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Lockheed Martin Unveils "Made In India" F-21 Fighter Jet
Post Date: 2019-02-22 14:27:47 by Horse
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ockheed Martin offered India on Wednesday a new multi-role fighter jet, the F-21, in an attempt to secure a large defense order worth $15 billion, reported Reuters. The American defense company said the new plane will be specifically designed and manufactured for the Indian Air Force (IAF), and provide "Made In India" economic opportunities that strengthen India’s path to becoming a military powerhouse in the Indo-Pacific region. The F-21 addresses the IAF's unique requirements and integrates India's defense complex into the world’s largest fighter jet ecosystem with the world’s biggest defense company. If the partnership works out, Lockheed Martin and Tata ...
What's Up With Australia's 80 Tonnes Of Gold At The Bank Of England?
Post Date: 2019-02-22 14:25:26 by Horse
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Recently, news network RT.com asked for comments on the question of the 80 tonnes of the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) gold reserves and their supposed storage location at the Bank of England's gold vaults in London. Based on some of those comments I made, RT has now published an article in its English language news website at www.rt.com about this Australian gold that the RBA claims is held in London. The RT.com article, which was published on 18 February 2018, is titled "Hey UK! It's not just Venezuela, what happened to Australia's gold?", and can be read in full here on the RT website. For the commentary, RT actually asked me quite a few interesting ...
ussia to defend Venezuela in face of US threat: Analyst
Post Date: 2019-02-22 04:57:45 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... Russia will stand firm in its attempt to prevent a US-led plot, which is hatched to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in order to install the Western-backed opposition led by Juan Guaidó, says a commentator. In an interview with Iran’s Spanish-language Hispan TV, Maduro said the Caracas government takes Washington’s military threats seriously and is already making preparations “to protect our borders and territorial integrity.” Lajos Szaszdi, political commentator, told Press TV on Friday that “Russia – because it is an important ally – considers Venezuela as a strategic partner [and] is not going to abandon, is not going ...
Tensions Mount at Venezuela Border as Top Brass Rejects Trump’s Incitement, Opposition Takes Over Costa Rica Embassy
Post Date: 2019-02-21 10:50:24 by Ada
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“When a president of another country comes and tries to give orders to [our] Armed Forces, he is underestimating them disrespectfully (…) It is incredulous,” — Venezuela’s Defense Minister Venezuela’s armed forces have responded angrily Tuesday to threats made against them by US President Donald Trump and calls to break the chain of command. Speaking at a press conference held in Caracas and flanked by commanders from all of the branches of the military, Defence Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez told the press that Washington “Will not be able to install a “puppet” and anti-patriotic government, they will have to step over our dead bodies ...
The Empire: Now or Never
Post Date: 2019-02-21 09:38:05 by Ada
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Many people I talk to seem to think American foreign policy has something to do with democracy, human rights, national security, or maybe terrorism or freedom, or niceness, or something. It is a curious belief, Washington being interested in all of them. Other people are simply puzzled, seeing no pattern in America’s international behavior. Really, the explanation is simple. The reason of course is empire, the desire for which is an ancient and innate part of mankind’s cerebral package. Parthian, Roman, Aztec, Hapsburg, British. It never stops. When the Soviet Empire collapsed, America appeared poised to establish the first truly world empire. The developed countries were ...
How NATO Pushed the U.S. Into the Libya Fiasco
Post Date: 2019-02-21 09:16:50 by Ada
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Obama officials reveal how relentlessly our 'allies' lobbied for this ill-advised regime change war. A key worry among American critics of NATO is that expanding the alliance into Eastern Europe may entangle the United States in conflicts that have little or no relevance to our genuine security needs. But the 2011 NATO intervention in Libya is a reminder that even Washington’s long-time allies like France and Britain can create the same danger. In their memoirs, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates reveal (at times perhaps unintentionally) how those nations prodded the reluctant Obama administration into taking such a fateful step in ...
Trump Treats Iraq Like a Conquered Province
Post Date: 2019-02-21 09:02:05 by Ada
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He recognizes the folly of staying in Syria and Afghanistan forever. So why is Baghdad the exception? The driving force behind American foreign policy in recent years has been hubris. The United States sees itself as the essential unipower, endowed with the right, indeed the duty, to intervene around the world. Any nation that gets in the way must be crushed—but in a moral, compassionate way. Fortunately, President Donald Trump rejects Full Neocon, the foreign policy equivalent of the Full Monty. In his State of the Union speech, he declared: “Great countries do not fight endless wars.” He appears ready to pull U.S. troops out of Syria and Afghanistan. Unfortunately, ...
USS Donald Commerative Coin
Post Date: 2019-02-20 14:33:38 by Horse
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Everyone Has Fallen for the Lies About Venezuela
Post Date: 2019-02-20 09:46:25 by Ada
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It turns out sociopathy is addictive. Our American empire knows no bounds to its nation-building (after nation-destroying). There are three things I know for sure in this fanciful, sometimes inglorious experience we call life: You will never have a safety pin when you need one, and you will have thousands when you don’t need one. Wild animals are breathtakingly majestic until they’re crawling up your pant leg. A U.S. presidential administration will never admit that it invaded another country or backed a coup attempt in order to essentially steal the natural resources (oil) of said country. This is why it was so very shocking last week when members of the Trump administration ...
