Russia to sign $5-billion defense contract with Iraq

to di salvo :::::::::::

you are a reincarnation of one of the nazis who died at stalingrad with the spanish-italian cavalry division. first their horses froze to death. and then they did.

vlad

 

to best ::::::::::::::

i have found similar points about conservatives and liberals since michael gorbachev ended the international revolution and the cold war. the conservatives in the USA seem to have a better understanding of how times have changed since the end of the cold war; than do the liberals in the USA.

vlad

 

to the great mr. frank capua :::::::::::

i have posted a few comments on another thread. please do let me tell you where it is;
http://www.politicalforum.com/current-events/229370-all-your-greece-belong-us.html

it is this;;
this is obviously a return to colonialism; the old pre world war one colonialism of western europe. and who gets it first; the greeks, the same ones who betrayed the serbians and the russians. ever since the end of world war two, the greeks, (and i do mean the people and the government both) have been telling all of the east europeans that they are something special; they are more "western" than us untermenschen (ostmenschen) easteuropeans. and now we have a close trade alliance with russia and portugal; the same one that greece could have had at the end of the cold war; and instesd of trade with russia (instead of trade with the untermenschen) we have a return to the foreign domination of west europe over any part of the world. in this case it is geece. this is also very similar (historicaly) to when the first crusade destroyed byzantium and made greece into their own little norman principalities.

could we have some replies on this comment; point by point replies. i ask mr. marlowe to reply and comment first.

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could you please try to reply to my totaly literate comment.
vlad

 

what i ment was alot of Iran's airforce consist of American F-4s, F-5s, F-14s, C-130s, 707s, 727s, 747s, ch-47s, ect. Iraq like before will consist of russian made equipment.

my name means drunk eskimo

 

to best ::::
because the USA and north america is the geo-social area where the klan originates, there are (and must be) certain cultural - behavioral - social qualities about the klan which also exist in all other aspects of the north american society in general; liberals and conservatives included. ? do you understand what i mean ?

as far as the business of weapons and amunition in russia; the points are these;
-1- russia wants (and needs) to participate in the armaments business as much as any other industrialized state with a plethora of raw material resources.
-2- perhaps russia has a greater need to participate in the armaments business than a few other industrialized states with a plethora of raw material resources; because russia has been ostrasized for having a different alphabet (and other such cultural things) by the KKK mentality of north america.
-3- russia is totaly capable of defending itself from any USA financed agression and needs to stay that way by participating in the armaments business.

? anladinizmi ?
? capito ?
? do you understand ?

vlad

 

to krunkskimo ::::

?? are you getting ready for a war between iraq and iran ??

perhaps you could refer to my reply to < best > in my previous posting.

my name relates to the ancient finno-ugrian word for house (rather than tent).

vlad

 

to the great mr. frank capua :::::::::::

i am so totaly disapointed that you are nolonger writting.

remember when you first apointed me to expect your comments on my thread.
( i do post often on this thread; because it is my thread. this is where i want to express my opinions about certain topics. ? do you understand this yet - you totaly intelligent person )
and now after being apointed, i am disapointed.

vlad

 

to all ( and mr. capua also, toze, sowie )

this is from the english pravda ---
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News » Russia

Russia to spend over 100 billion on nuclear weapons
18.10.2012 | Source: Pravda.Ru
Russia plans to spend 101.15 billion rubles on nuclear weapons in 2013-2015, the head of the Defense Committee of the State Duma Vladimir Komoyedov said.

"The budget provisions under "The Nuclear Weapons Complex" section in 2013-2015 will amount to 29.28 billion rubles, 33.3 billion rubles and 38.57 billion rubles respectively," Komoyedov said, Vechernaya Moskva reports. The spending on nuclear weapons in 2012 made up 27.4 billion rubles, the politician said.

Komoyedov added that in 2012 the spending on nuclear weapons made up 27.4 billion rubles. The draft law "On the Federal Budget for 2013 and for the planning period of 2014 and 2015" will be discussed in the first reading on Friday, October 19, The Voice of Russia reports.

Earlier, the Commander of Russia's Strategic Missile Forces, Colonel-General Sergei Karakayev, said that Russia was planning to pass into service a new heavy intercontinental ballistic missile in 2018, wrote KM.ru. The payload of the missile will be five tons, which is four times as large as that of solid-fuel Yars and Topol missiles.

According to the adviser of the Strategic Missile Command, retired Colonel-General Viktor Yesin, the military stage of the rocket, which he sees as the successor to the legendary Satan, is to be equipped with several autonomous nuclear warheads. Up to ten of them will be false warheads.

