As
part of a deal signed last week in Washington DC between the Russian
Emergency Situations Ministry and FEMA, Russian officials will provide
“security at mass events” in the United States, a scenario that won’t
sit well with Americans wary of foreign assets operating on US soil.
According to a press release
by the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense and
Emergencies, US and Russian officials met on June 25 at the 17th Joint
U.S.-Russia Cooperation Committee on Emergency Situations.
In
addition to agreeing with FEMA to “exchange experts during joint rescue
operations in major disasters,” the Russian Emergency Situations
Ministry will also be providing “security at mass events” in the United
States.
This suggests that events designated as “National Special Security Events”
by the Department of Homeland Security, which include the Super Bowl,
international summits such as the G8 and presidential inaugurations,
will now rely partly on Russian authorities to provide security.-[Full Article]
...According to the new deal, Russia and the United States will "exchange
experts during joint rescue operations and in major disasters" and
"exchange experience in monitoring and forecasting emergency situations,
training rescuers, developing mine-rescuing and providing security at
mass events."
So according to this deal, Russian forces will be present at any event considered a "National Special Security Event," which, according to the United States Secret Service
website, is a title designated by the Secretary of Homeland Security.
Past events that have been considered "National Special Security Events"
include Super Bowls, State of the Union Addresses, the Olympics, and
the Democratic and Republican national conventions.
United States and Russian forces have previously trained together on US
soil. In fact, the first time Russians ever trained on US soil was just last year.
Obama and Netanyahu are currently deciding how to best strike Iran’s
nuclear power facility in Natanz. There are talks of using drones and
bomber jets so that the attack would only take a day or two. It is
certain that US involvement ... Continue Reading →
Russian “Airborne Assault Forces” will be arriving in Colorado this May
for joint terror-war exercises with U.S. soldiers, according to U.S.
officials and Russian military personnel cited in media reports. The
Kremlin’s Defense Ministry and the U.S. Department of Defense both said
it would be the first time in history that American and Russian airborne
special operations troops would be training together on U.S. soil.
Analysts and commentators across the alternative media expressed alarm about the controversial announcement, likening it to a scene out of the movieRed Dawn or the predictions
made by the late radio host Bill Cooper. It was not immediately clear
exactly why the Obama administration decided to allow the scheme. - [Full Article]
An attack on Iran might happen in the summer, the Chief of Staff of Russian Army General Nikolai Makarov, warned today on the channel Russia Today. When referring to the tensions created around the Islamic Republic's nuclear program, Makarov noted that the West, especially the military in Washington and Tel Aviv, are preparing an act of war against the Persian country in April or no later than June this year.
The argument used for aggression, which Tehran considers artificially made to justify a war, refers to the alleged Iranian attempt to develop a nuclear program with military pretensions.
But Iran defends its right to use atomic energy for peaceful purposes and to produce fuel for its nuclear facilities.
The West reacts with bellicosity and more unilateral sanctions against the Persian state each time it refers to new programs to develop the atomic sphere and to reiterate its peaceful character, the source warned...[Full Article]
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was mocked by his own countrymen today after urging Russians to start having more sex to put a stop to the country's declining population.
In one of his more controversial presidential election campaign pledges, Putin vowed to give cash incentives to mothers who have a third child, to help encourage more births.
Russia is the largest geographical country in the world but its 142 million population is smaller than both Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Putin, who served two consecutive presidential terms between 2000 and 2008 followed by his current term as prime minister, warned that the current steady population decline could see 50 million fewer Russians by 2050 to just 107million people...[Full Article]
Making a point and paying for it ... A frame grab of Tatyana Limanova making the gesture that got her fired.
A top Russian TV network has sacked an award-winning news anchor who stunned viewers by inexplicably raising her middle finger after reading US President Barack Obama's name.
The bizarre episode happened during a routine afternoon news program hosted by REN TV channel newscaster Tatyana Limanova - winner of Russia's prestigious TEFI television award.
The November 14 show was progressing smoothly through another set of government meetings until reaching the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum being hosted that weekend by the US leader in his native state of Hawaii.
"Dmitry Medvedev became chairman of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) organisation today," Limanova read.
"This post was previously held by US President Barack Obama," she added before quickly raising her left arm from the table and showing her middle finger to the TV camera.
The show then switched to a recording of an APEC press conference and then moved on to other news...[Full Article]
A top Russian female newsreader has caused a stir after appearing to offensively show US President Barack Obama her middle finger during a live newscast.
