Geopolitical mosaic: the British resolution on Syria received a veto from Russia and China, and the Americans decided that it was time to stop the dictator Obama
Farewell to the dead. As the RIA News" With reference to the Al-Quds al-Arabi portal, today a funeral ceremony will be held in Damascus for Defense Minister Daoud Rajhi, his deputy Assef Shaukat and head of the anti-crisis committee Hassan Turkmani, who died as a result of a terrorist act.
After the ceremony, the bodies will be transported to the cities of the dead and buried in local cemeteries.
Anis, the mother of Bashar Assad, and his sister Bushra flew to Latakia last night to attend the funeral of General Assef Shaukat, Bushara Assad’s husband, in Tartus.
In organizing the terrorist attack on Wednesday in the building of the National Security Service of Syria, the official Damascus accused the secret services of Qatar, Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
Expected veto. As told Vitaly Mlechin ("Vesti"), on Thursday evening, the UN Security Council discussed the British resolution on Syria, providing for sanctions for the Syrian authorities. The meeting participants knew in advance that Russia and China would not like such a resolution. Claims against the document in Moscow and Beijing: one-sidedness, laying the blame for the bloodshed solely on the Syrian authorities. The most important thing is that this project sets the stage for direct military intervention in Syria. Therefore, Russia and China put a veto on the Western resolution.
US representative Susan Rice, however, explicitly stated that only the authorities of that country are responsible for the continuation of the bloodshed in Syria. Having made such a statement, she called on the Security Council for immediate action.
Bashar Jaafari, the Syrian representative to the UN, has his own opinion on this. Some influential countries, he believes, encouraging the opposition, are engaged in deception and actually support world terrorism: “Very many people die in Syria as a result of the terrorist attacks, including political leaders. Unfortunately, the UN Security Council did not condemn the recent terrorist attack in Damascus. However, we are grateful to the UN Secretary General, as well as to the envoy Annan, that they condemned this terrorist act. Well, the fact that the Security Council has not condemned looks like the promotion of international terrorism. This at the same time shows that the focus on achieving peace in Syria for many remains only empty slogans and deception. Our country supports the Annan peace plan, but its implementation is impossible until countries that influence the armed opposition join it. ”
Disappointment to Mr. Annan. As passed yesterday from the UN correspondent ITAR-TASS Oleg Zelenin, UN Special Representative and LAS Kofi Annan expressed disappointment that the Security Council at a critical moment did not adopt a resolution on Syria.
This was stated in a statement issued by the spokesman for the international community’s envoy Ahmed Fawzi: “Kofi Annan’s special representative for Syria is disappointed that at such a crucial stage the UN Security Council was unable to unite and take decisive and concerted actions to which he called.”
19 July The Security Council did not decide to extend the stay of the United Nations Observer Mission in Syria. The fact is that the mission’s mandate expires on the night of July 21. Voting in the Security Council was blocked by Russia and China. The reason: neither Moscow nor Beijing disagree with the inclusion of the threat of sanctions against Damascus in the document on the basis of the 7 of the UN Charter.
There was another project, the Russian one, which provided for the extension of the mandate of UNMIS for three months, but Moscow abstained from putting it to a vote, since Western representatives simply refused to work with it. Comrade Churkin said: “Considering the continuation of confrontation in the Security Council as meaningless and counterproductive, we will refrain from putting our draft to the vote”.
Pakistan option. As conveyed from the UN correspondent ITAR-TASS Oleg Zelenin, Russia in the course of the vote scheduled for today in the UN Security Council will support the resolution prepared by Pakistan. It provides for the extension of the observer mission for 45 days. Following the closed consultations in the Security Council, Vitaly Churkin told reporters: “There is a very good Pakistani text of the resolution, I know that I will support it.”
He clarified that Islamabad offers a technical extension of the mission’s mandate without any conditions, and this is the best solution.
The fate of Damascus will be decided in the Security Council in the coming hours.
