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Under the Western Justice System, only the Israelis are allowed to kill people in international water because the Jews were victims of past Nazi transgression. That is not going to be changed anytime soon like the Goldstone reports.
Israel is using the gaza siege to control food prices .Israeli farmers lobby for what should be on or off the list.
I think Israel lost its status as a democratic state .
Attacking peaceful mission by the Israeli army is barbaric.
Can any nation on earth get away with more than Israel.
One ownders why arabs and muslims are angry just look at the record of the US unconditional support to Israel.America are you with the arabs or against them?
4 'Frogmen' Killed
News Flash: "The Israeli navy shot and killed four members of a militant Palestinian group off the coast of the Gaza Strip. The men were in diving gear; the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade claimed they were on a training mission."
How many readers think these guys were training to spear tuna fish?
Activities like this are used as justifications for A BLOCKADE.
Provocations of violence are valid justifications for military responses!
There is a war going on (and this is truly sad for the people affected).
I hope it becomes possible for there to be a negotiated settlement.
Perhaps, all is not really 'Fair in Love and War'; but this is really the starting point for the unbiased observer.
Both sides lie through their rotting teeth, shamelessly & pathologicaly. More so perhaps the Palestinians & their fanatical & rabid illegitimate offshoots, viz: Hamas & Hezbollah.
At least one can sympathise more with the Israelis, who are surrounded by militant anti-semitics, out to destroy them & wipe them off the face of the map, given the opportunity.
How can one blame them for getting paranoid & driven to 'seige mentality' mind-sets, after sixty plus years of enduring non-stop violence & carnage, from their militant neighbors??
Think about it, before condemning them outright..
@stands for truth
> The UN for the friends and passionate defenders of Israel is a HOSTILE Body!
> The much-maligned Judge Goldstone Report is a dead letter
Judge Goldstone is a Jewish Zionist with close family ties with Israel.
Israel and 'stands for truth' would have us believe that he departed in his UN report from a lifetime of integrity and judicial precision in order to invent lies about the IDF. Why would he?
The stance of Israel wrt the Goldstone report underlines how surreal it is that anyone would place the slightest credibility in an Israeli investigation.
Generally the accused does not conduct the investigation into his own guilt.
Shall we ask the North Koreans to investigate whether they torpedoed the South Korean vessel?
The world has long experience of Isreali whitewashes, and of ignoring independent inquiries such as that by Judge Goldstone.
Who can dare to sit in Judgement whenever Israelis are in the docks? The UN for the friends and passionate defenders of Israel is a HOSTILE Body!
The rest of the humanity does not qualify either. Just take note of the fate of 43yrs old UN Resolution 242(which had even US approval!)
It is hardly even mentioned in the Media or in the diplomatic circles.
The much-maligned Judge Goldstone Report is a dead letter.
All the fuming and fury is now aimed at Iran the scoundrel of the West. With Iraq gone bombed into Stone Age, Iran fills the aisle of Demonology.
I think to provide some sort of International legitimacy for Israel, one might think of recruiting some high profile individuals (with spotless record free from pointing any accusing fingers at Israel to date!)
Some eligible persons/institutions to sit in judgement for Israel could include the following:
1.Allan Dershowitz, 2.Anti-Defamation League3.Eliott Abram.4.Martin Indyk, 5.Barbara Amiel, 6.Irwin Cotler (A Canadian Human Rights Champ) and Martin Kramer.Dershowitz and Kramer are on the Harvard Faculty and will provide intellectual/philosophical input into the deliberations. Irwin Cotler with his vast experience in dealing with issues of human rights would insure that humanitarian side is also covered. After all,the Gaza Flotilla and Rachel Corrie ship laid claims to be serving humanitarian needs of Gaza residents.
With such stellar membership of an international Inquiry one can hope it will allay the fear that the whole world is ganging up on Israel
Every nation has the right to protect its citizens against hostile attacks. The reason for the sea blockade is to stop Hamas bringing in weapons that can destroy cities in Israel. If Hamas could totally obliterate Israel and kill every Israeli they would do so. They do not think that Israel has a right to exist, and would eagerly take an opportunity to implement genocide. That is how serious it is – there is the threat of genocide by Hamas.
Contrast that with Israel who could do a genocide on Hamas and easily destroy the lot of them. They have the nuclear capability, biological weapons apart from ordinary firepower. But genocide is not part of the Israeli thinking. There is a huge difference in the way these two countries view each other.
If you lived in Syria and the government of Jordan did not think that Syria had a right to exist – how would you react? If you lived in Iraq and Iran did not think Iraq had a right to exist – how would you react? Would you allow your hostile neighbor import weapons to fight a war with you if it was in your power to stop it?
We need to view the blockade from this perspective.
Imagine the impossible, that Hamas decrees that Israel has the right to exist and actively stops attempting to import weapons to fight a war. The Israeli response would be to have open borders and live in peace with its neighbor. It would be the end of armed conflict. There would be more aid to Hamas. Yes, there would still be differences, but ordinary people on both sides would have a better quality of life.
But given the rhetoric and previous actions by Hamas, the Israeli response has been to squeeze Hamas in order to make it unpopular with its citizens. This has failed, as the corrupt Fatah is not an option and there is no third choice.
So we have to expect more of the same, more dramas, more killings, more suffering.
You make an excellent point about "As for the media, they should stop allowing the parties to the conflict to define the narrative. Even the Economist falls into this trap."
There is too much knee-jerk reaction by the media on this, we must really look beyond the events of the day and look to or encourage a longer-term perspective.
Israel is completely ignoring the international laws and it seems nobody can apply or implement any punitive sanctions for this misbehaviour since they are israelites, not iraqis. As this is one side of the story, on the other hand obviously aid flotilla supposed to be packed with peace activist but in this case it looked Marmara was packed with islamic revenge mercenaries. Commandos in ellevated position could see skirmish down below but could not read the situation clearly and all they knew was their comrades landed on the ship were in deep trouble, so, they shot those who went near them and I strongly believe that any army personnel would have behaved exactly the same way.
Consequently, although I am conveying my Turkish views, activist on that ship certainly have a major role in their own deaths. In addition to that, it is absolutely clear that, Erdogan government is trying their best to ruin Turkish-Israeli relations. This is crystal clear.
Until the Americans get fed up, the Israelis can do as they please.
