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KYIV. Nov 23 (Interfax-Ukraine) - Rallies in support of Ukrainian presidential candidate and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych took place in Donetsk's Kuibyshyvsky district, Horlivka, and Makiyivka in the Donetsk region, and also in Luhansk's Kameno-Brodsky district. The Kuibyshyvsky district in Donetsk saw a rally attended by about 5,000 people, mainly workers from the district's enterprises, who passed a resolution supporting Yanukovych and condemning the opposition's moves. A rally in Horlivka was attended by about 15,000 people, and about 30,000 people supported Yanukovych in Makiyivka. About 5,000 people also gathered in Luhansk's Kameno-Brodsky district in Yanukovych's support. The rally was organized...

This is an actual email exchange: Hey there, Anglia, I can't explain it all fully - but I'll try. Aside from the fact that I genuinely enjoy our chats and our friendship, I feel (and many others feel this way too, you should know!) like I owe you & your family & husband (and others like you) an incredible debt that will be so hard to ever repay. There is a tremendous amount of sacrifice you are doing in sending your husband to take care of this great country of ours. You share the man you love and married with...

KYIV - Acting together on June 16, the leaders of two nationalist organizations, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists led by Mykola Plaviuk and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (Revolutionary) headed by Andriy Haydamakha, and two political parties, the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists (CUN) and the All-Ukrainian Union Svoboda, led, respectively, by Oleksii Ivchenko and Oleh Tiahnybok, publicly announced that the process of uniting had begun. In fact, the consolidation process started on May 28, when the four leaders signed a declaration under the title "Unity - A Guarantee for Victory!" Their declaration read: "Ukrainian nationalists are convinced, that the only...

The Department of Defense recently launched the America Supports You program, reportedly in response to the increased desire on the part of American citizens to express their encouragement for service men and women. Ebberts said "support [for the troops] is absolutely phenomenal. More and more Americans want to know how they can help." And the America Supports You website is already a hit, she said. During one recent morning, Ebberts recounted, "we had at least 12-hundred people go to the website to join the team, telling us about what they are doing for the troops. People want to show their...

Magnetic ribbons of all colors, sizes and varieties are being attached to the tails of SUVs and compact cars alike, like so many dot-commers swarming to the deceiving stock market rise of the late '90s. In particular, the yellow and red, white and blue ribbons sporting the phrases "Support Our Troops" and "Freedom Isn't Free" have become as common as taillights.

DEAR FREEPERS: Jeff Epstein is a new friend of mine I met through the Swift Boat Vets and Vietnam Vets For Truth organizations. This is a timely article calling for our continued support of thoose groups who supported Freedom and truth about John Kerry. Jeff's timely article reminds us all to not get complacent in what happened in the last election, and to remember who our friends are in the media. Here is Jeff's article: Folks: The following article, of mine, was published on "The Rant" earlier this morning. As most of you know, I am not in the business...

The Schwarzenegger administration signaled its support Tuesday for a plan to drop Clinton-era protections that barred road-building and other development on nearly a third of the country's national forest land, including more than 4 million acres in California. The rollback, proposed by the Bush administration last summer, would repeal the most ambitious conservation move of Clinton's presidency — a rule that blocked commercial timber cutting and road construction on 58.5 million acres of national forest holdings. In its place, the Bush proposal would create a system that relies heavily on individual states to decide whether the forest lands should be...

Come support Mark Belling. Wednesday, November 17th 4-6PM 700 W. State St. Milwaukee, WI MATC www.freebelling.com

U.S. authorities are seeking to extradite from Britain a 30-year-old British computer specialist accused of running Web sites in this country to promote jihad and funnel cash to terrorist organizations, including al Qaeda. Babar Ahmad was named in a federal grand jury indictment in August in Bridgeport, Conn., on charges of conspiring to support terrorists, providing material support to terrorist organizations, conspiring to kill, kidnap or injure U.S. citizens, and money laundering. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokesman Dean Boyd said Mr. Ahmad is scheduled for an extradition hearing Thursday in London. Extradition papers said Mr. Ahmad, arrested Aug....

