Malachi Smith's List: USA

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      By GERALD F. SEIB
• Russia-Georgia Conflict Offers
   Glimpse at New World Order
• August 12, 2008
• This is a week in which Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama likely are thinking more about Georgia the country than Georgia the state, and for good reason:
• The hostilities that have erupted between Georgia and Russia are telling us a lot about the world order one of them will inherit as the next president.
• Russia's decision to send its troops and bombs into Georgia is a testament, at least in part, to how much the flow of billions of dollars in oil and gas revenue is emboldening Moscow to defy the U.S. and the West in ways it either wouldn't or couldn't just a few years ago.
• But the troubling strategic reality that is emerging is bigger and starker than just that.
• The rise of energy prices also is enriching other bad actors, creating a kind of globe-girdling string of well-heeled regional antagonists the U.S. can't ignore.
• In the Middle East, Iran has assumed the role of energy-enriched regional power hostile to the U.S., with its ability to build a nuclear program and to bankroll Hamas and Hezbollah Islamist militants made all the easier by soaring oil prices.
• In Latin America, Venezuela aspires to play the role of oil-fueled, anti-American antagonist.
• Now Russia, increasingly nationalistic and expansionist, may well be emerging as a similar oil-financed regional power either indifferent or hostile to the wishes of the U.S. and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
• "What we're basically seeing," says Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, "is a redistribution of power."

  • Out of the mouth of one of the devils...Haas of the CFR
• It's a troubling picture that has one additional, important strategic implication. The emerging new global equation makes fostering good relations with China even more important to the U.S. in the global balance of power.

  • Idiotic idea from the same pack of idiots...but diabolical idiots..
• Indeed, it was appropriate, perhaps even prophetic, that President George W. Bush was in Beijing for the Olympics, smiling and saying nice things about "respect" for China's people, even as Russia was bulldozing into Georgia.
• In Georgia, certainly, energy is an important factor, and not just because Georgia is strategically important as a conduit for oil and gas supplies from the Caspian Sea region to the West.
• Energy has a lot to do with creating this overall picture, of course.
• In the 1990s, Russia was flat on its back financially, broke at home and indebted to the West, and not in much of a position to defy the West by challenging Georgia's transition from former Soviet republic to pro-Western democracy on its southern border.
• Today, thanks to soaring oil and gas prices, Russia is an emerging financial power.
• A recent report by the McKinsey Global Institute estimated that Russia had $811 billion in foreign-investment assets at the end of 2007, second largest among oil exporters after the United Arab Emirates.
• Just as Russia's financial clout has increased, so has Western Europe's reliance on its energy resources.
• Europe depends on Russia for a quarter of its gas supplies, which is a large reason America's European allies have heeded the protests of Russia and resisted efforts by the Bush administration to allow Georgia to join NATO.
• Had Georgia been allowed into NATO, it would be under the Western alliance's defense umbrella today, which would either have prevented Russia from launching its offensive this week or have drawn the West directly into the fight.
• The obvious long-term answer is to lead the West into a new energy structure in which the U.S. and its allies aren't so dependent on oil and gas from bad actors around the globe, and aren't busy enriching those same bad actors.
• The question for either Sen. McCain or Sen. Obama is what to do about this equation.
• In the short run, the answers aren't so easy.
• The U.S. has a powerful incentive to build stronger ties to Mexico, Chile and Brazil to offset Venezuela's influence in the Western Hemisphere.
• At the same time, the new president will have to be prepared for more tensions with Russia.
• There is a real possibility that the next international crisis may spring not from Iraq, or Iran, or Afghanistan, but from Russia.
• The nightmare scenario is that Russia's leaders, emboldened by their move against Georgia, try to follow up by seeking to rein in the bigger and much more important fellow former Soviet republic of Ukraine.
• Yet simply antagonizing Russia isn't feasible as a long-term American policy. "You still need Russia to deal with Iran," says Mr. Haass.
• "You want to integrate, as much as you can, Russia into the international order."
• The problem is that Russia is fueled not just by oil riches, but also by more than a decade's worth of built-up resentment at the diminished role Moscow has played on the world stage since the fall of the Soviet Union.
• All of this makes the U.S. relationship with China more interesting and important.
• It probably isn't feasible to try to play China and Russia directly off against each other, as was sometimes possible when they were the two Communist behemoths during the Cold War. The two countries now are on quite different paths, with China developing an economy that requires much more integration into the global order to succeed.
• Yet that also represents an opening for the U.S., and at a good time to seize it.
• There may not be a direct trade-off between relations with Moscow and Beijing. But at a time of rising tensions with Moscow, the next president isn't likely to want the same problems with Beijing.

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• In God We Trust? Maybe Not
• Aug 17th, 2008 6:38 AM
  
   Travis Verge
   
   August, 2008
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• Another earthquake rocked the Los Angeles, California area! Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans as well as the surrounding areas, and we are still rebuilding. Wild fires have been spreading rapidly and dangerous through many of our states in the past five to ten years.
• Are we experiencing God’s Punishment in our nation? Is God trying to get our attention, or do these things just happen by coincidence?
• I do not believe anything happens by coincidence.
• I believe America is witnessing discipline from God because of their disobedience and rebellion.
• When you take God out of schools, when you try to take God out of the pledge of allegiance, permit gay marriages, and allow people to swear into government by placing their hand on the Koran, you ask for God’s discipline.
• If you take God out of our country, He will not leave quietly. God loves this nation too much to walk away silently just because many want Him to.
• There was an uproar recently because a judge in America ordered a group to pray in the courtroom. Now, they are banning prayer in the courtroom.
• These things are happening all over the place, and why are we surprised when are nation is not protected like it once was.
• If America continues making these decisions to penalize people because they are practicing the very term on our money (In God we Trust), than we cannot expect God’s protection and favor.
• My new book entitled Walking in Shadows (Highway Publishing, 2008) is a nonfiction book to bring the darkness into the light. The evil in this world, led by Satan and his evil spirits, is out to destroy the good led by Jesus Christ.
• As a man of God, I will not be deceived to follow Satan’s lies to think that God is unbothered by all this. I personally will commit to bring God’s truth to the light, calling this nation to repentance.
• In
   
   2 Chronicles 7:14 it says, “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”
• America needs to wake up to the fact that if we try to take God out of our country, America WILL SUFFER!

