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Case dissolves against ‘Hitler’ snowman

March 12th, 2010
Stuttgart – German prosecutors said Friday they have dropped an investigation into who built a snowman that bore an uncanny resemblance to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. A group opposed to right-wing activities filed a complaint at the end of January that the snowman violated German laws, which ban the reproduction of Nazi symbols or slogans. [...]

Eurocrats Urge the Government to Dissolve Opposition Parties

March 12th, 2010
An EU report has recommended that organisations which it describes as ‘racist’ be dissolved and has described the BNP’s electoral success as ‘unpalatable’. While not specifically calling on the BNP to be dissolved, it is clear from the context of the report that this is what is intended. In a report released on Tuesday by the European [...]

Ethiopia famine aid ‘spent on weapons‘

March 8th, 2010
BBC: Millions of dollars in Western aid for victims of the Ethiopian famine of 1984-85 was siphoned off by rebels to buy weapons, a BBC investigation finds. Former rebel leaders told the BBC that they posed as merchants in meetings with charity workers to get aid money. They used the cash to fund attempts to overthrow [...]

Europe in 2029

February 16th, 2010

Krisztina Morvai tells the truth about Human Rights abuses in Hungary

January 19th, 2010
Altermedia did an exclusive interview with Hungarian Human rights lawyer Krisztina Morvai. Ms Morvai is a Hungarian Human Rights lawyer who sided with the Hungarian patriots of the Jobbik party. While not being member of the Jobbik party, she became member of the European parliament on the Jobbik ticket in 2009. In this interview she [...]

Haiti earthquake: Looters, machete gangs and fights for water as aid STILL struggles to get through

January 16th, 2010
Haiti teetered on the brink of total anarchy tonight as looters rampaged through the streets of Port-au-Prince in search of food and water. With desperately needed aid still barely trickling through, some survivors were reduced to fighting for scant supplies. Witnesses reported gangs of young men armed with machetes stalking through the capital. As the security situation [...]

Britons Are Suspicious Towards Muslims, Study Finds

January 13th, 2010
The British public are concerned at the rise of Islam in the UK and fear that the country is deeply divided along religious lines, according to a major survey. More than half the population would be strongly opposed to a mosque being built in their neighbourhood, the [...]

Iranian nuclear physics professor killed by remote-controlled bomb

January 12th, 2010
An Iranian nuclear physics professor has been killed in a bomb blast in the north of the capital, Tehran, state media has reported. Massoud Mohammadi, a professor at Tehran University, was killed on Tuesday when a bomb strapped to a motorcycle was triggered by remote control outside his home. “The explosion took place near the professor’s home [...]

Racial Tension in Italy: Immigrants Riot and Burn Cars

January 11th, 2010
Thousands of immigrants protested against racism in a southern Italian town on Friday, after a night of rioting sparked by an attack on African farm workers by a gang of white youths. In one of Italy’s worst episodes of racial unrest in years, dozens of Africans in Rosarno, in the Calabria region, smashed car windows with [...]

Sharia: Pakistan court orders ears and noses to be cut off

December 31st, 2009
BBC: A Pakistani court has ordered that two men have their ears and noses cut off, as punishment for doing the same to a woman who refused to marry one of them. The two brothers were found guilty of kidnapping 20-year-old Fazeelat Bibi, one of their cousins, in September. The judge in Lahore also sentenced them [...]