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Monday, May 14 2007
COPENHAGEN, Denmark: Police fired tear gas on Monday in clashes with rock-throwing rioters protesting the demolition of a decrepit building in Copenhagen’s hippie enclave. At least 16 people were arrested, police said, while one police officer and one protester were injured.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark: Police fired tear gas on Monday in clashes with rock-throwing rioters protesting the demolition of a decrepit building in Copenhagen’s hippie enclave.
At least 16 people (…)

If it was the intention of Blair’s venal Nu Labor administration in London to make a mockery of the Scottish electoral process they certainly succeeded.
After last week’s electoral count fiasco when Data Research Service’s superduper electronic counting machines went into meltdown, producing around 142,000 rejected ballot sheets 3.5% of the Scottish electorate were effectively disenfranchised. To that must be added the thousands of postal ballots that were never received on time.
If this (…)

According to mainstream media, over 800 policemen were involved in raiding 40 left-wing political objects with the support of 20 public prosecutors.
Whilst German television channels reported live from the razzias in the big cities, according to the populist press farms in Schleswig-Holstein, Brandenburg and Niedersachsen were also affected.
Several reasons were given so far for the raids, which nevertheless seemed to centre on and affect mainly infrastructure and logistics around the (…)

By Jean-Paul Piérot
Presidential Elections. With a record participation rate (85%), the French have given a majority to the UMP candidate, Nicolas Sarkozy (53%).
The news wasn’t exactly unexpected, but it still represents a serious shock for millions of French voters, including for the majority of the younger generation, who learnt at 8 pm on Sunday 6 May that Nicolas Sarkozy had been elected to the Élysée Palace, with his 53% victory in the second round of the presidential elections, (…)

Heading into the Hellishly hot Iraq Summer once again. Fresh, wet-behind-the-ears Guard troops shipped into the broiler to fight a nondescript enemy of occupation. Some terrorists, some foreign religious fighters, some angry Iraqis whose parents or kids took a bullet of a bomb.
As these new guys compliment the existing surge with trepidation and anxiety, motivated by career or ire or the dream of a good education at taxpayer expense...others, the hardened 3rd or 4th termers, with scorched (…)

“The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom. These are the pillars of society.” - Henrik Ibsen
Washington, D.C. - Dr. Gilbert Burnham is the co-author of the report entitled: “The Human Cost of the War in Iraq: A Mortality Study (2002-2006).” (1) It was published by ”The Lancet,” a British Medical Journal, in Oct., 2006. (2) It concluded that 654,965 Iraqis have died as a result of the U.S.-led invasion on March 20, 2003, and from the subsequent occupation of that country by the (…)

By JOHN HELLMAN
In his first speech to supporters after his election on May 6, 2007 Nicolas Sarkozy said the time had come for radical change in France : "The French have spoken. They want to break with the old ideas and way of doing things. That’s why I’ll make certain values honourable again. Work, for example, as well as authority, moral principles and respect."
M. Sarkozy was elected with the overwhelming support of voters over 65, many of whom were fearful of ’civic unrest’ France (…)

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News: U.S. Pays and Apologizes to Kin of Afghans Killed by Marines - “I stand before you today, deeply, deeply ashamed and terribly sorry that Americans have killed and wounded innocent Afghan people,” Colonel Nicholson said, recounting to reporters the words he had used in the meetings. In a videoconference to reporters at the Pentagon, he added, “We made official apologies on the part of the U.S. government” and paid $2,000 for each death.”
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Letter to Newport Chamber of Commerce in response to the exclusion of VFP and others from their Loyalty Day Parade, May 5, 2007 Gordon
To Whom it May Concern:
I have read several reports about your recent "Loyalty Day" parade and the exclusion of the Veterans for Peace and other groups with messages calling for an end to war. There is video tape of parade organizer, Patty Louisiana saying that the peace message, even from combat veterans, "doesn’t support the spirit of our community". Is (…)

Whoever tells the truth is chased out of nine villages. Turkish proverb The books pile up. Commentators liberally critique. Critics liberally comment. In a kaleidoscopic rush of analysis, disseminated mostly on the internet, the reasons and the causes for the Iraq War ceaselessly tumble forth. Sad, many of the moves are made to cover someone’s ass. Tenet didn’t mean ’Slam Dunk’ but ’Foul Shot’ it turns out. And he didn’t want to release the information he had before the election, well, (…)