Forecast 80 foreign murderers welcomed to Britain: Albanian killers allowed to stay in Britain

15.10.2011 by ctstmaser.

Saturday, Oct 15 2011

80 foreign murderers welcomed to Britain: Albanian killers allowed to stay despite being on Interpol ‘wanted’ list
By Sue Reid and Arthur Martin
Last updated at 11:28 PM on 23rd January 2009

Eighty foreign killers are exploiting the chaotic asylum system to set up home in Britain, it was revealed yesterday. The convicted murderers from Albania have been given British passports despite being officially listed as ‘wanted’ by Interpol.

Most slipped across the Channel from Calais to Dover hidden in the back of lorries on ferries. They used bogus names and false papers to claim asylum, often pretending to be from the war-torn Balkan republic of Kosovo.

The scandal came to light when Albania’s chief of police complained that 100 criminals from his country have been granted British citizenship and now live here.

 

Many of the convicted murderers slipped across the Channel from Calais to Dover. Above is a feeding station for refugees in Calais (file picture)

The police chief said the criminals have been allowed to stay even though the Albanian government has informed the Home Office of the true identities of the men and their crimes, which also include rape and robbery.

Many of the convicted criminals have been living in the UK for up to ten years and have started new families here.

As the revelations exposed the shambles within the asylum system yet again, campaigners expressed their outrage.

 

 

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Sir Andrew Green, of MigrationWatch, said: ‘It is a real concern that people accused of, or even convicted of, very serious crimes should apparently find it so easy to gain asylum in Britain.’

Rose Dixon, of victim group Support After Murder and Manslaughter, added: ‘I’m astounded. If this is correct, I’m appalled that these people are walking the streets of Britain. I think we should be told a lot more about this.’

After the Home Office was informed about the true identity of the asylum seekers, extradition proceedings against them were lodged by the Albanian Government.

 

 

But complex legal arguments and the need to find interpreters and psychologists has led to lengthy delays.

Albanian criminals use myriad loopholes in the extradition laws to avoid being sent home.

Their lawyers often claim they will suffer human rights abuse on their return, or that trials in their absence were unfair because they could not give their side.

The situation is even more complicated if they have become British citizens. Under the Human Rights Act 1988, this gives them further protection against being removed because their family life would be disrupted.

Even when a case does finally go through a British court, it is the Home Secretary who decides the fate of the asylum seeker.

Meanwhile, many continue to live off state hand-outs while others have gone on to commit crimes in Britain.

 

 

Ahmet Prenci, the Albanian chief of police, said he felt as if all his force’s hard work in tracking down the culprits had been in vain.

‘We have made a list of our people who are hiding in the UK,’ he said. ‘There are 100 criminals, and more than 80 per cent are wanted for murder and have been convicted in absentia.

‘They have been given British citizenship despite our efforts to extradite them to serve prison sentences in our country.

‘We are working intensively to identify, locate, and then to arrest wanted Albanian people in Britain. Unfortunately, many have British passports obtained after they claimed asylum by pretending to be Kosovans.

‘We are unhappy that the courts repeatedly refuse extradition of these criminals. There is no reason for an Albanian citizen who has been involved in a crime not to be punished.’

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Tirana, property trial started
03/10/2011 19:50

 

In the presence of even a U.S embassy representative, the Court of Tirana started today the trial for the property dispute in Hamallaj, a suit filed by the heirs of the Toptani family, who claim the ownership of these 175 hectares of land.

But this land is also pretended by the family and relatives of the killed Judge Skerdilajd Konomi, who has won the case at the Supreme Court on May 2011.

The Konomi family is not part of this trial, since the Toptani family has sued the National Agency of Property Return (NAPR).

However, a few days before this trial, the family of the killed judge addressed public letters to the President, the Prime Minister and several embassies, demanding a fair trial.

Judge Arjan Aliaj did not fulfill the Toptani family request, who insisted to get access to the heritage file of the 275 hectares of land.

The NAPR representative, Erkan Dollani, declared that the file nr. 421, dated 1 November 2010, was seized by the Tirana Prosecution and for this reason the plaintiff could have no access to it.

