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Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge) -- Moments ago Interfax reported that two
Russian anti-submarine warships have appeared off the coast of Ukraine's
Crimea region, violating an agreement on Moscow's lease of a naval
base, according to a Ukrainian military source as saying. Then again
what else would a Ukrainian military source say. The source added that
the two vessels, part of Russia's Baltic Fleet, had been sighted in a
bay at Sevastopol, where Moscow's Black Sea Fleet has a base.
So imagine two extra anti-sub ships off Sevastopol in the map below which until this latest update from Contemporary Issues and Geography, was keeping an accurate running update of all the most recent developments in the staggered Russian invasion of the Ukraine.
Did US Special Forces frogman Tim Osman stash MH370 in his underwater sea cave beneath Diego Garcia?
Transponder signals mysteriously disappear. Jetliners veer off
course, then vanish without a trace. Seemingly impossible cell phone
calls add to the mystery.
It happened on 9/11. Now it has happened again in Malaysia.
Family members of the passengers on Malaysian Airlines MH370 report
getting ring tones when they call their missing loved ones. Social
networking sites show the missing passengers “on-line.” The airline
reports getting ring tones on the crew’s cell phones.
According to the London Daily Mail, “a Malaysia Airlines official,
Hugh Dunleavy has confirmed to families that his company had tried to
call the cellphones of crew members and they too had also rang out.
According to China.org.cn, 19 families of those missing have signed a
joint statement confirming that their calls connected to their loved
ones but that they rang out.”
The implications are astonishing. Again quoting the Daily Mail:
“Telecoms expert Alan Spencer told MailOnline that if the phones are
really ringing, they can categorically not be under the sea. He added
that the phones will only be ringing if they are ‘switched on, not in
water, the battery is charged, and [they are] near a mobile cell site.’
This means that if the phones are genuinely ringing, the plane needs to
have landed on land – not in the sea – and be in a location where there
is cell service, rather than landing in the middle of a jungle, for
example.”
Perhaps this was not an ordinary plane crash.
Malaysian authorities report that ground control lost contact with
Flight 370 about two hours after takeoff. As with the four planes on
9/11, the transponder was inexplicably turned off and the plane veered
wildly off course, yet the crew sent no distress signal – a procedure
that takes only a few seconds. Authorities report that Flight 370 flew
hundreds of miles off-course, heading west instead of north, before
disappearing.
The missing plane seemingly cannot have crashed in the water; if it
had, cell phones would not be ringing out. It must have crashed – or
landed – somewhere with cell phone service.
Some analysts believe the plane was stolen. According to them, it was an “inside job” hijacking, probably by remote control.
Radio journalist Michael Rivero wonders if money is the motive: “Is
Malaysia Flight 370 in a chop shop? A 777 costs roughly $300 million.
Given that scarcity drives up prices, the parts from a 777 would be
worth at least $100 million in the aftermarket. There is a motive for
the plane to vanish, leave no trace, and have flown so dramatically off
course! If my theory is correct, the search of the Malacca straights
will find nothing. I would start looking at abandoned/closed airfields
in that region with large hangers.”
In an exclusive interview with Truth Jihad Radio,
one of America’s leading physicists, Dr. David Griscom, asks whether
MH370 may have been stolen by the same gang of international terrorists
behind the 9/11 false flag operation. “The new Airbuses out of France
are now fly-by-wire, which scares me, because a number of those planes
have disappeared in ways that I think they really didn’t crash and
disappear; they’ve been hijacked (by remote control) and somebody is
putting them together for another false flag attack someplace. The
Malaysian plane, a Boeing 777, is just the latest example (of an
apparent remote-hijacking). Before that, there was the Airbus 744 from
Brazil to Paris. It crashed under incredibly anomalous circumstances.
And after a few days, they showed photos of ‘various pieces of it’
floating out in the water. Totally staged! One part of it was clearly
something that the next wave that hit it would have sunk.”
Dr. Griscom points out that the anomalous cell phone calls from
Malaysian Flight 370 are reminiscent of those from the allegedly
hijacked airliners of September 11th, 2001. In both cases, “impossible”
cell phone calls puzzled experts.
The FBI and the media initially reported 15 cell phone calls from
hijacked airliners on 9/11. At least one of the recipients, Deena
Burnett, was absolutely certain that her husband, a passenger on UA93,
had called her from his cell phone, whose number came up on her caller
ID. The problem: The Burnett call, and the other alleged cell phone
calls, could not possibly have been placed from the airliners, which
were flying at high altitudes, too fast and far beyond the range of 2001
cell phone technology.
