Breaking up ghettos is very difficult if for no other reason than the people that live there want to live together.

France already has active policies to try and avoid such ghettos to start with, where new developments are obliged to provide a percentage of low income housing as a part of their project. The idea being to spread immigrants and other poor amongst wealthier native communities.

So long as the percentage of immigrants is low, this works. When it gets too high in a concentrated area, then we have a ghetto again just in a different place. The higher the percentage, the less integration.

Current immigration policy is far too open. Once one single person in a family gets papers, often by measures such as buying a spouse for the reason or, more common in my experience, tricking westerners into getting married (including trying to get pregnant by the westerner while they're there on holiday, for example - had that tried on me twice), then the rest of the family gets papers, and then more family and more family and more family, etc.

Islam needs to come forward through a renaissance age but it's not happening.

I'm not sure what perspective you propose to give people who blame us for anything that's wrong in their lives, whether it's our fault or not.

Where do you draw the line? Today it's our right to free speech, what follows? Our women having to be veiled? Our girls not having the right to go to school?

Neil Stephenson brought this idea right down to nano level in The Diamond Age

Possibly to restrict immigration such that the percentage of immigrants remains low enough to make integration into our own culture possible.

If those who come to our countries do not like our culture, they are free to leave.

What is happening here in France and elsewhere in Europe and the UK is a reflection and direct result of the wars that we are engaged with elsewhere in the world.

To look at one aspect without taking into account the other would be an error.

You can have whatever integration strategy you want but when the percentage of immigrants comes close to or exceeds the percentage of non-immigrants in a given area, integration becomes impossible and reverse-integration becomes expected.

We are at war and it is a war of cultures, sometimes fought with bullets and soon to be fought with votes.

It might be interesting to know what $4800 USD is actually worth there in China, adjusted for 'cost of' doing whatever in China vs. the cost of doing it in the US, and making your comparison with that.

Surely catching big white collar crime and corrupt politicians should be prioritized over small quantity drug issues.

But of course stomping out truly significant criminal activity is beyond the scope or capabilities of the LEOs that work for those same corrupt politicians, who in turn are owned by those big white collar criminals.

I would hope for it to be a collection of all the cartoons by Charlie over the years they've been publishing.

The worse thing being, she complained she couldn't even feel it.

A woman police officer in Paris this morning, Paris time:
http://www.france24.com/en/201...

Not directly related but I'd be surprised if this wasn't also done in the name of Allah.

The way things are going, with the rich getting richer, CEOs that live like kings, etc, there is already a class of people who would pay ten times more if they wanted to make the trip in a hurry.

How many of them would bother is another question.

Because they know we can't prove they're lying?

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http://hashmuseum.com/

Anyone checking the back door while the front one is being DDoSd?

It's a great distraction to take eyes of a real attack via more profitable and less visible vectors.

Iraq of course being a more profitable target, not stuck right up against China and not having as a leader 'The one Daddy let get away'.