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The silent jihad against the west
http://brookesnews.com/080505jihad.html
Active jihad, the holy war, is terrorism. But there is also another form ofjihad that is part of the deliberate effort to have Islam replace allconcepts of morality and the values held dear by the rest of us. The name ofthis silent fifth column effort is Sharia Banking

Feed the World
http://brookesnews.com/080505graindisaster.html
Though he is already being belaboured by the self-haters in the left-wingcommentariat, the Western consumer did not choose to implement costly andeconomically nonsensical biofuel policies; he had such ill-thought outintervention foisted upon him by ignorant politicians and greenie fanatics

Wages and risk: another leftwing fallacy
http://brookesnews.com/080505wagesrisk.html
Leftists argue that labour flexibility and productivity schemes are attemptsto shift the risks of doing business from the firm to its employees. This ispure baloney

Emissions trading - a weapon of mass taxation
http://brookesnews.com/080505carbontax.html
Although consumers in many countries will bear the oppressive costs of acarbon tax, there may be no reduction whatsoever in CO2 emissions, and nobeneficial effect on the world's climate. But parasitic companies formed toexploit carbon tax will reap billions from ripping off the public andsavaging its living standards

Bernanke gets it wrong
http://brookesnews.com/080505useconomy.html
Bernanke is said to be an expert on the Great Depression and that it hasshaped his thinking about the role of the Fed. Be that as it may, Bernanke'sactions suggest that far from absorbing the lessons of the 1930s he has infact hammered them into a Keynesian mould. And this is why we just gotanother rates cut

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