Posted by seumasach on August 23, 2008
20th August, 2008
MOSCOW: An Iraqi Cabinet minister invited Russia’s Lukoil on Wednesday to renew its bid on the lucrative West Qurna-2 oil field and urged Russian companies to seek roles rebuilding dilapidated power plants as Iraq searches for foreign investment to revive its oil industry and infrastructure.
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Posted by seumasach on August 23, 2008
22nd August, 2008
An airstrike by the US-led forces in western Afghanistan has killed 76 civilians including women and children.
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Posted by seumasach on August 23, 2008
Dix soldats français sont tombés au champ d’honneur, le 18 août en Afghanistan. Cette nouvelle glace le sang, car nous, Français, sommes tous responsables de leur mort. Ils avaient accepté de prendre le risque ultime lorsque, en notre nom collectif, le président de la République les avaient envoyés en mission. Ils pensaient nous défendre face à un danger, certes lointain, mais bien réel. Ils pensaient servir notre patrie.
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Posted by seumasach on August 22, 2008
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.” – John Lennon, before his murder by CIA mind-control subject Mark David Chapman
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Posted by seumasach on August 22, 2008
Bring the good old bugle, boys, we’ll sing another song;
Sing it with a spirit that will start the world along,
Sing it as we used to sing it, fifty thousand strong,
While we were marching through Georgia.
“Hurrah! Hurrah! We bring the jubilee!
“Hurrah! Hurrah! The Flag that makes you free!”
So we sang the chorus from South Ossetia to the sea,
While we were marching through Georgia.
How the darkeys shouted when they heard the joyful sound!
How the turkeys gobbled which our commissary found!
How the sweet potatoes even started from the ground,
While we were marching through Georgia.
“Hurrah! Hurrah! We bring the jubilee!
“Hurrah! Hurrah! The Flag that makes you free!”
So we sang the chorus from South Ossetia to the sea,
While we were marching through Georgia.
Yes, and there were Union men who wept with joyful tears,
When they saw the honored Flag they had not seen for years;
Hardly could they be restrained from breaking forth in cheers,
While we were marching though Georgia.
“Hurrah! Hurrah! We bring the jubilee!
“Hurrah! Hurrah! The Flag that makes you free!”
So we sang the chorus from South Ossetia to the sea,
While we were marching through Georgia.
“Putin’s dashing Russian boys will never reach the coast!”
So the saucy Rebels said, and ’twas a handsome boast;
Had they not forgot, alas! to reckon with the host,
While we were marching through Georgia.
“Hurrah! Hurrah! We bring the jubilee!
“Hurrah! Hurrah! The Flag that makes you free!”
So we sang the chorus from South Ossetia to the sea,
While we were marching through Georgia.
So we made a thoroughfare for Freedom and her train,
Sixty miles in latitude, three hundred to the main;
Treason fled before us, for resistance was in vain,
While we were marching through Georgia.
“Hurrah! Hurrah! We bring the jubilee!
“Hurrah! Hurrah! The Flag that makes you free!”
So we sang the chorus from South Ossetia to the sea,
While we were marching through Georgia.
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Posted by seumasach on August 22, 2008
Oleg Shchedrov
21st August, 2008
SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) – Russia’s foreign minister told NATO on Thursday that both sides benefited from joint cooperation and he pointedly raised the issue of Russian transit support for Alliance forces in Afghanistan.
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Posted by seumasach on August 22, 2008
21st August, 2008
Lehman Brothers may find themselves edging closer to disaster in today’s trading with word of nervous Federal Regulators supposedly making secret phone calls to follow up on”rumors” that Credit Suisse had withdrawn one of Leman’s remaining lines of credit.
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Posted by seumasach on August 21, 2008
Martyn Smith
12th August, 2008
TV celebrity Jasper Carrott branded a controversial phone mast site in Kingswinford “criminal” after viewing the eyesore for himself.
The comedian called at the High Acres estate to lend his voice to a campaign calling for a water tower which is home to 18 antennae to be pulled down amid health fears.
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Posted by seumasach on August 21, 2008
21st August, 2008
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.
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Posted by seumasach on August 21, 2008
“In an interview with London’s Guardian on Saturday, Gul[Turkish President] said: “I don’t think you can control all the world from one center. There are big nations. There are huge populations. There is unbelievable economic development in some parts of the world. So what we have to do is, instead of unilateral actions, act all together, make common decisions and have consultations with the world. A new world order … should emerge.””
Sana Abdallah
19th August, 2008
AMMAN — Arab leaders are closely and quietly watching the unfolding military conflict between Russia and Georgia, while considering its political repercussions on the global scene and potential impact on the volatile Middle East. The Arab street, meanwhile, is openly backing a resurgent Russia and hopes to see the end of a Washington-centered unipolar world.
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Posted by seumasach on August 20, 2008
Eric Walberg
20th August, 2008
Russia’s firm response to the Georgian gamble in Ossetia is being interpreted in various ways, but the reality is clear, says Eric Walberg
Analogies of the Ossetia fiasco and its fallout with past events are coming thick and fast. Condoleezza Rice — bless her heart — says, “This is no longer 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia.” James Townsend, a former Pentagon official now with the Atlantic Council, compared the situation to Hungary in 1956.
In both cases, the Russians being, well, the Russians. Neocon Charles Krauthammer says Georgia needs “the equivalent of the Berlin air lift.” The Baltic statelets and Poland go back further yet, arguing it is a replay of Hitler and Stalin’s invasions of their territory, prompting Poland to quickly sign on the dotted line for US missiles (against the Iranians, of course).
But the most telling analogy is with Iraq and its ill-fated invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Kuwait indeed had been a province administered from Baghdad for millennia, so Saddam Hussein understandably coveted it, as Saakashvili does Ossetia. Hussein was convinced that the US had given him the green light after he had spent 10 years fighting the US’s latest bete noire, Iran , just as Saakashvili was given a similar ambivalent go-ahead to invade Ossetia . Even Townsend admits, “I think they misunderstand our eagerness and enthusiasm and think we are going to be behind them for anything.” Russian Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin said it best: “It is hard to imagine that Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili embarked on this risky venture without some sort of approval from the side of the United States.”
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