08-05-2014, 08:21 PM
WWW III
09-05-2014, 08:01 PM
Hi....I am a frequent visitor to your site, and I have just observed something that may be of interest to you.
I live very close to an army depot in PA and within the last 30 minutes I have seen 6 HUGE military planes lying very low and headed toward the depot. I was informed by my neighbor that he had been watching the incoming planes for the last hour. He stated that they have been arriving from every direction about every 15 minutes.
This is very unusual. I wondering if you have had any reports from anyone else regarding similar occurrences.
Oh boy....please believe me, I am not the excitable type, but the planes are coming in about every 5 minutes...I know because they fly over my house. Now have started to see some helicopters fly in....just thought you would like to know.
In Response To: Reader: "Lots of military planes flying into Army depot in Pennsylvania" (hobie)
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Reader V. writes:
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In response to the above posting, the same thing is happening at Dobbins Air Force Base in Marietta, GA. Tonight (Thursday) and last night, every five minutes.
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Date: Friday, 9-May-2014 03:39:28
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Confirmed large low flying military aircraft i....
I witnessed very low flying large C-130 aircrafts flying into Davis-Monthan Air Force Base here in Tucson, Az. Home to our wonderful imperious Mayor Rothschild and a lot of covert air operations.
The low altitude and constant traffic raise my antennas that something is on the move especially with two other similar reports of such sighting . Are the white hats on the move?
I live very close to an army depot in PA and within the last 30 minutes I have seen 6 HUGE military planes lying very low and headed toward the depot. I was informed by my neighbor that he had been watching the incoming planes for the last hour. He stated that they have been arriving from every direction about every 15 minutes.
This is very unusual. I wondering if you have had any reports from anyone else regarding similar occurrences.
Oh boy....please believe me, I am not the excitable type, but the planes are coming in about every 5 minutes...I know because they fly over my house. Now have started to see some helicopters fly in....just thought you would like to know.
In Response To: Reader: "Lots of military planes flying into Army depot in Pennsylvania" (hobie)
(Thanks, V.
Reader V. writes:
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Re: Reader: 'Lots of military planes flying in....
In response to the above posting, the same thing is happening at Dobbins Air Force Base in Marietta, GA. Tonight (Thursday) and last night, every five minutes.
Posted By: hobie [Send E-Mail]
Date: Friday, 9-May-2014 03:39:28
In Response To: Reader: "Lots of military planes flying into Army depot in Pennsylvania" (hobie)
(Thanks, l.
Reader l. writes:
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Confirmed large low flying military aircraft i....
I witnessed very low flying large C-130 aircrafts flying into Davis-Monthan Air Force Base here in Tucson, Az. Home to our wonderful imperious Mayor Rothschild and a lot of covert air operations.
The low altitude and constant traffic raise my antennas that something is on the move especially with two other similar reports of such sighting . Are the white hats on the move?
11-05-2014, 12:14 AM
Interceptors missiles in Romania and Poland?
Romania Troops and Marines on the Black Sea Coast?
Romania Troops and Marines on the Black Sea Coast?
14-05-2014, 03:06 AM
16-05-2014, 12:23 AM
22-05-2014, 02:36 PM
http://rt.com/news/160696-aegis-ashore-test-launch/
http://rt.com/news/157096-us-ballistic-missile-europe/
http://rt.com/news/missile-destroyer-usa-europe-560/
http://rt.com/politics/russia-blasts-us-...sible-426/
http://rt.com/politics/putin-military-re...sults-518/
http://rt.com/politics/3mln-strategic-mi...orces-742/
http://rt.com/politics/russian-intellige...c-ops-789/
http://rt.com/news/157096-us-ballistic-missile-europe/
http://rt.com/news/missile-destroyer-usa-europe-560/
http://rt.com/politics/russia-blasts-us-...sible-426/
http://rt.com/politics/putin-military-re...sults-518/
http://rt.com/politics/3mln-strategic-mi...orces-742/
http://rt.com/politics/russian-intellige...c-ops-789/
24-05-2014, 09:47 PM
The World’s Most Powerful Private Club, Bilderberg’s Silent Takeover of Britain’s $60bn Defense Budget
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-worlds-...et/5382698
Democracy had another near-fatal stroke, and the military industrial complex further tightened UK defense spending with the appointment of ex-army officer and Tory hothead Rory Stewart MP as the new chairman of Westminster’s Defence Select Committee.
Last week the Home Affairs Select Committee delivered a damning verdict on Britain’s defense and secret service oversight, on taxpayer accountability. It said the refusal of the director general of MI5, Andrew Parker, to appear before them and lack of any effective supervision was “undermining the credibility of the intelligence agencies and parliament itself.”
Surely nothing could surpass the ‘Dodgy Dossier’, the criminal conspiracy that led to the US and Britain, as the Arab League put it in 2003, to ‘Opening the Gates of Hell in Iraq’? But with Stuart’s appointment to oversee public scrutiny of UK military spending just two weeks before NATO’s political cabal of which he’s a member, the Bilderberg conference, meets in Copenhagen later this month, it is clear to those who still have eyes to see that those bloody lessons have not been learned and the worse could be yet to come.
