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Mystery Russian Satellite's Behaviour Raises Alarm In US

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

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

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 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.

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  • (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)

      that's a nazi website https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Historical_Review [wikipedia.org]

      • (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) 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"