News for today's 2018: 04/06/13

IWS Babe of the Week...Legal SHEagles

9:00 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Many of you may have heard that this week, President Obama became the executive object of scorn, ridicule, and feigned outrage for referring to California Attorney General Kamala Harris as the best looking AG in the land.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn5n4tjOwP5XkP3mUWseFeK9dbTfMl_agu18puGOxPMo0N6W0EUQtfAIdFa4rxkfALQPH66NGGf4kV4icA0lm9QwyE5g6di8z3U8aBo14V0Mic2bBr8dcxmV00xNDId84Jr7Siochvqd8/s1600/Kamala+Harris+Hot+Sexy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn5n4tjOwP5XkP3mUWseFeK9dbTfMl_agu18puGOxPMo0N6W0EUQtfAIdFa4rxkfALQPH66NGGf4kV4icA0lm9QwyE5g6di8z3U8aBo14V0Mic2bBr8dcxmV00xNDId84Jr7Siochvqd8/s400/Kamala+Harris+Hot+Sexy.jpg" width="377" /></a></div><br />Well, IWS did some research, and based upon the above picture?  We have found the O-Man to be correct on that subject.  But in all fairness, and in addition to the aforementioned lovely Esquire Harris, here are few more lovelies of the litigiousness scene...<br /><br /><b>Catherine Crier</b>...This classic beauty and legal mind has spent many a year as a judge, legal pundit, and a person with common sense...<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguKrBMfW6wuGt7JlA4yYoglxQotsx3xr25uUeOu3Lc7Eb-j-BAhqxuW7hDnagUx4eQHlpIXa6F57QqkyePFOZnDyBFQ3dsf0LUDgD2n5x27bz0-lJz35KQ_sgqRwMPad_UhN0XUusOmos/s1600/Catherine+Crier+Sexy+Hot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguKrBMfW6wuGt7JlA4yYoglxQotsx3xr25uUeOu3Lc7Eb-j-BAhqxuW7hDnagUx4eQHlpIXa6F57QqkyePFOZnDyBFQ3dsf0LUDgD2n5x27bz0-lJz35KQ_sgqRwMPad_UhN0XUusOmos/s400/Catherine+Crier+Sexy+Hot.jpg" width="275" /></a></div><br /><b>Ann Coulter</b>...A Constitutional Lawyer with sunken eyes and a swollen Adam's Apple that say...<i>" I am your punishment..."</i>, and knows that as the Founding Fathers intended, the Constitution only applies to white, Christian folk.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmwT8Nv19F6nJlTS9aqPrgs2X0kvvy5MKP7U_0LqXBuIINTJ35Qe-zyqWULzid_fWp22IxH1au4kn8yzUiIl_uvsyDvZP8srr7rfif9phu68uFVPUg_3-ezlvcDQSS9tXNG1kWOzuKHdg/s1600/ann_coulter+asshole+man+awful+FOX.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmwT8Nv19F6nJlTS9aqPrgs2X0kvvy5MKP7U_0LqXBuIINTJ35Qe-zyqWULzid_fWp22IxH1au4kn8yzUiIl_uvsyDvZP8srr7rfif9phu68uFVPUg_3-ezlvcDQSS9tXNG1kWOzuKHdg/s400/ann_coulter+asshole+man+awful+FOX.jpg" width="305" /></a></div><br /><b>Nancy Grace</b>...Her sexiness is so damn deep, that sometimes, it is almost invisible...but her skills with finding one guilty without trial, are not...<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0__iDxCLCRsEsBaiK16FzGrKzrVHb8kMYxE4obs9rST71_7rGGgJLqdFxca1iVPZBK32WOYEj9YKMO33U2-laX8jV-w8u6anKAgs0PtH4_o70KL9YgDUr4wY-FIaxcGGqivQ5azSl7S8/s1600/nancy-grace-on-dwts+sexy+hot+asshole.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0__iDxCLCRsEsBaiK16FzGrKzrVHb8kMYxE4obs9rST71_7rGGgJLqdFxca1iVPZBK32WOYEj9YKMO33U2-laX8jV-w8u6anKAgs0PtH4_o70KL9YgDUr4wY-FIaxcGGqivQ5azSl7S8/s400/nancy-grace-on-dwts+sexy+hot+asshole.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>And lastly...<br /><br />FOX News' own <b>Jeanine Pirro</b>...<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz2q9zXf5rFMo0WE4Lo5CKW4N-t54c29-DWELp3aCK9f9dczEcNK490SuKKG8BCmsmFjy9x71P9JFfyzed0JAgWlp0OUNdVxbj-iPTSR-zLS1q7r-P5cRF8WVwhraWtpP8wS2D2DaDFjo/s1600/Jeanine+Pirro+Hot+Sexy+Fox.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="331" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz2q9zXf5rFMo0WE4Lo5CKW4N-t54c29-DWELp3aCK9f9dczEcNK490SuKKG8BCmsmFjy9x71P9JFfyzed0JAgWlp0OUNdVxbj-iPTSR-zLS1q7r-P5cRF8WVwhraWtpP8wS2D2DaDFjo/s400/Jeanine+Pirro+Hot+Sexy+Fox.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Holy Adjudication People!!  The chick is HAWT!!  She could cross-examine us anytime and take an in-depth look at our legal and otherwise briefs whenever the hell she felt like it.<br /><br />She is hotter than any of the bubble-headed bleach blondes on FOX, and awesome to watch...Mind you, just as with other FOX folks, she is best watched with the sound down...<br /><br />And there you have it...Some sexy Legal SHEagles for you today.<br /><br />Don't forget!!  <i>IWS Radio</i> will be LIVE today from Noon-2 PM ET on Blog Talk Radio.<br /><br />We'll talk about President Obama's legal love affair, media whores, and much, much more so join us <b><i>LIVE Today at Noon ET</i></b> on our IWS Hookers and Blow show by clicking <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/04/07/hookers-and-blow" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">HERE!!</span></b></a></div>

IWS Babe of the Week...Legal SHEagles

Many of you may have heard that this week, President Obama became the executive object of scorn, ridicule, and feigned outrage for referring...

