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Russia Today Guest: Pat Buchanan (Auugust 22)
Post Date: 2008-08-23 11:45:52 by buckeye
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Did U.S. officials know about Georgia's plans to attack its breakaway region? The issue deserves a special hearing in the U.S. Congress, according to American political commentator Pat Buchanan. Did U.S. officials know about Georgia's plans to attack its breakaway region? The issue deserves a special hearing in the U.S. Congress, according to American political commentator Pat Buchanan. "Georgia started the war - Saakashvili started the war - there's no doubt about that. The Russians knew he was coming because they were prepared clearly and acted immediately. The question is, did Condoleezza Rice know he was going to do this and did the president who was in Beijing know ...
Russia says ready to supply Syria with defensive weapons
Post Date: 2008-08-22 00:47:13 by Horse
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MOSCOW, August 21 (RIA Novosti) - Russia is ready to supply Syria with defensive weapons, the Russian foreign minister said on Thursday following a meeting between the two countries leaders in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad arrived in Russia Wednesday on a two-day visit to discuss bilateral relations and regional developments, in particular the situation in the Middle East and Iraq. "We are ready, and Dmitry Medvedev has confirmed this, to review a Syrian request to purchase new types of weapons," Sergei Lavrov said following the meeting between Medvedev and Assad. "We will supply Syria primarily with weapons of a defensive nature ...
LIEBERMAN WANTS RUSSIA TOSSED OUT OF G-8
Post Date: 2008-08-21 14:44:16 by rowdee
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Russia should be temporarily kicked out of the Group of Eight and denied entry into the World Trade Organization as punishment for its actions in Georgia, Sen. Joe Lieberman said Thursday. Lieberman spoke in Warsaw after visiting Georgia alongside fellow senator Lindsey Graham, a trip they described as a mission of solidarity with the U.S. ally. They were representing the Senate Armed Services Committee. "We're not going to let Russia, so soon after the Iron Curtain fell, to again draw a dividing line across Europe," said Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut and close friend of Republican presidential hopeful John McCain. "It is simply ...
US, IRAQ HAVE DRAFT TO PULL US TROOPS OUT
Post Date: 2008-08-21 14:31:43 by rowdee
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BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraq and the U.S. have reached preliminary agreement to withdraw American forces from Iraqi cities by next June, six years into the increasingly unpopular war, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Thursday after meeting with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
The negotiations over a withdrawal timetable follow long insistence by President Bush that setting any schedule for U.S. troops to leave would be dangerous. The draft agreement with Iraq would link troop reductions to achievement of certain security milestones, although the details have not been made public.
Time has become ever more important in discussions between U.S. and Iraqi officials with Bush ...
Fury over bonkers booklet telling women how to drive
Post Date: 2008-08-21 12:25:32 by Jethro Tull
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Traffic police in Siberia have risked incurring the wrath of the fairer sex with a new guidebook telling women how to bring their driving up to scratch. The controversial document, ‘Driving rules for a true lady’, claims female drivers flirt with passing males, park in the middle of the street and only use the rear view mirror for putting on make-up. The booklet, which has a pink cover, aims to draw attention to female motorists’ most common mistakes. But despite its lack of political correctness, police in Krasnoyarsk say they don’t want to cause offence, but are trying to make the roads safer. They came up with the idea after noticing the number of road accidents ...
Rice says US-Iraq coming together on timetables
Post Date: 2008-08-21 09:48:48 by christine
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BAGHDAD — Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Thursday the two countries have agreed that timetables should be set for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the battle-scarred country. Appearing together at a news conference, Rice and Zebari mutually asserted that a final agreement between Washington and Baghdad on a withdrawal plan and accompanying strategic framework pact is close to fruition _ but not there yet. "We have agreed that some goals, some aspirational timetables for how that might unfold, are well worth having in such an agreement," Rice told reporters after meeting with Iraqi officials, including Prime Minister Nouri ...
