Don’t turn your noses up at the government’s ability to sock you with more troubles. Wherever you look, things are smelling bad. But now a mega-trouble is blinking for attention. Close your eyes and think about the possibility that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, together with the chief of staff, the minister for strategic threats and [...]

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LONDON (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said in a veiled warning to Poland and other East European nations on Wednesday they risked creating fresh divisions in Europe by treating Russia as an enemy instead of a strategic partner.
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MOSCOW, November 22 (Itar-Tass) - Russia’s satellite navigation system GLONASS will become fully operational by the end of 2007, Russian Deputy Prime Minister, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Wednesday.
“We have to secure the functioning of the whole system in the territory of Russia by the end of 2007,” Ivanov said at a meeting [...]

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MOSCOW, November 22 (RIA Novosti) - Russia’s Air Force commander said Wednesday he considers nuclear missile launches by terrorists or ‘rogue states’ to be a genuine threat.
“Increasingly probable and dangerous for the U.S., Russia and European countries are single or multiple missile strikes from third countries, known as rogue states, countries with unstable, non-democratic regimes, [...]

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THE NEW WORLD OIL ORDER, Part 2
Russia has set the agenda for the global transition to an entirely new model of international energy security designed to address intensifying concerns, especially those of the rising East.
Russia, possessing unequaled energy-based leverage, has taken the leadership among the world’s producers and the rising powerhouse economies of the [...]

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THE NEW WORLD OIL ORDER, Part 1
Russia has found the Achilles’ heel of the US colossus. In concert with its oil-producing partners and the rising powerhouse economies of the East, Russia is altering the foundations of the current US-led liberal global oil-market order, insidiously working to undermine its US-centric nature and slanting it [...]

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China’s military buildup includes new missiles and naval weapons designed to sink U.S. aircraft carriers and deny U.S. forces access to the Asia-Pacific region, a congressional commission official said yesterday.
Daniel Blumenthal, a former Pentagon defense policy-maker and now a member of the U.S.-China Economic Security Review Commission, said China’s military is building up forces to [...]

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President George W. Bush could choose military action over diplomacy and bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities next year, political analysts in Washington agree.
“I think he is going to do it,” John Pike, director of Globalsecurity.org, a military issues think tank, told AFP.
“They are going to bomb WMD facilities next summer,” he added, referring to nuclear facilities [...]

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