Pastor Rick Warren's son commits suicide

3:48 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><h2 class="lead-in" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; line-height: 27px; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: -2px;">Services held for popular evangelical pastor's son Services held for popular evangelical pastor's son</h2><div class="article-metadata-wrap" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; height: auto; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 30px 0px 60px; position: relative; z-index: 1;"><aside class="single-photo expandable-collapsed" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 20px; position: relative; width: 180px; z-index: 100;"><div class="image-wrap" style="box-shadow: rgb(200, 200, 200) 1px 1px 5px; cursor: pointer; padding: 3px; position: relative;"><img alt="Warren" class="expand-img-horiz" itemprop="url" src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/media/USATODAY/USATODAY/2013/04/06/_137778_0004-4_3_r536_c534.jpg?1b79b3da202957124496e3768cfb7b67cdb10c81" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 131px; vertical-align: middle;" /><span class="toggle" style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/images/sprites/asset-sprite.png?1365098796); background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; bottom: 0px; height: 21px; position: absolute; right: 0px; width: 21px; z-index: 200;"></span></div><div class="image-credit-wrap" style="color: #646464; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 6px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: Getty Images)</span></div></aside><div class="article-metadata" style="position: relative;"><aside class="comp story-highlights " style="clear: left; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 20px; min-height: 60px; position: relative; width: 180px; z-index: 1;"><h3 class="hlts" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #999999; font-family: 'Futura Today Bold', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px auto; text-transform: uppercase;">STORY HIGHLIGHTS</h3><ul class="hlt" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; left: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><li class="hlt-item" style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/images/components/story_highlights_bullets.png?1365098796); background-position: 0px 17px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #646464; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 16px; padding: 12px 0px 12px 15px;">Matthew Warren was 27</li><li class="hlt-item" style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/images/components/story_highlights_bullets.png?1365098796); background-position: 0px 17px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; color: #646464; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 16px; padding: 12px 0px 12px 15px;">Struggled with depression</li></ul></aside></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">LAKE FOREST, California (AP) — The Southern California church headed by popular evangelical Pastor Rick Warren says his 27-year-old son has committed suicide.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Warren's Saddleback Valley Community Church in Lake Forest, California, said in a statement Saturday that Matthew Warren had struggled with mental illness and deep depression.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"You who watched Matthew grow up knew he was an incredibly kind, gentle, and compassionate man," Rick Warren said in a tweet to church members. "But only those closest knew that he struggled with mental illness, dark holes of depression, and even suicidal thoughts."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">He added, "In spite of America"s best doctors, meds, counselors, and prayers for healing, the torture of mental illness never subsided. Today, after a fun evening together with Kay and me, in a momentary wave of despair at his home, he took his life."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Rick Warren is the author of "The Purpose Driven Life." In 2008, his church sponsored a presidential forum with Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain. Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney had been invited to a similar forum last fall, but Warren canceled it, saying the campaign had become too uncivil.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Saddleback's website says that about 20,000 people attend weekend services at the church near Los Angeles.</div><div class="article-metadata-wrap" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; height: auto; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 30px 0px 60px; position: relative; z-index: 1;"><aside class="single-photo expandable-collapsed" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 20px; position: relative; width: 180px; z-index: 100;"><div class="image-wrap" style="box-shadow: rgb(200, 200, 200) 1px 1px 5px; cursor: pointer; padding: 3px; position: relative;"><img alt="Warren" class="expand-img-horiz" itemprop="url" src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/media/USATODAY/USATODAY/2013/04/06/_137778_0004-4_3_r536_c534.jpg?1b79b3da202957124496e3768cfb7b67cdb10c81" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 131px; vertical-align: middle;" /><span class="toggle" style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/images/sprites/asset-sprite.png?1365098796); background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; bottom: 0px; height: 21px; position: absolute; right: 0px; width: 21px; z-index: 200;"></span></div><div class="image-credit-wrap" style="color: #646464; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 6px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: Getty Images)</span></div></aside><div class="article-metadata" style="position: relative;"><aside class="comp story-highlights " style="clear: left; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 20px; min-height: 60px; position: relative; width: 180px; z-index: 1;"><h3 class="hlts" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #999999; font-family: 'Futura Today Bold', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px auto; text-transform: uppercase;">STORY HIGHLIGHTS</h3><ul class="hlt" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; left: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><li class="hlt-item" style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/images/components/story_highlights_bullets.png?1365098796); background-position: 0px 17px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #646464; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 16px; padding: 12px 0px 12px 15px;">Matthew Warren was 27</li><li class="hlt-item" style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/images/components/story_highlights_bullets.png?1365098796); background-position: 0px 17px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; color: #646464; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 16px; padding: 12px 0px 12px 15px;">Struggled with depression</li></ul></aside></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">LAKE FOREST, California (AP) — The Southern California church headed by popular evangelical Pastor Rick Warren says his 27-year-old son has committed suicide.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Warren's Saddleback Valley Community Church in Lake Forest, California, said in a statement Saturday that Matthew Warren had struggled with mental illness and deep depression.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"You who watched Matthew grow up knew he was an incredibly kind, gentle, and compassionate man," Rick Warren said in a tweet to church members. "But only those closest knew that he struggled with mental illness, dark holes of depression, and even suicidal thoughts."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">He added, "In spite of America"s best doctors, meds, counselors, and prayers for healing, the torture of mental illness never subsided. Today, after a fun evening together with Kay and me, in a momentary wave of despair at his home, he took his life."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Rick Warren is the author of "The Purpose Driven Life." In 2008, his church sponsored a presidential forum with Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain. Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney had been invited to a similar forum last fall, but Warren canceled it, saying the campaign had become too uncivil.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Saddleback's website says that about 20,000 people attend weekend services at the church near Los Angeles.</div></div>

Rick Warren's son Pastor Rick Warren's son commits suicide

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Questions in China on how H7N9 flu strain killed 2

