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dv@mac.com — 2008-08-23T09:00:00-04:00

Nākamā valdes sēde notiks 23. augustā, Sidrabenē. Sākums 11:00.

Imperialists from the anticivilization in Moscow

dv@mac.com — 2008-08-17T15:19:40-04:00

Moscows imperialists send their soldiers into democratic Georgia to expand the Russian colonial empire. Normal people want to live in peace and have friendly relations with their neighbours. Tzar Putin is obviously suffering from "cranial rectosis" and illusions of grandeur. All democratic people of the world must unite against this barbaric aggression by the illegitimate mafia in Moscow. Do not believe anything the Putinistas say. They will kiss you while they knife you in the back. Appeasers in the west will say that "it is raining" when in fact Moscow is pissing on you. The Russian people have also suffered enough from the tyranny of its rulers. Beware of Potemkins ghost in dealings with the Moscow mafia.

Canada PM blasts Russia's 'Soviet' mentality

dv@mac.com — 2008-08-14T15:54:33-04:00

OTTAWA (AFP) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Thursday denounced Russia for its military action in Georgia, saying Moscow was trying to control nations outside its borders and showing a "Soviet" mentality.
"I must tell you that I am deeply troubled by a notion I see developing in Russia and that is a notion that Russia somehow has a say or some control over countries outside of its borders," Harper told reporters.
"In my judgement, this is a very worrisome development. It really indicates a Soviet-era mentality," he added.
"And I think it is something that all democratic countries should speak out strongly against and I hope Russia will reconsider its actions."
Harper reiterated his call for a halt to the fighting as he condemned Russia's incursions into Georgian territory, including the breakaway territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
"Obviously we've called on both sides to cease the fighting and I gather a ceasefire now appears to be taking hold, but we do call on Russia to respect the territorial integrity of Georgia."
Canada announced on Tuesday it would send about one million dollars in aid to the people affected by the conflict which has displaced around 100,000 people.

Russian imperialism and bloody empire building

dv@mac.com — 2008-08-14T08:45:40-04:00

A very good assessment of the real causes of the conflict in Georgia.

Baltic American Freedom League Strongly Condemns Russian Attack on Georgia

dv@mac.com — 2008-08-13T11:45:51-04:00

August 11, 2008
The Baltic American Freedom League (BAFL) believes that the Russian attack on Georgia is an aggressive attempt of Russian imperialist expansionism and that Georgia deserves the support of the United States of America and NATO. Georgia has bravely struggled to establish itself as a sovereign and independent country since 1990, when it declared independence from the Soviet Union. Moreover, Georgia has been a staunch ally of the U.S., is a large contributor of coalition troops in Iraq, and seeks to join NATO.
A Russian occupation of South Ossetia would be an enormous setback for Georgia and would be threatening to the other former ex-captive nations. We are very concerned that the occupation of South Ossetia by Russia may encourage further acts of aggression by Russia on Georgia in Abkhazia. The Baltics and other neighboring countries who have Russian citizens living in their midst are further threatened as Russia attempts to not only expand its sphere of influence in the region, but actively seeks to occupy new territories.
We urge the U.S. to support Georgia and immediately issue sanctions against Russia, boycott Russian goods, and issue a warning for U. S. citizens not to travel to Russia during this turbulent time.

STATEMENT BY PRIME MINISTER HARPER ON CONFLICT IN GEORGIA

dv@mac.com — 2008-08-11T19:13:19-04:00

STATEMENT BY PRIME MINISTER HARPER ON CONFLICT IN GEORGIA

August 11, 2008 - Ottawa, Ontario

In a statement released today, Prime Minister Harper condemned Russia’s incursions into Georgian territory far beyond South Ossetia, including into already tense Abkhazia.

"Russian and Georgian forces must immediately cease hostilities throughout Georgia and return to their August 6 positions,” he said. "Furthermore, in escalating the conflict through its attacks on Georgian towns and cities outside South Ossetia, Russia has ceased to act as a peacekeeper. It is imperative that Russia respects the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia."