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• Monday, August 18, 2008
• Rice warns Moscow about its bomber runs off Alaska
• By Jonathan S. Landay | McClatchy Newspapers
• BRUSSELS, Belgium — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Monday ruled out accelerating Georgia's admission to NATO in response to the Russian invasion.
• But she warned Moscow that it is playing "a very dangerous game" by resuming Cold War-era strategic bomber patrols close to the Alaskan coast.
• "Russia is a state that is unfortunately using the one tool that it has always used whenever it wishes to deliver a message and that's its military power," Rice told reporters
• en route to an emergency meeting of NATO foreign ministers set for Tuesday. "That's not the way to deal in the 21st century."
• With Europe divided between former Soviet bloc nations, which seek tough measures, and major powers such as Germany, which is hesitant to jeopardize significant business and energy ties with Russia, it was unclear whether NATO would produce a robust response to Russia's invasion of Georgia.
• Russian forces Monday continued to move around Georgia with impunity, and senior U.S. defense officials said they were troubled by intelligence showing the Russians had deployed SS-21 ballistic missiles into South Ossetia with a range to strike Tbilisi, the Georgian capital.
• Rice said Russia has raised questions about its place in the international community through the invasion and other actions, including the resumption last year for the first time since the 1991 collapse of the former Soviet Union of air patrols near the Alaskan coast by Tu-95 strategic bombers, code-named Bears by NATO.
• "We've had Russian strategic aviation challenging in ways they haven't, even along our borders with the United States, which I might note is a very dangerous game and perhaps one that I suggest the Russians want to reconsider. This is not one that is cost-free," Rice said.
• She did not elaborate on a U.S. reaction to the flights, which have been widely seen as an attempt by Russia, flush with windfall oil profits, to reassert itself as a global power despite serious problems with its military.
• Since the flights resumed in August 2007, U.S. and Canadian fighters have intercepted the Russian bombers and escorted them away from the U.S. coast.
• U.S. officials have previously attached little real significance to the flights by the turboprop-powered Cold War relics, and defense officials said Monday recent flights did not provoke concerns within the Pentagon.
• Russian bombers also have made forays into neutral airspace near Norway and over U.S. aircraft carriers in the Pacific.
• Rice said, however, that the Alaska patrols and the invasion of Georgia contradicted Russia's stated desire for political and economic integration into the international community.
• She charged that Russia's offensive deep into Georgia was aimed at "undermining" the pro-U.S. government of President Mikhail Saakashvili and crippling the impoverished nation by damaging and destroying vital economic infrastructure.
• "That is an objective that will be denied because Georgian democracy stands and it will stand with the help of its allies around the world," Rice said. "Georgian infrastructure will be rebuilt. Georgia's economy will be reinforced."
• Rice said that NATO foreign ministers would consider measures to reinforce U.S. and European support for Georgia's territorial integrity.
• For its part, the United States is also sending teams to assess the re-equipping of Georgia's U.S.-trained military, which was battered by superior Russian forces, and to evaluate reconstruction needs, she said.
• But she said the United States would not push to accelerate approval by the 26 foreign ministers of plans for the admission to NATO of Georgia and the former Soviet republic of Ukraine.
• Instead, the ministers were expected to reaffirm that the plans will be considered as scheduled at a regular foreign ministers meeting in December.
• "We are . . . going to send a message that we are not going to allow Russia to draw a new line at those states that are not yet integrated into the trans-Atlantic structures like Georgia and Ukraine," said Rice.
• France and Germany blocked approval in April of the criteria they must meet to qualify for membership, citing Georgia's unresolved territorial disputes and vehement Russian opposition.

  • This is why prophecy reveals the world will stand by as Gog-Magog (Russia and her allies) invade Israel...and do nothing.
• Rice said the ministers also would reaffirm NATO's support for former Soviet bloc nations like Poland and the Baltic states.
• Though now alliance members, those nations have been deeply unsettled by what they saw as a tepid Western response to a major step by Moscow to reassert its influence over its former empire.
• Rice is to visit Warsaw on Wednesday to formally sign an agreement that will allow the United States to locate anti-missile interceptors in Poland in exchange for bolstering the country's air defenses, a move that has enraged Russia.
• Finally, she said, the foreign ministers will reassess overall relations with Russia, which has been seeking membership in international financial institutions and closer ties with the European Union.
• "Frankly, Russia can't have it both ways. It can't act in a way that it did in the Cold War when it was the Soviet Union and expect to be treated as a responsible partner," Rice said.
• Nancy A. Youssef in Washington contributed.

