ISIS expands: 6k new recruits, scores of captured jets, armored vehicles

White House Supported ISIS is Out of Control

Bashar al-Assad: Obama’s new ally

Things seem to be on the verge of coming full circle in US relations with Syria. Early in the Obama administration, the ever sagacious Secretary of State Hillary Clinton referred to Syrian President Bahar al-Assad as a “reformer” before demanding his ouster. Now it seems that Obama has made the decision that the United States must cooperate with Syria in order to suppress ISIS/ISIL.

Two former top military and counterterrorism officials said on Sunday that the United States should be prepared to start working with the very dictator that the Obama administration said must leave office because of the humanitarian atrocities he has committed.

Appearing on ABC’s “This Week,” General John Allen, who commanded the Afghanistan War, and Richard Clarke, a former top counterterrorism adviser, said that the effort to stem and ultimately kill the Islamic State (ISIS) would require some form of partnership with Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Allen was less committal about such a partnership, noting that the Assad government had fed ISIS’ rise with its brutal campaign to crack down on insurgents that had radicalized sections of the Sunni population. Still, he conceded, for an operation against ISIS to be successful, it would require a Syria component and an informal, if not entirely unsaid, collaboration with Assad.

This is probably a trial balloon for a policy shift. As few in Congress outside of John McCain have been enthusiastic about Obama’s attempted overthrow of Assad and many have expressed concern about ISIS/ISIL it is likely to meet little resistance.

This should be viewed in context of a statement by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey earlier this month:

“This is an organization that has an apocalyptic end-of-days strategic vision that will eventually have to be defeated,” the chairman, Gen. Martin Dempsey, said in his most expansive public remarks on the crisis since American airstrikes began in Iraq. “Can they be defeated without addressing that part of the organization that resides in Syria? The answer is no.”

But both General Dempsey and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, who appeared beside him during a Pentagon news conference, deflected questions about whether the United States military would pursue the Sunni militants from Iraq into Syria, an issue that many defense experts say lies at the heart any attempt to defeat ISIS.

While many in the media have interpreted this as Dempsey advocating US military operations in Syria, he clearly doesn’t say so and could just as plausibly be acknowledging the new direction the administration is taking.

The UK Independent is reporting that the United States may already be assisting the Assad regime byproviding them with intelligence that allows them to strike at ISIS/ISIL leadership targets:

The US has already covertly assisted the Assad government by passing on intelligence about the exact location of jihadi leaders through the BND, the German intelligence service, a source has told The Independent. This may explain why Syrian aircraft and artillery have been able on occasion to target accurately rebel commanders and headquarters.

Adding to the confusion is the fact that Obama has requested in excess of $500 million in covert aid to “moderate” rebels fighting Assad. A request Congress still has to act upon.

One can only say that if Obama had exhibited the same mental agility that is allowing him to provide aid to Assad in his dealings with Iraq and Afghanistan five years ago, the world would be a much safer place.

Credit to Redstate

GRAPHIC: Donetsk ravaged, more killed as shelling intensifies in E.Ukraine

Obama Has Begun to Systematically Depopulate and Deindustrialize the Suburbs

If you live in the suburbs, you might be wise to advise your children on how to live, work and survive in America’s inner cities because that is where they are likely to be living in the near future in a Warsaw ghetto type of scenario.

The mass migration from the suburbs back into densely populated urban areas is not a next week thing, or a next month thing or even next year proposition, but the groundwork is happening right now. If you are not a Baby Boomer, you will not likely be retiring in the suburbs.

In Part One of this series, I detailed how the Chinese are forcibly relocating one million Chinese per month to the mega-cities that have been dubbed the “ghost cities”.

Obama will not rest until he has removed every man, woman and child from suburban areas in the United States.

Obama’s Front Man For Suburban Depopulation

The real brains behind the coming Agenda 21-inspired mass migration from the suburbs to the inner cities is Mike Krulig and his new group of community advisers, Building One America. Most of you have never heard of Krulig or Building One America and there is a good reason for their anonymity. If a majority of the American people ever discovered Krulig’s true intentions for suburban dwelling Americans, they would chase him down the street and string him and his people up from the nearest light poles.

