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posted 29 August 2008 06:02 PM      Profile for Frustrated Mess   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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MINSK, August 29 (RIA Novosti) - The recent Georgian-South Ossetian conflict will lead to a buildup of NATO forces near Belarusian borders, the country's president said Friday.

"Literally over the last few days, geopolitical differences in the Caucasus have led to military confrontation. The events that followed have greatly exacerbated the international situation. A direct consequence, I believe, will be a buildup of military-political positions by the North Atlantic bloc, and all this will occur, primarily, near our state's borders," Alexander Lukashenko said.

The Belarusian leader, dubbed "Europe's last dictator" by the United States, said certain missile defense elements are being deployed in neighboring countries, in particular, Poland. He also said media reports have said that new NATO bases are being established in Baltic States.



We are being surrounded!

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posted 29 August 2008 06:04 PM      Profile for Frustrated Mess   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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Russia to spend almost half of its budget on new arms race

Weapons of the future on display in Moscow. Video

What will happen to the Russian economy if the country really enters an era of isolation and Cold War? That would first hurt budget policy: The arms race requires very serious money. The consolidated budget currently earmarks 2.5% of GDP, or 8% of total spending, for national defense programs. A return to the Soviet era means that 12-13% of GDP, or almost one half of the budget, will go on war.
Add here spending on our allies i.e., discounts on oil and natural gas prices, and loans. By 1990, the socialist and developing countries owed the U.S.S.R. a total of $123.3 bln it should be noted. The bulk of the debt was subsequently canceled or restructured.



But war, it is an expensive business.

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posted 29 August 2008 06:05 PM      Profile for Frustrated Mess   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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"Russia violated the security zone patrolled by UN peacekeeping forces deployed by the UN Security Council," said Alejandro Daniel Wolff, US Representative to the UN. "In Abkhazia, Russia is violating not only the territorial integrity of Georgia, but also the integrity of this Council."

The US also said Russian troops should have never entered the territory of Georgia, a sovereign member of the international community.

Churkin, however, hit back by referring to the US invasion and occupation of Iraq.

"I would like to ask the distinguished representative of the United States about....Weapons of Mass Destruction. Have you found them in Iraq yet or are you still looking for them"? Churkin said.



You accuse me? Huh! I accuse you!

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posted 29 August 2008 06:07 PM      Profile for Frustrated Mess   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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ussia is reportedly preparing to cut oil supplies to Poland and Germany in response to threatened EU sanctions over the Georgia conflict.

European diplomats say Moscow has sent a clear signal it will retaliate if the EU imposes sanctions arising from the Georgia conflict during an emergency summit of to be held on Monday.



Oh, yeah? Well take that then.

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posted 29 August 2008 06:09 PM      Profile for Frustrated Mess   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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An emergency EU summit on Monday will boost support to Georgia and warn Russia there can be "no business as usual" in relations but refrain from imposing sanctions,

Now j-just wait a gosh darned minute here. Is that really necessary? Let's not be hasty, okay?

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posted 29 August 2008 06:11 PM      Profile for Frustrated Mess   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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A delegation from a Russian nuclear power construction company Atomstroyexport will discuss the completion of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran on September 1, a company spokesman said on Friday.

Russia is building the $1 billion Bushehr facility, Iran's first nuclear power plant, in the south of the country under a 1995 contract. The project is also subject to UN monitoring following Iran's refusal to halt its uranium enrichment program and Western suspicions that Tehran is seeking to build nuclear weapons.



I faht in your general direcshone.

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posted 29 August 2008 06:13 PM      Profile for Frustrated Mess   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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Israel won't stand by and watch Iran develop its nuclear program despite the stance of the rest of the international community, a security source says.

The unidentified source said while international superpowers such as the United States are focusing their antinuclear efforts on diplomacy,



The laugh track? Where the hell is the laugh track? This is serious business!

