Bush administration ruffles Russian feathers

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In bid to increase the number of enemies America has, Cheney has managed to ruffle Russian feathers....

Russian newspapers are taken aback by the criticisms of the Kremlin voiced by US Vice-President Dick Cheney at an eastern European summit in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Several take the view that the speech marks an attempt by the US to set up an anti-Russian regional grouping in place of the Moscow-led Commonwealth of Independent States.

One thinks the speech marks the resumption of the post-1945 Cold War, only with a new "front line".

Crap Source (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4979932.stm)

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The United States backs efforts to weaken Russia's grip by building new export routes for the enormous energy reserves of Central Asia, much of which now must pass through Russian territory to reach ports in the Black Sea or pipelines to Europe.

Cheney's visit to Kazakhstan, on Russia's southern rim, highlighted the balancing of U.S. interests, trying to counter Russian dominance in energy matters in the region by cozying up to states such as Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, which have spotty human rights records and limited democracy — and plenty of oil.

"The United States is trying to strike a difficult balance," said Tanya Kostello, an analyst at Eurasia Group, a New York risk consultancy. "It is trying to encourage the regime in Kazakhstan to move toward democracy while maintaining the economic ties."

The Kazakh president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, won a third, six-year term in December 2005, with 91 percent of the vote in an election that international observers said was flawed. Two opposition politicians have been slain in six months.



Same old stuff... OIL.

[Evil Dan]

Same old stuff... OIL.

It's all part of the oil for freedom program.

If the U.S doesn't keep liberating countries they may be forced into the wholly unatural position of exploring alternative energy souces; or God forbid............................. walking.

[Seeker]

Shit I know someone that drives to their mailbox, and they live in the burbs...sad fuckers.

[IamSpartacus]

I saw a documentary a few months ago about fat fuckers in the USA ...

In the section about exercise there was video and interview with a fattie mum in Texas who loaded her two fat children into a SUV and drove them thirty (30) yards !!!! to the school gate on the other side of the road. The school trip and back was captured on video in a static filming position. At the end of the day the children mobile 'phoned their mum once they'd waddled to the gate and she drove over to pick them up.

The road wasn't busy and the weather was fine. In the interview they didn't see anything wrong.