NATO has agreed to take over all military operations in Libya, taking command away from the Pentagon – or have they? Critics claim America is still in control.
Journalist Pepe Escobar from the Asia Times said although NATO has taken control, America is still in control to an extent.
“This is an enormous enterprise built on lies,” he said.
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With the help of coalition air strikes, anti-Gadhafi forces are making sustained progress toward the Libyan capital Tripoli. The Western military intervention appears to have entered a new phase. Instead of just protecting civilians as foreseen under the UN resolution, coalition forces are actively supporting rebel fighters. (Spiegel Online has been posting some good articles about this war. Read More >>>)
So while you sit and eat dinner in front of the TV and listen to the evening news about how wonderful the war is in Libya and that we do not take sides. While you accept that America NATO has taken over the war. The coalition is killing hundreds and hundreds of men women and children who are loyal to Libya in the name of the Rebels who just happen to be al-Qaeda trained and backed…
The commander of anti Gaddafi rebels forces in Libya has admitted that among the ranks of those fighting against the government are Islamic militants who have fought and killed US troops in Iraq, otherwise known as “al qaeda” fighters. Read More >>>
So when Russia says that the coalition is not following the plan set forth by the UN. They are right. But if I remember correctly, this happened with Iraq and Afghanistan also…
Russia needs to learn about the West!
Give them an inch and they will take a mile…
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Two of the 10 Russians deported from the United States in a spy row last July have demanded that some of the property they were forced to leave behind be returned to them.
The claim was lodged by the legal counsel for Vladimir and Lidia Guryev, better known as Richard and Cynthia Murphy.
The members of the ring were swapped for four alleged U.S. spies held in Russia and warned never to return to the United States. Their property was seized by the U.S. government.
Richard Murphy’s property reportedly includes $190,000 on his bank account, three cars, computers, cameras and other equipment.
A document held by the Russian legal information agency shows that the couple is asking for the return of computers, digital photos and video cameras, or at least copies of data recorded on them.
They have no “material value,” but are “dear to the Guryevs,” the document says.
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Two of Moscow’s main airports, Vnukovo and Sheremetyevo, are to be merged and sold as part of the country’s privatization program, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday.
“Together with the Moscow mayor, Transport Minister and Finance Ministry officials we have agreed to unify Sheremetyevo airport, in which the Russian government holds a 100% stake and Vnukovo airport, where the Moscow government holds a 75% stake into one system. According to preliminary estimates, this will cost several tens of billions of rubles,” Putin told a government meeting.
“I would like to note that the state has no aim of keeping the assets forever. This is a step aimed at the creation of a unified complex, equipping it and then moving it to the market at an appropriate market price and privatizing it.”
Sheremetyevo is Moscow’s second largest airport. In 2010, it was Europe’s fastest growing airport by number of passengers among airports which service 15 to 25 million passengers a year, with growth of 31%, according to ACI Europe, International Airport Council – European Division.
Earlier in March its CEO said the airport intended to develop its cargo and non-aviation services as well as improve passenger service quality.
Vnukovo has said it is building a terminal which would be Moscow’s largest. It can now handle 35 million people, while last year’s passenger flow was 9.5 million.
Their main rival, Moscow’s top airport Domodedovo, plans to raise up to $1 billion in an initial public offering this year.
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As I was sipping that wonderful cup of coffee this morning. I was doing some thinking’s about the bad habits and issues that I have dropped since coming to Russia…
For those that follow the blog from the beginning you know that I use to smoke, I liked my beers, I was taking anti-depressants, I worked 16 hours a day, I drank gallons of diet drinks and so on and so on and so on…
The latest habit dropped is diet soda. I have been three months without any diet soda and I know now that I have kicked the habit. I have been 5 years with out anti-depressants. 5 years no beer. 5 years no cigarettes and 5 years no 16 hour days. I feel better and am loosing weight while kicking all these terrible habits and issues…
I have one bad vice still left. I also do not feel like dropping that habit. My one cup of coffee every morning is a simple pleasure that makes my life extra good…
Interesting situation came to me about dropping all these bad habits in Russia. They are the cheapest habits to sustain in Russia. With the exception of anti-depressants. Russian doctors really dislike giving out that type of prescriptions. Russia is a smokers and alcohol drinkers paradise and diet drinks are now plentiful everywhere we travel. But coffee…
Now good coffee is non existent in Russia (Matter of my opinion of course!). When you ask for coffee in Russia, be ready for a tiny tiny tiny cup and half of that cup is full of coffee grinds. They take regular coffee and fill a small cup half full and pour in steaming hot water (no filter). Super strong and meaty…
So Sveta and I have learned to ask for a coffee and a milk and an extra tea size cup and extra hot water. Then when I get my coffee I create my own concoction. It is the best way because no one will understand what you want when you tell them I want a big cup of coffee with cream… 🙂
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The military intervention by the Western-led coalition force in Libya’s civil war is out of tune with the relevant UN Security Council resolution, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.
“We believe that the coalition’s intervention in the civil war [in Libya] has not, essentially, been sanctioned by the UN Security Council resolution,” said, adding its only purpose “is to ensure the protection of the civilian population.”
“This resolution contains no other goals,” he said.
Russia abstained from the Security Council vote.