French troops 'killed by Nato jets'
Post Date: 2008-08-21 06:09:54 by Ada
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Sarkozy said he had no regrets about sending 700 more troops to Kabul [REUTERS] Reports that 10 French soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan after being mistakenly attacked by Nato aircraft are to be "looked into," officials for the military alliance have said. France's Le Monde newspaper quoted French soldiers who had survived the ambush near Kabul on Monday saying they were hit in a "friendly fire" incident. The soldiers told the newspaper they waited for four hours for back-up after being ambushed. But when Nato planes finally arrived they hit French troops after missing their target, the newspaper quoted the soldiers as saying. A Nato official said ...
McCain on Reinstituting a Military Draft: I Don't Disagree
Post Date: 2008-08-21 01:16:36 by christine
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Today at a townhall meeting, an audience member praised Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) for his vow to “follow bin Laden to the gates of hell.” After a long question about veterans’ care, the questioner said she believed we needed to reinstate the draft, to which McCain seemed to readily agree:
QUESTIONER: If we don’t reenact the draft, I don’t think we’ll have anyone to chase Bin Laden to the gates of hell.
[Appaluse]
MCCAIN: Ma’am, let me say that I don’t disagree with anything you said.
In June, McCain said it would take an “all-out World War III” to make the draft necessary — which seems to mean he’d consider it. In July 2006, when asked to react to Newt ...
Pentagon Plans to Send More Than 12,000 Additional Troops to Afghanistan
Post Date: 2008-08-20 18:26:26 by christine
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The Pentagon will be sending 12,000 to 15,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, possibly as soon as the end of this year, with planning underway for a further force buildup in 2009. A request by Gen. David McKiernan, the commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, for three U.S. brigades with support staff has been approved. "Now that means we just need to figure out a way to get them there," adds a senior defense official. The troops are slated to arrive earlier than has been previously discussed, on the heels of the deadliest months for American forces in Afghanistan since the war began. The first wave of soldiers will be a U.S. Army brigade from the 10th Mountain Division, ...
Russia warns of response to US missile shield
Post Date: 2008-08-20 14:03:02 by Jethro Tull
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MOSCOW (AP) - Russia says its response to the further development of a U.S. missile shield in Poland will go beyond diplomacy. Russia's Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying the U.S. missile shield plans are clearly aimed at weakening Russia. The U.S. says the missile defense system is aimed at protecting the U.S. and Europe from future attacks from states like Iran. The United States and Poland signed a deal Wednesday to place a U.S. missile defense base just 115 miles from Russia's westernmost fringe. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below. WARSAW, Poland (AP)—Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and ...
Are You Ready For Nuclear War? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-08-20 11:55:19 by christine
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Pervez Musharraf, the puppet installed by the US to rule Pakistan in the interest of US hegemony, resigned August 18 to avoid impeachment. Karl Rove and the Diebold electronic voting machines were unable to control the result of the last election in Pakistan, the result of which gave Pakistanis a bigger voice in their government than America’s. It was obvious to anyone with any sense—which excludes the entire Bush Regime and almost all of the "foreign policy community"—that the illegal and gratuitous US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and Israel’s 2006 bombing of Lebanon civilians with US blessing, would result in the overthrow of America’s Pakistani ...
Is Condoleeza Rice stupid?
Post Date: 2008-08-20 07:29:27 by Disgusted
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Is Condoleeza Rice stupid? Has the US Secretary of State got her cassette stuck? For a week now she has been reiterating the same phrase “Russian forces must leave Georgia now” and for a week now the world has been informed of Georgian war crimes against Russians in Ossetia. The war crimes happened, the Russians call the shots now, Ms. Rice. Like it or lump it. Is Condoleeza Rice stupid? OK her boss is, we all know that and that’s why nobody pays any attention to what he says or if they do, it is to have a good laugh at how such an imbecile could supposedly rule the roost in Washington (when everyone knows it is Cheney and his energy and arms lobbies). So Bush ...
The Anthrax File
Post Date: 2008-08-20 06:15:47 by Ada
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The FBI claims to have caught the killer. But so much evidence has been neglected or mishandled that many experts still have doubts. Seven years after the anthrax attacks shut down Congress, sowed panic nationwide, killed five, sickened 17, and allowed neocon propagandists to variously blame al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, the FBI claims to have gotten its man. But the official story doesn’t fully accord with the facts. Any reasonable assessment of the evidence suggests that the same powerful interests that might have been served by prolonging the investigation would have had a stake in finally bringing it to a tidy conclusion. That doesn’t mean that the killer was caught. The ...