The picture of Obama and Krulig that the White House does not want you to see.

The secretive agenda of Building One America has been mostly achieved by Obama’s appointment of like-minded community activists to his staff. In fact, Krulig was one of Obama’s original community organizing mentors from the President’s Chicago Southside days. The word stealth applies because a damning photo depicting Krulig and Obama meeting at the Whitehouse in 2011 and it was subsequently published on the Building One America website. (The photo is displayed above).  However, this type of publicity would not have been good for the swing voters living in America’s suburbs in the 2012 election. Obama’s people had the video scrubbed as well as the search engine links. However, the Breitbart people retained a copy of the picture. This begs the question, if the Building One America plan is so good for America, then why would the Obama people conceal his affiliation with Krulig and his group of Agenda 21 social engineers?

Kruglik’s Agenda 21 Building One America group proposes the creation of a regional tax-base sharing revenues in which suburban tax money is directly redistributed to nearby cities and economically depressed concentric zones of inner-ring suburbs. Building One America also seeks to move the poor out of cities by imposing mandatory low-income-housing quotas for middle-class suburban developments. Here are the plans of the Building One America proponents (e.g. Senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett).

Krulig’s group also seeks to export the controversial regional tax-base sharing scheme currently in place in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area to the rest of the country. Under this program, a portion of suburban tax money flows into a common regional pot, which is then effectively redistributed to urban, and a few less well-off “inner-ring” suburban, municipalities. The Minneapolis-St. Paul area regional government is run by unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats (i.e. Commissars) who are out of control. It is critical to know that removing the election process from this Agenda 21, wealth redistribution endeavor was deliberate for reasons that will become obvious, as the reader will discover.

Don’t Get Too Attached To Your Car

                     The VMT will get America out of their cars and into the inner city.

Kruglik’s group also favors a variety of policies designed to force people out of their cars and force suburbanites, robbed of their own tax money, to relocate into densely populated stack and pack cities.

Among Kruglick’s strategies to separate people from their cars is the Vehicle Mileage Tax (VMT). Road pricing for the VMT would be implemented to force drivers out their cars. This will impact all drivers except for the Obama inspired exemption of low income drivers.

The VMT is designed to give favored status to certain groups. These groups represent organizations that want to transfer wealth through the heavy hand of regional government interfering in the housing, transportation and land use market place.

One Bay Area is San Franciso’s version of Building One America.

This tyranny is also being beta tested in the (San Francisco) Bay area in a project entitled One Bay Area Plan. One Bay Area Plan is a 25 year plan which combines housing, transportation, and Agenda 21 land use policies. The public cover story is that the project is designed to save the planet by reducing Green House Gasses. The generated revenue, estimated at $15 million per day, would be used to fund further Agenda 21 transportation schemes such as buses, trollies and light rail in which only a few people presently ride. And speaking of light rail, I live in Arizona. Arizona has the worst funded schools, mental health and medical care system in the country. Yet, that has not stopped the politicians from spending almost $2 billion dollars to build a light rail system in downtown Phoenix which only encompasses a few miles of usable track in either direction from downtown. And to make bad matters worse, Arizona has approved building an even more expensive light rail system which will connect Phoenix with Tucson and this system will eventually expand to San Diego and Albuquerque.

Your future home, the micro-apartment.

This plan also calls for Upzoning which would expand the plan to even more areas in the Bay. This would mean even more requirements for high density housing in cities that do not have their “fair share” of low income people. This will result in more 200 square foot apartments being

Don’t pack too much, your future living quarters are being downsized.

constructed near public transit lines. It should be noted that Mayor Bloomberg is doing something very similar in New York City in which the construction of any new apartment unit over 500 square feet is being forbidden in select neighborhoods.

This Bay Area Agenda 21 plan also contains a concept referred to as the Communities of Concern (i.e. low income and communities of color) would receive funds from these windfall profits that the region would receive. It appears to many as if Obama is trying to provoke a race war. Additionally, development fees would be eliminated for affordable housing developments, while subsidies would be used for favored activities such as the creation of more micro apartments and the construction of low income housing in the suburbs.

