Britain is preparing to "sell" Georgia and hand a "victory" to Russia by agreeing to start talks on a partnership agreement between Moscow and the European Union, according to senior European diplomats. This would amount to a return to "business as usual" and a "clear signal" that Russia had escaped any lasting diplomatic penalty for invading Georgia in August, they said.
Only eight weeks ago, Gordon Brown helped persuade other European leaders to punish Russia for its strike into Georgia by postponing talks on a new "Partnership and Cooperation Agreement" with the EU. Aside from verbal condemnation and a general review of the EU's relations with Moscow, this was the only tangible counter-measure imposed on the Kremlin after the war.
Both the Prime Minister and David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, reaffirmed Britain's position during a European summit two weeks ago.
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That's nothing compared to an Obama admin handing Britain to Mecca.
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Obama doesn't have to hand Britain to Mecca. Britain is doing that all of it's onezies.
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Thanks Dear Leader. What he means to do is triple the price of electricity production for the Average American. Then use the massive can and trade taxes to subsidize his favored people.
Americans can freeze in the dark just like in North Korea, but the Party supporters will have heat and light. How about confiscating the farmers' productivity too?
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People, our coal plant generates power that we sell for about $40 a megawatt. That includes the cost of the building, boiler, turbine, fuel, and salaries. Not to mention assorted other costs that are included but the $40/MW is fairly constistant.
Natural gas plants which we have 4 of in our system, the FUEL COSTS ALONE AVERAGE! $90/MW!
Wake up people, we should remember to pray for America that this joker is not elected.
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My neighbor heats with wood, and his splitter uses gasoline! He oftentimes uses kerosene lamps. Is there a number I can call... TO REPORT HIM to the Civilian National Security Force?
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Like I said yesterday, this is just a social experiment to see how much crap you can throw at the liberal democrats and still have them bow down before you.
Just like 3rd Rock, when Sally wanted to see how far she push men and still have them come back for more.
They them them they will raise their taxes, create a civilian security force, they use government officials to investigate private citizens and silence opposition, they want to lose the war we already won, they want to spread the wealth around when they live in huge estates, they you to drive a prius while they fly in private jets. Bow down, fools, bow down.
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While I hope Betty is right, I think you have to take them at their word when it comes to their far-left lunacy.
Bad - they don't need to take outright. As our nation's founders well knew, "the power to tax is the power to destroy." The tranzies are set to take total control of the U.S. government. I'm not sure that we'll ever recover from the destruction they're going to unleash after zero takes the oath.
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PBMcl - Actually, I think your assesment is far more accurate. But you have to wonder sometimes. They keep scheduling their global warming events for the coldest dates on record. And the trend is actually cooling rather than warming. Yet still their minions rise up and say sieg heil! Obama stands for everything they are against and yet like this headline, the dem's keep piling on more. It's like they want to see how far they can get these people to humiliate themselves.
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If 47% of our country WANTS to elect this a-hole as president we're already fucked people. If they really want this kind of a future for our country we really have lost, even if McCain win the election by a sliver of a percent.
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What most people don't understand when they hear about the Civilian National Security Force and how it will have the same budget as the US military is that Obama does not intend to raise the new organization up to the size and status of the military but wants to pull the military down to the size and status of the peace corps. Fill barracks and military housing nation-wide with homeless and the poor. Sell off military assets to countries with oil money to buy them. It will help make his other money promises work, at least in the short term.
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Because Liberals are not liberal. It's about attaining and exercising power to remake society to do their bidding.
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docob, good call, one of my favorite Neil songs (also covered well by the Beat farmers)
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11/02/2008 13:09 Comments ||
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The "Brown Shirt" picture is an appropriate imagery. We have the police across the country now. I would assume the Civilian National Security Force would have different functions such as firearm confiscation, making certain people don't speak out against The Leader, nationalization of just about everything...
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I caught a lot of crap from some people several years ago when I was talking about DECONSTRUCTION--the goal of many in the academic/political elite to tear down society and rebuild it in their image.
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you are wrong about using military barracks for the homeless... those are sub standard for the homeless... only suirable for troops. there was a base (closed by BRAC i think) in Seatle area. cant remember the name, but the libs wouldnt let hoeless live there. claimed that it was inhumane and demeaning for them.
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homeless even... PIMF
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DMFD -you assume (a) that there will be an election, and (b) if so, that there won't be 50 million or so dead/imaginary voters pulling the "D" lever. Think 'the Chicago Machine' on a continental scale...
Relief workers are still discovering mountain villages destroyed by the earthquake in Balochistan that have yet to receive aid, the Red Cross said on Saturday.
The 6.5-magnitude quake hit Ziarat district on Wednesday, destroying 3,000 mud-walled houses. Officials say the official death toll of 215 is likely to rise past 300.
