No doubt good yodellers would make wonderful ululators and muezzins.
Swiss Defense Minister Ueli Maurer says there has been an increase in the recruitment of Muslims for militant training camps.
In an interview with the SonntagsZeitung, Maurer said the government was aware of Swiss citizens who went to these training camps, and others who visited Islamic schools. He said that Swiss intelligence has a good overview of Switzerlands jihadis, but refused to give any figures.
A Islamic terror network was set up in Switzerland last year in order bring recruits to countries like Somalia and Yemen, according to the intelligence service.
Maurer said that under current Swiss law it is difficult to prevent Islamists from raising funds.
The intelligence service can only observe and provide analyses. We have at our disposal very little means [to fight Islamic militant activities] since parliament has up to now rejected them, he said.
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The European Commission has apologised for printing more than three million school diaries containing no reference to Easter or Christmas.
The diaries - 330,000 of which were delivered to UK schools - England is well and truly lost.
- note Sikh, Hindu, Muslim and Chinese festivals, as well as highlighting "Europe Day" which falls on May 9. Let us know if you hear of any Christians rioting in the streets burning these diaries.
The Ombudsman dismissed calls for the entire run to be recalled, saying the Commission's apology for the "regrettable" error, coupled with a one-page correction sent out to all schools showing the main public holidays in every EU member state, was sufficient. "In the Ombudsman's view, the actions which the Commission took to rectify the error were reasonable. Accordingly, the Ombudsman closed the case without further inquiries." I hope there's a lump of coal (and steel) in the Ombudsman's stocking this Christmas Ramadan Continued on Page 47
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As someone somewhere else said, make the EU-crats work straight-time on Christmas and Easter, and they'll remember fast enough what these holidays are...
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[Iran Press TV] The European Union is trying to reduce its overall fossil fuel imports by a half by 2050 under a new strategy presented in Moscow on Tuesday. Ummm... That's 39 years. That's the length of time from the turn of the century to the invasion of Poland and the start of the Second World War. 39 years ago platform shoes were just coming in among the trendy set. Gas cost 23.9 cents a gallon unless you ran into a price war, when you might get it for 17.9 cents a gallon or less. I tanked up at 13.9 once...
The strategy for the EU to decrease its greenhouse gas emissions to "a mere 20 percent of 1990 levels" by 2050 is set out by the Road Map to a Carbon Neutral Economy, The Moscow Times reported on Friday. And keep in mind that they're gonna shut down their nuke plants because Europa is so earthquake-prone...
The halving of oil and gas imports would save some 400 billion euros -- about 3 percent of today's GDP -- on its bill for foreign oil and gas, the report claims.
The policy calls for saving 175 billion to 320 billion euros in fuel costs and slashing energy consumption to 70 percent of 2005 levels.
"The EU plans to replace fossil fuel with electricity for transportation and heating," said Alexander Yeremin, an oil and gas analyst.
In a worst-case scenario, Russia could switch from European to Asian oil markets, but fully retain the European market for natural gas thanks to the role it plays in electricity generation, he said.
The presentation comes ahead of a visit to Moscow by Timo Makela, the director of international affairs at the EU environment commission, on May 18-20.
Europe consumes the vast majority of Russia's gas exports and more than half of its oil. Russia supplied 29.7 percent of Europe's crude oil imports (5.86 billion barrels worth some $87 billion) in 2010, according to the EU Energy Commission. It supplied about 30 percent of Europe's gas in 2008.
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"The EU plans to replace fossil fuel with electricity for transportation and heating,
And where will the electricity come from if they shut down the nuke plants? Unicorn farts maybe?
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Googling this roadmap, I came across this wild exageration, which is quite something give that the warmists deal exclusively in exaggerations.
a rescue roadmap outlining methods and preventative policies to reverse the expedited demise of earths atmosphere
It's true a warmer Earth will lose its atmosphere faster, but we are talking about 100s of millions of years in the future.
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# Yea, Ditto. In Norway they want to do away with private vehicles. Tax you whenever you park to shop anywhere. The Biggest Baddest Mistake is the thought that oil is a fossil fuel only;
"Hydrocarbons and nitriles constantly fall from Titan's skies," said Carl Sagan. Titan (the big moon of Saturn) is socked in as a haze of organic solids formed high in its skies slowly fall and accumulate on its surface. Oceans of water are impossible on Titan (it's too cold), but "vast oceans of liquid hydrocarbons are expected."
It's enough to make a Texas oil man drool," exclaimed an article in the "Seattle Times". New images from the Hubble space telescope show that Titan may have lakes of oil as big as all five Great Lakes put together".
In my opinion that is why oil is being found all over the world at this time. In Brazil they have planned to build an underwater city to tap the estimated trillions of barrels of oil to be found there. They think a mass extinction could have occurred in our gulf due to a gigantic methane blowout. We secure methane now from the gulf. Duke energy being one company operating there.
So if methane can be generated then with pressure and heat- oil will be generated. Hence a renewable resource.
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Can we have a power plant fueled by Environmentalists and Greens? We'll scoop them up at protests like they do in Soylent Green and tap into this vast resource for power.
I'd even pay extra if I knew my power came from burning Greens.
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The European Union is trying to reduce its overall fossil fuel imports by a half by 2050 under a new strategy presented in Moscow on Tuesday.
