yes http://www.thetreeofliberty.com/vb/s...16#post2294616Originally Posted by fairfield
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yes http://www.thetreeofliberty.com/vb/s...16#post2294616
Revelation 14:7
Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters."not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.”
Land Owner
Just a short observation on voter fraud. Seems the woman dead in her car for 6 years in Mich. was found to have voted recently. Resurrection for demonsrats party is quite a sight to behold.
Land Owner
Exactly. That says it all. Funny how simple things get when a person believes the Word of God.
And your post was brief. Yet it was pretty much ignored so people could get on with their own agenda of showing how smart they are, and posting a lot of wordy stuff which is actually meaningless in the long run.
When you believe in Jesus things get really simple. When you don't, you've got to keep spinning out reams and reams of your own vain imaginings.
Land Owner
Air Force sacks two commanders in Europe
Stars and Stripes ^ | 3/17/14 | Adam L. Mathis
Posted on Monday, March 17, 2014 10:02:17 AM by markomalley
RAF MILDENHALL, England — Two U.S. Air Force commanders in the 422nd Air Base Group at RAF Croughton have been relieved over a loss of confidence in their abilities.
Col. Charles Hamilton, who commanded the base group since 2011, and Lt. Col. Matthew Olson, who commanded the 422nd Communications Squadron since July, were relieved of command on Thursday by the 501st Combat Support Wing commander after an investigation, officials said.
“It was loss of confidence in the commanders’ abilities to lead their units in the best interest of the Air Force,” spokesman Capt. Brian Maguire said in an e-mail. “This action was more about leadership style and organizational climate than a specific event.”
Maguire said there was no connection between the two sackings and that the two men were not under criminal investigation.
Col. Brian May will command the air group until a scheduled replacement arrives this summer, Maguire said. Maj. John Riester will command the communications squadron, but no permanent replacement has been selected yet.
Col. Angela Cadwell, 501st commander, said in an email that her primary focus was the “health, welfare and organizational climate” in the wing. She did not elaborate.
Croughton provides communication and computer support to military assets throughout Europe. The base came under public scrutiny last year when it was reported that British Telecom would provide a telecommunication link between Croughton and a base in Djibouti connected with unmanned aerial vehicle operations.
Monday, March 17, 2014
IRGC: We now have our own MIRV warheads for our Missiles
Obama FP successes just keep piling up. And this first item, matters because Iran, according to Pentagon security analysts, is about to test ICBM prototypes
Bill Gertz - GeoStrategy Direct:
IRGC boasts of multiple warhead missiles: Sanctions ‘failed totally’
NICOSIA — Iran has reported the acquistion of multi-warhead missiles.
Officials said the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps procured indigenous missiles with multiple warheads for tactical and strategic operations. They said the weapons were designed to overcome Israeli and U.S. missile defense networks.
Photo released on March 5 by the Iranian Defense Ministry shows Defense Minister Hussen Dehqan and two IRGC commanders walking past Qader and Qiam missiles at an undisclosed location. AP
"These missiles can destroy enemy targets with precision and answer the different needs of the armed forces," Iranian Defense Minister Hussen Dehqan said.
In a ceremony at an air defense base on March 5, Dehqan said the warheads could destroy targets at a range of 2,000 kilometers. He said the multiple warheads would be equipped on the Qiam and Qader H1 missiles, developed over the last three years.
Dehqan said Qiam, Qader as well as the Fateh-110 and Khalij Fars were undergoing serial production for IRGC. The defense minister also reported the delivery of the Mersad air defense system.
"This shows that the comprehensive sanctions of the enemies on our defense sector have failed totally," Dehqan said.
Officials described Qader as a liquid-fuel ballistic missile with a range of 2,000 kilometers. Qiam and Fateh-100 were identified as a cruise missile and solid-fuel ballistic missile, respectively. They said Khalij Fars, with a 650-kilogram payload and range of 300 kilometers, represented the most advanced missile of the IRGC Navy.
"While other missiles mostly traverse at subsonic speeds and in cruise style, Khalij Fars moves vertically after launch, traverses at supersonic speeds, finds the target through a smart program, locks on the target and hit it," Iran’s state-owned Fars News Agency, deemed close to IRGC, said.
Pentagon braces for imminent Iran ICBM prototypes
WASHINGTON — Security specialists here are monitoring Iran’s progress toward acquiring intercontinental ballistic missiles that could threaten the West, despite the regime’s rapprochement with U.S.
Officials said the U.S. intelligence community has determined that Iran was headed for completion of its first ICBM prototype. They said the weapon, designed to strike the United States, could be tested over the next few months.
"You heard the testimony over the last month and what the intelligence estimates are on the ability of Iran to test an ICBM by 2015," Missile Defense Agency director James Syring said. "We stand by that."
In an address to a defense technology conference on March 4, Syring, a navy vice admiral, said the United States must be prepared for long-range missiles by Iran and North Korea. He said both countries were capable of sending satellites into space, a program that could conceal ICBM development.
"The numbers are increasing, and the capability of these ballistic missiles is increasing as well," Syring said.
Officials have warned of the increasing Iranian and North Korean threat amid cuts in the U.S. ballistic missile defense budget. They cited the need to modernize U.S. BMD networks as well as deploy such systems as the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense and SM-3.
"You [can] start to piece together what we’re concerned about, and the threat that is posed by the increasing ballistic missile threat around the world," Syring said.
In his address, Syring provided few details of U.S. preparations to counter an Iranian ICBM, expected to eventually contain a nuclear warhead. He cited, however, U.S. encouragement for a Gulf Cooperation Council BMD architecture. The United Arab Emirates has been the first foreign country to order THAAD.
"I’m confident that with our partners we will come together, and [will] field and answer those calls," Syring said.
Pentagon Confirms it Requested Missile-Decommissioning Study
Feb. 24, 2014
Air Force Capt. Allen Lamb and Capt. Bill Christians, combat crew commanders, stand on a platform at a missile silo in South Dakota in November 1964. The Pentagon on Friday confirmed it had requested environmental studies on shutting down some of the country's remaining 450 Minuteman 3 missile silos. (LIFE photo/Minot Air Force Base)
The Pentagon on Friday confirmed reports it had requested an environmental study on shutting down some underground silos housing strategic missiles.
Defense Department spokeswoman Cynthia Smith said the Air Force assessment would aid the Pentagon in deciding where to carry out arms-control cuts mandated under the New START accord with Russia, the Great Falls Tribune reported.
"The [environmental assessment] will collect information from all three missile bases on the effects of eliminating no more than 50 [intercontinental ballistic missile] silos," the spokeswoman said. "While we don't know what the final force structure will be at this time, the administration remains committed to maintaining safe, secure and effective nuclear deterrence capabilities that include the ICBM leg of the nation's nuclear triad."
A number of congressional lawmakers last week criticized reports that the Air Force may have begun the studies, pointing to a federal law explicitly prohibiting the Pentagon from using appropriated fiscal 2014 funds to analyze the impacts of shutting down nuclear-missile silos.
Smith did not indicate where the department was getting the money to conduct the environmental assessments.
Air Force Global Strike Command currently fields approximately 450 silo-based Minuteman 3 missiles, apportioned evenly among three bases: Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota and Francis E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming. A reduction to a maximum of 420 land-based missiles is expected under New START.
The treaty obligates Russia and the United States by 2018 to limit their respective arsenals of long-range nuclear delivery vehicles, including intercontinental ballistic missiles, to 700 apiece, with each side permitted to hold 100 more systems in reserve.
Senator John Hoeven (R-N.D.) questioned how the Pentagon could legally proceed with the studies, in an interview with Minot Daily News.
"I don't think they can," said Hoeven, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee who worked to ensure the Defense Department would not receive any fiscal 2014 funds for conducting silo shut-down studies. "We put right in statute that they're not allowed to use funds to go forward. We'll see what their response is. Hopefully, they'll respond, 'OK we recognize that it's the law,' and so they stand down.
"If not, then we would have to take next steps," he continued.
U.S. to Start Cutting Submarine Missile-Launchers Next Year
Jan. 6, 2014
By Rachel Oswald
Global Security Newswire
The Navy's nuclear-armed ballistic submarine USS Maine conducts surface navigational operations about 50 miles south of Puerto Rico in this undated photo. Beginning in 2015, launch tubes in Ohio-class vessels will be reduced to 20 each, in accordance with New START requirements. (U.S. Navy photo)
The United States next year is slated to begin reducing launch tubes on each of its Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines, a new independent report states.
The elimination of four operational launch tubes on each of the 14 submarines that make up the Navy's Ohio submarine fleet will be the first substantial reduction in U.S. strategic weapon delivery capability since the 2011 New START accord went into effect, according to Hans Kristensen, who co-authored an assessment on the current status of U.S. nuclear forces. The report was published in the January/February edition of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
Nearly three years after the New START pact with Russia entered into force, implementation of the treaty has "been going very slowly," Kristensen said in a brief Monday phone interview.
