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  • Sad Obama snatches private time with ailing granny

    10/24/2008 5:13:38 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 166 replies · 3,793+ views
    AFP on Yahoo ^ | 10/24/08 | Stephen Collinson
    HONOLULU, Hawaii (AFP) – Barack Obama Friday grabbed a few precious hours with his gravely ill grandmother in Hawaii, after saying the woman he calls a "rock" of his life may not live until the election in 11 days. The Democratic presidential nominee headed back to the apartment block where his grandmother Madelyn Dunham, 85, who raised him for much of his childhood, lives, for a second visit after arriving in his native state late Thursday. At one stage, a somber looking Obama emerged from the building for a solitary walk around his boyhood haunts, trailed by a lone Secret...
  • EU Defence Strategy Snatches Stability From The Jaws Of Victory

    10/02/2006 6:59:20 PM PDT · by blam · 3 replies · 281+ views
    The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 10-3-2006 | David Rennie
    EU defence strategy snatches stability from the jaws of victory By David Rennie, in Brussels (Filed: 03/10/2006) Defence ministers from Britain and other European Union nations will today be asked to endorse a bleak vision of future European military capabilities. According to the new European Defence Agency, traditional ideas of "victory" will have to be jettisoned in favour of limited, multi-national campaigns to restore "stability" to conflict zones, with the grudging consent of an ageing, ever more casualty-averse European population. The vision of Europe in 20 years' time was drawn up at the invitation of defence ministers by the EU...