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Reuters: Russia wants warships stationed around the world

Russia's military leaders approved a plan by the navy on Sunday to station warships permanently in friendly ports across the globe. Underfunded since the 1991 break up of the Soviet Union, the Russian navy has been reasserting itself over the last year by chasing Somali pirates around the coast of east Africa and steaming across the Atlantic to visit allies in South America. "The General Staff has given its position on this issue and it fully supports the position of the (Navy's) main committee," deputy chief of staff Colonel-General Anatoly Nogovitsyn told RIA Novosti news agency. A resurgent navy has become central to a strategy for Russia - which enjoyed a decade of economic revival from 1998 - to project itself in foreign affairs. In August a Russian diplomat said the navy was to make more use of a Syrian Mediterranean Sea port. Last month a Russian warship cruised off Cuba after visiting South America for the...

Guardian: Russia flexes its military muscle

As Russia once again resorts to aggressive economic tactics in its latest dispute over gas supplies with neighbouring Ukraine, its official state documentation is raising the spectre of future military conflict over energy resources. Russia's security council prepared a draft document on national security strategy until 2020. At a joint security council and state council meeting held in Moscow on 25 December and chaired by Russia's president, Dmitry Medvedev, the document in question was to be discussed, but this was postponed at the last minute,..

Reuters: Russia gas disruption spreads to Czechs, Turks

Russian gas supplies to the Czech Republic and Turkey dropped on Sunday, the latest victims of a deepening row between Russia and Ukraine over debts and pricing. Russian natural gas supplies fell by five percent to the Czech Republic as a result of the stand-off, which began when Russia cut off the gas to Ukraine on New Year's day. The two sides blame each other for the dispute. "It is the first...

Times: Shell among contenders to develop big Iraqi oilfields

A giant oilfield lying beneath suburban Baghdad is among 11 being studied by Royal Dutch Shell and other Western oil companies, after the Iraqi Government opened them up to foreign companies this week. In a drive to double Iraq's crude oil output within four years, its Oil Ministry is offering up a second round of long-term contracts to develop some of the country's biggest oil and gas fields. The batch includes the East Baghdad oilfield, which stretches beneath the outskirts of the capital and is thought to contain more than 9 billion barrels,..

ExpInd: China tested 1st N-bomb for Pak in 1990: US arms expert

Washington China had tested for Pakistan its first nuclear bomb as early as in 1990, enabling Islamabad to respond within weeks to the Indian atomic tests eight years later, a top US nuclear expert has claimed. "The Chinese did a massive training of Pakistani scientists, brought them to China for lectures, even gave them the design of the CHIC-4 device, which was a weapon that was easy to build a model for export," former US Air Force Secretary Thomas Reed told American news magazine 'US News and World Report'. Reed, who had worked at Livermore...

Reuters: France seeks Gaza truce as Israel presses assault

Combat between Israeli troops and Hamas militants raged on Monday as Israel pressed home its ground assault in Gaza in the face of French-led diplomatic efforts to broker a ceasefire. The offensive will go on until communities in Israel were safe from Hamas rocket strikes, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said. But Hamas said militants were justified in attacking Israeli schools and synagogues in response to the Israeli onslaught, in which about 530 Palestinians have been killed in 1O days. The death toll in besieged Gaza mounted on Monday. Victims...

DM: Blair, his 'sexy' Catholic aide... and their new Yale HQ near her Opus Dei father's office

Tony Blair is setting up an American office for his religious charity in a move that sheds new light on his close links with Ruth Turner, his controversial former Downing Street aide. Ms Turner, 38, who was at the heart of the cash-for-honours inquiry in 2006 and 2007, was chosen by the former Prime Minister last spring to run his new Tony Blair Faith Foundation. It has...

WP: U.S. Debt Expected To Soar This Year

With President-elect Barack Obama and congressional Democrats considering a massive spending package aimed at pulling the nation out of recession, the national debt is projected to jump by as much as $2 trillion this year, an unprecedented increase that could test the world's appetite for financing U.S. government spending. For now, investors are frantically stuffing money into the relative safety of the U.S. Treasury, which has come to serve as the world's mattress in troubled times. Interest rates on Treasury bills have plummeted to historic lows,..

WP: Governors Call for $1 Trillion Stimulus to Offset Budget Cuts

To help offset state budget cuts, a group of Democratic governors urged the federal government Friday to pass a $1 trillion economic stimulus package, significantly larger than the one under discussion in Congress. The package would help states compensate for cuts to education spending that could cause long-term economic decline, as well as bolster infrastructure projects and benefits programs for the poor, the governors from New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Ohio and Wisconsin said in a news conference. Congress is...

MW: Economic outlook worsens: IMF chief economist

The outlook for the world economy has clearly worsened over the past two months, hurt by a simultaneous drop in business and consumer confidence around the globe, Olivier Blanchard, the International Monetary Fund's chief economist, said Saturday. In an interview with MarketWatch, and later in a presentation to the American Economics Association, Blanchard spelled out his latest views on the global recession. The IMF's updated official forecast, to be released later this month, "is going to be more pessimistic" than the prior outlook, which...

IHT: Transforming the world amid a mood of crisis

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, instability in Pakistan and the threat of nuclear proliferation in Iran would have been more than enough to crowd out any thought of long-range planning on the part of Barack Obama's incoming national security team. Now the Middle East is in flames again. And yet a wide range of foreign policy experts are...

