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October 11, 1986

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:17:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: On the ride home and an administration official predicted, " you just won the cold war."

The soviets pleaded for new talks and agreed to Reagan's position. The cold war was won.

Clip Source: www.history.com

Just when it appeared that agreement might be reached, the talks fell apart amid accusations and recriminations, and U.S.-Soviet relations took a giant step backwards.

The sticking point arose when Gorbachev requested that the talks concerning the missiles be expanded to include limitations on America's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Referred to as the "Star Wars" initiative by opponents, SDI was one of Reagan's pet projects. A multi-billion-dollar program, SDI was supposed to use space technology to provide a "shield" from nuclear attacks.

Reagan refused to consider Gorbachev's suggestion, and the talks ended the next day, October 12, with no agreement in hand.

Candidates Mull ‘Evil Empire’

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:25:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Hmmm, people who in live in glass houses... should not throw stones

Clip Source: times.spb.ru

Candidates Mull ‘Evil Empire’

NASHVILLE, Tennessee — The U.S. presidential candidates assailed Russia in their latest debate, with Democrat Barack Obama saying Moscow had engaged in “evil” behavior and Republican John McCain saying it was “maybe” an evil empire.

In Tuesday’s debate, the two candidates were asked the barbed question, “Do you think that Russia under Vladimir Putin is an evil empire?” and were asked to reply “yes” or “no.”

Both stopped short of saying “yes” or “no” but made plain that they have problems with Russia.

“I think they’ve engaged in an evil behavior, and I think that it is important that we understand they’re not the old Soviet Union, but they still have nationalist impulses that I think are very dangerous,” Obama said.

“Maybe,” McCain answered, adding, “If I say yes, then that means that we’re reigniting the old Cold War. If I say no, it ignores their behavior.”

Moscow calls for anti-U.S. alliance

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:31:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: While Russia has insisted it was not intending to supplant NATO, Mr Medvedev made it clear that the US-dominated alliance was partly responsible for the war in the Caucasus by its failure to rein in Georgian "aggression".

This is the result of the U.S. throwing its weight around the world for far too long. It is human nature that if one person is constantly directing policy onto everyone else then that person is going to be knocked down for being perceived as a bully.

The time has come for the U.S. to relax its role as self appointed world police and let other nations handle their own affairs or we will be “uninvited to the party”.

Hopefully, future U.S. presidents will bury this old school ‘might is right’ mentality that Bush/Cheney revitalized when they took office.

Clip Source: www.canberratimes.com.au

THE President of Russia has called on Europe's leaders to create a new world order that would minimise the role of the United States.

Mr Medvedev spoke of a Russia that was "absolutely not interested in confrontation", and outlined plans for a new security pact to ban the use of force in Europe.

Mr Medvedev sought to show that the US was at the root of all the world's problems. He blamed Washington's "economic egotism" for the world's financial woes and then accused the Bush Administration of taking Europe to the brink of a new cold war by pursuing a deliberately divisive foreign policy.

While he called for a cooling of the noxious rhetoric that had blighted East-West relations over the past two years, Mr Medvedev clearly laid the blame for the deterioration on the US, which he said was again viewing Russia through the prism of the Cold War. "Sovietology, like paranoia, is a very dangerous disease, and it is a pity that part of the US Administration still suffers from it," he said.

Tags: russia, u.s., foreign policy, cowboys, bush, cheney

Cindy McPain goes Ridiculously Foul

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:25:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: What a dipstick twit. Pardon me Mrs. Doofus, but your lies are showing! Where does she get off? She's not worthy of sitting in the same room with Michele Obama.

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(CNN) — Cindy McCain, wife of Republican presidential candidate John McCain, appears to have sharpened her attacks against Barack Obama on the campaign trail in the final stretch of the race for the White House.

One day after she told a Tennessee newspaper Obama is running the "dirtiest campaign in American history," Mrs. McCain criticized the Illinois senator for voting against a bill to fund troops in Iraq, a regular line of attack from her husband’s campaign.

“The day that Senator Obama cast a vote not to fund my son when he was serving sent a cold chill through my body, let me tell you,” she told a Pennsylvania crowd before introducing her husband and Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin.

The vote Mrs. McCain is referencing came in May of 2007, when Obama was one of 14 senators who voted against a war-spending plan that would have provided emergency funds for American troops overseas.

A CNN fact check deemed the charge that Obama voted against troop funding "misleading."

The Other Humans

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:09:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: For a change of pace from the political arena...

This month's National Geographic has a very interesting article about the other humans who lived upon our planet, The Neanderthals. We know so little about the development of our species. Searching for information on it, will bring you many theories. Most agree though, that the human species, in one form or another have been around for a couple million years... Yet we have so little information on their evolutionary process to modern day man. Reading this very interesting article will make you acknowledge how vulnerable life is. So many species have come and gone and we have barely scratched the surface of realizing their existence. Perhaps we will never learn completely how life formed upon our planet and how we got to where we are today, but there's one fact for sure; Science will endure and will never give up its quest to bring us answers. National Geographic is a good way to keep up with new scientific discovery.

