Two British Cabinet ministers showed off a doomsday vision of disappearing cities and rising seas on Thursday, part of an effort to push nations to strike a new pact on curbing emissions of global warming gasses.
Foreign Secretary David Miliband and his brother, Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband, published an online map detailing the predicted impact of a 4 degrees Celsius (7 degrees Fahrenheit) rise in global temperatures.'
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Saturday, October 24, 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Miliband Promises More Green Jobs But Vestas Wind Turbine Plant is Closing
One of Britain’s biggest employers in the green energy industry is to cease production within hours of a government announcement today pledging as many as 400,000 green jobs by 2015.
Ed Miliband, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary, will claim that Britain will become a world leader in low-carbon technology and manufacturing. He will argue that raising household energy bills to pay for investment in wind, solar and tidal power is justified not only by the dangers of global warming but also the opportunity to build a new “green economy”.
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Ed Miliband, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary, will claim that Britain will become a world leader in low-carbon technology and manufacturing. He will argue that raising household energy bills to pay for investment in wind, solar and tidal power is justified not only by the dangers of global warming but also the opportunity to build a new “green economy”.
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Ed Miliband the Windfarm Windbag

Opposing wind farms is as 'socially unacceptable' as not wearing a seatbelt or failing to stop at a zebra crossing, says the climate change minister.
In a speech that infuriated rural campaigners, Ed Miliband said the Government should be tougher in pushing through controversial wind turbine schemes.
His comments - made at the screening of a new film warning of the effects of climate change - came as environmentalists said the massive expansion of onshore wind farms was threatening some of Britain's best-loved countryside.
In a speech that infuriated rural campaigners, Ed Miliband said the Government should be tougher in pushing through controversial wind turbine schemes.
His comments - made at the screening of a new film warning of the effects of climate change - came as environmentalists said the massive expansion of onshore wind farms was threatening some of Britain's best-loved countryside.
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Monday, March 02, 2009
UK Ministers Refuse to Appear Before Human Rights Panel
Foreign Secretary David Miliband and Home Secretary Jacqui Smith have both refused to appear before Parliament’s human rights committee to answer questions about allegations of British collusion in the torture of British citizens and residents detained during counter-terrorism operations in Pakistan.
In a move that dismayed members of the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR), a joint letter from the foreign secretary and home secretary is also said to have failed to answer any of the eight questions that the committee asked about legal provisions offering MI5 officers immunity in the UK for crimes committed overseas. The JCHR is now asking Jonathan Evans, the director-general of MI5, to appear before it to be questioned about the agency’s policy and the conduct of his officers.
According to a report in the Guardian on Saturday, MPs and peers on the committee are also expected to demand again that Miliband and Smith answer their questions, while its chairman, Andrew Dismore, says the ministers’ refusal may trigger demands for an independent inquiry into the allegations.
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They should be suspended and investigated at Bagram!
In a move that dismayed members of the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR), a joint letter from the foreign secretary and home secretary is also said to have failed to answer any of the eight questions that the committee asked about legal provisions offering MI5 officers immunity in the UK for crimes committed overseas. The JCHR is now asking Jonathan Evans, the director-general of MI5, to appear before it to be questioned about the agency’s policy and the conduct of his officers.
According to a report in the Guardian on Saturday, MPs and peers on the committee are also expected to demand again that Miliband and Smith answer their questions, while its chairman, Andrew Dismore, says the ministers’ refusal may trigger demands for an independent inquiry into the allegations.
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They should be suspended and investigated at Bagram!
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Miliband Faces High Court Battle in UK Over Gaza Rights
The foreign secretary, David Miliband, has acted "in flagrant and continuing breach of international law" in failing to suspend arms exports to Israel, the high court will be told.
In what is thought to be the first legal challenge resulting from Israel's operation in Gaza, lawyers representing more than 30 Palestinian families have accused Miliband, along with the ministers for defence and business, of acting illegally by failing to suspend arms sales and government assistance after alleged Israeli human rights violations.
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In what is thought to be the first legal challenge resulting from Israel's operation in Gaza, lawyers representing more than 30 Palestinian families have accused Miliband, along with the ministers for defence and business, of acting illegally by failing to suspend arms sales and government assistance after alleged Israeli human rights violations.
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Monday, February 23, 2009
UK Agents 'Colluded With Torture in Pakistan'
A shocking new report alleges widespread complicity between British security agents and their Pakistani counterparts who have routinely engaged in the torture of suspects.
