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Stop NATO news: November 30, 2011:
https://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/stop-nato-news-november-30-2011/
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NATO To Kosovo Serbs: "If Your Trucks Unload Gravel Here, We Will Shoot"
Report: New Libyan Regime Sends 600 Troops To Fight In Syria
NATO Cross-Border Attacks Killed 72 Pakistani Troops, Injured 250 In Past Three Years: Army Spokesman
Sustained NATO Attack Was Deliberate: Pakistan Army
China: U.S. And NATO Have Trampled On International Law
Notice Sent To U.S. To Vacate Pakistani Air Base: Foreign Minister
NATO Attack: Pakistan Pulls Out Of Afghanistan Talks
Most Russians See NATO's Drive East As Threat: Poll
Russia Commissions New Radar Against U.S.-NATO Missile System
Kaliningrad Radar A Signal To The West
Myanmar: U.S. Intensifies Isolation, Encirclement Of China
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Russia Readies New Radar Station, Missiles Against U.S.-NATO Shield
http://en.rian.ru/world/20111125/169029488.htmlKOMINFORM
Russian Information Agency Novosti
November 25, 2011
Russia's Baltic radar to monitor missile launches across Europe, Atlantic
MOSCOW: Russia's radar station in the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad will monitor missile launches from the North Atlantic, as well as the future European missile defense system, the Aerospace Defense Forces chief said on Friday.
"We will be able to control the entire European continent and the Atlantic, including the European missile defense system," Lt. Gen. Oleg Ostapenko said.
The radar station is ready to go into operation as part of the national missile early warning attack system, he said.
In addition, Iskander tactical missiles will be deployed in the Kaliningrad region "in the near future," the general said.
Russia's air defense system will have the capability to intercept any type of missiles, any targets at any speed, including hypersonic ones, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said on Tuesday.
The new system, comprising air defense, missile defense, missile early warning attack and space control systems, should be up and running by December 1.
Ostapenko's remarks come after President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday that Russia would move "advanced offensive weapon systems" to its European borders in response to a planned U.S.-backed NATO missile shield if talks on the project fail.
Moscow is seeking written, legally binding guarantees that the shield will not be directed against it. Washington, however, has refused to put its verbal assurances in writing.
Washington responded by saying it would not alter its plans for a European missile defense project, despite increasingly tough rhetoric from Moscow.
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http://www.interfax.com/newsinf.asp?pg=7&id=290085
Interfax
November 25, 2011
Kaliningrad missile early warning radar able to monitor Europe, North Atlantic - commander
MOSCOW: A radar station built in the Kaliningrad region will seriously enhance the information capabilities of Russia's missile early warning system, Russian Aerospace Defense Force Commander Lieut. Gen. Oleg Ostapenko told journalists on Friday.
"It will allow us to efficiently monitor missile launches over the entire European continent, as well as from the North Atlantic area, including the functioning and systems of the European missile defense shield," he said.
All efforts to build the radar in Kaliningrad and to put it into operation have already been completed, Ostapenko said.
"Specialists have already been trained and licensed to operate the station. We are prepared today to add this station to the general missile early warning system as soon as the supreme commander-in-chief issues such an order," he said.
The Kaliningrad-based radar has unprecedented qualities, he said.
"It will seriously expand the range of information gathering, enabling the country's supreme leadership to subsequently make decisions," the commander said.
The radar's technical and tactical features allow it to stand out among previous- generation radars. It is an ultra high frequency radar, which can measure parameters with a higher degree of accuracy.
"It consumes far less power, and the volume of its technological equipment is much smaller," Ostapenko said.
Such radars' new-generation advanced equipment has made it possible to seriously optimize their maintenance and cut personnel servicing them on a day-to-day basis, as compared with Dnepr-, Daryal- and Volga-type radars, he said.
"The results of this radar's preliminary trials showed that its main characteristics meet with required targets," the commander said.
High operational compatibility radars are built within a very short period of time, he said.
"This technology allows us to improve the station's technical capabilities of target detection, should such a need arise," Ostepenko said.
Russia's Voronezh-DM ultra high frequency, over-the-horizon long-range high operational compatibility radar has been deployed in the village of Pionerskoye in the Kaliningrad region. The radar is capable of detecting ballistic targets within a range of 4,000 kilometers to 6,000 kilometers.
