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Russia Signs Deal With Iran To Build 8 Nuclear Power Units

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With this year's APEC meeting in China having just barely concluded, where the biggest news was not the inability of the US to make any material headway in trans-Pacific trade (who needs trade when you have a printer?) or that China is "willing" to import even more NSA bugs courtesy of Cisco and Qualcomm, but Russia's second "western" mega gas deal with China, as well as the following photo-op of course...

 

... and with the WSJ reporting that in the now year-old "nuclear"negotiations between the west and Iran, there has been no progress, it was once again Putin's turn to turn the screws on the lame duck president following a report moments ago that Russia inked a deal to build eight nuclear power units in Iran, as a new partnership agreement, guaranteed by the IAEA.

First, this how the success of US defines "success" in its ongoing negotiations to curb Iran's nuclear program:

Two days of exhaustive negotiations between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart, Javad Zarif, in the Persian Gulf nation of Oman resulted in no significant breakthrough in forging a comprehensive agreement to curb Tehran’s nuclear program by a Nov. 24 diplomatic deadline, said senior U.S. and Iranian officials.

 

 

“Real gaps” remain between Washington and Tehran, said an American diplomat, in describing talks that seek to end a decade-long standoff over the future of Iran’s nuclear program. 

 

Lower-level diplomacy between the U.S., Iran and other world powers continued on Tuesday in Muscat, as Mr. Kerry arrived in China to brief President Barack Obama on the status of the nuclear diplomacy.

 

“What we’ve said about this is that we may get there and we may not,” said a senior U.S. official who traveled with Mr. Kerry, referring to he prospects for a deal by late November. “I don’t think that anybody has said at any point recently that we are, quote-unquote ’on track’ to reach an agreement by the 24th.”

 

Iran’s second-highest official attending the Oman talks, Abbas Araghchi, described the talks as “tense” and said his negotiating team was committed to engaging in virtually round-the-clock talks to try and reach the deadline.

This was of course expected since nobody embodies US "success" better in recent years than Obama with perhaps the exception of John Kerry.

So as the US stumbles from one foreign policy debacle to another, this is what the Kremlin is doing. From RT:

Russia is to build eight nuclear power units in Iran, as a new partnership agreement, guaranteed by the IAEA, was signed in Moscow on Tuesday.

 

The head of the Rosatom, Sergey Kirienko, and the chief of the Atomic Energy Agency of Iran, Ali Akbar Salehi, signed a series of documents, promoting the links in the field of peaceful application of atomic energy between the countries, RIA Novosti reports. 

 

According to the agreement, Russia is to construct eight pressurized water reactors “turn-key ready” in Iran. Four of them will be built at the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, also completed by Russia a year ago. 

 

Besides, nuclear fuel for the future reactors will be provided by Russia during the whole life cycle of the new reactors. Spent fuel will be returned for processing and storage.

In other words, as the US does everything in its power to halt the spread of nuclear power in Iran (for peaceful purposes or otherwise) Tehran, in clear defiance of the US, just agreed with Russia to develop not one but 8 new nuclear reactors.

Confused: please refer to the picture at the top of this article for the clearest explanation possible.

 

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Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:02 | 5435977 dirtyfiles
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isolated country

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:10 | 5435987 SoilMyselfRotten
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Seeee? Now we know Russia was anti-Semitic all along, partnering with those e-vile Iranians. Now they BOTH have to go!

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:16 | 5435991 Freddie
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China too.    LOL!  The z-USSA sends Mr. Ed aka Mr. Kohn to negotiate.   What a clown show.

"Why the long face John?"

"Awww Wilbur"

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:26 | 5436021 GetZeeGold
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Barry should write them a letter about that.

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:38 | 5436057 Liberal
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As a staunch liberal, I strongly believe the time is now for us to nuke Iran because once President Obama leaves office, I'll be against all military actions.

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:40 | 5436060 overexposed
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Tylers, you're killing me with this wives club thing.  Holy cow, that's too funny!

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:45 | 5436072 Headbanger
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DRAW MOAR RED LINES NOW BARRY YOU FUCKING DOUCHE!

