War And Peace: US Polish Missiles And US Olympic Baseball Losers

August 15, 2008

Elaine Meinel Supkis

The BBC notices that Russia is losing the PROPAGANDA WARS. This is because the US media is in full bellow, lying about nearly everything. How can any nation win a propaganda war with our own loudmouth, warmongering media? Impossible. Ask Iran Kitty about this. Well the US just lost to Cuba the baseball Olympics. And the US coach instantly launched a classic PROPAGANDA frontal attack on the good athletes of Cuba. Talk about poor losers. The US is constantly provoking everyone across the planet and then screaming that our victims are all picking on little old us, the world's biggest military spenders.

Russia threatens to 'strike' Poland in wake of U.S. missile plan

A Russian general says the recently negotiated deal to allow the United States to place a missile interceptor base in Poland "cannot go unpunished."

Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn, deputy chief of the Russian general staff, made the comment to reporters on Friday.

Nogovitsyn was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying Poland was risking attack by agreeing to the deal.

"Poland, by deploying [the system] is exposing itself to a strike —100 per cent," he said.

It is the strongest language so far from Russian officials in reaction to plans to install a missile defence battery in a former Soviet satellite nation.

The US has been desperately trying to arm and occupy all of the Warsaw Pact nations surrounding Russia's western borders. These borders are very important to Russia since European powers have repeatedly launched sneak attacks across these frontiers more than once in history. Roughly every 50 years, in fact. The last one was slightly more than 50 years ago, incidentally.

The natural and obviously smart Russian paranoia about European sneak attacks has been reinforced this month when Bush, Olmert and Saakashivili conspired to launch an evening attack right in the middle of a cease fire peace negotiation. This startling fact has been successfully eliminated from nearly all US reports about this war we launched.

Here is a map showing how stupid this missile deal is. And on top of this, the US, which has military bases in over 100 countries, are now going to park one in Poland? Good grief. Talk about dangerous and stupid.

Instantly, the US warmongering neocons made a deal with Poland to put missiles there. The fabrication of these missiles being aimed at Iran have been dropped. The US thinks we are fighting WWII all over again. Only we are playing the role of the Nazis including the desire to take advantage of trust and thus, launch sneak attacks against Russia. Something we were NOT tempted to do during the Cold War for fear it would start a nuclear holocaust.

BBC: Russians losing propaganda war

By Paul Reynolds

The Bush administration appears to be trying to turn a failed military operation by Georgia into a successful diplomatic operation against Russia.
It is doing so by presenting the Russian actions as aggression and playing down the Georgian attack into South Ossetia on 7 August, which triggered the Russian operation.

The BBC's Sarah Rainsford has reported: "Many Ossetians I met both in Tskhinvali and in the main refugee camp in Russia are furious about what has happened to their city.

"They are very clear who they blame: Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili, who sent troops to re-take control of this breakaway region."

The US media even showed films of the Georgian attacks on the Ossetian capital and had a voice over claiming this was the Russians attacking the people of Georgia! This is very naked propaganda. It is shameful and disgusting. AND DELIBERATE. There was no mistake here. Just as there is no mistake about who launched this war. Putin was furious with Bush who sat there and smirked at the Olympics. Putin ran off to take care of vital affairs while Bush spend the day hamming it up with the US women's beach volley ball babes.

BBC:

One problem for the Russians is that they have not yet learned how to play the media game. Their authoritarian government might never do so.

Most of the Western media is based in Georgia. The Russians were slow to give access from their side and this has helped them lose the propaganda war.

Georgia, meanwhile, was comparing this to Prague in 1968 and Budapest in 1956. Even the massacre at Srebrenica was recalled.The comparisons did not fit the facts, but some of the mud has stuck and Russia has been on the international defensive.

