Peoples Sexiest Man Alive 09 is surprise pick Nov 19, 2009
And while it is dominated, as usual, by Hollywood hunks, it also includes the heads of state of the United States, France and Russia Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy and Vladimir Putin. They earned mention in the Sexy Shirtless category, along with such show-biz entries as Zac Efron. (MSNBC -- News)
Afghanistan sinks in new corruption index Nov 18, 2009
United States, Russia make gains, Iran's score dips ... Russia edged up to 2 ... But TI noted that the excessive role of the Russian government in the economy remained a problem. (AlertNet)
EU seeks Russian energy boost Nov 18, 2009
Europe's need for stable deliveries of Russian gas will loom large at an EU-Russia summit in the Swedish capital Stockholm on Wednesday. The EU does not want another Russia-Ukraine gas crisis this winter ... The August 2008 Russia-Georgia war and the disruption of Russian gas exports last winter led to frosty relations with the EU, and a new partnership deal is still being negotiated. (BBC News -- Europe)
The Going Rogue Index Nov 18, 2009
Russia, proximity of Alaska to, 275________map proving it, pre-index page. Salter, Mark________willingness to engage in fisticuffs of, 213. (Slate)
Newsweek: Obama heads to Asia with requests, not demands Nov 18, 2009
That will be especially true when the president stops off in China and seeks to encourage ," as Deputy Secretary of State Jim Steinberg called it last month. "Strategic reassurance" is the term U.S. officials are now using to describe America's posture vis a vis China "as well as other emerging powers like India and Brazil, while protecting our own national interests," . It's all very mutual, a "tacit bargain," as Steinberg called it. It goes like this: America will welcome the rise of China and... (MSNBC -- Politics)
Griffin: Much to be thankful for in 2009 Nov 18, 2009
Despite problems with Russia and China, we have reasonable hopes that the two countries will cooperate with us. We mourned the death of Ted Kennedy, but at the same time we were thankful for the admiration of much of the nation for his work in the Senate. (Cambridge Chronicle, MA)
CHENEY: 'NO REASON FOR AMERICAN PRESIDENT TO BOW TO ANYONE'... Nov 18, 2009
An arms-reduction treaty with Russia is going to expire Dec. 5 without a new one in place, forcing the parties to scramble to sign an interim bridging agreement. And Iran and North Korea have yet to deliver on Obama s promise that U.S. engagement will yield better behavior. (The Drudge Report)
Timeline: Chechnya Nov 17, 2009
1858 - After decades of violent resistance, Chechnya is conquered by Russia following the defeat of Imam Shamil and his fighters, who had aimed to establish an Islamic state ... Communist leader Doku Zavgayev overthrown; Dzhokhar Dudayev wins a presidential poll and proclaims Chechnya independent of Russia ... 1994 December - Russian troops enter Chechnya to quash the independence movement. (BBC News -- Europe)
Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev Dodges President-for-Life Question Ahead of Astana's OSCE Chairmanship Nov 17, 2009
"We know of the dissatisfaction of some OSCE members from our part of the world due to negative publications from the OSCE s human rights headquarters and so on -- 177 were issued precisely on our [CIS] countries, and more than 100 of them on Russia. This is, of course, a distortion," Nazarbayev told viewers. Underlining Astana s political proximity to Moscow, the president was responding to a question about Kazakhstan s OSCE chairmanship put to him by former Russian Prime Minister Yevgeniy... (EurasiaNet.org)
Gorbachev to Obama: Afghan Neighbors Must Help Nov 17, 2009
As a result, the United States "is now fighting against them. Today again, not just America and Russia can be involved in" ending this war ... U.S. recipes for instant democracy and free-market capitalism spawned Russian organized crime on a global scale, and by the end of the presidency of anti-communist Boris Yeltsin, says Gorbachev, 60 percent of Russian industries lay in ruins ... World oil prices and "a rain of dollars" enabled Russia to pull itself up by its bootstraps, Gorbachev said. (Newsmax)
POLICY ON SUBMISSIONS Nov 17, 2009
james wrote on Dec 29, 2008 10:59 PM:" hey thats pretty good it only took ya 13 days to think of a comeback for nancys letter.please explain how you feel carter took 60 percent of your state when your not even contigious with the rest of the lower 48 if anything its russia that took your land. better yet just follow sarah and todds pland to secede and join russia you think things are bad now ". james wrote on Dec 29, 2008 10:55 PM:" nancy wrote on Nov 6, 2008 6:52 AM:" You Alaskans never cease... (Wasilla Frontiersman, AK)
News slips through China's net Nov 17, 2009
as is seen in Indonesia and Russia, after a few experiments, the same people stay on top and rule the country. How many new political figures exist in Indonesia and Russia after 10-20 years of democracy. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
