Walmart Photo Keychain Comes Preloaded With Malware…“With the Christmas holidays just past and opening up your electronic presents may get you all excited, but not for a selected lot of people who got the Mercury 1.5″ Digital Photo Frame from Walmart (or other stores)…

Giant US air travel data suck fails own privacy tests…But gets cleared [...]

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by Staff Writers
Bishkek (AFP) Dec 17, 2008
Kyrgyzstan is moving to close a key US military airbase used to support operations in Afghanistan, government sources told AFP on Wednesday.
“We are preparing the papers necessary to close the base,” a senior official in the Kyrgyz presidential administration said on condition of anonymity, confirming comments from sources in [...]

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By Jane Rickards
Special to The Washington Post
Saturday, October 4, 2008; 1:38 PM
TAIPEI, Taiwan, Oct. 4 — Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou on Saturday welcomed U.S. plans to sell the island almost $6.5 billion in weaponry in a move that appeared to repair years of frayed ties between Taiwan and the Bush administration.

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by Andrew G. Marshall
September 17, 2008
Introduction
Recent terror attacks in New Delhi on September 13, 2008, raise the questions of who was responsible and for what reason these attacks occurred. Terror attacks in India are not a new phenomenon, however, in their recent past, they can be largely attributed to the actions, finances, training and resources [...]

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Source: AP
Police fired water cannons at thousands of protesters Tuesday as President Bush got a volatile reception in South Korea at the start of his three-nation Asian trip.

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July 28, 2008 05:00 PM ET | Paul Bedard
Henry Kissinger, Nixon’s secretary of state who opened the door to China, has another new move up his sleeve. For the first time, he’s lending his name to a foreign policy think tank. Whispers has learned that the Woodrow Wilson Center will soon announce the creation [...]

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By Robert Scheer, Truthdig
Posted on July 9, 2008, Printed on July 10, 2008
You can’t trust the Chinese. I don’t care if you’re talking about those communists on the mainland or the other guys on Taiwan; they just won’t follow the war-games script that our weapons hawks had counted on. Their mutual passion runs not to [...]

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Source: Prensa
Moscow, Jun 21 (Prensa Latina) The active presence at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is one of Russia’s top foreign policy priorities in the Asia-Pacific region, diplomatic sources affirmed Saturday.

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Published: May 24, 2008 at 2:21 PM
BEIJING, May 24 (UPI) — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev vowed Saturday to strengthen his country’s ties with China despite opposition to that alliance from others.

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has arrived in Beijing as he continues his first official foreign tour.
Mr Medvedev, 42, who took office this month, will meet President Hu Jintao and other leaders for a two-day visit expected to focus mainly on trade.