The rebels celebrate victories. Militants of the SSA seized all checkpoints on the border with Iraq. 19 July reported this to France-Presse, citing a statement by the Deputy Interior Minister of Iraq, reports "Lenta.ru".
The deputy minister believes that the success of the rebels on the border is explained by the fact that the Syrian government forces are focused on the defense of Damascus. The deputy head of the Interior Ministry of Iraq noted that, having captured the border checkpoints, the oppositionists executed at least 22 soldiers of the government army.
The rebels have achieved success on the Syrian-Turkish border. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the SSA took control of the large Bab Al-Hawa checkpoint.
Also reports "Lenta.ru"Yesterday, the Syrian rebels announced the victorious conclusion of a three-week battle for the city of Azzaz, located near the border with Turkey in the province of Aleppo. The rebels reported about their success themselves: in a video posted on YouTube.
The main character of the video, who called himself an SSA officer, said that during the battle a lot of enemy soldiers and officers were killed and a significant amount was burned and captured tanks and other armored vehicles.
The speakers expressed a common opinion that the end of the regime was near and challenged: they were asking the Syrian president to send the remaining tanks here, to Azzaz, where they would be “properly taken care of”.
The video ends with calls for “To Damascus! On Homs! ”And shouts“ Allah akbar! ”
Do Asma Asad - Moscow registration? Angeles Espinosa from Spanish newspaper "El Pais" (translation source - "InoSMI") writes that after the assassination attempt on Wednesday, in which the closest associates of the Syrian president were killed, rumors that Asma Asad and her children live in Moscow began to circulate on the air with particular force.
“And this is not empty talk,” the article says. - A completely natural decision to protect your family is usually the first sign that the battle has been lost. If the assumptions that Bashar Asad sent his family members to a safe place, be it Russia or any other country, are confirmed, the opposition will be able to start the countdown. ”
For western journalists, we’ll add, it’s important to hear any rumors that at the right moment will be recognized as не not empty talk ’- in order to win the next stage of the information war conducted solely for the sake of building democracy around the world. Indeed, now, against the background of the successes of the rebels near the Turkish border, the time for speculation on rumors is the most convenient.
Iranian lawsuit against Russia. Interfax With reference to Kommersant, 18 conveyed July that the decision taken in 2010 not to supply Iran with C-300 air defense systems due to international sanctions could result in a huge penalty for Russia and loss of reputation on the arms market. Iran filed a lawsuit against Russia in arbitration in Geneva.
“Unfortunately, we have no reason to believe that the court will take into account all the subtleties of the current difficult situation around Iran. There are fears that a huge fine will be imposed on Russia, ”the source of Kommersant in the Russian government said. For comparison: 4 billion dollars, referred to in the lawsuit - this is almost a third of last year's revenue from the sale of Russian weapons (13,2 billion dollars).
"Interfax" recalls that the sanctions were imposed on Iran by the UN Security Council in June 2010, in order to force the IRI to abandon attempts to obtain nuclear weapon. At the end of September 2010, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev banned the delivery of C-300 missiles to Iran, as well as other weapons and military equipment. In "Russian Technologies" reported that, in accordance with the clause on force majeure, an advance on the contract will be returned to Tehran.
However, the Swiss Arbitration may disagree with the argument that the sanctions are related to force majeure: after all, article 8 of the UN Security Council resolution refers to a ban on the supply to Iran of "missiles or rocket systems, as they are defined for purposes of the UN Register of Conventional Arms", and in art. 7 of the same register states that the sub-category “missiles and missile systems” does not include ground-to-air missiles, which include C-300.
According to one expert with whom Kommersant spoke, the ultimate goal of the Iranian claim may not be to get a huge penalty from Russia, but to force Moscow to resume military-technical cooperation. However, experts doubt that Putin will cancel Medvedev's decision.
Shootout in North Korea. The resignation of the head of the DPRK Army General Lee Yong-ho, quite possibly, was accompanied by a shootout. It was killed from 20 to 30 military personnel. Today it reported "Lenta.ru" with reference to "Joseon Ilbo". This South Korean edition cited unconfirmed intelligence data.
