World War Three Thread....

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Supposition by FNC Martha McCallum...

"Is the US and Russia fighting a proxy war right now in Syria".

Claims made on both sides that the other side is supplying weapons. US has claimed Russia is supplying modernized Russian weapons, including AK-47s, and attack helicopters to the Syrian Government to keep Assad in power.

Russia is claiming the US has been supplying similar weapons to the rebel forces.

The Rebels are vastly outmatched already and now helicopters are alleged to have flattened a couple of towns. Russians have CLAIMED that a couple of "towns have been purged of rebel fighting forces...."

To me, that's an admission of the flattened towns, by Russia who had to have had a hand in it.

Those machines aren't like ours, aren't designed to take down a couple of people or a group. They are designed to destroy and kill everything that MOVES in front of them.

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So if Zbigniew Brzezinski has been a long time foreign policy adviser for the Left of Carter, Clinton, Berger, Ayers, Obama and Soros...

Is this ME crisis all apart of Bigniew Brzezinski's foreign policy right out of his 1997 book: The Grand Chessboard?

No coincidence the CIA Document: Key Uncertainties: Technology Will Alter Outcomes contains some of the same goals outlined in Brzezinski's writings generated during the Clinton Administration being carried out today.

More on Wesley's use of deadly military force in Waco against Christians while supporting Islamic Terrorist in Kosovo then turning around and criticizing Bush's handling of Iraq, likening it to a Crusade.

http://theobamafile.com/obamacampaignadvisers.htm Confirmed: Wesley Clark is an idiot. Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, a key military adviser for Obama, dismissed John McCain’s war record as a qualification for readiness to be president. Appearing on CBS' "Face the Nation," Clark downplayed the plane crash that led to McCain’s captivity during the Vietnam War, and said the squadron McCain commanded "wasn’t a wartime squadron leader." Unlike Clark's heroic command of the military forces at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas -- 76 Branch Davidians, 21 of whom were children, were killed in the blaze. "He has been a voice on the Senate Armed Services Committee. And he has traveled all over the world. But he hasn’t held executive responsibility," Clark said. Clark had helped drag the U.S. into a near-fiasco at the end of the Kosovo conflict, that led to such ill-feeling toward Clark in the Pentagon that he was fired at war's end. Update: 7/3/08 -- Now watch the hypocrite Clark attempt to defend his support for John Kerry. This man is a damned liar and a disgrace to the uniform -- and he's a lousy tap-dancer!

Wesley Clark on 10/10/02: 'Let's Wait to Attack' Iraq
26-Jan-04
Wesley Clark
"Saddam Hussein is a cunning, stubborn and potentially irrational opponent of the United States... But there is a confusion and uncertainty among the American people about the need for war with Iraq, and especially about its urgency. This is understandable. The primary threat to American lives and interests around the world remains the terrorists of al-Qaeda... The answer to all these questions is yes, if we have the time. Well, we do. The key issue about Iraq has never been whether we should act if Saddam doesn't comply with U.N. resolutions and disarm. Rather, the problems are how we should act, and when. As for the how, the answer is clear--multilaterally, with friends and allies, with every possible effort to avoid the appearance of yet another Christian and Jewish stab at an Islamic country, with force as a last resort, and with a post-conflict plan in place to assure that the consequences of our action do not supercharge the al-Qaeda recruiting machine."

But no problem openly supporting Radical Islam: Wesley Clark, defender of KLA terrorists, joins race to White House

Clark Says Congress Should Determine Whether Bush's War Decisions Criminal
17-Jan-04
Wesley Clark

Bill Clinton: Wesley Clark Would Make Good President
30-Jun-03
Wesley Clark AP reports: "While he's making no endorsements, former President Clinton says fellow Arkansan Wesley Clark would make a good president if he should decide to run. Clinton says he has been impressed by the retired Army general's career from its inception, as a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy, where Clark finished first in his class. 'He has always exceeded in every endeavor,' Clinton told The Associated Press on Friday, noting in particular Clark's major role as NATO commander, when he ran the 1999 Kosovo air war that drove Serb forces out of the embattled Serbian province."

The Clinton Administration's Policy On Reforming Multilateral Peace Operations

By Madeline K. Albright - Anthony Lake and Lieutenant General Wesley Clark

THE FUTURE OF U.S. AND UN PEACE KEEPING...

Wesley Clark (US 4 Star General) US will attack 7 countries in 5 years



Wesley Clark , Oct 3 2007 at the commonwealth club of California. (San Francisco California )

He openly says that there was a policy coup . ( Donald Rumsfeld , Paul Wolfowitz , Dick Cheney ) - Project for a New American Century .

He stated that they are going to destroy the governments of 7 countries in 5 years .Countries listed below !

Iraq, Syria , Lebanon , Libya, Samolia , Sudan and Iran
( 7 countries in 5 years)

They must clean up all former soviet client regimes before the next super power comes on to challenge us.


So if this was Bush's foreign policy why has it been accelerated under the Obama/Clinton Administration?

I guess the Clinton/Obama/Soros/Brzezinski plan was to bring Russia in from the cold and cut deals with them as we take down their former "Soviet Client Regimes" Iraq, Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Syria and Iran before we get into the next World War.

Which I guess is with China as we try to isolate them and shift our Naval Assets in the region under the guise of taking down their Client "North Korea".


Russia and China are aware of this:

Companion Post:

• Russia and China pull together to counter US Asia drive

Putin’s assertive foreign policy distracts attention from domestic upheavals by depicting the US as the major global adversary intent on breaking up Russia.

Whatever the degree of cooperation in arms control or counter-terrorism, the fundamental relationship between the US and Russia will remain competitive and potentially conflictive. While the Democrats are right that one can work with Moscow in certain circumscribed areas, Romney is also correct that at present no single power is as well positioned as Russia to disrupt America’s national interests.

Russia, China to boost military cooperation

Moscow and Beijing will work to bring cooperation between the two countries' armed forces “to a new level,” Chinese President Hu Jintao has said.

