Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, warned the United States that a plunge over the “fiscal cliff” could destroy all economic growth in the USA and drag the rest of the world into a catastrophic recession.
In other news, a young Muslim man in Faisalabad, Pakistan has been arrested for profaning a statue of the Virgin Mary by destroying it where it sat in a niche in the wall of a Catholic church.
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The Nobel Peace Prize to the EU
- Oslo today
From their speeches in Oslo
"Vivre ensemble" - praising islam (Jagland, addressing France)
"Yes, we can" - ...praising islam (Van Rompuy)
And, of course, there were all the other phrases praising totalitarianism
The Nobel Peace Committee's rewarding The End of Democracy
Douglas Murray
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