Sunday, December 06, 2009

Things that make you go "HUH?"

from StrategyPage:

December 1, 2009: A Russian rocket put another American communications satellite into orbit. The 2.5 ton bird carries 22 transponders and will replace a worn out Intelsat telecommunications satellite. The reliability, and lower prices, of Russian satellite launches have been one bright spot in the once mighty Russian defense industries.


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E-mails that rocked climate change campaign leaked from Siberian 'closed city' university built by KGB...

An investigation by The Mail on Sunday has discovered that the explosive hacked emails from the University of East Anglia were leaked via a small web server in the formerly closed city of Tomsk in Siberia....
Russia – one of the world’s largest producers and users of oil and gas – has a vested interest in opposing sweeping new agreements to cut emissions, which will be discussed by world leaders in Copenhagen tomorrow.

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