The most powerful private club in the world
In their Christmas 1987 edition, The Economist described Bilderberg as ‘Ne Plus Ultra’ the most powerful private club in the world. Its power has certainly not diminished as the decades have rolled by and neither has its secrecy. Although it began with trades unionists and powerful people it wanted to persuade, in its final days Bilderberg has boiled down to a rotten core of bankers, royalty, arms industry, oil and media barons and Rory Stuart MP, in the tradition of Kissinger, Blair, Cameron, Osborne and Balls, has thrown his lot in with them.
In 1943, half way through the war, the US power elite saw that, barring any big surprises, Hitler was going to lose World War Two, so their ‘War And Peace Studies Group’ of the Council On Foreign Relations (CFR) quietly began to prepare the Marshall Plan for the post-war world. Alongside the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a sizable budget was set aside to fund a range of activities which would ensure Europeans didn’t vote communist and were welded economically, culturally and politically to the US for the foreseeable future.
British soldier Lieutenant-Colonel Nick Lock © checks his equipment before conducting a patrol with soldiers of the 1st Batallion of the Royal Welsh in streets of Showal in Nad-e-Ali district, Southern Afghanistan, in Helmand Province.(AFP Photo / Thomas Coex )
Born in a Nazi ‘witches cauldron’ of British blood
Bilderberg’s first chairman, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, was born into the German aristocracy. He joined the Nazi party at university, then the SS but he married into the Dutch royal family, dropping the silver deaths-head and black SS uniform before the war. His newly adopted Holland was invaded by his old Nazi friends in 1941, so he fled to Britain with Dutch Queen Wilhelmina and his wife, Princess Juliana.
As a former SS officer he was scrutinized by the Admiralty’s wartime spymaster, Ian Fleming who, after a year of watching Bernhard, signed him to the British army as a trusted Dutch liaison officer.
With 1944 came one of Bernhard’s most important jobs: to supervise the Dutch underground in the run-up to September’s liberation of large parts of Holland. Field Marshall Montgomery’s audacious airborne operation, the biggest in history, depicted in Cornelius Ryan’s 1977 film A Bridge Too Far, was codenamed ‘Market Garden’ and intended to end the war by Christmas.
As liaison officer for the coming Arnhem deliverance, Bernhard sent in Dutch spy, Christiaan Lindemans, codename ‘King Kong’, ten days beforehand to prepare resistance fighters for the allies lunge through Eindhoven, Nijmegen and over the Rhein into Arnhem.
But instead of making contact with the Dutch underground, Bernhard’s ‘King Kong’ found some German soldiers and demanded to be taken straight to the Abwehr, German military intelligence. The allies’ plans for the airborne assault were in enemy hands because Bernhard’s precious Lindemans was a double agent. He had wrecked the allies’ all-important element of surprise.
‘King Kong’ was arrested and quizzed after the war by the British but never got a chance to tell his story because, under Dutch orders, he was whisked off to Germany and died in suspicious circumstances.
Operation Market Garden went ahead on Sunday September 17, 1944, but the British paratroopers at Arnhem were quickly split and surrounded by forces containing self-propelled guns, tanks and crack SS troops, who happened to be resting nearby. Frost’s 2nd battalion held on to the bridge leaving the rest of the 1st Airborne Division surrounded in what the Nazis called the Hexenkessel or ‘witches cauldron’, pinned down in the suburb of Oosterbeek.
On Wednesday 20 September, 1944, as British airborne Colonel John Frost’s remaining paratroopers were being mauled by SS Panzers at Arnhem Bridge, the tanks of the Grenadier Guards, along with US paratroopers, were tantalizingly close, destroying the last German defenses down the road in Nijmegen. Ironically, it was a young captain, who was also to chair the Bilderberg meetings in later life, Lord Peter Carrington, who was leading the Grenadier battle group of Sherman tanks as they took the penultimate bridge. At 8 o’clock that evening, he was just a 20-minute drive from reinforcing Frost at the Arnhem Bridge, and victory.
But although they still had eight hours or so before Arnhem Bridge would finally fall into German hands, Carrington’s force, along with the Irish guards, of a hundred or so tanks inexplicably stopped, just over the Nijmegen Bridge in the village of Lent, for an eighteen hour rest. After the war, 10 SS Panzer Division General Heinz Harmel mocked Carrington saying, “The British tanks made a mistake when they stayed in Lent. If they had carried on it would have been all over for us.”
‘Colonel Frost later put the blame,’ as Stuart Hills reports in ‘By Tank To Normandy’, ‘firmly on the lack of drive by Guards Armoured,’ of which Carrington’s Grenadiers were the spearhead. ‘Comparing their relatively light casualties with those suffered by the British 1st Airborne and US 82nd. Forty years later,’ in 1984, ‘he stood on the bridge at a reunion, shook his fist and roared a question into the air for the guards. ‘Do you call that fighting!’
So Bilderberg’s first 1954 venue in Oosterbeek, Holland, was highly significant, being the same spot where a decade before the British army had suffered nearly 10,000 casualties in of one of the last Nazi bloodbaths of World War II. Bernhard had given the game away and when it looked like, despite his treachery, the brave allied soldiers might pull it off, Carrington and his corps of tanks ground to a halt for an eighteen hour tea break.
