Swiss finally acknowledge wartime “heroes”
by Jessica Dacey, swissinfo.ch A chapter of Swiss history has been rewritten, clearing the names of people who helped smuggle refugees into Switzerland during the Second World War. A parliamentary […]
Poles will spend PLN 7.9 bn for New Year’s Eve
Source: Warsaw Time Poles plan to spend around PLN 7.9 billion on the New Year’s Eve celebrations, i.e. nearly PLN 550 per household, a level comparable to last year’s sum, according to a report by KPMG audit, tax and advisory services. Of the amount, PLN 3.3 billion will pertain to […]
Anuj Bidve – An unfortunate loss and lessons to be learned
Anuj Bidve, 23, was shot at point-blank range as he walked with friends near a hotel in Salford in the early hours of Boxing Day. Mr Bidve was with a group of nine Indian students from Lancaster University who were visiting Manchester for a Christmas break. The men and women […]
Architects of EU disasters in charge again
RT: The debt-stricken eurozone is set to enter 2012 in a gloomy mood with Italy’s borrowing costs remaining near the 7 per cent danger zone. The Italian PM has pledged more efforts to revive the ailing economy in his end-of-year speech. Still, there are huge doubts that the new men […]
The Swiss have a vote for it
swissinfo.ch and agencies Direct democracy is as attractive as ever in Switzerland, with 23 nationwide people’s initiatives launched in 2011, a record number. The initiative is a core component of […]
Anne Sinclair’s ‘woman of the year’ award is a repulsive deceit
Of all the achievements of Gallic womanhood in 2011, it would be difficult to beat Christine Lagarde becoming the first female head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Whatever you think about her rightwing economics, the 55-year-old academics’ daughter from Le Havre built her outstandingly successful career alone. She rarely […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Malta Helps L-Istrina 2011
Source / Courtesy: Ahmadiyya Malta Laiq Ahmad Atif, President Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Malta presented a donation of 500 Euro to His Excellency Dr. George Abela, the President of Malta, in […]
Pillar of Germany’s Economic Miracle Founder of Otto Mail Order Chain Dies
Source: Spiegel Germany. DPA In this 2001 photo, Werner Otto stands in front of a Potsdam palace whose restoration he helped to fund. As a young man, Werner Otto dreamt of becoming a novelist. Instead he sold cigarettes and shoes, laying the cornerstone for what would become the world’s largest […]
Measure of Fear
Source: Spiegel Germany. Banks Bunker Hundreds of Billions in Deposits at ECB The Central Bank headquarters in Frankfurt: Last week’s action to flood the financial markets with cash appears to have had little effect. Just before Christmas, the European Central Bank flooded the financial markets with 500 billion euros — […]
France enjoys hottest year since 1900
This year was the hottest in France since the start of the 20th century, Meteo France said on Tuesday, with average national temperatures 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than the norm. […]
1,000 metal thefts every week as growing ‘menace’ blights Britain
Metal theft has reached “epidemic” proportions in Britain with more than 1,000 offences taking place every week, according to official figures obtained by The Daily Telegraph. The number of […]
North Africa may emerge as new ‘theatre of jihad’
Source: TOI on Line LONDON: North Africa could emerge as a new “theatre of jihad” with the handful of remaining top al-Qaida leaders shifting base from Pakistan and Afghanistan to countries like Libya, top British officials have warned. More:
NATO fears resurgent Germany
RT News: Although Germany and Russia have developed into modern democracies with free-market systems, NATO still fears the revival of the former Nazi and Soviet states, says Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. Rogozin, Russia’s former Permanent Representative to NATO, told officers of the Aerospace Forces in the restricted area of […]
The Perfect Heist: Why Government Theft Continues To Go Unnoticed
This week, we doff our caps to the folks at the European Central Bank. They’ve pulled off the perfect heist. The euro-feds have opened the valves…turned on the spigots…and let nearly a half trillion euros worth of liquidity flow directly into the very same banks that have proven they can’t […]
Vatican throws light on history as it opens secret archives
As the confidential correspondence of popes, princes and potentates, the Vatican Secret Archives have been jealously guarded for centuries. But now 100 of the most historically significant documents held by the […]
The Origins of Christmas Customs
Source: http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/Christmas_TheRealStory.htm A. The Origin of Christmas Tree Just as early Christians recruited Roman pagans by associating Christmas with the Saturnalia, so too worshippers of the Asheira cult and its offshoots were recruited by the Church sanctioning “Christmas Trees”.[7] Pagans had long worshipped trees in the forest, or brought them […]
How Did Christmas Come to Be Celebrated on December 25?
Source: http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/Christmas_TheRealStory.htm (a Jewish website) A. Roman pagans first introduced the holiday of Saturnalia, a week long period of lawlessness celebrated between December 17-25. During this period, Roman courts were […]
U.N. passes leaner 2012-2013 budget amid economic turmoil: The beginning of the End
(Reuters) – The U.N. General Assembly on Saturday approved a 5 percent decrease in the United Nations’ budget for 2012-2013 over the previous two-year period, only the second time in 50 years that the world body has slashed its spending. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon praised the 193-nation General Assembly for […]
Email amnesty for some, work slavery for others
Source: Dawn Are you fed up with your Blackberry because it effectively puts you on call for your employer 24/7? Are you a slave to its blinking red light and […]