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            <title>Since /k/ says I didn&amp;#39;t entertain enough</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3176834</link>
            <description>&lt;img src='http://i.imgur.com/ylOcron.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look at the picture young ones at University studying, who is wasted away in alcohol and rampant sex.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stop it&amp;#33;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and also /k/&amp;#33;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;continue your dream and make your poor father proud.</description>
            <author>henghuang</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2014 23:54:24 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>/k/ science literacy test</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3176818</link>
            <description>Do you understand the physics concept &amp;quot;Doppler effect&amp;quot; that is employed by IMMARSAT to find MH370?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://worldsbestfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/sheldon-cooper-doppler-effect-demotivational-poster.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;</description>
            <author>henghuang</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2014 23:30:16 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Stop it</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3176793</link>
            <description>DO NOT FORCE ME. OR I QUIT. END OF ENTERTAINMENT FOR YOU GUYS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I shall sacrifice myself as final entertainment to /k/ as suggested. 100 votes.</description>
            <author>henghuang</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2014 23:03:12 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Do you think murderer</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3176771</link>
            <description>Give the murderer to the victim&amp;#39;s family, and let them do whatever they want to the murderer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like MH370, you know I know.</description>
            <author>henghuang</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2014 22:38:22 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Why Kimmy cannot control haircut</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3176698</link>
            <description>Kimmy jun wants people to follow him because he is the king of north korea, many protested.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet, bieber is not any royal nor president, why no one objected to bieber fan following his hairstyle?</description>
            <author>henghuang</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2014 21:24:16 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Why the Web Won&amp;#39;t Be Nirvana</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3176697</link>
            <description>After two decades online, I&amp;#39;m perplexed. It&amp;#39;s not that I haven&amp;#39;t had a gas of a good time on the Internet. I&amp;#39;ve met great people and even caught a hacker or two. But today, I&amp;#39;m uneasy about this most trendy and oversold community. Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. They speak of electronic town meetings and virtual communities. Commerce and business will shift from offices and malls to networks and modems. And the freedom of digital networks will make government more democratic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Baloney. Do our computer pundits lack all common sense? The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Consider today&amp;#39;s online world. The Usenet, a worldwide bulletin board, allows anyone to post messages across the nation. Your word gets out, leapfrogging editors and publishers. Every voice can be heard cheaply and instantly. The result? Every voice is heard. The cacophany more closely resembles citizens band radio, complete with handles, harrasment, and anonymous threats. When most everyone shouts, few listen. How about electronic publishing? Try reading a book on disc. At best, it&amp;#39;s an unpleasant chore: the myopic glow of a clunky computer replaces the friendly pages of a book. And you can&amp;#39;t tote that laptop to the beach. Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we&amp;#39;ll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What the Internet hucksters won&amp;#39;t tell you is tht the Internet is one big ocean of unedited data, without any pretense of completeness. Lacking editors, reviewers or critics, the Internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data. You don&amp;#39;t know what to ignore and what&amp;#39;s worth reading. Logged onto the World Wide Web, I hunt for the date of the Battle of Trafalgar. Hundreds of files show up, and it takes 15 minutes to unravel them—one&amp;#39;s a biography written by an eighth grader, the second is a computer game that doesn&amp;#39;t work and the third is an image of a London monument. None answers my question, and my search is periodically interrupted by messages like, &amp;quot;Too many connections, try again later.