Europeans have some of the world's best hospitals and have made great strides in fighting problems like obesity and heart disease. But the system is far from perfect. -- Wow really? The Zeropeans on FF keep saying they are better than us dumb Yanks

Amsterdam city council is turning its attention to a pressing problem for one of the city's key business sectors -- banking and credit for prostitutes who can't get accounts from mainstream institutions.

They are lucky a proper response was not ordered. The fucking left violated the constitution, and now they are busy trying to illegaly boycott the country. The Armed forces are doing what they need to do in order to maintain peace and order. But the left is too damn busy accusing the right of being the violent side of the conflict. If I was there, they wouldn't be complaining about the tires only.

As goes the UK, so goes the USA. Just give it a few years.

IF IT'S OK for a couple of hundred men to prance along Oxford St with feather dusters strapped to their backsides during the Mardi Gras, who could be offended by comic Sacha Baron Cohen dressing up like a homosexual fashion designer and camping it up?

We're getting a divorce, for 30 years China saved and the US spent, and now it looks like they're gone. They are calling it "decoupling," but its a divorce.

Don't know if this is true or not, since I don't use these sites, but this article says (in so many words) that MySpace has become a nigger-infested 'digital ghetto'.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters Life!) - Amsterdam city council is turning its attention to a pressing problem for one of the city's key business sectors -- banking and credit for prostitutes who can't get accounts from mainstream institutions.

Farid Noedost, 33, is an Iranian refugee convicted two years ago of drug trafficking and sex offences involving minors. His convictions should have meant his immediate deportation once he was released on parole but on Thursday, Noedost went before an Immigration and Refugee Board of Canuckistan hearing in an effort to prevent being sent away. He told the board he would face execution if he was sent back to Iran. Immigration officials agreed, ruling the danger Noedost faced in being sent back outweighed the risks he poses to the Canuckistanian public.

Europe is likely to suffer a permanent loss in potential economic output as a result of the global crisis, and government finances will be under pressure for years to come, according to a new European Commission study. The report notes that, even before the crisis, the eurozone’s potential economic growth rate was projected to fall from 2.2 per cent in 2007-2020 to 1.5 per cent in 2021-2030 and a meagre 1.3 per cent in 2041-2060. The report says potential economic growth will slump to 0.7 per cent this year and in 2010. “Empirical evidence of the effect of past crises shows...that the economy will not return to its pre-crisis expansion path but will shift to a lower one. In other words, the crisis will entail a permanent loss in the level of potential output.” Wonderful News!!

A new base area for Islamic radicals is developing in Venezuela. There, leftist president Hugo Chavez has not only established close diplomatic relations with Iran (and Cuba, North Korea and radical groups throughout the region), but has allowed Iran to set up operations in South America. Regular commercial flights from Iran to Venezuela (via Syria, to accommodate Hezbollah) carry people, cash and whatever else Iran wants to move. No questions asked, no visas required.

Bitch slap Iran.

PARIS — Brushing aside British and European efforts to seek the release of local British Embassy staff held in Tehran, the Iranian authorities indicated Friday that they planned to put some of them on trial — a move that could deepen crisis in diplomatic relations with the European Union and provoke the withdrawal of ambassadors.

Juice bars, a feature in many Pakistani cities, offer a place for young people to have a drink and chat. But such co-ed gatherings offend Islamic fundamentalists, who see the bars as dens of immorality.

There's a joke about a man who tells a psychiatrist, "Everybody hates me," to which the psychiatrist responds, "That's ridiculous - everyone doesn't know you, yet." Which brings me to Barack Obama: one of the best-informed people in the American security establishment told me the other day that the president is a "Manchurian Candidate". That can't be true - Manchuria isn't in the business of brainwashing prospective presidential candidates any more. There's no one left to betray America to. Obama is creating a strategic void in which no major power will dominate, and every minor power must fend for itself. The outcome is incalculably hard to analyze and terrifying to consider. Obama doesn't want to betray the United States; he only wants to empower America's enemies. Forcing Israel to abandon its strategic buffer (the so-called settlements) was supposed to placate Iran, so that Iran would help America stabilize Iraq, where its influence looms large over the Shi'ite majority. America also sought Iran's help in suppressing the Taliban in Afghanistan. In Obama's imagination, a Sunni Arab coalition - empowered by Washington's turn against Israel - would encircle Iran and dissuade it from acquiring nuclear weapons, while an entirely separate Shi'ite coalition with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would suppress the radical Sunni Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This was the worst-designed scheme concocted by a Western strategist since Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery attacked the bridges at Arnhem in 1944, and it has blown up in Obama's face.

The people of Honduras are pleading for media fairness and understanding of how they saved their democratic system of government from an international conspiracy based in Venezuela and Cuba. In desperate messages to the outside world, Hondurans want America to know they do not want former President Manuel “Mel” Zelaya returned to power through the intervention of the United States and the United Nations. On Tuesday the leftist governments of Barack Obama and Hugo Chavez sponsored a United Nations resolution that condemned the people of Honduras for resisting the spread of communism by evicting a would-be dictator. Many people in Honduras view “Mel” as a puppet of Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, who is destroying the democratic system and the opposition in that country. Looks like president Papa Doc fears a similar fate. Let's make it come true.