3:44 PM Tukiyooo 0

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Two Shanghai men have died from a lesser-known type of bird flu in the first known human deaths from the strain, and Chinese authorities said Sunday it wasn't clear how they were infected but there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)" width="190" /><span class="action enlarge" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); background-image: url(http://l.yimg.com/os/mit/media/themes/blue005790/images/map-theme_ltr-361061.png); background-position: 5px -1542px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; bottom: 0px; color: white; display: block; left: 0px; padding: 7px 7px 7px 29px; position: absolute; width: 190px;">View Photo</span></a><div style="font-family: arial; padding: 0px;">A dove rests on a tree near a Chinese …</div></li><li class="photo last" style="color: #414141; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.45em; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><a class="media lightboxf24355883545219f0a084fdafd25e7d9" href="http://news.yahoo.com/lightbox/world-health-organization-china-representative-michael-oleary-attends-photo-131632235.html" style="background-color: black; color: #5d4370; display: inline-block; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 2px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-decoration: none; zoom: 1;"><img alt="World Health Organization’s China representative Michael O'Leary attends a press conference in Beijing Monday, April 1, 2013. Health officials said they still don’t understand how a lesser-known bird flu virus was able to kill two men and seriously sicken a woman in China, but that it’s unlikely that it can spread easily among humans. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)" class="lightboxf24355883545219f0a084fdafd25e7d9" height="156" src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/A712QlLnns2sbQHGEJM6aQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Y2g9MTYzODtjcj0xO2N3PTIwMDA7ZHg9MDtkeT0wO2ZpPXVsY3JvcDtoPTE1NjtxPTg1O3c9MTkw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/74eaac6cfea2cd0a2d0f6a7067001bf0.jpg" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block;" title="World Health Organization’s China representative Michael O'Leary attends a press conference in Beijing Monday, April 1, 2013. Health officials said they still don’t understand how a lesser-known bird flu virus was able to kill two men and seriously sicken a woman in China, but that it’s unlikely that it can spread easily among humans. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)" width="190" /><span class="action enlarge" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); background-image: url(http://l.yimg.com/os/mit/media/themes/blue005790/images/map-theme_ltr-361061.png); background-position: 5px -1542px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; bottom: 0px; color: white; display: block; left: 0px; padding: 7px 7px 7px 29px; position: absolute; width: 190px;">View Photo</span></a><div style="font-family: arial; padding: 0px;">World Health Organization’s China …</div></li></ul></div></div></div><div class="yog-col yog-11u" id="yui_3_8_1_22_1365288260840_207" style="float: none; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; width: auto;"><div class="yom-mod yom-art-content" id="mediaarticlebody" style="border-color: rgb(52, 78, 127); border-top-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; zoom: 0;"><div class="bd" id="yui_3_8_1_22_1365288260840_206" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; zoom: 0;"><div class="entry-content" id="yui_3_8_1_22_1365288260840_205" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="first" id="yui_3_8_1_22_1365288260840_204" style="padding: 0px;">BEIJING (AP) — Health officials say they still don't understand how a lesser-known <span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1364863690748_1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; color: #366388; cursor: pointer;">bird flu virus</span> was able to kill two men and seriously sicken a woman in <span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1364863690748_2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; color: #366388; cursor: pointer;">China</span>, but that it's unlikely that it can spread easily among humans.</div><div id="yui_3_8_1_22_1365288260840_219" style="margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Two men in <span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1364863690748_6" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; color: #366388; cursor: pointer;">Shanghai</span> became the first known human fatalities from the H7N9 bird flu virus after contracting it in February. A woman in the eastern city of Chuzhou remains in serious condition, China's<span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1364863690748_7" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; color: #366388; cursor: pointer;">National Health and Family Planning Commission</span> said.</div><div style="margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">It was unclear how the three patients became infected, the health agency said. It sought to calm fears about the virus but provided few details about each case. Authorities have not described the patients' occupations or said whether they had come into contact with birds or other animals.</div><div style="margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">The health authority noted, however, that two sons of one of the Shanghai men also suffered from acute pneumonia, one of whom died, and the source of their infection is still unknown. Other people who were in close contact with the victims have not become sick, indicating that the virus is not easily transmitted between humans.</div><div id="yui_3_8_1_22_1365288260840_213" style="margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"We don't know yet the causes of illness in the two sons, but naturally, if three people in one family acquire severe pneumonia in a short period of time, it raises a lot of concern," the World Health Organization's <span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1364863690748_3" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; color: #366388; cursor: pointer;">China</span> representative, Michael O'Leary, said at a briefing in Beijing late Monday.</div><div style="margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Many epidemiologists regard densely populated parts of China and Southeast Asia, where farmers often live in close quarters with pigs and poultry, as regions where conditions are ideal for nurturing infectious diseases that jump from animals to humans. An earlier deadly outbreak of SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, was linked to wild animals that infected animals, which in turn infected people in that region.</div><div id="yui_3_8_1_22_1365288260840_215" style="margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Other strains of the H7 family of <span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1364863690748_4" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; color: #366388; cursor: pointer;">bird flu</span> viruses have caused mostly mild human infections in the past, said University of Hong Kong microbiologist <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1364863690748_8" style="cursor: pointer;">Malik Peiris</span>, with cases reported in the Netherlands, Canada, the U.S. and Britain — mostly following outbreaks in poultry.</div><div style="margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Experts say the deaths in China might indicate that the H7N9 strain has morphed to become more lethal to humans, although it's not possible to make any conclusions yet about its mortality rate because many mild cases may go undetected. A thorough tracing of the virus is critical.</div><div style="margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"I would guess that given the severity of the human disease it is likely that these particular viruses have undergone the change to become highly pathogenic but obviously that remains to be ascertained," Peiris said. "The crucial question is the source of this virus, where is it."</div><div style="margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Scientists have long feared that another bird flu strain, H5N1, might mutate to spread more easily. But while it has decimated poultry stocks mostly in Southeast Asia, it has only occasionally sickened people — mostly after close contact with infected poultry. It can be deadly when it does infect humans, though, killing about 60 percent of the time.</div><div style="margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"At the moment, there has been not much evidence of human-to-human transmission (of H7N9) so to that extent it is similar to the H5N1 situation, but it is early days and so there's a lot more to be understood," Peiris said.</div><div id="yui_3_8_1_22_1365288260840_217" style="margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">More than 16,000 pig carcasses were fished out of the river system that supplies some of Shanghai's water supply in March, apparently dumped by farmers after they were sickened, and some observers have wondered whether there might be a link between the sickened pigs and the <span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1364863690748_5" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; color: #366388; cursor: pointer;">bird flu</span> deaths. Virologists also study pigs because they can serve as hosts for bird viruses and human viruses to mix and mutate.</div><div style="margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Shanghai's animal disease prevention bureau Monday tested 34 samples taken from the dead pigs but did not find any bird flu viruses, state media reported.</div><div id="yui_3_8_1_22_1365288260840_223" style="margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Scientists classify flus based on the proteins on the surface of the virus: There are 17 varieties of hemagluttinin, the H in a <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1364863690748_9" style="cursor: pointer;">flu</span>'s name, and 10 varieties of neuraminidase, the N component. Any combination of those Hs and Ns could crop up and potentially mutate into a form that's spread easily from person to person, making it dangerous enough to produce a pandemic.</div><div style="margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Health authorities are monitoring 88 people who came into contact with the H7N9 patients and have not found any additional infections so far, China's health agency said. Experts say that indicates that the chance of human-to-human transmission is low.</div><div style="margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"It is very unlikely, because the virus has to break the species barrier and this is usually quite a difficult event. There has to be a lot of significant mutation," said David Hui, an infectious disease expert at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.</div><div style="margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">One of the male victims of H7N9, who was 87, became ill on Feb. 19 and died on Feb 27. The other man, 27, became ill on Feb. 27 and died on March 4, the Chinese health commission said. A 35-year-old woman in the Anhui city of Chuzhou became ill on March 9.</div><div style="margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">WHO's O'Leary said it was difficult to predict the lethality of the virus but such emerging viruses tended to be more severe in humans and authorities were always on the lookout for a virus that might cause a severe pandemic.</div><div id="yui_3_8_1_22_1365288260840_252" style="margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"This may be a dead-end ... there's a few sporadic cases, it's hard to transmit to humans and doesn't transmit from human to human," he said. "But what we want to watch out for is whether it is a virus that is both serious for humans and easily transmitted."</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>

