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With the U.S. F-35 Grounded, Putin’s New Jet Beats Us Hands-Down
Post Date: 2015-03-25 12:18:22 by Pericles
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With the U.S. F-35 Grounded, Putin’s New Jet Beats Us Hands-Down By Rob Garver, The Fiscal Times March 24, 2015 With the U.S. F-35 Joint Strike Fighter still in limbo over reliability problems, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s administration on Monday said it would begin regular production of its newest fighter jet, the T-50, next year. According to state-run media, the Russian military will begin mass-producing the advanced fighter jet in several versions, and will also begin making models that will be available for export. “We have plans to deliver the first series of fifth-generation fighter jets next year,” said Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov, ...
The purpose of Putin’s diplomatic acrobatics (To save the world from American chaos)
Post Date: 2015-03-25 12:15:31 by Pericles
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March 24, 2015 6:17 pm The purpose of Putin’s diplomatic acrobatics Samuel Charap The Russian president’s goal is not to deceive his counterparts. So why lie, asks Samuel Charap ...snip... High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. The more compelling explanation is international. Russia is often denounced in the west as a revisionist power, determined to tear down the postwar international order. Given Moscow’s flagrant violations of basic principles of ...
Obama’s foreign policy: Perhaps cunning, but never wise, never truthful
Post Date: 2015-03-25 11:47:31 by nativist nationalist
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This writer carries no brief for Israel. All that is written and argued about “Israel’s right to exist” is nonsense. Neither Israel nor the United States nor any other nation has a right to exist. A state’s ability to survive depends solely on its own social cohesion, economic viability, and domestic political, international, and military behavior and actions, not on some non-existent right the Israel-First lobby dreamed-up to use to propagandized the American people into eternally supporting a nation that is completely irrelevant — and, indeed, bloodily counter-productive — to genuine U.S. national security interests. That said, Israel and all nation-states ...
Afghanistan withdrawal delayed
Post Date: 2015-03-25 08:12:29 by tomder55
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President Obama said Tuesday that he will delay a planned withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, and maintain a force of 9,800 in the war-torn nation through the end of this year. Reductions in 2016 will be made based on conditions on the ground, according to a joint U.S.-Afghanistan statement issued after Obama met with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at the White House. While the United States had planned to cut its Afghanistan force nearly in half this year, Obama said he agreed to Ghani's request for a slowdown so that Afghanistan can continue building up its own force. "This flexibility reflects our reinvigorated partnership with Afghanistan, which is aimed at making ...
Jordan, Russia Sign $10 Billion Deal on Nuclear Power Plant
Post Date: 2015-03-24 23:47:30 by Pericles
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Jordan, Russia Sign $10 Billion Deal on Nuclear Power Plant AMMAN, Jordan — Mar 24, 2015, 3:31 PM ET By SAM McNEIL Associated Press Jordan signed a $10 billion deal with Russia on Tuesday to build the kingdom's first nuclear power plant, with two 1,000-megawatt reactors in the country's north. The deal, signed in the Jordanian capital, Amman, with Russia's state-owned Rosatom company caps efforts of the energy-poor kingdom to increase energy sufficiency and reduce imports. Jordan lacks any local energy sources and imports 96 percent of its electricity. The violence in neighboring Iraq and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula has threatened and in many cases, completely cut off ...
The church at the South Pole: A Russian Orthodox priest has spent four years leading prayers in a small wooden building on King George Island, Antarctica
Post Date: 2015-03-24 21:26:17 by Pericles
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The church at the South Pole A Russian Orthodox priest has spent four years leading prayers in a small wooden building on King George Island, Antarctica By AP, King George Island, Antarctica 7:33PM GMT 06 Mar 2015 Sophrony Kirilov pulls hard on the strings of the heavy Russian bells from inside the world’s southernmost Eastern Orthodox church, calling to Mass anybody wanting to pray on this remote Antarctic island. The 38-year-old Russian priest is clad in a loose black robe and a vest dotted with patches of penguins and seals, marking his four years of service at the bottom of the world. Although he often misses his family and the dark winters are hard, Kirilov says there is no ...
