Moscow’s blackmail and blackout – Washington Times

Posted by Matt in July 31st, 2009 | no comment

Published in Energy, Alexander Medvedev, Behemoth, blackmail, Blackout, Canadian Reserves, Chief Executive Officer, Decision Makers, Diplomats, gazprom, kremlin, Leverage, Liquefied Natural Gas, moscow, Natural Gas Facilities, Proportion, S Market, Shtokman, Timely Fashion, Washington Times, Yamal

These diplomats may soon be eating their words. Last month, Gazprom’s deputy chief executive officer, Alexander Medvedev, announced that the Russian behemoth plans to supply 10 percent of U.S. natural-gas needs by 2025. This could be realized, he said, with the development of liquefied natural-gas facilities for Russia’s gargantuan Arctic fields: Shtokman and Yamal. Gazprom’s [...]

India rising, and flexing military muscles

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Published in India, Air Force, Aircraft Carrier, Army, Aspiration, Australia, Carrier Battle Groups, Constructive Role, Fleet, Global Arena, India Military, Indian Ocean, Military Capacity, Military Power, Muscles, No Doubt, Nuclear Submarines, Ranjan, Research Foundation, Weapon Systems

As its military capacity swells, India’s potential to project its growing military might in the Indian Ocean – a region of great strategic importance to Australia – could be relatively unimpeded.
Deba Ranjan Mohanty, a strategic analyst at Delhi’s Observer Research Foundation, says that by about 2025 India is likely to have three to four aircraft [...]

Russian Nuclear Bunkers Back in Business : WCJB

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Published in Shelters, antics, Expensive Furniture, Kilometers, North-Korea, Nuclear Bunkers, Nuclear Strike, Oak Doors, rockets, Russia, Russian Officials, Vladivostok

Thanks, to North Korea’s recent antics, Russia is planning to reactivate the 266 shelters which surround the Eastern city of Vladivostok.
With rockets flying just a few hundred kilometers away, Russian officials find it necessary to keep these shelters operational.
Vladivostok has more bunkers than any other city in the country, but only half are judged to [...]

Revealed: Burma’s nuclear bombshell

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Published in general, Aim, Bombshell, Burma, Defectors, Military Junta, northkorea, Nuclear Bomb, Nuclear Reactor, plutonium

BURMA’s isolated military junta is building a secret nuclear reactor and plutonium extraction facilities with North Korean help, with the aim of acquiring its first nuclear bomb in five years, according to evidence from key defectors revealed in an exclusive Herald report today.
Revealed: Burma’s nuclear bombshell

Pentagon, Eyeing Iran, Wants to Rush 30,000-Pound Bomb Program – Bloomberg.com

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Published in Military, Bloomberg, Bomb Program, Bombers, bombs, Budget, Bunker Buster Bomb, Committees, Comptroller, Deployment, Formal Request, Iran, North-Korea, Nuclear Threats, Pentagon, Pound Bomb, Robert Hale, Rush, Unease

The U.S. Defense Department wants to accelerate by three years the deployment of a 30,000-pound bunker-buster bomb, a request that reflects growing unease over nuclear threats from Iran and North Korea.
Comptroller Robert Hale, in a formal request to the four congressional defense committees earlier this month, asked permission to shift about $68 million in the [...]

Iran sends warships into Gulf of Aden – UPI.com

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Published in Iran, Class Submarines, Corvettes, Cruise-Missiles, Deployment, Dolphin, Flotilla, Gulf Of Aden, Israeli Navy, Mediterranean, Missile, Naval Task Force, Piracy, Red Sea, Saar, Somalia, suez, Suez Canal, tehran, Upi, warships

The naval units will replace an earlier flotilla dispatched by Tehran several weeks ago, ostensibly to help an international naval task force led by the United States to combat piracy off the coast of lawless Somalia.
However, the Iranian move followed the Israeli navy’s deployment of one of its three German-built Dolphin-class submarines, believed to be [...]

Russia acts against ‘false’ history | BBC NEWS

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Published in Russia, Acts, Bbc, Bbc News, Europe History, False History, Falsification, History Russia, Medvedev, News Europe, News Russia, Oxford University, Poppycock, Russia History, Russia News, Russian History, Service Professor, Truth About, University History

What is worrying Russia? Why is the country convinced that it is the victim of a campaign to make it look bad?
President Dmitry Medvedev recently announced the setting up of a commission to counter the falsification of history. He said this was becoming increasingly “severe, evil, and aggressive”.
“This is absolute poppycock,” says Robert Service, professor [...]

Why Mexican crystal meth is America’s problem | GlobalPost

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Published in Mexico, American Streets, Bath Tubs, Biker Gangs, Buckets, Cartel, Cartels, Continent, Crystal Meth, crystalmeth, Drugs, Factories, Metric Tons, Mexican Military, Taking Over A Business

U.S. police have known for several years that the cartels were gaining strength in the meth trade, taking over a business that used to be run by American biker gangs that cooked up crystal in buckets and bath tubs.
But a recent series of raids by the Mexican military revealed that the cartel meth factories have [...]

Russia Military Forum in English

Posted by Matt in July 31st, 2009 | 6 comments

Published in Russia, Debate Issues, English Speaking, Hell, Implosion, Lively Debate, Military Forum, Military Issues, Military Leaders, Nuclear Weapons, Political Leaders, Rest Of The Story, Russia, Russian English, Russian Military, Russians

There is a fairly new forum that you might be interested in. It’s called the Russian Military Forum, and it’s in English. It looks like it’s run by Russians. I’m guessing that if you want a lively debate about military issues then you might want to check it out.
Here’s the link: http://russiadefence.englishboard.net/
I regularly beat up [...]

Russia in NATO? Not anytime soon: experts

Posted by Matt in July 30th, 2009 | 1 comment

Published in Russia, Assistant Secretary, Associated Press, Chinese Analysts, Democracies, Joke, Military Alliance, moscow, NATO, Philip Gordon, Russia, Secretary Of State, Suggestion, Tease

A suggestion that Moscow can become a member of a military alliance is a ‘tease’ and a ‘joke’, Chinese analysts said Thursday.
US Assistant Secretary of State Philip Gordon said on Tuesday that Washington is not ruling out Russian membership in NATO. Gordon said the alliance should be open to European democracies, the Associated Press reported.
Russia [...]