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For the US media to go along with the charade of the offshore drilling debate only belies their intrinsic complicity in the global criminal activities of the Corporate Imperialists for whom they work.

VLADIMIR PUTIN, the Russian president, is to raise plans for a tunnel to link his country with America when he meets his US counterpart, George W Bush, next Sunday.
The 64-mile tunnel would run under the Bering Strait between Chukotka, in the Russian far east, and Alaska; the cost is estimated at £33 billion.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3646415.ece

Eleven silver balls not far from Afghanistan’s border. They are the key to Russia’s space shield, an optical-electronic unit called “The Window”. Each one is a powerful telescope. They see every object up to 40,000 kilometres from the surface of Earth. “The Window” is run by Russians, but is located much further to the south […]

Russia has launched a project to create a new generation of spacecraft and boosters, the head of national space administration said on Friday, making clear that they would not appear on orbit before 2020.
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Check out the video at LiveLeak of the new Russian vacuum bomb. Hambling over at DangerRoom has good coverage of the device’s testing as well.
Impressive?

Give. Me. A. Break … for $900, Alex.
Russia today planted a flag on the North Pole’s seabed in an attempt to declare sovereignty of the unclaimed land. The journey to the bottom of the sea began at an ice hole near the North Pole and the two Russian submarines dived to more than 4200 metres, […]

From expanded reports we’ve received it looks like the Russian bombers were being traced by the Norwegian Air Force before even coming close to British territory. Times UK and ITN have extended coverage.
RAF jets were scrambled after two Russian aircraft were spotted heading towards British airspace.
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