Russian Jet Flies Within 90 Seconds of Hull

The supersonic Blackjack changed course 20 miles from UK airspace, it has been reported.
The jet was picked up on RAF radars but only after it had turned back.
Critics of the Government’s cuts in defence spending say that they have left the country at risk. Four years ago four squadrons of Jaguar and Tornado F3 fighters [...]

Russia Test-Fires Ballistic Missile 6,700 Kilometers to Pacific

Sept. 19 (Bloomberg) — Russia successfully fired its newest intercontinental ballistic missile from a submarine located in the White Sea to a target on the Pacific coast 6,700 kilometers (4,200 miles) away, the military said.
The Bulava missile was fired from the Dmitry Donskoi submarine at 6:45 p.m. and struck the Kura range on the Kamchatka [...]

Russia Confirms Sending Warships to the Atlantic, Caribbean

MOSCOW, September 8 (RIA Novosti) – A Russian naval task force from the Northern Fleet will go on a tour of duty in the Atlantic Ocean and participate in joint naval drills with the Venezuelan navy in November, a Navy spokesman said on Monday. (Russian Navy modernized – Image gallery)
“In line with the 2008 training [...]

War With Russia Is On The Agenda

Thinking about the massive failure of the US media to report truthfully is sobering. The United States, bristling with nuclear weapons and pursuing a policy of world hegemony, has a population that is kept in the dark–indeed brainwashed–about the most important and most dangerous events of our time.
 
The power of the Israel Lobby [...]

Georgia Plans to Attack Abkhazia – Russia

Russia has information that Georgia is planning a military attack on Abkhazia to seize the capital Sukhumi, the Deputy Chief of the Russian General Staff, Colonel General Anatoly Nogovitsyn, told a media briefing in Moscow on Monday. He said that the military potential of Georgia was being restored for a repeated act of aggression.
We have [...]

911 comparison with Georgian Crisis gets censored on TV

A reporter makes a comparison to the US reaction to 911 to Russia’s reaction to Georgian attacks and the satellite feed drops off in the middle of his question. Weird? = Not!

Media spreading anti-Russian propaganda – Russia’s UN ambassador

Russia’s ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin has dismissed media reports that the Georgian city of Gori is “in ruins.” He called the allegations a “disinformation campaign” and pointed to the fact that Russian peacekeepers have in fact performed a humanitarian mission there.

Speaking to reporters at the UN headquarters in New York, Churkin expressed his [...]

WAR ALERT!!! (WWIII, by: Edgar J. Steele)

This is going to be quick and dirty today.  No cute cartoons.  No philosophizing.  We haven’t time for any of that today.
I believe we are on the verge of the outbreak of World War III.  Right now.
If I’m wrong, then so be it.  I’ll apologize for being overreactive later.  Too much hangs in the balance [...]

Russia Prepares for Naval Blockade of Georgia

Ships are grouping in the Black Sea near the Georgian aquatic border. A unnamed naval source has said that the move is necessary to prevent arms deliveries to Georgia by sea. He added that the naval blockade of Georgia will help avoid escalation of military actions in Abkhazia. Radio station Echo of Moscow reports that [...]

Russia Sends Forces Into Georgian Rebel Conflict

By Margarita Antidze (reuters)
 
MEGVREKISI, Georgia (Reuters) – Russia sent forces into Georgia on Friday to repel a Georgian assault on the breakaway South Ossetia region and Georgia’s pro-Western president said the two countries were at war.
 
South Ossetia’s rebel leader Eduard Kokoity said there were “hundreds of dead civilians” in the main town Tskhinvali, Russia’s Interfax [...]