UK Telegraph
Online footage of the incident, which occurred earlier this month during an afternoon news bulletin on the privately held REN TV channel, is being avidly viewed in both Russia and the United States.
In the footage, Tatyana Limanova, an award-winning senior newsreader at the channel, can be seen briskly reading out an item about how Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has just assumed the rotating chairmanship of the Asia Pacific Cooperation organisation.
She is then heard to say that the post "has (previously) been held by Barack Obama" before mechanically and unambiguously raising her left arm and showing the camera her raised middle finger in an offensive gesture that is sometimes known as "flipping the bird."
The channel, which goes out to 120 million people across Russia, has declined to comment. But sources close to it have tried to defuse the row by claiming that the newsreader had believed she was off camera at the time and merely providing a voice-over for a report. According to the same storyline, the rude gesture was intended for studio technicians who had been trying to put her off her stride...[Full Article]
(Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the United States Monday of living beyond its means "like a parasite" on the global economy and said dollar dominance was a threat to the financial markets.
"They are living beyond their means and shifting a part of the weight of their problems to the world economy," Putin told the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi while touring its lakeside summer camp some five hours drive north of Moscow.
"They are living like parasites off the global economy and their monopoly of the dollar," Putin said at the open-air meeting with admiring young Russians in what looked like early campaigning before parliamentary and presidential polls...[Full Article]
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the federal force charged with keeping the nation’s airports secure, would not have been able to detect and stop the type of attack at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport on January 26. That was the warning given by U.S. Representative John Mica (R-Fla.), the new chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Russian authorities said the assault on the country’s busiest air hub, which killed at least 35 and injured over 180 others, was carried out by a suicide bomber wearing an improvised explosive device packed with shrapnel.
Mica warned that a program instituted by the TSA back in 2006, designed to identify potential terrorists in crowded airports, would not be capable of detecting a Moscow-style assault...
Timing is everything when waging war “by way of deception,” the motto that has long guided Israeli war-planners. Whenever Israel’s geopolitical goals are threatened, chaos is assured. In national security terminology, the January 24 bombing at Moscow’s busiest airport was “out of theater repositioning.”
First among Tel Aviv’s priorities is their need to maintain traction for the latest geopolitical narrative: a “global war on terrorism” against “Islamo-fascism.” The fact that America’s two latest wars serve Israeli goals remains largely unmentioned in Western media.
Six days prior to the Moscow bombing, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev traveled to the West Bank to endorse a Palestinian state with its capital East Jerusalem. He pointedly noted “this was the first visit of a Russian president to Palestine not united with a visit to another country” (Israel).
Then he joined a fast-lengthening list of nations confirming that, to date, 109 of 192 United Nations member countries support a resolution recognizing Palestinian statehood.
Though the U.S. reliably vetoes Security Council resolutions at Israel’s request, sentiments are shifting as a global public awakens to the costs of the U.S.-Israeli relationship...
The terror attack at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport happened because of inadequate security measures, said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
Christian Science Monitor
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev blamed airport security lapses for the suicide bombing that killed 35 people and injured up to 180 Monday at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport.
"Information from the crime scene indicates that there was just chaos; people could enter [the airport] from anywhere. Control was limited and was practically not directed at those who were meeting passengers," Mr. Medvedev said, in a statement published by RIA Novosti, Russia’s state-run news agency...
The details about this 2009 article are here, but it's PDF and I don't know how to copy and paste the story.
The story goes into a little detail about how Security Partners Ltd., the ICTS Europe subsidiary in Russia was going to assist with 'security' at Domodedovo airport.
The SAME ICTS that on 9/11 helped those MOSSAD agents, made up to look like Arabs, onto several flights. The SAME ICTS that let the 'Shoe Bomber,' Richard Reid board.
The SAME ICTS that sent a 'sharp-dressed man' to help out the Christmas day 'underwear bomber' board a flight, with no money and NO PASSPORT.
Surely this can't be related to Russia getting ready to recognize a Palestinian state, could it?
Would Israel be so low, sneaky and murderous as to use a FALSE FLAG to accomplish their goals?
Fatah official Nabil Sha'ath tells Al-Hayat newspaper that Dmitry Medvedev will affirm Soviet Union's 1988 recognition of a Palestinian state during West Bank visit. By Barak Ravid
Israeli officials fear that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will announce on Tuesday during a visit to Jericho that Russia recognizes a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders.