The Judge heard the pretenses of lawyer Tonin Prendi, representative of the Toptani family, who submitted the evidence that according to him prove that Nazmi Toptani, Bihter Toptani, Alma Struga, Rezart Mullai, Jusuf Hamzaraj etc. are heirs of the 275 hectares of land in four villages of Sukth Municipality, Durres District.

The session was adjourned to December 5th, for hearing the NAPR pretenses.

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“failed” State Albania: Albania Banks Register Spike in Bad Loans

15.10.2011 by ctstmaser.

 

12/10/11 - 2011 Progress Report on Albania

Wikileaks: CRIMINALS MAKING THE LAWS IN ALBANIA’S PARLIAMENT

 

30.9.2011: Gegen den Oel Betrugs Geschaeftsmann: Hajri Hajredin Elezaj, wurde Interpol Haftbefehl ausgestellt

Man erinnert sich auch an die Verhaftung des Ex-Kroatischen Präsidenten Ivo Sanader, wegen Korruption, wobei die Albanischen Politiker und Regierungen, längst jedes Maß überschritten haben und einen Staat, für private Profite ausplündern und zerstören.

Ivo Sanader, kryeministri kroat, i arrestuar për korrupsion

Die Bau Industrie kann ihren Schrott und fast immer illegal gebaut, nicht verkaufen. 400 Hochhäuser, warten immer noch auf Legalisierung in Tirana. ca. 200 wurden legalisiert. Bau Industrie in Albanien, ist eine rein kriminelle Kaste der Geldwäsche, des Betruges, der Politiker. Die Hirnlosen Mafiosi, der Bau Industrie, bauten trotzdem im Tausender Paket, neue Häuser auf gestohlenen Grundstücken, weil es das Haupt System der Geldwäsche ist und oft dabei Banken vor Ort.

Albanian construction industrialists complain about having one of the most difficult financial periods, with low demands and lacking of liquidity. 

“It is on the same line with the general situation. Liquidity is missing, and it directly affects the private investments in construction”, says Luigj Aleksi from the Builders Association.

Aleksi says that the whole industry is focused the government’s public works, but here there’s a stalemate too.

“There are unpaid funds for the public works that have been made. One part of the payment has been given, but there remains a lot”, he says.

The Builders’ Association celebrated today the 10th anniversary of creation, which corresponds with a not so good period of this sector, although some of them are optimistic that the crisis is temporary.

12/10/11 - European Commission’s Strategy and Progress Reports 2011

 

12 OCT 2011 / 08:33

Albania Banks Register Spike in Bad Loans

 

Data published on Tuesday by Albania’s Association of Banks say bad loans reached 18 per cent of the total credit portfolio in August, the highest level to date.

Besar Likmeta

Tirana

Compared with same period in 2010, non-performing loans increased by 33.5 per cent, from 13.5 per cent to 18 per cent of the total loan portfolio. 

Meanwhile total bank assets increased by 12.9 per cent, from 961 billion lek (€6.8 billion euro) in August 2010, to 1.078 trillion lek (€7.64 billion) in August 2011. 

Albanian banks weathered the global financial crisis in 2009 well, due to their low exposure to international markets. However, the aftershocks of the crisis in the local economy have slowed GDP growth rates, creating difficulties for local companies in repaying their loans. 

From August 2010 until August 2011, retail deposit in Albanian banks grew by 16.62 per cent while corporate deposits grew by only 2.69 per cent, indicating a propensity among consumers to save, and accounting for weak demand for products and services in the local market.  

Albania enjoyed strong economic growth averaging at close to 6 per cent per year in the past decade, before the global economic downturn hit the local economy in 2009.

The IMF downgraded Albania’s GDP growth forecast for 2011 last Wednesday from 3.4 per cent to 2.5 per cent, amid concerns about the impact of the euro debt crisis and sluggish demand for goods and services.

 

 

 

 

 

In Lezhe, gab es eine Gerichts Schiesserei, rund um militante selbst ernannte Grundstücks Besitzer, was auch Nichts Neues ist. Der Premierminister Salih Berisha, findet sowas normal, das man sich die Grundstücke ausschiesst und man ist inzwischen auf 10.000 Tode.

