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Published: Tuesday November 18, 2008
Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov on Tuesday warned Georgia that any efforts to strengthen its military would be punished more severely than during the countries’ brief August war.
“We are concerned over the continuing desire of the Georgian administration to develop its military potential,” Serdyukov said through an interpreter after talks with [...]
1. Pirates capture Saudi oil tanker…
Pirates have seized a giant Saudi-owned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean off the Kenyan coast and are steering it towards Somalia, the US Navy reports.
2. CNN: Scooter Libby may have requested Bush pardon…
As President Bush gets closer to leaving the White House, expectations are mounting that he will follow [...]
1. More and more of the lunatic fringe are losing it.…
Do you see a pattern here?
2. 2 Held in Election Night Beating of Black Youth…
The police said on Saturday that two 18-year-old men were arrested on Friday for the beating. The men, Ralph Nicoletti, of 35 Wadsworth Avenue, and Bryan Garaventa, of 169 Maryland Avenue, [...]
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MOSCOW - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev plans to travel this month to Cuba and Venezuela, which have increasing military and trade ties with Moscow.
The U.S. has objected to Russia’s greater links with the two countries that have antagonistic relations with Washington.
Medvedev will visit Cuba on Nov. 27, the Kremlin press service said. He will also [...]
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin allegedly threatened to hang Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili “by the balls” during the August war in Georgia, a report not denied by Putin’s spokesman said on Friday.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s diplomatic aide Jean-David Levitte earlier told Le Nouvel Observateur magazine that Putin had told Sarkozy in a meeting: “Saakashvili, I’m [...]
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Russian threats to base missiles in the Baltic have been criticised as “provocative” by the US defence secretary Robert Gates.
Mr Gates told reporters after a Nato meeting in Estonia: “Such provocative remarks are unnecessary and misguided.”
Moscow sees a planned US missile shield in central Europe as a threat, and says it will place missiles in [...]
1. Utah Legislators Call Mormon Leadership’s Bluff on LGBT Rights…
A group of at least five Utah legislators have asked the Mormon leadership to join their call for state legislation protecting LGBT rights to hospital visitation, medical care, fair housing, inheritance, and non-discrimination in employment, based on a statement from the Church itself last week that [...]
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By Guy Faulconbridge
Reuters
Wednesday, November 12, 2008; 2:02 PM
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Wednesday rejected U.S. proposals aimed at easing concerns over a missile defense system in Europe and said it would try again to resolve the row once Barack Obama is in the White House.
Russia says the planned U.S. system will threaten its national [...]
1. Cuban president to visit Russia, alliance grows…
Cuban President Raul Castro will visit Russia next year, the Kremlin said on Tuesday, in a new sign that Moscow is reviving a Cold War-era trade and military alliance.
2. Fed Hides Destination Of $2 Trillion In Bailout Money…
The Federal Reserve is facing a lawsuit after it failed to [...]
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The BBC reports this morning:
Cuba and Russia have signed a series of bilateral trade and economic accords, in the latest sign of strengthening ties between the two countries.
The accords were signed during a visit by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin — his third trip to the Caribbean island in three months.
His visit came at [...]
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac…George Orwell
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