Falklands Conflict Continues to Simmer

« Argentine President Cristina Kirchner continues to defy Britain and lay claim to the Falkland Islands.
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March 28, 2011 | From theTrumpet.com

 

The Argentine Senate on March 16 unanimously approved a bill designed to prevent Argentine companies from cooperating with oil exploration around the Falkland Islands.

The following week, Rockhopper Exploration announced that oil drilling around the Islands would likely be commercially viable.

Britain: A Criminal’s Paradise

« British prisons are becoming known for their cushy atmospheres, with prisoners receiving better care than average citizens.
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The justice system becomes a protection racket for the criminal. By Craig Millar

 

In Britain, a boss discovered that an employee had written himself a check for £845 (us$1,365) from his business. He promptly marched the employee to a nearby police station bearing a sign saying “thief.”

Britain at Odds With Europe Over Ban on Selling Arms to China

« British Prime Minister David Cameron (right) talks with President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy. Britain and the EU are divided over resuming arms sales to China.
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Britain is clashing with the European Union as Europe edges toward repealing the EU’s ban on selling military technology to China.

 

If European nations can sell weapons to Russia, as France did in December with a €1 billion assault ship deal, then why not to China’s army too? This is the question a growing number of European Union policymakers are asking as Beijing’s influence with EU member states increases.

The issue is significant because the EU banned weapons technology sales to China in 1989, after Beijing’s violent crackdown on dissidents in Tiananmen Square. But with China’s investments helping to prop up several European states, a growing number of continental EU countries want to reconsider the embargo. And on January 27, China urged the EU to lift the ban in order to boost EU-China relations.

Alexander Neill of the Royal United Services Institute said, “EU member states certainly feel pressured by China given the economic contagion which seems to be spreading through the EU at the moment. Many national leaders, I am sure, will think twice about how they engage the Chinese on investment, which is essentially bailing them out of elements of their economic doldrums.”

Last month, an unnamed EU official told reporters that the nations opposed to the embargo had gathered enough momentum to kill the ban by the end of the year.

But Britain, in spite of having accepted some Chinese investments, remains alongside the U.S. in commitment to the restriction, and is isolating itself from Europe to a degree over the issue.

“The UK’s position remains exactly as it has been over the last few years, which is now is not the right time to lift the ban,” Neill said.

Despite Britain’s concerns, in the short term EU-China relations will improve as the two sides work toward counterbalancing American dominance and replacing the current U.S.-dominated global economic framework with a multipolar model.

America Has No Stronger Ally Than the French

« French President Nicolas Sarkozy (left) visits with U.S. President Barack Obama in the Oval Office in Washington, D.C., on January 10.

President Obama snubs Britain again.

“We don’t have a stronger friend and stronger ally than Nicolas Sarkozy, and the French people,” U.S. President Barack Obama told French President Nicolas Sarkozy on January 10.

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Rule al Britannia

There are now 40 schools in Britain that teach children sharia law. At these schools, children are taught that British culture “is in opposition to almost everything that Islam stands for.” At some schools, teenagers are taught the correct way to chop off a thief’s hand and that the penalty for homosexual sex is to be stoned, thrown off a cliff, or burned with fire.

Immigration is irreversibly altering the cultural landscape of Britain—that much is sure. But can a nation so culturally diverse stand for long?

According the European Union’s most recent population report, Britain is now the immigration capital of Europe. The country gained more people last year due to immigration and rising birth rates (largely attributed to recent immigrants) than anywhere else in Europe. One in four babies born last year was born to a mother who was herself born abroad, according to the Daily Mail.

An astounding one third of all European population growth took place in Britain, last year.

As far as how many immigrants (legal and illegal) there are in Britain, no one really knows. The government releases statistics, but they are really just politicized guesses. Every year, 110,000 foreign students are given permission to stay for 12 months. When their visas run out, most refuse to go home! According to analysts, only about 10,000 comply with their visa requirements to leave the country. The UK Border Agency admits it is overwhelmed.