AFP Photo / Dan Chung
Psychos always return to the scene of the crime
Like the psychopath, who feels compelled to return to the scene of the crime, Prince Bernhard returned to Oosterbeek to chair the inaugural Bilderberg meeting in 1954. The conferences led to the signing of the Treaty of Rome, which started the European Economic Community (EEC) three years later.
Surrounded by the great and good of the post war world, the prince hoped nobody would examine his reasons for choosing Oosterbeek. At the best it was an in-joke – at the worst the battle was thrown. Whatever way you look at it sixty years on, the coded message from that first Bilderberg meeting should be clear to us now. Ten years after the war, the Nazis were back.
The seventy year Bilderberg project is almost complete
So seventy years since the Arnhem slaughter and sixty years since the first Bilderberg conference, the EEC has become the EU. NATO’s new feudal oligarchy of Western banksters and multinationals own and control all the big political parties as well as almost everything that moves both sides of the Atlantic.
Some saw it coming: former SS general Paul Hausser, who became chief of HIAG, the German SS veterans group after the war, claimed that “the foreign units of the SS were really the precursors of the NATO army.” Others detailed the Nazis’ transformation from military to financial empire including former CBS News correspondent Paul Manning in his 1981 book ‘Martin Bormann Nazi in Exile’.
Bilderberg’s latest wheeze is the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). This treaty makes voting pointless by letting multinationals sue governments and will leave only the thinnest veneer of democracy for the mainstream media to chew on both in Europe and America. The ‘nation states’ will become mere prefectures and the European Commission will be the unelected government of the United States of Europe.
As ordinary people across Europe and America cry out for decent basic standards such as fresh water, food, shelter, healthcare, heating and full employment, the mainstream media barely hear them because this is not the Bilderberg way. Instead, these pinstriped fascists bury us in debt, steal our leisure time, erode quality time with children, friends and family, and then blame us for demanding a fair share of the rewards of human progress.
Beginning his working life in the aviation industry and trained by the BBC, Tony Gosling is a British land rights activist, historian & investigative radio journalist.
Britain: Activists Disrupt Construction of New Nuclear Weapons Factory
by Action AWE (Atomic Weapons Eradication)
£2 billion project going ahead, but Parliament has not yet voted on further nuke development.
That’s what you call “democracy”. But it is all for a good cause. Nuclear weapons are an “instrument of peace”.
Daring dawn blockade of Berkshire’s nuclear weapons factory
This morning at 7.20, a group of people began blockading the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) site at Burghfield, near Reading. The protesters, acting as part of ActionAWE [1], a campaign of nonviolent direct action, are trying to disrupt construction of a new nuclear warhead factory on the site.
The new development at AWE Burghfield is being built at a cost to the tax payer of almost £2 billion, despite the fact that parliament has yet to vote on replacing the current generation of nuclear warheads that the site would build.
The eight protesters, aged between 19 and 40, are locked together using handcuffs inside ‘lock-on’ devices – made from drainpipes, and vegetable oil drums filled with concrete in order to block the gate to the construction site to prevent further work on the site. Traffic is now queued up, unable to enter the facility. The Christians amongst the protesters are singing hymns.
Catherine Bann, 40, mother of two from Todmorden, said:
“The money we would spend renewing Trident could pay for all A & E hospital departments in the country for the next 40 years! It’s a huge waste of public money to be investing in nuclear weapons, and people like us must make a stand now, so that future generations do not have to bear the cost.”
Joanna Frew, 35, a member of the United Reformed Church living in London but originally from Scotland, said
“Trident is illegal, immoral and a waste of money. It is the opposite of everything that Jesus teaches us about being co-creators of life and loving your enemies. Political and religious leaders in Scotland are opposed to retaining Trident at Faslane. We have a real opportunity over the next year to say that it is no longer acceptable , and that we don’t want an illegal renewal.”
Phil Wood, 20, a student at Bradford University added
“To be spending millions of pounds and planning to spend billions more on nuclear weapons while cutting back on essential public services that people rely on is unforgivable”.
Matt Fawcett, 39, from Yorkshire CND said
“This ‘do as we say, not as we do’ policy of telling other countries they can’t develop nuclear weapons while we spend billions developing new weapons of our own, not only undermines attempts to limit the spread of nuclear weapons but also discredits Britain on the world stage. Polls show 87% of the British public are against spending on new nukes at a time of such drastic cuts, yet the construction goes on at Burghfield without any parliamentary debate”.
The UK government has an armed nuclear submarine on patrol and ready to fire at all times, with the ability to wipe out cities almost anywhere on earth within 15 minutes[2]. The UK government has a stockpile of around 225 nuclear warheads[3], each with eight times the explosive power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 [4] that killed an estimated 140,000 to 200,000 people. Running the Trident nuclear weapons system currently costs £2 billion a year[5], and has not seen any of the cutbacks facing other government spending and public services. The government will vote in 2016 to decide whether to invest in the UK’s Trident nuclear weapon system for another 30 years.
Operated by a consortium of Jacobs Engineering Group, Lockheed Martin and Serco, AWE Burghfield plays an integral part in the final assembly and maintenance of nuclear warheads for use in the Trident system[6]. In 2011 Peter Luff, the then Minister for Defence Equipment, announced £2 billion of spending for redevelopment of the Burghfield and Aldermaston weapons factories[7]. The total spending on Weapons of Mass Destruction in the UK will soar to over £100 Billion should the government take the decision to renew Trident in 2016 [8].
