Already feeling pressured by the recent deal between NATO and Poland for new missile “defenses,” General Anatoli Nogovitsyn, the deputy chief of Russia’s general staff, stated on Saturday that the imminent presence of US, Spanish, German, and Polish ships in the Black Sea “does not contribute to the settlement of the [Georgian] situation.”
It’s unsurprising that Russia would be concerned, as Russian Information Agency Novosti (RIA Novosti) website reported, also on Saturday, that an unnamed Russian security source has charged that the Georgian attack on South Ossetia was planned more than a year ago. The Georgian operation was coordinated with NATO’s plans to strengthen its naval presence in the Black Sea, RIA Novosti’s source says, and “The statements of some NATO representatives that the maneuvers of the alliance’s ships in the Black Sea were planned a year ago are evidence that attacks on South Ossetia and Abkhazia were planned earlier, maybe even last year.”
RIA Novosti continues: “In the opinion of the source, NATO’s buildup of naval forces in the Black Sea under the cover of providing humanitarian aid to Georgia, sets a dangerous precedent and may sharply destabilise the situation in the region.”
While NATO continues to inflame the situation, Russia continues its diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis. Russian Foreign Minster Sergei Lavrov spoke by phone yesterday with his German counterpart, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and said that Russia was prepared for “interaction” between Russian peacekeepers and OSCE observers within the security zone they have established around South Ossetia and Abkhazia, clarifying that such “interaction” does not mean replacing Russian forces by some other forces.
Russian President Dmitri Medvedev yesterday sent a letter of congratulations to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on Ukrainian Independence Day, in which Medvedev called for “a tangible strengthening of bilateral relations and a long-term economic partnership.” Medvedev also emphasised: “Of no less significance, however, is that we jointly take into account each other’s interests in the area of foreign policy and security,” adding that a solution to the Sevastopol port issue is pressing. Yushchenko recently signed a decree requiring prior notification from Russia of all movements by naval vessels based in Sevastopol, and announced that Ukraine will not extend the lease terms, under which the Russian Black Sea Fleet is based at the Crimean port, beyond May 2017.
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Putin has been sending out his subliminal messages for us to about psychological make up via his astute politics, actions and body language over the past years. He has also been clearly demonstrating his acute abilities in transforming Russia and holing on to power.
Anyone with a grain of common sense should be able to see we don’t have his equal in the West–-One on the greatest attributes available to anyone commenting on these issues must surely be the ability to realise the facts and to face up to them.
As I said eleswehere here. I like Putin, he is a man you can do business with on a level playing field.
He is not a person to double deal with as Bush and the EU are trying to do—they will, I believe, learn the disadvantages their follies. Unfortunately we will all be dragged in.
Putin has been sending out his subliminal messages for us to about psychological make up via his astute politics, actions and body language over the past years. He has also been clearly demonstrating his acute abilities in transforming Russia and holing on to power.
Anyone with a grain of common sense should be able to see we don’t have his equal in the West–-One on the greatest attributes available to anyone commenting on these issues must surely be the ability to realise the facts and to face up to them.
Swords into ploughshares and sperars into prunning shears, well thats what it called for in Isaiah 2(4).
BUT THE PLOT THICKEND AND GETS MORE CONFUSING WHEN IN JOEL 3(10) THEY CALL TO BEAT THEM BACK AGAIN INTO SWORDS AND LANCES!
No wonder to me there is no peace, as the world is so muddled and befuddled by all things things–and no wonder we go around in circles.
File On 4
Tuesday 23 September
8.00-8.40pm BBC RADIO 4
The Royal Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals (RSPCA) is
one of the best known charities in England and Wales and attracts
donations of more than £100m a year.
But concerns have been raised about the way in which the organisation
carries out private prosecutions against owners accused of cruelty or
failing to care for their animals. Defence lawyers and campaign groups
accuse the RSPCA of being heavy handed and too ready put vulnerable
people before the courts… claims which the charity has always denied.
Now there are new concerns over the role of the RSPCA in promoting an
apparent link between animal abuse and child abuse – a connection which
featured in a recent court case about alleged animal cruelty.
File On 4 examines the evidence behind the link and hears why some
experts fear it could lead to people being wrongly accused of child abuse.
The programme can be heard again at 5pm Sunday 28 September.
Reporter/Allan Urry, Producer/Paul Grant
BBC News Publicity
Note you can usually listen live to Radio 4 on the net by going to
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/
This is what really concern me and why we should all act NOW!
In 1976 our so called leaders’ mismanagement of the economy slashed the wealth of every Briton in this country. Inflation soared… taxes skyrocketed… sterling nosedived…The situation was so bad that it forced us to go cap-in-hand to the International Monetary Fund for a £2.3 billion “bailout” loan… OR GO BANKRUPT.
