Article last December this crowd-funded bunch of true investigative journalists looking at Syria war from not just pipeline transit, but actual O&G reserves & potential.
From link in comments on Ziad Fadel’s article up today 14th.
Looks like the western seismic (French, UK) firms contracted to “find” these reserves were passing along the data to all the usual suspects.
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The US Army SSI report noted that Syria’s offshore resources are part of a wider matrix of oil and gas deposits in the Levant basin encompassing the offshore territories of these competing states.
The region is estimated to hold approximately 1.7 billion barrels of oil and 122 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, which could be just a third of the basin’s total hydrocarbons.
US-led military intervention has a key role to play, the report concludes, in “managing” conflicts and tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean, especially the prospect of “Syria destabilising into de facto civil war.”
The newly announced truce deal for Syria, forged by the International Syria Support Group (ISSG), will only empower Russia which is engaged in “diplomacy in the service of military aggression,” says Senator John McCain.
After days of negotiation, diplomats from a group of countries, including the US, Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Iran, agreed on Friday to seek a temporary “cessation of hostilities” in Syria within a week
The man’s an idiot, but I hope he’s right about empowering Russia. It’s a much needed counterweight to the Anglo-Zionist Empire.
Back when I used to vote, I never voted for McInsane, and I signed the recall petition that unfortunately didn’t come to pass.
Under the peace agreement nothing changes. Russia/Syria is free to bomb/fight UNSC designated terrorist groups ISIS, al Qaeda and groups associated with them. Perhaps there may be some sort of truce on the southern front in some areas but in the north and east nothing changes.
“… un? total time waste, there is no international law, i hope russia and syria understands that. …”
Completely agreed. At the conclusion of WWII, the strongest world thugs of that moment agreed to constitute a forum for smoothing out their internecine disputes in order to rule the entire planet more effectively. While that did not work full 100% as planned, it gave them a good platform for propaganda, a tool for political and economic manipulation of the sea of weak small nations of the world – while at the same time giving to the latter the idiotic illusion that “the UN” represents them. Recall the stupid “non-aligned nations movement”, for instance. RIP…
Of course, nothing has changed about “the UN” since its inception. The balance of power(s) has changed … participants changed their costumes…
What the putrid West does today with this handy tool we all know. Although Russia and China, one is sorry to observe, play along, as (they think) it suits them.
For instance, on 17 March 2011, Russian and Chinese “abstentions” in “the UN SC” were made with their full knowledge that this would result in destruction of Libya and murder of their friend Kadafi. And one could not merely “blame Medvedev’s government – but not Putin” for that either. On 22 December 2015, now Putin’s (!) government “abstained” in “the UN SC” vote to extend the mandate of the “judges” of the truly criminal “International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia” http://www.un.org/press/en/2015/sc12177.doc.htm …………………
Interesting. I have never considered that absence of shiftiness was a particular strength of those two, but I have never attributed to them extreme stupidity. To quote Benjamin Franklin, “Experience is an invaluable school, but only a fool learns everything from experience.”
ronin says “there is no international law, i hope russia and syria understands that.”
I think that they do. However Mr Putin seems quite partial to the idea of law, and seems to want to create a different world order than the Empire of Chaos, a multipolar world order where there is the effective rule of recognized and respected international law.
If he wished to accept what is, he probably wouldn’t be trying to do anything.
Instead, he appears to be interested in creating what is not, but should be.
True, however it is important that the Syrian government should at least provide a public record of these events and their viewpoint on them. They can’t count on any kind of objective reporting from the media.
There is shelling going on, every night now, around Donetsk City, Gorlovka and southwest of Donetsk City. The orcs shell at night, after OSCE has retired to their comfortable lodgings and are enjoying their cocktail hour, ergo they can neither hear nor see anything.
The orcs don’t visit the outhouse without asking permission of their masters, ergo Langley has told them to carry on.
Some time ago I watched extensively documentary videos about the Spanish Civil War. What one learns from those, is that “Anarchists”, completely contrary to what someone uninformed could surmise from the name itself, was a legitimate political movement of those times, a very noble and idealistic one at that, a true movement of the people. In fact, they fully established their system in a part of Spain for a short time, a mere several months, and from the interviews with common folks who lived within, one sees that it made everyone happy there. There was no money, things completely depended on barter of labour and goods, and everyone was truly enthusiastic to voluntarily contribute to the community. Their mini-state eventually collapsed under the Franco’s fascist steamroller. Some Marxist scholar would likely dismiss their very idea as being not viable, utopian, precisely because it had no strong central organisation and lacked cohesion… Etc.
“By claiming Russian anti-Daesh operations in Syria as their own, Western governments not only try desperately to hide from their own citizens the fact that the US-led anti-terrorist operation isn’t doing anything to fight Daesh, but also want the jihadists to serve the interests of Western political elites, British journalist Neil Clark argued.
Earlier this week TV Channel France 2 showed footage of Russian planes bombing Daesh, claiming them to be the work of the US-led international coalition. The French state-funded media also accused Moscow of not bombing Daesh and “targeting civilians” all the while showing footage, originally released by the Russian Defense Ministry.
“This ‘bombing plagiarism’ marks a new low in the increasingly desperate anti-Russian propaganda war,” Clark wrote for RT.
France 2 isn’t the only media that used footage of Russian airstrikes to praise the actions of the US-led anti-Daesh coalition. Last November, PBS NewsHour showed a video of Russian planes hitting Daesh oil storage facilities and claimed it was the work of US airplanes. In December, Euronews did the same thing.
According to Clark, all of these lies are happening because the Russian anti-Daesh campaign in Syria is exposing lies that Western governments have been trying to work on – an attempt to change regime and the Balkanization of Syria – all under the pretext of the “war on terror.
As the Russians are actually fighting Daesh, al-Qaeda and al-Nusra Front forces in Syria, Western governments have realized that they “talked themselves into a corner when it comes to domestic public opinion.”
It’s obvious that average US, British and French citizens want to see Daesh defeated and would certainly not be happy to find out that their own governments don’t want Daesh to be destroyed, Clark wrote.
In an attempt to somehow solve this problem and cover their lies, Western governments began to claim Russia’s anti-Daesh actions as their own successes, while continuing to criticize Russian actions in Syria, the British journalist explained.”
This sort of adolescent behaviour is one of the many reasons I refer to western msm as the zio-gay media.
What’s really frightening is that they can assume the viewers are so dumb, and insouciant, as to not catch the lie, and raise objections. Only a journalist at RT, which they brand as inadmissible. I admit i might not recognize a Russ plane going by fast if markings are hard to see, but I’m just one person. It really is all childish. And desperate.
OT:it helps when everybody has a “handle”, not anon.
The US-led coalition has conducted 27 airstrikes against the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group’s positions in Syria and Iraq, the Pentagon says.
According to a Sunday statement by the Combined Joint Task Force which oversees the airstrikes, coalition aircraft carried out 25 attacks in Iraq and only 2 in Syria.
A particularly hilarious highlight was the speech of John Kerry. He claimed that it was the coalition that went after the oil smugglers. He told a heap of crap to people who should know better. If you know what is really going on, as many of us do, it is truly disgusting – to the point I could not finish reading it.
The entire history is lies. Let alone anything else. Like it was all discovered and invented here. It would all be not so bad except it gives the feeling of invincibility that is only matched by luck. And a dangerous environment is created in hubris. They even believe they beat the greatest army in the world in WW2 and defeated both the german and Japanese empires. But never faced more than a few hundred thousand men in battle while the soviets faced many millions of Japanese and germans and caused the bulk of destruction of both of them. The soviets lost over a million men just so the US could land in Normandy.. I still think Stalin was an idiot to waste the lives of so many of his men as by that time the Nazi’s were already defeated and the Japanese had already been defeated even before WW2 started. Now even the Europeans start to believe that the US saved them without even being grateful for the number of soviet lives lost so the allies had the chance to save them without total destruction.
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And Mausfeld is being very careful … not to endanger his tenure. For example, he dodges the question about German history. And he explains the web of lies as “systemic”, which is just a way to avoid blaming specific classes of people. And if no one is to blame what can you do? But still a very good presentation.
The empire speaks with forked tongue. RT says that the US “supports” the YPG but the US uses them and gives them support which is entirely different . Here it is from the horse’s mouth:
I have checked with RT alan. It seems to validate the claims about shelling from Turkey and Syria having sent a request to the UN and that is all. I should add that the site has the phone call between O’Bama and Putin, but waves alarm flags about the seriousness of one President waking up the US president at 4 in the morning. I checked the kremlin site, and it was O’Bama who called Putin not the other way around, and it was 4 pm for him, and 1 md for Putin, so not as alarmist as it was made to appear. So – not sure about the site, but seems to mean well, i.e. not a troll site. Dangerous times though all the same. PS
Thanks for posting that. An excerpt, (and alan take note):
“Then the shit hit the fan when it was confirmed that the Saudis and their allies are already transporting TWENTY THOUSAND TANKS. (20,000). Worse, 2,450 warplanes are enroute to northern Saudi Arabia and the Saudis have declared the airspace in the northern section of the country to be “closed.” Lastly, in addition to the 2,450 warplanes, four-hundred-sixty (460) military helicopters are enroute as well.