The treaty requires Russia and the United States by 2018 to each reduce their fielded stockpiles of strategic nuclear warheads to 1,550 and to cut their arsenals of long-range delivery vehicles down to 700 apiece, with an additional 100 systems allowed in reserve on each side.
"The way that the U.S. military has approached implementation of the New START treaty so far has not done anything that has actually affected the actual number of nuclear [delivery vehicles] that are in the war plan," said Kristensen, who directs the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists.
Instead, the Pentagon has focused on reducing the nuclear-delivery capability of selected vehicles, such as heavy bombers, that have already been retired, he said.
The Defense Department has the latitude to pursue that approach because the treaty allows so many years -- seven, specifically -- before each side must carry out all mandated reductions, Kristensen said.
Once all of the Ohio-class submarines have had their launch tubes capped at 20 each -- a project that is to take place in the 2015-to-2016 time frame -- the United States will be able to deploy no more than 240 submarine-launched ballistic missiles at any time, according to the report written by Kristensen and Robert Norris, who is also with the Federation of American Scientists.
The submarine set to replace aging Ohio-class vessels -- dubbed "SSBN(X)" -- is expected to have only 16 missile tubes, which will reduce further the number of sea-launched ballistic missiles that the United States can deploy. The replacement fleet is also envisioned to be smaller -- only 12 submarines instead of the current 14. The Navy is not expected to begin building the first boat before 2021, and could field the vessel a decade later, according to the Bulletin report.
FLASHBACKS:
Russia And China Prepare For The Day When They Will Nuke The US
Posted By Michael Snyder on Nov 7, 2013 in Articles, World News |
While Barack Obama is busy gutting the U.S. nuclear arsenal, Russia and China are rapidly preparing for the day when they will nuke the United States. To most Americans, it sounds very strange to hear that Russia and China are concerned about nuclear war. After all, isn’t the Cold War over? Isn’t that what politicians from both major political parties keep telling us? Unfortunately, the truth is that Russia and China both consider the United States to be their number one geopolitical threat, and both nations have been systematically strengthening and updating their strategic forces. At the end of last month, Russia held a large-scale military drill that involved the launch of four nuclear missiles, and the Chinese government released a major report for the public which included maps showing what would happen to major U.S. cities in the event of a nuclear attack by Chinese submarines. Obama may blindly believe that wishful thinking and unilateral disarmament will keep the United States safe, but Russia and China are taking a much different path.
Both of them believe that a military conflict with the United States in the future is quite likely, and they are rapidly preparing for that eventuality.
Meanwhile, Russia Casually Announces It Will Use Nukes If AttackedRussia develops...
Underwater strategic destroyer "Dolgoruky" carries 16 ballistic missile "Bulava 30"
01/10/2013 15:51.
Russian Navy receives the first of 8 new atomic submarines
"Yuri Dolgoruky"
- "Underwater destroyer" of the same class and generation, "Alexander Nevsky" is currently undergoing the necessary tests and the Russian Navy will have it available during 2013
- On the last day of the 2012 it was lowered in the water with its "twin brother" - "Vladimir Mono" which, as the najavbljuje, be najbešumniji
- Military shipyard "Sevmaš" already started construction, and the fourth "Boreas" - "Prince Vladimir", but perfected by the project - 955A
Russian Navy substantially increased its striking power: in Severodvinsk - in the presence of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu - the more solemnly, after raising the flag over her Andrejevske, strategic nuclear submarines launched the fourth generation "Yuri Dolgoruky".
It is the newest and most modern submarine Project 955 class "Boreas" by Russian admirals considered strategic missile submarine destroyer.
These "underwater destroyers" should become the strong arm of Russia's naval strategic nuclear forces in the 21st century.
The ceremony was held at the famous military shipyard "Sevmaš," Shoigu and then - using a secure connection - everything about informed the Head of State and Chief of the Armed Forces of the RF Vladimir Putin.
"Dolgoruky" is about 170 meters long, width - 13.5 meters. Carries 16 ballistic missiles strategic "Bulava-30" (according to Western classification SS-NM-30) and nasjavremenija torpedoes.
Russia has completed the construction of two submarines of this class.
"Underwater destroyer" of the same class and generation, "Alexander Nevsky" is currently undergoing testing and teophodna Russian Navy will have it available during the 2013 year.
On the last day of the 2012th the water was lowered its "twin brother" - "Vladimir Mono" which, as the najavbljuje, be najbešumniji.
"Sevmaš" has already started construction, and the fourth "Boreas" - "Prince Vladimir", but perfected by the project - 955A.
Russia planned to build eight strategic "submarine destroyer" - three and five 955 - 955A.
The completion of this test was first submarines said deputy defense minister for armaments, Yuri Borisov at a briefing for reporters the military.
He also said that the Russian Air Force 2012 received 40 aircraft including planes multipurpose Su-30 MS, MiG-29K, Frontovski Su-34 bombers, combat training Yak-130, and 127 helicopters (Mi-28N, Ka-52, modernized Mi-24, which are undergone a thorough upgrade, Mi-8 and others).
"Yuri Dolgoruky" is designed to St. Petersburg Central Constructors Bureau "Rubin" under the leadership of Vladimir Zadornova. The foundation board in her body laid by the mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, and the head of administration of the President of Russia, Antolij Čubajs.
Initially the plan was to "submarine destroyer" is armed with a new solid-fuel rocket, "Bark", which is made in the state rocket center "Makejev". However, three missile tests have been completed and failed. Moreover, despite the technical task to be done rockets weighing up to 40 tons, experts from the Urals were offered a rocket weighing 90 tons (later said they wanted to use it on heavy strategic missile submarine 941 project applications, Class "Shark" instead of rockets lifted R-39).
Making complex strategic battle for the "Boreas" government commission has delegated the Moscow Institute of Thermal Engineering and chief designer Yuri Solomon, whose new solid-fuel rocket RT-2PM2 "Topol-M" (SS-27), without regard to their financial difficulties, began to enter into a strategic rocket forces weapons.
For the investigation of the "Bulava" even changed one of the class projects raketonosca 941 "Shark" with the number of K-208 "Dmitry Donska", which is out of missiles.
Russia’s Newest Ballistic Missile Sub Something Something Red October
Andrew Tarantola
While Russia's submarine fleet remains a formidable force in the 21st Century, the country still relies on craft built before the Iron Curtain lifted. Today, a lot of the subs are getting long in the tooth. However, the new SSBN Yury Dolgoruky will provide Mother Russia with a fresh set of nuclear fangs.
The SSBN Yury Dolgoruky was designed by the Rubin Marine Equipment Design Bureau. It is both the first new Borei Class and the first sub constructed since the fall of the Soviet Union. Construction began in earnest way back in 1996. But there were budget constraints, and multiple redesigns (due in part to the failures of new ballistic missiles being developed in tandem with the sub). So it didn't launch until 2008.
Once it was in the water, the SSBN Yury Dolgoruky easily passed its sea trials. It entered active duty last July, at 557 feet long, with a 44 foot beam and 32-foot draught. Submerged, it displaces 24,000 tons and keep its 130-member crew underwater for up to 100 days. A single ОК-650В nuclear reactor powers a pump-jet propulsion system—another first for Russian subs. This allows the sub a top speed of 29 knots while operating more quietly than conventional screw propulsion.
This $890-million sub also features a hydro-dynamically efficient hull coated with anechoic material. This reduces the sub's acoustic signature much the same way that the skin of a Stealth Fighter reduces the plane's radar signature. In the event of an emergency, the Dolgoruky incorporates a floating rescue chamber that can accommodate the entire crew.
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The SSBN Yury Dolgoruky also carries enough armarment to start World War III and IV. It's outfitted with 16, 45-ton Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM)—a derivation of the Topol-M ICBM developed at the Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology. Each SLBM employs multiple warheads, and each of those can carry a 100-150kt nuclear payload. According to an RIA Novosti report, it could add up to a total payload of 600 nuclear warheads per sub. Even if a missile defense system spots and counters these projectiles, they've still got a good chance of hitting their target. These three-stage missiles measure 40 feet in length and are tough enough to withstand a nuclear countermeasure as close as 500 meters without failing.
Other subs had better stear clear of the Dolgoruky as well, lest they meet one of a half dozen RPK-2 Viyuga missiles, firing underwater from a 533-mm torpedo tube at Mach .9. If things really get ugly, the sub can drop a a 90R nuclear depth charge.
Two additional Borei subs—SSBN Alexander Nevsky and SSBN Vladimir Monomakh—are currently under construction with another five ready by 2020. With this bristling offensive capability, the Borei class is expected to become the backbone of the Russian submarine fleet.
