Below is a letter written in 1905 by President Trump’s grandfather, Friedrich Trump, in which he pleads with Bavarian Prince Luitpold not to deport him. According to the Associated Press, Trump’s grandfather immigrated to the U.S. as a teenager from Bavaria before he completed his required military service. After he acquired his fortune in the …
I had prepared a blog posting for today, but feel unable to post it after the atrosity committed in London yesterday. I would be inappropriate, and even uncaring. Such a savage attack had to be expected at some point. But I would prefer to be silent on this occasion in memory of the innocent foreign …
In Britain Conservatives, set on “reducing the size of government” have outsourced almost everything able to be outsourced, even many aspects of military life. A handful of huge private contractors undertake nearly all the tasks that used to be done by lower level government employees, including in healthcare, education, recruitment – the list goes on …
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There are around 70,000 British pensioners in Spain and 62 Spanish pensioners in Britain. (Prospect magazine, January 2017)
Al Jazeera reports that demolitions of Palestinian homes soared in 2016, with the Israeli authorities demolishing or seizing 1,089 Palestinian-owned structures throughout the West Bank and East Jerusalem, displacing 1,593 Palestinians. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has stated that these are the highest demolition and displacement figures since they …
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