Geopolitical mosaic: Japanese and Koreans install flags and monuments on the disputed islands, and the United States turns into a police state
South Africa: the police killed the miners. "Reedus" With reference to "Bloomberg Businessweek" 18 August reported that during the clashes between the miners from the platinum mine and the police in the town of Marikana in South Africa killed more than thirty people. The police attempted to disperse the spontaneous strike of the miners, who demanded a salary increase, and after that the skirmishes began.
The government of the country called the last strike illegal. It was officially announced that the police had to defend themselves from miners armed with firearms. weapons and machete. That is why the police had to shoot.
“Reedus” recalls that the strike at the mine in Marikan lasts from August 10. It involved about three thousand miners. The workers' demand is to increase the salary three times. Now its average size is about 500 US dollars.
RIA News" referring to France Press reports that South African President Jacob Zuma declared mourning in the country in memory of the dead miners. It will continue from 20 to 26 August.
RIA "News»Specifies that, according to the latest data, 44 people became victims of unrest. The acute conflict situation was aggravated by the confrontation between the two South African trade unions. If the representatives of the Union of Associations of Miners and Builders decided to continue the strike, the other trade union association, the National Union of Miners, did not support it. As a result, members of trade unions also fought.
British intelligence in the service of the Syrian democracy. How British Intelligence Helps Rebels in Aleppo Tells "Lenta.ru" with reference to The Sunday Times newspaper, which interviewed a representative of the Syrian opposition.
The intelligence received by the British military, based in Cyprus, is transmitted to Turkey and the United States. In turn, the Turks inform the Free Army of Syria. As the representative of the rebels, the British authorities "know and approve for all 100 percent" the cooperation of its intelligence with the Syrian opposition.
It was with the help of British intelligence that the rebels received the necessary information about the movement of Assad’s troops and then ambushed in a valley near Sarakib, from where they destroyed a convoy of more than 40 tanksheading to Aleppo.
Also, the opposition, already with the assistance of the Turks, received photographs from American satellites. Turkey itself received them from the CIA. An opposition spokesman said: “We have access to them for more than a month now. The Turks give us some information, but it’s important in Aleppo. ”
Fraternal Libya is also involved in the construction of a bright Syrian future. As passed yesterday from London correspondent ITAR-TASS Vitaly MakarchevReferring to The Sunday Times, the rebels are getting more and more weapons from Libya.
The London newspaper writes: “Last April, the container ship Luftfallah-2, loaded with Libyan weapons, including grenade launchers and heavy machine guns, was sent to the Lebanese port of Tripoli. Since then, seven more ships with weapons have been unloaded off the coast of Lebanon. ”
“Arms consignments include portable air defense missile systems,” the publication emphasizes. Ships with Libyan weapons do not enter the port of Tripoli, but embark on a raid in international waters 30 km from the coast of Lebanon. The unloading takes place as follows: “After dusk, large boats are sent to them from the port to unload ships”.
Referring to Kommersant, newsru.com reports that the government of Libya supplies the SSA, among other things, with the Russian Igla air defense system, received in due time by Muammar Gaddafi.
Says Comrade Churkin. Russia will support the Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi, appointed joint representative of the UN Secretary General and Secretary General of the League of Arab States for Syria. As Russia's permanent representative to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, noted, Moscow hopes that the work of this highly experienced diplomat will help end the violence and political settlement in the country, according to "Vesti" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
Vesti reminds that Kofi Annan decided to leave the post of UN emissary and LAS 31 in August 2012. He motivated his decision by saying that “he did not receive all the support he needed.”
Not a free zone, but humanitarian aid! As reported "Vesti", in an interview with SkyNews-Arabia TV channel, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the main task facing the international community is to help peaceful Syrian citizens and refugees. To solve this problem, you need to work in close cooperation, and not create a no-fly zone over Syria.
According to the latest UN data, already two and a half million people need humanitarian aid. “We want their fate to be made easier. Need to negotiate. There are special (international) mechanisms and tools on this account. In particular, there is Deputy Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos, the Syrian government has agreed to resolve these issues, there is the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, which is ready to assist those who are in refugee camps in Turkey, Jordan and other countries. ” - said Comrade Lavrov.
Organization of Islamic Cooperation - against Syria. As Victor Ruchkin writes ("A red star"), at the recent summit in Mecca, the OIC decided to suspend Syria’s membership in this international structure. The proposal was made, of course, by the representatives of Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Other states, with the exception of Iran and Algeria, supported the Saudis and Qatari. The position of the opponents of Syria was motivated by the need to stop the bloodshed in Syria, the responsibility for which was assigned to Damascus.
Further, Victor Ruchkin quotes the Independent, a British newspaper, which, following other European newspapers, seemed to see the light of the real face of the Syrian conflict and its Western interpretation.
