Tuesday, August 26, 2008

The Obama Nomination is not a Democratic Anecdote, it is a dream come true.
















From the annals of the Civil Rights Movement and players such as Martin Luther King, JFK and Alabama's Georga Wallace (click here); last night was the beginning of the promise to unite the USA with truly inclusive policies.

Michelle Obama, wife of presumptive US Democratic nominee Illinois Senator Barack Obama, stands with her daughters Sasha (L) and Malia on stage during the Democratic National Convention.
Photo: AFP

Michelle was her usual dignified self and dressed impeccably to the occassion. What I want to know is, was Barak listening?
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In emotional tribute, Kennedy patches torch


The thousands of Democrats on their feet Monday night in the Pepsi Center, cheering as their eyes welled with tears, knew they were witness to a last great page, written as they watched, of their most cherished icon, Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts....
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Presidential candidates filing nomination papers (in Pakistan)


Asif Ali Zardari, Benazir Bhutto's widower, seen as likely Pakistan president candidate.

Swiss drop charges against Bhutto's widower (click here)
By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS – 16 hours ago
GENEVA (AP) — The Geneva prosecutor said Monday he has dropped money laundering charges against Asif Ali Zardari, widower of the late Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto and favorite to become the country's next president.
Prosecutor General Daniel Zappelli noted that the Pakistan prosecutor had dropped his corruption case against Zardari partly on grounds the original charges were political motivated.
Zappelli's move comes eight months after he dropped charges against Bhutto the day following her assassination.
Pakistani judicial officials had ordered Pakistan's case against Zardari closed after then-President Pervez Musharraf issued a controversial order quashing corruption charges against Bhutto and her husband....

Presidential candidates filing nomination papers (click title to entry, thank you)
PML-N nominates Saeeduzzaman; PML-Q nominates Mushahid
Tuesday August 26, 2008 (1113 PST)
ISLAMABAD: The candidates of Peoples Party, Pakistan Muslim League (N) and other parties are filing their nomination papers for presidential bid on Tuesday. Federal Law Minister Farooq Naek has submitted the nomination papers of Peoples Party co-chairman Asif Zardari to Chief Election Commissioner Qazi Muhamad Farooq.
Federal Information Minister Sherry Rehman, ANP Chief Asfandyar Wali, Minster for Water and Power Pervez Ashraf, Minister for Labour and Manpower Syed Khurshid Shah, Defence Minister Ahmad Mukhtar, Senator Baber Awan, Senator Raza Rabbani, advisor to prime minister Manzoor Watto, Rehmatullah Kakar and others were also present at this occasion.
A larger number of Peoples Party workers were gathered outside Election Commission, chanted slogans in favour of Asif Zardari....
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Some things just never change and to realize 'the roots' of Georgians is to realize the futility of the USA's efforts.

When the USA drew up The Declaration of Independence, we didn't continue to celebrate English King's birthday. Georgia is FIRST a satellite of the former USSR and secondly an autonomous state. No different than Bush/Cheney building the Baghdad Hilton with a 2 mile International Airport nearby, Russia has no plans of ever leaving Georgia. They learned from Condi Rice and her inability to allow secure Russia borders from The West's aggressive missile defense system that leaving Georgia is NOT AN OPTION.


Oh, and those USA ships in the Black Sea? They were an attempt to intimidate Russia and that's all. It didn't work and the 'exercise' was simply a 'waste of gas.' The CIA's Rose Revolution was a waste of energy, because they didn't have 'the backing' of the Commander and Chief EXCEPT for its Homeland Political Impact. Isn't the first time the CIA was a political puppet, ask Valerie Plame.

Russia to keep soldiers in Georgia (click here)
MOSCOW -- Russia plans to establish a long-term presence in Georgia and one of its breakaway republics by adding 18 checkpoints, including at least eight within undisputed Georgian territory outside the pro-Russian enclave of South Ossetia, a ranking Russian military official told reporters Wednesday.The checkpoints will be staffed by hundreds of Russian troops, the official said, and those within Georgia proper will have supplies ferried to them from breakaway South Ossetia....









A woman presents flowers in front of Stalin's bronze statue in Gori, Georgia as people gathered here to commemorate the 125th anniversary of former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Joseph Vissarrionovich Stalin in his hometown Dec. 21, 2004.

19:07 19/08/2008
Trophies from the Kodori Gorge: confiscated weapons shown to tourists
On display are small arms, equipment and uniforms confiscated by peacekeepers as they disarmed Georgian units in the conflict zone.


Eastern Europe 25.08.2008
Berlin, EU Reject Russian Calls for Georgian Regions' Statehood


Russia's upper house of parliament on Monday voted unanimously for a resolution calling on President Medvedev to recognize Georgia's rebel regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, angering the international community....
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