WE NEED TO TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT THE RUSSKIES ARE UP TO!
Yes I was resting the leg- at the docs- gave me hydrocodones so if I act stranger than usual---report me to the moderators.
I've been checking out some world events and think we are missing some parts of the (bigger) picture of what is going on at this current time.
We here at TM aare INTENSELY focused on cracking those codes, deciphering those pictures, locating those threats, finding patterns, trying to inform some alphabets of things we may have discovered- We do a good job. However, AQ is only one small part of what is going on.
In the meantime- the world seems to be readying itself for global thermonuclear war. We "surrounded" Russia- they have been "surrounding" us.
I have copied this entire thread from Mutter's. Please read and see what you think.
I am beginning to think we could benefit from having a sub-thread to TM dealing with the impending threat of world war three.
(No, I don't think that is the hydrocodeine speaking....these world events have been building over years and are now reaching a point of crisis where SOMEONE is going to decide pre-emptive strike is in their best interest for survival.
All the below is directly from Mutter's: Thank you Mutter's.
link to earlier thread: p076.ezboard.com/fthedail...=114.topic
2004-08-03 13:15 * RUSSIA * POLITICS * ARMY * EXERCISES *
DEFENSE MINISTRY EXERCISES IN KOLA PENINSULA
MOSCOW, August 3 (RIA Novosti)
August 2 turned out to be a "military day" for the Kremlin, Rossiiskaya Gazeta reports.
In the morning, President Vladimir Putin greeted paratroopers marking the 74th anniversary of the foundation of the Airborne Troops. Later in the day, he met the cabinet to discuss upcoming military exercises.
Today, the first military exercises of the Defense Ministry organized within the framework of the Russia-NATO Council are beginning on the Kola Peninsula.
One of the Russian Defense Ministry's 14 nuclear arsenals is situated outside Olenegorsk (the Murmansk region).
The Avaria-2004 maneuvers will drill security and defense measures at military nuclear facilities and safety measures while nuclear warheads are transported.
"We want these exercises to be open and to demonstrate our ability to guarantee security at nuclear facilities," Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said at his yesterday's meeting with the president.
Observers from 17 NATO countries will attend the maneuvers, the minister stressed.
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mutter1
Russia defence minister to watch collective military exercises
04.08.2004, 15.21
MOSCOW, August 4 (Itar-Tass)
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov flew for a working visit to Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday.
A Defence Ministry spokesman told Itar-Tass that Ivanov and his colleagues from state members of the Collective Security Organization Treaty (CSTO) would meet Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev on Thursday.
They are expected to discuss prospects for military-technical cooperation in the framework of the CSTO and to exchange views on the situation in the Central Asian region in the context of threats to its stability from radical religious, Islamist and terrorist groups.
On Friday, Ivanov will watch the second state of CSTO anti-terrorist exercises Froniter-2004 with a live fire practice at a mountain training ground near the Kyrgyz city of Balykchi.
According to the scenario of the exercises, units of Collective Rapid Deployment Forces (CRDF) of Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan will drill, with support from aviation and special forces, the task to destroy an imaginary terrorist group that has made an incursion into one of Central Asian republics.
The Kyrgyz president, defence ministers of the CSTO states and representatives of general staffs of armies of CIS states and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization will observe the manoeuvres together with Ivanov.
The exercises will engage 1,700 servicemen of the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces, as well as Russia’s 12th brigade from the Volga-Urals Military District and 16 planes and helicopters from an airbase in the Kyrgyz city of Kant.
Russian General Sergei Chernomordin will command the CRDF manoeuvres.
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mutter1
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2004-08-09 16:17 * RUSSIA * PRESIDENT * DEFENSE * IVANOV *
RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTER REPORTS TO PRESIDENT ON NEW ARMS AND RECENT EXERCISES
MOSCOW, August 9 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian Defense Ministry has decided to provide war fighters Su-24 with a new system of high precision weapons "shot and forgot". Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said this at the president's meeting with the government on Monday.
Late last week, the Russian defense minister said that Su-24 fighters would be modernized and purchased for the Russian Armed Forces, at a press conference at the Edelveis (Kyrgyzstan) testing range after the Rubezh-2004 exercises.
