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We came to the UK from Australia for a family holiday in July 2004. I fell in love with UK and decided I wanted to stay (many asked WHY !!)

My loving wife and children Eddie, Ben and Lucy are English, I am Australian (a Commonwealth county)
I made the mistake of not lodging a formal application to stay immediately I fell in love (but then who says I love you straight away!) although I had discussed with the UKBA my desire to stay and how to best go about this - I was born under a British and Colonies passport in Rhodesia (aka Zimbabwe). Following lengthy discussions I lodged an acceptable application in July 2006.

3 years of being stateless (unable to work and support my family, paid for and missed 3 family holidays) I was finally granted Discretionary Leave to Remain in July 2009.

I willingly give (and love) the 10-12 hours a week I give to my local community coaching youth rugby and football teams and acting as business manager for a local rugby club. My businesses export on behalf of the UK and pay £10's of £1,000's in VAT.

Learned my lesson and lodged my extension to remain for the next 3 years within specific, stipulated guidelines on the 15th June 2012.

Booked (and paid for) what will be our first holiday in years and am now fighting to get my visa ratified in time to allow me to go with my family.

They are telling me to wait 6 months before even contacting them to discuss it........?

Please help me!

Cheers,

Glendon

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The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement is a free trade agreement under negotiation among nine countries, including the US and Malaysia.

The problem is the agreement deals with other non-trade issues, like investor rights, which affect how foreign companies do business, and patent rights, which affect access to affordable medicines. To make matters worse, the agreement is being negotiated in secrecy. And the countries hope to sign the agreement by the end of the year.

The EU-Malaysia Free Trade Agreement is another free trade agreement being negotiated between Malaysia and the 27 member states of the European Union. Similar to the TPPA, there are elements in the agreement that governs patent rights, which could harm access to cheap medicines. Although the negotiations are top secret as well, we are already seeing the destructive effects of such an agreement in India.

For more information, go to http://www.ftamalaysia.org

Perjanjian Kerjasama Trans-Pasifik (TPPA) ialah perjanjian perdagangan bebas yang sedang dirundingkan antara sembilan negara-negara, termasuklah Amerika Syarikat dan Malaysia.

Perjanjian ini malangnya, juga merundingkan isu-isu yang tidak berkenaan dengan perdagangan, seperti hak pelabur yang memberi kesan kepada cara syarikat-syarikat luar negara menjalankan perniagaan mereka di negara lain, dan hak paten yang membawa impak kepada ubat-ubatan yang dijual pada harga yang berpatutan. Selain itu, perjanjian ini juga dirundingkan secara rahsia. Hal ini merumitkan lagi keadaan dan negara-negara yang meyertai perjanjian ini ingin menandatangani perjanjian ini sebelum hujung tahun ini.

Perjanjian Perdagangan Bebas antara Kesatuan Eropah (EU) dengan Malaysia ialah satu lagi perjanjian perdagangan bebas yang sedang dirundingkan antara Malaysia dengan 27 ahli Kesatuan Eropah. Sama seperti TPPA, perjanjian ini juga mempunyai elemen-elemen hak paten yang boleh menghalang akses kepada ubat-ubatan yang murah. Walaupun rundingan-rundingan tersebut dijalankan secara rahsia, impak-impak negatif perjanjian ini boleh disaksikan di India.

Untuk maklumat lanjut, sila layari http://www.ftamalaysia.org/

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The magnificent evergreen forest on Mt. Zlatibor is letting go under strikes of chainsaws and heavy machinery.

With pine trees taller than 15 meters and older than 70 years, stretching over 500 acres of forest land it is a predominantly influential Nature Park and self preserving ecosystem on Zlatibor.

Planted immediately upon the end of the Second World War it bore status of protected natural wealth and had become a habitat to numerous animal and plant species.

Today it's a host to a large number of families of squirrels and rabbits, also turtles, moles, hedgehogs, ant colonies, lizard dens and various birds such are robins, woodpeckers, ouzels, owls, wild pigeons, magpies, etc.