Very few people doubted the outcome of the OIC summit, the Independent writes, since lies and hypocrisy surround the entire Syrian conflict. “While Qatar and Saudi Arabia are arming and sponsoring Syrian rebels to overthrow the Alawite-Shiite / Baathist dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad, not a word of criticism has been heard from Washington. President Barack Obama and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton say they want to establish democracy in Syria. But in Qatar, the authoritarian regime, and Saudi Arabia is among the most harmful dictatorships of the caliphates of the Arab world. The rulers of both states received power by inheritance, like Bashar Asad, and Saudi Arabia is an ally of the Syrian Wahhabi rebels and at one time was the most ardent supporter of the Afghan Taliban, who seemed to have come from the dark Middle Ages. ”
Now, according to V. Ruchkin, no less than 8 of thousands of militants have penetrated into Aleppo (according to expert estimates). These are militants from the SSA detachments, as well as from groups of Islamist "internationalists" and hired scum from around the world, including from Europe. The local Sunni population, as was expected by the world democracies and the Arab world, did not at all stand up for the support of the “freedom fighters”. In Aleppo, they do not accept religious extremism; moreover, the inhabitants of this rich city prefer trade to war. That is why the indignant local self-defense detachments fight back the mercenaries.
Thus, the West in the face of progressive journalists begins to understand the true background of the events in Syria and around it. It has been said more than once in the “Military Review” (including in the “Geopolitical Mosaic”) that there are less and less voices about the rebels as “the people of Syria” and “fighters for democracy” and more and more voices of those who realizes the harm of direct Arab and indirect Western intervention in Syria, aimed at carving up the country according to the method of the "Arab spring" and turning it into a set of "buffer zones".
Cobblestones for the Russian embassy. Opponents of the Syrian government on Friday night attacked the building of the Russian Embassy in London. The staff of the diplomatic mission was not injured, but the embassy suffered material damage. Told about it correspondent RIA "News" Alexander Smotrov.
The embassy’s statement says: “On the night of 16 on 17 in August, the consular department of the Russian Embassy in London was attacked by a large group of people who chanted slogans against the Syrian government and threw stones at the embassy building.”
The windows were broken, and the building itself suffered substantial material damage. Diplomats stated that the police had not taken appropriate measures to neutralize the ongoing unauthorized rally and to arrest the attackers.
The message of the embassy says: “It is noteworthy that this is not the first case of acts of vandalism against the Russian diplomatic mission in London this year.”
Earlier, opponents of the Russian position on Syria doused paint on the brick fence of the embassy.
These are the pogroms of the embassies, we add from ourselves, - and this is the true manifestation of British democracy. It is likely that the police “did not take proper measures” simply because the pogrom-mongers ’action was sanctioned from above — approximately by the same structures that approve of the activities of British intelligence for the benefit of the Syrian opposition. Paint and glass beating are elements of the Cold War, which was once again unleashed by the rotten West against Russia.
Observers leave Syria. How to transmit "Vesti"On Monday night, the mandate of the UN Observer Mission in Syria expired.
Instead, a coordination bureau will appear in Damascus: around 30 military advisers. Their task will be to monitor the situation and reports to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
New Middle East in the view of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The very fact of the existence of Israel is an insult to humanity, therefore this state must be eliminated. So said Iranian President Ahmadinejad, speaking on Friday at Tehran University, reports "Fleet 2017" with references to "MIC", ARMS-TASS and "Interfax-AVN".
Ahmadinejad said: "The Zionist regime and the Zionists are our cancer." He added: "The peoples of the region will soon be finished with the Zionist usurpers and will create a new Middle East, in which there will be no place for the Zionists and the Americans."
The Iranian President’s speech was made at the time of the celebration of Al-Quds Day in Iran - a holiday of solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinians against the Israelis, and was essentially a response to the statement of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who had previously said that delivering preventive strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities appropriate because it can slow down the process of moving Tehran towards the creation of nuclear weapons.
Americans fear nuclear Korea. Experts from the United States calculated that after 4, the DPRK might be in possession of up to 48 nuclear weapons. According to satellite imagery, a nuclear reactor is being built in the country, and at the same time a uranium enrichment plant, Interfaxreferring to the report of the American Institute of Science and International Security, published last Friday. The report, however, notes that Pyongyang is building a light-water nuclear reactor, which is supposed to be used for peaceful purposes. However, frightened Americans say, it can produce weapons-grade plutonium.
The report indicates that North Korea is building a uranium enrichment plant. The purpose of the plant is the production of fuel for a new light-water reactor. But, again, the Americans suggest that the plant can be used by the leadership of a communist country to produce highly enriched uranium.
Little of. The most paranoid experts believe that the DPRK has one more facility for the production of highly enriched uranium - the secret one.
Taking into account that all three objects will start to do weapon nuclear business, and the gloomy prediction of American experts about increasing the nuclear arsenal of North Korea has been formed. According to the forecast, by the end of 2016, it can be from 37 to 48 units.
"Interfax" recalls that in July, the North Korean authorities announced their intention to completely reconsider their approach to the issue of a nuclear program. The DPRK Foreign Ministry said: "Circumstances force us to completely reconsider the nuclear issue." The representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK clarified: "A consistent hostile policy toward the DPRK by the United States leads to the emergence of a new cycle of confrontation and tension on the Korean Peninsula, which makes the prospect of creating a nuclear-free zone on it more and more vague."
