Both sides bury dead as Ukraine slides towards war Source: Reuters – Tue, 6 May 2014 02:51 PM Author: Reuters * Several days of fighting in east * Rebels hold out in Slaviansk * Violence in Odessa spreads unrest… Read More ›
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Here’s how the US could stumble into war in Ukraine
Jean MacKenzie April 25, 2014 15:48 Given Washington’s mishandling of the crisis so far, it is not out of the question. The skeptics were right. Just one week ago, as top diplomats in Geneva heralded an agreement on Ukraine… Read More ›
US Nuclear Fuel in Ukraine Risks Second Chernobyl – Scientists
MOSCOW, April 25 (RIA Novosti) – The use of US-made fuel in nuclear power plants in Ukraine may lead to emergencies comparable in scale to the Chernobyl disaster, a group of veteran atomic scientists announced Friday. The use of US-made… Read More ›
Why a militarily powerful Russia is good for the world
EEV: May be an Important perspective change by the Russian Government (no longer propaganda). March 25, 2014 Ajay Kamalakaran, RBTH – What the situation in Ukraine has proved beyond the shadow of a doubt is that America and its NATO… Read More ›
If Russia Gets Crimea, Should Germany Get Kaliningrad?
By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber Mar. 20 2014 21:29 Vladimir Filonov / MTA view of the Gothic-style Konigsberg Cathedral in Kaliningrad, Russia. In the tug-of-war between Russia and the West, some states are apparently more equal than others when it comes to correcting “mistakes” of the… Read More ›
Crimean Tatars Will Have to Vacate Land – Official
Crimean tatars © RIA Novosti. Taras Litvinenko 05:40 19/03/2014 MOSCOW, March 18 (RIA Novosti) – Ukraine’s breakaway region of Crimea will ask Tatars to vacate part of the land where they now live in exchange for new territory elsewhere in… Read More ›
Former Soviet borders are being reconsidered
16.03.2014 The Crimea precedent will make us look differently at similar issues in the Former Soviet Union. The problem was incited by Soviet authorities who loosely drew administrative boundaries between different regions. There are many of those who “suffered” from… Read More ›
Ukraine says communications hit, MPs phones blocked
By Pavel Polityuk and Jim Finkle KIEV/BOSTON Tue Mar 4, 2014 5:39pm GMT KIEV/BOSTON (Reuters) – Ukraine’s telecommunications system has come under attack, with equipment installed in Russian-controlled Crimea used to interfere with the mobile phones of members of… Read More ›
Perhaps they should have held on to them: Hundreds of rusting tanks abandoned in secret Ukrainian depot unveiled as Russia’s armoured vehicles line its streets
There are more than 400 abandoned tanks at the plant in a secret, heavily guarded depot in the town of Kharkiv The depot is in the Slobozhanshchyna region of eastern Ukraine – just 20 miles from the border with Russia… Read More ›
China starts shooting Unit 731 documentary
(Xinhua) 08:01, February 20, 2014 HARBIN, Feb. 19 — Filming of a documentary about the atrocities of Japan’s notorious Unit 731 during World War II (WWII) began in the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin on Wednesday. The documentary entitled “731”… Read More ›
China welcomes neighbors’ prosperity, firmly safeguards peripheral security
EEV: Continued Escalation (Xinhua) 07:08, February 08, 2014 BEIJING, Feb. 7 — Recent events have demonstrated that while China sincerely share neighbors’ joy in making achievements, it never hesitates to safeguard peripheral peace and security. When Chinese President Xi Jinping… Read More ›
Comrades in arms: Britain and Russia to sign defence deal
Once they were Cold War foes. Now Britain and Russia are preparing to work together on defence projects United together in friendship and labour: David Cameron and Vladimir Putin on a flight together. Photo: AFP By Matthew Holehouse, Political Correspondent 10:00PM… Read More ›
Add the EU to the list of myths we’re brainwashed to believe
Like corks, and turning off mobiles on planes, ‘Europe’ may one day turn out to be pointless Cork being removed from wine bottle Photo: ALAMY <!– remove the whitespace added by escenic before end of tag –> By Boris Johnson 9:07PM… Read More ›
State media calls for ‘timely countermeasures’ against Japan over air zone “We are willing to engage in a protracted confrontation with Japan.”