On Sunday, NATO began taking command of all aerial operations in Libya from the US-led force. The transfer of authority will take up to three days.
Russia abstained from a UN Security Council resolution adopted on March 17 imposing a no-fly zone over Libya and measures to protect civilians from Gaddafi’s forces.
Western-led military strikes against Gaddafi, whose forces have been attacking rebels in the
east of the North African country since mid-February, began last Saturday.
Libyan television has reported that at least 100 civilians have been killed and over 150 wounded in the strikes and that many health and education facilities have been destroyed. Coalition commanders deny this.
Source: MOSCOW, March 28 (RIA Novosti)
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has criticized the UN Security Council resolution on Libya for allowing foreign military intervention in a sovereign state. Putin called the resolution “defective and flawed,” adding that “it allows everything and is reminiscent of a medieval call for a crusade.” Putin noted that Russia, which abstained on the UN. resolution vote and is not involved in the operation, wanted to avoid direct intervention and admonished the West, especially the US, for acting too aggressively.
Putin’s comments indicate the strength of Russia’s geopolitical position in the midst of several ongoing crises. The Western-led intervention in Libya is an opportunity for Putin to return to a familiar confrontational position on the US in order to advance Russia’s interests even further at a difficult time for Washington.
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Russia is threatening a political crisis and the Russian government is less legitimate in the eyes of the citizens, from the report by the Center for Strategic Research. Ending this political crisis requires fair elections, the loss of most of the “United Russia” people in the State Duma and the substitution of the first three levels of politicians. That means starting with president on down three levels…
Read More – but in Russia: http://www.gazeta.ru/politics/2011/03/24_a_3564305.shtml
By the way this information came from a report by a think tank that advises the presidential administration…
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What you see above is a cruise missile in action. They have been hitting the capital of Libya with these…
The coalition is perfect and kills no civilians…
However, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has dismissed assertions by the Libyan government that coalition strikes have killed nearly 200 civilians. In a taped interview with American news organization CBS, Gates accused Qaddafi of planting bodies of people he had killed at sites attacked by coalition warplanes. Gates said this was a ploy to blame civilian casualties on the US-led coalition, adding it was hard “coming up with proof of any civilian casualties that we have been responsible for.” He also went on to praise the coalition air forces for being “extremely careful” during their operations…
So the West is the perfect war machine and we are to believe that we are so damn good that we can not find evidence that we have killed any poor unsuspecting civilians…
US President Barack Obama, meanwhile, has sounded an upbeat note on the mission in Libya, saying Qaddafi’s air defenses have been disabled and his forces pushed back. “Make no mistake, because we acted quickly, a humanitarian catastrophe has been avoided and the lives of countless civilians…have been saved,” he said in his weekly radio address on Saturday.
Have you ever seen the destruction power of a 1000lb Tomahawk cruise missile? I have and if you think that we should believe no one has died, then you are dumber than the politicians telling you that we have killed no civilians. Oh by the way, We have done all this for humanitarian reasons…
Than why is it we don’t care, that there have been revolutions and major riots and killing protests in multiples of countries. No we just care about saving Libya…
Well maybe when NATO America NATO takes over we can admit we have killed civilians. Nah – Oh I forgot, they are not civilians they are collateral damage and that does not count as a death…
So pardon me – while I don’t believe a stinking word of anything that the Western governments are telling us…
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Anna Chapman, the “sultry Russian secret agent” who hit the headlines last year after being exposed as a deep-cover operative in the United States, says she bears no ill will towards the man who betrayed her. And why should she? Since being freed as part of a dramatic spy swap deal in Vienna in July 2010, the flame-haired daughter of a Russian career diplomat has rarely been out of the limelight, taking up a number of lucrative job offers and positioning herself for a move into big-time politics. “It was the start of something great and beautiful,” Chapman gushed on a recent Russian TV show. Or, as she puts it on her newly launched website: “The day I returned to Moscow was my second birthday.”
It wasn’t hard to predict that only good things awaited Chapman once she was safely back in Russia. The country’s all-powerful premier, Vladimir Putin, had said that Chapman and her former comrades would “work in worthy places” and have “bright, interesting lives”.
“Every single one of these people has gone through a difficult time… in the interests of their homeland,” said Putin, the ex-KGB officer. And while a number of her former colleagues have reportedly been rewarded with cushy posts at state-run companies, it is Chapman’s star that has risen by far the highest.
A month after their deportation, Putin joined up with the failed spies for a karaoke-type evening, where they crooned together the Soviet-era song – and unofficial Russian intelligence service anthem – “From Where the Motherland Begins”. After that cosy night out, things moved fast for Chapman. She was awarded a top state honour by President Dmitry Medvedev, posed for erotic – and lucrative – photos for men’s magazines, and was handed her own primetime TV show. She did, however, turn down a role in a porn film, despite being offered a “substantial” fee by the Vivid Entertainment adult-film company.
Chapman has also been made the face of the ruling United Russia party’s youth movement and has been tipped to win a seat in parliament in upcoming elections. On top of all this, she has registered her surname as a trademark; has brought out a poker app and a slew of Chapman-own products, including perfume, watches and vodka, is expected to hit the shops soon. The 29-year-old provincial Russian also has a Max Clifford-type agent to handle “commercial projects”, which include highly paid interviews and photo shoots.
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