If we get caught up into a skirmish in the region, Russia will strike without warning.

This is not going to end well.

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I've been thinking along these lines - and I suspect we've been in cahoots with Russia in some cases to hold China back, and I KNOW we've worked with China at least on the economic front.

I think you're right, not gonna end well.

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U.S., Israel developed Flame computer virus to slow Iranian nuclear efforts, officials say


View Photo Gallery — Stuxnet and other big worms and viruses: The computer virus is growing in popularity as the weapon of choice in the Middle East. Here’s a look at some of the more notable viruses and worms.




By Ellen Nakashima, Greg Miller and Julie Tate, Published: June 19

The United States and Israel jointly developed a sophisticated computer virus nicknamed Flame that collected intelligence in preparation for cyber-sabotage aimed at slowing Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon, according to Western officials with knowledge of the effort.
The massive piece of malware secretly mapped and monitored Iran’s computer networks, sending back a steady stream of intelligence to prepare for a cyber*warfare campaign, according to the officials.

Iran’s quest to possess nuclear technology: Iran said it has made advances in nuclear technology, citing new uranium-enrichment centrifuges and domestically made reactor fuel.


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The effort, involving the National Security Agency, the CIA and Israel’s military, has included the use of destructive software such as the Stuxnet virus to cause malfunctions in Iran’s nuclear-enrichment equipment.
The emerging details about Flame provide new clues to what is thought to be the first sustained campaign of cyber-sabotage against an adversary of the United States.


“This is about preparing the battlefield for another type of covert action,” said one former high-ranking U.S. intelligence official, who added that Flame and Stuxnet were elements of a broader assault that continues today. “Cyber-collection against the Iranian program is way further down the road than this.”


Flame came to light last month after Iran detected a series of cyberattacks on its oil industry. The disruption was directed by Israel in a unilateral operation that apparently caught its American partners off guard, according to several U.S. and Western officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity.


There has been speculation that Washington had a role in developing Flame, but the collaboration on the virus between the United States and Israel has not been previously confirmed. Commercial security researchers reported last week that Flame contained some of the same code as Stuxnet. Experts described the overlap as DNA-like evidence that the two sets of malware were parallel projects run by the same entity.
Spokesmen for the CIA, the NSA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, as well as the Israeli Embassy in Washington, declined to comment.


The virus is among the most sophisticated and subversive pieces of malware to be exposed to date. Experts said the program was designed to replicate across even highly secure networks, then control everyday computer functions to send secrets back to its creators. The code could activate computer microphones and cameras, log keyboard strokes, take screen shots, extract geo*location data from images, and send and receive commands and data through Bluetooth wireless technology.


Flame was designed to do all this while masquerading as a routine Microsoft software update; it evaded detection for several years by using a sophisticated program to crack an encryption algorithm.


“This is not something that most security researchers have the skills or resources to do,” said Tom Parker, chief technology officer for FusionX, a security firm that specializes in simulating state-sponsored cyberattacks.



He said he does not know who was behind the virus. “You’d expect that of only the most advanced cryptomathematicians, such as those working at NSA.”

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[IMG]https://d233eq3e3p3cv0.cloudfront.net/max/700/0*-q7X8V7ImVkLXedA.jpeg[/IMG]F-22 Raptor on May 10, 2012. Air Force photo

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F-22 Raptors Taunted Iranian Fighter Jets

David Cenciotti writes: The March incident began over a drone, and luckily, no one started shooting

Earlier this year, Pentagon press secretary George Little said that an Iranian air force F-4 Phantom combat plane attempted to intercept a U.S. MQ-1 Predator drone flying through international airspace near Iran.
As we reported back then, one of the two F-4 Phantom jets — in service in Iran since the Shah — came to about 16 miles from the Predator, but broke off pursuit after two American planes escorting the drone broadcast a warning message.
It was a close call.
The March 2013 episode happened only a few months after a two Sukhoi Su-25 attack planes operated by the Pasdaran (the informal name of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards) attempted to shoot down an American MQ-1 flying a routine surveillance flight in international airspace some 16 miles off Iran.
After this attempted interception, the Pentagon decided to escort drones involved in reconnaissance missions with fighter jets: either F-18 Hornets embarked on the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis, currently in the U.S. Fifth Fleet area of responsibility, or F-22 Raptors like those deployed to Al Dhafra in the United Arab Emirates.

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Iranian F-4 Phantom. Fars photo

New details about the latest episode were recently disclosed by Air Force chief of staff Gen. Mark Welsh at an annual conference of the Air Force Association. On Sept. 17, the general not only confirmed that the escorting fighters were F-22 stealth fighters but also said that: “He [the Raptor pilot] flew under their aircraft [the F-4s] to check out their weapons load without them knowing that he was there, and then pulled up on their left wing and then called them and said ‘you really ought to go home.’”
If the episode went exactly as Welsh described it, it was something more similar to Maverick’s close encounter with Russian MiG-28s in Top Gun than a standard interception.
It would be interesting to know how the Raptors managed to remain in stealth. Did the pilots use radar? Were they vectored by an AWACS? Why didn’t an E-2 — providing Airborne Early Warning in the area — not broadcast the message to dissuade the F-4 from pursuing the drone before the Iranian Phantoms and the U.S. Raptors came close to a potentially dangerous and tense situation?
Anyway, the U.S. pilot scared the Iranian pilots off and saved the drone. A happy ending worthy of an action movie.

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Boys and Girls... things are getting rather rough out there, judging from what I am reading in the news this morning.

Not only have the Russians essentially invaded Crimea/Ukraine, the Venezuelans are rioting in the streets as well. The country is in massive turmoil. It appears the military there might "step in" shortly....

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I guess we live in interesting times. Russians invading the Ukraine and the collapse of popular socialism in Venezuela. Bah, it's not interesting, I need to see what's on the boob tube tonight.

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Hopefully... boobs.

LMAO

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Moving some stuff here.

