In Advance Of Third Aircraft Carrier Approaching Iran, US Nuclear Sub And Destroyer Enter Red Sea
While a few days ago we reported that the US was set to place a third aircraft carrier, ostensibly the USS Enterprise, in the Arabian Gulf in the indefinite future, it appears that the US is wasting little time in making preparations for this latest military escalation against Iran. As RT reports, "two ships of the US Navy, the nuclear submarine USS Annapolis and the destroyer USS Momsen have passed through the Suez Canal into the Red Sea. Although their destination is confidential, they are now getting dangerously close to the Persian Gulf. The ships’ passage was a major operation for the Suez administration as due to safety reasons they had to close off the canal to all other traffic and even shut down the bridge, disrupting the link between the banks for some four hours. The traffic on the roadways alongside the canal was also restricted, Interfax news agency reports." What's next: reports that Russian destroyers in Syria are also moving in the general direction of the Arabian Gulf?
More from RT:
There are no reports regarding the destination of the vessels, but the news come amid the ongoing crisis in the relationship between the US and Iran. There is mounting speculation that the Annapolis and the Momsen are heading to the Persian Gulf to reinforce the US naval forces already present in the region.
Currently the US has two aircraft carrier groups in the region headed by USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Carl Vinson. It is expected that another aircraft carrier, USS Enterprise, will join the strike force in March.
Since the EU placed a new round of sanctions on Iran by putting an embargo on Iranian oil, Iran is once again threatening to use military force to close the Strait of Hormuz.
Meanwhile, a Kuwaiti maritime official said on Monday that the Gulf Cooperation Council group of Arab countries have contingency plans for coastguards and naval forces should there be an attempt by Iran to shut down the Strait of Hormuz.
When one reads of such developments, what can one think but: Nobel peace prize.
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bring it on losers, america is toast and the world knows it
Crap. Traveling to the middle east next week. How do you say "please don't kill me, I'm Canadian, ay" in Arabic?
True Story: Back after 9/11, my boss (who was Lebanese/Russian) was supposed to go to one of our offices in Virginia/DC on business. He sent me instead ... it was a miserable trip.
Regards,
Cooter
The weirdest story I read (forget where, of course a "conspiracy" place, was that the Red Sea was going to be the scene for some intense UFO activity/announcement. And that is why NAvies from the world over are there or near by.
Even India has far more ships in the area (general area that is), to tackle the Somali Pirate problem. Like you need 3 Huge frigates to handle pirates.
All iin all, given the penchant for "Surprise", TPB might be planning something entirely spectacular as a diversion to the dying markets/dollar/trade in general.
You heard it second here. UFO's in zee Gulf.
ori
Meanwhile...
/are-we-all-so-fast-asleep/
here ya go,
By David Anderson On November 14, 2010USGS is reporting a very unusual swarm of significant earthquakes starting early this morning in the sea between Africa and the Arabian peninusla, right off the coast of Yemen, and in one of the world’s most important and busiest shipping lanes.
Source: Planetsave (http://s.tt/12tnD)
But, earthquake swarms happen, even in places that are not normally known for seismic activity. What’s unusual about this particular group of earthquakes?
In this case, it seems that the vast majority of the quakes are happening at almost exactly a depth of 10 kilometers; over 20 earthquakes have occurred at that depth since the swarm began. I’m no statistician, but that seems like a pretty exceptionally unlikely scenario, especially when the region was entirely quiet in terms of seismic activity as of yesterday. It would definitely be interesting to see what real geologists make of it.
so what's that supposed to mean?
The tsunami wave from those quakes is now about to reach shore 14 months later?
Nope, just weird behaviour. And nothing in nature happens with such precision, over and over. So the implication is that they are being created.
If anyone does not believe in HAARP, you just have not done your homework. Tesla had Scalar Waves down over a century ago. They've had the time to work it.
ori
Also the Russians back in the old USSR days spent a ton of money and resources on their version of HAARP.
2012, the world's just falling apart...
