Sunday, August 31, 2008

Barack Obama and Nelson Mandela

Barack Obama and Nelson Mandela: Two Black Eyed Peas in a Pod

Barack Obama has mesmerized the masses with his mantra of "Change We Can Believe In" as terrorist Nelson Mandela fooled folks with his snake oil of "A New South Africa".

Educate yourself about harsh reality, don't be fooled by pretty platitudes, and beware such wolves in sheep's clothing, such Black racists pretending to be color-blind, such Marxist preachers abusing useful idiots to aid and abet them.
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OBAMA'S 'CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN': REPACKAGED FAILED POLICIES


The New South Africa
blog attempts to chronicle the extreme violence and secret genocide being committed against the white minority of South Africa. Tens of thousands of whites have been murdered since 1994. Brutal torture and rape is common and not even the young or elderly are spared.


http://www.dienuwesuidafrika.com | http://www.farmmurders.com | http://www.plaasmoorde.com

There Goes The Nation

It's A Sin To Vote For Obama!

Friday, August 29, 2008

German-Europe To Become World Power

On the Rise
2008/08/27
www.german-foreign-policy.com
DRESDEN/SCHWERIN
(Own report) - In the aftermath of the Saxonian NPD Party's local electoral victories, experts are fearing another parliamentary reinforcement of this rightwing extremist party. In the coming twelve months, there will be elections held in each of the NPD's regional strongholds. In Brandenburg, where they are sharing the candidature with their DVU rivals, local elections will be held already in September. In the meantime the NPD has been able to establish a "firm foothold" in several areas and seeks "to slowly take over other regions from these satellites" reports Andreas Speit, an expert on rightwing extremism, in a discussion with german-foreign-policy.com. The party's rise is not least of all due to its successful establishment as a rightwing extremist "collective movement", including violent "Kamaradschaften". The NPD's electoral victories are reinforcing racism and anti-Semitism in German society, as well as great-power fantasies, strengthening the view that Germany should be a world power, in rivalry with the United States. The NPD calls for "Europe" with "Germany as its focal point" becoming "an effective political and economic counter-balance to the USA".
Voter Base
Experts have been apprehensive that rightwing extremists could have more electoral successes this and the coming year, subsequent to the NPD's entry into each of Saxony's county councils through local elections at the beginning of June. In Saxony the NPD was able to extend its structures and have - for the first time - candidates statewide, which enhanced their electoral results from 1.3% in 2004 to 5.1%. In some areas they even surpassed the SPD and got up to 25% of the votes cast. According to opinion polls, they are expected to reach around nine percent in the 2009 state elections and again be represented in the state parliament. Similar prognoses have been made known for the state of Mecklenburg - West Pomerania. Hubertus Buchstein a political scientist based in Greifswald (Mecklenburg - West Pomerania) estimates the NPD's base of traditional voters in that region to be "over five percent" of the population.[1] Besides Mecklenburg - West Pomerania, local elections will also be held in Thuringia, in Saxony-Anhalt and in Saarland in 2009. In Saarland the NPD got more than 4% in the last elections. The influence of a strong rightwing extremist scene is being felt in Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt. The same holds true for Brandenburg, where local elections are scheduled already for September. Because the NPD, until now, has only been able to create its own structures in but one sector of Brandenburg, it has to give up some candidatures to the rightwing extremist DVU, which is already represented in the state parliament.
Growing Acceptance
As Andreas Speit, an expert on rightwing extremism, described in a discussion with german-foreign-policy.com, the NPD has been able to consolidate itself in several regions of the country over the past few years. The party is not only much more active in local politics than before, it "packages its ideology in a terminology, that speaks to anxieties and fears in the population" says Speit.[2] The party is also benefiting from the rightwing sentiment that, according to opinion polls, has been growing over the past few years. In its regional strongholds, the NPD has been able to considerably broaden its representation ranging from its presence in sports clubs Parent's Associations, in youth clubs and even their own medium and small business structures. Observers in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania are worried that the "civic strategy" is working. "The acceptance of an extremely rightwing content is growing steadily in the population."[3]
Collective Party
