Multicultural Blogs - update

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transatlantic daily NEWS "International Stuff" [introduction]

Hargitay - Palin ▪ Republic Convention ▪ Ukraine ▪ Google Issues

Seminar ▪ Palin’s Speech ▪ McCain ▪ Convention Outfits ▪ Google Chrome

Controlling Mortgage Giants ▪ Introduction & Interviews ▪ Irregularity

Federal Takeover & Mortgage Reform ▪ SPD ▪ MTW LA ▪ Venice ▪ Black Sea

Severance Pays & Sketching Plans ▪ MTW Awards ▪ Margin Shift ▪ Wrestler
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Frank-Walter Steinmeier to run against Chancellor Angela Merkel

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Germany's beleaguered Social Democratic party (SPD) yesterday named the foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, to run against Chancellor Angela Merkel in next year's general election.

With the nomination of a moderate, the SPD hopes to halt its sinking popularity and resolve an internal battle between old-school leftwingers and liberal reformists.

An emergency meeting of party leaders near Potsdam, outside Berlin, also named Franz Müntefering to replace Kurt Beck, who is stepping down as party chairman. … Guardian UK
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Multicultural Blogs - update

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transatlantic daily NEWS "International Stuff" [introduction]

New Orleans ▪ Breakaway Regions Conflict ▪ Alexandria’s Carlyle Club

EU’s Leverage (~Russia) ▪ Most Powerful Woman ▪ Republic Convention

Threatening Russians ▪ Obama’s Speech ▪ Sarah Palin ▪ Madonna (50)

Sarah Palin ▪ Obama’s Denver Speech ▪ Grain Paintings ▪ Project Robo Fly

EU Emergency Summit ▪ Caucasus (Historic) ▪ New Orleans Evacuation

Europe & Russia (CNN) ▪ Caucasus Area (Suspicion) ▪ Florida ▪ Ladies

Designed EU Steps ▪ Actresses & Marketing Perspective ▪ D’Onofrio
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Barack Obama’s Historic Nomination Speech (US Democrats)

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Denver (Colorado) – August 28, 2008

Excerpt - We meet at one of those defining moments - a moment when our nation is at war, our economy is in turmoil, and the American promise has been threatened once more.

Tonight, more Americans are out of work and more are working harder for less. More of you have lost your homes and even more are watching your home values plummet. More of you have cars you can't afford to drive, credit card bills you can't afford to pay, and tuition that's beyond your reach.

These challenges are not all of government's making. But the failure to respond is a direct result of a broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W. Bush.

America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.

This country is more decent than one where a woman in Ohio, on the brink of retirement, finds herself one illness away from disaster after a lifetime of hard work … Full text at TPM.com
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Multicultural Blogs - update

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transatlantic daily NEWS "International Stuff" [Introduction]

NATO–US–EU–Russia ▪ Saakashvili’s Background ▪ Punishment ▪ Embarrassment

Caucasian States & Provinces ▪ Socratic Juristic Debate ▪ Ethics

Caucasus Conflict Debate ▪ Ukrainian Issue ▪ Disenchantment ▪ Humanism (gbs)

Caucasus Region ▪ Russian Politics ▪ Independence Ambitions ▪ Community

Press Club on Caucasus Conflict ▪ Mikheil Saakashvili ▪ Gwen & Dolls

Press Club (~Abkhazia) ▪ Olympics ▪ Joe Biden ▪ Dominion Day ▪ Grain Usage

EU & Russian-Georgian Conflict ▪ The Obamas ▪ Olympics Fashion
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NATO - USA – Russia \ Eastern and Western European Interests

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Condoleezza Rice stated on August 18: NATO must “deny Russian strategic objectives, which are clearly to undermine Georgia's democracy, to use its military capability to damage and in some cases destroy Georgian infrastructure and to try and weaken the Georgian state.”

Eastern European countries have largely followed America’s line, fearing that a resurgent Russia is once again a direct threat to their interests.

In contrast a group of west European countries, notably France, Germany and Italy, is anxious to avoid greater confrontation with Russia. Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, strongly criticised Russia’s actions this weekend, even as she stood beside Mr Medvedev in Sochi, a Russian coastal resort near to Georgia. She said that Russia’s response to Georgia’s (ill-considered) attack on South Ossetia was both “disproportionate” and “unreasonable.” But German dependence on energy from the east - roughly half of the 80 billion cubic metres of gas consumed in Germany each year are now piped from Russia - encourages others, such as her foreign minister and the former chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, to seek a more emollient line. Mr Schröder told Der Spiegel this week that Europe should “maintain a strong relationship with Russia”, adding that “there is not a single critical problem in world politics or the global economy that could be solved without Russia.” … Economist.com
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Multicultural Blogs - update

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transatlantic daily NEWS "International Stuff" [Introduction]

Russian-Georgian War ▪ Beijing Olympics ▪ Evolution Theory (vs. ID)

Russian-Georgian Conflict ▪ Paul McCartney’s Kiev Concert ▪ Kruszelnicka

Caucasus War ▪ Tbilisi Museum ▪ Hayes ▪ Rockefeller ▪ Fuel Economy

Russian-Georgian EU Peace Plan ▪ Management Message: Power of Belief
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