In his article “Phone calls from the 9/11 planes: How they fooled
America,” Dr. David Ray Griffin explains that the 9/11 cell phone calls
– starting with the notorious “calls” from Bush Administration
cheerleader Barbara Olson to her husband, Bush’s Solicitor General Ted
Olson – must have been faked.
The FBI agrees with Dr. Griffin. After spending five years telling
the American people about the “cell phone calls,” the FBI radically
revised its story in 2006, admitting that 13 of the 15 alleged 9/11 cell
phone calls never happened. Amazingly, the FBI even admitted that Ted
Olson never received the famous phone calls from his wife, who (Olson
claimed) had supposedly called him from hijacked Flight 77.
Olson should have been immediately arrested for obstruction of justice.
The FBI has recognized other 9/11 cell call anomalies. For example,
according to the FBI, one of the alleged calls from Flight 93 lasted for
two hours and six minutes after the supposed crash; another lasted 65
minutes after the official crash time.
No wonder the FBI has always taken the official position that “Osama
Bin Laden was never wanted in connection with 9/11, because there is no
hard evidence Bin Laden had anything to do with 9/11.” The FBI knows
9/11 was an inside job. They know – as Elias Davidsson’s book Hijacking
America’s Mind on 9/11 explains – that none of the 19 Arabs blamed for
9/11 was even on board any of the allegedly hijacked planes.
Pentagon Comptroller Dov Zakheim, a Zionist extremist, managed to
lose 2.3 trillion dollars from the Pentagon’s accounts shortly before
9/11. Zakheim’s company SPC invented a “flight termination system”
designed to allow operators to seize control of aircraft by remote
control and fly them from the ground. Several of the key people who
developed Zakheim’s “Flight Termination System” were on the 9/11
flights. Were they silenced? Or rewarded with money and a new identity
in a National Security Witness Protection Program?
Zakheim’s “Flight Termination System” appears to have been used on 9/11.
Was it also used on Malaysian Airlines Flight 370?
KIEV, March 3 (Reuters) - Russia's Black Sea Fleet has told
Ukrainian forces in Crimea to surrender by 5 a.m. (0300 GMT) on Tuesday
or face a military assault, Interfax news agency quoted a source in the
Ukrainian Defence Ministry as saying.
The ultimatum, Interfax said, was issued by Alexander Vitko, the fleet's commander.
The
ministry did not immediately confirm the report and there was no
immediate comment by the Black Sea Fleet, which has a base in Crimea,
where Russian forces are in control.
"If they do not surrender
before 5 a.m. tomorrow, a real assault will be started against units and
divisions of the armed forces across Crimea," the agency quoted the
ministry source as saying.
(Reporting by Pavel Polityuk, Editing by Timothy Heritage,)
KIEV/BALACLAVA, Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukraine
mobilized for war on Sunday and Washington threatened to isolate Russia
economically after President Vladimir Putin declared he had the right to
invade his neighbor in Moscow's biggest confrontation with the West
since the Cold War.
"This is not a threat: this is actually the
declaration of war to my country," Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny
Yatseniuk said in English. Yatsenuik heads a pro-Western government that
took power in the former Soviet republic when its Moscow-backed
president, Viktor Yanukovich, was ousted last week.
Putin secured
permission from his parliament on Saturday to use military force to
protect Russian citizens in Ukraine and told U.S. President Barack Obama
he had the right to defend Russian interests and nationals, spurning
Western pleas not to intervene.
Russian forces have already bloodlessly seized Crimea, an isolated Black Sea peninsula where Moscow has a naval base.
On Sunday, they surrounded several small Ukrainian military outposts
there and demanded the Ukrainian troops disarm. Some refused, leading to
standoffs, although no shots were fired.
As Western countries
considered how to respond to the crisis, the United States said it was
focused on economic, diplomatic and political measures, but made clear
it was not seriously considering military action.
U.S. Secretary
of State John Kerry will visit Kiev on Tuesday to show "strong support
for Ukrainian sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity, and the
right of the Ukrainian people to determine their own future, without
outside interference or provocation," the State Department said in a
statement.
MORE DEMONSTRATIONS IN EASTERN UKRAINE
With
Russian forces in control of majority ethnic Russian Crimea, the focus
is shifting to eastern swaths of Ukraine, where most ethnic Ukrainians
speak Russian as a native language.