Abusing state's law regulations on environmental protection and disregarding obligatory acts of Aarhus Convention the local authorities issued The General Plan according to which the Nature Park is turned into zone of tourism and high commerce.

WARNING: The Nature Park is undergoing heavy deforestation and soil devastation by local Zlatibor authorities and Serbian Orthodox Church. Biodiversity is threatened with extinction as workers and machinery plow through in preparation to build communication and drainage network.

IMPORTANT: Please pay attention to the 5 min documentary below.



More info at:
Nature Park - Geo Location
Sačuvajmo zlatiborsku šumu - Facebook
Sačuvajmo zlatiborsku šumu - Blogspot
Sačuvajmo zlatiborsku šumu - Twitter

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Η Κύπρος αναλαμβάνει την προεδρία της Ευρωπαίκης Ένωσης από την 1 Ιουλιου 2012 μέχρι το τέλος του έτους. Το τραγούδι αυτό αποτελεί έκτρωμα για τη πατρίδα μας, αφού ορίστηκε ως το επίσημο τραγούδι καλωσορίσματος της Κυπριακής Προεδρίας. Λυπάμαι, αλλά είιναι λαϊκή απαίτηση, το συγκεκριμένο τραγούδι να αποσυρθεί άμεσα. Όχι μόνο δεν προβάλει την πραγματική κουλτούρα μας, αλλά ρεζιλεύει διεθνώς ό,τι υπάρχει σε αυτό το τόπο.

Ας μαζευτούμε λοιπόν και να εξασκήσουμε πίεση στη Κυπριακή πολιτεία.

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Did you know that before and after the European tourist season, governments clean the streets from cats and dogs in, for example: Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Turkey?

Many animals are poisoned and die a very painful death, others are beaten to death, or hanged and strangled. Many are hit by cars and left to die.

Some end up in horrible captivity where life is frightening and tormenting, and many die of disease or starvation. Enclosures in these countries are hot in summer and cold in winter. The animals die from heat stroke or freeze to death. The country and the business sector does not want that these animals disturb the good impression of their country and affect tourism negatively.

None of these countries have made efforts to curb the stray animal population by neutering campaigns, or information about neutering to the public. Instead, these countries chose to poison or otherwise get rid of their abandoned, unwanted companion animals. Never or rarely do they punish someone for abuse or murder of animals. These countries are making a strict difference between an animal with an owner and an abandoned animal. In these countries, an abandoned animal can be treated as badly as you like and in many eyes they are seen as unwanted debris that disrupts the community.

Some of these countries still enjoy the torture of bulls during bullfights and have a variety of traditions in which animals are involved and tormented. In all these countries, dogs are used for hunting. These dogs are treated very badly and starvation to death is common between the hunting seasons. They are often killed or abandoned after a bad game.

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BEIJING - 14 February 2012 - EU meeting with China in Beijing.

China's Premier Wen Jiabao said China wanted to see Europe -- its biggest trading partner -- "maintain stability and prosperity", a day after ratings agency Moody's downgraded Italy, Spain and Portugal.

The two sides also agreed during the talks to give fresh impetus to Beijing's efforts to attain full market economy status (MES) for China in the European Union, according to a joint communique issued after the summit.

"China is ready to increase its participation in resolving the EU debt problems," the Chinese premier told journalists after meeting EU president Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso.

China was considering using Europe's bail-out funds to help address the continent's fiscal woes, Wen added, without elaborating further on how the Asian power might be prepared to contribute.

"China will continue to fully meet its World Trade Organization commitments," he said. "It will continue to expand market access."

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We the people of Ireland have stood by long enough as the EU dictates how we live our life, We the people demand you change our constitution so we can vote on every issue the EU tries to legislate in Ireland as we are noticing our sovereignty slipping away from us, Well we want it back.

The banking bailout and the recession that followed including the IMF bailout to the people should have been voted on by the people.

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We, the undersigned, taxpayers of the UK, request that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, immediately halts all and every payment to the EU.