PUBLISHED : Saturday, 30 November, 2013, 4:02am UPDATED : Saturday, 30 November, 2013, 5:56am Agence France-Presse in Beijing Japan and South Korea both said on Thursday that they had disregarded the air defence identification zone that Beijing declared last weekend,… Read More ›
Beijing to set up powerful national security body in face of mounting threats
Powerful agency expected to co-ordinate efforts of various government departments covering intelligence, the military and foreign affairs PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 13 November, 2013, 3:51am UPDATED : Wednesday, 13 November, 2013, 10:46am Teddy Ng and Keith Zhai Growing social and economic… Read More ›
Paranoia Has Undermined US Democracy
By Dirk Kurbjuweit While far from a dictatorship, the United States has employed a number of paranoid tactics that delegitimize its democracy. This phenomenon is on display in the fictional TV series “Homeland,” which depicts hysterical CIA agents in a… Read More ›
How a war game brought the world to the brink of nuclear disaster
Former classified documents show how close the Soviet Union came to launching an attack in 1983 Jamie Doward The Observer, Saturday 2 November 2013 12.43 EDT Prime minister Margaret Thatcher was alarmed by intelligence reports about the Soviet Union’s reaction…. Read More ›
Russian Brigades Brace For The Chinese Threat
October 24, 2013: Russia recently announced that it would accelerate its plan to create 40 more combat brigades by the end of the decade. This conversion was first announced in 2009, and since then 70 brigades have been created. Not… Read More ›
Chessmaster Garry Kasparov suggests Putin behind Russia bombing
4:06 PM 10/22/2013 Brendan Bordelon Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov — no stranger to strategic deception — thinks there’s something fishy about Monday’s suicide bus bombing in Volgograd, Russia. “Very suspicious details from the Volgograd bus bombing,” Kasparov tweeted… Read More ›
How China Fights: Lessons From the 1962 Sino-Indian War ( Oct 20th, 1962 Anniversary )
EEV: Historical Re-Post Oct 29, 2012 1:00 AM EDT China gave India a “lesson” in 1962. Study it now. The rest of the world may have forgotten the anniversary, but a neglected border war that took place 50 years ago… Read More ›
Gap between rich and poor in Russia among the world’s biggest
Published time: October 09, 2013 16:00 RIA Novosti / Alexey Kudenko Wealth inequality in Russia is one of the highest in the world. A report by Credit Suisse says 35% of Russian household wealth controlled by just 110 billionaires…. Read More ›
Russia to build own space station if ISS is shut
Photo: RIA Russian space officials say Russia may build its own orbital space station after 2020. The project will be given the go-ahead in the event Russia’s partners on the International Space Station fail to agree to extend the useful… Read More ›
Queen’s World War 3 speech: Found in the archives, the dress rehearsal for disaster
Speech was prepared for Queen to deliver at outbreak of World War Three In speech she denounces ‘deadly power of abused technology’ Words written by imaginative speech writer in disaster planning exercise By Claire Ellicott PUBLISHED: 18:04 EST, 31 July… Read More ›
Russian Agency Seeks Typewriters for Secret Documents
With the NSA spying scandal still making headlines, a Russian paper reports that agencies in that country have turned to typewriters to help keep their documents secret. It sounds like a Luddite response to recent revelations from Edward Snowden —… Read More ›
Russia deploys Nuke Subs to Southern Seas
Saturday, 01 June 2013 Russia plans to resume nuclear submarine patrols in the southern seas after a hiatus of more than 20 years following the break-up of the Soviet Union, Itar-Tass news agency reported on Saturday, in another example… Read More ›
Russia pursues hypersonic weapon research
Photo: Voice of Russia Russia is developing a hypersonic weapon program. It involves more than 60 companies and is scheduled for completion this summer. Launched in the former USSR, hypersonic weapon research was resumed in post-Soviet Russia in 2009 under… Read More ›
WIG aircraft – a new joint project between Russia and China: ” advantage in the air, for example during an airdrop operation against Taiwan”
Photo: RIA Novosti Recently the Chinese press announced the first test flights of the new Chinese Wing In Ground Effect (WIG) aircraft CYG-11. In its appearance and technical characteristics it completely replicates the Russian WIG aircraft Ivolga, as Vasily Kashin,… Read More ›
Putin unveils $50 bn drive for Russian space supremacy
12 Apr 2013 MOSCOW (AFP) President Vladimir Putin on Friday unveiled a new $50 billion drive for Russia to preserve its status as a top space power, including the construction of a brand new cosmodrome from where humans will fly to… Read More ›
Scientists calculate probability of World War IV
War. © Collage: “Voice of Russia” A pause between World War III and World War IV comes to an end, pundits from the Russian Academy of Military Sciences said on Thursday. The conclusion is based on a theory of cycles… Read More ›
Russia’s Putin tells army to shape up to face foreign threat