Leading Russian Orthodox official sees Russia as ‘only center of non-enslaved civilization’
Post Date: 2015-03-24 21:19:31 by Pericles
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Leading Russian Orthodox official sees Russia as ‘only center of non- enslaved civilization’ Catholic World News - February 26, 2015 Describing much of Europe as “Babylon,” the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Synodal Department for the Cooperation of Church and Society said that “Russia is the only center of non-[en]slaved civilization,” according to the Interfax news agency. “Our patriotism is not chauvinism,” said Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin; rather, it consists in “understanding the importance of the unique Christian mission which, I believe, our people live for.” Chaplin traced the decline of Europe from “Genoa and ...
Russia’s return to Nicaragua worrying many in Central America
Post Date: 2015-03-24 21:13:09 by Pericles
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Russia’s return to Nicaragua worrying many in Central America BY TIM JOHNSON McClatchy Foreign StaffMarch 23, 2015 MANAGUA, NICARAGUA — Russia is rekindling its once-strong ties to Nicaragua, possibly including providing the Central American nation with jet fighters, stoking unease as far away as the Andes in South America. Later this week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will arrive in Nicaragua as part of a swing through four Latin American nations, the culmination to a series of high-level Russian visits to this Central American nation in the past year. Last month, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu paid a two-day visit, and in January the head of Russia’s ...
Russia fails in bid to halt UN staff benefits for same-sex couples
Post Date: 2015-03-24 21:11:18 by Pericles
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Russia fails in bid to halt UN staff benefits for same-sex couples UN’s recognition of gay marriages of staff in July allowed them to receive benefits, but Russia desired return to system abiding by laws of country of nationality Russia has failed on Tuesday in a bid to stop the United Nations extending staff benefits to all same-sex couples after a UN general assembly budget committee voted 80-43 against the proposal. There were 37 abstentions, and 33 countries did not vote. The UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, said in July that the United Nations would recognize all same-sex marriages of its staff, allowing them to receive UN benefits. Previously, staff members’ personal ...
How China used more cement in 3 years than the U.S. did in the entire 20th Century
Post Date: 2015-03-24 17:02:15 by Willie Green
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China used more cement between 2011 and 2013 than the U.S. used in the entire 20th Century. It’s a statistic so mind-blowing that it stunned Bill Gates and inspired haiku. But can it be true, and, if so, how? Yes, China’s economy has grown at an extraordinary rate, and it has more than four times as many people as the United States. But the 1900s were America’s great period of expansion, the century in which the U.S. built almost all of its roads and bridges, the Interstate system, the Hoover Dam, and many of the world’s tallest skyscrapers. And China and the U.S. are roughly the same size in terms of geographic area, ranking third and fourth in the world, ...
Moscow Patriarchate to monitor violations of Orthodox Christians' rights in Europe
Post Date: 2015-03-23 23:46:07 by Pericles
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10 March 2015, 14:53 Moscow Patriarchate to monitor violations of Orthodox Christians' rights in Europe Moscow, March 10, Interfax - The Center for Monitoring Orthodox Christians' Rights and Liberties in Europe has launched a website with support from the Moscow Patriarchate's representative office in the Council of Europe. The English-language website, Orthodoxrights.org, will carry information about violations of Orthodox Christians' rights and liberties in Europe, as well a special reports, according to the press service of the Russian Patriarchate's representative office in the Council of Europe. It said numerous abuses of the rights of Orthodox Christians of the ...
Putin's Falklands threat: Britain to boost defences amid claims Russia is arming Argentinian army
Post Date: 2015-03-23 23:40:09 by Pericles
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Putin's Falklands threat: Britain to boost defences amid claims Russia is arming Argentinian army It was claimed the Kremlin and Argentina had struck a deal for Russia to supply long-range bombers to the Argentinian air force Britain is set to boost its defences in the Falklands amid claims Russian president Vladimir Putin is helping Argentina re-arm. Defence Secretary Michael Fallon is due to tell MPs on Tuesday that the Government is beefing-up the UK’s presence on the islands. But critics will question the timing of the expected announcement just six weeks before the general election and as David Cameron faces intense pressure over his failure to commit to spending ...
NGOs As Agents of Subversion: Not Only In Israel, But Egypt And The Caucasus As Well
Post Date: 2015-03-23 21:54:11 by nativist nationalist
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Though “Bibi” Netanyahu won re-election last week, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations will still look into whether the State Department financed a clandestine effort to defeat him. Reportedly, State funneled $350,000 to an American NGO called OneVoice, which has an Israeli subsidiary, Victory 15, that collaborated with U.S. operatives to bring Bibi down. If we are now secretly pumping cash into the free elections of friendly countries, to dump leaders President Obama dislikes, Americans have a right to know why we are using Cold War tactics against democracies. After World War II, my late colleague on CNN’s “Crossfire,” Tom Braden, delivered CIA ...
