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When you hear the presidential candidates carrying on about democracy and freedom, do you ever wonder what they would be saying if they had been born into societies with different values? What if Mitt Romney had come to adulthood in Nazi Germany? What if Hillary Clinton had gone to Moscow State University and married a promising young apparatchik? What if Barack Obama had been born in Kenya, like his father, where even now people are slaughtering one another over a crooked election? Which of them would be the courageous dissidents, risking their lives for the values they talk about freely?...
...over the past year. The opening of its headquarters in Berlin in January put the organization back into the headlines, and it became the center of a national furor over the summer, when the Defense Ministry initially barred access to a key filming location for a movie about anti-Nazi hero Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, because the title role was played by high-profile Scientologist Tom Cruise. (Germany later relented...
...initiate a federal-level investigation. The Hamburg officials are hoping that in 2008 or 2009 a process will be initiated that will result in a federal ban on the organization, potentially freezing its assets and outlawing fundraising and recruitment - restrictions similar to those that apply to several neo-Nazi organizations...
...Still, the state interior ministers appear determined to press ahead, portraying themselves as protectors of their citizens from a "threat" and suggesting, in the words of one government statement, that Germany's Nazi past obliges the government "to monitor the development of any extreme groups within its borders - even when the group's members are small in number." Speaking to reporters last week, Ralf Stegner, the interior minister for the state of Schleswig-Holstein, called Scientology a "totalitarian" organization. "They want to break people's will," he said. "That's why we have to fight them." Federal Interior Minister Schaeuble...
...lightening, has begun to reverse the aging process, both in physique and memory. He also has gained superpowers: He can converse with a double of himself who aids him in intellectual queries, read a book just by touching its cover, and save his own life from a gun-toting Nazi. Dominic, fluent in a dozen languages, attempts to complete his “life’s work”: The quest to find the origin of language and human consciousness. But he is bogged down by the Nazis, who take a keen interest in his situation and his loneliness...