Those among you who like your skies darkened by black helicopters are invited to mosey on down to the remote Chinese village of Huangyangtan which hosts what must be the strangest military installation ever spotted by the Google Earth Community:
It turns out that this scale model corresponds to a 450×350 kilometer piece of real estate [...]

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The Federation of American Scientists said in a statement that Hans M. Kristensen, the director of its Nuclear Information Project, had “analyzed commercial satellite images that show China has significantly reorganized facilities believed to be launch sites for nuclear ballistic missiles near Delingha in the northern parts of Central China.
“The images indicate that older liquid-fueled [...]

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TEL AVIV — The Israeli military has concluded that Hamas has has mobilized and trained a veritable army of at least 13,000 soldiers since the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005. The forces have arms and explosives smuggled from Egypt.
“Hamas is building its forces rapidly and that’s why it is currently limiting attacks [...]

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Lt. Col. (res.) Jonathan Dahoah-Halevi

Recent Iranian implied threats to “liberate” some of the Gulf states, and an Iranian editorial calling Bahrain a district of Iran, have caused great consternation in the Gulf states. In Bahrain there have been demonstrations at the Iranian embassy, and an official protest was submitted to Tehran. An additional Iranian article [...]

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China’s air force has more than 2,000 operational aircraft — mainly indigenous copies of Soviet-era designs, like the A-5 (based on the MiG-19), the F-7 (MiG-21) and Y-8 (An-12). Their derivatives continue to be developed.
Long after the An-12 went out of service, China not only continues to operate the Shanxi Y8F-400 derivative, but is [...]

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It is no secret that even as China is attempting to diversify its foreign sources of energy, the Middle East remains a key supplier of the oil and gas that China depends upon to sustain its continuous economic growth. Numerous energy producing states in the Middle East, few of them friends of the United States, [...]

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Nevertheless, some Russian officials like Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, could not resist the temptation to shoot arrows at the United States, saying that essentially Washington had just settled for what President Bill Clinton had previously accepted and is implicitly to blame for the recent delay (Interfax, July 15). [...]

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Mikhail Kamynin, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman, epitomized the line reflected in the Russian media: “London’s position is immoral,” according to Russian television news. “Moreover, in London they should clearly realize that such provocative actions masterminded by the British authorities will not go without an answer, and cannot but entail the most serious consequences for [...]

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Pictures of DF-25 missile revealed for the first time, the medium range missiles which can carry 3 nuclear warheads.
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According to Fisher, U.S. guidance technology acquired by China is so accurate that the DF-25 can select a “window” on any target building and [...]

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China’s military this week quietly showed a new medium-range missile that is part of Beijing’s rapid military buildup of nuclear and conventional forces, according to a new think tank report.
Chinese Internet sites posted a photograph of what specialists say is the new Dong Feng-25 missile that could be used by China in a conflict with [...]

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Two Russian Tu-95 bombers made unusually long sorties over the North Sea on Thursday morning, forcing both Norway and Britain to scramble fighter jets to follow the Russian planes, Norway’s armed forces said.
The Russian bombers stayed in international air space during their flight, which took them as far south as the region between Norway’s Stavanger [...]

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In surprise Damascus visit hopes for ‘defeat for the region’s enemies’
TEL AVIV – Visiting Syria today, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned during a press conference that this summer will be “hot” and will bring defeat for the “region’s enemies.”
“We hope that the hot weather of this summer would coincide with similar victories for the region‘s [...]

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Israeli space capabilities will take a giant leap in September when the Defense Ministry launches its most advanced spy satellite aboard an Indian rocket. The new satellite is capable of transmitting tiny images in all weather conditions.
Following last month’s successful launch of the Ofek 7 spy satellite, Israel is making final arrangements to launch the [...]

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According to the most recent intelligence reports, former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s gesture for peace – disengagement from Gaza – may have set the stage for the next phase of war.
A senior IDF officer said this week that the weapons Hamas is smuggling into Gaza have become significantly more sophisticated now that they have a [...]

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The importance of this weekend’s election goes well beyond Turkey itself.
ON JULY 22nd Turkey, still an adolescent democracy, goes to the polls. The event is being followed carefully far from its own borders. For one thing, the country is of huge strategic importance. It borders the European Union to the west and the Caucasus, Iran, [...]

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“THE Iranian regime is basically a messianic apocalyptic cult.” So says Israel’s once and perhaps future prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu. If he is right the world is teetering on the edge of a terrifying crisis.
While the world has been distracted by Iraq, Afghanistan and much else, Iran has been moving relentlessly closer to the point [...]

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Overfishing, competition from fish farms, water pollution, and government subsidies to fishermen have brought bluefin tuna stocks to near collapse (TIME). The issue led to finger-pointing (IHT) by the United States and the European Union, each of which regards the other as the culprit. But it is the Japanese, consumers of the most bluefin tuna [...]

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FAS analyst and blogger Hans Kristensen believes that Google Earth satellite imagery in late 2006 recorded the pride of China’s navy, one of its new Jin-class Type 094 SSBN strategic missile-carrying nuclear submarines.
Hans Kristensen said the sub’s location at the Xiaopingdao submarine base suggested that at the time of this image the sub was being [...]

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THE WORLD FROM BERLIN
Hardly a week goes by these days without yet another conflict between the West and Russia hitting the headlines. Now, Moscow is refusing to cooperate with London in the Litvinenko case — and has kicked out four British diplomats. German commentators wonder on Friday how the West should react. more…

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FSM Contributing Editor Adrian Morgan wraps up his outstanding four part series with shocking new information. He reveals the results of Britain’s disastrous policy of non-intervention and how that has helped terrorists to flourish there, virtually out of control.

Britain’s New Leadership Fails To Prevent Terrorism, Threatens America: (Part Four of Four)

By Adrian [...]

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