Saudi Arabia had the balls to claim this was all part of an “exercise.” Bullshit. There has never, in the history of human existence, been an “exercise” with 350,000 troops, 20,000 tanks, 2,450 warplanes and 460 military helicopters. There is just no way to have an exercise of that magnitude, it is too damn large. What’s really taking place is the massing of an invasion force. Saudi Arabia also said the exercise would take 18 days. That would put it as ending February 28.”
Beyond absurd. Out there in alex jones ja ja land. The role of the usa is relegated to the standard inept going along for the ride, unplanned and without a clue what it’s all about obfuscatory nonsense, the words israel and zionism are as usual, notable by their absence. It was mod ps’s endorsement of the site that raised the warning flag, that the site/radiohost was less that legit and might require a critical eye, btw.
Alex Jones is famous for his big words,he keeps doing that in order to get more viewers and listeners
on his radio.For example,yesterday he said that in the turkish shelling on kurds in syria,the kurds have lost “many hundreds of soldiers
The USA is a Democracy, which means the Rich run the country by means of Deception. And the American sheeple have no about the extent of that deception.
About that Alex Jones choleric I surmised that much… It reminds me of something that professor Howard Zinn wrote, I believe in his Peoples’ History of the US, namely, how the ruling system in the US had devised a myriad of well-tested pressure safety valves, to prevent the steam boiler of an unhappy populace to explode. Obviously, Alex Jones is but one of those valves. All that enormous energy of the sheeple is guided, diverted into elaborate circles, until it all safely dissipates into nothing…
Desperation at Aleppo based on news like this 14th late afternoon.
TEHRAN (FNA)- Turkey has relocated hundreds of terrorists from Idlib province to Aleppo via its soil to block the Kurdish fighters’ rapid advances in Northern Aleppo province, media reports disclosed on Sunday.
At least 400 militants have been transferred to Northern Aleppo to help the terrorists who are losing the ground to the Kurdish fighters who are backed by Russian air force, Arab media outlets said. http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13941125001429
Given the various troop and equipment movements within the last week or so, I’m wondering what Iran is up to. Clearly Iran is the only local power with sufficient troops to hold off or defeat an invasion of Syria, the problem being getting those troops into Syria.
Don’t have the links handy, but @ 1 division of Iraqi Shite militia troops are now at Aleppo and another division of Iranian troops have arrived and are currently deploying to several locations. Motorized infantry would best describe both divisions. Plus, numerous reports of air transport sightings at the “new” Russian airbase in Northwest Syria, but no reports as to their cargo. That the Iraqis feel confident enough to send a full division speaks volumes about their confidence at ridding Daesh from their nation. I’d imagine that both forces are meant to seal the border with Turkey so SAA can continue its drive to the East.
You have that wrong, these are fresh recruits and they are sent to Syria to train because it is illegal to do so in Iraq. Now Motorized with GMC trucks instead of Toyotas.. These wont be used in any battle as such and they would get slaughtered. But they can be used as a blocking force. I am very disappointed at the officer quality of the SAA. They badly need qualified officer core. Even some generals have no clue about battle tactics. One of them is now up on charges for getting 200 killed by making them charge across unknown terrain and get ambushed. But the dozen that survived made a rukus about it. The troops the Russians are working with are the best experienced ones. Not these recruits who does it for training or as their duty. After seeing what dashbags do to Christians I would join too if I was younger. They threw Christian down a well to die there after they took over Christian villages.
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I don’t think they are doing a thing. I think there is a split of opinion in the system. With the kind of divided governing system they have . I’d have to say the division in what to do is within the system more than the government itself. With the military and religious leaders allied in wanting to act strongly to protect their interests. And the “actual official government” riddled with elements that in Russia are called “5th column” (though much less pro-West.But more neutralist instead). And without unity in opinion on what to do.One day they do something,the next day they do nothing.It the future (near future?),one, or the other ,of the sides in that system will have to come out on top. But until that happens I don’t see them doing more than they are right not.Except maybe more talking about taking action. But until we hear of actual Iranian sustained military actions taking place (or not taking place). We won’t know which half of the system is on top.
Looks like she’s going to pass the hat to top up her good buddy Erdogoon’s coronation trust fund.
Merkel is planning to bring together what the media have dubbed a “coalition of the willing” on the margins of a two-day EU summit in Brussels starting Thursday.
She suggested its members could help Turkey’s refugee effort beyond the three billion euros ($3.3 billion) already committed by the EU.
Turkey, which is hosting over 2.7 million mostly Syrian refugees, has voiced deep frustration with the EU as a fresh wave of Syrian refugees mass on its border.
Following the UN stitch-up, Senator Bob Cardin of the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations has just issued a denunciation of President Assad and a call – more or less – for regime change:
Well yeah, these highly protected Jewish supremacists and “superior whites” with for the former, multiple “bolt hole” options should things go wrong with the latter. ;D
The Saudis have put out a similar statement. I think its past time for Syria to proclaim that there can’t and “won’t” be peace as long as Erdogan and the Saudis Princes are in power.And for Syrian officials to announce at “every” chance ,every meeting,”Erdogan and the Saudi Princes ” must go.Make that their “mantra”.I see this as a “life and death” struggle in Syria. And Syria can’t have peace and security as long as those enemy leaders are in power. So the only choice is clear. They must go,and no other choice will be allowed. If the Syrians will steel themselves to do what must be done. They should do it and think no more about it.
“…I think that ultimately Syria should be turned into regions under the control of whoever is there – the Alawites where they are, the Sunnis where they are,” Ram Ben-Barak director general of Israeli Intelligence.
Yinon anyone?
Did he offer the same plan for Israel. A partition,where Jews a state in areas they are in. And Palestine in areas they are in. Since he seems to think partitions are a good thing. Let’s began that right now with Israel.That would certainly cut off territory from Israel. But then partitions are their own idea.
What’s more, it is now an open secret that there is no such thing as a “moderate opposition” in Syria anymore (if it ever even existed before). We all know that the U.S. and its allies could not find even a handful of moderates to train to fight against ISIL and al-Nusra and that many opposition groups share very similar views as al-Qaeda and ISIL. We all know that the majority of Syrians are moderates, which is why they chose to flee the country rather than get involved in an armed conflict against the regime. We know that those who chose to fight do so for some sort of an Islamic state or caliphate, and that those who flee Syria seeking Western countries would rather live in liberal societies than under some self-styled Caliphate or Islamic state.
We even know that those so-called “moderates” are little different than radicals when it comes to dealing with Shiites, Christians and secular Sunni Muslims. These are mere facts on the ground.
Under the circumstances, the only way to reach a political consensus and for Westerners to save face is to “pretend” that there are “moderates” and to include them in political negotiations. Nevertheless, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf and Turkey behave as if nobody knows the truth, insisting on prioritizing the removal of the Bashar al-Assad regime. They behave as if nobody knows that their real motivation is to ensure a greater role for themselves as “the protectors of Sunnis.”
RT is announcing that a car bomb has exploded in Dagestan. Killing 2 and wounding others at a police checkpoint. I really don’t understand how that is happening. This “low-level terrorism” (whatever a term like that means) has gone on for years now.Maybe they need to get some Cubans to explain to them how to fight terrorism in mountain areas like that.The Cubans had that problem in the central area mountains (supported by the US). They combed the “entire” region with troops (foot by foot) and resettled those with any connections to the terrorists into re-education.Captured or killed every single terrorist found in those mountains.From that day to this they haven’t had any more problems like that.Its not impossible to fight terrorism as some would belief. Its only impossible if you don’t make the full effort with a single minded will to destroy terrorism.Dagestan is right next to Chehnya. Let that job be handed over to Kadyrov.Let Putin ask him to permanently end terrorism in that entire region. The last thing Russia needs is a new Western backed terror war inside the RF. It needs to be crushed at the start.
Uncle Bob,
Dagestan has been fighting a low level terrorism war since the Chechnyan was ended. The poor country has been working with Russian Help to deal with these elements but it has never wholly cleaned the threat unlike Chechnya.
Usually the locals in an apartment building will inform the authorities of suspected terrorist activity, the authorities clear the building of the innocents and then they try to negotiate with the terrorists for their surrender. Most of the time this fails and the terrorists are then eliminated with force. Quite wearying for the Dagestanian public and government.
