We need to save the Euro by …..removing the last vestige of National sovereignty and becoming one vast political union controlled by technocrats. Or so says Germany….

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has urged a move towards a political union in Europe as he was given an award for his efforts to steer the continent through its debt crisis. The crisis must be used as a chance to strengthen Europe, including through a directly elected president of the EU’s top executive body, the European Commission, to give the bloc a face and more political weight,

The answer is always MORE Europe, even as it hits over the cliff…

Enjoy. 

White births in the United States are no longer in the majority, according to new data from the US Census Bureau, as a rising Hispanic population contributes to an historic demographic shift.

The United States of Mexico? Still, better not enforce borders….

An ominous landmark:

White births in the United States are no longer in the majority, according to new data from the US Census Bureau, as a rising Hispanic population contributes to an historic demographic shift.

Minority races – Hispanics, blacks and Asians and other mixed races – accounted for 50.4 per cent of births over the year to July, accounting for a majority for the first time in US history.

The foul Ted Kennedy would have been so proud.

UPDATE: I see DV has posted on this immediately above, so comments there please.

Re$earchers at Oxford University say that everyone over the age of 50 should be taking statins, and that everyone over the age of 50 should be prescribed statins.

If I were a conspiracy theorist, I’d wonder if this was the latest attempt at population control. No-one should take statins unless they want diabetes, dementia, brain degeneration, memory loss, liver failure, nerve damage, kidney failure, muscle weakness beside many other things.

These quacks are still peddling the hoax that cholesterol and high fat diets are bad for us and lead to heart disease when the opposite is in fact true. We need cholesterol. Our bodies make it. We’re made of it and cannot function when cholesterol levels fall too low. It’s the same hoax which has obesity, diabetes and heart disease increasing as more people are duped into following the state-approved diet. If you want to live longer and stay healthy, for goodness sake keep away from government and the medical establishment.

If you want to make sense of it all and take some good advice, I’d recommend this interview with Gary Taubes.

As the Eurozone lurches deeper and deeper into crisis, this is an interesting poll…

PUBLIC support for Britain remaining in the European Union has slumped to an all-time low. More than half of voters (54 per cent) think we should quit, while barely a third (34 per cent) want to stay in.   Each month YouGov quizzes 1,000 voters for the British Election Study.

So, if more than half of us want OUT, how about a referendum right now, Mr Cameron? Might it be that you are scared of what we will say once given the chance? The EU is going to collapse, so why stay IN when we can get OUT?

So, what sort of mother takes her son along to the local terrorists to be shot?  This one does -- here in the sunny uplands of peace process land!

Majella O’Donnell described how she brought her son to be shot by the terror group. She said: “I had to let him go. If I had not, the consequences would have been worse. It was hard, but it had to be done.”

Strange logic. And where are the Police?

Amid growing concerns over the actions of the group, Chief Superintendent Stephen Martin said he was “disappointed” with the police success rate against RAAD and that community help would “enhance our chances of getting RAAD before the courts”. His comments come as a number of mothers told this paper how their lives have been devastated by the actions of RAAD.

The truth is that “the community” favours using paramilitary justice, always has and it seems it always will. The PSNI are an irrelevance in certain areas.

Here’s the link to my appearance on NOLAN TV last night. I’m on first for the first 15mins….as I was saying to Kerry Katona, that there Jon Gaunt is a card….

I set the Blackberry for 415am, which is not so good. But you need to do that if you’re going to make the 5am shuttle to the airport.

These insurance conferences are hardly the Roman Orgy that some think they are.

Yesterday, it was a couple of speeches by our host, a breakout session for my product line, along with my major competitors, and a keynote speech by Ken Schmidt, a brand visionary. He played a major role in the revival of Harley-Davidson.

A couple of decades ago, Harley was on the ropes. The Japanese were outselling them in the US and worldwide.

After ” repositioning the brand “, Harley now outsells Honda 12 to 1 ( not a typo ) in high end bikes in the US, and by a similar margin in Japan. For products made in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Missouri, not China. The bloggers may say that you can’t make stuff in America anymore, but someone forgot to tell Harley-Davidson.

