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The Financial Times asks Could Attacks Have Been Prevented? While not every terrorist plot can be thwarted, authorities misses a huge number of warning signs. Coupled with inane acceptance of Syrian refugees, the EU virtually invited terrorist activity
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These attacks fuel new questions about Europe’s border-free travel . Friday night’s attacks are now raising the possibility that the ease of movement that Schengen guarantees may have been used by the terrorists to wreak havoc.
Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional.
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Empire State Manufacturing Negative Fourth Month, Work Week Lowest Since Mid-2011 The string of manufacturing negatives continues unabated with the Empire State Survey. Economists expected another negative month, but the result was worse than the lowest Econoday economist’s prediction of -8.50.
Bloomberg notes Japan Enters Recession as Economy Contracts in the Third Quarter . Japan’s economy contracted in the third quarter on sluggish business investment, confirming what many economists had predicted: The nation fell into its second recession since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office in December 2012.
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