Yes,I know its been going on for a long time. That is my point,they need to end it. That what they are doing (or not doing actually) isn’t working. So they need to take another much stronger approach.
Its not impossible to fight terrorism as some would belief. Its only impossible if you don’t make the full effort with a single minded will to destroy terrorism.
Surely you must understand how this statement cuts both ways UB.
Let’s replace ‘terrorism’ with ‘foreign sponsered destabilization ops’ or other words appropriate to the actual context. Our perceptions and understandings must serve our own needs (we that are ruled) and not those of oligarchy.
Turkey’s shelling will sure scare some birds away…
In other news:
SAA, Afrin Kurds, Hezbollah & RuAF advancing on all fronts in Latakia, Idlib and elsewhere // Situation for the ZionistWahabbi axis of terror more than desperate // Invaders relentlessly hunted down & no place to hide
Not so hasty,the question remains on the table,what if the turks and their arab “partners” will “incidentally” atack russian forces on air or on the ground ? what then ?
This may also be provocation. You can bet that as soon as the Syrian government fires one missile back Turkey will run to its NATO allies claiming that it has been attacked.
Russia better saddle up and get those paratroopers and more munitions into Syria. at least 10 x’s everything they have now. It will cost less in the long run-less men dying and less time on the field.
It is Russia that acts with impunity-oh welll just shoot some cruise missiles from the Caspian. Well they need well equipped boots on the ground. Class them special forces, advisors trainers.observers that would be even better-like trading insults and they must add that they have to kill them over there before we have to fight them over here just for good measure.
Syria has to deny all access to coalition forces who are acting outside of the US mandate and that means everyone except Russia. Leaving things until the last minute even if you win makes you look unprepared and lucky-not professional and active agents but as reactors to events not shappers of events. ON the other hand wiping these forces out with cruise missiles without even leaving home…if they can do it .do it…that makes you appear even more formidable.Good thing I am not in charge of any of this….we would have already exhausted out nuclear capacity and it would be winter all over the world by now. That is the problem of being on the outside looking in. We don’t know what the Russians are going to do. Other then win,,,,I guess even non religious people have to have faith.
this might expose the worth of the UN…………..MOSCOW, February 15. /TASS/. Russia will support a motion in favor of raising in the UN Security Council the question of Ankara’s provocative actions towards Syria, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday.
“Moscow expresses the most serious concern over the Turkish authorities’ aggressive actions towards the neighboring state,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said. “Russia will support a motion for putting the issue on the UN Security Council’s agenda. The Security Council should express its clear opinion of Ankara’s provocative polices, posing a threat to peace and stability in the region of the Middle East and outside it.”
According to the ministry, Turkey continues assisting the penetration of new terrorist groups into Syria.
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“According to incoming information, the Turkish side continues assisting the illegal penetration of fresh groups of jihadists and mercenaries with arms into the territory of Syria to replenish the units of the Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State [terrorist organizations outlawed in Russia] and other terrorist groupings battered in battles,” the ministry’s statement said.
“Wounded militants are being brought into Turkey across the border along with scattered bandit groups for rest and subsequent re-formation,” the statement said.
As the Soviet documents clearly show, the system was never expected to offer anything but a very modest intercept capability – the currently deployed A-135 system was expected to intercept no more than 1-2 ballistic missiles. The document is a bit vague on the definition of a ballistic missile in this case, but it does not seem to mean 1-2 MX-type ICBMs with 10 warheads each – it is more like 1-2 “complex ballistic targets”, each of them being a single warhead surrounded by decoys and penetration aids. I guess that given that Moscow was expected to be quite densely targeted some of these “complex ballistic targets” could include a few warheads (here is where nuclear intercept would come handy). The capability provided by the A-135 predecessor, A-35, was even more modest – “a single ballistic missile from some directions.” Here “single” probably meant just a single warhead.
These numbers are of course particularly interesting when compared with the number of warheads that were dedicated to defeating the Moscow ABM. In their Protection Paradox paper Hans Kristensen, Matthew McKinzie, and Stan Norris estimated that in 1968 the U.S. war plan assigned 66 warheads to suppression of the A-35 system – that was, by the way, more than ten years before the system became operational. bThey also estimated that in 1989 the United States allocated about 200 warheads to defeat the Moscow ABM. And, of course, the United Kingdom and France argued that they needed hundreds of warheads and sophisticated decoys if their ballistic missiles are to penetrate the defense around Moscow.
It is tempting to conclude that the extent of the overkill demonstrates the relationship between offense and defense – that deployment of defenses only prompts an overwhelming offensive response.
the United States had so many warheads, there were not enough targets for them.
I should note that although the system is known to rely on nuclear interceptors, all the available evidence suggests that nuclear warheads are removed from interceptor missiles are stored in a (presumably) safe location. There have been reports about conventional intercept capability, but it is unlikely that this can be achieved without a complete redesign of the system. Moreover, the Russian designers and the military are extremely skeptical about a possibility of building a reliable non-nuclear missile defense (in fact, they fully expect that the United States will convert its system to nuclear interceptors at some point having figured out that hit-to-kill doesn’t quite work).
‘Samolet-M’ and the Future of Moscow Missile Defense
Angry exchanges between Moscow and Washington over America’s missile defense plans continue to attract generous media coverage. Meanwhile, the current state and the future of Russia’s own missile defense system which protects the city of Moscow, the A-135 (US designation ABM-4), has received very little attention. The system was rolled out in the period between the 1970s and 1990s.
Functionally the A-135 combat system deployed in Moscow Region consists of two key subsystems: the Don-2N (5N20, Pill Box) multirole radar in Sofrino, and the interceptor launch sites. A smaller and simpler version of the system has been deployed at the Sary-Shagan (Priozersk) weapons range in Kazakhstan to test the key elements of the A-135. It consists of the Amur-P (5Zh60P) multi-channel firing complex and the field version of the radar, the Don-2NP (5N20P).
The radar component of the Samolet-M project led by Almaz-Antey involves the developer of the Don-2N, the Academician Mints Radiotechnical Institute (RTI) in Moscow. In recent years RTI has worked to prepare Product 5N20P for operations in the field.16 The R.O.S. SPETSTEKHMONTAZH company was commissioned by RTI to perform some work at “Facility 2311”, the site of the multirole radar in Moscow Region, as part of Samolet-M R&D.17 The company has also upgraded the visualization system of Product 5N20. One of its recent annual reports mentions “Facility 2311” in the section listing the company’s projects to prepare various hardware for launch, provide technical assistance and maintenance, refurbish technical systems and urgently repair malfunctioning equipment.
According to these terms, the purpose of the project is to develop the technology for a new measuring and modeling radar system capable of two-dimensional super-resolution based on non-coherent wide-band multi-frequency signals to improve recognition and selection of small-size ballistic and space objects. The technology will be used for the Samolet-M project. The terms of the contract announced by the ministry also state that the technology will be implemented in the new-generation VHF and UHF-band Voronezh radars, which are nearing completion, and in the upgraded Don-2N radar (C-band). The Voronezh radars are equipped with L-band high-precision and high-resolution coordinates-measuring channels. Up until now, the Don-2N has been capable of producing only one-dimensional radial images based on wide-band multi-frequency signals with coded carrier frequency transform. Compared to that older technology, the radial-Doppler radar imaging of objects at short time intervals (measured in seconds) is capable of identifying the geometrical shape and the dynamic characteristics of the target, including the parameters of its movement relative to its center of mass.
You try and figure out how ICBM reentry systems work. Hitting the atmosphere at 7 km/s without disintegrating. Right. Even if you believe they can magically survive reentry there is no credible tech on-board to achieve the alleged strike accuracy. It’s all a joke made back in 1957. Spiced up with stuff such as 3DQP, all shrouded in military secrecy. Space-going superballistics are another hoax. There’s no need to worry for Moscow. :)
Much maligned Obama works with Russia, as first stated here by brother Mohamed many months ago. Clearly there are evil parties in the USA, who run the country, and who will continue to terrorize other countries, but Obama is not their puppet, whatever concessions he may have had to make.
Should Turkey decide to launch a large ground operation in Syria it will find itself in big trouble. One thing is the SAA and Russia, from the South and from the North. Another is the Kurds and the PKK. Another is Iran from the East.
NATO won’t fight for Turkey. There’s a lot of wiggle room in the treaty. For instance, article 5 only mentions Europe and North America … but Anatolia is part of neither. And that is just one caveat and there are more. So NATO will do nothing there.
Uncle Sam might even backstab Turkey and help create Kurdistan in Turkey. After all, Ankara has shown a little too much independence for Washington’s taste in the past. Now that Turkey is in a deep brawl with Russia, Uncle Sam can afford to deal Turkey a blow. Everybody will be (justly) angry with Turkey and back Kurdistan.
So Turkey must be very careful.
