Greece’s efforts to shed its reputation as an unsafe haven for refugees suffered a major blow with the news that Norway has suspended the return of asylum-seekers to Greece on the grounds that their rights may be violated.
Based on the European Union’s Dublin II Regulation (EC 343/2003, which excludes EU member Denmark but includes Iceland [...]
Entries from February 2008
Greece under fire for refugee policies
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Tags: Immigration
Poor Whites Struggle in Zimbabwe
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An elderly white man sits behind the steering wheel of an old van with “National Railways Zimbabwe” emblazoned on its doors. As he and the group of black men with him disembark from the van, people start pointing and passing comments about him.
Slightly unkempt, with a rough beard and a stooping back, the old man [...]
Tags: Rights
Protest as 104-year-old singer who performed for Hitler takes Dutch stage
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AMERSFOORT, Netherlands-Several dozen protesters gathered outside a theater in the Netherlands Saturday where a singer who once performed for Adolf Hitler was due to take the stage in his native country for the first time in four decades.
Johannes Heesters, 104, has been a popular figure in German-language cabaret since the 1930s, earning him the epithet [...]
Tags: History
Mysteries of Computer From 65BC Are Solved
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A 2,000-year-old mechanical computer salvaged from a Roman shipwreck has astounded scientists who have finally unravelled the secrets of how the sophisticated device works.
The machine was lost among cargo in 65BC when the ship carrying it sank in 42m of water off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera. By chance, in 1900, a [...]
Tags: Rights
Oregon Whites Win Discrimination Suit
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Two former employees of the Oregon State Department of Corrections have been awarded a total of $1 million in a discrimination lawsuit that alleged antiwhite racism by a black supervisor against the pair.
A jury found that Russell Rice and Larry Lytle, both white, had faced racial discrimination and retribution for whistleblowing when they alleged that [...]
Tags: Double Standards
Danish youths set fires, attack police in 5th night of violence
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Rioting youths set fire to cars and trash bins and hurled rocks at police overnight as a spate of vandalism continued in Copenhagen and other Danish cities.
Nine youths were arrested in the capital after a fifth consecutive night of unrest, mostly in immigrant neighborhoods. Six of them would likely be charged with violence for throwing [...]
Tags: Immigration
Unless you are Jewish, you are nobody in Hollywood
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What Happens to Your Body Within an Hour of Drinking a Coke
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Do you want to be healthy? Drinking soda is bad for your health in so many ways; science can’t even state all the consequences. Here’s what happens in your body when you assault it with a Coke:
Within the first 10 minutes, 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. This is 100 percent of your recommended [...]
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