An anxious wait in Afghanistan Nov 17, 2009
Georgia, a tiny, fragmented nation that faces a grave territorial threat from Russian Federation forces occupying significant tracts of its territory, will soon be punching well above its weight in Afghanistan (as it recently did in Iraq when Georgian troops made up the third-largest coalition contingent) ... But Karzai has been busy courting regional powers such as Iran and India as well as autocratic UN Security Council members Russia and China, and the Afghan president sees himself as having... (Asia Times Online)
Palin Confides in Oprah: Economy Beat GOP Ticket Nov 17, 2009
Among several missteps in the interview, Palin asserted that Alaska's proximity to Russia enhanced her foreign policy credentials. Critics seized on the interview as evidence that she wasn't qualified to be president if something were to happen to McCain. (Newsmax)
* FEATURE : Japans Ainu fight for their cultural survival Nov 16, 2009
The electoral seat of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama is on Hokkaido island, part of the ancient homeland of the Ainu, which once stretched from northern Honshu island to the Kuril and Sakhalin islands now ruled by Russia. Hatoyama, in a recent parliamentary address, said he wants a society free of discrimination and prejudice, and hopes to promote cultural diversity, including by respecting the history and culture of the Ainu people. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Kosovo’s first election is peaceful Nov 16, 2009
Serbia has vowed to block further recognition and has Russia s support. Election officials said 45 percent of the 1. (Boston Globe)
2011 APEC meeting to be held in Honolulu Nov 16, 2009
Hawaii officials have been lobbying aggressively for more than a year to snag the APEC meeting, which brings together leaders from 21 nations, including the U.S., China, Japan, Australia, the Philippines, Mexico, Russia and Korea to discuss trade, investment and other economic issues. "Hawaii has never had anything remotely approaching an international meeting" of this scope, said Chalres Morrison, president of the East-West Center in Honolulu. (Pacific Business News, HI)
Obama Walks Tightrope in 1st Trip to China Nov 16, 2009
China is the real adversary, not Russia. But instead of containing China and strengthening our own economy back home, the U.S. for decades has willingly boosted China's economy at the expense of our own, all because Corporate America needs the cheap labor. (CBS News)
Did we learn the wrong lessons from the fall of the Berlin Wall? Nov 15, 2009
In doing so they take advantage of the fact that many vital government documents from Russia, Europe, and the United States are now beginning to be released to the public ... Or the world might have ended up with a Soviet Union that looks, for all intents and purposes, like today s Russia: a large, populous country with a powerful but aging military, widespread corruption, coffers filled with oil and gas money, an authoritarian government, and a pronounced interest in asserting its power over... (Boston Globe)
Liberia's Taylor trial adjourned Nov 15, 2009
Body sold' to Russia kebab shop ... Body sold' to Russia kebab shop. (Yahoo News -- Liberia)
Ford: union concerns resolved at Kansas City plant Nov 15, 2009
General Motors Co.'s decision to scrap the sale of European subsidiary Opel raised new uncertainty Wednesday over the unit's future, astonishing politicians in Germany and Russia, and prompting workers to plan walkouts in protest. The GM board's unexpected decision to call off the sale to auto parts maker Magna International Inc. and Russian lender Sberbank was a startling end to months of haggling in which Chancellor Angela Merkel and other German leaders had strongly backed the deal. (Fresno Bee -- Business)
Kosovo holds first vote Nov 15, 2009
More then 60 countries, including the United States and the most of the European Union have recognised Kosovo's independence, but Serbia, backed by Russia, considers the territory still as its southern province. AFP Digg. (iAfrica.com)
Bankers' deals could be 'torn up' Nov 15, 2009
Page last updated at 02:40 GMT, Sunday, 15 November 2009. Bankers' deals could be 'torn up. (BBC News -- UK)
Byers to stand down at election Nov 15, 2009
Page last updated at 12:47 GMT, Saturday, 14 November 2009. Stephen Byers is one of the most prominent Blairites on the backbenches. (BBC News -- UK)
Japan: A new battle over Okinawa Nov 14, 2009
Nonetheless, the LDP appears to have finally completed its historical mission in the post-Cold War era - supporting Japan's military role as an anti-communist bastion of the US against China and Russia. The US "nuclear umbrella" has protected Japan against potential adversaries such as China, North Korea and Russia, while assuring other states in the region that suffered under Japan's colonial rule that Tokyo would not return to its militaristic past. (Asia Times Online)
'It's Orwellian': Everyone in UK could be given a personal 'carbon allowance'... Nov 14, 2009
