Customarily unaccustomed...
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Dozens of immigrants from North Africa rioted during the night in a multi-ethnic district of Milan, smashing shop windows and overturning cars to protest at the knifing death of an Egyptian ...Milan’s deputy mayor, Riccardo De Corato, called the area a “Wild West between north African and South American gangs.”
It was the second episode of violence involving immigrants this year, after clashes in southern Italy in January brought about the worst racial violence in the country since World War Two and reignited a long-running debate on immigration.
Foreigners applying to settle here will have to learn about the revered British practice of forming an orderly line for everything from buses to sandwiches.
The art of queuing could be included in the test on aspects of the British way of life which foreign nationals applying for citizenship have to take.
A fireman who saved a pet dog from a frozen pond is now facing disciplinary action for allegedly breaching healthy and safety rules.
...The 42-year-old jumped into a nearby canoe and paddled out to the distressed animal, encouraging it to swim towards a ladder other firemen had laid across the ice.
The European single currency is facing an ‘inevitable break-up’ a leading French bank claimed yesterday.
...If these differences are to be evened out, the EU would need a single budget and common taxes so it can redistribute resources. ... the single currency ‘isn’t working’ because member governments have no incentive to keep their public debts under control.
Spain’s deficit has soared to 11.4 percent of its gross domestic product ...
Public Works Minister Jose Blanco protested “somewhat murky manoeuvres” were behind financial market pressure on Spain.
“None of what is happening in the world, including the editorials of foreign newspapers, is coincidental or innocent,” Blanco said.
I’ve been calling England “Formerly Great Britain” for about a year. Imagine my surprise when I found out today that there’s another great mind that thinks like me:
The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain: Writings 1989-2009
Here’s another Modest Proposal regarding immigration: all immigrants will be on an 18-month probation [time could vary by country - immigrants from Switzerland would be exempt (oddly enough, as far as I know, there are no immigrants from Switzerland)]. Screw up once, and you’re on your way home. I say “home” because 99% of those “immigrants” still think of their old home as “home”. It’s just that “home” doesn’t give out freebies like England &c do.
Posted by ZZMike on 02/15/10 at 08:02 PM
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