Simultaneously the NPD has been able to establish itself, to a growing extent, as a collective rightwing extremist party. It exerts "particularly over the past few years, a gravitational force on the entire extremist rightwing milieu" observes Speit.[4] This allows the NPD to consolidate within its party structures not only the numerous violence-prone neo-Nazis organized in local and regional "Kamaradschaften." It is attracting "even individuals from rightwing extremist intellectual milieus," says Speit. These are particularly active in state legislative parliamentary groups and their entourage. In fact, with the help of government finances to state parliamentary groups, the NPD has been able to gather a large number of academic trained rightwing extremists for its intellectualization efforts. It has had success so far in modulating conflicts between various tendencies and avoiding escalation of internal conflicts - an important prerequisite for success. It was because of such conflicts, among other things, that the NPD lost its newly won parliamentary influence at the beginning of the 1970s.
Violence
The NPD's political affinity to neo-Nazi violence, which has been consolidated through its cooperation with the Kamaradschaften, is not merely symbolized by several parliamentarians and parliamentary assistants with police records for assault and battery. Michael Andrejewski, NPD member of the Mecklenburg-West Pomerania state parliament, was responsible for the "Action 'Rostock stays German'" flyer in 1992, that called for "resistance" against an alleged "flood of aliens". The flyer was distributed in the summer of 1992, a prelude to the Rostock pogrom, during which a hostel was set afire, endangering more than 100 residents, who were barely able to escape the flames in time. Today Andrejewski is doing social counseling in eastern West-Pomerania.[5] The politically necessary verbal dissociation from rightwing extremist violence is generally on hand if needed. During a debate of the pogrom-like assaults on Turkish fast-food stands in the Saxonian capital Dresden, following the German victory over Turkey in the semi-finals of the European Soccer Cup, Juergen W. Gansel, an NPD MP in the state parliament, complained that the Saxonian Economic Minister paid visits of solidarity to the victims. Gansel demands that the state government not become "the fools of the aliens."[6]
European Focal Point
With the reinforcement of the NPD, not only racism and anti-Semitism is gaining influence in the society, great-power fantasies, seeing Germany as a world power in rivalry with the United States, are also being conceptualized. "Europe" must become "an effective political and economic counter-balance to the USA" is the perspective formulated in the party's "Europe Program". This concept sees Germany in a "special role", "as the European focal point."[7] The NPD demands that in the "political reorganization" of the continent, there must be "a ban on interventions for all those powers alien to the region." The keyword was coined by Carl Schmitt, an expert in governmental and constitutional law, the Third Reich's "crown jurist" and described as the "intellectual quartermaster" of German fascism, who today is again being extolled by establishment circles outside those of rightwing extremists.[8] The NPD, in its old anti-Semitic tradition, defines Israel and the USA as "powers alien to the region," but above all US-American influence is to be repelled from Europe.
"School of the Nation"
To "meet the challenges posed by the claims of other continental powers," the NPD calls for the dissolution of the EU and the founding of a loose "European federation", to be enhanced by an "European defense pact," a war alliance, militarily supportive of the rivalry with the USA. As always in German history, the military is of prime importance in these great power fantasies. The NPD demands that the "National German Armed Forces," "in the function of a 'school of the nation,' mold the oncoming generations and teach them the values of an new ethnic order of sovereign national states."[9] The world power ideology loaded with anti-Semitism and racism, makes this party into a highly aggressive potential, even for abroad, whose further development can be observed over the next 12 months in its electoral returns.[10]
Please read our Interview with Andreas Speit and our review of the book Neo-Nazis in Pinstripes by Andreas Speit and Andrea Röpke.

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The Intelligence Summit Misses the Mark: the German-Jesuit Threat to World Peace
The whole world has been focusing on Islamic terrorism, as is understandable, but the greatest threat to world peace is the German-dominated European Union! The United States has foolishly been helping to create such a Frankenstein Monster that will brutally betray both the American, British and Jewish peoples.

Is Germany in Danger of Backsliding?
We left it up to the Germans to "deNazify" their country! Now Germany appears to be backsliding as the Nazi German spirit is beginning to stir again, getting ready to break free from imposed shackles with a fury, and come back with a vengeance from the abyss, threatening to wreak havoc upon the world.

Europe's Bitter Roots
As prophesied, there were four Gentile superpowers: Babylon, the Medes and Persians, Greco-Macedonian, and Rome (Dan. 2:31-45). These are the roots Europe would do well to research.

