Saturday, May 29, 2010

Plowshares into Swords

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I can’t believe I missed this one: a German Tank manufacturer has received EU agricultural subsidies . As translated from the original Kling...
Friday, May 28, 2010

Of Interest: between Rubble and Ruins

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Presented by the German Historical Institute on their German History in Documents and Images website, is a rare collection of postwar photo...
Thursday, May 27, 2010

Fear of an Iranian Planet

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So what do you think this tells you about Iran’s “nuclear medicine” program? PROJECT SCOPE: The project is for the construction of three (3...
Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Can’t Buy Me Love

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Eulex confounded: Kosovars still love the US more than them. A Kosovo-Albanian and a Spaniard run into each other in New York City. Spain ...

Who says satire is dead?

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Or, for that matter, delusionalism : Europe will introduce a surprise new plan today to combat global warming, committing Britain and the re...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Me? I’m Still Shorting their Sorry Asses

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As one would expect, EUtopia is gunning for investors to give ‘the masses’ something to build some false social solidarity around. “For th...

A Portrait of Arrogant Conceit and Ineptitude in the White House

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Over the course of a few days during a state visit to the United States, Mexican President Felipe Calderon fed the left’s latest object of f...
Monday, May 24, 2010

Farmers Bring the Country to Paris, Turning the Champs-Élysées Green

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One of Paris's main thoroughfares, the Champs-Élysées , has been covered in earth and turned into a huge green space in an event stag...

Enjoy Watching the Fallout

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France poised to raise retirement age . Expectations are growing that France is set to remove the right to retire at 60, as it embarks on a ...

A Rigged Market?

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Sure! If you’re talking about Europe’s approach to the Kyoto accord. The first swindle involves Europe using a 1990 baseline. The closure ...
Sunday, May 23, 2010

Re.: the (In)continent of the 21st Century

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The European Union has a flag no one salutes, an anthem no one sings, a president no one can name, a parliament (in Strasbourg) no one other...
Saturday, May 22, 2010

Blög of Note

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There’s schnitzelling , and then there’s schnitzelling . Me, I prefer to call the country in question the Berlin Currywurst Republic . To...
Friday, May 21, 2010

The Manchurian Candidates

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The world remains inexplicably indifferent and uncurious about the deadliest ideology in history. Writes Claire Berlinski in this quarter’s...
Thursday, May 20, 2010

ArtHausArt

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It is all fun and games until you are ripped to shreds on an exploding TGV , other than that the New York Times raves: Long before the fest...

"Filmmaking Is Muzzled in Iran and in the United States": French Newspaper Compares Polanski's Case with That of Jailed Iranian Dissident Director

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Free Panahi and Polanski! shouts Franck Nouchi in Le Monde . At the Cannes Film Festival this May, an empty chair has been visible among t...

The Benign Stupidity of the World’s Navel

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Economics is a social science. Aptitude in the understanding of economic matters requires a kind of facility with understanding human behav...
Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Here it is again, The German Question

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The German Question is back, ponders John Vinocur . In fact, it’s German Questions, plural, and fateful enough for Europe and the euro’s fut...

Because they didn’t make the Sale, -

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EU Observer: EU skeptical about Iran nuclear deal
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

It Takes a Village Leftist...

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...to rationalize this stuff: "It would be good... if (Obama) could be dictator for a few years because he could do a lot of good thin...

Postcards from Pétainistan

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Newsweek: Seventy years ago, the Nazis conquered France. Since then, the country has changed less than you might think. Plus ça change , plu...