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Bush Says Breakaway Regions Must Remain Part of Georgia
Post Date: 2008-08-16 12:35:52 by A K A Stone
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CRAWFORD, Texas — President Bush said Saturday that the two disputed regions at the center of a conflict between Georgia and Russia must remain part of Georgia, but called the signing of a cease-fire between the two nations a "hopeful step." Russia's president signed the cease-fire plan Saturday, a day after Georgia's president reluctantly agreed to the pact after lengthy talks with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Russian forces have since pulled back from the center of a town near the Georgian capital. But Bush, speaking at his Crawford, Texas, ranch, issued a stern warning to Russia, whose president said Friday that it's "unlikely" the two ...
Russia in nuclear threat to Poland
Post Date: 2008-08-16 00:36:03 by A K A Stone
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Russia threatened Poland with a nuclear strike yesterday as the ripples of the Caucasus conflict spread through Europe and pitched West against East along new borders. In a chilling echo of the Cold War, Russia gave warning that Poland was “exposing itself to a strike — 100 per cent” after signing a deal with the US to set up a missile shield on Polish soil. The threat, the strongest since the fall of the Soviet Union, came as President Saakashvili of Georgia was forced to accept defeat as he signed a truce giving the Russian Army the right to patrol Georgian soil. General Anatoli Nogovitsyn, the deputy chief of the general staff in Moscow, said that Russian military ...
AMAZING VIDEO! Georgian Female Reporter Shot Live On TV- Continues Reporting!
Post Date: 2008-08-14 23:08:52 by A K A Stone
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Georgian television reporter Tamara Urushadze was shot in the arm today while reporting on live television. Unbelievably she tries to continue her report as colleagues bandage her up. In the dramatic footage she says that her arm had been grazed by a sniper bullet. AMAZING VIDEO!! a Comeback. Thursday, August 14, 2008 AMAZING VIDEO! Georgian Female Reporter Shot Live On TV- Continues Reporting! Georgian television reporter Tamara Urushadze was shot in the arm today while reporting on live television. Unbelievably she tries to continue her report as colleagues bandage her up. In the dramatic footage she says that her arm had been grazed by a sniper bullet. AMAZING VIDEO!!! Hat Tip LGF ...
Obama to Us: UN To Disarm Americans
Post Date: 2008-08-14 07:47:12 by A K A Stone
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Obama to us UN to disarm Americans This is just in from Sen. Coburn's office. Obama has authored a bill, and it is now in the Senate, to give the UN .7% of our GNP to be used to feed hungry 3rd worlders, AND to use UN force to disarm you and me and all gun owners. No one in the media has brought this to the attention of the general sheeple out here. Obama's bill S2433 would require the U.S. to initially direct .7 percent of our GNP into the United Nations coffers for distribution as they see fit, for "food" to third world nations. Under earlier agreements this would evolve into a national tax on the U.S. with the UN attempting to levy this on all first world nations. The ...
Do You Feel Safe Now?
Post Date: 2008-08-13 09:21:27 by A K A Stone
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Now that military officers selected by the Bush Pentagon have reached a split verdict convicting Salim Hamdan, a onetime driver for Osama bin Laden, of supporting terrorism, but innocent of terrorist conspiracy, do you feel safe? Or are we superpower Americans still at risk until we capture bin Laden’s dentist, barber, and the person who installed the carpet in his living room? The Bush Regime with its comic huffings and puffings is unaware that it has made itself the laughing stock of the world, a comedy version of the Third Reich. Hamdan was not defended by the slick lawyers that got O.J. Simpson off, and he most certainly did not have a jury of his peers. Hamdan was defended by a ...
Putin Issues Ultimatum; Georgia Stands Alone (Updated)
Post Date: 2008-08-11 21:05:12 by A K A Stone
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Russian troops have already routed Georgian forces in the breakaway region South Ossetia. Now, Moscow has seized Georgia's military base at Senaki. The Russians have issued an ultimatum to Georgia's military to surrender in and around the pro-Russian separatist enclave of Abkhazia, the New York Times reports. And everybody is wondering whether "whether Russia... will push beyond these regions and further into Georgia." [UPDATE: Actually, that's been answered; Russian armored vehicles have rolled a full 25 miles into Georgian territory.] On Monday, Russian planes also bombed targets across Georgia, including roads and bridges, President Saakashvili said before cutting ...
Chrysler, Near Death, Readies for a Savior
Post Date: 2008-08-11 20:49:24 by A K A Stone
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There hasn't been much good news out of Auburn Hills lately. Shakeups at Chrysler Financial, ending leasing, deep discounts on cars and trucks and talks of sales or mergers have grabbed headlines, and most analysts agree Chrysler's days as an independent automaker are numbered. "I can't see how they could continue for more than a year and a half or two years," Global Insight analyst Aaron Bragman tells Wired.com. According to Bragman, Chrysler doesn't have the reserves, sales volume and international presence to compete in the current climate and so may begin "moving away from manufacturing their own cars." Such predictions may be coming closer to ...
