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Japan’s Nuclear Crisis: forensic scientific analysis. What happened.

2011-04-03T03:36:00.000-07:00

“Clearly we’re witnessing one of the greatest disasters in modern time.”

“Clearly, there’s no access to the core,” the official said. “The Japanese are honestly blind.”

water levels at the reactor cores dropping by as much as three-quarters, temperatures in those cores soaring to nearly 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit, hot enough to burn and melt the zirconium casings that protect the fuel rods.

evaluations also show that the reactors at Fukushima Daiichi escaped the deadliest outcomes — a complete meltdown of the plant.

about 70 percent of the core of one reactor had been damaged, and that another reactor had undergone a 33 percent meltdown — came from forensic modeling.

The atomic age has seen the construction of nearly 600 civilian power plants, but according to the World Nuclear Association, only three have undergone serious accidents in which their fuel cores melted down.

now three of the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi complex in some stage of meltdown.

By definition, a meltdown is the severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor that results in either the partial or full liquefaction of its uranium fuel and supporting metal lattice, at times with the atmospheric release of deadly radiation.

Partial meltdowns usually strike a core’s middle regions instead of the edge, where temperatures are typically lower.

The main meltdowns of the past at civilian plants were Three Mile Island in 1979, the St.-Laurent reactor in France in 1980, and Chernobyl in Ukraine in 1986.

a first sign of major trouble at any reactor was the release of hydrogen — a highly flammable gas that has fueled several large explosions at Fukushima Daiichi.

The gas indicated that cooling water had fallen low, exposing the hot fuel rods.

First “as the core gets hotter and hotter,” easily evaporated products of atomic fission — like iodine 131 and cesium 137 — fly out.

If temperatures rise higher, threatening to melt the core entirely, he added, less volatile products such as strontium 90 and plutonium 239 join the rising plume.

The lofting of the latter particles in large quantities points to “substantial fuel melting"

a blow-by-blow of the accident’s early hours and days.
It said drops in cooling water exposed up to three-quarters of the reactor cores, and that peak temperatures hit 2,700 degrees Celsius, or more than 4,800 degrees Fahrenheit.
That’s hot enough to melt steel and zirconium — the main ingredient in the metallic outer shell of a fuel rod, known as the cladding.

A slide with a cutaway illustration of a reactor featured a glowing hot mass of melted fuel rods in the middle of the core and noted “release of fission products” during meltdown.
The products are radioactive fragments of split atoms that can result in cancer and other serious illnesses.

Stanford, where Dr. Hansen is a visiting scholar, posted the slides online after the March presentation.
At that time, each of the roughly 30 slides was marked with the Areva symbol or name, and each also gave the name of their author, Matthias Braun.

The posted document was later changed to remove all references to Areva.

more at the original New York Times article:

Japan’s Nuclear Crisis Is Seen Clearly From Afar - NYTimes.com

from www.nytimes.com - www.nyt.com

Potential radiation plume from a full core meltdown could reach Tokyo, if containment at nuclear power plant damaged by devastating earthquake fails.

2011-03-17T08:01:00.000-07:00

NewsDaily: Radiation plume could reach Tokyo: U.S. scientists:

For Japan tsunami survivors, woes keep mounting. 850 000 homes without electricity, 1,5 million without running water.

2011-03-17T07:50:00.000-07:00

NewsDaily: For Japan tsunami survivors, woes keep mounting

Michael Moore:war that's been raging for the past 30 years - the global war of the world's rich on the middle class. It's a war the people of Flint..

2011-03-08T13:19:00.000-08:00

... of Flint and all of Michigan know much too well. It's a war going on right now in Wisconsin. And it's a war where the middle class just won a round in Egypt."

corporations are supposed to exist to benefit people, not the other way around

the corporations' plan is that the Third World will become the Only World.

Michael Moore: Why I Support the People of Thompson, Canada -- And You Should Too:

M. Moore:war that's been raging for the past 30 years - global war of the world's rich on the middle class.

In a clear sign of concern, Abdullah made the decree for the flood of cash into social programs and bank funds even before his plane touched down

2011-02-24T06:47:00.000-08:00

Is West losing its oil colonies and friendly monarch corrupt autocrats? Occupying Iraq and Afghanistan, now USA stands to lose the whole oil region?