As expected the following years were some of the worst in British economic history. By 1980, £1 would buy what would have only cost 41p to buy six years before. (I WONDER HOW MANY OF YOU BITTERLY OPPOSED DECIMALISATION AS MANY BRITISH FOREVER DIEHARDS DID) ?
Fortunately never since has Britain been so close to going bust – THAT IS UNTIL NOW.! And yet so many people. So many of you have been kept completely in the dark as just how close we are to a full blown UK economic implosion.
If you remember the ‘70s, you’ll recollect the strikes… the streets piled high with rubbish… the stifling inflation…Well I believe, and please, please, please prove me wrong for everyone’s sake that during the coming year we are all about to experience a fast track nostalgia trips back to the 1970 or even way passed those crazy days to the even crazier days of the great depression
Therefore the implications are that the likely recession is just the start of prolong gloom for millions and all because we have utter idiots running world finance a political–-and all doing s totally UNACCOUNTABLE-
My message is simple as the best ones always are–-without accountability to the people, we are clearly as Frazer reminders us–all doomed to suffer at the hands of the unqualified wannabes!
Putin and Medvedev have everything under control. We are already beginning to see a Russian wedge dividing Europe from the US.
A unipolar world as Putin warned at the Munich conference in February of 2007 is coming to an end. Putin’s Russia is debt free and on the move.
+Brother Nathanael
Real Jew News @
http://www.realjewnews.com
So.. Putins Russia is debt free hey?
Sorry, just sniggering at this one horse town getting taken apart by market forces this week.. Today, 16th of September, I dont see any debt free Russia. I see a one horse town (oil and gas) and investors fleeing in droves as a succession of cock ups by Russia, its government, and its incompetent or missing corporate governance, takes grip and shakes it awake.
Go back to sleep Brother Nathaniel. The fundamentals of Russia are improving, but you are seriously deluded.
Dear All
There is a real drive to start a new Cold War with Russia and this is very dangerous because with the failing banking system world wide, Russia should be working with
China, India, and the United States to get a real program of development going.
The question of Russia and the oil and gas comes from the agreements that Putin’s
Russia was given to get Russia to ratify the Kyoto agreement on CO2 emissions.
Russia was given sweetheart deals with Europe by German Chancellor Shroder
Now in typical oligarch fashion, after the deals were done, now they say that Russia is
abusing their position.
It seems to me that we should be looking behind the scenes more and reacting less to the oligarch controlled media and think tanks.
As to the point that Russia is debt free, Russia over the past few years as paid off the
IMF and the Paris Club debt, but they have been prevented from paying certain German
and other nation debt because these nations are making money off trading the Russian
debt on the secondary market.
Thanks
Greg Murphy
21st Century Science and Technology
And here I was thinking that PUTIN was once Head of the KGB. ’nuff said !
Having grown up during the Cold War era, where we had to practice preparing for a nuclear attack in grade school, I never thought I’d be rooting for Russia, and against my own country’s leadership (if that’s what they’re called).
What a disgrace!! The U.S. was taken over after WW2 by militant fascists. The Neocons are the quintessential expression of that fascist tradition, just as their intellectual father, Leo Strauss, taught them at U. Chicago.
Hopefully, the two things that fueled their power, the Western fiat money system, and cheap petroleum, are coming to an end. But as our nations crash and burn, they’ll act according to a tradition set by their others of their ilk, the Nazis, and flee to land in S. America, purchased with their ill-gotten loot.
Give me Putin’s leadership above anything else we now have in the West. At least he stands up for his country, which is more than can be said for the controlled puppets we have in the West. It would seem to me that the West has now gone like Russia use to be under the Bolsheviks.
We have puppets running the show in the West ‘cos all the parties want to join the EU gravy train. So they agree with everything the EU tell them .
They scorn the proletariat.
America is only an acute case of neonconitis coupled with capitalism – 2 very good friends !
If America thinks that the EU represents a threat, then they’ll crush it, one way or another.
You really have to aim at those BEHIND the scenes, not the front men, like Blair and Bush and Sarkozy.
How come Blair becomes a multi-millionaire in 12 months ?
how come indeed he should have been taxed to death !
Dont suppose the little sh%t or the mouth will ever be subjected to the following–
A young woman is in a serious condition after being stabbed multiple times in a crowded supermarket. The attacked occurred at Somerfield supermarket in Anchor Springs, Littlehampton, West Sussex, just before 4.30pm yesterday.
What can one say except perhaps to ask—what the hell nation are we becoming, and will it be worth saving if we dont act soon?