Prime Minister Harper added that “Military force will not resolve this dispute. The only viable long-term solution is international mediation and peacekeeping."

Prime Minister Harper added that Canada is working with its international partners to bring this conflict to a close as quickly as possible. He also stated that Canada stands ready to provide humanitarian assistance to those affected by the conflict. The first priority for all sides must be to respect their obligations under international humanitarian law, including the protection of civilians, and facilitate full, safe and unhindered humanitarian access to assist those in need.

RFE/RL Increasing Georgian Broadcasts

dv@mac.com — 2008-08-11T18:49:49-04:00

(TBILISI, Georgia - August 11, 2008) Until further notice, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Georgia Service will be adding a fourth hour of primetime news coverage to its listeners in Georgia and surrounding areas. Since the fighting broke out, RFE/RL's Tbilisi bureau has deployed correspondents throughout the country, reporting from the front lines of the battle zones. [see exclusive photos of a town under attack]
"With the Russian and Georgian media providing, at times, wildly different accounts of what is actually happening on the ground, our listeners depend on us for accurate, objective information," says David Kakabadze, RFE/RL Georgia Service Director. "Our journalists are sorting through the ethnic and nationalist passions stirred up by this conflict in order to let people on both sides of the war know what is really taking place in the region."

[Visit RFE/RL Online's South Ossetia Crisis Page, a comprehensive site with the latest news, analysis, photos and more] If you are a member of the news media and would like to interview an RFE/RL expert, contact Ari Goldberg, Press Officer, at (mobile) 202-494-0388 or goldberga@rferl.org. RFE/RL's Georgian Service began broadcasting in March 1953 as part of Radio Liberty broadcasting to the Soviet Union. Over the years, it has established a tradition for high professional standards for its news reporting and is widely regarded as the only objective and unbiased source of information in Georgia. Since 1997, RFE/RL has maintained a bureau in Tbilisi.

Old Russian Imperialism shows its ugly face

dv@mac.com — 2008-08-10T14:57:26-04:00

Vladimir Dzhugashvili von Schicklgruber and his imperialistic gang rapes free Georgia. Useful idiots of the world, appease them!

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia
PRESS RELEASE
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Declaration of Presidents of Parliaments of the Baltic States [2008-08-10 19:54:46]

With deep concern and anxiety, we are observing the events in Georgia which at this moment is under intensive attacks by the army of the Russian Federation.
We are calling on the international community to decisively condemn actions of Russia and to promptly take all necessary steps to stop the war and bring the parties to the negotiation table.
Justification of Russia's actions in Georgia by the need to protect its citizens is unacceptable. Alleged reasons for taking up a war against Georgia raise concerns about the future in every state with Russian citizens living on its territory.
We are concerned and disappointed with the actions and behaviour of Russia, as an important actor in the politics of the region and the whole world, which will inevitably have effect on further bilateral and multilateral relations with this country. Russia's military aggression against another sovereign state and actions contradicting the statements of its leaders raise serious doubts about the reliability and consistency of Russia as a partner.
Furthermore, we are convinced that the response of the international community to Russia's aggression against Georgia is at the same time a test for Euro-Atlantic security institutions of their reliability and solidarity. Therefore we are calling on our governments to discuss, in cooperation with NATO and EU partners, measures to prevent similar actions in future. NATO and the EU must assume responsibility for the security and stability of their partners to demonstrate Russia's leadership it cannot do whatever it wants with its neighbours that share the values and principles of the Euro-Atlantic community.
Russia's aggression against Georgia must be stopped, with the help of coordinated actions of the international community, immediately before all Georgian infrastructure and economy is destroyed which would bring about humanitarian catastrophe with long-term consequences in the entire region.

Ene Ergma, President of the Riigikogu of Estonia
Gundars Daudze, President of the Saeima of Latvia
Česlovas Juršėnas, President of the Seimas of Lithuania

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dv@mac.com — 2008-07-14T01:03:44-04:00

Notiks Jelgavā, 2008. gadā 14. līdz 22. jūlijā. Programa atrodama "Informācijas Avotā" pie DV CV datnēm.

Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism

dv@mac.com — 2008-06-09T08:20:45-04:00

Press release by Jana Hybášková,
Member of the European Parliament (EPP- ED) and
Martin Mejstřík, Senator, Parliament of the Czech Republic (indep.)

PRAGUE DECLARATION on European Conscience and Communism
Prague, June 9, 2008
On Friday June 6, Senator Martin Mejstřík and Jana Hybášková, Member of the European Parliament, presented the English and Czech versions of the Prague Declaration adopted by the international conference „European Conscience and Communism" held on June 2-3, 2008 in the Senate, Parliament of the Czech Republic. The conference was hosted by the Committee on Education, Science, Culture, Human Rights and Petitions of the Senate, under the auspices of Mr Alexandr Vondra, Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic for European Affairs.

The Conference received letters of support from President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, from Lady Margaret Thatcher, from Jason Kenney, Canadian Secretary of State and from Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security advisor to former US- President Jimmy Carter (enclosed).

In its preamble, the Prague declaration states the urgent need to come to terms with the communist ideology and with past and present communist regimes on a European and international scale. It stipulates i.a. that the Communist ideology is directly responsible for crimes against humanity, that there are substantial similarities between Nazism and Communism, that many perpetrators of Communist crimes have not been brought to justice yet, that many Communist parties have not apologized for Communist crimes and that millions of victims of Communism are entitled to the same recognition enjoyed by the victims of Nazism. It also stresses that one fifth of mankind still suffers under hard living conditions imposed by different Communist dictatorships.

The Prague Declaration, which is addressed to all nations of Europe, all European political institutions including national governments, parliaments, the European Parliament, the European Commission, the Council of Europe and other relevant international bodies, formulates nineteen demands.

Ranking among the most important are:

- a call for the acceptance of pan-European responsibility for crimes committed by Communism,
- a call for a legislative recognition of Communist crimes as crimes against humanity, on national level and on a European level
- a call for the establishment of 23rd August, the day of signing of the Hitler-Stalin Pact, known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, as a day of remembrance of the victims of both Nazi and Communist totalitarian regimes, in the same way Europe remembers the victims of the Holocaust on January 27th,
- a call for an effective public debate about the commercial and political misuse of Communist symbols,
- a call for continuation of the European Commission hearings regarding victims of totalitarian regimes,
- a call for organising of an international conference on the crimes committed by totalitarian Communist regimes with the participation of representatives of governments and other key stakeholders
- a call for the establishment of an Institute of European Memory and Conscience a pan-European museum/memorial of victims of all totalitarian regimes,
- a call for an overhaul of European history textbooks so that children can learn about Communism and its crimes in the same way as about the Nazi crimes
- a call for a joint commemoration of next year's 20th anniversaries of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the massacre in Tiananmen Square,

The PRAGUE DECLARATION was signed by:

Václav Havel, Joachim Gauck, Lee Edwards, Vytautas Landsbergis, Göran Lindblad, Tunne Kelam, Christopher Beazley, Emanuelis Zingeris, Ivonka Survilla, Tseten Samdup Chhoekyapa, Jana Hybášková, Jiří Liška, Martin Mejstřík, Jaromír Štětina, Pavel Žáček, Eduard Stehlík and others.

Gorbachev calls for purge museum

dv@mac.com — 2008-06-05T08:46:13-04:00

The Soviet Union's last leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, has signed a petition for a museum to commemorate the millions of victims of communist repression.
Mr Gorbachev said the special museum should be set up inside what was one of the most notorious Soviet detention centres, the Butyrka prison in Moscow.
The petition's organisers, Memorial, said Russians today were in danger of forgetting the brutality of the past.
They also criticised the glorification of former leader Josef Stalin by some.
In 1937, Stalin launched his Great Purge, intensifying his campaign against anyone he saw as a threat to his regime. Those included political opponents, but also the army, the intelligentsia, members of the clergy and peasants.