It is a known fact that criminal fraud within the EU is so rampant, that their accounts have not been signed off for seventeen years

Secondly, allowing the signing of the Lisbon and EU Treaties, which allow it to impose its laws upon us, is High Treason.

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The Annual Remembrance Day Parade at the Cenotaph in Whitehall is the nation’s homage to all those from the British Isles and Commonwealth who laid down their lives in two great world Wars and other conflicts to preserve our freedom.

The Conservative, Labour and Lib Dem parties clearly have little or no regard or respect for the citizens of our country, the defence of this country, the Commonwealth, HM The Queen and the principles for which the fallen we are remembering, died for. They are even sending dead servicemens' coffins down the back streets to prevent the public from paying their respects.

Please support this petition by signing HERE.

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General Ante Gotovina je osuđen po devet točaka kao sudionik "udruženog zločinačkog pothvata" na jedinstvenu kaznu od 24 godine zatvora. Mladen Markač osuđen je iz istih razloga na 18 godina zatvora, s tim da je u obzir uzeto njegovo zdravstveno stanje.

Politicka presuda nije bila presuda samo hrvatskim generalima, već cijelom hrvatskom narodu te našoj djeci i unucima. Ovakvom presudom se kažžnjava cijeli hrvatski narod zbog svoje neunišštive žželje za slobodom!

U slučaju Hrvatske se dešava po prvi puta u svjetskoj povjesti, da se… sudi državi koja je pobjedila u OBRAMBENOM ratu i od agresora i okupatora oslobodila prostore unutar priznate i suverene države.

Hrvatski generali su dobili veće kazne nego generali okupatorske vojske, koja je počinila pokolj na raznim mijestima suverene i priznate hrvatske države ili susjedne BIH. Sjetimo se samo Ovčare i Srebrenice....

I na kraju, pravi je paradoks da nam se sudi u Nizozemskoj, čija je vojska dozvolila pokolj 6000 osoba koji su bili pod njihovom zaštitom i zastitom zastave EU. Sve su to stvari koje se dobro znaju, ali novine ne pišu konkretnije o njima. Najmanje što možemo učiniti protiv toga je potpisati ovu peticiju i pokazati da svojim imenom i prezimenom stojimo iznad nepravde i obmane međunarodne zajednice i njihovih marioneta u hrvatskoj politici, koje će povijest upamtiti kao izdajnike hrvatskog naroda i države!

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Izbjegavanje javne rasprave o temi sudbonosnoj za budućnost Hrvatske nedozvoljivo je i neprimjereno ponašanje parlamentarnih stranaka. Udruga „Volim Hrvatsku“ na informativnoj razini objedinjuje razne udruge i istaknute osobe iz javnog života Republike Hrvatske i poziva Vas da svojim potpisom peticiji podržite zahtjev za pokretanje javne rasprave o korisnosti ili štetnosti pridruživanja Republike Hrvatske Europskoj Uniji.

Ispričavamo se što je formular peticije na engleskom jeziku, ali program za peticije na hrvatskom jeziku nažalost ne postoji. To je još jedan dokaz nepostojanja istinske demokratske komunikacije u našoj zemlji....

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Urgent Action to Stop Killing of Residents of Camp Ashraf.

Hundreds of injured residents in serious condition.

-Considering the criminal attack by Iraqi forces against defenseless residents of Ashraf which began at 04:45 am April 8, 2011;
-Considering that the attack was conducted on the order of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and under direct command of the Lieutenant General Ali Gheidan, commander of the ground forces;
-Considering that extermination of Camp Ashraf residents has been the constant demand of the Iranian regime;
- Considering that until April 8, 2011, some 33 residents were killed and 300 more wounded;
-Considering that the residents of Camp Ashraf are protected persons under the Fourth Geneva Convention and enjoy all fundamental rights under international human rights law;
-Considering that Iraqi government, contrary to its commitment to respect the rights of Ashraf residents has constantly infringed its obligations;
-Considering repeated warnings by human rights organisations, statements and resolutions by members of parliaments in European countries and members of US Congress including the European Parliament resolution of April 24, 2009; EP Written Declaration of November 25, 2010 and Declaration by Council of Europe …., Congressional hearings in the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Senate Armed Services Committee;
-Considering that in accordance with the Rome Treaty and the writ issued by the Spanish Court violation of the residents of Ashraf as protected persons under the Fourth Geneva Convention constitutes war crime and crime against international community;

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Since Friday foods and vegetables with a radioactive level of 10 times or more the EU approved limit have been allowed to be imported into Germany.

