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The biggest riot expected tonight as it is the final of the Conferedations cup.

Israel must either grant Palestine independence or set up an apartheid-system as it is inevitable that within the current borders of Israel the Jews will be outnumbered by arabs. If returning to the pre-1967 borders that might save some time.

Someone, let's say Obama or at least Kerry, should answer that question.

I'm surprised that this news is not more commented on this site as it must be a big news in Canada. After all, if a highly developed country like Canada is helpless in confronting the floods you can only imagine the blight of people in Bangladesh which is not as highly developed and where floods are a more frequent thing.

Soon they are going to have a massive shortage of women resulting in a lot of angry young men who can't find wives. So, women need to be imported, which kind of defeats the purpose.

India will soon overtake China as world's most populous country but even India is not a long-term worry as their population is projected to start falling by the middle of the century. The real problem is Africa the population of which is expected to rise from the current 1bn to 3bn by the year 2050. Of course, predictions are just predictions and one war on a grand scale can render predictions useless. http://geography.about.com/od/lists/a/Most-Populous-Countries-In-2100.htm

7bn people on this planet right now and the figure is rapidly rising. Only 20 years ago the figure was 5bn. At this rate we are heading for a doom. Ok, I admit that if a population of 300,000 were a standard size of a country, there would also be less trade and opportunities of wealth arising from it.

We consider Iceland with its only 300,000 people as a tiny country and that is what it is but what a wonderful world this would be if that was a standard size of a country.

I think the point is that Brazil wants to present itself to the outdide world as a modern economically viable country as it hosts the two biggest sporting events within two years. All that is just a charade and the people know it. The ancient Romans said that people need bread and circus. We do agree, however, that bread is more important but the government of Brazil seems to disagree.

Brazil is a country of rapidly rising population but the country has crumbling and hopelessly outdated infrastructure. Instead of investing on improving the infrastructure the government is going spend large sums of money on next years soccer world cup and the olympics in Rio two years later. The people are justifiedly angry at the government who seem to got their priorities wrong. It is a very thin layer of society which will benefit from hosting those two sporting events in Brazil.

May I ask is there any other subject that interests you than Middle-East? Tbh, you seem a bit obsessed with the issue.

American Woman: Is it too intrusive to ask where exactly from the USA are you from?

A clear rift between generations here. The youth won't have it the old way any more.

Those say that the riots had nothing to do with immigration and everything to do with poverty and deprivation, please explain to me why were there almost no ethnic Swedes running amok. Furthermore, had there not been insane immigration-policy Sweden has carried out during the past 40 years or so would there have been ethnic Swedes running rampant because of poverty and deprivation?

It is funny with these riots how the rioters always destroy their own neighbourhood, the place where they will still have to live after the riots. If the riots spread out to downtown-areas, be it London, Paris, NYC, Stockholm, how long do you think the police would just watch by? There would be a swift end.

Perhaps in the USA and Canada the term "multiculturalism" is still interpreted in its original meaning. Here in Europe every time we hear that word we consider it just a gentler word for "islamisation" or otherwise monomaniac praise of everything to do with muslims and islams.

I'm rather pessimistic about the future. There is bound to be a lot of conflicts in various European countries, I wouldn't call them civil-wars, that would be exaggarating, but al this multi-culti experiment is really not going to end well. Even if all third world-immigration was halted today the number of people from the third world and their descendants would still grow faster than that of the indigenous population. When a very large proportion of the third world-immigration is from muslim-countries by people who have no desire to assimilate and people whose employment-prospects are not very good at all, it inevitably leads to further segregation and to a situation which is already reality in the major cities in Europe where there are de facto mini-societies within the cities where the official authorities have no say whatsoever.

What a dejavu-feeling these abortion-debates always are. No-one has said anything for ages that wouldn't have been said countless times before. But let me add another comment to those comments which have been mentioned many times before: Why is it always old men who are most vehemently against abortion? Why do they consider the whole issue their business in the first place?

Often a question of sheer practicality. In having statistics on immigration putting them all under the tag "israel" as a country of origin would not exactly paint a truthful picture. Nothing to do with recognising or not recognising the Palestine state. Must be a bit similar that you view immigrants from Greenland as coming from Greenland, not Denmark or even after 16 years still view immigrants from Hong Kong coming from Hong kong instead of China.

Isn't the Dominican Republic a relatively wealthy country by Latin American standards? Even if it were not it is still much better off than Haiti which is the poorest country in the western hemisphere. The two countries share a small island of Hispaniola. I wonder how stressed the border-agency of the D Rep must be.

Sad news. However, I can't help asking as the news said the victim was a missionary, even though voodoo is still strong in Haiti isn't it officially a christian country?

I always get very sceptical when there are news of foiled terrorist attacks. They are always used as an excuse to further curb individual freedoms. After all, if the objective is to foil terrorist attacks you don't report about foiling them so that any would-be terrorists could learn from the mistakes made by others.

All this is so stupid beyond belief that it is easy to understand that the guys who carried out this act were very young. They acted in order to promote islam. Ok, by their reasoning attempting to kill hundreds of people(indeed it was sheer good luck that only three were killed) the Americans would convert to islam. The mind boggles.

Every time politicians want to dismantle the welfare state they start bigging up stories of people abusing the welfare benefits as if it were something everyone's doing.

The whole idea of a welfare-state is that it can only succeed if it is like a VIP-club with very strict entry-requirements for outsiders trying to get in. The present system of the EU with its policies of freedom of movement makes this system, if not unfeasible, at least very difficult to maintain as different countries have different standards of living. Unrestricted freedom of movement only works if it happens between countries which are more or less culturally the same and have more or less the same standard of living. This is the case with the Nordic countries which have since the 1950's had a passport-free travel and unrestricted right of any citizen of any country to move to any other country. With the EU-expansion to the east when we are no longer talking about different countries being more or less the same in terms of culture and standard of living, we can see the consequences. Switzerland is not an EU-country but it has still signed to the Schengen-treaty but today they have introduced restrictions on the rights of Eastern-Europeans to move into Switzerland: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22285886 That is in clear defiance to the treaties they have signed to but good for them to stand their ground!