American nuclear scientists believe that the DPRK may conduct a third nuclear test in the very near future.
North Korean heroes and fearless Kim. In the DPRK, a Coast Guard detachment of the Korean Peoples Army was awarded the title of heroes and the Order of the National Flag of the first degree. Reports about it "Lenta.ru" with reference to the state news agency KCNA and Renhap. We are talking about the detachment, who fired at the South Korean island Enphendo in November 2010.
The award of heroes was timed to the visit of Kim Jong-un to Mudo Island, on which the squad is based. The DPRK leader visited the island of 18 in August, a few days before the start of the annual joint military exercises of South Korea and the United States (they are scheduled for August 20-31).
As noted by Yonhap, Kim Jong-un reached the western border of the North Korean maritime territory on a simple boat and without a weapon. The South Korean analyst, whose words are quoted by Renhap, believes that Kim Jong-un's visit was planned, and his purpose was to demonstrate to the military and the DPRK citizens the fearlessness of their leader.
South Korean monument. As reported yesterday from Seoul correspondent ITAR-TASS Vladimir Kutakhov With reference to the agency "Renhap", the Republic of Korea installed the 19 of August on one of the two Tokdo Islands (Takeshima), claimed by Japan, a monument.
On the obverse of the 1,2 stone, the inscription "Dokdo" was stamped on the back, and on the reverse side, the "Republic of Korea". On the side there is an inscription about the recent visit of the islands by President Lee Myung-bak.
During the ceremony of installing the monument, the Minister of Government Administration and Security Myung Hyun Gyu said: “The monument on Dokdo, expressing the will of the people, will become a symbol of Korean sovereignty and the desire to protect the islands.
Following a visit to the Lee Myung-Bak Isles, the official Tokyo suggested that Seoul should consider the issue of the islands in the International Court of Justice. However, South Korea refused, calling the question raised "absolutely not worthy of attention."
Offended by the Japanese government is now going to file a complaint with the International Court of Justice. Japan is going to show the international community that South Korea has no evidence that the islands are originally Korean territory.
Japanese flag. On Sunday morning, several Japanese landed on the rocky shore of the island, part of the Senkaku range in the East China Sea, which China and Japan have been challenging for decades. The landing was a reciprocal gesture to a similar act committed at the end of the week by Chinese activists. After the landing, the Japanese established a national flag on the island, "Lenta.ru" with reference to Reuters.
Interestingly, three islands of the Japanese coast guard were located near the islands. Japanese activists gathered to leave the island and return to their ships, but the Japanese customs officers detained them. Lenta notes that the group of activists included several Japanese parliamentarians and politicians.
Chinese protest. As passed yesterday RIA Novosti correspondent Maria Chaplygina With reference to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, Beijing made a presentation to Tokyo in connection with the allegedly illegal invasion of Japanese citizens on the disputed Diaoyu Islands (Senkaku).
The Chinese Foreign Ministry in a statement published on its website by a representative of the ministry called the actions of activists with the flag "an illegal invasion of Chinese territory."
A statement by the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, Qin Ghana, said: "The Foreign Ministry of China has already made an official presentation to the Japanese ambassador to China, expressing strong protest and demanding that the Japanese side stop actions undermining China’s territorial sovereignty."
Split in Moldovan society. The Romanization of the republic will not bring Moldova to good. This was told by Roman Nesterov ("Military-political review").
The recent clashes between supporters and opponents of the country's Romanization, which took place on the streets of Chisinau, Cahul and Balti, are a clear sign of a split in Moldovan society. The muddled reaction of the authorities, according to Nesterov, indicates that Chisinau does not have a plan to get out of the political impasse. After all, 90% Moldovans oppose the idea of uniting with Bucharest.
5 August in Balti (following a similar action in Cahul) residents expressed disagreement with the policy of rapprochement with Romania. The demonstration of the Romanian nationalists, organized by the association “Action-2012” under the slogans “Bessarabia - Romanian land” and “Real patriots of Moldova do not speak Russian”, was frustrated. Thousands of citizens with rotten eggs and tomatoes in their hands forced the demonstrators to hide in buses and leave the city. The slogan “You have eggs, but no brains!” Invented by the Romanian activists only intensified Baloch's tomato-egg attacks, Nesterov writes. The Romanians managed to escape only thanks to a cover of reinforced police patrols.
The political clashes of the pro-European leadership of Moldova were the reasons for the clashes in Balti and other cities. When the Moldovan parliament passed a law condemning the totalitarian communist regime and approved measures to narrow the scope of the use of the Russian language, the municipal council of Beltsy voted to hold a referendum on expanding local autonomy. Mindful of a similar decision of Tiraspol 20-year-old, which caused the Transnistrian conflict, the Moldovan government came to Balti. Vlad Filat immediately promised to raise the status of the city, increase its funding and expand the powers of local authorities.
