World War coming soon.....

[ilovesingapore]

In a move considered aggressive by US and European officials, Russia has sent at least 12 warships to patrol waters near its naval base in Tartous, Syria.

The deployment appears to be a warning to Israeli and Western officials against military intervention in Syria’s bloody civil war, which has now claimed the lives of over 80,000 people.

Russia’s increased presence in the region — which began raising eyebrows in the US three months ago — represents one of its largest sustained naval deployments since the Cold War, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

“It’s a show of force. It’s muscle flexing,” a top US official told the Journal.

Russian news sources reported earlier Thursday that five warships had entered the Mediterranean Sea to bolster the country’s new regional task force. The vessels were scheduled to dock in Limassol, Cyprus.

In March, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that the naval task force was needed in order to protect Russian interests in the region.

Also Thursday, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov shrugged off Israeli pleas not to sell sophisticated S-300 air defense systems to Bashar Assad’s regime, saying Moscow would fulfill its contract with Damascus. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly warned Russian President Vladimir Putin, in emergency talks on Tuesday, that the sale could push the region toward war.

 

[ilovesingapore]

In the wake of having its illegal domestic surveillance dragnet exposed, laying bare (yet again) the utter duplicity and criminality of the U.S. ruling class, Washington is once again digging deep to conjure up a pretext for yet another war of aggression in the Middle East.

Using the tired menace of weapons of mass destruction, the White House Thursday claimed with “high confidence” that the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad had used chemical weapons, specifically the nerve agent sarin, against rebel fighters.

Washington’s announcement of “credible evidence” of chemical weapons use by Syrian forces, coming despite a dearth of actual hard evidence revealed, is now being used as the justification for providing direct U.S. military aid to the Syrian rebels.

 

[Fugitive]

I am sure sinkies should not worry with the over flowing money in the country and the prosperity and most important with the heavenly guidance from our founding father Lee Kuan Yew. Right or not TS?

 

[ilovesingapore]

And thus not wanting to look a fool, President Obama has set the American war machine on the grinding path toward deeper intervention into the Syrian conflict. The threat of a global confrontation ensnaring the likes of Iran and global powers Russia and China is evidently but the price of saving face. Or as former Obama State Department official Anne-Marie Slaughter more tactfully put it, it’s but the price of saving “U.S. credibility.”

The American working class, let alone working people globally, have nothing to gain from saving Washington’s credibility and satiating its imperial blood lust. In fact, those at real risk of looking like fools are those still listening to the deceitful claims of the war-hungry elite. For amid deepening internal economic and political crises, all the American ruling class has on offer is but further imperial aggression to be sold on little more than a pack of lies.

Ben Schreiner is a freelance writer living in Oregon. He may be reached via his website or at [email protected].

 

[shctaw]

Syria war game.

 

[shctaw]

The one man they should not upset...

 

[ilovesingapore]

According to the Los Angeles Times, the Pentagon intends to send “small teams of special operations troops” into Syria with a view to destroying Syria’s Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

These teams would in turn be supported by “precision air strikes”, namely air raids:


Securing the sites would probably involve stealthy raids by special operations teams trained to handle such weapons, and precision air strikes to incinerate the chemicals without dispersing them in the air, the officials said. U.S. satellites and drone aircraft already maintain partial surveillance of the sites.

U.S. intelligence agencies believe Syria has over the years produced or acquired hundreds of tons of sarin nerve agent and mustard gas, a blister agent, and has sought to develop VX, another powerful nerve gas. The toxicity of some chemical agents degrades significantly over time, so it is unclear how lethal the stockpiles are.

Experts say the chemical agents are stored in bunkers and other sites around the country. Four production facilities are near the cities of Aleppo, Hama and Homs, all tinderboxes in the 17-month uprising, as well as the coastal city of Latakia, an area considered a stronghold for Assad’s Alawite religious sect.

An unclassified report by the director of national intelligence this year said Syria’s chemical agents “can be delivered by aerial bombs, ballistic missiles and artillery rockets.” But Syrian rockets, including Scud missiles procured from North Korea, are notoriously inaccurate, making them ineffective for delivering a heavy concentration of toxic chemicals to a specific target. . ( U.S. has plans in place to secure Syria chemical arms – latimes.com, August 22, 2012)

 

[halsey02]

We want our CPF money now....later, long term investment, no use..if any war were to start!

 

[zhihau]

keh si tao thet lai ah! tiao zui ah! pihk tioh liao ah!

 

[laksaboy]

Wars are the best way to boost the world economy. It's been that way throughout history.

Bankers fund both sides of the conflict, and profit.

And after the war, contractors get projects to rebuild the war-torn places.

 

[AntiPAPunk]

Hoot lah! Kong ka un ni chey

 

[spotter542]

US dollar will take a dip again?
Will gold price soar ?

 

[zhihau]

Will gold price soar ?

buy the light... of the silvery moon...

 

[halsey02]

buy the light... of the silvery moon...

How much the silvery moon? per gram??

 

[zhihau]

How much the silvery moon? per gram??

went from USD$24.50 to current USD$23.90 (per oz)

 

[po2wq]

Wars are the best way to boost the world economy. It's been that way throughout history ...

agree! ...

usa n europe cannot solf their economic prob n rooking 4ward 2 a war as ze soln ...

 

[Poomer]

agree! ...

usa n europe cannot solf their economic prob n rooking 4ward 2 a war as ze soln ...

The best way to get your people's minds off a weak economy is a successful war.

 

[steffychun]

Time for Kee Chiu as new MINDEF minister to go the region.

 

[po2wq]

The best way to get your people's minds off a weak economy is a successful war.

wen is a war a successful war? ...

 

[zhihau]

wen is a war a successful war? ...

good to note that a successful war is a war not fought.