Many, many people hate Israel, Non Jews, or Jews alike. This hatred cannot be explained. It is a fact and we have to live with it. We will never understand it. A very scientific research of this hatred will yield nothing. It simply cannot be explained. But we have to contiue to build our country. Those who hate the Jews, for whatsoever reason, will present their Judges to the " Fact Finding Commission ". Who will be presented as "Honorable Candidates" to sit in that Kangaroo Court ? We can think of two distinct groups of candidates : The first : "A Famous Honorable Jewish Judge" that "will fit", more or less, the profile of the "Honorable Judge, Goldstone". The second group of canidates will be some Leftist-cum-"Human Rights Warrior For The Persecuted Minorities In The Third World". The second group of candidate may come, for all we know, from Belgium, Spain, Sweden, Norway, India, Japan, Korea, Mexico, or Brazil. There is nothing that we will be able to do about it. The verdict condemning Israel for "War Crimes", or "Aggravated Crimes against Humanity" is already written. It is inside an envelope in a drawer, somewhere in Geneva, London or The Hague. It is a done deal.
The case should be given to Turkey's own criminal courts. After all, the massacre took place aboard a Turkish ship and all of the victims were Turks. An internal, secretive enquiry conducted by the Israelis themselves will not be acceptable at all.
You're absolutely right that Hamas is winning the PR war in the Middle East. That they are doing so is testament to how far overboard the Israelis have gone and how utterly they have ceded the moral high ground. I am sure we can all agree that Western sympathy for the Palestinian cause is hardly instinctive, to say the least, whereas Israel's cause is inherently sympathetic. That world opinion is apparently persuaded otherwise should give Israeli leaders serious pause. Nothing is more pathetic than "everybody is wrong but me" syndrome, and nothing is more cynical and lazy than blaming anti-Semitism.
As for the media, they should stop allowing the parties to the conflict to define the narrative. Even the Economist falls into this trap. Only last week they referred to protests over the aid flotilla as being "anti-Israel". Why are protests over the killing of civilians necessarily "anti-Israel"? Who says that to deplore the blockade is to oppose a free, peaceful and secure Jewish state? That's nonsense.
Palestinians, as many other ethnicities, are in fact being "beatten up" by a stronger nation [in their case, Israel]. I can assure you they are not luck.
As much as I love Israel it is impossible to deny what have been happening there, huge demonstrations of violence, physical and psychological violence on a daily basis.
Israel is a racist state, check the situation among the Philippines for instance, and it will not measure efords to keep their ethnical map unchanged by deporting children that were born there for exemplo.
Nevertheless, Israelis are fully intitle of living their lives in peace, as lots of them do not agree with many actions from the government.
Palestinians have being using very low artifices to call world and midia attention to their cause [that does exist, but not in the way it is shown]. Their excessive use of those very often violent artificies [such as in Gaza where they used children as human shields] makes of midia a screen for lies and in many cases, it is so hard to believe what they are saying that their true [and sad] real history is taken for granted.
Israelis, Palestinians and many of they others involved in the conflict are obviously more worried about being "right" and officializing their own culture and point of view as the dominant, then solving the problems as "one" group of PEOPLE that are desperately in need of learning how it is like to live life with out war and intrinsic hate.
So my critic is not to the endeless war as I don't see it coming to an end, but to people that have a tendency to blame Israel for whatever happens in the world. Yes, Israel has a score to settle, may be [only may be] more then some other countries, but NO, they are not they ones to be single blamed for problemes as they are only one share of it.
Jugdar, the Palestinians are really lucky to have the Jews as their enemy, otherwise nobody would pay attention to them either. They would be just like the others you mention. That's the way it's been for thousands of years. Even the great Roman Empire was at the height of it's power only while they were busy fighting Judea. After the Judean Wars the Romans slowly disappeared off the map. Today the Islamic world uses the Israel and the Jews to whip up as much excitement as they can. That's the real motive of the unpopular Turkish Prime Minister - play the Israel card to climb up the political ladder, it provides guarranteed poll results.
it's good for Economist to admit that Israel imposed blockade of Gaza strip with approval of United States and European Union. Shame on them, hypocrites! Americans and Europeans should bear main responsibility for slow genocide of Palestinians at the hands of Israelis.
Not the worst article I've read on the subject but I really think there should be a more in-depth analysis of Hamas and their methods of rule and leadership style.
As long as Hamas remains in power there will never be any real progress for the peace process and Palestinians will continue to suffer at the hands of these corrupt thugs. While average Palestinians anguish over their deteriorating environment Hamas leaders drive their Mercedes and only distribute aid to the loyalist families.
I do not see Israel being punished for what they have been doing in a near future. It didn't happened before and all the signs indicate it is not happening now. The joke is on world diplomacy, what's the point on having trials if there is no concequence for the defaulter?
Apart from Israelis/Palestinians justice, Israelis are absolutely right when they argue that when they screw up with the world the whole midia getthers to denounce it, but when US kills 1000s in Iraq or Afghanistan we only see small footnotes.
Or worse, US silence about absurd acts of violence all over the world as China towards Tibet [not even the midia talks about it anymore] but makes sure that everyone knows they see democracy as "se ne qua non".
Who will sit in judgment? No one.
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From what I've seen, both MSNBC and Fox are both pretty much all opinion all the time, to the point of being detrimental rather than useless as sources of news.
Right, but thankfully we don't have to rely on your opinion of what you've seen. This source found that 90% of MSNBC programming is opinion versus 55% of Fox News. So, in fact, MSNBC is pretty much opinion all the time and Fox News is pretty much opinion half the time.


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How do you know a ton weren't generated as apart of some marketing strategy?
Or rather, how can you NOT suspect that a significant portion of them aren't fake?
Has the issue of verifying online registration as belonging to an actual, unique person been solved with absolute certainty while I wasn't paying attention?
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I went to buy ten dollars worth of RP today, and I got an error multiple times no matter how many times I put in the correct information. Just to be safe, I went onto my check card's website and checked to see if it deducted the money. It did. Sixty dollars and no RP to show for it. Fix your store Riot. A refund would be nice, but it probably won't happen.
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Kyrgyz police move in on Centerra gold mine protesters
There have been angry clashes in Kyrgyzstan after hundreds of police moved in to disperse a protest over a valuable Canadian-owned gold mine.
About 1,000 people have been camped out for days calling for a bigger share of the profits from the Kumtor mine, owned by Canada's Centerra Gold group.
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i don't normally use an eye makeup remover bc i just use my regular face wash to wash away all my makeup (even waterproof mascara). but when i need to remove my eye makeup blunder, i use this one. it doesn't leave a residue which i like bc i use it so that i can re-do my eye makeup. i've tried neutrogena, lacome, and clinique. neutrogena took me more than one cotton ball, lacome is pricey, and clinique is a rinse off formula which isn't convenient.
no residue, easily takes off makeup, doesn't sting (i don't have a stinging problem with this one but i did have stinging with the one's listed above.), flip top cap, and inexpensive! what more can you ask for.
