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Immigration in France: Calculating the Real Figures

From the desk of Tiberge on Mon, 2009-08-10 10:54

It's good to be an economist and to know how to count. While we sit around wondering how many non-European immigrants there are in France, economist Gérard Pince has figured it out in an easy-as-one-two-three procedure that he shares with us in a post dated July 30. His opening paragraphs describes how invalid the official figures are; he then moves on to his own method:

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Fifty Years of Basque Terrorism

From the desk of Soeren Kern on Mon, 2009-08-10 10:09

The Spanish government has accused the Basque terrorist group ETA of responsibility for back-to-back bombings last week that killed two people and injured more than 50 others. The bloody attacks came as ETA – short for Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, or Basque Fatherland and Freedom – marked the 50th anniversary of its founding. Analysts say ETA, which has been considerably weakened in recent years by aggressive counterterrorist police sweeps in Spain and France, hopes the bombings will not only boost sinking morale among its followers, but also force the Spanish government back to the negotiating table.

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Duly Noted: Criminality and Its Excuses

From the desk of George Handlery on Mon, 2009-08-10 09:38

George Handlery about the week that was. Shove trouble into the future beyond the legislative term.  Aid: invest, not consume. Criminality and its excuses. Demanding equal treatment for co-religionists is not PC.. How come Islamist killings are executions and hitting back is an assassination? The Dictator‘s Tantrum: more oil than decency.

1. Let me share with you an intelligent commentary. It reacts to the policies designed to overcome the present‘s economic vicissitudes. It also deals with solutions that shove today‘s troubles into that future that begins beyond the term of current legislatures. (For the sake of readability, the original is shortened.) „The glorified progressive economic policies are to expropriate ever-increasing parts of higher incomes and to employ the funds so raised for financing public waste and to subsidize the most powerful pressure groups. Some fail to realize that, ultimately, the funds for public spending must be taken from the same people who are supposed to profit from them.“ Have you digested this commentary? Fine. Now swallow again. Your appreciation of the point is about to grow. The up-to-dateness of the quote is an invention. The text is lifted from Ludwig von Mises. You find the original in his chapter 4 -The Keynesian Miracle. Some old  insights are of lasting validity. This can be so because some old mistakes are being repeated. It is done by those who make us ignore the past in order to be enabled to determine our present.
 

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