Today...
Putin Receives Obama Letter on Strategic Issues
April 15, 2013
U.S. national security adviser Tom Donilon on Monday delivered a letter from President Obama to Russian President Vladimir Putin that touched on strategic matters including additional nuclear-weapon cuts and missile defense, the Christian Science Monitor reported.
"The message is written in a very constructive tone and contains a range of suggestions for further deepening of our bilateral dialogue and cooperation," Putin foreign policy counselor Yuri Ushakov said to reporters. "Some ideas have already been talked about but there are some new elements which our country will study in the most attentive way and give a corresponding response."
Washington and Moscow have long been at odds over Obama administration plans for ballistic missile defense, particularly deployment of interceptors in Europe. That dispute is seen as an obstacle to bilateral atomic arsenal reductions that go beyond the New START pact's limits of 1,550 strategic warheads and 700 delivery systems.
The White House on Monday announced the president would hold a summit with Putin in September when he takes part in a Group of 20 meeting in Russia, Reuters reported.
A separate Obama-Putin summit has already been scheduled for June in Northern Ireland.
As they load their newly developed most advanced subs with their underwater long range Bulava missiles each with tipped with 10 nuke MIRV warheads...
Russia to Load 16 Missiles on New Subs
April 15, 2013
Russia intends to load 16 Bulava ballistic missiles on each of its new Borei-class submarines, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported on Sunday.
The vessels were initially intended to be installed with 20 missiles, Interfax reported. However, that was found to demand changes including a longer hull that could undermine the submarines' capacity to make rapid changes in direction.
"Sixteen missiles are enough to deliver a nuclear strike," according to one unidentified private defense sector insider told Interfax. "What is more important is to be able to clandestinely reach an attack position and launch missiles on designated targets."
The first of eight anticipated Borei-class submarines, the Yuri Dolgoruky, has entered active naval service. The Bulava missile, which had a troubled development, are designed to fly up to 5,000 miles and to carry as many as 10 warheads.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/11/2013 17:56 -0400
With the Ukraine situation increasingly precarious, and now even the US state department getting involved with the occasional unexpected harsh warning...
- U.S. MAY CONSIDER SANCTIONS ON UKRAINE: STATE DEPT
... into what Putin has made very clear is his brand new sphere of influence (it is unclear just why the US is responding in such a way: did the pro-Europe protesters not use Made in the US tear gas or chemical weapons?), Russia casually threw it out there earlier today that it would use nuclear weapons if it comes under an attack. As vice prime minister and defense industry chief made clear, "One can experiment as long as one wishes by deploying non-nuclear warheads on strategic missile carriers. But one should keep in mind that if there is an attack against us, we will certainly resort to using nuclear weapons in certain situations to defend our territory and state interests." Just in case it wasn't quite clear...
Rogozin pointed out that this principle is enshrined in Russia’s military doctrine. Any aggressor or group of aggressors should be aware of that, he said. “We have never diminished the importance of nuclear weapons – the weapon of requital – as the great balancer of chances,” Rogozin said.
More from RT:So if nothing else, at least the primary deterrence strategy of the cold war has just made a roaring comeback. We can only hope that with such skilled heads of the State Department as John Kerry, that the nuclear exchange that was avoided for the duration of the first cold war doesn't somehow become a GDP-boosting reality.
Russia’s Fund of Perspective Researches (FPI) will develop a military response to the American Conventional Prompt Global Strike (PGS) strategy, Dmitry Rogozin told the State Duma.
So far, the FPI has already looked at over a thousand proposed ideas and plans to work on 60 projects, eight of which are top priority, the politician said. He refused to disclose any details, but said that one of those projects is focused on preparing a response to the PGS, which is the “main strategy” that the Pentagon is nurturing.
PGS would allow the United States to strike targets anywhere on the planet, with conventional weapons in as little as an hour.
As Rogozin explained earlier, the strategy would give America an advantage over a nuclear state, thanks to their better technical capabilities with weaponry, including the speed, RIA Novosti cited.
NOW:
"This evening... Dmitry Kiselyov threatened the United States with a nuclear strike if they threaten RussiaRT @MaximEristavi: Meanwhile the chief of Putin's media empire goes on air with threats to turn US into "radioactive dust" if needed
http://t.co/UojybzHtXF
Russia can turn the U.S. into ashes, News Week
Dmitry Kiselev
March 16, 2014
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teZZMrnWUNw
Dmitry Kiselev threatened to transform the U.S. into " radioactive ash "
According to a leading TV channel " Russia 1" , the war with the United States is already underway,
but " so far only information ."
Sunday evening, March 16 during the determination of the results of the referendum
on the accession of Russia to the Crimea , in the final program " News Week "
presenter Dmitry Kiselev threatened U.S. nuclear explosion in case of aggravation of
the conflict with Russia over the Crimea . It is reported Slon.ru.
"Earlier, the Americans said , frozen preparation meeting the" Big Eight "in Sochi in
June. Like, boycott Russia , nothing to talk about . But if so , then why all the time
Obama tinkling Putin? "- Rhetorically wondered Kiselev, when behind him a
photograph of Obama with the caption" A gray head . " Kiselev answered his own
question when it was involved in a background picture to a nuclear explosion and the
caption " In the nuclear ashes ! "
"Russia - the only country in the world, capable of transforming the U.S. into
radioactive ash ! I do not know whether the match , but Obama called Putin on
January 21 , but the next day , literally January 22, as the official organ of the
Russian government appears article [ in "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" ], where quite lucidly
chewed how our system works guaranteed nuclear retaliation "Perimeter" . In the
U.S., call her dead hand - « dead hand ." Even if all the people in our command posts
after enemy nuclear attack silenced , invulnerable system will automatically send to
our strategic missile flight from mines and submarines in the right direction ", -
announced Kiselev , recommending interesting to read in " Rossiyskaya Gazeta " ,
calling it " extremely interesting . "
According to Kiselyov , with the appearance of the article " Obama began to call Putin
often ." "A graying - more ! Randomness ! ? "- Asked Kiselev himself with
characteristic gestures . Then , however, Kiselyov said that the war with the United
States is already underway, but " so far only information ."
Formerly " Yugopolis " reported that the situation in the south- eastern regions of
Ukraine escalates. Media reports of armed clashes in different cities of supporters and
opponents of the idea of territorial dismemberment of Ukraine.
Moscow (AFP) - A leading anchor on Russian state television on Sunday described Russia as the only country capable of turning the United States into "radioactive ash", in an incendiary comment at the height of tensions over the Crimea referendum.
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"Russia is the only country in the world realistically capable of turning the United States into radioactive ash," anchor Dmitry Kiselyov said on his weekly news show on state-controlled Rossiya 1 television.
Kiselyov made the comment to support his argument that the United States and President Barack Obama were living in fear of Russia led by President Vladimir Putin amid the Ukraine crisis.
His programme was broadcast as the first exit polls were being published showing an overwhelming majority of Crimeans voting to leave Ukraine and join Russia.
He stood in his studio in front of a gigantic image of a mushroom cloud produced after a nuclear attack, with the words "into radioactive ash".
"Americans themselves consider Putin to be a stronger leader than Obama," he added, pointing to opinion polls which then popped up on the screen.
"Why is Obama phoning Putin all the time and talking to him for hours on end?" he asked.
Kiselyov has earned a reputation as one of Russia's most provocative television news hosts, in particularly with his often blatantly homophobic remarks.
But he is also hugely influential with his weekly news show broadcast at Sunday evening prime time.
Putin last year appointed Kiselyov head of the new Russia Today news agency that is to replace the soon to be liquidated RIA Novosti news agency with the aim of better promoting Russia's official position.
Kiselyov also made great play of Russia's so-called "dead hand" capability to fire nuclear-capable intercontinental missiles automatically in the case of attack.
The system, also known as Perimeter, was in use during the Cold War but its use in post-Soviet Russia is not officially confirmed.
But Kiselyov appeared to claim it remained active, giving Russia the chance to strike back even if its main command positions were taken out in a strike by the West.
"Even if people in all our command posts after an enemy atomic attack cannot be contacted, the system will automatically fire our missiles from mines and submarines in the right direction," he added.
The channel's graphic showed the line of a Russian missile heading towards the Pacific coast and the United States.
Pro-opposition news site slon.ru did not mince its words in describing the implications of Kiselyov's comments.
"This evening... Dmitry Kiselyov threatened the United States with a nuclear strike if the conflict over Crimea deepens," it said.
Russia and the United States are reducing their Cold War missile and nuclear warhead arsenals under the terms of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty that entered into force in 2011.
