Monday, February 25, 2013

Full speed ahead for Russian-American Sykes-Picot agreement in the Middle East


President Obama prepares to completely change the international strategy, despite the opposition's own administration.

In 1916, the United Kingdom, Emperor of Russia and France were distributing the Middle East agreements (Sykes-Picot) . Almost a century later, the United States and Russia are discussing a new project division into spheres of influence that would allow them to drive to benefit the profits of the Franco-British influence.



In an article published on January 26 in Russia, Thierry Mason unveils new sharing plan in the Middle East working in the White House and the Kremlin.

The author reveals the main facts of the ongoing negotiations without pre-empt the final agreement or its implementation. The interesting article that allows you to understand the ambiguous positions of Washington, which is pushing its allies to deadlock, so that it can impose shortly a new order of which will be disqualified.

The facts are simple. The United States is going to become energy independent thanks to the rapid exploitation of gas and oil in shale sands.

Thus the doctrine of Carter (1980) that securing access to oil in the Gulf is a national imperative for security is dead. Like the agreement Quincy (1945) according to which Washington is committed to protecting the Saud dynasty, though the latter vouched for access to oil the Arabian Peninsula.

It's time for a massive U.S. withdrawal will allow the transfer of GI's in the Far East for the containment of Chinese influence.

On the other hand, everything must be done to prevent a Sino-Russian military alliance. It should therefore be offered opportunities to Russia to be diverted from the Far East.

Finally, Washington is stifling the overly close relationship with Israel.

This relationship is extremely costly, unjustified and internationally turns against the U.S. total Muslim population.

Further, we must punish Tel Aviv which intervened so incredible how the American presidential election campaign, more so after bet against the candidate who won the election.

These three factors led Barack Obama and his advisers to suggest a pact to Vladimir Putin: Washington, which implicitly recognizes that failed in Syria is ready to leave Russia to settle the Middle East, without exchange, and share with the control of the region.



In this spirit, Kofi Annan drafted the communiqué of Geneva June 30, 2012.

At that time, it was only to find a solution to the issue of Syria.

But this agreement immediately undermined by internal factors of the Obama administration. Leaked to the European press several elements of the secret war in Syria, including the existence of a Presidential Executive Order (Presidential Executive Order) which instructed the CIA to develop men and mercenaries in the territory of Syria.

Trapped, Kofi Annan resigned from his position as mediator. On his part, the White House conducted a low profile so as not to expose the internal divisions in the midst of the campaign for the reelection of Barack Obama.

In the shade, three groups opposed the Geneva Press:

• The factors involved in the secret war
• The military units to deal with Russia
• The relays (relays) of Israel.

The day after the election, Barack Obama began his long liquidation.

The first victim was Gen. David Petraeus, designer of the secret war in Syria. Trapped in a sex scandal that was set up by an officer of the Military Intelligence, CIA director was forced to resign.



Then a dozen senior officers were under investigation for corruption.

Among them, the Supreme Commander of NATO (Admiral James G. Stravidis) and already appointed successor (Gen. John R. Allen), and the commander of the Missile Defense Agency-namely the "Missile Shield" - (Gen. Patrick J. O'Reilly).

Finally, Susan Rice and Hillary Clinton were the subject of intense attacks because Congress hid the hidden clues to the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens in Benghazi, who was murdered by Islamist group, possibly under the auspices of the Mossad.

Having neutralize the paralyzing these internal resistances, Barack Obama announced the renewal of deep team.

First, John Kerry at the State Department.

The man is a declared supporter of cooperation with Moscow on issues of common interest. It is also a personal friend of Bashar al-Assad.

Then Chuck Hagel at the Ministry of Defence.

This is one of the pillars of NATO, but a realist. Always complained of megalomania and neoconservative dream of world imperialism. It's nostalgic of the Cold War, this blessed time when Washington and Moscow have shared the world with minimal fees. Together with his friend Kerry, the Chagkel had organized in 2008 an attempt to negotiate the return by Israel of the Golan Heights to Syria.

