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[QUOTE]Originally posted by woj1@cyberonic.
B]"Opponents of new Kosovo must be stopped "
By Joseph Biden

Years of hand-wringing and chest-thumping over the future status of Kosovo may finally be drawing to a close. In the next few months, adroit diplomacy to secure Kosovo

[woj1@cyberonic.]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by woj1@cyberonic.
[B]R. Hunter Biden, a Washington lobbyist and son of U.S. presidential candidate Senator Joseph Biden, stepped down from daily management of Paradigm Global Advisors LLC, which he owns with his uncle, James Biden.

Paradigm, a New York-based firm that has invested $500 million of its clients' money in hedge funds, named Charles Provini, 60, president. Biden, 36, took over as interim chief executive officer in May before buying a majority stake with James Biden, 57, the brother of the Democratic senator from Delaware.

Biden, founder and partner of Washington-based Oldaker, Biden & Belair LLP, said in an interview that he will remain with the law and lobbying firm while helping to oversee Paradigm as chairman of its advisory board. His dual role in politics and hedge funds is unusual in the $1.3 trillion industry, which is dominated by former Wall Street insiders.

``There was a need for someone to fill the role of leadership,'' Biden, said of hOldaker, Biden & Belair earned $1.76 million in lobbying revenue in the first half of 2006,
. Biden said he has no plans to encourage his university clients to invest in Paradigm.
Biden, a graduate of Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut, said he's never lobbied on behalf of hedge funds and doesn't intend to. He also said he doesn't plan to participate in political discussions about hedge-fund regulation.
``I don't plan on being involved in any way on Capitol Hill advocating one way or another on regulations that may be imposed or not imposed on the industry,'Scrutiny
``The lobbyist overlap is unusual, and that kind of stuff needs to be reported,''.
Former government leaders including ex-U.S. Treasury secretaries John Snow and Lawrence Summers have joined hedge funds in recent years. Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and the former president, last year joined New York-based hedge- fund manager Avenue Capital Group as an analyst.
Hedge-Fund Oversight
Senator Biden's office did not return a call seeking comment.
Joe Biden, 64, is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The judiciary committee in the past year has held hearings on SEC oversight of hedge funds and so-called naked short-selling, or the practice by some hedge-fund managers of selling shares in companies they don't own.
The senator's oldest son, Democrat Joseph ``Beau'' Biden, 37, is the attorney general of Delaware and a former federal prosecutor in Philadelphia.
Hunter Biden said he and his father have not discussed details of his Paradigm management role or ownership.
jstrasburg@bloomberg.net
is decision to serve as Paradigm's CEO until a new manager was found. He said his uncle suggested in February that they consider buying the firm. No other Biden family members are involved in the venture.

[Bader]

Originally posted by woj1@cyberonic.
R. Hunter Biden, a Washington lobbyist and son of U.S. presidential candidate Senator Joseph Biden, stepped down from daily management of Paradigm Global Advisors LLC, which he owns with his uncle, James Biden.

Paradigm, a New York-based firm that has invested $500 million of its clients' money in hedge funds, named Charles Provini, 60, president. Biden, 36, took over as interim chief executive officer in May before buying a majority stake with James Biden, 57, the brother of the Democratic senator from Delaware.

Biden, founder and partner of Washington-based Oldaker, Biden & Belair LLP, said in an interview that he will remain with the law and lobbying firm while helping to oversee Paradigm as chairman of its advisory board. His dual role in politics and hedge funds is unusual in the $1.3 trillion industry, which is dominated by former Wall Street insiders.

``There was a need for someone to fill the role of leadership,'' Biden, said of his decision to serve as Paradigm's CEO until a new manager was found. He said his uncle suggested in February that they consider buying the firm. No other Biden family members are involved in the venture.

Filthy politics will be dictated by the need for profit. Money will be invested in captured markets( eg water, electricity, telephone etc) in Kosovo ensuring that people in politics and the investers reap a good reward while everyone paying cellibrates 'democracy'. That is fascism not democracy.

[woj1@cyberonic.]

Originally posted by Bader
B]Filthy politics will be dictated by the need for profit. Money will be invested in captured markets( eg water, electricity, telephone etc) in Kosovo ensuring that people in politics and the investers reap a good reward while everyone paying cellibrates 'democracy'. That is fascism not democracy. B]

European Union officials and diplomats in Belgium expect a U.N. mediator to recommend limited sovereignty for Serbia's breakaway province of Kosovo that could eventually lead to full independence for the region



Serbia braces for fateful elections this weekend: a bitter showdown between pro-Western reformers and hard-line nationalists

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Radical supporters with his

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Originally posted by pacific
The problem does not exist. The problem is "want to use Nukes?"

The nuclear weapon is considered like an other weapon but the willing is different.

US base plan opens rift in Italian coalition
By Tony Barber in Rome

Published: January 18 2007 16:50 | Last updated: January 18 2007 16:50

Members of Italy

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by woj1@cyberonic.
[B]US base plan opens rift in Italian coalition
By Tony Barber in Rome

Published: January 18 2007 16:50 | Last updated: January 18 2007 16:50

Members of Italy

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I don't live in Vicenza and I don't know what is the real problem overthere.