The flood of lies and fake histories flowing like a sewer in the West isn't due to us having a great democracy with a 'free press.' Our press is now united in one way: they ALL want wars. All the time. Wars make money. Wars are good for Jewish expansions in the Holy Land. Wars get us commodities and lets us control world markets. Russia could be just as pig-headed. All they have to do is lie to their own people. They can't control OUR lying media! If our rules want to inflict huge gobs of propaganda on us, they do so with total impunity. I keep saying, we hung the editor of the Nazi media to death because he was 'complicit' with WWII crimes. So it is here: I would not cry a tear if the owners of the NYT or Washington Post were put on trial and then punished.

The charade of punishing Serb leaders in the Hague while the hags running Europe kiss the hem of a major war criminal, Mr. Bush, is a classic: might makes right! Losers are punished for losing. And Russia won this little war. No matter how our media owners lie, no matter how much red ink they pour on Putin's head, he still won. Just like we lost in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pretending we won won't convince a soul that we won. It is aimed at the US public: keeping them in the dark. Keeping them ignorant. Making them into fools.

BBC:

US diplomacy is also concentrating on the issue of sovereignty and territorial integrity - which means that South Ossetia and the other restless region, Abkhazia, must remain within Georgian borders. Russian has questioned this.

HAHAHA. Darfur!! Tibet!!! Free them now! Oops. Wait, now we must be screaming, 'Preserve sovereignty even if it means massacring the natives!' As I have pointed out from day one, the handwringing over Darfur and Tibet is totally cynical and utterly fake. Sincere people in the US are goaded into weeping for both but they are mere tools to the CIA, our rulers and our government. Which is seeking global domination, not freedom for ethnic minorities. We are not taught in school that the battle over the rights of ethnic minorities in the wake of WWI was focused ONLY on areas that were once part of the German and Austrian empires! All ethnic minorities or even, in the case of India, vast majorities, were ignored by the British, French and US empires. They had no rights. But every single tribe in the German sphere was to be given highest sovereign rights! Except if they were German Bohemians, for example. Thus, Hitler had two tools: the sense of righteous indignation coupled with the right to ethnic cleansing. Which he used with tremendous brutality!

BBC: Anger smoulders in rebel city rubble

Everywhere, there are mountains of shattered glass. Those who didn't flee South Ossetia as refugees are now emerging from their basements to begin the clean-up.
*snip*
They are very clear who they blame: Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili, who sent troops to re-take control of this breakaway region. That effort has clearly backfired. The pro-Russian sentiment I experienced on my last visit four years ago has become far fiercer as a result of this conflict.

"They signed a ceasefire, but Saakashvili can start bombing us again any minute," Lusya said, referring to the OSCE/EU-brokered peace plan between Moscow and Tbilisi.

"Look how many people died here! We can never join Georgia after this. We'll cope on our own."

At least the BBC is reporting real news. But this is not picked up in the US media. This is studiously ignored.

BBC:

We were escorted in South Ossetia by the Russian military, which now controls most of the territory here. Pointing out the tank wreckage, the deputy commander of Russian ground forces insisted that Georgia was the initial aggressor in this conflict - sending in tanks that targeted Russians and Ossetians.

"Half an hour before the tanks began firing, the Georgian peacekeepers disappeared from the base," said Igor Konashenkov. "They left their food uneaten and abandoned their kit. Then the shooting began."

Despite international calls for a withdrawal, there is no sign of Russia pulling its troops out of Ossetia. By Wednesday, they had received an order to cease fire, but not to leave.

Their presence is popular with many locals, who wave as soldiers drive past in the street.

The UN should be hearing about this obvious sneak attack. The US, to this day, hails Pearl Harbor as an excuse for all our subsequent warring. We said, 'This was the GOOD war' because we were the victims of a sneak attack. So was Russia, this week! Ergo: any war they wage is good. I notice the media is talking about how there is now looting in Georgia. Well, DUH. This is war. What happens when WE invade countries? Looting! The way to end this is for Georgia to surrender to Russia and make Russia responsible for things. But then, we never had anyone surrender in Iraq and we are still fighting there.