Oh and "costs" too!

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 10:02 | 5436120 COSMOS
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Does this mean Israel will assassinate Russian nuclear engineers in Iran??????????

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 10:06 | 5436135 svayambhu108
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iRan away from NWO

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 10:41 | 5436249 SoilMyselfRotten
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How you expect to remove that bullseye Iran? Will you please allow the Rothschilds to set up a Central Bank already?

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:20 | 5436004 williambanzai7
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Tue, 11/11/2014 - 10:07 | 5436136 svayambhu108
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Is that a joint in a silo?

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:55 | 5436100 junction
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Not as isolated as DNC chief Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, whose total incompetence wrecked the Democratic Party on Election Day.  Helped by Senator Charles (Repeal Glass-Steagall!) Schumer.  Maybe they can blame the wipeout on ISIS (or ISIL or Khorazon but never al Qaeda). 

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 13:51 | 5437022 TBT or not TBT
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Let's see, you blame the impopularity of the Obamacare Party on just one or two of its more obviously heinous shit birds. Nothing to do with rejecting hope and change, gun control, illegal immigration, awful job market, malaIse, bringing Ebola here...stuff Debbie has no influence over?

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 13:06 | 5436840 emersonreturn
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this was set up months ago, along with a deal whereby russia gets iranian oil at a very cheap price, which they in turn can supply to either china or use it internally.  it also employs russian experts and gives russian manufacturing a boost.  if i remember correctly, putin announced this prior to his trip to south america, where he also set a number of deals in motion.  putin and his staff have been very busy.  russia has been using this last year to set up a dizzying array of contracts and treaties.   i don't believe russia or china embrace one another whole heartedly but both see that together they can challenge the sanctions, the petrodollar and once the chaos of that has settled they may then dredge up old scores of which they have many as well as border disputes.  it's possible though that both china and russia having experienced poverty and hardship we in the west cannot conceive may savour the prosperity peace brings  rather than waste it as we so foolishly have.

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:03 | 5435978 p00k1e
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McCain was right.  America needs more war. 

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:31 | 5436036 basho
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when has the (senile) hanoi hilton songbird been right? UE? LOL

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 10:48 | 5436265 Freddie
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Well the McCain klan almost sank two US warships.  John almost sank the USS Forresstal and his zio con Admiral dad recalled F-4 fighter bombers that were trying to save the USS Liberty.  The old man sold out American sailors.

Treason is in their blood.  F them.

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 12:54 | 5436780 aminorex
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If you really disapproved of treason, would you be on ZH?  When Putin nukes NYC, ZH will be agog over how manly he is.

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 13:47 | 5437007 11b40
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If Putin nukes NYC, it will be because of something we stupidly started.

If I did not disapprove of treason, I probably would not bother with ZH.  Foreign entanglements were anathema to the founding fathers.  They did not care much for standing armies, either, and would puke all over the MIC.

 

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 11:09 | 5436362 localizer
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Actually he's correct because America's economy now totally relies on war... and the Printer of course...

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:05 | 5435980 skbull44
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Excellent. Eight new nuclear power plants. There wasn't nearly enough of them to irradiate everyone sometime in the future...

 

http://olduvai.ca

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:48 | 5436079 Headbanger
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How the fuck can a country of stupid holy shits who believe Allah makes everything happen run a bunch of nuclear reactors without vaporizing themselves!!?

How does that work!?

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 10:02 | 5436121 negative rates
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The same way you open your mouth and it works.

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 10:43 | 5436233 Headbanger
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So you're a Moooselem, huh.

And so all you down arrownoids believe Allah makes everything happen so just let them neutrons fly cause Allah will save your sorry ass from being irradiated into a lump of charcoal if you pray enough?

Yeah,  Have fun!

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 10:43 | 5436258 SoilMyselfRotten
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Over-simplified nonsense

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 10:46 | 5436267 where_is the_nuke
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Are you a Kike?

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 10:53 | 5436281 Headbanger
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No I'm not a circle.

Now keep going...