ORI, people tend to discount HAARP because there is hardly any security surrounding the site. Thing is, nobody knows what goes on there with any certainty and the cover story sounds so benign.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has set at rest firmly and authoritatively all speculative reports that India might buckle under American pressure and fall in line passively with the spirit of the United States’ sanctions against Iran by quietly cutting back its oil imports from Iran. That FM made the categorical statement while on a visit to the US is of added significance.
This Finnish nuclear dude reckons that FUKU was caused by HAARP and deep drilling down into an unstable layer, and that it is now fully unstable and was actually the cause of the reactor explosions.
Until yesterday when I saw this, I had been looking for a good reason why Germany shut down it's nuclear sites in a heartbeat.
Probably the same issues with teh quakes around the Iranian Nuke plant we have been seeing.
? 12:37? 12:37
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAUY-Y3Kiek
Yup RS, just a bunch of antennae... nothing to see, just some invisible waves. Very true. It looks completely harmless.
ori
Yes, but Tesla abandoned that project in favor of making small way-overpriced electric sportcars.
Hah! Funny BRS.
ori
ORI,
They found the Millenium Falcon in the Baltic! Aliens is here and Krugman can finaaly sleep at night, knowing the recovery will take hold, fighting WWIII against ze aliens.
That, while un-confirmed seems to be following the "Disclosure Times" meme perfectly, eh?
I saw the clip too, very interesting. I want that guy's submersible. :-)
ori
Fine... so they have scalar waves down...
If so, why all the bother & mess with the subs & fleets?
Christ on a hotplate... You have a raygun & you're dicking around with slingshots?
military industrial uncle needs cash money
A new volcanic island has appeared in the southern Red Sea, off the Yeman coast.
The warships are headed there to plant the US (false) flag.
A similar "event" occurred in 2010.
http://modernsurvivalblog.com/earthquakes/major-earthquake-swarm-off-yemen-trouble/
That was a Sorcha Faal report, ORI. Bizarre stories with a 60% confirmation rate in the week following. It is what is is...
Some Sorcha Faal reports :-) however bizarre they may look like...
well, a 60% confirmation rate gives much higher credibility than those craps reported by the corporate mainstream media!
Thanks Ness and Matrix. It's really a world where one's BS detector nees to be very very finely honed, eh? information overload.
But seriously, I go to the farthest limb out that I can see on most things, just so I can discount them completely or dig deeper.
This one is out there! :-)
ori
While being there, look at this scary article:
Shocking Collapse Of World Economy Warned Is Underway
By: Sorcha Faal
February 1, 2012
A grim report just issued by the Finance Ministry that is circulating in the Kremlin today says the United States Clearing House Interbank Payments System (CHIPS) has ground to a virtual halt signaling that a major global economic collapse is currently underway and could very well likely enter into the dreaded “freefall zone.”
Virtually unknown to all but the global financial elite, CHIPS is the main privately held clearing house for large-value transactions in the United States, settling well over $1 trillion a day in around 250,000 interbank payments that together with the Fedwire Funds Service, which is operated by the Federal Reserve Banks, forms the primary US network for large-value domestic and international US dollar payments where it has a market share of around 96%.
The cause underlying the collapse of CHIPS, this report says, is due to the “unprecedented” demand for immediate liquidity relief being sought by the largest banks in the US and EU that are being crushed under of the combined debt of both the United States and Europe said to total near $39 trillion.
Important to note is that what is currently happening is a virtual repeat of the 2008 Financial Crisis that the United States Senate’s Levin–Coburn Report found “was not a natural disaster, but the result of high risk, complex financial products; undisclosed conflicts of interest; and the failure of regulators, the credit rating agencies, and the market itself to rein in the excesses of Wall Street.”
Grimly echoing this Ministry report is the latest data [see chart 2nd photo left, or click on link] from The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) that is a number issued daily by the London-based Baltic Exchange and shows it in freefall dropping 65% in the past 30 days alone, a terrifying amount of loss not seen since the dark days of late 2008.