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• Posted on Friday, September 5, 2008
• Kremlin-watchers warn of direct U.S.-Russia clash
• By Tom Lasseter | McClatchy Newspapers
• MOSCOW_ In the aftermath of last month's war between Russia and U.S.-backed Georgia, Kremlin-watchers in Moscow are worried that Russia and America are closer to direct confrontation than at any point since the end of the Cold War.
• The rhetoric coming from the Bush administration — and presidential hopeful John McCain — suggests that tensions are still on the rise.
• During the Cold War, "the sides were very careful of each other. They were careful not to come too close," said Alexander Pikayev, a prominent military analyst in Moscow who works for a government-funded research center.
• "The risk of direct military clashes is (now) much higher. . . . This situation is much riskier than the Cold War."
• Both sympathizers and critics of Kremlin policy shared the assessment of a significantly heightened chance of conflict. They expressed hopes that cooler heads will prevail.
• Vice President Dick Cheney put a spotlight on the standoff during visits to Georgia and Ukraine this week, the countries at the core of the row between Washington and Moscow.
• He told Georgians on Thursday that the United States will continue to back the country's NATO application — which the Kremlin vehemently opposes — and said that Moscow's intervention "cast grave doubt on Russia's intentions and on its reliability as an international partner."
• Cheney traveled on Friday to Ukraine, which also is applying to NATO with strong U.S. support. There, he spoke of the "threat of tyranny, economic blackmail and military invasion or intimidation" from Russia.
• Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the same day that it was up to America to decide whether disagreements would get worse.
• "We are not interested in bad relations with the United States," Lavrov told CNN. "It wouldn't be our choice, but if the United States does not want to cooperate with us on one or another issue, we cannot impose."
• At the Republican convention Thursday, McCain mentioned Russia just after al Qaida and Iran.
• "Russia's leaders, rich with oil wealth and corrupt with power, have rejected democratic ideals and the obligations of a responsible power," McCain said in his nomination-acceptance speech.
• "As president, I will work to establish good relations with Russia so we need not fear a return of the Cold War," he said. "But we can't turn a blind eye to aggression and international lawlessness that threatens the peace and stability of the world and the security of the American people."
• Democratic contender Barack Obama promised to "renew the tough, direct diplomacy that can curb Russian aggression."
• Andrei Klimov, a Russian parliament member with the pro-Kremlin United Russia party, said he didn't think there would be fighting between the United States and Russia, but acknowledged that he's taken aback by how much more possible it seems now.
• "If you have a lot of people on the streets with pistols, it is very dangerous," said Klimov, the deputy of the foreign affairs committee in the Duma, the lower house of parliament.
• Russian analysts say there are three possible flash points, all centered on or around the Black Sea, once almost lakefront property for the Soviet empire.
• The sea borders three NATO members — Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania — and two applicants, Georgia and Ukraine. If the two applicants join the alliance, Russia's Black Sea coastline would be surrounded by NATO.
• "Now it looks like there is a certain red line that exists in the heads of Russian leadership and they are willing to do anything to stop it from being crossed,"
• said Nikolai Petrov, a Moscow scholar in residence with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "And this red line is Ukraine and Georgia joining NATO."
• It's a crucial area for any attempts by Russia to reassert its power in former Soviet territory:
• In Ukraine, the government of U.S.-backed President Viktor Yushchenko is splintering in a power struggle.
• If Yushchenko or his opponents use force, the country could split between pro-Western and pro-Russian factions, creating pressure for Washington and Moscow to take sides, if not become directly involved.
• American warships are deploying in and near Georgian ports, carrying humanitarian aid. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has suggested that they're also bringing military aid to the defeated Georgian army.
• On Friday, the USS Mount Whitney, the command ship for the U.S. Navy's 6th Fleet, docked in Poti, Georgia, not far from Russian outposts on shore.
• Russian warships have been sent to the coast of nearby Abkhazia, a breakaway province of Georgia now occupied by Russian troops and recognized as an independent state by Moscow.
• In the relatively close proximity in which the Russian and American ships operate there and elsewhere in the Black Sea, one misunderstanding could create an international incident.
• "We remember very well the Tonkin Gulf incident" in which untrue reports of North Vietnamese ships firing on U.S. ships started the Vietnam War, said Sergei Markov, a Duma member who's also with United Russia.
• Markov, who's close to the Kremlin, accused the Bush administration of playing "a very dirty and bloody game" in which it was intentionally provoking Russia to create the appearance of a new cold war to help McCain's hawkish presidential campaign and further U.S. attempts to hem in Russian power.
• Pavel Felgenhauer, a military analyst in Moscow who works with the U.S.-based Jamestown Foundation, agreed that relations between the countries were dangerously tense, but blamed the Kremlin.
• "Russia is probing the West, as it often did during the Cold War, (to see) how far is the West willing to go: What will happen if Russia continues to push?"
• Felgenhauer said. "There is a party of war within the ruling party. . . . It seems that for now the hard-liners are winning."
• Aleksandr Dugin, a hard-line Russian theorist whose ideas about weakening American geopolitical standing are popular with many Kremlin leaders, said Russia was challenging U.S. domination and that confrontation may be unavoidable.
• Russia's move into Georgia was "an "irreversible decision that will mean in the future a serious, profound, irreversible confrontation with the United States. . .
• . The stakes are so high that Moscow has placed all its (chips) on the table," he said.
• Dugin said he thought the strategy was a good one.

