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Programme notes for 5/30/06 located at:

http://www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com/2...jun/amarch.htm




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Beyond regrets

Like most politicians, George Bush doesn't often admit he is wrong, so it was mildly gratifying to hear him express regret, at least, for some of the language he has used since 9/11 - his childish "bring 'em on" taunt to the Iraqi insurgents whose determination no one in the entire US government managed to foresee; and his vain sheriff's boast of getting Osama bin Laden "dead or alive". There was some grim satisfaction too in hearing the president recognise the damage inflicted by the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Was it the comforting proximity of his loyal ally Tony Blair - a problem shared is a problem halved - that allowed Mr Bush to admit these shortcomings, or recognition that some rare candour might help slow his plummeting popularity ratings?

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Blair attack 'morally justified'

MP George Galloway has said it could be "morally justified" to assassinate Tony Blair, but stressed he was not calling for his death.
In an interview with GQ magazine he was asked whether a suicide bomb attack on Mr Blair would "be justified as revenge for the war on Iraq".

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Immigration worker charged over bomb materials

A worker at a Government immigration office was charged today after bomb-making materials were allegedly found at his home.
Callum Atkinson, 19, who works at the Immigration and Nationality Directorate in Liverpool, was arrested after a raid at his home on Wednesday.

A spokeswoman for Merseyside Police said Atkinson was charged with possession of an explosive substance for unlawful purposes and he would appear before Liverpool Magistrates' Court later today.

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EU scepticism grows in Sweden

Nearly one in four Swedes, 24 percent, are unsure that Sweden should be a member of the EU. When Sweden joined the union in 1995 only 14 percent were uncertain.

This is one of the figures revealed in a poll due to be released in June by the SOM Institute at Gothenburg University, Swedish Radio has reported.

Of the 3,000 people questioned in the survey, 39 percent were in favour of Sweden being in the EU. Almost as many, 37 percent, were against. These figures were largely unchanged from previous surveys.

The survey also showed that Swedes' expectations of the EU are lower than before. In 1994, 42 percent believed that membership would improve Sweden's employment rate. This figure has now fallen to 9 percent.

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Oldham blighted by racial tension five years after riots

Oldham has made progress since race riots engulfed the town five years ago, but the reluctance of predominantly Asian community leaders to encourage desegregation is creating deep ethnic divisions, a new report has claimed.

"[Some] community leaders... are advising their people against interacting with others and developing relationships," Professor Ted Cantle said. He was commissioned by Oldham council to investigate the town's progress, five years after heading the Home Office inquiry into the summer riots which found ethnic groups were leading "parallel lives" in Oldham, Burnley and Bradford.

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Neo-Nazi Violence on the Rise in Germany

With the World Cup just a few weeks away, stories about neo-Nazi violence in Germany are suddenly everywhere. On Monday, new figures suggest that far-right crime in the country is on the rise -- much of it in former East Germany.

Right-wing extremism is on the rise in Germany. Clashes with anti-fascist groups are also increasing.
It's hardly the issue that Germany wanted to see in the headlines during the last few weeks before the World Cup kicks off in Munich on June 9. But stories on neo-Nazi violence, suddenly, are everywhere. On Monday, new figures showing a rise in right-wing violence in 2005 poured fuel on the fire.

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Race killings are no longer a matter of black and white

Official figures obtained by The Times show that victims and killers are of increasingly diverse ethnic origins

WITH one pronouncement, a judge this week changed the common perception of violent racism in modern Britain.

Mr Justice Mackay, looking straight at three young Asian men in the dock in front of him, was equally direct in his words: “What led to the death of Isaiah Young-Sam was the colour of his skin.”

Waqar Ahmed, Azhil Khan and Afzal Khan were three members of a much larger Asian gang that chased and murdered Mr Young-Sam, 23, a black man.

The murder, at the height of the Lozells riots in Birmingham last autumn, is one of the first cases to receive national attention that has portrayed racism as something other than a black and white issue.

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