ma'pleasure, Ms. Hairy ;)))))))

..and I bookmarked that page myself.."jew" never know, when things like that could turn out to be pretty usefull

..later, my lass 🙂

Mary,
That's funny, what a personality. Will you marry me! HA Ha Ha... I wanna do some drinking with ya at one of those farm parties...

FAKE AMERICAN:
hardly a surprise that you don't know what the
F*CK you're talking about.

go through the archives and check out all of your
FILTH, gross pig, before blaming ANYONE for
ANYTHING.

unlike you, gross pig, i have a _real life_ beyond
this currently-miserable page.
so guess how little _anything_ wrung out of your
festering pea-brain means to me....ignorant SCUM.

get yo mama to read that to you, as you proved
awhile back reading is very difficult for you.

FOAD,
L'menexe

Sunday, 30 April, 2000, 20:57 GMT 21:57 UK
Latvia fears Russian attack

By the BBC's William Horsley
The President of Latvia, one of the Baltic states which won their independence at the end of the Cold War, has warned of the danger that Russia might again use military force against its neighbours.

President Vaira Vike-Freiberga told the BBC in an interview, any Russian attack on Latvia would be an indirect attack on Nato.

This is the strongest warning from any European leader about what Russia's more assertive foreign policy will mean.

Attack on Nato

President Vike-Freiberga, said recent aggressive declarations from Russia hark back to Cold War confrontation.


Latvian President Vike-Freiberga warns of Russian force

She spoke openly about a new danger that Russia might again use force to take over the three Baltic states which won independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.

"Any attack on Latvia will be an attack on the European Community," she said.

"It will be by implication an attack on the Nato Alliance which, after all, supports so far, on principle, the enlargement of Nato in this region of the world."

But the Latvian President also said she hoped the more moderate voices in Russia would prevail and a dialogue was now underway to encourage them.

Deep divisions

However, these disputes are deep seated.

Recently the Russian Defence Ministry said if Latvia succeeds in joining Nato, it would react to that as a threat to Russia's own security.

Russia has also stepped up its pressure over a second area of dispute.

The Russian ambassador to Riga, Alexander Udaltsov, important trade links with Latvia may be cut off unless the Latvian courts end a series of war crimes trials.

The trials, now underway, are against former Soviet officials, accused of atrocities during the Stalinist 'red terror' in the Baltics during and after World War Two.

The ambassador said those who fought or worked for the allies, including the Soviet Union, should be protected from such prosecution or, in effect, the results of the war could be reversed.

President Vike-Freiberga said the attempt to stop the trials was totally improper.

Thursday, 16 March, 2000, 14:38 GMT
Latvian Nazi-era veterans march


The marchis held through Riga every year

Hundreds of Latvian Waffen SS veterans have marched through the centre of Riga in annual commemoration which has been attacked as a distasteful reminder of Latvia's wartime history.

Around 300 former soldiers, many of whom marched with their families, were marking the day in 1944 when two Latvian divisions first fought against Soviet troops.


We are marching to Europe with our own SS.

Counter-demonstrator
The veterans, most in their 70s and 80s, first gathered in a church to sing and pray, before beginning a slow march across the old city's cobble-stoned streets to lay flowers at a nearby independence monument.

Some 146,000 Latvians were drafted by the Nazis into a Waffen SS unit in 1943 and 1944 after heavy German setbacks at the hands of the Soviet Red Army.

Denial

The veterans deny that they are Nazi sympathisers nostalgic for the days of Hitler.


This is always going to be a black eye for Latvia ... Veterans will march, cameras will roll ... It's a nightmare from the state's point of view.

Nils Muiznieks, political commentator
They say they were drafted illegally by the Nazis and were fighting only to prevent a takeover by the Soviets, who killed and deported thousands to labour camps in Siberia during a 1940-41 occupation that Latvians refer to as the Year of Horror.

"We must keep explaining to the world the complicated history of Latvia, that the Latvian Legion was fighting in foreign uniforms, desperately hoping to regain Latvia's freedom," said Visvaldis Lacis, a Latvian Legion veteran.

Disturbing

The annual march has brought international opprobrium on Latvia, as it pursues its bids to join the European Union and Nato.

"We are marching to Europe with our own SS," said one sign in Russian in a crowd of about 50 protesters who staged a counter-demonstration.

Russia, Jewish groups and Red Army veterans say the march is deeply disturbing to those who fought against and suffered under Hitler's tyranny, which wiped out 95% of Latvia's 70,000 pre-war Jewish population, sometimes with local collaboration.

"This is an offence to anyone who knows what the fight against fascism was," said Aleksandr Sokurov, taking part in the protest against the march.

Distance
The Latvian Government has sought to distance itself from the event.