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When my local drugstore had a 50% sale on their Rimmel products, I decided (based on MUA reviews) to try it.
At least I didn't pay full price?
It did a mediocre job of removing my eye makeup and stung my eyes while it was at it. I'll be sticking to jojoba oil from now on.
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Cheap works well and the the opening fits a Q-tip perfectly! It is not greasy at all, feels like water but it works really well. Also I like how it comes out of a small opening that way it doesn't spill out everywhere. Doesn't irritate my eyes .
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The packaging is awesome, the price is awesome and it does the job. I have been using this since the beginning of High School (about 7 years ago) and will continue to repurchase. I admit I recently tried 2-3 others (MAC, Avon, Mary Kay) and they didn't compare to Rimmel's.
I've bought this multiple times and I will continue to buy it until they stop making it (I hope never). It removes even my waterproof mascara and eyeliner without being greasy or making my eyes blurry, and it's the consistency of water, so it rinses clean away. It may not always remove everything in one swipe, particularly if I'm wearing a lot of black eyeliner/mascara, but it still does a great job. I try to pick this up when drugstores are having Buy 1 Get 1 Free sales on Rimmel, but at the regular $4-5 per bottle, it's still fairly inexpensive.
Love this stuff. The only eye make up remover I've bought that doesn't sting my eyes. It takes off all my eyeshadow, eyeliner, & mascara with no problem. Currently on my second bottle of the stuff.
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Ew! Ow! Mine was a freebie with some offer. This stuff STINGS my eyes if/when it gets in and it doesn't do a good job of taking off my waterproof mascara. Waterproof makeup remover my a**.
Don't care what it smells like. This stuff is AWFUL. Although, the container is handy, with its plastic flip top lid. I will never again stray from my beloved L'Oreal again. After this this, I will stay faithful to it. (although... having said that, I have a GWP bottle of Lancome eye m/u remover...)


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West Georgia Health System breaks ground on tower expansion
August 11, 2010
Construction work has commenced on a $65 million, 130,000-sf expansion to the south tower on the West Georgia Health System campus in Lagrange, Ga. Designed by Ellerbe Becket's Washington, D.C., healthcare design studio, with St. Louis-based McCarthy Building Cos. as contractor, the four-story facility will include a 24-bed ICU, cardiovascular center, labor/delivery and mother-baby center, and emergency department. It will be designed for vertical expansion and will be able to accommodate up to 192 beds in the future. The south tower will also provide a new "front door" to the medical center, with improved access and parking for patients and visitors. Completion: late 2009.
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Comments like this are unfounded and should be removed from this site. You are pointing fingers and blaming everyone else, did you ever stop and think maybe you were the problem? I worked at G&K Services, in management, and worked my way up the ladder. I saw employees who started out sweeping floors who furthered they careers in the company. It was not easy at times, I made mistakes, owned up to them and my managers helped me work through them. It's not an easy business, but I saw many of my employees, co-managers, and my managers work there up the ladder I left because of a medical condition, but I would give anything to go back. It is a great company and a wise choice even in tough times.
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You have a valid concern, and it should not be "office gossip" I don't know the current status, but five years ago, everyone was required to complete one route ride per year. But a Route Manager job is to be on the truck to help you manage your route, remove obstacles and find areas to better serve the customer. My guess is your Branch Manager doesn't get out in the trucks either. For the good of the business, I would contact the "Help Line" and let someone know about this at the Corporate Office.


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Comment on this storyLondon - Tottenham Hotspur have loaned winger David Bentley to Russian Premier League team FC Rostov until January, the London club said on its website on Thursday.
The 28-year-old former England international joined Premier League Spurs from Blackburn Rovers in 2008 for 15-million pounds, but failed to claim a regular place in the side, making only 42 league appearances.
He was loaned to Birmingham City for the second half of the 2010-11 season and to West Ham United last term where he made only five appearances before being ruled out for six months with a knee injury. - Reuters
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Market regulator Sebi has incurred initial costs of more than Rs 55 crore (Rs 550 million) in its humongous task of facilitating Rs 24,000-crore (Rs 240 billion) refund to bondholders of two Sahara firms after verifying their credentials and Saharas would have to clear all these bills.
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The following statements are by member organisations of the International of Anarchist Federations (IFA-IAF), http://i-f-a.org
See also previous article on AF website: http://www.afed.org.uk/blog/international/332-solidarity-with-the-squatters-of-villa-amalia-reports-from-athens.html
FAI. Anarchist Federation (Italy) - 13 January 2013
SUPPORT THE STRUGGLES OF THE GREEK COMRADES (translation from Italian)
The National Congress of the FAI, reunited in Milan, expresses its solidarity with the Greek comrades who in recent days have been violently attacked by the police Hellenic. We have seen evacuation of Villa Amalias and Skaramaga, historical squat symbol of the Athenian movement and the arrest of hundreds of solidarity that had reoccupied the building of Villa Amalias.
The anarchist movement in Greece has built up, in recent years, a strong response from the bottom up for the ruthless raid conducted against the workers.
A response made with direct actions, reappropriation of physical spaces, organizing popular assemblies in neighborhoods, self-management in the workplace.
A response that refuses whatever form of delegation that imprison the will to change this system that shows every day, his limitations. A response that has been able to gather around if 'tens of thousands of people, workers, students, unemployed, Greeks and immigrants, because the fight is all the exploited, whatever their origin. An answer that scares the bosses and the state not only because it shows that there is an alternative to social atomization, alienation and exploitation but that this alternative is needed now more than ever.
It is necessary because it is now clear that the domain of state and capital do nothing but destroy any social relationship that is not mediated by money or by relations of domination. Necessary because the crisis is impoverishing the working classes and the middle classes is nothing more than yet another robbery carried out by those who manage money and power.
The Greeks comrades have been able to build a response to this crime and for this reason they are under attack by the police, who said he wanted to clear all occupations, supported in this by the paramilitary Nazi Golden Dawn. It is no coincidence that in times of crisis and popular mobilizations apparatuses of the state use the low level manpower of the fascists. So it was in Italy in the Red Biennium, so it is in Greece in 2013.
