America’s real enemy is big, whether you measure him at 6.6 million square miles (Russia) or number him at 1.3 billion people (China). A few thousand Muslim fanatics hiding in caves cannot match the power of governments that control the largest and most populous countries respectively. As it stands, most Americans are unaware of Moscow [...]

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The situation is so bad Russia’s nuclear agency has warned rods at the site could explode in an “uncontrolled chain reaction”, according to a Norwegian environmental group, which says it has a leaked copy of a report.
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The Litvinenko affair gives a human dimension to what we in the West find most disturbing about modern Russia. It leaves the impression of rogue elements of the Russian State murdering enemies with impunity, at home and abroad. Add to this Andrei Lugovoy’s surreal claim that MI6 had a hand in the murder and Russia’s [...]

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WASHINGTON: A top Russia expert at the State Department issued an unusually sharp public criticism on Thursday of Moscow’s behavior under President Vladimir Putin, describing the Kremlin as bullying its neighbors while silencing political opponents and suppressing individual rights at home.
The comments, approved by the White House, are the latest volley of criticism between Washington [...]

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This is the first in a series of articles on how to prepare for nuclear war.
Preparing for nuclear war is going to be expensive, so I’m going to focus on how to make lots of money fast.
Do not be alarmed by this post. I am simply going to explain when and how to purchase options [...]

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NARO-FOMINSK (Moscow Region), June 1 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will hold a counterterrorism military exercise with China and other members of the “Shanghai Six” in August, the Ground Forces commander said Friday.
“The main [of the six international counterterrorism exercises planned for the year] will be a joint exercise of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in August,” [...]

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The RS-24 missile can reach any part of China with relative ease, acting both as a first- and second-strike capable weapon. While an open military conflict between Russia and China may have ended in 1968, the two states are still competing against each other when it comes to high-tech weaponry. To Moscow, the notion of [...]

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Planning the West’s counter-attack against Russia
Waiting another year in the hope that someone nicer than Vladimir Putin comes along is wishful thinking. Instead of waiting for the next Kremlin stunt, why not try a counter-attack?
By The Economist
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The battle for Tampa, Miami and the rest of the Earth is officially under way.
For a while Google held the lead with a mapping program, Google Earth, that allows users to see a satellite image of just about any address in the country.
Then Microsoft unveiled its Virtual Earth software, offering higher-resolution “bird’s-eye views” of many [...]

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Top war Tech #5: Talon Robots
Improvised Explosive Devices are the biggest killers of U.S. troops in Iraq … and one of the biggest killer of IEDs is Foster-Miller’s Talon robot.
“It’s an excellent robot, and I would rate it as being the best one in theater,” ordnance disposal Airman Robert Wester told an Air Force reporter. [...]

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A more accurate slogan, however, would be “China’s growth, America’s peril”. While corporations see the gains from trade and investment in terms of profit, Beijing uses its gains in industrial capacity, capital and technology to rise as a major power in world politics - with an agenda hostile to the interests of the United States. [...]

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Consider this: A cyberattack targeting Web sites of banks, financial markets, telecom firms, government agencies, newspapers and broadcasters utterly paralyzes the country for days, even weeks, leaving it unable to communicate and wreaking havoc with the normal course of life.
An improbable science-fiction scenario? No, it happened earlier this month to Estonia, a small Baltic nation [...]

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