Und ansonsten spricht Salih Berisha, ein SChafhirten Sohn aus Tropoje, ohne Kenntnisse von Geschichte, ständig von Dingen, welche er nie kapieren wird.

illegale Migranten aus Albanien, wurden in LKWs in Grossbrittanien entdeckt und das Mord Imperium der Albaner Mafia ist ja in London und England ebenso aktiv, bis hin zu Irland, wo sich ebenso Mörder aus Albanien und dem Kosovo verstecken.

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Orden für die dreisteste und erbärmlichste Lügnerin der Welt: Hillary Clinton

15.10.2011 by ctstmaser.

Schon die andere erbärmliche Lüge, wie das die Gaddafi Truppen, u.a. Viagra erhalten zum vergewaltigen, Zivilisten bombardarien, wurde längst widerlegt! Aber diese neue Lüge, um Stimmung zumachen, gegen den Iran, ist noch dreister — weil ebenso unlogisch, das der Iran die Mexikanischen Drogen Kartelle anheuert, für Morde in den USA. Das würde wohl auch einfacher gehen.

Hirnlos kann man die US Statedepartment Politik, nun schon länger bezeichnen, welche sogar Drogenbosse und Mörder mit Diplomaten Pässe ausstattet. siehe u.a. rund um Allbright (die Mord Bande die Familie der Brooklyn Mafia Bytyci, auch für Morde in Durres und Albanien bekannt) und Senator Eliot Engel

An Dümmlichkeit und Dreistigkeit, sind solche unlogischen Phrasen noch erbärmlicher, wie die US udn Blair Lügen zum Irak Krieg, was nur für den Geistes Zustand, der Deutschen Politik Nachplabberer und einem General Klaus Naumann reichte, denn schon damals waren alle Lügen, durch Fakten widerlegt, u.a. bei Telepolis, oder www.globalresearch.ca ab April 2002.

Auf welchem Niveau die USA Aussenpolitik betreiben, sieht man ja an ihren Albanischen, Afghanischen Partner und muss nicht erläutert werden, denn dümmer geht es nicht mehr.

“Das kann doch niemand erfinden. Oder?”

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“Die Vorstellung, dass sie zu einem mexikanischen Drogenkartell gehen, um einen Auftragskiller anzuheuern, um den saudi-arabischen Botschafter zu ermorden - das kann doch niemand erfinden, oder?”

US-Außenministerin Hillary Clinton zu dem von ihrer Regierung gegen den Iran erhobenen Vorwurf eines Mordkomplotts gegen den saudischen Botschafter in Washington. 

Die Hintergründe, eines Deppen Vereines des CIA, was ja längst bekannt ist, das es mit dem CIA seit langem bergab geht, und sich eine Abteilung Red- and blue oft auch noch um Einfluss streiten. In der angesehenen Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, macht man sich lustig, wie man so stümperhaft überhaupt beim CIA arbeiten kann, wobei dort nur noch NeoCons sitzen, mit krankhaften Profil Neurotikern, die einen Krieg mit dem Iran wünschen. Und dann diese Peinlichkeit von Admiral Mullen und dem CIA Kaspar: David Petraeus!