In fact, Greece is not far from the Italian peninsula. Here, too, the state is wiping out the results of a century of labor struggles and popular. Here too the state is attacking the social movements, evacuates the sites occupied, raid against the workers in struggle, shooting tear gas against students, beating up the ones who opposing to environmental devastation and to militarism. For this it is necessary to reject the nationalist vision of the crisis, the one nonsense of monetary sovereignty and national level as response at the Europe of banks, of the anthropological differences that create the crisis, referring to racist's theses and sad, a distorted vision that will ensure a greater strengthening the mechanisms of discipline and domination of the state and which is expressed in its most complete form, in the sacrifice of the subaltern classes on the altar of nationalist wars.
The struggles of anarchists in Greece are our struggles, our struggles are those of the Greek anarchists. So how are our struggles of those who, throughout the world, oppose to the exploitation classist, racist and sexist, and builds, daily, a society of free and equal.
We invite the whole movement at the maximum possible solidarity.
Milan 13_1_2013
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Želja po svobodi je močnejša od vsakega zapora! 13 January 2013
We read the following on libcom about the Belfast Flag protests. Worth a look. Article by 'Belfast comrade' via Liverpool Solfed plus comments with link to WSM ones.
Assault on Villa Amalia – report by an AF comrade in Greece, 20 December 2012
(Followed by further reports from Athens by the Liberatarian Communist Group and the Squatters, 22 Deceember 2012)
The squatter's movement arrived in Greece during the early and mid-nineties, and has since established itself as a popular form of peaceful, all-inclusive form of activism bringing together anarchists and autonomists from all over the world. Based on the principle of repatriating public and private space to the hands of local community use, squatting spaces aim to replace commercial and state functions with an environment of direct democracy, mutual labour and an oasis for alternative socio-political and cultural expression.
Located in the centre of Athens, the Villa Amalia squat is one of the oldest of its kind in the city – boasting twenty-two years of existence. Like many other forms of occupation, it has had a traditionally strenuous relationship with authorities, which have attempted to infiltrate, sabotage and literarily starve it of supplies and access from its first days. It's not the first time we've heard about it on the news, but a surprise police raid on the premises at approximately 07:00 am has sent events spiralling into action. Eight squatters, six Greek and two of possible German nationality, were arrested on sight and remain detained in the police headquarters nearby, as activists from several anarchist, autonomist and squatting groups gathered across the street where the raid was being carried out in solidarity of the detained. In their announcement, comrades stated that they will remain in the vicinity and are increasing in number.
The police intervention, hailed on statist, right wing and Golden Dawn-sympathetic blogs as a heroic purge of what they interpret to be brothels of chaos and disorder, continued throughout the day as they conducted a search of the premises. Police forces were accompanied by a comrade who witnessed the procedures.
Squats, in contrast to their portrayal as centres of terrorism, drug abuse and alcoholism, play an active community role in protecting the neighbourhoods from fascists, human trafficking and the illegal sex and drug trade. There are many voices in society who, despite not identifying with left-libertarian principles, have risen to defend their right of existence based on the premise that they have given local communities the power to determine the face and running of their daily lives. Squats in Athens have also begun to shoulder a new role as centres of anti-fascist organisation in the face of the state-facilitated rise of the Golden Dawn. More updates on events on their way.
Solidarity with the squatters of Villa Amalia!
Support statement by the Libertarian Communist Group (Athens)
Villa Amalias statement: we are, and we shall remain here.
Today, on December 20th, 2012, the police raided Villa Amalias. Under the pretext of a complaint for drug dealing, they searched the building in the presence of a district attorney. Their findings are ludicrous. Nevertheless, according to Dendias [translators' note: the minister of public order] these prove that Villa was an "epicentre for lawlessness" for 22 years and that the law, thanks to the "brave political will of [PM] Samaras" was finally restored.
What logical leap may brand empty beer bottles as "materials for the construction of molotovs?" Is it strange to have a large number of empty beer bottles in a place that hosts a concert [gig] space and a café? What comprises a "flammable material"? May they be referring to the cleaning liquids for the printing press that operates in the squat?
Should we talk about the gas masks that should be carried by every demonstrator that respects their health? Should we talk about the elementary means of self-defense (the mock flash bangs, slingshots etc) in a space that has repeatedly been attacked by para-statist gangs (arsons, stabbings, beatings) with the apogee reached in 2008, when the then minister of public order Markogiannakis visited the "residents" of Agios Panteleimonas and a few minutes after he left, we were attacked…
Under the pretext of the search, then, they materialise a long-standing wet dream of theirs: their raid into a space that is one of the spatial symbols of all those who stand in hostility against anything that represents sovereignty, imposition, sterilization, indifference, surrender, subjection. In this they are right. That's who we are. Us and the thousands of demonstrators, the people in struggle, squatters, strikers, people fighting in the streets. We are the homeless, the punks and the rebels, the vegetarians and the feminists, the nocturnal ones and the workers, poor and the aggrieved, the victims of racism and the avengers of injustice. The minister called us an epicentre of lawlessness…
And now we should talk seriously. Villa Amalias is an organising proposition which had to be dealt with at the time of the cannibalism of the memoranda. The onslaught of capital against the world of labour presupposes the destruction of all of its structures: the depreciation of everything that trade unions had gained, whatever structures of solidarity and dissent, the self-organised incentives: everything is targeted. The far-right agenda that has prevailed since the outbreak of the crisis commenced with the statement concerning a [supposed] hygiene bomb by Loverdos [trans. note - Loverdos was minister of health at the time and claimed that the 300 migrant hunger strikers comprised a "hygiene bomb" in the centre of Athens] against the hunger strikers of Ypatia. It continued with the targeting of migrants (at the Evros border wall, concentration camps and the Xenios Zeus [anti-migrant] operation), the pillorying of addicted seropositive women, aided by the far-right violence against migrants, homosexuals and street traders. The torturing of anti-fascists at the police HQ after the anti-fascist motorcycle demo, the attacks against squats and the harsh repression against any labour or social demand, leave little doubt for the fact that the enemy has put together a solid block; a block against which we must now resist.
For the past 22 years we have been in a building that was abandoned for decades. We maintain it and breathe life into it. We are a squat that always has its doors open to groups, individuals and incentives that promote the anti-commercial culture, human dignity, social, anti-fascist and class struggles. Villa Amalias is giving a fierce fight –– not in order to protect a dozen pillars, but in order to protect our desires, our dreams and our hopes for a more free life for everyone.
We call everyone who identifies part of themselves in the years-long operation of the squat to partake in this crucial struggle with us.
This is the windmill that the executors-don quixote's have attacked, even though it is ideas that they are after. These are what are lawless and illegal for them. Their witch-hunt will bring them nightmares in response.