"If an uprising occurs in Saudi Arabia, it will have a dramatic impact that is off the charts,"

So the justice is possible after all. Ruling Saudi autocrat monarch gives $36 bill to the people

Ruling Saudi king, supported by the West, promised to fund the need of the Saudi nation with investments into housing, social assistance.

SO. THE JUSTICE IS POSSIBLE.

Now other countries to follow. Rich billionaire world ruling elites should share the wealth they steal with the people they steal it from.

USA to this day doesn't have medical care system, minimum wage is not to live on, salaries are too low on the lower end.

Country spends $1 trillion a year on war military budget.

Russia, Brazil, India, also need to help their own poor abused people.

My Way News - Mideast turmoil rattles Iran-Saudi standoff

www.DavidRayGriffin.com one of foremost inspiring leaders of 911Truth peace and justice movement. 911 controlled demolition, irrefutably.

2011-02-01T16:32:00.000-08:00

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www.DavidRayGriffin.com one of foremost inspiring leaders of 911Truth peace and justice movement. 911 controlled demolition, irrefutably.

Haiti earthquake: 16 Brits missing as horrifying new pictures reveal extent of destruction | Mail Online

2010-01-14T10:59:00.000-08:00

Haiti earthquake: Tragedy of Biblical proportions. Compares to suffering and destruction during US UK occupation wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, plight of Palestine, and 2004 Thailand tsunami.

Haiti earthquake: 16 Brits missing as horrifying new pictures reveal extent of destruction | Mail Online

Capitalism is bringing poverty, drugs, violence,... - LAT - FriendFeed

2010-01-14T10:01:00.000-08:00

Capitalism is bringing poverty, drugs, violence, culture of violence, wars to nations.

Successful economic benefits created are not distributed properly - almost as in jungle, there is a of the stronger.

Mafia will always cry for ''freedom''.

The 'false' pandemic: Drug firms cashed in on... - DailyMail - FriendFeed

2010-01-12T21:02:00.000-08:00

The 'false' pandemic: Drug firms cashed in on scare over swine flu, claims Euro health chief.

The swine flu outbreak was a 'false pandemic' driven by drug companies that stood to make billions of pounds from a worldwide scare, a leading health expert has claimed..

Bonanza' for drug firms as NHS admits it is giving away £1bn of swine flu vaccine ..

Millions of pounds of NHS money was wasted and billions wiped off the economy because thousands of people were misdiagnosed by the National Pandemic Flu Service....

Swine flu pandemic is 'less lethal' than first feared -

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1242147/The-false-pandemic-Drug-firms-cashed-scare-swine-flu-claims-Euro-health-chief.html?ITO=1490 (via http://ff.im/eeHHF)

The 'false' pandemic: Drug firms cashed in on... - DailyMail - FriendFeed

Michael Shermer: "9/11 Truthers Foiled by 12/25 Attack" | 911Blogger.com

2009-12-29T11:45:00.000-08:00

1. What "CNN reports" is very much just another inside job, propaganda. .. I have not seen them report scientific facts and evidence about 9/11. Have you??

2. al Qaeda, confused as any other American, will take credit for anything they like . Especially for anti-American terrorist attempts, because they resent occupations, aggressions, colonization of their Arab lands by US and the western Christians, started during never elected pr Bush.

Let me explain - al Qaeda probably even to this day doesn't not know that they have been had, aided - that secret entities have their 9/11 not only allowed, but also made it happen real good. This per irrefutable scientific evidence by now, too.

The big factor in stirring terrorist anger and actions is US remote UAV airplanes bombing and killing people on the ground in occupied countries, Afghanistan and also Pakistan. This foments terrorism well. Just as any occupations, wars.

Detroit failed bomber was inside let it happen operation too - but a good one - nobody was killed, they set it up so bomb did not explode.

See http://krunchd.com/inside, and better http://WorldNewsRecord.wordpress.com

What is "foiled by 12-25-09" inside fail bombing attack is peace, a chance for peace, and 9/11

Truth.

In fact, NOT revealing and investigating 9/11 Truth controlled demolition inside operation pretext to war is leaving the same forces in place, might bring more pretexts for wars inside covert ops. ...

http://friendfeed.com/petrbuben for summary news

http://911investigate.blogspot.com

Michael Shermer: "9/11 Truthers Foiled by 12/25 Attack" | 911Blogger.com

Cops fear 25 British-born Muslims are plotting to bomb Western airliners | The Sun |News

2009-12-29T07:39:00.000-08:00

Failed Detroit bombing 'let it happen' job is direct consequence of not revealing the truth about 9/11 - the same forces still plotting wars they need and profit from.

