One can easily imagine the ranting in Germany about this kind of program still more debt! Loss of control over our assets!

Preventing demagogues from ranting about Muslims or multi culturalists will not deter a future Anders Breivik. And barring radical imams from entering France won t stop another Merah from going on a murderous rampage.

Cochrane, he starts ranting at these Germans in this Scottish accent in fluent German, by the way, but in a Scottish accent and explains to them how German culture was the culture that gave Schiller and Goethe to the world.

Populist rabble rousers like to stir up such resentments by ranting about foreigners who work for a pittance or not at all. But it is the relative success of ethnic minorities and immigrants that is more upsetting to indigenous populations.

Musharraf defends the military acquisitions, claiming that they are economically efficient, and angrily dismisses criticism as the ranting of unpatriotic Pakistani pseudo intellectuals. But they are efficient only in the sense that they dampen the threat to Musharraf posed by the military.

As China rebalances toward a growth model that draws greater support from domestic demand, Washington should stop ranting about the renminbi and start focusing on the opportunities that this bonanza will create. That means emphasizing US companies access to China s domestic goods and services markets.

Indeed, it is precisely the Eurocrats detachment from everyday politics that has enabled the EU to deliver. Contrary to the ranting of Euroskeptic politicians in Britain and, increasingly, in eurozone member countries, the growing disenchantment of voters with politics reflects the distance that has grown between promises and results, not the distance between EU officials and member states citizens.