tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69313103747203614432024-03-13T13:57:08.788-07:00Intellicept 3The latest news and analysis about geopolitics, diplomacy, international relations, statecraft, defense, security, terrorism and espionage in the current Arab-Israeli conflict and around the world. Bringing you the important geopolitical analysis and developments of the day.
It doesn't only tell about the individual incidents of terrorism but who outwardly supports it and who works behind the shadows.Henry Marcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810218045503091573noreply@blogger.comBlogger1789125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931310374720361443.post-54875494990032838502011-12-09T18:49:00.001-08:002011-12-09T18:56:00.141-08:00Germany Aims to Impose its Will on a Weakened Europe<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
If someone in Europe outside of Germany in the 1950s or even earlier that that time travelled in the year 2011, he or she will be terrified of what is happening now. Germany is doing or has probably done what it cannot do in WW1 and WW2 and that is to be able to have control on its neighboring European countries and this time seemingly with the cooperation of long-time geopolitical rival.<br />
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This week Germany has relegated the UK to the sidelines and able to impose its policies in the Eurozone.<br />
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"Europe’s worst financial crisis in generations is forging a new European Union, pushing Britain to the sidelines and creating a more integrated, fiscally disciplined core of nations under the auspices of a resurgent Germany."<br />
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"The agreement was a clear victory for Mrs. Merkel, and it prompted a sharp rally in stock markets in Europe and the United States.<br />
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"The European Union emerged in its current form in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a French-German idea to bind the region in the aftermath of the Soviet collapse. It is now being reinvented by a united Germany that has grown disillusioned by what it considers as debt-happy neighbors and is no longer reticent about wielding its economic and political clout."<br />
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Source: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/10/business/global/european-leaders-agree-on-fiscal-treaty.html">The New York Times</a><br />
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In the history of Europe, the nations now involved in this drama has always been afraid of a United Germany. the The Berlin Wall came down about 20 years ago which is a good thing, now Germany is united and a European power. This may sound ok to to ohers since Germany is a democracy anyway and a progressive country. But to the man who time travelled from the 1940s this could be chilling stuff.<br />
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In fact a year ago today, present German Chancellor, Angela merkel admitted that multicultarilism is an utter failure.<br />
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"Speaking to a meeting of young members of her Christian Democratic Union party, Merkel said the idea of people from different cultural backgrounds living happily "side by side" did not work."<br />
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For the time traveling European man, this is German nationalism rearing its ugly head again. But in this case, I can hardly blame Germany this time since radical Muslims have indeed abused the generosity of Germany and has been used it to be a base to plan terror attacks.<br />
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This is not a knack on the German people and the present leadership but the environment is ripening that another push for German nationalism is in the offing and history has shown it has not been very good for Europe whenever Germany goes to this route. We should be very careful of the next generation of leaders that come out after Merkel. The seeds are beginning to be planted again when Germany may see no way but to impose its will once again.<br />
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<br /></div>Henry Marcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810218045503091573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931310374720361443.post-9885534063491435722011-12-09T17:09:00.001-08:002011-12-09T17:21:33.583-08:00Huawei's Deception on the Iranian Issue<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The Wall Street Journal just recently posted a news item about China's Huawei seemingly moving away from Iran as a place for business. But actually even just browsing a few words it will show that it is no-news item at all. So-called activists hailed this "momentous" decision as if it was some sort of milestone victory for peace loving people all around the world.<br />
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"Chinese telecommunications- equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co. said it will <b>scale back</b> its business in Iran, where the company provides services to government-controlled telecom operators, following reports that Iranian police were using <b>mobile-network technology to track down and arrest dissidents</b>."<br />
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"Shenzhen-based Huawei will "voluntarily restrict its business development there by <b><u>no longer seeking new customers and limiting its business activities with existing customers</u></b>," according to a statement Friday on the company's website."<br />
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"Activists hailed the company's decision, noting it was the first time a major Chinese company had decided to scale back its business in Iran."<br />
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Source: <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204319004577088001900708704.html?mod=googlenews_wsj#articleTabs%3Darticle">WSJ</a><br />
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What it these so-called existing customers are the trouble makers in the first place and are the one using Huawei products to advance or assist Iran's monitoring of dissidents? The tools are there to begin with and Huewei will keep on doing supplying more to the Iranian regime since they are a present customer.<br />
It seems this is just some double talk to appease everyone, the activists and the Iranian government.<br />
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</div>Henry Marcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810218045503091573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931310374720361443.post-15686164057319987112011-12-09T02:12:00.001-08:002011-12-09T02:13:06.815-08:00Republican Candidates Talk About the Israeli - Arab Conflict While Sarkozy Makes Some Excuses<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