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - An interim government set up after a military coup in Honduras said on Thursday it would be open to bringing forward a November general election to resolve a crisis over the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya. Roberto Micheletti, head of the caretaker government, also told reporters it would be possible to hold a national referendum on reinstating Zelaya, although it would be difficult to do so right away. (Reporting by Gustavo Palencia; editing by Todd Eastham) Fuck you Papa Doc!

A marketing blunder in Nigeria has got online communities all of a twitter, after a joint oil and gas venture with Russia was named Nigaz. YOU JUST HAVE TO LAUGH.

Dead muzzies, no matter who killed them are always good for a smile.

ISRAEL’S NAVY yesterday seized a Greek-registered passenger ferry carrying 21 peace activists and humanitarian goods plying international waters 24 nautical miles off the Gaza coast. -- the MSM is trying to spin this as an abduction; in fact I counted 4 instances of "kidnaps" on Google

The latest issue of Details magazine carries this ludicrous headline on the top of the cover: "Can Obama Make You Better In Bed?" Inside is an article suggesting that "from the way we wear our suits to the way we relate to our wives, somehow American men are acting a little more like 44."

Gaza/Tel Aviv - Foreign activists on board an aid ship Tuesday ignored orders by the Israeli Navy to turn around, sparking a stand-off some 40 kilometres off the Gaza coast. [...] The crew on board numbers 21 activists from 11 different countries, including Irish Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire, 65, a fierce pro-Palestinian campaigner, and former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, 54, the unsuccessful 2008 Green Party presidential candidate.

Fatwa from 2003: Soccer is Forbidden Except When Played as Training for Jihad One of the anti-soccer fatwas was published in full in Al-Watan on August 25, 2005. According to other sources it had been issued by Sheikh 'Abdallah Al-Najdi. The fatwa declared that it is only permissible to play soccer when its rules are different than the accepted international rules. This was based on a hadith [Prophetic tradition] which forbids Muslims to imitate Christians and Jews. The fatwa read:

Just days after reestablishing diplomatic ties with Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez is accusing the U.S. of staging a coup in Honduras as President Obama expressed concern over President Manuel Zelaya's arrest.

In swiftly seizing the valley,commanders hope to accomplish within hours what NATO troops had failed to achieve over several years, and by doing so turn the tide of a stale-mated war in time for an Afghan presidential election on August 20.

Semper fi!

The book, The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee. Is about to be released in English, in the USA. A new "Anarchist's Cookbook" it formulates an ethics that takes as its starting point theft, sabotage, the refusal to work, and the elaboration of collective, self-organized forms-of-life.

(IsraelNN.com) In a public address delivered on Al-Aqsa TV by Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, the Damascus-based terror boss informed Arab viewers that U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama came to power in the United States due to Islamic jihad in the Middle East. During the June 25 discourse, Mashaal said Obama's administration, and its interest in achieving détente with the Arab world, did not come about through American altruism. Rather, witnessing the combative efforts of Palestinians, Lebanese, Iraqis and Afghanis led Americans to vote for Obama in order to "protect their own interests."

Sheik Abd Al-Jalil Al-Karouri: As usual, the media focused only on the political aspects of the speech by American President Hussein. They call a man after his father, don’t they? Then why shouldn’t we call him by the name [Hussein], which belongs to us? They stress the surname, rather than the first name. It wouldn’t be a mistake for our media to call him President Hussein.

A new wiretapping law makes prosecutors' jobs much harder – the grateful mafia will certainly express their thanks in votes.

A study ends up showing that it is women who discriminate against women. Needless to say, the stupid researcher then "interpretes" the results so that they line up with her Leftist worldview.

Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, attempts to answer the question

Are we still sure that multiculturalism is good for the West?

This story is from the UK and illustrates the degradation of norms that we all better get used to.

A 13 story building in China falls over killing 1.

A new study, Tax Burden and Individual Rights in the OECD: An International Comparison, ranks the U.S. 12th among 30 OECD countries in its "tax oppression index":

Federal authorities say Lombard, 42, of 24 Indigo Creek Trail, performed sexual acts on his son and invited an undercover investigator online to fly to North Carolina and do the same.

Nice! Sick fuck.

"Honduras is fighting back by strictly following the constitution. The Honduran Congress met in emergency session yesterday and designated its president as the interim executive as stipulated in Honduran law. It also said that presidential elections set for November will go forward. The Supreme Court later said that the military acted on its orders. It also said that when Mr. Zelaya realized that he was going to be prosecuted for his illegal behavior, he agreed to an offer to resign in exchange for safe passage out of the country. Mr. Zelaya denies it."

It seems that President Mel Zelaya miscalculated when he tried to emulate the success of his good friend Hugo in reshaping the Honduran Constitution to his liking.

Sound familiar?

Now it's an a310 sunk 1,800 miles south of Yemen, off the east coast of Africa. At least they're all geared up to collect the pieces.

Hussein Ojugears wants to see how the slaughter of Iranian protesters plays out before making any rash statements but let a functioning democracy legally prevent a Chavez style takeover and he is all over it. Fuck that commie bastard.

President Obama on Monday declared that the United States still considers Manuel Zelaya to be the president of Honduras and assailed the coup that forced him into exile as "not legal," deepening the chasm between the Central American nation and much of the rest of the world