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February 10, 1994 - The Cautious Exhale.

The ceasefire in Sarajevo on this day.

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How I Commited Genocide in Sirte (and become an asshole) - Kevin Dawes talk about fighting alongside the rebels

Kevin Dawes, from San Diego, California travelled to Libya in June 2011 as a... more

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Libyan Resistance leaders created a temporary Libyan Jamahirya Government + Nato accused of war crimes in Libya

An important and expected event has occurred in Libya. Resistance leaders spoke about... more

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I Cried Watching This. Americans and Nato Bombing Babies (Warning Graphic)

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Report: Iran Begins Uranium Enrichment at New Underground Site

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran has begun uranium enrichment at a new underground site well protected from possible airstrikes, a leading hardline newspaper reported Sunday.
Kayhan daily, which is close to Iran’s ruling clerics, said Tehran has begun injecting uranium gas into sophisticated centrifuges at the Fordo facility near the holy city of Qom.
Iran is under U.N. sanctions for refusing to stop uranium enrichment — which can produce both nuclear fuel and fissile warhead material — and other suspected activities that the international community fears could be used to make atomic arms.
Tehran says it only seeks reactors for energy and research, and refuses to halt its uranium enrichment activities.
“Kayhan received reports yesterday that show Iran has begun uranium enrichment at the Fordo facility amid heightened foreign enemy threats,” the paper said in a front-page report. Kayhan’s manager is a representative of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
But Iran’s nuclear chief Fereidoun Abbasi said late Saturday that his country will “soon” begin enrichment at Fordo. It was impossible to immediately reconcile the two reports.
Iran has a major uranium enrichment facility in Natanz in central Iran where nearly 8,000 centrifuges are operating. Tehran began enrichment at Natanz in April 2006.
The Fordo centrifuges however are reportedly more efficient, and the site better shielded from aerial attack.

Satellite image of construction site of Iran's new uranium enrichment facility near Qom.
Built next to a military complex, Fordo was long kept secret and was only acknowledged by Iran after it was identified by Western intelligence agencies in September 2009.
Both the U.S. and Israel have not ruled out a military strike should Iran continue with its program.
Tehran however says it needs its enrichment program to produce fuel for future nuclear reactors and medical radioisotopes needed for cancer patients.
The country has been enriching uranium to less than 5 percent for years, but it began to further enrich part of its uranium stockpile to nearly 20 percent as of February 2010, saying it needs the higher grade material to produce fuel for a Tehran reactor that makes medical radioisotopes needed for cancer patients. Weapons-grade uranium is usually about 90 percent enriched.
Iran says the higher enrichment activities — of nearly 20 percent — will be carried out at Fordo. These operations are of particular concern to the West because uranium at 20 percent enrichment can be converted into fissile material for a nuclear warhead much more quickly than that at 3.5 percent.
Buried under 300 feet of rock, the facility is a hardened tunnel and is protected by air defense missile batteries and the Revolutionary Guard, Iran’s most powerful military force. The site is located about 12 miles north of Qom, the religious nerve center of Iran’s ruling system.
“The Fordo facility, like Natanz, has been designed and built underground. The enemy doesn’t have the ability to damage it,” the semiofficial Mehr news agency quoted Abbasi as saying Sunday.

For more photos about the story >>> http://rencadesign.com/wp/2012/01/report-iran-begins-uranium-enrichment/TEHRAN, Iran – Iran has begun uranium enrichment at a new underground site well... more

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The Truth About Libya Not Shown On Your TV (Graphic Images!)

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Americans must stop World War 3 now or face extinction

The control system that has dominated humanity for centuries if not millenia has... more

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HUMAN RIGHTS INVESTIGATIONS ON CRIMES OF OBAMA AND HIS NATO IN LIBYA

HRI is an evidence-based, independent and rigorous investigation of human rights abuses. HRI investigated and published on its website a number objective and thorough human rights investigations on the crimes committed in Libya by the Islamists rebels against prisoners of war, African workers, and Libyan civilians. These horrific atrocities were executed with direct military and political support and directions from Obama and his NATO mercenaries which included: Sarkozy; Cameroon; and Al-Thani (of Qatar). These persons and states must be brought to national and international justice and pay for their horrendous crimes.