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the many harsh and horrid and recent years of world war two (when the fascists were financed by the USA in almost exactly the same way as osama binladin was financed for the 9/11 incident and in almost exactly the same way as alqueda was financed to make horrid chaos in lybia) those very important points, have made russia very defensive minded in regard to war.

vlad

 

to all ::::::::::

this is actualy a closely related article.
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Russia to build its own offshore platforms to develop Arctic

18.10.2012
Russia needs offshore platforms for the development of Arctic reserves. Now their production is located abroad - in Ukraine and Azerbaijan. In this regard, the authorities came up with the idea to create a center for the construction of offshore platforms. Russia has already undertaken to abide by strict environmental standards that require that the objects meet the highest reliability requirements.

"Expert" magazine reported that half a trillion dollars will be invested in shelf designs. A significant portion of these funds will be spent on the creation of different types of drilling platforms. However, now Russian companies are capable of building only the base for such platforms, which means that foreigners will be earning on production of oil equipment for Russia.

In the 1990's there were barely any orders for offshore platforms in Russia. Jackup rig 6500/100 "Arctic", the completion of which has recently been proudly reported by the media, was started in Severodvinsk in 1995, and was to be commissioned in 1998. However, the funding of the project was frozen. Therefore, technologies, equipment and comprehensive modernization of various kinds of offshore drilling in Russia were of little interest to anyone. As for the Arctic shelf, there are serious doubts that platforms with the required parameters are produced anywhere in the world.

Print version Font Size Send to friendMachinery and equipment that will work in the northern latitudes have to withstand extremely low temperatures (up to -50 ° C), ice storms, and seismic vibrations.

There are serious concerns that the producers will prefer to rent the equipment or order it from foreign manufacturers. Rental costs are several hundred thousand dollars a day, and considering an already huge investments in the Arctic shelf, this idea does not seem to be justified from a strategic point of view.

The Russian monopolies signed contracts with foreign mining companies that may like the lease option. In the near future the arctic expanses may become the most capacious market for the equipment for offshore drilling and would become attractive for the largest oil service companies.

In the coming years, "Rosneft" and "Gazprom" are likely to need several dozen platforms. So far, the main work is done with leased equipment. Even the ice-resistant platform "Prirazlomnaya" positioned as Russian has nothing but the base made in Russia. Its top part, including equipment, came from the Norwegian platform "Hatton" that having been working in the North Sea for over ten years.

It turns out that the current Russian maximum is the creation of the base for a platform and the assembly of the rest of it, including equipment, from foreign components. In the USSR, nearly 100 percent of the equipment for drilling rigs was produced by domestic factories. Foreigners at the time took the Soviet drilling rigs that after the modernization have been working well to this day.

In addition to the issue of the lack of facilities, there is a problem of delivering materials and equipment for installation of platforms to the production sites in coastal areas. The main production projects are to be implemented in the Far East and the Arctic. Only Baltic, Caspian and Azov seas are accessible.

The issue requires a multifaceted solution. So far, there are reasons to believe that Russia will once again confirm its status of raw materials appendage. In May information was released that the Russian "United Shipbuilding Corporation" and the American Exxon signed an agreement for the construction of drilling platforms for the work in the Kara Sea. Signing of a firm contract is planned for the fall of 2013. The first phase of the joint project includes 15 platforms, and 50 may be built in the future.

Given the current state of the Russian shipbuilding, Russian shipyards may at best expect a partial fulfillment of the least technical work to create these platforms. According to head of USC Roman Trotsenko, given that the cost of the platform is approximately 800 million, the cost of the USC work will be about a half of that amount.

Considering the fact that the creation of drilling platforms requires the level of technical solutions and approaches close to those of space technology, the Russian government should think about establishing the full cycle of production facilities in Russia, especially since they will be drilling for Russian raw materials in the Russian waters.

Anatoly Miranovsky

Pravda.Ru

 

No i was just pointing out the irony that USA's "enemy" is armed with aircraft made in the USA while Iraq, USA's puppet government will be armed w/ Russian.

 

to krunkskimo ::::::

the opposite was once true, and for some time. in the old iraq iran war for example ( they tryed to fight it to the last man; but, they became tired of it first ) iran had weapons and ammunition from the former soviet union and iran had weapons and ammunition from the USA. in fact that is where iraq had acquired those dangerous chemical and biological weapons; it was from the USA to fight against iran.

one good understanding of this type of current event may be found in a complete study of the peloponesian wars between sparta and athens for control of the city of syracuse.

vlad

 

Granny says, "Dat's right - dey oughta be buyin' dey's weapons from us...

Iraq reconsiders $4 billion Russian arms plans
Nov 10,`12 -- Iraq is reconsidering plans to buy more than $4 billion in arms from Russia, officials said Saturday, throwing the proposed purchase into question just weeks after it was announced.

See also:

Iraq cancels $4.2bn Russian arms deal over 'corruption'
10 November 2012 - Iraq is rebuilding its armed forces

 

Not the economy of the USA which has sold its industry for penny China,to talk about Russia.