Gaza rocket barrage strikes southern Israel

Heavy rocket attack from the Gaza Strip claimed by Islamic Jihad, who call the operation "Breaking the Silence". Last updated: 12 Mar 2014 18:07

Israeli onlookers survey the damage in Sderot [Reuters]

A barrage of at least 50 rockets from the occupied Gaza Strip struck southern Israel, Israeli police have said, a day after Israeli forces killed three Palestinian fighters in the enclave. There were no immediate reports of casualties after the rockets hit on Wednesday, mainly around Sderot. "It's a barrage such as we haven't seen for two years," a local official said on Army Radio. The Palestinian armed group, Islamic Jihad, claimed it carried out the attack. "The al-Quds Brigades responded to aggression with a volley of rockets," the group said in a statement. It called the operation "Breaking the Silence" and vowed more attacks. In response, Israeli artillery was reported to have hit launch sites inside Gaza. Residents of Beit Hanoun said they saw Israeli fire hit one site nearby. The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Wednesday vowed to continue striking Gaza rocket launcher squads. "We will continue to thwart and hit those that want to harm us, and we will act against them with great force,'' he said. The Hamas group, which controls Gaza, said it would hold Israel responsible for any escalation. "We hold the occupation responsible, we warn of the consequences of any escalation and we reiterate that resistance is the right of the Palestinian people to defend itself," said Ihab al-Ghassin, a spokesman for Hamas The rocket salvos come a day after an Israeli air strike killed three Islamic Jihad members who the group said had fired mortar bombs at Israeli troops had entered the Gaza Strip through Israel's border fence. Israel pulled its troops and settlers out of the now-Hamas-run territory in 2005. But it maintains a naval and air blockade and severely restricts the overland movement of people and goods across the volatile border.

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Barrage of rockets from Gaza hits southern Israeli cities

March 12, 2014 11:27am


JERUSALEM (JTA) — More than 30 rockets and mortars were fired from the Gaza Strip at communities in southern Israel.


The Israel Defense Forces responded to the rocket attacks about an hour later, hitting what it called two “terror locations” in the northern and southern Gaza Strip with artillery fire.


Eight of the rocket fired from Gaza landed in residential neighborhoods in the Wednesday evening attack, according to the IDF.


Most of the rockets were fired at Sderot and Netivot. The Iron Dome anti-missile system shot down at least three of the rockets, the IDF spokesman said on Twitter.


The Code Red siren was sounded in several southern Israeli communities. Residents were instructed by the IDF to remain in bomb shelters.


The al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad terror organization, claimed responsibility for the attacks, saying: “The response has begun to the crimes of the occupation, the latest of which was the killing of three members” of the organization on Tuesday, the Palestinian Ma’an news agency reported. Islamic Jihad claimed to have launched 90 rockets at Israel, according to Ma’an.


On Tuesday, a retaliatory strike on a terror cell in Gaza, that had fired mortars at Israeli troops performing routine work in the border area, killed three members of Islamic Jihad.


A rocket fired from Gaza landed in southern Israel overnight on Tuesday.


“We will continue stopping attacks and hitting those who wish to harm us, and will act against them with full force,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement that also was posted on Facebook, shortly after the attack.


Since the beginning of 2014, more than 60 rockets have been fired at southern Israel from Gaza, according to the IDF. Tuesday’s attack was the largest on Israel since the 2012 Operation Pillar of Defense, the IDF said.

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IDF will respond to 'biggest rocket attack on Israel since 2012,' says army source

By YAAKOV LAPPIN
03/12/2014 19:01









Evaluation meeting held by senior IDF commanders; Islamic Jihad launched simultaneous rocket barrages from northern and southern Gaza, says army source.

Gaza rocket at sunset Photo: REUTERS/ Darren Whiteside



The IDF will respond to the largest rocket attack on Israel since 2012, an army source warned on Wednesday, following heavy rocket barrages from Gaza on the Western Negev.

An evaluation meeting was held in the evening by senior IDF commanders, including Deputy Chief of Staff Maj.-Gen. Gadi Eizenkot, the head of the air force, Maj.-Gen. Amir Eshel, Military Intelligence head Maj.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi, and OC Southern Command Maj.-Gen. Sami Turgeman.

A senior army source said Islamic Jihad launched simultaneous rocket barrages from northern and southern Gaza, calling it the most large-scale rocket attack on Israel since the eight-day conflict with Gazan terror groups in 2012.

More than 30 rockets exploded in southern Israel, including eight in built-up areas, the IDF said. An Iron Dome anti-rocket battery intercepted three projectiles over Sderot.

"This began yesterday, when an Islamic Jihad cell fired on our force that was operating on the security fence with Gaza," the source said.

In the coming hours, officials from the Home Front Command and IDF Southern Command will meet with local government representatives in the South to discuss safety instructions. For now, residents of the Gaza-border were advised to remain close to safe zones, the military said.

IDf Chief of Staff Benny Gantz, who is in the US, was being briefed on all developments.

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He was meeting our military here in the US....


Army Chief Rushes Back to Israel as IDF Tanks Return Fire After Massive Rocket Barrage Hits Israel (VIDEO)

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A rocket from the Gaza Strip that fell in southern Israel. Photo: Twitter.



Israeli Defense Forces Chief of Staff Benny Gantz rushed back to Israel from the U.S. on Wednesday as Israeli tanks fired at targets in the Gaza Strip after a massive barrage of rockets hit Southern Israel on Wednesday evening, Israeli Army radio reported.


The IDF responded to the rocket strikes by targeting two terror locations in the northern and southern Gaza Strip, the IDF posted on Twitter.


Terrorists in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip launched at least 60 rockets at Israeli population centers around 5 p.m. local time in the single biggest such attack since Israel’s 2012 Operation Pillar of Defense. Most of the rockets struck open fields, one hit a southern Israeli town near Gaza and one landed in Sderot.


The Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group claimed responsibility for the rocket fire, saying it was in response to the death of three of its operatives, who were killed Tuesday in an Israeli Air Force strike, after firing mortar shells at IDF positions.


A video posted Wednesday on Facebook shows multiple rockets being fired from a populated area in Gaza into Israel.