Any and all talk of so-called “nukes” can of course be dismissed as disinfo.
This being the most recent post it seems to be the place for:….The stuff you find on the web when you’re looking for the most recent pic of Putin because Press tv’s most recent pic made it look like Kissinger’s presence had done him in…..and when there’s so much Medvedev currently in your face out there…..Anyway still no pic, but there was this – this being a religious site and all – http://topinfopost.com/2016/02/09/putin-tells-obama-end-of-times-have-begun-at-doomsday-meeting
Mare is gonna pop like a bad bubblish yellow ozzing zit between YPG and IS….. No wonder turkey is sending reinforcements. Their terrorists are gonna get popped..
But who gave heavy weapons to the YPG? They have tanks and artillery as well.. CAS provided by RuAF..
Activists report #SDF take control Tal Rifaat in N. Aleppo
YPG #SDF advancing in the last stronghold inside Tal-Refaat on the western side, engaging in a fierce battle. #Syria.
YPG #SDF took control of Ain Daqna, north of Tal-Rifaat, despite #Turkey bombing to #Kurds forces. #Syria.
Which means they are 1 town away from facing IS directly. But with Turkish shelling what is Russia doing?
Kurdish forces enter Kafr Naya as rebels flee northern #Aleppo http://bit.ly/1PM5Qwi #Kurds #YPG
Did CNN just do a segment on SAA in Palmyra? They were all the Russians training and advising the SAA but with Russian marines in defensive positions..
New MAP.. Latest situation N.#Aleppo 15/2/16.#SDF advanсe in Tel Rifaat.#SAA ~200m from PowerPlant https://t.co/zkYrnfirAb
Mig-29 arrived yesterday to Hmamiem airport ,in the pic only 3 but there were 5 ,not sure #SyAF or #RuAF
Russian troops are not fighting around Palmyra Tadmur. There are officers on all fronts but forces were engaged only in reef Latakia.
Russia Starts Planning Recapture of Palmyra
Russia has dispatched military advisors west of Palmyra in a bid to shore-up regime military efforts against ISIS and protect key airbases on the edge of Syria’s desert, according to an activist media outlet.
“Over the past few days Russia has sent small special units and military advisors with extensive experience in mountain and desert combat [to] the area west of the city of Palmyra that is still controlled by regime forces,” All4Syria reported Wednesday.
A “regime force” source told the pro-rebel website that “these units will execute command-and-consultation missions, and provide assistance and military advice to regime forces in that area.”
As I was saying, most Professors would be as broke as newton and living in a hut if they were not all for Imperialism.. And to be living in the luxurious life style professors are Accustomed to, you got to go out there and pull a few punches.. Just like how you belittle the student who don’t hold your point of view. As you are the expert and they the student.. And you mold them in your image so they too can help you live in the luxurious style of grep poopon on your hotdogs..
Elijah J. Magnier @EjmAlrai 24h24 hours ago
Elijah J. Magnier Retweeted Scott Lucas
Striking4 “an academic” 2ignore what is a source, calling it “press release”. Interesting terminology n his academia
Elijah J. Magnier added,
Scott Lucas @ScottLucas_EA
“SHAMAL STORM ’16 will see the deployment of over 1700 British Army personnel, from across a wide variety of units from Force Troops Command and 3 [UK] Division, in a large scale Combined Arms battlegroup exercise. C&S understands the multinational exercise in the Middle East will run through March and April.”
March and April! It took a little digging to find a rough date for the exercise, because it’s conspicuously missing from all the mainstream articles on the subject. The timeframe fits with the Turkish/Saudi war preparations.
Spread the word! I think we need to descend upon the comments sections of popular mainstream news websites, because there is a media blackout, with the exception of commentary by heads of defence think tanks like RUSI (calling for a ground invasion of Syria).
Check out the comments section for that article though. No wonder there’s a news blackout because the educated section of the population understand what’s going on and they don’t want a military confrontation with Russia. We must force this information into the public consciousness. Post as many comments to the news sites as you can, preferably only people outside Western adversary nations, because if too many Russians turn up then they have an excuse to close all the comments sections (blaming “Putinbots”, or whatever bullshit).
Also, if you are in the West, email/write/telephone your local politicians utilising the links I’ve posted above to explain what’s happening — and tell them you want no fucking part of it!
Article last December this crowd-funded bunch of true investigative journalists looking at Syria war from not just pipeline transit, but actual O&G reserves & potential.
From link in comments on Ziad Fadel’s article up today 14th.
Looks like the western seismic (French, UK) firms contracted to “find” these reserves were passing along the data to all the usual suspects.
Article is saveable using various browser plug-ins.
The US Army SSI report noted that Syria’s offshore resources are part of a wider matrix of oil and gas deposits in the Levant basin encompassing the offshore territories of these competing states.
The region is estimated to hold approximately 1.7 billion barrels of oil and 122 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, which could be just a third of the basin’s total hydrocarbons.
US-led military intervention has a key role to play, the report concludes, in “managing” conflicts and tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean, especially the prospect of “Syria destabilising into de facto civil war.”
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/western-firms-plan-to-cash-in-on-syria-s-oil-and-gas-frontier-6c5fa4a72a92#.knancnsq6
https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/600/1*5YIPkme3TIyGXxwpWrJv2A.png
The last minute wuz da highlight of my political edimification…:-)…if You know wha ammeen…
Well, it had to come to that: we officially live in idiocracy.
Guess who just showed up, after weeks in the wilderness (or maybe the rest home?).
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/02/14/450318/McCain-Assad-Syria-Russia-Daesh
The newly announced truce deal for Syria, forged by the International Syria Support Group (ISSG), will only empower Russia which is engaged in “diplomacy in the service of military aggression,” says Senator John McCain.
After days of negotiation, diplomats from a group of countries, including the US, Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Iran, agreed on Friday to seek a temporary “cessation of hostilities” in Syria within a week
http://www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/john-mccain.jpg
The man’s an idiot, but I hope he’s right about empowering Russia. It’s a much needed counterweight to the Anglo-Zionist Empire.
Back when I used to vote, I never voted for McInsane, and I signed the recall petition that unfortunately didn’t come to pass.
“agreed on Friday to seek a temporary “cessation of hostilities” in Syria within a week”
OK, so Russia and its allies got a week to make a major breakthrough – at least to finally take Aleppo, then Rakka…
Are Russians really confident they can do the job in a week, and that is why they made this agreement?
Or, is this again Putin’s “snatching defeat from the jaws of victory” – just like at least twice already in Novorussia, resulting in “Minsk” garbage?
We will know the answer in a week.
Under the peace agreement nothing changes. Russia/Syria is free to bomb/fight UNSC designated terrorist groups ISIS, al Qaeda and groups associated with them. Perhaps there may be some sort of truce on the southern front in some areas but in the north and east nothing changes.
Well read this ..” It’s the culminating moment of a game of chess that has been in motion for several months now and Putin is ready to declare “checkmate!.Saudi, Russian Oil Ministers Plan Talks in Doha Tuesday
Here…http://johngaltfla.com/wordpress/2016/02/15/russias-plan-to-blackmail-opec-at-the-secret-qatar-meeting-on-tuesday/
un? total time waste, there is no international law, i hope russia and syria understands that.
“… un? total time waste, there is no international law, i hope russia and syria understands that. …”
Completely agreed. At the conclusion of WWII, the strongest world thugs of that moment agreed to constitute a forum for smoothing out their internecine disputes in order to rule the entire planet more effectively. While that did not work full 100% as planned, it gave them a good platform for propaganda, a tool for political and economic manipulation of the sea of weak small nations of the world – while at the same time giving to the latter the idiotic illusion that “the UN” represents them. Recall the stupid “non-aligned nations movement”, for instance. RIP…
Of course, nothing has changed about “the UN” since its inception. The balance of power(s) has changed … participants changed their costumes…
What the putrid West does today with this handy tool we all know. Although Russia and China, one is sorry to observe, play along, as (they think) it suits them.
For instance, on 17 March 2011, Russian and Chinese “abstentions” in “the UN SC” were made with their full knowledge that this would result in destruction of Libya and murder of their friend Kadafi. And one could not merely “blame Medvedev’s government – but not Putin” for that either. On 22 December 2015, now Putin’s (!) government “abstained” in “the UN SC” vote to extend the mandate of the “judges” of the truly criminal “International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia” http://www.un.org/press/en/2015/sc12177.doc.htm …………………
Meh. You distort the truth. Predicting the future is very difficult and you’re arguing with the benefit of hindsight.
How would they know that the UN resolution would be abused and that a no fly zone would become a bombing campaign?
You can see that they’ve learned from this. There is no similar UN resolution for a no fly zone over Syria.