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Won&amp;#39;t the Internet be useful in governing? Internet addicts clamor for government reports. But when Andy Spano ran for county executive in Westchester County, N.Y., he put every press release and position paper onto a bulletin board. In that affluent county, with plenty of computer companies, how many voters logged in? Fewer than 30. Not a good omen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Point and click:&lt;br /&gt;Then there are those pushing computers into schools. We&amp;#39;re told that multimedia will make schoolwork easy and fun. Students will happily learn from animated characters while taught by expertly tailored software.Who needs teachers when you&amp;#39;ve got computer-aided education? Bah. These expensive toys are difficult to use in classrooms and require extensive teacher training. Sure, kids love videogames—but think of your own experience: can you recall even one educational filmstrip of decades past? I&amp;#39;ll bet you remember the two or three great teachers who made a difference in your life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then there&amp;#39;s cyberbusiness. We&amp;#39;re promised instant catalog shopping—just point and click for great deals. We&amp;#39;ll order airline tickets over the network, make restaurant reservations and negotiate sales contracts. Stores will become obselete. So how come my local mall does more business in an afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month? Even if there were a trustworthy way to send money over the Internet—which there isn&amp;#39;t—the network is missing a most essential ingredient of capitalism: salespeople.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What&amp;#39;s missing from this electronic wonderland? Human contact. Discount the fawning techno-burble about virtual communities. Computers and networks isolate us from one another. A network chat line is a limp substitute for meeting friends over coffee. No interactive multimedia display comes close to the excitement of a live concert. And who&amp;#39;d prefer cybersex to the real thing? While the Internet beckons brightly, seductively flashing an icon of knowledge-as-power, this nonplace lures us to surrender our time on earth. A poor substitute it is, this virtual reality where frustration is legion and where—in the holy names of Education and Progress—important aspects of human interactions are relentlessly devalued.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By Clifford Stoll&lt;br /&gt;Filed: 2/26/95 at 7:00 PM  | Updated: 12/10/13 at 4:04 PM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirvana-185306' target='_blank'&gt;http://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why...-nirvana-185306&lt;/a&gt;</description>
            <author>henghuang</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2014 21:22:57 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Guys, can scientist make money in</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3176673</link>
            <description>Ayam thinking of going to research road after my MD, is it recommended? can lead stable life? in terms of knowledge, ayam can tahan, but in terms of money &lt;!--emo&amp;:sweat:--&gt;&lt;img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/sweat.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sweat.gif' /&gt;&lt;!--endemo--&gt;  &lt;!--emo&amp;:sweat:--&gt;&lt;img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/sweat.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sweat.gif' /&gt;&lt;!--endemo--&gt;  &lt;!--emo&amp;:sweat:--&gt;&lt;img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/sweat.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sweat.gif' /&gt;&lt;!--endemo--&gt;</description>
            <author>henghuang</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2014 21:08:44 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Guys how I can I be more confident</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3176664</link>
            <description>cari waifu sudah, inb4 vietnam, thailand</description>
            <author>henghuang</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2014 20:59:00 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>/k/ behavior is kinda predictable</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3176604</link>
            <description>&lt;!--emo&amp;:sweat:--&gt;&lt;img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/sweat.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sweat.gif' /&gt;&lt;!--endemo--&gt;  &lt;!--emo&amp;:sweat:--&gt;&lt;img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/sweat.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sweat.gif' /&gt;&lt;!--endemo--&gt;  &lt;!--emo&amp;:sweat:--&gt;&lt;img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/sweat.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sweat.gif' /&gt;&lt;!--endemo--&gt; &lt;br /&gt;If you spot the trend of my thread, you can see why I did certain thing to elicit certain response.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So far, most fall, only few realise what I was doing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;!--emo&amp;:(--&gt;&lt;img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /&gt;&lt;!--endemo--&gt;  &lt;!--emo&amp;:(--&gt;&lt;img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /&gt;&lt;!--endemo--&gt;  &lt;!--emo&amp;:(--&gt;&lt;img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /&gt;&lt;!--endemo--&gt; asian culture breeds people that do the same things, think the same things, no individuality &lt;!--emo&amp;:(--&gt;&lt;img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /&gt;&lt;!--endemo--&gt;  &lt;!--emo&amp;:(--&gt;&lt;img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /&gt;&lt;!--endemo--&gt;  &lt;!--emo&amp;:(--&gt;&lt;img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /&gt;&lt;!--endemo--&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am sad for this culture.</description>