At the same time, the position of the residents is clear: autonomy is economically advantageous to the city. Roman Nesterov reminds that Balti every year send 800 million lei (almost 64 million dollars) to the state budget, and in return XMUMX million lei are received from the budget. This amount can not even cover the costs of meeting the needs of citizens.
Many Moldovan experts, indicates R. Nesterov, believe that all spheres of life of Moldovan society have plunged into a long-term crisis. Against the background of the total crisis in Western Europe, especially in Spain, Italy and Greece, residents of the Transnistrian republic, covered with reliable Russian citizenship and social guarantees, feel more relaxed.
“They stood for the freedom of Estonia.” Today, Estonia celebrates a state holiday - the Day of Restoration of Independence, reports from Tallinn correspondent RIA "Novosti" Nikolay Adashkevich.
On August 20, 1991, the Supreme Council of the Estonian SSR adopted a resolution on the restoration of Estonia’s independence on the basis of the principle “historical succession of Estonian statehood. "
A meeting of the August 20 Club will be held in Tallinn, which includes former members of the Supreme Council who voted for the restoration of Estonia’s independence in 1991 (69 deputy votes from 101 were given in favor).
In the morning of 21 on August 1991, the soldiers of the Pskov Airborne Division who had entered Tallinn took control of the television tower. Telecasts were stopped for some time, but there was no conflict with the local population. In the afternoon of August 21 it became clear that the coup in Moscow had failed. After negotiations with the leadership of Estonia, the paratroopers released the TV tower and left the city.
Four workers who were in the television tower in Estonia are now considered heroic defenders of not only the television tower, but also the independence of the republic. Before the tower stands a memorial stone with the inscription "Here stood for the freedom of Estonia."
In Britain, they will not continue to fight dangerous flying saucers. The UK Department of Defense has stopped UFO research. Recently, the last department, which studied statements by the British about strange phenomena (flashes of light, noise, and other “effects”), was eliminated, "Vesti".
The decision to close the program was made after an expert opinion that there was no threat to the country from flying saucers. "Vesti" indicate that the disbandment of a special department engaged in extraterrestrial civilizations began 3 a year ago. The first event in the liquidation was the disconnection of the telephone-electronic “hot line”, through which the military received reports of aliens visiting Britain.
Fans of "Pussy Riot" from Cologne face punishment, and the vicar of the Cologne Cathedral calls for a prayer for the "pusek" and for all the Russian people. Yesterday, a rally in support of the Pussy Riot group members was held in Cologne Cathedral, reports "Lenta.ru" with links to DW-WORLD and DAPD.
After the completion of the morning Sunday service, two young men and one girl marched to the altar with the banner “Free Pussy Riot and All Prisoners”, shouting a call to release the members of the group. Protesters dressed up in colorful costumes, one of the activists pulled a balaclava on his head.
The gatekeepers of the cathedral put the participants in the action out and called the police. As stated by the police, participants in the action in the council are threatened with charges of violating the law on assemblies and obstructing the performance of a religious ceremony.
It is curious that the vicar of the Cologne Cathedral Heiner Koch, who conducted the Sunday service, after the end of the rally of supporters of Pussy Riot called on his parishioners to pray for the demands of the protesters, as well as for people in Russia (information of the Domradio radio station belonging to the Cologne episcopacy).
On the aggressive policy of Russia. As transmits Rosbaltreferring to Lentu.ru, John Cornyn, a Texas legislator, demanded an explanation from the Pentagon about publications about a Russian nuclear submarine that supposedly went unnoticed for a month off the coast of the United States.
The senator sent a request to the commander of the US Navy, Admiral Jonathan Grinert, which states: “Submarines off our shores, along with attacks on our airspace, reflect Russia's very aggressive and destabilizing military policy, which is a threat to US national security. This is of particular concern that President Obama is seeking a drastic reduction in the defense budget, including, among other things, a reduction in funding for anti-submarine defense development. ”
Thus, let us add on our own, Mr. Cornyn hinted to the Navy that Obama serves Russia more than America, or maybe even a Russian spy - once he reduces the defense budget at that alarming time when he needs to be increased.
Kornin demanded from the commander of the Navy "a detailed explanation of the facts related to publications about the Russian submarine in the media."
Rosbalt recalls that the Pentagon recently denied reports by the American press about the Russian submarine, which allegedly went unnoticed for a month off the coast of the United States.
Paul Joseph Watson reports: America is turning into a police state in the eyes of Americans. Comrade Watson in his article published on a popular resource. "Infowars", talks about the espionage of the US Department of National Security against a named resource that has long struggled with the totalitarian outrage of the American authorities.
The other day, Alex Jones, the creator of the resource, reported on the spy documents of DHS (Department of National Security), which were devoted to the program infowars.com “I saw something? Say something! ”Information on hundreds of pages of documents has finally been made available under the US Freedom of Information Act.
The analysis of the documents showed, comrade Watson writes, that the Department of National Security is monitoring the campaign “Did you see something? Say something! ”, Initiated by the political opposition. Not only that, DHS tracks articles and comments from Infowars users on many other issues. At the same time, the site itself is already classified by the authorities in the category of “right-wing terrorism”.
The notes state that infowars.com has launched an opposition campaign against the DHS program, which calls on citizens, including through television screens on Wal-Mart Stores, to report “suspicious activity” to the authorities.
The Department of National Security did not like the fact that the campaign “Infowars” was based on the use of the symbol “V”, which meant the coming “Victory” of the French resistance against the Nazi occupation in World War II. In DHS decided that this letter is taken from the film "V" means vendetta. "
The declassified DHS report includes posters used in the campaign along with the text: “Alex Jones encourages people to place campaign posters in public places to counter alleged“ police state ”measures. Supporters can also paint the letter “V” on the walls of public property - in protest. ”
The report directly states that the development and success of the campaign was controlled by the federal authorities. The number of friends of A. Jones on Facebook (more than 135000) is counted, the number of those who "love" the letter "V" (1840 on January 24) is counted. It is calculated and the number of different posters with the letter "V" (58). The documents also include a photo of an activist sticking a “V” on a telegraph pole in support of the campaign.
Another Jon's website, Prison Planet (PrisonPlanet.com), came to DHS’s attention.
DHS employees and website comments made as part of the campaign were analyzed.
The document states that the screening policy was introduced in 2010. Just two years ago, the wave of criticism of the US government, characterized as “a police state abusing the concept of individual freedom”, increased.
The campaign of Alex Jones is shown in the DHS documents as a program whose goal is to counterpose the activities of the Intelligence and Analysis Department, aimed at involving the citizens of the country in identifying “suspicious activity”, which should be reported to the authorities.
That is, let us add on our own, if the Department of National Security calls on Americans to knock on their neighbors - on those who have no confidence in the “police state” and do not approve of his methods, then Alex Jones expects a similar attitude from the Americans towards DHS itself: police tyranny - tell the site! It is clear that this model of freedom of speech did not escape the all-seeing eye of Big Brother.
One of DHS's internal letters, Comrade Watson continues, contains a story told by Infowars: “No matter where you see the world, from East Germany, from communist Russia, from Nazi Germany. Historically, governments that encourage their citizens to knock on each other do not do this for the sake of solving any real security problems or the planned improvement in security, but in order to create an authoritarian police state and coerce people into a police way of life and thoughts regarding each other".
The letters also indicate what news resources are monitored by the Department of Homeland Security along with Infowars.
Monitoring of A. Jones' websites attributable to the wing of "right-wing terrorism" has been carried out, as it turned out, since the 2009 year.
The reviewed documents, Comrade Watson writes, illustrate the fact that the Department of National Security is gradually turning into an easy-to-understand KGB - to the secret police, which seems to be so concerned about political freedom of speech, as if it were real threats to the country.
In addition to DHS, some claims to Alex Jones also have the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). It also recently admitted that he has documents containing materials related personally to Alex Jones, the Infowars website, and the Drudge Report website. However, the TSA refused to make them public, despite the Freedom of Information Act.
Links to the full list of published documents produced and provided by USWGO.com are available. here (English.).
Commentators who have read the Watson article write (censored, corrected, and abbreviated here and there):
“They can't get all of us infoins! These people, as Alex Jones said, are pure landfill ... Take one website from us and you will get ten more. Freedom is contagious, and its time has now come! .. ”
"... The libertarian ideology is the most idiotic, corporate, undemocratic belief system you can imagine."
“Jefferson was a true liberal. What is meant by liberals now? .. These are communists. If Jefferson was alive, he would have said only a couple of words, having learned that the Communist Democrats and the Communist Republicans did to the country - with the country he was creating: “Shoot them !!!!!”
“Yes, I also think that Jefferson was a liberal.
But you are extremely ignorant and misinformed about the concept of "communist".
“What exactly are people shocked here?”
Every day, neo-Nazis, “sovereign citizens”, anti-Semites, homophobes, racists, and the United States government declare war on “Infowars”. All this is incitement to insurrection and murder. I would feel in danger if the law enforcement agencies did not control Infowars.
"We are not terrorists, we are patriotic Americans who believe in the oath of service to the motherland, we believe in the military code of conduct, and we believe in the fundamental principles of our nation ..."
So, the White House finally undertook to build democracy in its own country. Criticizing censorship in China and the suppression of dissent and freedom of speech in Russia or Syria in general, the United States diligently monitors their native free speech and urges citizens to be vigilant and actively "knock" on their loved ones in the Department of National Security - to those who see political freedom " incitement to rebellion and murder "could live in peace and security, sipping their Coca-Cola, biting her with another donut and quietly fattening at the TV, watching Hillary Clinton urging Bashar al-Assad to" leave, and Mitt Romney is looking for enemies of America around the world.
The government of the country called the last strike illegal. It was officially announced that the police had to defend themselves from miners armed with firearms. weapons and machete. That is why the police had to shoot.