According to Joseon Ilbo, the incident occurred when Vice-Marshal Choi Ren Hae, who headed the DPRK Army Chief Politburo, tried to detain the head of the General Staff, following Kim Jong-un's order to dismiss Lee Young Ho. However, the guard of the latter refused to extradite him and opened fire.
South Korean intelligence sources admit that Lee Yong-ho was injured or killed. Since the publication of information about his resignation, the former head of the General Staff has not appeared in public.
However, "one hundred percent" the fact of the shootout and, moreover, of the death of Lee Yong-ho, cannot now be confirmed.
Mehdi Yezali is not a Swede and not at all that person. The Swedish authorities denied that the suicide bomber who committed the terrorist attack at the Burgas airport was a subject of this country. Reports about it "Lenta.ru" with links to Ha'aretz and ABC News.
Bulgarian authorities made similar statements. Official representatives of the Bulgarian authorities reported that the name of the alleged suicide bomber, distributed by the media, is not true.
Information on the 33-year-old Swedish citizen’s attack on Algerian-born Mehdi Yesali appeared in the Bulgarian media yesterday afternoon. It was reported that Yezali sat in Guantanamo prison from 2002 to 2004 for a year, and was later transferred to Sweden to serve a prison sentence, but the authorities released him to freedom.
Lenta reminds that the bus explosion at the Burgas airport occurred on July 18; The victims of the attack were 7 people, including the suicide bomber. More than 30 man was injured. Most of the dead and injured are Israeli tourists.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, accused the Lebanese Hezbollah movement of the attack, which, in his opinion, reveals the “long arm of Iran.” Iran denied the charges, calling them "baseless."
Spanish crisis. Hundreds of thousands of people in more than 10 Spanish cities in 80 came out last night to protest against government policies. This tells correspondent RIA "Novosti" Yuri Nikolaev.
The center of Madrid is paralyzed, tens of thousands of people filled the area of Neptune, Paseo del Prado and Alcala street. Government agencies and the parliament guard reinforced police squads.
Meanwhile, there are many policemen among the protesters. Protesters carry in their hands anti-government slogans. The current mass protest is the largest during the time when the right-wing People's Party is in power. The population of Spain is unhappy with the new “package of measures” adopted last Friday and aimed at reducing the budget deficit by 65 billion euros.
Here are some simple and clear numbers: the Spanish government has increased VAT from 18% to 21%, which means that the expenses of each Spanish family will increase by 450 euros. As a result of applying the “package of measures” by 30%, the number of municipalities will be reduced and the number of state enterprises will be reduced. Salaries of civil servants will be reduced by 7%, unemployment benefits will decrease by 10%. Canceled additional days for vacation and bonus payments.
All these measures, according to the government, will save up to 3,5 billion euros.
As transmits correspondent ITAR-TASS Yuri Kogalov, more than 1,5 million people took part in anti-government protests. The demonstrations were organized by the country's largest trade unions, the General Association of Workers, an association of officials, policemen, judges, military, firefighters, students, and the “outraged” movement. The common enemy made friends with those who previously had disagreements. The protesters were united by the motto: “The authorities want to destroy the country. We have to stop them. ”
"BBC Russian Service" conveyed today that the Spanish police used rubber bullets to disperse Madrid demonstrators.
Scattering the crowd that set fire to garbage cans near the parliament building, the police arrested seven people (official figures). Six were injured.
American amendment against the Russian Rosoboronexport. As reported today from Washington correspondent ITAR-TASS Ivan LebedevThe House of Representatives of the United States Congress on Thursday adopted an amendment prohibiting the Pentagon to cooperate with the Russian state company Rosoboronexport. The reason for the ban: arms company supplies to the government of Syria.
In support of the decision, which has already been drawn up as one of the items in the draft US military budget for the 2013 fiscal year, the legislators expressed their opinion against 407, the entire 5.
