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To: Road Walker who wrote (219895)2/20/2005 7:35:06 AM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1572874
 
Re: Brazil, Russia and China in an alliance?!?

You've left off India. The informal organization is called BRIC:

Several articles linked here:
mprofaca.cro.net



To: Road Walker who wrote (219895)2/20/2005 8:14:52 AM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1572874
 
"And what's up with Brazil?"

Brazil has significant resources and population. They've been kept off the world stage because they were a dictatorship for a long while and their currency cratered a few years back. They are one of the world's biggest suppliers of things like land mines and cluster bombs...



To: Road Walker who wrote (219895)2/20/2005 9:18:16 AM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1572874
 
"His own soul?"

Maybe. Being an ex-KGB guy, I don't think he wears his heart on his sleeve...

"I LOOKED the man in the eye. I was able to get a sense of his soul." These were the words of President George Bush after his recent meeting with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.

janes.com

I just can't help myself. This sounded more like a homoerotic moment than two world leaders sizing each other up...