Spain won!

Spain wins World Cup final over Holland 0-1

What a night! Viva Espana!

(photo credits: Guardian, huffington post)

¡ Arriba España !

i so enjoy the way google is part of world events! we are supporting spain today. after all, the queen of spain is greek :)

Who is the victim? Who is the terrorist?

JERUSALEM — Noted Israeli military historian Martin Karfeld stated that
Israel could find itself one day forced to exterminate the European
continent using all kinds of weapons including its nuclear arsenal if it
felt its demise neared, stressing that Israel also considers Europe a
hostile target. .............................................................................................
“We have hundreds of nuclear warheads and missiles that can reach
different targets in the heart of the European continent, including beyond
the borders of Rome, the Italian capital,” Karfeld said, adding that most
of the European capitals would become preferred targets for the Israeli
air force. 

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Replying to a question whether Israel does not have fears of being
classified as a criminal state if it expelled Palestinians, he said, “Israel is
a state that does not care about what others say about it and you must
remember the saying of former defense minister Moshe Dayan when he
said that ‘Israel must always act as a wild dog because it should be
dangerous in the eyes of others, rather than be harmed.’” 

Read more here.

"Violations of human rights and international law can no longer be hidden behind claims of anti-Semitism and calls for solidarity against a false Iranian threat. It is time for Western leaders to put basic principles ahead of the demands by lobbyists and neo-conservative propagandists. More important, past persecutions of the Jews cannot be a license to subjugate another people, the Palestinians. Nor can the American promise to stick by Israel be a blank check for the Jewish state to undermine American aims. The U.S. objective is a two-state peace.  But every day, inch by inch, the physical space of Palestine is disappearing. Gaza is like a sardine can, and the West Bank a labyrinth laid out by crazed settlers convinced that the Palestinians are sub humans out to get them. And as far as negotiations are concerned, how can one negotiate when the map is changing day by day to Israel’s favor?"
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"Following the criminal invasion of Gaza last year, eighty percent of the Gazans live below the poverty line, and only receive the basic rations of rice and milk from UNRWA. Worse, the tragedy of Gaza is turning into a tolerated humanitarian crisis, a Netanyahu plan from the beginning as far as I’m concerned. This is what drives me into an Orlando Furioso. The people doing this come to New York like conquering heroes, and swan around the West Mugabe-like, except that son-of-a-bitch is no longer welcome in European drawing rooms, whereas Netanyahu, Lieberman, and co. are. The EU simply has to increase the pressure on these thugs. It is ironic how many Jewish people are as appalled as I am at this on-going human tragedy, but have been shouted down and called self-loathing Jews by neo-cons such as the Kristols, Podhoretzes, and Perles of this world. "
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 It is time we woke up. In the manner of those hundreds and thousands of Israeli Jews who gather weekly in Arab East Jerusalem to protest against the eviction of Palestinian families from homes they have lived in all their lives.

The lunatics have taken over the asylum may sound like a dull cliché, but in the case of the Israeli settlers, I can think of no better description. These fanatics have to be stopped, just as the Muslim holy warriors need to, and I see absolutely no difference between them..."

By Sir Taki Theodoracopulos.

Max Keiser on economic terrorists against Greece

And from a British Independant Party MEP:

Jesus-Wanted

...and some interesting articles
On the role of so-called non-governmental organisations
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/inserts/ReligiousLeftSockPuppets.pdf

One abortion every 11 seconds:  A European Tragedy
http://www.vatican.va/news_services/or/or_eng/text.html#2

Some wierd yet interesting facts
http://www.beastobama.com/ and http://www.beastobama.com/obamanation/index.html

God bless us all.

Who rules Greece (and every other state)?

Alex Jones of Infowars .

What I meant to write

Posts I intended to write, but haven't gotten around to. Follow the links to read for yourselves about news of the world that I have found interesting.

Green Issues

The Bush administration has made it easier for drilling, mining and major construction projects to go ahead without a full scientific assessment. Revised rules mean agencies will no longer have to consult scientists about whether projects, such as the building of dams or mines, would harm wildlife. Democratic President-elect Barack Obama has vowed to reverse the new rules.

Read more here.

The EU is moving towards stricter controls on pesticides after European Parliament negotiators reached a deal with the 27 EU member states.

The legislation will ban 22 chemicals that can trigger cancer or cause neural, hormonal or genetic damage.

Read more here.

Christianity

Pope Benedict XVI has suggested that the need to save mankind from a destructive blurring of gender roles is as important as saving the rainforests.

"Rainforests deserve, yes, our protection, but the human being ... does not deserve it less," the pontiff said.

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In 2004 the Vatican published a document designed to address "distortions" generated by radical feminism. The document was signed by German cardinal Joseph Ratzinger - seen then by some as a possible future Pope - and approved by John Paul II.

It reaffirms the Church's opposition to gay marriage and trends in gender studies that obscure the difference between the sexes.The letter says there is now a tendency to see women as opposed to men, and sex relegated to no more than a physical difference. It says feminism's view of equality has inspired ideologies which "call into question the family, in its natural two-parent structure of mother and father, and to make homosexuality and heterosexuality virtually equivalent".

Women should not be stigmatised if they do not have a job, the document says.

But it adds that those who choose to work outside the home should not be forced to "choose between relinquishing family life or enduring continual stress".

Read more here.

The Vatican City State, the world's smallest sovereign state, has decided to divorce itself from Italian law.Vatican legal experts say there are too many laws in Italian civil and criminal codes, and that they frequently conflict with Church principles.With effect from New Year's Day, the Pope has decided that the Vatican will no longer automatically adopt laws passed by the Italian parliament.

The Vatican has also decided to scrutinise international treaties before deciding whether or not to adhere to them.

Read more here.

Around the globe

Indigenous leaders in Brazil say they are on course to win an important victory for their community's rights.

The court had been asked to rule on whether an indigenous reservation, which stretches over 1.7m hectares (4.2m acres) in the Amazonian state of Roraima, should remain a single unbroken territory.The area, known as Raposa Serra do Sol, which translates roughly as "land of the fox and hill of the sun", is home to up to 20,0000 indigenous people and was declared an official indigenous reservation in 2005.Indian leaders viewed the case as setting a crucial precedent regarding the protection of their rights and ancestral lands, with implications for all of Brazil's indigenous communities.Their fear, they said, was that a ruling against them would be a signal to land grabbers, prospectors and loggers that it would be acceptable to invade their territory.Read more here.