The United Nations said the jolt damaged 128 schools in the district. In all, 108,000 people were affected, half of them children, UNICEF said in a statement late on Friday.
Authorities and the army are trucking tents, sleeping bags and food packages to villagers in the affected valleys of the province. However, survivors have complained about the pace of the relief effort. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said there was still a 'huge need' for tents and blankets. With winter closing in, tents need to be insulated or fitted with stoves, ICRC spokesman Marco Succi said. He said relief teams were still finding tiny, remote villages that had seen no assistance.
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Where's the Arab League? They are always hanging around, shooting off their mouths, but when its time to write a check they're nowhere to be found.
I guess we could do it, but history shows they'll hate us for helping them.
Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat removed PML-Q Women's Wing President Sumera Malik from the office on Saturday, after she beat up a female MNA from her party for not attending a dinner at the President's House.
Sources familiar with the incident told Daily Times that Sumera and her husband, a bureaucrat, went to MNA Nosheen Saeed's house at 2:30am. She told her colleague she had let her down by not showing up at the dinner despite a commitment. She also alleged that the MNA had been talking to TV anchors about her. A quarrel followed and Sumera beat the MNA up, the sources said, and her husband had to intervene.
They said she was perturbed because of a poor show of strength at the dinner. A party member said the MNA's children had not gone to school and that she was not talking to the media 'fearing she might be thrashed again'.
The sources said Sumera's husband had also called journalist and TV anchor Nusrat Javed and threatened him, after he criticised Sumera in his show.
PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, former Punjab chief minister Pervez Elahi and Senator Tariq Azeem visited the MNA at her house later, the sources said.
A senior PML-Q leader had told Daily Times earlier on Saturday the party "has decided to take disciplinary action against some members, including Sumera Malik".
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Iranian Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari has announced that Iran will cut crude sale to France's Total company by 70,000 barrels per day.
"The cut comes on the heel of Iran's decision to slash its production by 199,000 bpd based on a newly specified OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) quota," IRNA quoted Nozari as saying. He referred to Total as one of the clients of the National Iranian Oil Company and maintained that other clients would be gradually notified of their share of reduction.
Without referring to the size of Total's oil purchase from Iran, he ruled out any political motivation in the sales cut. "Iran expected all OPEC members to lower their oil production according to the declared quota based on the decision made by the oil cartel last week," Nozari said on Friday, adding that "Until we are able to achieve stability in the oil market and OPEC makes a new decision on the issue, the trend will continue."
He also said OPEC may hold another emergency meeting prior to the December meeting in Algeria if crude oil prices continue falling.
Iran, which holds an estimated recoverable oil reserves of 138 billion barrels, produces 4.2 million barrels of oil per day.
At the emergency meeting in Vienna on Oct. 24, OPEC ministers agreed to reduce output by 1.5 million barrels a day to 27.3 million bpd from Nov. 1 in an attempt to prevent prices falling further.
Oil prices fell to below USD 65 a barrel in New York on Friday as the prospect of a shrinking global economic growth and weakening energy demand weighed on the market.
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As agricultural commodity prices plunge, Asia's exporters are increasingly looking to joint international action to support values, but many of the forces driving down prices appear to be beyond even multilateral control.
"Governments can't do much," said Mahfuz Ahmed, an agricultural economist at the Asian Development Bank in Manila. "They could not control the price increases earlier in the year and they can't control the price fall."
The Reuters/Jefferies CRB Index, which measures commodity prices, is down 42 percent from its all-time high in early July, at levels last seen in December 2004.
Asian governments have had to switch their concerns from poor consumers who were having trouble affording food to farmers who are seeing their incomes plummet. Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, which produce about 80 percent of the world's natural rubber, got together this week to look for ways to shore up prices, which have fallen by almost half since June, leading to a number of buyers defaulting on their contracts.
Indonesian exporters on Wednesday canceled more than 60,000 tons of rubber shipments after Chinese buyers refused to pay agreed-to prices.
The three countries arranged to accelerate their program to cut down old rubber trees, reducing rubber production by about 210,000 tons, news that led to a 9 percent surge in rubber futures on the Tokyo Commodities Market. But the cut represents just 2 percent of world production, and with the rapid cooling in the automotive industry -- tires account for 85 percent of global rubber consumption -- the agreement's long-term effects are likely to be limited.
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"'Governments can't do much".... 'They could not control the price increases earlier in the year and they can't control the price fall.'"
Dang! An honest man.
That won't last long....
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Lol! Go ahead and make it worse on yourselves. You're gonna wish you had those trees instead of a short bump in prices.
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Also hurting the ability of farmers in the United States to pay their interest rates. How about a bailout?
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Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat removed PML-Q Women's Wing President Sumera Malik from the office on Saturday, after she beat up a female MNA from her party for not attending a dinner at the President's House.
