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It is clear that the United States and Russia are on collision course at the shores of Syria. Russian websites (and here)linked to the military intelligence informs that Kremlin decided to confront NATO forces. Three Russian warships had entered territorial waters near Tartus. It was built-in 1971 as an operational support for the Soviet strategic objective in the Southern Theater. It is the only Russian naval military base abroad with probably 50 military personnel. Moreover the Russian military naval base is in Sevastopol was granted from the Ukraine parliament de facto extrateritorial jurisdiction beyond 2017. Russian sources in the Ministry...

(...)Until recently only Chinese dissidents and some economists criticized the Politburo policy, which can be compared to printing money: building cities for no one and the sale of land. This time Chinese professor of finance, the television host, Larry Lang confirmed that Chinese economy is almost bankrupt: -the real public debt is US $ 5.68 trillion -the real inflation rate is 16 percent

Israel and the United States may successfully harm Teheran through the overt propaganda operation. It was launched last week by Israeli daily Yediot Ahoronot. And it was carried by Israeli politicians for few days. It appears to be coordinated effort of Israel and the Western states.

Poland will not participate in a shameful vote over so-called Palestinian state at the United Nations on Thursday, September 22nd. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk clearly stated that Polish government will not send its representative to that meeting.

An amazing interview with the top communist apparatchik Mikhail Gorbachev. He repeats, although this time quite clearly, that in fact he was fighting to keep the Soviet Union alive. He did his best to defend the Soviet Union. Gorbachev explains that perestroika succeeded but it was disrupted. Soviet Union "could have existed longer today as the community of the sovereign states".

Legendary Polish Solidarity leader and co-founder Lech Walesa did not agree to meet president of the United States Barack Obama on Saturday afternoon. Walesa said: "it does not suit me" answering journalist why he was not going to talk to Barack Obama. Lech Walesa in the interview for a national newspaper added that he does not have time. According to the source, who spoke under the condition of being unnamed to the Polish Press Agency (PAP), Walesa was invited on the short notice, a day before the meeting with the American president. Later US Ambassador Lee Feinstein telephoned former Solidarity...

A politcal scientist and the Blessed John Paul II's biographer George Weigel suggests that the Catholic Church should look forward instead of constantly remembering history. His article is addressed to the Polish Catholic friends but the same message can be also directed to the Catholic Church in the West. I think that this is a key paragraph to this article. Polish Catholicism should adopt this future-oriented stance. Remembering the John Paul II years should now be a remembering in service to the future. The 21st century Church in Poland must take up John Paul’s challenge in the 1991 encyclical Redemptoris...

Paranoid Russian anti-Americanism resulted in the glorification of Muammar Gaddafi. During recent the Victory Day parade a group of the pro-Putin supporters hold banners with the slogans about "Revolutionary Gaddafi". One of the banners read: "They reached Brest and we will get to Benghazi. Glory to the Antifascists of the Muammar Gaddafi". However this slogan shows the degree of the confusion of these people.

Polish minister of Foreign Affairs attacks American newspaper President of Poland was attacked by postcommunist daily newspaper “Gazeta Wyborcza” for publishing his op-ed in “Washington Times”. “Wyborcza” argued that because controversial Korean leader of church owns “Times” makes it inappropriate to president of Poland to publish its article. Today Minister of Foreign Affairs Radek Sikorski (who once was an employee of American Enterprise Institute and was a rove correspondent of National Review) threatened diplomats, who advised president, with consequences. Sikorski hit a competitive newspaper to “Washington Post” where his wife writes regularly her column. Sikorski, as a member of Polish...

Polish President Lech Kaczynski arrived to Georgia to celebrate 5th anniversary of Georgia's Rose Revolution. When Polish president car was approaching Russian check point nearby brorder with Osetia presidential convoy got shot up. Shooting was directed from the side of Russian check point - presidential minister Michal Kaminski said. President Kaczynski wanted to visit refuge camp of Georgians who were forced to leave Osetia occupied by Russian Army. After the incident convoy was forced to return to Tbilisi.

