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A quote from Gerald Warner at The Telegraph blog, 29 November 2009 The usual suspects are proclaiming
that Switzerland will now have “pariah status”. On the contrary, there is
significantly more respect for Switzerland around the world after the
referendum than there ...
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Switzerland
On Tuesday the Lisbon Treaty comes into force and the European Union (EU) takes on the status of a genuine state with its own President and Foreign Minister. The Russian newspaper Pravda (Nov. 4) recently wrote that the EU is beginning to look like a “reincarnation of the USSR.” The ...
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Baron Hill
A quote from Charlemagne in The
Economist , 26 November 2009
Lots of European countries indulge in
shadowy coalition politics, with jobs divvied out among rival parties, but
Belgium takes the biscuit. All Belgian governments are big coalitions, uniting
parties that loathe one another, ...
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Belgium
George Handlery about the week that was. Worrying
good news from the Middle East. How development helps to stabilize poverty. A
claim that supports “the other side”. Still no one to call in Europe. The new
non-American Dream. Save the welfare state, import more dependents.
1. We ...
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It is difficult to speak of “science” in
prehistoric times. Perhaps the closest we can get is...
the systematic study of the heavens. Archaeoastronomy is the intersection between astronomy and archaeology. The patterns of stars in the night sky were ...
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Astronomy in Prehistoric Europe
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Auroras in the Northern Hemisphere are
called northern lights; in the Southern Hemisphere southern lights. They appear as
arcs, clouds and streaks which move across the night sky. The most common colors are green and red, although
other colors may occur, too. Auroras have been observed on ...
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George
Handlery about the week that was. Rejection, quotas, under- and over-achieving
minorities. Exploiting refugee status. When cowardice is masked as tolerance.
Old procedures for new crimes? Health care, the budget savings and the deficit.
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The hope of an easily attained good life ...
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Herman Van Rompuy. Get used to the name.
He is the first President of the European Union,...
which with the ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon by all the 27 EU member states in early November was transformed into a genuine United States ...
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Meet the President of Europe
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Leaders of the 27 member states of the
European Union are meeting in Brussels on November 19...
to choose the first-ever European president and European foreign minister. European political elites say these two new jobs are needed so that the ...
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Europeans Meet (Soviet-Style) to Choose First-Ever EU ...
The environmental lobby gradually succeeds in promoting "the environment" to the "Golden Calf" of the 21st century. Rationality and sense of proportion have vanished from the environmental debate. Whoever questions Al Gore's climate alarmism gets labeled as ...
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The newspapers and the bookies say that Belgian
Prime Minister Herman van Rompuy is one of the...
top candidates for the job as the first “ EU President.” A glance at his recent career reveals that he is indeed the “perfect” candidate for the job. As ...
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Herman Van Rompuy the “Perfect” EU President – Say Hello ...
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On Friday November 14 Novopress had warned of
possible violence if Algeria lost a soccer match against...
Egypt. Algeria did lose on Saturday night and, as predicted, Algerian immigrants in France turned violent. The following very short video shows a scene of a boat burning in the port of ...
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A Wild Week-End in France
The book that inspired this text was The Legend of the Middle Ages : Philosophical Explorations of Medieval Christianity, Judaism, and Islam by Rémi Brague, a French professor and specialist of medieval religious philosophy. He is also the author of the fine book Eccentric Culture: A ...
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Israeli
Defence Minister Ehud Barak cancelled a November
4 and 5 visit to Spain amid a dispute over the command of the European-led United
Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). The visit was called off after reports
surfaced that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had ...
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Israel
Spain
Tom Delay
Hezbollah
Lebanon
The Telegraph is
reporting that the Conservative Party is investigating its so-called
Conservative Muslim Forum. Remarkably, it wasn’t its radical opinions [ pdf ],
its apparent
support of Hamas , or even its linking to the website of Ta-Ha publishers,
which, as I mentioned
last year, is ...
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George Handlery about the week that was. The killing spree
in Ft. Hood. Snake medicine and the snakes. Ignore what you see, believe what
they say. How to legalize the Sharia without alarming anyone. Aid to the
destitute, poverty through aid.
1. In the past, this writer has repeatedly ...
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Eric L. Gans I have addressed Eric L. Gans and
his theory of language and culture previously in The Brussels Journal,
and with enough of a response that revisiting the topic seems justified. In what follows I wish to present the
essentials of Gansian theory and to bring under discussion ...
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Speculations
whether the Icelandic government’s application for membership of the European
Union is really serious are quite understandable. The government is totally split
on the issue, the Icelandic parliament only voted narrowly in favour of the
application this summer and the people are ...
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Iceland
It’s been nearly two decades since the United Nations repealed
the General Assembly Resolution that equated Zionism with racism. Yet “Zionism
equals racism” became the mantra of the radical Left and their Islamofascist
allies, and, it seems, some are trying to twist the logic still further: ...
