Geert Wilders Falls Out with Jewish Backers
Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger has clashed with Dutch Freedom Party leader, Geert Wilders, over his party’s support for a ban on ritual animal slaughter. The ban is largely directed at Muslims who practice the halal method which commands that all followers of that faith only consume meat that has come from an animal killed by having it’s throat ritually cut and then left to bleed to death while still fully conscious. This practice, however, is…
Paralympians: Showing the Way
Despite often heartbreaking physical and mental impairment, paralypic athletes from across the world are demonstrating clearly in London 2012 that almost any adversity can be overcome, providing we have the will and determination to achieve great things. Too often these days, we peoples of the West allow ourselves to be discouraged, deterred and demotivated by the feeble leadership of establishment politicians. All too often we are induced into accepting second rank for our nations on…
Financial Crisis: The Printing Presses Set to Roll Again
As the worldwide credit crisis continues, the annual symposium of international central bankers, held annually in late August at Jackson Hole in the Rockies, seems set to signal another round of quantitative easing, i.e. the printing of banknotes that are then used to repay part of the national debt of the individual nations concerned, and thereby stave off financial collapse. Public faith in central banks as guarantors of macro-economic stability has been massively shaken by…
Zeus Expels 6,000 Illegal Immigrants from Greece
Around 6,000 illegal immigrants have been expelled from Greece so far this month during a police program named “Operation Xenios Zeus.” This follows the election of 18 members of Golden Dawn to the Greek Parliament in June on a platform of “Greece for Greeks”. The 30-year-old party has suddenly become widely popular as their message of patriotism has struck a chord in a nation reeling from the squeeze of the economic recession brought about by the…
Le Pen women make France’s far-right family a dynasty
Long at the heart of France’s far right, the Le Pen family is emerging as a dynasty after National Front founder Jean-Marie’s daughter and granddaughter both racked up strong poll results. Seen for years as a bastion of anti-Muslim extremism, the National Front has been getting a makeover from two telegenic blondes: Marine Le Pen, who took over leadership of the party from her father last year, and her niece Marion Marechal-Le Pen, a 22-year-old…