
The EU’s own poverty standards show that Greece is in crisis. But member states won’t admit their ‘bailout’ was to blame European societies typically assume that humanitarian crises only take place in the aftermath of natural disasters, epidemics, wars or civil conflicts.That such a crisis could happen in a European country, especially one that is [...]
Feb 11 2013 | Posted in
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Maria Frank, a 74-year-old woman, who leads an organisation called “Association for the Future of Germany” peacefully gathers signatures calling for a referendum on whether an “Islam in Europe” centre should be built in Munich. She is constantly mobbed by antifa, green and trade union activists, so her placards are hardly visible. Despite that, she [...]
Feb 11 2013 | Posted in
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Spain has decided to offer automatic citizenship to anyone who can successfully prove their Sephardi origins. Spain has decided to offer automatic citizenship to anyone who can successfully prove their Sephardi origins, Justice Minister Alberto Ruiz Gallardón announced during a ceremony last week at Madrid’s Casa Sefarad-Israel. Presiding over the ceremony was Casa Sefarad-Israel director [...]
Feb 9 2013 | Posted in
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Some 200,000 capsules of drugs hidden inside toasties and more than ten kilos of heroin hidden inside 30 Korans were seized on Sunday by Moroccan authorities on board a vehicle preparing to leave the port of Nador for Spain. The drugs were discovered inside the vehicle of a Moroccan mother travelling with her four children. [...]
Jul 21 2012 | Posted in
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel may spend much of her time trying to solve the euro zone crisis, but drug use, protection of animals and interpretations of history are more pressing issues for some of her compatriots. More than 152,000 Germans have voted to make cannabis a legal drug in an online poll conducted as part [...]
Today at 12:56, the European Parliament decided whether ACTA would be ultimately rejected or whether it would drag on into uncertainty. In a crushing 478-to-39 vote, the Parliament decided to reject ACTA once and for all. This means that the deceptive treaty is now dead globally. This is a day of celebration. This is the [...]

Yesterday marked the 508th anniversary of the death of Christopher Columbus. Everybody knows the story of Columbus, right? He was an Italian explorer from Genoa who set sail in 1492 to enrich the Spanish monarchs with gold and spices from the orient. Not quite. For too long, scholars have ignored Columbus’s grand passion: the quest [...]

Due to the large size of the olive trees in the Mediterranean region, many experts have claimed that they are millennia old but “there had never been a scientific study to verify this,” as explained to SINC by the ecologist Bernat Claramunt from the Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF). A team from [...]
May 18 2012 | Posted in
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Judge Chris Hensen, who ordered the Dutch Pirate Party to censor all links to The Pirate Bay recently (something Techdirt calls Censorship Crazy), appears to have quite a bit of dirt in his baggage. This morning, @Kanarieman pointed me to an article of my own from 2010: just under two years ago, another very strange [...]
Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska has died of lung cancer at the age of 88. Ms Szymborska, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996, passed away in her sleep at her home in Krakow. The Nobel Committee said that her award had been “for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological [...]
Feb 2 2012 | Posted in
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