Foodwatch and the Environmental Institute (Munich) are very critical of this development. The German public and their children should be protected from cancer causing radioactive ingestion at all costs.

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A „Pro Veritate et Iustitia” civil kezdeményezés, amelyet magyar történelmi családok tagjai indítottak azzal a céllal, hogy felhívják a figyelmet arra a nemzet megmaradását veszélyeztető tényre, hogy 1944. március 19-én hazánkban idegen katonai megszállás következtében az ország jogfolytonossága megszakadt, szuverenitása megszűnt. Eddig minden hatalom szerves folytatása volt az előzőnek, elismerve és megerősítve a magyar történeti alkotmányt, azonban 1944. március 19-én megszakadt az alkotmányos, legitim hatalom.

A Pro Veritate et Iustitia felhívja a nyilvánosság figyelmét arra, hogy a magyar történeti alkotmány hatályon kívül helyezése óta hozott törvények legitimitása megkérdőjelezhető, azok felülvizsgálata szükséges. Az 1944. március 19. után a megszálló hatalmak, először a náci rezsim, majd a kommunista diktatúra kényszere alatt hozták azokat. Az 1949-ben ránk erőltetett szovjet chartalis alkotmányt módosították 1989-ben, amikor a szovjet megszálló csapatok még Magyarországon tartózkodtak, az ország nem volt szuverén.

A Pro Veritate et Iustitia felhívás támogatói kérik hazánk jogfolytonosságának visszaállítását! A meglévő történeti alkotmány, a mai kor követelményei szerint modernizálva szolgálná a magyarság érdekeit a jelenben és a jövőben.

A Pro Veritate et Iustitia elindítói: Esterházy Antal, Bánffy Miklós, Hunyady József, Kállay Ubul Tamás, Lipthay Antal, Berg Gloria, Ugron Béla, Zichy Mihály, Gudenus János Józef, Nádasdy N. Andrea, Bánffy Tamás, Szentkirályi Miklós, Bethlen Farkas, Pallavicini Borbála, Nyáry Gál, Batthyány Bálint.

Amennyiben egyetért a Pro Veritate et Iustitia dokumentumban (www.proveritateetiustitia.wordpress.com) foglaltakkal, nevének és adatainak megadásával csatlakozhat hozzá. Előre is köszönjük értékes közreműködését!

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U ponedjeljak, 27.12.2010., HRT je emitirao posljednju emisiju "Poslovnog kluba", nakon punih 19 godina prikazivanja. Odlukom programskog vodstva HRT-a, ta legendarna tjedna emisija je ukinuta. I to - bez ikakvog objašnjenja!

To je jedna od vrlo rijetkih emisija na HTV-u koja je bila sistematična, stručna, inteligentna i kritična, prvenstveno zbog izvrsnih komentara Ðure Tomljenovića, na početku svake emisije.

Onima koji su je pratili, poznato je da su se komentari g. Tomljenovića uvijek obrušavali na posvemašnju glupost, korumpiranost, neznanje i nesposobnost raznih vlada i ljudi koji su vodili ovu zemlju.

Udruga "Volim Hrvatsku" pokreće ovu peticiju, s ciljem da se prikupi što više potpisa podrške, koji će na kraju biti proslijeđeni programskom vijeću HRT-a i Hrvatskom državnom saboru, sa zahtjevom da se ova popularna emisija vrati brojnim gledateljima koji su je rado pratili.

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The Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive (THMPD) is presented as a service to European citizens and as simple to apply. However, close examination of its methods in practice demonstrates that the reality will be an egregious abridgement of the rights of individuals to obtain and use the health treatments they choose.

