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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A lawmaker from Greece’s extreme-right Golden Dawn party allegedly tried to punch the mayor of Athens on Thursday, swinging at him but reportedly missing and hitting a 12-year-old girl instead. The confrontation came hours after police used pepper spray to prevent the nationalist party from distributing free food to Greek citizens only in the city’s main Syntagma Square in defiance of a municipal ban the [...] LANSING, Mich. — Michigan House passes right-to-work measure in defiance of angry (Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com … GREENWICH, Conn. (CBSNewYork) — An extreme hoarding situation ended in extreme sadness on Tuesday. It may have been a final act of defiance that killed a man and seriously injured his sick mother. The run-down home has been an eyesore for years, attracting complaints from neighbors and the city of Greenwich. Now, the woman who owns it is badly burned and her 42-year-old son is dead, CBS 2’s Lou Young reported. The fire [...] Reuters A group of about 150 Mormons quit their church in a mass resignation ceremony in Salt Lake City on Saturday in a rare display of defiance ending decades of disagreement for some over issues ranging from polygamy to gay marriage. Participants from Utah, Arizona, Idaho and elsewhere gathered in a public park to sign a “Declaration of Independence from Mormonism.” “This feels awesome,” said Alison Lucas, from West Jordan, Utah, [...] Uruguay – in a bid to curb a narcotics-fuelled violent crimewave across the country – has unveiled plans to nationalise its cannabis market and become the first government in the world to sell the soft drug to consumers. The measure is aimed at both reducing the rising power of drug gangs and the growing number of users of crack and freebase cocaine in what has traditionally been one of Latin America’s [...] From The Burning Platform: When you read an excellent article like the one below from Brandon Smith, you realize that we will never fix this system through the existing political and economic structure. The system is rigged. The laws protect the criminals. The regulations enrich the mega-corporations. The cental bank exists to benefit bankers and politicians. The military and police state exist to protect the few from the many. We are a [...] In Defiance Of US Justice Department, Florida To Continue Voter Purge Florida state officials will continue their quest to purge purportedly ineligible people from voter-registration rolls, a representative of Secretary of State Ken Detzner said Saturday, in defiance of objections from the U.S. Justice Department and county officials who say the policy violates two federal voting laws. Despite the warning, Detzner’s representative said on Saturday the state intends to go forward with [...] Reuters Iran has significantly stepped up its output of low-enriched uranium and total production in the last five years would be enough for at least five nuclear weapons if refined much further, a U.S. security institute said. The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), a think-tank which tracks Iran’s nuclear program closely, based the analysis on data in the latest report by the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) which was issued [...] Palestinian militant groups and moderate politicians alike have predicted that years of relative tranquility could be brought to an abrupt and violent end if any of the 1,600 inmates now refusing food were to starve to death. The International Committee of the Red Cross said this week that the six inmates who have declined sustenance the longest are “at imminent risk of dying”. None of the six, who have all been admitted [...] Palestinian militant groups and moderate politicians alike have predicted that years of relative tranquility could be brought to an abrupt and violent end if any of the 1,600 inmates now refusing food were to starve to death. The International Committee of the Red Cross said this week that the six inmates who have declined sustenance the longest are “at imminent risk of dying”. None of the six, who have all been admitted [...] When riot police broke up a recent protest over a forced eviction,Vietnam’s bloggers were ready — hidden in nearby trees, they documented the entire incident and quickly posted videos and photos online. Their shaky images spread like wildfire on Facebook, in a sign of growing online defiance in Vietnam, in the face of efforts by authorities to rein in the country’s Internet community. “They follow me, they keep track of what I am writing, they [...] Mother tells how her 11-year-old boy’s ‘entire character’ changed when he began watching porn on his laptop in his own bedroom His internet history showed he had also watched ‘vile, paedophiliac images’ presented in cartoon form Major internet firms were yesterday accused [...] By Kevin Sieff Sometimes, capturing a Taliban commander requires vast resources and complex operations. Last week in eastern Afghanistan, it required neither. Mohammad Ashan, a mid-level Taliban commander in Paktika province, strolled toward a police checkpoint in the district of Sar Howza with a wanted poster bearing his own face. He demanded the finder’s fee referenced on the poster: $100. Afghan officials, perplexed by the man’s misguided motives, arrested him [...] by Phoenix Capital Research
Earlier this month, Spain began “rocking” the EU boat by telling the EU it wasn’t going to meet the new EU fiscal requirements.
Spain’s sovereign thunderclap and the end of Merkel’s Europe
As many readers will already have seen, Premier Mariano Rajoy has refused point blank to comply with the austerity demands of the European Commission and the European Council (hijacked by Merkozy).
Taking what he called a “sovereign decision”, he simply [...] By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Economics Last updated: March 5th, 2012 (Photo: Corbis) The Spanish rebellion has begun, sooner and more dramatically than I expected. As many readers will already have seen, Premier Mariano Rajoy has refused point blank to comply with the austerity demands of the European Commission and the European Council (hijacked by Merkozy). Taking what he called a “sovereign decision”, he simply announced that he intends to ignore the EU deficit target of 4.4pc of GDP [...] From FT:
The US believes India will be the only major Asian buyer of Iranian crude to maintain its imports in the first half of this year, according to people close to Washington’s efforts to use financial sanctions to disrupt Tehran’s nuclear programme. Delhi has so far resisted calls to reduce its energy dependence on Tehran in spite of the rising US and European pressure on Asian countries, including China, Japan and South [...] Refusing to be irradiated treated as suspicious behaviour Steve Watson Instances of TSA agents demanding to know why travelers are “opting out” of walking through x-ray firing body scanners, and treating the action as suspicious, continue to be reported. Traveler Ryan Alford told Lew Rockwell.com “I travel weekly for work and always choose to opt out of the naked body scanners. (I don’t know what’s worse, the pat down or radiation exposure, but [...] Andreas Whittam Smith When Poland’s Foreign Minister refers to German tanks and Russian missiles, as Radoslaw Sikorski did on Monday, one sits up. Poland suffered repeated invasions by Germany and Russia from the late 18th century until the last Soviet troops withdrew in 1993. Poland was truly independent only between 1918 and 1939. However, in a remarkable speech, by turns passionate and frank, Mr Sikorski was not breathing [...] Silver is down more than 3% to well under $36 an ounce, easily outpacing most of the rest of the commodity pack in their defiance of the stock market’s dogged effort to move higher. Gold, copper and aluminum are down, too, but not nearly as much as silver. Some of this may have to do with a bucketload of data coming from China tonight, including readings on [...] TEHRAN, Iran — Iran will soon install more advanced centrifuges at its new uranium enrichment site, the country’s nuclear chief said Wednesday, underscoring Tehran’s continued defiance in the face of international sanctions imposed over its controversial nuclear program. Vice President Fereidoun Abbasi also announced that Iran plans to triple its output of the higher enriched uranium in 2011 and move the entire program to the new, [...] Texas lawmakers may reconsider a bill to outlaw controversial airport pat-downs, the sponsor of legislation that was shelved recently said this week. Texas state Rep. David Simpson (R) said that Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst asked Gov. Rick Perry to include the measure in a special session of the Texas legislature. Dewhurst reported asked lawmakers to withdraw the bill when federal officials threatened to cancel [...] From AFP: BEIJING — Up to 30 members of a Chinese evangelical church were arrested on Sunday for trying to hold an Easter service in defiance of the officially atheist government, a member of the clergy said. A large number of police began to gather early Sunday in the Zhongguancun area of Beijing where the Shouwang Church had said it would hold an outdoor service to mark [...] |
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