And if you actually READ my comment above about praying to Allah to save your sorry retarded ass from getting nuked

You would KNOW I'm not a circle you stupid mook!

What a bunch of fucking moe-rons...

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 13:13 | 5436872 TheSecondLaw
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Pretty much the same way as a country of stupid holy exceptional shits who have the words "In God We Trust" on their money and of which the majority believe in some fucker who worked miracles and then who died on a cross and then miraculously came back to life after three days is vaporizing the world.

That's how that works!

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 13:33 | 5436956 TBT or not TBT
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There's a bell curve for every aptitude you might like to measure, in a population. But the curves of one population can be different from those in another. Skewed differently. Fatter or thinner tails. Persian scientists and engineers exist in high quantity and quality, if you look around just a bit. Arab engineers and scientists not so much. Israeli engineers and scientists exist in preposterous proportion to their numbers. Most Muslim countries...well it sucks to be them. But most iranians today hate Islam far more fervently than modern italians or French disdain Catholicism. They view islam as an Arab religion, and view Arabs as cockroach eating semi humans, culturally. Yeah. They are nationalists. They're ordinarily bigoted and racist.

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 13:54 | 5437041 11b40
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And if we were operating foreign policy based on what is really good for America in the long run, we would be aligned with the Persians.  We long ago sold our country's soul to the oil barons and the Ziocons.

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:09 | 5435982 buzzsaw99
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iran PWRs will be less of a threat to the usa than the ones in japan (or those in the usa for that matter)

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:06 | 5435984 JustObserving
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US sanctions are working. Few nuclear plants in North Korea are next.

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:22 | 5435985 LULZBank
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Well done Putin.

Now if Russia will give those Air defense systems to Syria and Iran then I will take back everything I said about Putin :)

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:16 | 5435992 LoneStarHog
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And queue the ex-Philadelphia furniture salesman in 3,2,1...

 

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:15 | 5435993 pitchforksanonymous
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Man, it's embarrassing having Pee Wee Herman as President. I wanna move to Moscow and live with a hot Russian chick!

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:31 | 5436014 PartysOver
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Ukraine babes are much hotter.   Mini Me is lobbying for Ex-Pat status to that country.

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 10:05 | 5436130 winchester
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especially those with pravy sektor ruban around the arm...lil blue eyes and adolfe style cunt moustache...

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 10:13 | 5436151 LULZBank
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Im totally into that.

They can knock me down and blow the hell out of me!

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:16 | 5435996 NoWayJose
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The Iranians would like to thank the CIA's folly in Ukraine and Obama's sanctions for makng this possible. Besides the two nuke deals, Russia also has an oil deal with Iran.

So which country is now 'safer' from Iranian terrorists - the US or Russia?

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 10:00 | 5436119 Chupacabra-322
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@ NoWayJose,

Perhaps, you posed the question wrongly.

So which country is now 'safer' from the Pure Evil Psychopathic CIA & UNIITED STATES, CORP. INC. terrorists?

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:16 | 5435998 LostandFound
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Has Iran developed energy that will free the 3rd world from Oil and resource plundering? In return they will not harness this energy providing that they can be the ones that supply Europe instead of Qatar?

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:32 | 5436035 LULZBank
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Iran wants to be the largest supplier of electricty and gas in the region, which will be stepping right on the toes of Arab oil producers esp Saudi Arabia.

This will not be so nice and easy, I suspect.

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 12:41 | 5436730 tonyw
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they probably just want to be able to export as much oil & gas as possible.

having nuclear electricity means they don't have to burn oil & gas to make electricity.

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:18 | 5435999 eddiebe
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When good don't cross borders, armies will. US foreign policy has been: You either do as I say, or you get an ass kicking. Undoubtedly the whole world is getting sick of it, including US citizens. 

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:18 | 5436000 the not so migh...
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OO that must kill him, he is not the center of the universe

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:17 | 5436001 orangegeek
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CIA has some work to do again. 

 

Accidents will happen.