While it benefits citizens for governmental agencies to advise on efficacy and safety of products that have been commonly and freely used by utilising a particular method of inquiry, that information may not address the needs of individuals and presumes that there is only one system for obtaining accurate and beneficial information. That is equivalent to allowing only one religion as the accepted source of truth.

The costs and systems required by THMPD are generally not manageable by small manufacturers, which are the predominant suppliers of herbal products. This results in an unfair competitive advantage to multinational corporations, which ultimately limits the individual's access to quality and selection in herbal medicinal products.

With THMPD, the European Union has overstepped and is severely restricting the unwritten rights of each human being to choose and access methods of managing health. It is a dangerous usurpation of civil rights that assumes the individual does not have the ability to make proper health decisions. Self-determination in matters of health must be treated as an inherent civil right, and THMPD is an abrogation of it.

Read this to see the sort of madness that the EU Commission is already enacting--and that you may help stop by signing this petition.

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As you are all aware BP recently had a major disaster that has caused millions of tonnes of oil to spill into the Gulf and this is destroying everything it engulfs.

BP also stated before this horrendous incident that this type of accident could never happen.

So why then did it happen?

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We want Europe to be more democratic. Europe has to be built with the citizens!

That is why we want the european commission to be accountable to EU citizens, by electing directly its president, who then will have to be approved by both european parliament and european council.

According the Lisboa treaty, if we reach 1 million signatures, our claim should be heard!

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In November 2009 the UK became part of an effective EU superstate, this of course is known by its name of the Lisbon Treaty which our country signed, however the ordinary citizen of Britain was never consulted in the process of signing the Lisbon Treaty.

However one little known part of the Lisbon Treaty has saved the day. Citizen's Initiative means that any signature that gets 1,000,000 signatures can be introduced as a bill in the European parliament. So the idea is to get Lisbon Treaty referendum as a bill in the European parliament.

Please sign and get us out of this EU hellhole.

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We want David Cameron to keep his promise and hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty or we will not vote Conservative.

Recently, the chairman of the Conservative Party, David Cameron, has told voters that his party will not be holding a public referendum on the EU Lisbon Treaty, despite his iron-clad promise in 2007 assuring us that one would be held.

It is abhorrent that a major political party has cut we, the British people, out of affairs that would directly affect us. It is the people that make up the UK and without us, the Conservative Party would not even exist. We demand the right to be heard.

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The World is going in the wrong direction, politically and socially - it is time for the political elite to re-evalute what they are doing.

Everyone agrees these are challenging times - but are we going in the right direction, politically, and doing the right things. I fear not.

More and more we see an insane amount of new regulations entering our lives, many of which are ill thought out, make things worse in some respect and don't actually solve any real problems. The new EU wide banking restictive regulations are a case to consider - not yet applied, but all of the talk suggests it will be another cow designed by a committee.

Our lives have been alterd to a huge degree by oppressive legislation, allegedly against terrorists, but we find councils taking advantage of such to spy on people who may not be in a school catchment area.

The UN issues decrees, for example, they wrote to all governments saying that very young kids should get explicit sexual education. There are no sane grounds for this, and the fact that the UN has been implicated in perversions involving kids does not make this an organisation I want to trust. The UN also interferred in the UK by saying the Monarchy should be abolished.

As more and more politically motivated global organisations spread their combined messages, they are not one of sanity, rather, they are moving us towards a single political solution - a one size fits all kind of world, where people are ignored by those in power that would only push their own agenda, despite any messages they would get from the people who are more and more under the effect of bad government.

The EU is perhaps the best example of a runaway political movement that doesn't involve the people in its decisions. I will just say "The Lisbon Treaty" - Need I say more.

OK, so we are going the wrong political direction, given that many of the proposed solutions, and this involves the worst excesses of the environmental lobby, are of the type that the old USSR would have been proud of.

Innovation and personal integrity are being stifled. Responsibility for everything now is with some governing body, be it an unelected quango or some hidden 'crat lurking behind a government minister.

