The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman
Central bank official Thilo Sarrazin, already under fire in Germany for using shock talk about the country's Muslim immigrants, has sparked a new uproar by saying that "all Jews share a common gene." German central bank executive Thilo Sarrazin has stirred fresh controversy over the weekend with discriminatory remarks concerning religious minorities. "All Jews share a particular gene," Sarrazin said in an interview published on Sunday, August 29. "That makes them different from other peoples." Sarrazin, who is currently promoting his book "Deutschland schafft sich ab" ("Germany does away with itself"), remained undeterred in expressing his views despite criticism and calls for his resignation from the board of the Bundesbank.
German central bank executive Thilo Sarrazin has stirred fresh controversy over the weekend with discriminatory remarks concerning religious minorities.
"All Jews share a particular gene," Sarrazin said in an interview published on Sunday, August 29. "That makes them different from other peoples."
Sarrazin, who is currently promoting his book "Deutschland schafft sich ab" ("Germany does away with itself"), remained undeterred in expressing his views despite criticism and calls for his resignation from the board of the Bundesbank.
Sarrasin (plante) - Wikipédia
Le sarrasin (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench) est une plante à fleurs annuelle de la famille des Polygonacées cultivée pour ses graines consommées en alimentation humaine et animale.
or in English buckweath. :-)
John of Damascus, in a polemical work typical of this attitude described the Saracens in the early 8th century thus: - There is also the people-deceiving cult (threskeia) of the Ishmaelites, the forerunner of the Antichrist, which prevails until now. It derives from Ishmael, who was born to Abraham from Hagar, wherefore they are called Hagarenes and Ishmaelites. And they call them Saracens, inasmuch as they were sent away empty-handed by Sarah (ek tes Sarras kenous); for it was said to the angel by Hagar: "Sarah has sent me away empty-handed" (cf. Book of Genesis xxi. 10, 14).
Sarah, of course, being Abraham's missus, who probably was the first to mistreat a maid (Hagar). Although, since Abraham was 10 generations down from the Ark Builder (and 20 only from Adam) one assumes that attitudes to servants may have strayed much earlier and made it into the smuttier pages of the Enoch Tribune - which unfortunately collapsed when it put up a paywall prior to the Flood.
The Flood of course would have destroyed all copies of the Enoch Tribune for all time, so we are unable to read what people of the time thought about celebrity of biblical proportions.
What is the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, if not a photo-op? You can't be me, I'm taken
The Online Etymology Dictionary says this is not certain and quotes Sarah.
Thilo Sarrazin is a descendant of a Huguenot family - refugee immigrants three centuries ago.
Ironies abound.
The increasingly bitter "battle of the Milibands" reaches new heights today as younger brother Ed dramatically ditches New Labour and calls for an end to the party's drift towards "brutish" and "unjust" US-style capitalism.As the two brothers enter the final lap of the Labour leadership race, David Miliband, by contrast, declares New Labour to be "living and breathing in every community" as he announces himself "ready to lead" its renewal.All five candidates will step up campaigning this week as ballot papers are sent out to some 200,000 Labour supporters. The winner will be announced on 25 September, the day before Labour's annual conference in Manchester.Writing in today's Observer, Ed Miliband raises the stakes as he positions himself firmly to the left of his elder brother, who is more closely associated with the Tony Blair era. Drawing a deliberate distinction with the joint architect of New Labour, Peter Mandelson, who once said he was "supremely relaxed about people getting filthy rich", the former energy and climate change secretary also promises an assault on pay inequality that will consign such views to history.
The increasingly bitter "battle of the Milibands" reaches new heights today as younger brother Ed dramatically ditches New Labour and calls for an end to the party's drift towards "brutish" and "unjust" US-style capitalism.
As the two brothers enter the final lap of the Labour leadership race, David Miliband, by contrast, declares New Labour to be "living and breathing in every community" as he announces himself "ready to lead" its renewal.
All five candidates will step up campaigning this week as ballot papers are sent out to some 200,000 Labour supporters. The winner will be announced on 25 September, the day before Labour's annual conference in Manchester.
Writing in today's Observer, Ed Miliband raises the stakes as he positions himself firmly to the left of his elder brother, who is more closely associated with the Tony Blair era. Drawing a deliberate distinction with the joint architect of New Labour, Peter Mandelson, who once said he was "supremely relaxed about people getting filthy rich", the former energy and climate change secretary also promises an assault on pay inequality that will consign such views to history.
... calls for an end to the party's drift towards "brutish" and "unjust" US-style capitalism canabalism.
Work, work, work ... that's all I do around here. In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
The former head of the Catholic Church in Belgium tried to stop a victim of sex abuse from going public with their story, Church officials have confirmed. During a meeting in April, Cardinal Godfried Danneels advised the victim to delay a public statement until the bishop who abused him had retired. Bishop Roger Vangheluwe, who was also at the meeting, admitted to the abuse in April and resigned. The victim recorded the meeting, and released the tape to Belgian media.
The former head of the Catholic Church in Belgium tried to stop a victim of sex abuse from going public with their story, Church officials have confirmed.
During a meeting in April, Cardinal Godfried Danneels advised the victim to delay a public statement until the bishop who abused him had retired.
Bishop Roger Vangheluwe, who was also at the meeting, admitted to the abuse in April and resigned.
The victim recorded the meeting, and released the tape to Belgian media.