On November 30th 2011, three million public sector workers in Britain will strike over the government's attacks on their pensions. This coordinated strike action represents the biggest strike movement since the general strike in 1926. To all intents and purposes it will be a 24-hour public sector general strike. 
Events of the Arab Revolution and the movements across Europe and USA have once again vindicated the Marxist positions about the role of youth. It was the youth who initiated these revolutions and movements. Subcontinent and Pakistan have a rich history of the revolutionary role played by the youth. As the "best barometer of society", the revolutionary youth of Pakistan have realized the need to join hands in their common struggle against oppression, unemployment, fundamentalism, discrimination, costly education and capitalism.
As we write these lines the Papandreou government is staggering towards collapse. In a matter of days the whole situation has been thrown into turmoil.
Switzerland is also being affected by the global crisis of capitalism, with growing pressure on Swiss workers. In the recent elections, although the Social Democrats received the lowest number of votes in 20 years, where candidates posed the real issues facing workers, such as jobs, wages and housing, they did remarkably well. Here we publish an analysis by the Swiss Marxists of Der Funke.
Last Thursday's by election in Dublin West came down to a three horse race between Councillor Patrick Nulty of Labour who won and Councillor Ruth Coppinger of the Socialist Party who came third, while Fianna Fáil (FF) squeezed into second place after a tie for second and third place – on the basis that they had more first preference votes.
As Europe teeters once more, staring financial collapse and slump in the face, we provide an analysis of what happened in Iceland, the first country to go under as a result of the global crisis of capitalism.
We have received this report from Iceland about a protest outside a conference hosted by the Icelandic government and the IMF. The letter makes the point that the IMF package for Iceland has been unsuccesful and that ordinary Icelanders are struggling to make ends meet. It shows that the political and economic crisis in Iceland is continuing.
The 18th "Permanent Revolution" convention of Jammu Kashmir National Students Federation was held in Rawalpindi on 28th October in which a big number of students from Pakistani Occupied Kashmir and various cities of Pakistan participated.
On Friday more than a million Egyptian youth, workers and poor yet again assembled in Tahrir Square. The masses have once again risen in an attempt to remove the remnants of the Mubarak regime, which are still in power. Not far from Tahrir, in Abbassiya Square, not more than a couple of thousand people gathered in a pathetic demonstration in support of the SCAF. To the sceptics who did not believe in the revolution, this should be a clear demonstration of the real balance of forces. But at the same time the revolution clearly faces obstacles, not from external forces, but in its own internal contradictions.
Last Friday, 25th November, the Moroccan dictatorship organised sham elections for its puppet parliament. These legislative elections can only be understood as an attempt at survival on the part of the capitalist monarchy. The regime is desperately in search of a new legitimacy, but it failed miserably.
A powerful general strike and massive demonstrations on November 24 was the answer of Portuguese workers to the austerity budget proposed by the right-wing governmnent of Pedro Passos Coelho. The troika approved the measures taken as part of the bail out package but demanded more cuts as the economy is forecasted to fall by 3% next year.
We interviewed the young comrades of the Communist League of Action who speak out on how the Arab spring has affected the Kingdom of Morocco. They explain how it has deeply shaken the regime, and most importantly that "the movement has also rid the masses of the feeling of fear and transferred it to the other camp, the camp of the ruling class and its parties and repressive apparatus."
Although the Nigerian economy has been officially growing at over 6% for the past 5 years, the poverty rate keeps increasing; youth unemployment has risen to an unprecedented 47% and over 80 per cent of Nigerian youth don't have more than a secondary school certificate.
Events in Egypt are developing at lightning speed. Similarly to the last days of Mubarak in February this year, we see daily battles on the streets of Cairo and elsewhere. The Egyptian masses are determined to see the revolution carried through to the end. The clash between revolution and counter-revolution is provoking a crisis inside all political forces, as the rank and file instinctively move towards revolution and the leaderships vacillate and try to hold the masses back.
After overtaking Japan, this year China became the second largest economy in the world. Some experts have even predicted that by the end of this decade China may become the largest economy bypassing the United States. However, that is based on a mechanical, empirical approach that sees China maintaining its present levels of growth uninterruptedly for years to come. In the past Japan was also supposed to keep on growing, but then its apparent meteoric rise was cut across by a long period of stagnation.
