Respekt Weekly (44/07)In this week's news summary, a Jewish group rallies "athletes and soldiers" for anti-Nazi resistance, Rath provokes wrath, and falling prices hit pig farmers
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Daylight saving time ended. The Czech Republic commemorated what would have been Pavel Tigrid's 90th birthday. The first skiers appeared below the peak of Praděd. US Defense Secretary Robert Gates visited the Czech Republic and declared that even if the American radar base is built in the Brdy hills, it would only start operating after Iran builds and tests a long-range missile that could threaten the West. Steel production was ceremonially re-launched at Poldi Kladno after a long closure. The governments of EU member countries agreed on the new European constitution in Lisbon. The budget made it to the second round in the Chamber of Deputies. The Agrární komora ČR (Czech Agrarian Chamber) rallied behind pig farmers who have expressed discontent with declining meat prices and called on the government to compensate their losses from public funds. "For a kilogram of pork we get 28 crowns, while the cost of feed is 35 crowns, so when our co-op produces 1,000 pigs a week, we're losing roughly three million a month," said Josef Luka, the director of a pig-farming cooperative in Mladá Boleslav, describing the problem to reporters. At the Invex technology trade fair in Brno, the world's fastest and smartest personal computer, the Comfort, was introduced. The World Bank re-categorized the Czech Republic as a wealthy country and decided that it can no longer receive loans from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. The hunting season began. At a boar hunt in the woods near Strod, hunters shot and wounded a 15-year-old boy whose task was to drive the boars out. Like every year at this time, voluntary wolf protection patrols set off to the Beskyd mountains to prevent poachers from shooting the few local wolves still living there. "Could you tell Deputy Chytek from the Civic Democrats to come to the microphone and say what he just yelled at me from the bench -- to go to hell," Social Democratic parliamentary deputy David Rath asked presiding chamber chairman Jan Kasal during a session in which emotions bubbled over after Rath called dissenting Civic Democratic delegates "cold-blooded beasts" during a debate over the state's obligation to pay alimony on behalf of those who don't pay. Chemist Antonín Holý won this year's Česká hlava (Czech Head) science prize. Experts from Personal Fabric, an employment agency, announced that the Czech labor market had run out of Ukrainians. Due to procedural errors, the court overruled a Prague City Hall decision prohibiting local neo-Nazis from organizing a night-time march through Prague's Jewish Quarter on November 10th -- the anniversary of the Nazi pogrom known as Kristallnacht; following the ruling, the website of the Židovská liberální unie (Jewish Liberal Union) called on all of its "young, healthy athletes and soldiers" to come to Prague that day and join the active resistance against the neo-Nazi provocation. "Compared to other developed countries, the situation is bad here -- people here don't have a need to continue learning and they often feel that the information they learned as pupils in school suffices for the rest of their lives," remarked Miroslava Mandíková, who represents the Národní vzdělávací fond (National Training Fund), commenting on the fact that unlike the Danish, Swedish or American populaces, where 35 percent continue their educations after high school, less that 11 percent of the Czech populace between the ages of 25 and 64 seek higher education. The price of baked goods went up. After a meeting with dissidents in Santa Clara, two activists from the Člověk v tísni (People in Need) charity organization were detained by the Cuban political police and deported from Cuba. The Czech currency strengthened to another record -- 27.12 crowns to the euro. Two former border guards, Lubomír Kratochvíl and Zdeněk Palásek, were given a three-year conditional sentence for shooting emigrant Jaroslav Masařík on the Czech-Austrian border 35 years ago and then dragging the wounded man back to Communist Czechoslovakia. The swimming season at the Dalešice reservoir closed. Jan Kubice, the director of the Útvar pro odhalování organizovaného zločinu (Organized Crime Fighting Unit), and all the important detectives from his team announced their departure from the Czech Police. "Česká televize [Czech Television] censors," pronounced former Prime Minister Miloš Zeman after ČT dramaturgists, without the director's knowledge, cut a segment from a film about his career in which former advisor Miroslav Šlouf says of Zeman: "I don't think his returning to the political domain like Churchill is ruled out." Scientists discovered that frequent and longterm mobile phone use contributes to the development of brain cancer. The price of advertising on TV Nova rose.  Translated By Martha J. Sullivan 
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