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• Russia  Ready to Vaporize the Jewish State
• And then kick  America out of the Eastern Hemisphere’s oilfields
• Joe Vialls, 28 October 2003
•                                         Israeli  Dolphin Class attack submarines, unwittingly provided free-of-charge by  German taxpayers
• “When  the end finally comes for Israel, it will all be over in microseconds.  Flying faster than rifle bullets,
    the Sunburns will approach Tel Aviv and Haifa at twice the speed of  sound, detonating in blinding white
    200 Kiloton flashes designed to instantly transform animal vegetable and  mineral into heat and light.”
• During the Cold War of the sixties, the only thing stopping American or  Russian psychopaths from taking over the entire world was the doctrine  of Mutually Assured Destruction [MAD], where a multiple ICBM launch by  America on Russia or vice versa, would automatically lead to a  “doomsday” response by the nation under attack.
• Mutual destruction  of both America and Russia was thereby guaranteed, resulting in nearly  thirty years of unprecedented peace and quiet, caused solely by mutual  nuclear fear.
• About  one month ago, Russia discreetly invoked MAD again, but this time in the  Middle East in direct response to hysterical Israeli threats to nuke  Iran with submarine-launched American Harpoon missiles.
• Quietly and with  the minimum of fuss, Russia deployed its most advanced tactical nuclear  missiles and crews to both Syria and Iran, thereby sending an  unmistakable diplomatic signal that if Israel attacked Tehran or  Damascus with nuclear weapons, Russia would in return instantly and  anonymously vaporize the Jewish State.
• The Russian missile type deployed  in Syria and Iran is the P270 Moskit [Mosquito], known in NATO circles  as the SS-N-22 "Sunburn", once described by Rep. Dana  Rohrabacher as "the most dangerous anti-ship missile in the  Russian, and now the Chinese, fleet.”
• This  is not an idle or exaggerated threat.
• The ship borne version of this  missile is launched from deck mounted quad tubes, but since Rohrabacher  made his comments, Russia has adapted the Sunburn for submerged launch  from submarines, air launch from Sukhoi 27s, and single surface launch  from modified 40’ flatbed trucks. 
• Nowadays, western defense  experts unambiguously view all versions of Sunburn as the “most  dangerous missiles in the world”.                                              Mach  2.2 Moskit [SS-N-22 Sunburn] Missile
• To see exactly how the Zionists drove us to this nuclear flash point, it  is necessary to go back a few years to discover how the Jewish State  managed to acquire sophisticated German submarine launch platforms, and  American nuclear-tipped Harpoon missiles,
• thereby allowing a bunch of  psychotic religious crazies in Tel Aviv to bring the Middle East, and  perhaps the entire world, to the very brink of thermonuclear war.
• Around 1989 Israel was trying to replace its obsolescent Gal-class  submarine fleet, while simultaneously whining that it didn’t have the  funds to do so. Predictably perhaps, the Jewish State was looking for a  free hand out.
• Having failed to extract these big-ticket items as gifts  from America, in 1991 Israel turned its sights on Germany, perpetually  in moral debt to the Zionists because of the brilliantly managed and  highly successful holocaust industry.
• After  a pathetically short period of Zionist arm wrestling in Berlin, Germany  caved-in and agreed to build and provide the first two Dolphin class  submarines free of charge, and extend a loan to Israel for the third.
• Naturally this loan was never repaid, meaning that German taxpayers had  unwittingly funded Israel’s entire submarine fleet, custom-designed to  launch nuclear-tipped missiles from specially designed torpedo tubes.
• Obtaining the deadly American Harpoon missiles was relatively easy.
• For  decades American taxpayers have unwittingly provided the Jewish State  with enough free “expendable” munitions to crush the Palestinian  people in their own country, and the Harpoon missile is classed as an  expendable munition. What this means is that Harpoon falls into the same  generic category as rifle bullets and hand grenades, so Washington went  ahead and gifted the Jewish State with more than fifty nuclear-capable  Harpoons.
• The  nuclear warheads for these missiles can be either American or homegrown  Dimona products, but no matter which, Israel had to make it known that  the nuclear capability was real, for there is no point making a nuclear  threat if you cannot back it up with real nuclear muscle.
• This was  achieved by leaking the information through high profile Israeli media  assets, who initially plastered the information all over the Internet.  This completed stage one of the exercise, which then had to be swiftly  followed by a quasi-official statement of absolute deniability.
• Think  about this one carefully people, think about it very carefully.
• If  Damascus or Tehran should suddenly turn into heat and light any time  soon, the Israelis will instantly get the blame, in the first place  because of their leaked high-profile threats, and secondly because of  their known hatred of anything even remotely related to Islam or Arabs.
• We did not have very long to wait for this “on the record”  deniability statement, which was issued less than 24-hours after the  initial threats.
• Former Israeli deputy defence minister Efraim Sneh claimed on Army Radio  that, “Anyone with even the slightest understanding of missiles knows  that the Harpoon can never be used to carry nuclear warheads”.
• This  was swiftly reinforced by Ted Hooton, editor of Jane's  Naval Weapon Systems in London,  who agreed with Sneh’s assessment, saying problems with payload weight  would put the Harpoon out of balance, limiting its range and accuracy,  "It seems to me that a nuclear weapon, which is extremely dense,  would make the Harpoon nose heavy and significantly reduce its range —  in any event well below the (150 kilometers) it is designed for,"  he said.
• While  many might doubt the authenticity of Sneh’s claim, who would dare  question the measured opinion of Jane’s,  widely touted as the most authoritative military publication on earth?
• Unfortunately Jane’s  appears to have made a terrible error, because Hooton’s claim is the  exact opposite of reality.
• Harpoon normally carries a 215-pound  conventional explosive charge in its warhead, which can easily be  replaced by a 99.2-pound nuclear device, which then needs additional  ballast to balance the missile in flight!           
• Rest assured that the American-Israeli Harpoons are nuclear, and the  Zionists have every intention of using them on Tehran and Damascus if  they think they can get away with it.
• Dangerous people do dangerous  things in dangerous times, and there is nothing more dangerous that a  pack of religious fanatics with their backs to the Mediterranean, facing  the imminent destruction of Zion.

  • Truth is however; as regards the statement "religious fanatics", the Jewish State by and large is secular and agnostic. The element of Orthodox or religious Jews is present but small compared to the majority. What should be of greatest concern to people of goodwill the world over, is the Israeli heirarchy's ties to the NWO crowd; the international banksters and the collective of Western corporatists and their hired political class.
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• The Israeli economy is in tatters,  Jewish migrants are fleeing Israel in droves, and the Zionist host  [America] is fast running out of spare cash and free weapons.
• Russia has known all about Israel’s nuclear forward planning for many  months, and the only question the Kremlin faced was which deterrent to  pull out of its vast nuclear arsenal and deploy in the Middle East.