Germany's Fourth Reich Spreads Its Wings Over the World
Those who strongly disagree with the "European Union" forging ahead, the Euro-skeptics, state sovereignty is under attack and that the EU is going backwards, descending into the darkness of fascism, not advancing democratic ideals but sacrificing them with impunity.

The Secret Nazis
Herbert W. Armstrong warned the Nazis only went underground and a declassified US document confirms it...

Germany Behind the Mask
For over 50 years, Herbert W. Armstrong warned that a German-led European combine would thresh the nations. When Germany lay in ashes after WWII, Mr. Armstrong had no doubt Germany would be back with a vengeance and he pounded this theme home through the pages of The Plain Truth magazine read by millions worldwide.

The EU is a German Ruse
Bill Cash, MP, questions "The German Question" [The European Journal, April 2007] "of what and where is Europe?" when "Germany has not even established her own national identity, which remains strikingly unstable even after reunification... let alone found a directing principle which can hold the ramshackle European Union together...".

Will The Atlantic Times address the German threat?
It is not in Germany's mind today, or its present peaceful people, to wage war against us, but that will all change overnight, after a head-on collision with the Islamic leader of a confederation of Muslim states, their mahdi, whetting Europe's appetite for more blood and morphing the...

German Government Recruiting South American Armies

Newsletter 2008/08/20 - Southern Cross
BERLIN/BUENOS AIRES/SANTIAGO DE CHILE (Own report) - The German government is seeking to integrate South American armies more firmly into German-European military programs through the expansion of
military cooperation and is particularly focusing on Argentina and Chile. Both countries are among Berlin's long-standing closest South American military allies. German arms manufacturers are furnishing weapons systems to the Chilean and Argentine armed forces. German soldiers are training military personnel at bases in both countries. At the same time, Germany is profiting from South American endeavors to intensify its own global military activities. Recently Buenos Aires and Santiago established a binational military contingent ("Cruz del
Sur", "Southern Cross") patterned after the German-French battalion and planned to be developed into a South American military alliance. "Cruz del Sur" is already participating at Germany's side in several military interventions around the globe. Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Inspector General of the Bundeswehr, recently returned from a visit to Argentina and Chile, exploring the possibilities of further intensifying the cooperation.
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The Intelligence Summit Misses the Mark: the German-Jesuit Threat to World Peace
The whole world has been focusing on Islamic terrorism, as is understandable, but the greatest threat to world peace is the German-dominated European Union! The United States has foolishly been helping to create such a Frankenstein Monster that will brutally betray both the American, British and Jewish peoples.

Is Germany in Danger of Backsliding?
We left it up to the Germans to "deNazify" their country! Now Germany appears to be backsliding as the Nazi German spirit is beginning to stir again, getting ready to break free from imposed shackles with a fury, and come back with a vengeance from the abyss, threatening to wreak havoc upon the world.

Europe's Bitter Roots
As prophesied, there were four Gentile superpowers: Babylon, the Medes and Persians, Greco-Macedonian, and Rome (Dan. 2:31-45). These are the roots Europe would do well to research.

Germany's Fourth Reich Spreads Its Wings Over the World
Those who strongly disagree with the "European Union" forging ahead, the Euro-skeptics, state sovereignty is under attack and that the EU is going backwards, descending into the darkness of fascism, not advancing democratic ideals but sacrificing them with impunity.

The Secret Nazis
Herbert W. Armstrong warned the Nazis only went underground and a declassified US document confirms it...

Germany Behind the Mask
For over 50 years, Herbert W. Armstrong warned that a German-led European combine would thresh the nations. When Germany lay in ashes after WWII, Mr. Armstrong had no doubt Germany would be back with a vengeance and he pounded this theme home through the pages of The Plain Truth magazine read by millions worldwide.

The EU is a German Ruse
Bill Cash, MP, questions "The German Question" [The European Journal, April 2007] "of what and where is Europe?" when "Germany has not even established her own national identity, which remains strikingly unstable even after reunification... let alone found a directing principle which can hold the ramshackle European Union together...".

Will The Atlantic Times address the German threat?
It is not in Germany's mind today, or its present peaceful people, to wage war against us, but that will all change overnight, after a head-on collision with the Islamic leader of a confederation of Muslim states, their mahdi, whetting Europe's appetite for more blood and morphing the...