So, I went through security at Miami Airport at 545am. They scanned my stuff, I went through a machine that blew air to test for explosives, since that’s what you need to do. I thanked the TSA guy for doing his job, and I didn’t witness anyone being molested.

Before I went through security, I saw a very long line of sad looking people. Everyone’s luggage was wrapped in plastic, and boy they had a lot of it. I asked a middle age guy what the line was for, and he gave a one word answer – ” Cuba “. I said ” Good Luck “, and he nodded back, a complete conversation in one gesture.

There is a lot more traffic between the US and Cuba than many think. There are at least six flights a day from Miami and Havana, including ones run by United and American Airlines.

Back in the day, when my aunts and uncles used to return to and from visits to Ireland, it was a joyous occasion in the going and in the coming back, always.

The Cubans and Cuban Americans that I saw very early this morning were not joyous. Their families have been ripped apart for fifty years by an unwise embargo, and by a revolution that delivered poverty and repression when they promised something very different.

Their families are much poorer than my Irish relatives ever were. Visitors to Cuba – the real Cuba, not the tourist apartheid places in Havana and the beach resorts – are requested to bring toilet paper, aspirin, a thousand items that aren’t plentiful or that the the average person cannot afford.

That guy is back in Cuba now. God bless you, brother. You and yours deserve so much better.

The Home Secretary was heckled by police trade unionists this afternoon. For once I’m on the side of the politician. For decades now the police have been against us, the British people, who are looted to make them the best paid of state agents. For decades they’ve been happy to enforce the merciless dictates of the politially correct state on us, hide behind bushes with radar guns to catch an unsuspecting motorist straying over the speed limit, arrest Christians for handing out Christian literature, arrest homeowners for defending themselves and their families against invaders and even arrest someone for calling a police horse “gay”.

They’ve been happy to disappear off of our streets and into police cars and helicopters, all the better to arrive somewhere after a crime has been committed. They’ve been happy to retreat from civil society and become a strange, distant force which reappears occasionally as paramilitaries during a London protest. What they’ve long ceased to be are British police officers, of British society and both accountable and subservient to us.

When millions of Londoners prayed for help last August as the city burned in dozens of locations, they were abandoned. As homes, business and cars were torched the police stayed hidden and kept their own fat arses safe. This is what we get for decades of government hosing the police down with more and more of our money.

So screw them. Screw every last, fat, doughnut-munching, tax-feeding one of them. Screw them and their salaries and their pensions and all the other perks they get only by the sweat of the productive class. If the police were disbanded tonight most of us wouldn’t notice, except that our tax monkey would be a little less heavy. The country’s bust, the economy’s knackered, the good times are over, and they can’t accept modest changes to the most generous of terms, demanding that we’re looted as heavily as ever. Well screw the lot of’em.

This is Hysterical

Romney Leads Obama in Latest Poll: How Bad Is It?

Posted by John Cassidy

In my neck of artisanal, hormone-free Brooklyn, the latest CBS News/New York Times poll, which shows Mitt Scissorhands leading “The First Gay President” by three points, landed with a nasty thud. “I can’t believe he might lose,” my wife said when she spotted the offending numbers on the Web. “People are really willing to vote for Mitt Romney? They hate Obama so much they’d vote for Romney?”

Evidently so—not that you’d know it from a casual read of the print edition of today’s Times. The editors buried the lead in the fifteenth paragraph of a down-page storyon A17.

To add insult to injury, the poll suggested the public is skeptical of Obama’s conversion to the cause of legalizing gay marriage. (This was the finding that the Times devoted most of its page A17 story to.) Sixty-seven per cent of respondents said they thought the President changed tack mostly for political reasons, and just sixteen per cent said his announcement would make them more likely to vote for him.

Put it all together like that and it’s enough to spoil the breakfast of anybody, myself included, who fears what another four years of Republican rule would do to this country.
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