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" Men även om den europeiska antiröktrenden är här för att stanna, lär det dröja innan EU når enighet om totalt rökförbud."De sista tre raderna säger allt...

Golitsyn acerta outra? Putin Ameaça América

Por quê será que Putin está tão p* com um sistema DEFENSIVO ?Anatolyi Golitsyn,desertor russo, escreveu dois livros sobre a falsa democratização do leste europeu ("New Lies For Old" e "The Perestroika Deception") para em silêncio preparar o  que ele chamava de...

An amusing few hours in Barcelona

Iberian Notes on the amusing proceedings of the Catalan parliament: inter alia, the silly criticisms of José Montilla, the new premier, made by Màrius Serra in La Vanguardia.  This is the same Màrius Serra whose newest book's first chapter is available in this...

Dutch elect a not very interesting parliament

The Dutch parliamentary elections will keep the Christian Democrat government in power, probably, although with some portfolios shuffled about, according to Pieter Dorsman at Peaktalk; there is this, also, from Ummah News, but: the Wilders party is so small as to be ignorable...

Twitchers abroad

A brief look at the Euro twitchers and their English brethren; at A Fistful of Euros.

How few Bosnian Catholics will there be in another five years?

CNA notes an interview with the Franciscan provincial superior in Bosnia:The provincial superior of the Franciscans in Bosnia, Father Mijo Dzolan, said last week that because talks over reform of the post-war constitution of Bosnia-Herzegovina have collapsed, many Catholics...

Muslim boys desecrate Catholic church in Switzerland

Via BAF, an unsettling, indeed shocking notice of a series of incidents in Switzerland, at Muttenz in Basel: the BAF post title, "How can it have happened that kids decide to smear their excrement on an altar?"  The crime is reported here, at the website of Webjournal.ch...

How many premiers can dance on the head of a pin?

What silly men politicians are: M. Chirac and Sr Zapatero (apparently Romano Prodi was consulted via the long-distance telephone line after their Excellencies of Spain and France had already hammered out the difficult parts) have a new 'plan' for the Holy Land designed to...

Those Euros, concerned about the truly important

As A Fistful of Euros points out, the Bulgarians are not the only ones who don't or won't say 'euro' when talking about the single currency.  Nobody seems to have noticed that in Greek the word ευρώ is also pronounced “evro”. Those who are more...

The wicked Nobel Prize

Excerpts from an Al-Jazeera TV interview from 31 October, via MEMRI (where you can view the video itself), with Samir 'Ubeid, "an Iraqi researcher living in Europe":Samir 'Ubeid: "I don’t call it the Nobel Prize - I call it the hubal [idol] prize."  Interviewer:...

Bosnia acts against Wahhabis

A Syrian Wahhabi imam, Imad al-Husin, has been 'resigned' from his community, AKI reports from Sarajevo.  Imad al-Husin, a Syrian known as Abu Hamza, said he was resigning because of his "inability to express himself in the Bosnian language in order to be understood...

Let's blame the Poles...

Briefly, the story goes that the wicked CIA secretly used locations in Holy Europe to question or imprison or torture or play bad pop music loudly to detained persons accused of acts of terror, that the blessed media discovered this perfidious assault on Euro liberties and...

New archbishop in Cyprus

The Greek Church of Cyprus has a new leader, Archibishop Chrysostomos II. During Sunday's ceremony, Chrysostomos was fitted with a red robe - a royal privilege handed down to Cypriot Archbishops by the Byzantine emperor Zeno almost 1600 years ago.  He then signed his...

On the Left

At ¡No Pasaran!, Donald Rumseld as "the surrogate receiving the years of fabricated outrage directed at the United States"--via John Rosenthal at Transatlantic Intelligencer--and on 'the Left':Very simply because they HAVE to go to great lengths to use rage because no...

Mark Steyn's America Alone

It will be a few weeks before I get to Mark Steyn's America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It; this review, by Jeremy Rabkin, professor of international law at Cornell University, in the Weekly Standard, is the most substantial which I've seen that is both sympathetic...