By Alexei AnishchukPosted 2013/02/27 at 10:44 am EST MOSCOW, Feb. 27, 2013 (Reuters) — Vladimir Putin ordered military leaders on Wednesday to make urgent improvements to the armed forces during his new presidential term, saying Russia must thwart attempts by… Read More ›
‘The country that attacks first will die 27 minutes later’ – Stanislav Petrov
Oksana Zenner Feb 19, 2013 15:58 Moscow Time Stanislav Petrov Photo: RIA Novosti The International Peace Prize ceremony was held in Dresden. Soviet officer Stanislav Petrov became the prize-winner this year. On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov prevented the beginning… Read More ›
Professor defends Stalin, socialism at student-organized debate
2:18 AM 11/14/2012 Zachary Snider At an on-campus debate hosted by the libertarian Young Americans for Liberty, professor Grover Furr of Montclair State University (MSU) declared that he has not found a single crime committed by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin…. Read More ›
Russia Loses Contact With Satellites, Space Station
Published: Thursday, 15 Nov 2012 | 2:32 AM ET . By: Reuters . Russia’s space agency scrambled to refigure communications with civilian satellites and the International Space Station on Wednesday after a cable broke outside Moscow, but said the satellites… Read More ›
Russian attack sub discovered just 200 miles from US East Coast is given safe harbor during Hurricane Sandy
Nuclear-powered sub believed to be part of Russia’s Northern Fleet It was armed withtwo types of anti-sub warfare missiles and torpedoes First time a Russian Sierra-2 class sub has detected near a U.S. coast U.S. defense officials are downplaying the … Read More ›
Face the facts: Russian nuclear warheads power American homes
Posted on October 29, 2012By Raisa CamargoEconomy and Finance For nearly 20 years, the United States has been using weapons-grade uranium from dismantled Russian nuclear warheads to fuel domestic nuclear power plants. (Face the facts) For nearly 20… Read More ›
The assassination of President John F Kennedy: the finger points to the KGB
Nearly 50 years on, a new book suggests that assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was guided by hardline Stalinist dissidents Death in Dallas: Jack and Jackie Kennedy moments before the President was shot Photo: AP By Neil Tweedie 6:50AM BST… Read More ›
Double-Take: EU ‘Tolerance’ Poster Includes the Cross, the Star of David, And … Wait, What Is That?
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 6:31pm by Becket Adams Journalist and Conservative MEP for South East England Daniel Hannan on Friday posted to his blog the following picture of a Europe4All poster currently on display at the European Commission:… Read More ›
Russia not renewing weapons agreement with US
Thursday, 11 October 2012 Russia will not renew a decades-old agreement with Washington on dismantling nuclear and chemical weapons when it expires next year, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was quoted as saying on Wednesday. The death of the 1991… Read More ›
Secret spy telescopes’ new role: helping Nasa hunt for life beyond solar system: Each as large as the Hubble observatory
Giant instruments designed to keep watch on Soviets have been given over to space research Robin McKie, science edito The Observer, Saturday 6 October 2012 The Carina nebula: the new telescopes given to Nasa by spy chiefs could help… Read More ›
China Navy Takes Delivery of 1st Aircraft Carrier: Report
Sep. 23, 2012 – 12:28PM | By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE | China’s first aircraft carrier berthed at Dalian port is seen Sept. 5. (AFP) BEIJING — China’s first aircraft carrier was handed over to the navy of the People’s Liberation… Read More ›
Life expectancy for poor white Americans drops sharply… but increases for blacks and Latinos: •White female high school drop-outs lived to 78.5 years in 1990, 73.5 years in 2008
White female high school drop-outs lived to 78.5 years in 1990, 73.5 years in 2008 Females who finished college lived for 83.9 years, males for 80.4 White males who didn’t finish high school reached 70.5 years in 1990 and 67.5 … Read More ›
State-sponsored cyber espionage projects now prevalent, say experts
Former military officer says every Middle Eastern country now has Stuxnet-like malware Pete Warren guardian.co.uk, Thursday 30 August 2012 06.54 EDT One expert compares the cyber-espionage programs to the Transformers franchise: they develop other functions when they get to where they… Read More ›
Containing contagion: Russia’s aging chemical stockpiles getting dangerous
Russia’s chemical weapons currently resemble more of a threat than a savior to national security, with dangerous levels of aging stockpiles. Time is ticking to solve the problem, with a January 2013 deadline looming. The state of affairs is worsening… Read More ›
America, the Law-crazed –
* Ralphs Note – Outside stressors play a huge role on health. It is not about taking political sides, but what causes some people to live in constant low grade fear. Laws seem like they were originally intended to alleviate… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 