Open Europe press summary - 29 August 2008

Europe

EU diplomats did not mention the word "sanctions" at Russia meeting

European Union diplomats yesterday agreed to increase assistance to Georgia but shied away from threats to impose sanctions against Moscow as a result of continuing divisions over the approach to take to Russia. There was no consensus on whether to postpone discussions on a new partnership agreement with Russia, scheduled for September 16. A diplomat told the IHT that the word "sanction" had not been used at the meeting. "We don't want to give [Russia] the stick with which to beat us," a French diplomat told the WSJ.

The IHT reports that former Communist EU states will push for visa restrictions on Russian citizens. "We cannot pretend to behave as if nothing has happened, as if this was just a bad dream," Latvian Foreign Minister Maris Riekstins said. "Leaders have to come up with something concrete." Russia mocked talk of sanctions however. "I think it's a manifestation of the complete embarrassment at the fact that the favorite pet of Western capitals...didn't justify their hopes," said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in a reference to Georgia and its President, Mikheil Saakashvili.

The Charlemagne page of the Economist discusses the forthcoming EU leaders' summit on 1st September, arguing that "the rhetoric seems largely empty...The summit is not expected to agree to make any big changes to the status quo... weakness, selfishness and division will continue, however many fingers wag in Brussels on September 1st."

EUobserver notes that "Germany's close relations with Russia are the main obstacle to signing a major EU-Ukraine treaty at the upcoming EU-Ukraine summit in France", citing Ukrainian diplomats. Kiev is concerned that if this deal falls through, it will signal to Moscow that it can veto EU policy towards ex-Soviet states.

Russia has claimed that the US started the war in Georgia as an election ploy to strengthen John McCain's Presidential bid. "The suspicion arises that someone in the United States especially created this conflict to make the situation more tense and create a competitive advantage for one of the candidates fighting for the post of US president," Putin said in an interview on CNN. Meanwhile, the WSJ reports that the Bush administration has placed under review talks with Moscow focused on missile defence and nuclear-weapons disarmament, according to US. officials - which could cast uncertainty over the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.

El Pais notes that Moscow is facing international isolation, even amongst its own allies. The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, of which Russia, China and ex-Soviet central Asian states are members, issued a bland statement on the war in Georgia, and did not recognise the two breakaway republics.

Economist Economist 2 Economist 3 WSJ WSJ 2 EUobserver EUobserver 2 IHT FT FT leader El Pais Independent Guardian BBC Today Programme Telegraph Economist Certain Ideas of Europe blog

EU exports to Iran increase despite sanctions

As large European companies scale down operations to avoid sanctions, they are being replaced by small and medium-sized enterprises entering Iran's market. According to Eurostat, this change has led to a rise in EU exports to Iran of 17.8 percent in the first four months of this year. Although smaller companies are not breaching any legal ban on trade, one Western diplomat called the rise in figures "politically embarrassing" whilst another added that "the new figures encourage more EU sanctions".

FT

New EU pesticide norms that ban three quarters of pesticides come under heavy criticism

New EU pesticide rules are to come into force from September 1, in the face of protests claiming that they would have a significant negative impact on the economy and on agriculture. It is feared they might reduce yields of cereals, potatoes and field vegetables during a time of increasing food prices and fears of food shortages, but not have any major reduction in the public's overall exposure to chemicals. Environmental lobby groups furthermore allege they violate food safety, announcing their intention to challenge the law in court. Developing countries are also concerned they might harm their exports.

Yorkshire Post Euractiv Mondaq Cattle Network

Javier Solana's think-tank calls for direct elections of Commission President

In Le Monde Thomas Ferenczi looks to the 2009 European Parliament elections, for which preparations have already begun, in France and elsewhere. He reports that (EU-funded) think-tank La Fondation Madariaga, whose President is the EU's High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana, has suggested that voters should be asked to vote for the President of the Commission at the same time as choosing an MEP - an idea defended by Jacques Delors ten years ago.

Le Monde

The European Parliament wants to "enforce its presence" in Vienna by paying 23 million euros for a building that will host an information and visitors centre amongst other things.

Die Presse Kleine Zeitung

Commission welcomes French plan to close consulates within the EU

In a speech to French ambassadors and ministers, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has revealed plans to close French consulates within the EU. He notes that France last year made a joint decision with Spain and Italy to close several of their consulates, a move that was "welcomed by the President of the European Commission as a profoundly European gesture." He said "It should be done everywhere. We are going to do it everywhere."