Officials became concerned following an interview given by Fatah official Nabil Sha'ath to the Al-Hayat newspaper on Tuesday. Sha'ath said that Medvedev would affirm the Soviet Union's 1988 recognition of a Palestinian state - a recognition that was based on the declaration of independence made by Yassir Arafat that year.
Such a move would be significant, particularly since Russia is a member of the Quartet of Middle East peace negotiatiors.
Either ICTS is the sloppiest 'security' firm in the world, or...
UPDATE
It's Odigo story, told in Russian
Russia's security agenciesreceived a warning ahead of today's blast of a possible attack on a Moscow airport, news agencies reported. "We received information that in one of Moscow's airports a terrorist attack could possibly take place," a source told RIA Novosti.
Why would a 'terrorist' warn those ahead of time that he/she/they were going to blow something up, since that diminishes the unknown, which if part of terror's MO?
Unless they wanted to warn some 'Chosen Ones,' like the REAL 9/11 perps did when they sent a message to the Israeli-owned instant messaging company Odigo in NYC to let them know to get the hell out of Dodge, the 'MOSSAD Flying Aerial Circus' was going to pay New York a visit.
Two employees of Odigo, Inc., an Israeli company, receive warnings of an imminent attack in New York City about two hours before the first plane hits the WTC. Odigo, one of the world’s largest instant messaging companies, has its headquarters two blocks from the WTC. The Odigo Research and Development offices where the warnings were received are located in Herzliyya, a suburb of Tel Aviv.
The two employees claim not to know who sent the warnings.
He said the employees did not know the person who sent the message, but they traced it to a computer address and have given that information to the FBI.” [Washington Post, 10/4/2001] Odigo gave the FBI the Internet address of the message’s sender so the name of the sender could be found. [Deutsche Presse-Agentur (Hamburg), 9/26/2001] Two months later, it is reported that the FBI is still investigating the matter, but there have been no reports since.
ICTS Europe wins security services contract for American Airlines at Moscow Domodedovo Airport
American Airlines has awarded Security Partners Ltd., the ICTS Europe subsidiary in Russia, its security services contract by for Domodedovo (DME) airport in Moscow.
ICTS Europe Newsletter QR1 2009 Opening of United Airlines flight in Moscow Security Partners Ltd., the ICTS Europe subsidiary in Russia, was awarded a new contract with United Airlines to provide enhanced security services supported by the CPM at Domodedovo Airport.
"To make the situation worse, a private security company called ICTS, owned by an Israeli, Ezra Harel, and registered in the Netherlands, was employed at Charles de Gaulle airport to screen passengers boarding US planes. Most of its personnel are ex-Shin Bet officers. The company covers security at Boston's Logan airport, where the American Airlines plane came down after flight attendants and passengers overpowered Reid."
The point of the article was that ICTS knew shoe bomber Richard Reid was dangerous, but allowed him on board a flight from Tel Aviv to Paris. Maybe they did and maybe they didn't. But the idea that an Israeli owned company had inside access to the airport used to launch an abortive terror attack brought to mind the strange message Odigo Systems, another Israeli owned company with offices near the World Trade Towers, received that warned of the impending attacks before the hijacked planes had even left the ground...
Is this the same or a different ICTS airport security company that let the "Christmas-day underwear bomber" through? If it is different, what are the odds of it having the same name?
JERICHO, Palestinian Territories: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev reaffirmed on Tuesday Moscow’s commitment to an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, during a visit to the West Bank.
He also supported Palestinian demand that Israel must freeze all settlement construction before peace talks can resume...
(Reuters) - At least 31 people were killed and more than 100 injured on Monday in a suicide bombing at Russia's biggest airport, Russian news agencies reported.
Russia's ruble-dominated stock market MICEX fell by nearly two percent following the blast, which ripped through the baggage claim area at Moscow's Domodedovo airport at 1332 GMT.
Smoke wafted out of the baggage claim area and people were seen running out of the emergency exits at the airport, local media reported.
Initial casualty figures were contradictory with ITAR-TASS saying about 20 people had been killed. A spokeswoman for prosecutors put the number of casualties at about 20.
Moscow suffered its worst attack in six years in March 2010 when two female suicide bombers from Russia's volatile Dagestan region set off explosives in the metro, killing 40 people.
The Kremlin is struggling to contain an Islamist insurgency in the mainly Muslim North Caucasus, and rebels have repeatedly vowed they will take their battle to the Russian heartland.
