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August 25, 2008

This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.

Syria has reopened the port of Tartus to the Russia navy.

Moscow is flexing its muscles again in the eastern Mediterranean, and aims to reactivate old cold war naval installations with its ally, Syria. President Bashar Assad is on his way to the Kremlin to finalize what looks to become a high profile deal. With not a moment to lose, the Russian aircraft carrier “Admiral Kuznetsov” is under orders to head from Murmansk towards the Mediterranean and the Syrian port of Tartus. The mission comes after Syrian President Bashar Assad said he is open to a Russian base in the area. The Admiral Kuznetsov, part of the Northern Fleet and Russia’s only aircraft carrier, will head a Navy mission to the area. The mission will also include the Black Sea fleet flagship, the missile cruiser Moskva, and several submarines.

Updating as time permits and in so far as the MSM deciders care to report on the subject:

* The BBC has footage of a train full of fuel blown up by a mine near Gori.

* Georgian civilians captured and recently freed by Russian and South Ossetian forces on Saturday described beatings, forced labour and miserable living conditions in prison.

* A stark testimony to the power of persuasion versus the power of whacking Putin on the nose with a rolled up newspaper, the head of Russia's Federal Atomic Energy Agency Sergei Kiriyenko is to visit Iran to finalize the launch date of Bushehr power plant. If only we could harness the sun that shines out Barack Obama's ass, I am certain he could teach the Russians to sing in perfect harmony and keep them company.

* Victor Yushchenko: Ukraine has become a hostage in the war waged by Russia.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at August 25, 2008 06:34 AM

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