WP: Richardson Withdraws Name as Commerce Secretary-Designee

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has withdrawn his name from consideration as commerce secretary for President-elect Barack Obama, citing an ongoing investigation about business dealings in his state. Richardson, 61, who competed unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination, was secretary of energy and U.N. ambassador during Bill Clinton's presidency, and also the first high-profile Latino...

WND: Pat Robertson: God says U.S. will accept socialism

Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network, announced at his staff's annual prayer retreat that God told him Americans would embrace socialism in 2009 "in order to relieve their pain" and that the economy would rebound under an Obama administration. "The Lord said the economy of your nation will recover," Robertson told a group assembled at Founders Inn on the campus of Regent University in Virginia Beach, Va., a university Robertson founded. Robertson said God also declared,..

USAToday: Bush dynasty? Ex-president touts son Jeb for top job

Another President Bush? Perhaps so, says former President George H.W. Bush, who has already seen one son, George W., serve in the Oval Office. The nation's 41st president said Sunday that he would like to see a second son, Jeb, be president one day. Jeb Bush is the current president's younger brother and a former popular governor of Florida. He is mulling a run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Florida...

GSNMag: DHS to push 'certification' of private sector preparedness efforts

The Department of Homeland Security is gearing up to promote a program across the country that will push the accreditation and certification of preparedness efforts undertaken by organizations in the private sector. This private sector preparedness initiative, known as "PS-Prep" will assess whether a private sector organization - such as a commercial company, non-profit group or educational institution – complies with...

WT: Gay marriage backers target New England

Two New England states have already legalized same-sex marriage, and a Boston-based advocacy group wants to see the other four join them. Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, known as GLAD, has launched a first-of-its-kind regional campaign aimed at winning approval for same-sex marriage in the six-state New England region by 2012. Same-sex marriage is already legal in Connecticut and Massachusetts, a result of court decisions in cases brought by GLAD lawyers. The 2003 Massachusetts decision was the first...

DM: Hell on earth: The rampaging super swarms of birds and insects invading suburbia

At what looks like the mouth of hell, a terrifying swarm of locusts devastates crops, eating everything in its path. On the other side of the Atlantic, clouds of 'smoke' rise from Africa's Lake Victoria and hover over the water. On closer inspection, these apparitions are a blinding, choking maelstrom of midges sparked into existence by the continent's wet season. Great swarms are one of nature's most bewitching creations. Made up of millions or even billions of creatures, they possess an intelligence that is beyond scientific understanding and can...

TG: Government plans to extend powers to spy on personal computers

The technique, known as "remote searching" involves bugging computers in homes and offices in order to monitor website use and email traffic. The Home Office is backing proposals by the EU council of ministers to extend electronic surveillance on private property. It would allow other European nations to request surveillance by British police. The proposals have raised concerns among civil liberties groups and Shami Chakrabati, director of Liberty, said: "These are very intrusive powers, as intrusive as someone busting down your door and coming...

CBS: How Technology May Soon "Read" Your Mind

How often have you wondered what your spouse is really thinking? Or your boss? Or the guy sitting across from you on the bus? We all take as a given that we'll never really know for sure. The content of our thoughts is our own - private, secret, and unknowable by anyone else. Until now, that is. As correspondent Lesley Stahl reports, neuroscience research into how we think and what we're thinking is advancing at a stunning rate, making it...

TheAge: CIA tracking 4000 UK terror suspects

THE CIA has begun an unprecedented intelligence-gathering operation in Britain to help MI5 monitor 4000 terrorist suspects. More than four out of 10 CIA operations to prevent attacks on US soil are now conducted against targets in Britain. This has led to friction between British and American spies, with some US intelligence officers irritated that resources are being diverted to gather intelligence on suspects in their closest ally's backyard. British...

RT: Apocalypse now – could the internet seize up altogether?

While the internet has significantly eased lives of millions, the research by U.S. experts says the web is getting clogged up with traffic and the network might vanish in 2015. "The world will become bigger again, the feeling that we share the same planet will disappear and the science will not be developing as quickly as it’s developing now," said Dmitry Glukhovsky, a popular Internet writer on the prospective. Although high-speed connections are...

Marshfieldnewsherald: Amish farmer from Loyal charged for not registering animals

Emanuel Miller Jr., 28, of Loyal, has been charged with a civil forfeiture for failure to comply with the state livestock premises registration law. He faces a fine of up to $5,000. The Country Today reports that state agricultural officials discovered about 54 unregistered livestock farms while dealing with an outbreak of pseudorabies at a pig farm near Greenwood...

USAToday: Home schooling grows

The ranks of America's home-schooled children have continued a steady climb over the past five years, and new research suggests broader reasons for the appeal. The number of home-schooled kids hit 1.5 million in 2007, up 74% from when the Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics started keeping track in 1999, and up 36% since 2003. The percentage of the school-age population that was home-schooled increased from 2.2% in 2003 to 2.9% in 2007. "There's no reason to believe it would not keep going up," says Gail Mulligan, a statistician...

ANW: UFO photographed by army sergeant in Chile

On December 6, three days before the outstanding UFO sightings over Santiago de Chile were recorded, Army sergeant Fernando Yáñez Muñoz a snapped the above photo of what seems to be a starship hovering over the 3,125 meters high Llaima volcano, within the Congûillio National Park in southern Chile. One of the largest and most active volcanoes in Chile, the Llaima erupted...


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