This is not how it was meant to be. Politicians have failed us miserably by creating terrorism, when diplomacy would have been the sane approach, but whose purpose is being served in this matter?

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SAVE OUR WATTS!

This is a petition against the EU removing the measure of power "watts" from lightbulbs and replacing them with the measure "lumens". From September next year, lightbulbs in the European Union will no longer be marked with wattage, they will instead be marked in lumens. There is fear these bulbs are linked to several health issues including skin rashes, migraine and epilepsy. There are also safety concerns because of their mercury content, which makes them difficult and dangerous to dispose of. Watts is our standard measure for the power produced by a lightbulb and is understood worldwide. This will also undoubtly have an affect on our children aswell, as watts is often used in Physics and is an intracil part of it. However without this in mainstream society, it will most likely prove to be negative on our children's understanding of the measure.

The Watt is named after Scotsman James Watt, the developer of the steam engine amongst other creations such as rotary engine and letter copying press (essentialy a very early photocopier). The unit of power was first accepted into the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1889 and since it's acception into the International System of Units in 1960 it has been ever-present on almost every lightbulb world-wide.

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Nick Griffin, BNP Leader -“I want to see Britain become the 99 per cent genetically white country she was just eleven years before I was born . . . Nothing will ever turn me from working towards that final vision”

Many people are disillusioned with British Politicians. Expenses claims, the economic crisis, rising debt, smear campaigns, never answering questions with a straight answer… The list goes on.

The BNP want you to believe that they are a moderate party who provide you with a protest vote against the Conservative, Labour and Lib Dem parties.

They are not. The party is built around a leadership and philosophy that wants British citizens deported just because of the colour of their skin.

The BNP could win seats in the European Parliament on June 4th. Help us stop them. Please sign below, and please vote in the EU elections on June 4th.

Britain is the fairest country in the world, there is nothing British about the BNP.



Visit our site at: www.nothingbritish.com

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گزارش های نگران کننده ای از تصمیم اتحادیه اروپا ، برای قرار دادن نام دانشگاه صنعتی شریف( از دانشگاه های معتبر ایران) در لیست جدید تحریم ها علیه فعالیت های غنی سازی اورانیوم دولت جمهوری اسلامی ایران در دست قرار دارد

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The European Commission is considering giving Development Aid to Eritrea.

For this to happen we urge all Eritreans and Eritrea Loving People to show their support.

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Bitte HELFT, dass in der Europäischen Union KEINE Massentötungen an Straßentieren vorgenommen und dass KEINE Tötungsstationen europaweit eingerichtet werden!


Das Problem:
Die wachsende Zahlen streunender und ausgesetzter Haustiere, insbesondere Hunde und Katzen stellen in einigen europäischen Ländern ein Problem dar. Uns erreichen immer wieder erschreckende Bilder von vergifteten, erschlagenen und auf das Schlimmste misshandelter Tiere. Tierschützer und andere engagierte Personen bemühen sich, die Situation der sogenannten Straßentiere seit vielen Jahren durch großen persönlichen und finanziellen Einsatz zu verbessern. In den betroffenen Ländern fehlt entweder eine gesetzliche Regelung zum Schutz von Haustieren oder sie ist völlig unzureichend oder sie wird erst gar nicht umgesetzt.

In jüngster Zeit werden zunehmend streunende Tiere weltweit, so auch in manchen Ländern Europas für die Ausbreitung von Tollwut und anderen Krankheiten verantwortlich gemacht. Unter diesem Vorwand werden Massentötungen an Hunden und Katzen in einigen Ländern der Welt vorgenommen.

Die Gesetzgeber:
Die Europäische Union veröffentlichte im Mai 2008 einen “Bericht über eine neue Tiergesundheitsstrategie (2007-2013)“. Diese Strategie sieht unter anderem eine starke Anlehnung an die "Entwurfsrichtlinien über Hundepopulationssteuerung“ der World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) entworfen von der Terrestrische Animal Health Standards Commission (Bericht Oktober 2008) vor. Alle Mitgliedsstaaten der EU sind auch Mitglied bei der OIE.

