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9089. jexster - 7/8/2008 9:48:50 PM After a hard day discussing the world food crisis, a guy gets hungry
 9090. jexster - 7/11/2008 3:25:50 PM South Korea Offers Appeasement Talks with Axis of Evil 9091. jexster - 7/13/2008 12:47:42 AM The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a private meeting with the words: “Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter.” He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present including Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock.
Shock and Awe Swansong 9092. jexster - 7/13/2008 12:53:46 AM Not exactly a hard act to follow
Europe promises cheers for Obama
Barack Obama is coming: Europe can scarcely contain itself. The Democratic contender for the White House is crossing the Atlantic to burnish his credentials as a world leader. Europeans just want to cheer....
When he steps out of his pre-presidential limousine Mr Obama can expect to be greeted as a messiah.
As far as Europe is concerned, the US has made its choice. The pundits in Washington may only now be speculating about the possibility that Mr Obama could win by a landslide. Europe has already decided: it will get the American president it deserves. The ballot on November 4 is no more than an irksome formality.
 9093. jexster - 7/13/2008 10:29:07 PM Joyeux Quatorze Juillet!
France Seeks to Dominate Middle East - NyT
 9094. jexster - 7/14/2008 12:10:12 PM Sarko Busts a Move
Burns a Little Bush
Gives Assad Place d'Honeur at Bastille Day Parade 9095. jexster - 7/14/2008 12:12:14 PM 
9096. jexster - 7/17/2008 3:22:41 PM a tonic to his country and the most important European leader of his time.
And now that he has Carla,even Wonkers is a huge fan 9097. jexster - 7/19/2008 3:19:11 PM Gazprom negotiating major contract with Iran
Deal would run afoul of US sanctions 9098. jexster - 7/23/2008 4:29:55 PM I think we've seen this movie
Russia's not only making nice with Hugo's security pact entreaties, they're also considering sending bombers to Cuba
Heckuva job Georgie
 9099. jexster - 7/26/2008 1:11:12 AM COMITÉ FRANÇAIS DE SOUTIEN À
BARACK OBAMA
9100. jexster - 7/29/2008 8:23:18 PM Whatever became of our resident Moron and sometime Slerbian pig farmer - Rosie Stone????
Probably demonstrating.
Thousands converge on Belgrade to protest extradition of pig farmer and murderer Karadzic
The Slerbs are ever the asshole of the assholes of Yurrup, a land aptly described by one Austrian general in WWI as a "nation of pigshit and fruit orchards"
Rosetta Stone
RIP 9101. jexster - 8/1/2008 2:05:44 PM ISI Linked to Nato, Indian embassy attacks
McBush Pal Musharraff implicated 9102. jexster - 8/8/2008 4:53:08 PM It's about time
Russia Attacks! 9103. jexster - 8/8/2008 5:39:49 PM An expert on international security today warned that all-out war between Russian and Georgia would amount to "the worst crisis in Europe since the end of communism".
Dr Jonathan Eyal, director of studies at the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi), described Georgia's decision to shell the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali, as a brazen effort to humiliate the Russians.
He claimed the sudden escalation in tensions in the region heralded a dangerous possible return of "East-West confrontation".
Crush em
Kazakhstan's threatening to come to Russia's aid against the cowardly criminal in Tbilisi
Leaving McLame flapping his toothless gums .... 9104. jexster - 8/8/2008 5:47:36 PM Liberate South Ossetia!
They even have a flag.
A few hundred t-90's bring to a boil 9105. jexster - 8/8/2008 5:56:17 PM Pravda: "Russia Strikes Back!" 9106. alistairconnor - 8/14/2008 12:05:20 PM The Georgia debacle may well be seen as the nadir of US influence in world affairs.
(Unless it falls even lower, which it undoubtedly would under a McCain presidency, but I'm not prepared to countenance that possibility.)
A foolhardy Caucasian president overplays his hand, thinking that he has US backing and that this enables him to make the Russians back off. The US, absolutely powerless to intervene in the Russian sphere of influence, sits on its hands. The Europeans, deeply divided, wring theirs, and play appeasement. Cool heads in Europe thank their lucky stars that they recently beat back US demands to admit Georgia to NATO... which would have pitched them into war with Russia, when Sakashvili launched his foolhardy adventure.
Of course, this is all playing out exactly as the Kremlin wanted it. Everyone, including McCain, has played into Putin's hands perfectly. It's all part of the modern Great Game -- control of Central Asian oil and gas.
And when the dust settles, Georgia will either be a docile Russian satellite again, or it will be so unstable as to be useless as a conduit to get Central Asian oil while bypassing Russia.
i.e. this little war is the clincher that enables Russia to lock up an effective monopoly on Eurasian oil and gas. Game, set and match. 9107. alistairconnor - 8/14/2008 12:16:49 PM Condi isn't wringing her hands... she's sternly wagging her finger.
"There are any number of opportunities for Russia to reverse course and to demonstrate that it is trying to behave according to 21st century principles," she said. "But, I can assure you that Russia's international reputation and what role Russia can play in the international community is very much at stake here."
Rice stated that the time, when the world would have to deal with the consequences of what happened in South Ossetia and Georgia, would come, although she did not specify what consequences Russia may eventually face.
The US Secretary of State repeated several times that Russia had a lot to lose, including its international reputation and its role in the international community.
Well, she certainly ought to be an authority about great powers who lose their international reputation and role in the international community due to military adventures with a subtext of control of oil supplies...
So how come she gets it so wrong? Russia has indeed demonstrated that it knows how "to behave according to 21st century principles", as inaugurated in 2002 by the USA...
But they have learned some lessons from their precursor, and will not suffer the negative consequences that she foretells. 9108. wonkers2 - 8/14/2008 12:44:09 PM "ISI linked to NATO, India attacks"--sounds like our Pakistani friend pseudoerasmus' work.
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