It is noteworthy that the voting in the lower house passed a few hours after Russia and China vetoed the UN Security Council on the western draft resolution on Syria.
However, the bill on the US military budget has a number of differences from the version of the document considered in the Senate, and significantly differs from the version proposed by the White House. The issue with Rosoboronexport has not been finally resolved.
The Senate Finance Committee says yes. As reported by 18 July InterfaxThe US Senate Finance Committee unanimously approved a bill to repeal the Jackson-Vanik amendment applicable to the USSR and the Russian Federation and grant the Russian side the status of a normal trading partner. The project includes provisions on the "Magnitsky list".
The support of the bill in the financial committee by Republicans and Democrats, notes “Interfax”, increases the chances for its adoption in a short time in the Senate and the House of Representatives of Congress. Further, the document must be signed by the President of the United States. Then the law will come into force before August 2012, that is, before the expected entry of Russia into the WTO.
The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus, said: "This is the deadline ... If we don’t have time to do so, then American farmers and businesses will lose out compared to the other WNO member countries of the WTO."
Thus, let us add on our own, the American farmers will not wait until it will be possible to overwhelm Russia with Bush’s legs and genetically modified corn.
Russians suspected of cyber attacks on Amazon. 25-year-old Muscovite Dmitry Zubakh was arrested in Cyprus, suspected of organizing two cyber attacks of denial-of-service in June 2008, against the American store Amazon.com. Talk about it "Vesti" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
The official indictment against Zubakhi is about cyber attacks on Amazon.com, as well as on Priceline.com and eBay. In addition, Americans suspect Zubach of being involved in the theft of personal data of credit card holders in 2009.
The US authorities intend to seek the extradition of a Russian citizen to the United States.
Microsoft has become a loss-making company. As transmits "BBC Russian Service", Microsoft for the first time in its history announced a loss. In the past quarter, the Quantive branch specializing in online advertising was extremely unsuccessful.
According to the results of the quarterly report, the company's losses amounted to almost half a billion dollars (492 million), despite the fact that a year ago Microsoft's profit reached almost 6 billion dollars.
The failures of Quantive, bought by Microsoft in 2007 for 6,3 billion dollars, are due to the presence of Google, a powerful network competitor in the market.
"Death to the state!" Under such a loud title yesterday was published a note on the resource Alex Jones infowars.com. It probably belongs to the pen of Comrade Jones himself.
The author of the emotional note draws the attention of readers to the fact that in his last speech, President Barack Obama, referring to the old truth, that all power is from God, thereby expressing his adherence to the tyrannical state system. The state, according to Obama, is God, the author of the note says angrily, and all people submit to his authority.
The journalist knows where Mr. Obama is headed: within the framework of such a “collectivist model,” people will not just stop building their business, but because of high taxes and complicated rules, they will eventually come to the sale of the business from the hammer. The ultimate goal of the authorities, according to the author, is to drive people out of business and turn business into state property.
If in the 1776 year the priority of the individual was proclaimed, now the “top-tier” of everything is the “state”. “Death to the state!” - the author exclaims.
Some comments under the note:
"God bless Alex Jones and his family in the name of Jesus Christ."
“… The 'United States' is actually a corporation running through the District of Columbia! <…> There is no government! Alex has said this many times. You live under pure fascism! .. "
“This is ridiculous: when Obama says something you don’t like, you say:“ In fact, his words mean that and much more! ”, But if he pays tribute to the role of the market in society, you say:“ In fact, it’s not it means that he ... ”The truth may be one thing, but the point is that this is political rhetoric that no one should ever take seriously. Alex Jones uses the same methods of bad journalism as in The Washington Post and Fox News. Between Alex Jones, The Washington Post and any other mass media there is one main thing in common: the sale of advertising.