Venezuelan Ambassador Spills the Beans on Guido Fake President’s CIA Training
Post Date: 2019-02-19 20:09:01 by Ada
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There is literally zero doubt that Guaido isn’t a CIA agent at this point. Russia Insider: The Venezuelan Ambassador to Russia commented on the situation in South America. He said that Juan Guaido, who earlier proclaimed himself the president, is a puppet of the US and recruited by Washington 10 years ago. The diplomat also said that he thinks that military intervention could follow the US’s aid. The ambassador added that the Venezuelan government expects provocations from the opposition. Carlos Rafael Faria Tortosa, Venezuelan Ambassador to Russia: “If I’m not mistaken, he was 21 in 2007, and he went to Serbia where they trained a group of young guys from ...
Kalashnikov Unveils Kamikaze Drone At IDEX-2019
Post Date: 2019-02-19 11:21:46 by Horse
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Russian assault and sniper rifle manufacturer Kalashnikov Group, a Rostec subsidiary, has unveiled a new high-precision suicide drone, called the KYB UAV, on Sunday at the IDEX-2019 arms exhibition in the United Arab Emirates. The new drone is equipped with GPS, allows it to precisely hits ground targets, delivering a small warhead to target coordinates. This is a very accurate and most effective weapon, which is very difficult to fight with using traditional air defense systems, said Sergey Chemezov, head of Rostec. “The explosive can be delivered to target regardless of how well hidden it is. It operates ‘regardless of hidden terrains, at both high and low altitude,” he ...
Russia and China Are Containing the US to Reshape the World Order
Post Date: 2019-02-19 09:39:29 by Ada
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China and Russia are leading this historic transition while being careful to avoid direct war with the United States. Fortunately the world today is very different from that of 2003, Washington’s decrees are less effective in determining the world order. But in spite of this new, more balanced division of power amongst several powers, Washington appears ever more aggressive towards allies and enemies alike, regardless of which US president is in office. China and Russia are leading this historic transition while being careful to avoid direct war with the United States. To succeed in this endeavor, they use a hybrid strategy involving diplomacy, military support to allies, and ...
Tulsi Gabbard "Saudi Arabia Is NOT Our Ally! Saudi Arabia Is Giving US Weapons To Al Qaeda!"
Post Date: 2019-02-18 13:31:00 by Horse
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Hey UK! It's not just Venezuela, what happened to Australia's gold?
Post Date: 2019-02-18 10:46:37 by Ada
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Geopolitical and trade tensions along with US sanctions have shaken trust in the US dollar over recent years. As a result, a number of global central banks have been boosting their national reserves of gold bullion. In 2018, world central banks added 651.5 tons to official gold reserves, as a greater pool of regulators turned to the precious metal as a diversifier, according to data released by the World Gold Council. Some countries, like Russia and Turkey increased their gold reserves while dumping US dollar holdings at the same time. India, China, Kazakhstan, Iraq, Poland and Hungary were among the other big purchasers of the yellow metal. Also on rt.com Where does Russia keep its huge ...
How One of America’s Premier Data Monarchs is Funding a Global Information War and Shaping the Media Landscape
Post Date: 2019-02-18 10:02:07 by Ada
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Through his purchase of influence over the daily flow of information to American media consumers, a dizzying array of connections to the national security state, and a media empire that shields him from critical scrutiny, Pierre Omidyar has become one of the world’s most politically sophisticated data monarchs. A select group of national news “stakeholders” gathered at an undisclosed location for what was described as a “semi-secret” workshop somewhere in Canada on January 26. The meeting had been convened to determine how and to whom a “news industry bailout” of $645 million in Canadian government subsidies to private and supposedly independent media ...
Can Maduro Emulate Castro and Assad to Keep NATO’s Imperialist Hands Off Venezuela?
Post Date: 2019-02-18 09:22:16 by Ada
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There are many others examples in history where in a David versus Goliath fight, the little guy who did not stand a chance eventually won on the battlefield. Imperial logic I: External crises distract from internal ones Empires with internal problems tend to create external crises to distract the public opinion and unite their political and economical ruling class in a fictitious nationalistic fervor. The current United States policy of overt regime change in Venezuela, backed entirely by its NATO vassals, follows an evergreen imperial playbook of creating new crises to obscure failures and divisions. In addition to the administration’s overall incompetence, the legal ...
Hiding in Plain Sight – US Military Sales Gone Rogue?
Post Date: 2019-02-18 08:41:44 by Ada
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In the 60s the US military had the ingenious idea to purge the armed services of excess and dated weaponry that would increase operational capability of US forces and allow America’s allies to purchase military equipment that would improve interoperability. Congress formally created the Foreign Military Sales program (FMS), however, like any well-intentioned government program, it morphed into something other than its intended purpose, in this case, an international arms trafficking business. The US does have legislation to oversee Foreign Military Financing (FMF) and Direct Commercial Sales (DCS) programs; however, it looks like the defense industry is circumventing the intended ...
