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posted by janrinok on Thursday August 16 2018, @04:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the what's-that-up-there? dept.

A mysterious Russian satellite displaying "very abnormal behaviour" has raised alarm in the US, according to a State Department official. "We don't know for certain what it is and there is no way to verify it," said assistant secretary Yleem Poblete at a conference in Switzerland on 14 August.

She voiced fears that it was impossible to say if the object may be a weapon.

Russia has dismissed the comments as "unfounded, slanderous accusations based on suspicious" [sic].

The satellite in question was launched in October last year. "[The satellite's] behaviour on-orbit was inconsistent with anything seen before from on-orbit inspection or space situational awareness capabilities, including other Russian inspection satellite activities," Ms Poblete told the conference on disarmament in Switzerland.

"Russian intentions with respect to this satellite are unclear and are obviously a very troubling development," she added, citing recent comments made by the commander of Russia's Space Forces, who said adopting "new prototypes of weapons" was a key objective for the force. Ms Poblete said that the US had "serious concerns" that Russia was developing anti-satellite weapons.

[...] [Ms Stickings (Royal United Services Institute - RUSI) said] "The narrative coming from the US is, 'space was really peaceful, now look at what the Russians and Chinese are doing' - ignoring the fact that the US has developed its own capabilities."


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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Thursday August 16 2018, @07:40PM (12 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday August 16 2018, @07:40PM (#722448) Journal

    The communists were mostly Jewish, and the modern interpretation of the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union and end of the cold war is it was an inherently antisemitic act for the Russians to get rid of the commies.

    VLM is a liar. [wikipedia.org]

    Russian Orthodox 20%, Muslim 15%, Protestant, Georgian Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox, and Roman Catholic 7%, Jewish less than 1%, atheist 60% (1990 est.).

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 16 2018, @08:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 16 2018, @08:10PM (#722468)

    VLM a lying alt-righter? NOOOOOOO say it isn't sooooooo.

  • (Score: 5, Informative) by shortscreen on Thursday August 16 2018, @08:34PM (5 children)

    by shortscreen (2252) on Thursday August 16 2018, @08:34PM (#722493) Journal

    There is a myth that persists in some circles that the Bolsheviks were Jews or were financed by Jews as part of some scheme (which is never explained). AFAICT this idea originated with the Nazis who hated both the Soviets and Jews and tried to lump them together in their propaganda.

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17 2018, @02:03AM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17 2018, @02:03AM (#722642)

      http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v14/v14n1p-4_Weber.html [ihr.org]

      Although officially Jews have never made up more than five percent of the country's total population,5 they played a highly disproportionate and probably decisive role in the infant Bolshevik regime, effectively dominating the Soviet government during its early years. Soviet historians, along with most of their colleagues in the West, for decades preferred to ignore this subject. The facts, though, cannot be denied.

      Winston Churchill, for one, warned in an article published in the February 8, 1920, issue of the London Illustrated Sunday Herald that Bolshevism is a "worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality."

      ...

      There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution by these international and for the most part atheistical Jews. It is certainly a very great one; it probably outweighs all others. With the notable exception of Lenin, the majority of the leading figures are Jews.

      It is undeniable that jews were behind the Bolshevik revolution. Everyone should learn history.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17 2018, @09:07AM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17 2018, @09:07AM (#722726)
        • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17 2018, @12:04PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17 2018, @12:04PM (#722766)

          that's a nazi website

          What does that have to do with the quote from Winston Churchill about jews?

          Are you jewish yourself? If yes then die.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17 2018, @12:22PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17 2018, @12:22PM (#722771)

            A quote taken out of context is often meant to deceive. This looks like a more complete picture of Churchill's position -- a scan of the original article:
                https://archive.org/details/ZionismVsBolshevismByWinstonChurchill [archive.org]

    • (Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday August 19 2018, @01:12PM

      by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Sunday August 19 2018, @01:12PM (#723373)

      There is a myth that persists in some circles

      A cousin of "evolution is just a theory"

  • (Score: 1, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday August 16 2018, @11:51PM (2 children)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Thursday August 16 2018, @11:51PM (#722600) Homepage Journal

    I'm from New York. Where, for a little while, our alt-left was a very big deal -- until Obama's people cracked down on them. They called themselves Occupy, they were always talking about how "the 1%" run our Country. And tey were right. Except, frankly, it's less than 1% that really run it. Much less. Believe me, I know -- I'm the top top guy. And I think it's the same in many many Countries. Definitely in the Soviet Union. Which I visited in 1987. I wanted to build beautiful hotels, luxurious hotels like nothing they'd ever seen. And I didn't need to talk to thousands of people. Or millions of people. There were millions in the Communist Party, very few at the top. I talked to a few guys, very powerful guys. I wouldn't say Jewish, they didn't look Jewish to me. And I know Jewish, I'm from New York. I've had a lot of Jewish lawyers. My son-in-law is Jewish. My daughter. So trust me, I know. And I wanted to talk to Mikhail G., I invited him to Trump Tower. He told me "yes" but he flaked. So, no hotels. And by the way, I had some ideas about how we could have ended that terrible Cold War VERY QUICKLY. His loss!!!!

    • (Score: 2) by turgid on Saturday August 18 2018, @10:27PM (1 child)

      by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Saturday August 18 2018, @10:27PM (#723201) Journal

      You may be from New York but your mother was from the isle of Lewis.

      • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday August 19 2018, @03:46AM

        by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Sunday August 19 2018, @03:46AM (#723269) Homepage Journal

        My mother, why are you bringing my mother into this? She was from Scotland, from the Isle of Lewis. As you said. And, not many Jews there. But I didn't say she was Jewish. And I didn't say I'm Jewish. I'm not Jewish, I never said I'm Jewish. But I'm from New York. Where there are more Jews than anyplace. And like I said, Jewish daughter. Jewish son-in-law. Jewish lawyers. Also, Jewish doctor. So I know Jewish. And those Soviet guys, I don't think they were Jewish.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17 2018, @01:51AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17 2018, @01:51AM (#722638)

    http://www.vho.org/tr/2004/3/Rudolf325-327.html [vho.org]

    the Jews of the Soviet Union bear 59 times as much responsibility for the Red Terror per capita than the Russian population

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKVD_prisoner_massacres [wikipedia.org]

    Immediately after the start of the German invasion, the NKVD commenced the execution of large numbers of prisoners in most of their prisons, and the evacuation of the remainder in death marches.[8][9] Most of them were political prisoners, imprisoned and executed without a trial.

    http://www.fpp.co.uk/ActionReport/AR15/KGB_Jewish.html [fpp.co.uk]

    NKVD was predominantly a Jewish organization

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jan/25/russia.books [theguardian.com]

    Nobel laureate under fire for new book on the role of Jews in Soviet-era repression

    Jews are murderous criminals of the sleaziest kind.

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 17 2018, @05:13PM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 17 2018, @05:13PM (#722859) Journal

      Yeah, Al Capone was a Jew. And, Charles Manson. Ted Kaczynski. Tom Horn. Adam Lanza. Andie Kehoe. John Wayne Gacy. Ted Bundy is a nice Jewish name. Timothy McVeigh. Jim Jones. And, the Son of Sam, David Berkowitz. Oh, wait, that one sounds like he could have been Jewish. I'll bet you already know which ones are Jewish. Well - to be more accurate, you probably have a catalogue of low-life criminals who are Jewish, and simply neglect any who are not Jewish.