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Here's the deal: Daughter in Spain studying her Spanish language major since Jan, will be there until end of May. Her spring break starts 3/26 for two weeks. I am going over, alone, and arrive 3/26 and will stay in her town of San Sebastian for two days. We intend to take the train to Paris and then to Normandy to see the D-Day sites and perhaps stay overnight there before returning to Paris. ANY input into a decent hotel near the DDay sites?? (Checking TripAdvisor later...) Then train to Berlin for several days and finish up with several days...
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A Pennsylvania woman known to authorities as "Jihad Jane" was charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, conspiracy to kill in a foreign country, making false statements to a government official and attempted identity theft. The indictment, unsealed Monday, charges that Colleen R. LaRose, and five unindicted co-conspirators recruited men on the Internet to wage violent jihad in South Asia and Europe, and recruited women on the Internet who had passports and the ability to travel to and around Europe in support of violent jihad.
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Below is the text of Geert Wilders' address today in the House of Lords, where, at the invitation of Baronness Cox and Lord Pearson, both members of United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), he showed his film Fitna. Thank you. It is great to be back in London. And it is great that this time, I got to see more of this wonderful city than just the detention centre at Heathrow Airport...(cont'd @ http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1305/Geert-Wilders-West blog)
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Speculators are unfairly driving up Greece's borrowing costs, charged Prime Minister George Papandreou. He’s seeking U.S. support for having the G-20 take the lead in a crackdown. That follows French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who on Sunday called for a European crackdown. EU officials may meet on credit default swaps next week. Some would fault Greece’s huge deficit, history of poor finances and dodgy data. But as Megan McArdle points out, it’s so much more fun for politicians to blame shadowy speculators
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If he rages naked at his aides it’s because he can do nothing about anything that matters In the old days, I used to wake up to the morning paper, neatly folded on a silver salver and presented by my valet along with the kedgeree and the brace of grilled quail. Now I wake up to an inbox of Internet stories forwarded by readers that cumulatively feel like the front page from some bizarro kingdom cooked up for an unpersuasive dystopian satire. For example, a headline from the Washington Examiner: “Transsexual Cabaret Performer Vomits on Susan Sarandon.” An accident? Or...
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It was supposed to be the moment Europe grew muscles. Last fall, after a decade of work to simplify policymaking and make the European Union more efficient at home and stronger abroad, the last few holdouts signed a 1,000-page document known as the Lisbon Treaty. In November, the E.U.'s first real President and Foreign Minister were chosen. Europhiles dusted off their familiar dream: of a newly emboldened world power stepping up to calm trouble spots, using aid and persuasion where it could, but prepared to send in troops when it had to. Brussels would lead the fight against climate change....
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This is the sort of news that makes me chuckle and wince. The chuckle is because, once again, reality disagrees with the liberal fantasy. In this case, that means that the EU bureaucrats aren't getting the control over industry that they had hoped would result from carbon-credit trading. Thanks to the recession, the big benefits are going to companies who haven't even done anything to cut their carbon output - just like a giant corporate welfare machine, while companies who have grown or been productive are being penalized for it. The wince is because only a government bureaucrat would be...
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Wilders' Freedom Party (PVV) scored a major success. The PVV came in first in Almere (with 21.5 percent of the vote) and second in The Hague (with 16.9 percent). These are two of the country's major cities. Wilders is a breath of fresh air: Wilders defends Dutch sovereignty by, among other things, opposing the EU's centralizing policies. He defends Dutch identity by opposing the Islamization of the Netherlands. He seeks to accomplish this by, among other things, halting Islamic immigration. He also favors deporting immigrants who commit crimes, or who call for jihad or the imposition of Islamic law. Wilders...
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The Dechristianization of Western Europe is obvious from its contemporary way of life. It is obvious from reading any newspaper or watching any television programme in Western Europe. It is obvious from the sight of thousands of former Protestant and Catholic churches all over Western Europe, already converted to secular uses, or else newly up for sale. Little wonder that the political leaders of the ‘European Union’ refused to mention the Christian roots of Western Europe in their recently-written Constitution for that Union, for most of them seem not even to have known that these roots exist.
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serving President Nicolas Sarkozy as his State Secretary for European Affairs, Lellouche follows Sarkozy’s line in defending the French Mistral warship sale to Russia, regardless of its corrosive effects on NATO. Visiting the Baltic States –where serious concerns have been voiced over the possible Mistral sale to Russia– Lellouche insinuated that other NATO countries might sell their warships to Russia, if France does not do so. Claiming that the warship sale would merely “turn the page on the Cold War,” Lellouche invited the Baltic States to follow the Franco-German example and seek reconciliation with Russia, overcoming a difficult history (BNS,...
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