A quote from Corporate Europe Observatory, 9 March 2007

In the list of special [European Commission] advisers, the name of Mr. Etienne Davignon stands out as an another case where conflicts of interest seem very likely to occur. Mr. Davignon advises Development Commissioner Louis Michel on “Africa policy, in particular the role of the private sector in the economic development of sub-sahara Africa” and is also supposed to “mobilise the private sector for development policies”. Etienne Davignon sits on the board of water and electricity giant Suez. According to the Suez website, he holds 11,111 Suez shares, which are currently worth more than 350,000 euro. Suez is active in sub-Saharan Africa and has a clear agenda of promoting the privatisation of public services like electricity, water supply or garbage collection.

A quote from A. Miller at Takimag.com, 7 March 2007 

You will imagine how delighted I was recently when I discovered that I myself have become a member of an ethnic minority, and, better still, have joined the lofty likes of the “aborigine Australian” and the “native American;” yes, I am no longer British, but am rather “Indigenous British.” How did I discover this? By cracking some Davinci Code like puzzle? No, I simply kept hearing this strange phrase, “indigenous British,” on B.B.C radio. It flowed so naturally, and from so many different types of people, but I wondered if I had heard correctly at first. Perhaps they had said “ingenious British.” True, it is an unusual day indeed, when the British are praised by the people of Britain, but still I wondered. To confirm I entered the phrase into the B.B.C. website, and lo and behold, there I was! Indigenous-British-me. My outlook on life has been entirely altered. Naturally, I am sad that I shall not live to see the reservations or casinos that will undoubtedly be granted to our descendants by a future British government, though I am looking forward to the revival of our culture, albeit on a smaller scale.

“I do not believe in the doctrine of a minimalist state. I do not believe in the doctrine of laissez-faire. I do not believe that in France the State should be reduced to a secondary role […] I do not think the nation can continue to exist without a strong State […] If Europe and globalisation are synonymous with dumping and unfair competition for too long and on too big a scale, there will soon be no more Europe […]"

Segolene Royal? No, Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday night.

This is a promotional video trailer from the (state-owned) University of Ghent, Belgium. "Durf denken" means "Dare to think" and "Denk eens wat anders dan wat je denkt" means "Think something else than what you are thinking."

Rumours that Dinesh D'Souza will soon be appointed a professor at Ghent University appear, however, to be unsubstantiated...

A quote from Guy Verhofstadt, the Belgian Prime Minister, in Die Welt, 6 March 2007

The train has to drive on anyway. Should the British Government block the new attempt for agreement on the constitutional treaty, then the European Union must progress without Great Britain. […] The United States of America also did not come about in unison. At the time, only nine of the 13 British crown colonies voted in favour. The rest tailed behind and accepted the agreement later.

Robin Lane Fox teaches ancient history at Oxford University. A couple of months ago he published a very informative and entertaining book, entitled The Classical World (Basic Books, 2006), in which he chronicled the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome, from Homer to the reign of Hadrian. One learns that a new type of ‘enquiry’ (historie) began sometime in the fourth century BC. Unlike writers about the past in Near Eastern societies (including the Hebrew Scriptures), Herodotus wrote in the first person, weighed evidence and expressed his own opinions. He was an ‘eastern’ Greek, born in South West Asia, at Halicarnassus, where Greek and non-Greek cultures coexisted under the wavering control of the Persian Empire.
 

A quote from Joseph Farah at World Net Daily, 27 February 2007

Daniel Fried, assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, said the growing Muslim presence in Europe is “a fascinating issue and one that the American government is just now trying to get its mind around. It’s a huge problem, we are thinking about it seriously, and we’ve tried to do some intellectual framing-up.”

What does he propose? He says Europe is to blame. “You have a weird nativist surge in Western Europe, and a kind of odd panic: Aliens are here, they don’t accept our values, they are a threat to our way of life and turn to radicalism,” says Fried.

So [the] State [Department] is going to bring American Muslims to Europe to meet with their counterparts in an effort to “break down stereotypes” and help them end their “self-isolation.” [...]

A quote from The Daily Telegraph, 2 March 2007

Corby in Northamptonshire has become the first town in the country to be deemed too white for its own good. The Prison Service has decided to transfer one of its offices (and 80 jobs) from the town to nearby Leicester. One of the reasons for the move, according to a leaked letter from the Prison Service's finance director, Ann Beasley, is that this will make it easier for the service to hit its target for employing ethnic-minority workers - or, in New Labour Orwell-speak, to "attract a more diverse workforce". With refreshing candour, Mrs Beasley points out that "93.7 per cent of the population of Corby are white British, compared to 59.6 per cent in Leicester".

A quote from Iftikhar Ahmad at London School of Islamics, 1 March 2007

According to a study, majority of Muslim pupils are underachieving at schools because the curriculum is racist. [...] In state schools, Muslim pupils are placed in situation where they feel pressured into acting contrary to their beliefs and conscience and also experience Islamophobic sentiments and comments within schools.

Bristol council spent £18000.00 researching whether there was a demand for an Islamic school. [...] The silent majority of Muslim parents would like to send their children to state funded Muslim schools.

We have a context defined by justices who are prepared to release anybody willing to leave jail and by a do-good-class. These only see the point of view of the criminal-out-of-conviction and are blind to the pain of the victim. As long as this is the case, the tide of violence directed against society and its majority-sanctioned order, will be on the rise.