Damning New Video Shows Ukrainian Rebels Surprised MH17 Was Civilian Wednesday July 29th, 2015 at 8:36 PM
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M.N.: Some interesting statistics: the incidents of global and domestic (USA) terrorism activity and the incidents of the USA mass shootings show very similar dynamics, with the main recent trend of rapid, exponential increase, especially since 2011.M.N.: The incidents of global and domestic (USA) terrorism activity and the incidents of the USA mass shootings show very similar dynamics, with the main recent trend of rapid, exponential increase, especially since 2011. This might be an indication that th...
M.N.: The incidents of global and domestic (USA) terrorism activity and the incidents of the USA mass shootings show very similar dynamics, with the main recent trend of rapid, exponential increase, especially since 2011. Thi...
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Tourists Held in China Over Terror Video Say They Watched Genghis Khan FilmTourists Held in China Over Terror Video Say They Watched Genghis Khan Film Saturday July 18 th , 2015 at 1:45 PM WSJ.Com: World News 1 Share Nine foreign tourists detained by Chinese authorities for allegedly watching terror propaganda videos were merely...
Tourists Held in China Over Terror Video Say They Watched Genghis Khan Film Saturday July 18th, 2015 at 1:45 PM WSJ.Com: World News 1 Share Nine foreign tourists detained by Chinese authorities for al...
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What US leaders have never understood about Iran | Iran supreme leader: Nuclear deal won't change policy to USWhat US leaders have never understood about Iran Sunday July 19 th , 2015 at 8:30 PM | What US Leaders Have Never Understood About IranNew York Post 1 Share “American rulers have always dreamed of forcing us to change our behavior, and failed,” Iran’s “Su...
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Congress To Examine FBI Handling Of Tennessee ShooterCongress To Examine FBI Handling Of Tennessee Shooter Sunday July 19 th , 2015 at 4:02 PM 1 Share MANDEL NGAN via Getty Images WASHINGTON, July 19 (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers will examine possible shortcomings in law enforcement or intelligence in the ca...
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Guest commentary: FBI needs new anti-terrorist strategy - FBI News Review: Civil rights advocates, right-wing anti-government zealots and assorted leftists have long complained about FBI tactics when it comes to political dissidents. The arrest of Alexander Ciccolo on July 4 seems to have awakened Fox. Can the rest of the nation be far behind?Guest commentary: FBI needs new anti-terrorist strategy Monday July 20 th , 2015 at 1:38 PM 1 Share By Ralph E. Shaffer, guest commentary © 2015 Bay Area News Group Posted: 07/18/2015 09:00:00 AM PDT 0 Comments When Fox News starts to question the wisdo...
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M.N.: What do they have to hide? And if they do, maybe this is exactly the reason why these "secrets" should be the subject of the rigorous government oversight. Support the FBI's IG Michael Horowitz in his quest for needed information, write the letters of support demanding FBI's compliance to your congressmen and senators! - Fight For Access Pits FBI, Justice Against Federal Watchdogs: “This process ignores an unbroken history of more than 20 years of cooperation and compliance by the department and FBI with the records production requirements of the Inspector General Act,” DOJ Inspector Michael Horowitz said in a written update to Congress last month. “At no time before 2010 did the FBI, any department component, or department leadership raise any concerns over the legality of providing records to the OIG, including grand jury, wiretap, or FCRA material; prior to this time, the OIG routinely received such material from the department,” Horowitz added. In the last few years, Horowitz told Congress in May, his investigators have run into roadblocks accessing information related to the Boston Marathon Bombing, and Fast and Furious Operation, among other incidences.Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department's inspector general, goes before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee a day after he faulted the department for disregard of public safety in "Operation Fast and Furious," the Bureau of Alcohol, Toba...
Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department's inspector general, goes before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee a day after he faulted the department for disregard of public safety in "Operation Fast and Furi...
