RE:RE:Interesting Article, I Don't Think The G20 Will EverDonwaan wrote: Aren't there parallels with Nero fiddling while Rome burned here?
The popular myth that "Nero fiddled while Rome burned" is not true—even in the first century CE, Rome was filled with poorly constructed slums that easily caught fire. On July 18, 64 C.E., a fire started in the enormous Circus Maximus stadium in Rome, now the capital of Italy