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posted 29 August 2008 06:15 PM      Profile for Frustrated Mess   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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Hezbollah is armed with advanced Iranian-supplied missiles capable of reaching targets deep inside Israel, according to a report in Friday's edition of the London-based pan-Arab daily Al-Quds al-Arabi.

The report quotes senior Arab sources who claim that the Lebanon-based militia plans to use the missiles in the event Israel decides to attack Iranian nuclear facilities, or if the United States launches an offensive that has the potential to ignite a regional war.

The sources added that the new missiles have a range that Israel "cannot even fathom," and that the new arms are the "surprise"



Oh, great. Some surprise. Idiots.

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posted 29 August 2008 06:17 PM      Profile for Frustrated Mess   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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China gave Pakistan the blueprint for an atomic bomb, testing the finished product in 1990, and unveiled a sophisticated nuclear weapons complex to visiting U.S. scientists in the last decade, report former weapons lab officials.

Former Air Force secretary Thomas Reed, a former weapons lab scientist, paints a portrait of China as a reckless distributor of nuclear weapons know-how in a report released Thursday in PhysicsToday magazine. He charges the Chinese with giving extensive weapons support to Pakistan in detail far beyond a 2001 Defense Department report that acknowledged such links.

"The Chinese nuclear weapons program is incredibly sophisticated," Reed says. "The scary part is how much Pakistan has learned from them." The Chinese and Pakistani embassies in Washington did not reply to requests for comment on the report.



They're treading on our turf. Whack somebody, willya?

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posted 29 August 2008 06:40 PM      Profile for Fidel     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
The man who knew too much U.S. complicity with Pakistan obtaining nuclear weapons capability
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posted 29 August 2008 07:41 PM      Profile for ceti     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
It's interesting to see the British media including the BBC in a full throat propaganda offensive against Russia, as if it was 1854 again (a lot of Russian oligarchs fled to the UK with their ill-gotten wealth once Putin began cracking down and restoring national control over public assets). The British do propaganda the best, which is why so many of their "agents" were lent to the US in the run-up to the Iraq War. Now, they are getting ahead of themselves, with the help of dilettante French intellectuals like Bernard Henri-Levy.
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posted 01 September 2008 02:54 PM      Profile for Frustrated Mess   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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The Dutch intelligence service, the AIVD, has called off an operation aimed at infiltrating and sabotaging Iran's weapons industry due to an assessment that a US attack on the Islamic Republic's nuclear program is imminent, according to a report in the country's De Telegraaf newspaper on Friday

The little lie the big lie, we will choose who's to live and who's to die.

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posted 01 September 2008 02:56 PM      Profile for Frustrated Mess   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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A build-up of naval forces is underway in the Black Sea, involving both NATO and Russian ships. The provocative actions by the US-lead military coalition create the danger of a clash with potentially catastrophic consequences.

Late last week, General Anatoly Nogovitsyn, deputy chief of the Russian military’s general staff, claimed that 10 NATO warships were in the Black Sea and that more were on the way.


It's all fun and chest thumping until someone gets blowed up.

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posted 01 September 2008 02:58 PM      Profile for Frustrated Mess   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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So, is a new nuclear war possible? Let’s muse on this. After all, the time necessary for rationality to work its good is only available before the shoot-out, or after the killing is done and the survivors are ready to move on to the burials.

The purpose of war is to increase your degree of control OVER OTHERS. This is usually equated to having acquired greater political and military power. This is true even if the the war is conducted as nothing beyond brigandage and piracy: plunder, profit and wealth are seen as increasing your power to control events. Using this metric, it is easy to judge if you have won or lost a war.

We proceed by inquiring about the psychological and technical enabling factors, and the political and diplomatic restraining factors for the outbreak of a nuclear war:



Bang! Bang! Everybody's dead.

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posted 01 September 2008 03:11 PM      Profile for Frustrated Mess   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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Police arrested and shot to death Sunday the head of an Internet news service who had been critical of authorities in the volatile Caucasus province of Ingushetia.
That's outrageous! It's indefensible! It's not like it was Al Jazeera or anything.

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