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ATHENS (Reuters) - A makeshift bomb went off late on Sunday outside the offices of National Insurance company in central Athens causing damage to the building and nearby cars but no injuries, police said.

Obamangst continues to twist and turn citizens’ heads so that they hardly know what to expect the next month let alone the next week.

Here is video of Arizona Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio being heckled out of an event on the campus of Arizona State University. Arpaio has been strong on cracking down on illegal immigration, and protesters showed up to drown him out as he tried to answer questions at an event on the ASU campus. The protesters began singing, making it impossible for the Sheriff to be heard. He eventually simply got up and walked out, ending the forum. University officials said the protesters' actions were "very shortsighted." It warms your heart to see that liberal First Amendment tolerance for diversity...

(NaturalNews) Given that the massive health care reform bill just passed by the House was one of the largest pieces of legislation in U.S. history, you might wonder why you didn't get to vote on it. When it comes to federal legislation, your vote doesn't count in America, didn't you know? You are dictated to by a small band of the political elite who may or may not represent your interests (or even the interests of your fellow citizens). Those people are called members of Congress. And as you'll read here, they are essentially obsolete. Society no longer has any...

PITTSBURGH — Police fired canisters of pepper spray and smoke at marchers protesting the Group of 20 summit Thursday after anarchists responded to calls to disperse by rolling trash bins and throwing rocks. The march turned chaotic at just about the time that President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama arrived for a meeting with leaders of the world's major economies. The clashes began after hundreds of protesters, many advocating against capitalism, tried to march from an outlying neighborhood toward the convention center where the summit is being held.

THR: What's the last movie you saw? The last book you read? Moore: A Norwegian film called "Troubled Water." Best drama I've seen this year. The last book was "The Coming Insurrection" (a French leftist call-to-arms manifesto that has been labeled a "manual for terrorism" by the French government). I'm also reading the daily newspaper religiously, considering how there won't be any to read a year from now.

Nice done movie answering to some semi-intelligent comments about the Netherlands. Made my day :o)

Tuesday, December 16, 2008 From Any Angle... Whatever angle you look at it from, there's no escape from the present. That's not the least of its virtues. For those who want absolutely to have hope, it knocks down every support. Those who claim to have solutions are proven wrong almost immediately. It's understood that now everything can only go from bad to worse. "There's no future for the future" is the wisdom behind an era that for all its appearances of extreme normalcy has come to have about the consciousness level of the first punks.

State agency's new logo has an anarchist ring to it By Patrick Marley of the Journal Sentinel Posted: July 2, 2009 Madison — As the state agency charged with running elections, the Government Accountability Board can't show favor for Republicans or Democrats. But is it biased toward anarchists? The board recently launched a new logo - an A inside a circle - that looks similar to the traditional symbol for anarchy. "It being an anarchy sign and the government - there's definitely irony there," said Madison's Ear Wax Record Shop owner Rob Cleveland, who is familiar with the anarchy symbol...

PIRACY is the maritime ripple effect of anarchy on land. Somalia is a failed state and has the longest coastline in mainland Africa, so piracy flourishes nearby. The 20th-century French historian Fernand Braudel called piracy a “secondary form of war,” that, like insurgencies on land, tends to increase in the lulls between conflicts among great states or empires. With the Soviet Union and its client states in Africa no longer in existence, and American influence in the third world at an ebb, irregular warfare both on land and at sea has erupted, and will probably be with us until the...

The Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. - Three people in Piscataway are dead in what police are calling a murder-suicide.

Getting California out of marriage business proposed as answer to Prop. 8 war By Susan Ferriss Mar. 24, 2009 At California's historic hearing on Proposition 8 earlier this month, Supreme Court Justice Ming Chin briefly imagined a scenario that might solve the legal conflict over a gay marriage ban. What if the government were to get out of the "marriage business," Ming asked, and issue civil-union licenses to both straight and gay couples? The justices agreed such a change would have to be handled by the Legislature, and discussion closed. But outside the court, the question still hung in the...