Last year, parliament declared 16 March as an official day of remembrance, but after international criticism the decision has been rescinded this year.

But Nils Muiznieks, a leading political commentator, said the damage to Latvia's international image has already been done.

"This is always going to be a black eye for Latvia, regardless of whether it's a state holiday," he said.

"Veterans will march, cameras will roll ... It's a nightmare from the state's point of view."

GENTLEMEN...Time for the sandman, long day tomorrow. Wishing you all a goodnight and stay well.

Dimitri,
Well I'm sure you have noticed AWE stock. It didn't make a decent jump when it opened, kinda pisses me off. I've made a few bucks these past few days, I guess I'll leave the dough in there for a little while. People would rather buy crap stock like WWF, Martha Stewert, Krispy Cream Doughnuts. What a joke. Sorry this is late I guess I skipped over your earlier message.

By regional analyst Jan Repa
Alleged war criminal Konrad Kalejs is accused of being part of a Nazi squad which murdered 30,000 people in his native Latvia during World War II.

It is not the first time the Baltic republics have come under the spotlight over their wartime record.

An estimated 250,000 Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians served in military units under German command.


Latvian SS officers swore an oath of loyalty to Hitler

Latvia alone fielded two SS divisions on the Eastern Front - originally intended as elite units, whose members swore a personal oath of loyalty to Hitler.

Smaller numbers of Baltic volunteers served in police units and death squads, which rounded up and killed Jews, anti-German resistance groups and civilian hostages.

Nearly all the 250,000 Jews in the Baltic states were exterminated.

Anti-Soviet motivation

Local apologists claim many Baltic people served the Nazis under duress - or that they were motivated by a desire to fight the Soviet Union, which had occupied the Baltic states in 1940.

When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union the following year, many initially saw them as liberators.


Konrad Kalejs is escorted to his flight to Australia

The Soviets reoccupied the Baltic states in 1944, deporting an estimated 300,000 people to Siberia, and bringing in large numbers of Russian-speaking settlers.

Since regaining independence in 1991, the Baltic states have been accused by Western human-rights groups and Jewish organisations of delaying war-crimes trials.

They have appeared reluctant to air the subject openly - perhaps because it was a staple of post-war Soviet "anti-nationalist" propaganda.

Rallies by Latvian SS veterans have been authorised on Army Day for the last two years running - bitterly dividing local opinion.

The issue is likely to remain controversial for a long time to come.

By Jon Silverman in Riga
In a forest just outside Latvia's capital, Riga, a massive slaughter took place in the winter of 1941.

At Rumbula, 30,000 Jews were herded to their deaths in freezing temperatures.

Archive pictures show the victims' last moments, as they were escorted to the killing pits by the local security police, the Arajs Kommando.


Jews were forced into a pit by the Arajs Commando and then shot

Now the BBC has learned that some of the murderers have been quietly rehabilitated, given extra pensions and welfare benefits.
The information has been obtained by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, which tracks suspected Nazis. The documents tell a revealing story.


The centre's Efraim Zuroff says: " We can give you the dates when they got the rehabilitation. Some people applied several times and only got it recently.

"But the evidence is absolutely unequivocal, it's clear-cut. We have over 40 names of people convicted of terrible crimes who, during the past few years, were granted rehabilitation by the Latvian authorities."


Archives

The evidence was found in the Latvian state archives, where thousands of files were opened by the former Soviet secret police, the KGB, over a period of decades.


The work of the Arajs Commando is documented in the state archive

We were not allowed to see the file on Konrad Kalejs, the former commando officer who left the UK and returned to Australia in a blaze of publicity earlier in January.

But state prosecutor Janis Osis, who is in charge of the Kalejs case, says it is too easy to generalise about war criminals.

"The Arajs Kommando didn't only consist of executioners but also soldiers who fought against Soviet Red Army partisans. They didn't commit any war crimes," says Mr Osis.

Terrible things

But the evidence in the Jewish Documentation Museum paints a different picture.

It is a matter of historical record that the group's leader, Viktors Arajs, was jailed for war crimes in the 1970s.

Arnis Upmolis was also convicted of war crimes and spent 10 years in Soviet labour camps.

He joined the Arajs Kommando voluntarily in 1942.

"I was one of the guards when the Jews were shot," says Mr Upmolis. "My job was just to stop trespassers."

But although he says he was not directly involved, he admits that terrible things were done. "There was a special execution unit, and yes, it was a crime against humanity."

Respects

A bleak stretch of land outside Riga is the site of a former concentration camp, where inmates died of cold, of hunger, and random killings by the guards.

Those guards were part of the Arajs Kommando.

Now, with rehabilitation, it seems they are no longer counted as criminals.

Jewish survivors come here to pay their respects, but their number dwindles by the year.

