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[Stephanie]

Poland



Anti-globalisation demonstrators flash victory signs at the police during a protest before
U.S. President's George W. Bush's visit to Jurata, northern Poland June 8 ,2007.
REUTERS/Kacper Pempel (POLAND)

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Prague


http: //news.yahoo.com/photo/070604/ids_photos_wl/r1947213290.jpg



A demonstrator fights with Czech riot policemen during an anti-U.S. protest in Prague June 4, 2007.
Hundreds of Czechs protested peacefully on Monday against U.S. plans for a missile defence shield,
rallying near Prague's historic castle hours before U.S. President George W. Bush was due to arrive
in the capital. REUTERS/Karoly Arvai (CZECH REPUBLIC)

http: //news.yahoo.com/photo/070604/ids_photos_wl/r3346566783.jpg

Rostock


http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070602/481/29bc6dd9b387484e990fbef0fc8718c6



Anti-G8 demonstrators display effigies of the G8 leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and
US President George Bush as they stage a protest in Rostock. More than 140 police were injured in violent
clashes with Molotov cocktail-throwing protestors at a demonstration ahead of next week's G8 summit.
(AFP/John MacDougall)

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070602/photos_wl_pc_afp/7b113c332012eb7395e8238b49da9f59

Rome


http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070609/481/ajm13606091937


http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070609/481/xppc11406092022


http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070609/481/xajm13206091924



Anti-riot policemen take shelter during an anti-war protest in Rome, Saturday, June 9, 2007,
the day of U.S. President George Bush and his wife Laura's visit to Rome. President Bush is
in Rome as part of his trip through Europe that included the G8 summit in Germany.
(AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito) Email Photo Print Photo
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070609/481/xppc11306091911

[Sapphocrat]

1. Wow. K&R. n/t

[Stephanie]

2. who knew?

not something you would read about in the papers. apparently.

[Sapphocrat]

3. Well, I've read about the German protests...

...but it isn't the same; you know what they say about a picture being worth a thousand words. Those are some incredible photos. I'm glad you posted them.

I'm still looking for more pics of the Italian protests when * arrived in Rome to meet The Poop. Riot police, anti-American graffiti, the works. Not that I enjoy being hated internationally -- but if photos like this were distributed more widely to the We-Love-Kutie-Couric crowd, that stubborn 33% might be won over. Or at least partially shocked into reality.

[Stephanie]

4. the last four above are of Rome

.

[Sapphocrat]

5. I know -- I just corrected myself!

:blush: :D

[Stephanie]

6. and I edited to clarity

:hi:

[EFerrari]

7. Looks like we lost Poland.

[eridani]

8. Well, I see you didn't forget Poland!

:)

[Staph]

9. Apparently the folks at Yahoo News

don't know that what the protesters in the first picture are flashing is not a victory sign!

[mahina]

12. Remember when the American female soldiers were rescued,

early in the war, and one flashed a peace sign?

It was on the front page all over the country, captioned as a victory sign.

We never used that gesture to communicate victory, just peace. It's propaganda, it was then, and it is now. Gli fascisti.

[OnionPatch]

10. Victory Signs?

I know that's what that USED to mean. In this day and age, I would have assumed that they were PEACE signs. :shrug:
I guess "peace" is a dirty word in the media.

[formercia]

11. I see the Italians still have a fondness for Black Shirts.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[Straight Shooter]

14. Thatza becuz we look so goood in black.

Now watch what you say or I'll put the evil eye on you. :P

[SoCalDem]

13. But Albania loves him

c'mon Albania..you can do better :)

[corkhead]

15. I thought it was Elbonia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbonia

The Republic of Elbonia is a fictional country from Scott Adams' comic strips Dilbert and Plop: The Hairless Elbonian. It is an extremely poor, fourth-world country that has recently abandoned Socialism. Its citizens and culture seem to resemble those of Eastern Europe. Most of the nation is covered with waist-deep mud, which the residents use to build houses. Much of the economy is also mud-based. In one cartoon the Elbonians discover that the mud is caused by an abundance of oil and coal near the surface. Scott Adams has said that many people think of the mud as snow, a limitation of the black-and-white daily strips, but that either way is fine with him. He has commented that Elbonia is essentially based on most Americans' stereotypes of a developing country with immense problems.