A Ukrainian man stands in protest in front of gunmen in unmarked uniforms as they stand guard in Bal …
Those areas saw more demonstrations on Sunday after violent
protests on Saturday, and pro-Moscow activists hoisted flags for a
second day at government buildings and called for Russia to defend them.
Russia has staged war games with 150,000 troops along the land border,
but they have so far not crossed. Kiev said Russia had sent hundreds of
its citizens across the border to stage the protests.
Ukraine's
security council ordered the general staff to immediately put all armed
forces on highest alert. But Kiev's small and under-equipped military is
seen as no match for Russia's superpower might.
The Defence
Ministry was ordered to stage a call-up of reserves, meaning
theoretically all men up to 40 in a country with universal male
conscription, though Ukraine would struggle to find extra guns or
uniforms for significant numbers of them.
Kerry condemned Russia for what he called an "incredible act of aggression" and brandished the threat of economic sanctions.
"You just don't, in the 21st century, behave in 19th century fashion by
invading another country on a completely trumped-up pretext," Kerry
told the CBS program "Face the Nation".
He said Moscow still had a
"right set of choices" to defuse the crisis. Otherwise, G8 countries
and other nations were prepared to "to go to the hilt to isolate
Russia".
"They are prepared to isolate Russia economically. The
rouble is already going down. Russia has major economic challenges," he
said. He mentioned visa bans, asset freezes and trade isolation as
possible steps.
Obama discussed the Ukraine crisis in calls with
allies, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime
Minister David Cameron. Cameron said they agreed Russia would pay
"significant costs" unless it changed course.
Analysts said U.S. economic sanctions would likely have little
impact on Russia unless they were paired with strong measures by major
European nations, which have deeper trade ties with Moscow and are
dependent on Russian gas.
Ukraine's envoy to the United Nations
said Kiev would ask for international military support if Russia
expanded its military action in his country.
At Kiev's
Independence Square, where anti-Yanukovich protesters had camped out for
months, thousands demonstrated against Russian military action.
Speakers delivered rousing orations and placards read: "Putin, hands off
Ukraine!"
"If there is a need to protect the nation, we will go
and defend the nation," said Oleh, an advertising executive cooking over
an open fire at the square where he has been camped for three months.
"If Putin wants to take Ukraine for himself, he will fail. We want to
live freely and we will live freely."
The new government
announced it had fired the head of the navy and launched a treason case
against him for surrendering Ukraine's naval headquarters to Russian
forces in the Crimean port of Sevastopol, where Moscow has a major naval
base.
REACTION FROM THE WEST
Obama spoke to Putin for 90
minutes by telephone on Saturday after the Russian leader declared he
had the right to intervene and quickly secured unanimous approval from
his parliament.
The Kremlin said Putin told Obama that Russian
speakers were under threat from Ukraine's new leaders, who took over
after Yanukovich fled huge protests against his repression and rejection
of a trade deal with the European Union.
Putin reiterated that
stance in a telephone call with Merkel on Sunday, the Kremlin said,
adding he and Merkel agreed that Russia and Germany would continue
consultations to seek the "normalization" of the situation.
But in a sign of concern among Russian liberals, members of
Putin's own human rights council urged him on Sunday not to invade
Ukraine, saying threats faced by Russians there were not severe enough
to justify sending in troops.
Ukraine, which says it has no
intention of threatening Russian speakers, has appealed for help to
NATO, and directly to Britain and the United States, as co-signatories
with Russia to a 1994 accord guaranteeing Ukraine's security.
After an emergency meeting of NATO ambassadors in Brussels, the alliance
called on Russia to bring its forces back to bases and refrain from
interfering in Ukraine.
Despite expressing "grave concern", NATO
did not agree on any significant measures to apply pressure to Russia,
with the West struggling to come up with a forthright response that does
not risk pushing the region closer to military conflict.
"We
urge both parties to immediately seek a peaceful solution through
bilateral dialogue, with international facilitation ... and through the
dispatch of international observers under the auspices of the United
Nations Security Council or the Organisation for Security and
Cooperation in Europe," NATO said in a statement.
Washington on Saturday proposed sending monitors to Ukraine under the U.N. or OSCE flags.
So far, the Western response has been largely symbolic. Obama and
others suspended preparations for a G8 summit in Sochi, where Russia has
just finished staging its $50 billion winter Olympic games. Some
countries recalled ambassadors. Britain said its ministers would stay
away from the Paralympics due next in Sochi.
