William Engdahl on NATO’s Encirclement of Russia
Why Moscow Doesn’t Believe Washington on Missile Defense… or on Just Almost Nuthin’…
by William Engdahl
Geopolitics-Geoeconomics
December 28, 2011
Most in the civilized world are blissfully unaware that we are marching ineluctably towards an increasingly likely pre-emptive nuclear war. No, it’s not at all about Iran and Israel. It’s about the decision of Washington and the Pentagon to push Moscow up against the wall with what is euphemistically called Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD).
On November 23, a normally low-keyed Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told the world in clear terms that Russia was prepared to deploy its missiles on the border to the EU between Poland and Lithuania, and possibly in the south near Georgia and NATO member Turkey to counter the advanced construction process of the US ballistic missile defense shield: “The Russian Federation will deploy in the west and the south of the country modern weapons systems that could be used to destroy the European component of the US missile defense,” he announced on Russian television. “One of these steps could be the deployment of the Iskander missile systems in Kaliningrad.” Those would be theatre ballistic missile systems. The latest version of Iskander, the Iskander-K, whose details remain top secret, reportedly has a range up to 2000 km and carries cruise missiles and a target accuracy to 7 meters or less.
Medvedev declared he has ordered the Russian defense ministry to “immediately” put radar systems in Kaliningrad that warn of incoming missile attacks on a state of combat readiness. He called for extending the targeting range of Russia’s strategic nuclear missile forces and re-equipping Russia’s nuclear arsenal with new warheads capable of piercing the US/NATO defense shield due to become operational in six years, by 2018. Medvedev also threatened to pull Russia out of the New START missile reduction treaty if the United States moves as announced.
Image: NATO’s creeping encirclement of Russia. Engdahl concludes, “in any case the fact that Washington continues to tear up solemn international arms treaties and illegally proceed to install its global missile shield is basis enough for those in Moscow, Beijing or elsewhere to regard US promises, even treaties as not worth the paper they were written on.”
Medvedev then correctly pointed to the inevitable link between “defensive” missiles and “offensive” missiles: “Given the intrinsic link between strategic offensive and defensive arms, conditions for our withdrawal from the New Start treaty could also arise,” he said.
The Russian President didn’t mince words: “I have ordered the armed forces to develop measures to ensure, if necessary, that we can destroy the command and control systems” of the US shield, Medvedev said. “These measures are appropriate, effective and low-cost.” Russia has repeatedly warned that the US BMD global shield is designed to destabilize the nuclear balance and risks provoking a new arms race. The Russian President said that rather than take the Russian concerns seriously, Washington has instead been “accelerating” its BMD development.
Read the rest of Engdahl’s report here, in .pdf format. For more of Engdahl’s work, please visit his website, Geopolitics-Geoeconomics here.
The Front – Episode 173: Front Lines in the War on Humanity (audio)
The Front
January 2, 2012
Tonight on The Front: Welcome to 2012 (key dramatic music). It’s official people, the fact that this show is still on the air proves the Apocalypse is upon us! Birds and fish die off in mass to ring in the new year even after fireworks were banned; what’s the excuse this time? Plus, 14,000 (mostly infant) Fukushima deaths in US are reported in medical journals! Also, while you and I were toasting to the new year, Obomber and the rogue criminal government officially declared war on we the people with the signing of the NDAA! And, two human rabies cases reported in the last week, combined with a new super strain of bird flu, could this be the start of the zombie apocalypes? And some stuff you need to know about!
“It’s amazing how fast the world can go from bad to total shit storm.” ~ Columbus, Zombieland
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Seeing Through The Apocalypse
by Zen Gardner
BeforeItsNews
December 31, 2011
They don’t own the earth. They don’t own you and me. They don’t own all their stupid secret symbols. They don’t own the present, they don’t own the future. They don’t even own themselves.
They’re usurpers, in every sense of the word. And absolutely nothing to fear.
That these invading power freaks striving to control the world should try to lay claim to some secret knowledge and power source is a fraud. That they think they can bring on world changing events that result in national clampdowns and population reduction is their personal nightmare in the making.
And we need to see it for what it is. A charade. They have no secret powers. The nightmare is theirs, not ours.
The fact is, there is no secret but that which is willfully withheld or deliberately ignored. And to the conscious, nothing is hidden that cannot be revealed.
Their Puny Pride Is on the Run
So much of the big lie that we’re witnessing on the world stage is simply projected pride – the big, fat, stinking manufactured pride of pathological egomaniacs reinforcing a fabricated world of their ugly, demented imaginations. Whether world conquest piggy-backing on natural and manufactured catastrophes, or attempting to morph humanity and terraform our environment to meet their specifications for world control, it’s all defensive.
They’re scared.
It is they who are running and hiding from something so incredibly powerful they have to erect giant sand castles to hide behind while they attempt to exterminate all those who carry this amazing potential to realize Truth.
