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Viktor Bout arrested in a Thailand hotel, likely to be extradited to the US to face arms dealing charges in conjunction with arming the FARC
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Jiminy Peak, my local ski area, is likely to get into the business of financing and installing wind turbines out here in the wind-swept Berkshires. Very smart, and very exciting news.
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Somali PM Nur Hassan Hussein confirms the presence of US military and CIA in Somalia, stating that there’s no permanent presence, but that US forces come in and out of the country, and that the US is the main supporter of Ethiopia and the TFG
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Of all the talks I was sad to miss at ETech, Quinn’s is the one I had most wanted to hear – she talks about smart drugs and suggests we think about the transformative power of coffee in European intellectual circles
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China, Iran, Russia and Venezuela will be allowed to monitor the Zim elections… just not any US or EU observers… Oh Bob, this would be funny if there weren’t so many Zimbabwean people suffering.