“Manhattanizing America”

The Agenda 21 proponents are so brazen that the existence of this scheme has even become part of the mainstream news. The following video contains a Fox News report on the very urban management principles described in the previous paragraphs.

Conclusion

On one hand, at least Americans are not experiencing forced relocation to the “stack and packs” as we see China doing. Yet, Obama’s Building One America’s tax plans are beginning to have a similar effect.

Despite the omnipresent evidence that federal relocation tax policies are in place and spreading across the country, most people mistakenly believe that the reality of the megacities concept in which we are all herded into the stack and pack cities is decades down the road. On the contrary, as you have seen, the program is being beta tested in two large metropolitan areas and many of Building One America’s collectivist city management principles are presently being implemented right beneath our noses.  As long as Americans pay their taxes and abide by some reasonable community standards, shouldn’t we all be free to live where we choose? Most reasonable people would answer yes; we should be free to choose where we live. However, this is not in the Obama agenda. As will be revealed in subsequent parts of this series, Obama was made President to usher in cap and trade and the deindustrialization of the United States. America is truly learning the meaning of fundamentally transforming America and unless we are able to wake up our fellow citizens, things are about to get a whole lot worse.

There is a much more to this dire and unfolding scenario. It is becoming clear that the globalists are planning to dramatically and rapidly depopulate an entire region of the country which will impact tens of millions of people. The depopulation of the breadbasket of America, the rural areas, is well under way and that is the topic of the next part in this series.

Credit to Common Sense

Have You Been Played Lately?

Played: (slang) - manipulated, exploited.

Christians should be the most discerning people in this world. After all, they have the indwelling Spirit of Christ who is readily available to disclose to them truth and error. Those who have been born again of the Holy Spirit have been translated from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light. The eyes of Christians have been opened so that they can see that which they were formerly blind to, things which no other people can see.

John 3:3
Yahshua answered and said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

Christians are instructed by both the Spirit and the Word. Both of these witnesses inform them that they have an adversary whose chief weapon is deception. Satan used this tool with great destruction upon our first forebears in the Garden of Eden. Eve, the mother of all living testified, “The serpent deceived me...” This work of deception is recorded in the first book of the Bible. The continuing deception of Satan is set before the eyes of believers all the way to the last book of holy Scripture.

Revelation 12:9
And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world...

Repeatedly throughout the New Testament, Christians are exhorted to be on their guard against deception and deceivers. We are informed that as we near the end of the age that darkness will increase. The disciples of Christ are admonished to be “vigilant and alert,” being “wise as serpents yet innocent as doves.” There is no reason for Christians to walk in darkness, or to fall subject to deception. Yahweh has furnished us with everything necessary to walk wisely and victoriously in the midst of a dark and evil world.

Despite all that the Son of God has provided to enable His disciples to walk wisely in a darkened age, Christians tend to be among the most gullible and easily deceived people on earth. I am frequently baffled to find the lack of discernment among Christians who embrace every urban legend as truth, who think the news media are reporting truth in an unbiased manner, and who accept everything that their government tells them as if it were reality.




I have written on the subject of media and government deception previously. I am not going to repeat the many things I have already set forth on this topic. I will, however, provide links to some posts on this subject.

Dragon Flood - Part 11 - Freedom of Speech
http://parablesblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/dragon-flood-part-eleven-freedom-of.html

Dragon Flood - Part 17 - The Lies of War
http://parablesblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/dragon-flood-part-seventeen-lies-of-war.html

Dragon Flood - Part 18 - Manufacturing Consent
http://parablesblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/dragon-flood-part-eighteen.html

Dragon Flood - Part 19 - A Policy of Propaganda
http://parablesblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/dragon-flood-part-nineteen-policy-of.html

Push Back - Part 6
http://parablesblog.blogspot.com/2013/08/push-back-part-six.html

Despite having addressed this subject at length in many writings, I perceive a need to continually remind the people of God of the deception present in the flood of information spewing forth from the government and media spigots. These are not sources of truth. They are sources of falsehood and lies. If you are listening to the talking heads of government and the media you are being propagandized, conditioned to embrace thoughts and actions that further the agenda of those unseen powers that control the fate of nations.

