A German song that is riding high on the country’s charts has ruffled diplomatic feathers as a result of its mixing of geographic and scatological issues. But the singer of “Finger in the Butt, Mexico” is unrepentant.
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The demographic catastrophe presently decimating American Jewry is not in dispute. Without numbing you with statistics, the basic facts are absolutely clear and chilling. The 6 million Jews in America will probably number no more than a couple of million by midcentury. This would make the Jewish percentage of the American population about the same [...]

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Hugo Chavez has long vowed to turn Venezuela into a laboratory for “21st century socialism.” But if the latest bully-boy tactics of the Chavez government are any guide, the better name for his platform might be 21st century National Socialism.
Most telling in this regard are the ruling regime’s rapidly deteriorating relations with Venezuela’s Jewish community. [...]

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Flag-waving, chest beating, anthem singing and myth excavating is underway in Russia. It is all part of Vladimir Putin’s nation building project. Dmitry Medvedev, almost certain to be the next Russian president, will inherit the project from Putin. And as in many other policy areas, Medvedev will favour continuity.
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It may be understood that Russia uses its nuclear arms to defend itself. However, Russia has not a declared alliance since WARSO pact was dissolved in the nineties of the last century. Which countries were the Chief of the Staff talking about?
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It is clear that Russia extended its nuclear umbrella to cover Iran, Syria, and [...]

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Editor’s note: This article, the first in a series about President Vladimir Putin’s legacy, examines his creation of the power vertical.
Kremlin spin doctor Gleb Pavlovsky compared the emerging “power vertical” to a phallic symbol in October 2003, saying in a speech that no one should expect it to grow too big.
President Vladimir Putin was the [...]

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The Chinese Navy is using Australian technology to upgrade its warships, a move which experts warn may be detrimental to Australia’s national security.
Through a joint venture company based in China, an Australian business, AMD, has sold designs for the hull and propulsion system of high-speed catamarans to the Peoples’ Liberation forces.
The Chinese military has built [...]

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How America’s own intelligence services have brought international policy on Iran to the edge of collapse.
IF YOU are locked eyeball to eyeball with an adversary as wily as Iran, it does not make much sense to do something that emboldens your opponent and sows defeatism among your friends. But that, it is now clear, is [...]

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The Defense Department is modernizing and transforming itself into a force designed to dominate all challengers in any future battle. At the heart of this transformation is the concept of network-centric warfare, which seeks to exploit technology and link dispersed war-fighting platforms, soldiers and a vast array of intelligence assets and sensors, with various means [...]

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The U.S. military isn’t ready for a catastrophic attack on the country, and National Guard forces don’t have the equipment or training they need for the job, according to a report.
The commission’s 400-page report concludes that the nation “does not have sufficient trained, ready forces available” to respond to a chemical, biological or nuclear weapons [...]

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Attempting to impose a settlement on Serbia would be a direct challenge to the Russian Federation, which opposes any Kosovo settlement not accepted by Belgrade.
We believe an imposed settlement of the Kosovo question and seeking to partition Serbia’s sovereign territory without its consent is not in the interest of the United States. The blithe assumption [...]

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If the pipeline goes through, Bulgaria’s energy deal will have repercussions outside the former Soviet satellite state. For more than a year now, European countries have been flushing out plans for the Nabucco pipeline, which would bring Middle Eastern gas to European consumers, also via Bulgaria. Its successful completion would give the EU an alternative [...]

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There were still many Germans who were skeptical of Hitler when he became chancellor in 1933. But Führer propaganda and military success soon turned him into an idol. The adulation helped make the Third Reich catastrophe possible. By Ian Kershaw more…

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How Pakistan’s Proliferator Could Help in Pyongyang
Either Kim Jong Il or Pervez Musharraf is lying about whether Pakistan’s Dr. Strangelove, Abdul Qadeer Khan, gave centrifuges to North Korea for uranium enrichment. Unless the truth can be established, the hitherto-promising denuclearization negotiations with Pyongyang are likely to collapse.
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A Debate:
Yes, The Cold war is on the verge of repeating itself but with a slight difference. Where the last Cold war was primarily caused by an arms race, territorial fears and differences in ideology we now stand on the brink of a Cold war caused by an energy race…
No. A simple answer that hides [...]

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US payments to beat proliferation attacked as ineffective.
A post-cold-war US programme that pays nuclear weapons scientists from the former Soviet Union to prevent them working for ‘rogue’ states has come under fire in Congress, after a governmental investigative report questioned its usefulness.
The Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention (IPP) programme run by the Department of Energy (DOE) [...]

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Hundreds of thousands of people are still stranded in airports and train stations in China following the worst winter weather for decades.
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Two of Russia’s top economic leaders made a rare public call on Wednesday for Moscow to change its hawkish foreign policy, saying it was affecting foreign investment.
The calls, by Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin and state electricity chief Anatoly Chubais, came ahead of March’s presidential election and were unusual because policy disputes among Russian officials [...]

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Turn all this inside out, as the Chinese have long learnt to do, and what you see is an admission of what ails China unparalleled in its candour. The discrepancies between the world’s awed assumptions about China’s “unstoppable” rise and the anxieties voiced in its burgeoning think tanks and universities have long seemed odd, as [...]

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Look into the eyes of Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, and what you see is a K.G.B.-trained mind that apparently cannot tolerate leaving any detail of an election to chance.
What else could explain the latest ugly twist in Russia’s rigged presidential election: the forced withdrawal of former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov for allegedly invalid [...]

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Four types of Merkava tanks were in action in Lebanon 2006, including Merkava Mk4, the Merkava Mk 2D (with its distinctive sloped turret), the standard Mk2 (mostly with reserve units), and Merkava Mk3Baz.
Towards the end of the fighting, Brigadier General Halutzi Rodoi, the chief of the IDF Armored Corps was asked to assess the performance [...]

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