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...Remove him now, and let Obama start to repair the damage that has been inflicted on the U.S. and the rest of the world. Those eight years under Bush have not only been wasted, they have reversed the geopolitical evolution of the human race. Alexander Schneider, BRIXLEGG, AUSTRIA...
Seventy years ago on Nov. 9, the Jews of Germany - and perhaps most of Europe - had their fate revealed to them on one frightening night. Kristallnacht, or "Night of Broken Glass," saw the ruling Nazi party unleash bands of thugs on Jewish communities throughout Germany and Austria, ostensibly to avenge an attack on a German diplomat in Paris by a young German Jew whose family had been forced to flee Hitler's regime. By dawn on Nov. 10, 92 Jews lay dead, among the 400 beaten, shot or driven to suicide by the abuse. Some 267 synagogues had been torched...
...which not long ago earned a fifth of its profits from the Baltic region, has seen its stock price halve in the past year over fears of exposure to bad loans, and on Oct. 27 it announced a $1.5 billion rights issue to bolster its finances. Two days later Austria's Erste Bank turned to the state for $3.5 billion, in part because of problems with its banking operations in Eastern Europe. In addition to Ukraine and Hungary, which holds high levels of debt in foreign currencies, Bulgaria, Romania and the Baltic states have all been cited as potential candidates...
...assassination attempt in the Albert Hall gets an update here) and Jackie Chan's Police Story (jumping from a building to the top of a moving bus to another building across the street). The globe-hopping itineraries of our favorite secret agent and his targets - Italy, England, Austria, Haiti, Bolivia - will remind you of the geographic restlessness on display in Syriana, Body of Lies and other war-on-terror spy capers. And like hundreds of action-film thugs, the marksmen in this film are fatally slow on the trigger...
...Click here for a photo gallery of Austria's house of horrors...