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stratfor.com - 10/28/2008

The German Question

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel went to St. Petersburg last week for meetings with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev. The central question on the table was Germany’s position on NATO expansion , particularly with regard to Ukraine and Georgia. Merkel made it clear at a joint press conference ...

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online.wsj.com - 10/31/2008

Security Should Be the Deciding Issue

— online.wsj.com — As the scale of the economic crisis becomes clear and comparisons to the Great Depression of the... 1930s are tossed around, there is a very real danger that America could succumb to the feeling that we no longer have the luxury of worrying about distant ... (more) Security Should Be the Deciding Issue

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littlegreenfootballs.com - 10/28/2008

Obama Compared America to Nazi Germany

— littlegreenfootballs.com — The audio recording of Barack Obama espousing his socialist philosophy of “redistribution of wealth” is all over... the Internet and Fox News today (although the other media outlets are ignoring it), but there’s another disturbing ... (more) Obama Compared America to Nazi Germany

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theneweditor.com - 10/22/2008

On This Day

— theneweditor.com — October 22 ... In 1746 Princeton University in New Jersey received its charter. In 1797 French balloonist... Andre-Jacques Garnerin made the first parachute descent, landing safely from a height of about 3,000 feet. In 1836 Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first constitutionally elected ... (more) On This Day

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/28/2008
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