  • SEE: Ezekiel 38 & 39; "Gog and Magog"
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• At the same time, Russia was equally determined to send very strong  signals to America:  signals also designed to make the Zionist crusaders think long and hard  before they took any more aggressive action against the former Soviet  republics and North Korea.
• Deterrent choice for the Middle East was easy, because the Russians  already knew the Americans were frightened of the SS-N-22, which the  U.S. Navy actually tried to purchase from the Russian Navy in September  1995.
• In a letter reproduced at the bottom of this page, Vice Admiral  Bowes wrote to Russian Commander in Chief Admiral Gromov, “I  appreciate the opportunity to convey to you the United States Navy’s  interest in acquiring all variants of the SS-N-22 ‘Sunburn’  Anti-Ship Supersonic Ship-to-Ship missile for test and evaluation”.  America’s naked fear of this unstoppable weapon was thus laid bare,  but Russia predictably refused to sell
• If  the Israelis decide to nuke Tehran or Damascus there is little doubt  that some of their Harpoon missiles will get through, though probably  only because of the element of surprise.
• The American-Israeli Harpoon is  still vulnerable to defensive systems because it is a relatively old  subsonic missile, powered by a small Teledyne  turbofan engine.
• Detectable by radar, cruising relatively high at around 300 feet  altitude, and with a range of only 65 miles, the Harpoon can be  terminated by one of many different point defense systems. But  regardless of these notable shortcomings, and as previously stated, some  will reach their targets in Damascus or Tehran.
• And  that, ladies and gentlemen, is when the real fireworks will start.
• Within seconds the tarpaulins will be thrown back on a number of 40’  flatbed trucks currently dispersed in classified locations,   revealing the dull metal of the 37’ Sunburn launch tubes within.
• While  the hydraulic stabilizer jacks slam into the ground and the launch tubes  elevate to the firing position, Russian artillery specialists will  confirm the pre-programmed target coordinates, then defer to central  command fire control, at the same time retaining unit “dead man”  authority to fire on bypass if absolutely necessary.
• Each  Sunburn will hurtle out of its launcher riding on the white-hot tail of  a booster rocket, while its special ramjet lights and cycles up to full  thrust.
• Then rapidly sinking back to an undetectable cruising altitude  of approximately 60 feet, each missile will accelerate to Mach 2.2  [1,520 mph] in less than 30 seconds, with a total flight time from  Damascus to Tel Aviv of around three minutes.
• When the end finally comes  for Israel, it will all be over in microseconds.             
•    Flying faster than rifle bullets, the Sunburns will approach Tel Aviv  and Haifa at twice the speed of sound, detonating in blinding white 200  Kiloton flashes designed to instantly transform animal vegetable and  mineral into heat and light.
• If I was an Israeli general facing this  doomsday response on my wife, my family and my synagogue, I would not  launch any Harpoons at all, but then I am not a religious fanatic  obsessed with killing Muslims and stealing their land. Unfortunately,  reading the minds of certifiable lunatics is all but impossible, so the  best I can suggest is that perhaps the Israelis will launch, and perhaps  they will not.
• Worst  of all for the Zionists left alive in Washington and New York, is that  if the Russians are obliged to launch their counter-strike against  Israel, it will be one-hundred-percent deniable.
• Unlike Israel and its  public threats to nuke Iran, Russia has not threatened anyone at all.

  • Perhaps not in 2003 (date of this article) Today (2008) things are quite different.
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• Because Sunburn flies below the horizon it cannot be detected or logged  by radar, and a 200-kiloton hole in the middle of Tel Aviv will yield no  clues. Very likely the Russians will copy the Americans, and blame a  fictional  “rogue state” like Iran, Pakistan or North Korea.
• The  Sunburns deployed in Syria and Iran are not the only ones currently  giving the Zionists recurring nightmares. Although the Russians refused  to sell any SS-N-22s to Vice Admiral Bowes in 1995, they later made a  very public sale of more than 100 Sunburns to the Chinese, who mounted  them on frigates and corvettes, which they stationed near Taiwan.
• Thus  by 2001, both the Russian and Chinese Pacific Fleets were fully equipped  with 200+ Sunburns, each and every one of them easily capable of sinking  an American aircraft carrier.
• Ever  since the illegal invasion of Iraq by America earlier this year , Russia  has deliberately sent a number of unmistakably harsh diplomatic signals  that the days of the Zionist crusaders are numbered, especially in the  mid and far east,
• but predictably all of these signals have been  deliberately suppressed by the western media.
• Russia’s bottom line is  completely neutralizing America and Israeli in the Eastern Hemisphere,  thereby preventing the U.S. from stealing Eurasia’s strategic oil  reserves.

  • How close are we now in 2008?
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• In  late May while the illegal invasion of Iraq was in full swing, a small  Russian fleet deployed to the Indian Ocean, uncomfortably close to  American carrier battle groups transiting in an out of the Persian Gulf.  This exercise, the first held by Russia in the Indian Ocean for more  than ten years, was extremely uncomfortable for the American commanders,  who knew that five of the Russian vessels, including three submarines,  were fully equipped with nuclear-capable Sunburn missiles.
• The  diplomatic signal in the Indian Ocean was blatantly obvious.
• Though  numerically inferior to the American fleet, the Russians had more than  enough unstoppable firepower to win any sea battle outright.  Billion-dollar American aircraft carriers became obsolete monoliths that  day, as did America’s arrogant ability to roam the oceans of the world  attacking smaller sovereign nations on Zionist orders.
• If America pushed  too hard in Russian or Chinese spheres of influence, a 93,000-ton  American aircraft carrier might “spontaneously” fireball in  mid-ocean; in reality removed from the face of the earth by an unheard  and unseen Sunburn missile, launched by a submerged Russian submarine  more than fifty miles away.
• In  August and September 2003, the Russian and Chinese navies held large  independent exercises in the Pacific, both coincidentally designed to,  “Simulate sinking aggressive American carrier battle groups”.   No prizes for guessing the name of the principal weapon system selected  for this challenging task.
• During September, the Chinese missile  destroyer “Fuzhou” fired a Sunburn with a practice warhead, which  high-speed cameras then recorded striking the center of the white cross  on the hull of the target vessel, located more than 60 nautical miles  away from the firing point.
• Terminal attack profile was Mach 2.05 at an  altitude of 22 feet.             
• These exercises took place while the Zionist media was hyping up public  opinion against that nasty “Rogue State” North Korea, allegedly  brimming with fictional “Weapons of Mass Destruction” being  manufactured specifically for sale to Iran, or so you were led to  believe by CNN, NBC, Fox News and many others.
• In turn, Iran was  allegedly itching to mount the fictional weapons on multiple launchers,  then  fire the lot at poor little Israel, all alone and unarmed at  the eastern end of the Mediterranean.
• Plans were made to intercept  Korean ships on the high seas for inspection, and Australia obsequiously  offered to send a gunboat. But then Australia always offers to send a  gunboat when a lowly clerk in the White House snaps his or her fingers.
• Those  readers with long memories will recall that the Korean War of the  fifties was all about spheres of influence. In other words the Korean  War was a surrogate war, with America and Britain backing the south  while Russia and China backed the north.
• Though sixty years have passed  since the end of the Korean War, this proxy position has not changed,  and North Korea is still viewed by Russia and China as firmly within  their spheres of influence. Thus the diplomatic signal generated by the  large Russian and Chinese naval exercises was clear and unambiguous:  “Hands off North Korea, or else!”
• Within days of the Chinese Sunburn  launch, which was observed and logged by two American spy planes,  Washington went uncharacteristically quiet about the Korean peninsula,  and remains so today.
• Perhaps for the first time in contemporary American history, Washington  was being forced to come to grips with a new and very harsh reality.
• Though the United States was allowed [in fact discreetly encouraged] to  become horribly bogged down in Afghanistan and Iraq, it was no longer  allowed to interfere anywhere else in the world.