Protesters plan to disrupt service today at the BART Fruitvale Station where Oscar Grant III was shot to death by a BART officer the morning of Jan. 1. Protest organizers announced last week that they will shut down the station during rush hour today unless officials met their ultimatum for increased accountability and other demands. The Oakland Police Department is prepared to backup BART if necessary. "We'll have a contingent of officers on standby," OPD spokesman Jeff Thomason said. "BART Police Department will handle anything within the station and on BART property. If it gets out of control BART can...

As the worldwide slump deepens so must worries that the economic crisis will spill out onto the streets. In December, France's president Nicolas Sarkozy warned that les évènements of May 1968 could repeat themselves, and not only in the land of the torched auto. That same month IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn used the possibility of social unrest--in rich countries as well as poor--to drum up support for aggressive fiscal expansion. Now it's reported that the leaders of the EU's member states will spend part of their March summit discussing signs of growing disorder across their increasingly embattled union. After weeks...

In tandem with the Bad Borrowers Bailout, Obama's old friends at the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now are launching a "Home Savers" campaign. As with most of the bully tactics of the radical left-wing group, it ain't gonna be pretty. They are the shock troops on the streets doing the dirty work while the Community Organizer-in-Chief keeps his hands clean. Trumpets ACORN: "On Feb. 19, ACORN members will launch a new tactic in fighting foreclosures: civil disobedience. Participants in the ACORN Home Savers campaign nationwide will simply refuse to move out of foreclosed homes, or in some cases,...

Brzezinksi fears class warfare. Not Mika. Zbigniew. And not Barney Frank on the Meet the Press. Real, blood-in-the-streets riots. Jimmy Carter’s former National Security Adviser expressed his concern about the possibility of riots on Morning Joe today. To stave them off, he proposes the creation of a voluntary National Solidarity Fund, whose contributors would be the fat cats who have made out well in recent times. View video.

<p>This video deals with a subject not taught in schools anymore -- the nature of governments.</p> <p>It is an EXCELLENT history lesson, and, quite sadly, a first-class demonstration as to what we have to look forward to.</p> <p>It should be REQURIED viewing for every citizen, politician, and school-age child/young adult!</p>

Iceland has no army, no navy and no air force - but it does have riot police. On Tuesday night the black-uniformed troopers came out to quell the latest riots in Reykjavik, which erupted in front of parliament. The building was splattered with paint and yoghurt, the crowd yelled and banged pans, shot fireworks and flares at the windows and lit a fire in front of the main door. Yesterday the protesters gathered again, hurling eggs at the car of Geir Haarde, the Prime Minister, and banging cans on its roof. The transformation of the placid island into a community...

Madrid, Jan 9, 2009 / 01:46 pm (CNA).- A campaign promoting atheism through ads on public buses in London has spread to the Spanish cities of Barcelona and Madrid, igniting a controversy among the inhabitants of both cities.The so-called “atheist buses” in London were inspired by columnist Ariane Sherine of The Guardian and backed by the British Humanistic Association and Professor Richard Dawkins.  Soon after philosopher, Anthony Grayling, journalist Polly Toynbee and the British Atheistic Association also voiced their support for the campaign.The campaign now has some $250,000 in donations and has spread to other British cities, where some...

North Berkeley BART Station windows were smashed in the early hours of Thursday morning “in memory of Oscar Grant and all who are murdered at the cold hands of the police,” according to a message posted on www.indybay.org by “anarchists.” The message says in part, “This action was taken out in response to the murder of Oscar Grant by BART police and in solidarity with the riots that have been taking place in Oakland. Our hope is that this action will inspire others to rise up against this atrocious police state in which we live. “This action was very easy...

The man who organized Wednesday's BART police protest said he broke down in tears when he saw his peaceful march turn violent as some participants began throwing bottles, spitting on police cars and setting small fires. Evan Shamar said he left the demonstration and saw the mayhem get worse on television. "I was devastated by it," said Shamar, 24, the organizer and a photographer who lives in Oakland. "I worked diligently for the past 72 hours, and for it to be destroyed by a group of anarchists was extremely upsetting. I felt like my integrity had been compromised." Shamar and...