New pro-Russia party emerges in Poland
Post Date: 2015-03-23 21:40:10 by Pericles
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New pro-Russia party emerges in Poland By PAULINA PACULA WARSAW, 23. MAR, 11:14 A new pro-Russia party has emerged on the Polish political scene and is hoping to scoop as much as 12 percent of votes in elections later this year. Zmiana - meaning “change” - has a strong anti-American streak and supports Russian president Vladimir Putin’s politics, seeing Russia as a natural ally for both Poland and the European Union. Mateusz Piskorski, Zmiana’s leader, denies there is Russian aggression against Ukraine, supports pro-Russian separatists, says Crimea's secession referendum (deemed illegal by the EU and UN) was fair, and criticises the Polish government’s ...
U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News to Americans
Post Date: 2015-03-23 19:53:58 by VxH
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For decades, a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government’s mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences. But on July 2, that came silently to an end with the implementation of a new reform passed in January. The result: an unleashing of thousands of hours per week of government-funded radio and TV programs for domestic U.S. consumption in a reform initially criticized as a green light for U.S. domestic propaganda efforts. So what just happened? Until this month, a vast ocean of U.S. programming produced by the Broadcasting Board of Governors such as Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and the Middle East Broadcasting ...
White House chief of staff: 50 years of Israeli occupation must end
Post Date: 2015-03-23 18:45:03 by Willie Green
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White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough made it clear on Monday that the crisis in U.S.-Israel relations over the issue of a Palestinian state remains, despite efforts by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to clarify remarks he made late in the election campaign that no such state would be established on his watch. “We cannot simply pretend that those comments were never made,” McDonough told the J Street conference in Washington, whose left-leaning audience received his remarks enthusiastically. “Israel cannot maintain military control of another people indefinitely,” he said. “An occupation that has lasted for almost 50 years must end.” He denied ...
Sarkozy denies far-right Le Pen victory in French polls
Post Date: 2015-03-23 06:33:03 by Tooconservative
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PARIS (Reuters) - Former President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative UMP party and their allies won the first round of French local elections on Sunday, denying Marine Le Pen's far-right National Front (FN) first place. The result is an unaccustomed setback for Le Pen, who hoped her resurgent anti-immigrant, anti-euro party would emerge in the first round, boosting her goal of being a serious contender in the 2017 presidential election. According to official partial results that tallied with exit polls, the UMP and its allies together secured around 30 percent of the national vote, ahead of the anti-immigrant, anti-euro FN on around 26, about 0.5 percentage points above its European ...
China Presents the World's First Hydrogen-Fueled Tram
Post Date: 2015-03-22 20:24:31 by Operation 40
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The world's first tram powered by hydrogen energy rolls off the production line at a CSR Qingdao Sifang Co plant in Qingdao, Shandong province. This is the first time that hydrogen energy has been applied in the tram manufacturing. China has also become the first country worldwide to possess the technology to make hydrogen-fueled streetcars. (Photo/Xinhua) Mar 21, 2015: China has successfully developed the technology that enables the use of hydrogen to fuel rail vehicles, as it presented on March 19, Thursday, the world's first hydrogen-powered tramcar at an assembly facility in Qingdao. Liang Jianying, chief engineer of Sifang Co., a subsidiary of China South Rail Corporation ...
Russia delivers nuclear warning to Denmark
Post Date: 2015-03-22 10:30:20 by buckeroo
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Russia has threatened Denmark with a nuclear strike if it takes part in Nato’s missile shield, in some of the most incendiary comments yet directed at a member of the military alliance. Russia’s ambassador to Denmark wrote in a newspaper opinion piece that the Nordic country had not fully understood the consequences of signing up to the Nato missile defence programme. “If it happens, then Danish warships will be targets for Russia’s nuclear weapons. Denmark will be part of the threat to Russia,” Mikhail Vanin wrote in Jyllands-Posten. The dramatic threat cranks up further Russian pressure on countries in the Baltic region. Russian aircraft have violated the ...
