A brief world news roundup for 16 October 2009. United States & the Americas Treasury Dept – The U.S. Department of the Treasury today designated German national Bekkay Harrach, an al-Qa’ida member believed to be currently located in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area, for acting for or on behalf of al-Qa’ida. Yonhap – Japan’s chief nuclear envoy, Akitaka Saiki, will be visiting Washington for two days until Friday to discuss North Korea’s nuclear dismantlement, the State Department said Thursday.

Latin America Chile: Police & security forces investigating after bullet fired at Israeli envoy’s car, provided him with additional security. http://j.mp/3xUfAT Chile: Gov invokes Pinochet-era anti-terror law to prosecute Mapuche Indians in Araucania who set trucks on fire this wk http://j.mp/4f7tFG Chilean Copper Commission: Investment in copper & gold projects in Chile will reach about $43 Bn between 2009 & 2015 http://j.mp/1Z1gad Honduras: Negotiators reach agreement on plan to restore ousted president Zelaya to office & end the political crisis.

GREETINGS,I TOLD YOU THINGS WERE HEATING UP AS AMERICA TRIES TO KEEP UP HER HEGEMONISTIC WAYS AND R 29 Vote(s)

Russia is hoping to sign deals worth $5.5bn (£3.5bn) with China as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visits Beijing. The deals may lead to Russia selling more oil and gas to China - the world’s second-biggest energy user. About 30 contracts in infrastructure, energy, mining, transportation and telecoms have been lined up. Russia is keen to bolster its economy, [...]

I REST MY CASE! Does anyone else wonder how the Hussein Hopenchange administration can be dead wrong all the time? I mean, can’t they get ANYTHING right? Recent decisions to allow Russians to inspect our nuke sites and make it easier for the Chinese to steal our missile technology come to mind. Makes you think, doesn’t it? Yesterday, Hillary Clinton, the Queen of Cankles, the Princess of Polyester Pantsuits gave a speech in Russia at Moscow State University.

Do those who believe in traditional American traits of personal and individual responsibility, freedom, liberty and achievement just need to move? Are things better elsewhere? The issue isn’t whether it’s better elsewhere, but rather the degree of change that is coming to America and the drastic changing of expectations. A New Zealand, for example, already is fairly socialistic with regard to the US. BUT - people live on expectations, and expectations there are pretty set — here they are in enormous flux.

In response to InyoKern’s letter: The title of this discussion thread and the original text that went with it could just as well have been written by any of the well-scripted talking heads on mainstream F-TV (financial television). My initial inclination is to be diplomatic, but considering the exceptional economic times we are currently witnessing, I say, “Balderdash!” I could reasonably conclude that the majority of the readers of “Survivalblog” are more apt to follow unconventional economic

Russian car giant on verge of bankruptcyRussia’s largest carmaker Avtovaz is on the verge of bankruptcy and needs to cut almost 50,000 jobs if it is to have any hope of survival, a newspaper Thursday quoted a ministry memo as saying.The damning indictment, written by Deputy Industry Minister Andrei Dementiev to the government, also casts doubt on the cooperation with Avtovaz’s 25 percent shareholder Renault, the Kommersant daily said.Avtovaz will at the start of next year have 76.3 billion rubles

I was invited to participate in a discussion about Abkhazia and South Ossetia recently. There were, of course, quite a few Russians in on the discussion, and the talk turned to the USSR after someone mentioned that Abkhazia has just about stopped functioning since the collapse of the USSR; from what I understood from the conversation, Abkhazia is a rapidly-deteriorating time capsule of the USSR era.This was where the Soviet Russians (and one Ukranian) had their say.One of the participants said that the USSR was a wonderful place to be a child-”What do the kids have today?

Related post: http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/russia-well-nuke-first/Premier Wen Jiabao said Thursday that China intends to strengthen its cooperation with Iran, an indication Beijing would oppose growing calls in the West for additional sanctions against the Islamic regime for its nuclear program.Earlier this month, Tehran revealed that it was operating a previously undisclosed uranium enrichment facility near the holy city of Qom, deepening suspicions in Europe and the U.S.

Remember back during the campaign when Obama said this about potential VP choices?. Via Boston.com : I think a lot of people assume that might be some kind of military thing to make me look more commander-in-chief-like. Ironically, this is an area — foreign policy is the area where I am probably most confident that I know more and understand the world better than Senator Clinton or Senator McCain We are seeing how untrue this statement is with every passing day.

A Russian gambling ban that went into effect on July 1st, 2009 has had unintended consequences: many of the country’s millions of residents have started to frequent newly-formed internet cafes created specifically to offer online gambling.  According to a recent article, the number of internet cafes has tripled since the summer ban, with many officials lamenting loopholes in the new law.   “We are seriously concerned about the rise of surrogate technologies,” Moscow’s deputy mayor Sergei Baidakov said at a recent news conference.

October 15th, 2009 Posted in Ed’s BlogConrad Black on U.S. President Barack Obama: “This emperor still has no clothes, and it is not racism to notice it.” ZoomBookmarkSharePrintListenTranslateThe whole Obama era to date has been wasted in a historic, amateurish botch of the health-care issue. This began as a crusade for social justice — to cover the uninsured, whose numbers were suitably exaggerated, as most of them are people changing jobs from one health-insuring employer to another, or foreigners

So, apparently , a group of bleeding heart liberal pussies took a day hike up to the Arctic Circle to prove their religious beliefs about global warming. They made a bunch of measurements and found that the majority of the ice is first year ice and, on average, only 1.8 meters thick. Well, now they’re having a hissy because, according to their “water knowledge,” most of that ice won’t survive the next several summers and the caps will be virtually ice-free within the next 20 years. Pfft.

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“All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know …Until Now.” October 15 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Until We All Get Around To Dying Off - Marijuana… The Baby Boomer’s Medication Of Choice [ Pop Out Player? Click Here ] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It’s Here: [192kbps VBR 9:02 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary In The News: Russia and China are about to make an energy deal with Siberian Natural Gas being delivered to China.

October 15th, 2009 China and Russia will boost their cooperation in oil, gas, coal and nuclear energy, said a joint communique released Wednesday.Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin inked the communique in Beijing after a regular meeting on Tuesday. They hailed the progress in their energy cooperation, including the ongoing construction of an oil pipeline stretching from Russia’s Siberia to its far east, including a sub-line to China’s northeast.The two states

Ut-oh…this cant be good. (Unless you own something that does well when to dollar goes down) Russia ready to abandon dollar in oil, gas trade with China Putin in Talks with China BEIJING, October 14 (RIA Novosti) – Russia is ready to consider using the Russian and Chinese national currencies instead of the dollar in bilateral oil and gas dealings, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday. The premier, currently on a visit to Beijing, said a final decision on the issue can only be made after a thorough expert analysis.

FIFA President Sepp Blatter said Russia has a good chance to host the 2018 or 2022 World Cup when he met Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday. source: Yahoo! Sports – World Soccer News .free-ebay-store { font-size: small; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; } .free-ebay-store a { text-decoration: none; } .free-ebay-store img { border: 0 none; } .free-ebay-store td { vertical-align: top; font-size: small; width: 33%; padding: 20px;

Para quem tivesse dúvidas acerca de quem manda na Rússia, aqui fica o esclarecimento: Asked by reporters about possible differences with Mr. Medvedev on Iran, Mr. Putin said late Wednesday, “Our president determines foreign policy. If Dmitry Anatolievich [Medvedev] said [sanctions are] inevitable, they’re inevitable. But if you look closely at all his statements and the context he made them in, you’ll be convinced that there’s no steel-and-concrete determination toward sanctions.”