Action AWE (Atomic Weapons Eradication) is a grassroots campaign of nonviolent action dedicated to halting nuclear weapons production at the Atomic Weapons Establishment factories at Aldermaston and Burghfield.
Notes
[1] http://www.actionawe.org/
[2]http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/peace/trident-the-uks-nuclear-weapons-system
[3]Stockholm International Peace Research Institute:www.sipri.org/research/armaments/nuclear-forces
[4]http://www.cnduk.org/information/briefings UK warheads are thought to have a yield of 80-100kt.
[5] http://fullfact.org/factchecks/cost_trid...rent-28864
[6] www.awe.co.uk/aboutus/the_company_eb1b2.html
[7]http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmhansrd/cm111122/text/111122w0002.htm#111122114002933
[8] http://www.cnduk.org/information/briefin...-briefings
http://www.globalresearch.ca/britain-act...ry/5382852
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-worlds-...et/5382698
Democracy had another near-fatal stroke, and the military industrial complex further tightened UK defense spending with the appointment of ex-army officer and Tory hothead Rory Stewart MP as the new chairman of Westminster’s Defence Select Committee.
Last week the Home Affairs Select Committee delivered a damning verdict on Britain’s defense and secret service oversight, on taxpayer accountability. It said the refusal of the director general of MI5, Andrew Parker, to appear before them and lack of any effective supervision was “undermining the credibility of the intelligence agencies and parliament itself.”
Surely nothing could surpass the ‘Dodgy Dossier’, the criminal conspiracy that led to the US and Britain, as the Arab League put it in 2003, to ‘Opening the Gates of Hell in Iraq’? But with Stuart’s appointment to oversee public scrutiny of UK military spending just two weeks before NATO’s political cabal of which he’s a member, the Bilderberg conference, meets in Copenhagen later this month, it is clear to those who still have eyes to see that those bloody lessons have not been learned and the worse could be yet to come.
The most powerful private club in the world
In their Christmas 1987 edition, The Economist described Bilderberg as ‘Ne Plus Ultra’ the most powerful private club in the world. Its power has certainly not diminished as the decades have rolled by and neither has its secrecy. Although it began with trades unionists and powerful people it wanted to persuade, in its final days Bilderberg has boiled down to a rotten core of bankers, royalty, arms industry, oil and media barons and Rory Stuart MP, in the tradition of Kissinger, Blair, Cameron, Osborne and Balls, has thrown his lot in with them.
In 1943, half way through the war, the US power elite saw that, barring any big surprises, Hitler was going to lose World War Two, so their ‘War And Peace Studies Group’ of the Council On Foreign Relations (CFR) quietly began to prepare the Marshall Plan for the post-war world. Alongside the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a sizable budget was set aside to fund a range of activities which would ensure Europeans didn’t vote communist and were welded economically, culturally and politically to the US for the foreseeable future.
British soldier Lieutenant-Colonel Nick Lock © checks his equipment before conducting a patrol with soldiers of the 1st Batallion of the Royal Welsh in streets of Showal in Nad-e-Ali district, Southern Afghanistan, in Helmand Province.(AFP Photo / Thomas Coex )
Born in a Nazi ‘witches cauldron’ of British blood
Bilderberg’s first chairman, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, was born into the German aristocracy. He joined the Nazi party at university, then the SS but he married into the Dutch royal family, dropping the silver deaths-head and black SS uniform before the war. His newly adopted Holland was invaded by his old Nazi friends in 1941, so he fled to Britain with Dutch Queen Wilhelmina and his wife, Princess Juliana.
As a former SS officer he was scrutinized by the Admiralty’s wartime spymaster, Ian Fleming who, after a year of watching Bernhard, signed him to the British army as a trusted Dutch liaison officer.
With 1944 came one of Bernhard’s most important jobs: to supervise the Dutch underground in the run-up to September’s liberation of large parts of Holland. Field Marshall Montgomery’s audacious airborne operation, the biggest in history, depicted in Cornelius Ryan’s 1977 film A Bridge Too Far, was codenamed ‘Market Garden’ and intended to end the war by Christmas.
As liaison officer for the coming Arnhem deliverance, Bernhard sent in Dutch spy, Christiaan Lindemans, codename ‘King Kong’, ten days beforehand to prepare resistance fighters for the allies lunge through Eindhoven, Nijmegen and over the Rhein into Arnhem.
But instead of making contact with the Dutch underground, Bernhard’s ‘King Kong’ found some German soldiers and demanded to be taken straight to the Abwehr, German military intelligence. The allies’ plans for the airborne assault were in enemy hands because Bernhard’s precious Lindemans was a double agent. He had wrecked the allies’ all-important element of surprise.
‘King Kong’ was arrested and quizzed after the war by the British but never got a chance to tell his story because, under Dutch orders, he was whisked off to Germany and died in suspicious circumstances.
Operation Market Garden went ahead on Sunday September 17, 1944, but the British paratroopers at Arnhem were quickly split and surrounded by forces containing self-propelled guns, tanks and crack SS troops, who happened to be resting nearby. Frost’s 2nd battalion held on to the bridge leaving the rest of the 1st Airborne Division surrounded in what the Nazis called the Hexenkessel or ‘witches cauldron’, pinned down in the suburb of Oosterbeek.