Petraeus’s CIA Fuels Iran Murder Plot By Ray McGovern

Global Research, October 15, 2011

Antiwar.com

Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, in his accustomed role as unofficial surrogate CIA spokesman, has thrown light on how the CIA under its new director, David Petraeus, helped craft the screenplay for this week’s White House spy feature: the Iranian-American-used-car-salesman-Mexican-drug-cartel plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. In Thursday’s column, Ignatius notes that, initially, White House and Justice Department officials found the story “implausible.” It was. But the Petraeus team soon leapt to the rescue, reflecting the four-star-general-turned-intelligence-chief’s deep-seated animus toward Iran. Before Ignatius’s article, I had seen no one allude to the fact that much about this crime-stopper tale had come from the CIA. In public, the FBI had taken the lead role, presumably because the key informant inside a Mexican drug cartel worked for U.S. law enforcement via the Drug Enforcement Administration. However, according to Ignatius, “One big reason [top U.S. officials became convinced the plot was real] is that CIA and other intelligence agencies gathered information corroborating the informant’s juicy allegations and showing that the plot had support from the top leadership of the elite Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, the covert action arm of the Iranian government.” Ignatius adds that, “It was this intelligence collected in Iran” that swung the balance, but he offers no example of what that intelligence was. He only mentions a recorded telephone call on Oct. 4 between Iranian-American cars salesman Mansour Arbabsiar and his supposed contact in Iran, Gholam Shakuri, allegedly an official in Iran’s Quds spy agency. The call is recounted in the FBI affidavit submitted in support of the criminal charges against Arbabsiar, who is now in U.S. custody, and Shakuri, who is not. But the snippets of that conversation are unclear, discussing what on the surface appears to be a “Chevrolet” car purchase, but which the FBI asserts is code for killing the Saudi ambassador. Without explaining what other evidence the CIA might have, Ignatius tries to further strengthen the case by knocking down some of the obvious problems with the allegations, such as “why the Iranians would undertake such a risky operation, and with such embarrassingly poor tradecraft.” “But why the use of Mexican drug cartels?” asks Ignatius rhetorically, before adding dutifully: “U.S. officials say that isn’t as implausible as it sounds.” But it IS as implausible as it sounds, says every professional intelligence officer I have talked with since the “plot” was somberly announced on Tuesday. The Old CIA Pros There used to be real pros in the CIA’s operations directorate. One — Ray Close, a longtime CIA Arab specialist and former Chief of Station in Saudi Arabia — told me on Wednesday that we ought to ask ourselves a very simple question: “If you were an Iranian undercover operative who was under instructions to hire a killer to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador in Washington, D.C., why in HELL would you consider it necessary to explain to a presumed Mexican [expletive deleted] that this murder was planned and would be paid for by a secret organization in Iran? “Whoever concocted this tale wanted the ‘plot’ exposed … to precipitate a major crisis in relations between Iran and the United States. Which other government in the Middle East would like nothing better than to see those relations take a big step toward military confrontation?” If you hesitate in answering, you have not been paying attention. Many have addressed this issue. My last stab at throwing light on the Israel/Iran/U.S. nexus appeared ten days ago in “Israel’s Window to Bomb Iran.” Another point on the implausibility meter is: What are the odds that Iran’s Quds force would plan an unprecedented attack in the United States, that this crack intelligence agency would trust the operation to a used-car salesman with little or no training in spycraft, that he would turn to his one contact in a Mexican drug cartel who happens to be a DEA informant, and that upon capture the car salesman would immediately confess and implicate senior Iranian officials? Wouldn’t it make more sense to suspect that Arbabsiar might be a double-agent, recruited by some third-party intelligence agency to arrange some shady business deal regarding black-market automobiles, get some ambiguous comments over the phone from an Iranian operative, and then hand the plot to the U.S. government on a silver platter – as a way to heighten tensions between Washington and Teheran? That said, there are times when even professional spy agencies behave like amateurs. And there’s no doubt that the Iranians – like the Israelis, the Saudis and the Americans – can and do carry out assassinations and kidnappings in this brave new world of ours. Remember, for instance, the case of Islamic cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, who was abducted off the streets of Milan, Italy, on Feb. 17, 2003, and then flown from a U.S. air base to Egypt where he was imprisoned and tortured for a year. In 2009, Italian prosecutors convicted 23 Americans, mostly CIA operatives, in absentia for the kidnapping after reconstructing the disappearance through their unencrypted cell phone records and their credit card bills at luxury hotels in Milan. Then, there was the suspected Mossad assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh at a hotel in Dubai on Jan. 19, 2010, with the hit men seen on hotel video cameras strolling around in tennis outfits and creating an international furor over their use of forged Irish, British, German and French passports. So one cannot completely rule out that there may conceivably be some substance to the