P.A.R.T.S. Graduation Tour 2012
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To the Kaai Theater Studios this evening to watch the P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios) annual graduation tour. An international school founded by top Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, P.A.R.T.S. offers a full...
Why Nationalists should support further integration
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Two scary words have been bandied around recently; political integration. (cue scary music)Of course, the nationalists and Eurosceptics have immediately jumped to and shouted it down as part of Brussels’ master plan to assimilate us all into a Euro...
Genocide and Raphael Lemkin
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A Conference was held in Geneva on the 20 June 2012 to launch the Raphael LemkinInternational Prize for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities. I was asked to make a few concluding remarks. What is profoundly shocking, deeply disturbing...
Devlet Tiyatroları Dijital Oyun Bilgi Sistemi
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Tweet 1949’dan bugüne… Sahnelenen bütün oyunlar Devlet Tiyatroları Refik Ahmet Sevengil Tiyatro Kütüphanesi’nde. Devlet Tiyatroları Dijital Oyun Bilgi Sistemi Nedir? Devlet Tiyatroları’nın sahnelediği bütün oyunların afişi,...
UK, US and Swiss Banks Downgraded … World Slides Into Depression … France To Join Guido Westerwelle’s Future Of Europe Group … Europe’s 27 Heads Of State Will Meet Next Thursday And Friday
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Financial Market report for Friday June 22, 2012; this is the twelfth week of entry into the Second Great Depression. 1) … UK, US and Swiss banks were downgraded this week as the world slid into depression. UK banks downgraded included Royal Ban...
Ed Davey’s Renewable Energy
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Keeping warm is not usually a major consideration at a midsummer Garden Party even in England, but conditions were distinctly chilly for once at Sutton Liberal Democrats’ annual event this afternoon. As the Secretary of State for Energy and Cli...
Greece: Flash Opera in Metro Station
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To honor European Music Day on June 21, the Greek National Opera organized a small flash concert in Syntagma metro station in Athens, in front of hundreds of surprised passengers, young and old, who enjoyed arias from The Barber of Seville and Faust,...
Operation Warmongering: A strange domestic alliance to encourage Turkey to attack Syria…
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Tweet On the Twitter front 3 lumpen popular figures are provoking the public with the most vulgar nationalistic discourses. From left to right: Erol Köse, Atilla Taş and Nihat Doğan. Pro-government columnists and journalists. Some Liberal minded i...
ACTA doomed to failure as a fifth EuroParl Committee recommends its rejection
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The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), an international arrangement negotiated in secret since 2008 in a bid to reduce intellectual property theft, looks set to be rejected by the European Parliament as MEPs in a fifth consecutive Committee...
Waiting for the "modern world´s first 100 per cent fuel free sailing cargo ship"
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The World Maritime News tells us that "Development is underway to design the modern world’s first 100 per cent fossil fuel free sailing cargo ships":With rising fossil fuel prices and the global challenge of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, this...
Interview with the Race-Baiter: "America Is Racist Because Americans Do NOT Join in Racist Attacks" (?!)
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Huh?! So this is supposed to be another example of stellar leftist logic?!Over two years ago, "one of the most respected analysts on racial questions in the United States" brought readers of Le Monde the startling information that it turns out that t...
The Caravan Moves On - Politics Need to Catch Up! (Policy Note)
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Click here for the full text pdf or find it at the Social Europe Journal.
The politization of football or the footballization of politics?
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Picture credit On Friday June 22 there was a football (soccer) match between the national teams of Germany and Greece, for the UEFA Euro 2012 championship. The game received special attention from all the established media, who presented it as the ma...
The politization of football or the footballization of politics?
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Picture credit On Friday June 22 there was a football (soccer) match between the national teams of Germany and Greece, for the UEFA Euro 2012 championship. The game received special attention from all the established media, who presented it as the m...
The trial of Anders Breivik shows that we need a better understanding of what drives right-wing extremist violence
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Rachel Briggs and Matthew Goodwin explore some of the factors that drive individuals to adopt a right-wing extremist identity and maintain that more research needs to be conducted into why some engage in violent activities. The trial of Anders Br...
We live in accelerated time folks
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It appears that the official launch of the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the European Union has been set for monday 25th of June, but since such a good job was done, the media team opted to publish the official tweet of the lauch of the new we...
Vestas withdraws from UK wind turbine factory project
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The loss making Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has decided not the proceed with its "flagship" Sheerness project:Vestas, a Danish company, said it would no longer proceed with its flagship Sheerness project amid concerns about political supp...
After l'affaire Jimmy Carr, Left and Right should agree on flatter, fairer, simpler taxes
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In a speech to Politeia in 2004, Oliver Letwin, then Shadow Chancellor, made a simple but brilliant observation. The complexity of a nation’s tax system, he said, was every bit as damaging to competitiveness as the overall level of tax. It’s true...
A summary of Rio+20 + a reminder about COP 18/MOP 8
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The bright lights of Doha are waiting for the COP 18/MOP 8 delegatesAP summarizes the UN Rio+20 sustainability conference, attended by 100 heads of state and over 50,000 participants from 193 countries:"In the end, this conference was a con...
The future we really want: Survival 2100
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"In a more rational world, political leaders might come together in a special forum to acknowledge the nature and severity of the crisis and to establish the institutional and procedural basis for a worldwide “Survival 2100” project." (So...
Britain’s Paralympic Hopefuls – Shelly Woods
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This week’s post in the series on women Olympians features Shelly Woods. Shelley is one of Britain’s best athletes in the long distance wheelchair category and will be competing this summer in the London 2012 Paralympics. Shelly damaged...
Importance and growth potential: EU Services Directive
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The economic weight and growth potential of the Services Directive merit enhanced attention from businesses, public administrations and citizens in the European Union (indeed the European Economic Area EEA). Improving the Single Market In Better...
