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• Missile Madness

A particular irritant to Putin, parallel to the arguments about conventional forces in Europe, is the US proposal - a pet project of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld - to deploy ten ground-based interceptor missiles in Poland and a 360 degree X-band radar in the Czech Republic.

... cold war years we learned that successful arms control agreements with the Soviet Union were thos...

• World Today, The
• Vol. 63 Nbr. 12, December 2007

• Soaring Gun Crime Brings Call for Tough Action and Longer Jail Terms

More people than ever in Wales are experiencing gun crime as figures show that firearms offences have almost trebled in four years. One in six people have seen a gun that they believe to be illegal, according to a report released today by the Control Arms Campaign, led by Oxfam, Amnesty International and the International Action Network on Small Arms. And latest Home Office figures show that the number of firearms offences in Wales - excluding air weapons offences - have risen from 106 in 2001-02 to 288 in 2004-05.

• Western Mail
• June 19, 2006

• Living in Fear of New Gun Culture

Gun crime in Wales has almost trebled in four years, according to new figures. And one in six people have seen a gun they believe to be illegal, according to a report released today, by the Control Arms Campaign.

• South Wales Echo
• June 20, 2006

• The'dirtysecret'of Arms Sales to Libya [Edition 2]

BRITAIN sold weapons to Libya and other dictatorships in North Africa and the Middle East just four months before Colonel Gaddafi's regime slaughtered hundreds of protesters, a damning report reveals today. Ministers approved the export of sniper rifles, bullets, tear gas and other 'crowd control' ammunition to Tripoli shortly before the murderous dictator ordered his military to crush a prodemocracy uprising. The highly critical report by MPs laid bare the 'dirty secret' of Britain selling arms to some of the world's most brutal regimes. Successive British governments have 'misjudged the risk', the Commons' Committee on Arms Export Controls said.

• Daily Mail
• April 05, 2011

• I Have Ways of Making You Thin ; Determined to Avoid Counting Calories for the Rest of Her Life, Struggling Dieter Viv Groskop Spent a Day with Hypnotist Paul Mckenna - Who Believes That Losing Weight Is About Changing the Way You Think About Food Rather Than What You Eat. So Does His Mantra Work?

IN a huge conference hall at Wembley Stadium, Paul McKenna strides through the cheering crowd of 500, holding his arms aloft, like a stadium rock god. Racing across the vast space to find a seat in time, one woman, dress pulled tight across her large bosom, giggles to her friend, 'You lose weight just trying to find a seat.' It feels like a cross between a recruitment session for a cult and an office awayday, but this is weight loss, Paul McKenna-style. Today's seminar entitled 'I Can Make You Thin' consists of a day with the hypnotist and motivational speaker, where for Pounds 250 you can lose all your food hang-ups in one fell swoop, apparently. The room is full of (mostly) women and men - from the hugely obese to the slim (faddy eaters, perhaps?). They all have one thing in common, t...

... to reinforce his message: you can control food, it doesn't have to control you. Why don't di...

• Mail on Sunday
• August 16, 2009

• Arms Control

The hope is that by sharing detailed, concrete information on the challenges and opportunities they face, states will use the meeting to advance practical implementation at the national, regional and global levels. In a departure from previous biennial meetings, which reviewed all the issues covered in the Programme, this one will focus on just three: * international cooperation, assistance and national capacity-building; * illicit small arms brokering; and * stockpile management and surplus destruction or disposal.

• World Today, The
• Vol. 64 Nbr. 7, July 2008

• Exploitation of the self in community-based software production: workers' freedoms or firm foundations?

...Economies today battle to capture the best talent for the most pro...Perhaps this is why 'control' has become an increasing dilemma in the context o... against OS communities in an evolutionary arms race since OS produces knowledge, skill and human ...

• Capital & Class
• Nbr. 2009, June 2009

• Kremlin counters WMD threat on the seas: Thomas Land reports from Moscow.

... power policy of Iran, its traditional arms importer, for which it is now building a civil ato..., the American undersecretary for arms control and international security, has just visited Turkm... the authoritative journal Arms Control Today, are cases when a ship is suspected of piracy, sla...

• The Middle East
• Nbr. 2006, January 2006

• Power and War

BAD-TEMPERED TURN Meanwhile the bad-tempered turn in Russian foreign policy, and its continued pressure on its near neighbours either by exploiting their energy dependence or, in the case of Georgia, by military intervention followed by support for secession, is raising anxiety levels among those NATO members who were once either part of the Soviet Union or of theWarsawPact. The readiness of US President Barack Obama's administration to try to revive the US-Russian relationship, for example by giving a boost to arms control, may seem to Washington a sensible way of restoring some calm in Europe and gaining cooperation on wider issues, such as what to do about Iran, but it will also lead to suspicions among the smaller central European states that, as always, their interests are seconda...

• World Today, The
• Vol. 65 Nbr. 4, April 2009

• Obama Aiming to 'Reset Relations' with Russia at Arms Talks

BARACK OBAMA arrives in Moscow today for a visit that will be a stern test of his foreign policy. The first US-Russian summit since 2002 will see the President tackling issues including arms control, missile defence and nuclear proliferation.

• Evening Standard - London
• July 06, 2009