr has its own government and parliament, army, constitution, flag, and a rousing Soviet style national anthem of course, its nationhood would be incomplete without its own currency. This political entity is a precise counterpart in the political world to a well known physical phenomenon of splintering or fissuring.

High school science teacher Tyler DeWitt was ecstatic about a lesson plan on bacteria and devastated when his students hated it. The problem was the textbook it was impossible to understand. He delivers a rousing call for science teachers to ditch the jargon and extreme precision, and instead make science sing through stories and demonstrations.

For most Israelis, even those who voted for him as the bearer of Sharon s legacy after the Gaza disengagement, Olmert thus remained the accidental prime minister. Likewise, Peretz, a rabble rousing but effective trade unionist, surprised all when he won the Labor Party s leadership primary and then chose the defense portfolio over the treasury.

Obviously, many of its members and leaders do subscribe to these tenets, and disapprove in private of López Obrador s rabble rousing antics. But, as long they remain relatively powerless, Mexico will remain unbalanced, deprived of the modern left that it needs to combat poverty and inequality, and hostage to those who still believe in revolution and the assault on the Winter Palace.