Nine ministries changed hands under the shake-up ordered by Costas Karamanlis, the prime minister, whose government has been plunged into crisis since the killing of a schoolboy by a police officer last month. The fatal shooting triggered days of demonstrations and violent protests, with the unrest taking a dangerous new turn on Monday when a policeman was seriously injured by bullets from a submachine gun during an attack in central Athens. Re-elected to a second term in office in 2007, the conservative New Democracy government has a parliamentary majority of just one seat and has been heavily criticised for its...

In recent months, according to Michèle Alliot-Marie, the interior minister, intelligence services have detected a "radicalisation of extreme Left-wing movements that could go as far as (the perpetration) of acts of violence." "Every time there is a weakening of the far-Left and notably the Communist party, one sees a resurgence of a certain number of small groups that are much more extremist, much more radical," she warned recently. Experts close to the government have drawn parallels with the Action Directe group, which carried out dozens of attacks in the early 1980s, or the Baader-Meinhof gang. They say the threat from...

"Pay close attention to Greece; at a time of world-wide economic upheaval, it might eerily presage disturbances elsewhere in 2009" ___ reece has been torn apart by the worst riots in decades, now entering their third week. Bands of self-declared anarchist youths have rampaged through the streets of Athens and other major cities causing hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage, setting off a spiral of unrest in which the nation’s unions, among other groups, have taken part. Both shops and hotel lobbies have been ransacked, and hospitals, airports, and transport have been brought to a standstill. What sparked...

Once again Muslims in Europe take to the streets to riot. This time they were supposed to be celebrating the Islamic holiday of Eid. The celebrating done by 300 Muslims included throwing bicycles on the train tracks and rocks at the police. Over the last few years this type of behaviour has occurred several times in Europe.

GUATEMALA CITY -- Mexican and Guatemalan drug traffickers arguing about a horse race in a rural border town began a series of gunbattles in which 17 people died, police said Monday. National police spokesman Donald Gonzalez said the traffickers were drinking in the town of Santa Ana Huista on Sunday afternoon when an argument broke out over bets on a horse race, leading to a pursuit in which the gunmen shot at each other with automatic weapons from trucks racing down roads near a remote part of the Mexican border. Gonzalez said police even found grenade-launchers at the scene of...

<p>ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Greece's interior minister says the massive protest riots in cities across the country are "unacceptable" but insists that police are doing all they can to protect people's lives and property.</p> <p>Thousands of youths are rampaging through Athens, the northern city of Thessaloniki and several other cities in the third day of riots Monday after police shot and killed a teenager on Saturday.</p>

Christmas tree torched in Athens riots By Emma Alberici and Helena SmithPosted December 9, 2008 07:13:00Updated December 9, 2008 08:55:00 People flee from a burning Christmas Tree in Syntagma Square in Athens. (AFP: Aris Messinis) Video: Greek protests enter third day (ABC News) Related Story: Fresh rioting hits Greek cities Rioters have torched a large Christmas tree in central Athens at the end of a third day of violent demonstrations in Greece.The tree, in Syntagma Square, was set on fire amid riots in the Greek capital in protest over the death of a 15-year-old boy who was shot by police...

Re-emerging from his self-imposed silence, Ayers is trying to escape the negative stigma of his violent past by arguing that he was much less violent than the U.S. government. Here he again attacks the government (in the form of the prison system) for what it does to people that implicitly match his view of himself: folks who have good excuses for violence, crime and anti-social behavior. In Ayers' view, these people don't belong in prison any more than he does.

The central issue in the legal battle over Proposition 8 is whether the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage is a state constitutional amendment, which can be passed by initiative, or a constitutional revision, which can't. From another perspective, the question is whether the scope of a minority group's rights in California should be decided by the voters or the courts. The state Supreme Court may decide Wednesday whether to dismiss or grant review of six lawsuits challenging Prop. 8, approved with a 52 percent majority on Nov. 4. It's the same court that ruled 4-3 on May 15 that the...

Among the many new "rights" being conjured out of thin air, a new one seems to be a "right" to win. Americans have long had the right to put their candidates and their ideas to a vote. Now there seems to be a sense that your rights have been trampled on if you don't win. Hillary Clinton's supporters were not merely disappointed, but outraged, when she lost the Democrats' nomination to Barack Obama. Some took it as a sign that, while racial barriers had come down, the "glass ceiling" holding down women was still in place. Apparently, if you don't...