The same utterly incompetent agencies on a path of confusion. 9/11 controlled demolition pretext for wars. What is the next one? Where was CIA in letting this person on board and entering USA? Let's stop world war before it starts.

If CIA FBI DHS TSA fail to body search, to prevent boarding and entering USA by to Britain known and banned terrorist, then they all need to be resign and disband. 9/11 controlled demolition inside operation pretext for wars of occupation and colonization. http://krunchd.com/inside

http://krunchd.com/inside

Cops fear 25 British-born Muslims are plotting to bomb Western airliners | The Sun |News

125 Pilot Whales Die On New Zealand Beaches

2009-12-28T08:13:00.000-08:00

Propaganda! Not really - it is a public knowledge that whale, dolphins beaching is caused by underwater huge blasts by US military submarines sonars - underwater radars. These massively loud underwater sounds shatter animals' inner ears, part of brains, cause bleeding, and animals are unable to navigate, even if they are pushed out to see. They die from their injuries. It is true that US military is tying to address the situation and prevent this painful killing of animals. It really is similar to standing a couple steps of distance from huge, deafening roar of rocket or a big jet. http://WorldNewsRecord.wordpress.com

125 Pilot Whales Die On New Zealand Beaches

The unfinished business of Romania's revolution - Europe, World - The Independent

2009-12-24T10:50:00.000-08:00

Unfinished business of Romania's revolution. Group of communists opposed to Ceausescu and seeking personal gain seized power, under the cover of the mass protests, having used army units to create bloody chaos around the country before presenting themselves as the "National Salvation Front".As Romania grapples with endemic corruption and an economic crisis, the successors to the communists remain hugely influential today

"After the arrest of the Ceausescus, the state apparatus of repression continued to fight against the protesters. In the name of defending against 'terrorists' this [NSF] group seized all the major institutions. They portrayed themselves as Romania's saviours and people believed them.

The unfinished business of Romania's revolution -
Europe, World - The Independent

Acid Oceans: The 'Evil Twin' Of Climate Change

2009-12-21T12:00:00.000-08:00

Acid Oceans: The consequence of greenhouse gases. Reducing carbon emissions might have unknown effects on global temperature oscillations, but would help prevent ocean acidification. We're having a change in water chemistry, so 20 years from now the system we're looking at could be affected dramatically but we're not really sure how. So we see a train wreck coming,... carbon absorption in the oceans is damaging key creatures' hard shells or skeletons..

Oceans absorb about 25 percent of the world's greenhouse gases pumped into the atmosphere from human activities each year,... That helps slow global warming in the atmosphere,...

Ocean acidity could increase 150 percent just by mid-century

"China now holds reserves of $2.3 trillion. It owns more US debt than anyone else.

2009-12-03T11:21:00.000-08:00

China's savings sustain the US economy for better or worse. It is the financial equivalent of assured mutual destruction.

The Chinese underwrite America's lavish lifestyle.

Their family silver is kept in dollars.

One can not live without the other."

BBC News - World News America : Matt Frei's diary: Obama visits America's banker:

European Banks Growing Bigger. ~wild capitalism failing. Euro governments provided $5.3 trillion of aid to banks in 08 and 09.

2009-12-02T12:42:00.000-08:00

15 European banks now have assets larger than their home economies. Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc’s assets ballooned 2,914 % in the 10 years through 08 as it made acquisitions, boosted trading and increased lending.

Edinburgh- based RBS spent $140 billion on takeovers during the period. that triggered the world’s biggest bank bailout- 45.5 billion-pound rescue of RBS.

Paris-based BNP Paribas, the world’s biggest bank by assets, increased its balance sheet by 59 percent to 2.29 trillion euros ($3.5 trillion)London-based Barclays jumped 55 percent to 1.55 trillion pounds ($2.6 trillion), or 108 percent of U.K. GDP.

Santander’s rose 30 percent to 1.08 trillion euros, about the size of Spain’s GDP.Britain, with an economy one-fifth the size of the U.S.’s, faces widening budget deficits, rising unemployment and increased taxes after four bank bailouts, including the 45.5 billion-pound rescue of RBS.”