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Steak Saturday!

The Steak & Wine Sale is on in Superquinn! For dinner we had a great fillet steak (topped with garlic butter) followed by delicious ice...

THE BALKANS,

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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyb82T1Klba5QeXgNPU1Ccid6n5bGPGE6y1B2wjpBTQG1BBl6Goo5R2a75fBzCwjmv10EabrxgcVVcEgmU1A2jrHrnlDH94Fb1e9bVadnpl784JfVhWYF0PXAEJHA4h6qGIySOHWHPMxjS/s1600/islam_albania1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyb82T1Klba5QeXgNPU1Ccid6n5bGPGE6y1B2wjpBTQG1BBl6Goo5R2a75fBzCwjmv10EabrxgcVVcEgmU1A2jrHrnlDH94Fb1e9bVadnpl784JfVhWYF0PXAEJHA4h6qGIySOHWHPMxjS/s400/islam_albania1.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ISLAM AT THE DOORSTEPS OF EUROPE: TIRANA, ALBANIA</span></td></tr></tbody></table> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">NEW EXTREMIST ORGANIZATIONS POSE A THREAT TO STABILITY IN THE REGION?</span></b></span></span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing: 1.5pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">  <td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">LEGALIZING NEW RADICAL ISLAMIC MOVEMENTS POLITICALLY AND   SOCIALLY MAY REIGN IN THEIR EXTREMIST TENDENCIES IN THE BALKANS. </span></b></span></div></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emerging extremist organizations in the BALKANS are operating alongside existing extremist groups and may try to change the political and legal framework to fit their agendas. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The "new extremism" in the BALKANS embodies religion, ethnicity and neo-Nazism, best exemplified by GREECE'S Golden Dawn. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Background Information</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">: Read <span style="color: blue;">6 PART DOSSIER ON WAHHABISM IN BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA</span>at:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/wahhabism-in-bosnia-herzegovina.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/wahhabism-in-bosnia-herzegovina.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Whether new or traditional, extremist organizations are proactive in promoting their agendas, or are reactive in seeking political opportunities. Organizations representing extremist ideologies have been increasing their activities globally, as well as in the BALKANS. The means by which they conduct their activities have changed since utilizing modern communications channels.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Background Information</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">: Read <span style="color: blue;">EXTREMISTS ESTABLISH FOOTHOLD IN THE BALKANS </span>at: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/10/kosovo.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/10/kosovo.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NEW ISLAMIC MOVEMENTS IN KOSOVO</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">such as Bashkohu, Forumi and Paqja Studentore are not a direct threat to KOSOVO'S stability for now, but could be if they become increasingly politically active, and grasp the chance to infiltrate local politics in a more decisive way. Thus governments and citizens should be increasingly vigilant and cautious of such developments.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Non-inclusion [in the political processes] is apparently counterproductive for the democratic process, thus it is important to give them a chance within a legal framework. Anything out of the legal framework is harmful and dangerous for EUROPE.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHppYBSNa5v3zRTCTsH0s6Y3SmmO9Y-OZDK3j7kad5y0FpIZ7Gee2UE57TosgbtYWe66aJD2IfqQ52Wm8A_W5fdb0CFuuBD3WnqVnVVk39E6WJVHH9Ob5HUioh8_g-Rq2who0HJZgPXEFO/s1600/0DFJX.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHppYBSNa5v3zRTCTsH0s6Y3SmmO9Y-OZDK3j7kad5y0FpIZ7Gee2UE57TosgbtYWe66aJD2IfqQ52Wm8A_W5fdb0CFuuBD3WnqVnVVk39E6WJVHH9Ob5HUioh8_g-Rq2who0HJZgPXEFO/s400/0DFJX.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alleged Islamic movement in the Balkans</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">New extremist organizations have not become key protagonists due to the huge international presence in the BALKANS, which has prevented conflict, as well as denied such organizations the basis for widespread violence. This could change though if extremist organizations manage to convince citizens that they are focused on solving problems and not just selling nationalist rhetoric and that they will not become key players in shaping the political developments. </span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In order to change and influence life in their respective countries, these organizations will have to change and move closer to the center stage in order to be able to become protagonists in the political life. (See Hezbollah in LEBANON) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>IN ALBANIA</b></span>, the ARAB Spring revived Islamic movements, and the Muslim Brotherhood model is applied in the country and the region, the impact of which reflects through academic programs, business and religion as well as politics. Lack of state authority, coupled with widespread corruption and weakening of state structures as a result of the economic crisis, have affected the region's ability to stop Islamic movements' growth. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Background Information</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">: Read <span style="color: blue;">KOSOVO “ALBANITY”</span> at:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/greater-albania-united-states-project.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/greater-albania-united-states-project.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"TRADITIONAL EXTREMISTS" HAVE TRANSFORMED AND ARE NOW IN POWER</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In KOSOVO, former Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas (UCK) are running the government, while an offshoot of the group in MACEDONIA is now part of the governing coalition. In SERBIA, politicians who formerly supported radicalism, such as recently reformed Radical Party members, are also in power. These old traditional extremist organizations still thrive but are now transformed. Their activity continued and their influence has increased, thus the environment in which they are currently operating throughout the region still remains a fertile ground for extremist ideologies and organizations, whose main target are the youth in the region, which lack future prospects and work.