On Wednesday 20 September, 1944, as British airborne Colonel John Frost’s remaining paratroopers were being mauled by SS Panzers at Arnhem Bridge, the tanks of the Grenadier Guards, along with US paratroopers, were tantalizingly close, destroying the last German defenses down the road in Nijmegen. Ironically, it was a young captain, who was also to chair the Bilderberg meetings in later life, Lord Peter Carrington, who was leading the Grenadier battle group of Sherman tanks as they took the penultimate bridge. At 8 o’clock that evening, he was just a 20-minute drive from reinforcing Frost at the Arnhem Bridge, and victory.
But although they still had eight hours or so before Arnhem Bridge would finally fall into German hands, Carrington’s force, along with the Irish guards, of a hundred or so tanks inexplicably stopped, just over the Nijmegen Bridge in the village of Lent, for an eighteen hour rest. After the war, 10 SS Panzer Division General Heinz Harmel mocked Carrington saying, “The British tanks made a mistake when they stayed in Lent. If they had carried on it would have been all over for us.”
‘Colonel Frost later put the blame,’ as Stuart Hills reports in ‘By Tank To Normandy’, ‘firmly on the lack of drive by Guards Armoured,’ of which Carrington’s Grenadiers were the spearhead. ‘Comparing their relatively light casualties with those suffered by the British 1st Airborne and US 82nd. Forty years later,’ in 1984, ‘he stood on the bridge at a reunion, shook his fist and roared a question into the air for the guards. ‘Do you call that fighting!’
So Bilderberg’s first 1954 venue in Oosterbeek, Holland, was highly significant, being the same spot where a decade before the British army had suffered nearly 10,000 casualties in of one of the last Nazi bloodbaths of World War II. Bernhard had given the game away and when it looked like, despite his treachery, the brave allied soldiers might pull it off, Carrington and his corps of tanks ground to a halt for an eighteen hour tea break.
AFP Photo / Dan Chung
Psychos always return to the scene of the crime
Like the psychopath, who feels compelled to return to the scene of the crime, Prince Bernhard returned to Oosterbeek to chair the inaugural Bilderberg meeting in 1954. The conferences led to the signing of the Treaty of Rome, which started the European Economic Community (EEC) three years later.
Surrounded by the great and good of the post war world, the prince hoped nobody would examine his reasons for choosing Oosterbeek. At the best it was an in-joke – at the worst the battle was thrown. Whatever way you look at it sixty years on, the coded message from that first Bilderberg meeting should be clear to us now. Ten years after the war, the Nazis were back.
The seventy year Bilderberg project is almost complete
So seventy years since the Arnhem slaughter and sixty years since the first Bilderberg conference, the EEC has become the EU. NATO’s new feudal oligarchy of Western banksters and multinationals own and control all the big political parties as well as almost everything that moves both sides of the Atlantic.
Some saw it coming: former SS general Paul Hausser, who became chief of HIAG, the German SS veterans group after the war, claimed that “the foreign units of the SS were really the precursors of the NATO army.” Others detailed the Nazis’ transformation from military to financial empire including former CBS News correspondent Paul Manning in his 1981 book ‘Martin Bormann Nazi in Exile’.
Bilderberg’s latest wheeze is the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). This treaty makes voting pointless by letting multinationals sue governments and will leave only the thinnest veneer of democracy for the mainstream media to chew on both in Europe and America. The ‘nation states’ will become mere prefectures and the European Commission will be the unelected government of the United States of Europe.
As ordinary people across Europe and America cry out for decent basic standards such as fresh water, food, shelter, healthcare, heating and full employment, the mainstream media barely hear them because this is not the Bilderberg way. Instead, these pinstriped fascists bury us in debt, steal our leisure time, erode quality time with children, friends and family, and then blame us for demanding a fair share of the rewards of human progress.
Beginning his working life in the aviation industry and trained by the BBC, Tony Gosling is a British land rights activist, historian & investigative radio journalist.
Britain: Activists Disrupt Construction of New Nuclear Weapons Factory
by Action AWE (Atomic Weapons Eradication)
£2 billion project going ahead, but Parliament has not yet voted on further nuke development.
That’s what you call “democracy”. But it is all for a good cause. Nuclear weapons are an “instrument of peace”.
Daring dawn blockade of Berkshire’s nuclear weapons factory
This morning at 7.20, a group of people began blockading the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) site at Burghfield, near Reading. The protesters, acting as part of ActionAWE [1], a campaign of nonviolent direct action, are trying to disrupt construction of a new nuclear warhead factory on the site.
The new development at AWE Burghfield is being built at a cost to the tax payer of almost £2 billion, despite the fact that parliament has yet to vote on replacing the current generation of nuclear warheads that the site would build.
The eight protesters, aged between 19 and 40, are locked together using handcuffs inside ‘lock-on’ devices – made from drainpipes, and vegetable oil drums filled with concrete in order to block the gate to the construction site to prevent further work on the site. Traffic is now queued up, unable to enter the facility. The Christians amongst the protesters are singing hymns.