Elbonian pigs have intelligence and social standing comparable to the humans and are sometimes shown as having a role in the government. In an early Dilbert strip, Wally orders a mail-order bride from Elbonia, only to receive a pig dressed in women's clothing.

Adams created the country in order to allow for a "foreign" aspect in Dilbert without using any specific location, in order to avoid a backlash by readers who may be from that region. Dilbert's company often uses Elbonia as a source of cheap labor and general outsourcing. However, these cost-savings attempts regularly backfire. For example, the computer code developed in Elbonia was only documented in Elbonian, and the debugging costs alone were more than what it would have cost to develop the entire program in-house. Once Dogbert enslaved several Elbonians to make running shoes, as he "just got a huge order" for them. When one tried to get Dilbert to help, Dilbert pepper-sprayed him saying "I like helping people, but I also like inexpensive shoes."

Most of the Elbonians have beards, even the females and infants, and wear tall grey hats and black mittens. (Plop centers on a hairless, beardless child, a rarity in Elbonia.) Elbonians are commonly portrayed as idiotic and backward, and their technology is very outdated: "phones" are actually cans attached to the ends of strings and the means of "air transportation" (Air Elbonia) is flinging people from a giant slingshot (something Dilbert hates to do because he loses his luggage and gets head-deep into mud). In the TV series, "Air Elbonia" uses planes assembled from what looks like scrap metal and clapboard, and there are no runways, so the plane just lands in the mud. However, the Pointy-Haired Boss seems to approve of outsourcing programming or documentation tasks to them on a regular basis.

For many years the country has been mired in a civil war between the left- and right-handed Elbonians, although the war was mostly bloodless, as the Elbonians did not realize they were allowed to use weapons. Elbonia has also threatened its neighbor, Kneebonia, with nuclear weapons launched by slingshot.

Elbonia was also briefly engaged in a war with France, that erupted when Dilbert's company gave them the bid of launching a French spy satellite, which resulted in the disastrous slingshot launch of the satellite into the French Embassy in Elbonia. After a brief bombing campaign, France ended the war after realizing that there was nothing of value to bomb and the Elbonian GNP tripled when the citizens sold the bomb shrapnel as scrap metal. This temporary rise in wealth caused the Elbonians to try to instigate another war with France by standing in front of the newly rebuilt French Embassy and insulting French wine, which ultimately failed.

Elbonia's government is a dictatorship, run by a right-handed military strongman who strives to crush the lefties. Dogbert briefly deposed the President and made himself dictator; he then began a campaign to increase Elbonian tourism by making gambling and prostitution not only legal, but mandatory. He and Dilbert (who acted as his advisor) wound up fleeing the palace when they mistook the Elbonians' coming to them bearing farm tools as an uprising — it turned out they were calling him to preside over a farm holiday. In fact, this was the protracted series during which the "jowly" boss was replaced by the Pointy-Haired Boss.


The national bird of Elbonia is the Frisbee. The Elbonians refuse to do any business which is not corrupt, and in order to attract tourists Elbonia openly lies in its promotional videos, claiming to host five of the seven wonders of the world. When Dilbert's company won the bid to build a cell phone network for the Elbonians, the Elbonian government would not sign the contract until they were given plans for a nuclear weapon. Dilbert instead gave them plans for a giant toaster, and they were foiled by a lack of highly enriched bread.




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[Cleita]

16. Our leader is so beloved all over the world, almost as much

as we love him. :sarcasm:

[BrklynLiberal]

17. Gee. The US media is really covering these protests well aren't they????

:sarcasm: