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- China to hold its ‘biggest-ever’ foreign navy drills with Russia
- Eurozone unemployment hits previous high of 12.1% in May
- US threatened by Russia’s Christianity
- Egyptian army gives politicians 48 hours to meet their Demands
- John McCain: Russia Wants New Cold War Over Snowden
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Posted: 02 Jul 2013 02:58 PM PDT
 A Chinese fleet of seven vessels is on its way to Vladivostok to participate in its biggest-ever foreign joint exercise with Russia. The drill, the Naval Interaction-2013, will be held from July 5 to 12 in the Sea of Japan. The Chinese Navy has sent four guided missile destroyers, two guided missile frigates, a supply ship, three ship-borne helicopters and a special operation detachment from the port of Qingdao in eastern China. “This marks our navy’s single biggest deployment of military force in a China-foreign joint exercise,” the Chinese Defense Ministry said, as cited by AP. In total, about 20 vessels, and more than ten planes and helicopters will take part in the naval exercises which will kick off in Peter the Great Bay near the city of Vladivostok in Eastern Russia. The Russian and Chinese navies will practice liberating a ship seized by pirates, convoying and will conduct search-and-rescue operations, Roman Martov, a spokesman for Russia’s Pacific Fleet, told Itar-Tass on Tuesday. They will also practice organizing joint air defense, anti-submarine and anti-ship defense. The drills are not targeting any third party, underlined Fang Fenghui, chief of the General Staff of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), reported Xinhua The exercises are “meant to strengthen cooperation between the two armed forces in military training, enhance their capability in coordinating military operations, so that they can play a positive role in safeguarding regional security and stability,” Fang stated on Monday, during his visit to Moscow where he met with his Russian counterpart, Valery Gerasimov. Fang and Gerasimov announced that the two powers will also hold joint anti-terrorism drills in Russia’s Ural Mountain region of Chelyabinsk from July 27 to August15. Russia and China have regularly held joint naval drills since 2005 within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. However, the Naval Interaction-2013 will be only the second exercise conducted outside the SCO: the first was held in April last year. In recent years, the Chinese navy has participated in a series of joint exercises in the Pacific and Indian oceans, while Chinese ground forces have taken part in land war games organized by the SCO. The July Sino-Russian drills come shortly after the US-Japanese war games – code-named Dawn Blitz -were conducted on San Clemente Island, 75 miles northwest of San Diego. The two powers were reportedly preparing for a possible Chinese invasion of the Senkaku Islands – the subject of an ongoing spat between China and Japan. Beijing was reportedly firmly against the drills and had requested through diplomatic channels that Washington and Tokyo cancel them. Although the cooperation between the Chinese and American navy has been limited, next year China will take part in the world’s largest navy drill – US-organized multinational Rim of the Pacific exercises. Source Related Posts: |
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Posted: 02 Jul 2013 02:50 PM PDT
A homeless sleeps at the entrance of a bank in Milan, Italy on June 27, 2013.
According to the data, the jobless rate rose 0.1 percentage in May after the previous months’ figures were amended down from 12.2 percent to 12.0 percent. Approximately 19.22 million people in the 17-nation eurozone were unemployed in May, the EU’s statistics office said. Experts have noted that Italy was largely behind the increase as the country’s jobless rate hit a new record high of 12.2 percent in May. Moreover, the annual inflation picked up to 1.6 percent in June, up from 1.4 percent the previous month. The increase is below the European Central Bank’s target of keeping price increases under 2 percent. Europe plunged into financial crisis in early 2008. Insolvency now threatens heavily debt-ridden countries such as Greece, Portugal, Italy, Ireland and Spain. The worsening debt crisis has forced the EU governments to adopt harsh austerity measures and tough economic reforms, which have triggered incidents of social unrest and massive protests in many European countries. Source Related Posts: |
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Posted: 02 Jul 2013 02:35 PM PDT
 If you ever wonder why the weasel west media always calls Putin a dictator or demonizes him, just look at what has been happening recently. By watching the US news last week one would think all of America has turned gay with the Supreme Court ruling on married same-sex couples. The New York Times called it a, “major victories for the gay rights movement”. Some even compare it to racial equality. If Putin was the dictator the West claims, the new law that defends Christianity would have been in effect immediately after the pussy riot blasphemy which happened last year. Recently President Putin signed a ‘gay propaganda’ ban and law criminalizing insult of religious feelings. Oddly enough the West is the only place where some Christian leaders are gay. Their Christian churches omit certain biblical teachings against homosexuality. Yes, Russia’s Christianity and anyone who defends it rain on the gay parade and their upside down world. In the past they demonized Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann and ridiculed Christians in America as crazed right-wingers. They danced when President Reagan, Jerry Falwell and Charlton Heston died. There is no longer a real powerful conservative in the West the liberals fear. In the East there is someone that causes the western liberal’s maniacal laughter to stop. Vladimir Putin. He has real world power, which causes the liberal media to fearfully ignore or warp his image. Like a good Christian King he leads a nation to Christ. Deep down in their evil souls they shriek like devils because they know Christ is true God and true power that they cannot defeat. They thought the Bolshevik revolution destroyed Holy Mother Russia. Christ cannot be defeated and his servant Putin has welcomed Christ and His church. Conservative Americans have written thanking me for my articles since their media and government ignores them. They tell me most of America is Christian and they support Putin. Tony Smyles wrote, “I wish you would come to the US and become head of our major news outlets CBS, NBC, ABC and CNN. Our journalists are, to a man, in lock-step with Obama, having drunk deeply from his pig’s trough of Kool-Aid.” The fact that Putin allows Christianity is an AMAZING thing, while Christians, true ones, are persecuted in anti christ America. – Robert Putin has encouraged the nation of Russia to return to spiritual values, whereas the US. is going in the opposite direction. – Glen It is a shame that it takes someone from Russia to speak the truth that our media refuses to do. The reason they don’t is because they are communists themselves. – Steve The incredible irony is that religious freedom is under assault by the US Democratic government and party. The battle in the US is truly a spiritual battle of good versus evil. – Sam The anti-Christ system has taken full control of the USA. – J I used to live in a country where strong conservative morale character meant something. No longer and the days of darkness here in the USA have begun. – Loy I am sure they wished their government would do the same as Russia by putting anti-gay laws and laws to protect Christianity. Fines and jail time to defend children and Christ’s church. Putin said, “Certain countries … think that there is no need to protect [children] from this. … But we are going to provide such protection the way that State Duma [parliamentary] lawmakers have decided. We ask you not to interfere in our governance.” The Western media prefers to insult Putin and herald perverted girls that defile churches in Russia. The same church destroyed by Communists and rebuilt by the Russian faithful. The West proclaims how terrible Putin is and how he jailed poor little girls in a band who were just singing in church. Even the conservative media, supposedly Christian, ignores the Russian church and men like Putin who helped it. Propaganda they say. Propaganda we say when the West warps or ignores the truth of a church Christ Himself saved. It was not long ago when Communism soaked the land of Russia with blood and destroyed churches in its quest to bring happiness to mankind. Now the Russian Orthodox Church is strong and getting stronger thanks to men in government like President Vladimir Putin. Does America know how this happened and why their media still portrays it as the same evil Soviet Union? How can conservative media sources in America who claim to be Christian ignore their Christian brothers in Russia who are now successful? Martyrs they ignore and the blood that was shed to restore the Christian Church in Russia. They must be con artists playing the conservative side as fools while the liberals enslave the rest. Devout Russian Christians are on the march to conquer the world. Not like the Communist Soviet Union who spread wars like Obama and the US are doing now. These Russians are like Disciples of Christ who lovingly reach out to their brothers and sisters. Helping men and women in darkness enslaved by a materialistic society who are truly in need of Christ. Look to the East. Reagan called the Soviet Union the evil empire and rightly so. “The Soviet Union was the Russian people held hostage by the Communists”- Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Solzhenitsyn wrote about those evils in many of his books, which Reagan was well aware of. On May 30, 1988 in Moscow, President Ronald Reagan was at the Danilov Monastery. He said, “There is a beautiful passage that I’d just like to read, if I may. It’s from one of this country’s great writers and believers, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, about the faith that is as elemental to this land as the dark and fertile soil. He wrote: “When you travel the byroads of central Russia, you begin to understand the secret of the pacifying Russian countryside. It is in the churches. They lift their bell-towers-graceful, shapely, all different-high over mundane timber and thatch. From villages that are cut off and invisible to each other, they soar to the same heaven…. The evening chimes used to ring out, floating over the villages, fields, and woods, reminding men that they must abandon trivial concerns of this world and give time and thought to eternity.” Putin and Reagan listened to Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Those who listen to their elders tend to be wiser. Vladimir Putin allows Christianity to flourish unlike the liberals in America who have their own warped idea of freedom from God and a denial of evil’s existence in the world. There is a reason that most public schools in America do not teach the Bolshevik revolution and its true consequences. There are people in the West that want to remove everything related to Christ from “public view” just as the communists did during the Soviet enslavement of Russia. 20th century Russia is proof that Christianity can prevail against their darkness and confusion. Today, the liberals who control the West fear Putin as though doomsday was tomorrow. It’s not a nuclear threat but rather a spiritual renewal that threatens them. It is not Putin but Russia’s Christianity they fear. Rather, it is Christ they truly fear and hate. They try to persuade Americans by scaring everyone with ideas of Putin as the evil KGB out to destroy the world. They “reason” KGB is bad. Putin is KGB. Therefore, Putin is bad. They demonize Putin because it’s not our world but their liberal world that is in danger of being destroyed. Source Related Posts: |