As a reminder of the deception Christians are plied with on a daily basis, I have chosen to provide an illustration of the way in which government entities under the control of Lucifer not only deceive Christians, but manipulate them as puppets, inducing them to cry out for the government to do the very things that the global elite wish to be done. It is a truly a masterful stroke of Satan when he can so exploit Christians that they will cry out for their governments to do the very things he wants the governments to do. It is truly tragic how frequently, and easily, Satan is able to manipulate Christians in this manner.

Let me begin by declaring the agenda of that cabal of globalists who are seeking to bring forth a New World Order. One of the aims of this group is to sow division among sovereign nations, thereby reducing the strength and will of any single people to withstand their wicked schemes. We have observed this occurring in many nations. There is even a term that has come to describe the process of fragmentation or division of a nation into smaller regions or states that are often hostile or non-cooperative with one another. The term is Balkanization. We saw an example of it during the Clinton Presidency as Yugoslavia was splintered into numerous smaller states. What was formerly a single Eastern European nation was divided into Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia.






Break-Up of Yugoslavia

Despite any media or government narrative you have heard on the tragic wars in Yugoslavia, the true cause of the war was financial as the International Monetary Fund sought to bring this independent communist nation under its authority. Millions of people were displaced. Tens of thousands were killed, and the infrastructure and prosperity of the people was left in ruins due to NATO actions to enforce the will of the world’s financial masters.

A divided people are much easier to plunder and control than a united people. One of the often used ploys of the global elite is to incite sectarian strife among ethnic or religious groups in order to accomplish their divide-and-conquer policies of subjugation. In recent years this policy has been used to devastating effect by fomenting strife among Sunni and Shiite Muslim factions in Iraq, as well as among the Kurds of this same nation. Just in the past few weeks since there has been much press given to the ascendancy of ISIS, the radical Muslim group. The media and government have been stating that it may be necessary to divide Iraq up into smaller states due to the warring factions in its midst. This would lead to a Sunni, Shiite, and Kurdish state where there was formerly one nation.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/07/world/meast/iraq-division-lister/

A 2002 article posted on the Global Research website reveals that this division of Iraq into three states was formulated even before the United States went to war with Iraq. Anyone who thinks the ascendancy of ISIS is a spontaneous event occurring outside of the planning and control of the global bankers is either naive or uninformed.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/u-s-2002-pre-invasion-plan-to-divide-iraq-into-three-separate-states/2250

It should be noted that this plan was developed while Saddam Hussein was yet in power and the ruler of the sovereign nation of Iraq. Saddam Hussein was resistant to the global financial powers, and was working toward moving a number of OPEC countries away from trading in the U.S. dollar when war was declared against him on the false pretense of his having weapons of mass destruction.




More recently, Muammar Gadaffi, the leader of North Africa’s most modern, prosperous, and literate nation, was similarly seeking to create an African alliance of states that were free of Western control. War was similarly declared upon his nation. Like Saddam Hussein before him, he was subject to a humiliating death. Strife has been fomented among competing tribal alliances in Libya, resulting in it becoming a fractured state that will undoubtedly end up being divided along the same lines as Yugoslavia and Iraq.

At this time a similar conflict is being carried out against Syria. The global monetary powers have sought to overthrow the sovereign government of Syria by inflaming religious divisions among the Alawite and Sunni Muslim population of the country. The Alawite’s are a minority, constituting a largely secularist group of Shiite Muslims. President Bashar Assad is an Alawite. The U.S., Britain, France, and other nations have made no attempt to hide their actions at fomenting insurrection in the nation of Syria. What is left unspoken is that Syria is among one of the very few remaining sovereign nations that has not submitted to global financial control. Once it falls, the only remaining nations in this shrinking list will be Iran and North Korea.