From those who have been arrested:
The Villa Amalias squat has been an open political, cultural and social space, as well as a housing collective, for the past 23 years. In all these years there have been plenty of active groups in the squat including groups on theatre, concerts, musical studio, stained glass, kids' space, dancing, foreign languages, computing, printing press, screenings, lending library, vinyl exchange – while the squat has also hosted plenty of political and cultural events by other groups. Apart from these activities inside its building, Villa Amalias has also contributed to the resolution of neighbourhood issues by participating in the residents' assembly of Victoria square and by organising open, outward looking activities in the area – including open mic interventions, free markets, collective kitchens and kids' events at the square.
In all these 23 years, the Villa Amalias squat has formed multiform qualities that reflected the equally multiform composition of the subjects and groups comprising it – and which in turn derive from the wider squat movement, from the Anarchist and Anti-authoritarian space and from the movement for class and labour antagonism. These qualities have materialised through the co-organising and participation in demonstrations, interventions and mobilisations concerning labour, antifascist and antiracist struggles; solidarity to persecuted squats, to migrants and persecuted comrades, to university and high school student struggles as well as the to struggles for the reclaiming of open, public spaces.
The squat's building was abandoned since 1973 and it had been in a horrendous state. Since 1990, which is when it was occupied, it has stayed alive and maintained thanks to the financial contribution and personal work of the squatters themselves as well as all the comrades in solidarity.
The apparent owners of the building ( the municipality of athens, which has has some enormous property wealth and the school buildings' organisation) are both renown for cases of expropriation of private property and illegal declassification [of listed buildings]. The most extravagant case of such was the enormous Haragioni building at the junction of 3d September and Ioulianou street, which turned overnight from a plot designated for the construction of a school building into a shopping mall.
In contrast to them, who see buildings and spaces as yet another arena for profit, the Villa Amalias squat and its activity is a concrete example of its premise for the creation of free social spaces that oppose financial exploitation of any kind; that are set upon anti-hierarchical, self-organised, solidarity and horizontal structures; that respect humans and support those at the bottom end of the calss pyramid, to which we also belong.
This is why the maintenance of the building, as mentioned above, is undertaken by the squatters and those in solidarity with them – in the last 4 years in particular, after the two murderous arson attacks that the squat received from para-statists, whether waged or not. These particular attacks caused gross material damage which nevertheless did not form an obstacle in Villa continuing its action. To the contrary, they boosted the morale of the people that comprise it. With the aid of all comrades, the facade of the building on the side of Cheiden Str was renovated while the restoration and further improvement of the building have commenced with the aid of architects and civil engineers.
The continued attacks are not the only ones that the project has been subject to in all these years. Due to its location but also due to its ideological values and political characteristics, Villa has oftentimes found itself targeted by the state and parastate alike. In all these attacks we always responded with our words, publicizing the events and propagandizing our positions and our beliefs through open social interventions.
On 20/12/12, at 7.00 am, men of the state security raided our Squat under the pretext of an investigation concerning "drugs" and "explosives", following a supposed anonymous complaint. They arrested 8 people who were inside the Squat at the time, of which three were guests. They confiscated objects from the squat which the state security then used as evidence for the fabrication of charges including felonies and misdemeanors - charges that we reject. Especially when our felony acts are based on some empty beer bottles and on a tiny amount of petrol that was discovered next to the heater.
For us, this move is an explicit political choice by the state. At a time of financial and systemic crisis, the state launches an attack in all directions, degrading the life of those from below and trying to wipe out any cell of resistance and of creation of negation: this may translate in the botching of labour rights, in the promotion of racist ideals that contribute to a fascist turn of society, in the creation of conditions of insecurity aimed at us accepting the constant surveillance of our lives, or in the persecution and slandering of political spaces and subjects that rise against all the above.
The arrested of Villa Amalias.
A video of the resisted eviction of Gremlin Alley Social Centre has been posted following over a month of excellent activity in Cardiff. Take a look!
The following is a report send to the Anarchist Federation and other from our comrades in the the Libertarian Communist Group (LCG, Athens) about the events of last week in Greece. Members of the LCG took part in strike action and the popular protests seen this week in Athens. During the last few days another package of austerity measures was passed through the parliament at the behest of the Troika(EU-IMF-ECB). As with the previous austerity measures there was a popular backlash with strikes throughtout and week and a 48hr General strike on the days the measures were voted leading to protests and clashes with the police. With the measures passed the Greek state is now awaiting the decision of EU meetings in the coming days which will determine if the Greek bailout programme is to continue.
The new measures package
On Wednesday 7th of November the Greek parliament voted for the new austerity measures package. It is almost impossible to describe in detail all these measures and their impact on Greek people 's life even in broad outline but generally speaking we could say that by including a lot of redundancies, further decrease of salaries, pensions and benefits, they bring down whatever remains standing after three years of austerity.
The age of retirement raises by 2 years which means that the majority of the workers will go into retirement at 67 years old even those who are ready to be retired next year. They cut down all pensions by between 5% and 15% and they cut out the Christmas and Easter bonus for all pensioners and public servants too. Depending on the case, the working sector and conditions, they either cut down or even stop welfare state benefits, such as unemployment, poverty, family/child care and even handicap benefits.
They also introduce a retrospective change in the national agreement of labour which has been called anti-constitutional by a specialist committee of the parliament itself but that seems not to bother the government. According to this change the minimum wage will be frozen and from now on will be regulated by the minister of labour itself, there will be no increase for anyone to the scale of payments, the employers will have the right to give shorter notice before discharge, lower redundancy pay, lower contribution to the pension and health funds and the working hours also will depend on their will. Finally the employers are not obliged to follow the national agreement if they do not want to sign it!
There are also further increases in indirect taxes, measures against the income of farmers, redundancies in the publicsector and total flexibility of the public servants. The package contains further privatization of the public sector, enforcing also further privatization of hospital treatment which includes a price for hospital admission (a patient who will need to be admitted to a hospital will have to pay 25 Euro just to start with). This, for a country with more than 30% unemployment, means that thousands of people will not be able to afford medical treatment.
Greece, November 6th and 7th: General strike
A 48-hours general strike was called in Greece by the general confederation of the Greek unions for 6th and 7th of November.