Moreover, the free market is not at all the same as capitalism. In a real free market, it would probably not be a “private” business, but voluntarily organized enterprises owned by employees of collective farms and factories ... ”
“Death to the government of tyrants. They do not fulfill their obligations to the American people, and they threw out the constitution ... "
“Let them shoot first. Then we can start our war. ”
After the ceremony, the bodies will be transported to the cities of the dead and buried in local cemeteries.
Anis, the mother of Bashar Assad, and his sister Bushra flew to Latakia last night to attend the funeral of General Assef Shaukat, Bushara Assad’s husband, in Tartus.
In organizing the terrorist attack on Wednesday in the building of the National Security Service of Syria, the official Damascus accused the secret services of Qatar, Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
Expected veto. As told Vitaly Mlechin ("Vesti"), on Thursday evening, the UN Security Council discussed the British resolution on Syria, providing for sanctions for the Syrian authorities. The meeting participants knew in advance that Russia and China would not like such a resolution. Claims against the document in Moscow and Beijing: one-sidedness, laying the blame for the bloodshed solely on the Syrian authorities. The most important thing is that this project sets the stage for direct military intervention in Syria. Therefore, Russia and China put a veto on the Western resolution.
US representative Susan Rice, however, explicitly stated that only the authorities of that country are responsible for the continuation of the bloodshed in Syria. Having made such a statement, she called on the Security Council for immediate action.
Bashar Jaafari, the Syrian representative to the UN, has his own opinion on this. Some influential countries, he believes, encouraging the opposition, are engaged in deception and actually support world terrorism: “Very many people die in Syria as a result of the terrorist attacks, including political leaders. Unfortunately, the UN Security Council did not condemn the recent terrorist attack in Damascus. However, we are grateful to the UN Secretary General, as well as to the envoy Annan, that they condemned this terrorist act. Well, the fact that the Security Council has not condemned looks like the promotion of international terrorism. This at the same time shows that the focus on achieving peace in Syria for many remains only empty slogans and deception. Our country supports the Annan peace plan, but its implementation is impossible until countries that influence the armed opposition join it. ”
Disappointment to Mr. Annan. As passed yesterday from the UN correspondent ITAR-TASS Oleg Zelenin, UN Special Representative and LAS Kofi Annan expressed disappointment that the Security Council at a critical moment did not adopt a resolution on Syria.
This was stated in a statement issued by the spokesman for the international community’s envoy Ahmed Fawzi: “Kofi Annan’s special representative for Syria is disappointed that at such a crucial stage the UN Security Council was unable to unite and take decisive and concerted actions to which he called.”
19 July The Security Council did not decide to extend the stay of the United Nations Observer Mission in Syria. The fact is that the mission’s mandate expires on the night of July 21. Voting in the Security Council was blocked by Russia and China. The reason: neither Moscow nor Beijing disagree with the inclusion of the threat of sanctions against Damascus in the document on the basis of the 7 of the UN Charter.
There was another project, the Russian one, which provided for the extension of the mandate of UNMIS for three months, but Moscow abstained from putting it to a vote, since Western representatives simply refused to work with it. Comrade Churkin said: “Considering the continuation of confrontation in the Security Council as meaningless and counterproductive, we will refrain from putting our draft to the vote”.
Pakistan option. As conveyed from the UN correspondent ITAR-TASS Oleg Zelenin, Russia in the course of the vote scheduled for today in the UN Security Council will support the resolution prepared by Pakistan. It provides for the extension of the observer mission for 45 days. Following the closed consultations in the Security Council, Vitaly Churkin told reporters: “There is a very good Pakistani text of the resolution, I know that I will support it.”
He clarified that Islamabad offers a technical extension of the mission’s mandate without any conditions, and this is the best solution.
The fate of Damascus will be decided in the Security Council in the coming hours.
The rebels celebrate victories. Militants of the SSA seized all checkpoints on the border with Iraq. 19 July reported this to France-Presse, citing a statement by the Deputy Interior Minister of Iraq, reports "Lenta.ru".