I have presented this information to introduce to the reader of this blog the underlying motive for Western nations to engage in military action against each of these nations when there was no corresponding military provocation on the part of Yugoslavia, Iraq, or Syria. In each case, the Western powers (who are all agents of the global elite bankers and industrialists who comprise the true shadow government that dictates the actions of nations) bombed and/or invaded sovereign and peaceful nations based upon various false pretexts. The nation whose military led in each of these incursions into sovereign nations was the United States of America.

In order for America’s government to rally popular support among its citizens, a majority of whom self-identify as Christians, it was needful to present to them lies and examples of atrocities that would overcome the natural reluctance present among Americans to involve themselves militarily in the affairs of other nations and to put their own sons and daughters at risk. In every instance, the media and government reported that the government leader, or elements within these nations, were committing acts of violence and atrocity against Christians. If no actual examples of such offenses could be found to be reported, the government would either lie about the matter, or precipitate such actions themselves, blaming them on the government they wished to depose.




Iraqi Christians in Germany
(Signs Read “Stop ISIS - Save the Christians”)

The media has been peppered with reports recently of Christians in Iraq being persecuted. The most horrendous atrocities have been reported, with incidents of Christians being told they must convert to Islam, or they will be slaughtered. Following is a small sampling of articles being posted reporting on Christians being persecuted in Iraq. Any considerate Christian disciple should wonder what the reason is for the liberal, often anti-Christian, media sources to be hyping this story.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/22/isis-robs-christians-fleeing-its-edict-in-mosul-convert-leave-or-die.html

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/07/world/meast/iraq-isis-christian-city/

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/iraqi-christians-mosul-isis-convert-islam-or-be-executed

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/08/18/video-iraqi-tv-host-breaks-down-crying-on-air-over-what-isis-has-done-to-his-countrys-christians/

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/07/23/purged-by-isis-iraq-christians-appeal-to-world-for-help/

Concurrent with these stories, reports are being posted of Republican leaders demanding that Barack Obama escalate the bombing of ISIS in Iraq and Syria, with some even calling for him to send in ground troops. This is certainly what the global elite want, as they seek to divide both of these nations into fragments in order to establish hegemony over these areas. This is all political theater. We are to believe that Obama is reluctant to use the military to pound other nations into subjection. The powers that be want Americans to think that Obama was actually induced to these invasions by the Republican opposition and the outcry of the people who demanded that he do something to protect the lives of Christians and other persecuted people worldwide.

http://www.azcentral.com/story/dougmaceachern/2014/08/21/mccain-obama-isis-contain/14396647/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-obama-should-send-several-thousand-us-troops-back-to-iraq/2014/07/18/b0018cc0-0c5f-11e4-8c9a-923ecc0c7d23_story.html

It is no coincidence that at this same time the media is posting unflattering reports of Obama being an ineffective President who waits too long to act when prompt action could have prevented atrocities from happening. The reader is being manipulated to conclude that Obama is a do-nothing who spends all his time on the golf course while the world is going up in flames. The reader is being primed to accept, even to cry out for, the President to escalate America’s military presence in other nations.

Similar to the reports of Christian persecution in Iraq, the Western media treated Americans to reports of Christians being killed and driven out of their homes in Syria at the time when the U.S. government was pressing the issue of wanting to send ground troops into that nation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/opinion/syrias-threatened-christians.html

Recent reports of ISIS threatening Christians in Syria are being played up at this time in order to justify Barack Obama sending in the military to protect Christians.

http://www.newsweek.com/christians-flee-syria-religious-persecution-displaces-millions-2013-261705

All of this is a way to manipulate the majority Christian population of America to support the globalists plan to bomb these rebel nations into submission. It is a small step from bombing ISIS in Syria to bombing Bashar Assad’s troops in the same nation. It all leads to the fracturing of these nations in order to render them more susceptible to global control.

One of the exceedingly nefarious aspects of this entire ploy is that ISIS is not a spontaneous uprising of militant Muslim radicals as the media and governments of the world have portrayed them to be. They were recruited, funded, and equipped by the CIA and Pentagon with the approval of members of the U.S. government. Recently I wrote the following to a brother in Christ about this topic.
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One thing I would bring to your attention since you have mentioned ISIS in your correspondence is that these groups are not what the media and the government of America portray them to be. It has demonstrably been proven that Al Qaeda is a creation of the CIA. It was funded and equipped by the American government. For those with eyes to see, the same thing is true of ISIS. Where did they get their weapons? Where did they get their vehicles? The media and government would have us to believe that they are a spontaneous Muslim group that was underestimated until they suddenly grew strong enough to overtake military and government installations in Iraq and capture all of the munitions, vehicles, and other military equipment that the United States left for the Iraqi government to use.