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Background Information</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">: Read <span style="color: blue;">HOW RADICAL ISLAM INFILTRATES KOSOVO</span> at:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/10/kosovo-and-radical-islam.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/10/kosovo-and-radical-islam.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Traditional ethno-nationalism and chauvinism expressed through aggressive claims for territorial aggrandizement, redrawing borders and ethnic cleansing, are still ever present in the region. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Traditional extremism recovered from its comatose state due to lack of tangible International Community prospects across the Western Balkans, thus it comes of no surprise that there is a tendency by major political players to use nationalist-chauvinist rhetoric in election campaigning. The result of which is a negative spillover effect which extends to smaller extremist actors who, at the end of the day, feel empowered.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">GOLDEN DAWN IN GREECE</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM6MT3qx1FAGwafNCqiIX6ds8mD6hKYrqpjeSpA3hFshdPHK5TvsUGfmsG_S6KywMtW9PyD53ZXHpEWWB45F2l_F8oDmRHz6o2_0o0Qzd_DzyDBPkp3sfdcY4x8AcHQH77DxwXBb-woeyS/s1600/golden-dawn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM6MT3qx1FAGwafNCqiIX6ds8mD6hKYrqpjeSpA3hFshdPHK5TvsUGfmsG_S6KywMtW9PyD53ZXHpEWWB45F2l_F8oDmRHz6o2_0o0Qzd_DzyDBPkp3sfdcY4x8AcHQH77DxwXBb-woeyS/s200/golden-dawn.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Neo Nazi Golden Dawn Party of Greece</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A notable exception is the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn in Greece, which holds 18 seats in parliament and whose popularity is rising. In times of severe economic downturn, the electorate may be turning toward quick-fix solutions. In such an environment, political actors like Golden Dawn, but others as well, promote a ethnically and religiously charged rhetoric and undertake campaigns of violence. With 18 seats in parliament and rising support, extremism of this kind must be tackled throughout the GREEK institutions by sending a clear message that there is no place for such activities in GREEK society.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In SERBIA, extreme right groups have been present in the political arena since the beginning of the 1990s, but state institutions either cannot or do not want to confront them. This inevitably leads to the further rise of right-wing extremism.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Right-wing extremism in SERBIA today shares the basic characteristics of the EUROPEAN radical right, but it also has elements that are a result of the socio-political crisis and ethnic conflicts in former YUGOSLAVIA during the 1990s. Numerous factors contributed to the rise of the extreme right, such as nationalist discourse and the so-called normalization of nationalism, historical revisionism, the state-church relationship and, above all, weak state institutions and lack of rule of law.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtynyCPvT2j7CZm26heS9Sh9rz9e4sGyH6FHMaLeppxVb29ppAcDmxdMhEYlkQczVH8OXoNj7IFFeP1cpgvPWmXrChSiSaaZvYdTf1gRP7FuiitmNlo7xTstHyv5nhGqe9MAaaJrUwJVui/s1600/16042_THUMB_IPAD.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtynyCPvT2j7CZm26heS9Sh9rz9e4sGyH6FHMaLeppxVb29ppAcDmxdMhEYlkQczVH8OXoNj7IFFeP1cpgvPWmXrChSiSaaZvYdTf1gRP7FuiitmNlo7xTstHyv5nhGqe9MAaaJrUwJVui/s640/16042_THUMB_IPAD.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">CURRENT EUROPEAN POLITICAL LANDSCAPE - PREDOMINANTLY CENTER RIGHT GOVERNMENTS</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">PROMINENT RIGHT-WING ORGANIZATIONS IN SERBIA</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqyvvHTUh5G9bDMTW3APKeEZe8B2QiM2PXyFEIK4-oMEZIzAkua5kUkrpt-EfZhuipRGVjwyVU1Q1ZLq4KeB22CzaDUmN2s3pb6PhuVnciMF1q5c2PB6lcizC2xt5a9gi5Ecohrhq_GK3r/s1600/LINDAphoto2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqyvvHTUh5G9bDMTW3APKeEZe8B2QiM2PXyFEIK4-oMEZIzAkua5kUkrpt-EfZhuipRGVjwyVU1Q1ZLq4KeB22CzaDUmN2s3pb6PhuVnciMF1q5c2PB6lcizC2xt5a9gi5Ecohrhq_GK3r/s200/LINDAphoto2.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some of the most prominent right-wing organizations in SERBIA are Obraz, Nacionalni stroj, Dveri and SNP Nasi 1389. The constitutional court has banned Obraz and Nacionalni stroj, but the other two are recognized by the state as legitimate political actors and participate in local governments. </span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Analysts agree some of the old extremist organizations active in the 1990s are not necessarily active today, but their ideology still exerts influence. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Extreme right organizations represent a serious threat to human rights and democracy because of their continual involvement in violence. Their impact is best reflected in the manner in which state institutions perceive and treat them. Criminal proceedings against members of these organizations are extremely slow and inefficient, and politicians avoid openly condemning right-wing extremism; some of them collaborate with extreme right organizations on the local level.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Background Information</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">: Read <span style="color: blue;">INTERCONNECTION</span> <span style="color: blue;">BETWEEN OC AND TERRORISM</span> at:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/the-balkans-organized-crime-and.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/the-balkans-organized-crime-and.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Similarly, the impact of new extremist organizations is systemic and significant, requiring governments to better respond to issues in smaller communities where there is a greater likelihood the extremists will engage in violence. Extremist organizations are much more flexible and adaptable now, and it is more difficult for BALKAN states to react and reform because of a multitude of rules and </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">procedures.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Original artic<span style="font-size: x-small;">le b</span></span>y Linda Karadaku, via  Southeast European Times, edited by Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring</span></i></span></b></div>