"This aircraft can successfully work in the mountains. We are beginning to modernize aircraft of the Russian Air Force and are putting them on the production line. We are beginning to purchase this equipment, and we have no doubt about these aircraft," said Ivanov.
Ivanov also said that the Russian Defense Ministry would forward proposals to the president about forming and arming two mountain brigades.
According to the defense minister, "we are planning to complete the formation of the two mountain brigades by next year."
Earlier, the president instructed to form a subdivision to serve in the North Caucasus and help border guards defend the border.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov reported to the president and the government about the exercises on the Kola peninsula and in Kyrgyzstan.
The minister said that the exercises were aimed to drill measures to provide security of transporting nuclear materials and eliminating the consequences of an attack on a convoy.
"The super tank used for transporting nuclear materials was shelled from grenade throwers, derailed and sunk in a reservoir," the minister said.
In his words, the exercises involved 1,000 servicemen of the Defense Ministry, the Interior Ministry, the FSB, the Federal Agency for Nuclear Energy, and also 500 units of special equipment.
Ivanov also noted that the exercises were positively assessed by the attending NATO observers.
"We expect that our experts will be able to gain an insight into the situation in this sphere in a NATO nuclear country," said Ivanov.
As for exercises in Kyrgyztsan, the minister noted that these were the first serious exercises of the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces. Participating in the exercises were Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, and Armenia.
On the Russian side, the exercises involved the commandos of the Volga-Urals military district, and also 30 units of combat aviation, combat helicopters, transport helicopters and the Ka-50 helicopter Black Shark.
Ivanov said that the combat aviation used high precision weapons based on the "shot-and-forgot" principle in Kyrgyzstan.
Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin told the president about the situation around funding servicemen's housing. Direct federal spending on the accumulative and mortgage crediting program for servicemen will amount to 2.5 billion rubles ($1 equals about 29 rubles) in 2005, he said. The minister stressed that the federal budget would pay the first contribution and interest on the mortgage.
Minister of Economic Development and Trade German Gref in turn said that before the draft law on servicemen's housing provision comes into force on January 1, another three draft laws would have to be adopted along with 20 government resolutions.
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i can hear an old russian march song in the background......
2004-08-09 17:18 * RUSSIA * PRESIDENT * ATOM * CONFERENCE *
NUCLEAR DEFENSE SECTOR TO COME UNDER CLOSE ATTENTION OF THE PRESIDENT
MOSCOW, August 9 (RIA Novosti)
The nuclear defense sector is an extremely important topic which has and will be under the president's close attention, Vladimir Putin said at a Kremlin conference devoted to the nuclear defense sector.
According to the president, the administrative reform and the upgrading of government's activity have led to the conclusion that the Defense Ministry will directly supervise the nuclear sphere as regards the nuclear defense sector.
According to Alexander Rumyantsev, head of the Federal Agency for Nuclear Energy, "the transformation of the ministry into the agency was completed by July 1, but all the administrative changes did not prevent all the orders from being implemented on time."
In particular, Rumyantsev noted that the agency had conducted "non-nuclear explosive experiments on the Novaya Zemlya field together with the 12th Main Department of the Defense Ministry. Rumyantsev also said that these experiments were held every year "to provide reliability, combat readiness and security of nuclear munitions."
Rumyantsev added that the agency was fully financed, which made it possible to make small reserves for this and next year, in particular, for the development of new types of weapons.
Alexander Rumyantsev presented to the president the provision on the agency, noting the consolidated interaction between the agency and the Russian Defense Ministry.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov reported to the conferees that the Defense Ministry cooperated with the Nuclear Energy Agency in three directions:
the first one - the formation and implementation of the state defense order and the state program for armaments in nuclear security;
the second - the development and production, modernization, exploitation and mothballing of nuclear weapons;
the third - joint efforts to maintain and develop the only nuclear testing range in Novay
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"These are the directions where the Defense Ministry and the Federal Agency will cooperate," said Ivanov.