Finally, in John Brennan at CIA.



This cold-blooded killer is convinced that the first failure of the United States that is created and developed the international jihad. His obsession is to eliminate salafismo and Saudi Arabia, events that will help Russia in the North Caucasus.

Meanwhile, the White House continued its negotiations with the Kremlin.

What should have been a simple solution for Syria became a much bigger plan of reorganization and distribution of the Middle East.

Recall that in 1916, after eight months of negotiations, the United Kingdom and France shared secrets Middle East (Agreements Sykes-Picot).

The content of these agreements was revealed to the world by the Bolsheviks took power soon. Continued for almost a century.

The Obama administration is considering remodeling the Middle East for the twenty-first century, under the auspices of the U.S. and Russia.

In the United States, although Obama succeeded himself, he is not allowed in the current period (smt. January 2013) than to run their everyday business. Will assume the full duties following his oath on Jan. 21. In the coming days, the Senate will hear Hillary Clinton on the mystery of the murder of the ambassador in Libya (23 January), then I heard John Kerry to confirm the appointment (24 January). Shortly after, the 5 permanent members of the Security Council will meet in New York to discuss the proposals Lavrov-Burns Syria.



The latter include the condemnation of any external intervention, and development of a peacekeeping force of the United Nations, an appeal to the various protagonists to form a government of national unity and to plan elections. France will oppose but to use its veto against the dominance of the U.S..

The original plan is the proposal to the power of IAHS will use soldiers mainly from the Organization of the Collective Security Treaty (CSTO).

President Bashar al-Assad will remain in power. But should quickly negotiate a national map with the leaders of the non-armed opposition selected with the approval of Moscow and Washington, he will have to organize a referendum on the ratification of this Charter under the control observers.

This political coup has long prepared by the generals Hasan Tourekmani (murdered on 18 July 2012) and Nikolai Bordyuzha.

Consensus by the Foreign Ministers of CSTO signed on 28 September 2012 and signed a protocol between the Department of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace and CSTO. The latter now enjoys the same powers as NATO. Joint exercises simulating the United Nations / CSTO held in Kazakhstan on "inviolability Brotherhood" (8 to 17 October 2012). Finally, it discussed a draft development of "blue cap" on the UN Military Commission (8 December 2012).

Once stabilized Syria, an international conference to be held in Moscow for a comprehensive peace between Israel and its neighbors.

The United States considers that it is not possible to negotiate a separate peace between Israel and Syria, and the Syrians first require a solution for Palestine in the name of panaravismou.

But it is neither possible to negotiate peace with the Palestinians, because they themselves are extremely divided, unless authorized by Syria to force them to comply with a majority agreement.

Therefore, any negotiation should be integrated into the model of the Madrid Conference (1991).

In this case, Israel will withdraw as much as possible within the 1967 borders.

The Palestinian territories and Jordan will unite to form the final Palestinian state. The government will be entrusted to the Muslim Brotherhood, which made the agreement more acceptable than the current Arab governments.

Then, the Golan Heights returned to Syria in exchange for abandonment of the Sea of ​​Galilee, in accordance with what is provided once a time of negotiations Shepherdstown (1999).

Syria would be the guarantor of respect for the conditions of the Jordanian-Palestinian part.

As in the game of dominoes, then we get to the Kurdish issue.

Iraq will dissolve born to an independent Kurdistan and Turkey destined to become a federal state by granting autonomy to the Kurdish region.



From the U.S. side, would like to extend redevelopment as to sacrifice Saudi Arabia will be useless.

The country reportedly divided into three parts, with some provinces will join either the federation or iordanopalaistiniaki with Shiite Iraq, according to an old plan of the Pentagon («Taking Saudi out of Arabia, wiping them from Saud Arabia," July 10 2002).

This option would allow Washington to leave a wide scope of influence in Moscow without having to sacrifice some of their own influence.

