German Nuclear Waste site unstable?

A storage chamber at the controversial nuclear waste facility Asse in Lower Saxony is damaged and could pose the risk of radioactive leaks, Germany’s Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) announced on Thursday.. and now the news that it may not be fixable.

Asse nuclear waste storage mine 'may not be fixable'

German sex industry calls for state aid

German sex shop owners and erotic film makers, badly hit by the economic crisis, are pushing for state aid that has also been requested by their US peers, the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung reported on Friday.

German sex industry calls for state aid

Boy George Jailed

FALLEN idol Boy George was yesterday jailed for 15 months for imprisoning a male escort following a nude photo-shoot....

Boy George Jailed

EU's prestige at risk in continuing gas crisis

I know the gas crisis is not new (and neither is the way the way EU is "handling" it - since US is not intervening - so the problem continues!) but I love the headline - "Prestige" at steak - what about the lives of those dealing with the shortage? Well.. we don't care about them - they're just eastern Europeans...

EU's prestige at risk in continuing gas crisis

Shopaholic spinster found dead under 3ft of unopened goods

From the daily mail....

...A spinster who obsessively hoarded clothes died in her home after a mountain of suitcases fell on her, burying her alive....

Stupid Brit!

Shopaholic spinster found dead under 3ft of unopened goods

Husband deemed too fat to adopt

A man has been told he and his wife cannot adopt children because he is so fat that the authorities fear he will die, he said Monday.

Really?
Husband deemed too fat to adopt

What's in a name?

A newly built primary school in Sheffield had to decided not to include "school" in its title, to avoid "negative connotations". Instead, it will "The Watercliff Meadow Place for Learning."

Stupid Brits!
What's in a name?

Giant plasma TVs face ban in battle to green Britain

...New rules will phase out energy-guzzling flatscreen televisions as the EU brings its climate campaign to the living room....

Stupid Brits....

Giant plasma TVs face ban in battle to green Britain

World War II Mass Grave Unearthed in Poland

...The Polish city of Malbork has found a mass grave with the remains of some 1,800 people, thought to be former German residents of the town. They apparently died as the Red Army marched through Poland -- and some of them appear to have been executed...

And Russia is doing what now? Gas line closures?

World War II Mass Grave Unearthed in Poland

European Doors Kept Closed for Romanian and Bulgarian Workers

..Romanians and Bulgarians are still not seen as full-fledged citizens of the European Union. Many member states continue to keep them out of their job markets, particularly now that their economies are falling into recession...

The tough times bring out the real "Union" of the European union?

Stupid Europeans!

European Doors Kept Closed for Romanian and Bulgarian Workers

Animal charity drops case vs. Prince Edward

Perhaps they should focus their attention on the dwindling fish populations... Especially considering how EU is treating it...

...The Royal Society for the Protection of Animals said Friday that there was not enough evidence to prove that Queen Elizabeth II's youngest son Prince Edward had mistreated his black Labrador during a shoot at the royal Sandringham estate....

Stupid Brits!

Animal charity drops case vs. Prince Edward

Slovakia restarts Soviet-era nuclear reactor

...Slovak Premier Robert Fico says his country was forced to act due to "extraordinary circumstances." He said late Saturday it was a temporary measure until gas deliveries are fully restored.....

Remember - the world had to endure two wars because of this very kind of European squabbles...

Stupid Europeans!

Slovakia restarts Soviet-era nuclear reactor

British Royalty Racist? Nah!

.... Prince Harry made racist remarks on a video, calling a member of his army platoon a "Paki" and telling another he looked like a "raghead", a British newspaper reported on Sunday...

Stupid British Royalty!

Prince Harry used racist language

Anti-Semitic attack on teenage girl in Paris

..."Fears that the conflict in Gaza could spark violence between Jews and Muslims in France have been heightened as three teenagers were arrested yesterday for an alleged anti-Semitic attack on a 15-year-old girl"...

Nice!

Stupid French!

Anti-Semitic attack on teenage girl in Paris

Sarkozy energy from long distance energy transfer??

..A FRENCH author claims to have unlocked the secret of Nicolas Sarkozy’s boundless energy. The “hyper-président” secretly consults a specialist in alternative medicine who massages his back and sends him “positive energy waves”...

Read for yourselves!

Stupid French!

Secrets of Nicolas Sarkozy's energy

Throw less fish back in – EU

What was that about the Kyoto Accord? Ah! Screw the fishes...

Stupid EU!

Throw less fish back in – EU

Lloyds pays up over broken sanctions

Lloyds of London doing business with terrorist states?

..."The giant British bank Lloyds TSB is to pay more than a quarter of a billion euros for breaking sanctions against countries like Iran, Libya and Sudan"...
Stupid Brits!

Lloyds pays up over broken sanctions

British Politician dresses up as kidnap victim for fun?

Kate and Gerry McCann have condemned a Conservative activist who boasted about dressing up as Madeleine McCann at a party, calling his actions "offensive".

Madeleine was three in 2007 when she vanished during a holiday in Portugal.

Nice!

McCanns' anger at Tory activist

Post office shooting in the UK

.."Four men are believed to have been behind the fatal shooting of a village sub-postmaster's son, police said...."

Stupid Brits!

Four behind Post Office shooting

Bulgaria shivers as gas dwindles

So we are supposed to believe that Europeans are these peace loving bunch - so Why are they feuding amongst themselves - at the cost of innocent people? Could you imagine the headlines if the US even did something 10% magnitude of what Russia is doing right now?

Stupid Russians - actually - evil Russians - and stupid rest of Europe for putting up with the Russians. How much do you want to bet that the US will have to fix this?

Bulgaria shivers as gas dwindles

Liberty for all women except French

Yeah - so this French woman decides to go back to work 5 days after having a baby. It's a free country, right? But not so for the French chick... The women's group is all upset....

Stupid French!
'Superwoman' Dati riles French

Greek Leftists shoot Greek police?

it seems like their own politics has caught up with the Europeans!

"..Weapons used to shoot a police unit in Greece overnight are linked to two previous attacks, including one by an anti-US militant group, police say... "

What's interesting is...

"...tests on the handgun appeared to establish a link to Revolutionary Struggle - a group which some experts believe was formed from remnants of the old left-wing anti-capitalist group November 17.

That group operated for almost 30 years with apparent impunity, carrying out two dozen assassinations and countless bomb attacks against mainly foreign targets, says the BBC's Malcolm Brabant in Athens. "

Stupid Greeks!

Guns 'link several Greek attacks'

Activists guilty of hate campaign...including false accusations of paedophilia??

This from UK ...Four animal rights activists have been convicted of orchestrating a blackmail campaign against firms that supplied an animal testing research center....

Stupid Britons!

Activists guilty of hate campaign