Russia to create electromagnetic super weapon 

Technologies and discoveries 

Defense strategists place their stakes on high-tech weapons. Nearly all superpowers of the world conduct their works in the development of such weapons. It transpired recently that Russian scientists developed a generator, the capacity of which is comparable to that of a nuclear unit. It is a genuine scientific breakthrough, and it is already clear that the defense industry will not be the only field where the new super device is going to be used.

An individual, who is miles away from physics and is only familiar with home electricity, will not be able to imagine the power of several billions of watts. It will be even harder to imagine that such power can be generated by a device that is fit to be placed on a table.

“The devices generating such power – billions of watts – used to be very large in size before. This appliance has a very short impulse, which makes it possible to have it on a desk – it is a very compact device,” the Director of Lebedev’s Institute of Physics, Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Gennady Mesyats said.

Mikhail Yalandin, one of the creators of the miraculous machine, said that the scientists had assembled two of such devices in Yekaterinburg – a bigger and a smaller one.

Never before had a relatively small device ever been able to generate electromagnetic impulses the capacity of which could be comparable to a huge water power plant. It is ten times as much as any foreign-made analogue.

The new device can be used practically anywhere. The invention will let specialists create radar telescopes and radars of new generation. Missile troops and defense departments on the whole will most likely be the first customers to order the appliance. The new generators can also be used to check the stability of large energy objects and systems. The device is capable of imitating the strays which appear as a result of a lightning strike or even a nuclear blast.

It is impossible to take photographs or film a video of the new generator in action because it immediately puts all electronic devices out of order.

The research that was used for the creation of such a device can be applied in the development of electromagnetic weapons.

“No one has ever studied biological effects of such impulses. It is obvious that it affects the electronic equipment near it. Computers or cell phones have to be screened from such radiation,” Mikhail Yalandin, a senior specialist of the Institute of Electrophysics said.

The device was called Nika, which means ‘victory’.

http://english.pravda.ru/science/tech/04-09-2008/106296-electromagnetic_super_weapon-0

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Russia to send ‘humanitarian aid’ to Cuba

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered planeloads of humanitarian aid to be sent to Cuba – recently battered by Hurricane Gustav.

“Under orders from the Russian president, the emergency situations ministry is sending a cargo of humanitarian aid to Cuba,” said spokeswoman for the Russian ministry for natural disasters and emergency situations, Irina Andrianova Tuesday.

She added that four planes would carry ‘construction materials, food and essential supplies’ for Cubans.

RIA Novosti quoted Andrianova as saying that the first two planes were scheduled to take off for Cuba on Wednesday.

Hurricane Gustav blew through western Cuba with 150 mile per hour (240 kph) winds, damaging around 86,000 houses and leaving much of the region without electricity.

While no death has been recorded in Cuba, some 250,000 people were evacuated in four western provinces.

The report comes amid White House claims that Russia is mulling reigniting its close relationship with its former ally Cuba in a counter-measure against the US ‘defense missile shield’ which will be built in Eastern Europe.

Russia sends two more aid planes to hurricane-stricken Cuba

Russia sent two more aircraft carrying humanitarian aid to hurricane-stricken Cuba on Friday, a Russian emergencies service spokesperson said.

“The first Il-76 cargo aircraft took off at 10:40 a.m. Moscow time 06:40 GMT, and the second one at around 11:00 a.m. Moscow time 07:00 GMT. They will deliver around 60 metric tons of humanitarian cargo,” the spokesperson said.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered the emergencies service to send four aircraft to Cuba to deliver tents for 5,000 people, construction materials, and food in the wake of Hurricane Gustav. The first two cargo aircraft arrived in Cuba on Thursday.

Hurricane Gustav swept through Cuba last Saturday with winds reaching 300 km p/h (186 mph) as it hit the Isla de la Juventud, to the south of the Cuban mainland.

The storm later swept through the province of Pinar del Rio on the country’s western tip, damaging around 86,000 houses and leaving much of the region without power.

No hurricane-related fatalities have been reported in Cuba, although Gustav took some 120 lives in other Caribbean islands, including Haiti, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic.

Tropical Storm Hanna has also killed at least 150 people in Haiti since Tuesday.

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20080905/116568768.html

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US invades Pakistan — but no complaints from the ‘international community’

I love it! I just came across an article, “Did We Just Invade Pakistan?” but you’ll search in vain for any headline in the mainstream media that even comes close to calling it a US invasion of Pakistan.

This is how the BBC reported it,

“Pakistan fury over ‘US assault’ Pakistan has summoned the US ambassador to protest at an alleged cross-border raid which officials say killed at least 15 villagers in the north-west.”

Talk about double-standards!

Note that the BBC puts the ‘US assault’ in single quotes and talks of an ‘alleged cross-border raid’ which calls into question whether or not the US-led ‘coalition of the willing’ did in fact assault, invade or otherwise use its helicopter gunships against yet another sovereign nation killing perhaps twenty people some of which are, by one report, children (‘US forces kill 20 in Pakistan cross-border raid’).

Predictably of course, the US denies that it ‘assaulted’ Pakistan. The BBC is not merely the mouthpiece for the UK state but also for the US. So much for ‘objective’ journalism. (For a cross-section of reactions see ‘Pakistan News-links 3-4 September 2008’.)

So what gives here? How come when Russia conducts a ‘cross-border raid’ to repel an invasion by Georgia of the Autonomous Region of Southern Ossetia, we read how it’s condemned by the ‘international community’? But then the ‘international community’ is at best ten countries, all of which are ‘allies’ of the US.

http://www.the-peoples-forum.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=4284