Saturday, May 07, 2011

They Need to Start Calling it their Super-Humanistic Carrot and Carrot Approach

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Did they think that they could indulge these jokers forever? EU countries have agreed to impose a travel ban and asset freeze on 13 high-le...

How to become an ugly expat in 12 easy steps

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You're probably familiar with the expression "Ugly American," a pejorative and stereotypical term for US expatriates who alien...
Friday, May 06, 2011

The Leader of the Front National, Allegedly France's Equivalent of the Tea Party's Extreme Capitalists, Says That “Obama is way to the right of us”

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How often have you heard that conservatives, that Tea Partiers, that capitalists, that inhabitants of the American heartland are the equival...

They Secretly Miss the Sound of Goosesteps

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EUranus’ Orbit : apparently being able to potentially corral 27 votes in the UN General Assembly, and 2 votes on the UN Security Council by ...

The New Face of Euro-Götterdämmerung

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So be good, for goodness’ sake. 26.04.2011 : EU and US take 'first step' toward Syria sanctions If sanctions are anything, are they ...
Thursday, May 05, 2011

Hey Lady, Nice Glockenspiel!

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Creepy Number Station goodness, for all you wierdos out there. I say it’s art.

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Bin Laden and Eichmann

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From Jerusalem, one reader of the International Herald Tribune compares Osama Bin Laden to Adolf Eichmann. Although I don't agree with ...
Wednesday, May 04, 2011

So long Sucka

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Today in History: 4 May 1971 East Berlin Chief Quits Walter Ulbricht, the Stalin of East Germany and Architect of the Berlin Wall resigned ...

Freud had a Name for it

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Europe can adulate about the US offing bin Laden, and join in “declarations” now that it’s been done. The sudden absence of “nuance” is no ...

Some voices in Germany are growing louder in portraying the Merkel government’s inaction as a disaster

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There will be an interesting diplomatic moment at the White House next month muses John Vinocur in the International Herald Tribune , whe...
Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Stealing the Credit: Does Obama expect us to believe that Bush wouldn't have given his right arm to bring Bin Laden to justice before he left office?

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…I found it refreshing to relive the same sense of national unity we all experienced after September 11—the same sense that fighting and k...

One Blunt too Many

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At least someone in the “we think, you don’t” arteest community was willing to admit that they believe bin Laden was behind 9-11. From N...

It Takes Little to Incite the Ignorant

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And yet it happens all the time among Muslims . Imagine if a top American historian appeared on the MSM insisting that the only reason Europ...

Rio de Janeiro's Corruption-Fighting Blogger Is Gunned Down in Copacabana

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From the Portuguese-speaking world, Luís Afonso Assumpção reports on a Brazilian blogger ( Ricardo Gama doubles as a vlogger ) who was s...
Monday, May 02, 2011

Plantu's Vision of Bin Laden's Demise Recalls 1968 Photo of Helpless Viet Cong Prisoner's Brutal Execution

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Naturally enough, Le Monde 's front page is devoted to the fate of Osama Bin Laden at the hands of America's special-op forces (Bo...

Like Paper-Thin Characters from a Bad Movie

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I guess the days of Europeans wailing on and on about Blackwater/Xe are going to have to end . Between 300 and 500 European soldiers of fo...

So Long, Douchebag

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Is this the kind of day that would make Palestinians in the West Bank hand out baklava in the streets and honk their horns, perhaps? Expect...

News From the Hometown of George W Bush

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People are dropping off flowers and things at the north Dallas home of former President Bush writes Valerie from Texas. Will the media an...

Sarkozy: "France salutes the tenacity of the United States which had been searching for Osama Bin Laden for 10 years"

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Among the first to react to Osama Bin Laden's death, as related in Le Monde , were George W Bush and Nicolas Sarkozy: France "s...