            <author>henghuang</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2014 19:53:17 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>/k/ hatelist poll</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3176571</link>
            <description>Now open for suggestion, when a name appears more than 5 times, it will added to the poll list.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;!--emo&amp;:lol:--&gt;&lt;img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /&gt;&lt;!--endemo--&gt;  &lt;!--emo&amp;:lol:--&gt;&lt;img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /&gt;&lt;!--endemo--&gt;  &lt;!--emo&amp;:lol:--&gt;&lt;img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /&gt;&lt;!--endemo--&gt; &lt;br /&gt;RumBLE&amp;#33;</description>
            <author>henghuang</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2014 19:18:05 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>``</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3176535</link>
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            <author>henghuang</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2014 18:25:48 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Guys wtf supporter of PKR killed</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3176142</link>
            <description>&lt;a href='http://www.bersih.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Peoples-Tribunal-on-GE13-Findings-Report.pdf' target='_blank'&gt;http://www.bersih.org/wp-content/uploads/2...ings-Report.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;page 45&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vasantha Kumar58, PKR candidate for Tapah Parliamentary seat testified that BN campaigner &lt;br /&gt;B. Kalaivanar punched Loganathan, his assistant, attempted to attack Vasantha Kumar &lt;br /&gt;himself and another assistant, and threatened to kill another. He also testified that Murugan, a &lt;br /&gt;security officer and a supporter of PKR, received death threats by phone from a BN &lt;br /&gt;supporter, and was later found brutally murdered; no action had been taken thus far by the &lt;br /&gt;police. Murugan’s mother59 movingly testified to the Tribunal about her son and his murder.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='https://forum.lowyat.net/uploads/attach-22/post-172622-1370971566.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The People’s Tribunal on Malaysia’s 13th General Elections &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Members of the Tribunal &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;Professor Yash Pal Ghai, Kenyan, Chair of Tribunal, expert in constitutional law and human &lt;br /&gt;rights, Emeritus Professor of Public Law, University of Hong Kong. Chair of the Kenya &lt;br /&gt;Constitution Review Commission and Chair of the National Constitutional Conference &lt;br /&gt;(2000-2004). &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Professor Ramlan Surbakti, Indonesian, Professor of Comparative Politics at Airlangga &lt;br /&gt;University, Surabaya. Deputy Chairman of the Indonesian Election Commission (2001-5), &lt;br /&gt;Acting Chair (2005-7). Senior Adviser on Elections in the Partnership for Governance &lt;br /&gt;Reform in Indonesia since 2008. &lt;br /&gt;Datuk Azzat bin Kamaludin, Malaysian, Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya. &lt;br /&gt;Former Administrative and Diplomatic Officer with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs &lt;br /&gt;Malaysia. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Dr. Mavis Puthucheary, Malaysian, former Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics &lt;br /&gt;and Administration, University of Malaya. Co-editor of a book entitled Elections and &lt;br /&gt;Democracy in Malaysia. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Rev Dr. Hermen Shastri, Malaysian, Methodist Minister, General Secretary of the Council of &lt;br /&gt;Churches of Malaysia (CCM). Member of the Executive Committee of Malaysian &lt;br /&gt;Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The People’s Tribunal on Malaysia’s 13th General Elections</description>
            <author>henghuang</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2014 06:38:18 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>To the King&amp;#33;</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3176137</link>
            <description>[YOUTUBE]AMDlAXdyKZM[/YOUTUBE]</description>
            <author>henghuang</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2014 05:35:13 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Two chemist enters a bar</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3176135</link>
            <description>One says a glass of h20 please, the other says I would like a glass of h2o too.</description>