Americans play Monopoly, Russians chess
Post Date: 2008-08-19 12:00:04 by TwentyTwelve
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Aug 19, 2008 Americans play Monopoly, Russians chess By Spengler On the night of November 22, 2004, then-Russian president - now premier - Vladimir Putin watched the television news in his dacha near Moscow. People who were with Putin that night report his anger and disbelief at the unfolding "Orange" revolution in Ukraine. "They lied to me," Putin said bitterly of the United States. "I'll never trust them again." The Russians still can't fathom why the West threw over a potential strategic alliance for Ukraine. They underestimate the stupidity of the West. American hardliners are the first to say that they feel stupid next to Putin. Victor Davis ...
FBI HAD, THEN TOSSED ANTHRAX TYPE USED IN ATTACKS
Post Date: 2008-08-19 11:26:41 by rowdee
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Months after the deadly 2001 anthrax mailings, FBI scientists had - but destroyed - the unique strain of the bacteria used in the attacks that years later would lead them to Dr. Bruce Ivins, now the government's top suspect. FBI officials admitted Monday that destroying the initial Ivins sample was a mistake, but said it didn't really hinder the investigation because the technique used to trace the source of the anthrax to Ivins had not been developed yet. Luckily, a copy of that first sample was sent to an outside professor, who years later used it to help further link Ivins to the killer strain. Ivins, 62, took a fatal dose of acetaminophen last month as ...
Georgia cuts access to Russian websites, TV news
Post Date: 2008-08-19 10:09:42 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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Georgia cuts access to Russian websites, TV news Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:51am EDT By Niko Mchedlishvili TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgian authorities have blocked most access to Russian news broadcasters and websites since the outbreak of the conflict with Moscow. Georgia's Interior Ministry said the action was not anti-democratic, but Russian broadcasts could not be allowed to "scare our population". A war over the Russian-backed breakaway region of South Ossetia has unleashed high emotion in Russia and Georgia, reflected in coverage on both state and private channels. "People from the (Georgian) security agencies asked me to block Russian sites," Mamia Sanadiradze, ...
NEWSPAPER: BLACKWATER GUARDS GET TARGET LETTERS
Post Date: 2008-08-18 12:24:09 by rowdee
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Half a dozen Blackwater Worldwide security guards have gotten target letters from the Justice Department in a probe of shootings in Baghdad that killed 17 Iraqis, The Washington Post reported. The Blackwater guards are caught up in the investigation of shootings that took place last September when a Blackwater team arrived in several vehicles at an intersection in Baghdad where shooting erupted, leaving numerous Iraqis dead and wounded. The Post described the six guards as former U.S. military personnel, but did not identify them by name. Attributing its information to three sources close to the case, the Post said that any charges would be brought against the guards ...
EX-MARINE DECRIES PROSECUTION IN CIVILIAN COURT
Post Date: 2008-08-18 12:13:38 by rowdee
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IRVINE, Calif. (AP) - A former Marine sergeant facing the first federal civilian prosecution of a military member accused of a war crime says there is much more at stake than his claim of innocence on charges that he killed unarmed detainees in Fallujah, Iraq. In the view of Jose Luis Nazario Jr., U.S. troops may begin to question whether they will be prosecuted by civilians for doing what their military superiors taught them to do in battle. Nazario is the first military service member who has completed his duty to be brought to trial under a law that allows the government to prosecute defense contractors, military dependents and those no longer in the military who commit crimes outside ...
MUSHARRAF RESIGNS AS PAKISTAN PRESIDENT
Post Date: 2008-08-18 11:46:04 by rowdee
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf announced Monday that he will resign, just days ahead of impeachment in parliament over attempts by the U.S.-backed leader to impose authoritarian rule on his turbulent nation. An emotional Musharraf said he wanted to spare Pakistan from a dangerous power struggle. "I hope the nation and the people will forgive my mistakes," Musharraf said in a televised address largely devoted to defending his record. Musharraf dominated Pakistan for years after seizing power in a 1999 military coup, making the country a key strategic ally of the U.S. by supporting the war on terror. But his popularity at home sank over the ...
