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POPSMedvedev calls Georgia's attack "Russia's 9/11"
“We must build a new security system based on international law, not on the might-is-right rule,” he said. Russia is no longer frail and weak, as it was in the 1990s, and will forge ties, including in the defence field, with any state that wants to be friends with it, whether somebody likes it or not, Mr. Medvedev asserted. As he spoke reports came that the Russian and Syrian naval commanders were discussing in Moscow plans for a Russian naval base in Syria, while Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki began talks with his Russian counterpart. A day earlier Russia’s long-range nuclear bombers flew on a training mission to America’s sworn enemy Venezuela. Russia and its Central Asian allies — Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan — will set up a large military force to fend off possible attacks in the region, the head of the Russia-led defence pact announced on Friday. General Nikolai Bordyuzha, Secretary-General of the Collective Security Treaty Organisatio
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POPS Kremlin: South Ossetia Will Join 'One United Russian State' Georgia announced that it was recalling all diplomatic staff from its embassy in Moscow in protest at the continued Russian occupation of its land in defiance of a ceasefire agreement brokered by President Sarkozy of France. “The regimes of Abkhazia and South Ossetia should think about the fact that if they become part of Russia, they will be assimilated, and in this way they will disappear.” Lado Gurgenidze, the Prime Minister of Georgia, scrapped agreements that had permitted Russian peacekeepers to operate in the two regions after wars in the early 1990s. Russia attacked the G7 after the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan condemned its “excessive use of military force in Georgia”. Having been rebuffed on Thursday by China and four Central Asian states, Russia will seek support next week from the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) for its recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
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POPSDublin Zoo: Nature's Way is Best Way I was reminded of this while visiting last week. I'm a member and had been informed of this in our newsletter. In the brand new extensive Zoo area, two new caves have been born. I love visiting my relatives with my grandchild.
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POPSUK: 3,000 Girls forced into Marriage "Of course, there are thousands of arranged marriages happening in Britain each year but that is very different, as both partners in these are willing participants. "We are talking about girls being very much coerced into those marriages, often not knowing beforehand who their husbands will be, and then having little or no rights once they are married. Most of them feel there is simply no one they can turn to.' Labour MP Margaret Moran, who helped set up the study in her constituency of Luton South, said she was shocked by the scale of abuse which they had uncovered. "It's uncomfortable for people to think about, but it can't remain this hidden any longer. "It's not simply about Muslim families; we also found that it happens among Chinese and African communities too, such as the Somali families. Nor is it something that comes across with new immigrants. ...Guardian
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POPSClinton fear ad makes Obama's face blacker and wider UPDATE 3-7-08: Factcheck.org writes: "without further evidence to the contrary, we see no reason to conclude that this is anything more than a standard attempt to make an attack ad appear sinister, rather than a special effort to exploit racial bias" Apparently all the images are darkened, not just skin tones, and this is standard (though yet despicable) attack-ad procedure. My apologies. The Afghanistan hearings issue is still utterly bogus; they were taken by the chair of the entire committee (Biden), and Obama was in attendance. Hillary, meanwhile, missed her committee's important war hearings in Feb, preferring to stay on the campaign trail (from where she shot at Obama for not having hearings)
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POPSElection Fever Epidemic Hits World Much of the fervid absorption in the primaries and caucuses — accessible as never before on 24-hour satellite and cable television channels like CNN and Fox News — seems inspired by a hope that the American electoral process will end an era of foreign policy dominance by neoconservatives. It is, perhaps, too early to guess what specific changes Europeans and other non-Americans expect from a new government. Many of America’s Asian trading partners worry about what they see as Democratic proclivities toward economic protectionism and stricter targets on greenhouse gas emissions. But there are broader concerns. As Ramesh Thakur, a political science professor in India, wrote: “We foreigners can but pray that the new president, whoever he or she may be, will return America to its strengths, values and the tradition of exporting hope and other optimism. And so help to lift America and the world up, not tear one another down.”
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POPSIran-USA Naval Confrontation Fabricated? Man...there's no way the USA would ever make up false reasons to start a war. What do you think this is: Another Gulf of Tonkin. I'm sick of all these liberals putting down the flag. We got to stand up to these 9/11 terrorist. Just because we have three (3) aircraft carrier fleets with hundreds and hundreds of jets and cruise missiles going back and forth along their coast line doesn't give them the right to intimidate us. We got a right to sail in International Waters with combat fleets 10,000 miles from home and they have no right to sail 12 miles off their coast and ask who we are: We're just not going to take these challenges anymore. Something has to be done. And the liberal namby-pamby claims that the audio on these tapes (added separately) are not actually Iranian voices and we don't know where this audio came from is just sheer caving into the enemy. Whenever I attack anyone, BTW, I always say: "I'm coming at you; I'm gonna blow you up."
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POPSGirls power on rise in Asia - hope The most important factor in changing attitudes toward girls was the radical shift in the country’s economy that opened the doors to women in the work force as never before and dismantled long-held traditions, which so devalued daughters that mothers would often apologize for giving birth to a girl.
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