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Post by clone on Sept 17, 2010 13:16:47 GMT -8
EU Says France Lied On Roma Measures, Threatens Legal Action Last updated (GMT/UTC): 15.09.2010 13:00 BRUSSELS -- In an emotionally charged address to journalists in Brussels, EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding has raised the stakes in a standoff between Brussels and Paris over France's recent expulsion of over 1,000 Roma. Reacting to revelations over the weekend suggesting the French government had officially targeted illegal Romany camps for closure and clearance while assuring the world that was not the case, Reding called Paris' actions a "disgrace." "I personally have been appalled by a situation which gave the impression that people are being removed from a member state of the European Union just because they belong to a certain ethnic minority," Reding said. "This is a situation I had thought Europe would not have to witness again after the Second World War." www.rferl.org/content/EUs_Threatens_France_With_Legal_Action_Over_Roma_Expulsions/2157447.html
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Post by clone on Sept 17, 2010 13:22:58 GMT -8
Transparency Without Accountability. Reading Between the Lines By Emily Dee on March 27th, 2010 So what does a former Czechoslovakian Minister of Finance, and a former New Zealand Minister of Finance, have to do with us? Everything. Rogernomics and Canada’s Neoconservative MovementRoger Douglas was the minister of finance in New Zealand from 1984 to 1989. Though elected with the left-wing Labour Party, he would take NZ sharply to the right, before the tables were cleared at his victory dinner. This was not by accident, as he would later advise the eager Canadian neocons: ... More importantly, though; Roger Douglas also mentored Preston Manning and Stephen Harper, first speaking at the Reform Party’s 1991 assembly, two years before his book was published. He spoke of a ten point plan, which included messages, like “implement reforms by quantum leaps. Moving step by step lets invested interests mobilize. Speed is essential. It is impossible to move too fast. Once your momentum starts, never let it stop. Don’t blink or wobble.” (4)Have you seen Stephen Harper “blink or wobble”? And another important thing to think about is that when Ralph Klein invited Douglas to speak to his caucus, a man by the name of Stockwell Day was in attendance. Our new unblinking head of the treasury. And when Douglas spoke to Mike Harris’s crew, it included Jim Flaherty, Tony Clement, John Baird and Peter Van Loan. ... The month prior to Kenney’s announcement about Roma refugees, Stephen Harper visited Czechoslovakia, where the subject was discussed. Harper also discussed with Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek the soaring number of Romas, or Gypsies, entering Canada and claiming political asylum since late 2007, when Canada lifted visa requirements on Czech visitors. More than 80 Czech asylum-seekers have had their claims accepted, reflecting widespread concerns about discrimination and far-right violence directed against the community.
But Topolanek said the Roma are going to Canada for economic reasons rather than fleeing persecution, and blamed Canada’s “soft” refugee determination process. Harper, meanwhile, indicated that Canada will bring back the visa rule if the situation isn’t resolved.Hmmmm. “Canada will bring back the visa rule …” Not Kenney’s idea after all. unseatharper.ca/blog/index.php/2010/03/transparency-without-accountability-reading-between-the-lines/
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Post by clone on Oct 22, 2010 20:35:43 GMT -8
Gypsy Music at Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT7LR45SPL4Gypsies from throughout Europe travel each May 24-25 to the town of Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in the Camargue region of France on a religious pilgrimage to honor their Saint Sarah in prayer and music. Here, at the end of the road in France, this gathering has become a crossroads of Romany music, inspiring and pollinating other types of Gypsy music from flamenco to Django Reinhardt's Gypsy Jazz, traditional Hungarian and Balkan brass to the Gipsy Kings' Rhumba. In 1943-44, Django even tried to compose an organ mass to be played for the ceremony. He never finished it, but today, his melodies such as "Nuages" have become hymns for the Romany evangelical church, complete with prayer lyrics. My children (ages 7 and 13) filmed the events during our family vacation—except for the knifefight, which I filmed by chance (my children were in bed, happily). I was shooting the church at night when the fight broke out; you won't actually see the blades, but the footage was shot amidst the panic as the crowd ran in fear. The fight was a crime of passion: a spurred Romany lover decided to slice his beloved. He tried to get her earlier in the day, then returned at night, leaving her with blood running down her arm and her clan vowing revenge. Next year, Disneyland instead. Ha! There's live shots here of music and dancing in the streets, including the jazz manouche band Raspoutine and the Tziganes group Urs Karpatz, complete with cymbalom. Added music comes from 1910s Romany violinist Georges Boulanger, Thierry Robin, and Django's great-grandson, Dallas Baumgartner. If you're interested in more on Django and Gypsy jazz, check out my biography DJANGO: THE LIFE & MUSIC OF A GYPSY LEGEND and DJANGO REINHARDT & THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF GYPSY JAZZ.
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Post by clone on Feb 13, 2012 7:03:17 GMT -8
Roma under fire in French election campaign 13.01.12 @ 19:58 BRUSSELS - Another 100 hundred days and the French presidential campaign will come to a head. Never far away from the political disputes among the top contenders is immigration. And the Roma, along with irregular migrants, are once again centre stage. On Tuesday (10 January), France's interior minister Claude Gueant boasted to reporters France had surpassed its deportation quota for 2010 by 4,000. euobserver.com/851/114882_____________________ Claude Gueant: French Interior Minister is a European Supremacist Posted on 06 February 2012 “Contrary to what the left’s relativist ideology says, for us all civilisations are not of equal value,” Gueant on Saturday told a conference in the French parliament building, but closed to the media. “Those which defend humanity seem to us to be more advanced than those that do not,” he argued in his speech at a meeting organised by a right-wing students group. “Those which defend liberty, equality and fraternity, seem to us superior to those which accept tyranny, the subservience of women, social and ethnic hatred,” he went on his speech, a copy of which was obtained by AFP. He stressed the need to “protect our civilisation.” www.loonwatch.com/2012/02/claude-gueant-french-interior-minister-is-a-european-supremacist/
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Post by lost tribe on Feb 18, 2012 14:53:56 GMT -8
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Post by romea on Mar 18, 2012 14:12:42 GMT -8
Neo-Nazis return to Hungarian village, provoke brawl with Roma residents Gyöngyöspata, Hungary, 27.4.2011 09:21, (ROMEA) Yesterday evening in the northern Hungarian village of Gyöngyöspata a fight took place between a group of radical nationalists and local Roma residents. Four people were injured, one seriously. Those injured included a 14-year-old mentally disabled boy. As news server Romea.cz previously reported, last Friday Roma residents of the village evacuated almost 300 children and women over concerns they would be attacked by members of the extremist paramilitary organization Véderő (Defense), which had started building a training camp near the village. Police arrested the group's leader and several of its members and dispersed the camp. The Roma residents then returned to the village. However, AFP reports that the arrested extremists were released and started returning to the camp as well. more: www.romea.cz/english/index.php?detail=2007_2385&id=detail
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