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Headlines : IntelligenceBlowback From Moscow
Once portrayed in the western media as allies and even friends, U.S. President George W. Bush and Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin and the countries they represent are becoming increasingly polarized over the ongoing struggle to maintain U.S. military supremacy and global economic hegemony.
The new millennium has opened not with a newfound spirit of unity among nations, but with the declaration of a “global war on terror” and the identification of several nations represented as the very “axis of evil.”
Initially Putin and the Russian Federation largely supported U.S. foreign policies to check Islamic extremism and prosecute the elimination of the associated religious fundamentalist groups supporting terrorism that were building in strength and in numbers throughout the greater Middle East.
It now seems George Bush and the neocons of the now defunct PNAC have overplayed their hand since and have lost whatever moral high ground, goodwill and cooperation they once had for their efforts, not only the Russians, but the Chinese and several other major Central Asian nations as well.
We’re all familiar by this time with CENTCOM, allow me to introduce you to
Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
Sometimes no Peace
[Posted By GWHunta]Republished from antiwar.com
Our next president will likely face a Russia led by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, determined to stand up to a West that Russians believe played them for fools when they sought to be friends.
Americans who think Putin has never been anything but a KGB thug will reject accusations of any U.S. role in causing the ruination of relations between us.
Yet the hubris of Bill Clinton and George Bush I, and the Russophobia of those they brought with them into power, has been a primary cause of the ruptured relationship. And the folly of what they did is evident today, as Putin’s party, United Russia, rolls to triumph on a torrent of abuse and invective against the West.
Entering the campaign’s final week, Putin, addressing a rally of 5,000, ripped the Other Russia coalition led by chess champion Gary Kasparov as poodles of the United States, “who sponge off foreign embassies … and who count on the support of foreign resources and governments, and not of their own people.”
“Those who oppose us,” roared Putin, “don’t want our plans to be completed. They have completely different tasks and a completely different view of Russia.
Posted by GWHunta
Small town, working class from Michigan's Upper Peninsula. 1990 went to work for the MDOC; the very forefront of the U.S. Prison / Industrial Complex. Learned there, the hard way, that if I wasn't one of them; "they" would be pit against me. ...
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Please note also
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Russia needs to continue working on technical re-equipment of the Army and the Navy, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced at a meeting of the Russian Armed Forces commandment.
The Russian president reminded that the national arms program till 2015 envisages significant spending. “Mobile Armed Forces equipped under the newest trends are the key guarantee of Russia’s security,” RSN quotes the president as saying.
According to Putin, Russia’s withdrawal from the Conventional Forces Treaty in Europe is a response to increase of NATO military presence at our borders. According to him, “we cannot remain indifferent to an evident muscle-flexing.”
Russia is planning to impose a moratorium on participation in the CFE Treaty at midnight of December 13.
END OF QUOTE so let’s take a closer look because. The operative word, my friends, this time round, is
Multipolar
US withdraws Annapolis resolution
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The United States has withdrawn a resolution it presented to the UN Security Council endorsing the relaunch of Middle East peace talks agreed in Annapolis, Maryland.
US officials did not give a reason for Friday’s move but diplomats indicated that Israel, which is a close ally of Washington, did not want the UN involved in the process.
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What does that suggest to you? Maybe they don’t feel like they can count on the support of Europe anymore? That’s interesting. Because, remember, the real purpose of the Annapolis ‘Talks’ was to gang up on Iran. So.
Uh oh.
Let’s take a closer look . . . a German ‘industry representative’ said, Thursday (the 29th), that
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Germany would damage its economy and hand a competitive advantage to China if it imposed unilateral sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she wanted to bring fresh sanctions against Iran over its refusal to halt uranium enrichment, preferably in conjunction with Russia and China.
[but]
Mitscherlich, who sits on the board of German truckmaker MAN, said such a move would lead to Germany losing its position as Iran’s biggest trading partner in Europe and commercial relationships built up over a matter of years would disintegrate.
‘It would be a huge shame if this economic basis is destroyed as a result of short-term political action,’ he said.
The beneficiary would be China, whose products were already ‘flooding’ into Iran, Mitscherlich said.
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IAEA seals Russian nuclear fuel bound for Iran
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Friday finished sealing uranium fuel that Russia intends to send to Iran’s first atomic power station, Russia’s state nuclear fuel producer said.
Now the fuel is sealed, Russia could swiftly ship it to Iran’s Bushehr power station, which Russia is helping to build.
Russia has given no date for delivering the fuel, but says it would need to be shipped to Bushehr six months before the plant’s repeatedly delayed start-up.
The IAEA team arrived at the plant on Nov 26 and confirmed that the fuel is Uranium-235 enriched to less than 5 percent, state nuclear fuel producer, TVEL, said in a statement.
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AND. Friday . . .
China dropped out of meetings to discuss further sanctions against Iran
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French state nuclear engineering firm Areva on Monday (the 26th) said it’s clinched an 8 billion-euro ($11.9 billion) deal to build two nuclear reactors for China.
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Sarkozy wants everyone to have nuclear power – French nuclear power
Six months into his term, President Nicolas Sarkozy is aggressively pursuing a new policy to give Muslim countries access to nuclear power – and win lucrative contracts for France’s energy champions in the process.
After signing a memorandum of understanding with Libya in the summer, Sarkozy struck a preliminary cooperation accord with Morocco last month. Diplomats say he is planning to discuss nuclear power during trips to Algeria in December and Saudi Arabia in January.
Between them, state-controlled nuclear power giant Areva and Electricité de France are also talking to Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Yemen, Egypt, Qatar and Tunisia. Regional cooperation on nuclear power is a pillar of the president’s diplomatic pet project – a Mediterranean Union gathering countries in North Africa, the Middle East and southern Europe into a bloc.
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OK OK OK so what does this mean for the wormhole crowd?
Reuters reporting, and with it, I really rawtha suspect, the International Herald Tribune, will start differing significantly from the US Corporate Media’s. And this, my friends, will cause a rift in, believe it or not, in Latin American Neoliberal Decision Forking. Because they fancy themselves Old Europe, to a very large extent, and they’ve never been faced with this kind of a dramatic polarization before. Let’s see, let’s see, let’s see. . .
Pero, the United States should not be thinking of themselves as making Enemies in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. It is Big Oil wots dwin dat, have no doubts whatsoFN eva. Big Oil and their limping lapdog the US MIC.
Remember how clear Sarko made it?