Protestors of California's Proposition 8 (the marriage amendment) shoved aside a 69-year old woman bearing a cross, reportedly spit on her and stomped on her cross. They then aligned themselves in a human barricade, blocking the media from getting to or interviewing the elderly woman Prop. 8 supporter, Jose Nunez, 37, was brutally assaulted while distributing yard signs to other supporters after church services at the St. Stanislaus Parish in Modesto. Calvary Chapel Chino Hills was spray painted by vandals, after they learned that the church served as an official collection point for Prop 8 petitions. Letters containing white powder...

Political protests are one thing, but when old-fashioned bullying techniques that prompt fear of safety are used, activists have crossed a line. There is a difference between respectful dissent and advocacy for one's civil rights and demanding public endorsement of what many still consider "unnatural sexual behavior" through hate language and fear tactics. One thing is for sure: The days of peaceful marches like those headed up by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. seem to be long gone. The truth is that the great majority of Prop 8 advocates are not bigots or hatemongers. They are American citizens who are...

BOSTON — Gay rights supporters waving rainbow colors marched, chanted and danced in cities coast to coast Saturday to protest the vote that banned gay marriage in California and to urge supporters not to quit the fight for the right to wed. Crowds gathered near public buildings in cities large and small, including Boston, San Francisco, Chicago and Fargo, to vent their frustrations, celebrate gay relationships and renew calls for change. "Civil marriages are a civil right, and we're going to keep fighting until we get the rights we deserve as American citizens," said Karen Amico, one of several hundred...

Gay Marriage Advocates Hold Nationwide Rallies in Aftermath of Prop 8 "People ought to be able to marry who they want."

SNIPPET: "A French couple arrested in connection with a series of anarchist attacks on the country's rail network have been linked by the FBI to a bomb attack in New York." ARTICLE SNIPPET: "French anti-terrorist police are holding 10 alleged members of a violent anarchist movement suspected of sabotaging power cables on high speed TGV train lines. But it now transpires that the alleged culprits were netted thanks to information from the FBI, which allegedly linked two of them to the home-made bomb attack on an army recruitment centre in New York's Times Square in March. Julien Coupat, 34, the...

Congolese aid worker Godefroid Marhegane, 58, tells the BBC News website by phone from his home in Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, about the unrest there after soldiers retreated from advancing rebels. It has been very hard. The fighting was all night long with AK-47 guns between gunmen and soldiers from the national army. There were also a lot of armed men taking advantage of the chaos, going around looting and forcing people to give them any money they had or their mobile phones. It is difficult to say who they were - if they were soldiers or...

SAN FRANCISCO – Ahead of the Nov. 4 election, with all eyes on the presidential race, hundreds of young people amassed in front of the Homeland Security offices in downtown San Francisco in what some say is the first in a series of civil disobedience style protests to stop ICE raids against immigrants. Last week hundreds of youth, families and organizers from over 10 different cities in the Bay Area gathered at the Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in San Francisco to demand an end to ICE raids, to demand that all detention centers be shut down and to demand...

NEW YORK, Oct. 23, 2008 (Reuters) — Mayor Michael Bloomberg won the right to seek re-election as New York's City Council voted on Thursday to extend the two-term limit for elected officials as the city grapples with the global financial crisis.

A note from Radarsite: On reposting previously published articles: If the issues addressed in a previously published Radarsite article are still pertinent and the questions raised still remain unanswered, then we will repost the article, both as a reminder of unfinished business, and of course for those who may not have read the original. For those of you who have read this piece the first time around, just skip over it. Thanks. - rg --------------------------------------------------- Can you smell it? There's a faint whiff of anarchy in the air. Nothing to get alarmed about. Not yet, anyway. Just a barely...

Source link If your television declares John McCain the president elect on the evening of November 4th, your television will be lying. You should immediately pick up your pre-packed bags and head straight to the White House in Washington, D.C., which we will surround and shut down until this attempt at a third illegitimate presidency is reversed. A McCain "win" will not be illegitimate because I disagree with his policies, but because he himself has rendered it illegitimate. He and his campaign and allied supporters have sought to illegally remove hundreds of thousands of voters from the rolls, fraudulently registered...

