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It's impolite to point, unless you're the Chancellor of Germany.

Kudos to Ireland for rejecting the EU Constitution in Thursday’s referendum.  Although the rejected document was actually titled the “Lisbon Treaty,” voters realized that it was nothing more than the previously-rejected Constitution under a different name.  How do we know this?  Angela Merkel admitted it last year.

George W. Bush’s weeklong trip through Europe wasn’t only about glamorous dinners and leisurely jaunts to old school castles. The President’s so-called “farewell tour” was a ploy for him to take one last stab at rounding up an entourage for our impending squirmish with Iran.

…By telling a crowd that he’s super qualified to be President due to his extensive foreign policy experience dealing with Vladimir Putin…the President of Germany. At least the background he stood in front of wasn’t lime green, right?

President Bush said Wednesday that his first choice is to solve a nuclear standoff with Iran by using diplomacy, but “all options are on the table.” The president reinforced the possibility of military strike against Iran, even as a last resort, during a news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

From Deutsche Welle, more on German Chancellor Angela Merkel's call to restore Germany's nuclear energy program: Although Merkel has long championed a three-way mix in electrical power generation—fossil, renewables and nuclear—she has in the past been cautious in openly advocating a reverse in official government policy to phase out nuclear power by 2021.

Under the guise of a “War on Terror” the current US administration continues to erode at basic American liberties and conduct rampant surveillance of its own citizens. These moves have been compared to Nazi Germany’s and their fascist form of governance but ironically these days it is Germany that is

The president of Russia Dmitry Medvedev's first visit to the West since his inauguration as president in May will last barely eight hours.

This one from the International Herald Tribune: Merkel to press Medvedev on human rights By Judy Dempsey BERLIN: The case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the imprisoned former boss of the Russian energy company Yukos, and other human rights issues will be high on the agenda when Chancellor Angela Merkel meets President Dmitri Medvedev of Russia in Berlin this week, officials confirmed Monday.

Japan’s Fukuda urges relief measures amid food crisis German Chancellor Angela Merkel shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda during a press conference at the Chancellery in Berlin.