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  • Bush Arrives in Germany, KFC Closes
    23 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bush is here. The US president’s seven hour German stopover is being treated with all the pomp of a royal wedding. His visit has forced the shutdown of large parts of Mainz, causing economic hardship for many businesses. Is it worth it? Plus, we offer tips on alternative venues for future Bush visits.
    Where will the President get his KFC?
    Breaking news of the day: It’s getting hard to find American fast food in Mainz on Wednesday. In fact, the entire city center has been shut down, (…)

  • Bush Was Wired for NATO Press Conference
    23 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    George W. Bush, who is allegedly on a "charm offensive" across Europe, dropped the charm and was simply offensive at his NATO press conference when he once again relied on a hidden earpiece to feed him canned soundbite answers to reporters’ questions.
    As NASA scientist Robert Nelson proved last fall, George W. Bush relied on a wireless earpiece in all three of his debates with John Kerry during the 2004 campaign. While bloggers (including Democrats.com, IsBushWired.com, MysteryBulge, (…)

  • Portugal’s Socialists Win Absolute Majority
    22 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Portugal’s opposition Socialists scored their biggest electoral win, giving Prime Minister-elect Jose Socrates an absolute parliamentary majority to implement plans to kick-start growth in Western Europe’s poorest country.
    The Socialists won 120 of the 230 seats in parliament in a general election on Sunday, the first time any party has held an outright majority for a decade, and their victory was endorsed by a large voter turnout.
    Socrates, who ousted center-right Prime Minister Pedro (…)

  • Madrid Fire Re-opens 9/11 Questions: Why did the twin towers fall so fast?
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Madrid Fire Re-opens 9/11 Questions
    Prior to 9/11, no steel building had ever collapsed due to fire. Here is a photo of the smoking buildings. wtc2, was on fire for less than an hour when it collapsed.
    Isn’t it odd, the wtc collapsed after an hour, and the black smoke indicates that fire wasn’t even burning hot. Now compare- this is the Madrid Fire, it burned for 10 hours and still has not collapsed.
    Why did wtc2 only last an hour before collapse while the Madrid building burned (…)

  • Refusing to Hear War Crimes Case Against Rumsfeld Only a Temporary Setback
    13 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Center for Constitutional Rights Blasts Ruling of German Prosecutor Refusing to Hear War Crimes Case Against Rumsfeld.
    Attorneys in the Case Say Decision Is Politically Motivated, Timed For Rumsfeld’s Visit and Only a Temporary Setback. NEW YORK, NY - The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) today expressed dismay at the erroneous ruling by German courts concluding that the United States is not unwilling to prosecute high-ranking officials for the abuses at Abu Ghraib (…)

  • Gonzales Added to War Crimes Suit: Testimony Confirms Role in Torture
    3 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Synopsis
    CCR filed new documents on January 31, 2005, with the German Federal Prosecutor looking into war crimes charges against high-ranking U.S. officials including Donald Rumsfeld: one includes new evidence that the Fay investigation into Abu Ghraib protected Administration officials - it is a comprehensive and shocking opinion by Scott Horton, an expert on international law and the Chair of the International Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
    The (…)

  • Rumsfeld Scraps Visit To Germany Over Abu Ghraib War Crimes Probe
    25 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Rumsfeld Scraps Visit To Germany Over Abu Ghraib War Crimes Probe
    MUNICH - Due to Germany’s refusal to halt a law suit against him, United States Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he will not take part at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, in February, according to Expatica.
    The lawsuit, filed by the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights in December with the Federal German Prosecutor’s Office, accuses Rumsfeld of war crimes and torture in connection with (…)

  • Police Hunt Poo Protesters
    23 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.ananova.com/news/story/s...
    Police Hunt Poo Protesters
    January 22, 2005
    Police in Germany are hunting pranksters who have been sticking miniature US flags into piles of dog poo in public parks.
    Josef Oettl, parks administrator for Bayreuth, said: "This has been going on for about a year now, and there must be 2,000 to 3,000 piles of excrement that have been claimed during that time."
    The series of incidents was originally thought to be some sort of protest against the (…)

  • No to the European Constitution! Yes to a Socialist Europe!
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The world crisis of capitalism has hit Europe very hard. In all European countries we are witnessing budget cuts, privatisations, and social regression. There are officially 16 million unemployed in the EU-15, which is around 9 percent of the population. Poverty affects 70 million people, of which 17 million are children. Food insecurity affects 5 percent of the European population. These statistics in themselves illustrate the complete bankruptcy of the capitalist system. On a rich and (…)

  • Amaia Urizar says Spanish Civil Guard officers raped her with pistol
    31 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The video of the press conference here
    The Basque organization against torture TAR and the family of Amaia Urizar denounced in a press conference that Amaia had been violated in the barracks of Guardia Civil. Amaia Urizar had been arrested by Guardia Civil and had been kept in secrecy during five days. Here the terrible testimony of Amaia Urizar.
    Attention : testimony and text very hard
    AMAIA URIZAR DE PAZ
    I was arrested on Friday, October 29th, at three AM, while I was in my (…)