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Safe Hands Review

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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-h1bAGxpDeO4/UWB7TTDfaRI/AAAAAAAAHbQ/8zS1r7CH7so/s1600/Safe+Hands+Display.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-h1bAGxpDeO4/UWB7TTDfaRI/AAAAAAAAHbQ/8zS1r7CH7so/s320/Safe+Hands+Display.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I absolutely love these products!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you are someone who doesn't like or can't tolerate an alcohol based hand solution then this product is right up your alley because</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">they keep hands from drying out, being itchy and most importantly redness!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's also non toxic and non flammable!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today I'm going to be talking to you about a wonderful product that's a hand sanitizer as well and it's called <a href="http://getsafehands.com/">Safe Hands</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Safe Hands is alcohol free and it's a foam based one as well which is great because you control how much goes onto your hands or little ones hands with just one little pump from the bottle!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They leave your hands feeling soft and kills up to 99.99% of germs on contact, how awesome is that?!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Did I mention that they come in different scents as well?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was sent their products for review and couldn't wait to try them out!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They have a wide variety of products safe hands, safe tronics, safe squirts and safe wipes.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love using these!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7hpSbNqrfQ8/UWB7eOrKDFI/AAAAAAAAHbY/lwNFMIoufPk/s1600/Tooty+Fruity+Safe+Hands.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7hpSbNqrfQ8/UWB7eOrKDFI/AAAAAAAAHbY/lwNFMIoufPk/s320/Tooty+Fruity+Safe+Hands.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They smell great and they don't leave my hands dried out.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kids love them and they are mother approved!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In my package I received:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Safe Squirts Cool Blue</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Safe Squirts Bubble Gum</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Safe Hands Fragrance Free</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Safe Hands Cucumber Mint</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Safe Hands Clean Linen</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Safe Squirts Tooty Fruity</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don't forget to check them out online!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Connect with them on Face Book:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/getsafehands">https://www.facebook.com/getsafehands</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u><br /></u></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Follow them via Twitter:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u><br /></u></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u><a href="https://twitter.com/GetSafeHands">https://twitter.com/GetSafeHands</a></u></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Check their Pinterest Board:</span><br /><br /><a href="http://pinterest.com/getsafehands/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://pinterest.com/getsafehands/</a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>Rules due to FCC:</u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Safe Hands sent me their hand foaming sanitizers in exchange for a product review, however all opinions expressed are my own.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>

Safe Hands Review

I absolutely love these products! If you are someone who doesn't like or can't tolerate an alcohol based hand solution then this pro...

Nick's Coffee

11:43 AM Tukiyooo 0

Just up the road from Superquinn is Nick's Coffee. It's basically just a small hatch with a few benches outside.  There is no room at all to sit inside.  All you can get is coffee and then there is a small selection of goodies.  I got a Broderick's Brownie Brick which was sooo good! <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg75vzyynr1y1c9wlzGKptt20qiXPkgJXCi-wSara3yQb7Z1mlK0uLwR0oMOozmQnoL5tZBFInxcK74sLqFk6OyjtGoe8wOfkvunQzdIdTU8hLX6pAtFOgg3OuXv4nED5m_jvnWptpQeEFC/s640/blogger-image-377400894.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg75vzyynr1y1c9wlzGKptt20qiXPkgJXCi-wSara3yQb7Z1mlK0uLwR0oMOozmQnoL5tZBFInxcK74sLqFk6OyjtGoe8wOfkvunQzdIdTU8hLX6pAtFOgg3OuXv4nED5m_jvnWptpQeEFC/s640/blogger-image-377400894.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPsbtQwjbg4UO1dATiY9Vv998Q7EOh5zjyer2UyOYsxW6VWvma0yQJmPyOTWrzX5W9HLVm4rux7vkFZsWMcuIx7nSG41ZVRoto2qhFiiOmWy9T6h757rcgPNBhEleqvKizrs7s2WD2THEB/s640/blogger-image-1888643821.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPsbtQwjbg4UO1dATiY9Vv998Q7EOh5zjyer2UyOYsxW6VWvma0yQJmPyOTWrzX5W9HLVm4rux7vkFZsWMcuIx7nSG41ZVRoto2qhFiiOmWy9T6h757rcgPNBhEleqvKizrs7s2WD2THEB/s640/blogger-image-1888643821.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEkiEH7n5B7eFhqdRJ85kyHimYKecmT80KszDyPz6wk36XTXAaXQM7o-iQgTHTktDEjBJ31g7G7yEaMVwyXq099F8bnsmKwMKOlDKuV2iKgYfg_nxnAzWiADYI_boo3Rn_jHI4f9v_HoPn/s640/blogger-image--1075789768.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEkiEH7n5B7eFhqdRJ85kyHimYKecmT80KszDyPz6wk36XTXAaXQM7o-iQgTHTktDEjBJ31g7G7yEaMVwyXq099F8bnsmKwMKOlDKuV2iKgYfg_nxnAzWiADYI_boo3Rn_jHI4f9v_HoPn/s640/blogger-image--1075789768.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG_W10RrgVrfFC_PxcIGwOKpfncfEGVYTaHOLLDupnWde8ct6eGGwm_z84Cu1pfhSpFlwUHuXb5PJVkOPzZ17LEPZqeHLYriMEmxyzwyp2iuNETu4rZTDs8D_W_aNG9RKps9XQ-uIEYe1W/s640/blogger-image-988895628.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG_W10RrgVrfFC_PxcIGwOKpfncfEGVYTaHOLLDupnWde8ct6eGGwm_z84Cu1pfhSpFlwUHuXb5PJVkOPzZ17LEPZqeHLYriMEmxyzwyp2iuNETu4rZTDs8D_W_aNG9RKps9XQ-uIEYe1W/s640/blogger-image-988895628.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghNHXhzKxoroYshkiVVUzUTkr6UdGSybvZyrEwtR9HQh-IRnC5wVSVRaWOI794mHOTZ5SbIIVAy0dNyDyxZZMZAA2x2Q1u5yN_3vJ1RXYTSWSH1XQquzqyDQ9UaO45EAdjaF7D60rav1P3/s640/blogger-image-1681094246.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghNHXhzKxoroYshkiVVUzUTkr6UdGSybvZyrEwtR9HQh-IRnC5wVSVRaWOI794mHOTZ5SbIIVAy0dNyDyxZZMZAA2x2Q1u5yN_3vJ1RXYTSWSH1XQquzqyDQ9UaO45EAdjaF7D60rav1P3/s640/blogger-image-1681094246.jpg" /></a></div>

Nick's Coffee

Just up the road from Superquinn is Nick's Coffee. It's basically just a small hatch with a few benches outside. There is no room a...