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 - The White House offered only lukewarm support today for Senator Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania Republican whose bid to become chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is under fire from conservatives. Asked whether President Bush would have confidence in Mr. Specter as chairman, the chief White House spokesman, Scott McClellan, said the chairmanship was "a matter for the Senate to decide, and it's something that the White House does not have a role in.'' Advertisement "Senators will make that decision," he said. The White House does, of course, have influence. By virtue of , Mr. Specter is...

EAST MOLINE -- Glenview Middle School teacher Meredith Brandt soon will have to write letters to correspond with her 21-year-old son, Michael Brandt, a private first class who will be stationed on Okinawa, Japan, next week. But she and other teachers want students to show their support, too. "These kids can do good things," Mrs. Brandt said. "If they're given a chance, they can do awesome things." Glenview kicked off a collection drive Monday for "Each One, Reach One," a schoolwide effort to support soldiers in Iraq. Students will collect books and other items to be mailed to troops in...

For those in or near Troy, Michigan, the Troy Veterans Memorial Committee will host the fifth annual Troy Veterans Day Ceremony at 10:30 am Thursday at Troy Veterans Plaza, in front of the City Hall, 500 W. Big Beaver. The public is invited to bring individual flowers, bouquets, small flags and other appropriate mementos to be placed on the walk of honor or at the base of the Veterans Memorial in honor of loved ones or all veterans. Call 248-524-1147 MICHIGAN---U. S. veterans with proper proof of service can receive free 7-inch rolled pita sandwiches at participating Mr. Pita locations...

(CNN) -- A majority of Americans polled said they were hopeful that President Bush would do more to unite the country than divide it, a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll found. Fifty-seven percent of 621 American adults surveyed Wednesday night said they expect Bush to unite the nation during his second term. But 39 percent said they believe the president will be divisive.

Across the world the red/blue map of America's voting preferences is being shown. Wrongly we hear “So all the blue states voted for Kerry. The West Coast is all Kerry” NO! I am proud to say that in my California 4.4 million voted for Bush, to Kerry's 5.5 million. We are not a totally God-forsaken state!!! And...

Editors' preface: A noted historian of the Middle East has said the following about the legacy of scholars who devoted their careers to the study of the region: The giants of the recent past tend to be largely forgotten as soon as they are dead if not before, especially if what they have written isn't what is now considered fashionable or central … They are criticized when they are in error, but their achievements are forgotten.[1] While this is largely true in the English-speaking countries, it is not true in France, where a few French "giants" of Islamic and Arab...

This is a post for the son of a friend of mine. Marshall Info SiteMarshall was married July of last year, and 10 days later was deployed to Iraq. After serving 8 months in Iraq (and having a few of his friends killed in an ambush in Washington Post Article he returned to find out that he had not come home in perfect health When he got back, he was diagnosed with stage 2 lymphoma and started chemo. He is now set to start daily radiation treatment... and in this hard and trying time, his support system of soldiers that...

It takes real courage to show your support for the President during this election but a lot of businesses are doing just that.

This weekend is going to be huge politically here in Southwest Ohio. The party starts Saturday Night in Blue Ash, Ohio a northern 'burb of Cincinnati. At 8PM in the Town Square Sean Hannity's Get Out The Vote tour hits town. With Sean will be Bill Bennett and Oliver North. Local speakers,entertainment plus a performance by the Van Dells singing the National Anthem. That's just the warmup. Sunday Night at Great American Ballpark, President Bush will be appearing. Tickets will be available starting Thursday morning. Add this to the Bengals starting our week with a win on MNF and this...

Nearly four years have elapsed since the Oslo process (1993-2000) between Israelis and Palestinians foundered in bloodshed. Over that period, two U.S. administrations have tried to forge policies that would reduce the violence and point toward a solution to the conflict.It has not been a single-minded pursuit. Since September 11, 2001, the prime focus of Washington has been the management of unprecedented U.S. military interventions in the region, which removed regimes from power in Afghanistan and Iraq. The notion of Israeli-Palestinian peace as the key to regional stability has been replaced by the war on terror and the insistence on...