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Digital Brothers Karamazov? Russian Theatre Moves To The Web

Just over a week ago, Russia held its sixth annual Web Theatre Festival. The... more

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How to Open 100,000 Bottles with a Forklift

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Battling climate change from space!

We've reached the final frontier in the war on CO2...last night at 2:50 am Central... more

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Ex-KGB Spy Gunned Down in Moscow

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8339290.stm "A Russian businessman who was... more

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Clean Space? Russia plans nuclear rocket for Mars, safe and ethical?

Russia will spend $600 million on a nuclear-powered spacecraft to take men to Mars,... more

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Narendra Modi diagnosed with swine flu

Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, who returned from a trip to Russia two days ago,... more

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More than life

There are many men and women in the world who every day risk their lives, their... more

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Più della vita

Ci sono tantissimi uomini e donne nel mondo che ogni giorno rischiano la vita, la... more

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Obama campaigns and dances while Russia arms Cuba?

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8 Great World Music Scenes: Trip on a Deal Episode 42

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Children of War

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From ecological Soviet-era ruin, the Aral Sea is reborn

Standing on the shore under the relentless Central Asian sun, Badarkhan Prikeyev drew... more

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Activist Killed in Russia- R.I.P Maksharip Aushev

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Morale Drops for Marines in Afghanistan

"“People here regard the American troops as occupiers,” said Haji Khan, a leader of the Baluch tribe, who rules like a medieval baron. “Young people are turning against them and in time will fight them.”

“I’m not much for this war. I’m not sure it’s worth all those lives lost,” said Sergeant Christian Richardson as we walked across corn fields that will soon be ploughed up to plant a spring crop of opium poppy.

A New Yorker who joined the marines after 9/11 and served two tours in Iraq, Richardson, 24, said his men had achieved much. “You can see we are making progress, slowly. But when we leave, the Taliban and Al-Qaeda will surely return.”

The platoon knows there are at least 20 booby-trapped bombs on the high ground around the base. More than half the men have already been caught in blasts. One marine explosive expert was killed; others suffered broken legs and amputated feet. Three have survived two explosions and come back to fight again.

Later, a marine intelligence officer said the drug economy and the feudal system made the strategy of winning hearts and minds extremely complex. As drug producers, men such as Khan had a “working relationship with the Taliban”.

Nobody knew of the announcement last week in Kabul of a new round of national elections. Nobody voted in the first round. “We never even heard of elections. If we had, I suppose we might have voted,” said one villager."

You may wonder why NATO supports adding 40,000 more American troops to occupy Afghanistan. Well, when you look back at the Opium Wars and, here's a quote from Wikipedia of all places:

"The success of the First Opium War allowed the British to resume the drug trafficking within China. It also paved the way for the opening of the lucrative Chinese market and Chinese society to missionary endeavors."

you'll find that the British got the Opium from Afghanistan and they've been trying to control it ever since. When the Soviets tried to invade Afghanistan, not to spread Communism, but to get the Opium as well, the British intelligence and their American surrogates (b/c the British use the American military to fight its wars b/c they are weak and also co-conspire to stage world events) funded and armed the Taliban to fight them off.

I won't even get into 9/11 except for the fact that all the hijackers were Saudi Arabian (Al Qaeda=CIA), but anyway, our soldiers are dying because of Heroin, not Terrorism, Heroin. Terrorism is a front to introduce a police state, Big Brother, surveillance society: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/world/europe/25surveillance.html. Its a method to divide the people along religious lines; they've been doing it since the Crusades and laughing all the way to the Swiss bank.

Its going to be a long, cold winter for our troops in Afghanistan and when the spring comes, the Taliban will surge and kill a lot of Americans (thousands). Imagine being 22 years old and being sent to a remote mountain in Kandahar; you're a sitting duck, surrounded by militants who don't care if they die. There's no way we can win. We need to demand that our troops be brought home before they're sent back in body bags."“People here regard the American troops as occupiers,” said Haji Khan, a leader... more