The deputy minister believes that the success of the rebels on the border is explained by the fact that the Syrian government forces are focused on the defense of Damascus. The deputy head of the Interior Ministry of Iraq noted that, having captured the border checkpoints, the oppositionists executed at least 22 soldiers of the government army.
The rebels have achieved success on the Syrian-Turkish border. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the SSA took control of the large Bab Al-Hawa checkpoint.
Also reports "Lenta.ru"Yesterday, the Syrian rebels announced the victorious conclusion of a three-week battle for the city of Azzaz, located near the border with Turkey in the province of Aleppo. The rebels reported about their success themselves: in a video posted on YouTube.
The main character of the video, who called himself an SSA officer, said that during the battle a lot of enemy soldiers and officers were killed and a significant amount was burned and captured tanks and other armored vehicles.
The speakers expressed a common opinion that the end of the regime was near and challenged: they were asking the Syrian president to send the remaining tanks here, to Azzaz, where they would be “properly taken care of”.
The video ends with calls for “To Damascus! On Homs! ”And shouts“ Allah akbar! ”
Do Asma Asad - Moscow registration? Angeles Espinosa from Spanish newspaper "El Pais" (translation source - "InoSMI") writes that after the assassination attempt on Wednesday, in which the closest associates of the Syrian president were killed, rumors that Asma Asad and her children live in Moscow began to circulate on the air with particular force.
“And this is not empty talk,” the article says. - A completely natural decision to protect your family is usually the first sign that the battle has been lost. If the assumptions that Bashar Asad sent his family members to a safe place, be it Russia or any other country, are confirmed, the opposition will be able to start the countdown. ”
For western journalists, we’ll add, it’s important to hear any rumors that at the right moment will be recognized as не not empty talk ’- in order to win the next stage of the information war conducted solely for the sake of building democracy around the world. Indeed, now, against the background of the successes of the rebels near the Turkish border, the time for speculation on rumors is the most convenient.
Iranian lawsuit against Russia. Interfax With reference to Kommersant, 18 conveyed July that the decision taken in 2010 not to supply Iran with C-300 air defense systems due to international sanctions could result in a huge penalty for Russia and loss of reputation on the arms market. Iran filed a lawsuit against Russia in arbitration in Geneva.
“Unfortunately, we have no reason to believe that the court will take into account all the subtleties of the current difficult situation around Iran. There are fears that a huge fine will be imposed on Russia, ”the source of Kommersant in the Russian government said. For comparison: 4 billion dollars, referred to in the lawsuit - this is almost a third of last year's revenue from the sale of Russian weapons (13,2 billion dollars).
"Interfax" recalls that the sanctions were imposed on Iran by the UN Security Council in June 2010, in order to force the IRI to abandon attempts to obtain nuclear weapon. At the end of September 2010, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev banned the delivery of C-300 missiles to Iran, as well as other weapons and military equipment. In "Russian Technologies" reported that, in accordance with the clause on force majeure, an advance on the contract will be returned to Tehran.
However, the Swiss Arbitration may disagree with the argument that the sanctions are related to force majeure: after all, article 8 of the UN Security Council resolution refers to a ban on the supply to Iran of "missiles or rocket systems, as they are defined for purposes of the UN Register of Conventional Arms", and in art. 7 of the same register states that the sub-category “missiles and missile systems” does not include ground-to-air missiles, which include C-300.
According to one expert with whom Kommersant spoke, the ultimate goal of the Iranian claim may not be to get a huge penalty from Russia, but to force Moscow to resume military-technical cooperation. However, experts doubt that Putin will cancel Medvedev's decision.
Shootout in North Korea. The resignation of the head of the DPRK Army General Lee Yong-ho, quite possibly, was accompanied by a shootout. It was killed from 20 to 30 military personnel. Today it reported "Lenta.ru" with reference to "Joseon Ilbo". This South Korean edition cited unconfirmed intelligence data.
