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First, a 1981 hit by Belgian singer Jo Lemaire , considered one of the best female singers of my country . "Je suis venue te dire que j...

For the first time since 2002, Belgian ground troops participated in an operation against the Taliban in Afghanistan's north . Around 50...

A recent article in Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf : Translation: "MUSLIM SCRATCHES NAKED WOMAN OFF BILLBOARD. From one of our...

And yet again a brilliant article from The Brussels Journal 's Fjordman... "I’m tired of people who are busy losing this world war...

Regular reader Joanne provided us with a link to a damn good article by Gerald Warner in The Daily Telegraph . I don't know if I would...

Epic. 1989 hit by Faith No More . Faith No More originated in 1982 in San Francisco and mixed heavy metal, funk, progressive rock, hip hop,...

All across the European Union, elections for the European Parliament will be held between 4 and 7 June. About 375 million European citizens ...

Over at The Brussels Journal , Thomas Landen had an excellent column last week regarding NATO's future. Some exerpts: "... The new...

Actually Sunday Afternoon Alternative Rock Before I Mow The Grass, but then my Option 3G Broadband modem sucked AGAIN big time yesterday in ...

Belgium will send an additional two F-16 fighter bombers to Afghanistan. They will complement the four planes already there, which operate ...

Over at The Brussels Journal, the incomparable Takuan Seiyo has had his tenth installment in the From Meccania to Atlantis series up for m...

Dutch band "Earth and Fire". 1972. Memories . Shocking Blue. 1970. Never marry a railroad man . Sadly, the singer, Mariska Veres ...

Our friends over at Gates of Vienna posted a telling - and touching - video made by the German Pro Koeln movement [Pro Cologne - MFBB], an...

Could not hold out any longer and went hiking in the Ardennes for the first time this year. Below you see the Ourthe river flowing through a...

The Police contemporaries "UK" were a, you guess it, UK group who disappeared from the scene even a few years earlier than their i...

A report from the Vlaams Belang website . On March 31 , a VB delegation demonstrated against the recognition of yet another mosque by the Mi...

Over at The Brussels Journal , contributor Tiberge has a post dealing with a recent article by René Servoise , former French ambassador to ...

I'm playing on safe here. Run baby run . Can't imagine somebody not liking this classic Sheryl Crow hit from 1995. Or perhaps not so...

Weird coincidence. Barely had I posted the previous installment dealing with Filip Dewinter 's new book, " Inch Allah ", about...

After Kurt Cobain 's death in 1994 I thought Nirvana would simply evaporate and never leave a trace. I was not a little surprised to se...