What is that strange globe behind Charlie Rose in his interview with Bashar al-Assad?

Charlie Rose ^ | May 30, 2010 | Rona Badger

[goat granny]

Watched a great Utube on some tribe in (?) russia or afganistan that train golden eagles and use them to hunt wolves....didn’t know golden eagles were as trainable as falcons....took 2 eagles to bring down a wolf...

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Awesome!

[Whenifhow]

Oh, he drives me up a wall! But it was a very interesting interview! Maybe there is a transcript...
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Accessed from this site
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2010/05/syria-president-assad-tells-charlie-rose-iran-supported-indirect-talks-with-israel-denies-scud-claim.html

here is a partial transcript:

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_23/b4181031662896.htm

[21stCenturion]

Looks like a crescent floating over the world.

Suggest anything which might be significant or merely ‘pleasing’ to followers of the good ol’ ROP ???

One man’s opinion ...

21stCenturion

[Rona Badger]

Maybe Syria is a bigger player than we all figured? This is scary, no matter how minuscule their tests:

Syria conducted nuclear experiments: IAEA document

[Rona Badger]

OMG -- I'm nuts, but I was reading another blog just now and that New Yorker cover was shown and I was looking at it and... notice something on the fireplace mantle????