Land Owner
Two words: Manchurian President
Flashbacks:
IN EARLY 2008 OBAMA REVEALED HE WOULD CUT AMERICA'S MILITARY DEFENSE SYSTEMS SLOW DEVELOPMENT OF OUR COMBAT SYSTEMS AND NEGOTIATE DIRECTLY WITH RUSSIA TO ACHIEVE DEEP CUTS IN DISMANTLING OUR NUCLEAR ARSENALS
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http://www.youtube.com/embed/dl32Y7wDVDs
RUSSIANS PUBLISHED AN ARTICLE IN DECEMBER 2008
Obama starts World War III in Crimea
December 26, 2008
Under the new U.S. President Barack Obama in the Crimea will be implemented scenario of armed conflict. "It is the American scenario, and under Obama the probability is much higher than under McCain," - said at a roundtable in Kiev, Russian political scientist Andrei Okara, said "New Region".
Expert explains: "It became clear when it was announced that what people will represent the Obama team. These are people whose professional registration - Wall Street. These people are engaged in a technology called" technologies of controlled chaos. "
According to Okara, after Georgia area "controlled chaos" in the first place, was to be the Ukraine, namely - Crimea. "This is the point of a fire, including global conflicts that escalate into a world war, which, unfortunately, is one of the scenarios, the implementation of which at the moment from the real" - says the analyst.
His colleague from the Ukrainian Institute of Russia Andrey Blinov agree that Russia is not interested in such a conflict. "When people talk about the war in the Crimea or in the hamlet St. Michael, I believe that this scenario is marginal. A question more active economic participation of Russian capital is very likely. But it depends on when the crisis is over. If in 2010, while Russia will be much weaker, "- said the expert.
U.S. ambitions toward Crimea confirmed and signed recently the Ukrainian-American Charter on Strategic Partnership. The Charter provides for the unconditional recognition of the sovereignty of Ukraine and its integration into NATO, increased U.S. presence in the Crimea and other forms of cooperation. U.S. Ambassador William Taylor in Kiev, however, reassured: "The Charter does not oblige any one of the two parties to assist military means." And he added, if the boundaries are violated, "we will meet and discuss our next steps."
In the second section of the paper devoted to defense and security, said the interest of both countries to "a strong, independent, democratic Ukraine", whose integration into European structures "is a mutual priority." This section reiterates that Ukraine will join NATO. In the meantime, "recognizing the global threat to stability in the world, to prevent them Ukraine and the United States will strengthen their cooperation in defense and security issues," - said the Ambassador. In addition, Taylor mentioned and concrete steps to improve the level of training and military supplies for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The fifth section is devoted to the expansion of human contacts and cooperation in the field of culture: Ukraine, as follows from the text (as submitted by Taylor), "welcomes the intention of the United States to increase its diplomatic presence in the Crimea." Format presence on the peninsula is still under discussion, "but it may be a structure with certain consular functions."
The document also refers to the support of Kiev against Moscow on withdrawal of Russian Black Sea Fleet from Crimea.
The fact that Crimea is the most promising ground for destabilization beneficial both Americans and official Kyiv, observers say not the first month. Periodically pop up in the media, various scenarios by which the Ukrainian "Democrats" try to blow this "powder keg" redirecting claims to Russia. Proclivities pro-Russian activists Peninsula (like attempts to regain the Crimea to Russia through the court ) at the same time severely punished, but to complete victory over SBU "dissidents", judging by the numerous symptoms, far away.
Provocations on the "Crimean direction" really can not be avoided, we are convinced, in turn, Ukrainian Communists. U.S. prepares to throw to the east (aiming at this, of course, in Russia), but first they need to break the pro-Russian Crimea, ex-speaker of the Crimean parliament, Verkhovna Rada deputy Leonid Grach. Scheduled for next year open a representative office in Simferopol U.S. - the same series.
The fact that Ukraine is in range of the attention of the new U.S. president, analysts have stated previously. Obama will counterbalance Russia Ukraine, said political analyst Sergei Taran: "The first time the Ukrainians may be neglected by the United States, as Obama will be busy with internal problems the United States. But in the long term efforts of the U.S. Obama will resume his authority in Europe, and in the long term, the new U.S. administration will pay particular attention to Ukraine, which could be a counterbalance to Russia in the region, and in the future - even counterbalance the old Europe example of modern Poland. "
Ukraine will remain for the United States deterrent to Russia, agrees Ukrainian political analyst Andrei Yermolaev. According to him, Ukraine for American policy has been and remains instrumental object that is used in a rather cynical strategies.
Most "visionary" already hard rehearsing for the upcoming bout Crimea : from the opera - held recently in Kiev command post exercise on "Actions volunteer units on the Crimean theater of operations after the Russian military aggression." Organizers merrymaking (National Salvation Committee, which includes the party "Brotherhood" and "New Force" and association "Northern Brotherhood") argue that the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, which will be held no later than 2011, the entire burden of resistance will be on voluntary organizations. Scenario Campaign General Staff of the Armed Forces has already been developed, sure "roleplayers".
Постоянный адрес статьи:
http://www.utro.ru/articles/2008/12/26/789711.shtml.
http://www.utro.ru/2008/12/26/peredovica/Wall to wall media circus coverage like the OJ trial.
The missing jet story keeps the masses distracted of Obama's failed foreign policy and the fact someone opened the door to the agitated Grizzly Bear Cage that is now loose.
FLASHBACKS:
U.S. Diplomat’s F-Bomb Overshadows Russia’s Warning on Ukraine
February 7, 2014 - 4:39 AM
By Patrick Goodenough
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Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
(CNSNews.com) – A media furor over a leaked phone conversation between senior U.S. diplomats discussing the Ukraine crisis is overshadowing a Kremlin adviser’s accusations of U.S. interference in Ukraine – and his warning that Russia could intervene to maintain its security.
Administration officials are implying that the Russian authorities intercepted and posted on YouTube of an audio recording of a purported phone conversation between Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and the U.S. Ambassador in Kiev, Geoffrey Pyatt. The State Department is not disputing its authenticity.
The kerfuffle over the leaked conversation – in which Nuland says, “f*** the E.U.” -- has diverted attention from a newspaper interview published Thursday in which Sergei Glazyev, an adviser to President Vladimir Putin, accused the U.S. of “unilaterally and crudely interfering in Ukraine’s internal affairs.”
Glazyev told the Kommersant daily’s Ukraine edition that the U.S. was funding and arming the Ukrainian “opposition and rebels” trying to oust embattled President Viktor Yanukovich.
Asked whether Russia would actively intervene if the crisis worsened, Glazyev told the Kommersant daily’s Ukraine edition that America’s interference in Ukraine’s internal affairs was a clear breach of a 1994 document Ukraine’s security after Kiev surrendered its nuclear arsenal inherited from the Soviet Union, which had dissolved three years earlier.
Under that 1994 memorandum, he continued, “Russia and the U.S. are guarantors of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine and, frankly, they are obliged to intervene when conflict situations of this kind arise.”
Glazyev’s comments were quickly eclipsed by the leaked Nuland-Pyatt recording, with most attention not surprisingly focused on Nuland’s use of an obscenity in relation to the European Union’s stance on Ukraine.
But the conversation more broadly will also feed Russian allegations of U.S. meddling in the crisis, which erupted when Yanukovich reversed course last November on closer ties with the E.U. in favor of stronger links to Russia.
In a bid to end the turmoil, Yanukovich late last month offered two opposition leaders, Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Vitali Klitschko, the posts of prime minister and deputy prime minister respectively. Both declined.
In the leaked conversation, Nuland and Pyatt are heard to favor a role for Yatsenyuk, but to agree that Klitschko should not to be brought into the government.
“I don’t think it’s necessary [for Klitschko to have a role in government],” Nuland is heard to say. “I don’t think it’s a good idea.”
Pyatt agrees: “In terms of him [Klitschko] not going into the government, just let him sort of stay out and do his political homework and stuff.”
Nuland goes on to mention that U.N. Secretary-General Ben Ki-moon is about to appoint an envoy to Ukraine.
“That would be great, I think, to help glue this thing and have the U.N. glue it – and you know, f*** the E.U.” she says.
“Uh, exactly,” replies Pyatt. “And I think we’ve got to do something to make it stick together, because you can be pretty sure that if it does start to gain altitude the Russians will be working behind the scenes to try to torpedo it.”
‘Small frustrations’
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki at a daily press briefing did not dispute that the leaked recording was authentic, saying that Nuland has apologized to her E.U. counterparts for the “reported comments.”
“Certainly we think this is a new low in Russian tradecraft in terms of publicizing and posting this [online],” she said. (White House press secretary Jay Carney separately also raised questions about “Russia’s role”.)
A reporter suggested that the recording – with two senior officials apparently discussing brokering a new government for Ukraine, determining its makeup and getting the U.N. to seal the deal – would be seen as demonstrating U.S. interference in a sovereign state’s affairs.