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» Russia’s Coming Regime Change - The New York Times 20/07/15 14:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks | Putin’s Strategy is Divide and Conquer | Russia Threatens War If Sweden Joins NATOPutin’s Strategy is Divide and Conquer by James Nadeau Monday July 20 th , 2015 at 2:18 PM U.S. National Security And Military News Review 1 Share Russia’s support for far-right parties in Europe is part of a pragmatic, long-term strategy to fragment an...
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Grayish-eyed KnightGrayish-eyed Knight "Нет на земле твоего короля..." Анна Ахматова Сероглазый король Nothing but pain, irremovable pain Just image and sorrow on memory lane Fair and calm as Karelian night Almost straight as an arrow, my grayish-eyed knight We smoked and we...
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Russian Bombers Flew Within 40 Miles of N. California CoastRussian Bombers Flew Within 40 Miles of N. California Coast by Bill Gertz Wednesday July 22 nd , 2015 at 11:55 AM Washington Free Beacon 1 Share Two Russian nuclear bombers flew within 40 miles of the California coast and one of the pilots relayed a veile...
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Israel, U.S. Vow Defense Bond Despite Iran Rift Tuesday July 21st, 2015 at 10:30 PMIsrael, U.S. Vow Defense Bond Despite Iran Rift Tuesday July 21 st , 2015 at 10:30 PM WSJ.Com: World News 1 Share U.S. and Israeli defense chiefs sought to contain a rift over the recent nuclear agreement with Iran, saying they wouldn’t let it get in the ...
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Pentagon Prepares to Send Better Radar to Ukraine Thursday July 23rd, 2015 at 9:56 PMPentagon Prepares to Send Better Radar to Ukraine Thursday July 23 rd , 2015 at 9:56 PM WSJ.Com: World News 1 Share Deliberations within the Obama administration about the radar transfer are taking place alongside rising pressure on Washington to better h...
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Another session of the political "futbol"Another session of the political "futbol"_______________________ European countries should be less beholden to military blocks and the US when considering issues concerning their own national interests, Russian President Vladimir Putin told the Swiss R...
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(UNITED NATIONS) — Russia on Wednesday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that would set up an international criminal court to prosecute those responsible for shooting down a Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine a year ago.
The foreign ministers of the Netherlands, Australia and Ukraine attended a meeting over the downing that killed all 298 people on board Flight MH17. The countries are among the five nations investigating the incident, along with Malaysia and Belgium.
Ukraine and the West suspect the plane, traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was hit by a surface-to-air missile fired by Russian soldiers or Russia-backed separatist rebels on July 17, 2014. Russia denies that, and state media have alleged the plane was shot down by a Ukrainian missile or warplane.
“Russia has callously disregarded the public outcry in the grieving nations,” U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power said, adding that the United States was among the 18 countries that lost citizens in the disaster. Three countries abstained from the vote: China, Venezuela and Angola.
Wednesday’s vote followed a last-minute effort to lobby Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has said setting up a tribunal would not make sense while the investigation continued.
The Dutch ambassador to the U.N., Karel van Oosterom, tweeted a statement saying Prime Minister Mark Rutte told Putin that “it was preferable to make a decision about the tribunal before the facts and charges have been established precisely in order to avoid politicizing the prosecution process.”
But the Kremlin quoted Putin as saying a tribunal would be “inexpedient” because Russia still has “a lot of questions” about the investigation to which it had little access.
Russia had offered its own draft that demanded justice for those responsible for the crash without calling for a tribunal. Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told the council after the vote that such a tribunal risked not being impartial and being subject to media “propaganda,” and he called past tribunals for the Rwanda genocide and the violence in the former Yugoslavia “expensive.”
The foreign ministers met Wednesday morning with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who called for justice and accountability.
A preliminary report released in the Netherlands last year said the plane had no technical problems in the seconds before it broke up in the sky after being struck by multiple objects — a conclusion that experts said likely pointed to a missile strike.
The investigation led by the Dutch Safety Board aims only to determine the crash cause, not to ascribe blame. The probe is being led by The Netherlands because 196 of the victims were Dutch.
A separate probe by the Dutch national prosecutor’s office aims to establishing who was responsible. This investigation includes authorities from Ukraine, Malaysia and other countries whose nationals were among the victims, but Russia is not a participant.