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dv@mac.com — 2008-06-03T09:24:15-04:00

Preses ziņojums - Daugavas Vanagu Centrālās Valdes prezidija paziņojums

Lai izskaidrotu pārpratumus, kuri pēdējā mēneša laikā radušies, Latvijā dažādos rakstos un vēstulēs izmantojot Daugavas Vanagu nosaukumu, un lai saglabātu Daugavas Vanagu organizācijas vārda labo slavu sabiedrībā, Daugavas Vanagu organizācija vēlreiz atgādina un paziņo:

1. Daugavas Vanagi ir sabiedriska organizācija, kas dibināta 1945.gadā Cedelgemā, Beļģijā. Tās pamatuzdevums ir aprūpes darbs. Viens no mērķiem ir – stiprināt ticību Latvijas atdzimšanai, cilvēku tiesībām un brīvībai. Tāpēc Daugavas Vanagi vienmēr ir strikti noraidījuši cilvēku nevienlīdzības sludinājumus. Daugavas Vanagi vienmēr ir atbalstījuši Latvijas valsts dalību NATO un ES. Daugavas Vanagi nesadarbojas ar radikāli-ekstrēmistiskām organizācijām, kuŗas pauž citus viedokļus kā minētos.

2. Daugavas Vanagi nav politiska partija. Daugavas Vanagi pilnībā noraida dažādu politisku partiju spekulācijas, izmantojot Daugavas Vanagu vārdu.

3. Daugavas Vanagu priekšnieks vada organizācijas darbību, pārstāv Daugavas Vanagu organizāciju. Daugavas Vanagu organizācijas oficiālo viedokli pauž Daugavas Vanagu priekšnieks. To var uzzināt, sazinoties ar Daugavas Vanagu pārstāvniecību Latvijā, Rīgā.

4. Daugavas Vanagu amatpersonas viedoklis tiek uzskatīts par attiecīgās zemes valdes viedokli tikai tad, kad šo viedokli ir pieņēmusi attiecīgā valde. Citos gadījumos tas ir konkrētās personas privātviedoklis un to paužot nevar tikt izmantots Daugavas Vanagu vārds.

Juris Augusts - Daugavas Vanagu priekšnieks

Padomju stāsts - The Soviet Story

dv@mac.com — 2008-05-30T19:00:00-04:00

The acclaimed documentary "The Soviet Story" will be shown May 30, 2008, at the Latvian Canadian Cultural Centre in Toronto. Showing will take place at "Umurkumurs" (downstairs pub). Opening at 19:00 h, showing at 19:30 h. Ģirts Valdis Kristovskis will be present for the event. A must see documentary.
Note: "The Soviet Story" is available from the LCCC or from Alīde Forstmanis.

Kritušo karavīru piemiņas akts Saulainē

dv@mac.com — 2008-05-10T13:00:00-04:00

Svētbrīdis Kurzeems cietokšņa krišanas un brīvības cīnītāju atcerei. Prāvests Ivars Gaide pavadīja svētbrīdi. LNAK Priekšsēde Alīde Forstmane nolika ziedus LNAK vārdā. Alīde nolasīja A. Eglīša vārdus: "Te viņi nāk no zināmiem un nezināmiem kapiem caur savām debesīm un nāves salām. Lai sveicināts ir latvju leģions, tā taisnā cīnīšanās pastāvēs līdz debesu un zemes galam".
Tālis Forstmanis nolika ziedus no DV Kitchener-Waterloo kopas.

The Soviet Story

dv@mac.com — 2008-04-09T00:00:00-04:00

The Soviet Story to premiere April 9, 2008, at the European Parliament in Brussels.
Click link for more information.

Alīde Forstmane ievēlēta par LNAK Priekšsēde

dv@mac.com — 2008-04-05T18:26:21-04:00

Alīde Forstmane ievēlēta par LNAK priekšsēde ar vienu balss vairākumu. Alīde ir pirmā sieviete šinī amatā.