In the study, which will be published next month by the civil liberties group Human Rights Watch, at least 10 Britons are identified who have been allegedly tortured in Pakistan and subsequently questioned by UK intelligence officials. It warns that more British cases may surface and that the issue of Pakistani terrorism suspects interrogated by British agents is likely to "run much deeper".
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In the study, which will be published next month by the civil liberties group Human Rights Watch, at least 10 Britons are identified who have been allegedly tortured in Pakistan and subsequently questioned by UK intelligence officials. It warns that more British cases may surface and that the issue of Pakistani terrorism suspects interrogated by British agents is likely to "run much deeper".
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
Zionist Stooge Miliband 'Fears Over Palestine'
Following the recent Israeli bombardment of Gaza, Mr Miliband is said to have grown increasingly pessimistic about the prospect of securing a two-state solution to the crisis and the establishment of a viable Palestinian state.
Mr Miliband was asked whether he agreed with those who saw parallels between the Palestinians living in Gaza and the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto. He said: ``That's not just disproportionate, it's wrong.
"The Holocaust was a unique historical event. It was the attempt to wipe out an entire race. You don't need to compare it to the Holocaust to dramatise or engage with what happened in Gaza; 1,200 people lost their lives.''
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So the Israeli War Criminals aren't trying to wipe the Palestinian People off the map?
Miliband is just another 'Labour Friend of Israel' who licks the arse of his zionist masters.
Mr Miliband was asked whether he agreed with those who saw parallels between the Palestinians living in Gaza and the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto. He said: ``That's not just disproportionate, it's wrong.
"The Holocaust was a unique historical event. It was the attempt to wipe out an entire race. You don't need to compare it to the Holocaust to dramatise or engage with what happened in Gaza; 1,200 people lost their lives.''
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So the Israeli War Criminals aren't trying to wipe the Palestinian People off the map?
Miliband is just another 'Labour Friend of Israel' who licks the arse of his zionist masters.
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Monday, February 16, 2009
David Miliband's 'Deceit' Over Guantanamo Bay Torture Claims
David Miliband was yesterday accused of an 'outrageous deception' after it emerged that his department engineered a threat from the U.S. which helped suppress torture allegations that might embarrass the British government.
The Foreign Office asked the U.S. State Department to write a letter which claimed that Britain's national security would be at risk if details about the alleged torture of a British resident at Guantanamo Bay became public.
The letter played a key role in the High Court's decision to prevent the publication of documents about Binyam Mohamed's alleged ordeal.
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The Foreign Office asked the U.S. State Department to write a letter which claimed that Britain's national security would be at risk if details about the alleged torture of a British resident at Guantanamo Bay became public.
The letter played a key role in the High Court's decision to prevent the publication of documents about Binyam Mohamed's alleged ordeal.
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Sunday, February 08, 2009
Miliband Covers Up Abuse Of Staff At British Embassy In Baghdad
David Miliband is criticised by a high-powered Commons committee today over claims that he "washed his hands" of alleged sexual abuse of Iraqi women at the British embassy in Baghdad.The Foreign Affairs Select Committee demands to know why the Foreign Secretary had left an investigation into the claims to the same US firm that employed those accused of harassment. Amid claims that the firm's probe was inadequate, the MPs conducted their own 10-month investigation into allegations of a culture of sexual harassment and abuse at the British embassy inside the Green Zone in Baghdad.
The allegations, which are denied, were against British men working for KBR, the largest US contractor in Iraq.
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Friday, February 06, 2009
David Miliband Accused of 'Cover up' Over Torture Row
David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, has been accused of a "cover up" after blocking the publication of secret papers allegedly disclosing how the British security services were complicit in the torture of a suspected terrorist.
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Friday, January 23, 2009
David Miliband is an Embarrassment Strutting the World Stage
David Miliband, aged 44 but with the face of a 30-year-old, has proved yet again he is even more immature than he looks. His performance in India was rude, stupid and politically and diplomatically naive – pretty impressive in a Foreign Secretary
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Friday, January 16, 2009
'War on Terror' Was a Mistake, Says Miliband
The foreign secretary, David Miliband, today argues that the use of the "war on terror" as a western rallying cry since the September 11 attacks has been a mistake that may have caused "more harm than good".
In an article in today's Guardian, five days before the Bush administration leaves the White House, Miliband delivers a comprehensive critique of its defining mission, saying the war on terror was misconceived and that the west cannot "kill its way" out of the threats it faces.
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Well stop selling Weapons to Israel Mr. Miliband !
In an article in today's Guardian, five days before the Bush administration leaves the White House, Miliband delivers a comprehensive critique of its defining mission, saying the war on terror was misconceived and that the west cannot "kill its way" out of the threats it faces.