FEINDBILD DEUTSCHLAND:

9:51 AM Tukiyooo 0

<br />   <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeoU_R-VNTu1X8wIDg_5exFIbVXhQKpej2Rz2buGlc5rzQsU_ZsPVC42vDnG6-QDnj1OSEmAMePYY4Lo7meeEj85EFKMRWBEG3Jsw3-NQi3gCst7_pEas4UxdkytAhpi8PimlJ1rPcdSxO/s1600/word_document_73539372_canonical_25af175517.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeoU_R-VNTu1X8wIDg_5exFIbVXhQKpej2Rz2buGlc5rzQsU_ZsPVC42vDnG6-QDnj1OSEmAMePYY4Lo7meeEj85EFKMRWBEG3Jsw3-NQi3gCst7_pEas4UxdkytAhpi8PimlJ1rPcdSxO/s320/word_document_73539372_canonical_25af175517.jpg" width="272" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Amerikanische </span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">"Interpretation" </span> über <span> </span>Deutschlands „Dominanz“ in Europa </span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">SELBER SCHULD, FRAU MERKEL!</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Die Theorie, dass DEUTSCHLAND durch sein Beharren auf einer seriösen Verschuldungspolitik die südlichen Staaten ruiniert hätte, ist Quatsch", schrieb Hans Rauscher - Versuch eines Verfechters dieser Theorie, den praktischen Gegenbeweis anzutreten</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Um es vorweg klarzustellen: DEUTSCHLAND ist nicht das Dritte Reich, und Merkel nicht Hitler. Aber: Es pfeifen die Spatzen vom Dach, dass die Politik der deutschen Bundesregierungen seit den 90er-Jahren, gemeinsam mit der deutschen Industrie und den deutschen Kapital- und Anlegerinteressen, Europa einen Weg vorgibt, der das ganze europäische Gefüge zum Bersten bringt. Dazu einige Fakten.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="color: #666666;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Read related paragraph: </span></b></span></div><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">EUROPE HAS BECOME GERMANY at</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/08/the-us-turns-its-back-on-europe.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/08/the-us-turns-its-back-on-europe.html</a></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In den letzten Monaten kommt etwa immer öfter FRANKREICH in die (negativen) Schlagzeilen. FRANKREICH sei, weil es "darauf besteht, retrolinke Fehler stur zu wiederholen" (Hans Rauscher), das nächste Sorgenkind der Eurozone, denn FRANKREICHS Industrie sei mangels " Reformbereitschaft" nicht mehr wettbewerbsfähig. Was aber hat FRANKREICH gemacht? Nichts anderes, als sich an das zu halten, was guter Konsens im bisher prosperierenden EUROPA war: Anpassung der Löhne an die Inflationsrate, gerechtere Beteiligung der Bevölkerung an der Wertschöpfung, Sicherung eines hohen Sozialstandards. FRANKREICH ist Spitzenreiter in der Förderung der Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf und hat die höchste Geburtenrate EUROPAS!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">KOSTENREDUZIERUNGSWAHN DIE HAUPTURSACHE DES EUROPÄISCHEN ÜBELS</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Und was hat DEUTSCHLAND gemacht? Zwischen 2001 und 2011 hatte DEUTSCHLAND mit plus 19,4 Prozent den mit Abstand geringsten Anstieg der Arbeitskosten aller Mitgliedstaaten der EU. Zum Vergleich: In FRANKREICH sind die Arbeitskosten in diesem Zeitraum mit plus 39,2 Prozent mehr als doppelt so stark gestiegen. Bei den sogenannten "Lohnnebenkosten" - also jenem Anteil an den Löhnen, der die Sozialversicherungssysteme finanzieren soll - befindet sich DEUTSCHLAND mittlerweile am Ende der europäischen Skala.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><u><b><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Weitere Themen zu: Deutschland und die EU</span></b></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><u><b><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></b></u></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/03/austerity-threatens-eu-competitive.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/03/austerity-threatens-eu-competitive.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/03/cyprus-and-germany.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/03/cyprus-and-germany.html</a></span></div><br />  <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/european-democracy-at-crossroad.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/european-democracy-at-crossroad.html</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/12/europe-spain.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/12/europe-spain.html</a></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In absoluten Zahlen: Während bei französischen ArbeitnehmerInnen auf 100 Euro Bruttoverdienst 50 Euro "Lohnnebenkosten" entfallen - und in ÖSTERREICH immerhin noch 37 Euro -, stiehlt sich DEUTSCHLAND mit 28 Euro davon. Mit einer derartigen Politik kann man leicht Exportweltmeister werden.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tatsächlich ist - neben der Narrenfreiheit fürs Kapital - dieser Kostenreduzierungswahn eine Hauptursache des europäischen Übels. DEUTSCHLAND hat - verstärkt seit der Regierung Schröder -einen Großteil dazu beigetragen, die Begriffe Wohlstand und Sozialstaat nachhaltig zu desavouieren. Die Regierungserklärung vor zehn Jahren mit der Agenda 2010 war die Kriegserklärung nicht nur an den Sozialstaat DEUTSCHLAND, sondern an ein gemeinsames soziales EUROPA: "Wir werden DEUTSCHLAND wieder an die Spitze der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung in EUROPA führen ... Wir werden Leistungen des Staates kürzen, Eigenverantwortung fördern und mehr Eigenleistung von jedem Einzelnen abfordern."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #666666;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Read related paragraph: </span></b></span></div><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">AUSTERITY POLICIES ADVOCATED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION - PROMOTED PRIMARILY BY GERMANY’S ANGELA MERKEL at</span></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/france-chooses-path-of-austerity.