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A French refugee camp in Calais has swelled to 10,000 refugees seeking entrance to Britain (which has refused to take in refugees). Protests in France surrounding the refugee situation are on the rise, and a number of refugee camps and centers have been set aflame, including the north part of the Calais camp.

This is an interesting perspective on the Brexit issue - before reading this, I wasn't aware of the wide variety of opinions on Brexit within Britain. Do you think there is a way for Boris (or anyone) to try to create a more unified Britain?

Super interesting article; ties in to the week's big themes; I highly recommend a read.

I found it very interesting that the poorest in a given year, are not necessarily the poorest for their entire lives. As well as the point that income is distributed over one's lifetime, versus given in one particular moment--> which helps redistribute wealth, instead of letting it go stagnant.

Super interesting how little effect cutting or expanding government benefits has on long term poverty.

In light of the recent shooting in Oregon, I think it's important to reflect on our gun control policies in comparison to those of other developed countries.

"Britain has had the same foreign policy for more than 500 years--to create a disunited Europe."

"Most other longtime democracies have much shorter lags between an election and the transfer of power. In Britain, a new government usually takes office the next day. In Canada, France, India and Japan, it happens within a few weeks. "

A 200 million pound contract has been won by a consortium of companies led by the Japanese corporation Fujitsu, a technology service and equipment company. This contract is to implement Brexit checks on goods in the Irish Sea. This free trader support service will help companies move goods between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. This system is required as the result of the Northern Ireland part of the Brexit deal. On January first, trade items that are entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain will need custom declarations. Therefore, the British government has paid a group of companies to install an "Irish sea border."

I think it is interesting how companies can profit off of the Brexit deal and how Northern Ireland is now being used as a "bargaining chip" in such deals.

A global dispute between America and Britain.

France and Britain on Monday offered haven to a combined 44,000 migrants after Germany pledges $6.6 billion.

New York Times analysis of demographic, economic and asylum data for each country. Note: Britain, Denmark and Ireland are exempt from the new relocation plan. The plan is not comprehensive: Five times as many migrants have already arrived in Greece this year as the 50,400 who would be relocated to other countries by the plan. Interesting to see a visual on the distribution of migrants thus far and how it compares to that country's policy.

Massively inappropriate, even for the comedy Channel in the US. . . why does American culture go for "South Park" or "Drawn Together" over this kind of humor?

At a time when the globe is experiencing financial turmoil, it's nice to know that some people are still concerned with the fundamentals (such as a missile defense system with no actual practical use). Missile defense is the somewhat fictional art of shooting down big missiles with smaller missiles, or lasers, or whatever the MIT guys thought up this week. The article is written by the Secretary General of NATO however, so there is a high likelihood that some sort of missile defense system may be put in place. Probably a good idea to know more about it... Estimated cost: a billion?

Definitely something I don't think about every day. It'd be nice to know more about what "missile defense" actually means and what's happening in that field (anything going on besides the work of the "MIT guys"?).

I just read an article in last weeks "The Week" about potential terrorist threats all over Europe specifically in: Britain, France, and Germany. Apparently al Qaida was plotting large-scale attacks. I am curious about the legitimacy of this Missile Defense system because when ever i hear about them i think back to when Bush wanted to put a MIssile Defense system around our entire country.