“This is more than the U.S. making suggestions,” the reporter said. “This is the U.S. midwifing the process.”
“Of course these things are discussed,” Psaki replied. “It doesn’t change the fact that it’s up to the people on the ground, it is up to the people of Ukraine, to determine what the path forward is.”
Asked about Nuland’s evident frustration with the E.U., Psaki said, “I wouldn’t overanalyze one – a couple of words that were used on a phone call as to having larger meaning about some sort of ongoing issue.”
“There are, of course, moments in every diplomatic relationship where you have small frustrations, where you agree, you disagree, you work through the issues, you talk about what the best step to take is, and that certainly has been the case here, which should be no surprise.”
The U.S. and E.U. have not always seen eye-to-eye over Ukraine, with the E.U. uneasy about U.S. proposals considering imposing sanctions on Kiev.
Psaki went on to suggest that Nuland may have learned to swear while working on a Russian fishing boat as a young woman.
“You all know Toria pretty well. You may know the story of how she lived on a Russian boat for about eight months when she was 23, and she learned how to perfect perhaps certain words in a couple of languages.”
When Secretary of State John Kerry conducted her assistant secretary swearing-in ceremony last September, he said, “As some of you may know, she worked on a Soviet fishing trawler in the Pacific, an incredible undertaking.”
“She has also served in some of the most challenging and demanding foreign policy positions in the U.S. government,” he added, “some of which I am sure made her feel like she wished she would be back on that fishing trawler at times.”
Nuland told the New York Times in 2012 that she “learned to drink aboard a Soviet fishing trawler in my early 20s, so my favorite summer beverage is still an ice-cold Stoli with an ocean view.”
"Behind The Kiev Snipers It Was Somebody From The New Coalition" - A Stunning New Leak Released
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/05/2014 23:49 -0400
The last time a leaked phone call out of Ukraine was released about a month ago ostensibly by the Russian NSA equivalent, one between US assistant sec state Victoria Nuland and the US envoy to the Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, it was revealed that the real puppet masters behind the Maidan movement, and the true instigators of the Ukraine "revolution" were none other than the "developed" world superpowers, lead by the US.
Also revealed were tensions between the US and EU strategies on how to overthrow the current government, culminating with the infamous "F*ck the EU." Needless to say the US, which implicitly confirmed the recording, was angry at Russia and accused it of using dirty tricks.
That's ironic, because when it comes to "dirty tricks" what is about to be presented, blows the top off anything Russia may or has done to date.
Earlier today an even more shocking recording has been "leaked" this time one between the always concerned about human rights EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton and Estonian foreign minister Urmas Paet, in which it is revealed on tape that all those photos of horrifying deaths of Ukrainians by snipers during the last days of the Median stand off, were in fact caused not by Snipers controlled by Yanukovich, but that the snipers shot at both protesters and police in Kiev were allegedly hired by Maidan leaders!
Here is the key exchange, just after 8 minutes into the conversation :
Paet: "All the evidence shows that people who were killed by snipers from both sides, policemen and people from the streets, that they were the same snipers killing people from both sides. ... Some photos that showed it is the same handwriting, the same type of bullets, and it is really disturbing that now the new coalition they don't want to investigate what exactly happened. So there is now stronger and stronger understanding that behind the snipers, it was not Yanukovych, but it was somebody from the new coalition."
Ashton: "I think we do want to investigate. I mean, I didn’t pick that up, that’s interesting. Gosh."
Paet: "It already discreditates (sic) this new coalition."
So first US orchestrates the Kiev overthrow, and now the new "leaders" of Ukraine are allegedly found to have fired against their own people - the same provocation they subsequently used to run Yanukovich out of the country and install a pro-Western puppet government. Of course, said pro-Western coalition has not been discreditated (sic) because Ms. Ashton has sternly refused to investigate, knowing quite well how horribly this would reflect on the new Ukraine "leadership" - a government which shot its own people to fabricate the pretext under which it rose to power.
Is it any wonder then that Russia has responded the way it has?
As for at least one of the affected parties, Estonia, it has just confirmed the authenticity of the recording, and the ministry of foreign affairs has organized a press conference to answer media questions today at 5 pm.
From the Valisministeerium:Yes, it is truly regrettable that the people know the truth.
No. 84-E Foreign Minister Urmas Paet and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton uploaded to the Internet today, a phone call is authentic.
Paet and Ashton conversation took place on 26 February, following Estonia's Foreign Minister's visit to Ukraine, and immediately after the end of the street violence.
Foreign Minister Paet communicate what he had said about the meetings held in Kiev last day and expressed concern about the situation.
"It is extremely regrettable that such an interception is occurring at all""said Paet., Including its
call for today's photos are not random," he added.
Full leaked recording below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEgJ0oo3OA8
UKRAINE CRISIS: What You Need to Know About the Sniper Leak
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while many did stay home and protest by not voting allowing owhammy to continue the destruction of this nation, I can say that as far as the highlighted sentence, I promise to do all I can to NOT let that happen to your kids or anyone else's until my last breath. Prep and pray, the end has arrived.
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1984, former KGB Major Anatoliy Golitsyn
In 1984, former KGB Major Anatoliy Golitsyn published a remarkable book, New Lies for Old, alleging that in the near future the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, working in collaboration with sister parties worldwide, would feign its own demise for three main purposes: 1) deceiving Western governments as to communism’s long-range goal of overthrowing the “bourgeois” states, 2) attracting Western capital to revitalize the Soviet Union’s ailing command economy, and 3) removing any justification for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization anti-Soviet military posture. Five years later, the ruling communist party in Poland invited “non”-communists into the government and, in 1990, the ruling communist party in East Germany “capitulated” by uniting with West Germany. The demise of the Soviet Bloc had supposedly begun.
His predictions vindicated, in March 1989, Golitsyn submitted a memorandum to the US Central Intelligence Agency, further outlining the Soviet deception strategy in concert with the leaders of Red China. This and other memos were published in his second book, The Perestroika Deception (1995, 199. An excerpt, with links to supporting documentation, follows:
PREDICTIONS ON THE EXECUTION OF THE STRATEGY’S FINAL PHASE
Expanded Role of the Communist Party
During “perestroika,” the political role of the Communist Party in communist countries will increase, not decrease. The Party will continue to exercise overall supervision and control over the mixed economy through Party members among the managers and technocrats. The Party, operating “underground” and “working by other means,” will provide political guidance to the Congress of Peoples’ Deputies and other “reformed” and successor parliaments and to the new “political parties” and “grassroots democratic associations” through Party cells and individual Party members in the leaderships of these organizations. Guidance to Party members will be given through confidential briefings. Freed from day-to-day supervision over the economy, the Party will devote itself to guiding and implementing “perestroika” in the USSR and Eastern Europe and to implementing the strategy in the West. The Soviet Party apparatus will become a true general staff of world revolution to be carried out through the strategy of “perestroika.”
Stronger, Maturer Ideology
Despite the apparent renunciation of ideological orthodoxy, Communist ideology will grow stronger and more mature. As “perestroika” proceeds, ideology in the Communist countries will be reasserted. Each success for “perestroika” will reinforce the belief of Party members and young Communists in the correctness of their ideology and their cause. Communists will continue to analyze international relations and the situation in the capitalist countries in terms of class analysis. Their “humanism” will continue to see love and hate in class terms. Capitalists, home-grown and foreign, will be hated, never loved; and they will invariably be deceived and take for a ride.
The Party will continue with ideological education and training to prevent contamination by foreign ideologies. Attempts to reform and replace capitalism in the West will be accelerated, not through ideological propaganda, but through the strategy of “perestroika,” leading to “convergence.”
An Improved, Reorganized KGB
One can expect that the KGB will be converted into a new organization with a Western-style name. The reorganization will be presented as a reduction of the role of the service in Soviet society. But, because the KGB’s crucial role in promoting “perestroika” internally and abroad, the reorganization should not be seen as a downgrading. Just as Dzerzhinskiy’s hated Cheka was converted into the more powerful GPU, so will the successor organization to the KGB be more powerful than its predecessor.
The new service will work with kid gloves and more sophisticated methods. Internally, its resources will be devoted to the creation of controlled political plurality (“democratism”). It will create a pseudo-social democratic party and Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Muslim national parties: it will even set up Stalinist and anti-Semitic groups, to give a convincing impression of plurality. Naturally, the service will be behind these groups and parties—controlling and managing them in the interests of the strategy and its objectives. The service will use its intelligence and security assets, particularly its agents of influence in the newly created national fronts, political groups and parties, to carry out the strategy of “restructuring” attitudes and polices in the West.
