Russia Expands Military Presence in Syria, Satellite Photos Show - WSJ



Russian forces appear to be expanding their military presence in Syria through the development of two additional bases that pose new challenges for the Obama administration as it struggles to avert a clash with Moscow in the Middle East.
Private satellite images released Tuesday revealed new construction at two Syrian military facilities near the Mediterranean coast, the latest sign Russia is preparing to inject its military forces into the country’s 4½-year war.
While U.S. military officials assessed the importance of the projects and overall buildup, the Obama administration is seeking to transform the potential showdown into a fresh diplomatic initiative to push Syrian President Bashar al-Assad—Russia’s longtime ally—from power, senior administration officials said.
Specifically, officials are exploring whether the U.S. could work with Moscow to ease Mr. Assad from power and pave the way for a successor from his Alawite sect, preventing a collapse of the government and a likely takeover by Islamic extremists, a senior administration official said Tuesday.
President Barack Obama plans to push the idea during a series of meetings next week during the United Nations General Assembly in New York. “We have to learn more about Russia’s intentions before we know how viable it is,” said one senior administration official.
If Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to flex Russia’s military to protect Mr. Assad, relations with Moscow might deteriorate, as they did when Russia seized Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula last year. 
But if Russia is instead trying to maintain its existing influence, even if Mr. Assad is ousted, the White House sees a potential diplomatic opening.
As part of the resolution, Russia and Iran would get to protect their interests in Syria, and Moscow would contribute to the U.S.-led fight against Islamic State militants, the official said.
The Obama administration’s maneuvering is being driven largely by Russia’s moves to build up its military position, which until recently was largely focused on an air base south of the Syrian port city of Latakia.
Moscow has dispatched more than two dozen combat aircraft to the airfield, where Russian surveillance drones have started flying, according to U.S. defense officials. Russia has also sent tanks, air-defense systems, armored-personnel carriers and enough housing for 2,000 people, officials have said.
Now, satellite images provided by IHS Jane’s, a defense-intelligence provider, show what appears to be an additional, previously undisclosed, Russian military expansion.
The images from mid-September show development of a weapons depot and military facility north of Latakia, suggesting that Russia is preparing to place troops in both places, according to Robert Munks, editor of IHS Jane’s Intelligence Review.
While Russia’s recent activity in Syria has raised concern within the administration, U.S. officials are trying not to inflame tensions as they try to determine the scope for diplomacy.
“There is clearly capability beyond just force protection that is on the ground there,” said one senior military official. “But the questions remain: What are they going do with it? Where are they going to do it? Who are they going to do it with? And who are they going to do it against?”



The article that brought me so low, is this one:
The Russian foreign ministry said many things about the incident, but this was what got my attention:
“What is needed is not just words but concrete action,” the statement said, adding that “the shelling of the Russian embassy was done from the direction of Jobar, where the anti-government militants are based.”
I looked up Jobar. It’s a rather large neighborhood within Damascus. Those of you who have read Isaiah 17 more than once, understand the significance of the words:
Within. 
Damascus.
And, the Russian Embassy in Damascus is about four kilometers (2.5 miles) away from Jobar, so it is easily within mortar fire range.
That made me sit up straighter in my chair, as I realized that the rebels had captured more territory than I had initially realized. So, I went looking for a map.
This one made my heart ache:

Areas of Syria, under control by rebels, Islamic State and Syrian government.
Areas of Syria, under control by rebels, Islamic State and Syrian government.
That map is from early July, 2015, and it is horrifying. It may not seem like that to you, because you don’t realize that no lives – and no one CAN live – in the yellowish/cream-colored areas of that map. The green/purple/maroon/orange is the only livable part of Syria. And, the green is the only part ruled by the government.
This means that Syria has effectively ceased to exist. And, THAT explains why Russia has jumped into this conflict with both feet. And, as I sat staring at that map, I also began to realize that Israel was going to be pulled into this conflict.
You can see that bit of purple down around the Golan Heights. You will also note that it also borders Jordan. The Jordanian Dairat al-Mukhabarat al-Ammah and the American CIA have been involved with most of that purple, but not all of it.