“Reedus” recalls that the strike at the mine in Marikan lasts from August 10. It involved about three thousand miners. The workers' demand is to increase the salary three times. Now its average size is about 500 US dollars.
RIA News" referring to France Press reports that South African President Jacob Zuma declared mourning in the country in memory of the dead miners. It will continue from 20 to 26 August.
RIA "News»Specifies that, according to the latest data, 44 people became victims of unrest. The acute conflict situation was aggravated by the confrontation between the two South African trade unions. If the representatives of the Union of Associations of Miners and Builders decided to continue the strike, the other trade union association, the National Union of Miners, did not support it. As a result, members of trade unions also fought.
British intelligence in the service of the Syrian democracy. How British Intelligence Helps Rebels in Aleppo Tells "Lenta.ru" with reference to The Sunday Times newspaper, which interviewed a representative of the Syrian opposition.
The intelligence received by the British military, based in Cyprus, is transmitted to Turkey and the United States. In turn, the Turks inform the Free Army of Syria. As the representative of the rebels, the British authorities "know and approve for all 100 percent" the cooperation of its intelligence with the Syrian opposition.
It was with the help of British intelligence that the rebels received the necessary information about the movement of Assad’s troops and then ambushed in a valley near Sarakib, from where they destroyed a convoy of more than 40 tanksheading to Aleppo.
Also, the opposition, already with the assistance of the Turks, received photographs from American satellites. Turkey itself received them from the CIA. An opposition spokesman said: “We have access to them for more than a month now. The Turks give us some information, but it’s important in Aleppo. ”
Fraternal Libya is also involved in the construction of a bright Syrian future. As passed yesterday from London correspondent ITAR-TASS Vitaly MakarchevReferring to The Sunday Times, the rebels are getting more and more weapons from Libya.
The London newspaper writes: “Last April, the container ship Luftfallah-2, loaded with Libyan weapons, including grenade launchers and heavy machine guns, was sent to the Lebanese port of Tripoli. Since then, seven more ships with weapons have been unloaded off the coast of Lebanon. ”
“Arms consignments include portable air defense missile systems,” the publication emphasizes. Ships with Libyan weapons do not enter the port of Tripoli, but embark on a raid in international waters 30 km from the coast of Lebanon. The unloading takes place as follows: “After dusk, large boats are sent to them from the port to unload ships”.
Referring to Kommersant, newsru.com reports that the government of Libya supplies the SSA, among other things, with the Russian Igla air defense system, received in due time by Muammar Gaddafi.
Says Comrade Churkin. Russia will support the Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi, appointed joint representative of the UN Secretary General and Secretary General of the League of Arab States for Syria. As Russia's permanent representative to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, noted, Moscow hopes that the work of this highly experienced diplomat will help end the violence and political settlement in the country, according to "Vesti" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
Vesti reminds that Kofi Annan decided to leave the post of UN emissary and LAS 31 in August 2012. He motivated his decision by saying that “he did not receive all the support he needed.”
Not a free zone, but humanitarian aid! As reported "Vesti", in an interview with SkyNews-Arabia TV channel, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the main task facing the international community is to help peaceful Syrian citizens and refugees. To solve this problem, you need to work in close cooperation, and not create a no-fly zone over Syria.
According to the latest UN data, already two and a half million people need humanitarian aid. “We want their fate to be made easier. Need to negotiate. There are special (international) mechanisms and tools on this account. In particular, there is Deputy Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos, the Syrian government has agreed to resolve these issues, there is the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, which is ready to assist those who are in refugee camps in Turkey, Jordan and other countries. ” - said Comrade Lavrov.
Organization of Islamic Cooperation - against Syria. As Victor Ruchkin writes ("A red star"), at the recent summit in Mecca, the OIC decided to suspend Syria’s membership in this international structure. The proposal was made, of course, by the representatives of Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Other states, with the exception of Iran and Algeria, supported the Saudis and Qatari. The position of the opponents of Syria was motivated by the need to stop the bloodshed in Syria, the responsibility for which was assigned to Damascus.
Further, Victor Ruchkin quotes the Independent, a British newspaper, which, following other European newspapers, seemed to see the light of the real face of the Syrian conflict and its Western interpretation.
Very few people doubted the outcome of the OIC summit, the Independent writes, since lies and hypocrisy surround the entire Syrian conflict. “While Qatar and Saudi Arabia are arming and sponsoring Syrian rebels to overthrow the Alawite-Shiite / Baathist dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad, not a word of criticism has been heard from Washington. President Barack Obama and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton say they want to establish democracy in Syria. But in Qatar, the authoritarian regime, and Saudi Arabia is among the most harmful dictatorships of the caliphates of the Arab world. The rulers of both states received power by inheritance, like Bashar Asad, and Saudi Arabia is an ally of the Syrian Wahhabi rebels and at one time was the most ardent supporter of the Afghan Taliban, who seemed to have come from the dark Middle Ages. ”
Now, according to V. Ruchkin, no less than 8 of thousands of militants have penetrated into Aleppo (according to expert estimates). These are militants from the SSA detachments, as well as from groups of Islamist "internationalists" and hired scum from around the world, including from Europe. The local Sunni population, as was expected by the world democracies and the Arab world, did not at all stand up for the support of the “freedom fighters”. In Aleppo, they do not accept religious extremism; moreover, the inhabitants of this rich city prefer trade to war. That is why the indignant local self-defense detachments fight back the mercenaries.