The old Russia is going to look really good. Jimbo on November 13, 2009 at 04:50 PM. (The Drudge Report)
Building bridges Nov 14, 2009
Mitrovica's concrete walls are plastered with slogans like "EU go home", "Welcome Russian army" ... Fatal fire at Russia arms depot. (BBC News -- Europe)
UK 'backs Taliban reintegration' Nov 13, 2009
Page last updated at 08:07 GMT, Friday, 13 November 2009. UK 'backs Taliban reintegration. (BBC News -- UK)
Brazil: Taking off Nov 13, 2009
WHEN, back in 2003, economists at Goldman Sachs bracketed Brazil with Russia, India and China as the economies that would come to dominate the world, there was much sniping about the B in the BRIC acronym ... Unlike Russia, it exports more than oil and arms, and treats foreign investors with respect. (The Economist)
To solve Turkey's culture clash, old elite must yield to free speech Nov 12, 2009
Although this is a Turkish story, this is also what the middle classes in China, India, Russia, or Peru do each night ... Gardels: Recently, the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes and I were talking about your identification with Dostoevsky, who, in his time, was angry at the West and the Westernizers in his own country who looked down on ordinary Russians ... The problem with Westernization from above, as we had in both Russia and Turkey, is that is becomes a symbol of distinction among people ... (Christian Science Monitor)
Hasan's Treason Nov 11, 2009
Many cases of spies and intelligence aid to Russia were found after McCarthys investigations ... Many cases of spies and intelligence aid to Russia were found after McCarthys investigations. (Townhall.com)
ATTORNEY GENERAL WILL SPEAK TO CONTROVERSIAL MUSLIM CIVIL RIGHTS GROUP... Nov 10, 2009
Sadly Obama allows the Iranians to reject the deal to ship uranium to Russia, although shortly before the y agreed to it. Obama is a eunuch. (The Drudge Report)
What small-town America thinks of Sarah Palin Nov 10, 2009
"When she was talking about foreign policy experience and said, 'I can see Russia from my backyard' -- Ding! Ding! -- that was enough for me," explained Pam Mueller, 64, of Grand Rapids, Mich ... So far away that Obama's small but fervent efforts in the opposite direction -- new diplomacy on Israel, Palestine, Iran, Russia and North Korea; slow but steady withdrawal from Iraq and now a painful reappraisal of the increasingly bloody war in Afghanistan; a pledge to eliminate nuclear weapons; new... (Salon)
Clinton Says U.S. Wants `Civil,' Diplomatic Ties With Iran, Urges Talks Nov 10, 2009
The U.S. suspects Iran is trying to make a nuclear bomb and is working with France, the U.K., Germany, Russia and China to persuade the regime to stop enriching uranium. The government in Tehran insists its nuclear program is intended for civilian purposes such as electricity generation. (Bloomberg -- US)
40 Comments Nov 10, 2009
Here's a few -- Russia, China, Cuba -- Hitler's Germany. Those who believe defendants don't deserve representation need to move to one of those places where defendants don't get representation. (KWTX.com, TX)
* World News Quick Take Nov 9, 2009
RUSSIA Troops kill four militants. Security forces killed four suspected militants during security sweeps in Chechnya and Dagestan on Saturday, officials said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Books about 1989: Wall stories Nov 9, 2009
In analysing the question of whether NATO s eastward expansion broke a promise to Mr Gorbachev (it didn t), she overlooks the worries of countries in central Europe about Russia s ominous drift back to old habits in the 1990s. Missing in all this is a powerful voice from the countries concerned. (The Economist)
UK change of heart on bank tax plan Nov 9, 2009
Russia, Canada, IMF and European Central Bank also criticized plan ... But London's emphasis switched after the idea of a tax came under fire from the US, Canada, Russia, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank, in effect killing a proposal that Mr Brown said needed global support to be effective. (CNN -- International)
The White House and Abramoff: 70 more contacts revealed Nov 8, 2009
Reuters/Jim Young U.S. President Barack Obama (L) meets Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow July 7, 2009 ... Germany, now reunited, and Japan were still U.S. client-states, while Russia and China, though no longer Marxist-Leninist, were still treated as actual or potential threats ... If the U.S. were unwilling to sacrifice its soldiers and treasure on behalf of the interests of other nations as well as its own, then the other great powers -- in particular, Germany and Russia in... (Salon)
The November Chronicles Nov 8, 2009
November 7, 1917 was when the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia, unleashing a still too-often ignored and dismissed era of tyranny and terror (the idea of an October Revolution has to do with the difference between the Julian and Gregorian calendars). Long since discredited by the verdict of history, the ideas that formed the basis of what Ronald Reagan aptly called an evil empire, have found new adherents some in high places in our land. (Townhall.com)