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Andrew Duff: Irish misgivings about neutrality in Lisbon Treaty "insignificant"

In the FT, Lib-Dem MEP Andrew Duff argues, "Faced with Europe's dramatic security crisis, the Irish position looks increasingly preposterous. Viewed from the perspective of Gori or Tskhinvali, Irish misgivings about neutrality rather pale into insignificance. Lisbon gives the European Union the wherewithal to do good in world affairs. If Ireland really wants to play no part in that effort, it should say so and depart." On his Telegraph blog, Dan Hannan picks up on Duff's comments and notes, "any Irish voters reading this, here's another reason to vote for Lisbon: so that your sons can be sent to fight in Tskhinvali."

FT Dan Hannan's blog Open Europe's blog

One of Turkey's most senior army commanders, General Kosaner alleged that law changes to aid Turkish entry to the EU had made the fight against terrorist organisations in Turkey less effective.

Guardian

In the New York Sun, Jagdish N. Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya of Columbia University argue that a successful conclusion to the Doha world trade talks is still possible and urge the US to reduce its level of trade-distorting farm subsidies.

New York Sun

The Irish Referendum Commission - set up prior to the Lisbon Treaty referendum to inform the public about the Treaty - has been sharply criticised for misspending its 5 million euro budget.

Irish Times

Angela Merkel has been named the world's most powerful woman by Forbes.

Independent

South Africa Ruled By Barbarians, America Next?

And ignorant and naive Americans want to vote Obama into power, a Black Supremacist who was indoctrinated by Black racist preacher Jeremiah Wright for over 20 years and only recently distanced himself for political purposes? Because Obama has "learned to talk to White people"? Because Obama has learned how to pull the wool over their eyes! Useful idiots, a danger to themselves and others.

South Africa Ruled By Barbarians, America Next?

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Blind to Joseph's Identity!

Re: Historic Fraud: Indian Bnei Menashe
Post Date: 2008-08-25 20:12:10 by David Ben-Ariel

18. To: Magician (#13)

None of the ten tribes landed up in northern Europe or Britain, despite the claims of such insane persons as Herbert Armstrong - and yourself.

Joseph's brethren were also blind to his identity and Joseph stood right in front of them. Nothing new under the sun, eh? Foolishly calling Herbert W. Armstrong or myself "insane" because you're apparently willfully deaf, dumb and blind to the Hebrew roots, the Israelite origins, of the White peoples of Northwestern Europe and the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic peoples doesn't change the facts. Was Orde Wingate "insane" too? And other Christian Zionists too? What lashon hara! (evil tongue, slander). Your prejudice, your bigotry against White Israelites (who are not Jewish and never have been) blinds you.

May God grant you repentance and help you to see, rather than continue to wander in the wilderness fooling yourself that Asian and African converts to the religion of Judaism have somehow changed their race, their ethnicity, and become - presto! - Israelites! Again, if they're ethnic Israelites, you're not! You can't have it both ways. Your Indian emperor has no clothes! Your Indian converts are not Israelites any more than the "Black Hebrews" that pollute Dimona with their unclean presence are Israelites.

If you knew the Bible and history, or weren't in denial of it, you would know that the Northern Ten Tribes of ISRAEL (not Jews, not Jewish, not of Judah), were not to remain in those areas but were foretold to migrate NORTH and WEST and into the ISLES. "We The People" (Am Yisrael) have done so, as the Law and Prophets testify. To ignorantly imagine Israelites have stayed put in the Middle East only is like saying the only true Jews (not Israelites) are in the Middle East (as some do say).

Yair Davidiy, a Torah-observant Jew, founder of Brit-Am Israel in Jerusalem, Israel, offers a treasure trove of rabbinical sources and Jewish information that help reveal Joseph as the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic peoples. Truly, Jews like Yair Davidiy (and Avraham Feld, rabbi) are wonderful pioneers and help hasten the process of redemption that calls for the restoration and reconciliation between Joseph (Northern Ten Tribes of ISRAEL, capital Samaria) and Judah (Southern Kingdom of Judah, capital Jerusalem), that we may ultimately become One Nation Under God, a truly United Kingdom.