The main reports are:
1- Responsibility to protect: the liberation of Sirte;

[The rebels, described in NATO circles as a ‘proxy army” were allowed by NATO to indiscriminately shell the town with tank fire, heavy mortar fire and artillery. Here is some footage from the ‘Information Office of the Misrata Mujahid Battalion’ to illustrate the point]

[In what should be the final death-blow to the notion that NATO air power combined with undisciplined and in some cases genocidal mobs supplied with NATO weaponry on the ground can effectively ‘protect’ a civilian population it has become clear that fifty-three people were summarily executed by the rebels in the garden of the Mahari hotel in Sirte. ]

2- Colonel Gaddafi captured and killed;

[Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi was reportedly captured and shot dead 20 October. As the evidence below shows the Libyan leader and his son Mutassim were summarily executed by the rebels, sharing the fate of so many Libyans in this conflict.]

[Muammar’s son, Mutassim Gaddafi was captured at the same time as his father and video shows him still alive after capture, drinking water and smoking a cigarette]

[On the death of Mutassim the Mahmoud Jibril said: “As for Mutassim there is a wound in the head and a break in the skull and five bullets in the back and one in the neck.”]
3- Sarkozy, Cameron, Obama, Al-Thani and the suffering of the children of Sirte;

[The horrific video below shows a 1 minute slice of the horror visited upon Sirte, where little children are being mutilated, killed and Libya’s future destroyed in the interests of the war-mongers, the egos of NATO leaders, the profits of arms companies and improved access to Libyan resources.

The footage from Ibn Sina hospital in Sirte is an indictment of the western political class, wedded to militarism and war, funded by arms companies, protected by a war-mongering media and oblivious to the consequences of their policies. Indeed, this video was filmed hot on the heels of Sarkozy and Cameron celebrating the rebel ‘victory’ in Benghazi at the site of the lynchings of black men in that city.]

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http://libya360.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/human-rights-investigations-on-crimes-of-obama-and-his-nato-in-libya/HRI is an evidence-based, independent and rigorous investigation of human rights... more

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Exercise Tested NATO Procedures for Cyber Defense

“Effective cyber defense requires us to continually test and improve our crisis... more

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Genocidal Cynicism - by Fidel Castro Ruz

No sane person, especially someone who has had access to the elementary knowledge... more

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Pakistan blockage of Nato convoys 'may last weeks'

Pakistan may continue its blocking of Nato convoys into Afghanistan for several weeks,... more

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Hail! NATO Expands, Again! Another Move for the Imperial West?

What the heck is NATO? What’s it about? What’s it for? Not many people... more

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Is Al-Assad Crazy or Stupid?

Al-Assad denies responsibility for Syria crackdown. - CNN... more

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NATO: Cybercrime Drains One Trillion Dollars from Economy Yearly

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NATO attack was blatant aggression

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NATO's perilous Kunar mission

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Russia will target US missile defense sites if no deal - Medvedev