Zurich-based UBS AG has reported 57.5 billion Swiss francs ($57.8 billion) of losses and writedowns since the credit crisis began, the most in Europe, and received a 6 billion-franc bailout from the Swiss government. The bank has reduced its assets by 37 percent since the start of 2007..

The five biggest U.S. lenders -- Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Citigroup Inc., Wells Fargo & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. -- held $8.3 trillion in assets as of Sept. 30, an amount equal to about 60 percent of GDP and more than three times the $2.5 trillion in assets held by the top five financial companies in 1999.

European Banks Growing Bigger ‘Sowing the Seeds’ of Next Crisis - Bloomberg.com

Chavez Says Venezuela Will Defend Itself Against Colombian-U.S. Aggression | venezuelanalysis.com

2009-11-23T17:10:00.000-08:00

Chavez denounces war threat from Colombia or USA as unions organize. 'Venezuela will never, never be a Yankee colony again.'

Colombia and the US signed a deal on October 30 to expand the US military presence on seven Colombian air, naval and army bases, grant US personnel diplomatic immunity for crimes committed in Colombia, and facilitate the movement of the US military throughout the country.

Chavez said: “The government of Colombia is no longer in Bogota, it is in the United States ... Colombia handed itself over. Not the people of Colombia, the government of Colombia, the Colombian oligarchy.”

Chavez Says Venezuela Will Defend Itself Against Colombian-U.S. Aggression | venezuelanalysis.com

Barack Obama furious at General Stanley McChrystal speech on Afghanistan - Telegraph

2009-10-04T22:39:00.000-07:00

Barack Obama furious at General Stanley McChrystal speech on Afghanistan asking for 40 000 more US soldiers. Their relationship under severe strain. Gen McChrystal shocked and angered presidential advisers with the bluntness of a speech given in London.

The next day he was summoned to an awkward 25-minute face-to-face meeting on board Air Force One on the tarmac in Copenhagen. Gen McChrystal, who heads the 68,000 US troops in Afghanistan as well as the 100,000 Nato forces, flatly rejected proposals to switch to a strategy more reliant on drone missile strikes and special forces operations against al-Qaeda.

Some commentators regarded the general's London comments as verging on insubordination.

Barack Obama furious at General Stanley McChrystal speech on Afghanistan - Telegraph:

Former Major General Stubblebine, head of all American Intelligence: 9/11 is a fraud, a controlled demolition. Press is is not

2009-09-30T17:49:00.001-07:00

9/11 - controlled demolition, an inside job.
We need new investigation.

http://ae911truth.org - http://twitter.com/911news - http://911UnitedWeInvestigate.blogspot.com

Gore Vidal: ‘We’ll have a dictatorship soon in the US’ - Times Online

2009-09-30T08:27:00.000-07:00

'America failed to conquer Middle East, and should leave Afghanistan. 'America is rotting away, and Obama will not save it.' 'We’ll have a dictatorship soon in the US’ - Gore Vidal, who's grandfather bought Oklahoma into the USA. He regrets witching support from Hillary Clinton to Obama.. 'Coup'd etat in 2000, when Supreme Court gave election to Republicans. my comment: Is Mr. Vidal aware that 9/11 is a controlled demolition, inside job?

Gore Vidal: ‘We’ll have a dictatorship soon in the US’ - Times Online

Occupation colonization of Afghanistan doesn't go well. U.S. general calls for more troops in Afghanistan, or `war will likely fail`

2009-09-21T08:21:00.000-07:00

US has 62 000 soldiers in Af, Nato allies 35 000.

Pentagon plans to add 6 000 by the end 09, but US Army wants thousands more.

Failure to gain initiative, reverse resistance fighters momentum in next 1 year may mean it may no longer be possible.

Is Iraq, and Afghanistan, another Vietnam?..

In Vietnam War, started with false flag attack operation of Gulf of Tonkin, 66 000 American soldiers died, 600 000 Vietnamese, and 3.5 million altogether, civilians included. Chemical weapons were used, 77 million liters of Agent Orange.

In Iraq occupation, pretexted with 9/11 WTC controlled demolition attacks, so far 4100 US soldiers died, 1-3 mill civilians, country devastated in complete ruins.

U.S. general calls for more troops in Afghanistan - CNN.com

Black Sea, Caucasus: U.S. Moves Missile Shield South And East | AfterDowningStreet.org

2009-09-19T17:39:00.000-07:00

Black Sea, Caucasus: U.S. Moves Missile Shield South And East. Major Polish daily newspaper revealed last month 09/08 that possible locations for U.S. missile shield components would be Israel, Turkey and the Balkans.