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Well stop selling Weapons to Israel Mr. Miliband !
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Oh Come All Ye Faithful - Let's Crush Gaza, Starve Their Little Ones
Who is holding the governments of Britain, the EU and the US to account this Christmas for aiding and abetting the deliberate starving of 1.5 million in Gaza?Hardly anybody. Most of those in a position to do so are Friends of Israel.
What of our foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, our very Christian prime minister Brown and our even more pious peace envoy Mr Blair…. have they done anything at all to insist that Israel’s blockade is ended?
The 'Zionist Tendency’ in Whitehall still goes unchallenged.
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Monday, December 01, 2008
Kafka Has a Rival. Today, The Foreign Office Lectures Us On Human Rights
John Pilger
Today, a surreal event will take place in London. The Foreign Office is holding an open day "to highlight the importance of human rights in our work as part of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights". There will be various "stalls" and "panel discussions", and foreign secretary David Miliband will present a human rights prize. Is this a spoof? No. The Foreign Office wants to raise our "human rights awareness". Kafka and Heller have many counterfeits.
There will be no stall for the Chagos islanders, the 2,000 British citizens expelled from their Indian Ocean homeland, whom Miliband's government has fought to prevent from returning to what is now a US military base and suspected CIA torture centre. The high court has repeatedly restored this fundamental human right to the islanders, the essence of Magna Carta, describing the Foreign Office actions as "outrageous", "repugnant" and "illegal". Yet Miliband's lawyers refused to give up, and were rescued on October 22 by the political judgments of three law lords.
There will be no stall for the victims of a systemic British policy of exporting arms and military equipment to 10 of Africa's most war-bloodied and impoverished countries. In his speech today, with the good people of Amnesty and Save the Children in attendance, shamefully, what will Miliband say to the sufferers of this UK-sponsored violence? Perhaps he will make mention, as he often does, of the need for "good governance" in faraway places, while his own regime suppresses a Serious Fraud Office investigation into BAE's £43m arms deal with the corrupt tyranny in Saudi Arabia - with which, noted Foreign Office minister Kim Howells in 2007, the British had "shared values".
There will be no stall for those Iraqis whose social, cultural and real lives have been smashed by an unprovoked invasion based on proven lies. Will the foreign secretary apologise for the cluster bombs the British have scattered, still blowing legs off children, and the depleted uranium and other toxic substances that have seen cancer consume swaths of southern Iraq? Will he speak about the universal human right to knowledge, and announce a diversion of a fraction of the billions bailing out the City of London to the restoration of what was one of the finest school systems in the Middle East, obliterated as a consequence of the Anglo-American invasion, along with museums and publishing houses and bookstores, and teachers and historians and anthropologists and surgeons? Will he announce the dispatch of simple painkillers and syringes to hospitals that once had almost everything and now have nothing, in a country where British governments, especially his own, took the lead in blocking humanitarian aid, including Howells' ban on vaccines to protect children from preventable diseases?
There will be no stall for the people of Gaza, of whom, says the International Red Cross, starvation threatens the majority, mostly children. In pursuing a policy of reducing one and a half million people to a Hobbesian existence, the Israelis have cut most lifelines. David Miliband was in Jerusalem recently, within a short helicopter flight of the captive people of Gaza. He did not go, and said nothing about their human rights, preferring weasel words about a "truce" between tormentor and victims.
There will be no stall for the trade unionists, students, journalists and human rights defenders assassinated in Colombia, a country where the government's "security forces" are trained by the British and Americans and responsible for 90% of torture, says a new study by the British human rights group Justice for Colombia. The Foreign Office says it is "improving the human rights record of the military and combating drug trafficking". The study finds not a shred of evidence to support this. Colombian officers implicated in murder are welcomed to Britain for "seminars".
There will be no stall for history, for our memory. Stored in the great British libraries and record offices, unclassified official files tell the truth about British policy and human rights, from officially condoned atrocities in the concentration camps of colonial Kenya and the arming of the genocidal General Suharto in Indonesia, to the supply of biological weapons to Saddam Hussein in the 1980s. As we hear the moralising drone of ex-British military "security experts" telling us what to think about current events in Mumbai, we might recall Britain's historic role as midwife to violent extremism in modern Islam, from the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in the 1950s through the overthrow of Iran's liberal democratic government to MI6's arming of the Afghan mujahideen, the Taliban in waiting. The aim was and remains the denial of nationalism to peoples struggling to be free, especially in the Middle East, where oil, says a secret Foreign Office document from 1947, is "a vital prize for any power interested in world influence and domination". Human rights are almost entirely absent from this official memory, unlike fear of being found out. The secret expulsion of the Chagos islanders, says a 1964 Foreign Office memorandum, "should be timed to attract the least attention and should have some logical cover [so as not to] arouse suspicions as to their purpose".
