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SPIEGEL: “You are trying to say that critics of Islam are systematically silenced in Germany?”

Posted by on 10/2/2006 7 comments

Syrian-born German Islamic expert Bassam Tibi: SPIEGEL: You are trying to say that critics of Islam are systematically silenced in Germany? Tibi: Yes. Even the comparatively moderate Turkish organization DITIB says there are no Islamists, only Islam and Muslims ” …

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Why Would Bush Debate Ahmadnejad On Television?

Posted by on 8/29/2006 13 comments

I mean really…This man is a nut! Reuters ran Ahmadinejad challenges Bush to TV debate. The best part of the piece was “I suggest holding a live TV debate with Mr. George W. Bush to talk about world affairs and …

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Cracks In UN Plan Expose Israel

Posted by on 8/18/2006 3 comments

France and Germany Make Way for Muslim Nations France disappointed the U.N. with its surprise announcement that it is sending only 200 troops instead of the thousands that were anticipated. The absence of the French and the refusal of Germany …

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Stage-Managed Massacre

Posted by on 8/8/2006 Comments Off

FrontPage According to the German scholar Matthias Küntzel, “the Berlin daily the Tagesspiegel published a letter-to-the-editor from Dr. Mounir Herzallah, a Shiite from the South of Lebanon. Dr. Herzallah reports on how Hezbollah-terrorists came to his town, dug a munitions …

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Angela Merkel won the battle to be Germany’ first female chancellor

Posted by on 10/10/2005 6 comments

Yahoo Germany broke new political ground as Angela Merkel won the battle to be its first female chancellor, heading a government uniting the country’s two biggest parties and ending Gerhard Schroeder’s grip on power. Schroeder, who has led Europe’s biggest …

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Angie WON, I think

Posted by on 9/18/2005 2 comments

AP Conservative challenger Angela Merkel’s party won the most votes in German elections Sunday but fell short of a clear mandate to govern, according to official results. Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder staged a dramatic comeback and proclaimed that he should head …

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Angie! Angie!

Posted by on 8/17/2005 1 comment

Yahoo BERLIN – The conservative challenger to Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder kicked off her campaign for next month’s elections calling for more jobs and economic growth, even as polls showed the chancellor’s party gaining in popularity. Yet Schroeder’s Social Democrats ” …

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German Protesters

Posted by on 2/24/2005 27 comments

German Protesters Call Bush ‘No. 1 Terrorist’ About 12,000 protesters, many carrying banners reading “Bush go home,” “No. 1 Terrorist” and “Warmonger,” marched through the German city of Mainz on Wednesday, but were mostly kept away from the visiting U.S. …

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Don’t Count on it, Kerry

Posted by on 9/27/2004 24 comments

No French or German turn on Iraq French and German government officials say they will not significantly increase military assistance in Iraq even if John Kerry, the Democratic presidential challenger, is elected on November 2. Mr Kerry, who has attacked …

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Reparations

Posted by on 8/11/2004 4 comments

Germans Demand War Reparations In what might seem an act of monumental nerve, a group of Germans is seeking compensation from Poland for property lost at the end of World War II. The war began with Germany’s invasion of Poland, …

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Terrorists plan attack on German leaders?? But I thought….

Posted by on 3/23/2004 9 comments

Assassination of German president foiled German President Johannes Rau has cancelled a planned visit to Djibouti after German security services warned him of an assassination plot, his office says. The statement said the security services had received information that an …

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Companies – Just Say NO!

Posted by on 3/3/2003 3 comments

ADIDAS – ATHLETIC SHOE AND CLOTHING COMPANY AUDI AUTOMOTIVE BAEDEKER’S TRAVEL GUIDES BECK’S BIER BERTELSMANN-RANDOM HOUSE BIRKENSTOCK – SHOE COMPANY BMW CONTINENTAL TIRES DAIMLER/CHRYSLER DEUTSCHE BANK HECKLER & KOCH FIREARMS HENCKELS KNIVES LUFTHANSA – GERMAN AIRLINES MANNESMANN REXROTH/BOSCH CORP. – …

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