Following on from the bishop of lyon taking the high moral path over the roma, it's a stark reminder that most of the catholic church is still mired in filth keep to the Fen Causeway
The extent of austerity measures facing Britain is laid bare today as the Treasury chief secretary reveals there will be no cut in the overall burden of taxation for at least five years.The message from Danny Alexander, the Liberal Democrat in charge of slashing the record £155bn deficit, will alarm Tory MPs and others who hoped that the government's programme of savage spending cuts would create room for tax reductions before the next election.But speaking to the Observer in his first national newspaper interview since entering the Treasury, Alexander makes clear that total tax revenue will have to remain at least at current levels throughout the parliament to put the nation's finances back in order."I think the tax burden is necessary as a significant contribution to getting the country's finances in order," he says. "So it will have to stay at that level for quite some time."
The extent of austerity measures facing Britain is laid bare today as the Treasury chief secretary reveals there will be no cut in the overall burden of taxation for at least five years.
The message from Danny Alexander, the Liberal Democrat in charge of slashing the record £155bn deficit, will alarm Tory MPs and others who hoped that the government's programme of savage spending cuts would create room for tax reductions before the next election.
But speaking to the Observer in his first national newspaper interview since entering the Treasury, Alexander makes clear that total tax revenue will have to remain at least at current levels throughout the parliament to put the nation's finances back in order.
"I think the tax burden is necessary as a significant contribution to getting the country's finances in order," he says. "So it will have to stay at that level for quite some time."
The culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has warned the BBC that it faces making deeper cuts and refused to rule out a reduction the licence fee.Hunt, speaking in an interview at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, likened the BBC's situation to that facing government departments, which he said are being forced to make cuts upward of 25%. "The BBC has to live on the same planet as everyone else," he said.He was then asked if he considered the BBC to be a government department. "I wouldn't describe it as a government department. It is an arm's length body, a public body," he replied.Hunt reiterated his desire to see the corporation subjected to greater scrutiny, from financial transparency to putting "red lines" around its activities to protect commercial competitors, and indicated that next year's negotiations for the next licence fee settlement would be tough.
The culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has warned the BBC that it faces making deeper cuts and refused to rule out a reduction the licence fee.
Hunt, speaking in an interview at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, likened the BBC's situation to that facing government departments, which he said are being forced to make cuts upward of 25%. "The BBC has to live on the same planet as everyone else," he said.
He was then asked if he considered the BBC to be a government department. "I wouldn't describe it as a government department. It is an arm's length body, a public body," he replied.
Hunt reiterated his desire to see the corporation subjected to greater scrutiny, from financial transparency to putting "red lines" around its activities to protect commercial competitors, and indicated that next year's negotiations for the next licence fee settlement would be tough.
And after that election night toadying too.
A NEW Tory MP tried to help a former Conservative colleague who sells giant penis statues get £30,000 in Government aid. Stockton South MP James Wharton is facing criticism after he wrote to jobs quango One North East asking them to speed up a grant to Trocabart, a company run by his former Conservative party pal Jason Hadlow. The newly elected MP asked spending chiefs to hand over £30,000 as "a priority" to his mate whose other company Simply Dutch was at the centre of a media storm earlier this year when police seized a four-foot tall sandstone statue of a penis following indecency complaints.
A NEW Tory MP tried to help a former Conservative colleague who sells giant penis statues get £30,000 in Government aid.
Stockton South MP James Wharton is facing criticism after he wrote to jobs quango One North East asking them to speed up a grant to Trocabart, a company run by his former Conservative party pal Jason Hadlow.
The newly elected MP asked spending chiefs to hand over £30,000 as "a priority" to his mate whose other company Simply Dutch was at the centre of a media storm earlier this year when police seized a four-foot tall sandstone statue of a penis following indecency complaints.
MOSCOW -- Russian news agencies say scores of skinheads have attacked about 3,000 people at a rock concert in central Russia, beating them with clubs. TV news channel Rossiya-24 cited witnesses as saying a 14-year-old girl was killed and possibly dozens of people wounded on Sunday evening Miass city, 900 miles (1,400 kilometers) east of Moscow. The motive for the attack was not known, and authorities couldn't be reached for comment.
MOSCOW -- Russian news agencies say scores of skinheads have attacked about 3,000 people at a rock concert in central Russia, beating them with clubs.
TV news channel Rossiya-24 cited witnesses as saying a 14-year-old girl was killed and possibly dozens of people wounded on Sunday evening Miass city, 900 miles (1,400 kilometers) east of Moscow.
The motive for the attack was not known, and authorities couldn't be reached for comment.
Chancellor Angela Merkel weighed in on Germany's ongoing nuclear energy debate. She said the country needs to run its nuclear energy plants for at least 10 more years to keep energy costs down and ensure demand is met. German Chancellor Angela Merkel foresees keeping Germany's nuclear power plants running for at least another decade past their current phase out date. In 2002, the then-ruling SPD-Greens coalition passed a law that said all of Germany's nuclear power plants were due to go off line by 2022. But Merkel, coming off a recent tour of energy facilities around Germany, said in an interview with public broadcaster ARD that "on technical grounds, [an additional] 10 to 15 years is reasonable."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel foresees keeping Germany's nuclear power plants running for at least another decade past their current phase out date. In 2002, the then-ruling SPD-Greens coalition passed a law that said all of Germany's nuclear power plants were due to go off line by 2022.
But Merkel, coming off a recent tour of energy facilities around Germany, said in an interview with public broadcaster ARD that "on technical grounds, [an additional] 10 to 15 years is reasonable."
