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Science > Abortion |
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"The Revrndd" |
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18 Sep 2006 09:32:44 AM |
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Re: First rabbis in Germany |
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 05:42:46 +0000 (UTC), aka
Suzy Cohen the th*ck Irish ***** wrote:
On 14-Sep-2006, "Joel Shurkin" <jshurkin@gmail.com> wrote:
OK, OK. The minute I sent it I regretted it. I apologize.
Yasher koach!
Suzy
Is that Gaelic or yiddish, you th*ck Irish *****?
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| Title: DIE JUDE MERKEL HAT VERLOREN |
18 Sep 2006 11:37:51 AM |
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DIE JUDE HAT VERLOREN!
BERLIN (AFP) - Germany's main neo-Nazi party made inroads in regional
elections in Chancellor Angela Merkel's home state while her conservatives
suffered a crushing defeat in the capital, results have shown.
The National Democratic Party (NPD) looked assured of six seats in the
regional parliament in the eastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
after taking 7.3 percent of the vote on Sunday.
The breakthrough came two years after the NPD claimed nine percent of the
vote in Saxony and confirms that the anti-immigration party has found a
foothold in the economically depressed former communist East Germany.
"We are going to lead a tough opposition because for the last few years they
have all been asleep in the parliament here," the party's chief candidate in
the region, Udo Pastoers, vowed.
Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) claimed 28.8 percent of the vote in the
state on the Baltic Sea which contains her constituency to finish just
behind the Social Democrats (SPD), who scored 30.2 percent.
A downbeat Merkel said her party was ready to form a power-sharing pact with
the SPD in the state for the sake of stability.
The two parties already govern together at national level in an awkward
"grand coalition" that has hampered Merkel's reform drive.
"We are convinced that this state needs a stable government. Therefore we
are prepared to take on the responsibility," the chancellor said.
The Sueddeutsche Zeitung remarked that the performance of the mainstream
parties "pale in comparison" with the worrying significance of the NPD's
surge in the impoverished region where unemployment is stuck at 18 percent,
the highest rate in the country.
The extreme-right is riding a wave of discontent in the east and has found a
following among the youth with its tirades against foreigners and calls for
jobs for locals.
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Berlin have for the past five years been
ruled by a so-called "red-red" coalition of the SPD and the Left Party, a
collection of former communists and Social Democrat defectors.
Merkel claimed people had tired of this arrangement, which the conservatives
call a recipe for economic disaster.
"These results show that voters in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania are fed up
of 'red-red'. People don't believe that they can solve their problems."
In the city-state of Berlin, the CDU produced their worst performance since
World War II, providing fodder for critics who say Merkel is struggling to
steer a clear course a year after she became the country's first female
leader.
The popularity of the capital's fun-loving, openly gay mayor, Klaus
Wowereit, led the SPD to victory with 30.8 percent, leaving the CDU trailing
at 21.3 percent.
The Left Party took 13.4 percent of the vote in Berlin while the Greens did
far better than in 2001 to finish just behind them with 13.1 percent.
Neither the CDU or the SPD can govern alone in either Berlin or
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
Wowereit told reporters he planned to open coalition talks with both the
Left Party and the Greens.
"We have options. A coalition is possible with the Greens or the Left Party.
We are going to have negotiations with both to see with whom we can govern
best for the next five years," he said.
Wowereit's critics say he has failed to address rampant unemployment and a
dire lack of investment and industry that is plaguing the reunited city 17
years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The mayor conceded that he has to use the next five years to balance the
bankrupt capital's books.
"We have to find a way to dig ourselves out from under the mountain of
debt," he said.
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