On Tuesday 6th of November, first day of the general strike, a few thousand people gathered in the morning at the strike demonstration gathering point at the national museum near to the Polytechnic school. It seems that the strikes in the transportation sector and the continuous general strikes during the last period prevented people from attending. Despite the presence of a lot of riot police squads, undercover policemen and motorcycle police units in most streets and side-streets leading to Syntagma square, demonstrators marched toward the square and they filled it until 1 o' clock when they started to leave the place. It was a quiet and quite disappointing day of strike!
On the second day things seem to be different. There were several calls for gathering outside of the parliament in the afternoon when the measures package will be voted. Plenty of strikers have been detained by the police as its units attacked and blocked demonstrators who were trying to go to the gathering point. Additionally metro stations in the center of Athens were ordered closed by the police and policemen on several occasions made preemptive detentions, in order to prevent demonstrators from reaching syntagma square.
Despite the police mobilization at least 100.000 demonstrators managed to gathered at 18:30 in front of or next to the Greek parliament. At 19:00 demonstrators started pushing the metal fence and the barriers which protected the parliament and as soon as they managed to destroy a small part of it riot police units attacked people. Molotov Cocktails (petrol bombs) were thrown by the demonstrators in order to defend themselves from police attacks. Huge amounts of teargas and stun grenades were used by riot police squads in order to force demonstrators to abandon the square. But people wanted to stay in the square and they regrouped again every time they were forced to disperse by the teargas. The pressing from demonstrators was so intense that police officers decided to use water canons for the first time against people during a strike.
There were clashes outside the parliament and around syntagma square for hours until the rain started. It was amazing to see that people did not want to leave the area! But the combination of the teargases with the rain turned the whole area into an unbearable field for the majority of the demonstrators. Most of them started to leave under the continuous attacks by the riot police squads. As the blocks of strikers were leaving the area, police units attacked, causing a lot of people to be wounded. There were reported at least 40 injuries, some of them helped by striking doctors and nurses in a kind of DIY health clinic inside a hotel in the area.
After a final attempt to re-take syntagma square, riot police units finally cleared the area from the strikers under heavy rain around 10:00. There were reported to be 103 detentions, 5 arrests, at least 40 injured demonstrators and 7 injured policemen.
The package of severe austerity measures has passed through the parliament after a midnight vote.
Cops with APCs, with chemicals, with guns, with motorcycles. At the same time that inside, Parliament voted for the slashing of wages and pensions, for the dismissal of thousands of people and many other shameful things (in a shameless manner), outside another giant police operation of repression unfolded against the demonstrators. Even in the rain, the cops choked Syntagma Square in tear gas to disperse the protesters who had remained. For all that, the state certainly has money. It has money to enforce a police state in the streets. It has money to purchase tons of chemicals and APCs. It has money to armor like lobsters the special units of repression.
As long as people are not willing to lose even one day's wages, to risk two or three most basic things, then their misery, physical and moral, is certain. This whole system of suppression, the spraying with tear gas, the cordoning of the streets around the Constitution by riot police lined like laces, is aimed at nothing more than to force us to stoop our heads and shut up. Its aims are that we empty the streets, stay at home immersed in depression, or head to the mountains, or
board a plane and emigrate. But this place does not belong to them. The struggle for this land and its freedom is a struggle that we have been fighting for years now. No matter how many cops they put up, this struggle is not going to stop.
No matter how many measures they take, how many electoral backstops they have in parliament, nothing is finished, and nothing will end the way they want it.
We have nothing else to do than to give a way to rage, as a recent anarchist slogan goes in an Athenian street ...
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Residents in a number of Glen Ellyn subdivisions will soon see new pavement in their neighborhoods.
Glen Ellyn will start work this week on a $1 million road resurfacing project. Work will be done on a number of street segments in the village that add up to about 1.9 miles, said Bob Minix, professional engineer of the village.
The areas affected include the Derby Glen, Danby Woods, Brentwood Court and Orchard Glen subdivisions.
"It'll be a combination of things, both resurfacing and roadway construction elements in the project," Minix said. "These are streets that are certainly due. The weather was kind of hard, particularly on the streets in Orchard Glen. It's timely that we're getting out there early to improve those streets and get them back up to a better standard."
He expects work to start this week and be finished before July 4.
There may be some disruptions during the construction time, but it will mainly be during the work day and there'll always be enough drivable surface open for vehicles to get by, Minix said.
The resurfacing project is one of at least two major road projects that will start this year. The village's board of trustees also has approved approximately $3.5 million for the Chidester-Elm-Lenox-Linden improvements project. It isn't expected to start until later in the summer and run through the fall.
It will rehabilitate around 4,400 feet of roads, including reconstruction of Elm Street and Chidester Avenue between Lenox and Riford roads, reconstruction of Lenox between Hawthorne Boulevard and Oak Street, and enhanced resurfacing of Linden Street between Main Street and Lenox. There'll be underground work on water mains and sanitary sewer lines, along with the widening of Lenox and new sidewalk on Elm, Chidester and the east side of Lenox through the park.
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The roads included in the 2014 road resurfacing project:
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Glencoe: Geneva to Derby Glen
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Can a Trial Separation SAVE a Troubled Marriage a la Courtney Cox?
In case you haven't been watching the news, celebrities Courtney Cox and David Arquette just announced that they have decided to do a Trial Separation... And their hope is that the separation could ultimately save their marriage and they will not have to resort to divorce. I'm happy that they decided to go that route instead of just throwing in the towel and heading right for divorce papers as so many other stars – and "average" people, do. Trial separations can actually be extremely helpful as it gives an opportunity to both the partners to experience the feelings of being separated, before making any final, permanent decision. Plus, it has the major advantage of being reversible!
The main purpose of a trial separation is to develop skills to resolve problems before moving back together, to reflect on and evaluate the relationship with a clear head, and to, hopefully, work on improving the relationship. It's a great time to think, to analyze, to reflect calm down and cool off, without being in each others space or bickering. It offers the space to make thoughtful decisions and thus, potentially SAVE a marriage.
So yes, I am a fan of couples doing a separation first and I think it can definitely help save a marriage – but here are some rules and guidelines you want to follow in order to make the separation a successful and smooth one:
1. Talk with each other about your individual goals for the separation
Make sure you are honest and clear and are on the same page. Are you both committed to making it work? Are you both committed to putting IN the work in order to MAKE it work? What do both of you ideally want as a result of this?
2. Have a time-line for when to reconvene and decide which way you'll go.
Don't just let the separation drift into infinity. Typically 3, 6 or 9 months is a good time-frame to have your space and gives you enough time to evaluate the situation. The separation shouldn't go longer than a year or else you're really just fooling yourself and procrastinating the inevitable. After a year, it's shit or get off the pot time.
