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this seems to be the place to watch now - especially with the break-up of the col lition governing the Ukraine right now: CRIMEAN POWER STRUGGLE Russia and Ukraine Jockey in the Black Sea By Walter Mayr The naval fleets of Russia and Ukraine share the port at Sevastopol on the Crimean...

Not perhaps overtly relative, but these are the issues the next President of the USA must deal with - according to these two individuals: Opinion A conversation with Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft Two former national security advisors look at how the world has changed. September 28...

Hello; Some further implications and something to watch in the coming months: Ukraine-Russia tensions rise in Crimea Residents of Sevastopol and the rest of the Crimean Peninsula have close ties to Moscow, and analysts say Ukraine could break apart if leaders push Russia away. By Megan K. Stack...

A post-mortem via the New York Times over the wider implications of this short war:  September 10, 2008 Russia’s Recognition of Georgian Areas Raises Hopes of Its Own Separatists By ELLEN BARRY MOSCOW — Tatarstan is a long way from South Ossetia. While South Ossetia is a poor border region of...

Bzzzt... Hi Jack, It's Asia.. and I know it's midnight, but i am wearing my black silk negligee and well.. it's a full moon and  I was just thinking of you and  i just wanted to ask you... How do you use make this sentence into a contrafractional conditional...?

Careful - you might get a cut from a jagged corner of that tin-foil - not to mention the box edge of the dispenser... toilet paper hats maybe - biodigradable of course, made from organically grown non-tropical trees sprinkled with non-acid rainwater....

Any-one a fan of off-beat sports - Aussie rules football, Boules etc.? I spotted this: The modern-day knights of Sete, France Boat jousting takes place on the waterfront, and honor is on the line. By Sebastian Rotella Los Angeles Times Staff Writer September 2, 2008 SETE, FRANCE — Behold the...

Actually it is about the Caucasus... Free speech, means it seems, I must tolerate your opinions, but you not mine.... nor the articles i find and post here in order to keep this debate alive -  articles by the way, I do not comment upon positively or negatively. As I am a teacher, and am used to...

Some other news from Russia:  Russian police accused in killing of man whose website criticized authorities TheSpec.com - News - Russian police accused in killing of man whose website criticized authorities By Vladimir Isachenkov MOSCOW — The owner of an independent website critical of...

An article in the Weekly Standard: Don't Cry for Russia The world's unlikeliest "victim." by Cathy Young 09/01/2008, Volume 013, Issue 47 As Russian tanks rumble through Georgia, and Western pundits talk of the "new Cold War," one trope keeps reappearing in their discourse. Russia's newly...

Dumbest thing today?  Bzzzzz - Dzien dobry! - Hi jack it's Aga! - Errr..hi! It's been a long time! What have you been up to? - Oh, the usual. Jack.. could we meet? I am having problems with my master''s paper. - Well, ok, look, I'll just walk my dogs and tell you what, we could meet downtown at...

Sigh.. modern stuff.. always making things complicated.. bad enough those American verses British panels - i don't know why they never made those bridgie handling parts more egonometric - you know  a bend in the carrying handles to ensure equal distribution of weight -thinking MGB here... I was...

Then there is "Pin knee" - you know, the medical condition that comes about when the guy hits the bloody thing THEN yells "Pin out!" . However,  "Pin knee' is one thing, "Pin balls" is another...

Actually, I think she said great grandpa.. but you know hearing.. and I think she was serious, but being an old sapper, i'm kind of bent over - I do think she was a honey.. at any rate she had nice ankles

;D Of course I'm at the age where I look at some sweet young thing - well from what i can see - and I think "Hey! She's a honey! I wonder what her mom looks like?"" or " Hey! I wonder if she can cook!"" The real beauty of getting old is that when you take off the glasses - all the girls look...

This is the President of the Ukraine's comments: quite astute actually: Georgia and The Stakes For Ukraine By Victor Yushchenko Monday, August 25, 2008; A17 KYIV, Ukraine -- The conflict in Georgia revealed problems that extend well beyond our region. Recent events have made clear how...

Any old sappers out there are subject to "EWBB/ MGB/ Airportable Bridge/ Class 30 ferry knees/ back etc." . My bones just say "Hey! You were really an idiot some 30 years ago weren't cha?".  I can't hold a pencil/pen due to arthritis - and when it's cold, wet and miserable.. them bones let me...

By the way, thel atest comments: Russia sees Georgia outcome as proof of its dominance The U.S. and other Western nations may not like what Russia is doing, but officials in Moscow believe those countries lack the leverage, strength or unity to intervene, analysts say. By Megan K. Stack Los...

Geo.. it isn't really that, the irritant is that people like the gentleman concerned holds in contempt our generation - the Dr. Strangelove generation. I still remember the Cuban Missile Crisis  - though a wee lad at the time - I also remember Prague Spring. Poland has always been a target -...

Mr. Flanker... Have you been here, do you have relatives that have endured the great and noble Russian way of rule? Everything Russia touches they destroy - look at the ecological disaster that is Russia today... One think you might think about, if Russia and the Russian way of life was so...