Catherine Bann, 40, mother of two from Todmorden, said:
“The money we would spend renewing Trident could pay for all A & E hospital departments in the country for the next 40 years! It’s a huge waste of public money to be investing in nuclear weapons, and people like us must make a stand now, so that future generations do not have to bear the cost.”
Joanna Frew, 35, a member of the United Reformed Church living in London but originally from Scotland, said
“Trident is illegal, immoral and a waste of money. It is the opposite of everything that Jesus teaches us about being co-creators of life and loving your enemies. Political and religious leaders in Scotland are opposed to retaining Trident at Faslane. We have a real opportunity over the next year to say that it is no longer acceptable , and that we don’t want an illegal renewal.”
Phil Wood, 20, a student at Bradford University added
“To be spending millions of pounds and planning to spend billions more on nuclear weapons while cutting back on essential public services that people rely on is unforgivable”.
Matt Fawcett, 39, from Yorkshire CND said
“This ‘do as we say, not as we do’ policy of telling other countries they can’t develop nuclear weapons while we spend billions developing new weapons of our own, not only undermines attempts to limit the spread of nuclear weapons but also discredits Britain on the world stage. Polls show 87% of the British public are against spending on new nukes at a time of such drastic cuts, yet the construction goes on at Burghfield without any parliamentary debate”.
The UK government has an armed nuclear submarine on patrol and ready to fire at all times, with the ability to wipe out cities almost anywhere on earth within 15 minutes[2]. The UK government has a stockpile of around 225 nuclear warheads[3], each with eight times the explosive power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 [4] that killed an estimated 140,000 to 200,000 people. Running the Trident nuclear weapons system currently costs £2 billion a year[5], and has not seen any of the cutbacks facing other government spending and public services. The government will vote in 2016 to decide whether to invest in the UK’s Trident nuclear weapon system for another 30 years.
Operated by a consortium of Jacobs Engineering Group, Lockheed Martin and Serco, AWE Burghfield plays an integral part in the final assembly and maintenance of nuclear warheads for use in the Trident system[6]. In 2011 Peter Luff, the then Minister for Defence Equipment, announced £2 billion of spending for redevelopment of the Burghfield and Aldermaston weapons factories[7]. The total spending on Weapons of Mass Destruction in the UK will soar to over £100 Billion should the government take the decision to renew Trident in 2016 [8].
Action AWE (Atomic Weapons Eradication) is a grassroots campaign of nonviolent action dedicated to halting nuclear weapons production at the Atomic Weapons Establishment factories at Aldermaston and Burghfield.
Notes
[1] http://www.actionawe.org/
[2]http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/peace/trident-the-uks-nuclear-weapons-system
[3]Stockholm International Peace Research Institute:www.sipri.org/research/armaments/nuclear-forces
[4]http://www.cnduk.org/information/briefings UK warheads are thought to have a yield of 80-100kt.
[5] http://fullfact.org/factchecks/cost_trid...rent-28864
[6] www.awe.co.uk/aboutus/the_company_eb1b2.html
[7]http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmhansrd/cm111122/text/111122w0002.htm#111122114002933
[8] http://www.cnduk.org/information/briefin...-briefings
http://www.globalresearch.ca/britain-act...ry/5382852
31-05-2014, 07:40 PM
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/05/29/...ato-obama/
US President Barack Obama says that “American leadership” has forced Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is “surrounded by NATO members,” to reverse course in Ukraine.
US efforts to rally the world against Russia have changed the equation in Ukraine, Obama said in an interview with NPR News airing Thursday.
“When you look at events in Ukraine over the last two months, there is no doubt that our ability to mobilize international opinion rapidly has changed the balance and the equation in Ukraine," the president said.
He pointed to the election of Ukrainian President-elect Petro Poroshenko and Putin's announcement to withdraw troops from Ukraine's border as proof that pressure was working.
“That’s an application of American leadership that is sustainable, consistent and is most likely to produce the kinds of results we want," Obama said.
Trying to counter criticism that his administration was being outmaneuvered by the Kremlin, Obama said Putin’s actions in Ukraine did not reflect strength, but rather, in his perspective, the Russian leader “was operating from a position of weakness.”
“He felt as if he was being further and further surrounded by NATO members, folks who are looking west economically, from a security perspective. And even in Ukraine, the crown jewel of the former Soviet system, outside of Russia, an oligarchy that was corrupt was rejected by people on the streets,” Obama stated.
Tensions between Washington and Moscow heightened after Crimea declared independence from Ukraine and formally applied to become part of the Russian Federation following a referendum in March.
“The fact that Crimea, which historically is dominated by native Russians and Russian speakers, was annexed illegally does not in any way negate the fact that the way of life, the systems of economic organization, the notions of rule of law, those values that we hold dear, are ascendant, and you know, the other side is going to be on the defense," Obama said.
In unusually blunt remarks on Friday, Putin pushed back against accusations by Obama that the Kremlin has been fomenting unrest in Ukraine.
“Who is he to judge? Who is he to judge, seriously?” the Russian leader said. “If he wants to judge people, why doesn’t he get a job in court somewhere?” he added, according to an interpreter.
US President Barack Obama says that “American leadership” has forced Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is “surrounded by NATO members,” to reverse course in Ukraine.