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:28 | 5436024 basho
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like in UE. lol

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:19 | 5436003 Debugas
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US failures are expected because US conducts policy of bans and restrictions

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:31 | 5436031 NoWayJose
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Interestingly, Russia will now have nuke geeks (and spies) openly crawling all over Iran, monitoring and controlling nuke fuel stocks and power plants. The US and Israel will only have telephone and email intercepts plus some satellite photos.

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:45 | 5436066 OW My Balls
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Illustration of 'crack' use of satellite imagery

 

http://21stcenturywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/1-US-BUK-MISSILE-H...

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 10:47 | 5436264 U-P-G-R-A-Y-E-D-D
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Except that the Israelis who did Stuxnet were Russian-speaking Israelis - so I doubt this won't happen a second time around. 

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:25 | 5436007 MarkAntony
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For those unaware, Russia and a few of the former Soviet Republics have been building nuclear power plants in the middle east for years. My wife and her family have worked at Khmelnytsky Nuclear Power Plant (Netishyn, Ukraine) and I personally know several people from that town which were involved with Iran's nuclear program. It never stopped, it's on going and Ukraine is making a lot of money off of it.

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:25 | 5436011 SpanishGoop
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Has made a lot of money of it.

 

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:25 | 5436008 Vooter
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LOL...that's awesome!

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:25 | 5436009 youngman
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That is buying from the lowest bidder....I hope they have a better design now and more quality controls....otherwise this will kill more Iranians than our military ever could....quality is everthing with a Nuke plant...And I dont think Russia or Iran has any of that

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:27 | 5436016 basho
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opinions are like a**holes everybody has got one.

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 10:06 | 5436137 winchester
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hold on a sec...........

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:37 | 5436049 NoWayJose
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Sort of like the quality control on Russian rockets to the space station versus US rockets?

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 10:05 | 5436126 negative rates
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That's why we don't pay you to think.

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 10:16 | 5436165 Winston Churchill
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Like the Fuku plant.

Idiots in glass houses.....

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:25 | 5436010 basho
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just think what RU could do if it wasn't 'isolated' by the US and the EU. LMAO

 

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:27 | 5436017 paint it red ca...
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Once again, Pastor Manning proven correct.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoZjXDP7LHs

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:36 | 5436046 Martian Moon
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Thanks, I needed that :)

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:36 | 5436053 shovelhead
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Fuck me.

I laughed so hard...

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 10:08 | 5436141 winchester
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+1

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:57 | 5436107 lakecity55
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Shit, Pastor Manning interviewed the gay guy Larry way back. He was on the Mack Daddy from Day 1.

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:28 | 5436025 Pliskin
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"Spent fuel will be returned for storage, in a long, pointy, steel tube with a rocket at one end."

Fixed it for ya.

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:50 | 5436083 Iwanttoknow
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Just like the spent fuel in Dimona?

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:31 | 5436029 shovelhead
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Why do I see Putin with just the slightest hint of a smile and a crafty bit of twinkle in his eye?

The Face-palm President has none of the above.

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:30 | 5436033 Dead Man Walking
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such an embarrassing loner/loser.

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:34 | 5436041 Its_the_economy...
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Talk about shitting the bed. Let the Russians build your plants.

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 10:08 | 5436139 COSMOS
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You want to talk about SHIT, look up Hanford then we can talk

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:41 | 5436061 esum
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Benedict Arnold did less damage to this country than the Obama crew of Libtard TRAITORS.......

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:41 | 5436062 AdvancingTime
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Too many people it appears a struggle is occurring to unseat America as the worlds most dominate nation. For many proud Americans who see the world from the unenlightened and possibly undefendable position of the United States having a right to be in control it is both threatening and frustrating to see control slip away.

It is threatening to think the country might quickly fall to the position of a second rate power mired in debt with many of the options we have come to see as our right suddenly ripped away. It many America appears to have become its own worse enemy. The country is guilty of both political inaction and squandering its power through a series of bad choices and missteps. The article below delves into what America must do to turn this around.

  http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/06/americas-struggle-to-stay-on-top.html

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:50 | 5436085 Pliskin
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I think to 'many people' it appears a struggle is occuring to unseat the 0.01% as the worlds most dominant group (Of fu#ktards).  It just so happens that most of them reside in America or dictate U.S. foreign policy from abroad (Think small apartheid state in the ME)  Once the 0.01%ers are all hanging from lamposts the U.S. would still be the worlds most dominant power/nation...only for the better.

