Damning evidence: The Pope and the sex scandal
Abuse Scandal in Germany Edges Closer to Pope — A widening child sexual abuse inquiry in Europe has landed at the doorstep of Pope Benedict XVI, as a senior church official acknowledged Friday that a...
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Citroen pokes more fun at Sarko’s height
Being a head of state while you’re only 5’5″ must be tough, even when your wife is 5’10″: People joke about your stoop: And use your height in car ads: German ad pokes fun at Sarkozy’s height: Car...
View ArticleHow to aggravate the Germans
…and make things worse: Geithner Plans to Press Germany on European Rescue Parliament in Berlin Approves Country’s Share of Massive Bailout Fund; U.S. Treasury Secretary to Meet With Schäuble Treasury...
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Germany: Obama, before and after
Before: They loved him, they really loved him, back in July 2008, Berlin, 2008: Berlin police estimated more than 200,000 people attended the speech. That is almost three times the size of the largest...
View ArticleThe end result of the welfare state
I was going to write about the French riots, the British spending cuts and layoffs, and the German budget but Monty at Ace’s did it better than anything I can come up with: This is our future This is...
View ArticleDoes this sound like a man with Alzheimer’s?
President Ronald Reagan – June 12, 1987 General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this...
View ArticleNigel Farage goes to it
While the Crisis Ensnares [the European] Central Bank in Desperate Bid to Save Euro, the man who said, “If the EU ever had any intention to democratize itself it would have done so in the...
View ArticleCuba: Fidel and the Nazis
Fidel Castro ‘recruited Nazi SS members to train troops during Cuban missile crisis’ Fidel Castro recruited former members of the Nazi SS Waffen to train his troops at the height of the Cuban missile...
View Article“72 is the new 30″? Only if you compare to cavemen
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany found that Those primitive hunter gatherers, at age 30, had the same odds of dying as a modern Swedish or Japanese...
View ArticleParaguay: Nueva Germania, and Nietzsche’s sister
What did Nietzsche’s sister do in Paraguay? Simon Romero reports,
View ArticleEichmann’s true nature: 2 reviews of “Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The...
Bettina Stangneth shows that Adolf Eichmann acted out of genocidal anti-Semitism, and challenges Hannah Arendt’s claim that he was “terribly and terrifyingly normal.” Gerald Steinacher at the WSJ:...
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How a German trial relates to the #Nisman case
Roya Hakakian explains Germany’s commitment to justice: Iran’s Assassins in Berlin The determination of the prosecutor, the press, and the Iranian exile community made all the difference in Germany,...
View ArticleWhich LatAm countries are at the G-20?
Three: Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. Here’s the class of 2017 picture, Argentina’s Mauricio Macri (#6), Mexico’s Enrique Peña Nieto (#4) and Brazil’s Michel Temer (#11) are in attendance.
View ArticleDe Blasio rushes off to G-20
De Blasio, a former sandalista Sandinista supporter who honeymooned in communist Cuba, may have to travel across the Atlantic to Show Attitude, but you can’t expect him to show spine anywhere Read my...
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