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Described in today's Guardian newspaper (UK) as "an outpouring of the most nauseating hypocrisy from western politicians and their captive media." in a piece lovingly entitled

"This is a tale of US expansion not Russian aggression"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/14/russia.georgia

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Ah. Polish not Russian. Ah.....



...what's the difference?

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Actually she's Polish. I still upvoted you. These minor discrepancies can be forgiven

Pho3nix, I believe that is German, not Russian.

As everyone has stated, the Chernobyl disaster was caused by gross misconduct on the part of a Soviet nuclear engineer. While I can understand people's fears about this occurring somewhere in the U.S., we are much more rigorous with standards. We don't have the Simpson's nuke plants hanging around.

As someone pro-nuke, I second Gluonium's post - we need to use the material better in the reactors. As with any technology, the old should be updated/replaced with the new (with breeder reactors hopefully). France is a great example of a country successfully using nuclear power.

For those who are strongly anti-nuke, what alternatives do you propose? A coal burning plan produces quite nasty stuff (when left unfiltered). Natural gas is better, but not great either. Honestly, I wish we could have green energy but it does not produce the amounts necessary. We should not keep spending money on nukes if we are not adequately funding future research into fusion/improved green power.

Great find Gluonium.

This is the Beatles of Central Asia, this is what I used to listen to when I was but a wee lad.

The song is called Uchkuduk, which in my country is a city, the name translates as "three draw-wells". The song is about a desert expedition seeking shelter at at the "three draw-wells"... he starts... "Hot sun, hot sand, hot lips, oh for a drop of water, hot deserts where footsteps are not seen, tell me caravan man when will there be water?... And the chorus goes "Uchkuduk! The 3 wells! Save us! Save us! Save us from the sun! You are the desert saviour Uchkuduk". Prolly sifting for myself but whatever.

"Yalla," the leading popular music group in the former Soviet central Asian republics, is from Tashkent -- the capital of Uzbekistan, one of the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union. The group, whose name is an Uzbek word for a song accompanied by dancing, has become a popular icon in Uzbekistan, frequently serving as cultural ambassadors to international festivals or meetings abroad.

The members of Yalla are graduates of the Ostrovsky Theatrical Art Institute and the Ashrafi State Conservatory in Tashkent. They are not Russian but Uzbek, a Turkic nationality from the crossroads of the ancient Silk Road. Their music incorporates traditional ethnic folk tunes and poetry of Uzbekistan and other Central Asian and Middle Eastern cultures, along with contemporary pop and dance influences, into a unique international blend. They perform songs in more than 10 languages, including Arabic, Farsi, Hindi, Nepalese and French as well as Uzbek and Russian.

Formed in the early 1970's, Yalla has appeared on Soviet national television as well as performing in Moscow and elsewhere in the Soviet Union, and on concert tours in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America, including featured appearances at the "Voice of Asia" festival.

http://ip1.com/imagina/artists/Yalla.html