  • This has long been my take on the situation in both Iraq and Afghanistan; to the point that one wonders who Bush, Cheney and Cabal are actually working for?
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• Massive American  aircraft carriers were no longer free to roam around looking for  helpless prey, and Russia or China, sometimes both in tandem, started  riding shotgun on all American adventures in the Eastern Hemisphere.
• Effectively denied sea [and most land] access to the Eastern Hemisphere,  it was not long before the Zionists decided to play what they thought  was their trump card, declaring that their absolute right of self-defence  allowed them to launch Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles [ICBMs] of  sixties vintage, against “terrorist targets” on the other side of  the world.
• Though such weapons might appear to have the advantage of not  needing direct sea or land access in the Eastern Hemisphere, this  twisted Zionist thinking was quickly proved to be panicky and entirely  delusional.
• On 17  October 2003, Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to this crude  threat, pointing out that although Russia had scrapped hundreds of its  ICBMs under various disarmament treaties, it still has a  "significant amount" of SS-19 intercontinental ballistic  missiles that had never been previously deployed, and thus were not part  of disarmament negotiations, which remain mothballed for emergency use.
• “These are the most powerful rockets in the world”, Putin said,  adding they would be the perfect weapons for breaking through any  potential American missile defense shield.  Unconfirmed rumor  suggests that Russia has a minimum of two hundred unused SS-19s in  storage.
• Within 48-hours of this stern Russian warning, frantic Zionist  talk of firing ICBMs at “terrorist targets” in the Eastern  Hemisphere became muted, then stopped completely.
• Just  one week later on 24 October, President Putin redefined the limits of  American access in the Eastern Hemisphere when he opened a new Russian  air base at Kant in Kyrgyzstan, just twenty miles to the east of a  rented American base at Manas, used for supporting “counter  terrorist” operations in Afghanistan.
• And while a squadron of  cutting-edge Russian Sukhoi 27 multi-role aircraft screamed overhead  performing complex aerobatics at the opening ceremony, the Chinese  quietly moved a squadron of  their own Sukhoi 27s up to Kashi air  base, which is the closest airfield to their own border with Kyrgyzstan.
• Completely coincidental timing of course, and anyone who suggests  otherwise will be labeled a “conspiracy theorist” by CNN, NBC, Fox  News and many others.             
• Appreciating that his opposite number in America is intellectually  challenged, Vladimir Putin said a few words at the opening ceremony  designed to be catchy enough to reach the frontal lobes of President  Bush’s brain:  "By building up an aviation shield in  Kyrgyzstan”, he said,  “we aim to strengthen the security of  this region, whose stability is an increasingly significant  factor."
• Vladimir Putin went on to  emphasize that Kant air  base was now, "a deterrent for terrorists and extremists of ALL  kinds".
• A master of understatement, Putin failed to mention that  the Sukhoi 27s assigned to Kant, and landing on the runway in front of  him as he spoke, were all equipped with distinctive Sunburn centerline  mounts. Presumably the Chinese jets at Kashi are similarly equipped.
• The  gloves were off, and with American and Israel still unable to steal any  oil from Iraq because someone keeps blowing the pipelines, this Russian  and Chinese firepower buildup suddenly slammed the door firmly shut on  Caspian oil reserves in the old Soviet republics.
• For more than a decade  American oil multinationals have been conducting “joint ventures” in  the former Soviet republics bordering the Caspian Sea, with the stated  intent of pumping this stolen crude oil out through Turkey, then on to  western markets.
• Now this route has been blocked permanently, and  America is in no position to do anything about it, because a large part  of the U.S. conventional army is currently bogged down in Iraq, being  shot at and killed on a daily basis.             
• In terms of protecting Eastern Hemisphere oil reserves from the Zionist  crusaders, Russia still had one more hurdle to clear, in the form of  Moscow-based Zionist Jew Mikhail Khodorkovsky. When the Soviet Union  collapsed in 1991, Khodorkovsky acted as the principal Zionist front  man, grabbing cheap oil assets in rigged auctions.
• In 1995 he pulled the  same trick again, rigging an auction at which he paid a mere $200  million for Yukos, a  Russian oil major worth at least $14 billon.
• Control of Yukos made Khodorkovsky very dangerous to Russian national  security, because the company controls nearly two thirds of Russia’s  strategic oil pipelines, including most of those feeding Eastern Europe.
• Russia is now the second-largest oil producer in the world, and  Khodorkovsky’s actions prove he intended to exploit this, by selling  51% of Yukos to  ExxonMobil, America’s largest oil multinational.  In turn, this would have placed Russian crude oil reserves under direct  Zionist control, a situation the Kremlin was not prepared to tolerate.
• Mikhail Khodorkovsky was arrested while en-route to the Russian Far  East, though rumor suggests he knew about the plan to arrest him, and  actually intended to flee the country via Vladivostok.
• A spokesman for  Yukos said that government security agents rushed Khodorkovsky's private  jet at 5am on Saturday during a refuelling stop in Siberia, shouting,  "Weapons on the floor or we'll shoot."
• Khodorkovsky  initially faces seven charges including fraud and tax evasion, with  possible [consecutive] jail sentences of up to forty years. It could get  far worse if prosecutors add the charge of treason, for undermining  Russian national security.
• Within hours of Khodorkovsky’s arrest, the Zionist media went berserk,  stating that the arrest would “damage investor confidence” in  Russia, and further claiming that, “without new investors, Russia will  be in big economic trouble”. This is garbage, because Russia is now  the second largest producer of oil in the world, and has eager buyers  for all of its oil products. About the last thing Russia needs or wants  today,  is a pack of Zionist “investors” trying to skim their  traditional 10% off Russia’s oil profits.
•   In  slightly more than a single decade, Russia ’s fortunes have come full  circle.
• Back in 1989, General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev sold Russia  and its peoples to the Zionists in return for two gold American Express  cards and unlimited free shopping for his wife on Fifth Avenue. During  the years that followed, Russians underwent almost unbelievable  hardships, with old age pensions vanishing into thin air [or into a New  York Zionist bank], and starvation became quite common in the provinces.
• Russians fared no better under “democratic” Boris Yeltsin, but  Vladimir Putin is an entirely different matter.
• In just a few short  years as President of Russia, Putin has turned everything upside down,  and probably set in train the final destruction of Zionist influence  worldwide.