The same behavior was observed in the IMF when Washington agreed to increase the voting rights of BRICS. The United States has not donated anything from power and forced the Europeans to leave a percentage of their votes to grant to the BRICS.

This politico-military agreement was accompanied by an economy-energy deal, with real stakes of the war against Syria was for most players to conquer the reserves of natural gas. Large stocks were actually in the southern Mediterranean and Syria.

By placing its troops in the country, Moscow would ensure a wider control of the natural gas market in the coming years.

The gift of the new Obama administration to Vladimir Putin, accompanied by some calculations.

Not only to divert Russia from the Far East, but also to use it to eliminate Israel.

If one million Israelis have dual US-Israeli citizenship, another one million Russian-speaking.

Installed in Syria, Russian troops could prevent attacks against Israeli Arabs and Arabs in Israel.

Therefore, the United States would no longer have to spend huge sums on the security of Jewish colonization.

The new agreement will require the U.S. to recognize finally the regional role of Iran.

But Washington wants to get assurances that Tehran will retire from Latin America, where he established many links, including Venezuela.

Ignore the Iranian reaction to this aspect of the process, but Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quick to learn that Barack Obama will do whatever he can to help him to distance himself from Tel-Aviv.

This project has however lost.

First, France and the United Kingdom whose influence faded.

Then Israel, losing influence in the United States and return to his proportionate share, namely that of a small state.

Finally, Iraq would be dismantled.

And perhaps Saudi Arabia, which is struggling in recent weeks to come up with the former and not with to escape the fate of reserves.

There are also winners.

First Bashar al-Assad yesterday criminal against humanity according to the West, and as glorified tomorrow winner of the Islamists.

And of course, especially Vladimir Putin, who, with his insistence throughout the conflict, he manages to pull Russia out of the "containment of, containment», and to reopen the Mediterranean and the Middle East and recognized the primacy of the market for natural gas.



Editors:


 Michael Léontieff
Department of General Economics of the Moscow Institute of National Economy










Monday, February 18, 2013

Horten 229, the fly wing


In the final months of World War II, American troops discovered a top-secret facility in Germany with an advanced batwing-shaped jet fighter. If Nazi engineers had had more time, would this jet have ultimately changed the outcome of the war? In this National Geographic documentary they rebuild a jet discovered in a top-secret German facility during the final months of World War II - the Horten 229. This is not only an insight into Nazi technology that was years ahead of its time but also an insight into the work of the people reconstructing it who usually work on secret X Projects




 

During the First World War, an attempt to reduce the visibility of military aircraft through the experimental use of "Cellon" plastic transparent covering material resulted in single examples of the Fokker E.III Eindecker fighter monoplane, the Albatros C.I two-seat observation biplane, and one German heavy bomber design, the Linke-Hofmann R.I all being covered with the "Cellon" material; the latter two aircraft had all-wooden structures covered with the "Cellon" material, which degraded rapidly in direct sunlight and were not proceeded with any further.

Nearly three decades later, a more serious attempt at "invisibility" was tried with the Horten Ho 229 flying wing fighter-bomber, developed in Germany during the last years of World War II In addition to the aircraft's shape, which may not have been a deliberate attempt to affect radar deflection, the majority of the Ho 229's wooden skin was bonded together using carbon-impregnated plywood resins designed with the purported intention of absorbing radar waves. Testing performed in early 2009 by the Northrop-Grumman Corporation established that this compound, along with the aircraft's shape, would have rendered the Ho 229 virtually invisible to the top-end HF-band, 20-30 MHz primary signals of Britain's Chain Home early warning radar, provided the aircraft was traveling at high speed (approximately 550 mph (890 km/h)) at extremely low altitude (50–100 feet).


We had to admint the level of engineering that these guys had..... unbelievabel the level to RCS

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Case Max Merten: When tried the infamous "Hangman of Thessaloniki"


Max Merten (1911-1976) was a high-ranking Nazi, who served in Thessaloniki during the years 1942-1944, as director of the military administration of the city. He was the man who signed the transfer of 50,000 Jews from Thessaloniki in hell of Auschwitz and was responsible for numerous kidnappings and looting of their property, the total value exceeded 125,000,000 gold francs, an enormous sum for that time. A part of this treasure was sent to Germany and the rest buried somewhere in Northern Greece, according to estimates.

