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Thousands of anti-globalisation demonstrators have marched through the centre of the north German city of Hamburg protesting against a meeting of EU and Asian ministers.
The protesters erected barricades and police responded with water cannon and baton charges after being pelted with bottles and stones.
Police said that 24 people had been arrested. The protests took place on the first day of a two-day conference between foreign ministers from the EU and Asian countries.
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Who among you doesn’t believe that the Neocons in Washington didn’t design the "liberation" of Iraq specifically to create a dynamic and noble democracy, evict a tyrant who threatened the entire planet and in particular the USA, and establish a decent country in the Mid East which honors the "rule of law"?
Who?
We’ve done a swell job! Shock and Awe cowed the populace exactly as predicted, Rumsfeld’s slim and trim Army marched in, established law and order, and controlled actions on the (…)

Russian gay activists vowed yesterday to hold a demonstration in Moscow despite a ban, a year after a similar attempt led to arrests by police, attacks by right-wing nationalists and verbal abuse by pensioners.
The Sunday demonstration is to mark the 14th anniversary of Russia’s decriminalisation of homosexuality. But despite that move, intolerance of homosexuality remains high in Russia; it is denounced by the dominant Russian Orthodox Church and President Vladimir Putin in his annual (…)

A shocking telephone interview with the Federal reserve bank - The criminal and fraudulent activities of the Federal Reserve
Original Article is in german, translated by babelfish into english:
(source: Dan Benham d.benham@worldnet.att.net )
In the following an interview about FED (Federal reserve system), which many humans falsely regard as US central bank. A telephone interview to the Federal reserve of Dan Benham © 2002
The following is a Konversation with Mr. Ron Supinski of the (…)

By Nicola Nasser*
The defensive and guarded Arab reaction to the self-pronounced and reported pro-Israel and pro-America statements of Nicolas Paul Stephane Sarkozy de Nagy-Bocsa, who was sworn in as the new President of France on May 16, as well as his Jewish connection and that of his foreign policy team, have alerted Arab capitals and public opinion to a possibly imminent break with his country’s more than a five-decade old balanced approach to Arab conflicts and the Arab – Israeli (…)

World Press Freedom in the Eyes & Ears of the Beholder by Trish Schuh UNITED NATIONS- On the annual World Press Freedom Day in May, UNESCO hosted an event for journalists called "Press Freedom, Safety of Journalists and Impunity." Under Article 1 of its Constitution, UNESCO is the only United Nations agency with a mandate to defend freedom of expression and press freedom.
United Nations Correspondent Association President Tuyet J. Nguyen spoke about the life-threatening (…)

"...Given Bush administration debacles in Iraq and Afghanistan and its encouragement for Israel to continue its destruction of Lebanon this past summer, the situation in Lebanon mirrors, in some respects, the early 1980’s when groups sprung up to resist the US green lighted Israeli invasion and occupation. But rather than being Shia and pro-Hezbollah, today’s groups are largely Sunni and anti-Hezbollah. Hence they qualify for US aid, funneled by Sunni financial backers in league with the (…)

Seven Insurance Companies Pay Silverstein Properties $2 billion As Settlement For 9/11 Insurance Claims InsuranceNewsNet, Inc. May 24, 2007 "The nearly six year long legal wrangling between Silverstein Properties and seven insurance companies finally ended with the biggest settlement agreement in regulatory history: $2 billion.
The agreement, which covers all outstanding insurance claims arising from the September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, was reached through the (…)

We bandy around the word insane, we call those who disagree with use crazy. We have a stereotyped image of a crazy person cowering in a fetal position gibbering incoherently. But mental illness and insanity are real, and at the highest levels of government are more than just debilitating they are threatening for the peaceful existence of the planet it’s self.
What sets mental illness apart is from physical illness is the ability of the person to hide the symptoms of the disease. For (…)

“History...has no present, only the past rushing into the future.” - John F. Kennedy, our martyred President. (1)
Jamestown, VA - For some reason, I wasn’t invited by the British Embassy to welcome QE II to the 400th reunion bash, which celebrated the founding of the colony here a few weeks back. It might have had something to do with the fact that the last time I was in Her Majesty’s presence, it was at a major league baseball game at the now-defunct Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium, on May (…)