This media and government portrayal of events simply does not stand up to scrutiny. It has been reported on certain alternative news sites that ISIS was actually trained by the CIA and American military in the training camps set-up in Jordan. These training camps were ostensibly to train and equip the Syrian resistance seeking to overthrow Bashar Assad, but in actuality they have been used to train members of ISIS. When the troops were trained, they needed massive amounts of equipment. Where were they to get it? It was readily available to them at depots all across Iraq where the Americans left it. ISIS simply waltzed in and took it. If anyone believes they did this apart from the U.S. government’s approval, they are deceived. The media is controlled by the same shadow government that controls the governments of nations, including the United States. They feed people lies to create a false view of world events that hides their complicity in orchestrating the very things that the masses of people are taught to fear.

http://rt.com/op-edge/168064-isis-terrorism-usa-cia-war/

http://www.globalresearch.ca/isis-domestic-terror-threat-created-by-cia-and-u-s-military/5387874

http://www.wnd.com/2014/06/officials-u-s-trained-isis-at-secret-base-in-jordan/

http://www.hangthebankers.com/isis-leader-a-confirmed-cia-puppet/
[End excerpt from letter]

Brothers and sisters, I am NOT sharing this information to encourage Christians to protest the actions of the U.S. government, other NATO countries, or the United Nations. My purpose is to exhort you to be wise as serpents. We live in an hour where gross deceptions are being carried out on a daily basis. It is quite realistic, considering the past actions of Western governments, to suggest that our own nations are inciting the slaughter and persecution of Christians in Muslim nations in order to elicit the support of Christians for their nation’s military to slaughter and invade Muslims countries.

Don’t be a dupe. Don’t allow the Luciferian powers of this world to play you. In 2011 there were six corporations that controlled 90% of American media companies. This number has now declined to 5 corporations that control 90% of U.S. media.




These companies are ruled by the global elite. These are the ones who want to create a New World Order, a one world government under the rule of Lucifer. Is it wisdom for Christians to get their information from such a polluted source?

I urge my brothers and sisters to be discerning. Approach with skepticism everything you see reported in the mainstream media. Test carefully every justification of the government that seeks to persuade you to adopt its point of view. Ultimately, we must give an account to Yahweh for our words, our actions, and those policies we support. His ways are not man’s ways. Do not be driven, or manipulated, by the deceitful servants of Satan. Be led of the Spirit.

Romans 8:14
For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

Credit to Joseph Herrin 

RET USAF GENERAL ¨We should go to DEFCON 1¨

Saturday on Fox News Channel's "America's News HQ," network military analyst Ret. Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney told host Uma Pemmaraju that in oder to address the current threat ISIS posses, the Untied States should "go to DEFCON 1, our highest state of readiness and be prepared as we lead up to 9/11," because he warned "we may even see a 9/11/14."

McInerney referenced the missing Malaysia Airlines jet MH370 from earlier this year and said, "On the seventh of September, a major news network and publishing network are going to put out a book. It is going to be earth shattering of what's happening and what happened. The fact is we may even see a 9/11/14 MH-370 surface again. We should go to DEFCON 1, our highest state of readiness and be prepared as we lead up to 9/11."

Pemmaraju asked, "When you say a major news organization is coming forward with a publication, what are you referring to specifically? Can you allude to that, give us more details?

McInerney continued,"I can't give you any more than what I've just said. But it is going to be extremely important and America should take notice. We are less safe today than we were six years ago."

The general again confirmed America should raise the terror level threat at this point ahead of the anniversary of 9/11.

