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Ukraine's intelligence agency SBU said it has thwarted a plot to attack soccer's European Championships in France by arresting a Frenchman who wanted to cross from Ukraine into the European Union armed to the teeth.

The SBU followed the man and allowed him to purchase five machine guns, two rocket propelled grenades and other weapons before he was arrested on the border between Ukraine and Poland last month.

The SBU said he was driven by ultra-nationalist views and planned 15 attacks on bridges, railways and other pieces of infrastructure for Euro 2016 that will be held in France.

In the wake of the terrorist attacks by extremists in recent years in France and Belgium, and with the wars in Iraq, Syrian and Afghanistan fueling an almost unprecedented influx of refugees and migrants to the continent, far-right and Euroskeptic parties have made sweeping gains.

lately, far-right politicians gained many seats in the European Parliament triggering what one prime minister called a political "earthquake" by those who want to slash the powers of the European Union or abolish it altogether. What to do to keep citizens safe at home is a key.

It is political Earthquake here also in the USA.  Just a thought.

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Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates made no demands of Qatar as their decision plunged the international travel hub into chaos and ignited the biggest diplomatic crisis in the Gulf since the 1991 war against Iraq

Saudi Arabia said it took the decision to cut diplomatic ties due to Qatar's "embrace of various terrorist and sectarian groups aimed at destabilizing the region" including the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaida, the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS) and groups supported by Iran in the kingdom's restive Eastern Province. Egypt's Foreign Ministry accused Qatar of taking an "antagonist approach" toward Cairo and said "all attempts to stop it from supporting terrorist groups failed."

Too bad that US has the biggest base in the region in Qatar.  Just a thought.

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How to integrate immigrants into British society, so that they participate fully in it, sharing and respecting its values? Ray Honeyford first raised it publicly in 1984 .

Immigration from non-EU countries has increased enormously in the last 30 years, many come from what are categorised as ethnic minorities. Labour ministers, dismantled almost all immigration controls, imagined that there would be no problem about integration. 

Some of the arriving groups have deep commitments to religious or own views that place women in a subordinate position.  Values that most of us would think of as essential elements of being British  tolerance, equality before the law, or even the primacy of democratic elections as the way of deciding who should govern – have not been accepted by a significant minority of immigrants.

Some even wish to cut themselves off from liberal and tolerant Britain completely. They hope to perpetuate their own religious values by having their own education system.

Does it matter?                                         [By Alasdair Palmer  7:00PM GMT 11 Feb 2012]

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It was over 20 years ago when Sir Mix-A-Lot released "Baby Got Back," a love letter to bootlicious women everywhere. But men’s obsession with shapely butts has remained strong ever since. In fact, you might say that rears have replaced breasts as our most scrutinized body part.

Research from the University of Texas found that what men are really drawn to isn’t so much the size of the derriere, but the curve or, more specifically, a spinal curvature that offers the illusion of a shapely butt.

Overwhelmingly, men preferred the uber-bendy images that showed the lower spine curved at a 45-degree angle, from back to buttocks.

Men were turned on by women whose spinal curvature was closest to 45 degrees, regardless of the size of their rear. 

But before those of you with pancake-flat cabooses get all cocky (or, shall we say, cheeky?), check this out: The reason guys are giving those pushed-out tushes all that love, study authors surmise, has more to do with “prehistoric influences” than standards of beauty.

The bottom line: The right curve made it easier for women to not only carry babies, but to get off their bottoms and hunt down grub to feed the offspring.

This adds to a growing body of evidence that beauty is not entirely arbitrary, or ‘in the eyes of the beholder’ as many in mainstream social science believed, but rather has a coherent adaptive logic.” Which is basically a diplomatic way of saying, “chauvinism that dates all the way back to Neanderthal times.

Big butts, small butts, whatever..... Suit yourself.    Just a thought.