Medvedev: Arms Control Deal With U.S. Can Be Reached Nov 8, 2009
Russia and the United States have a good chance at signing a new nuclear arms reduction deal before year's end, but other nuclear powers must join disarmament efforts, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in remarks released Saturday. Medvedev also told Germany's Der Spiegel magazine that he has been working well with his predecessor Vladimir Putin, and that predictions of a rift between him and Putin, who is widely seen as pulling the strings in Russia, are overblown ... The U.S.-Russian arms... (Fox News)
McCain: No, really, we vetted her! Nov 8, 2009
"Her neighbors are Canada and Russia, which means she's dealt with international problems." ... So far away that Obama's small but fervent efforts in the opposite direction -- new diplomacy on Israel, Palestine, Iran, Russia and North Korea; slow but steady withdrawal from Iraq and now a painful reappraisal of the increasingly bloody war in Afghanistan; a pledge to eliminate nuclear weapons; new initiatives to the Muslim world -- could win him this prize. (Salon)
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Southern Dems Fear Republican Gains Nov 7, 2009
Why not simply move to Russia if you love being told how to live so much. I am sick of all of these manufactured crises being used as justification for the steady erosion of civil liberties that make this country great. (CBS News -- Politics)
Sanctions will stop arms race Nov 7, 2009
Along with support from individual states, Tor said the U.S. should use its influence to persuade other countries - namely Russia, China, Syria and Turkey - to do the same ... The same goes for Russia ... U.S. negotiations with these countries to find a way to meet their energy needs is crucial if China and Russia are to wean themselves from dependency on Iranian oil exports. (Juneau Empire)
Peak oil? Don't worry -- Obama's on the job Nov 6, 2009
These efforts, if successful (and given recent history, that remains a big "if"), would place Iraq among the world's top four or five oil producers, along with Saudi Arabia, Russia and the United States ... The Bush administration, which looked with alarm at Saddam Hussein's growing ties to Russia and China, invaded the country in part to reassert American dominance in the Persian Gulf region and diminish the role played by Moscow and Beijing ... Today, Washington appears to welcome the growing... (Salon)
CAL THOMAS: Enablers and excusers of communism Nov 6, 2009
A Moscow subway station is the newest focus of Russia's bitter dispute over the legacy of Josef Stalin, whose outsize shadow still haunts the nation more than 50 years after his death ... President Dmitry Medvedev told Russians Friday that there can be no justification for the Soviet government's crimes against its own people, lamenting millions of deaths and "maimed destinies" in some of the strongest criticism of the Communist era to come from the Kremlin since Vladimir Putin came to power a... (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Newsweek: Did the U.S. hasten the fall? Nov 6, 2009
Nemth pushed him, asking point blank: if communists in Budapest were voted from power, would Russia retaliate ... The Russians and eastern Europeans ARE better off now and I believe that world leaders of the day did hasten the fall of the Berlin Wall ... The Russians and eastern Europeans ARE better off now and I believe that world leaders of the day did hasten the fall of the Berlin Wall. (MSNBC -- International)
Daily TV and radio guide Nov 6, 2009
Portrait of Russia s last royal family. Michael Jayston. (Boston Globe)
Fall Of The Wall? U.S. Sends Regrets Nov 6, 2009
Meanwhile, Russia has been practicing a nuclear invasion of an abandoned Poland ... Documents obtained by Wprost, one of Poland's leading news magazines, reveal that at that same time the Russians were conducting war games in which nuclear missiles were fired and troops practiced amphibious landings on the coast of a "potential aggressor." In the exercises, the potential aggressor was Poland ... As the London Telegraph reports, the Russian air force practiced using weapons from its nuclear... (Investors Business Daily)
Killing and selling women as "ghost brides" Nov 6, 2009
Brazil, Russia, India and China -- collectively known as the BRIC countries -- are already playing far more assertive roles in global economic affairs, as the report predicted would happen in perhaps a decade or so ... At the global economic summit in Pittsburgh on Sept. 24 and 25, the leaders of the major industrial powers, the G-7 (G-8 if you include Russia), to turn over responsibility for oversight of the world economy to a larger, more inclusive Group of 20 (G-20), adding in China, India,... (Salon)
Freedom fighter Nov 6, 2009
