Pleasure fools pay conditions size meet have looked at tinian only ugly but ungentlemanly. One gentleman's bird dog should give the other gentleman's dog its due by backing it terrific point. I honor blinkers all the time field trials. If you do it way, you won't have honor blinker. this helps you get started! After being taken down twice by Blogger within a single week, we got the message: It's Time To Go. Gates of Vienna has moved to a new address: Not everything over there is fully functional yet, and the internal links still point to this blog, and for the indefinite future. all the old material be left here for archival purposes, with comments turned off. Gotta get down to it Blogger is cuttin' us down Shoulda been done ago The following op- by Hanne Nabintu Herland concerns the Norwegian government's persistent soft spot for the Palestinians. It was originally published Aftenposten, Norway's largest newspaper, on 15th, 2013, and has been translated by the author. Naïve Checkbook Diplomacy by Hanne Nabintu Herland Torgeir Larsen, a minister for the Norwegian Labor Party, admits Norway's largest newspaper Aftenposten on December 28, that Norwegian authorities closed their eyes to the realities of the Middle East. Too often they thought they were the service of stability, but later found out that was not the case. Regardless, this acknowledgement of Norwegian naïveté must lead to tangible changes foreign policy order to be of real value. The minister asked me what I meant by leading article on December the 20th which I stated that Norwegian checkbook diplomacy is de facto supportive of terrorist organizations that display significant intolerance towards Christians, Jews, gays or other minorities who are not considered sufficiently Islamic. Let's take a look at the statistics: Norway is one of the smallest countries the world, and one of the largest contributors to the Palestinian Authority and others, with annual donations of over 700 Million NOK. Especially since the current left-wing Labor government took office 2005, the donations have exploded. What are these sums spent on? Recently the remuneration for suicide bombers was tripled. The Hamas terrorist who killed 30 Israelis 2002 by now receives 20 NOK a month, according to The Times of Israel last September the 9th. Those who have carried out the worst attacks against innocent civilians receive the highest pay. Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center figures from 2005 show that Palestinians have conducted 25 terrorist attacks, 147 suicide attacks leading to 1 dead Israelis and 7 wounded between 2000 and 2005. Fatah conducted 214 acts of terrorism 2003 alone, according to 2005 Terrorism Review. more foreign hostages than originally reported were taken by the Qaeda terrorists at the Amenas gas plant Algeria. The Algerian government says that 100 out of 132 were freed, and some sources say that 30 or more hostages were killed. The British government offered the Algerians manpower, equipment, and expert assistance to expedite the resolution of the crisis, but was refused. American, British, and French nationals are thought to be among the dead. other news, the latest figures from Angola indicate that at least 250 Chinese nationals have migrated to the country. The Angolan government says that work permits were issued for the Chinese to assist with development projects. Notice to tipsters: Please 't submit extensive excerpts from articles that have been posted behind a subscription firewall, or are otherwise under copyright protection. Commenters are advised to leave their comments at this post that they are more easily accessible. Caveat: Articles the news feed are posted as is. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. We check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item's title. Further research and verification are left to the reader. As a follow-up to Tuesday's post about the majority-minority public schools Oslo, the following brief account reports the latest statistics on the cultural enrichment of schools Austria. Vienna is the most fully enriched location, and seems to be roughly the same situation as Oslo. Austria The number of -speaking primary school students has declined dramatically The number of pupils with a first language other than has doubled from 1995 to 2011. This is what the recently-issued National Report on Education shows. During this time, the percentage of monolingual children at primary schools dropped from 88% to The doubling the number of multilingual students is evident virtually all provinces Austria. Carinthia, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol and Vorarlberg, the rise is a little lower, Upper Austria is a bit higher, and Burgenland it remained on average. The Styrian province is the only outlier, where the number of children with a different native language has tripled from about 5 to 16. Barely any students with as mother tongue Vienna The nationwide statistics conceals the dramatic