Not restricted to Baltic Sea countries, the BDI tracks worldwide international shipping prices of various dry bulk cargoes that has collapsed so severely global shipping has all but ceased thus leaving our world’s largest transport ships anchored and empty off the coast of Singapore [photo 3rd left] in what is described as “the biggest and most secretive gathering of ships in maritime history whose numbers are equivalent to the entire British and American navies combined.”
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Tragedy And Hope: A History Of The World In Our Time
I can attest to their being 'alot' of ships in Singapore. I was there in mid December and the island was almost encircled with ships....to a point that it looked like another city out at sea. It was amazing.
Well,obviously everyone is there to try and get the space aliens to buy their bonds/treasurys/fiat first.
"Take me to your leader"
Goldman Sachs is thisaway........
"Iran Well Prepared For The Worst"
Asia Times On Line... Google it, no link...
"That last scenario is hardly theoretical. Lieutenant General Paul K Van Riper (US Marine Corps-retired) gained notoriety after the Millennium Challenge 2002 wargame, which was a major exercise conducted by the US armed forces in mid-2002, likely the largest such exercise in history.
It cost $250 million and involved both live exercises and computer simulations. The simulated combatants were the US, referred to as "Blue", and an unknown adversary in the Middle East, "Red", commanded by Lieutenant General Van Riper.
Red received an ultimatum from Blue, essentially a surrender document
so I guess the RED team were the French in this one...
One word. Lebanon.
Some things never change. Replace the word "Russians" with "Persians" and it's still the same old story:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVf7m_YZ2zY
Reminds me of those other large attacks, by giant conglomerations of modern weaponry...
Spanish Armada, 1588... defeated by smaller ships
Luftwaffe, 1940...defeated by radar
These could not gain superiority by their size and terrible numbers alone.
I can only hope the economy craters before the war starts.
and said study was used to justify ~1,600M USD in littoral combat improvements over the last decade.
As appears on Asia Times Online,
Iran well prepared for the worst (2012-01-31)
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Iran is reshaping its military forces to steadily increase the threat to Gulf shipping and shipping in the Gulf of Oman, It also is gradually increasing its ability to operate in the Indian Ocean.
This increase in Iranian capability is almost certainly not designed to take the form of a major war with the US and southern Gulf states, which could result from any Iranian effort to truly close the Gulf. It does, however, give Iran the ability to carry out a wide range of much lower level attacks which could sharply raise the risk to Gulf shipping, and either reduce tanker traffic and shipping or sharply raise the insurance cost of such ship movements and put a different kind of pressure on the other Gulf states and world oil prices.
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And given how heavily the US depends on various bases and facilities in nationals like Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the US military should diversify and harden its Persian Gulf bases to complicate Iran's ballistic missile targeting, while creating an expanded network of distant shared access locations to support initial US power-projection operations from beyond the reach of Iran's anti-access threats.
Many US forces in the region are supported by bases that are in close proximity to Iran. In addition to the port facilities in Manama, US Navy ships frequent ports at Jebel Ali near Dubai in the UAE.
Central Command air forces operate from a number of locations in the region, including al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, and al-Dhafra Air Base in the UAE. Al Udeid hosts the USCENTAF (US Air Forces Central Command) CAOC (Combined Air Operations Center), a critical command and control node for US air and space operations throughout Central Command. These and other US forward operating locations are well within the reach of numerous strike systems, including short- and medium-range ballistic missiles, that could be launched from Iran's coastal areas.
Proxy groups also could have a major impact on US forces and forward operating locations. Using commercially obtained overhead imagery, unconventional forces could fix the coordinates of Persian Gulf port facilities, airfields and fuel depots for guided mortar and rocket attacks.
Unconventional forces could also use advanced man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS), such as the Russian-made SA-24 to attack US aircraft transiting supposedly "friendly" airspace, and use ASCMs, antiship mines, or maritime improvised explosive devices against ships in the Suez Canal, Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf sea ports of debarkation (SPODs).