How is this wonderland perpetuated? The media play their historic role, censoring by omission. Roland Challis, who was the BBC's south-east Asia correspondent when Suharto was slaughtering hundreds of thousands of alleged communists in the 1960s, told me, "It was all triumph for western propaganda. My British sources purported not to know what was going on, but they knew ... British warships escorted a ship full of Indonesian troops down the Malacca Straits so they could take part in this terrible holocaust."
Today, PR propaganda dressed up as scholarship promotes the same rapacious British power while seeking to fix the boundaries of public discussion. A report released last week by the Institute for Public Policy Research describes itself as "the UK's leading progressive think tank". Having been emptied of its dictionary meaning, the once noble term "progressive" joins "democracy" and "centre-left" as deception. Lord George Robertson, the New Labour warmonger, Trident devotee and ex-Nato boss, has his moniker at the front, along with Paddy Ashdown, ex-viceroy of the Balkans. Couched in crisis management cliches, the IPPR report is a "call to action" because "weak, corrupt and failing states have become bigger security risks than strong, competitive ones". With western state terror unmentionable, the "call" is for Nato in Africa and military intervention "if deemed necessary".
Unsubstantiated references to "terrorist plots on British soil" include barely a nod to the "perception among Muslims" that the current Anglo-American "intervention" in the Middle East and northern Asia is the blindingly obvious cause. In February 2003, almost 80% of Londoners believed that a British attack on Iraq "would make a terrorist attack on London more likely". This was precisely the warning given to Blair by the Joint Intelligence Committee. The warning is no less urgent while "we" continue to assault other people's countries and allow false champions to appropriate all our human rights.
Today, a surreal event will take place in London. The Foreign Office is holding an open day "to highlight the importance of human rights in our work as part of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights". There will be various "stalls" and "panel discussions", and foreign secretary David Miliband will present a human rights prize. Is this a spoof? No. The Foreign Office wants to raise our "human rights awareness". Kafka and Heller have many counterfeits.
There will be no stall for the Chagos islanders, the 2,000 British citizens expelled from their Indian Ocean homeland, whom Miliband's government has fought to prevent from returning to what is now a US military base and suspected CIA torture centre. The high court has repeatedly restored this fundamental human right to the islanders, the essence of Magna Carta, describing the Foreign Office actions as "outrageous", "repugnant" and "illegal". Yet Miliband's lawyers refused to give up, and were rescued on October 22 by the political judgments of three law lords.
There will be no stall for the victims of a systemic British policy of exporting arms and military equipment to 10 of Africa's most war-bloodied and impoverished countries. In his speech today, with the good people of Amnesty and Save the Children in attendance, shamefully, what will Miliband say to the sufferers of this UK-sponsored violence? Perhaps he will make mention, as he often does, of the need for "good governance" in faraway places, while his own regime suppresses a Serious Fraud Office investigation into BAE's £43m arms deal with the corrupt tyranny in Saudi Arabia - with which, noted Foreign Office minister Kim Howells in 2007, the British had "shared values".
There will be no stall for those Iraqis whose social, cultural and real lives have been smashed by an unprovoked invasion based on proven lies. Will the foreign secretary apologise for the cluster bombs the British have scattered, still blowing legs off children, and the depleted uranium and other toxic substances that have seen cancer consume swaths of southern Iraq? Will he speak about the universal human right to knowledge, and announce a diversion of a fraction of the billions bailing out the City of London to the restoration of what was one of the finest school systems in the Middle East, obliterated as a consequence of the Anglo-American invasion, along with museums and publishing houses and bookstores, and teachers and historians and anthropologists and surgeons? Will he announce the dispatch of simple painkillers and syringes to hospitals that once had almost everything and now have nothing, in a country where British governments, especially his own, took the lead in blocking humanitarian aid, including Howells' ban on vaccines to protect children from preventable diseases?
There will be no stall for the people of Gaza, of whom, says the International Red Cross, starvation threatens the majority, mostly children. In pursuing a policy of reducing one and a half million people to a Hobbesian existence, the Israelis have cut most lifelines. David Miliband was in Jerusalem recently, within a short helicopter flight of the captive people of Gaza. He did not go, and said nothing about their human rights, preferring weasel words about a "truce" between tormentor and victims.