Gantz’s official visit in the U.S. began on Sunday. The trip included several work meetings and a keynote address at the annual Friends of the IDF Gala Dinner in New York Tuesday night. It is not clear if his trip was cut short.

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As rockets rain down, Liberman calls for IDF to recapture Gaza

Amid largest Palestinian attack since 2012, FM says government must ensure security even at the cost of terminating peace talks

By Adiv Sterman March 12, 2014, 7:02 pm

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman on Wednesday evening said the IDF should reoccupy the Gaza Strip in response to an ongoing, massive rocket bombardment of southern Israel, and said that the Israeli government must defend its citizens even if it jeopardized peace talks with the Palestinians.

Liberman told Channel 2 that Israel could not abide the firing of dozens of rockets at civilian targets in a single day, and added that the IDF was prepared to take immediate action in order to eradicate the threat of rocket fire from the Strip.

“There is no way to avert a full occupation of the Gaza Strip; only then can we ensure that these images do not recur,” the foreign minister said. “We cannot ignore such an attack, a barrage of 50 rockets and mortar shells.”

Islamic Jihad, which took responsibility for the attacks, put the number at 90 rockets.

Liberman insisted that only a full-scale military invasion of Gaza could sufficiently counter the threat, and stressed that he would not accept a more minor operation across the border.

“I will vote against any limited operation,” he said. “They have [arms] caches, stashes for thousands of missiles, and every day they intensify their efforts,” the foreign minister said, referring to Gaza-based terror groups.

He said the IDF should immediately retake the Strip, which Israel left unilaterally in 2005, dismantling its settlements there and forcibly evacuating some 7,000 settlers. Hamas violently seized power there in 2007, forcing out Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority. Liberman said once Israel had reined in and disarmed Gaza’s extremist elements, it should coordinate with Egypt on the future control of the area.

The foreign minister said he viewed the rocket barrage as a case of the Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad signaling to British Prime Minister David Cameron, who spoke in the Knesset shortly before the attack, that “we’re on the map” and “we’ll prevent any agreement” between Israel and the Palestinians.

A trail of smoke from rockets fired by Palestinians from Gaza toward Israel is seen above Gaza City on Wednesday, March 12, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Adel Hana)

Asked whether he would push for military action even at the expense of peace talks with the Palestinians in the West Bank, Liberman said that the security of Israel’s citizens outweighed concerns over the success of the diplomatic process.

“No sovereign state can accept a situation wherein its citizens are not secure,” the foreign minister stated. “There is no price too high to pay in ensuring that the citizens of Israel stay protected… Without security for the people of Israel, no agreement has any value.”

No Israeli casualties were initially reported in what has been the largest rocket barrage from the Strip since Operation Pillar of Defense in late 2012.

Most of the rockets were reported to have fallen in open areas, though at least one rocket landed in a residential neighborhood. Damage was reported in two impact sites.

IAF jets were reportedly flying over the Strip, apparently in an effort to thwart further rocket launches, and tanks fired shells at several targets in the coastal territory.

The army said some of the rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome defense system.


An Israeli civilian stands next to a hole caused by a rocket launched from the Gaza strip, in the Israeli city of Sderot in the western Negev on Wednesday, March 12, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/David Buimovitch)


Officers in the southern command convened Wednesday evening to discuss possible responses to the attack.


Meanwhile, security agencies in the Strip evacuated their headquarters for fear of Israeli reprisal, Sky News reported.


Islamic Jihad indicated that the attack was in retaliation for the Tuesday killing at the hands of the IDF of three Islamic Jihad operatives as they prepared to fire at Israel from the Gaza Strip.


“The Al-Quds Brigades responded to (Israeli) aggression with a volley of rockets,” the group said in a statement Wednesday, minutes after the rocket attack.


Following the rocket attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would forcefully respond to any threat on its citizens.


Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in Eilat on March 10, with the Iranian missile shipment behind him (photo credit: AFP/Jack Guez)



“It seems that the rocket fire came in response to our counter-terrorism operations yesterday,” Netanyahu said. “We will continue to thwart and harm those who wish to harm us, and we will act against them with great intensity.


“Last year, the number of rockets fired from Gaza was the lowest in a decade, but we will not settle for that. We will continue to ensure the security of Israeli citizens in the south and throughout the country.”


Last week, Israel intercepted what it said was an Iranian shipment of rockets intended for terror groups in Gaza. Israeli military sources said the arms, including 409 rockets, were destined for Islamic Jihad.

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Looks like a lot is going on in the South China Seas today....

US hits 'provocative' China move on Philippine ships

by Agence France-Presse
Posted on 03/13/2014 1:38 AM | Updated 03/13/2014 1:38 AM

DISPUTED. The territory west of the Philippines has been the cause of the dispute between Southeast Asian countries and China

WASHINGTON DC, USA – The United States on Wednesday, March 12, accused China of raising tensions by blocking two Philippines vessels as it urged freedom of navigation in the tense South China Sea.


The United States, a treaty-bound ally of Manila, said it was "troubled" by Sunday's incident in which China prevented movement of two ships contracted by the Philippine navy to deliver supplies and troops to the disputed Second Thomas Shoal.


"This is a provocative move that raises tensions. Pending resolution of competing claims in the South China Sea, there should be no interference with the efforts of claimants to maintain the status quo," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.


The Philippines on Tuesday, March 11, summoned China's charge d'affaires, accusing Beijing of a "clear and urgent threat" to Manila's interests. Beijing countered that the ships "infringed China's territorial sovereignty" and violated a 2002 declaration of conduct in the South China Sea. (READ: PH faces major hurdle in China case)


The United States rejected China's stance, saying that countries had the right to "regular resupply and rotation of personnel" to locations before the 2002 declaration.
The Second Thomas Shoal, which sits around 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the western Philippine island of Palawan, is claimed by the Philippines, China and Taiwan. Beijing calls it Ren'ai Reef.


Malaysia, Brunei and Vietnam claim other parts of the Spratly islands, which lie near vital sea lanes and rich fishing grounds and are also believe to sit on vast mineral resources.


