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Heirs to Fortuyn?

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A small plaque marks the spot where Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was gunned down.

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Heirs to Fortuyn?
City Journal | Apr 24, 2009 | Bruce Bawer
When the New Left emerged in the 1960s, something else was born that would mark American elites for decades thereafter: the notion that social-democratic Western Europe was far superior to the capitalist United States. Pity the poor American professor whose every junket to a European academic conference was marred by his continental colleagues’ sneering over cocktails about his nation’s shame du jour—Vietnam, Watergate, Iraq—or about American racism, capital punishment, or health care. For much
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April 24, 2009 at 3:18 am

USA to evacuate disgraced Georgian president in case of national coup

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USA to evacuate disgraced Georgian president in case of national coup
Mikhail Saakashvili, USA to evacuate disgraced Georgian president in case of national coup (Pravda)

26.08.2008, Source: Pravda.Ru, The USA said that one country [Russia] can not recognize independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and that the process should be conducted by the United Nations Organization. US President Bush urged his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev not to recognize the republics and reiterated that the USA supported the territorial integrity of Georgia.




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Russia urges UN to back independence move
August 27, 2008 Russia has officially informed the UN Secretary General about the country’s recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia’s independence. The Russian Ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, has called on the Security Council to adopt a resolution, which would go along with the six point peace plan.