Reports are that the Pentagon is to begin the deployment of missile-killing warships in the Mediterranean and North Seas. The Norwegian, Barents, Baltic and Black Seas may not be far behind.

Black Sea, Caucasus: U.S. Moves Missile Shield South And East | AfterDowningStreet.org:

Germany boosts terrorism alert level. Afghan freedom fighters ready to use terror to end occupation of their country.

2009-09-19T07:50:00.000-07:00

Afghan armed resistance: "If the September 27, 09 German elections vote into power parties that do not pledge to pull German troops from Afghanistan, there will be a "rude awakening." ..threat of terror attacks in Germany? ... Western campaign of violent occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan brought the awakening of terror threats.

"If the German people vote for peace, then the Mujahedeen will choose peace with Germany as well", latest message of a speaker said. ..... with the withdrawal of the last German soldier from Afghanistan, the last Mujahed will also leave Germany. Al Qaeda gives you their word."

Germany boosts terrorism alert level - CNN.com

Big shift to left - Japan elections. Plans to review presence of 50 000 US soldiers in Japan.

2009-09-16T18:51:00.000-07:00

Stop refueling US ships for Afghan occupation war. Domestic pro-people democratic policies. $275 a month for each child until jr. high. Raise minimum wage, cut highway toll. Japan also has, of course, national health care plan. They are not crazy or fascist enough to abuse their own population by not providing healthcare. Republican robber feudal war barons should take example from that.

Japan's new leader vows more equal US relationship - Yahoo! News

Student fatally stabbed at high school. Coral Gables by Miami, Florida. Shocking school violence. Children killers. Depraved wild capitalism morality.

2009-09-15T08:27:00.000-07:00

The culture of violence.

Student fatally stabbed at Coral Gables High School, 1 person in custody - Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Channel 7 News Fox WSVN-TV

how Bush, Republicans were poisoning America. Herbicide atrazine.

2009-09-05T21:23:00.000-07:00

"As the Investigative Fund revealed last week, the herbicide atrazine has been found at levels above the federal safety limit in drinking water in at least four states.

The chemical has been studied for its potential link to breast cancer, prostate cancer, and birth defects, and the EPA considers it to be a potential endocrine disruptor. It is banned in the European Union."

Wiles said that any attempt to restrict atrazine use would likely be blocked by the House Agriculture Committee, who tend to favor the "pro-pesticide farm lobby and pesticide makers." The committee is chaired by Rep. Collin Peterson (D-Minn.)

EPA's Failure To Publicize Drinking Water Data Prompts Agency, Congress To Rethink Policies:

WTC 7: The Smoking Gun of 9/11

2009-09-02T16:50:00.001-07:00

9/11 Controlled Demolition

California blaze grows to 140,000-plus acres.

2009-09-02T10:09:00.000-07:00

A fierce fight was waged Tuesday to save a key communications complex and historic observatory atop Mount Wilson. The collection of towers is vital for government communications and nearly 50 radio and TV stations.

Fire retardant dropped from the air and firefighters clearing brush helped protect Mount Wilson, at least temporarily.

It is unclear what caused the Station fire, which charred an area that had not seen a major fire in more than 60 years.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency Friday as a result of the Station Fire. He also proclaimed a state of emergency on Tuesday in San Bernardino County, east of Los Angeles, where the Oak Glen Fire had scorched more than 1,000 acres. That fire was about 60 percent contained, fire officials said Tuesday.

The Pendleton Fire, also in San Bernardino, had burned nearly 900 acres by late Tuesday and was threatening 400 residences, according to fire officials. The blaze was 60 percent contained.

Schwarzenegger had declared states of emergency in Placer, Monterey and Mariposa counties because of fires.

California blaze grows to 140,000-plus acres - CNN.com

Mobile towers posing a threat to honey bees in Kerala withe electromagnetic radiation from mobile towers and cell phones having the potential to kill.

2009-08-31T16:34:00.000-07:00

In one of his experiments he found that when a mobile phone was kept near a beehive it resulted in collapse of the colony in five to 10 days, with the worker bees failing to return home, leaving the hives with just queens, eggs and hive-bound immature bees"

fullstory:

Cellphones Cause Brain Tumors, Says New Report. Great underestimation of brain tumor risks.

