Syria Goes Hot: Russia To Deliver Weapons, Deploys Air Defense; Israel Warns Russia; Obama Demands No Fly Zone
Submitted by Tyler Durden: Those who were intently following the USDJPY pair formerly known as the stock market today missed the biggest news of the day: the proxy war in Syria just went hot, following a confluence of news, first that Russia insisted "it would deliver anti-aircraft missiles to Syria, as
fears of spillover from the conflict grew" and in logical retaliation
to yesterday's decision by Europe to lift an arms embargo to the Al
Qaeda-supported, Qatari mercenaries operating in Syria, also known as "rebels.
Meanwhile back in the US "the baby bombing White House has asked the Pentagon to draw up plans for a no-fly zone inside Syria that would be enforced by the U.S. and other countries such as France and Great Britain, two administration officials told The Daily Beast."
And just to make it very clear that Russia is not bluffing, it announced overnight that its four regiments of S-300 air defense systems have been deployed at the Ashuluk firing range in southern Russia as part of another snap combat readiness check of the Russian armed forces "The missions will be carried out in conditions of heavy electronic warfare to test the capabilities of the air defense units to the highest limit."
Lampizator GM70 Special Edition amplifier and SILK + Lukasz Fikus visit to the UK
Angelo Agathangelou: In the wake of the Gibson Guitar FBI raids and debacle, in this SGW exclusive, I am sad to report yet another affront to world MOJO!
Our world first "Make Mozart Not Nukes!" review of the extraordinary GM70 SE amps has remained in the top favourites and you may be wondering where the update got to.. well, so goes our story... The US/UK/Israel war of terror did it. Figures!
Yesterday I caught up with Lukasz Fikus (aka Mr Lampizator) and Greg from G-Point Audio his man in the UK. Turns out if the couriers are not tossing our hero's high end hand made gear about, they are rolling it down the street. My own delivery guy said he couldn't throw the amps because they were too heavy! Guess they were rolled. 60% of a recent US shipment arrived at audiophiles addresses destroyed by the US war of terror! Reports were ranging and obvious. An inspection of equipment quickly revealed scenarios. US customs clearly unceremoniously opening (what I know to be) exceptionally well packed Lampizator products, obvious drops smashes during inspection then clearly unceremoniously shoved and stamped under foot so as to fit back in their boxes resplendent with boot prints. The same fascist boot stamping on the face of humanity for the rest of eternity? I'm smiling through my teeth.
Our world first "Make Mozart Not Nukes!" review of the extraordinary GM70 SE amps has remained in the top favourites and you may be wondering where the update got to.. well, so goes our story... The US/UK/Israel war of terror did it. Figures!
Yesterday I caught up with Lukasz Fikus (aka Mr Lampizator) and Greg from G-Point Audio his man in the UK. Turns out if the couriers are not tossing our hero's high end hand made gear about, they are rolling it down the street. My own delivery guy said he couldn't throw the amps because they were too heavy! Guess they were rolled. 60% of a recent US shipment arrived at audiophiles addresses destroyed by the US war of terror! Reports were ranging and obvious. An inspection of equipment quickly revealed scenarios. US customs clearly unceremoniously opening (what I know to be) exceptionally well packed Lampizator products, obvious drops smashes during inspection then clearly unceremoniously shoved and stamped under foot so as to fit back in their boxes resplendent with boot prints. The same fascist boot stamping on the face of humanity for the rest of eternity? I'm smiling through my teeth.Debt Crack Bankster Babies - Max Keiser with James Howard Kunstler
THE PAEDOFILE: Sheffield Judge in sex-abuse denial as Rochdale MP’s hypocrisy on paedophiles revealed.
Why, if you’re looking for help against a pervert, the last thing you should do is approach the judiciary or a legislator
The Slog: A Judge retires to consider his verdict. Judge Alan Goldsack QC (left)
of Sheffield Crown Court spoke out last week, as he retired after 43
years in the legal profession. I have added suitably satirical bits in
red to his statements in order to demonstrate, with as little
didacticism as possible under the circumstances, why he is part of the
problem in Britain of dealing with systemic child abuse. Sadly, the bits
in black are what he actually did say.
“A frightening thing is the number of people I see who are the grandchildren of the people I have prosecuted and defended 40 years ago – because crime runs in families in the same way that being a doctor, teacher or lawyer does – and despite all of them having been rogered up hill and down dale for three generations by some of my closest colleagues, they continue to offend.
Apartheid Israel lobby: Money interests behind the Wailing Wall
Why Blair, Cameron and Hunt are not necessarily your friends - POWER-POLITICIANS AT WORK
Be it Palestine, Tax or Whistle-blowing, the citizens are on their ownYou see, when push comes to shove, it’s all about knowing who your friends are. Tony Blurrgh marched into Iraq to liberate its people from internecine violence, the success of which can be judged by the death in just one day earlier this week of 54 bomb-victims in Baghdad. Then Moral Tone took a whopping fee for moving the peace process forward following a war in which he’d been an illegal combatant. Now – following his huge success with British economic paper output – Teflon’s got the job of turning the art of firing rifles at clouds into a viable export business. I suppose if you fire scuds into the neighbouring country, that’s a form of exporting: they just need Tony to help them build on that idea.
Mellow Out with This ‘Middle-Eastern Version’ of ‘Karma Police’
Kafka, meet Orwell: peek behind the scenes of the modern police surveillance state
Why Stockholm is burning and why the world should care
By Richard Cottrell: For the best part of a week a bustling, largely immigrant dominated
suburb in the Swedish capital Stockholm has been gripped by violence and
anger formerly unknown to an international audience which thinks of the
country as a sleepy Nordic backwater where nothing much happens.
That image is wrong: Sweden has a contemporary history of violence against its most senior leaders, the Prime Minister Oluf Palme – a near saint-like JFK figure – and more recently the foreign minister Anna Lindh, both struck down by assassins.
Under the neo-con government now in power, the Swedes have dropped their purely token neutrality and waded gung ho into the neurotic war on terror. This in turn puts native-born Swedes in the front line given the swelling immigrant population drawn by the country’s alluring economic strength.
There has been simmering tension for years between the predominantly white Protestant Swedes and the country’s rising immigrant population, mostly as a consequence of wars, and especially the instability promoted by Western forays like Iraq, collapsing failed states and climate change. Mostly but not entirely Muslim immigrants account for 1.4 million permanent residents in a country of 8.5 million.
Worried About Global Warming, Then End The Fed... And Other Thought Experiments
The thing the authors don't understand is that the general public is not pushing back against the science per se. They like the science. Science gives them big, flat-screen TVs, Blu-Ray players, cars, airplanes, special effects, laptops with more computing power than ENIAC, the internet, and so forth. They love science.
They don't like authoritarians telling them what to do. So bugger off.
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Okay, I'm a little calmer now. There is another point in this entire discussion I would like to mention.