ROMNEY, GINGRICH, SANTORUM
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<span lang="EN">THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION
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</div>Henry Marcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810218045503091573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931310374720361443.post-10817345291070657402011-12-09T02:09:00.001-08:002011-12-09T02:09:53.043-08:00Iran Boasts of Drone Capture and Seen As Responsible for 1998 US Embassy Terror Attack<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Iran responsible for 1998
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</div>Henry Marcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810218045503091573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931310374720361443.post-75666386995556029152011-12-09T02:06:00.001-08:002011-12-09T02:06:58.989-08:00Clinton, Armenia and Bulgaria Defy Putin<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Putin accuses Clinton of
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<span lang="EN">Bulgaria: Russia Calm after
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<span lang="EN">Medvedev: Russia's Stances
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</div>Henry Marcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810218045503091573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931310374720361443.post-43490931338608543002011-12-08T17:24:00.001-08:002011-12-09T19:13:11.317-08:00Warning the EU - Beware of the Nord Stream Pipeline<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Russia's Nord Stream Pipeline will provide the EU with much needed gas and will be fully operation by 2012.<br />
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"The two 1,224-kilometre offshore pipelines are the most direct connection between the vast gas reserves in Russia and energy markets in the European Union. When fully operational in the last quarter of 2012, the twin pipelines will have the capacity to transport a combined total of 55 billion cubic metres (bcm) of gas a year to businesses and households in the EU for at least 50 years."<br />
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Source: <a href="http://www.nord-stream.com/pipeline/">The Nord Stream Website</a><br />
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In 1982 US President Ronald Reagan warned about this Europe's dependence on Russian gas for their economic well being.<br />
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"We tried to persuade our allies not to go forward with the pipeline for two reasons. One, we think there is a risk that if they become industrially dependent on the Soviet Union for energy—and all the valves are on the Soviet side of the border—that the Soviet Union can engage in a kind of blackmail when that happens."<br />
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"The second thing is, the Soviet Union is very hard pressed financially and economically today. They have put their people literally on a starvation diet with regard to consumer items while they poured all their resources into the most massive military buildup the world has ever seen. And that buildup is obviously aimed at the nations in the alliance. And they, the Soviet Union, now hard-pressed for cash because of its own actions, can perceive anywhere from 10 to 12 billion dollars a year in hard cash payments in return for the energy when the pipeline is completed—which I assume, if they continue the present policies, would be used to arm further against the rest of us and against our allies and thus force more cost for armaments for the rest of the world. And for these two reasons, we tried to persuade our allies not to go forward."<br />
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The warning and the logic is simple. Now the EU is again aiming to strenghten a Russian premier who longs for the return of the Soviet Union. When will we ever learn?<br />
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Iran has shown that it can take down a US drone. How it did it remains a chilling mystery. But Israel sees something more eery in these events as described by Debka.<br />
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"The Obama administration's decision after internal debate not to send US commando or air units into Iran to retrieve or destroy the secret RQ-170 stealth drone which fell into Iranian hands has strengthened the hands of the Israeli faction which argues the case for striking Iran's nuclear installations without waiting for the Americans to make their move."<br />
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"Senior Israeli diplomatic and security officials who followed the discussion in Washington concluded that, by failing to act, the administration has left Iran not only with the secrets of the Sentinel's stealth coating, its sensors and cameras, but also with the data stored in its computer cells on targets marked out by the US and/or Israeli for attack."<br />
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Israel's confidence in the Obama administration's resolve to help them is getting low at this point. If it does not sense the urgency of protecting its own internal secrets what makes Israel think that US soldiers will be made to fight a very dangerous war in Iran in aid of Israel, which has been a favorite whipping boy of the mainstream leftist media.<br />
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Another distrubing piece of news today is of <a href="http://www.guelphmercury.com/news/world/article/636599--putin-accuses-clinton-of-instigating-protests-call-for-wider-demonstrations-saturday">Putin accusing the United States</a> of initiating protests in the USSR. Whether true or not, it just shows that this conflict is again in the periphery of either nations. The Kremlin does not like this perceived attention from the US. Since its strength is nowhere near the past USSR, it may want to deflect the focus of the Americans to volatile conflicts. What could be more volatile now than an Israeli-Iran conflict. Russia could go back to the formula of influencing the Arab world to go to war again against Israel just like in 1967. Such a conflict will be easier to star, just flip a switch and its 1967 again but this time just scarier.<br />
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</div>Henry Marcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810218045503091573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931310374720361443.post-55166194400233437702011-12-07T01:18:00.001-08:002011-12-07T01:19:25.137-08:00Putin's Party Now Leads in Election But McCain Warns of Unrest<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
McCain warns Putin of