Someone told to me " The water for the town of Padua is the main problem.". The water for the town of Padua comes from Vicenza. They want to build above the water tanks of the surgents.

Out of the Surgents I don't know other basic problem.

The main problem is a political question between Left and governement.

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T"
Velebit brings out for his guests the expensive rakija brandy kept for special occasions. In his kitchen, decorated with icons and old-fashioned ornaments, he speaks of a childhood in rural Croatia, and of the humiliations Serbia has suffered.

"The Radicals are fighting for our state, our people," he says. "We must have national pride so the world respects us".
He hopes the Radicals will manage to keep Kosovo, the breakaway province run by the United Nations since a 1999 NATO bombing drove out Serb forces accused of atrocities while fighting an ethnic Albanian insurgency.

He doesn't think much of the "Euro-Atlantic integration" promised by pro-Western parties as a shortcut to prosperity.

"We've been pushed back by NATO and destroyed with bombing, I don't see how they can help us,"

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War is a failure of human intelligence.

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Originally posted by woj1@cyberonic.
B]T"
"We've been pushed back by NATO and destroyed with bombing, I don't see how they can help us,"
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U.S. DIPLOMAT SAYS MOST SERBS SHARE WESTERN VALUES...
Daniel Fried predicted that Serbia's general elections will show that a majority of voters support Western democratic values, UPI, Beta, and B92 reported the same day. "." Fried also said Washington encouraged NATO to accept Serbia into the Partnership for Peace program ":joking:

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A Montenegrin state hospital announced on January 18 that Prime Minister Zeljko Sturanovic has been diagnosed with lung cancer but will remain in office while receiving treatment, Reuters reported the same day.
Sturanovic has been diagnosed with a "rare neuroendocrine lung tumor." Montenegro's ruling Democratic Party of Socialists chose Sturanovic, a former justice minister, as prime minister in October after veteran party leader Milo Djukanovic stepped down following the country's first postindependence election

[Bader]

Originally posted by woj1@cyberonic.
U.S. DIPLOMAT SAYS MOST SERBS SHARE WESTERN VALUES...
Daniel Fried predicted that Serbia's general elections will show that a majority of voters support Western democratic values, UPI, Beta, and B92 reported the same day. "." Fried also said Washington encouraged NATO to accept Serbia into the Partnership for Peace program ":joking:

Serbia and Kosovo need to be members by 2010 so thy can become photogenic for Brussels. The UE hopes to have a satelite in serviuce which will monitor everyones activities in relation to laws.

They also intend to develop militarily so they can send young people everywhere in the world by state paid travel. Who knows they may be intending to patrol the streets of Moscow.

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Originally posted by Bader
B]Who knows they may be intending to patrol the streets of Moscow. B]

Don

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Walking in Moscow now could be too cold, still is St Petersburg, thought now the best is Sochi .
Polish TV shows Mr. Putin there with Angela Merkel and black Novofunlander (the dog).
In contrary, in Afghanistan - The Taliban said it will open its own schools in areas of southern Afghanistan under its control, an apparent effort to win support among local residents and undermine the Western- efforts to expand education

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Originally posted by woj1@cyberonic.
B]Walking in Moscow now could be too cold, still is St Petersburg, thought now the best is Sochi .
Polish TV shows Mr. Putin there with Angela Merkel and black Novofunlander (the dog).
In contrary, in Afghanistan - The Taliban said it will open its own schools in areas of southern Afghanistan under its control, an apparent effort to win support among local residents and undermine the Western- efforts to expand education /B]

Putin promised smooth energy flow to Europe after talks with Merkel.
In an interview, the German leader acknowledged that Europe can't manage without Moscow's goods .:woohoo:

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Putin may have an image problem in Western capitals, but he's a hero to investors.
The Russian stock market has enjoyed a spectacular rally during his rule, and many money managers are betting the rally will continue.

[Bader]

Originally posted by woj1@cyberonic.
Putin may have an image problem in Western capitals, but he's a hero to investors.
The Russian stock market has enjoyed a spectacular rally during his rule, and many money managers are betting the rally will continue.

Putin has concentrated on stability in order to build a future. The reverse of the past. Bush has done the reverse. Instability is great for exploiter and extorsionists. The US is an accident looking for a place to happen. There may come a time soon when invester will put out of the US and invest in Russia.

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World is too war oriented to focus only on peaceful investment. Even Chine to see it. China opposes the weaponization of space and any arms race in space, in response to questions concerning China's space experiment recently.
"What needs to be stressed is that China has always supported the peaceful use of space," Liu said.
China has never participated and will never participate in any arms race in outer space. This test was not directed at any country and does not pose a threat to any country,
The spokesman also revealed that China has informed some countries including Japan and the United States about the experiment.

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Originally posted by Bader
B]Putin has concentrated on stability in order to build a future. The reverse of the past. Bush has done the reverse. Instability is great for exploiter and extorsionists. The US is an accident looking for a place to happen. There may come a time soon when invester will put out of the US and invest in Russia. [/B]

"Russia completes delivery of missile defense systems to Iran

Russia has completed the delivery of Tor-M1 missile systems to Iran, Itar-Tass news agency reported on Tuesday, citing the head of the state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport. "Lucky for world Putin is not an ANGEL