  • SEE: Ezekiel 38 & 39
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• Put simply, America is now completely broke. The U.S. dollar is falling  like a stone and  unemployment is climbing through the roof. Most  of America’s manufacturing capacity was shifted years ago to “cheap  labor” countries overseas, and there is no practical way of getting it  back.
• For nearly twelve months the Dow Jones Index has been rigged by  computers, desperately trying to create an illusion of  relative  wealth.
• At the beginning of this year the only chance America and Israel  had of staying afloat, was to steal and sell oil from the Caspian, Iraq  and Russia, but this entire strategy has now either collapsed or been  blocked by Russia and China.
• Where  America and Americans go after this is a very good question, but, as you  might expect, the Zionists have a fall back plan, at least for them.   When things eventually get completely untenable, the Zionists will fall  back on “Fortress Americas”, a top-secret initiative designed to  change the face of the earth as we now know it.
• So sensitive is this  information, that when a small group of British Marconi defence  scientists stumbled on some of the data during the eighties, they very  swiftly died in murders dressed up as suicides.

  • The rash of "suicided" scientists
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• Hopefully I will be writing a detailed report about “Fortress  Americas” sometime during the next month, though this particular  report may have to be restricted to a prepaid “snail mail” edition,  in an attempt to raise limited funds for my work.

  • Why, of course....
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• Currently, research  costs are exceeding my disposable income, derived almost entirely from a  very small disability pension, which steadily decreases in buying power  as each week goes by. If my financial affairs should  inexplicably  improve during the next few weeks, rest assured that I will post the  “Fortress Americas” report openly on this site for free access.

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• A TX Reader Explains The "Southern Dimension" Of The "Patriotic Immigration Reform" Movement
• From:       Don Reynolds (email   him)
• Re:      "A   Pennsylvania Reader Says Immigration Reform Patriots   Have Better Things To Do Than Argue About The Civil War;   etc."
• I have read and re-read this note several times and it   is priceless.
• I must   thank the writer for reminding me,   and many other Southerners, of the fact that our Yankee   cousins strongly disapprove of many things that we   think, do, and believe.
• I cannot estimate the magnitude   of misinformation that packed into this short note, but   I am convinced that the writer actually believes every   word.
• I certainly hope he will continue with his   South-bashing, notably his disrespectful remarks about    Robert E. Lee and other    Confederate leaders. He’s the perfect example of why   this Union of States cannot continue indefinitely.
• We   are different people and our societies are incompatible.
• Is there a Southern dimension to the  "Patriotic   Immigration Reform" movement in this country?   Undoubtedly the South is the most consistent and steady   part of that movement.
• If you map the    Senate votes in favor of amnesty for illegal aliens,,   you will find that very few of those votes were from the   eleven states of the former Confederacy.
• It is Yankee   senators to see who is trying to force amnesty on this   nation.
• Mr.   Cleburne did not write his article to annoy   anyone...nor should his article about the Civil War. He   was rightly responding to the silly comparisons of    Obama to Lincoln lately, which are at least   premature and probably deliberately misleading.
• Let me be the first of what will likely be many   Southerners who will encourage this writer to disrespect   the South. It makes our job much, much easier.
• Reynolds is a city planner and economist. His previous   letters about bias in journalism, the   U.S.  enemy identification problems, the folly of a third   party and Ron Paul are    here,    here,    here and    here.
• Patrick Cleburne comments:   Before his death, the South was well defended on    VDARE.COM by  Sam   Francis. Subsequently, the task is often handled by  Mike   Scruggs (see    here). This    letter by Scruggs is also of interest.