Die Lösung des Streunerproblems bei der OIE
Die Entwurfsrichtlinien der OIE haben inzwischen die Anerkennung verschiedener nicht-europäischer Länder gefunden. Nach diesen Empfehlungen wird das Problem von Straßentieren bereits umgesetzt. Die Richtlinien der OIE sind stark ausgerichtet nach ökonomischen Gesichtspunkten und definieren klare Umsetzungsmaßnahmen zur Eindämmung von Tollwutinfektionen im Zusammenhang mit der Streunerproblematik. Die OIE, deren Vorstand aus Vertretern von Ländern besteht, in denen die Problematik von Straßentieren vorhanden ist, empfiehlt daher natürlich die möglichst schnelle Beseitigung des Problems durch zügige Minderung der Populationszahlen von Straßentieren. Sie schlägt in ihrem Entwurf zur Beseitigung der Streunerproblematik vor allem die Euthanasie der Streuner vor – insbesondere unter der Berücksichtigung von Kosten, Infrastruktur oder der "Unvermittelbarkeit“ von Tieren.

Die von der OIE akzeptierten Methoden der Ausrottung der Straßentiere reichen von Bolzenschuss mit anschließender mechanischer Hirnschädigung ("pithing") und Ausbluten über Vergasung bis hin zur Tötung durch Elekroschock.

Die Verantwortlichkeit für die Entscheidungen über das Schicksal von in einem Gebiet lebenden Straßentieren fällen die jeweils zuständigen örtliche (lokalen) Verwaltungen. Tierärzte und Tierschutzorganisationen werden zum Handlanger der öffentlichen Entscheidungsträger.

Die Folgen für Europa
Dieses erschreckende Dokument ist nicht nur das Todesurteil von Straßenhunden weltweit, es wird auch von Vertretern der EU mehrheitlich befürwortet, was das Abstimmungsergebnis über den "Bericht über eine neue Tiergesundheitsstrategie" beweist.

Noch wurde ein solcher gesetzlicher Rahmen nicht beschlossen.

Weil die EU aber plant, sich der OIE als Mitglied anzuschließen und weil die Mitgliedsstaaten der EU bereits Mitglied bei der OIE sind, besteht nun die große Gefahr, dass in Europa Tötungsstationen und Massentötungen von Straßenhunden eingeführt werden. Solche Tötungen geschehen nicht nur bei akuter Tollwut in einer Region. Sie können zum Beispiel auch vorgenommen werden, weil sich Menschen durch Hunde belästigt fühlen (Hundegebell, Kotverschmutzung), weil Hunde den Straßenverkehr gefährden könnten, weil Hunde gefährlich sein könnten, weil die finanziellen Mittel einer Gemeinde oder Stadt für eine längerfristige Tierheimhaltung nicht ausreichen, weil Kastrationsprogramme zu teuer sind. Wir wissen alle, was geschehen kann, wenn Lokalbehörden die Entscheidungsträger sind (siehe z. B. Serbien, Türkei, China).

Selbst Massentötung wird als legales Mittel mit dem Argument der Seuchenkontrolle zum Wohle des Menschen anerkannt. Anstelle Hundevermehrer, kommerzielle Züchter und Welpenimporteure zu stoppen, dürfen sie gemäß des Willens der OIE weitermachen. Man will sie lediglich in Verbänden organisiert wissen. Die Euthanasie von unseren Mitgeschöpfen wird zur Lösung für vom Menschen gemachte Probleme, denen der Mensch nicht gewillt ist, abzuhelfen. Der Mensch braucht nach OIE-Entwurf zur Behebung der Streunerproblematik weder Mitgefühl noch Verantwortung gegenüber seinen Mitgeschöpfen zu zeigen. Vielmehr wird er durch diese Richtlinien in seiner Verantwortungslosigkeit gestärkt und ihm das Recht andere Geschöpfe zu töten übermittelt.