Ted Cruz to announce presidential bid Monday (ready for Hillary) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-03-22 06:06:29 by Hondo68
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Senator will be first declared GOP candidate Sen. Ted Cruz plans to announce Monday that he will run for president of the United States, accelerating his already rapid three-year rise from a tea party insurgent in Texas into a divisive political force in Washington. Cruz will launch a presidential bid outright rather than form an exploratory committee, said senior advisers with direct knowledge of his plans, who spoke on condition of anonymity because an official announcement had not been made yet. They say he is done exploring and is now ready to become the first Republican presidential candidate. The senator is scheduled to speak Monday at a convocation ceremony at Liberty University in ...
FERRERO-ROCHER LOVING JIHADI TWEETS ABOUT HIS LONELY LIFE
Post Date: 2015-03-21 23:56:29 by out damned spot
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He may have managed to find a few of his favourite Ferrero-Rocher chocolates, but from his twitter account it seems that former Morrisons security guard turned jihadi is not being spoiled. Omar Hussein, who left home where he lived with his mother, his having real difficulty living the life of a jihadi fighter – struggling even to take care of his personal admin let alone join front line fighters in trying to bring about a repressive, violent Islamic caliphate, the Daily Mail reports. His social media timeline demonstrates that while others are engaged in a fight to the death in the terrorist occupied lands, Hussain is struggling to even wash his own clothes and admits in one tweet ...
Le Pen is Mightier Than the Sword?
Post Date: 2015-03-21 12:23:52 by cranky
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A few notes on this first weekend of spring: ~France goes to the polls tomorrow. Marine Le Pen was excluded by the French Government from the #JeSuisCharlie rally in favor of less controversial figures like, er, Mahmoud Abbas and President Erdo an. But, when all the unlikely free-speech opportunists bleating that "the pen is mightier than the sword" have faded away, it may be that the biggest beneficiary of the post-Charlie Hebdo environment will be Mme Le Pen's Front National: "She's my queen!" gushes Patricia, waiting for the arrival of Marine Le Pen, leader of France's far-right National Front. "Marine represents everything the people of France ...
Bosnia, Kosovo, and Now Libya: The Human Costs of Washington’s On-Going Collusion with Terrorists
Post Date: 2015-03-21 03:49:49 by Pericles
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Bosnia, Kosovo, and Now Libya: The Human Costs of Washington’s On-Going Collusion with Terrorists Peter Dale Scott Twice in the last two decades, significant cuts in U.S. and western military spending were foreseen: first after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and then in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. But both times military spending soon increased, and among the factors contributing to the increase were America’s interventions in new areas: the Balkans in the 1990s, and Libya today.1 Hidden from public view in both cases was the extent to which al-Qaeda was a covert U.S. ally in both interventions, rather than its foe. U.S. interventions in the Balkans and then Libya were ...
THE FINAL DAYS OF A CHECHEN COMMANDER FIGHTING IN UKRAINE. Killed by Russians in Debaltseve.
Post Date: 2015-03-21 03:43:54 by Pericles
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....snip... Even before he arrived in Ukraine, Munayev was well-known. He fought against Russian forces in both Chechen wars; in the second, he was the commander of the war in Grozny. After the Chechen capital was captured by Russian forces between 1999 and 2000, Munayev and his men took refuge in the mountains. He fought from there until 2005, when he was seriously injured and went to Europe for treatment. Munayev lived in Denmark until 2014. Then war broke out in Ukraine, and he decided it was time to fight the Russians again. As Russian-backed separatist forces began battling Ukrainian forces, Munayev came to Ukraine and established one of what would become several dozen private ...
Russia Rebounds, Despite Sanctions
Post Date: 2015-03-21 02:02:35 by Pericles
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Russia Rebounds, Despite Sanctions 94 MAR 20, 2015 11:39 AM EDT By Matthew A. Winkler Sanctions meant to punish Russia for snatching Crimea from Ukraine one year ago were supposed to hurt Russian business. And they did. Russian stocks, bonds and commodities had the worst performance in 2014 of those in any emerging market. That was then. Now the picture is changing, with investors starting to favor Russia in 2015. The ruble, which became the world's most volatile currency last year after President Vladimir Putin's land grab, is stabilizing. The swings in its value narrowed this year more than any of the other 30 most- traded currencies. Investors in Russian government ...
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