Thus, the West in the face of progressive journalists begins to understand the true background of the events in Syria and around it. It has been said more than once in the “Military Review” (including in the “Geopolitical Mosaic”) that there are less and less voices about the rebels as “the people of Syria” and “fighters for democracy” and more and more voices of those who realizes the harm of direct Arab and indirect Western intervention in Syria, aimed at carving up the country according to the method of the "Arab spring" and turning it into a set of "buffer zones".
Cobblestones for the Russian embassy. Opponents of the Syrian government on Friday night attacked the building of the Russian Embassy in London. The staff of the diplomatic mission was not injured, but the embassy suffered material damage. Told about it correspondent RIA "News" Alexander Smotrov.
The embassy’s statement says: “On the night of 16 on 17 in August, the consular department of the Russian Embassy in London was attacked by a large group of people who chanted slogans against the Syrian government and threw stones at the embassy building.”
The windows were broken, and the building itself suffered substantial material damage. Diplomats stated that the police had not taken appropriate measures to neutralize the ongoing unauthorized rally and to arrest the attackers.
The message of the embassy says: “It is noteworthy that this is not the first case of acts of vandalism against the Russian diplomatic mission in London this year.”
Earlier, opponents of the Russian position on Syria doused paint on the brick fence of the embassy.
These are the pogroms of the embassies, we add from ourselves, - and this is the true manifestation of British democracy. It is likely that the police “did not take proper measures” simply because the pogrom-mongers ’action was sanctioned from above — approximately by the same structures that approve of the activities of British intelligence for the benefit of the Syrian opposition. Paint and glass beating are elements of the Cold War, which was once again unleashed by the rotten West against Russia.
Observers leave Syria. How to transmit "Vesti"On Monday night, the mandate of the UN Observer Mission in Syria expired.
Instead, a coordination bureau will appear in Damascus: around 30 military advisers. Their task will be to monitor the situation and reports to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
New Middle East in the view of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The very fact of the existence of Israel is an insult to humanity, therefore this state must be eliminated. So said Iranian President Ahmadinejad, speaking on Friday at Tehran University, reports "Fleet 2017" with references to "MIC", ARMS-TASS and "Interfax-AVN".
Ahmadinejad said: "The Zionist regime and the Zionists are our cancer." He added: "The peoples of the region will soon be finished with the Zionist usurpers and will create a new Middle East, in which there will be no place for the Zionists and the Americans."
The Iranian President’s speech was made at the time of the celebration of Al-Quds Day in Iran - a holiday of solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinians against the Israelis, and was essentially a response to the statement of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who had previously said that delivering preventive strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities appropriate because it can slow down the process of moving Tehran towards the creation of nuclear weapons.
Americans fear nuclear Korea. Experts from the United States calculated that after 4, the DPRK might be in possession of up to 48 nuclear weapons. According to satellite imagery, a nuclear reactor is being built in the country, and at the same time a uranium enrichment plant, Interfaxreferring to the report of the American Institute of Science and International Security, published last Friday. The report, however, notes that Pyongyang is building a light-water nuclear reactor, which is supposed to be used for peaceful purposes. However, frightened Americans say, it can produce weapons-grade plutonium.
The report indicates that North Korea is building a uranium enrichment plant. The purpose of the plant is the production of fuel for a new light-water reactor. But, again, the Americans suggest that the plant can be used by the leadership of a communist country to produce highly enriched uranium.
Little of. The most paranoid experts believe that the DPRK has one more facility for the production of highly enriched uranium - the secret one.
Taking into account that all three objects will start to do weapon nuclear business, and the gloomy prediction of American experts about increasing the nuclear arsenal of North Korea has been formed. According to the forecast, by the end of 2016, it can be from 37 to 48 units.
"Interfax" recalls that in July, the North Korean authorities announced their intention to completely reconsider their approach to the issue of a nuclear program. The DPRK Foreign Ministry said: "Circumstances force us to completely reconsider the nuclear issue." The representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK clarified: "A consistent hostile policy toward the DPRK by the United States leads to the emergence of a new cycle of confrontation and tension on the Korean Peninsula, which makes the prospect of creating a nuclear-free zone on it more and more vague."
American nuclear scientists believe that the DPRK may conduct a third nuclear test in the very near future.
North Korean heroes and fearless Kim. In the DPRK, a Coast Guard detachment of the Korean Peoples Army was awarded the title of heroes and the Order of the National Flag of the first degree. Reports about it "Lenta.ru" with reference to the state news agency KCNA and Renhap. We are talking about the detachment, who fired at the South Korean island Enphendo in November 2010.