Clip Source: ngm.nationalgeographic.com

Current Issue October 2008
Table of Contents ››

Last of the Neanderthals

Eurasia was theirs alone for 200,000 years.
Then the newcomers arrived.

In March of 1994 some spelunkers exploring an extensive cave system in northern Spain poked their lights into a small side gallery and noticed two human mandibles jutting out of the sandy soil. The cave, called El Sidrón, lay in the midst of a remote upland forest of chestnut and oak trees in the province of Asturias, just south of the Bay of Biscay. Suspecting that the jawbones might date back as far as the Spanish Civil War, when Republican partisans used El Sidrón to hide from Franco's soldiers, the cavers immediately notified the local Guardia Civil.

But when police

inspected

they discovered the remains of a much larger—and, it would turn out, much older—tragedy.

Within days

officials had shoveled out some 140 bones

By the time scientists finished

Spain had its earliest cold case.

Tags: science, neanderthal, humans, education, anthropology

SPACE PROGRAM AT TURNING POINT

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:31:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: AMONG THE GEO-POLITICAL Difficulties with Russia, America is looking very depended and at a cross road. Where do we go now?

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

One Way Up: U.S. Space Plan Relies on Russia

STAR CITY, Russia — This place was once no place, a secret military base northeast of Moscow that did not show up on maps. The Soviet Union trained its astronauts here to fight on the highest battlefield of the cold war: space.

Yet these days, Star City is the place for America’s hard-won orbital partnership with Russia, where astronauts train to fly aboard Soyuz spacecraft. And in two years Star City will be the only place to send astronauts from any nation to the International Space Station.

The gap is coming: from 2010, when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration shuts down the space shuttle program, to 2015, when the next generation of American spacecraft is scheduled to arrive, NASA expects to have no human flight capacity and will depend on Russia to get to the $100 billion station, buying seats on Soyuz craft as space tourists do.

As NASA celebrates its 50th anniversary this month

NASA will be more reliant on Russia

Forecasts for the 25 Years...

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:03:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: From the page:
"A Crisis or an Opportunity? What Makes the Difference?

The critical difference is whether you are prepared. If you’re aware of possible developments… if you see changes coming… you can take action and prepare yourself. In a rapidly changing world, new opportunities are emerging everywhere. If you get an advance notice of these possible changes, you can be ready. You can ride these waves of change to benefit your career, your business, your family and your investments."

Why not changing ourselves as well? it seems as if all that will come should not affect us on deep levels, but why?
part of preparation is accepting the changing of human that may come.

Clip Source: www.wfs.org

Forecasts for the
Next 25 Years

Forecast #1: The world will have a billion millionaires by 2025.

Forecast #2: Fashion will go wired as technologies and tastes converge to revolutionize the textile industry.

color-changing or perfume-emitting jeans

Forecast #3: The threat of another cold war with China, Russia, or both could replace terrorism as the chief foreign-policy concern of the United States.

Forecast #4: Counterfeiting of currency will proliferate, driving the move toward a cashless society.

Forecast #5: The earth is on the verge of a significant extinction event.

Nanotechnology Breakthroughs of the Next 15 Years

Forecast #6: Water will be in the twenty-first century what oil was in the twentieth century.

Forecast #7: World population by 2050 may grow larger than previously expected, due in part to healthier, longer-living people.

Forecast #8: The number of Africans imperiled by floods will grow 70-fold by 2080.

Two to five years from now:

medical diagnostics on a single computer chip.

Tags: future, prediction

Download Fraulein Movie

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:42:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Yesterday, I downloaded Fraulein, A brilliant portrait of three women from former Yugoslavia-one Croat, one Serb and one Bosnian-searching for 'home' in the cold, alienating light of contemporary Zurich, and coming to terms with the war that lives in each of them.

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Winston Churchill Iron Curtain Speech 1946

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:55:35 GMT

clipped by: Hannah Bourke
clipper's remarks: Semester 2, 2008 Taiwan research assignment. Cold War information; from the Modern History Sourcebook

Clip Source: www.fordham.edu

The United States stands at this time at the pinnacle of world power. It is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with this primacy in power is also joined an awe-inspiring accountability to the future. As you look around you, you must feel not only the sense of duty done, but also you must feel anxiety lest you fall below the level of achievement. Opportunity is here now, clear and shining, for both our countries. To reject it or ignore it or fritter it away will bring upon us all the long reproaches of the aftertime.

No grounds for war with US - Russia

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:33:08 GMT

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Clip Source: www.news.com.au

No grounds for war with US - Russia

RUSSIAN President Dmitry Medvedev said he sees no ideological grounds for war with the US despite strained relations.

The Associated Press reports relations between the two countries are at a post-Cold War low, and were further damaged by Russia’s war with Georgia in August.

Mr Medvedev said yesterday the Cold War was based on differences that do not exist today.

“We do not have such ideological differences around which a new cold or any other kind of war could start,” he told AP.