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• May 17, 2009
• Land For Peace, American Style
• " Never ask a friend to buy a horse you wouldn't buy yourself" - (Loose translation of an old Yiddish proverb)
• Apply the principles urged on Israel to the United States, and you end up with a scenario something like this:
• The new final settlement conference between the US, Mexico, and the Aztlánistas is scheduled for late June.
• The agreement promises a new chapter in the relationship between the countries -- and new hope for Mexican refugees yearning for self-determination and a state of their own.
• For years, there have been ongoing hostilities, culminating in a rash of illegal immigration and ongoing terrorism on the border. While there are many troublesome issues, new attitudes on both sides of the conflict may mean that peace is finally at hand.
• The new status quo will probably look very much like a proposition made by New Aztlán advocates like MEChA (and prominent American academics), tempered with the peace plan promoted by Mexican President Calderon. Other Latin American countries have endorsed the plan.
• What the Aztlánistas want is final status on a state of their own with contiguous borders, New Aztlán, to consist of the American territories of California, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.
• The capital of the new regime will, of course, be traditionally Aztlánista Los Angeles.
• All non-Mexican settlements and American settlers would be evacuated outside these borders to the original pre-1836 US borders, with some modifications, perhaps, to reflect demographics.
• Part of Northern California, for instance, could be traded for land in southern Nevada, eastern Louisiana, Colorado or Utah as part of a final agreement.
• A key demand for the Mexicans and the Aztlánistas is justice for the descendants of the refugees and their descendants dating from the original American-Mexican conflict.
• They want a full right of return for these refugees and their descendants to Mexican lands still in the hands of the US. 
• The plan's supporters insist upon a right to settle in the US for those Mexicans dubbed "illegal aliens" who have been victimized by what both the Mexicans and the Aztlánistas denounce as the apartheid border wall and restrictive US immigration policies.
• The proponents of the plan also demand (1) the agreement must have a deadline for implementation; (2) all checkpoints within New Aztlán, (especially on the current borders) are to be removed to allow the Aztlánistas freedom of movement; and (3) US occupation of New Aztlán must end during the interim before the final settlement agreement is implemented.
• The Aztlánistas are also demanding full sovereignty and control over historic US sites like the Grand Canyon, the Alamo, and Yosemite.
• An important part of the agreement is that all Mexican and Aztlánista prisoners currently in American custody, who the Aztlánistas consider to be freedom fighters, will be repatriated to Aztlánista territory.
• In exchange for this, the Mexicans, Latin American Nations and Aztlánistas promise to recognize the remainder of American territory as the sovereign United States.
• These parties have agreed to renounce illegal immigration, terrorism and to dismantle the drug cartels currently operating out of Mexican and Aztlánista territory.
• The problems of a final solution to this problem should not be underestimated. Right wing ultra-nationalist settlers who consider these territories part of their historic homeland, regardless of international law, populate much of the area in question. Resettling them in the United States within the pre-conflict borders will entail considerable trouble and expense for the US.
• In the territories on the North Bank (Texas) in particular, opposition to a proposed land for peace settlement is particularly widespread, not least when it comes to control of the Alamo, which many settlers consider one of the most important sites in their history.
• The Aztlánistas are insisting on total control of the Alamo as part of their State, claiming that according to their tradition, Aztlánista hero General Santa Ana tied his horse there before ascending to heaven.
• There are also questions of what kind of control the Mexican government and the Aztlánistas have over groups like the Zetas and MS13 (who are actually mostly Salvadorans), who have yet to commit to being part of any settlement and questions of the proponents' ability to prevent illegal immigration to the US.
• Obviously the International community will have to provide substantial amounts of aid to both Calderon and to the Aztlánistas as part of a package in order to bolster America's new peace partners.
• American critics of the peace negotiations have pointed out that such aid in the past has largely ended up in the hands of corrupt Aztlánista politicians.
• The money has been used in the past to fund drug cartels and terrorists organizations like the Zetas. But experts agree that continued foreign aid would undoubtedly be the necessary "price for peace" on the part of the US.
• As the Aztlánista population grows, time is running out for a comprehensive settlement. American President Obama has pointed out that the Latino "demographic bomb" will leave Americans with the option of either being a minority in their country or foregoing democracy and permanently occupying the southern territories.
• Unless the coming conference ends up with major concessions by the Americans, an intensified cycle of violence is almost guaranteed. The Aztlánistas will become more radicalized as they lose hope of reaching a comprehensive settlement.
• We may very well be on the verge of a peaceful, two-state solution in the region. A land for peace agreement is undoubtedly an important step towards that goal.
• Proponents of a two-state solution have pointed to Oslo and the Gaza disengagement by Israel.  Supporters of the agreement argue that such a plan can work if it is properly implemented with the support of the international community.
• Most experts in the field contend that the two-state solution is the only hope of ending the conflict and preserving America's character as a democratic state.

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• December 24, 2009 07:42 AM EST by John Stossel
• "Anti-Muslim Backlash"
• Immediately after US Army major Nidal Hasan, a Muslim, was accused of murdering 14 people at the Fort Hood military base in Texas, the media warned of the backlash soon to be felt by Muslim Americans.

• Writing in the Weekly Standard, Gary Bauer points out that despite many predictions of anti-Muslim backlash, nothing like that has happened:

   

  (A)n Associated Press headline read, "Another attack leaves U.S. Muslims fearing backlash." A Christian Science Monitor story was titled, "Fort Hood Shootings: US Muslims feel new heat."

• Even our "leaders," who should know better, showed little confidence in the American spirit of tolerance.

   

  Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano declared: "We object to, and do not believe, that anti-Muslim sentiment should emanate from this." And U.S. Army Chief of Staff George Casey said, "I'm concerned that this increased speculation [about Hasan's motives] could cause a backlash against some of our Muslim soldiers."
• But Bauer reminds us that the backlash against Muslims never materialized. It's a myth.
• Almost all of the "backlash" against Muslims following acts of Islamic domestic terrorism has consisted of acerbic blog posts, tightened restrictions at mosques and enhanced airport security.
• In the more than a month since the Fort Hood massacre, the only religion-based crime I could find was committed by a young Muslim in California at a mall kiosk. He tore a crucifix from shopper's neck and shouted anti-Christian slurs and "Allah is power."
• That Muslims have not been victims of violence since the Fort Hood shootings speaks to what's good about America; most of us have a sense of fair play and are unwilling to judge a group because of one individual's actions.
• It's too bad when our media and government officials jump to conclusions about the American character.

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