The weekly Wprost, (..), shows a politburo document, signed by Mikhail Gorbachev, which appears to warrant a KGB contract killing on John Paul II. So claims Polish journalist John O. Kohler in a book, also released tomorrow, Chodzi o papie¿a. Szpiedzy w watykanie - (About the Pope: Spies in the Vatican). The politburo document says: "Use all available possibilities to prevent a new political trend, initiated by the Polish pope." The document, which dates back to November 1979, - one year after Karol Wojtyla became pope - is signed by eight top Party officials including Konstantin Rusakov, who coordinated action...

Journalist terminated from job, historian facing 3 years of jail and procommunist paper full of hatred to Polish patriots-anticommunists Keep that flame burning for Polish freedom Some portay it as opening Pandora's box but actually it is like rubbing Alladin's lamp. It was a lamp brought by a group of brave Polish historians of the National Institute of Remembrance where there are secretpolice files. Recently one journalist dared to passe the mysteries of the lamp to the Polish people.The National Institute of Remembrance (INR), created according toParliament legislature, is discovering communist's dirty secrets andrewriting Polish history. They are under constant...

Can anybody help me to find info on expected operation in Fallujah. How many insurgents are there, how many forces will be operating? How the operation will look like? Thanks.

Today John Kerry, according to Reuters</a href>, said of George W. Bush during "Good Morning America" that "The president has been, as they say down in Texas, all hat and no cattle and I'm going to show it." Kerry cannot even think anything creative and original. He repeated that opinion on Bush which was expressed by Ann Richards in the Texas Governor's race. Look at it ! </a href>. That guy should go on retirement because he lacks ideas even how to communicate with people!

CNN and Russian television has shown pictures of terrorist installing bomb in gymnasium at school in Beslan. There were reports of hostages who said that terrorists recorded video tape of gymnasium and demands for Putin. They called different people but nobody of Russian officials wanted to talk to them.

US Embassy spokesman confirmed that there was attack on that diplomatic site - wrote Polish News Agency. There 2 injured reported. Developing...

Fakt - Al Qeada wanted to burn Swarzedz? 18.08. Warszawa (PAP) - "BP petrochemical site, nearby highway and train track. A city with a population of hundreds of thousands few kilometres from there. If it would explode, the results would be terrible. There, in Swarzedz there was arrested Michel N., 23. Did he spy for Al Qeada?" – Fakt asked. "Detention of French man taking pictures of huge BP petrochemical site is the most serious evidence of Al Qeda activity in Poland. Police and Agency of Interior Security do their best to find out connections of detained terrorist" - Fakt...

UPDATE 1-Loud blast shakes Baghdad centre UPDATE 1-Loud blast shakes Baghdad centre (Updates with details) BAGHDAD, July 9 (Reuters) - A loud blast shook central Baghdad on Friday, sending a plume of white smoke into the air, and a U.S. security contractor said a mortar bomb had landed near a hotel housing Americans. "We had a mortar attack," the contractor told Reuters near the Al-Sadeer hotel as ambulances and police cars, sirens wailing, rushed to the scene. Witnesses said there were several injuries. A Reuters correspondent said the blast appeared to have occurred near the hotel, although this could not...

source: Polish Press Agency Polish Secretary of Defense Jerzy Szmajdzinski told about it US Secretary Rumsfeld during NATO summit in Istanbul. Sec Rumsfeld quoted him in radio interview late Wednesdaty - Pentagon informed Thursday . Official communique of Polish Ministry expected soon... The wire dated July 7-th / 20.24 hours (Polish time) Military Intelligence found chemical weapon in Iraq. There are several missiles containing chemical weapons - said Jerzy Szmajdzinski, Polish Secretary of Defence. Secretary confirmed information given by Sec. Donald Rumsfeld during his radio interview. When asked why Poles got to know about from American Secretary he answered that...

Polish Secretary of Defense Jerzy Szmajdzinski told about it US Secretary Rumsfeld during NATO summit in Istanbul. Sec Rumsfeld quoted him in radio interview late Wednesdaty - Pentagon informed Thursday . Official communique of Polish Ministry expected soon... developing