alleged Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador. And beyond the regional animosities between Saudi Arabia and Iran, there could be a motive – although it has been absent from American press accounts – i.e. retaliation for the assassinations of senior Iranian nuclear scientists and generals over the last couple of years within Iran itself. But there has been close to zero real evidence coming from the main source of information — officials of the Justice Department, which like the rest of the U.S. government has long since forfeited much claim to credibility. Petraeus’s ‘Intelligence’ on Iran The public record also shows that former Gen. Petraeus has long been eager to please the neoconservatives in Washington and their friends in Israel by creating “intelligence” to portray Iran and other target countries in the worst light. One strange but instructive example comes to mind, a studied, if disingenuous, effort to blame all the troubles in southern Iraq on the “malignant” influence of Iran. On April 25, 2008, Joint Chiefs Chairman, Adm. Mike Mullen, told reporters that Gen. Petraeus in Baghdad would give a briefing “in the next couple of weeks” providing detailed evidence of “just how far Iran is reaching into Iraq to foment instability.” Petraeus’s staff alerted U.S. media to a major news event in which captured Iranian arms in Karbala would be displayed and then destroyed. Oops. Small problem. When American munitions experts went to Karbala to inspect the alleged cache of Iranian weapons, they found nothing that could be credibly linked to Iran. At that point, adding insult to injury, the Iraqis announced that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had formed his own Cabinet committee to investigate the U.S. claims and attempt to “find tangible information and not information based on speculation.” Ouch! The Teflon-clad Petraeus escaped embarrassment, as the David Ignatiuses of the Fawning Corporate Media (FCM) conveniently forgot all about the promised-then-canceled briefing. U.S. media suppression of this telling episode is just one example of how difficult it is to get unbiased, accurate information on touchy subjects like Iran into the FCM. As for Attorney General Eric Holder and President Barack Obama, some adult adviser should tell them to quit giving hypocrisy a bad name with their righteous indignation over the thought that no civilized nation would conduct cross-border assassinations. The Obama administration, like its predecessor, has been dispatching armed drones to distant corners of the globe to kill Islamic militants, including recently U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki for the alleged crime of encouraging violence against Americans. Holder and Obama have refused to release the Justice Department’s legal justification for the targeted murder of al-Awlaki whose “due process” amounted to the President putting al-Awlaki’s name on a secret “kill-or-capture” list. Holder and Obama have also refused to take meaningful action to hold officials of the Bush administration accountable for war crimes even though President George W. Bush has publicly acknowledged authorizing waterboarding and other brutal techniques long regarded as acts of torture. Who can take at face value the sanctimonious words of an attorney general like Holder who has acquiesced in condoning egregious violations of the Bill of Rights, the U.S. criminal code, and international law — like the International Convention Against Torture? Were shame not in such short supply in Official Washington these days, one would be amazed that Holder could keep a straight face, accusing these alleged Iranian perpetrators of “violating an international convention.” America’s Founders would hold in contempt the Holders and the faux-legal types doing his bidding. The behavior of the past two administrations has been more reminiscent of George III and his sycophants than of James Madison, George Mason, John Jay and George Washington, who gave us the rich legacy of a Constitution, which created a system based on laws not men. That Constitution and its Bill of Rights have become endangered species at the hands of the craven poachers at “Justice.” No less craven are the functionaries leading today’s CIA. What to Watch For If Petraeus finds it useful politically to conjure up more “evidence” of nefarious Iranian behavior in Iraq and/or Afghanistan, Lebanon or Syria, he will.  And if he claims to see signs of ominous Iranian intentions regarding nuclear weapons, watch out. Honest CIA analysts, like the ones who concluded that Iran had stopped working on a nuclear weapon in late 2003 and had not resumed that work, are in short supply, and most have families to support and mortgages to pay. Petraeus is quite capable of marginalizing them, or even forcing them to quit. I have watched this happen to a number of intelligence officials under a few of Petraeus’s predecessors. More malleable careerists can be found in any organization, and promoted, so long as they are willing to tell more ominous — if disingenuous — stories that may make more sense to the average American than the latest tale of the Iranian-American-used-car-salesman-Mexican-drug-cartel-plot. This can get very dangerous in a hurry. Israel’s leaders would require but the flimsiest of nihil obstat to encourage them to provoke hostilities with Iran. Netanyahu and his colleagues would expect the Obamas, Holders, and Petraeuses of this world to be willing to “fix the intelligence and facts” (à la Iraq) to “justify” such an attack. The Israeli leaders would risk sucking the United States into the kind of war with Iran that, short of a massive commitment of resources or a few tactical nuclear weapons, the U.S. and Israel could almost surely not win. It would be the kind of war that would make Iraq and Afghanistan look like minor skirmishes.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27094