Iran would also have benefit from being able to exploit its interior lines of operation to deploy and frequently move its mobile ballistic missiles batteries to complicate US counter-strikes, as well as create a distributed resupply network that would be resistant to attack.
While Iran's ballistic missiles are not without limitations, such as limited accuracy for some of them and lack of launchers, the report finds that they give it a strike capability that would be difficult and expensive for US forces to counter. Over the course of the next 20 years, it is possible that Iran will make progress toward addressing these shortfalls.
According to Cronin, "Iran has levers here and their anti-access and area denial capabilities are proven. We would have a difficult time."
16 sunk U.S. ships, eh? Reminds of the Time magazine article I read before the first Iraq war. It went into breathless detail of the battle-hardened Iraqi army, the fearsome Revolutionay Guard (or whatever they were called), and the "killing fields" that would swallow up the hopelessly outmatched U.S. army. All based on wargames and computer simulations. But .... when the reall shooting started, none of that happened.
And now we're supposed to believe that a bunch of guys zipping around in aluminum fishing boats are going to sink the U.S. navy with their fearsome "asymmetric" warfare techniques. Sorry, bunch of crap, not buying it.
Canuckistani
I think you are coming down with a very bad cold and can not travel. The boss will by that, start laying the ground work.
The boss is coming with me. I have to give him credit for leading by example.
You better get the inflections right. "Please don't kill me, I'm Canadian, "eh" " or they will ;)
The word is 'eh'. And if you were really Canadian you would preface that statement with "I'm sorry..." :)
try also asking where you can get a beer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_county
Cheers!
good effort, but still not entering bullseye territory boyz:
used to be, it was enough to show the passport, yu'd be offa the hook for all serial crimes committed in the name of G-sukz, Rottenschilds etc. etc.
...we be peacekeepers it said.
Then the frat boy from Islington ON with the degree in mailroom studies, oil company major, Calgary Alta. came, saw, n took over: no more Liberal lies, n pussyfootin....this dominion belongs to B'nai Brith he said...you don't like it, we'll indict yu fore a 'hate crimes' committee of unelected elect. All yur stuff belongz to us!
Did you read about the guy who crossed into Femarika without a passport- just used a scanned copy on his IPad????...here's the trick for mid-eastern travels hosers: I always have Gino Vanelli on the Appl device - every time I go through passport control, I always have this live version of BROTHER TO BROTHER* playing - when they inevitably look, then ask, I tell them it's my cousin Gino from Montreal on the vocals....heck, works every time on the bescarfed female officers, and even the mustachioed guys can't hide their admiration....all the [reverse] racial profiling goes up in smoke n smiles.
hostage event? ak-47 wielding Hezbollah guys on bikes? no problem....play the video....then wave the leaf....
like the sign on my favourite 24\7 donut store @Bathurst&Davenport used to read, best[strategy]all round!
*http://youtu.be/vHt1t-GxNWw ....play guitar?????? Check out Carlos Rios!!!!!!!! ...Jimi came back just to hear this!
Someone is missing the Good Old Canada it would seem!
Carlos....very very good. Thanks for that link.
ori
So is this the CIC's way of saying "it's on like underwater donkey kong"?
better be careful, it's rumored that he got a B- in underwater basket weaving at Occidental (which helped his GPA enough to get him into Harvard)...
Perhaps Iran will throw a nuke. How far away are the BUFs?
We have a few in Barksdale, Some in Guam, others around the USA and a few in Europe.
Instead of worrying about how far they are, think in terms of WHAT TIME will they arrive over the target during the day or night.
We don't use these things in a properly defended air space because they are just too big. Mr Magoo with his 1950's radar can see it coming.
Nothing like a good war to get the sheeples minds off the Financial system.
Ahh, we can also make billions if not trillions on this war!!!
Grab some power in the states, after the big incident happens. Gun confiscation while they are in shock!!!
And another carrot...., Get rid of some of these useless eaters.