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:50 | 5436081 JulienFR
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APEC turn into humiliation party for Obama ...

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 10:30 | 5436092 shitco.in
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Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:54 | 5436094 anachronism
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Please note that this is really a matter of trust and defiance.

Russia offered essentially the same deal as was offered to Iran by the West: Russia is supplying the fuel. Iran is not making its own. Russia takes back the spent fuel. Iran doesn't get to keep it. Russia builds the reactors. Iran doesn't acquire the technology to build its own.

Iran trusts Russia and remains defiant of the Zionists who have tormented them over the past 35 years.

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 14:15 | 5437131 11b40
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The Iranian leadership would be neglecting their duty if they were not trying to become a nuclear state.  Any fool can look around the world and realize that other states don't mess around with nuclear powers, and Iran has every right as a nation to develop their own defense programs.  Israel has nukes, Pakistan has nukes, Korea has nukes, and India has nukes.  We have lots of nukes, and so does Russia.  I think we should give ours away to everyone else so all countries have nukes.  Then, with true mutually assured destruction, all nations might learn how to actually mind their own business, and negotiate in good faith with others.

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:57 | 5436105 SoilMyselfRotten
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Oh don't worry, we'll help them incinerate themselves(Can you say Stuxnet?)

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 09:58 | 5436109 SoilMyselfRotten
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Tue, 11/11/2014 - 10:04 | 5436125 q99x2
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Arrest Riley Bechtel and redistribute his family's wealth into a long term publicly owned, open source software managed, nuclear cleanup fund and send all his families waste intto the sun.

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 10:28 | 5436206 q99x2
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Without real nations (not nation states) and democracy the NWO has nothing. 

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 10:31 | 5436213 messystateofaffairs
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The chosen leader of Itsahell, Nettyjoohoo, will not be pleased about this. First that Christian goy Putin runs the Jewish oligarchs out of Russia when things were going so nicely raping the nations resources, then he screws up their Ukranian/Destabilize Russia plans and now this, nuclear plants in Iran!! Before you know it he will have advanced Russian antiaircraft systems in Iran posing a threat the American made Itsahellian jets paying a friendly visit. Oh and he is advancing the demise of the jewish funny munny club, the cheeky impertinance of the man towards his betters and superiors. I say no matzo ball soup invitations for Putin this Passover.

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 11:05 | 5436332 Hamm Jamm
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real smart ?    Does CHERNOBYL ring a bell  !!!       hahahaha  PUTIN again is lining his pockets and could careless about the future ...    !!      Mabbe he can sell a nuclear reactor to pygmy's in africa next ...    and FORBES mag can write up another glorious article about him and suck him off at the same time !!!   

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 11:15 | 5436382 Winston Churchill
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Does Fuku ring a bell.

The Russians learned from Chernobyl, GE not so much.

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 12:56 | 5436785 Hamm Jamm
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Yah they learned to export their CRAP reactors out of the country so some other uneducated Morons can blow their asses up !  

you Shill much for Putin ...  Hahahahahaha..  you can come up for some air, and give his knob a rest !

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 11:31 | 5436443 roadhazard
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 Don't those Nuke plants draw bombs over there.

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 13:24 | 5436904 FishHockers
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This is good for Israel right.

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 16:08 | 5437590 guliaka
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First, Russia did have failure in Chernobil and learned greate deal from it. Newest Russian reactors x100 times safer beacause of thet blow. Second, thanks to Saxnet there will be NO westrn components on that power plants. Russia removing western components from it own nuclear power plants as well. Big western companies can kiss their business good bay in that regard. And lastly, Russia signs that deal ONLY on fully closed cycle, meaning supply nuclear fuel - get back what left. 

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 00:49 | 5439278 Quaderratic Probing
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By the time they are built they will be ISIS reactors.

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