US efforts to rally the world against Russia have changed the equation in Ukraine, Obama said in an interview with NPR News airing Thursday.
“When you look at events in Ukraine over the last two months, there is no doubt that our ability to mobilize international opinion rapidly has changed the balance and the equation in Ukraine," the president said.
He pointed to the election of Ukrainian President-elect Petro Poroshenko and Putin's announcement to withdraw troops from Ukraine's border as proof that pressure was working.
“That’s an application of American leadership that is sustainable, consistent and is most likely to produce the kinds of results we want," Obama said.
Trying to counter criticism that his administration was being outmaneuvered by the Kremlin, Obama said Putin’s actions in Ukraine did not reflect strength, but rather, in his perspective, the Russian leader “was operating from a position of weakness.”
“He felt as if he was being further and further surrounded by NATO members, folks who are looking west economically, from a security perspective. And even in Ukraine, the crown jewel of the former Soviet system, outside of Russia, an oligarchy that was corrupt was rejected by people on the streets,” Obama stated.
Tensions between Washington and Moscow heightened after Crimea declared independence from Ukraine and formally applied to become part of the Russian Federation following a referendum in March.
“The fact that Crimea, which historically is dominated by native Russians and Russian speakers, was annexed illegally does not in any way negate the fact that the way of life, the systems of economic organization, the notions of rule of law, those values that we hold dear, are ascendant, and you know, the other side is going to be on the defense," Obama said.
In unusually blunt remarks on Friday, Putin pushed back against accusations by Obama that the Kremlin has been fomenting unrest in Ukraine.
“Who is he to judge? Who is he to judge, seriously?” the Russian leader said. “If he wants to judge people, why doesn’t he get a job in court somewhere?” he added, according to an interpreter.
03-06-2014, 09:07 PM
http://www.vzglyad.ru/news/2014/6/3/689835.html
Russian Su- 27 flew close at the dangerous distance to the American RC - 135 surveillance aircraft at the Pacific Ocean trying to intercept it in the Far East , said the U.S. Defense Department . The incident occurred in April , but is reported just now.
Before the incident U.S. Air Force RC- 135 flew 100 km from the coast of Russian Far East , according to The Washington Free Beacon.
Pentagon spokesman Colonel Stephen Warren said that Russian pilots prevented U.S. plane to conduct usual reconnaissance mission in that airspace .
" Su-27 approached the RC-135U at a distance of approximately 100 feet (30 m) " - Warren said , calling the actions of the Russian pilots " recklessness " and one of the deadliest incidents in the airspace since the Cold War .
U.S. defense official said the Pentagon puts the responsibility for the incident directly to Russia .
Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney , former chief of the Air Force in Alaska, also expressed concern about the " provocative " actions by Russia .
"Even at the height of the Cold War, we had never seen such recklessness on the part of the Soviet Union ", - he said.
According to McInerney , Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that the current leadership of America is weak and in this way tries to intimidate the United States.
RC- 135 flight was part of the U.S. Air Force exploration in Asia.
Plane collected data on existing air defense systems in the region, the report says.
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According to
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/...on-course/
"The Su-27 flew to follow the RC-135, and at one point rolled sideways to reveal its air-to-air missile before flying within 100 feet of the cockpit in an attempt to unnerve the crew."
Russian Su- 27 flew close at the dangerous distance to the American RC - 135 surveillance aircraft at the Pacific Ocean trying to intercept it in the Far East , said the U.S. Defense Department . The incident occurred in April , but is reported just now.
Before the incident U.S. Air Force RC- 135 flew 100 km from the coast of Russian Far East , according to The Washington Free Beacon.
Pentagon spokesman Colonel Stephen Warren said that Russian pilots prevented U.S. plane to conduct usual reconnaissance mission in that airspace .
" Su-27 approached the RC-135U at a distance of approximately 100 feet (30 m) " - Warren said , calling the actions of the Russian pilots " recklessness " and one of the deadliest incidents in the airspace since the Cold War .
U.S. defense official said the Pentagon puts the responsibility for the incident directly to Russia .
Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney , former chief of the Air Force in Alaska, also expressed concern about the " provocative " actions by Russia .
"Even at the height of the Cold War, we had never seen such recklessness on the part of the Soviet Union ", - he said.
According to McInerney , Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that the current leadership of America is weak and in this way tries to intimidate the United States.
RC- 135 flight was part of the U.S. Air Force exploration in Asia.
Plane collected data on existing air defense systems in the region, the report says.
---
According to
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/...on-course/
"The Su-27 flew to follow the RC-135, and at one point rolled sideways to reveal its air-to-air missile before flying within 100 feet of the cockpit in an attempt to unnerve the crew."
09-06-2014, 06:55 PM
Author: Z.Stupar
http://www.dnevno.hr/vijesti/svijet/1248...bitka.html
According to the World Bank, the sea hides at least seven billion barrels of oil and 25 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
Croatian geostrategic analyst Davor Domazet Loso last week marked the South China Sea as the main point of gravity of the current global events. There is no doubt that in this area, "intersect" political, strategic and, above all, the economic interests of many nations including those largest ones.
Brunei, China, Indonesia, Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines, are directly involved. Why is this so? About this geographically very distant point average Croat knows very little. The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), an international think tank, recently published an analysis explaining the reasons why the great powers are crowding around this area.