Israel in the Isles "LISTEN, O isles, unto me: and hearken, ye people from afar" (Isa. 49:1); and then makes the declaration: "Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified." (v. 3)

The Plain Truth about the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel

Israel and Judah Must Get House in Order Before King Messiah Arrives

David Ben-Ariel posted on 2008-08-28 08:32:10 ET Reply Trace

Open Europe press summary - 28 August 2008

Europe

Irish officials meet Danish counterparts to get advice on how to push through Lisbon Treaty;

Irish PM admits second Lisbon referendum will be considered

The Irish Independent reports that Taoiseach Brian Cowen has conceded the government will have to consider a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. He said: "I'm saying it's simply a matter the Government have to consider in due course. But we're not at that point in our discussions at all yet. The point we're at in our discussions is examining the outcome of the referendum and obviously there will be a number of meetings with EU colleagues between now and the end of the year when it will be discussed further with them." Mr Cowen's comments follow those of European Affairs Minister Dick Roche, who said at the weekend he felt a second referendum would ultimately be needed to solve the current impasse. Although Mr Cowen said that there had been much "idle speculation" on the matter, he did not admonish Mr Roche for his comments.

The Irish Times reports that Irish officials met with their Danish counterparts earlier this month to get advice on how Ireland could opt out of crucial aspects of the Lisbon Treaty, in a similar arrangement to the one the Danes opted for following the 'No' to the Maastricht Treaty in a referendum. In 1992, the Danish government responded to the rejection of the Maastricht Treaty by coming up with a proposal to opt out of four key areas of EU activity - the euro, defence, justice and common EU citizenship. The proposals were then approved in a second Danish referendum in 1993.

The article notes that if Ireland were to similarly seek opt-outs from the Lisbon Treaty on issues such as defence and the Charter of Fundamental Rights, the approval of all other 26 EU member states would be required and another referendum in Ireland would be necessary. The meeting was first reported in Jyllands-Posten and diplomatic sources in Dublin have reportedly confirmed the meeting took place.

The Irish Independent reports that a spokeswoman for opposition party Fine Gael said that talk of a second referendum was unhelpful, and only served to highlight the "arrogance and lack of respect" the government has for voters. A spokesman for the Labour Party reiterated the party's belief that there can be no question of simply putting the same proposition to the people again. He said comments about holding a second referendum were "not helpful".

The leader of Fianna Fail's Progressive Democrat partners said: "One way or another, we will have to return to the Irish people to consult them on the way forward with the European Union. I believe we must fully analyse why it was that the recent referendum was rejected and we must construct a fresh proposition, with the help of the European Union, which will find the clear support of the Irish people."

Green Party leader and Environment Minister John Gormley said it was too early to offer up ideas on what to do, but said the issue was bound to be discussed when Taoiseach Brian Cowen goes to Brussels next week, ostensibly for talks about the crisis in Georgia.

Irish Independent Irish Times Open Europe blog Irish Independent leader Irish Independent 2 Irish Independent 3

Danish government vouches to defend Denmark's immigration laws against ECJ ruling - "no one imagined that the EU would go as far as it has''

Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said he will defend his country's immigration laws, following an ECJ ruling which struck down restrictions on the residency of foreign spouses of EU citizens. Bloomberg quotes Rasmussen as saying, "Denmark's immigration policy is not going to change; the voters need to know that the law holds. We're trying to change the set of rules inside the EU so that we can get things as we want them."

The ruling has stirred controversy in Denmark, with the government being accused of misinforming Danish citizens that the EU's rules on free movement do not apply in these instances. Integration Minister Birth Roenn Hornbech is quoted as saying, "We've agreed to free movement of labor in the EU but not the consequences of this principle. When we passed our immigration law in 2002, no one imagined that the EU would go as far as it has.''

Bloomberg EUobserver

Russia wins deepwater port in Abkazia - Crimea could be next on the list

UK Foreign Minister David Miliband warned Moscow to prepare for "hard-headed engagement" yesterday. However, De Tijd reports that Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson has said "the support of the EU for Russia entering the World Trade Organisation remains intact... obstacles still exist, but can be overcome if there is enough political will".

Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Hryhoriy Nemyria told the BBC Today Programme that his country was committed to holding a referendum on Nato membership. Bernard Kouchner, the French Foreign Minister, warned that "There are other objectives that one can suppose are objectives for Russia, in particular the Crimea, Ukraine and Moldova."