St. Petersburg, Russia - China and Russia have decided to renounce the US dollar and resort to using their own currencies for bilateral trade, Premier Wen Jiabao and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin announced late on Tuesday...
BUSHEHR, Iran – Iranian and Russian nuclear technicians made final preparations to start up Iran's first reactor on Saturday after years of delays, an operation that will mark a milestone in what Tehran considers its right to produce nuclear energy.
Nationwide celebrations are planned for the fuel loading at the Bushehr facility in southern Iran, while Russia pledges to safeguard the plant and prevent spent nuclear fuel from being shifted to a possible weapons program...
Israel has just days to launch a military strike and stop Iran from developing a nuclear bomb, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has warned.
The deadline was set by outspoken former envoy John Bolton, who claimed that time was running out for the West to crush Tehran’s atomic ambitions.
He said Iran is planning to bring its first Bushehr reactor online on Saturday, when a shipment of nuclear fuel will be loaded into the plant’s core.
At that point, he said it would be too late for Israel to attack the facility because it would spread radiation and affect innocent Iranian civilians.
‘Once that uranium, once those fuel rods are very close to the reactor, certainly once they’re in the reactor, attacking it means a release of radiation, no question about it,’ said Mr Bolton.
‘So if Israel is going to do anything against Bushehr it has to move in the next eight days,’ he told Fox News in the U.S.
If the Israelis fail to act, Mr Bolton said: ‘Iran will achieve something that no other opponent of Israel, no other enemy of the United States in the Middle East really has and that is a functioning nuclear reactor.’
But the former diplomat, who served as George Bush’s ambassador to the UN between 2005 and 2009, said he doubted Israel would attack Iran.
‘I’m afraid that they have lost this opportunity,’ he added...
Former US envoy to the United Nations says Israel has until August 21st to attack Iran's nuclear sites. This is before Russia finalizes its shipment of nuclear fuel to Iran. So is an Israeli attack forthcoming? Wayne Madsen says that if there is an attack, multiple nations would join and there could be a major war ahead.
News that Russia will load nuclear fuel rods into an Iranian reactor has touched off a countdown to a point of no return, a deadline by which Israel would have to launch an attack on Iran's Bushehr reactor before it becomes effectively "immune" to any assault, says former Bush administration U.N. Ambassador John R. Bolton.
Once the fuel rods are loaded, Bolton told Fox News on Friday afternoon, "it makes it essentially immune from attack by Israel. Because once the rods are in the reactor an attack on the reactor risks spreading radiation in the air, and perhaps into the water of the Persian Gulf."
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin declared in March that Russia would start the Bushehr reactor this summer. But the announcement from a spokesman for Russia's state atomic agency to Reuters Friday sent international diplomats scrambling to head off a crisis.
The story immediately became front-page news in Israel, which has laid precise plans to carry out an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities while going along with President Obama's plans to use international sanctions and diplomatic persuasion to convince Iran's clerics not to go nuclear.
Bolton made it clear that it is widely assumed that any Israeli attack on the Bushehr reactor must take place before the reactor is loaded with fuel rods.
"If they're going to do it that's the window that they have," Bolton declared. "Otherwise as I said before, once the rods are in the reactor, if you attack the reactor you're going to open it up and radiation will escape at least into the atmosphere and possibly into the waters of the Persian Gulf.
"So most people think that neither Israel nor the United States, come to that, would attack the reactor after it's been fueled."
Bolton cited the 1981 Israeli attack on Saddam Hussein's Osirak reactor outside Baghdad and the September 2007 Israeli attack on a North Korean reactor being built in Syria. Both of those strikes came before fuel rods were loaded into those reactors.
"So if it's going to happen in Bushehr it has to happen before the fuel rods go in," Bolton said...
Russia says it will launch Iran's nuclear power plant in Bushehr next week.
The Russian nuclear agency Rosatom, which is building the facility in Bushehr, announced that engineers will start loading the reactor with fuel on August 21, under strict control.
A Russian delegation, headed by Rosatom Director General Sergey Kiriyenko, will attend the launch ceremony.
The start date of the Bushehr power plant has been delayed a number of times.
Construction of the plant was started in 1974 by a German company, Kraftwerk Union A.G. (Siemens/KWU), but stopped shortly after Islamic revolution in the country in 1979.
In 1995 Iran started co-operation with Russia and, in 1998, Russia signed up to complete the construction of the plant.
Originally the launch was planned for 2007, but Iran was going through financial difficulties, and was not able to pay its bill in full...
