Charlie Hebdo and their Mohammed cartoons
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Re-blogged (with very minor changes) from Tendance Coatsey Charlie Hebdo has published some new Mohammed cartoons. Middle East onLine reports, French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Wednesday anyone offended by cartoons of the Prophet Mohamm...
Charlie Hebdo and their Mohammed cartoons
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Re-blogged (with very minor changes) from Tendance Coatsey Charlie Hebdo has published some new Mohammed cartoons. Middle East onLine reports, French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Wednesday anyone offended by cartoons of the Prophet Mohamm...
Prevailing pomaceous protectionism
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You might have seen hidden away in the press recently that Apple, a US computer hardware manufacturer, will shortly release a new version of its mobile telephone. For those living under a rock, it's called the iPhone 5. As with seemingly...
The Closer
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ROUND-UPThe S&P 500 eked out another gain, rising 0.12 per cent — despite 3M joining FedEx in sounding caution in its latest economic forecast (Reuters).US existing...
10 reasons to be optimistic
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1. ECB measures2. Dutch elections 3. Karlsruhe decision4. Banking Union5. Barroso speech on the State of the Union6. Van Rompuy report on the EMU7. MFF negotiations8. Ireland back on market9. Structural reforms in Member Stat...
European Gun Laws
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In the US gun laws may be a controversial subject area, but ultimately the bottom line is that it is legal to carry a firearm. This puts the US at odds with most of Western Europe where it is generally against the law to carry or possess a gun. Gun L...
Despite all their rage, still just hawks in a cage
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Among the stealth victories won by Ben Bernanke last week was that he made it easier to neutralise a hawkish shift within the FOMC into the future.Tim Duy has it right, we think,...
Interview with Julian Lindley-French
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In the fourth of European Geostrategy’s interview series, Luis Simón speaks to Julian Lindley-French about the Euro crisis, German power in Europe, British-French military co-operation and Russian designs in Central and Eastern Europe.
The Tory action this weekend is in Windsor
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The blogs editor doesn’t much like it when I use this space to plug my engagements, so I’ll keep this brief. If you’re free on Saturday, come to what promises to be a superb political conference in Windsor. Speakers include Roger Scruton, Tim M...
Grinding lower and crashing higher
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Oops, we missed this from Macro Risk Advisors on Tuesday — the charts track realised volatility being higher on days the S&P 500 has closed up than when it’s fallen,...
Charlie Hebdo – more anti-Islamic than anti-clerical | Philippe Marlière
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The magazine aims to reassert its early secular leftwing credentials but in the current climate of religious prejudice these cartoons are not helpfulSince Voltaire and notably since the establishment of a secular republic in 1905, France has regarded...
The Root Cause of Domestic Violence in Hungary: Emancipation!
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A Fidesz member of parliament has his own particular explanation for the existence of domestic violence.
The Growing Admiration For Germany’s Economic Discipline
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While the euro crisis crawls along, we have all become alittle jaded with all the sound bites from leading euro politicans, and economists. The French and Hollande like to portray themselves and France as a fiscally prudent country, equal to …...
The Growing Admiration For Germany’s Economic Discipline
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While the euro crisis crawls along, we have all become alittle jaded with all the sound bites from leading euro politicans, and economists. The French and Hollande like to portray themselves and France as a fiscally prudent country, equal to …...
The Growing Admiration For Germany’s Economic Discipline
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While the euro crisis crawls along, we have all become alittle jaded with all the sound bites from leading euro politicans, and economists. The French and Hollande like to portray themselves and France as a fiscally prudent country, equal to …...
The Growing Admiration For Germany’s Economic Discipline
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While the euro crisis crawls along, we have all become alittle jaded with all the sound bites from leading euro politicans, and economists. The French and Hollande like to portray themselves and France as a fiscally prudent country, equal to …...
Remembering Sabra and Shatila
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This month Palestinians are commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacres, in which many hundreds of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians — many of them women and children — were slaughtered in those two refugee ca...
Newsweek: some Muslims fight back with irony, not rage
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Guest post by Pink Prosecco Above: Newsweek’s cover I have seen a number of left-liberal bloggers linking, either with implicit or explicit approval, to Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s recent Newsweek/Daily Beast piece on the violence triggered (supposedl...
Newsweek: some Muslims fight back with irony, not rage
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Guest post by Pink Prosecco Above: Newsweek’s cover I have seen a number of left-liberal bloggers linking, either with implicit or explicit approval, to Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s recent Newsweek/Daily Beast piece on the violence triggere...
Europe’s Warm Feelings For Robots
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Relations between Man and Machine in Europe may have never been better, says a new poll of the region's humans.
Co-decision, European democracy and speed
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European legislation is not famed for its speed. The EU's institutional triangle of the Commission, Member States in the Council, and the European Parliament means that agreement has to be made both within and between these institutions before draft...
The euro’s paradox
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With apologies to Russell: a stronger euro may well sit within the set of things that weaken the euro.Or, to put it even more circularly, if the single currency gets stronger,...
Time for a Weekend London Labour Conference
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This November London Labour will have it’s biennial Conference in Newham. I have attended London Labour’s Conferences for decades and the current single day format struggles to fit everybody in. When reporting on Europe a short report wit...
Austerity and eurozone crisis resulting in suicides increase
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Discussion of the economic crisis is dominated by dry statistics but austerity is having a real impact on people lives – with homelessness and suicide on the rise, writes Silvana Enculescu...
Slovak Government Challenges U.K. Foster-Care Ruling
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Slovak authorities want to hold talks with British social service officials over a recent decision that forced two Slovak children into the U.K. foster-care system.
Westerwelle's Future of Europe report - worth getting excited over?
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The so-called ‘Future of Europe’ reflexion group of eleven European foreign ministers, set up by Germany's Guido Westerwelle, to discuss and propose ideas on organisational and structural change in the EU held its closing meeting on Monday. ...
Islamophobia as an international security problem
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Islamophobia is un-American! The promotion of Islamophobia is un-American - and it is especially anti-American and dangerous to American foreign and security interests to use anti-Muslim speech to sabotage America's relationships with Middle Eastern...
Islamophobia as an international security problem
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The West's religious and political extremists and radicals. While the focus is on the small number of Middle East religious radicals who are rioting in new Arab democracies, the serious and growing threat from anti-Muslim radicals and Islamophobic...
Islamophobia as an international security problem
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The West's religious and political extremists and radicals. While the focus is on the small number of Middle East religious radicals who are rioting in new Arab democracies, the serious and growing threat from anti-Muslim radicals and Islamophobic...