Credit to Breitbart

China Plans To Unveil Domestic "Operating System" In October

 

With Russia pushing to end its government's dependency on Microsoft's Operating System, it is perhaps not surprising (especially following the various raids that have been undertaken) that another BRICS member, as Reuters reports, China could have a new homegrown operating system by October to take on imported rivals such as Microsoft, Google, and Apple, Xinhua news agency said on Sunday. A spokesperson stated,China hoped domestically built software would be able to replace desktop operating systems within one to two years and mobile operating systems within three to five years.

As Reuters reports, China could have a new homegrown operating system by October...

Computer technology became an area of tension between China and the United States after a number of run-ins over cyber security. China is now looking to help its domestic industry catch up with imported systems such as Microsoft's Windows and Google's mobile operating system Android.

The operating system would first appear on desktop devices and later extend to smartphone and other mobile devices, Xinhua said, citing Ni Guangnan who heads an official OS development alliance established in March.

Ni's comments were originally reported by the People's Post and Telecommunications News, an official trade paper run by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

"We hope to launch a Chinese-made desktop operating system by October supporting app stores," Ni told the trade paper. Some Chinese OS already existed, but there was a large gap between China's technology and that of developed countries, he added.

He said he hoped domestically built software would be able to replace desktop operating systems within one to two years and mobile operating systems within three to five years.

Of course this is no sudden decision as said in May China said that “governments and enterprises of a few
countries” are taking advantage of their monopoly status and
technological edge to collect sensitive information.

In May, China banned government use of Windows 8, Microsoft's latest operating system, a blow to the U.S. technology firm's business which raised fears China was moving to protect domestic firms. Microsoft is also under investigation for anti-trust violations.

In March last year, China said that Google had too much control over China's smartphone industry via its Android mobile operating system and has discriminated against some local firms.

Mutual suspicions between China and the United States over hacking have escalated over the past year following revelations by Edward Snowden thatU.S. intelligence planted "backdoor" surveillance tools on U.S.-made hardware.

The U.S. Justice Department, meanwhile, indicted five Chinese military officers in May on counts of extensive industrial espionage.

Ni said the ban on Windows 8 was a big opportunity for the Chinese sector to push forward its own systems, but that the industry needed further development and investment.

"Creating an environment that allows us to contend with Google, Apple and Microsoft - that is the key to success," he added.

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So Jack Lew promised no impact on the US economy from Russian sanctions and President Obama has, we are sure, calmed everyone's fears over NSA spying...? But all the talking heads said the world relies on US tech knowledge?

Credit to Zero Hedge

Largest ever military drills with Russia and China

Iran says it downed Israeli drone over nuclear site

Tehran (AFP) - Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard said it has brought down an Israeli stealth drone above the Natanz uranium enrichment site in the centre of the country.

"This act demonstrates a new adventurism by the Zionist regime... The Revolutionary Guard and the other armed forces reserve the right to respond to this act," the statement added."A spy drone of the Zionist regime (Israel) was brought down by a missile... This stealth drone was trying to approach the Natanz nuclear zone," the corps said in a statement on its official website sepahnews.com.

An Israeli spokesman told AFP in Jerusalem on Sunday that the military does "not address foreign media reports".

Natanz is Iran's main uranium enrichment site, housing more than 16,000 centrifuges. Around 3,000 more are at the Fordo plant, buried inside a mountain and hard to destroy.

Israel has often threatened to attack Iranian nuclear installations.

Iran and the P5+1 powers -- Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States and Germany -- reached a six-month interim agreement under which Iran suspended part of its nuclear activities in return for a partial lifting of international sanctions.

In July that deal was extended by four months until November 24 to give the two sides more time to negotiate a final accord aimed at ending 10 years of tensions over Iran's nuclear programme.

The sides remain split on how much uranium enrichment Iran should be allowed to carry out.

Washington wants Tehran to slash its programme by three-quarters, but Iran wants to expand enrichment ten-fold by 2021, chiefly to produce fuel for its Bushehr nuclear power plant.

Israel, a sworn enemy of Iran, opposes any agreement allowing Tehran to keep part of its uranium enrichment programme, saying Iran could use the material to make an atomic bomb.

Iran has consistently denied wanting to make nuclear weapons.

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Israel halts Iran weapons shipment