3. Have RULES for the separation and make them clear!
Make sure they are mutually agreed upon. Will you be allowed to see other people during the separation? Allowed to sleep with others? Sleeping with each other?? What happens with the kids? Etc. The last thing you'd want is a "Friends" like scenario with one person thinking you're allowed to see other people and one person oblivious.
4. Keep the Communication lines healthy and open.
Have regular 'check-ins' with each other, ideally on a bi-weekly basis. Don't talk every day though, or else you won't get the space you need to clearly evaluate things.
5. Start DATING each other again, at a distance first.
I would recommend taking the first month or two off completely to give each of you a chance to really have your space and think, but then gradually start 'dating' again, setting up 'date nights' with each other once a week or bi-weekly. It helps to rekindle the romance and see each other like you did when you first started dating.
6. Be HONEST with your feelings.
Now is not the time to hold back! Whether you realize just how much you really love him, or you realize that you actually do not want to work on the relationship and you do want to end it, you need to be honest and communicate.


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After-work paddle, this Tuesday, June 17
Come to Key Bridge Boathouse on Tuesday, June 17 at 6:15pm for the chapter's after-work paddle.
There's rentals if you don't have your own board and chapter members will be in attendance to help newbies to learn the ropes. Come on out and cool off on the river!
June Chapter Meeting on Wednesday
Our June chapter meeting is this Wednesday, June 4 at Lululemon in Georgetown at 7pm. RSVP to the meeting on Facebook or just show up! Anyone is welcome to attend, including non-members.
After the meeting, we'll grab drinks somewhere local and share summer stoke.
Annual Spring OBX Surf Trip This Weekend
Interested in surfing in the Outer Banks this weekend? We're headed down to Frisco, NC to camp, surf, grill, and enjoy all that OBX has to offer. More details here: http://dc.surfrider.org/obx.
If you're on Facebook, you can RSVP here:
Our second after-work paddle is today!
After the success of our inaugural after-work paddle, we needed to hold a second. So, the chapter is organizing a paddle after work on the Potomac at 6:15pm TODAY (Thursday, May 22). Jam out of work ASAP and bring your SUP, prone board, kayak, or canoe to (or rent one at) the Key Bridge Boathouse and join the DC chapter for some good times on the river. No experience is needed and all are welcome to attend (including non-members). Come check out what the chapter is about. RSVP on Facebook or just show up!
Alexandria Waterfront Cleanup This Sunday
Come help the DC Chapter clean up the Alexandria waterfront this Sunday, May 18 at 9am! There's a bunch of polystyrene foam out there — maybe there's something that D.C. can do to help with that?
Attending the cleanup will also enter you to win the Jack Johnson tickets for his June 5 show at Merriweather.
You can RSVP on Facebook (below) or just show up!
After-work paddle this Tuesday!
Join us at Key Bridge Boathouse on Tuesday at 6:15pm for our first Summer 2014 after-work paddle the Potomac! Interested in joining? RSVP on Facebook, email email@example.com, or just show on up at 6:15 ready to paddle!
You can bring your own SUP, kayak, canoe, prone boards, or rent one from Key Bridge Boathouse.
Jack Johnson ticket giveaway
The very generous and wonderful Jack Johnson has graciously offered the chapter two free tickets to his show at the Merriweather Post Pavilion on June 5.
Soooo…to decide who gets them, we're holding a raffle until May 23. Here's the rules: For every chapter event that you attend in May (until May 23), we'll enter your name into the drawing to win the two tickets. If you win, you'll win both tickets. Attend more than one event in May? Your name gets entered for every event you attend. We'll do the drawing for the winner on May 23 at high noon!
What chapter events are coming up in May? Check Facebook and this website! This week, we have an after-work paddle on May 13 and a cleanup on Sunday!
Questions? Leave a comment below. We'll see you in May!
Summer Kick-Off Chapter Meeting This Wednesday
After-work paddles, OBX surf trip, International Surf Day paddle, lots of cleanups, and free Jack Johnson tickets!
We'll talk about all of these awesome upcoming events at our Summer Kick-Off chapter meeting this Wednesday, May 7, 7pm at Lululemon in Georgetown (map). RSVP to the meeting on Facebook or just show up! Anyone is welcome to attend, including non-members.
After the meeting, we'll grab drinks somewhere local and share summer stoke.
Jack Johnson ticket giveaway!
Every chapter event you attend in May (including this Wednesday's meeting) enters you to win two Jack Johnson tickets for his June show at Merriweather Post Pavilion! The more chapter events you attend, the more likely you'll win the tickets. Learn more at this Wednesday's meeting!
Chapter Meeting Wednesday, April 2
Our April chapter meeting is tomorrow, Wednesday, April 2 at 7pm. We'll meet at Lululemon in Georgetown to talk river cleanups, surf trips, banning expanded polystyrene foam, and grab tacos after!
Lululemon Athletica, 3265 M St NW, Washington, DC 20007 (map link)
RSVP on Facebook or just show up!
Ban The Foam
The DC chapter is embarking on a campaign to further our goal of protecting our local rivers. The Sustainable DC Omnibus Act of 2013 is a bill that Mayor Gray submitted to the DC City Council and a section of the bill will help curb one of the most prevalent pieces of litter in our rivers: expanded polystyrene (also commonly known as styrofoam, EPS, or just foam).1 The Anacostia Watershed Society says that foam makes up a quarter of all trash it finds in the river.2 The proposed legislation could help reduce the amount of foam that ends up in our rivers by prohibiting food service businesses (e.g., restaurants) from selling and using any foam containers. Here's how you can help:
Make Trash Foam Known: The first critical step in this campaign is public awareness: you can help us spread the word about this bill by taking pictures of foam that you see around the city and posting it to Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook with the hashtag #banthefoamdc. We'll also collect these pictures and use them to show the DC City Council how important this ban is to the environmental health of our local rivers and our city. Here's an example tweet from a fellow chapter member:
Found this guy on the street on my way home from work last week. #banthefoamdc pic.twitter.com/vb3DQESpbJ
— Michael Caruso (@mason13a) December 27, 2013
Foam-Free Businesses: You can also use the hashtag #foamfreedc if you visit a restaurant that isn't using any foam and you want to applaud them for taking early steps to avoid this polluting material. We've been collecting these establishments and mapping them here: http://dc.surfrider.org/ban-the-foam/
Several other local organizations are joining us in our fight to have this bill passed by the DC City Council, including Trash Free Maryland, Anacostia Watershed Society, Alice Ferguson Foundation, and the Sierra Club.