The Guardian reports that Ukrainian officials say Russia has been distributing passports to ethnic Russians living in Crimea, in a similar manner to Moscow's actions in South Ossetia. The IHT notes however that Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said he would open negotiations with the authorities in Moscow to raise the rent on the Russian naval base at Sevastopol. The paper also reports that the leader of the separatist region of Abkhazia said he would invite Russia to establish a naval base at the deep-water port of Sukhumi.

According to El Pais, Russian President Dmitri Medvédev has already warned Moldova not to commit "the same mistake as Georgia" in regard to the separatist region of Transdniester. The Telegraph notes that Moscow backs separatist rebels in Moldova's region of Transdniester in much the same way that the Kremlin supported South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

The Telegraph notes that so far, only the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, has followed Russia and recognised the independence of the two regions.

BBC Europe Correspondent Mark Mardell notes on his blog that President Sarkozy's suggestion that having the Lisbon Treaty in force would have made dealing with Russia is "rather an odd red herring of an argument". He argues that "institutional arrangements would have little impact on a fundamental truth of EU foreign policy: the huge difficulty in agreeing anything beyond bland platitudes."

Le Monde Le Monde FT FT 2 FT 3 FT Saakashvili EUobserver Telegraph Telegraph Times IHT Daily Mail BBC Today BBC Today 2 El Pais Independent Guardian European Voice European Voice Guérot De Tijd BBC Mardell Volkskrant The Guardian

Wind farms in "£6 billion rip-off"

The new wind farms required in the UK in order to meet EU renewable energy targets have been labelled "subsidy farms" by the EU Referendum blog. The blog notes that a single wind farm could receive up to £43 million in subsidies over twenty-five years. The article estimates that by 2020, wind farms could add £6 billion a year to consumers' energy bills, adding 25% more to the current cost of domestic electricity. Business Secretary John Hutton has said in an interview with the Telegraph that new energy investments could top £100 billion over the next decade.

Telegraph EU Referendum EU Referendum 2

Prospect: Mandelson "won the battle of spin" at Doha talks

Prospect's 'Brussels Diary' notes that Mandelson's time as EU Trade Commissioner has been "wasted" as a result of the failure of the Doha trade talks. However, it notes that "at least he won the battle of spin" by placing the blame on the US and India. It notes that Mandelson used his "famed media skills" to present the EU offer as new and generous, when in fact it was "really an update of the old one".

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EU announces funding for film projects

The EU has announced 2 million euros worth of funding for international film projects. The funds will go towards EU and international training for "film professionals", film promotion activities and the running of the existing 'Europa' cinema chain.

European Voice

Commission: EU fisheries fleet needs to be reduced

European Voice reports that Joe Borg, the EU Fisheries Commissioner, is to urge the Commission to speed up the process of Fisheries reform, although specific proposals are unlikely to emerge before the end of the Commission's term in October next year. Borg is expected to call for a reduction of the current fishing fleet size, something which he has called for previously, at a meeting of Commissioners next week. Last year the European Court of Auditors slammed the current fisheries policy in a report that highlighted unreliable catch data, weak punishments for over fishing and poor inspection systems.

European Voice

Romania is to build the EU's largest onshore wind farm to meet its EU renewable energy targets.

European Voice

EU directive orders musicians to keep volume down at Proms

Under an EU directive passed in April this year, the BBC is required to make sure that performers at this year's Proms are not exposed to excessive levels of noise. The directive limits noise levels to 140 decibels, which has subjected the BBC to extra costs and bureaucracy, although a spokesman insisted that the changes would not alter the audience's experience.

Daily Mail

UK

TPA: Green taxes cost families £800 a year more than necessary

In a report published by the Taxpayer's Alliance it was calculated that UK households are paying around £800 too much in green taxes. According to the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, UK emissions caused £4.6 billion of damage in 2007, which means, the TPA claim, that the Treasury made a £20 billion in "excess" revenue from green taxes. These findings strengthen suspicions that ministers are using the environment as a cover for revenue-raising measures.

Telegraph

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Spider Rock, Canyon de Chelly (de Shay)

Spider Rock, in Arizona's Canyon de Chelly (de Shay), is considered sacred to the Navajo and is associated with Spider Woman who taught the Dineh (Navajo) how to weave.

Spider Rock is an "800 foot sandstone spire that rises from the canyon floor at the junction of Canyon de Chelly and Monument Valley"...