Why is Israel involved at all with the ‘Southern Front’?
That’s an easy one. Syria has been the biggest threat to Israel’s survival for all of her history. They have hosted every terrorist organization threatening Israel. They shelled Israeli cities and towns from the Golan Heights. They invaded Israel three times, and even attempted to invade Jordan. They are Iran’s biggest ally, and the leadership of Syria have devoted their lives to the destruction of Israel.
The problem is that Jabhat al-Nusra, ISIS and the Southern Front really ARE going to win the battle for Damascus. And then, they will turn on each other. The orgy of violence will whatever is left of Damascus. And then…
And then, it will suck Israel into the fight.
This happened to Israel, when pedophile-homosexual Yasser Arafat invaded Lebanon – with the support of Syria – and turned it into and cesspool of genocide, violence and corruption. Israel was sucked right into Lebanon, and then into Beirut. Israel wanted none of that, but wasn’t given a choice.
Well, the same kind of violence and destruction in Syria won’t give Israel very much choice, either. They will be forced to create a buffer zone in Syria, to keep them as far from the Golan as possible. But, I don’t expect that to be nearly enough.
Israel will have very little choice. She will need to push the rebels out of the ruins of Damascus – if there is to be any hope of peace in Israel. The CIA, Turkey and the Gulf Arabs who created this mess, will send their disgusting creatures against Israel, and Israel will have to root them out in the kind of house to house, street fighting that leaves few survivors of any kind.
Israel will have no choice, and yet they will be the ones that everyone will blame. The vile and disgusting US State Department, CIA, Turkey and gulf Arabs will proclaim their innocence and blame the ‘awful’ Israel. I have friends who fought in Beirut. I have friends who fought Hezbollah in South Lebanon.
But, as awful as that was, Syria will be worse. Much worse. And as Isaiah 17 indicates, Damascus will be unlivable afterwards. Those civilians who did not flee Damascus will die. The barbarians fighting over the rubble of that ancient city will turn their guns on Israel, and many Israelis will lose their lives.
Yet again, Israel will be blamed for trying to defend herself.
And, I do not have words to describe how angry that makes me, or the grief that I feel for the coming suffering of the Syrian people. And, all because of evil men in Washington, Ankara and Riyadh.

The fulfillment of Isaiah 17 continues. The destruction of Syria will damage Israel and remake the political landscape of the Middle East. And, it will prepare for the coming of Gog and Magog. I truly hope that you will be as grieved over the dead and dying, as I will be.
This is a dramatic escalation of rhetoric from Russia. For them to speak of sending in Russian troops means that the situation is entering a new phase.

Well, it looks like 2000 Russian combat troops are being sent to Syria to fight ISIS – as of this moment (Saturday). We will see where things go from here.
This coordination between Iran and Russia is going to become the basis for their alliance, when they decide to come down and attack Israel. Furthermore, the reality on the ground is far worse than the map in this article suggests. We are in the final months of the Assad regime. What is coming will make the fall of Beirut seem like a Sunday picnic.



From September 25 – 27th 2015 the United Nations will present its new fifteen-year plan entitled “Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.” Pope Francis will attend to proclaim The Gospel of “Sustainable Development,” and world leaders and the heads of powerful Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) will organize a planetary transformation so monumental that Nimrod would be proud. This UN plan masquerades as global movement that will end poverty everywhere on Earth through “sustainable development,” “social justice,” and “equal rights to economic resources.”

How do the elite globalists plan to do this? They are going to do it with socialist/Marxist wealth redistribution where through the force of “sustainable development” laws they are going to continue transferring the wealth of the hard working middle class in America and other nations to the “poor.” Pope Francis is a huge promoter of the wealth transfer from middle class Americans…who often have to work more than one job to maintain the same level of economic well-being that one job could have produced 20 years ago. The American middle class is the target of Pope Francis and the elite who are systematically lowering their standard of living and transferring their wealth. To uninformed religious leaders this superficially appears to be the Christian thing to do. But is that what is really happening?

Let’s really look at who owns the wealth on planet Earth right now. An organization named Oxfam, which is devoted to educating people about this disparity in wealth recently released information that by 2016 the elite and the very wealthy will own 99 percent of the global wealth. The combined wealth of the richest one percent will overtake that of the other 99 percent of people next year unless the current trend of rising inequality is checked, Oxfam warned today ahead of the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland which is an annual gathering of the elite. At the Forum it was disclosed that one out of every nine people are starving and more than a billion people live on less than $1.25 a day.
So if it is the 1% who own 99% of the world’s wealth and the middle class and poor own only 1% of the world’s wealth, than why is it that the hard working American middle class are the target of Pope Francis and the U.N. programs for wealth redistribution? 

