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...Turkey from Azerbaijan and elsewhere in Central Asia from bypassing Russian control. Georgia claims that Russian planes have in recent days bombed the strategically important oil pipeline that transits Georgia. The pipeline actually had been inoperative since Aug. 6 as a result of a fire in its Turkish segment, and Azerbaijan instead kept supplying oil through two Georgian ports. As these ports were also heavily bombed by the Russians, Azerbaijan has suspended oil shipments through Georgia...
...Perhaps the most puzzling scene in the ad is an altered segment from The 10 Commandments that appears near the end. A Moses-playing Charlton Heston parts the animated waters of the Red Sea, out of which rises the quasi-presidential seal the Obama campaign used for a brief time earlier this summer before being mocked into retiring it. The seal, which features an eagle with wings spread, is not recognizable like the campaign's red-white-and-blue "O" logo. That confused Democratic consultant Eric Sapp until he went to his Bible and remembered that in the apocalyptic Book...
...like the global, multibillion-dollar version of trying to get into a prestigious university or a coveted sorority or on a segment of Who'll Marry a Planetary Billionaire? And once you're admitted, you risk everything you have (Montreal finished paying for hosting the 1976 Summer Games only in 2006) in the hope of securing a windfall that will put you on the economic and geopolitical map forever. You bring in TV crews from almost 200 countries, 100,000 security guards, doping-control officers and almost three times as many volunteers as there are citizens of Monaco ... all this...
...intended to build a custom computer network from the ground up and consolidate 230 terminal and en route centers into 23 facilities. The system was designed to be phased in over a 20-year period, in a building-block approach with five segments. Through all this, only the first segment, the least complex of all, has been partially completed. The FAA is still years away from fielding any major new equipment. Because of these delays, the FAA has had to come up with hundreds of millions of dollars to keep the antiquated systems at terminal and en route centers...
...network that has broadcast anti-American propaganda - aired in conjunction with the famed CBS news program. Such an approach has already been criticized by the Miami Herald's Edward Wasserman, who inquired July 7, "why was Pro Publica using its philanthropic funding to, essentially, subsidize the cost of a segment for 60 Minutes, the most financially successful news show in the history of U.S. Television...