Us. An awakened and empowered us is what they’re absolutely frightened of.
Our warfare is a spiritual one. Whether we encase this understanding in one of the more classic frameworks or see it completely metaphysically, the play we’re witnessing is nothing to fear. The feverish power struggles and social engineering taking place on such a massive scale are all based in fear.
Fear of you, and fear of me. Because we represent the potential connection to Truth. And their inevitable downfall.
Evil Pentagram fruits? Or nature’s true meaning of love and beauty.
Example: Co-opting Nature’s Sacred Geometry
A perfect example of this shadowy charade is the “Brotherhood’s” usurpation of symbols.
While we know this supplanting of authority is true about their false hierarchy and self-imposed “ownership” of lands, natural and even human resources, they’ve cleverly tried to co-opt the inherent powers of the so-called mystery schools, the language of which is numbers and symbols.
What people forget is almost all of these symbols occur naturally with wonderful positive, regenerative properties. What these lying entities have done is simply attach negative and destructive and abusive connotations to anything they can. A perfect example of how once you’re wrapped up in their world of interpretation with an abusive, violent world around you to back it up, you begin to think the lie is true.
Therein lies their only power. Your “belief” and entertaining of their notions, empowered to appear real only by your participation. Turn it off. Turn off their sources–mainstream media, staged events, manipulated music, shallow publicity, even phony personal responses and relationships.
It’s time to get real.
Remember, their whole plan is designed to replace reality with a false matrix of power that’s fed by fear. Don’t dwell on it, and see it for what it is. And reverse the flow.
Each one of us changes the direction of Spaceship Earth.
Conclusion – Uncork the X-Factor
By our very clarity of understanding, our conscious awareness of the Truth and our not submitting to their web of deceit, we throw off the illusory shackles of the would-be controllers. Just one person’s total lack of fear, not giving any obeisance to their societal, political, economic or physical oppression network, is a flame in their flimsy cobweb.
Be it.
They’re lying usurpers..but it only works with our agreement. Our conscious awareness, as vague as that may seem to some, is the ultimate weapon. And it starts with waking the hell up and then keep waking up…rattling as many other cages as we can in the process. It’s not always a smooth process, but it requires honesty and guts.
And cutting the bullshit.
As our collective consciousness grows more awake and aware it gains power and tremendous momentum. The x-factor is synchronicity. When each of us responds to Universal consciousness things change dramatically. Life’s signs become increasingly apparent and start challenging and leading our lives more and more, activating them in ways we never knew could have such a powerful influence.
With each and every wake up the war is won.
It was won in the beginning. We just need to stop believing the illusions around us and acting on our true conscience.
At that point it becomes now.
Love, Zen
–More on the Wake Up:
Dazed Lemmings Can’t Bridge The Reality Gap
Bonus: “Nature By Numbers”
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WTF? Two Prime Ministers, One speech (video)
YouTube – UndefeatedArmy09
August 22, 2009
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Australian Prime Minister John Howard give the same speech on Iraq. Still believe politicians call the shots? Think again.
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(hat tip: The Front)
Powerful Earthquake Strikes off Japan, Felt in Tokyo
The Intel Hub
January 1, 2012
TOKYO (BNO NEWS) — A powerful earthquake struck southeast of the Japanese main island of Honshu on early Sunday afternoon, seismologists said, but no tsunami alert was issued. Shaking was felt in Tokyo.
The 7.0-magnitude earthquake at 2.27 p.m. local time (0527 GMT) was centered about 486 kilometers (302 miles) south-southwest of Tokyo. It struck about 370 kilometers (229 miles) deep, making it a deep earthquake, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).
No tsunami warnings were issued because of the depth of the earthquake, JMA said. Shaking could be felt in Tokyo, the capital of Japan, witnesses said.
© 2012. BNO News. All Rights Reserved. Published by The Intel Hub with permission.
Libya rebels go gunning for Syria to topple Assad (video)
RT
January 1, 2012
Former Libyan rebels are now chanting for Syrians to follow their revolutionary path. Hundreds of mercenaries, some of whom are said to be former terrorists, are ready to pick up arms again to help overthrow President Assad.
Strait of Hormuz Heats Up – False Flag Possibility Increasing (video)
Corbett Report
January 3, 2012
Iran has warned the United States it will take action if an American warship returns to the Persian Gulf. It left the area when Iran started its 10-day naval war games, during which they successfully test-fired a number of different missiles. But Russia’s defence ministry says that despite the latest military exercise, the Iranians don’t have the technology to make intercontinental ballistic missiles. Meanwhile France is pushing for stricter sanctions as it says it’s sure Tehran is developing nuclear weapons. It’s urged EU countries to follow the U.S. in freezing Iranian central bank assets and imposing an embargo on oil exports. Tehran has been threatening to block the Strait of Hormuz – one of the world’s most important oil routes – if the West stepped up sanctions. RT talks to James Corbett, editor of the Corbett Report website.
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