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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (138175)	9/22/2008 4:13:19 PM
From: Skywatcher	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

another international failure by the commander and thief Russian navy sails to Venezuela Russian warships have set off for Venezuela for joint exercises unprecedented since the Cold War. The fleet of ships, headed by the nuclear-powered Peter the Great cruiser, set off from its base at Severomorsk in the Arctic. The ships are due to take part in joint manoeuvres with Venezuela in November. The move is seen as a rebuff to the United States, which is facing increasingly fraught relationships with the two nations. Russian Navy spokesman Igor Dygalo said the ships set sail at 1000 local time (0600 GMT), and would travel 15,000 nautical miles to reach their destination. "It's the nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser Peter the Great, the anti-submarine warship Admiral Chebanenko and other accompanying ships," he told the AFP news agency. Two Russian bombers arrived in Venezuela last week for training flights. Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. On board Russia's Peter the Great warship Moscow has intensified ties with Venezuela and other Latin American countries recently as its relationship with Washington has become strained. "It would be wrong to talk about one nation having exclusive rights to [Latin America] Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin Caracas and Moscow have signed arms contracts, and are looking to extend bilateral co-operation on energy. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin, in Caracas last week, said five Russian oil firms were looking to begin operations in Venezuela. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who will visit Moscow this week, said on Sunday that Latin America needed a strong friendship with Russia to help reduce Washington's influence in the region. A staunch critic of the US, he backed Russian intervention in Georgia last month and has accused Washington of being scared of Moscow's "new world potential". Mr Sechin also warned the US not to view Latin America as its own backyard. "It would be wrong to talk about one nation having exclusive rights to this zone," he told the Associated Press. During the Cold War, Latin America became an ideological battleground between the US and the then USSR. Story from BBC NEWS:

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (138175)	9/22/2008 4:25:28 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

You think Will Smith looks white? Obama looks white to me. He looks like Will Smith Obama looks like a light skinned black guy, plenty of them around. a multicultural area Oh wow. You have black people in your area. Amazing. You liberals are really so tolerant. Give yourself a pat on the back why doncha. I got news for ya. Thats normal for America nowadays. I have determined a few of you are racists. Whatta you think about Sandra Bernhard threatening Sarah Palin with gangrape by her "black brothers" if she comes to NY? I've determined more than a few of you liberals are racist. Liberal racists are really two-faced about it, on the outside patronizing - those poor black people just can't cope, you can't expect much of them, they cant help it, thats just the way they are.