Estonia, Google Help 'Cyberlocked' Georgia (Updated)
Post Date: 2008-08-11 20:47:57 by A K A Stone
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Civil.ge, the Georgian news site, is "under permanent [cyber] attack." So they've switched their operations to one of Google's Blogspot domains, to keep the information flowing about what's going on in their country. The attacks against Civil.ge are part of a larger set of online assaults, originating in Russia, against Georgian websites. "In a sense," notes Jim Stogdill, "they must be saying 'we can't keep our sites up, but we don't think [Russian hackers] can take down Blogspot, given Google's much better infrastructure and ability to defend it.'" "Another interesting aspect is seeing how certain countries are what I ...
Georgia 'overrun' by Russian troops as full-scale ground invasion begins
Post Date: 2008-08-11 20:30:51 by A K A Stone
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Georgian officials tonight claimed the country had been 'overrun' by Russian troops after a full-scale ground invasion. Amid reports that Moscow forces had taken the town of Gori - and were marching on the capital Tsblisi - Georgian soldiers appeared to be in full retreat. Troops were apparently in complete chaos as a full-scale rout pushed them back through the countryside. Meanwhile, the civilian crisis intensified with thousands of refugees fleeing the seemingly unstoppable advance of the Russian army. Around 9,000 soldiers and 350 tanks had been massing at a base in the border region of Abkhazia throughout the day. But the huge force has now moved into Georgia proper, ...
U.S. ship heads for Arctic to define territory
Post Date: 2008-08-11 20:21:44 by A K A Stone
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. Coast Guard cutter will embark on an Arctic voyage this week to determine the extent of the continental shelf north of Alaska and map the ocean floor, data that could be used for oil and natural gas exploration. U.S. and University of New Hampshire scientists on the Coast Guard Cutter Healy will leave Barrow, Alaska, on Thursday on a three-week journey. They will create a three-dimensional map of the Arctic Ocean floor in a relatively unexplored area known as the Chukchi borderland. The Healy will launch again on September 6, when it will be joined by Canadian scientists aboard an icebreaker, who will help collect data to determine the thickness of sediment in ...
From The Times August 11, 2008 We helped in Iraq - now help us, beg Georgians
Post Date: 2008-08-10 21:38:56 by A K A Stone
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As Russia forces its neighbour to retreat from South Ossetia, the people of Gori tell our correspondent of betrayal by the West As a Russian jet bombed fields around his village, Djimali Avago, a Georgian farmer, asked me: “Why won’t America and Nato help us? If they won’t help us now, why did we help them in Iraq?” A similar sense of betrayal coursed through the conversations of many Georgians here yesterday as their troops retreated under shellfire and the Russian Army pressed forward to take full control of South Ossetia. Smoke rose as Russian artillery fire exploded less than half a mile from the bridge marking South Ossetia’s border with Georgia. A group of ...
World War 3 Update. Georgian President Calls for US Intervention & A New World Order
Post Date: 2008-08-10 20:52:48 by A K A Stone
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Poster Comment:So who is right Russia or Georgia?
The Russian Conflict In Georgia Could Make War With Iran More Probable
Post Date: 2008-08-10 09:28:36 by A K A Stone
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Even though the Mainstream News Media has remained quiet on the issue, the United States sending two more aircraft carrier groups to the Middle-East is alarming at this stage of the failed negotiations between the Europeans, the United States, and Israel. Cheney has been outed for plotting to fabricate a reason for starting a war with Iran - par for the course for a Vice-President that openly shows his disgust for the American people; now, with two more carrier groups, another nuclear submarine, two (2) more U.S. destroyers, a supply ship, and who knows what else has entered the Persian Gulf unannounced: By ADAM GONN, THE MEDIA LINE NEWS AGENCY 8-7-08 Two additional United States naval ...
Iranian Coward Afraid To Race Against a Jew
Post Date: 2008-08-10 09:24:29 by A K A Stone
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An Iranian swimmer pulled out of the Olympic Games men's 100m breaststroke heats on Saturday, just minutes before he was due to compete against an Israeli rival. Mohammad Alirezaei's lane one was empty when the field left the starting blocks while Israel's Tom Beeri, starting in lane seven, finished fourth. Israel, the Middle East region's sole if undeclared nuclear power, considers Iran its main strategic threat because of its nuclear programme and repeated predictions of the Jewish state's demise by senior Iranian leaders. During the 2004 Athens Olympics, Iran's judo world champion Arash Miresmaeili, one of the country's prominent gold medal hopes, refused ...
The Pipeline War: Russian bear goes for West's jugular
Post Date: 2008-08-10 09:21:46 by A K A Stone
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The war in Georgia escalated dangerously last night after Russian jets reportedly bombed a vital pipeline that supplies oil to the West. After a day of heightening international tensions, Georgian leaders claimed that the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, which transports oil from the Caspian Sea to Turkey, had been attacked. But it is thought the bombs missed their target. Their claims came after Russian jets struck deep into the territory of its tiny neighbour, killing civilians and ‘completely devastating’ the strategic Black Sea port of Poti, a staging post for oil and other energy supplies. Reports last night also said that Russia had bombed the international airport in ...
