2011-11-06, 09:06 | Link #17461 | |
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He also signed a trade deal with China just about a year ago. He even made nice with Russia in January, the first meeting between Afghanistan and the Kremlin since the withdrawal of Soviet forces two decades ago. It seems like rather normal statecraft to me. After the US completes its withdrawal of forces, Afghanistan is going to have to rely on staying in its neighbors good graces and playing balance-of-power politics.
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2011-11-06, 09:41 | Link #17463 | |
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We are all making guesses here, and the bolder (not all, but it has a tendency to include the more stupid and wanton attention-seeking media distributors) would call it "analysis".
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2011-11-06, 10:02 | Link #17464 | |
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The estimable David Sanger of the New York Times has a very sober piece today on the state of relations between the US and Iran:
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2011-11-06, 10:37 | Link #17465 | |
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2011-11-06, 17:46 | Link #17467 | ||
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Kickstarter Project Hopes to Build a New Civilization
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Just one more example of how the ideas presented in the Venus Project are common sense and so others have thought of them too. We just need to do away with FIAT currency to begin transforming our planet. ----------- Climate Scientists Find Huge Increase in CO2 Emissions Quote:
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2011-11-06, 21:40 | Link #17469 |
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I wondered how much of the increase in CO2 pollutants between 2009 and 2010 came about because of recovery from the global recession in 2008-2009. If you look at the actual data, and not just the media reports, you'll see the CO2 production fell substantially in 2009 in the Western Hemisphere and Europe, where the effects of the recession were greatest. In the rest of the world CO2 production grew each year from 2008 through 2010. North American CO2 output was actually lower in 2010 than it was in 2008.
Source: http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/emis/pe...estimates.html
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2011-11-06, 22:23 | Link #17470 | |
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2011-11-06, 23:15 | Link #17471 |
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Greece seals sketchy coalition deal under EU pressure
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...7M601O20111107
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2011-11-07, 00:47 | Link #17473 |
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Well, if you tell them you are planning on doing an air strike, they will plan to defend against that. So when you come in with a drill tank or something on the ground, they wouldn't be ready for it at all.
Basically the Iranians will be looking in the wrong direction. Especially if the attack comes from Russia's direction.
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2011-11-07, 01:00 | Link #17474 | |
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2011-11-07, 03:04 | Link #17475 |
Gamilas Falls
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Unexpected directions...and compliance with treaties (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that Iran did sign just like China nd Russia have.)
But mostly just an example of misdirection.
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2011-11-07, 07:40 | Link #17478 | |
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2011-11-07, 07:53 | Link #17479 | |
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2011-11-07, 11:15 | Link #17480 |
Gamilas Falls
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Israel, Pakistan and India, to my knowledge, never signed that treaty. Other countries didn't sign the treaty until much later, as recently as 2003 or something.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear...eration_Treaty Oddly enough, going by what has been reported more recently verses what the treaty says, if Israel had signed, it would have been classed as a Nuclear Power, as it already had atomic weapons before the treaty was signed.
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