We'll have more updates on ways you can help in the coming weeks. If you're interested in helping with this campaign in any other way, such as reaching out to businesses that have already chose to avoid foam, send an email to our chair email address: email@example.com. Any help you can offer would be awesome!
Let's make sure the only foam we see in the water is on the crest of a sweet, peeling left! #banthefoamdc
- Title IV, Subtitle A. [↩]
- http://www.anacostiaws.org/programs/stewardship/monitoring/nash-run-trash-trap [↩]


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stained carpet, damp smell in the first room, dirt in corners of bathroom.a lot of minor things that could easily be corrected
Spa hot tub is good.
Pool is not heated.
Nasty place,. Needed to paint or least wash hallways and empty trashy
Excellent place to stay. Hope to spend more time there.
The hotel need renovations. It looks tired. The office/restaurant restrooms are very out dated and look dirty because of that. The lobby is not very inviting.
The room was spacious, comfy, had a microwave, fridge and free wifi. Staff was friendly and accommodating. 10 minutes from our dive destination.
This hotel suited our needs perfectly.
Free food, good pillows, cable tv, friendly service
No weights/dumbbells in the gym, hard biscuits.
Smoking rooms available and parking was adjacent to room. Pool are was nicely kept and housekeeping staff did a good job.
Continental breakfast started too late.
The location is the best thing about this motel. It's about 15 minutes from Three Sisters Springs, which is the primary canoeing and viewing spots for manatees in Crystal River. As for the motel, it met our needs for an economical overnight.
No complaints.
I arrived about 12:30 pm very tired. The attendant was inside while I was outside with a tiny window to speak through. I asked for 2 doubles which he came back confirming. Unfortunately there was only 1 double. I had to share the bed with my adult son.
I'm 71 and given a second floor room when there weren't even 6 people in the whole place
The location of the Hotel and the staff was really nice too.
This is a 1960's Era hotel, but in a quite end of road location in a small Marina and surrounded by protected water environment. The property and rooms are very dated but in the nostalgic kinda of way. Loved the immediate access to the waters.
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West Side Story (Medley) composed by Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990). Arranged by Jay Bocook. For Concert Band (Score & Parts). Score and full set of parts.. Young Concert Band. Grade 3. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.450084).
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7 Remember, God, that my life is only a breath. My eyes will never see happy times again. | 7 Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath; my eyes will never see happiness again. |
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Runs small
I bought this sweater in the blue and I like it but it does run small. I bought a medium which is usually a little large on me and this is snug especially if I try to button it at the bottom. I haven't washed it yet and hope it doesn't get even smaller. The fabric is a nice weight.
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Fantastic Style...Great Quality!
I own the original Chadwicks boyfriend sweater in 2 colors - and I love them - but this version is definitely an upgrade! The weight of the knit great - not too heavy, not too light, just right for layering. The stripes give it that little something extra, and I LOVE the pockets! I have worn this sweater twice now, and have received compliments both times...one from a complete stranger in a restaurant. 5-star sweater. Hands down.
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striped boyfriend sweater
compared to solid boyfriend sweater it is much smaller
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A Swedish court on Thursday put a stop to a wolf hunt 12 hours before it was scheduled to begin in Varmland and Orebro. On appeal brought by the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SSNC), the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the Swedish court issued a ...[read more]
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A founder of the file-sharing website The Pirate Bay was arrested under an Interpol warrant on Monday when he was trying to cross from Laos into Thailand. Hans Fredrik Lennart Neij, along with other Pirate Bay co-founders, was convicted of aiding copyright infringement by a Swedish court in 2009, ...[read more]
Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday condemned Netherlands' attempts to return Somali refugees to areas controlled by Islamist terrorist group Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen (al-Shabaab). The report noted critically that Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the UK have also attempted forced returns to ...[read more]
The European Commission filed a lawsuit against Sweden on Thursday for failing to change its laws on online betting and poker games that breach EU law on the free movement of services. The EU referred Sweden to the Court of Justice (ECJ) in two separate cases related to its restriction of gambling ...[read more]
Sweden's Ombudsman for Children Fredrik Malmberg called for the country to ban infant male circumcision on Saturday, claiming the practice violates the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. In his editorial, Malmberg stated:There is no health-related basis for circumcising male babies in ...[read more]
An appellate court in Sweden reduced the prison sentence of Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, the founder of the file-sharing website The Pirate Bay (TPB), for hacking into a company that manages data for the Swedish government. Warg was originally sentenced to two years in prison in June for hacking and ...[read more]
The Nacka District Court on Thursday convicted Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, founder of the file-sharing website The Pirate Bay (TPB), of hacking and fraud and sentenced him to two years in prison. Svartholm Warg was found guilty of hacking into a company that handles sensitive information for Sweden' ...[read more]
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Thursday's South Carolina-Arkansas baseball game has been postponed due to the threat of inclement weather in Fayetteville. The game has been rescheduled as part of a doubleheader on Friday. Game one of Friday's doubleheader is scheduled for 4:05 p.m. ET with game two following no earlier than 7:35 p.m. ET or 30 minutes after the completion of game one.
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Rand steady, bonds at record highs
Comment on this storyS.Africa rand steady vs dlr, bonds at record highs
JOHANNESBURG, July 5 (Reuters) - South Africa's rand was a touch softer against the dollar while government bonds held at multi-month highs on Thursday as the market digested dovish Reserve Banks comments that suggested domestic rates will stay at 30-year lows for some time.
The yield on the three year benchmark bond was down two basis points at an all-time low of 5.94 percent while that for the equally heavily traded 14-year paper was at 7.83 percent, its lowest since early September 2011.
The Reserve Bank said in its annual report on Wednesday inflation should stay contained within a 3-6 percent target until the end of 2014, adding that the domestic growth outlook had deteriorated.
"The comments are certainly supportive of a further push lower in bond yields," RMB said in a market note.
The rand was largely steady against the dollar in early trade, losing some of the steam that had pushed it to its strongest levels since mid-May earlier in the week.
By 0653 GMT the currency was at 8.1403/dolar, little changed from Wednesday's close at 8.1361.
The rand would take its cue largely from global currency moves ahead of European Central Bank and Bank of England policy meetings later in the day, as well as U.S. jobs data due out on Friday, market watchers said.
Signs of further policy easing from developed countries which are already sitting on near-zero rates could be supportive of the local currency, Standard Bank trader Warrick Butler said.
"If there is cheap G7 cash going around then you have to expect that a lot of it will flow into the high yielders such as the rand," Butler said. -Reuters
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