The New Model Soviet Regime
The Soviets will proceed with “perestroika” on the following lines:
1) A mixed socialist-market economy comparable to the Swedish economy will be established with one crucial difference. Soviet “capitalists” will in fact be secret Party members and Party political tools. Their influence will be used in the interests of the strategy abroad. This is what Soviet maturity means.
2) The Party will create controlled plurality a semblance of social democracy in the USSR. It will not be difficult to do. Even the Stalinist regime in Poland had nominally “non-Communist” “independent” parties. In fact, they were puppet parties.
3) As a mature body, the Soviet parliament will play an active role in the execution of the strategy abroad.
4) The new parliament will be closer to the Swedish model—again, with one difference. It will use its contacts with Western colleagues to influence them towards cooperation and “restructuring” in the West.
5) The Soviet Empire will not crumble as a result of nationalist unrest. The Party will create a stronger federation which will be in full control of foreign policy, defence and security but which will provide autonomy to the national Republics to run their own local affairs.
6) As the Party proceeds with successful “perestroika” in the USSR, both Russians and non-Russians will be increasingly inclined to accept it and take part in the process. In the final analysis, their attitude will depend on Western support for Soviet “perestroika” and the improvement in their way of life.
7) Successful Soviet “perestroika” will result in a Soviet regime of pseudo-social democracy with a human face.
8 ) At this juncture, the Party and the successor to the KGB will do their utmost to exploit the image of their new model, their prestige and the contacts and influence of the new parliament, the national fronts, the political groups and parties and the Soviet capitalists, to carry out the intended strategy of “restructuring” in the West.
“Restructuring” in Eastern Europe and China
A consistent effort will be made to expand and deepen “restructuring” in Eastern Europe and China. The new models will be like Soviet “perestroika” in essence but will reflect the specific national and historical features of each country.
For instance, in Poland the model will include Communist power-sharing with Solidarity and the Catholic hierarchy. In Czechoslovakia, the model will include the experience of 1968; in Hungary the rehabilitation of the revolt of 1956; in East Germany, the desire for reunion with West Germany; and in China, it will reflect the Asian character of socialism, the desire for reunion with Taiwan and the present close relations with the United States. Polish and East German “restructuring” should be particularly closely watched because of their relevance to the “restructuring” of Western Europe.
“Restructuring” in Western Europe
“Perestroika” in the USSR and Eastern Europe will be accompanied by a determined Soviet political and diplomatic offensive to introduce “restructuring” in Western Europe. Gorbachev and East European leaders will try to develop the present détente into close economic, military, political, cultural and scientific cooperation to create “one Europe” without NATO and the Warsaw Pact. A particular effort will be made to develop close relations and cooperation with East European social democrats and the Labour Party in Britain—exploiting the new Soviet pseudo-social democratic, mixed economy image. Attracted by this image and convinced of its authenticity, the social democrats may well respond to this courting.
East Germany will play a crucial role in the “restructuring” of Western Europe and of West Germany in particular. The appointment of Valentin Falin, a leading Soviet expert on Germany, as head of the Central Committee’s Department of International Relations, indicates that the Soviets are preparing and counting on an East Germany initiative. Such an initiative will probably be supported by a Polish demarche such as revival of Rapacki plan for a nuclear-free zone in Central Europe. This time, one can expect the Soviets to remove the Berlin Wall. There is no doubt that their strategists realize that they will be unable to proceed with the strategy of “restructuring” in Europe without removal of the Berlin Wall—just as they were unable to proceed without a Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. Through removal of the Berlin Wall, the Soviets may be able to strike a new, Rapallo-style deal with the West Germans, particularly with a Social Democratic government, entailing their departure from NATO and acceptance of neutrality.
Given that Soviet “perestroika” incorporates by design many Euro-Communist positions (criticism of Soviet repressive practices, condemnation of the intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968, broadening Soviet democracy), Euro-Communist parties will join and support the movement for “restructuring” in Europe which will give them new opportunities for revitalizing themselves. They will attempt to establish unity of action with social democrats to bring about “restructuring” in their own countries. Dubcek’s re-emergence from obscurity and his recent visit to Italy at the invitation of the Italian Communist Party supports the notion that the Euro-Communists will seek to exploit Soviet and East European “perestroika” to regain political influence in their own countries. Support for Soviet and East European “perestroika” by the Italian and French governments renders the socialist parties of these countries vulnerable to approaches from the Communists.
“Restructuring” in the Third World
An active Soviet and East European offensive to carry out “restructuring” in the Third World can be expected. The present Soviet readiness to contemplate and even encourage the settlement of armed conflicts by their proxies does not mean the abandonment of their objective of Communist penetration of the region concerned. It represents no more than change of tactics. The strategy of “restructuring” broadens Soviet opportunities for gaining influence through the achievement of political solutions. The reformed regimes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe will engage with the West European social democratic parties and the Socialist International in introducing and carrying out “restructuring” in the Third World and particularly in Latin America. Exploiting the debt problem and the example of Soviet “perestroika,” they will seek unity of action with labour, religious, student, human rights and ecological movements. The impact of Soviet “perestroika” on these countries may be expected to grow. The Mexican press is already drawing parallels between Soviet “perestroika” and political change in Mexico described as “Salinastroika.” The former Mexican communist leader made the same comparison. Fuentes, the left-wing Mexican novelist, wrote recently that Salinas must become a Mexican Gorbachev if he wishes to change the state of affairs in Mexico. Another example is the recent offer of the Salvadorean guerrilla leaders to disarm themselves if the Salvadorean army is restructured.
These examples indicate the beginning of a trend towards “restructuring” in Latin America. The trend will accelerate if the United States begins to help it without taking into account the Soviet strategic design that lies behind it.
Given the fragility of democracy, the desperate economic situation and the debt problem, particularly in Latin America, one can expect an active, joint operation by the Soviets, the East Europeans and European social democrats (with their money) to bring to power Allende- or Sandinista-type regimes and “restructuring” in these countries along the lines of the new, reformed Soviet model.
“Restructuring” American Military-Political Alliances
The Soviets will exploit the image of the reformed and peaceful Soviet systems to shatter the Western consensus about the Soviet threat and the need for political and military alliances. In Europe, the Soviets will probably attempt to create a serious rift in NATO or break it up altogether by removing the Berlin Wall and reaching a Rapallo-style deal with West Germany involving West Germany withdrawing from NATO and following Austria into neutrality. In Asia, the Soviets may attempt to break up the US-Japan security pact by returning the Kurile Islands to Japan and offering Japan economic concessions to promote the development of Siberia.
As the Soviets carry out “restructuring” in the Third World, they will use their influence to reduce the American presence in the region.
“Restructuring” in the United States
The Soviets will do their utmost to persuade the new Administration (of US President George H. W. Bush) to follow Reagan’s policy of embracing “perestroika” and rapprochement with the Soviet Union. They will intensify the efforts of Gorbachev and Sakharov to engage the American elite in cooperation over the environment, space, disarmament and the joint “solution” of social, political, economic, environmental, military and international problems.
Visits by Soviet scientists, politicians, intellectuals and cultural delegations will be stepped up in order to put across to the Americans the ideas of “restructuring” and convergence. Likewise, more American scientists, intellectuals, opinion-formers, politicians and religious groups will be invited to the USSR where they will be subjected to persuasion on the advantages of “restructuring” and convergence.
Soviet agents of influence in the United States will redouble their attempts to act as catalysts in promoting “restructuring” and convergence. They will initiate public debates on security aimed at shattering the American consensus on the Soviet threat and destabilizing and “restructuring” the US military-industrial complex. KGB agents among Soviet “dissidents” and cultural defectors will travel back and forth between the United States and the USSR acting as bridge-builders in cultural and political convergence. The whole political potential of the KGB-controlled political parties and so-called “grassroots organizations” will be used to establish links with their genuine counterparts in the United States and influence them toward “restructuring.”
During their visits to the United States they will try to impress the Americans with the growing similarity of their system to the American system and to convince them of the soundness of convergence as a means of avoiding nuclear war.
As “restructuring” proceeds in Eastern Europe, the East Europeans will join the Soviet offensive to gain a foothold in the United States to secure their share of political influence over the American ethnic minorities.
(Anatoliy Golitsyn, The Perestroika Deception: The World’s Slide Towards the Second October Revolution: Memoranda to the Central Intelligence Agency, London: Edward Harle, 1995, 1998; pages 27-32)
CHINA: A STRATEGIC ENEMY OF THE UNITED STATES
Communist China is not a strategic partner but a concealed strategic enemy of the United States. China will join in the Soviet offensive to bring about ‘restructuring’ in the United States and worldwide.
Through penetration, Chinese Communist intelligence destroyed the ClA’s sources in China during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s and prevented the Agency developing reliable sources on the strategic intentions of the Chinese leaders. The National Security Agency cannot help because information on secret Sino-Soviet strategic coordination is not carried on accessible communications channels.