@ Don’t be a prat
“How would they know”
Interesting. I have never considered that absence of shiftiness was a particular strength of those two, but I have never attributed to them extreme stupidity. To quote Benjamin Franklin, “Experience is an invaluable school, but only a fool learns everything from experience.”
ronin says “there is no international law, i hope russia and syria understands that.”
I think that they do. However Mr Putin seems quite partial to the idea of law, and seems to want to create a different world order than the Empire of Chaos, a multipolar world order where there is the effective rule of recognized and respected international law.
If he wished to accept what is, he probably wouldn’t be trying to do anything.
Instead, he appears to be interested in creating what is not, but should be.
True, however it is important that the Syrian government should at least provide a public record of these events and their viewpoint on them. They can’t count on any kind of objective reporting from the media.
There is shelling going on, every night now, around Donetsk City, Gorlovka and southwest of Donetsk City. The orcs shell at night, after OSCE has retired to their comfortable lodgings and are enjoying their cocktail hour, ergo they can neither hear nor see anything.
The orcs don’t visit the outhouse without asking permission of their masters, ergo Langley has told them to carry on.
Auslander
Author, Never The Last One
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZGCY8KK
Auslander
1. American Fighters to Finland
2. American Troops, and Abrams Tanks to the Baltic Principalities
3. American Weapons & Troops to Poland.
4. You’ve covered the Ukraine
5. NATO to Montenegro
6. Blockade of Transniestra
7. Oodles of Hate Russia and Syria propaganda
And then there’s Zionist American Troops (ISIS), in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria.
It is a lovely breezy day on my peninsula.
Durruti
@ Peter J.Antonsen
Re. Durruti
Some time ago I watched extensively documentary videos about the Spanish Civil War. What one learns from those, is that “Anarchists”, completely contrary to what someone uninformed could surmise from the name itself, was a legitimate political movement of those times, a very noble and idealistic one at that, a true movement of the people. In fact, they fully established their system in a part of Spain for a short time, a mere several months, and from the interviews with common folks who lived within, one sees that it made everyone happy there. There was no money, things completely depended on barter of labour and goods, and everyone was truly enthusiastic to voluntarily contribute to the community. Their mini-state eventually collapsed under the Franco’s fascist steamroller. Some Marxist scholar would likely dismiss their very idea as being not viable, utopian, precisely because it had no strong central organisation and lacked cohesion… Etc.
In the real world there are always steam rollers. Being viable in the real world also means being able to defend against steamrollers.
Erdogan also flown to Ukraine today……
Why Western Media Presents Russia’s Strikes in Syria as US-Led Coalition’s
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160214/1034749876/media-russia-airstrikes-footage.html
“By claiming Russian anti-Daesh operations in Syria as their own, Western governments not only try desperately to hide from their own citizens the fact that the US-led anti-terrorist operation isn’t doing anything to fight Daesh, but also want the jihadists to serve the interests of Western political elites, British journalist Neil Clark argued.
Earlier this week TV Channel France 2 showed footage of Russian planes bombing Daesh, claiming them to be the work of the US-led international coalition. The French state-funded media also accused Moscow of not bombing Daesh and “targeting civilians” all the while showing footage, originally released by the Russian Defense Ministry.
“This ‘bombing plagiarism’ marks a new low in the increasingly desperate anti-Russian propaganda war,” Clark wrote for RT.
France 2 isn’t the only media that used footage of Russian airstrikes to praise the actions of the US-led anti-Daesh coalition. Last November, PBS NewsHour showed a video of Russian planes hitting Daesh oil storage facilities and claimed it was the work of US airplanes. In December, Euronews did the same thing.
According to Clark, all of these lies are happening because the Russian anti-Daesh campaign in Syria is exposing lies that Western governments have been trying to work on – an attempt to change regime and the Balkanization of Syria – all under the pretext of the “war on terror.
As the Russians are actually fighting Daesh, al-Qaeda and al-Nusra Front forces in Syria, Western governments have realized that they “talked themselves into a corner when it comes to domestic public opinion.”
It’s obvious that average US, British and French citizens want to see Daesh defeated and would certainly not be happy to find out that their own governments don’t want Daesh to be destroyed, Clark wrote.
In an attempt to somehow solve this problem and cover their lies, Western governments began to claim Russia’s anti-Daesh actions as their own successes, while continuing to criticize Russian actions in Syria, the British journalist explained.”
This sort of adolescent behaviour is one of the many reasons I refer to western msm as the zio-gay media.
What’s really frightening is that they can assume the viewers are so dumb, and insouciant, as to not catch the lie, and raise objections. Only a journalist at RT, which they brand as inadmissible. I admit i might not recognize a Russ plane going by fast if markings are hard to see, but I’m just one person. It really is all childish. And desperate.
OT:it helps when everybody has a “handle”, not anon.
Yes, check out their claimed count here,
That’s about as many as Russia does in 1 hour.
Pentagon: US, allies conduct 25 airstrikes in Iraq, 2 in Syria
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/02/14/450352/US-Syria-Russia-Daesh
The US-led coalition has conducted 27 airstrikes against the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group’s positions in Syria and Iraq, the Pentagon says.
According to a Sunday statement by the Combined Joint Task Force which oversees the airstrikes, coalition aircraft carried out 25 attacks in Iraq and only 2 in Syria.
If you like to spends a couple hours in reading the transcripts of the talks/statements at the Munich security conference, have a look at
https://www.securityconference.de/en/activities/munich-security-conference/msc-2016/speeches-and-quotes/
A particularly hilarious highlight was the speech of John Kerry. He claimed that it was the coalition that went after the oil smugglers. He told a heap of crap to people who should know better. If you know what is really going on, as many of us do, it is truly disgusting – to the point I could not finish reading it.
http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2016/02/252486.htm
If only the boldness for telling lies could be converted to bravery for accepting facts, the world would be a more peaceful place.
The entire history is lies. Let alone anything else. Like it was all discovered and invented here. It would all be not so bad except it gives the feeling of invincibility that is only matched by luck. And a dangerous environment is created in hubris. They even believe they beat the greatest army in the world in WW2 and defeated both the german and Japanese empires. But never faced more than a few hundred thousand men in battle while the soviets faced many millions of Japanese and germans and caused the bulk of destruction of both of them. The soviets lost over a million men just so the US could land in Normandy.. I still think Stalin was an idiot to waste the lives of so many of his men as by that time the Nazi’s were already defeated and the Japanese had already been defeated even before WW2 started. Now even the Europeans start to believe that the US saved them without even being grateful for the number of soviet lives lost so the allies had the chance to save them without total destruction.
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“It’s easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that one has never heard before.” Robert Lynd
Marcel:
» If only the boldness for telling lies could be converted to bravery for accepting facts … «
Well, the folks telling the bold lies aren’t doing so by accident. Democracy means the Rule of the Rich by way of Deception.
Rainer Mausfeld: Warum schweigen die Lämmer? – YouTube
anschließende Diskussion – Youtube
And Mausfeld is being very careful … not to endanger his tenure. For example, he dodges the question about German history. And he explains the web of lies as “systemic”, which is just a way to avoid blaming specific classes of people. And if no one is to blame what can you do? But still a very good presentation.
The empire speaks with forked tongue. RT says that the US “supports” the YPG but the US uses them and gives them support which is entirely different . Here it is from the horse’s mouth:
Neigh.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/14/politics/obama-vladimir-putin-syria/index.html
so far can anyone validate or refute the accuracy of the claims from this source ?
https://www.superstation95.com/index.php/world/890
it’s giving description of events “on the ground” as it happened. Just do not know how reliable ?
I have checked with RT alan. It seems to validate the claims about shelling from Turkey and Syria having sent a request to the UN and that is all. I should add that the site has the phone call between O’Bama and Putin, but waves alarm flags about the seriousness of one President waking up the US president at 4 in the morning. I checked the kremlin site, and it was O’Bama who called Putin not the other way around, and it was 4 pm for him, and 1 md for Putin, so not as alarmist as it was made to appear. So – not sure about the site, but seems to mean well, i.e. not a troll site. Dangerous times though all the same. PS
The author of these updates and pieces is Harold Charles (“Hal”) Turner:
This is what Hal says about himself:
• https://www.superstation95.com/index.php/world/author/2705-halturner
And this is the Wikipedia entry on Hal:
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Turner
:-/
PO’B
Thanks for posting that. An excerpt, (and alan take note):
“Then the shit hit the fan when it was confirmed that the Saudis and their allies are already transporting TWENTY THOUSAND TANKS. (20,000). Worse, 2,450 warplanes are enroute to northern Saudi Arabia and the Saudis have declared the airspace in the northern section of the country to be “closed.” Lastly, in addition to the 2,450 warplanes, four-hundred-sixty (460) military helicopters are enroute as well.