 

Funny how Russia uses the whole world in their own interests

 

Iraqi minister says arms deal 'not cancelled'


Defence minister denies reports that $4.2bn arms deal with Russia has been scrapped over corruption fears.


10 Nov 2012 15:26


http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/11/2012111092311614537.html

 

Christopher Marlowe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Marlowe

 

Iraq is an ally of Iran which purchases its weapons from russia. Iraq will follow the Iranina acquisitions pattern. 4,500 Americans died in Iraq for nothing.

 

Afro Obama is the biggest weapons dealer in the world.

 

Are you suggesting that dying in Iraq for the sake of US arms dealers to gain access to the Iraqi arms market would have been "dying for something"?

 

No...................................

 

to allegoricalfact :::::::

thanks for the info about christopher marlowe; not much i can do with the info, it is missing details; however, who ever has enuf time to follow up on such details.

vlad

 

to albert ::::::::
if you have said "no" then please do tell us what you are suggesting.

perhaps you do not understand recent history well enuf to know that there is actualy no longer a need for war. that is to say all of the old reasons which ended with world war one noilonger exist. but there is another reason. the old cold war has been over since 1989 and since that time, the USA and russia have had the power (if united in a good equal treaty) to stop all wars before they start.

lets talk about this in modern awareness terms.

vlad

 

to albert ::::::::::

such a short sentence to comment on such a very very (extremely very) important topic.

please do tell us more of what you know and what you think about it.

vlad

 

TO ALBERT AND ALL ::::::::::::



USA still tries to destroy Russia from within, through NGOs

16.11.2012

It seemed that as long as Russia passed the law to tighten accountability in funding Russian NGOs, Washington would finally stop the tacit sponsorship of Russian NGOs working in the field of politics. However, to replace the activities of USAID, there is a new "shadow" sponsor in Russia now.

According to Lifenews that refers to its experts, the United States of America that lost its major donor for the Russian opposition in Russia - USAID, invented a scheme to to circumvent the law on NGOs and continue to finance the anti-Russian activities of human rights organizations. Now the role of the foreign sponsor will be attributed to US-Russian Foundation for Economic Advancement and the Rule of Law - USRF.

Indeed, it is hard to find a better source than USRF to fund political NGOs and human rights movements. The foundation is a donor organization that supports non-profit projects aimed at economic and legal development, as well as entrepreneurship.

In addition, the fund seeks to strengthen ties between Russia and the United States for several years. It has been working closely with the Ministry of Education, and even the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation.

Print version Font Size Send to friendMost importantly - USRF does not fall under the law on NGOs. The fund is not officially involved in politics, and those who come to the fund for grants do not have to call themselves foreign agents. Besides, USRF has good reputation and a huge potential for raising funds for Russia not through the organizations of the United States government. Another important factor is that there are Russian citizens in the administration of the fund. For instance, a member USRF's board of directors, Nadezhda Seryakova, served as executive director of the International Republican Fund in 1992 - 1995.

The article in the above-mentioned Russian publication appeared after another article in the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper which exposed public correspondence between Western experts and participants of USRF about an increase in spending on Russian opposition projects prior to parliamentary and presidential elections. In addition, the people involved in the correspondence boasted of successful demonstrations on Bolotnaya Square and offered to increase "support for organizations that share right values and take people to protest actions."

When Pravda.Ru asked for comments to those publications, representatives of the Russian branch of USRF said that they knew nothing about them. We sent the links to the articles to representatives of the fund and received a very short comment in return: "The information in the article is not true to fact. You can find reliable information on our website."

Political scientists say that the situation with USAID's successor in the face of USRF is evident. The director of the Center for Political Information, Alexei Mukhin, says that it was only the beginning of the expansion of American foundations working "undercover" in Russia. USRF is only a pioneer at this point.

Paul Craig Roberts, an American economist, a co-founder of Reaganomics, told Pravda.Ru: "The purpose of USRF is to destabilize Russia and to evade the restrictions that the Russian government has put on foreign finance of its political opponents.

The National Endowment for Democracy was set up for the purpose of funneling US taxpayer money to Soviet dissidents. Over time, many different NGOs came into being and live off the NED money. It has always been a puzzle to me that Russian governments have allowed this direct US intervention into Russian political and internal affairs. In the US such activities would be considered treason.

"I have wondered whether Putin was gullible or simply powerless to do anything about it. I do not understand why he still allows it as long as the recipient of US or European money registers as a foreign agent. Money is fungible. It is not possible to say that it is only for this purpose or that purpose. All foreign money that comes into Russia is for the purpose of subverting the government.

"I know that former Soviet dissidents, and much of Russian youth, are very naive about Washington's intentions toward Russia. It is a mystery to me how they cannot notice the missile bases surrounding Russia and the demonization of Putin and "gangster state Russia," but they don't," Mr. Roberts said.