Ja, wenn die Spinner des CIA, aktiv werden! Nur noch peinlich, ohne Hirn und Verstand, und dann passt Hillary Clinton gut in diesen Deppen Club.

Donnerstag, 13. Oktober 2011

Geplantes Attentat des Iran in den USA oder „Tonkin-Zwischenfall“ des…
Dr. Alexander von Paleske — 13.10. 2011 — Im August 1963 gab der damalige US-Präsident L. B. Johnson den Befehl zu Luftschlägen gegen Nordvietnam., Es war der Beginn des vollen US-Engagements in den Vietnam-Krieg, und er begann mit einer Lüge: Die …

Libya’s Colonial War One Year Later RIA Novosti military commentator Konstantin Bogdanov February 17, 2012 - The uprising against the regime of Col. Muammar Gaddafi started in Libya one year ago, on February 15, 2011. France and Britain conducted the supporting military operation with great difficulty and much deeper involvement than they had planned, hoping initially for a quick colonial campaign. The desultory guerrilla warfare waged by the rebels was transformed into a victory by direct foreign intervention – both the air and missile strikes of the NATO forces against Gaddafi loyalists as well as all kinds of secret missions, from sending instructors and advisers to the direct participation of special forces in the assault on Tripoli….   continua / continued    [85805] [ 18-feb-2012 06:38 ECT ]

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Gaddafi supporters outside Libya form new grouping BBC News February 17, 2012 - Members of Colonel Gaddafi’s former government outside Libya say they are starting a political movement aimed at radical change, the BBC has learnt. In a message which appears to be genuine, one of Gaddafi’s senior officials said they wanted to prevent the outbreak of another civil war… The former senior official told the BBC that most of the leadership of what he calls “Green Libya” were forming the Libyan Popular National Movement. In a statement posted on several websites the group said the situation in Libya “is becoming worse every day. “There’s very little interest from the international media in the many horrors that have taken place. We are reorganising ourselves outside Libya in an inclusive political movement that would encompass all Libyans who understand the terrible reality of Libya,” it said…   continua / continued    [85804] [ 18-feb-2012 06:28 ECT ]

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Why Libya Is Becoming More Dangerous After Gaddafi’s Fall By Vivienne Walt February 17, 2012 - As Libya marks the first anniversary of its revolution on Friday, the dozens of well-armed militia groups operating across the vast country have slipped well out of the control of the nascent government in Tripoli, making the country ever more fractured as well as dangerous to ordinary Libyans attempting to adjust to the end of Muammar Gaddafi’s 41-year dictatorship. That assessment came on Thursday from Amnesty International, whose latest research on the country documents at least 12 Libyans who have died in militia custody since September, allegedly after being beaten, suspended upside down and given electric shocks. In a chilling 38-page report published on the eve of the anniversary, Amnesty describes a wave of terror and widespread abuse by militia groups, whose members in recent months have dragged hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Libyans from their homes or from roadside checkpoints into makeshift jails on suspicion of being Gaddafi sympathizers or having fought alongside the regime’s forces during the civil war…   continua / continued    [85803] [ 18-feb-2012 06:12 ECT ]

 

Charles Krauthammer and Hillary Clinton

Neo-Cons Push for Hillary’s Nomination
by Paul Hogarth‚ Oct. 16‚ 2007
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As I’ve written before, conservative pundits love Hillary Clinton and despise the party’s liberal base. While Karl Rove and George Bush have predicted that she will win the nomination, there’s a more basic reason why the right would be content with a President Hillary Clinton. It would not shift the political center of gravity, nor upset the current power structure where conservatives have flourished. In his October 12 column for the Washington Post, neo-conservative Charles Krauthammer lauded Hillary Clinton’s candidacy – calling her the “Great Navigator.” Never mind the rhetoric that she currently gives to win the primary, he said, for Hillary’s “liberalism is redeemed by her ambition; her ideology subordinate to her political needs.” While many liberals currently support Clinton, the right understands that – in a year where Democrats will probably win the Presidency – Hillary is the best that they can hope for.

Krauthammer begins his column by praising Bill Clinton’s two main domestic accomplishments: welfare repeal and NAFTA, the latter of which he calls “the crown jewel.” As Democrats like John Edwards have criticized the corporate-backed trade agreement and advocate its repeal, Hillary admits that NAFTA did not realize the promises that were made – and it should be reassessed every five years…..http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=5011

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