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Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Friday that some European leaders are openly preparing for war with Russia, accusing them of escalating tensions while ignoring their own citizens. Speaking during a meeting of Russia’s Military-Industrial Commission, Putin claimed that NATO continues to expand and that European governments are using the alleged Russian threat to justify increased military spending and cover up failures in economic and social policy. “Some European leaders openly say they are preparing for war with Russia,” Putin said, according to Interfax. Putin also insisted that Moscow has “no aggressive intentions” toward European countries and said Russia remains prepared...

NEW YORK -- The rapid growth of smartphones and electronic tablets is making the Internet the destination of choice for consumers looking for news, a report released Monday said. Local, network and cable television news, newspapers, radio and magazines all lost audience last year, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a research organization that evaluates and studies the performance of the press. News consumption online increased 17 percent last year from the year before, the project said in its eighth annual State of the News Media survey.

UN supervises destruction of six more Iraqi missiles as inspections continue 8 March – United Nations weapons experts today supervised the destruction of additional Iraqi missiles as the international disarmament probe continued in the country. FULL STORY>

A female caller called in on Monday to the Howie Carr Show. She told him that all he does in his spare time is scrolling FreeRepublic! HA!Carr laughed, and admitted that he often chose topics based on the number of replies an FR post got!While Howie is no Rush, he knows all too well of the corruption on Beacon Hill in Boston. Good show.

'Googleblog': Search Firm Gets into Weblogging By Ryan Naraine •    Search technology darling Google, Inc. has jumped on the weblogging bandwagon, rolling out a new feature with third-party links to the day's top news stories. The Mountain View, Calif.-based Google, which already posts links to news stories when returning search results, is beta testing a Google News Search, offering links from news organizations around the world to the day's headlines. Google officials could not be reached Wednesday morning to discuss the business end of Weblogging move, which points readers to news stories in five categories: world, U.S, business, entertainment,...