"I heard that the Americans have expressed the intention to continue to cooperate with Russian public organizations by providing them with financial support, - Director of the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights Alexander Brod said in an interview with Pravda.Ru, - If it goes about helping sick children, assistance in any type of medical operations, cultural programs, then such international contacts are only welcome, of course. If it comes to the projects with political motives, then it is forbidden here, just like it is forbidden in the US. It is hard to imagine that a Russian organization would be promoting protests against President Obama, or monitoring human rights in the U.S. Army."

The head of the LDPR faction in the State Duma, Igor Lebedev, reminded of inadmissibility to finance political NGOs and opposition organizations from foreign sources. If the above-mentioned facts are true, it would be a direct violation of the law, said Lebedev. "Certainly, the activities of USRF (as described in mass media) violate the law directly, because the law excludes financial support from foreign sources," said Igor Lebedev.

"But we all know that the majority of so-called NGOs were created to receive funds from abroad to carry out the orders of the organizations and the people who provide this funding. To fight with things like that, Russia has recently passed the law prohibiting such funding. Therefore, we believe it is a direct violation of the law and we are obliged to respond to this," Igor Lebedev said.

Of course, the United States does not formally fund political projects in Russia, but it is not going to leave "civil society activists" without financial support. On the eve of the presidential election, after the Agency for International Cooperation of the United States (USAID) stopped its activities in Russia, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised to find new channels to support all those who "share American values."

Maksim Bogatykh

Pravda.Ru

 

Russia and Japan to create brotherhood of Asian Super Ring

13.11.2012

Russia's Energy Ministry has returned to the development of the project to integrate power systems of Russia, China, Mongolia, South Korea and Japan. In 1998, the project was given a catchy name "The Asian Super Ring." The Siberian hydropower plant was supposed to become the main donor to the ring, and Russia could become a key crossroads for daily energy flow between the above-mentioned countries.

The Japanese government has revisited the project. It was Japan that offered Moscow to recollect the "brotherhood of the energy ring" and support the Japanese system with the export of electricity from Russia. After Fukushima, Japan suffers from the shortage of energy.

Japan's proposals on energy cooperation with Russia were announced in August at a meeting between Chief Adviser to the Japanese Prime Minister Tadashi Maeda and Russia's Energy Minister Alexander Novak. It goes about different versions of energy supplies: Sakhalin-Japan pipeline for the supply of gas from Sakhalin-1 project and / or Sakhalin-3. There is also a plan connected with this project on the joint gas production in Eastern Siberia, in particular at the Kovykta and Chayanda fields. Officials also discuss the possibility to lay an underwater cable from Russia to Japan for the export of electricity.

Print version Font Size Send to friendThere is the Hokkaido-Sakhalin Cable System (HSCS) between Russia and Japan. The Hokkaido-Sakhalin cable system has connected telecommunication networks in Europe and Southeast Asia via Russia. To exchange the data between Europe and Asia, the countries used the cable laid on the bottom of the Indian Ocean. The pre-feasibility study of the Sakhalin-Japan energy bridge was developed back in 1999-2000. The project stipulated the export of 4GW of electricity per year from the island of Sakhalin to the Japanese islands. To achieve this output, combined cycle power plants were supposed to be built in Sakhalin with the total capacity of 4 GW. The construction project also included the 600 kV DC line, 600 km long, three substations in Sakhalin, Hokkaido and Honshu.

In 2000, the project was evaluated at at 9.6 billion dollars. There are two possible routes to supply energy to Japan across the Sea of &#8203;&#8203;Japan: from Sakhalin and from the Far East. In any case, the implementation of the project will require the construction of new generating facilities. The Ministry for Energy believes that it would be more logical to build them in Sakhalin, which also experiences a shortage of electricity. The ministry also mentioned the reserves of brown coal on the island in the amount of 2.5 billion tons as a source of raw materials for electric power plants. To put it in a nutshell, experts suggest focusing on coal generation.

It is possible that the media scrutiny of the old project can be linked to the intransigence of China. China is a part of the contract for the construction of hydropower plants in Siberia. Moscow has not been able to agree with China on the price of electricity from Russia. The "magic word combination" -"commercially reasonable rates" - works very well only for Russian people and small businesses.

It is worthy of note that the annual growth of tariffs on electricity in the country makes up 12 percent. During the government meeting on the program of modernization of electric power by 2020, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that "the country will not be able to afford such an increase in tariffs." The Chinese are resistant - they do not want to buy Russian energy at suggested prices. This Chinese style is well recognized. Russia gets regularly involved in disputes over the payment for the oil supplied to China. Russia has failed to come to any agreement with Comrade Hu at the APEC summit, and Russian companies were forced to accept China's conditions.

Anatoly Miranovsky

Pravda.Ru