Iranian Pres Ahmadinejad *U.S. & Iran Not That Different!
Post Date: 2008-08-04 23:13:36 by A K A Stone
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Human-animal hybrid embryos should be legal says Catholic Church
Post Date: 2008-08-04 20:17:16 by A K A Stone
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The Roman Catholic Church has called for women to be allowed to give birth to human-animal hybrids created in the laboratory. Embryos injected with animal cells, or chimeras, should be treated as human beings where they have a preponderance of human genes, the bishops say in a sumbission to a Government committee. And there should be no ban on implanting such hybrid embryos in the womb of the woman who supplied the original egg, they say in their submission on the Draft Tissue and Embryos Bill. “Such a woman is the genetic mother, or partial mother, of the embryo; should she have a change of heart and wish to carry her child to term, she should not be prevented from doing so,” ...
World's smallest snake discovered
Post Date: 2008-08-04 01:57:42 by A K A Stone
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The world's smallest snake, averaging just 10cm (4 inches) and as thin as a spaghetti noodle, has been discovered on the Caribbean island of Barbados. The snake, found beneath a rock in a tiny fragment of threatened forest, is thought to be at the very limit of how small a snake can evolve to be. Females produce only a single, massive egg - and the young hatch at half of their adult body weight. This new discovery is described in the journal of Zootaxa. The snake - named Leptotyphlops carlae - is the smallest of the 3,100 known snake species and was uncovered by Dr Blair Hedges, a biologist from Penn State University, US. "I was thrilled when I turned over that rock and found ...
'Provocative' Mars data shows 'potential for life'
Post Date: 2008-08-03 16:40:31 by A K A Stone
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This week's confirmation by NASA that the Phoenix lander had confirmed the presence of water ice on Mars was just the tip of the iceberg. Sources say other "provocative" and "complex" data, not disclosed in Thursday's announcement and not yet discussed openly by NASA officials associated with the Phoenix program, show that the red planet has "potential for life." So hush-hush have been the latest findings that NASA excluded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory science team for the wet-chemistry instrument that made the findings from the news conference to prevent them from being asked questions before an announcement is made, Aviation Week & Space ...
Salman Rushdie Reads from "The Satanic Verses"
Post Date: 2008-08-03 00:23:03 by A K A Stone
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Venezuela to Nationalize Spanish Bank
Post Date: 2008-08-02 17:07:40 by A K A Stone
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that he will nationalize one of the nation's largest banks, Banco de Venezuela, owned by Spain's Grupo Santander. "We are going to nationalize Banco de Venezuela," Chavez said during a live television broadcast. Without specifying a price, he said the nationalization is aimed to have a bank "to serve the Venezuelans." Chavez said he decided to nationalize after learning that Santander had contacted a local bank to sell the institution, and he has refused local bank's bid for the government's authorization. "Now sell it to the government, "Chavez said, adding although the owners were not ...
'Rat people' forced to beg on Pakistan's streets
Post Date: 2008-08-02 09:06:38 by A K A Stone
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Outside a Muslim shrine in this dusty Pakistani city, a "rat woman" with a tiny head sits on a filthy mattress and takes money from worshippers who cling to an ancient fertility rite. Nadia, 25, is one of hundreds of young microcephalics -- people born with small skulls and protruding noses and ears because of a genetic mutation -- who can be found on the streets of Gujrat, in central Punjab province. Officials say many of them have been sold off by their families to begging mafias, who exploit a tradition that the "rat children" are sacred offerings to Shah Daula, the shrine's 17th century Sufi saint. "These are God's children. We are proud to look after ...
How Obama prepped world for the Antichrist
Post Date: 2008-08-01 22:05:21 by A K A Stone
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Obama's World Tour was planned as the high point of his campaign, with the candidate retracing the footsteps of great presidents of the past, hobnobbing with world leaders and as one pundit put it, "making the Europeans love us again." Obama drew huge crowds in Berlin where he addressed them, oddly enough, as "fellow citizens of the world." It was a typically flowery Obama speech, but it hit an unexpectedly sour note when he dramatically intoned: "People of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time. ... With an eye toward the future, with resolve in our hearts, let us remember this history, and answer our destiny, and remake ...
Liquid flowing on surface of Saturn moon: NASA
Post Date: 2008-07-30 21:43:02 by A K A Stone
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NASA scientists said Wednesday they had found liquid on Saturn's moon Titan, only the second body in the solar system after Earth to have fluid on its surface. The groundbreaking discovery was made after analysis of instruments on the US-European Cassini probe, the spacecraft that has been orbiting Saturn since 2004 following a 3.5 billion-kilometer (2.2 billion miles) voyage. NASA said in a statement that information from Cassini indicated that large lakes on Titan contained liquid hydrocarbons and ethane. "This is the first observation that really pins down that Titan has a surface lake filled with liquid," said University of Arizona scientist Bob Brown, team leader of ...
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