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Posted by: Wil 1 year, 3 months ago

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Police in northern Germany have raided 40 sites linked to opponents of the G8 club of rich nations ahead of the group's summit next month, the federal prosecutor's office said.

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Fabienne1 year, 3 months ago

apparently many who weren't involved in g8 protests had servers raided as well, read the funny commentary at so36.net.
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WCFIELDS1 year, 3 months ago

I must be stupid or something. (There's a great straight line for you.) It seems like these far left demonstrators yelling against globalization are much the same people as those shouting "Live locally, think globally" or whatever that bumpersticker phrase says.
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  m-simon1 year, 3 months ago
  
  See there are rich Nations and stupid nations.
  The rich nations are capitalist and self governing. The stupid nations are run by dictators under their favorite political theory.
  The anti-globalists want the rich nations to be run like the stupid nations.
  Next question.
  I Support Democracy In Iraq
  http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2007/04/i-s...
  
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    miklkit1 year, 3 months ago
    
    That makes the USA a stupid nation that is rapidly getting poorer.
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      m-simon1 year, 3 months ago
      
      I heard the GDP was up about $400 bn a year for the last 3 years. About $1.2 trillion a year in added income. So far.
      I wonder how that happened since we are getting poorer.
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Teagen1 year, 3 months ago

They drive the cars with anti-Iraq bumper stickers on one side of the car and then Free Tibet on the other side. Forgetting the only way to get China to leave Tibet is with a war.
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  Dionys1 year, 3 months ago
  
  So why is it okay to start a war simply because Bush wants the guy who made fun of his daddy out of office, but an effort to get China out of Tibet based on all the human rights abuses and lack of democracy isn't kosher?
  hmm.
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    slate1 year, 3 months ago
    
    What a reach Dion,,, that would be as silly as saying Clinton shot rockets into Iraq on Blue Dress eve as a way to avert attention away from it.
    Your statemnet proves when it comes to conflicts it usually ends up what people feel is a good reason to put soldiers lives on the line,,,,, the left is all too willing for the purpose of human rights and the right is willing to protect our interests. Iraq BTW covered both bases so you should be pleased with at least half of the reasons.
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artists-and-writers1 year, 3 months ago

Well, now, welcome to the Fourth Reich.
First, German police kidnap children and then imprison their parents for exercising their right to home school their own progeny against socialist indoctrination. Now, they are seizing servers, and not just people, for exercising their right to voice their opposition to socialist globalization---and all under the hackneyed ruse of either "security" or "anti-terrorist measures". Nice try, government guys, but we're not buying into it.
Frighteningly, it is the 1930's happening all over again, except, this time, by the far left and not the far right.
Al-Jazeera, nothwithstanding, what are the so-called "G-8" members so afraid of, anyway: the TRUTH?

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  slate1 year, 3 months ago
  
  Isn't this because of Intel saying the G8 may be attacked?
  Should they wait and see or err in the hope of heading off a possible attack?
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    artists-and-writers1 year, 3 months ago
    
    Okay, we have "Intel says" vs. "Media reports". Who is to be believed here, anyway? Certainly, neither. I have seen this too many times before.
    Second, if the G-8 boys and girls are so afraid, I am quite certain that there are enough guys and gals with guns to provide adequate security for their meeting while simultaneously allowing the opposition to publicly demonstrate against them.
    This is a no-brainer for even the dumbest of European bureaucrats and was, therefore, a non-issue until the ham-fisted hook of government decided to intervene as a "preemptive" measure. Now, they have a public relations mess on their hands.
    Idiots, all of them.
    
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      WCFIELDS1 year, 3 months ago
      
      Al-Jizzeera, nothwithstanding, what are the so-called "G-8" members so afraid of...
      This sounds like a grade school dirty trick, "HA! Made you flinch. What were you afraid of?"
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        artists-and-writers1 year, 3 months ago
        
        WC Fields:
        To quote you, "This sounds like a grade school dirty trick, '"HA! Made you flinch. What were you afraid of?"'
        The answer is: not a thing. This is their gig, not mine, and you and I will have to simply wait and see what transpires at their impending meeting. I would have to, in turn, predict that nothing substantive will be accomplished at all, but, rather, more of the same: rumble and bumble, flap and doodle, balder and dash, dogger and rel. Yak, yak, yak.
        These guys are, and in reality, utterly useless to those of us in the workaday world.
        
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NelsonR1 year, 3 months ago

The fatcats and elite have the reins of power and they will use any and all means to stiffle dissent. America does not have exclusivity on this tactic since Bush will go to any extreme to stay in Power while perpetrating a war of Lunacy on the average American. It is not Lunacy for the rich that Cheney/Haliburton, wolfowitz and the oil lobby, which control thoughts, insist on shoving down the throats of the illiterate and followers that inhabit our nation.
Dissent within America is an illusion that seems to be lacking like the other wrong war, Vietnam. Apathy is the prevailing idiom with the consequences obvious each and every day with Bush as our continued Leader. How anyone can accept this administration with all the corruption that prevails is unbeliveable. As an independent, regardless of party I ponder the lack of responsibility that the average citizen shows.
All nations elitist should be shown the exit door instead of promoting wealth for the few.
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  artists-and-writers1 year, 3 months ago
  
  NelsonR:
  A War of Lunacy. How succinctly put. A war of lunacy motivated by the logical end of the money trail. Dissent here at home is only an illusion as far as we Americans continue to accept it as an illusion.
  Once the bluff is called and the majority of our altruistic and apathetic citizenry comes to grips with the fact that we outnumber them by some 15,000 to 1, will we wrest our nation back and restore our republic.
  Only then shall we be able to "show them the exit door".
  
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