According to Joseon Ilbo, the incident occurred when Vice-Marshal Choi Ren Hae, who headed the DPRK Army Chief Politburo, tried to detain the head of the General Staff, following Kim Jong-un's order to dismiss Lee Young Ho. However, the guard of the latter refused to extradite him and opened fire.
South Korean intelligence sources admit that Lee Yong-ho was injured or killed. Since the publication of information about his resignation, the former head of the General Staff has not appeared in public.
However, "one hundred percent" the fact of the shootout and, moreover, of the death of Lee Yong-ho, cannot now be confirmed.
Mehdi Yezali is not a Swede and not at all that person. The Swedish authorities denied that the suicide bomber who committed the terrorist attack at the Burgas airport was a subject of this country. Reports about it "Lenta.ru" with links to Ha'aretz and ABC News.Bulgarian authorities made similar statements. Official representatives of the Bulgarian authorities reported that the name of the alleged suicide bomber, distributed by the media, is not true.
Information on the 33-year-old Swedish citizen’s attack on Algerian-born Mehdi Yesali appeared in the Bulgarian media yesterday afternoon. It was reported that Yezali sat in Guantanamo prison from 2002 to 2004 for a year, and was later transferred to Sweden to serve a prison sentence, but the authorities released him to freedom.
Lenta reminds that the bus explosion at the Burgas airport occurred on July 18; The victims of the attack were 7 people, including the suicide bomber. More than 30 man was injured. Most of the dead and injured are Israeli tourists.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, accused the Lebanese Hezbollah movement of the attack, which, in his opinion, reveals the “long arm of Iran.” Iran denied the charges, calling them "baseless."
Spanish crisis. Hundreds of thousands of people in more than 10 Spanish cities in 80 came out last night to protest against government policies. This tells correspondent RIA "Novosti" Yuri Nikolaev.
The center of Madrid is paralyzed, tens of thousands of people filled the area of Neptune, Paseo del Prado and Alcala street. Government agencies and the parliament guard reinforced police squads.
Meanwhile, there are many policemen among the protesters. Protesters carry in their hands anti-government slogans. The current mass protest is the largest during the time when the right-wing People's Party is in power. The population of Spain is unhappy with the new “package of measures” adopted last Friday and aimed at reducing the budget deficit by 65 billion euros.
Here are some simple and clear numbers: the Spanish government has increased VAT from 18% to 21%, which means that the expenses of each Spanish family will increase by 450 euros. As a result of applying the “package of measures” by 30%, the number of municipalities will be reduced and the number of state enterprises will be reduced. Salaries of civil servants will be reduced by 7%, unemployment benefits will decrease by 10%. Canceled additional days for vacation and bonus payments.
All these measures, according to the government, will save up to 3,5 billion euros.
As transmits correspondent ITAR-TASS Yuri Kogalov, more than 1,5 million people took part in anti-government protests. The demonstrations were organized by the country's largest trade unions, the General Association of Workers, an association of officials, policemen, judges, military, firefighters, students, and the “outraged” movement. The common enemy made friends with those who previously had disagreements. The protesters were united by the motto: “The authorities want to destroy the country. We have to stop them. ”
"BBC Russian Service" conveyed today that the Spanish police used rubber bullets to disperse Madrid demonstrators.
Scattering the crowd that set fire to garbage cans near the parliament building, the police arrested seven people (official figures). Six were injured.
American amendment against the Russian Rosoboronexport. As reported today from Washington correspondent ITAR-TASS Ivan LebedevThe House of Representatives of the United States Congress on Thursday adopted an amendment prohibiting the Pentagon to cooperate with the Russian state company Rosoboronexport. The reason for the ban: arms company supplies to the government of Syria.
In support of the decision, which has already been drawn up as one of the items in the draft US military budget for the 2013 fiscal year, the legislators expressed their opinion against 407, the entire 5.
It is noteworthy that the voting in the lower house passed a few hours after Russia and China vetoed the UN Security Council on the western draft resolution on Syria.