The United States, while saying it takes no position on the sovereignty of disputed territories, has been increasingly robust in its criticism of China. Last month, the United States challenged the legal basis for China's claims over a vast area across the South China Sea.


The United States has been seeking to prevent China from taking more drastic action in the South China Sea. In November, China declared an Air Defense Identification Zone – requiring planes to report to Beijing – over a vast area in the East China Sea where it has a separate but intense feud over Japanese-administered islands. (READ: US presses Beijing on South China Sea claims)


Japan and the Philippines have accused China of making growing incursions to challenge their control over territories. US President Barack Obama will visit both Japan and the Philippines next month. – Rappler.com

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China preps military for 'short, sharp war' with Japan, US Navy analyst says

By Perry Chiaramonte
Published February 19, 2014FoxNews.com

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China is practicing for a "short, sharp war" with Japan.


That is the assessment of a top U.S. Navy intelligence analyst, who told colleagues that China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is currently conducting training exercises in a practice scenario in which the military takes the Senkaku Islands, near Taiwan.


“We witnessed the massive amphibious and cross-military region enterprise,” Capt. James Fannell, deputy chief of staff intelligence and information operations for the U.S. Pacific Fleet (PACFLEET) said at the West 2014 conference on Feb. 13 in San Diego.


“[We] concluded that the PLA has been given the new task to be able to conduct a short, sharp war to destroy Japanese forces in the East China Sea following with what can only be expected a seizure of the Senkakus or even a southern Ryukyu [islands] — as some of their academics say.”


It’s alleged that in the past year, China has increased its military activity, including high-profile actions in the South China Sea as well as combat drills in the south Philippine Sea.

“[We] concluded that the PLA has been given the new task to be able to conduct a short, sharp war to destroy Japanese forces in the East China Sea ..."

- Capt. James Fannell, U.S. Pacific Fleet



Fannell's comments were reported by the U.S. Naval Institute, an independent professional association founded in 1873 which closely follows navy matters.


“There is growing concern that China’s pattern of behavior in the South China Sea reflects an incremental effort by China to assert control of the area contained in the so-called 9-dash line despite the objections of its neighbors, and despite the lack of any explanation or apparent basis under international law,” Fannell also said.


Japan has in recent months accused a Chinese warship of locking its missile-targeting radar onto one of its warships, Fannell noted. China first denied the claim, but later admitted it while downplaying any danger the incident posed.


Retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Ralph Peters said China has a habit of bullying its neighbors with intimidating military drills, though exercises aimed at Japan are a new and worrisome wrinkle.


“The Chinese have conducted training exercises aimed at Taiwan for decades--but haven't invaded,” Peters, also a Fox News military analyst, told FoxNews.com. “The latest Chinese exercises that appear to rehearse an invasion of the Senkaku Islands are probably in that vein: Military exercises as a show of strength, a closed-fist tool of diplomacy, and, yes, a threat, but not one on which Beijing really desires to act.”


Peters adds that the exercises are likely China’s attempt at posturing.


“At present, China would have a great deal to lose by attacking or otherwise provoking a confrontation with Japan,” he said. “At the same time, the Chinese feel they're the regional (and global) rising power and they rather enjoy flexing their muscles. You might say they're proud of their physique, but don't really want a fight. In that sense, these exercises are a strategic ‘selfie.’”


The PLA is not the only one with seemingly aggressive moves as of late. Fannell also mentioned at the West conference that the Chinese coast guard is engaged in “quasi-military actions.”


“Tensions in the South and East China Seas have deteriorated with the Chinese coast guard playing the role of antagonist, harassing China’s neighbors while PLA Navy ships, their protectors, (make) port calls throughout the region promising friendship and cooperation,” he said, adding that China has spent $1.6 million on improvements to outposts in the South China Sea including development of ports, airfields, water purification and surveillance systems.


The assessments made at the conference are in stark contrasts to recent US efforts to tighten military-to military ties with China.


The Navy’s head of operations, plans and strategy, Rear Adm. James Foggo said while on the same conference panel that there was a recent successful meeting between U.S. Navy officials and the head of the PLA’s naval forces.


A U.S. delegation also toured PLAN ships and submarines and is working out plans for the Chinese navy to participate in the Rim of the Pacific 2014 (RIMPAC) exercise later this year.

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Russian wants Ukraine back.

Israel wants Gaza back.

LaRaza wants America back...


LOL

What a fucked up world

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Opps, another escalation...

Israeli air strikes on Gaza after dozens of rockets launched

Three intercepted by Iron Dome anti-missile system

12 March, 17:14



(ANSAmed) - TEL AVIV, MARCH 12 - Israel was carrying out air strikes on Gaza on Wednesday in response to numerous rockets launched at its cities near the border, reports the Israeli television station Channel 2. An estimated 30 rockets have been launched from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel. Local media have called it a ''massive attack''.

The army has said that three of the rockets had been intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system. Alarms have gone off in the area. (ANSAmed).

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Middle East

Israeli airstrike kills fighters in Gaza

Three Palestinians dead in air strike after two Palestinians killed in separate incidents in West Bank. Last updated: 11 Mar 2014 11:20