Saudi Arabia had the balls to claim this was all part of an “exercise.” Bullshit. There has never, in the history of human existence, been an “exercise” with 350,000 troops, 20,000 tanks, 2,450 warplanes and 460 military helicopters. There is just no way to have an exercise of that magnitude, it is too damn large. What’s really taking place is the massing of an invasion force. Saudi Arabia also said the exercise would take 18 days. That would put it as ending February 28.”
Beyond absurd. Out there in alex jones ja ja land. The role of the usa is relegated to the standard inept going along for the ride, unplanned and without a clue what it’s all about obfuscatory nonsense, the words israel and zionism are as usual, notable by their absence. It was mod ps’s endorsement of the site that raised the warning flag, that the site/radiohost was less that legit and might require a critical eye, btw.
Alex Jones is famous for his big words,he keeps doing that in order to get more viewers and listeners
on his radio.For example,yesterday he said that in the turkish shelling on kurds in syria,the kurds have lost “many hundreds of soldiers
Alex Jones is part of the 9/11 hoax cover-up, which made him a millionaire:
Alex Jones & Sideshow Mike Rivero: Grandfathers of the 9/11 Truth Movement – by Phil Jayhan
Same for Mike Rivero of WhatReallyHappened.com, former NASA hoax fabricator:
Is Mike Rivero, John Wenckus from Flight 11? – by Phil Jayhan
The USA is a Democracy, which means the Rich run the country by means of Deception. And the American sheeple have no about the extent of that deception.
About that Alex Jones choleric I surmised that much… It reminds me of something that professor Howard Zinn wrote, I believe in his Peoples’ History of the US, namely, how the ruling system in the US had devised a myriad of well-tested pressure safety valves, to prevent the steam boiler of an unhappy populace to explode. Obviously, Alex Jones is but one of those valves. All that enormous energy of the sheeple is guided, diverted into elaborate circles, until it all safely dissipates into nothing…
Desperation at Aleppo based on news like this 14th late afternoon.
TEHRAN (FNA)- Turkey has relocated hundreds of terrorists from Idlib province to Aleppo via its soil to block the Kurdish fighters’ rapid advances in Northern Aleppo province, media reports disclosed on Sunday.
At least 400 militants have been transferred to Northern Aleppo to help the terrorists who are losing the ground to the Kurdish fighters who are backed by Russian air force, Arab media outlets said.
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13941125001429
Excellent summary of HRClinton’s support for regime change including a refutation of her lie that she tried to broker a cease fire in Syria in 2012, http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/14/hillary-clinton-and-syrian-bloodbath
Here’s the long article detailing why Kissinger isn’t a friend of Sanders, including his campaign’s PR explaining why that’s so–an outstanding article, http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/13/why-not-being-friends-war-criminal-henry-kissinger-matters
Says it all about the lying evil Hildabeeste cackler in 1 cartoon.
http://famguardian.org/Subjects/Scams/Humor/Liagra760.jpg
Given the various troop and equipment movements within the last week or so, I’m wondering what Iran is up to. Clearly Iran is the only local power with sufficient troops to hold off or defeat an invasion of Syria, the problem being getting those troops into Syria.
Don’t have the links handy, but @ 1 division of Iraqi Shite militia troops are now at Aleppo and another division of Iranian troops have arrived and are currently deploying to several locations. Motorized infantry would best describe both divisions. Plus, numerous reports of air transport sightings at the “new” Russian airbase in Northwest Syria, but no reports as to their cargo. That the Iraqis feel confident enough to send a full division speaks volumes about their confidence at ridding Daesh from their nation. I’d imagine that both forces are meant to seal the border with Turkey so SAA can continue its drive to the East.
You have that wrong, these are fresh recruits and they are sent to Syria to train because it is illegal to do so in Iraq. Now Motorized with GMC trucks instead of Toyotas.. These wont be used in any battle as such and they would get slaughtered. But they can be used as a blocking force. I am very disappointed at the officer quality of the SAA. They badly need qualified officer core. Even some generals have no clue about battle tactics. One of them is now up on charges for getting 200 killed by making them charge across unknown terrain and get ambushed. But the dozen that survived made a rukus about it. The troops the Russians are working with are the best experienced ones. Not these recruits who does it for training or as their duty. After seeing what dashbags do to Christians I would join too if I was younger. They threw Christian down a well to die there after they took over Christian villages.
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I don’t think they are doing a thing. I think there is a split of opinion in the system. With the kind of divided governing system they have . I’d have to say the division in what to do is within the system more than the government itself. With the military and religious leaders allied in wanting to act strongly to protect their interests. And the “actual official government” riddled with elements that in Russia are called “5th column” (though much less pro-West.But more neutralist instead). And without unity in opinion on what to do.One day they do something,the next day they do nothing.It the future (near future?),one, or the other ,of the sides in that system will have to come out on top. But until that happens I don’t see them doing more than they are right not.Except maybe more talking about taking action. But until we hear of actual Iranian sustained military actions taking place (or not taking place). We won’t know which half of the system is on top.
Looks like she’s going to pass the hat to top up her good buddy Erdogoon’s coronation trust fund.
Merkel is planning to bring together what the media have dubbed a “coalition of the willing” on the margins of a two-day EU summit in Brussels starting Thursday.
She suggested its members could help Turkey’s refugee effort beyond the three billion euros ($3.3 billion) already committed by the EU.
Turkey, which is hosting over 2.7 million mostly Syrian refugees, has voiced deep frustration with the EU as a fresh wave of Syrian refugees mass on its border.
http://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2016/02/14/1000473/merkel-isolated-as-eu-partners-slam-door-on-refugees
Following the UN stitch-up, Senator Bob Cardin of the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations has just issued a denunciation of President Assad and a call – more or less – for regime change:
http://www.foreign.senate.gov/press/ranking/release/cardin-statement-on-un-report-documenting-assad-regime-war-crimes-in-syria
They never give up do they?
Next it will be Putin, Assad’s ‘partner-in-crime’…
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“They never give up do they?”
Well yeah, these highly protected Jewish supremacists and “superior whites” with for the former, multiple “bolt hole” options should things go wrong with the latter. ;D
The Saudis have put out a similar statement. I think its past time for Syria to proclaim that there can’t and “won’t” be peace as long as Erdogan and the Saudis Princes are in power.And for Syrian officials to announce at “every” chance ,every meeting,”Erdogan and the Saudi Princes ” must go.Make that their “mantra”.I see this as a “life and death” struggle in Syria. And Syria can’t have peace and security as long as those enemy leaders are in power. So the only choice is clear. They must go,and no other choice will be allowed. If the Syrians will steel themselves to do what must be done. They should do it and think no more about it.
What the….?
This clip of Obama was posted 11 hours ago – but is it recent?
Quite extraordinary if it isn’t a fake..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsRTHCgYgrU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Given the laugh track the last cut from the side is almost certainly pasted in satire.
Good though!
Israel has a plan…lol
Senior Israeli Officials Urge Sectarian Partition of Syria
http://217.218.67.231/Detail/2016/02/15/450384/Israeli-official-Syria-sectarian-partition/
“…I think that ultimately Syria should be turned into regions under the control of whoever is there – the Alawites where they are, the Sunnis where they are,” Ram Ben-Barak director general of Israeli Intelligence.
Yinon anyone?
Did he offer the same plan for Israel. A partition,where Jews a state in areas they are in. And Palestine in areas they are in. Since he seems to think partitions are a good thing. Let’s began that right now with Israel.That would certainly cut off territory from Israel. But then partitions are their own idea.
So al ciada killed a turkey and the Syrians get bombed and blamed for it..
Time to jihad to the US.. FREEDOM WILL COME.. Vee Viel sav deh Amerikans!!!! That decision is final.. who’s with me?
What’s more, it is now an open secret that there is no such thing as a “moderate opposition” in Syria anymore (if it ever even existed before). We all know that the U.S. and its allies could not find even a handful of moderates to train to fight against ISIL and al-Nusra and that many opposition groups share very similar views as al-Qaeda and ISIL. We all know that the majority of Syrians are moderates, which is why they chose to flee the country rather than get involved in an armed conflict against the regime. We know that those who chose to fight do so for some sort of an Islamic state or caliphate, and that those who flee Syria seeking Western countries would rather live in liberal societies than under some self-styled Caliphate or Islamic state.
We even know that those so-called “moderates” are little different than radicals when it comes to dealing with Shiites, Christians and secular Sunni Muslims. These are mere facts on the ground.
Under the circumstances, the only way to reach a political consensus and for Westerners to save face is to “pretend” that there are “moderates” and to include them in political negotiations. Nevertheless, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf and Turkey behave as if nobody knows the truth, insisting on prioritizing the removal of the Bashar al-Assad regime. They behave as if nobody knows that their real motivation is to ensure a greater role for themselves as “the protectors of Sunnis.”