Cuba Tops U.S. in Final At-Bat

The baseball-adoring men who have governed these baseball-adoring nations, it is safe to say, will not be making congratulatory and consolatory phone calls to each other after another intense chapter in the United States-Cuba sporting rivalry played out Friday afternoon. But President Bush and Fidel Castro, the former dictator, can almost certainly agree on one point (and probably one only), that the circumstances surrounding Cuba’s 5-4 victory in 11 innings offended their traditionalist sensibilities and hardly seemed a just way of deciding what had been a compelling and dramatic afternoon.

HAHAHA. The US lost to Cuba. The NYT believes the Cubans were 'offended' by the rules by which they won. Sure. Only they didn't say that. They did note the rule changes were unnecessary. But the rule changes were not for their benefit. Nope. It was for the US TV sponsors! They wanted a faster game! So does the NYT grouse about this and blame the US media? HAHAHA, again. Sheesh.

Now for the poor losers in the US:

The unusual tiebreaker — if teams are tied after the 10th, each half-inning begins with runners on first and second and no outs; in the 11th, managers can start their lineup at any place — had already added a layer of intrigue by the time Nix led off the bottom of the 11th with the United States trailing, 5-3, and the aforementioned runners on base.

Pedro Luis Lazo, the brawny Cuban pitcher, threw an up-and-in pitch that Nix, having squared around to bunt, managed to deflect with the barrel. It zipped upward, smacking him in the eye, and he crumpled to the ground. Lazo immediately rushed over, the first Cuban player to do so, while trainers from both teams gathered behind the plate. Neither Johnson nor anyone else on the team expressed displeasure at the time, but in a postgame news conference afterward he said he thought Lazo was purposely trying to injure Nix. The team’s physician, Dr. William Kuprevich, had a tear in his left upper eyebrow. Nix will not return to play during the Games.

“In my wildest imagination, I didn’t think they would throw at my player’s coconut,” Johnson said.

Invoking the name of an infield strategy used to thwart sacrifice attempts, Johnson added, “I don’t think that’s the way to defend the wheel. Lazo’s a great pitcher. I’m sure the game plan was to throw right at his head. It bounced up and hit him on the eye. No game of baseball is worth that.”

Told of those comments, the Cuban manager, Antonio Pacheco, all but called Johnson a liar, saying he did not treat the game or his team with proper respect. To confound matters further, the translator did not accurately relay the comments of Pacheco or Lazo — as reporters complained, the mediator tried cutting off the line of questioning — leaving the Spanish-speaking news media to clarify their thoughts.

OK: I was on my school's girls softball team in high school. I was the catcher. This gives one a great view of pitchers and batters, I assure you. When a pitcher throws a ball and a batter swings or bunts, once the ball touches the bat, it is the batter's problem. So, if a batter swings at a ball, the ball is 'nicked' and flies wild either it goes foul, it goes up then falls into the catcher's mitt and the batter is out or it can bop into the batter's hands, feet, face, whatever. This is why batters must practice good batting skills! DUH.

The pitcher has no control over the ball once a bat interferes with the straight passage of the ball. This is simple physics. The fact that our own Olympic team is so politicized, we can't even play fair anymore. I see lots of whining about the Chinese 'cheating' but then, here we are, the US trying a classic bully-boy operation on a very small country the US is bitterly abusing on the world stage with our moronic boycotts and restrictions of honest trade.

Stratfor acknowledges Russia defeated US, not Georgian army in South Ossetia

The USA acknowledged that Russia had virtually defeated the US, but not the Georgian army in South Ossetia. US instructors have spent four years training the Georgian army for an attack against Russian citizens. The US administration refused to help Saakashvili, because the true goal of the new game in the Caucasus is absolutely different.

Experts of Stratfor, the so-called Shadow CIA, stated that the Russian army had not only preserved its battling capacity but also proved to the whole world that was it capable of defeating an armed enemy, trained by US instructors.

