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zeitgeist movie, part II - addendum

posted online today october 3rd http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912

conservatives don't want to debate, they want to destroy their opposition

some say the cocooned right is going coo coo, i hope not

http://current.com/items/89061009_what_will_the_extreme... some say the cocooned right is going coo coo, i hope not ... more

New Group Helps 'Persecuted' Far-Right Women

Two young women who lost their jobs because of their association with Germany's far-right scene have formed a group to help other 'persecuted' women. It is part of a growing trend of women becoming more prominent on the extreme-right scene.

Iris Niemeyer feels angry, betrayed and persecuted. In her mid-30s, educated and articulate, Niemeyer is furious about having lost her job as a social worker because of her political beliefs. She is so appalled that she has set up a group to defend women in similar situations. Women like her -- women from Germany's far-right scene.

Together with Sigrid Schüssler, an actress who also faced employment difficulties due to her political affiliation, Niemeyer has set up the women's self-help group Jeanne D. The group's declared purpose is to help women who have been politically persecuted. "The group is open to all women who have a nationalist, patriotic world view," Niemeyer told SPIEGEL ONLINE. "Those very women who are currently facing fierce persecution."

In Niemeyer's case this "persecution" arose when she lost her job at a youth center in the village of Mesum in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia last year. According to Matthias Fischer, one of her former colleagues, the center received an e-mail on Oct. 26, 2007 telling them that they had a member of the far-right on the staff. The message included photos of Niemeyer at a rally for the right-extremist National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) and at an information stand for its affiliated women's organization Ring Nationaler Frauen (Ring of Nationalist Women or RNF).

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1 month ago

what will the extreme right do to checkmate the left

cause we must accept that the right's brain storming sessions are quite huge, and they only choose and have chosen what benefits them the most, period. so when they are "virtually" chilling, compared to other averages of right wing activity, one can only out think them by..... well, by doing the same thing, but having the advantage of knowing what their flawed issues are (aka inequality)

so, that article talks about that "virtual pause", and this one

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/opinion/29rich.html?_...

talks about how a new terrorist attack may or may not "help"

i do not know what their next move will be to checkmate the left, but i do know that their only chance in this highly rational and enlightening technological era we are lucky to live in, would be to rule by force or be ruled by reason; and common sense, logical reasoning and equality have never been part of their agenda.
the rule of law helped the spreading of abusive powers that used to be monopolized in the king, queen or any other ruler of the land. law put people against one another, layers of employees who are not responsible for what their employers do are the ones answering questions when shit hits the fan. the culture of eliminate or be eliminated cannot continue.

maybe the system we created checkmated itself? im not sure, but both sides have to make up their minds. cause we must accept that the right's brain storming sessions are quite huge, and they only choose and have chosen what benefits ... more

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1 month ago

68% of Italians want Gypsies expelled

"Sixty-eight per cent of Italians, fuelled by often inflammatory attacks by the new rightwing government, want to see all of the country's 150,000 Gypsies, many of them Italian citizens, expelled, according to an opinion poll.

The survey, published as mobs in Naples burned down Gypsy camps this week, revealed that the majority also wanted all Gypsy camps in Italy to be demolished .

About 70,000 Gypsies in Italy hold Italian passports, including about 30,000 descended from 15th-century Gypsy settlers in the country. The remainder have arrived since, many fleeing the Balkans during the 1990s.

Another 10,000 Gypsies came from Romania after it joined the European Union in January 2007, according to an Italian human rights organisation, EveryOne, part of the approximately half million Romanians believed to be in Italy.

Romanians were among the 268 immigrants rounded up in a nationwide police crackdown on prostitution and drug dealing this week, after new prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's likening of foreign criminals to "an army of evil".

But Romanian officials have sought to distinguish between the Romanians and Romanian Gypsies entering Italy.

Flavio Tosi, the mayor of Verona and a member of the anti-immigrant Northern League party, said his city had the biggest Romanian community in Italy, 7,000 strong, "working as builders, artisans and domestics. And they themselves say the Roma are a problem", he said.

In a second poll, 81% of Italian respondents said they found all Gypsies, Romanian or not, "barely likeable or not likeable at all", a greater number than the 64% who said they felt the same way about non-Gypsy Romanians.

Young Neapolitans who threw Molotov cocktails into a Naples Gypsy camp this week, after a girl was accused of trying to abduct a baby, bragged that they were undertaking "ethnic cleansing". A UN spokeswoman compared the scenes to the forced migration of Gypsies from the Balkans. "We never thought we'd see such images in Italy", said Laura Boldrini.

"This hostility is a result of the generally inflammatory language of the current government, as well as the previous one", said EveryOne director Matteo Pegoraro. "Italian football stars at Milan teams assumed to have Gypsy heritage, such as Andrea Pirlo, are now also the subject of threatening chants".

Commenting on the attacks in Naples, Umberto Bossi, the head of the Northern League party said: "People are going to do what the political class cannot".

The defence minister, Ignazio La Russa, said yesterday he would consider deploying soldiers to Italian streets to help fight crime, while a group of Bosnian Gypsies in Rome said they were mounting night guard patrols of their camp to defend against vigilante attacks.

Europe's leading human rights watchdog urged the government to prevent attacks on Roma communities. Christian Strohal, head of Vienna-based OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, said: "The current stigmatisation of Roma and immigrant groups in Italy is dangerous as it ... increases the potential for violence"." "Sixty-eight per cent of Italians, fuelled by often inflammatory attacks by the new rightwing government, want to see all of the ... more