Responding to Washington’s failure to bring Russia on board the European missile defense system, President Dmitry Medvedev announces sweeping plans to address what Moscow is calling a threat to national security.
Medvedev said he will deploy strike systems in the west and south of the country and deploy Iskander missiles in the Kaliningrad region in order to counter the risk posed by the European missile defense system.
“By my order the Defense Ministry will run in a warning system radar station in Kaliningrad without delay,” the Russian President said, commenting from his resident of Gorki on the outskirts of Moscow
Russia may also refuse to undertake additional steps toward disarmament in the event that its national security remains at risk.
“In the event of unfavorable developments (in regards to European missile defense), Russia reserves the right to halt further steps in the disarmament sphere and, respectively, weapons control,” Medvedev said. “Besides, given the inseparable interconnection between the strategic offensive and defensive weapons, grounds may appear for our country’s withdrawal from the START treaty.”
New START, which limits the number of deployed strategic nuclear warheads to 1,550, was signed on April 8, 2010 in Prague and went into force on February 5, 2011.
Meanwhile, Medvedev stressed that Russia remains open to dialogue with the US and NATO regarding missile defense issues, but the cooperation must have clear legal parameters.
"We are not closing the door to further dialogue on missile defense with the US and the North Atlantic alliance, nor to practical cooperation in this area. We are ready for further dialogue," the Russian leader stressed. "The path towards such work depends upon the creation of a clear legal basis for our cooperation that will reflect our legitimate interests."
There is still time to come to mutual understanding, the Russian leader said.
Medvedev reiterated his belief that the formation of a “joint and sectored missile defense system,” which he proposed at the Russia-NATO Council summit in Lisbon, would open up the prospects for a “real strategic partnership between Russia and NATO.”
"Europe doesn't need new demarcation lines,” Medvedev said. “It needs a single perimeter of security with equal legal participation from the Russian side."
Medvedev said that US and NATO reluctance to cooperate is unfortunate because “even now such an approach is opening unique opportunities for Russia and NATO's advancement towards a truly strategic partnership."
President Medvedev also mentioned that in 2009 when US President Barack Obama decided to “scrap” the missile defense plans laid out by his predecessor, George W. Bush, Russia’s reaction was quite positive.He said the apparent change allowed the two states to sign the New START treaty. Later, however, the United States started to implement the so-called stage-by-stage missile defense plan, while denying Russia’s participation in the project. Naturally, this concerns Russia, Medvedev said.
Read the full text of President Dmitry Medvedev's address on missile defense.Responding to Washington’s failure to bring Russia on board the European missile... more

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Who Is The Regional Power of The Middle East : Iran, Turkey or Al Jazeera Channel ?

RD Magazine | Global & Regional Political Analysis

http://rencadesign.com/wp/2011/11/who-is-the-regional-power-of-the-middle-east-iran-turkey-or-al-jazeera-channel/

“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” Everybody knows when and where these words were spoken and by who. Thanks to the power of the media, millions all across the world have watched the unforgettable moment when first foot step of the mankind left its mark on the Moon’s surface. July 21, 1969 witnessed probably the most famous live media coverage of the world so far.
Things have changed a lot since those black&white days. In 2011, media does not only mean TV and radio or newspaper publishing, we have internet, mobile phones, tablets etc. Censorship has become the biggest enemy of the free speech, however, it is not likely to win the war against the will of the people to learn what has been going on around them.
“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” This quote is from a person who used the power of media in order to promote his views of freedom and democracy to the American public and the whole world. Of course, he faced exactly the opposite as well. Malcolm X became one of the greatest and most influential African-American in the history, despite spending his 6 years in prison from the age of 20 to 26.
Remember how American public believed that Saddam Hussein had WMD and was a threat for democracy, how media decided that invasion of Iraq was legal and how people accepted it. This will never end. Who ever controls the main stream media, controls the public opinion.