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Egypt is about to inaugurate a new Suez Canal, which is expected to double the revenues of its strategic waterway over the next decade.
It has constructed a new lane which runs alongside part of the existing canal, allowing reduced transit and waiting times for ships.
It took one year to dig the new canal, with a cost of some $8.5bn (£5.4bn).
Egyptians funded the whole project.
The BBC's Sally Nabil went to the city of Ismailiya where the canal is being tested.
Ahead of the inauguration of Egypt's new Suez Canal, Sally Nabil went to take a look at the waterway.
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At the age of five, I asked my mother this, "When the soldiers come, you'll hide me under the table won't you?"
It was the 1970s, I lived in the Soviet Union and the Cold War was still very much alive. The fear of one day being taken away by "the soldiers" of the Soviet army to defend my Russian homeland against the "rotten West," was actually more horrifying than the fear of being attacked by the "rotten West" itself. Maybe it had to do with my pacifist upbringing, but I wasn't alone with that fear. I knew no one who wanted join the army, and I knew no one who was proud of the army.
And that was despite the military cheerleading program "I Serve the Soviet Union," which ran every Sunday on Russian television and the obligatory class "Introduction to military education" at school. And the yearly school military parades. The propaganda of the 1970s couldn't create what today's propaganda has brought about: Russian society's love for the army.
Prestigious institution
According to a new poll conducted by the Russian opinion research center VZIOM, 86 percent of Russians are convinced that the army would be capable of defending the nation in the case of an emergency. Of those polled, 40 percent said they respected the army, and 59 percent were proud of it and thought that it symbolized hope. An overwhelming majority of Russians considered the army to be a prestigious institution that offers young citizens a chance for personal development.
More than likely, that 86 percent will have been very happy when President Vladimir Putin unveiledRussia's new naval doctrine during the impressive Navy Day celebration spectacle in Kaliningrad on Sunday. Russia is a peaceful nation, so the message went. Of course, it would never threaten or attack anyone.
DW correspondent Juri Rescheto
But it is always vigilant, and will show no mercy to anyone who has thoughts of attacking the largest country on earth. If that were to happen, then agile ships with precision navigation systems and lightning-fast rockets would enter into the equation. Now, in light of NATO's eastern expansion, the Mediterranean and the Arctic Ocean have become Russia's new priority zones.
So far, so good, everything seems logical enough and generally fits into the new overall military doctrine Russia presented to the world last autumn. At that time, Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov announced that by 2020, Russian forces would be receiving 11,000 new armored fighting vehicles, 30 new ships and submarines and 14,000 new military vehicles - not to mention countless numbers of new missiles. Impressive, even comparable to the pace of the military build-up that took place during the Cold War. However, there are no guarantees that it will actually happen.
Funding questions
Western sanctions and a growing Russian financial crisis may well wipe out Moscow's ambitious plans for a new military orientation by 2020. In Moscow's worst case scenario, money would disappear and important components for complicated precision weaponry stationed on agile ships pointed at the West could then no longer be purchased from that very same West. And one can certainly be skeptical as to whether "impotozameshenie," import substitutes, a currently lauded cure-all, will actually take hold and be as quick and effective for the military as they are supposed to be.
Additionally, the weapons manufacturers' rampant plundering of state coffers for when it comes to national arms deals needs to be ended once and for all. Vladimir Putin recently threatened to put this plague on par with financing terrorism and complained that the price of weapons had increased by 11 times between when the weapons systems were ordered and delivered.
Only when these problems have been solved, and Russia's new plans can be securely financed, will the proud Russian citizen be able to be truly proud of his army - and not have to worry that a missile fired from a navy ship will explode upon launch and fall into the sea just two meters (6 feet) from the deck, as was the case at celebrations this past weekend in Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula. Fortunately, the president wasn't there, he was just finishing up ceremonies in Kaliningrad. Where another missile got stuck in its launcher.
What do you think of Russia's military policy? Share your views in the comments below.
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