Social Issues

With Europe facing two distinct challenges as a result of the ongoing refugee crisis (which in recent months has been tamed as a result Turkey withholding further immigrant outflows via the land route if only for the time being until Erdogan changes his mind and asks for more concessions), namely how to keep track of the hundreds of thousands of new immigrants, and also where to house them, the Netherlands has successfully killed these two birds with one stone.

Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,

The fallacy in this assumption is that homeowners' incomes do not automatically rise along with housing valuations.

Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

Belgian riot police clashed with prison guards who were on strike and demonstrating at the Justice Ministry. The prison warders had burst into the Belgian Justice Ministry building on Tuesday, breaking windows and trashing fittings before being forced out by baton-wielding riot police firing pepper spray. Press TV reports: About a thousand demonstrators had gathered in support of the warders outside the ministry headquarters in the capital, Brussels, throwing eggs at the facade of the building, setting off firecrackers, chanting slogans and protesting budget cuts, according to the media.

Recently Ray Gaster, an owner of lumber yards on both sides of the Georgia-South Carolina border joined some friends at a retreat in Alabama to talk shop. The main topic of concern? Drugs tests, and the increasing inability of potential new hires to pass them.

"They were complaining about trying to find drivers, or finding people, who are drug-free and can do some of the jobs that they have" Gaster said, as he echoed his friends' concerns.