People of the Middle East have witnessed the Arab Spring and still watching how masses are rioting and demonstrating against the dictatorships of the region. The game is underway and media is being used in order to bring the public opinion to the deserved point on different occasions. Syria is occupying the headlines as the people of America are occupying the Wall Street. The game is for the leadership of the next Middle East order. Players are outsiders as well as region’s big boys.
Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia are the most influential countries in the region. Iran does not want to lose it’s leverage over Syria. Turkey and Saudi Arabia however, wants to have more control over Damascus, one of the key capitols of the Middle East, by encouraging and supporting the people to overthrow the government. Iran has the backing of Russia and China, while Turkey as a NATO member has the advantage of having the west with her. Turkey wants to use it’s military and economic power, backing of NATO, while trying to keep the Arab League on her side. NATO approval may cancel out a UN resolution requirement and Arab League support means green light from the region for more serious actions against Assad.
But there is one big problem here. The Emirs and Sheikhs of the oil rich Arab countries know that their turn will come sooner or later. Siding with the west may not help always, because the west is not so reliable when the talk is about the oil and energy. Here comes our Weapon of Media Coverage or WMC.
Qatar is another oil rich Arab country with a powerful WMC in her hands. Qatar has an absolute monarchic government, with Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani as the Emir or head of the ruling family. Qatar has been very busy to promote the country in the world stage lately. They are clearly in a race with the Middle Eastern business center, Dubai in constructing state of the art skyscrapers and trying to become the next Dubai.
Probably Qatar’s biggest move was their bid for the World Cup 2022, which they were chosen to host the event. There were some controversies regarding Qatar’s bid but FIFA did not change its mind and the 2022 World Cup will be held in Qatar.
Doha based news channel Al Jazeera, started its English broadcast in 2005 and since then it is region’s most followed news source in English. Al Jazeera has a very well established news network through out the Middle East and some major world capitols. Lately, Al Jazeera is summoned by some Arab leaders for being biased and trying to create a public opinion against some governments, mainly Libya and Syria. Since, Libya has been “liberated”, the headlines are mostly about Syria.
If we go a few months back, Al Jazeera had a stance of promoting Turkey and it’s PM , Erdogan as a regional leader and you could easily see many news coverage about Erdogan and Turkey, mostly in favor of their speeches and actions against Israel, Libyan and Syrian governments. It is very noticeable that these kind of news have been decreased in number lately and the comments and opinions in the Al Jazeera articles are no longer giving full support to the Turkish government. The authors’ opinions have shifted 180 degrees, mostly claiming that Turkey is never a good model for the region and should stay away from Arab’s internal affairs, just opposite of the same authors’ articles a few months back.
We can explain this change with the ambitions of the Qatari Emir and government. Mr.Al Thani wants to have more say on the regional matters and have influence on the Gulf countries. So Al Jazeera decided that Turkish stance is a threat for Qatari ambitions and started promoting Qatari Emir as the mediator and center of influence in the Middle East. How people would react to the idea of a Qatari leadership is unknown.
We have witnessed through out the world history, taking advantage of the media. However, Qatari use of Al Jazeera Channel seems somehow ineffective, when one considers the location of the State of Qatar and its Emir in the scene of politics. Media itself is not such a great weapon when you lack of the most important properties of being a regional power : a strong military, stable economy (not based on only oil exports, but includes manufacturing industry and a good banking system), a functioning democracy, historical background of leadership and having strong allies.
Qatar seems to have a long way to go, before it claims to be a regional power.

Continue Reading Here ... http://rencadesign.com/wp/2011/11/who-is-the-regional-power-of-the-middle-east-iran-turkey-or-al-jazeera-channel/RD Magazine | Global & Regional Political Analysis... more

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Border Alert: Nuke war risk rising, Russia warns

The danger of local armed conflicts along Russia's borders exploding into full-scale nuclear war has grown following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia’s chief of staff said on Thursday.
General Nikolai Makarov told the Russian Public Chamber there is a dangerous level of mistrust with former Soviet states that border the country.
"The possibility of local armed conflicts virtually along the entire perimeter of the border has grown dramatically," Makarov said. “I cannot rule out that, in certain circumstances, local and regional armed conflicts could grow into a large-scale war, possibly even with nuclear weapons.”
Makarov mentioned NATO’s steady encroachment toward Russia’s borders as one of the key reasons for the heightened level of mistrust in the region since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
"Almost all countries formerly belonging to the Warsaw Pact have become NATO members, and the Baltic States that were earlier a part of the USSR have also joined the alliance,” Russia’s top military official said.
Moscow has often criticized the western military bloc for going back on its word not to expand following the collapse of the USSR.
"At time of the withdrawal from Eastern Europe, the NATO Secretary General promised the USSR it could be confident that NATO would not expand beyond its current boundaries," Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said in a past comment. "So where is it now?” I asked them [the NATO officials]. They have nothing to say. They deceived us in the rudest way.”
Meanwhile, the comments by Chief of Staff Makarov did contain a silver lining in the nuclear cloud.
Speaking on the prospects of the New START treaty, signed by President Dmitry Medvedev and his US counterpart Barack Obama, Makarov was optimistic.
"The previous START treaty was flawed, but there were attempts to extend it,” he said. “The new START is the first treaty that satisfies us.”
On the US missile defense system planned for Eastern Europe, the Russian general said the new START gives Moscow the flexibility its new defense measures require.
“This treaty gives us the ability to secede in certain cases,” he said, specifically mentioning the “European missile defense problem” as a national security threat that could force Moscow to breach the treaty.

http://rt.com/politics/makarov-nuclear-russia-nato-575/The danger of local armed conflicts along Russia's borders exploding into... more

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NATO Drafting Cyber Warfare International Law Manual

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