2009-08-31T15:50:00.000-07:00

- There is a risk of brain tumors from cellphone use;
- Telecom funded studies underestimate the risk of brain tumors, and;
- Children have larger risks than adults for brain tumors.

This report, sent to government leaders and media today, details eleven design flaws of the 13-country, Telecom-funded Interphone study

The Interphone study, begun in 1999, was intended to determine the risks of brain tumors, but its full publication has been held up for years.

Components of this study published to date reveal what the authors call a 'systemic-skew', greatly underestimating brain tumor risk.

The cardinal design flaws include

--categorizing subjects who used portable phones (which emit the same microwave radiation as cellphones,) as 'unexposed';

--exclusion of many types of brain tumors;

--exclusion of people who had died, or were too ill to be interviewed, as a consequence of their brain tumor;

--and exclusion of children and young adults, who are more vulnerable.

Cellphones Cause Brain Tumors, Says New Report By International EMF Collaborative

http://electroMagneticHealth.org

911 WTC - 1st Plane Crash. What is this video saying?

2009-08-25T12:34:00.001-07:00

9/11 controlled demolition.

We need a contemporary insurrection to reclaim our democracy, our freedom and our country.

2009-08-24T16:24:00.000-07:00

We must challenge corporations and take back what is rightfully ours.

The second American Revolution. Let’s declare our independence from corporate rule!

Decades of deregulation and laissez-faire capitalist ideology have allowed corporations to steer the world's political, economic, environmental and cultural agendas.

A corporation is not a person.

It’s an organizational structure that has no morality and feels no remorse.

Yet the modern corporation enjoys the same rights as you or I: free speech, the ability to own property, the right to lobby government officials and protection against self-incrimination

Citizen or Consumer? | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters

Stop Toxin-Laden Wastewater Dump in Our Streams! - ThePetitionSite.com

2009-08-23T08:05:00.000-07:00

In 2002, Bush administration issued a rulemaking that effectively removed Clean Water Act protection, permitting mining companies to fill our nation's waterways with the toxin-laden waste material.

Congress enacted the Clean Water Act in 1972, which allowed the filling of waterways for constructive purposes, such as dams or levees. But protected waterways from being used as waste disposal sites.

On June 22, 2009, the Supreme Court ruled that the Clean Water Act permits a mining company to pump hundreds of thousands of gallons per day of toxic wastewater slurry into an Alaskan lake, killing its fish and aquatic life.

The passage of Clean Water Protection Act, H.R. 1310 will ensure lakes, rivers, streams and wetlands are not destroyed by industrial waste dumping by passing. We must ensure that we won't have another catastrophe like the one occurring right now in Alaska.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/831747533?z00m=19785353

Stop Toxin-Laden Wastewater Dump in Our Streams! - The Petition Site

Russia sees U.S. space threat, builds new rocket. US will be able to hit any target in Russia from space by 2030, commander of Russia's air force said

2009-08-12T03:09:00.000-07:00

Russian Pres Medvedev has said a ban on deploying weapons in space was a condition for further arms cuts as were mutual limitations on the creation of ground-based anti-missile systems.

Medvedev is trying to persuade Obama to give up plans for a ground-based anti-missile system with components deployed in Europe, a project viewed by Moscow as a direct threat.

Russia Air Force Commander Zelin said that by 2020 Russia would create its own new air and space defense.

Zelin said Moscow was now developing a fifth-generation, surface-to-air rocket, the S-500. "It is able to implement in full the tasks of air and space defense and is capable of engaging ballistic hypersonic targets flying at a speed of 5 km (3 miles) per second," Zelin said.

Russia sees U.S. space threat, builds new rocket

From Socialism to oligarchy, how to destroy a country. Tezky udel jedne zeme. Od socialismu k zaniku? A catastrophy for a Russian nation.

2009-04-08T22:59:00.000-07:00

Moscow had 74 billionaires in 2008, more than any other city in the world. Now it has 27, according to Forbes magazine. The 25 richest Russians lost a combined $230 billion during 6 months last year 2008 as the value of their companies plunged along with commodity prices.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aBBqKU6NGu8w&refer=home

FedEx Cargo Jet Crashing in Tokyo, Japan

2009-03-23T16:31:00.001-07:00

Havarie letadla FedEx pri pristani, Tokyo. Pricina pravdepodobne silny vitr.

