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Did Georgian troops fight with smuggled German guns?
August 18, 2008, 15:12
Elite Georgian soldiers fighting in South Ossetia were illegally armed with German HK G36 assault rifles, according to reports.
The ‘Report Mainz’ programme, made by German public broadcaster ARD, showed images of Georgian soldiers with German-made assault rifles slung over their shoulders.
It’s not clear how the guns ended up in the war zone. All arms export in Germany must meet certain criteria to be (…)

Rwanda: Obscuring the Genocide by Barry Collins
"a war that was complicated by considerable international intervention has become over simplified into a morality tale of good versus evil...Such a simplification further obscures the truth about what happened in Rwanda in 1994 and whitewashes the role of Western intervention more broadly..."
http://www.spiked-online.com/index....
also:
http://www.truthout.org/article/uns...

what a games of destiny!i was driving home at about 8 oclock at night.i stop my car at red light. suddenly an old woman hand come from window to ask me food.her hair were all white and dirty.her sarree was torn from different places. she didnt take bath for long time and smelling. being a sympathy for her i gave her my blanket lying in my car and some money for food. she was shobha dey,once columnist of TOI newspaper who always make mockery of poor and poverty. look! where god landed her (…)

August 19, 2008
VIDEO:
http://broadband.indiatimes.com/videoshow/3381339.cms
“India needs azadi from Kashmir as much as Kashmir needs azadi from India.”
Arundhati Roy is a rare, independent voice in the mainstream shrill. Her statement on Kashmir is a unique sentiment of nailing the problem when all others are busy singing to the tunes of jingoism, communalism, terrorism and of course the Pakistani ‘hand’.
This report says it all:
SRINAGAR: Activist and author Arundhati Roy, who (…)

RESISTANCE 2010! - No Olympics on stolen land! - Disrupt and abolish the G8 and SPP - Active support and solidarity for local struggles of self-determination, justice and dignity
In the year 2010, three major international events will be taking place in the Canadian state: the Winter Olympics in Vancouver/Whistler (between February 12-28); the G8 Leader’s Summit in Huntsville, Ontario (most likely in June or July); and the meeting of the NAFTA leaders as part of the so-called "Security and (…)

By Prerana Marasini and agencies
Source: "The Hindu"
KATHMANDU: Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), was elected the first Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal on Friday by a huge majority of 464 votes. In the election at the Constituent Assembly, Mr. Dahal’s only rival, Sher Bahadur Deuba of the Nepali Congress got only 113 votes.
The major two parties, CPN (UML) and Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF) on Thursday had (…)

By Charles Haviland
BBC News, Kathmandu
Prachanda has a massive task ahead of him.
The elevation of Nepal’s chief Maoist, the leader of the former rebels, Prachanda, to the prime ministership is something he could barely have dreamt of just three years ago.
By the early 1980s, with political parties still banned, “The Fierce One” had abandoned his job as a teacher and was operating underground as an outlaw.
Not until 2006 did he appear in public again, after the end of a (…)

By Kiran Pandey
Source: "Nepali Times"
Former guerrilla chieftain, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, aka Prachanda, has been elected the first prime minister of the Republic of Nepal after winning a vote in the Constituent Assembly in which the UML, MJF and 13 smaller parties supported his candidature.
RED PRIME MINISTER: A profusely garlanded and vermilioned Pushpa Kamal Dahal waves after winning the CA election to the post of prime minister on friday.
The election marks the mainstreaming of the (…)

By Ellen Brown “I’m in show business, why come to me?” “War is show business, that’s why we’re here.” – “Wag the Dog” (1997 film)
Last week, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had just announced record losses, and so had most reporting corporations. Unemployment was mounting, the foreclosure crisis was deepening, state budgets were in shambles, and massive bailouts were everywhere.
Investors had every reason to expect the dollar and the stock market to plummet, and gold and oil to shoot up. (…)

The world is obsessed with Olympic hype at the moment and we are being deluged with sporting statistics e.g. which truly marvellous athlete swam faster than who else by 0.01 second.
However the racist, lying Mainstream media, politicians and academics of the First World-dominated World simply IGNORE the statistics that everyone should know about but which are kept SECRET e.g. that avoidable deaths (excess deaths, deaths that did not have to happen) in British India totalled 1.5 billion (…)