"Right now, I think we are focused on political, diplomatic and economic options," a senior U.S. official told reporters.
"Frankly our goal is to uphold the territorial integrity and
sovereignty of Ukraine, not to have a military escalation," he added.
Map shows the Ukrainian Russian region with the latest news developements; 3c x 6 inches; 146 mm x 1 …
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier urged world
leaders on Sunday to work to calm the crisis and defended Russia's
membership of the G8, saying it enabled the West to talk directly with
Moscow.
RUSSIANS IN CRIMEA
Ukraine's military is
ill-matched against its neighbor. Britain's International Institute of
Strategic Studies estimates Kiev has fewer than 130,000 troops under
arms, with planes barely ready to fly and few spare parts for a single
submarine.
Russia, by contrast, has spent billions under Putin to
upgrade and modernize the capabilities of forces that were dilapidated
after the breakup of the Soviet Union. Moscow's special units are now
seen as equals of the best in the world.
In Crimea, Ukraine's
tiny contingent made no attempt to oppose the Russians, who bore no
insignia on their uniforms but drove vehicles with Russian plates and
seized government buildings, airports and other locations in the past
three days.
Kiev said its troops were encircled in at least three
places. It pulled its coast guard vessels out of Crimean ports. Ukraine
said its naval fleet's 10 ships were still in Sevastopol and remained
loyal to Kiev.
Scores of Russian troops with no insignia were
camped outside a base of Ukrainian troops at Perevalnoye, on a road from
Crimea's capital, Simferopol towards the coast.
A representative of the base commander said troops on both sides had reached agreement so no blood would be shed.
"We are ready to protect the grounds and our military equipment,"
Valery Boiko told Reuters television. "We hope for a compromise to be
reached, a decision, and as the commander has said, there will be no
war."
Igor Mamchev, a Ukrainian navy colonel at another small
base outside Simferopol, told Ukraine's Channel 5 TV that a truckload of
Russian troops had arrived at his checkpoint and told his forces to lay
down their arms.
"I replied that, as I am a member of the armed
forces of Ukraine, under orders of the Ukrainian navy, there could be no
discussion of disarmament. In case of any attempt to enter the military
base, we will use all means, up to lethal force."
A unit of Ukrainian marines was also holed up in a base in the Crimean port of Feodosia, where they refused to disarm.
Elsewhere on the occupied peninsula, the Russian troops assumed a lower
profile on Sunday after the pro-Moscow Crimean leader said overnight
the situation was now "normalized".
Putin's justification citing
the need to protect Russian citizens was the same as he used to launch a
2008 invasion of Georgia, where Russian forces seized two breakaway
regions.
In Russia, state-controlled media portray Yanukovich's
removal as a coup by dangerous extremists funded by the West and there
has been little sign of dissent with that line.
In Donetsk, Yanukovich's home city, the local government building was
flying the Russian flag for the second day on Sunday. The local
authorities have called for a referendum on the region's status, a move
Kiev says is illegal. A pro-Russian "self-defence" unit held a second
day of protest, attracting about 1,000 demonstrators carrying Russian
flags.
(Additional reporting
by Peter Graff, Sabina Zawadzki, Pavel Polityuk, Timothy Heritage and
Stephen Grey in Kiev, Lina Kushch in Donetsk, Peter Apps and Guy
Faulconbridge in London, Will Dunham, Arshad Mohammed and Matt
Spetalnick in Washington, and Lou Charbonneau at the United Nations;
Writing by Peter Graff, Paul Taylor, Frances Kerry and Peter Cooney;
Editing by Philippa Fletcher, Meredith Mazzilli and Mohammad Zargham)
Sessions: Obama’s Pro-Illegal Alien Executive Action Hurts ‘Struggling American Workers’
(Breitbart) – Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff
Sessions (R-AL) responded to President Barack Obama’s announcement that
he will seek executive options to aid illegal aliens by saying the
president should care more about whether he is hurting Americans.
“It is astonishing that the President would order an ‘enforcement
review’ not for the purposes of repairing enforcement but weakening it
further,” Sessions said in a statement provided exclusively to Breitbart
News.
Sessions said that the “lawlessness” of the Obama administration on
immigration—specifically the refusal of the administration to enforce
the nation’s interior immigration laws—hurts the wages and employment
opportunities for American workers. A recent report from the Center for
Immigration Studies shows that there are tens of millions of working age
Americans not working right now, a statistic that has remained stagnant
above 50 million since 2007. Bloomberg News also reported that
unemployment in the illegal alien community may be lower than
unemployment in America’s black community. FAX BLAST SPECIAL: NO AMNESTY for Illegals!