There will be no stall for the trade unionists, students, journalists and human rights defenders assassinated in Colombia, a country where the government's "security forces" are trained by the British and Americans and responsible for 90% of torture, says a new study by the British human rights group Justice for Colombia. The Foreign Office says it is "improving the human rights record of the military and combating drug trafficking". The study finds not a shred of evidence to support this. Colombian officers implicated in murder are welcomed to Britain for "seminars".
There will be no stall for history, for our memory. Stored in the great British libraries and record offices, unclassified official files tell the truth about British policy and human rights, from officially condoned atrocities in the concentration camps of colonial Kenya and the arming of the genocidal General Suharto in Indonesia, to the supply of biological weapons to Saddam Hussein in the 1980s. As we hear the moralising drone of ex-British military "security experts" telling us what to think about current events in Mumbai, we might recall Britain's historic role as midwife to violent extremism in modern Islam, from the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in the 1950s through the overthrow of Iran's liberal democratic government to MI6's arming of the Afghan mujahideen, the Taliban in waiting. The aim was and remains the denial of nationalism to peoples struggling to be free, especially in the Middle East, where oil, says a secret Foreign Office document from 1947, is "a vital prize for any power interested in world influence and domination". Human rights are almost entirely absent from this official memory, unlike fear of being found out. The secret expulsion of the Chagos islanders, says a 1964 Foreign Office memorandum, "should be timed to attract the least attention and should have some logical cover [so as not to] arouse suspicions as to their purpose".
How is this wonderland perpetuated? The media play their historic role, censoring by omission. Roland Challis, who was the BBC's south-east Asia correspondent when Suharto was slaughtering hundreds of thousands of alleged communists in the 1960s, told me, "It was all triumph for western propaganda. My British sources purported not to know what was going on, but they knew ... British warships escorted a ship full of Indonesian troops down the Malacca Straits so they could take part in this terrible holocaust."
Today, PR propaganda dressed up as scholarship promotes the same rapacious British power while seeking to fix the boundaries of public discussion. A report released last week by the Institute for Public Policy Research describes itself as "the UK's leading progressive think tank". Having been emptied of its dictionary meaning, the once noble term "progressive" joins "democracy" and "centre-left" as deception. Lord George Robertson, the New Labour warmonger, Trident devotee and ex-Nato boss, has his moniker at the front, along with Paddy Ashdown, ex-viceroy of the Balkans. Couched in crisis management cliches, the IPPR report is a "call to action" because "weak, corrupt and failing states have become bigger security risks than strong, competitive ones". With western state terror unmentionable, the "call" is for Nato in Africa and military intervention "if deemed necessary".
Unsubstantiated references to "terrorist plots on British soil" include barely a nod to the "perception among Muslims" that the current Anglo-American "intervention" in the Middle East and northern Asia is the blindingly obvious cause. In February 2003, almost 80% of Londoners believed that a British attack on Iraq "would make a terrorist attack on London more likely". This was precisely the warning given to Blair by the Joint Intelligence Committee. The warning is no less urgent while "we" continue to assault other people's countries and allow false champions to appropriate all our human rights.
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Sunday, August 31, 2008
Gordon and I are BOTH at the helm, claims Miliband

Labour leadership hopeful David Miliband today appears to taunt a weakened Gordon Brown by suggesting they are now joint leaders of the Government.
In an article for The Mail on Sunday on the mounting international crisis involving Russia and Georgia, Foreign Secretary Mr Miliband says he and the Prime Minister are jointly deciding Britain’s response - including the decision to condemn the scale of Moscow’s invasion of its tiny neighbour.
‘The immediate instinct of the Prime Minister and I was clear: to speak out against aggression, to call for respect for human rights and international law and to rally international opinion behind these principles,’ says Mr Miliband in one of several references pointedly mentioning himself and Mr Brown in the same breath.
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Well we all feel a lot happier now we know there are two tossers running the country, Don't we folks?
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Miliband issues advice to Russia

'Britain does not want to launch an "all-out war" with Russia following the country's decision to recognise two breakaway regions, David Miliband said. The Foreign Secretary said Russia needed to consider the "isolation, the loss of respect and the loss of trust" from the rest of the world after Moscow officially recognised South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Mr Miliband's comments came the day after his trip to Ukraine, where he warned Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he had a "big responsibility" not to provoke a new Cold War'
Mr Miliband's comments came the day after his trip to Ukraine, where he warned Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he had a "big responsibility" not to provoke a new Cold War'
Shit, I bet the Russians are quaking in their boots after he told them that !
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