Letters from Stalin's Russia

dv@mac.com — 2008-03-30T14:37:33-04:00

Writing letters to the "West" during Stalin's Reign of Terror was a crime. Receiving a letter resulted in arrest without trial. Entire families were sentenced to prison camps in Stalin's vast Gulag. The survival rate was one winter. Millions died.
Remarkably, the world knows little of these catastrophic events. Yet 463 letters, written from the prisons of the Gulag and from home villages arrived in a tiny town in the Canadian prairies. These letters verify a subversive network of mail delivery during one of the most horrific eras in human history. Written by Russian Mennonites, the letters confirm the strength of the human spirit in the bleakest circumstances. http://www.gulagletters.com/

Jaunajā aukstajā karā Rietumi Bulgārijā, Latvijā un Moldovā jau zaudē

dv@mac.com — 2008-02-05T09:33:50-05:00

No LETAS 2008-02-05

History Shows Joe McCarthy's Reputation is Undeserved

dv@mac.com — 2008-01-29T16:38:13-05:00

From Townhall.com

"Stanton Evans, journalism professor and board member of the American Conservative Union, has performed a similar transformation for the most reviled American in modern U.S. history, Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
Evans' 663-page work, "Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies" (Crown Forum, $29.95), is the result of six years of reading primary sources. Evans proves that almost everything about McCarthy in current history books is a lie and will have to be revised".

"The truth never caresses, it always stings!" H.L. Mencken

Sarīkojumi 2008. g.

dv@mac.com — 2008-01-27T07:48:45-05:00

2008. g. sarīkojumu saraksts ir atrodams "Informācijas avotā", DV CV/Apkārtraksts428.pdf

Latvian language use drops in Canada

dv@mac.com — 2008-01-11T18:09:27-05:00

Canadian census shows drop in Latvian use.

EŠAFOTS

dv@mac.com — 2007-12-27T10:18:20-05:00

Andra Grūtupa Ešafots stāsta par būtisku prāvu XX gadsimta Latvijas tiesu vēsturē. 1946. gada sākumā šo lietu izskatīja Baltijas Kara apgabala tribunāls, un tā šķīra veselu laikmetu: tautas, valstis un iekārtas.
Recensijas

Dialogi, vēstules un publikācijas 1989-1997

dv@mac.com — 2007-12-26T07:53:29-05:00

Uldis Ģērmanis, Eduards Berklavs. Kur pirkt.

The Latvian Saga - New Book/Jauna Grāmata

dv@mac.com — 2007-12-23T13:16:41-05:00

"The history of the Latvian people is the story of a ceaseless battle for freedom, of many victims and of heroic deeds. No victim fell in vain, because each sacrifice granted strength, faith and pride to those who survived."

Uldis Ģērmanis

Atēna

Translation of "Latviešu Tautas Piedzīvojumi" to english by Kārlis Streips

Raduraksti

dv@mac.com — 2007-12-04T07:40:22-05:00

Latvijas Valsts Arkīvs tagad publicē radurakstus internetā.

„Kāvu atblāzmas skartie” - Jauna Grāmata - Laimonis Ozoliņš

dv@mac.com — 2007-11-02T17:33:30-04:00

Nesen Rīgā izdota jauna grāmata par Latviešu leģionu 19. div. Stāsti un noveles, kuru centrālais un vienojošais tēls ir leģendārais izlūku un triecienbataljona komandieris Ernests Laumanis un viņa tuvākie cīņu biedri.

Kanāda neprasa vīzas no Latvijas pilsoņiem

dv@mac.com — 2007-10-31T12:32:19-04:00

Diane Findlay (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) paziņo ka Latvijas pilsoņiem nav vīzas vajadzīgas lai braukt uz Kanādu.

XIII LATVIEŠU DZIESMU SVĒTKI KANĀDĀ

dv@mac.com — 2007-10-28T12:28:37-04:00

Dziesmu Svētki notiks Hamiltonā, Ontario no 1-5 jūlijam, 2009 g. Dziesmu Svētku plakāts.