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2004-08-09 17:14 * RUSSIA * FOREIGN MINISTRY * U.S. * DENMARK * AGREEMENT *
U.S.-DANISH AGREEMENT TO UPGRADE ANTI-MISSILE RADAR THREATENS RUSSIA'S SECURITY
MOSCOW, August 9 (RIA Novosti)
The U.S.-Danish agreements to upgrade anti-missile radar signed on August 6 can threaten Russian security, the press and information department of the Russian Foreign Ministry told RIA Novosti on Monday.
Such agreements "open way to the modernization of the U.S. radar installations in Thule (Greenland)," the Foreign Ministry noted.
"The U.S. side often claimed that its new anti-missile defense system is not aimed against Russia. Meanwhile, the geography of the deployment of the radar installation points to the anti-Russian potential in the U.S. anti-missile defense," the Foreign Ministry added.
"In the conditions of significant strategic nuclear reductions, which Russia and the U.S. agreed upon, we should not rule out threat to Russia's containment forces in the future," the ministry said.
"In this connection the Russian side will thoroughly analyze the situation from the point of view of its security and reserved the right to take all measures to maintain it at a proper level," the Foreign Ministry stressed.
On Friday, August 6 U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, Denmark's Foreign Minister and Greenland's Vice Premier signed the Defense of Greenland agreement updating the 1951 agreement.
According to the press service of the U.S. Department of State, the new agreement opens way to the modernization of radar installations at the Thule airbase, which is to maintain the U.S. anti-missile project.
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mutter1
(8/10/04 10:40 am)
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Russia Denies Nato Access To Nuclear Sites
AFP: 8/9/2004
MOSCOW, Aug 9 (AFP)
Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said Monday that Moscow would never allow NATO inspectors to check its nuclear sites despite fears that they are poorly protected and weapons and material could be stolen.
"We have never allowed them to inspect our nuclear sites or nuclear warheads, and we never will," Ivanov was quoted as saying by Interfax.
Ivanov conceded that Russia was still not up to NATO standards in protecting nuclear material.
"But we believe that we will see NATO ways of nuclear weapons protection from seizure by terrorists next year," he was quoted as telling Russian reporters.
His comments came after some 50 NATO observers came to Russia to oversee military exercises aimed at shoring up the country's line of defense against attacks on the former Soviet-republic's nuclear weapons and energy sites.
During last week's exercises, Ivanov angrily dismissed speculation that Russia's nuclear arsenal was not safe.
"We have never had terrorist attacks on any of our sites," he said in response to a reporter's question last week.
"But unfortunately, myths are spreading in various regions of the world that Russia's nuclear arsenal is of poor quality and unsafe."
The West has expressed increasing concern about the state and safety of Russia's nuclear arsenal amid the troubles of its cash-starved military.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has placed his close ally Ivanov in charge of army reforms and has since promoted him to head the whole massive military infrastructure, demoting the status of the general chiefs of staff.
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that 'multi-polar' world referenced means the TAKE DOWN of America as called for by russian/chinese presidents shortly after the bombing of the chinese embassy in yugoslavia several years ago.....................looks to me like since that declaration they have been working overtime to do just that, eh?
2004-08-10 19:41 * RUSSIA * INDIA * CHINA * INFLUENCE * OPINION *
INDIA, CHINA, RUSSIA CAN INFLUENCE WORLD DEVELOPMENTS TOGETHER
MOSCOW, August 10 (RIA Novosti)
India, China and Russia can have much influence on the world developments together to promote international peace and security, Russian ambassador to India Vyacheslav Trubnikov said in his interview with Hindu newspaper.
According to the diplomat, Russia, China and India share common positions on many world's problems. "We come out for fair and balanced multi-polar world order and against unilateral actions and dictatorship in international relations.
We have common positions on Iraq and Afghanistan, terrorism, religious extremism and drug trafficking," Mr. Trubnikov said.
"We have good prospects of trilateral energy cooperation. I expect considerable progress in this sphere in the near future," the diplomat noted.
Russia regards India as a priority candidate to acquire the status of observer at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), he said.
In his words, the recent SCO summit in Tashkent called on international organizations and forums of the Asia-Pacific region to launch a dialogue on the formation of the common regional security and cooperation system.
"We expect India, one of the key countries in South Asia and member of the South Asian Regional Cooperation Association, to play an important role in this process," Vyacheslav Trubnikov said.
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