Georgia: Terror fears over whereabouts of region's nuclear material
Post Date: 2008-08-18 06:59:57 by Ada
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Georgia's conflict with Russia has raised fresh concerns over the whereabouts of the region's nuclear material that could be used by terrorists to make a "dirty bomb". When the breakaway region of Abkhazia split from Georgia in 1993, the world's only known case of enriched uranium going missing was reported after up to 2kg of the potentially devastating material was stolen from a laboratory. There are now fears that the organised criminal gangs that are rife in the region could exploit the confusion of the current conflict to loot other stocks. Security services are worried that terrorist organisations such as al-Qa'eda could purchase weapons grade uranium and ...
Blockades: Acts of War
Post Date: 2008-08-18 05:54:36 by Stephen Lendman
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Blockades: Acts of War - by Stephen Lendman From July 21 - 31, Joint Task Force (mostly US, but also UK, Brazil and Italy) "Operation Brimstone" large scale war games were conducted off the US East coast in the North Atlantic. Its purpose may have been to prepare for a naval blockade of Iran. Initial reports after its completion were that participating ships were deployed to Persian Gulf and Arabian and Red Sea locations to join up with the present American strike force in the region. The major media cover none of this, and US Navy sources deny it. So precise information is unclear. From what's known, however, redeployment may be planned, and a blockade may ensue. The ...
BBC Video Proves Georgia to Blame for Hostilities (Video)
Post Date: 2008-08-17 21:28:28 by TwentyTwelve
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BBC Video Proves Georgia to Blame for Hostilities (Video) Kurt Nimmo Infowars Sunday, Aug 17, 2008 The BBC video here was aired two days before Russia intervened to stop Georgia’s ethnic cleansing operation in South Ossetia. It needs to be viewed by Bush, Condi, Robert Kagan, Charles Krauthammer, little Billy Kristol and all the neocons and their associated slavering bloggers and newspaper columnists calling for war against Russia, a nation bristling with thermonuclear weapons and an increasing desire to use the tactical variety of nukes against the United States, or rather its servile little clients such as Poland that are installing U.S. missile “defense systems” on ...
Video of police on anti-war demostrators - Port Militarization Resistance -- Peppersprayed in Olympia
Post Date: 2008-08-17 18:21:28 by Ferret Mike
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-- The Port of Olympia Statement: "We oppose Olympia's complicity in a war whose disastrous effects have been felt worldwide and we will actively resist the use of Olympia's port to further that war.... Through nonviolent actions we intend to stop the Port of Olympia from becoming a revolving door of military machinery furthering illegal war. This war has taken the lives of 3,845 US soldiers, over one million Iraqis, and has displaced millions more. These weapons are returning to be repaired and refitted for further combat. We see this as a continuation of the war despite our nation's and the Iraqi people's overwhelming opposition to the war." Port Update ...
Missile Defense: Washington and Poland just moved the World closer to War
Post Date: 2008-08-17 14:15:42 by christine
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The signing on August 14 of an agreement between the governments of the United States and Poland to deploy on Polish soil US ‘interceptor missiles’ is the most dangerous move towards nuclear war the world has seen since the 1962 Cuba Missile crisis. Far from a defensive move to protect European NATO states from a Russian nuclear attack, as military strategists have pointed out, the US missiles in Poland pose a total existential threat to the future existence of the Russian nation. The Russian Government has repeatedly warned of this since US plans were first unveiled in early 2007. Now, despite repeated diplomatic attempts by Russia to come to an agreement with Washington, the ...
Russia seizes US arms cache in Georgia
Post Date: 2008-08-17 05:44:14 by bush_is_a_moonie
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A Russian military spokesman says Russian forces have seized a large cache of US-made weapons in the western city of Senaki in Georgia. "In Senaki, we seized a large arsenal of weapons including 664 US-made M-16 rifles" and a number of M-40 sniper rifles, General Anatoly Nogovitsyn told a news conference in Moscow. "There were 1,728 weapons total," he added. Earlier on Wednesday, US President George W. Bush sent a C-17 airlifter to deliver 'humanitarian supplies' to Georgia. "And in the days ahead we will use US aircraft as well as naval forces to deliver humanitarian and medical supplies," Bush announced. Shortly after the announcement, Russia ...
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