Ramallah - An Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip has killed three Palestinians who were associated with Islamic Jihad, the group said. The Israeli military had no immediate comment on Tuesday's attack, which Islamic Jihad said in a statement targeted its members as they "resisted an Israeli military incursion" into Rafah, a town bordering Egypt. The latest Israeli escalation can lead to the situation spiralling out of control Nabil Abu Rudeineh, Palestinian Authority spokesperson The attack comes after a Palestinian man died following a car chase with Israeli police near Tulkarem in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, Palestinian sources said on Tuesday. Another Palestinian, a 20-year-old student, was shot dead by Israeli soldiers near Ramallah on Monday night, the Israeli military confirmed. Fida Majadleh was killed after his car veered off the road near Jbara checkpoint, south of Tulkarem, during the chase, according to [Arabic] Tulkarem Governor Abdullah Kamil. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli army, but the police described the incident as a traffic accident, and said Majadleh's car, which was stolen from Israel, hit another vehicle. Late on Monday night, 20-year-old Saji Darwish, a second year student at Birzeit University, was shot near Ramallah. Clashes following his death left five Palestinians wounded. The Israeli army said he was part of a group of Palestinians throwing stones at settler cars between the villages of Beiten and Deir Debwan, just outside of Ramallah. 'Dangerous provocation' A Palestinian Authority spokesperson said the "latest Israeli escalation can lead to the situation spiralling out of control". In a statement [Ar] to the media, Nabil Abu Rudeineh said the deaths constituted "a dangerous provocation that will torpedo what's left of the peace process". He urged the US or the Quartet (made up of the UN, the US, the EU, and Russia) to intervene. Protests erupted near the Israeli embassy in the capital of Jordan on Tuesday in response to the killing of a Jordanian-Palestinian judge at the border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan on Monday. After a preliminary investigation, Israel said he had tried to snatch a weapon from a soldier and strangle him. Last month, Amnesty International published a report which said Israeli forces were using excessive violence in the occupied West Bank, killing dozens of Palestinians over the past three years in what the rights group said might constitute a war crime. The West Bank-focused study said more Palestinians were killed in 2013 than the two previous years combined. It also said the Palestinians did not appear to be posing any imminent threat to life in the cases that were reviewed. The Israeli army dismissed the criticism, saying security forces had responded to an increase in Palestinian violence.

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Russian Invasion - How to Survive a Russian Occupation of the United States




A nightmare scenario from the Cold War finally unfolds. Year 2015. Russia invades the United States, decimating cities, seizing soft targets and critical infrastructure. Think you're safe out in the countryside? Not if you live near one of these "10 soft targets of strategic importance" that may be crucial to a Russian take-over.

Yes, it's a nightmare headline that most Americans probably think would make more of a "Mad Max" movie than something that would ever actually happen, but what if it did happen?


What if Russia has it's eyes on America?

Fears Have Long Abounded of an Attack by Russia

Fears have long abounded in certain U.S. circles dating back to the Cold War of ominous threats coming from the U.S.S.R., and some of those circles include the Pentagon, more familiar with extensive KGB spying in the U.S. than the average American who probably thinks that the spy-threat is only a real threat in a James Bond movie.

Yet KGB spies were here during the Cold War. After the Soviet Union fell in the early 90s, probably a number of these spies remained, even if they're no longer thought of as "KGB".

Today we can bet that Russia has a healthy and vital network of spies in the United States, including more than a few "double agents" -- meaning U.S. citizens who work in federal government like CIA and national defense who, like many Americans, can be persuaded to pass on intel when enough dollar bills are offered.


A Russian Invasion

Only after knocking out U.S. defenses and critical infrastructure, could a Russian plan to invade and occupy parts of America unfold with the potential for success. Of course to take things to that level Russia would have to be willing to do a few things that would put them on par with Hitler.

We're talking Russia would have to be willing to nuke a few million Americans preemptively (Cold War suitcase nukes, anyone?), or perhaps use a highly lethal virus concocted deep in a Russian laboratory, and then spread across U.S. cities like a plot from the television series "24" -- or perhaps a combination of both suitcase nukes and lethal virus.


Is Putin on that "Hitler" level?

We can't quite tell yet. He's invaded two countries to date, the first being Georgia in 2008, and the second and most recent, the Ukraine, currently making world headlines.


Commercial Airlines

The plot from the original Red Dawn (1984) was that Russian forces invade the U.S. using commercial airlines on international routes to disguise the first wave of the invasion -- a modern day Trojan horse.

Could commercial airlines really be used to help get a Russian first wave into American airspace and parachuting into American communities?

Maybe.

Then of course there are container ships -- the U.S. has dozens of cargo ships entering U.S. ports every day of the year. Just one cargo ship can carry troops, house missile systems, and possibly even be outfitted to offer Russian fighter jets a place to take off from and return to land and refuel. Essentially, an aircraft carrier and battleship disguised to look like a cargo ship.

How many of these could the Russians move into place, just off shore or even land and then launch attacks from U.S. ports?


Ace in Russia's Sleeve

Russia we can bet would have it's "ace in the sleeve" -- meaning, one or more clever ways that they could get people here, and weapons, that the Pentagon may not quite see coming yet, or have a scenario for.

That ace may be "American based" manufacturing plants, where instead of just cars or airplanes being built, maybe weapons and weapon delivery systems are being built right here on U.S. soil, in industrial areas of major U.S. cities, with access to trucking fleets, helicopters, and heavy equipment that can be used to lay siege to several "soft targets" essential to putting America into a strangle hold and forcing a surrender.

In those U.S. based Russian manufacturing plants... how about Russian drones and -- right on the forefront of science and technology -- Russian robots?

In World War II, against Japan, America's secret "ace" was the first working atomic bombs, shortly later dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, bringing Japan to a quick surrender. Japan at first didn't know what hit them.

Looking at Japan, history has seen the ace card played before with disastrous consequences.

Does Russia have an "ace" card?


Surviving a Russian occupation

Small town airports seized. FEMA camps and U.S. prisons turned into Russian concentration camps for U.S. citizens. Maybe we should have feared those "FEMA camps" after all. However, instead of an American flag flying overhead in those FEMA Camps, in this case it's a Russian flag.

On day one of the attack, Russian suitcase nukes detonated in dozens of strategic places, including just outside several U.S. military bases; U.S. military bases wiped completely off the map -- one more ace up the Russian military's sleeve.

Localized EMP attacks that shut down power systems to critical infrastructure.

Russian forces come to power in your community. And now you have to swear allegiance or face execution.

Or there's one more option to consider...


American resistance to foreign invaders

So, we've laid out a scenario how a Russian occupation could take place, and how a Russian leader like Vladmir Putin could turn into history's next Hitler, or maybe the long awaited "Anti-Christ" from the Book of Revelation (for our Christian readers out there counting down the days to the return of Christ -- yes I hear you).

