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Axis of Uranium Meets Middle East Peace Process

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:16:31 +0000

It’s a busy month for Brazil. The Latin American giant hosted Shimon Peres last week, sustained a visit from Mahmoud Abbas this week, and will receive Mahmoud Ahmadinejad next week. Not exactly a random series of visitors — and at least some Americans are paying attention: the Wall Street ...

Wizbang found this 2 days ago on commentarymagazine.com

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Putin Murders Another Lawyer

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:21:00 +0000

Sergei Magnitsky, lawyer for a former Putin ally who challenged the regime's corruption, dies in prison after being tortured.

Doug Ross @ Journal found this 36 hours ago on pajamasmedia.com

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'Body sold' to Russia kebab shop

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:59:00 +0000

Police in Russia have arrested three homeless men suspected of killing a man, eating part of the body and selling other parts to a kebab shop. The men were held in the city of Perm, some 1,400km (870 miles) east of Moscow, local investigators said. Their statement said that the suspects had ...

Gates of Vienna found this 6 days ago on news.bbc.co.uk

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Parallel Politics, Right Wing Roundup

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:04:00 +0000

Maureen Dowd David Harsanyi Dana Milbank Michael Crowley "In their quest to thwart President Obama, Republicans do not fear the hobgoblin of consistency." - Dana Milbank "You're either A) a scum-sucking, terror-loving elitist or B) a radical, tea bag-loving simpleton." - David ...

guangping posted 4 days ago from notesfromagrumpyoldman.blogspot.com

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START Successor Should Cover Non-Nuclear Missiles, Russia Says

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:10:59 +0000

A successor to the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty might address U.S. plans to deploy long-range, conventionally armed missiles, Russia suggested yesterday (see GSN , Nov. 2). The U.S. Defense Department has proposed deploying by 2015 a small number of long-range conventional missiles that ...

Commondreams.org Views found this 3 days ago on globalsecuritynewswire.org

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"Russia has laid bare its real intentions with respect to Poland"

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 11:24:00 +0000

"Yo, Barry! How's that friendship with Putin working out?" asks Duncan Hill as the Telegraph's Matthew Day reports on Moscow's simulating a nuclear attack on Poland . The Kremlin's armed forces are said to have carried out "war games" in which nuclear missiles were fired and troops practised ...

Doug Ross @ Journal found this 13 days ago on no-pasaran.blogspot.com

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Weekly Standard Prepping for War With Russia

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:32:53 +0000

Russian soldier in Kosovo Justin Logan observes that The Weekly Standard seems to have spun its Great Wheel of Enemies again and today we’re supposed to be getting ready to fight not Iran or North Korea but Russia . After three paragraphs of suggesting that we should be doing more ...

Wonk Room found this 6 days ago on yglesias.thinkprogress.org

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Body parts sold to kebab stand, police say

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:07:00 +0000

It seems that after the fall of the soviet empire some the good ole’ western entrepreneurial spirit has found its way into the Russian heartland. The following story shows that even in the direst of economic circumstances if you are willing to make the hard choices you can succeed. It also ...

robehren posted 8 days ago from silentmajority09.com

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Russia's Putin wins respect at hip-hop party

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:05:15 +0000

* Russia's powerful PM Putin meets local rappers * Rappers chant: "Respect, Vladimir Vladimirovich" By Darya Korsunskaya MOSCOW, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rubbed shoulders with rappers and was hailed with "respect" in a television show on Friday that could help ...

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Major fire at Russia arms depot

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:15:59 +0000

At least two people have been killed after a series of explosions and fires at a weapons depot in central Russia, officials say. The blasts ripped through the defence ministry navy depot on the outskirts of Ulyanovsk when soldiers attempted to decommission munitions. The officials later said ...

Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News found this 9 days ago on news.bbc.co.uk

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Moran: 'He needs to get out of this war before he owns this war'

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:03:11 +0000

President Barack Obama "needs to get out of this war before he owns this war," one Democratic lawmaker said of the country's current mission in Afghanistan. The White House's committment to continuing its military operations there is merely "hardening opposition to the U.S.," depleting much ...

MyDD found this 9 days ago on thehill.com

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Why is Russia Bringing Back the Kirovs?

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

13:08 Rambler in Virginia 13:07 DepotGuy 13:07 trailing wife 12:59 SteveS 12:57 ed 12:56 trailing wife 12:54 ed 12:47 Abu Uluque 12:32 Redneck Jim 12:32 M. Murcek 12:29 Thing From Snowy Mountain 12:27 CrazyFool 12:27 Karl Rove 12:25 Karl Rove 12:20 Karl Rove 12:16 ...

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Iran says nuclear 'enemies' defeated

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:46:26 +0000

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday the "enemies" of his country's nuclear programme had been defeated ahead of the release of the latest UN report on the atomic drive. International attention focused on the report as US President Barack Obama said "time is running out" for ...

Knowledge is Power found this 6 days ago on breitbart.com

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First thoughts: Around the world...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:08:41 +0000

From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali Weinberg*** Around the world in 8 days: Later this afternoon, President Obama departs on his latest big overseas trip -- a whirlwind eight-day, four-country journey that will take him to Japan, Singapore, China, and South Korea. His ...

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire found this 10 days ago on firstread.msnbc.msn.com

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Continued Russian Technological Incompetence

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:06:00 +0000

Looks like Russia still has some major issues: n October, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Rusnano head Anatoly Chubais visited the Mikron factory in Zelenograd, located 37 kilometers outside Moscow, where the newest Russian 180-nanometer microchips are being produced. An agreement was signed ...

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Russia warns Tehran it is ‘running out of time’ in uranium deal stand-off

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:48:33 +0000

Russia warns Tehran it is ‘running out of time’ in uranium deal stand-off

Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News found this 6 days ago on timesonline.co.uk

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"Come back in a half hour and I'll give you another look at it"

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:21:45 +0000

Durng a party scene in the movie "Monkey Business," Groucho Marx spots a waiter carrying a drink, but the waiter tells him the drink is for the guest of honor. Groucho pulls out a dollar bill and says to the waiter: "See this?" The waiter responds by giving Groucho the drink, whereupon Groucho ...

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U.S., Russia agree on dissatisfaction with Iran -

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:00:41 +0000

APEC summit President Obama meets with Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Singapore. In addition to Iran, they discussed the drafting of a new arms control treaty to replace the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty set to expire early next month. ( ...

Think Progress found this 6 days ago on latimes.com

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McDonald's and the Berlin Wall

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:21:00 +0000

The all-American restaurant chain with its iconic golden arches helped bring down the Wall and has paid a price for it ever since.

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The New York Times

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:30:00 +0000

Nov. 10, 2009 The International Energy Agency sees lower oil demand in the next decades, according to its annual World Energy Outlook report. Nov. 9, 2009 Oil companies shut down offshore production in the Gulf of Mexico as Tropical Storm Ida churned toward landfall between the states of ...

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