Spanish warship with guns manned orders boats in Gibraltar to leave
Post Date: 2019-02-18 08:35:20 by Ada
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'It seems there are still some in the Spanish navy who think they can flout international law' A Spanish warship with its guns manned ordered commercial ships to leave British Gibraltar waters on Sunday, the territory’s government said. The warship’s crew can be heard in an audio recording of a radio exchange telling vessels anchored at the Rock to leave “Spanish territorial waters”. Royal Navy boats were deployed in response to the incident. Boats which were ordered to leave remained at the port during the incident, which was branded foolish by a spokesman for Her Majesty’s Government of Gibraltar. “There is only nuisance value to these ...
Video: South Africa’s Electricity Collapse Continues as “New” Power Stations Crumble
Post Date: 2019-02-17 16:05:13 by Horse
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Chronic incompetence, affirmative action, poor maintenance and Third World chaos have plunged South Africa into yet another power supply nightmare with nationwide blackouts—euphemistically called “load-shedding”—while new video from a recently built power station show that it is on the verge of a dangerous collapse. The Medupi Power Station—a coal-fired generating station commissioned by the ANC government in 2015—was revealed to be in a “highly dangerous” state with ash and high-explosive coal dust debris pouring out of leaking pipes and covering the surrounding ground like snow. Footage smuggled out of the Medupi power station by a white ...
Nancy Pelosi’s brother-in-law received $737 million in loan guarantees from the Department of Energy
Post Date: 2019-02-17 15:56:30 by Horse
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Opinion| To understand the future we must understand the past. At least when it comes to what we can expect from corrupt politicians. To envision the size of the pot of gold that Democrats envision for themselves at the other end of the Green New Deal rainbow we only have to look back to the Obama administration, the $3 Trillion in “stimulus” money, the Green Movement, and how it seemingly enriched Democrats, their donors, and Nancy Pelosi in particular. For background we cite a September 2011 article from the Daily Mail: Even as government financed “green energy” pioneer Solyndra was failing, the Obama administration approved an additional $1 Billion in loans to ...
The Lawlessness of William Barr, America’s New Top Law Enforcement Official
Post Date: 2019-02-17 10:25:39 by Ada
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The relatively small amount of scrutiny William Barr fell under from Congress and Beltway thought leaders speaks to a conformity of their ideologies. But to understand what America’s new top law enforcement official really signifies as a veteran swamp creature, it is necessary to revisit Cold War history. WASHINGTON — Congress’ confirmation of William Barr as Attorney General for the United States on Thursday has come and gone with comparatively little commotion compared to that attending his predecessor, Jeff Sessions, or Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Most media attention fixated on the potential for Barr to undermine the work of his former colleague and close ...
‘I do not recognize my country’: Yellow Vests who have lost eyes, limbs demand justice from Macron
Post Date: 2019-02-17 09:32:43 by Ada
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‘I do not recognize my country’: Yellow Vests who have lost eyes, limbs demand justice from Macron France gathered for the 14th week of Gilets Jaunes protests, with the injury toll of the worst civil unrest in decades now resembling that of a small war. Yet despite pleas from victims, Emmanuel Macron is tightening the screws. “This is not normal. We are in France, one of the oldest and best democracies in the world,” says Fiorina Jacob Lignier, who lost her eye at a demonstration in Paris on December 8. "We usually condemn from afar other countries where this occurs, that this is happening here is unbelievable." Lignier, a 20-year-old philosophy student, ...
food for thought - Arthur Miller
Post Date: 2019-02-17 06:42:09 by Horse
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"Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that The State has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied." -- Arthur Miller playwright
Europe: Alliance with US 'broken', schism 'getting crazier'
Post Date: 2019-02-17 05:29:10 by Tatarewicz
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An annual security conference in Germany has erupted into a full-scale assault on the Trump administration’s foreign policy, with leaders taking turns to flay the US president's go-it-alone policy. German Chancellor Angela Merkel led the charge Saturday, laying bare just how far apart the US has drifted from its traditional allies and how little Europeans care about concealing their contempt. The customarily reserved Merkel unleashed a stinging, point-by-point takedown of Trump's tendency to treat its allies as adversaries, turning her fire on America’s “home alone” policy. The German chancellor lamented that the US-led global order “has collapsed into ...
UK Student barred from free speech debate for saying ‘women don’t have penises’
Post Date: 2019-02-16 13:42:07 by Horse
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A student who was called transphobic after re-tweeting ‘women don’t have penises’ has been excluded from a free speech debate at Bristol university over ‘security concerns’. Angelos Sofocleous posted the statement on his social media account last August. The tweet led to him being sacked from his role as president of Humanist Students and assistant editor of Durham University’s philosophy society journal. Sofocleous had hoped to take part in a panel hosted by Bristol University’s Free Speech Society on Wednesday but he claims to have been ‘de-platformed’.
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