2 Russian planes again fly over U.S. Navy ships above Sea of Japan. Hry velmoci.

2009-03-19T21:50:00.000-07:00

The Russian aircraft IL-38 flew about 500 feet over the ship Stennis, lower than other flights the Russians have made over U.S. ships in the past year.

Then, US ships Blue Ridge and Stennis were overflown by 2 russian strategic Bear bombers, at 2000 feet.

In both cases, U.S. Navy F/A-18 fighters met up with the Russian aircraft about 70 nautical miles from the U.S. ships and flew alongside them until they left the area.

Russian long-range flights at U.S. or other nations' boundaries have been common over the last year 2008.

Pentagon does not often talk about the overflights, there is nothing illegal about them, they are generally seen by the USA as just muscle-flexing by the Russian military.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/03/19/us.russia.planes/index.html

Prelet 2 ruskych hlidkovych letadel Iljusin IL-38 nad americkou letadlovou lodi Stennis v nezvykle nizke vysce pouhych 500 stop, tedy 160 metru! Nize nez pri preletech loni.

Pri druhem incidentu, 2 strategicke ruske bombardery preletely nekolikrat nad americkymi lodemi Blue Ridge a Stennis, ve vysce 2000 stop, tedy 660 m.

V obou pripadech ruske letadla doprovazely po 70 mil americke stihacky. Pokus o radiovy rozhovor s ruskymi letadly bez odezvy.

Podobny incident naposledy s lodi Nimitz, 2000 stop.

Ruska letadla take v poslednim roce 2008 letaji blizko americkych hranic ci hranic jinych statu.

Americane o preletech zridka mluvi, nejsou nelegalni, a povazuji se za predvadeni sily.

N. Korean missile can hit U.S. bases, and US West coast. Tensions have increased lately, Feb 2009.

2009-02-23T18:13:00.000-08:00

Nove balisticke rakety str a dalekeho doletu. Dosah mozny Guam a Aljaska ci Havaj.

North Korea deployed new medium-range ballistic missiles and expanded special forces training during 2008, South Korea's defense ministry reported.

The missiles can travel about 3,000 kilometers (1,900 miles), possibly putting U.S. military bases in the Pacific Ocean territory of Guam within striking distance

The S Korea defense paper calls the North's 1.2 million-strong military an "immediate and grave threat,"

The report adds that the North has recently bolstered its naval forces, reinforcing submarines and developing new torpedoes, in addition to increasing its special forces training after reviewing U.S. military tactics in Iraq and Afghanistan.

U.S. and South Korean officials have said that North Korea appears to be preparing to test-fire its long-range missile, the Taepodong-2. Pyongyang tested one of the missiles in 2006, but it failed 40 seconds after launch.

The missile is thought to have an intended range of about 6,700 kilometers (4,200 miles), which if true, could give it the capability of striking Alaska or Hawaii.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/23/northkorea.missiles/index.html?iref=newssearch

Bill Clinton meets with Putin in Davos

2009-01-29T16:29:00.000-08:00

Bill Clinton he conducted a series of quiet meetings with foreign leaders that culminated in an intense late-night discussion with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The two former presidents met at a Sheraton hotel where Putin held a private party, following an early evening reception at a local museum hosted by Clinton.
Putin greeted Clinton cordially as "our good friend" as they raised glasses of vodka and then listened to a pianist pound out "In the Hall of the Mountain King."

When the musical entertainment concluded, they moved to a table in a separate room with access strictly controlled by Secret Service and Russian security agents. Flanked by aides and an interpreter, the two men talked for nearly 90 minutes before they rose and walked out together for a few pictures with partygoers and members of Clinton's entourage.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/29/bill-clinton-putin-meet-a_n_162322.html

Nato troops cut off in Afghanistan as Pakistan fighting flares

2008-12-30T09:02:00.000-08:00

Pakistan closed the main highway used to transport supplies to US and Nato troops in Afghanistan after it launched a fresh offensive against Taliban insurgents in the northwest of the country.

The move means that Nato troops will depend on airlifts and less reliable Central Asian routes for essential supplies for the foreseeable future.

Over 75 per cent of fuel, food and other essential commodities for the Western forces are trucked from the Pakistan port of Karachi to Afghanistan.

The US and Nato are considering other possible supply routes to Afghanistan through Central Asian states to the north.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/4029734/Nato-troops-cut-off-in-Afghanistan-as-Pakistan-fighting-flares.html