In a Country with Gun Controls Like France, the Kalashnikov Has Become the Thug's Rolex of Choice
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'est la Rolex du voyou, même s'il n'a pas réussi. Depuis quatre ou cinq ans, la kalachnikov, ou AK47, est devenue le premier attirail du malfaiteur, confirmé ou pas. While the French are busy giving the clueless and barbaric Yanks lessons regar...
Did You Connect the Dots?
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The 350.org folks and all their thousands of friends all over the world had a big event on May 5. Here’s the video:...
That league championship
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My older brother was a football fanatic in a decade, the 1960s, that deserved some fanaticism. He introduced me to the game of Subbuteo, of which he was also a fanatic. He bagged Manchester United when giants such as Bobby Charlton, Nobby Stiles (we...
Putin´s Orwellian inauguration
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The Moscow Times is to be congratulated for publishing Vladimir Frolov´s account of the inauguration of Russia´s criminal ruler:The regal inauguration of President Vladimir Putin last Monday offered a creepy scene: Putin's...
Labour, Ed Miliband, Progress and promises
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I was at the Progress Conference yesterday and heard the Ed Miliband speech that’s the centre piece of Andrew Rawnsley’s Observer column today. It was the best speech I’ve heard Ed give and he responded in the Q&A session wit...
Eurosphere roundup: “Germany’s Pirate Party riding high”, “Fear grows of Greek euro exit…
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TweetShare via email The German Pirate Party’s national conference was a riot of colour and noise Germany’s Pirate Party riding high from BBC News | Europe | World Edition Germany’s Pirate Party sets sail for a role in nat...
Heard the one about the rise of the political comedian | John O'Farrell
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The disillusioned public is welcome to elect a comedian, but political office must still be taken seriouslyGeorge Orwell wrote: "Every joke is a tiny revolution." He never had his one-liners rewritten by New Labour ministers, as I did. Not so much a...
"Free China: The Courage to Believe" wins another top award
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Finally, a powerful documentary about human rights violations in communist China. Hopefully this film will be shown on nationwide television channels in all those countries - e.g. Germany - which through trade relations prop up the repressive and aut...
Iran helps freeing the Turkish journalists, another symbolic blow to Turkey’s Mideast policies?
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TweetShare via emailFreed Turkish journalists arrive from Iran from Hurriyet Daily News Two Turkish journalists who went missing while reporting on the uprising in Syria two months ago ************** France: a chance to restart from Today’s Zam...
Diffamation concernant la presse: les députés européens veulent clarifier le régime applicable
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Clarifier est bien le mot qui convient pour une situation qui n’a que trop durer en raison de la complexité du problème ( multiplicité et diversité des intervenants, Conseil de l’Europe, Cour de Justice) et de la sensibilité politique du d...
What chances will have Chancellor Angela Merkel to get a third term?
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Fever of changes that swepts Europe apparently will not circumvent nor Germany. In such an unstable economic and politic context, what chances will have the present Chancellor, Angela Merkel, to get a third term? Hard to predict at this time. ̷...
Eurozone: the austerity allergy | Editorial
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Greece's problems are merely an intense manifestation of an antipathy to cutbacks that is breaking out everywhereSlowly but surely, the unthinkable is coming to be thought. Europe's monetary marriage was supposed to admit no divorce, but the idea of...
European Liberal Democrats in the Caucasus
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It was daring — even brave — of the Armenian National Movement to invite the European Liberal Democrats (ELDR) to convene a Council meeting in Yerevan this week, only days after general elections were held in Armenia, about which they hav...
Vive Hollande! M. Normal wins the day
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France is celebrating its first Socialist President for 17 years, voting in François Hollande and bidding adieu to Nicolas Sarkozy.Although Sarkozy may have clung on in the final live televised debate - w...
What next for Greece?
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So the Greece voters have made their choice. The centre right and socialist parties normally pick up 80% of the vote between them. This time it was nearer 30%. The harsh austerity measures are biting and the public cannot see a light at t...
We agree about Europe | Ed Balls and Peter Mandelson
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The eurozone needs to survive and succeed, and Britain must be part of the debate about its futureThe coming months are critical for the future of Europe. Jobs and business investment – in Britain and across the euro area – depend on Europe's lea...
The Week in Bloggingportal: News from European carrier pigeons
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We here at the Bloggingportal.eu ivory towers do not know for sure who won the French presidential elections last week. We are still waiting for the postman to transport the letter with the official results through the well-established European netwo...
After the notorious Cihan Kırmızıgül case… A mapping project on imprisoned students…
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TweetShare via emailThe Unknown Student Ushahidi project aims to map students- mostly undergraduate students- who are in jail… The project is organized by Solidarity with the Jailed Students Initiative… *** Demonstrators occupying Beyoglu...
The Wire – it’s all over
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This evening we finished the fifth and final season of The Wire. What will we do with ourselves now? It has been a brilliant piece of sustained writing. It has also been a bleak and depressing portrayal of the human condition. People come and go, bu...
London Underground must reinstate Nembhard!
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By a supporter of ‘Tubeworker‘ bulletin Imagine this: Feeling hungry after a long day at work, you pop into KFC before heading home. Someone decides to racially abuse you while you queue up. You’re also pregnant, and you decide to defe...
London Underground must reinstate Nembhard!
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By a supporter of ‘Tubeworker‘ bulletin Imagine this: Feeling hungry after a long day at work, you pop into KFC before heading home. Someone decides to racially abuse you while you queue up. You’re also pregnant, and you decide to defe...
Interesting thoughts.
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If you get a chance, check out www.publicpolicy.ie, the website of the Irish Fiscal Policy Research Centre, which is funded by Atlantic Philanthropies, and is a new thinktank dedicated to putting out thoughtful options on various public policy issue...
Europa liegt auch in NRW
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Es ist die sozialdemokratische Rolle rückwärts. Weg von Gerhard Schröder und der Agenda 2010, hin zu Johannes Rau und damit hin zum Wohlfühlen, Umsorgen, ja keinen Streit anzetteln. Hohe Schulden trotz Rekordsteuereinnahmen, klamme Kommunen und e...
The Mother Of All Short Squeezes Has Commenced
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Robert Wenzel writes in Economic Policy Journal Details on the Losing JPMorgan Trade Emerge. Ben Protess, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Mark Scott and Nathaniel Popp at NYT have an exhausting detailed report on the losing trade that is costing JPMorgan Chase...
