Banned: A woman wears a burka in Brussels, but she could be jailed if a new law is brought in later this year Belgium became the first European country to impose a full ban on wearing a burka last night. Its parliament approved a draft law which states women can be jailed for hiding their faces in public. The bill – which must be rubber-stamped by the Belgian senate – is set to become law... 

Another Terrorist Attack Strikes Russia A suicide bomber detonated an explosive device in a car near a police station in Russia’s southern Dagestan region, killing two officers. The bomber blew up in a hijacked Lada Priora car upon entry into Dagestan’s Kazbek region, the Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor General’s Office said on its website today. Five police officers and 12 civilians... 

Islamic message: Tohseef Shah's graffiti 'Islam will dominate the world' was not religiously motivated, according to the Crown Prosecution Service A British Muslim has shown ‘no remorse’ after desecrating a town’s war memorial with extremist Islamic slogans, a court has heard. But the Crown Prosecution Service has decided that graffiti proclaiming future world domination... 

“Roma” from Romania The website of the Daily Telegraph has been hit by hackers who defaced it with a screenshot from ‘Romanian National Security’. Chris Boyd, malware researcher at Sunbelt Software, said that vulnerabilities were found on the site back in March involving database access, and this has led to a ‘hacking group’ going in and defacing two subdomains. These were... 

Investors are abandoning the euro at a rate not seen since the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. as Europe’s worsening fiscal crisis threatens to splinter the 16-nation currency union. Pension funds and banks sold euros this month at the fastest pace since the second half of 2008, when the currency tumbled more than 25 percent against the dollar between mid-July and the end of October, according... 

Bilderberg System The Bilderberg group will conduct its annual meeting June 3-6 in Sitges, Spain (a small, exclusive resort town about 20 miles from Barcelona) behind a wall of armed guards who will seal off the resort in a futile attempt to keep the event secret. Bilderberg’s meeting will follow that of its brother group, the Trilateral Commission, which will gather at the Four Seasons Resort in... 

Williams syndrome makes kids ‘hypersocial,’ researchers say. Never has a human population been found that has no racial stereotypes. Not in other cultures or far-flung countries. Nor among tiny tots or people with various psychological conditions. Until now. Children with Williams syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that makes them lack normal social anxiety, have no racial biases. They... 

Islamic Veil FRENCH PRESIDENT Nicolas Sarkozy has ordered his government to table a draft law that would ban women from wearing full veils in all public places – a more far-reaching proposal than was widely expected. Government spokesman Luc Chatel said after yesterday’s cabinet meeting that the president had decided in favour of submitting a Bill in May to introduce an outright ban on all face-covering... 

Muslim Nurse The UK Department of Health recently announced that it would loosen hygiene rules for Muslim and Sikh doctors and nurses. From now on, Muslim female staff will not need to wash their hands before procedures as it compromises their modesty. Instead, they will have the admittedly less sanitary option of wearing disposable plastic over-sleeves. Acknowledging the danger of microbes and death,... 

The Pandora’s box of the SEC’s action against Goldman, which if validated in court will effectively make the issuance of every hybrid CDO product quasi-illegal, will lead to an explosion of lawsuits against virtually any bank that was active in the structured finance space during the housing boom, adding to a fresh round of “non-recurring” charges to bank income statements. Case in point... 

George Soros George Soros, the billionaire financier, says he thinks the euro and the European Union itself are at risk of breaking up if Germany refuses to play its traditional role and make concessions, Reuters reported, citing an interview conducted with Italian newspaper. “The Germans have always made the concessions needed to advance the European Union, when people were looking for a deal. Not... 

Flyer Poster Here’s the new campaing against ‘homophobia’ released by the Jewish organization FIDL: Transcript: – From left to right : “Hooker, Nigger, Gay, Lesbian” – “Does this bother you”? – “Homosexuality is not a problem, homophobia is” Society of 22nd century has changed in such a way that normality is now abnormality and... 

Authorities are keen to keep eyewitnesses away from the scene and shots are heard in the immediate aftermath of the Polish plane crash.  Read More »

Russian Kids Russia suspended all adoptions to U.S. families Thursday until the two countries can agree on procedures, the Foreign Ministry said, a week after an American woman sent her 7-year-old adopted son back to Russia on a plane by himself. The boy’s return — without supervision or explanation aside from a note he carried from his adoptive mother saying he had psychological problems —... 

Pope Benedict XVI A retired Italian bishop has provoked fury by reportedly suggesting that Zionists are behind the current storm of accusations over clerical sex abuse shaking the Vatican and the Catholic Church. Monsignor Giacomo Babini, the Bishop Emeritus of Grossetto, was quoted by the Italian Roman Catholic website Pontifex as saying he believed a “Zionist attack” was behind the criticism...