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</div>Henry Marcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810218045503091573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931310374720361443.post-85024954558935620252011-12-07T01:16:00.001-08:002011-12-07T01:17:00.095-08:00US Reaches Out to Iranian Online While Appeals to China and the Euro Zone<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
US Opens ‘Virtual Embassy’
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</div>Henry Marcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810218045503091573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931310374720361443.post-71796991863614929172011-12-06T18:07:00.001-08:002011-12-06T18:22:45.098-08:00Germany Criticizes Russia - A Return to the Old World Order?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Germany and Russia fought one of the most violent battle of World War Two to the bitter end. It has been a long time since the Cold War when Germany and Russia has something to argue about and yesterday, Germany struck the opening salvo.<br />
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"'They show that the Russian Federation still has a way to go to fulfill all of the OSCE standards,' he told the meeting."</div>
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"'We encourage the Russian Federation, also when considering the next elections in Russia, to move in that direction,' he told the conference, referring to March's presidential vote."</div>
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Germany's statements shows of getting into Russian domestic issues. It is one thing for the US to criticize the Kremlin but for Germany to so could open old wounds and scary historical geopolitical realities. In two world wars Germany and Russia have been suspicious of each other which lead to vicious battles. In both instances, Europe has found a United Germany and a Russian country under communist leadership. We must remember that Putin longs for the days of the Soviet Union.</div>
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We are far away from a scary scenario but careful observation must be made. Europe is reeling now from an economic crisis and Germany could be the strongest nation to come out of it while repression is slowly getting back in Russia along with the leadership of Putin. The developments are becoming eerily similar to the days of the first half of the last century.</div>
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</div>Henry Marcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810218045503091573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931310374720361443.post-10355362636836070482011-12-06T00:18:00.001-08:002011-12-06T00:19:23.854-08:00Balance of Power Moves to Asia as US Makes New Alliances<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
U.S., India, Japan to meet
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</div>Henry Marcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810218045503091573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931310374720361443.post-4506824954165933032011-12-06T00:16:00.001-08:002011-12-06T00:17:33.551-08:00Iran Captures A US Drone and Threatens Hamas to Stay in Syria<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</div>Henry Marcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810218045503091573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931310374720361443.post-46438919361056165212011-12-05T02:54:00.001-08:002011-12-05T02:55:07.354-08:00Putin's Party Suffers Big Setback<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Russia's Putin and party
suffer election blow | Reuters <a href="http://reut.rs/stKxKE"><span style="color: blue;">http://reut.rs/stKxKE</span></a><br />
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</div>Henry Marcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810218045503091573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931310374720361443.post-58415476275701585562011-12-05T02:50:00.001-08:002011-12-05T02:51:48.722-08:00Rise of Islamic Power Rejoiced and Protested by Many While Israeli Isolation Growing Worse<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Terrorists celebrate 'new
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Iran moves on from
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</div>Henry Marcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810218045503091573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931310374720361443.post-56007372068331118922011-12-02T01:17:00.001-08:002011-12-02T01:19:11.411-08:00Russia Helps Syria and Cements Ties with Belarus and Kazakhstan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Russia delivers anti-ship
missiles to Syria: report | Reuters <a href="http://reut.rs/suP2Qn"><span style="color: blue;">http://reut.rs/suP2Qn</span></a><br />
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<br /></div>Henry Marcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810218045503091573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931310374720361443.post-51901570253389412632011-12-02T01:14:00.001-08:002011-12-02T01:15:42.142-08:00Iran Developing New Missiles While Israel Contemplates Military Strike<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
'Iran is developing
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</div>Henry Marcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810218045503091573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931310374720361443.post-63288771576625058442011-12-01T14:55:00.001-08:002011-12-01T15:14:44.425-08:00Six to Eight Months - The New Time Table to Strike Iran<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Obama needs to come up with something new on the diplomatic table or the world may see another unilateral action from Israel. In am interview with Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, he sees Israel in a race against time to prevent the Iranians from transferring their nuke facilities underground thereby taking out the any ability from Israel or NATO to strike it.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">“The difference between us and the Americans is this: We say that because the Iranians are busy moving their nuclear program to underground facilities, they can announce this (that they have a nuclear weapon) after it is no longer possible to attack it." He went on to warn that If Israel is pushed into a corner, “it will have to act.”</span></blockquote>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">Based on Debka's report, Israel will only have a time frame of six to eight months before the option to strike is gone forever. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">According to </span><span class="debka" style="font-family: arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify; text-transform: uppercase;">DEBKA</span><span class="file" style="font-family: arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">file</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">’s military and intelligence sources, Israel gives Iran no more than six to eight months to complete this transfer, i.e., by June to August, 2012."