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Reports: Russia building anti-satellite weapons
SF Gate ^
| 3/5/09
| VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Posted on 03/05/2009 9:52:36 AM PST by pissant
Russia is working on anti-satellite weapons to match technologies developed by other nations and will speed up modernization of its nuclear forces, a deputy defense minister was quoted as saying Thursday.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: arms; coldwar2; communism; larrysinclairslover; obama; putin; russia; sovietunion
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To: pissant
DH Bump!
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posted on
03/05/2009 1:16:31 PM PST
by
WalterSkinner
( In Memory of My Father--WWII Vet and Patriot 1926-2007)
To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...
Obama's recent pledge to seek a ban on space weapons drew a mixed reaction from experts in the field
Without a Reagan in office saying "trust, but verify", it's another DOA proposal from the Amateur Hour president.
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03/05/2009 3:49:45 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Whoops, and thanks Ernest for the ping.
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03/05/2009 3:49:59 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I strongly sense Putin and his gang will toy with Zero for four years, to see how they can position themselves for the next ten or twenty. Of course if a man like Duncan Hunter where to run and become POTUS in 2012, things could yet be reversed back to favor the USA. That is, if there is any money left in the coffers by that period of time.
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posted on
03/05/2009 4:56:02 PM PST
by
Marine_Uncle
(I still believe Duncan Hunter would have been the best solution... during this interim in time....)
To: Thunder90; Lukasz; Tailgunner Joe; TigerLikesRooster
The ruble has slumped 35 percent against the dollar since July 4, compared with a 68 percent slide in the price of Urals crude, the countrys chief export blend, from a record $142.94.
The foreign reserves:
Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said the inflation rate could be as high as 14 percent this year, compared with 13.3 percent in 2008, as import prices rise and the government stimulates the economy by
running a budget deficit equal to 8 percent of gross domestic product, its first in 10 years.
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/article/1009/42/375116.htm
In February the inflation was 13.9 %. The Russian government is betting that the world economy will improve in a few months. However, that is a futile assumption and the corruption, bad loans and bad banks will cause a further economic meltdown in Russia. The question is if they will divert the domestic problem with attacks on Georgia and Ukraine?
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posted on
03/07/2009 12:42:26 AM PST
by
AdmSmith
To: AdmSmith
This is amazing how bad politic is realized by Kremlin. They don’t really need to pretend how great democrats they are, because this is not a problem for Russian people. Yet they are still unable to take advantage from this situation. I guess this is some incredible lack of economic education.
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posted on
03/10/2009 11:33:48 AM PDT
by
Lukasz
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