Whatever happens, will you live or die if a scenario like this one ever plays out?

Would you have a plan if something so far fetched as a Russian invasion ever brings parachuting troops into your community?

Do you have a back-up plan for the day you have to abandon your preps and make a hasty evacuation into the countryside, like World War II Jews fleeing Nazis as tanks and troops roll into town?


How the Jews survived

A lot of Jews died in Nazi concentration camps. Many though were able to escape, sometimes on "underground railroads", and other times by being hidden by "law abiding" non-Jews (sometimes in secret rooms hidden in average-looking homes) until these Jews could sneak out of the area, often under the cover of darkness.


Tips for Surviving a Russian Invasion

One way to prep for a possible invasion is to outfit your home with a secret room, placed in such a way that even if someone were to look for a "secret room", they wouldn't find yours.

Outfit your secret room with ventilation, food, water, power, and communications equipment, so that if you and your family suddenly had to hide out, you could stay hidden for several hours, and then make your escape finally under the cover of darkness.


Where do you go?

Your community may be under Russian control, and the same thing may be said about any community down the highway you may have the impulse to flee toward. Control that impulse and realize you should probably take to the countryside and forests, and get away from cities and towns, and instead travel by trail, staying close to cover (like tall trees overhead).

If there's no cover, put together something that will help camouflage you from the air above, where helicopters maybe patrolling, looking out for people down on the ground below fleeing the area.

That could be something as simple as a small tarp and a 2 - 3 cans of spray paint, with colors that look like the colors of the area you're likely to travel through. For example, a desert environment, typical in Southern California, Utah, Arizona, and Nevada. If you hear chopper blades in the distance, drop to the ground next to a rock or ditch or whatever object happens to be nearby, and use your painted tarp to disguise yourself from eyes in the sky.


Escape through forests

As much as possible though, plot a route that is going to take you through the trees. A large number of Jews made their escape through European forests (sometimes getting help from sympathetic locals along the way, but always having to be wary that one of these sympathetic locals would turn them over to the Nazis).

Use the forests because you need to have cover, and you also want to be in an area no one is likely to parachute troops into, if you happen to be fleeing an area under a wide scale attack. Remember, parachuting troops need a clearing to land.

Staying deep under the trees both blocks you from eyes in the sky, and keeps troops from landing near your location should you (or any number of people you're traveling with) be spotted. I can't recommend it enough, but a handy water filter will provide you with several weeks of water filtration from streams and lakes you'll come across as you travel).


Dirt roads

On your maps look for gravel roads and dirt roads -- these are secondary road systems typical in wilderness areas of the U.S. that are not likely to see invaders in the early days or weeks of an invasion. Most of an invaders' attention (and somewhat limited resources) will be focused on populated areas and securing major roads, before in time moving on to less populated areas and lesser used roads.

Consider heading for areas that have small farming operations -- not wide scale agriculture because again these may be targeted by an invasion force -- and / or small towns in or near the mountains that don't have an airport. Airports make it easy to fly in troops, and we can bet that the Russians have every airport and even many smaller airstrips marked down on maps. A rural airstrip's proximity to a crucial "soft target" (keep reading) makes it more likely to be targeted in the early days (or even the first day) of a wide scale invasion.


Don't enter town from the main road

Don't enter town from the main road. Hard-pressed locals may not be too kind to new comers fleeing cities. Instead, one strategy may be to circle around town and come in from the far side and attempt to connect with a local family first. If that local family feels sympathetic for you, their friendship can be a doorway to being accepted by the local population and not just another mouth to feed. Now some towns may be welcoming to survivors fleeing cities. Survey any town you hope to enter from a distance (you'll want a good set of binoculars) before entering town. Who knows what you might be walking into. Better safe than sorry. What if that town is all Russian military?


Bug Out Bag

Of course, if you've been following news in the prepper and survivalist community, you already know to have a Bug Out Bag packed with several days of food (consider bulk MRES for survival food rations if there's a chance you'll need to share some food with others) and a water filter system for procuring clean drinking water along the way (see link a few paragraphs up), as well as maps, weapon(s) for self defense, and everything else (even fish antibiotics) that make a great survival pack for surviving a time of war (no guarantees on those fish antibiotics but it seems that they can work for some.

Most likely, if you've made it to the forest far away from a populated area, don't expect a pursuit from invading forces. Not yet anyway. They're going to be busy seizing communities, and then going house to house.

Only as the days and weeks pass, are invading forces finally likely to make it out to distant rural towns and homes out in the countryside. That is of course except for towns and communities that lie in the path of prevailing winds that may carry dangerous levels of radiation from any major cities or military installations that have suffered a nuclear blast.

One way to add a layer of protection includes potassium iodate tablets, which can help protect you from the effects of radiation. (The U.S. government is reported by some to be stockpiling on these tablets.)


10 Rural areas of strategic importance to the Russians

That is unless you live in an area of strategic importance. What is an area of strategic importance? How about:

1) Oil refineries and oil wells

2) Natural gas plants

3) Gas refineries

4) Airports (even small ones)

5) Mining operations

6) Nuclear power plants and hydroelectric dams

7) Media outlets (newspaper, radio, television)

8) Gas refineries

9) Manufacturing

10) Commercial agriculture (not all agricultural areas, just those considered essential to feeding Russian forces while also helping win over a conquered population by providing citizens with basic food needs)

Just about anything that keeps America powered and fed is likely to be a soft target, and not necessarily something that an invading force may want to simply destroy. Depending on how thorough their plans are for occupation, they may want to get these systems back online shortly after any have powered down, or even before one of these systems has powered down. (These 10 areas may not include all areas of importance to Russian invaders, but are some common areas to consider avoiding in your evacuation plans.)


What does this mean?

That even if you live miles away from a populated area, you may still be in danger early on in an invasion simply due to your proximity to a soft target.

And if you're considered essential personnel employed at one of these soft targets, there's a chance that invading forces already know a lot about you -- your name, where you live, and -- a scary thing to consider -- perhaps they even have your family named and numbered and on a list.