It's a win win situation.
Anybody from the big oil companies here? This company http://www.defkalion-energy.com/ is soon going to force you out of business. At least according to Armada Markets recent private note sent to clients.
How long are you going to keep spamming this armada markets crap?
Dude...what the heck is the Arabian Gulf?
Surely you mean the Persian Gulf....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf_naming_dispute
no
I wonder where the bias lies w/i this article ! Lmao
All your underwaters are belonging to us!
Yawn....
U.S.N. moves things all the time. That's what ships and subs do. Show the flag, lurk in the deep. Wake me up when all that hardware in Kuwait is manned and moving again.
Either that or when the USS Missouri shows up. Though dated relics (similar to gold), 16" naval guns are still impressive.
USS Missouri retired.
http://www.ussmissouri.com/join-in-support
I guess they could call her out of Pearl.
So am I, but I'm still workin' 40 hours/wk. I also wish I could brag about 16". Shucks.
BTW, what happens if that marine volcano suddenly erupts and seals the Red Sea?
Poetic justice..., too funny.
They could always re-engine the USS New Jersey. It deserves a better fate than being in fucking Camden, NJ.
All the battleships are striken from the Navy list. Retired.
It will take thousands some months to get em back up and running. And then they will require escorts in quanity.
I like battleships too, however there will always be a need for sea based to shore fire support, just not in 16 inches anymore,
ExpendableOne, I agree. We're obsessing too much about the carriers. USN will not lead in Iran - Iranian air defense is too modern, and survivability of non-stealthy aircraft (as are all carrier-based aircraft) too low. Instead, watch for F-22, B-2, and tanker forward deployments to King Khalid AB in Saudi, or Diego Garcia. If you see F-22 squadrons go to Saudi, that's the sign it's full-on.
How come there is no carrier named USS Goldman Sacks?
lol
An aircraft carrier would be out of character for GS..., but perhaps a hunter sub would be more in line with their style.
Or a SSBN.
Because it would be spelled incorrectly.
It's still alive.
This will be better illustrated if WB7 makes some art out of this blown by the Iranian Revolutionary self sacrificers...
A carrier is too obvious.....Goldman-Sachs operates more like a nuke sub........
GS always reminded me of a deadly virus. Or an STD.
Hey SH
You get the green for the smiling dog.....
http://www.awwcrap.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/AmericaFuckYeah.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-LYH2Gg8yM
Rock, flag & eagle!
'When one reads of such developments, what can one think but: Nobel peace prize.'
Personally, I think, that's about right.
Is there an impeachment procedure for the Nobel committee? They seriously need to go, because Obummer deserves his Nobel Peace Prize about as much as Krugman deserves his Nobel Prize in Economics...which is to say, not at all.
+1
oh, I thought it was the 'Nobel Piece Prize' on account of the First Lady ...
He would deserve a prize if he actually hits that nasty piece
It's the Noble Piece Prize on account of the thick pipe Oboner lays
The nobel piss prize....resulted from an intricate collaboration between Sweden and Norway...
as of 2012 onwards, to comply with the current globalist themes, it will be granted to all significant figures who dare to initiate the REGIME CHANGE movements in non-allied nations :D
after all that prize is a less noble political tool to push in the globalist agendas!
This is crazy and sad, I keep wondering how they are going to sell this to the USA public. What will the spin be, " Built to Last" ?
"Bombing You Can Believe In"
The Bernak has suggested "Iran Upon Z".
is lenny bruce afraid yet?
It's new & clear!
If Iran wants to nuke DC, then let them. I don't see what the big fucking deal is all about. We would be so lucky.
depending on the yield of the weapon, i would be in the blast radius
the solution to that is the use of conventional weapons, carpet bombing etc
of course, there is as much chance of that as there is of iran nuking the place
they have about the same capabilities to fly repeated sorties of conventional weapons as they do the ability to send an ICBM our way....ZERO
Anybody who doesn't think DC deserves a good nuking is a traitorous coward.