In May 1957, being a senior member of the Ministry of Justice of West Germany, he returned to Thessaloniki as a tourist, to seek, in one version, the hidden treasure. Recognized by some victims and arrested by order of the Supreme Court deputy prosecutor Andrea Tucson as pending against the arrest warrant from 1947 for war crimes.

Almost immediately the trial detention began pressures from Germany for his release. The government of Constantine Karamanlis seemed to subside. The two countries were now in the same camp as NATO members Greece and the poor were economically dependent from West Germany (immigrants, loans etc). The pressure intensified in November 1958, when Karamanlis official visit to Bonn, to negotiate a loan amounting to 200,000,000 marks.

In January 1959, the Karamanlis government introduced in parliament and pass laws "to suspend prosecution of war criminals", with the excuse that "we must set aside the barriers for the growth of our relations with West Germany," said Justice Minister Constantinos Kallias . The opposition, led by Konstantinos Mitsotakis (Liberal Party), Elijah Tsirimokos (ECN) and Stavros Iliopoulos (ECN), denounces the "pardoning of criminals Greek people" and accuses the government has succumbed to pressure.

Under pressure from the Greek and international public opinion ("Greece amnistefei the massacre" wrote the Times of London) government reneging Merten and excludes from the application of the law (Decree 3933/1959).


On February 11, 1959 begins the trial of Max Merten on the Special Military Tribunal of War Criminals Athens. Causing international concern and monitor readers lawyers and delegates of the largest newspapers in the world. The Merten with Olympian calm hear the indictment and pleads not guilty. Witnesses marching enumerate the crimes committed in Thessaloniki, while only three witnesses testify in his favor. On March 5, 1959, the President of the Military Court, Colonel intestines, reads the verdict of guilt of the accused. In Merten penalty of 25 years in prison merger.

The pressure of the Germans for the release of Merten reach their climax. The Greek government promises in Bonn that just calmed the noise will release him. Karamanlis hesitate to go to the release of Merten, because he is imprisoned (victim of political persecution), one of the pioneers of the Resistance, Manolis Glezos. The right moment came in August 1959. By law 4016, the government amended the relevant legislation (Legislative Decree 3933/1959), leading to "automatically suspended dioxis any German nationals alleged war criminals, and the carrying out of any sentence or the remainder were. Copies of the files are sent to all German Tash. "

Based on this provision, Max Merten was released on 5 November 1959 and deported to Germany, provided to serve his sentence. However, the German courts to fully relieve the absence of evidence. The "Hangman of Thessaloniki" was attributed to white society.

On 28 September 1960, German literature "Echoes of Hamburg" and "Der Spiegel" published excerpts of the testimony of the German authorities and causing many earthquake Richter in Athens. The Merten claimed that Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis, the interior minister and a secret of Dimitrios (Takos) away, his wife Doxoula nee Leonids and Secretary of Defense George Themelis were collaborators with the Germans. The Greek government denies in the strongest manner Merten, the same German. In the House the spirits light. Members of ERE attacking fellow EDA, who was then opposition party. Clashes occur and the sitting was suspended (16 October 1960).

Three of those affected, the pair away and Themelis, proceeded to sue, not the German courts, but in Greek and succeeded in absentia conviction for libel Merten. However, the journalistic investigation revealed that the long occupation as a lawyer in Thessalonica had very good relations with the Germans, his wife was secretary of Doxoula Merten and Themelis appointed Prefect. For Karamanlis not found any evidence to confirm his claim Merten.

The Merten and posthumously occupied Greece, the great mobilization of the 2000 discovery of the Jewish treasure of Thessaloniki, according to some information, was on the bottom in the open Finikounda Messinia. Information allegedly given to a Greek restrained himself Merten. The treasure was never found.