A report from Stratfor particularly mentions that the operation in South Ossetia has exercised three things. First off, Russia has proved to have the army capable of conducting successful operations, in which many Western observers doubted before. Secondly, the Russians have showed that they can defeat the forces trained by US advisors. Finally, Russia has shown that the USA and NATO do not find themselves in the situation when they can interfere into a conflict from the military point of view.

The Russians lost in Afghanistan because they were in the wrong. They won in Ossetia because they were in the right. We and they won WWII because the Nazis were in the wrong. Seems simple. We lost in Iraq because we were wrong to invade. It was illegal as all hell.

Operation Brimstone ended only one week ago. This was the joint US/UK/French naval war games in the Atlantic Ocean preparing for a naval blockade of Iran and the likely resulting war in the Persian Gulf area. The massive war games included a US Navy supercarrier battle group, an US Navy expeditionary carrier battle group, a Royal Navy carrier battle group, a French nuclear hunter-killer submarine plus a large number of US Navy cruisers, destroyers and frigates playing the "enemy force".

The lead American ship in these war games, the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN71) and its Carrier Strike Group Two (CCSG-2) are now headed towards Iran along with the USS Ronald Reagon (CVN76) and its Carrier Strike Group Seven (CCSG-7) coming from Japan.

They are joining two existing USN battle groups in the Gulf area: the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN72) with its Carrier Strike Group Nine (CCSG-9); and the USS Peleliu (LHA-5) with its expeditionary strike group.

Russia and China do anything, our warmongering media propagandists all shriek that this is evil. Then we and Israel go about the planet, playing extremely hostile war games aimed straight at Russia and China as well as many smaller countries like Cuba. Oh, how badly the US wanted to be on international TV, beating up the Cuban baseball team! Now, we stand below them on the stands. You can bet, the US will try some awful provocation of Cuba in the next three weeks.

Iran builds new smart submarine

Iranian state radio is quoting the country's defense minister as saying Iran's military capabilities "increased remarkably" after the construction of a new submarine.

General Mostafa Mohammadnajjar says the submarine is "smart," unmanned and has radar-evading capabilities.

Tuesday's report did not elaborate on its size and technical specifics, and did not say whether the submarine had been tested.

Iran occasionally announces production of advanced weapons. Since 1992, it has been active in producing military tanks, missiles, torpedoes, as well as guided bombs and airplanes.

Everyone is arming for WWIII. Especially the US.

Beijing is riding the wave of the future, argues a renowned internationalist

Societies progress at different speeds, and in different ways, toward incorporation into their political and social systems of the highest principles and values to which they aspire. China has made immense progress toward meeting the goals and objectives articulated by its leaders of producing a harmonious society guided by science that will meet the needs and aspirations of all its people and contribute to a more sustainable and equitable world society. Indeed, it is embarking on a distinctive and unprecedented pathway to a new model of development based on utilizing the methods of capitalism to achieve the goals of socialism — a socialist market economy. The entire world has a great stake in the success of China in making this transformation. Following the example of the traditional industrialized countries would not be sustainable for China, or for the world. To be sure, this is a monumental challenge that is still a work in progress. But it is in all of our interests that China be successful in doing so, and that we lend it our understanding and support.

Hostile attitudes and policies aimed at undermining China's progress and discrediting its policies and intentions can only be counterproductive, and contrary to our own interests. For there is not a single major world issue that can be resolved without China's co-operation. It is not that we should forgo legitimate and constructive criticisms and differences, but that these be resolved by engagement with China as a full partner, rather than by the kind of entrenched hostility and bias we so often display.

We should continue to facilitate China's full participation in the policy and decision-making processes by which the future of all of us is being shaped. Climate change is an issue that is especially relevant. China realizes that it will be one of the most vulnerable victims of climate change and is already taking serious measures domestically to avert these risks. But it cannot be expected to transform these into binding commitments that are not matched by firm and enforceable commitments by the countries, notably the United States, whose accumulated emissions of greenhouse gases have caused the irreversible damage already inflicted on the world. The attempt to shift the onus for climate change to China, India and other rapidly industrializing developing countries is neither fair nor workable.