This situation leaves American policymakers poorly informed on the subject. American policymakers from the time of Nixon and Kissinger to the present day have become known for their excessive reliance on the verbal assurances of Mao, Chou En-Lai and Deng. Reliance on their word is no substitute for good intelligence.
Because of this intelligence gap, America’s policymakers have not distinguished between China’s tactics and her strategy. This failure is not new: it was evident as early as the Second World War when the Americans failed to realise that the Chinese Communists’ cooperation with the Nationalists against the Japanese was a tactic adopted in order to achieve their strategic objective – their victory over the Nationalists. Some of the statements of the Chinese leaders to their own followers are unflattering about American policymakers and are, in fact, disturbing. In the late 1960s, Mao advised the Party not to take the Americans seriously in a strategic, but only in a tactical sense. Deng’s well known statement about a cat catching a mouse, made when China was introducing capitalism and receiving American technology, can be interpreted as meaning that the Chinese Communist leader is the cat that caught the American mouse.
Because of their confusion, American policymakers believe that Communist China is an important strategic partner and a strategic rival and enemy of the Soviet Union. In this they are wrong. China is a tactical, not a strategic partner of the United States and a tactical, but not a strategic “enemy” of the Soviet Union.
The grounds for this conclusion are to be found by analysing the long-range Communist strategy which illuminates the strategic role of China.
Communist China was one of the principal architects of the Communists’ long-range strategy. The Sino-Soviet ‘split’ was a common strategic disinformation operation to secure the successful preparation of their common strategy of ‘restructuring’. The Soviet and Chinese leaders have continued their secret strategic coordination through a division of labour.
Gorbachev’s ‘perestroika’ and Deng’s ‘Four Modernisations’ (a Chinese euphemism for ‘restructuring’, or ‘perestroika’) are two similar elements in the final phase of the common strategy.
In the light of the new method of analysis, the purpose of Shevardnadze’s hastily arranged trip to China on the eve of President Bush’s visit was to give advice to Deng on his talks with the American President. Gorbachev and Deng will use their meeting to discuss coordination and new initiatives to be taken during the final phase of the strategy The new analysis sees the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan as a tactical move en route to the principal strategic objective – ‘restructuring’ e.g., engaging the United States in support of ‘perestroika’.
China’s close relations with the United States and even Chinese helpfulness to the United States over the Pakistan-Afghanistan situation are tactics intended to secure China’s primary strategic objective of becoming a modem superpower with the help of American technology.
According to this analysis, the Chinese leaders are using their own Party apparatus and security services to try to repeat Soviet successes in creating controlling political opposition and introducing its members to the United States in order to shape American policy in the interests of a common Communist strategy.
In fact the Chinese have been so impressed by Sakharov’s success in gaining influence in the United States that they are developing their own Sakharovs – agents of influence among leading Chinese ‘dissident’ scientists. Thus it can be predicted that the Chinese will establish their own foothold of influence in the United States and will eventually join the Soviet offensive to procure American ‘restructuring’.
For China is destined to become a primary Soviet partner in the future World Government towards which Moscow and Peking are jointly proceeding.
(Golitsyn, The Perestroika Deception, pages 35-36
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
“As a general rule, the earlier you recognize someone is trying to kill you, the better off you’ll be.”
"You think a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a sheet of glass."
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Why is Iran building a mock US aircraft carrier?
March 21, 2014 - 1:06PM
Eric Schmitt
The real US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz. Photo: Reuters
Washington: Iran is building a nonworking mock-up of an American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier that US officials say may be intended to be blown up for propaganda value.
Intelligence analysts studying satellite photos of Iranian military installations first noticed the vessel rising from the Gachin shipyard, near Bandar Abbas on the Persian Gulf, last summer. The ship has the same distinctive shape and style of the Navy's Nimitz-class carriers, as well as the USS Nimitz's No. 68 neatly painted in white near the bow.
Mock aircraft can be seen on the flight deck.
The Iranian mock-up, which US officials described as more like a barge than a warship, has no nuclear propulsion system and is only about two-thirds the length of a typical 1,100-foot-long Navy (335 metre) carrier. Intelligence officials do not believe that Iran is capable of building an actual aircraft carrier.
A satellite image showing Iran's mock-up of a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier in one of its naval shipyards near Bandar Abbas. Photo: Digitalglobe
"Based on our observations, this is not a functioning aircraft carrier; it's a large barge built to look like an aircraft carrier," said Commander Jason Salata, a spokesman for the Navy's 5th Fleet in Bahrain, across the Persian Gulf from Iran. "We're not sure what Iran hopes to gain by building this. If it is a big propaganda piece, to what end?"
Whatever the purpose, American officials acknowledged Thursday that they wanted to reveal the existence of the vessel to get out ahead of the Iranians.
Navy and other American intelligence analysts surmise that the vessel, which 5th Fleet wags have nicknamed the Target Barge, is something that Iran could tow to sea, anchor and blow up - while filming the whole thing to make a propaganda point, if, say, the talks with the Western powers over Iran's nuclear program go south.
Iran has previously used barges as targets for missile firings during training exercises, filmed the episodes and then televised them on the state-run news media, Navy officials said.
"It is not surprising that Iranian military forces might use a variety of tactics - including military deception tactics - to strategically communicate and possibly demonstrate their resolve in the region," said a US official who has closely followed the construction of the mock-up.
But unlike Iran's efforts to conceal its underground nuclear-related sites, the Iranian navy has taken no steps to cloak from prying Western satellites what it is building pierside at the busy shipyard. "The system is often too opaque to understand who hatched this idea, and whether it was endorsed at the highest levels," said Karim Sadjadpour, an Iran expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Iran has sought to exploit captured or pirated US military technology in the past. Last year, Iran's political and military elite boasted that their forces had shot down an American intelligence-gathering drone, a remotely piloted Navy vehicle called ScanEagle that they quickly put on display for the Iranian news media.
Navy officials responded that no drones had been shot down by enemy fire, although the Pentagon acknowledged at the time that it had lost a small number of ScanEagles, likely to engine malfunction.
Iranian navy officials could not be immediately reached for comment as the country prepared to celebrate its New Year festivities on Friday.
When the mock-up will take its maiden voyage - if it ever does - is anyone's guess, analysts said. The vessel is nearing completion, they said, and will presumably be shipped by rail on tracks that run through the shipyard, to its destiny in the Persian Gulf just a few hundred yards away.
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Putin to put Russian bases in Latin America
Western Hemisphere left wide open by Obama's weakening policies
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WASHINGTON – As the world remains riveted on Moscow’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula, Russian President Vladimir Putin is shifting gears to Latin America.
As first outlined by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu last February, Putin now plans to keep the United States off-balance as Moscow sets up actual military bases and massive arms sales in the Latin American region.
Moscow’s plan follows a recent announcement by Iran to have its warships patrol in waters off the U.S. coast.
Russia and Iran have stated their increased presence is also in response to U.S. military deployments near their countries, including the eastward expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization up to Russia’s borders.
The establishment of permanent Russian bases and a major Russian presence in the Western Hemisphere will challenge U.S. policies and threatens to diminish Washington’s influence in the region. At the same time, it will give Moscow a basis to stage offensive weapons in the Western Hemisphere, placing another formidable challenge to U.S. homeland defenses from potential missile threats.
WND previously has pointed out that the U.S. lacks adequate missile defenses in the Gulf of Mexico from any missile attack from the south. In addition, WND has reported Russia has begun deploying missile-bearing nuclear submarines in the Southern Hemisphere, further accentuating that threat.
Experts such as former Strategic Defense Initiative Director Ambassador Henry Cooper have argued because of this threat, the U.S. needs to deploy existing Aegis missile defense systems in the southern portion of the U.S.
Aegis missiles launched either from U.S. Navy ships or from shore are capable of intercepting orbiting nuclear weapons, but the resulting high-altitude explosion could also cause an electromagnetic pulse event.
An EMP attack, in turn, could knock out the vulnerable U.S. electrical grid system and other critical infrastructures that U.S. society depends. A catastrophic attack lasting months and years, furthermore, has to potential to kill up to 90 percent of the U.S. population through starvation and lack of medical assistance.
While published reports say Putin is looking to establish military bases in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, all of whom are close allies of Moscow, WND’s informed sources say the Russian president’s focus will be on Nicaragua, which is relatively politically and economically stable.
Putin is reportedly concerned with Venezuela’s instability, since it is going through serious economic problems, with demonstrations eroding the support of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
At the same time, Putin’s strategy eyes Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua – not only for navy port visits, but also for refueling Russian bombers at their air bases.
This potentially significant increase in Russian military presence in Latin America would give Moscow the ability to undertake combat missions not only in Latin America but also around North America itself.