Das Recht zur Euthanasie um ein selbst geschaffenes Problem aus der Welt zu radieren, erleichtert den Politikern weltweit und dann auch in Europa, sich nicht mehr um verantwortungsvollen Umgang mit Tieren in der Erziehung ihrer Staatsbürger sorgen zu müssen.

Der Tierschutz in Europa und die jahrzehntelange Arbeit vieler dem Tierschutz verbundenen Menschen wird zur Nichtigkeit degradiert. Die Verrohung der Menschen gegenüber ihren Mitgeschöpfen ist vorprogrammiert.

Viele Länder, in denen bereits seit Jahrzehnten ein funktionierender Tierschutz besteht, müssten sich darauf einstellen, dass die Tötung von Straßentieren und Tierheimtieren durch Behördenwillkür zulässig wird.
Ebenso wird es verantwortungslosen Tier-Konsumenten erleichtert, die Ware Tier stärker denn je zu missbrauchen.

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Within less than a year, Finland has seen two separate school shooting tragedies.

On 7 November 2007, Pekka-Eric Auvinen, 18, shot dead eight and himself at Jokela High School in Tuusula, southern Finland; on 23 September 2008, Matti Juhani Saari, 22, killed ten and himself at the college of Kauhajoki, western Finland.

Both Auvinen and Saari committed their murders by .22 calibre semi-automatic handguns, which both of them had legally obtained and registered with the police less than a month before the incidents. Both had received their permits on the grounds that target shooting at shooting range was their hobby. Auvinen was a member of a local shooting club, even if the club later confirmed that he had only attended a single one-hour training session there. As of the evening of 23 September it was still unclear whether Saari was a member to any shooting club; in legislation membership is not even a requirement. As is the common practice in Finland, both stored their guns in their homes.

With 56 firearms per 100 inhabitants, Finland has the world's third highest (official) gun ownership ratio in the world, behind only the US and Yemen. This reflects both a long national tradition of hunting and sport shooting, as well as, relatedly, a comparatively lax gun legislation.

Not only are hunting firearms (e.g. shotguns, rifles) easy to acquire by standards of any other any other rich-world country, but also handguns (e.g. pistols), with no relevant hunting purpose, can be obtained with very little inconvenience. (It is telling that Auvinen, a 18-year-old first-time licensee, had initially applied permit for a deadlier 9 mm Beretta pistol; this was denied as too powerful for a beginner, but since he had no criminal record such a request did not allow/oblige the police to either reject or vet further his second application.)

The Finnish government is currently preparing a new gun legislation. The need for a new law was prompted by an EU directive which mandates the countries to forbid the selling of firearms to people who are under 18 years old (something that Finland until the Jokela massacre opposed), and up to date was not meant to include any other major changes.

By signing this petition you express your concern over the Finnish gun laws, and demand the legislator to review them considerably further and sooner than required by the European Union.

Guns indeed never kill people, but they make it much easier. That's why owning them must be made more difficult.

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Gericht aan de Nederlandse Overheid en de Europese Unie Deze oproep is gericht aan de Nederlandse overheid, die tevens één van de grootste donoren is in Soedan. Wij zijn uiterst ontstemd over de recente cijfers die door de Verenigde Naties (VN) naar buiten werd gebracht.

In een recent rapport hebben zij al vastgesteld dat er al circa 300.000 slachtoffers zijn gevallen. Velen van deze zijn onschuldige burgers en resp. vrouwen, kinderen en ouderen. Naast deze getallen hebben verschillende internationale organisaties zoals de Human Right Watch (HRW), Artsen zonder Grenzen, Stichting Vluchteling en soort gelijke organisaties hun zorg geuit over de huidige situatie en toekomst van het geweld in Darfur.

Wij “Jongeren voor Darfur” zijn van mening dat de Nederlandse overheid een stevigere positie moet gaan innemen over de kwestie Darfur.

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Support the European Presidency direct Election.

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Why is it that Northern Cyprus is one of the most in demand countries in Europe in regards to properties, holidays and living. But the countries around the world still refuse to recognise North Cyprus as a country.

Still stopping Northern Cyprus from expressing, selling or buying on the common market.

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