Nothing irritates the US more than the idea that either Russia or China are moving ahead of us! China knows we are customers but not friends. The US is too dumb to realize that we are customers to all our 'allies' and thus, are deep in debt with all of them. This is destroying our powers. But instead of batting better, we throw more temper tantrums as we clock ourselves in the eyes over and over again. Blood streaming down our faces, we wail, 'This is so unfair!'

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I suspect Russian missiles will soon be parked in Cuba and Venezuela for the same reasons they are being parked in Poland. These countries might even request for them as protection against the U.S. The beginning of Bizarro world on Earth?

Posted by: Carli | August 15, 2008 at 01:09 PM

You might want to watch this video of an American girl thanking Russian troops for saving her from Georgians. she is 12 years old. Watch it at: http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/29075

Posted by: Carli | August 15, 2008 at 01:15 PM

You haven't mentioned the lack of Sunspots, now there is talk of a mini ice-age!

Posted by: Eric Bloodaxe | August 15, 2008 at 01:49 PM

The section about Russia easily handling US-trained troops was very interesting to me.

This is because another pundit, the obviously biased Ret. US Col. Sam Gardiner, has popped up with comments that Russia is absolutely afraid of US "Shock-and-Awe".

He states that, because of this fear, the Russians regard tactical nuclear war as the only answer to mass US conventional forces. He also goes on to state that the Russians moved tac nukes into the Georgian theater this past week. I have not been able to find any other sources that can confirm or deny this.

Personally, I am glad to see that Mother Russia is still able to take care of business. As an American who grew up in the 80s and 90s, I am fully aware of the irony in cheering her on.

The Russians also make some gorgeous planes these days: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXgSjPgiSAU

Posted by: AF | August 15, 2008 at 02:00 PM

Comment on blog:

http://www.flyMIG.com/forum/posts/1102393949.htm

«Most of the MIG-25 elements are copied by the US in F-14 and F-15. This is one of the reasons I don't like F-family. Su-30MKI, MKK (3 and 4-th upgrade for India, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, simply the Pacific region will fly this wonder machine), Su-27SM for Russian air force has got such avionic, that is simply another wonder, it is the perfect jet. And now somebody talks about copying of B-2 by the Russians, B-2 is a flying misunderstanding, the Big Brother of the biggest misunderstanding F-117, the so called "Stealth", haha. Look at the results of Indo-American Joint Flights in India and US. Su-30MKI versus F-15, Su-30MKI versus F-16, nine of ten battles won by the Sukhoi and most interesting: MIG-21 (upgraded version) won more than half of the battles against F-16 and even F-15. This is fantastic! I wish Bulgarian politics weren't stupid and didn't buy F-16 second hand. Only Su-27 family or MIG-29. Everything else is dust in the wind.»

The U.S.'s F-22 is claimed to be great and stealthy, and Mach 2, but it's absurdly expensive. It has been said that "stealth" aircraft can now be detected, so they are now probably relegated to low-altitude operation. Possibly a huge waste of money!

Tu-160 "Blackjack" is twice as fast as the B1-B, and twice as stealthy. See:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVqilOx6lNQ

Posted by: blues | August 15, 2008 at 06:06 PM

blues-

Thanks for the great reply!

I too wonder if the Raptor is for real as the costs keep going up and the number of units planned keeps going down.

The Cope India exercises are extremely interesting since Indian pilots with "inferior" training and Russian planes match or best frontline US squadrons.

I will close with a link to a blogger that quotes an American Top Gun pilot as saying "Most of us here would give ANYTHING to fly a [Sukhoi] Flanker!":
http://livefist.blogspot.com/2008/05/flankers-are-awesome-birds.html

Posted by: AF | August 16, 2008 at 12:03 AM