            <author>henghuang</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2014 05:04:37 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>I won&amp;#39;t mention name</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3176104</link>
            <description>Hi, I felt uncomfortable to reply seriously on /k/. So I decided to message you in person. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not sure if what you mentioned were true, but please stay strong kay. I think it&amp;#39;s mostly because of the situation u are in, don&amp;#39;t you have something your passionate about? Someone you love? Or something you enjoy doing? There isn&amp;#39;t a specific goal in life, so don&amp;#39;t go all crazy trying to find an answer. Just go on and do whatever you enjoy&amp;#33;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- /k/</description>
            <author>henghuang</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2014 01:28:29 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>duah liap liao obama</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3176058</link>
            <description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://hugelolcdn.com/i/257081.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.ownzee.com/attachments/2012/03/pic3/4f612682-aaf4-4305-8180-504dcdbab12d.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;</description>
            <author>henghuang</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2014 00:15:45 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Is humor an extension of limitless self?</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3176040</link>
            <description>I have issue the concept of humour in the context of current zeigiest, as humour becomes an extension of being daring and trying to talk about anything without any taboo, sex, vagina, penetration, rape, torture rabbit, all seen through the eyes of biasa lah, in this sense we defined humour. Consequence of this that we can extrapolate on a x and y graph where x is the time scale of evolution that the humour gene is introduced into a culture and y is the degratation of human morality, we can seen that this is an inverse graph of not an exponential growth but of a linear type. are we not aware that true form of humor lies within the nature and humanity of the purest kind ?</description>
            <author>henghuang</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2014 23:55:35 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>What is the goal of life?</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3176027</link>
            <description>What do you running for? breathing for the air given by not righeous gains, for days that are not suppose to last, until the end, purpose not seen, tunnel of light, vagina.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Guys, I was depressed these few weeks, maybe due to work related issue, and stress of thining to migrate. and mh370 issues, and race issue and my kid&amp;#39;s future in Malaysia, what else can I do besides suicide or sleep?</description>
            <author>henghuang</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2014 23:45:37 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>U.S., other powers kick Russia out of G8</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3175973</link>
            <description>The Hague, Netherlands (CNN) -- President Barack Obama and other world leaders have decided to end Russia&amp;#39;s role in the group of leading industrialized nations, the White House said Monday.&lt;br /&gt;The move to suspend Russia&amp;#39;s membership in the G8 is the latest direct response from major countries allied against Russia&amp;#39;s annexation of Crimea.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;International law prohibits the acquisition of part or all of another state&amp;#39;s territory through coercion or force,&amp;quot; the statement said. &amp;quot;To do so violates the principles upon which the international system is built. We condemn the illegal referendum held in Crimea in violation of Ukraine&amp;#39;s constitution.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;We also strongly condemn Russia&amp;#39;s illegal attempt to annex Crimea in contravention of international law and specific international obligations.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said earlier in the day that being kicked out of G8 would be no big deal.&lt;br /&gt; Inside Politics: Obama&amp;#39;s emergency talks Russian standoff in &amp;#39;eleventh hour&amp;#39; WH: Isolate Russia and support Ukraine&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;G8 is an informal organization that does not give out any membership cards and, by its definition, cannot remove anyone,&amp;quot; he said during a news conference. &amp;quot; All the economic and financial questions are decided in G20, and G8 has the purpose of existence as the forum of dialogue between the leading Western countries and Russia.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;Lavrov added that Russia was &amp;quot;not attached to this format and we don&amp;#39;t see a great misfortune if it will not gather. Maybe, for a year or two, it will be an experiment for us to see how we live without it.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;Ukraine orders Crimea troop withdrawal&lt;br /&gt;In a nod to political and economic reforms, the United States, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and Italy added Russia to their group in 1998 -- transforming it from the G7 to the G8.