He warned that NATO needs Russia more than Russia needs NATO, and that the outcome of the US presidential election in November shouldn’t affect relations between Moscow and Washington.

Tags: russia, us, war, relations, georgia

his104 ref

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:57:30 GMT

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Clip Source: ashford.blackboard.com

World Civilizations: Sources, Images, and Interpretation. (4^th Ed.) Vol. 1 Boston, MA: McGraw/Hill.

the end of the war, entered into a "Cold War" with the USSR (United Soviet Socialist Republics).

Sherman, D. Grunfeld, A.T. Markowitz, G. Rosner, D. & Heywood, L. (Ed's)

Will the Pentagon Be the Next U.S. Institution to Crash?

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:02:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks:

Clip Source: www.truthdig.com

The nuclear physicist Leo Szilard once remarked that the fall of the Soviet system would eventually lead to the fall of the American system. He said that in a two-element structure, the interrelationship and interdependence are such that the one cannot survive without the other.

This comment has been relayed by a friend, and as Szilard has passed to his reward I am in no position to explain his reasoning, but it is possible to restate it in political terms, and we are seeing the result in finance and in war. I think that Szilard was implying what a very intelligent opponent of the United States also said when the Cold War ended. Georgi Arbatov, former head of the U.S.A. and Canada Institute of the Soviet Union, said to an American interlocutor: We are about to do something truly terrible to you. We are going to deprive you of your enemy.

Without the enemy, the machinery of power begins to race, with nothing to resist it; megalomania sets in.

Tags: economics, cold war

Why in Turkey they don't want Obama's presidency

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:53:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: article contains one factual mistake--Armenians commemorate Genocide on April 24, and not April 16. For some additional info on why Armenians support Barack Obama and Joe Biden visit www.armenianamericansforobama.com

Clip Source: www.forbes.com

Yet Barack Obama has pledged he would support a genocide resolution. Worse for Ankara, his running mate Senator Joe Biden has long been an ally of Greek and Armenian lobbies in Washington and sponsored bills questioning Turkish policies on Cyprus and Armenia.

"John McCain on the other hand knows Turkey well and can understand our strategic value," the same Turkish politician tells me. Ankara essentially prefers a man who would have a nostalgic appreciation of Turkey's role in the Cold War and in containing Saddam Hussein, and not push for a "paradigm change" in that equation.

When Turks watch the results of U.S. elections in November, they will do with an eye toward April 16, the day Armenians commemorate what Turkish officials call "the so-called genocide," and hope Obama will not win.

Tags: armenia, armenians, obama, elections 2008, turkey

Gorbachev comeback no threat to Kremlin: analyst

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:18:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Just in time for the 21st century version of "Cold War".

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

He is loved by the West and loathed by the East and he is making a political comeback.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has teamed up with Russian tycoon Alexander Lebedev to form a new political party in Russia, provisionally named the Independent Democratic Party.

Some are calling it Glasnost revisited, others says Gorbachev's new party may not get off the ground. (AFP: Attila Kisbenedek)

A spokesman for the one-time Soviet president says Mr Gorbachev's intention is not to win seats in the parliament, but to provide an alternative platform for young Russians interested in politics.

But Alexey Muraviev, an analyst on Russian strategic affairs at Perth's Curtin University of Technology, says he suspects Mr Gorbachev's deeper desire is probably to regain some political respectability within Russia.

He says the new party is likely to have the backing of the Kremlin.

Tags: politics

Russia preparing for a possible full-scale military confrontation with the US

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:03:41 GMT

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Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Russia announced an overhaul of its strategic nuclear forces and army yesterday, in the clearest sign yet that Moscow may be preparing for a possible full-scale military confrontation with the US and Nato.

Speaking after Russia carried out its biggest military exercises since the cold war, Dmitry Medvedev, the president, said Russia would build a space defence system and a fleet of nuclear submarines by 2020.

This summer's brief war with Georgia, which led to a further rift between Moscow and the west, showed the need for Russia to have a strong military in a state of "permanent readiness", Medvedev said.

Tags: russia, military, nuclear, united states, nato

Clipmarks | Cold war Clips

October 11, 1986

Candidates Mull ‘Evil Empire’

Candidates Mull ‘Evil Empire’

Moscow calls for anti-U.S. alliance

Cindy McPain goes Ridiculously Foul

The Other Humans

Last of the Neanderthals

Eurasia was theirs alone for 200,000 years. Then the newcomers arrived.

SPACE PROGRAM AT TURNING POINT

One Way Up: U.S. Space Plan Relies on Russia

Forecasts for the 25 Years...

Download Fraulein Movie

Winston Churchill Iron Curtain Speech 1946

No grounds for war with US - Russia

No grounds for war with US - Russia

his104 ref

Will the Pentagon Be the Next U.S. Institution to Crash?

Why in Turkey they don't want Obama's presidency

Gorbachev comeback no threat to Kremlin: analyst

Russia preparing for a possible full-scale military confrontation with the US

Eurasia was theirs alone for 200,000 years.
Then the newcomers arrived.