However, the bill on the US military budget has a number of differences from the version of the document considered in the Senate, and significantly differs from the version proposed by the White House. The issue with Rosoboronexport has not been finally resolved.
The Senate Finance Committee says yes. As reported by 18 July InterfaxThe US Senate Finance Committee unanimously approved a bill to repeal the Jackson-Vanik amendment applicable to the USSR and the Russian Federation and grant the Russian side the status of a normal trading partner. The project includes provisions on the "Magnitsky list".
The support of the bill in the financial committee by Republicans and Democrats, notes “Interfax”, increases the chances for its adoption in a short time in the Senate and the House of Representatives of Congress. Further, the document must be signed by the President of the United States. Then the law will come into force before August 2012, that is, before the expected entry of Russia into the WTO.
The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus, said: "This is the deadline ... If we don’t have time to do so, then American farmers and businesses will lose out compared to the other WNO member countries of the WTO."
Thus, let us add on our own, the American farmers will not wait until it will be possible to overwhelm Russia with Bush’s legs and genetically modified corn.
Russians suspected of cyber attacks on Amazon. 25-year-old Muscovite Dmitry Zubakh was arrested in Cyprus, suspected of organizing two cyber attacks of denial-of-service in June 2008, against the American store Amazon.com. Talk about it "Vesti" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
The official indictment against Zubakhi is about cyber attacks on Amazon.com, as well as on Priceline.com and eBay. In addition, Americans suspect Zubach of being involved in the theft of personal data of credit card holders in 2009.
The US authorities intend to seek the extradition of a Russian citizen to the United States.
Microsoft has become a loss-making company. As transmits "BBC Russian Service", Microsoft for the first time in its history announced a loss. In the past quarter, the Quantive branch specializing in online advertising was extremely unsuccessful.According to the results of the quarterly report, the company's losses amounted to almost half a billion dollars (492 million), despite the fact that a year ago Microsoft's profit reached almost 6 billion dollars.
The failures of Quantive, bought by Microsoft in 2007 for 6,3 billion dollars, are due to the presence of Google, a powerful network competitor in the market.
"Death to the state!" Under such a loud title yesterday was published a note on the resource Alex Jones infowars.com. It probably belongs to the pen of Comrade Jones himself.The author of the emotional note draws the attention of readers to the fact that in his last speech, President Barack Obama, referring to the old truth, that all power is from God, thereby expressing his adherence to the tyrannical state system. The state, according to Obama, is God, the author of the note says angrily, and all people submit to his authority.
The journalist knows where Mr. Obama is headed: within the framework of such a “collectivist model,” people will not just stop building their business, but because of high taxes and complicated rules, they will eventually come to the sale of the business from the hammer. The ultimate goal of the authorities, according to the author, is to drive people out of business and turn business into state property.
If in the 1776 year the priority of the individual was proclaimed, now the “top-tier” of everything is the “state”. “Death to the state!” - the author exclaims.
Some comments under the note:
"God bless Alex Jones and his family in the name of Jesus Christ."
“… The 'United States' is actually a corporation running through the District of Columbia! <…> There is no government! Alex has said this many times. You live under pure fascism! .. "
“This is ridiculous: when Obama says something you don’t like, you say:“ In fact, his words mean that and much more! ”, But if he pays tribute to the role of the market in society, you say:“ In fact, it’s not it means that he ... ”The truth may be one thing, but the point is that this is political rhetoric that no one should ever take seriously. Alex Jones uses the same methods of bad journalism as in The Washington Post and Fox News. Between Alex Jones, The Washington Post and any other mass media there is one main thing in common: the sale of advertising.
Moreover, the free market is not at all the same as capitalism. In a real free market, it would probably not be a “private” business, but voluntarily organized enterprises owned by employees of collective farms and factories ... ”
“Death to the government of tyrants. They do not fulfill their obligations to the American people, and they threw out the constitution ... "
“Let them shoot first. Then we can start our war. ”
Observed and translated by Oleg Chuvakin
- especially for topwar.ru
- especially for topwar.ru
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