Where is the South China Sea?
Sea spans over 3.62 million square kilometers of the Pacific Ocean, in the area of Singapore and the Malay passage to the Taiwan Strait, west of the Philippines, north of Indonesia and east of Vietnam. In a sea of hundreds of islands, and the over the greatest of six of them all major South Asian countries claim ownership. The islands are largely uninhabited and never had a local population, so a matter of historical sovereignty is very tricky. But the problem is not only islands - each country has an exclusive economic zone extending 200 nautical miles from the coast of each country.
What is the line "9-dash"?
It is a controversial demarcation border line that China uses to claim rights on the territory and waters in the South China Sea. It was published in 2009. It covers almost the entire sea, and China has issued a new passport on which all that area is labeled as Chinese. Countries of ASEAN (association of ten countries of Southeast Asia) disputed its validity, but China claims that it is entitled to due to historical circumstances (expeditions, fishing, maritime patrol).
The line "nine dash" is plotted in green
What resources are in the game?
According to the World Bank, the sea hides at least seven billion barrels of oil and 25 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. In December 2012., China began digging in deep waters off the southern coast. Tensions escalated when the Indian state-owned company Oil and Natural Gas Corp. announced that it has partnered with PetroVietnam for exploitation of oil. In May of 2014., Chinese ships have fired water cannons at the Vietnamese fleet, which was allegedly approaching a large Chinese drilling site. Every now and then countries arrest foreign fishermen, by which they announce to other countries that they claim particular territory.
How it affects trade routes in the sea?
As many as 50 percent of the global tanker transport passes thru these waters, which is three times more traffic then the Suez Canal and five times more traffic that the Panama. So, it's about the busiest trading route in the world. More than half of the world's ten largest ports are situated in and around the sea.
What about the army?
In the region there has been an increase in militarization due the Chinese growth. Vietnam and Malaysia have strengthened their armies trading with countries such as Russia and India. Philippines have doubled its defense budget in 2011, and agreed to joint military exercises with the U.S. in the next five years. In April, the largest Philippine warship acquired from the U.S., was on the brink of conflict with Chinese reconnaissance ships after the crew attempted to arrest Chinese fishermen.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel ten days ago said that China's behavior destabilizes the region.
CFR says that many would like to see the U.S. to take bigger role in this turmoil. But China is a dangerous opponent.
http://www.dnevno.hr/vijesti/svijet/1248...bitka.html
According to the World Bank, the sea hides at least seven billion barrels of oil and 25 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
Croatian geostrategic analyst Davor Domazet Loso last week marked the South China Sea as the main point of gravity of the current global events. There is no doubt that in this area, "intersect" political, strategic and, above all, the economic interests of many nations including those largest ones.
Brunei, China, Indonesia, Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines, are directly involved. Why is this so? About this geographically very distant point average Croat knows very little. The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), an international think tank, recently published an analysis explaining the reasons why the great powers are crowding around this area.
Where is the South China Sea?
Sea spans over 3.62 million square kilometers of the Pacific Ocean, in the area of Singapore and the Malay passage to the Taiwan Strait, west of the Philippines, north of Indonesia and east of Vietnam. In a sea of hundreds of islands, and the over the greatest of six of them all major South Asian countries claim ownership. The islands are largely uninhabited and never had a local population, so a matter of historical sovereignty is very tricky. But the problem is not only islands - each country has an exclusive economic zone extending 200 nautical miles from the coast of each country.
What is the line "9-dash"?
It is a controversial demarcation border line that China uses to claim rights on the territory and waters in the South China Sea. It was published in 2009. It covers almost the entire sea, and China has issued a new passport on which all that area is labeled as Chinese. Countries of ASEAN (association of ten countries of Southeast Asia) disputed its validity, but China claims that it is entitled to due to historical circumstances (expeditions, fishing, maritime patrol).
The line "nine dash" is plotted in green
What resources are in the game?
According to the World Bank, the sea hides at least seven billion barrels of oil and 25 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. In December 2012., China began digging in deep waters off the southern coast. Tensions escalated when the Indian state-owned company Oil and Natural Gas Corp. announced that it has partnered with PetroVietnam for exploitation of oil. In May of 2014., Chinese ships have fired water cannons at the Vietnamese fleet, which was allegedly approaching a large Chinese drilling site. Every now and then countries arrest foreign fishermen, by which they announce to other countries that they claim particular territory.
How it affects trade routes in the sea?
As many as 50 percent of the global tanker transport passes thru these waters, which is three times more traffic then the Suez Canal and five times more traffic that the Panama. So, it's about the busiest trading route in the world. More than half of the world's ten largest ports are situated in and around the sea.
What about the army?
In the region there has been an increase in militarization due the Chinese growth. Vietnam and Malaysia have strengthened their armies trading with countries such as Russia and India. Philippines have doubled its defense budget in 2011, and agreed to joint military exercises with the U.S. in the next five years. In April, the largest Philippine warship acquired from the U.S., was on the brink of conflict with Chinese reconnaissance ships after the crew attempted to arrest Chinese fishermen.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel ten days ago said that China's behavior destabilizes the region.
CFR says that many would like to see the U.S. to take bigger role in this turmoil. But China is a dangerous opponent.
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