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• Obama’s Brand of American Exceptionalism

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 659
  As I suggested in my previous post , I was troubled by some elements of the president’s recent Oslo speech. But recent statements by former VP Dick Cheney have helped me appreciate a key element of the speech that I enthusiastically…
  8 hours ago

• Suddenly, the Arab world wakes up to Yemens rebellion

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  The 30th summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council, meeting in Kuwait this week, expressed its solidarity with Saudi Arabia in its fight with the Shiite Houthi rebels in northern Yemen. The Kuwaiti emir noted that Saudi Arabia is facing "flagrant aggression that targets its sovereignty and security by those who have ...
  17 hours ago

• Chairman Mao’s Underground City

  
  Doobybrain.com — Authority: 618
  During the Cold War era, Chairman Mao built a vast underground city under Beijing . The city was built in hopes that if war did erupt between China and other countries (most notably Russia) that the city’s inhabitants would be able to retreat and still have a somewhat livable life underground. Of course, the city ...
  18 hours ago

• Letters: Obama’s Philosophical Life, Examined

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  To the Editor:.
  20 hours ago

• Thirteen Days (2000)

  
  Good News Film Reviews — Authority: 431
  Should I see it? Yes. This engrossing look at the Cuban Missile Crisis stars Bruce Greenwood (you’ll know him when you see him) as JFK and Steven Culp (you probably won’t know him when you see him) as RFK . Relatively honest, this film doesn ’t make the Kennedys out to be saints or geniuses. ...
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• Sarkozy’s tough message on climate – did it get through?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  After one and a half days of mostly uninspired and often irrelevant speeches by world leaders, French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked to the podium at UN climate talks in Copenhagen and produced a seven minute rallying cry - focused, energetic and packed with more punch than the rest put together. Jabbing his ...
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• The Communist cat is out of the climate change bag

  
  Bookworm Room — Authority: 627
  Since the beginning, climate change skeptics have said that the hysteria of the man-made global warming movement, aside from being based on manifestly shoddy and often dishonest science, was in fact a Leftist political gambit.  The Communists, having failed to win the world over with a Cold War had regrouped and were ...
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• feeling shoptimistic?

  
  Al Filreis — Authority: 131
  Lee Eisenberg over at Shoptimism links me with this headline: "Mutually Assured Consumption."
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• the very serious business of cold-war academics

  
  Al Filreis — Authority: 131
  At a conference on Totalitarianism held at the American Academcy of Arts and Sciences in 1953 (proceedings published in 1954, edited by Carl J. Friedrich), David Reisman (author of The Lonely Crowd and other books), who was one of the speakers at the conference, put forward his elaborate plan for a "nylon war" that ...
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• Russia blames US for tardiness in n-arms cut deal

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Moscow, Dec 17 (RIA Novosti) The US has slowed down talks on a nuclear arms reduction deal with Russia in the last few days, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday.Asked to comment on media reports that a new landmark pact to replace the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which expired Dec 5, is unlikely ...
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• Auxiliary verbs at 10pm and the scarcest resource – sleep

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The issues are global and urgent, but the bureaucracy can sometimes be mind-bogglingly slow and petty. After a day of stalled talks, the 193 nations at UN-led climate talks finally met for a plenary to discuss one of the main drafts floating around the summit, just two days (and two hours) from the deadline for a ...
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• Into the Storm – DVD Review

  
  Inside Pulse Movies — Authority: 144
  It’s in wartime that politicians tend to become more interesting; peacetime is just that. Peaceful. Secondary to the men fighting the war, the politicians waging it are often engaging and interesting to view. Winston Churchill has always been someone of interest in the Second World War, leading Britain from near ...
  2 days ago

• Can you trust the science?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Today we pose the question to our virtual panel of experts, “How far can we trust the science of climate change?” Join the debate and leave your comments below. Bjorn Lomborg , statistician and author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist”: The vast majority of climate scientists tell us that increases ...
  2 days ago

• Video: The Cold War After The Death Of Stalin (1953-56)

  
  Political Vindication — Authority: 121
  I found this 5 part documentary on the Soviet Union that highlights what was happening in the emerging super power right after the death of Joesph Stalin . It’s a great insight as to the power struggle behind the Iron Curtain, and how the Soviets dealt with their satellite nations when the people began to [...]
  2 days ago

• North Korea’s Funniest Home Videos: U.S. Imperialists aboard the USS Pueblo

  
  At Home In The Wasteland — Authority: 111
  Here is the North Korean Tourism DVD footage of our trip to the USS Pueblo in Pyongyang . In this clip you can hear the narrator describe how the “US armed spy ship Pueblo” was “captured by the heroic Korean People’s Army while committing espionage acts”. You can also see us “imperialists” playing ...
  2 days ago

• Obama Speaks (Some) Truth From Power

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 437
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• New : Cold War Kids :: “Behave Yourself” EP Trailer + Audience

  
  Ventvox — Authority: 142
  Here’s a double dose of the Cold War Kids, a trailer and the first release from the EP.  Feel free to take a visual or an audio gander if that’s your cup of tea or fill in whatever cliche I haven’t used yet.  Tour dates follow the track.Cold War Kids – AudienceTOUR DATES: January [...]
  3 days ago

• From behind the Iron Curtain to European Union membership

  
  Knowledge Network: Research and Opinions — Authority: 124
  Slovakian entrepreneur Peter Petrik , a 2000 Thunderbird graduate, talked Nov. 2 in Dallas, Texas, about changes he has seen in Eastern Europe since the end of the Cold War. Petrik, who grew up in the former Czechoslovakia, says he could look from his apartment across the Danube River and see into ...
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• Rainy Taiwan faces awkward water shortage

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
   Chronically rainy Taiwan faces a rare water shortage as leaders ask that people on the dense, consumption-happy island of 23 million finally start changing habits as dry weather is forecast into early 2010.  Taiwan, a west Pacific island covered with rainforests and topical fruit orchards, is used to rain in ...
  3 days ago

• Cold War Kids Announce New EP and Free Song

  
  Alter The Press! — Authority: 499
  Cold War Kids have announced a digital EP called Behave Yourself and will be released on iTunes on December 21st. A free download of the song Audience can be found here . A trailer for the EP can be viewed by clicking read more below. January 22nd Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern January 23rd ...
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