From Turkish newspapers
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/the-desperate-alliance-of-turkey-and-saudi-arabia.aspx?pageID=449&nID=95162&NewsCatID=406
RT is announcing that a car bomb has exploded in Dagestan. Killing 2 and wounding others at a police checkpoint. I really don’t understand how that is happening. This “low-level terrorism” (whatever a term like that means) has gone on for years now.Maybe they need to get some Cubans to explain to them how to fight terrorism in mountain areas like that.The Cubans had that problem in the central area mountains (supported by the US). They combed the “entire” region with troops (foot by foot) and resettled those with any connections to the terrorists into re-education.Captured or killed every single terrorist found in those mountains.From that day to this they haven’t had any more problems like that.Its not impossible to fight terrorism as some would belief. Its only impossible if you don’t make the full effort with a single minded will to destroy terrorism.Dagestan is right next to Chehnya. Let that job be handed over to Kadyrov.Let Putin ask him to permanently end terrorism in that entire region. The last thing Russia needs is a new Western backed terror war inside the RF. It needs to be crushed at the start.
Uncle Bob,
Dagestan has been fighting a low level terrorism war since the Chechnyan was ended. The poor country has been working with Russian Help to deal with these elements but it has never wholly cleaned the threat unlike Chechnya.
Usually the locals in an apartment building will inform the authorities of suspected terrorist activity, the authorities clear the building of the innocents and then they try to negotiate with the terrorists for their surrender. Most of the time this fails and the terrorists are then eliminated with force. Quite wearying for the Dagestanian public and government.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dagestan+terrorist+negotiations+with+authorities
Gives some interesting video links to the stuff the Dagestanians have to deal with.
Yes,I know its been going on for a long time. That is my point,they need to end it. That what they are doing (or not doing actually) isn’t working. So they need to take another much stronger approach.
They were sent by Saudi Arabia
Its not impossible to fight terrorism as some would belief. Its only impossible if you don’t make the full effort with a single minded will to destroy terrorism.
Surely you must understand how this statement cuts both ways UB.
Let’s replace ‘terrorism’ with ‘foreign sponsered destabilization ops’ or other words appropriate to the actual context. Our perceptions and understandings must serve our own needs (we that are ruled) and not those of oligarchy.
Turkey’s shelling will sure scare some birds away…
In other news:
SAA, Afrin Kurds, Hezbollah & RuAF advancing on all fronts in Latakia, Idlib and elsewhere // Situation for the ZionistWahabbi axis of terror more than desperate // Invaders relentlessly hunted down & no place to hide
The Latakia and Idlib situations, though not over, have been more or less decided in Syria’s favor. The current hot spot seems to be Raqqa.
https://www.rt.com/news/332462-syrian-army-offensive-raqqa/
everything fine with Russia… it is my blood. but, but when i read; http://sputniknews.com/world/20160215/1034769263/moscow-turkey-confrontation-military-attack.html
i know why i already and allways somehow respected US despite they are driven by cowboys and lunatics. they will never make such statement like this in subject line above. i am going now to smash something.
That’s eternal problem with Russia, that only a few might understand, but for most it sounds like Russian idiocy.
Perhaps a such behavior was partially to contribute to the fact that the entire post-eastern block countries turned back on Russia.
Now I go to smash something too.
Not so hasty,the question remains on the table,what if the turks and their arab “partners” will “incidentally” atack russian forces on air or on the ground ? what then ?
This may also be provocation. You can bet that as soon as the Syrian government fires one missile back Turkey will run to its NATO allies claiming that it has been attacked.
Russia better saddle up and get those paratroopers and more munitions into Syria. at least 10 x’s everything they have now. It will cost less in the long run-less men dying and less time on the field.
It is Russia that acts with impunity-oh welll just shoot some cruise missiles from the Caspian. Well they need well equipped boots on the ground. Class them special forces, advisors trainers.observers that would be even better-like trading insults and they must add that they have to kill them over there before we have to fight them over here just for good measure.
Syria has to deny all access to coalition forces who are acting outside of the US mandate and that means everyone except Russia. Leaving things until the last minute even if you win makes you look unprepared and lucky-not professional and active agents but as reactors to events not shappers of events. ON the other hand wiping these forces out with cruise missiles without even leaving home…if they can do it .do it…that makes you appear even more formidable.Good thing I am not in charge of any of this….we would have already exhausted out nuclear capacity and it would be winter all over the world by now. That is the problem of being on the outside looking in. We don’t know what the Russians are going to do. Other then win,,,,I guess even non religious people have to have faith.
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this might expose the worth of the UN…………..MOSCOW, February 15. /TASS/. Russia will support a motion in favor of raising in the UN Security Council the question of Ankara’s provocative actions towards Syria, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday.
“Moscow expresses the most serious concern over the Turkish authorities’ aggressive actions towards the neighboring state,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said. “Russia will support a motion for putting the issue on the UN Security Council’s agenda. The Security Council should express its clear opinion of Ankara’s provocative polices, posing a threat to peace and stability in the region of the Middle East and outside it.”
According to the ministry, Turkey continues assisting the penetration of new terrorist groups into Syria.
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“According to incoming information, the Turkish side continues assisting the illegal penetration of fresh groups of jihadists and mercenaries with arms into the territory of Syria to replenish the units of the Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State [terrorist organizations outlawed in Russia] and other terrorist groupings battered in battles,” the ministry’s statement said.
“Wounded militants are being brought into Turkey across the border along with scattered bandit groups for rest and subsequent re-formation,” the statement said.
More:
http://tass.ru/en/politics/856779
Strategic missile defense analysis…
As the Soviet documents clearly show, the system was never expected to offer anything but a very modest intercept capability – the currently deployed A-135 system was expected to intercept no more than 1-2 ballistic missiles. The document is a bit vague on the definition of a ballistic missile in this case, but it does not seem to mean 1-2 MX-type ICBMs with 10 warheads each – it is more like 1-2 “complex ballistic targets”, each of them being a single warhead surrounded by decoys and penetration aids. I guess that given that Moscow was expected to be quite densely targeted some of these “complex ballistic targets” could include a few warheads (here is where nuclear intercept would come handy). The capability provided by the A-135 predecessor, A-35, was even more modest – “a single ballistic missile from some directions.” Here “single” probably meant just a single warhead.
These numbers are of course particularly interesting when compared with the number of warheads that were dedicated to defeating the Moscow ABM. In their Protection Paradox paper Hans Kristensen, Matthew McKinzie, and Stan Norris estimated that in 1968 the U.S. war plan assigned 66 warheads to suppression of the A-35 system – that was, by the way, more than ten years before the system became operational. bThey also estimated that in 1989 the United States allocated about 200 warheads to defeat the Moscow ABM. And, of course, the United Kingdom and France argued that they needed hundreds of warheads and sophisticated decoys if their ballistic missiles are to penetrate the defense around Moscow.
It is tempting to conclude that the extent of the overkill demonstrates the relationship between offense and defense – that deployment of defenses only prompts an overwhelming offensive response.
I should note that although the system is known to rely on nuclear interceptors, all the available evidence suggests that nuclear warheads are removed from interceptor missiles are stored in a (presumably) safe location. There have been reports about conventional intercept capability, but it is unlikely that this can be achieved without a complete redesign of the system. Moreover, the Russian designers and the military are extremely skeptical about a possibility of building a reliable non-nuclear missile defense (in fact, they fully expect that the United States will convert its system to nuclear interceptors at some point having figured out that hit-to-kill doesn’t quite work).
http://russianforces.org/blog/2012/10/very_modest_expectations_sovie.shtml
‘Samolet-M’ and the Future of Moscow Missile Defense
Angry exchanges between Moscow and Washington over America’s missile defense plans continue to attract generous media coverage. Meanwhile, the current state and the future of Russia’s own missile defense system which protects the city of Moscow, the A-135 (US designation ABM-4), has received very little attention. The system was rolled out in the period between the 1970s and 1990s.
Functionally the A-135 combat system deployed in Moscow Region consists of two key subsystems: the Don-2N (5N20, Pill Box) multirole radar in Sofrino, and the interceptor launch sites. A smaller and simpler version of the system has been deployed at the Sary-Shagan (Priozersk) weapons range in Kazakhstan to test the key elements of the A-135. It consists of the Amur-P (5Zh60P) multi-channel firing complex and the field version of the radar, the Don-2NP (5N20P).
The radar component of the Samolet-M project led by Almaz-Antey involves the developer of the Don-2N, the Academician Mints Radiotechnical Institute (RTI) in Moscow. In recent years RTI has worked to prepare Product 5N20P for operations in the field.16 The R.O.S. SPETSTEKHMONTAZH company was commissioned by RTI to perform some work at “Facility 2311”, the site of the multirole radar in Moscow Region, as part of Samolet-M R&D.17 The company has also upgraded the visualization system of Product 5N20. One of its recent annual reports mentions “Facility 2311” in the section listing the company’s projects to prepare various hardware for launch, provide technical assistance and maintenance, refurbish technical systems and urgently repair malfunctioning equipment.
