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2009-07-17 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Anonymoose 2009-07-17 18:55|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 80,000 merchants, the place must be huge.

Posted by Phil_B 2009-07-17 19:14|| 2009-07-17 19:14|| Front Page Top

#2 as is the amount of taxes these Chinese merchants aren't paying to Moscow.

Posted by lotp 2009-07-17 19:45|| 2009-07-17 19:45|| Front Page Top

#3 ION CHINA, WAFF > ASIA NEWS > AL QAEDA AGZ BEIJING AND KADEER AS CHINA ASKS FOR UNDERSTANDING IN THE MUSLIM WORLD + MUSLIM RADICALS AT IT AGAIN IN JAKARTA [ bomb attacks kill six] + NO LONGER ONLY BUDDHIST MONKS, MILITANT ISLAM PENETRATING INTO THAILAND [ desire Regional-Local AUtnonomy = integration wid Muslim Malaya].

Also, PAKISTAN DEFENCE FORUMS > WAR FOR GWADAR [ China vz-India]. INDIA fears CHIN STRATEGIC DENIAL = ENCIRCLEMENT VEE MYANMAR, TIBET, + PAKISTAN + "STRING OF PEARLS" MILPOL STRATEGY; + WATER THEFT BY INDIA POSES EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO PAKISTAN. INDIA steadily "drying up" = new water usage restrictions and regional dam projects, etc. ordered by New Delhi beginning to seriously affect Pakistan.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-07-17 20:20|| 2009-07-17 20:20|| Front Page Top

#4 MORE ION CHINA > BHARAT RAKSHAK [India] > INDIA: CHINA-PAKISTAN "BOUNDARY AGREEMENT" [PK-occupied Kashmir] IS ILLEGAL; + CHINA: SHOT UIGHURS CALLED FOR HOLY WAR [Jihad].

BR POSTER > NIGERIANS = AFRICAN WORKERS in Chin city of GUANGZHOU are protesting azg alleged anti-African/Nigerian incidents and other beahviors by lcoal police.

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