( I realize this could all be horse manure, but could not resist posting) Thread begins below: MSM contact-TO everyone, especially Stephen, Lance, and se: written by Anne, September 28, 2008 I know a "top" person in the MSM quite well. I was very fortunate to catch her at a party and discuss this for a few minutes (I asked about the citizenship angle). A little alcohol loosens the tongue. She said (speaking about her "company") "we're hoping Obama wins and then we'll haul in ratings ten times better than the Clinton affair. There's a lot more out there than...

If Barack Obama loses the 2008 election, liberal hell will break loose. Seven weeks before the 2008 presidential election, liberals are warning America that if Barack Obama loses, it is because Americans are racist. Of course, that this means that Democrats (and independents) are racist, since Republicans will vote Republican regardless of the race of the Democrat, is an irony apparently lost on the Democrats making these charges. That an Obama loss will be due to racism is becoming as normative a liberal belief as “Bush Lied, People Died,” a belief has generated intense rage among many liberals. But “Obama...

Vandalism and Violent Acts That Sabotage Experiments Are a Threat to All Researchers Earlier this year, firebombs that exploded minutes apart destroyed a car parked outside the campus home of a researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and burned the front door of another’s house. He and his family escaped the smoke-filled house using a ladder lowered from a second-story window. A third researcher received a threatening telephone message around the same time.These examples of domestic terrorism are part of a vicious pattern of terrorist acts against university researchers who are involved with experiments that use animals. They...

September 12, 2008, 0:20 p.m. Crossing the LineTop NASA climatologist James Hansen endorses eco-vandalism. By Henry Payne Prominent NASA climatologist James Hansen, a close ally of global-warming activist Al Gore and one of the world’s leading scientific voices warning of a global climate crisis, has endorsed eco-vandalism. Hansen’s controversial turn stems from testimony he gave this month in a London criminal trial against Greenpeace supporters who were accused of defacing — at a cost of $60,000 in property damage — Kingsnorth, an English coal plant. Hansen testified in support of the defense’s assertion that the Greenpeace members had a...

LONDON: The fight for the planet has broken new ground, with a British jury acquitting environmental activists who caused more than pound stg. 35,000 ($76,000) worth of damage to a coal-fired power station. In a decision that will send chills down corporate spines across Britain, the jury decided the dangers of global warming were so enormous that the Greenpeace campaigners were justified in trying to close down Kingsnorth power station in Kent. Jurors at Maidstone Crown Court cleared the six activists of criminal damage, accepting they had a "lawful excuse" to damage the Kingsnorth property to try to prevent the...

Protesters have been given a legal 'green light' to commit crime after six Greenpeace activists accused of vandalising a power station were cleared, an ex minister has warned. The eco-campaigners admitted causing damage to the value of £30,000 when they climbed a chimney and began painting a slogan. But a judge allowed them to base their 'lawful excuse' defence around their cause: the fear that the power station could contribute to climate change. A jury at Maidstone Crown Court agreed, meaning the activists walked free. The power station's owners said Greenpeace had endangered lives, while Tory former minister Ann Widdecombe...

How The West Was Won The rapid and unexpected decline of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq was officially recognized this week, when Maj. Gen. John Kelly, commanding the Marine Expeditionary Force, turned operational control of Anbar Province over to the Iraqi army and police. Anbar, a vast expanse of desert the size of North Carolina, had been the stronghold of the Sunni insurgency. For years, foreign fighters loyal to al-Qaida had sneaked across Iraq's northwestern border with Syria, into Anbar and down a "rat line" of safe houses in Haditha, Ramadi and Hit. From Fallujah, the arch terrorist Zarqawi...

Do Democratic presidential campaign committees think we are all stupid or do they suffer from some sort of group delusion? In 2004 they tried to peddle a man who made claims about his military career that were easily proven to be lies (Christmas in Cambodia, outrageous charges about war crimes by his fellow soldiers) as a war hero “reporting for duty.” This time around they are trying to take a man whose entire career has linked him with far-left anti-American characters, political agendas focused on redistribution of wealth, and racial spoils and pawn him off on us as a...

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