Spider Rock, Canyon de Chelly (de Shay)

Open Europe press summary - 27 August 2008

Europe

Second Irish referendum unlikely before European elections

The FT reports that a second Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty appears unlikely to take place before the European Parliament elections in June 2009. Following Irish Europe Minister Dick Roche's comment earlier in the week - in which he said that a second vote was "appropriate" - the Greens, members of the Fianna Fail-led coalition, as well as Fine Gael and Labour, the main opposition parties, have ruled out the possibility of a second referendum in the short term. Several EU leaders, including Nicolas Sarkozy, had hoped for the Treaty to enter into force before June so that the European elections could be carried out under the new rules. The FT notes that "Irish officials and some diplomats privately concede that the timetable looks increasingly unrealistic and it is more likely any second vote will now take place in late 2009." The EUreferendum blog notes that delaying the vote may "give Declan Ganley, Chairman of the 'no' group Libertas, the opening he needs to set up his EU-wide political party to take on the Treaty." A piece in Le Monde mentions Open Europe's recent poll showing 71% of people do not want a second referendum.

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Russia warns of "new Cold War" - Germany unwilling to suspend energy treaty talks with Moscow

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev yesterday raised the stakes in the Georgia crisis with his decision to recognise the breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. "We are not afraid of anything, including the prospect of a Cold War," he said.

The US has said that its humanitarian aid mission to the port of Poti would also have a military element. A US diplomat in Tbilisi announced that two guided missile warships would be docking at the port despite the Russian military presence. Mr Medvedev accused the Americans of trying to smuggle weapons into Georgia.

President Saakashvili of Georgia described the Russian declaration as an annexation, and accused Moscow of seeking to provoke renewed fighting that would allow Russian armoured divisions to move around Tbilisi, the capital, and wipe Georgia off the map. Saakashvili told the Times that Russia was trying to build up forces near Akhalgori, only 32km from Tbilisi. From there, he said, they could control the hills around the capital in the same way the Serbian forces ringed Sarajevo in the Bosnian war. Asked if he feared a fresh Russian invasion, Mr Saakashvili said: "If there is no strong reaction from Europe, at any moment."

EUobserver notes that in an interview on France's LCI channel, Russian President Medvedev dared the EU to impose diplomatic sanctions at next week's EU summit. "If they want a degradation of relations, they will get it," he said. "The ball is in the European camp." On the Arabic Al-Jazeera network he spoke of using "military means" against a future US missile base in Poland.

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner accused Russian troops of "ethnic cleansing." Germany continued to sound a calmer note throughout the day, indicating that suspension of EU-Russia treaty talks is not on the cards. "We will not solve conflicts if we do not talk to each other," Chancellor Angela Merkel said on a visit to Lithuania. Ms Merkel's visit to the Baltic states and Sweden is aimed at promoting a new Germany-Russia gas pipeline - Nord Stream - which Germany calls a "strategic European project," but which the Baltic states fear will strengthen Russia's energy leverage against eastern European countries.

Euractiv reports that Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said the West had made a "mistake" by humiliating Russia over ten years, asking Moscow to be "a supplier of energy and welcome our investments" without being given a "political role" in return. "Russia has nourished a frustration which today exploded," Frattini said.

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Deaths to outnumber births in EU by 2015

A new study from Eurostat released yesterday showed that within seven years deaths in Europe will start outnumbering births. The Eurostat report details the ageing population of the continent and the individual states - Britain is expected to have only two adults of working age for every pensioner by 2060. The report also shows that the populations of Germany and many eastern states are likely to reduce in size, whilst countries such as Cyprus, Ireland and the UK (expected to be the most populous EU state by 2050) are expected to grow rapidly.

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EU regulation sounds "death knell" for Irish agricultural shows

The Irish Times reports that new EU regulations have banned the consumption of cakes and confectionary entered at country fairs and agricultural shows immediately after baking competitions. Under the rules adjudicators of bakery sections in local shows are only permitted to taste the cakes and tarts, and once the judging is over, the produce must be immediately destroyed. As a result, only bite-sized versions of the cakes will be entered in shows. The Chairman of Mayo County Council, Cllr Joe Mellett, said the new rules were the "death knell" for the Irish agricultural show. The directive has already been made law in Scotland.

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Only 5 percent of Spanish and 8 percent of Germans said the ECB had responded appropriately to worsening economic conditions, while 56 and 48 percent respectively in both countries felt it had not.

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