According to these terms, the purpose of the project is to develop the technology for a new measuring and modeling radar system capable of two-dimensional super-resolution based on non-coherent wide-band multi-frequency signals to improve recognition and selection of small-size ballistic and space objects. The technology will be used for the Samolet-M project. The terms of the contract announced by the ministry also state that the technology will be implemented in the new-generation VHF and UHF-band Voronezh radars, which are nearing completion, and in the upgraded Don-2N radar (C-band). The Voronezh radars are equipped with L-band high-precision and high-resolution coordinates-measuring channels. Up until now, the Don-2N has been capable of producing only one-dimensional radial images based on wide-band multi-frequency signals with coded carrier frequency transform. Compared to that older technology, the radial-Doppler radar imaging of objects at short time intervals (measured in seconds) is capable of identifying the geometrical shape and the dynamic characteristics of the target, including the parameters of its movement relative to its center of mass.
http://www.russiadefence.net/t410p285-s-400-500-news-1#15031
Bet no one considered that the anti missile defense system uses nookoolear waharheads huh.
You try and figure out how ICBM reentry systems work. Hitting the atmosphere at 7 km/s without disintegrating. Right. Even if you believe they can magically survive reentry there is no credible tech on-board to achieve the alleged strike accuracy. It’s all a joke made back in 1957. Spiced up with stuff such as 3DQP, all shrouded in military secrecy. Space-going superballistics are another hoax. There’s no need to worry for Moscow. :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-Dimensional_Quartz_Phenolic
The USA and Russia become Allies in Syria – Thierry Meyssan, VoltaireNet
Much maligned Obama works with Russia, as first stated here by brother Mohamed many months ago. Clearly there are evil parties in the USA, who run the country, and who will continue to terrorize other countries, but Obama is not their puppet, whatever concessions he may have had to make.
Should Turkey decide to launch a large ground operation in Syria it will find itself in big trouble. One thing is the SAA and Russia, from the South and from the North. Another is the Kurds and the PKK. Another is Iran from the East.
NATO won’t fight for Turkey. There’s a lot of wiggle room in the treaty. For instance, article 5 only mentions Europe and North America … but Anatolia is part of neither. And that is just one caveat and there are more. So NATO will do nothing there.
Uncle Sam might even backstab Turkey and help create Kurdistan in Turkey. After all, Ankara has shown a little too much independence for Washington’s taste in the past. Now that Turkey is in a deep brawl with Russia, Uncle Sam can afford to deal Turkey a blow. Everybody will be (justly) angry with Turkey and back Kurdistan.
So Turkey must be very careful.
Any and all talk of so-called “nukes” can of course be dismissed as disinfo.
This being the most recent post it seems to be the place for:….The stuff you find on the web when you’re looking for the most recent pic of Putin because Press tv’s most recent pic made it look like Kissinger’s presence had done him in…..and when there’s so much Medvedev currently in your face out there…..Anyway still no pic, but there was this – this being a religious site and all –
http://topinfopost.com/2016/02/09/putin-tells-obama-end-of-times-have-begun-at-doomsday-meeting
Mare is gonna pop like a bad bubblish yellow ozzing zit between YPG and IS….. No wonder turkey is sending reinforcements. Their terrorists are gonna get popped..
But who gave heavy weapons to the YPG? They have tanks and artillery as well.. CAS provided by RuAF..
Activists report #SDF take control Tal Rifaat in N. Aleppo
YPG #SDF advancing in the last stronghold inside Tal-Refaat on the western side, engaging in a fierce battle. #Syria.
YPG #SDF took control of Ain Daqna, north of Tal-Rifaat, despite #Turkey bombing to #Kurds forces. #Syria.
Which means they are 1 town away from facing IS directly. But with Turkish shelling what is Russia doing?
Kurdish forces enter Kafr Naya as rebels flee northern #Aleppo http://bit.ly/1PM5Qwi #Kurds #YPG
Government forces to begin new offensive in #Syria’s Stalingrad http://bit.ly/1REfVjC #Aleppo
https://twitter.com/TheArabSource/status/699073116530614272
Did CNN just do a segment on SAA in Palmyra? They were all the Russians training and advising the SAA but with Russian marines in defensive positions..
New MAP.. Latest situation N.#Aleppo 15/2/16.#SDF advanсe in Tel Rifaat.#SAA ~200m from PowerPlant
https://t.co/zkYrnfirAb
Mig-29 arrived yesterday to Hmamiem airport ,in the pic only 3 but there were 5 ,not sure #SyAF or #RuAF
Russian troops are not fighting around Palmyra Tadmur. There are officers on all fronts but forces were engaged only in reef Latakia.
Russia Starts Planning Recapture of Palmyra
Russia has dispatched military advisors west of Palmyra in a bid to shore-up regime military efforts against ISIS and protect key airbases on the edge of Syria’s desert, according to an activist media outlet.
“Over the past few days Russia has sent small special units and military advisors with extensive experience in mountain and desert combat [to] the area west of the city of Palmyra that is still controlled by regime forces,” All4Syria reported Wednesday.
A “regime force” source told the pro-rebel website that “these units will execute command-and-consultation missions, and provide assistance and military advice to regime forces in that area.”
http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/01/russia-starts-planning-recapture-of.html
As I was saying, most Professors would be as broke as newton and living in a hut if they were not all for Imperialism.. And to be living in the luxurious life style professors are Accustomed to, you got to go out there and pull a few punches.. Just like how you belittle the student who don’t hold your point of view. As you are the expert and they the student.. And you mold them in your image so they too can help you live in the luxurious style of grep poopon on your hotdogs..
Elijah J. Magnier @EjmAlrai 24h24 hours ago
Elijah J. Magnier Retweeted Scott Lucas
Striking4 “an academic” 2ignore what is a source, calling it “press release”. Interesting terminology n his academia
Elijah J. Magnier added,
Scott Lucas @ScottLucas_EA
#Hezbollah’s lengthy press release on possible #Saudi-#Turkey intervention in #Syria (via @EjmAlrai) https://elijahjm.wordpress.com/2016/02/14/the-gates-of-hell-will-be-open-in-the-coming-months-in-syria/ …
Elijah J. Magnier Retweeted Scott Lucas
Not surprising when “academic” like to play the journalist. I suppose it is forgivable.
Elijah J. Magnier added,
Scott Lucas @ScottLucas_EA
So the “senior official” whose quotes are 90% of your piece is not #Hezbollah? | #Syria https://twitter.com/EjmAlrai/status/698907598867726336 …
Hala Jaber @HalaJaber 24h24 hours ago
@EjmAlrai Forgivable if done unintentional/innocently! Huge diff btwn a source & a press release, & insistence tt an anonymous source is HA!
@EjmAlrai His aim is to smear you by pretending you work for Hebollah, since a “press release” can only come from the org you work for.
Karina Loren @miskelayla 24h24 hours ago Cairo, Egypt
@EjmAlrai No,it’s not. It just shows in one single tweet what is all wrong with a lot of academics
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/642214/Exercise-Shamal-Storm-British-Army-sends-1600-troops-Jordan-desert-military-drill
“Exercise Shamal Storm will test the UK’s readiness to launch another invasion on the scale of the 2003 Iraq War.”
http://www.combatandsurvival.com/uk-news/6342-ex-shamal-storm-loading-at-marchwood/
“SHAMAL STORM ’16 will see the deployment of over 1700 British Army personnel, from across a wide variety of units from Force Troops Command and 3 [UK] Division, in a large scale Combined Arms battlegroup exercise. C&S understands the multinational exercise in the Middle East will run through March and April.”
March and April! It took a little digging to find a rough date for the exercise, because it’s conspicuously missing from all the mainstream articles on the subject. The timeframe fits with the Turkish/Saudi war preparations.
Spread the word! I think we need to descend upon the comments sections of popular mainstream news websites, because there is a media blackout, with the exception of commentary by heads of defence think tanks like RUSI (calling for a ground invasion of Syria).
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/15/syria-ceasfire-fails-isis-russia-iran-saudi-arabia-vengeful-assad
Check out the comments section for that article though. No wonder there’s a news blackout because the educated section of the population understand what’s going on and they don’t want a military confrontation with Russia. We must force this information into the public consciousness. Post as many comments to the news sites as you can, preferably only people outside Western adversary nations, because if too many Russians turn up then they have an excuse to close all the comments sections (blaming “Putinbots”, or whatever bullshit).
Also, if you are in the West, email/write/telephone your local politicians utilising the links I’ve posted above to explain what’s happening — and tell them you want no fucking part of it!