The reality is that the true purpose of Agenda 21, “sustainable development” and now “Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” was never really about making things better. That may be hard for some people to process and it may cause them to experience cognitive dissonance. The real agenda of the globalist elite through all these “sustainable development” and “social justice” programs is to create a new global feudal state or a scientific dictatorship run by the elite. The goal in their own words and documented writing, which we spent seven years putting together in writing The Babylon Code, is to reduce the world’s population as fast as possible from seven billion to 500 million. In order to do that the elites need to create mass starvation food shortages, water shortages, plagues, and nuclear wars, and destroy people’s ability to make a decent livelihood. This may be problematic for some readers, but if you read the original writings of men like H.G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, Bertrand Russell, and others, they spelled out this exact game plan over 50 years ago. Remember these people do not believe in God; they do not believe in right and wrong; and many are involved in various forms of satanic worship. They believe in pure social Darwinism where “might makes right.”

This is why the preamble to this new U.N. plan reads “All countries and stakeholders, acting in a collaborative partnership, WILL implement this plan.” Notice that this simple sentence reads as an authoritative command and emphasizes the words “WILL implement this plan.” The United Nations is a de facto global government and does not rule by the “consent of the governed.” The United Nations is a global government to which American politicians of both parties have surrendered our Constitutional rights. If you look at the Republican Presidential debates you see the vast majority of those running are “bought men and women.” They are there to do the bidding of their true masters, the international banking families and their interlocking secret societies. If a candidate has a different set of beliefs than the “Orwellian group think” which constitutes domestic and foreign policy, he is allowed to go only so far.
Who are these powerful elite groups and the secret societies that run them? As we extensively document in our new book, The Babylon Code, co-authored by this author and Troy Anderson, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated investigative journalist, there exists a very real network of semi-secretive and secret groups. Groups like The Council on Foreign Relations, The Trilateral Commission, Royal Institute of International Affairs, United Nations, Club of Rome, The Bilderberg Group, and others control presidents, prime ministers, media networks, politicians, CEO’s, and entire nations. You will almost ever hear any substantive analysis by the media, which is controlled by these groups nor of attempts at holding them accountable by governments around the world.

But when you investigate the nature, organizational structure, financing, and belief systems of the elite who control these groups, you discover overwhelming factual evidence, such as what we provide in The Babylon Code, that these groups are controlled by powerful secret societies with very real occult and Luciferian beliefs. The existence of these secret societies and their multi-generational occult and Luciferian beliefs is concealed from the masses by the people controlling the media, education, politics, art, entertainment, and religion.
In recent years there has been more information available to a global audience hungry for truth due to the Internet. This technological revealing of the occult-super structure that rules the world is of great concern to the elite. Brzezinski, the co-founder of the Trilateral Commission, has warned of this trend igniting a global revolution against the elite.

There are numerous high-level leaders at the U.N. who are involved in the occult, such as Maurice Strong, who was Secretary General of the United Nations conference on the “Human Environment,” which helped to launch the environmental movement. Strong is a Canadian super-billionaire who owns a massive amount of land in Colorado where he has a New Age ranch and centers for all kinds of Eastern mystical religions. Maurice Strong, other elites, Pope Francis, and the U.N. promote “sustainability” and “equal rights to economic resources” in their “Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.” But the reality is that the elite privately own hundreds of millions of acres in America and numerous other nations, including some of the most beautiful forests, lakes, mountains, and beaches. The masses of Americans and the media cannot seem to grasp the fact that there are two sets of rules when it comes to things like “sustainability,” “social justice” and “equal rights to economic resources.”