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/france-chooses-path-of-austerity.html</a></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gerhard Schröder erledigte die innenpolitische Drecksarbeit, und die Regierung Merkel kann nun in wunderbarer Weise darauf aufbauen. Nach diesem Modell soll nun ganz EUROPA auf Vordermann gebracht werden. Wie Angela Merkel heuer beim </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://derstandard.at/r1263706037679"><span lang="DE-AT" style="mso-ansi-language: DE-AT;">Weltwirtschaftsforum</span></a></span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> in Davos ankündigte, sollen "wir analog zum Fiskalpakt einen Pakt für Wettbewerbsfähigkeit beschließen ... Dabei wird es oft um Dinge wie Lohnzusatzkosten, Lohnstückkosten, Forschungsausgaben, Infrastrukturen ... gehen." Also eine Verstärkung der Politik der inneren Abwertung, der Ausverkaufspolitik und der Privatisierung öffentlicher Dienstleistungen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SOGAR DIE UNO PRANGERT MITTLERWEILE DIE SOZIALPOLITIK DEUTSCHLANDS AN</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYFMrYrUWnr9SNxjte6rdYlJkndskMlxsWVNQ-oYrauKLj3-aZpZSw-2DxdAUko-2kAFPl2P8thVLTdGHmEPqJv0iRhVUZsCGpD-NOYp_n-AXGEaxv4LUUWN8CunFhyphenhyphenC4mjaohRe0gELEg/s1600/BF_vXMUCYAE10Yo.jpg+large.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYFMrYrUWnr9SNxjte6rdYlJkndskMlxsWVNQ-oYrauKLj3-aZpZSw-2DxdAUko-2kAFPl2P8thVLTdGHmEPqJv0iRhVUZsCGpD-NOYp_n-AXGEaxv4LUUWN8CunFhyphenhyphenC4mjaohRe0gELEg/s320/BF_vXMUCYAE10Yo.jpg+large.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Feindbild Deutschland</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Die Zeche zahlten und zahlen zunächst einmal die DEUTSCHEN selber. Nach dem letzten Bericht der Nationalen Armutskonferenz hat "die Armut sich verfestigt", und dies ist nach ihrem Urteil "politisch gewollt". Sogar die UNO (!) prangert mittlerweile die Sozialpolitik DEUTSCHLANDS an, die Kinderarmut, Diskriminierung und Pflegenotstand zulässt, und wo 2,5 Millionen Kinder von Armut betroffen sind. Jeder fünfte Arbeitnehmer bekommt einen Niedriglohn (immerhin sechs Millionen).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Im Konditorenhandwerk im Wirtschaftswunderland Bayern zum Beispiel beginnt der Tarifverdienst bei 5,26 Euro je Stunde. Die Einkommen der durchschnittlichen deutschen Arbeitnehmer/innen sind heute auf einem Kaufkraftstand von 1996! Dazu kommt, dass ein immer größerer Anteil des Einkommens nun für die "Eigenvorsorge" herhalten muss -Stichwort private Rentenvorsorge. Dies alles, damit Unternehmenssteuern gesenkt werden konnten, deutsche Produkte billiger wurden, der Standort DEUTSCHLAND auf Kosten anderer EU-Staaten "gesichert" werden konnte.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: blue;">DUMPINGPOLITIK DEUTSCHLANDS</span> </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">DEUTSCHLAND setzt mit seiner desaströsen Politik auch die Zukunft der europäischen "Gemeinschaft" aufs Spiel. Gnadenlos konkurrenziert(e) es die FRANZÖSISCHE, SPANISCHE, ITALIENISCHE Industrie in den Boden und eroberte sich dadurch stetig Marktanteile. Die Folgen dieser Dumpingpolitik betreffen auch ÖSTERREICH. Wegen des bis vor kurzem offenen Universitätszugangs und des gebührenfreien Studierens weist mit fast 40 Prozent die jüngste Statistik deutsche Studierende als die größte Gruppe von AuslandsstudentInnen aus. Ebenso ist dies beim sogenannten "Sozialbetrug" der Fall: DEUTSCHE verstehen es am besten, unser System "auszunutzen". Klar, wer im Inland geschröpft wird, zieht ins bessere Ausland.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ein weiteres Beispiel ist der </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://derstandard.at/r1132"><span lang="DE-AT" style="mso-ansi-language: DE-AT;">Tourismus</span></a></span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">: der Anteil der DEUTSCHEN Touristen sinkt ständig. Allein in den letzten vier Jahren wurden drei Millionen Nächtigungen weniger gezählt, weil sich viele " Durchschnittsdeutsche" einen Urlaub in ÖSTERREICH einfach nicht mehr leisten können. Sie kommen mittlerweile als "Gastarbeiter/innen": in den vergangenen zehn Jahren hat sich die Zahl der deutschen Arbeitnehmer in ÖSTERREICH verdoppelt: 150.000 Deutsche sind froh, in ÖSTERREICH einen Job - vor allem in der Gastronomie - gefunden zu haben.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wer eine derartig egoistische Politik betreibt, darf sich nicht wundern, wenn ihm mehr und mehr Ablehnung und auch blanker Hass entgegenschlagen, wie dies in immer mehr EU-Ländern geschieht.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">DIE GROßE BLENDUNG BESTEHT DARIN DAS DEUTSCHLAND ALS DAS VORBILD VORGESTELLT WIRD</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Volkswirtschaftlich betrachtet gäbe es einen klaren Weg aus der Krise: DEUTSCHLAND müsste in den kommenden zehn Jahren seine Löhne alljährlich überproportional erhöhen und den Sozialstaat wieder ausbauen. Nur so würde das Gleichgewicht in der EUROPÄISCHEN UNION wiederhergestellt werden.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wer oder was bringt aber die deutsche Politik dazu? Ohne Verfassungsreform mit einem mit viel größerer Macht ausgestatteten Europäischen Parlament und einer auf Sozialpolitik und Verteilungsgerechtigkeit ausgerichteten gemeinsamen Wirtschafts- und Fiskalpolitik wird es nicht gehen. Aber diese Reform ist noch nicht auszumachen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Die große Blendung besteht ja darin, dass uns Deutschland als das Vorbild vorgestellt wird: Deutschland habe seine Hausaufgaben gemacht und alle anderen sollten folgen. In Wahrheit ist "Deutschland" zu einer Chiffre für die derzeitige katastrophale Europapolitik geworden. Daher wird es auch ohne tiefgreifende Kurskorrektur dieser "deutschen" Politik keinen Ausweg aus der Sackgasse geben.  </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Von </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sepp Wall-Strasser via DER STANDARD</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

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