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Upbeat number from Belgian band Hooverphonic , The world is mine (album Jackie Cane , 2002). Originally (for a couple of years following th...

They told you that the US had no business in Vietnam, but never uttered a word about the involvement of the USSR and China. They told you ab...

In the mid-eighties, San Francisco based Huey Lewis and The News had a string of hits. Hip to be square comes to mind, but this wasn't b...

No comment. MFBB.

Today, President Obama awarded the Medal of Honor, posthumously, to Staff Sergeant Robert J. Miller , who, aged 24, fell in combat against t...

I realize I'm late to the party, but I can't help a little gloating so this thing comes up again, here, on DowneastBlog. I'm tal...

Saturday was a day with shitty weather but unbelievably, the weather broadcast for this Sunday was a warm (up to 23°C) and sunny 3rd of Octo...

David McComb with Setting you free , from the album Love of Will (1994). He was the front man of famous Aussie band The Triffids . Died in ...

Circumstances and lack of time prevented me from ever putting up a decent post about this years' parliamentary elections in The Netherla...

Yet another mob of muslims aggressively taking possession of the streets. Only this time it's not in Paris' Barbès neighborhood, nor...

Over the course of the past two years I have come to appreciate the UK's The Telegraph very much, and especially several of its young u...

Hat tip the inimitable Theo Spark . Also check out this article, full of Hope. MFBB.

Via Dutch online daily Algemeen Dagblad - Economie , September 13, 2010: "AMSTERDAM - by means of a quiz about gay capitals, the nation...

The Jam with Start! It's 1980 and actually The Punk Age, but Paul Weller & Co wear tailored suits and really are cool. Another big b...

Via Galliawatch : "(...) In Limoges, there was on Friday an almost unbelievable spectacle in the downtown area between 5:00 and 6:00 p....

Sappho is the magazine of the Free Press Society and as such Denmark's 'most outspoken magazine on free speech, radical islam, cult...

My wife is rather fond of gardening and me myself and I are rather fond of castles, so when we got the news there was a gardening fair on th...

The Shadows with the immortal Wonderful Land . This single is from 1962, can you believe it? Almost half a century old and still, well, won...

Ramadan scenes from Moscow. Check out these videos: More here . If there is anyone who still thinks that in-your-face prayer sit-ins like th...

I realize I'm a bit late with the news, but the demo a delegation of Vlaams Belang and Cities Against Islamization intended to hold in f...