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Anette Remme, president of SAIH, finds the reactions from the Iranian Embassy to be both provocative and unacceptable. We have been told that the image of the poster now has begun to circulate among students in Iran. I hope that this gives the Iranian students the feeling that we stand together, and that it can provide inspiration in the struggle for justice.
Which is why the embassy demanded its removal, of course.
[Dawn] Italian police fired tear gas and water cannons on Saturday in Rome as protesters turned a demonstration against corporate greed into a riot, smashing shop and bank windows, torching cars and hurling bottles.
The protest in the Italian capital, which left dozens injured, was part of the 'Occupy Wall Street' demonstrations against capitalism and austerity measures that went global on Saturday.
Tens of thousands dubbed 'the indignant' marched in major cities across Europe, as protests that began in New York linked up with long-running demonstrations against government cost-cutting and failed financial policies in Europe.
Heavy smoke billowed into the air in downtown Rome as a small group broke away from the main demonstration and wreaked havoc in streets close to the Colosseum.
Clad in black with their faces covered, protesters threw rocks, bottles and incendiary devices at banks and Rome police in riot gear. Some protesters had clubs, others had hammers. They destroyed bank ATMs, set trash bins on fire and assaulted at least two news crews from Sky Italia.TV footage showed police in riot gear charging the protesters and firing water cannons at them. Several police forces and protesters were maimed, including one man trying to stop the protesters from throwing bottles. Television footage showed a young woman with blood covering her face, while the ANSA news agency said one man had lost two fingers when a firecracker went kaboom!.
In the city's St. John in Lateran square, police vans came under attack, with protesters hurling rocks and cobblestones and smashing the vehicles.
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A great blow was struck against Civilization when spanking was made illegal.
We could use some reforms to a system that seems to have some excesses. It's hard to argue that 14Million unemployed in our country isn't a real problem.
But being a stinky hippie living in a public park and chanting socialist slogans on the evening news isn't what I had in mind.
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As far as I know, the Occupy Madison protests have not turned into this. In fact, protests in general seem to be far lighter on the carbecues and vandalism here in the States.
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...maybe because 1:13 happens in the States. While the merchants in the New York area may be S*** up the Creek as they're disarmed, all the other 'Occupies' might find life interesting in their cities.
Spains center-right opposition Peoples Party (PP) is on track to win a convincing absolute majority in the Nov. 20 general election, two newspaper polls showed on Sunday.
If the election were held tomorrow, the PP would get 45.5 percent of the vote, 15.8 percentage points ahead of the ruling Socialists, the PSOE, a poll published by the center-left El Pais showed. A poll published by the right-leaning paper El Mundo put the PPs lead at 17.2 percentage points, the partys biggest lead since January.
Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has been in power since 2004, but his popularity has plummeted as a result of a recession which has seen unemployment rise to the highest level of any industrialized nation.
The Spanish socialists have been beneficiaries of some 'fortunate' terrible events just before the polls in the last couple of elections. Not that we're cynics at the Burg, but I'd ask the police to be extra-careful these next few weeks...
According to both polls, the PP, led by Mariano Rajoy, would secure 185 to 196 seats in the 350-seat parliament, handing the party a strong mandate to govern.
Rajoy is better able to tackle the economy and markets and inspires more confidence than Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, the veteran PSOE politician running for the Socialist ticket, according to those polled by Metroscopia on behalf of El Pais.
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Zapatero is a far left pinhead - good riddance. He was a huge green energy / green jobs proponent which failed miserably and put Spain even deeper in debt.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