The survivors say that if education about the Holocaust dies with them, their suffering will have been in vain.

These Baltic countries will make very worthy Nato members.

Igor,
unfortunately for Latvians, Vike seems to only understand the language of power..well,if she thinks that joining Nato would help, she's wrong. It will lead to more complications only.

Gotta go now, so talk to you, when I get home.

Austria’s Obstinacy Places It on Alternative EU Track
2334 GMT, 000501
Austrian Finance Minister and Freedom Party member Karl-Heinz Grasser stated April 26 that if the EU’s diplomatic boycott of Austria continues, Vienna could use its veto power to block the adoption of new European Union (EU) policies. If Grasser’s threat becomes policy, Austria could easily scuttle the EU’s enlargement plans, threatening the stability and power of the Union. In order to make the Union function in light of such an ensuing dispute, the EU may have to grant Austria what it really wants – protection from a perceived flood of cheap Eastern labor.

The Union can do this by allowing Austria to opt out of the EU’s immigration policies. Normally, the EU can adopt a new policy only when all members are in agreement. Opt-outs allow individual EU members to refrain from participating in certain aspects of the Union, while reserving the right to fully adopt the policies in the future. The most notable past example relates to the European Monetary Union – Denmark, Greece, Sweden and the United Kingdom all chose to opt-out and retain their own currencies. If the EU did not have this opt-out system in place, many of its more notable achievements – a unified currency, free movement of people and a unified social charter – would never have happened.

The current conflict began in February. Despite warnings of diplomatic sanctions from nearly all Western governments, the anti-immigrant, anti-Europe Freedom Party joined Austria’s coalition government. The Freedom Party’s ascendance caused concern throughout an EU set to expand its borders eastward; an action that will by default allow millions of poorer Central Europeans access to Western Europe. Austria borders four of these candidate states.

Ever since Austria’s new government took office, its partners in the EU have maintained a diplomatic boycott in an attempt to force the Freedom Party from power. As Grasser’s threat demonstrates, this strategy has only increased the intransigence of the Austrian government – and the Austrian populace. Without Austrian cooperation, the Union can neither deepen nor expand. This threatens Europe’s ability to present a collective front to other global forces: China, Russia and the United States.

Austria and the EU, therefore, are left to pursue mutually damaging policies – yet neither can afford to yield. The entire EU cannot cave in the face of a party that received 27 percent of the vote in a country with only eight million people. The Freedom Party cannot abandon the bulk of its platform: that the EU is too overbearing. In order to head off nightmare scenarios, the EU will dust off a technique it has utilized in the past to settle disputes between the Union and individual members queasy of new policies: the opt-out.



For Austria, an opt-out would allow withdrawal from a number of visa regimes and the more significant Schengen accords, which allow for the free movement of people throughout the Union. Austria could then disallow entrance to the citizens of applicant states until Austrians felt the economy could handle them. The EU would salvage its expansion plans while using Austria as a convenient excuse for adopting delays on the more politically difficult aspect of enlargement.

But opt-outs are not a panacea. With Austria on a different track, other EU members are likely to follow the Austrian and UK examples and demand opt-outs for policies they find worrisome. This will prevent the EU from speaking with a single voice, especially in areas such as defense and foreign policy that are truly necessary if Europe is to act as a global player

NATO, Baltic States, Israel, China.... You name it. Mujahideen are fighting the combined might of the so called UN .It is no secret that NATO lead by UN is tacitly supporting the terrorist state of Russia.

It should not come as a surprize, but back in WWII Russia and US and allies were on the same side. It is the privelage of the Mujahideen to fight the evil lead by the so called super power. It is impending miracle that 10,000 battle hardened Mujahideen can take care of the combined armies of US, Russia and the rest of the world.

Has anyone any doubt looking at the continued battles raging in the mountains of Caucasus and the streets of Grozny that Russia will finally capituate and retreat from Chechnya and the rest of Caucasus. Lebed is not around this time to save the Russian Army from total annihilation. Neither will the NATO has guts to save their buddy Putin from oblivion.

Well I guess it is time for fuel air bombs TOSSED SALADIN. If that does not work we can try NUCLEAR.Do you still think you could win you moron.If we wanted to we could erase all of them from the face of the earth.Come on Tossed Saladin use your head for a change,it was made for thinking not giving head.

No human being can erase another except by the will of God.

All the weapons in the stockpile of East or West will not be able to erase anyone. Why didn't Russia erase Afghanistan. Now US is trying to erase Afghan nation. Time will tell who will erase whom. Don't be stupid to challenge the Ultimate Authority. You will cease to exist along with your buddies and protector. One more Chernobyl and Russia may erase itself. So be quiet and do not boast about your ability to 'erase'.