online.wsj.com - 11/18/2008
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Russia needed only a few days this August to drive Georgia's army into retreat. In the aftermath, Europe has held out only a bit longer than Tbilisi's troops. EU leaders on Friday said they were resuming talks with Moscow toward an economic-cooperation agreement. The negotiations were put on ice ...
telegraph.co.uk - 11/16/2008
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telegraph.co.uk —
A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a
huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin...
the worldwide alarm over global warming. On Monday, Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is run by Al Gore's chief ...
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The world has never seen such freezing heat
thenation.com - 11/22/2008
bloomberg.com - 11/24/2008
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bloomberg.com —
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Russia denied its troops
fired on a motorcade carrying Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili...
and his Polish counterpart near the breakaway region of South Ossetia. “There was no shooting from our positions or from the position ...
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Russia Denies Shooting at Saakashvili Near South Ossetia ...
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Dissecting Leftism —
... Now the gutless Europeans bow down before Russia!: "EU leaders on Friday said they were resuming talks with Moscow toward an economic-cooperation agreement. The negotiations were put on ice 10 weeks earlier because of Russia's invasion of its tiny neighbor and refusal to abide by a French-brokered cease-fire. But by Friday's EU-Russia summit in Nice, France, Moscow's fulfillment of "a large part of its obligations" was good enough for French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Thus ends the lone sanction Europe placed on its belligerent neighbor after the August war. The talks are ...
EUnunchs Abandon Georgia
Daily Pundit —
... It only took 10 weeks for the French to surrender, this time. So much for Sarkozy’s “sanctions”. Russia has successfully reasserted its power over its near abroad. Its neighbors’ powerlessness and lack of resolve has been demonstrated again, for anyone who needed further demonstration. ...
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