“This lawlessness is a large factor in the decline of wages for
Americans, immigrant and native-born, alike,” Sessions said. “President
Obama should demonstrate more concern for struggling American workers of
all backgrounds. Indeed, in addition to decimating current immigration
law, he is pushing to double the number of foreign guest workers who
companies bring in to take jobs.”
The focus of the president’s executive authority review, according to
the White House’s Thursday evening press release, is to conduct
immigration enforcement more “humanely.” Obama “asked Secretary of
Homeland Security Jeh Johnson to do an inventory of the Department’s
current practices to see how it can conduct enforcement more humanely
within the confines of the law” after meeting with three members of the
Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), who expressed concern over
deportations of illegal aliens.
According to BuzzFeed, CHC members are so pleased with Obama’s new
executive authority promises that they are abandoning plans to introduce
a congressional resolution calling for similar action to Obama’s
announcement.
Amnesty advocates have portrayed the Obama administration as the most
aggressive administration in recent history in deporting illegal
aliens, but Sen. Sessions points to internal statistics from the
agencies handling deportations to argue that is not actually the case.
“According to ICE’s own published statistics, the vast majority of
those removed from the country have been convicted of a crime or
involved with a serious crime,” Sessions said. “Illegal immigrants in
the U.S. who don’t meet the Administration’s ‘priorities’—even if they
come into contact with immigration enforcement—are largely exempt from
federal immigration law. And approximately two-thirds of removals last
year were in fact not deportations at all but were instead of
apprehensions of those interdicted crossing the border.”
Overall, Sessions added, this latest movement from the White House
proves that whatever Congress decides to pass in terms of any new
immigration laws, the administration will not enforce it.
“This latest action further demonstrates that the Administration
cannot be trusted to enforce any immigration plan from Congress,”
Sessions said. “Congressional Democrats, who have helped empower this
state of illegality, must be held to account for their actions.”
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/03/14/Exclusive-Sessions-Obama-s-new-pro-illegal-alien-executive-authority-grab-further-hurts-struggling-American-workers
UKRAINIAN ARMY REPELS RUSSIAN TROOPS in Crimea From Advancing Inland
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, March 15, 2014, 2:27 PM
Ukrainian sources accused the Russian military of entering the town of Strilkove in the Kherson region of Ukraine. (Guardian)
Ukraine accused Russia of invading territory bordering Crimea Saturday. AFP reported:
Ukraine accused Russia on Saturday of invading a region
bordering Crimea and vowed to use “all necessary measures” to ward off
an attack that came on the eve of the peninsula’s breakaway vote.
The dramatic escalation of the most serious East-West crisis since
the Cold War set a tense stage for the referendum on Crimea’s secession
from Ukraine in favour of Kremlin rule — a vote denounced by both the
international community and Kiev.
The predominantly Russian-speaking Black Sea region of two million
people was overrun by Kremlin-backed troops days after the February 22
fall in Kiev of a Moscow-backed regime and the rise of nationalist
leaders who favour closer ties with the West.
President Vladimir Putin defended Moscow’s decision to flex its
military muscle by arguing that ethnic Russians in Ukraine needed
“protection” from violent ultranationalists who had been given free
reign by the new Kiev administration.
According to the Ukrainian military website the army stopped Russian troops in Crimea from advancing inland.
The Ukrainian Military website reported:
Today, 15 March 2014, forces of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine was halted by the penetration of the Armed Forces of the Russian
Federation on the territory of Kherson Oblast from the “Arabatka.”
Response was made immediately.
Russian troops returned to their previous location.
In order immediate response to provocation from the Ukrainian side
were raised forces Army Aviation Armed Forces of Ukraine and airmobile
battalion strength.
The Ukrainian military added this on the Russian assault in the Kherson region.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine expresses its
strong and categorical protest against the landing on March 15, 2014
near the village Strilkove, Kherson region of troops of the Russian
Federation Armed Forces in a number of 80 military personnel, and
seizure of the village Strilkove with the support of 4 helicopter
gunships and 3 armored combat machines.
Ukraine Foreign Ministry declares the military invasion by Russia and
demands the Russian side to immediately withdraw its military forces
from the territory of Ukraine.
Ukraine reserves the right to use all necessary measures to stop the military invasion by Russia.