The United Nations and the elite are involved in a great seduction of Humanity. The same satanic system, which began in ancient Babylon, has now returned exactly as Bible prophecy predicted it would. Babylon the Great and “The Mother of Harlots” has come again. Ultimately, it is Satan’s counterfeit version of the Kingdom of Heaven. However, as we read in the Book of Revelation, Babylon will fall and it will be totally destroyed.
When the first Babylon arose God destroyed it through judgment. When the second Babylon is fully born, God will judge Babylon again, but this time for good, even though the elite scoff at the idea that Jesus Christ is going to return to Earth again with the armies of Heaven to defeat Satan, the Antichrist and the False Prophet and all those that join them by accepting the “mark of the beast.” The Satanic forces of Babylon will wage war with Jesus Christ and the armies of Heaven at Armageddon, which takes place in Israel. At this time Satan will be defeated and the Messiah will establish a New Heaven, New Earth, and New Jerusalem where there will be no more pain or sorrow and God will wipe every tear from your eyes. Paradise will be restored.




  • Some high-profile commentators think they smell a Marxist clothed in white papal robes, who dreams of redistributing the world's wealth. Pope Francis insists that he has little interest in Marxism and that his political advocacy against materialism, capitalism, greed and idolatry are largely religious in nature. However, the flavor of some of his statements might suggest otherwise.
  • The Pope also knows that the UN is poised to strong-arm member nations to sign on to an impossible globalist agenda that will require a total shift of the world's wealth, and a restructuring of international politics and economics with a one-world government and a universal religion at the steering wheel.
  • Even to the Pope's admirers, that sounds a less like peace and love and more like a utopian totalitarian nightmare.

The world press is in high gear for Pope Francis's visit to Cuba and the United States this week. Recently, the Pope has stirred up a stew mixing world poverty, the evils of capitalism and global warming into an elaborate narrative that is likely to keep journalists awake for weeks to come.

As the first ever Pope to address a joint session of Congress, he is expected to take some shots at the structural evils of free market capitalism and the unequal distribution of wealth. As early as 2013, when he penned his Apostolic Exhortation, in which he laid out his broad vision for the Catholic Church, Pope Francis has been clarifying his positions on these topics.

With the subsequent release of his controversial encyclical on global warming in June, he established two pressing themes that will likely monopolize his coming visit.

As the Pope declared war on global warming, he emphasized his continuing opposition to capitalism, materialism, selfishness and other "human factors," which he asserts are the foundational causes of the imminent destruction of the planet's ecosystem.
Writing in the Apostolic Exhortation and the Encyclical on Global Warming, the Pope justified his view that the temperature of the planet is economic and political, and it also undergirds religious concerns -- especially since the results of global warming are likely to affect the poor disproportionately.
His public denunciations of free market capitalism started in earnest with the recent papal visit to South America, where, to cheering crowds, he made some passionate statements about poverty and economics.
Speaking to grassroots organizers, Pope Francis declared his own personal war on capitalism, imperialism, colonialism, greed and materialism. According to CNN:


Pope Francis delivered a fiery denunciation of modern capitalism on Thursday night, calling the "unfettered pursuit of money" the "dung of the devil" and accusing world leaders of "cowardice" for refusing to defend the earth from exploitation.

Speaking to grassroots organizers in Bolivia, the Pope urged the poor and disenfranchised to rise up against "new colonialism," including corporations, loan agencies, free trade treaties, austerity measures, and "the monopolizing of the communications media.

To understand how the Pope thinks, it is helpful to glimpse at some of his closest counselors on these topics.
One advisor on his August global warming encyclical is the controversial professed atheist, Professor John Schnellnhuber, who was appointed to the Pontifical Academy of Science, and has been accused of advocating population control.
In an interview in June with Breitbart, Lord Christopher Monckton, chief policy advisor to the Science and Public Policy Institute, and a leader in the fight against the science of climate change, questioned Schnellnhuber's role in the encyclical:


Monckton further explained that Francis is influenced by extremist Professor John Schnellnhuber, founding director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, who said in 2009 at a climate conference in Copenhagen that if we let global warming continue, six billion of the seven billion people on earth will be killed by it.

Monckton said that Schnellnhuber will be standing by the side of Pope Francis when they announce the encyclical next week. "The fact that Schnellnhuber is going to be there is an extremely bad sign," he declared.

The fact that he will be there next to the pope suggests to Monckton that Francis is thanking him for having written the climate portion of the encyclical.

The Pope also knows, however, that the UN is poised to strong-arm member nations to sign on to an impossible globalist agenda that will require a total shift of the world's wealth, and a restructuring of international politics and economics with a one-world government and a universal religion at the steering wheel.
Even to the Pope's admirers, that sounds a less like peace and love and more like a utopian totalitarian nightmare.



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