November 22, 2007 by webmaster.

BRUSSELS - A group of extreme-right members of the European Parliament was dissolved Wednesday after its outraged Romanian contingent walked out in an argument over ignorance.
Ten months after it was created amid much publicity, the group calling itself Identity, Tradition and Sovereignty was disbanded and stripped of the public financing provided by the European Parliament.
The collapse of the group was initiated by a bitter fight between the Romanian members of Parliament and Alessandra Mussolini, granddaughter of the Italian Fascist leader of World War II and a member of the bloc.
The Greater Romania Party withdrew from the bloc to protest Mussolini’s comments after the arrest of a gypsy Romanian citizen suspected in the murder of the wife of an Italian naval officer. The crime led to an anti-Romanian outcry in Italy and calls for deportations. Mussolini told the Romanian newspaper Cotidianul on Nov. 2 that law-breaking had become “a way of life for Romanians going to Italy who cannot make a living by honest work.” The crimes, she continued, were not petty infringements “but abhorrent murders that chill the blood.”

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Mussolini versus Vadim! Guess who won! Gypsies!

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November 22, 2007 by webmaster.

MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin harshly assailed his opponents and accused the West of meddling in Russian politics, telling a parliamentary campaign rally Wednesday that opponents at home and abroad want to weaken the country.
Putin’s strongly worded attack on his critics came as he seeks to secure a high turnout and strong support for the dominant main pro-Kremlin party in parliamentary elections Dec. 2. Putin is leading United Russia’s ticket in what is widely seen a maneuver to retain a grip on power after he steps down next spring.
“Those who confront us need a weak and ill state. They want to have a divided society, in order to do their deeds behind its back,” Putin warned, saying a strong United Russia majority in parliament is needed to preserve his course.
Addressing thousands of backers in an event that mixed the flavors of a U.S. political convention and a Soviet-era Communist Party congress, he painted a grim picture of the turmoil in the 1990s in Russia and suggested that his Western-backed political foes were bent on turning the clock back.

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November 22, 2007 by webmaster.

DETROIT - In another blow to the Motor City’s tarnished image, Detroit pushed past St. Louis to become the nation’s most dangerous city, according to a private research group’s controversial analysis, released Sunday, of annual FBI crime statistics.
The study drew harsh criticism even before it came out. The American Society of Criminology launched a pre-emptive strike Friday, issuing a statement attacking it as “an irresponsible misuse” of crime data.
The 14th annual “City Crime Rankings: Crime in Metropolitan America” was published by CQ Press, a unit of Congressional Quarterly Inc. It is based on the FBI’s Sept. 24 crime statistics report.
The report looked at 378 cities with at least 75,000 people based on per-capita rates for homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and auto theft. Each crime category was considered separately and weighted based on its seriousness, CQ Press said.

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