Germany has found that it has 1.5 million fewer people than was generally assumed, following the first census since reunification in 1990. The new data revealed a population of 80.2 million, the federal statistics office Destatis said. The census in the EU’s most populous country was carried out on 9 May, 2011. Until now, the [...]
There has been a sixth night of rioting in Sweden’s capital, Stockholm, despite police reinforcements being deployed. Cars were set alight in poor suburbs inhabited largely by immigrants, although the unrest was reportedly not as serious as on previous nights. The rioting also spread outside the capital for the first time on Friday, with youths [...]
Smart Growth is a term of art. In the words of Wikipedia(tm), Smart Growth: is an urban planning and transportation theory that concentrates growth in compact walkable urban centers to avoid sprawl. It also advocates compact, transit-oriented, walkable, bicycle-friendly land use, including neighborhood schools, complete streets, andmixed-use development with a range of housing choices. The term ‘smart growth’ is particularly used in North America. In Europe [...]
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Tagged california, Doncaster rail line, Hong Kong, infrastructure, Manhattan, power outages, public transport, Sayers Road, Smart growth, water shortages, Western Melbourne
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February 20, 2013 – 7:46 pm
Anjem Choudary was secretly filmed mocking non-Muslims for working in 9-5 jobs their whole lives, and told followers that some revered Islamic figures had only ever worked one or two days a year. “The rest of the year they were busy with jihad [holy war] and things like that,” he said. “People will say, ‘Ah, [...]
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Tagged anjem choudary, Department for Work and Pensions, DWP, jihad seekers allowance, job seekers allowance, JSA
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February 19, 2013 – 9:15 am
In a his excellent The World Is Not Enough blog, Charles Richardson comments on an essay by Israeli journalist Yossi Gurvitz. Gurvitz’s essay applies the analogy of Germans expelled from the Sudetenland, Silesia, Prussia etc after 1945 to the Palestinians expelled from Israel in 1947-48. As Charles notes, it is a revealing analogy. But revealing not [...]
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Tagged Algerian Civil War, Arab Spring, Arab-Israeli conflict, Armenian Genocide, Auschwitz, Charles Richardson, Christian exodus, debt bondage, EU, Fascism, Greece, Haj Amin al Husseini, Hamidian massacres, Israel, Israeli Defence Force, Israeli Labour movement, Lebanese Civil War, Leninism, Likud, Nazism, population exchange, refugees, scapegoat, Shin Bet, Sudanese Civil Wars, Syrian civil war, the holocaust, Turkey, Yossi Gurvitz
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February 7, 2013 – 9:30 am
Uberblogger Matt Yglesias recently posted on why an open borders policy for the US–possibly using an auction system to regulate the rate of flow–is a reasonable option, basing his claim on comparative population densities and history: But the United States ran an open borders regime throughout the 19th century and we weren’t worse off for [...]
By Lorenzo
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, club good, jihadi, John Howard, Know nothings, nativism, pauline hanson, Robert Fogel, US republican party
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October 13, 2012 – 10:00 am
The European Union has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for six decades of work in advancing peace in Europe. The committee said the EU had helped to transform Europe “from a continent of war to a continent of peace”. The award comes as the EU faces the biggest crisis of its history, with recession [...]
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Tagged 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, der norske nobelkomite, European Union, nobel peace prize, norwegian nobel committee, peace and reconciliation, thorbjoern jagland
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October 10, 2012 – 3:18 pm
Radio personality Alan Jones has been in trouble again, this time because he made some insensitive comments about the recent death of the father of Prime Minister Julia Gillard at the Sydney University’s Liberal Club President’s Dinner. Jones suggested Gillard’s father ‘died of shame’ as a result of the lies his daughter had told the [...]
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Tagged Alan Jones, Australian Labor Party, Australian Liberal Party, Australian politics, chaff bags, Cronulla riots, Feminism, Julia Gillard, misogyny, Peter Slipper, sexism, The Left, The Right, Tony Abbott
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September 26, 2012 – 9:00 am
So, Tim Worstall has invoked joined the long list recurring fascination of Anglosphere progressivists of various stripes who want to with adapting the Nordic model to Anglo societies (in his case, the US). It is a very bad idea. A recent report (pdf) by Swedish-Kurdish economist Nima Sanandaji, whose Tino brother runs the excellent — and very empirical – Super-Economy blog, [...]
September 25, 2012 – 4:00 am
About 200 Muslims have staged a protest outside the Scottish Parliament. The group were demonstrating against the anti-Islam film, Innocence Of Muslims, made in the US, which has caused offence across the Muslim world. The rally was attended by Muslims from across Edinburgh who were demanding action to curb religious hatred. Demonstrators waved banners [...]
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