" Yeah, he turns that old proverb on its head. A few hours of reflection, and reading what the committee said about the award, and I could see its point and purpose. In recent years the Nobel Peace Prize has more often honored promise and encouraged progress than it marked concrete, permanent achievements in the realm of world peace. So the prize went to President Carter's ultimately unsuccessful 1978 Middle East peace drive; and to the same still uncompleted effort by Yassir Arafat and Yitzhak... (Salon)
United States Claims #1 Spot For First Time as World's Top Country Brand Nov 6, 2009
- Canada Holds on to Second Spot and Australia Slips to Number Three - - Global Study Expanded to Cover Regional Rankings Including Asia Pacific, Sub-Sahara Africa and the Americas. This category remains one with tremendous potential not only for tourism but investment, trade and policy. (Canada Newswire)
In tense Tehran, dueling rallies show fissures Nov 5, 2009
Protesters openly flouted the day s official anti-American message, with about 1,000 people gathering outside the Russian Embassy in Tehran and chanting, The real den of spies is the Russian Embassy ... But many opposition supporters were angered by Russia s early acceptance of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad s disputed victory in Iran s presidential election in June. (Boston Globe)
Comment: The Way Forward Nov 5, 2009
Iran, China, Russia and India all have a stake in Afghanistan's stability. They all bring something to the table, whether it is reconstruction aid or cross-border ethnic and religious ties. (India Times, India)
In Iran, New Protests, but an Ever Harder Line Nov 5, 2009
That was evident in the rapid collapse last week of a U.N.-brokered nuclear deal that would have allowed Iran to continue enriching uranium while most of its stockpile would be shipped to Russia for conversion into reactor fuel. The government initially seemed to welcome the deal, but then it quicly retreated last week amid a chorus of criticism inside Iran. (Time.com)
'Death to America' Day: How Iran Trained Its Young to Protest Nov 5, 2009
Shouts of "Death to Israel" were replaced by a chorus of "Not Gaza, not Lebanon, my life only for Iran!" and "Death to Russia," the latter slogan the consequence of Moscow's early acceptance of the presidential election results. On Wednesday, opposition rallies were held in various cities across Iran. (Time.com)
Gore's Profits Of Doom Nov 5, 2009
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Italians convict U.S. officials, agents in kidnapping case Nov 5, 2009
Americans ought to put themselves in the position of the Italians, asking how we would respond if the Russians or the Chinese or even the Italians kidnapped people off American streets and smuggled them out of the country ... If they were, say, Chechens and a Russian team grabbed them, we d protest, but that s probably as far as it would go ... I can also remember when these fascist Italians hooked up with the Nazis and went ramapging all around Europe, Russia and wait, no, not the Middle East,... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Russia Stresses Tolerance On National Holiday Nov 5, 2009
Russia Tries To Take The 'nationalist' Out Of New National Unity Day Holiday ... (AP) MOSCOW (AP) - Tens of thousands of people took part in Moscow street rallies and concerts Wednesday on a new national holiday that the Kremlin tried to portray as a celebration of Russia's ethnic diversity ... But the new holiday was quickly seized upon by extreme nationalists and white supremacists, as well as by Russian Orthodox Christian fundamentalists and monarchists. (CBS News -- World)
Olympian steps up to grapple for Higgins Nov 5, 2009
It came from the One Nation candidate's experience as a Hungarian refugee fleeing the iron heel of Russia, which crushed the 1956 anti-communist uprising in his home country. On a ship to Australia he was shocked to discover that a large proportion of his fellow Hungarian-speaking passengers were not refugees from the failed revolution, but Hungarian-speaking Romanians. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
What next for GM in Europe? Nov 5, 2009
General Motors' (GM) decision to keep Opel and Vauxhall, rather than sell the two marques to Canadian parts maker Magna and Russian Sberbank, seems logical. GM never really wanted to get rid of its European operations, fearing it would hamper its global competitiveness, in particular in Russia, which is expected to emerge as Europe's largest market over the next few decades. (BBC News -- Europe)
Give us all a future Nov 5, 2009
Chile, Russia, Alaska and Papua New Guinea are doing similar sorts of things. As is a mystery woman in Britain, who won $A2. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Today in History Nov 5, 2009
Five years ago: The Kremlin announced that Russia had given final approval to the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. In a surprise reversal, the Chilean army for the first time assumed institutional responsibility for widespread human rights violations during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. (Yahoo News)
