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BMD Watch: Japan buys another Aegis system

Posted by Matt in August 7th, 2007 | no comment 
Published in Japan, Military, ,

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (UPI) — Lockheed Martin said Tuesday it has won a $33 million contract to build an Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense system for the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force destroyer JDS Chokai.
“JDS Chokai is the second of four Japanese destroyers to be outfitted with the Aegis BMD Weapon System. Aegis BMD is [...]

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Hu heading for SCO summit

Posted by Matt in August 7th, 2007 | no comment 
Published in China, SCO, ,

President Hu Jintao will begin a three-nation tour to Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Russia August 14-18, to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit (SCO) and observe the SCO joint anti-terrorism military drill in Russia, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday.
The seventh SCO summit will be held in Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan on August 16. Heads of states [...]

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Tow Missiles Destroys Insurgents Car

Posted by Matt in August 7th, 2007 | no comment 
Published in War, ,

Check out video. Watch the slo-mo segment, then the extra slo-mo at the end of the tape. You can clearly watch missle tracking flare or exhaust, not sure which it is. The missile hits bare ground at a very shallow angle about 20 meters from the terrorist’s car. Missile does not detinate from this minor [...]

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Officials: Russia Ups Pressure on Iran

Posted by Matt in August 7th, 2007 | no comment 
Published in Iran, Russia, ,

VIENNA, Austria (AP) – Moscow has warned Iran that it will not deliver fuel to a nearly completed Russian-built nuclear reactor unless Tehran lifts the veil of secrecy on suspicious past atomic activities, a European diplomat said Tuesday.
Separately, a U.S. official told The Associated Press that the Russians are not meeting other commitments that [...]

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The Estonian Economic Miracle

Posted by Matt in August 7th, 2007 | no comment 
Published in Economy, Europe, , ,

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Estonia took advantage of a narrow window of opportunity to radically reform its economy, and these reforms have yielded stunning results. Poverty and inequality are decreasing. Estonia has low unemployment and low inflation, and living standards are improving rapidly. The government’s budget is not only balanced, but also [...]

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China threatens ‘nuclear option’ of dollar sales

Posted by Matt in August 7th, 2007 | no comment 
Published in China, Trade, U.S., , ,

The Chinese government has begun a concerted campaign of economic threats against the United States, hinting that it may liquidate its vast holding of US treasuries if Washington imposes trade sanctions to force a yuan revaluation.
Two officials at leading Communist Party bodies have given interviews in recent days warning – for the first time – [...]

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Kremlin sets sights on Middle East

Posted by Matt in August 7th, 2007 | no comment 
Published in Middle East, Russia, ,

Mr. Putin, who has repeatedly lamented U.S. dominance in what he derisively calls a “unipolar world,” has allowed Russian technology to be used in Iran’s controversial nuclear program despite the overt suggestion by the Bush administration that Tehran’s pursuit of nuclear power, which Iran says is for civilian purposes only, could trigger a war.
Russia’s relations [...]

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Countries Threatened with Extinction

Posted by Matt in August 7th, 2007 | no comment 
Published in Middle East,

Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon and Israel are threatened with extinction.
by Daniel Pipes
New York Sun
August 7, 2007
Quiz time: Which Middle Eastern country disappeared from the map not long ago for more than six months?
Answer: Kuwait, which disappeared from August 1990 to February 1991, becoming Iraq’s 19th province. This brutal conquest by Saddam Hussein culminated intermittent Iraqi [...]

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Why Saudi Arabia? Why Now?

Posted by Matt in August 7th, 2007 | no comment 
Published in Middle East, ,

Saudi Arabia? Isn’t that the country:

from which came 15 of the 19 men responsible for 9/11?
that opposed the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and whose king, in March 2007, called the invasion an “illegal occupation”?
that told the United States to remove its troops and find some other country for U.S. Central Command’s (CENTCOM) forward [...]

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Russian military jets ‘drop bomb on Georgia’

Posted by Matt in August 7th, 2007 | no comment 
Published in Russia, ,

Two Russian military jets invaded Georgian airspace last night and fired a missile that narrowly missed a village, Tbilisi claims.
Georgia said that it had “incontrovertible evidence” that Russian aircraft had bombed its territory and said that it would raise the matter at the United Nations Security Council.
Gela Bezhuashvili, the Georgian Foreign Minister, told The Times [...]

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