Latin American publications already are reporting that the Obama administration is doing little or nothing to counter Russian, Iranian or even Chinese expansion in the region.
The Obama administration had announced the end of the Monroe Doctrine, a 19th century declaration that stated any efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention.
Last November in a speech before the Organization of American States in Washington, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced, “The era of the Monroe Doctrine is over. … The relationship that we seek and that we have worked hard to foster is not about a United States declaration about how and when it will intervene in the affairs of other American states.”
In referencing any threat from European powers, Kerry said, “We should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety. With the existing colonies or dependencies of any European power we have not interfered and shall not interfere.”
Kerry’s declaration on behalf of the Obama administration, however, didn’t take into account U.S. adversaries setting up bases in the Western Hemisphere at the invitation of countries in the region.
Russian press reports justify Putin’s decision as power projection and improving its image abroad.
“Russia has started reviving its navy and strategic aviation since the mid-2000s, seeing them as a tool to project the Russian image abroad and to protect its national interests around the globe,” RIA Novosti said.
“Now, Moscow needs to place such military assets in strategically important regions of the world to make them work effectively toward the goal of expanding Russia’s global influence.”
“Little doubt remains that Moscow believes that the region of Latin America can play a growing role in world affairs and has expanding mutual interests with Russia to check U.S. power,” asserts Russian expert Stephen Blank of the Washington-based Jamestown Foundation.
In terms of arms sales, Blank says Putin is looking to Brazil to buy fighter aircraft and surface-to-air missile systems.
“If successful, this would mark a step toward creating a group of industrialized countries that employ Russian designs and design bureaus for creating their own military hardware, thereby making the Russian defense sector more secure, pervasive and particularly significant in high tech areas,” Blank said.
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As Russia and China continues develop their nuclear programs for themselves and furthers their surrogate rogue allies develop theirs..
Japan, Belgium and Italy reduce their stockpiles of nuclear material
Announcements made during US-led summit in The Hague aimed at reducing the threat of nuclear terrorism
- Julian Borger in The Hague
- theguardian.com, Monday 24 March 2014 11.28 EDT
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The Dutch prime minister, Mark Rutte, and the US president, Barack Obama, at a nuclear security summit in The Hague. Photograph: Freek Van Den Bergh/AFP/Getty Images
Japan announced on Monday that it would hand over hundreds of kilogrammes of weapons-grade plutonium and uranium to the United States for dilution and disposal, at the start of a global summit aimed at reducing the threat of nuclear terrorism.
Belgium and Italy also announced agreements with the US on the removal of surplus fissile material, as part of a continuing Washington-led effort to reduce global stockpiles and the number of sites around the world where they are stored.
Under the agreement, Japan will ship more than 300kg of plutonium and 200kg of highly enriched uranium (HEU) from its nuclear research site. The material would be enough to build about 40 nuclear warheads.
Japan's stock of weapons-grade material has been a source of friction with China, particularly after rightwing Japanese politicians suggested that it may have value as a deterrent, even though the country ruled out development of nuclear weapons in 1967.
The radioactive material is only a small proportion of Japan's stock, but is in a form that would make it easy to use in a nuclear warhead.
The agreement with Japan was hailed by US officials as the greatest success so far resulting from President Obama's 2009 initiative.
A 2013 deadline "to secure all vulnerable nuclear material around the world within four years" has been missed.
Since 2010, when the first of three nuclear security summits was held in Washington, 10 countries have rid themselves completely of plutonium and HEU: Chile, Serbia, Turkey, Austria, Mexico, Sweden, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Vietnam. The deadline was extended with the announcement there would be a fourth summit in Washington in 2016.
The two-day meeting in The Hague, involving 53 world leaders, will focus on improving security for global stocks of other radiological isotopes including cobalt 60 and caesium 137 which are used in industry, research and medicine but which could be used in a "dirty bomb" to irradiate a large urban area.
Despite the advances made in the past four years, a former US senator, Sam Nunn, the chief executive officer of a Washington-based thinktank called the Nuclear Threat Initiative, warned in a report published before the Hague summit that "nearly 2,000 metric [tonnes] of weapons-usable nuclear materials remain spread across hundreds of sites around the globe – some of it poorly secured".
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yukiya Amano, said last year there were a hundred reported thefts on nuclear and radioactive materials on average each year, although such incidents so far have involved very small quantities.
"We are going in the right direction," said Joe Cirincione, the head of the Ploughshares Fund, which promotes disarmament and non-proliferation initiatives. But he added: "When you are fleeing a forest fire, however, it is not a question of direction but of speed. Can we get to safety before disaster overwhelms us? The current pace is only sporadically urgent. Worse, there is a real chance that even this co-operation will cease after the final, planned summit in 2016."
U.S. helps in 'eliminating' sensitive Japanese nuclear stockpile
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</section>THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Japan will turn over hundreds of kilograms (pounds) of sensitive nuclear material of potential use in bombs to the United States to be downgraded and disposed of, the two countries' leaders said ahead of a nuclear security summit on Monday.
China had voiced concern earlier this year about Japan's holding of plutonium but Washington and the United Nations nuclear agency in Vienna have made it clear they are not worried about the way Tokyo is handling the issue.
Still, U.S. President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in a statement that all highly enriched uranium (HEU) and separated plutonium would be removed from the Fast Critical Assembly at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, used for studying the nuclear physics of so-called fast reactors.
The announcement followed what the White House said were technological advances since the 1960s launch of the Fast Critical Assembly that would allow it to be converted to run on fuel not potentially usable for bombs, unlike HEU or plutonium.
Japan, the world's only target of atomic bombs during the final stages of World War Two, does not have nuclear weapons and has long said it will not seek to obtain them.
Like uranium, plutonium is used to fuel nuclear power plants and for research purposes, but can also serve as the fissile material for the core of a nuclear bomb.
"This effort involves the elimination of hundreds of kilograms of nuclear material, furthering our mutual goal of minimizing stocks of HEU and separated plutonium worldwide, which will help prevent unauthorized actors, criminals, or terrorists from acquiring such materials," said the joint statement released by the White House.
"This material, once securely transported to the United States, will be sent to a secure facility and fully converted into less sensitive forms."
The announcement was made in The Hague shortly before leaders from 53 countries, including Obama and Abe, began a two-day summit aimed at agreeing steps to help prevent al Qaeda-style militant groups from acquiring nuclear bombs.
It is the third such summit since 2010, when it was held in Washington at Obama's initiative. Minimizing civilian uses of HEU or plutonium is regarded as vital to reducing the threat of nuclear terrorism.
Opening the high-profile meeting, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said that much progress had been made in recent years but that there was still some 2,000 tonnes of weapons-usable nuclear material in the world and that more action was urgent.
CHINESE "EXTREMELY CONCERNED"
Last month, China said it was "extremely concerned" by a report that regional rival Japan has resisted returning to the United States more than 300 kg (660 lb) of mostly weapons-grade plutonium.
Japan's Kyodo news agency at the time said the United States had pressed Japan to give back the nuclear material, which could be used to make up to 50 nuclear bombs. Japan had balked but finally relented to U.S. demands, Kyodo said. It was not immediately clear why Tokyo was initially reluctant.
The material was bought for research purposes during the 1960s. An official at Japan's Education Ministry said in mid-February that the two governments would probably reach an official agreement on its return at summit in The Hague.
China, which has nuclear arms, is involved in a bitter territorial dispute with Japan over some off-shore islands.
It denies Japanese accusations that it is a threat to peace and in turn has accused Japan of trying to rearm and failing to learn the lessons of its brutal behaviour during World War Two, when imperial Japanese forces occupied China.
SECURITY MILESTONE
Chen Kai, secretary general of the China Arms Control and Nuclear Disarmament Association, said before the U.S.-Japanese announcement that Japan "in recent years" has been amassing a large amount nuclear material, including HEU and plutonium.
"Experts believe such Japanese stockpiling activities have far exceeded the normal necessity of its domestic use of nuclear energy," he told reporters on the sidelines of the summit.
Japan also has plutonium contained in spent nuclear fuel at civil reactor and reprocessing sites, totaling 159 tonnes at the end of 2012, according to Japanese data on the website of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
A White House fact sheet said Japan's Fast Critical Assembly came online in 1967 when HEU and plutonium were believed to be required for the type of experiments it was involved in.
But recent advancements have changed that and it will now become the world's first "major fast critical facility to convert from HEU and separated plutonium fuels, marking a significant milestone for global nuclear security," it said.
Miles Pomper, a nuclear security expert at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, said such critical assemblies had not been "touched" before.
"They usually have the most weapons-grade material so it's a big deal," he said in an email. "However, Japan still has nine tonnes of separated plutonium that can be used in nuclear weapons and is looking to make more."
(Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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