Where are you getting this - just a link -
As far as what do we have to sell - Way to short a list. Our business model. We're getting right to where we realize the tide is shifting and we need ever friend we can get. The big kid on the block is starting to realize all the other kids are working out and getting stronger, and maybe we haven't been as nice as we'd like to think we are. We're doing each others laundry and buying the soap from somewhere else.

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"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
Marcus Aurelius

Can't find the article i saw before but this one makes the same reference

"Russia's offer to enrich uranium for Iran on Russian territory, a proposal backed by the U.S.and the European Union, has been the basis of intense negotiations between Moscow and Tehran."

http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=iran27&date=20060227&query=russia+iran+nuclear

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Ah, that Russian offer was meant to alleviate the West's concern that Iran will enrich uranium to develop nukes. This way Russia is to supervise the enrichment and make sure it's only for civilian purposes. The question is, would we be able to trust Russia.

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My apologies. I should not have done that.

With over 10K posts it's your treadmill and you here posting on a subject you think is old news is the proof.

Huh?

Excerpted from the Hindustan Times.


Energy

Singh sees energy as the crucial barrier to the rise of a new India. Singh’s logic runs something like this: India uses imported oil and gas for 70% of its fuel needs. As he says, “This is too large a dependence.” Most of this comes from West Asia, the most volatile part of the world. India needs more energy, but it also needs to diversify its energy sources. One of the best options is nuclear power. But Singh sees new coal technology, solar power, hydrogen fuel cells and even fusion as areas where India needs to do more.

So New Delhi has gone after everything and anything. India buys oilfields and prospecting rights around the world. It pursues nuclear power deals with the US and a gas pipeline with Iran. This could be energy year. It’s begun with the Saudi monarch, King Abdullah, promising to provide all of India’s oil and gas needs. A month later, India’s civilian nuclear programme is set for revival.

America

When they meet, Singh tells his leftwing allies, “I am not pro-American.” But he accepts that in this century, India and the US are the Inseparables. The obvious case is the economy. In over 150 speeches, Singh has avoided citing the Chinese economy as a compass. “He believes the Chinese model, including its treatment of labour, is incompatible with democracy,” says an aide. India’s growth engine is fuelled by tech-and-service and Singh plans to stick to that. But the one country essential to keeping that engine ticking is the US.

The additional bonus is George W. Bush, a US ruler determined to help India. Singh isn’t spurning a gift horse the size of a superpower, so he’s gotten the sole superpower to give India a leg-up in everything he can think of: agriculture, coal, space, mango exports. Ten per cent is so much easier with the US behind you.

However, the US holds one more attraction to Singh and that’s democracy. “This prime minister takes the idea of democracy seriously,” says an Indian official. Singh has publicly stated that all other forms of government are “aberrations.” He and Dubya see eye-to-eye on this. Of course, for Bush it comes from the gut; for Singh, it comes from classical liberal philosophy.

After reading through many of the Indian papers the last couple of days I can say that it is definitly refreshing to read articles written by people who do not suffer from BDS.

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Didn't you know that the conservative rule book plainly states that you are not allowed news from any source other than Fox News?

But not to worry liberals would never believe it.

Besides, India must be a fascist state to welcome whatsisname, not knowing that whatsisname will invade. Or something like that.

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Alas, the conservative rule book and the liberal rule book arrived in the mail the same day. They promptly annihilated each other and my mailbox as well, leaving me with no rules to follow...

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The simple idea stumped you? You are the hampster and it's your treadmill. With 10K plus posts and your idea of a rehashed tired old conversation still interesting you- you are the hampster. When is the last time you posted outside the OD?

Tell me what the rules are, is there something I should know that I don't know?

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...............contrition doesn't fit the master of all that is knowable...............

That's almost inane enough to get added to the list. Not coincidentally, it doesn't answer the question.

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........now there is the patronizing personna that we all love......