</span></blockquote>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">Source: <a href="http://www.debka.com/article/21529/" target="_blank">Debka</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">Obama needs something creative on the diplomatic table now before Israel has no more resort but to go at it alone. Maybe something that has not been done before in all of history. In a sense one needs also to consider that after not finding WMDs in Iraq, the Americans are wary in making a strike on Iran. It is maybe waiting that Iran declares that it indeed has nuclear weapons so that it can publicly justify a war. But for Iran such non-declaration is their trump card so as not to be attacked and continue to build the weapon. Israel and the West maybe waiting for something which is not forthcoming at all. </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">The clock is ticking and the sanctions are not working fast enough or at a level which is deterring Iran from continuing to develop nuclear weapons. </span></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></div>Henry Marcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810218045503091573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931310374720361443.post-19212347466788961762011-12-01T00:10:00.001-08:002011-12-01T00:11:54.309-08:00Europeans Turn to The Americans and the IMF for More Funds<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Fed will help the Euro <a href="http://cnnmon.ie/vldiCP"><span style="color: blue;">http://cnnmon.ie/vldiCP</span></a><br />
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</div>Henry Marcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810218045503091573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931310374720361443.post-72155809902175366332011-12-01T00:09:00.001-08:002011-12-01T00:09:14.675-08:00Russia Losing Money and South Ossetia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Russia 2011 capital flight
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</div>Henry Marcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810218045503091573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931310374720361443.post-82865524165800570412011-12-01T00:05:00.001-08:002011-12-01T00:06:03.317-08:00Israel Prepares to Fight While Muslim Brotherhood Anticipates Reign in Egypt<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Muslim Brotherhood says
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</div>Henry Marcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810218045503091573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931310374720361443.post-28421163275736935832011-12-01T00:01:00.001-08:002011-12-01T00:08:05.774-08:00Iran Feels Like 1979 Again As It Attacks UK Embassy Scaring Off the Norway As Well<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Iranian protesters storm
British Embassy <a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20111130/NEWS07/111300332/Iranian-protesters-storm-British-Embassy"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.freep.com/article/20111130/NEWS07/111300332/Iranian-protesters-storm-British-Embassy</span></a><br />
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</div>Henry Marcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810218045503091573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931310374720361443.post-50083406560106865042011-11-30T14:53:00.000-08:002011-11-30T15:06:01.005-08:00Georgia's Plea for Help - Putin is Reviving the Soviet Union<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Georgia is asking the western world to open its eyes and see what Russia's Prime Minister is really up to. After the 2008 Georgia-Russia War, Putin is now endorsing a Eurasian Union which will consist of the the former USSR territories which broke away after the collapse of the former.<br />
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"<span class="Apple-style-span" style= font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">It is a demonstration of Putin’s real intentions. We have been telling our friends from the West – Putin said several years ago that he thought the dissolution of the Soviet Union was the biggest tragedy of the 20th century and he demonstrated through his policy that he is going to restore somehow this entity. And now they have come to the point where they are openly saying this."</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style= font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">Source: <a href="http://www.euractiv.com/europes-east/vice-pm-georgia-may-accept-swiss-style-eu-relationship-interview-509307" target="_blank">euractiv.com</a></span><br />
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Putin has obviously made no qualms that he wants the Soviet Union back. The West however is distracted with crucial issues which threatens its very survival. The threat from a nuclear Iran, terrorism and now the global economic slowdown. The West probably think that Russia may have such designs but it may deem it as a problem of the distant future and is not the main concern right now. Furthermore; it doesn't need a kind of Russia now which throws its full weight in supporting a nuclear Iran. The only problem with this train of thought is that will it wait until Russia is back to its former power and starts another round of Cold War hostilities.Henry Marcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810218045503091573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931310374720361443.post-87760030832825970812011-11-30T02:02:00.001-08:002011-11-30T02:04:02.691-08:00Lebanese Rockets to Israel - More Than Meets The EyeIt seems that there is consensus even with the IDF that the recent missiles to hit Israel coming from Lebanon are not from Hezbollah but from another group now being supported by Syria. Here is the analysis from Stratfor.
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/9Gxy5NwlKcc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Henry Marcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810218045503091573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931310374720361443.post-27351906232713483282011-11-29T00:51:00.001-08:002011-11-29T00:52:23.016-08:00Rise of Islamist Politicians Bothers US Policy While Iran Suffers Another Nuke Setback<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Pakistan permanently closes borders to Nato after air strike - Telegraph <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/8919960/Pakistan-permanently-closes-borders-to-Nato-after-air-strike.html"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/8919960/Pakistan-permanently-closes-borders-to-Nato-after-air-strike.html</span></a><br />
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