&lt;br /&gt;An aide to British Prime Minister David Cameron confirmed to CNN that a group summit initially planned for June in Sochi, Russia, where the Winter Olympics were just held, is now off.&lt;br /&gt;The United States and its allies in Europe are &amp;quot;united in imposing a cost on Russia for its actions so far,&amp;quot; Obama said earlier in the Netherlands where he attended a nuclear security summit with other world leaders.&lt;br /&gt;Western powers have imposed sanctions and other penalties against specific people in Russia close to President Vladimir Putin.&lt;br /&gt;A senior Obama administration official, not speaking for full attribution, said Obama and other leaders agreed that further steps to punish Russian President Vladimir Putin could include sanctions on energy, banking and defense sectors -- all areas where Europe is deeply engaged economically with Russia.&lt;br /&gt;Those additional sanctions could be prompted if Russia further escalates its incursion into Ukraine, which the official defined as sending troops beyond Crimea into the southern or eastern parts of the country. Violence in the contested peninsula could also trigger further sanctions.&lt;br /&gt;While the official said further penetration of Ukraine by Russian troops remains the most immediate source of concern for the United States, other potential land grabs also worry the United States and its allies.&lt;br /&gt;NATO has expressed concern Russia could attempt to reclaim a region of Moldova with Russian sympathies.&lt;br /&gt;Can Obama&amp;#39;s European trip re-assert U.S. global leadership?&lt;br /&gt;Obama has said a military incursion in Ukraine is off the table, and his advisers are hesitant to even frame the crisis in Ukraine as a bad &amp;#39;80s flashback -- Obama in one corner, Putin in the other. It&amp;#39;s not &amp;quot;Rocky IV,&amp;quot; as Secretary of State John Kerry said.&lt;br /&gt;White House officials don&amp;#39;t care to publicly muse about Putin&amp;#39;s intentions.&lt;br /&gt;National Security Adviser Susan Rice said the Russian President&amp;#39;s actions speak for themselves.&lt;br /&gt; What is Russia&amp;#39;s next move?&lt;br /&gt;The White House emphasis throughout the Russian occupation of Crimea has been &amp;quot;de-escalation.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;Asked whether the United States will provide military aid to Ukraine&amp;#39;s woefully underfunded armed forces, administration officials cautioned that such assistance could inflame tensions.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Our focus has been and remains on the economic and diplomatic instruments at this point,&amp;quot; Rice said. &amp;quot;Our interest is not in seeing the situation escalate and devolve into hot conflict.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;Lavrov met with Kerry on Monday and said Russia&amp;#39;s action in Crimea was necessary.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;It was the necessity to protect Russians who live there and who lived there for centuries,&amp;quot; he said in the news conference. &amp;quot;And when our partners compare Crimea to Kosovo, because in Kosovo a lot of blood was shed then its independence was proclaimed. So we have a question then: Is it necessary for the blood to be shed in Crimea to agree on the right of the people in Crimea for self-determination?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;While Democratic and Republican lawmakers in the United States are stepping up their calls to provide Ukraine with light arms and other military aid, administration officials have argued that sanctions put in place so far must be given time to take hold.&lt;br /&gt;With an estimated 20,000 Russian troops on Ukraine&amp;#39;s border, the question is whether Obama&amp;#39;s use of soft power will deter Putin.&lt;br /&gt;With little resistance, the Russian President could easily move into eastern Ukraine even as Obama seeks to isolate Moscow in meetings with European allies. It&amp;#39;s a possibility not lost on senior administration officials.&lt;br /&gt;House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican, argued the Russian leader is likely eying more opportunities in the coming days.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;(Putin) has put all the military units he would need to move into Ukraine on its eastern border and is doing exercises. We see him moving forces in the south in a position where they could take the southern region over to Moldova,&amp;quot; Rogers said on NBC&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;Meet the Press.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;There are other approaches. Obama&amp;#39;s former ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, urged the administration to intensify its policy of isolating Putin.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Mr. Putin&amp;#39;s Russia has no real allies. We must keep it that way,&amp;quot; McFaul wrote in an op-ed in the New York Times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/24/politics/obama-europe-trip/' target='_blank'&gt;http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/24/politics...ma-europe-trip/&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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