MAR
13
General Bell Calls for Upgrade of US-ROK Alliance
From rokdrop.com
Korea will never agree to any changes in the alliance that would put Korea in conflict with China. Another realistic option for expanding the alliance would be drawing up plans for joint disaster relief operations between the US and Korea if another major disaster such as the Asian Tsunami were to happen again. Korea is also interested in expanding their peacekeeping operations which could be another area to expand the alliance by conducting joint peacekeeping operations with the US if such...
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MAR
11
SAFE ON THE HIGH SEAS
From Calcutta Telegraph
In the Indian Ocean rim, only three countries have blue water capability India, Australia and South Africa. While the other two are at the eastern and western edges of the Indian Ocean, India in the middle dominates the sea lanes of communication across the ocean in both directions. With the operational radius of our navy extending from the Gulf to the Malacca Straits, we have the requisite capacity to back up our aspiration to play an enhanced naval role in the Indian Ocean in pursuit of...
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MAR
11
A Coordinated and Stronger EU Disaster Response at Home & Abroad
From iaemeuropa.terapad.com/
The President of the Commission Jose Manuel Barroso stated: "When helping Tsunami victims in South Asia, evacuating EU citizens from war-torn Lebanon or fighting floods and forest fires in Europe - we can only protect our citizens and help others if we act together in solidarity. Major natural disasters such as the 2004 Tsunami in the Indian Ocean, crises such as in Lebanon, or more recently the forest fires and floods in Europe in the summer of 2007 and marine pollution episodes in third...
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MAR
10
io9 Talks to John Varley About Climate Disaster and Space Opera
From io9
Science fiction author John Varley has been seducing readers and boggling their minds since the 1970s, when he began publishing his Gaean Trilogy ( Titan, Wizard, and Demon ), as well as other novels like The Ophiuchi Hotline, set in his posthuman 8 Worlds universe. After the epic disasters and hard science future of the two novels that preceded Rolling Thunder, this novel feels almost like an idyll, or a romantic comedy. How do you see the story of Podkayne fitting into the larger questions...
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MAR
07
Elaine Feinstein reviews On God: An Uncommon Conversation by ...
From Telegraph.co.uk
Norman Mailer was always the wildest of the great generation of 20th-century American novelists; To be fair, the book is not an essay but a series of conversations, taped by Professor Michael Lennon, Mailer's archivist and biographer; moreover, Mailer refused to have Lennon's questions sent to him in advance because he wanted his own responses to be altogether spontaneous. The existence of the Devil is crucial, because Mailer is committed to a belief in a creator God and is unwilling to see...
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