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Posted: 02 Jul 2013 01:43 PM PDT
Opponents
of Egypt President Mohamed Morsi shout slogans during a protest calling
for his ouster in the northern city of Alexandria on June 30, 2013.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said in a Monday statement that if political forces fail to agree to the popular demands, the military will offer its own road map to end the crisis. “If the demands of the people are not realized within the defined period, it will be incumbent upon (the armed forces) … to announce a road map for the future,” said the statement by al-Sisi. He further said the Egyptian people have expressed their will with “unprecedented” clarity in their nationwide protests, adding, “Wasting more time will lead only to more division … which we have warned and continue to warn against.” The military also said it will supervise the execution of its roadmap “with the participation of all factions and national parties, including young people.” However, al-Sisi rejected the army’s direct involvement in politics or government. The military warning comes after the opposition set July 2 as a deadline for President Mohamed Morsi to step down. “We give Mohamed Morsi until 5:00 p.m. (1500 GMT) on Tuesday, July 2, to leave power, allowing state institutions to prepare for early presidential elections,” said a Monday statement by Egypt’s opposition movement of Tamarod. The massive protests on Sunday came on the first anniversary of Morsi’s inauguration as president following the 2011 revolution that toppled the Western-backed regime of Hosni Mubarak. The demonstrators are angry at Morsi’s handling of the economy and failure to fulfill his electoral promises. Source Related Posts: |
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Posted: 02 Jul 2013 09:08 AM PDT
 Republicans and Democrats are outraged that Russia has not immediately turned Edward Snowden over to the United States to face charges of espionage and treason. Arizona Senator John McCain and New York Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer on Sunday accused Russian President Putin of using the NSA whistleblower as an excuse to attack the United States. McCain went so far as to insinuate that Putin is trying to rekindle the Cold War. “I think we pushed the reset back down to about 1955. And so we have to deal realistically with an autocratic ruler of Russia who continues to repress people,” McCain told Fox News on Sunday. “They thumb our nose at us no matter what the issue is, and we should deal realistically, not a return of the Cold War, but realistically with Vladimir Putin,” he added. “They should pay a price, either diplomatic, economic, geopolitical, for doing what they did. They’re always putting their finger in our eye,” said Schumer. He said the United States should impose sanctions on Ecuador, although Snowden has yet to take refuge in the South American country. Rand Paul, the Senator from Kentucky, is one of a small number of people in government defending the former Booz Allen Hamilton analyst. “They’re going to contrast the behavior of James Clapper, our national intelligence director, with Edward Snowden,” said Paul. “Mr. Clapper lied in Congress in defiance of the law in the name of security. Mr. Snowden told the truth in the name of privacy.” “Everybody is worried about him and what they’re going to do and how they will convict him of treason and how they’re going to kill him, but what about the people who destroy our Constitution?” Ron Paul said last month. “What kind of penalty are those individuals who take the Second or the Fourth amendment and destroy it? What do we think about people who assassinate American citizens without trials and assume that’s the law of the land? That’s where our problem is.” “I’m worried about somebody in our government who might kill him, with a cruise missile or a drone missile,” the elder Paul said. Vice president Joe Biden intervened directly in the case when he called Ecuador’s president Rafael Correa to urge him to turn down Snowden’s asylum request. Correa told Biden Ecuador will not consider the asylum request until Snowden is on Ecuadorean soil. Snowden is allegedly holed up at Moscow’s international airport. “The moment that he arrives, if he arrives, the first thing is we’ll ask the opinion of the United States, as we did in the Assange case with England,” Correa said. “But the decision is ours to make.” In August, 2012, Ecuador gave asylum to Wikileaks founder and activist Julian Assange. Ricardo Patiño, the Ecuadorian Foreign Minister, said he was concerned Assange might be extradited to the United States and face execution or indefinite detainment. Assange has taken refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy. Britain’s Foreign Secretary, William Hague, said that if he leaves the embassy he will be arrested. Republican Sarah Palin has called for Assange to be “hunted down” while Mike Huckabee has called for his assassination. “Whoever in our government leaked that information is guilty of treason, and I think anything less than execution is too kind a penalty,” said the former presidential candidate. Source Related Posts: |