Your family held hostage

You see, if day one of a Russian invasion includes going after several soft targets, a great way to keep personnel running these systems would be to take their families hostage, or simply lay siege to each soft target in question.

Russia (and its allies) have had a long time to put some thought into something like this.

If it ever happens, its because they believe its going to succeed.

http://www.secretsofsurvival.com/sur...-Invasion.html

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March 12, 2014
Putin Orders Massive War Moves To Protect Iraq After Saudi Threats
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

A grave report prepared by the Ministry of Defense (MoD) circulating in the Kremlin today says that President Putin has “immediately activated” the combat-hardened 98^th Guards Airborne Division for “potential action” throughout the Middle Eastern nation of Iraq after Saudi Arabia’s threat of war against the Gulf Monarchy State of Qatar.
The 98^th Guards Airborne Division, this report states, were put into their pre-war stance yesterday by Putin who ordered this massive deployment that will involve four thousand troops, 36 military transport aircraft and an unspecified number of combat vehicles and will include a massive simultaneous paradrop involving 3,500 servicemen.
These elite airborne troops, this report notes, were last deployed into combat during the Russo-Georgian War when during the night of 7 to 8 August 2008, Georgia launched a large-scale military offensive against South Ossetia, in an attempt to reclaim the territory from its majority Russian-speaking population.
Spurring these latest war fears, this report continues, was Saudi Arabia’s threat yesterday to blockade neighboring Qatar by air, land and sea unless Doha immediately cuts ties with the Muslim Brotherhood, closes the global television news channel al-Jazeera, and expels local branches of the US Brookings Institution and Rand Corporation think tanks.
Important to note, this report says, and as we had reported on yesterday, Saudi Arabia this past week joined Russia, Egypt and Syria in branding the Muslim Brotherhood as a “terrorist organization,” and who claims as one of its leaders US President Barack Obama, and whose international finances are controlled by Obama’s Kenyan half-brother, Malik Obama.
Saudi Arabia’s reason for ordering Qatar to immediately expel the Brookings Institution and Rand Corporation from their territory, this report notes, is due to these US-based think tanks “master plan” to divide up the entire Middle East, a war-project that was begun by the President George W. Bush administration and continued by the Obama regime.
Though not widely known to the American people, this “master plan” to destroy the Middle East was revealed by US General Wesley Clark [see video HERE] who stated he was “stunned” when just 10 days after the 11 September 2011 attacks he was given the Brookings-Rand documents detailing how the United States was going to invade at least 7 nations to destroy their governments.
Most concerning to Putin about the Saudi threats against Qatar, this report says, relate to the House of Saud’s machinations in Ukraine where they seem to be “immensely interested in what’s going on.”
As the Tatars in the newly established independent nation of Crimea are Muslims, this report continues, and as they are about to “celebrate” the 70th anniversary of their mass deportation by Stalin, they could provide a “destabilizing element” within the country as they now number roughly 250,000, which is 13% of a largely Russian population, but with an unemployment rate of at least 50 percent.
Critical to note, this report continues, is that Russia had previously been threatened by Saudi Arabia when Putin was told by the then head of Saudi intelligence, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, this past August, “I can give you a guarantee to protect the Winter Olympics next year. The Chechen [Islamic terror] groups that threaten the security of the games are controlled by us.”
This Putin-Bandar meeting was stormy, replete with warnings of a “dramatic turn” in Syria, and Putin was unmoved by the Saudi “offer,” though western pressure has escalated since then and now includes the Ukraine.
Putin further stated to the Saudis, it should be noted, that: “Our stance on Assad will never change. We believe that the Syrian regime is the best speaker on behalf of the Syrian people, and not those liver eaters,” he said, referring to footage showing a Jihadist rebel eating the heart and liver of a Syrian soldier.
As Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Egypt have now all withdrawn their ambassadors from Qatar, this report continues, Russian intelligence experts greatest fear are the thousands of shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles the UN is reporting are flowing out of Libya into terrorist groups worldwide, and which Saudi Arabia is now saying it will provide to “vetted” rebels, well aware that these most dangerous of weapons could fall into al-Qaeda hands.
With Russia and Iraq now squeezing all of the other oil producing exporting nations out of the highly lucrative Chinese energy market, this report also notes, not just Saudi Arabia, but also the Obama regime are now threatening Russian national interests.
And with Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki accusing both Qatar and Saudi Arabia of waging war on Iraq this past week, this report warns, Russia has no other choice but to act.
As to the “main mission,” of the elite paratroopers now being deployed to their airbases for a “rapid assault,” this report says, it will be to deploy to Iraq where they will meet up with the over $4.3 billion in Russian armaments that have begun arriving in Iraq under a deal struck with that government and Moscow in 2012.
As to which will “explode” first in the coming weeks, the Middle East or Ukraine, this report doesn’t say. However, with hundreds of thousands of troops, both East and West, now being deployed throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia, one can clearly see that just the smallest of sparks is all that is needed to ignite World War III.

Note: Additional articles to read explaining the Crisis In Ukraine include: Putin In “Fury” After Saudis Brand Obama Regime Terrorist Organization,Russia Warns Of American Deaths As Ukraine Crisis Spirals Out Of Control, Putin Orders Largest Air Defense Drill In History As War Fears Accelerate, Putin Orders Russian Troops And Ministries To Atomic Shelters Over NATO Threat Of War, 800,000 Ukrainian Refugees Flood Into Russia As Nazi Forces Continue Eastern March, Putin Sends Feared Shock Troops, Division Into Ukraine, Warns Obama Is “Unstable”, Putin Orders Military Alert To Defend Ukraine Against Western-Backed Fascists, Ukrainian Mob Call To “Kill All Jews” Horrifies Russia, Putin Orders Troops To Crimea Passes, Warns NATO Of War, Russian Threat Of War Over Ukraine Stuns Obama Regime, US In “Shock And Turmoil” After Snowden Info Lets Russia Tap Top Obama Officials

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