The award of heroes was timed to the visit of Kim Jong-un to Mudo Island, on which the squad is based. The DPRK leader visited the island of 18 in August, a few days before the start of the annual joint military exercises of South Korea and the United States (they are scheduled for August 20-31).
As noted by Yonhap, Kim Jong-un reached the western border of the North Korean maritime territory on a simple boat and without a weapon. The South Korean analyst, whose words are quoted by Renhap, believes that Kim Jong-un's visit was planned, and his purpose was to demonstrate to the military and the DPRK citizens the fearlessness of their leader.
South Korean monument. As reported yesterday from Seoul correspondent ITAR-TASS Vladimir Kutakhov With reference to the agency "Renhap", the Republic of Korea installed the 19 of August on one of the two Tokdo Islands (Takeshima), claimed by Japan, a monument.
On the obverse of the 1,2 stone, the inscription "Dokdo" was stamped on the back, and on the reverse side, the "Republic of Korea". On the side there is an inscription about the recent visit of the islands by President Lee Myung-bak.
During the ceremony of installing the monument, the Minister of Government Administration and Security Myung Hyun Gyu said: “The monument on Dokdo, expressing the will of the people, will become a symbol of Korean sovereignty and the desire to protect the islands.
Following a visit to the Lee Myung-Bak Isles, the official Tokyo suggested that Seoul should consider the issue of the islands in the International Court of Justice. However, South Korea refused, calling the question raised "absolutely not worthy of attention."
Offended by the Japanese government is now going to file a complaint with the International Court of Justice. Japan is going to show the international community that South Korea has no evidence that the islands are originally Korean territory.
Japanese flag. On Sunday morning, several Japanese landed on the rocky shore of the island, part of the Senkaku range in the East China Sea, which China and Japan have been challenging for decades. The landing was a reciprocal gesture to a similar act committed at the end of the week by Chinese activists. After the landing, the Japanese established a national flag on the island, "Lenta.ru" with reference to Reuters.
Interestingly, three islands of the Japanese coast guard were located near the islands. Japanese activists gathered to leave the island and return to their ships, but the Japanese customs officers detained them. Lenta notes that the group of activists included several Japanese parliamentarians and politicians.
Chinese protest. As passed yesterday RIA Novosti correspondent Maria Chaplygina With reference to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, Beijing made a presentation to Tokyo in connection with the allegedly illegal invasion of Japanese citizens on the disputed Diaoyu Islands (Senkaku).
The Chinese Foreign Ministry in a statement published on its website by a representative of the ministry called the actions of activists with the flag "an illegal invasion of Chinese territory."
A statement by the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, Qin Ghana, said: "The Foreign Ministry of China has already made an official presentation to the Japanese ambassador to China, expressing strong protest and demanding that the Japanese side stop actions undermining China’s territorial sovereignty."
Split in Moldovan society. The Romanization of the republic will not bring Moldova to good. This was told by Roman Nesterov ("Military-political review").
The recent clashes between supporters and opponents of the country's Romanization, which took place on the streets of Chisinau, Cahul and Balti, are a clear sign of a split in Moldovan society. The muddled reaction of the authorities, according to Nesterov, indicates that Chisinau does not have a plan to get out of the political impasse. After all, 90% Moldovans oppose the idea of uniting with Bucharest.
5 August in Balti (following a similar action in Cahul) residents expressed disagreement with the policy of rapprochement with Romania. The demonstration of the Romanian nationalists, organized by the association “Action-2012” under the slogans “Bessarabia - Romanian land” and “Real patriots of Moldova do not speak Russian”, was frustrated. Thousands of citizens with rotten eggs and tomatoes in their hands forced the demonstrators to hide in buses and leave the city. The slogan “You have eggs, but no brains!” Invented by the Romanian activists only intensified Baloch's tomato-egg attacks, Nesterov writes. The Romanians managed to escape only thanks to a cover of reinforced police patrols.
The political clashes of the pro-European leadership of Moldova were the reasons for the clashes in Balti and other cities. When the Moldovan parliament passed a law condemning the totalitarian communist regime and approved measures to narrow the scope of the use of the Russian language, the municipal council of Beltsy voted to hold a referendum on expanding local autonomy. Mindful of a similar decision of Tiraspol 20-year-old, which caused the Transnistrian conflict, the Moldovan government came to Balti. Vlad Filat immediately promised to raise the status of the city, increase its funding and expand the powers of local authorities.
At the same time, the position of the residents is clear: autonomy is economically advantageous to the city. Roman Nesterov reminds that Balti every year send 800 million lei (almost 64 million dollars) to the state budget, and in return XMUMX million lei are received from the budget. This amount can not even cover the costs of meeting the needs of citizens.
Many Moldovan experts, indicates R. Nesterov, believe that all spheres of life of Moldovan society have plunged into a long-term crisis. Against the background of the total crisis in Western Europe, especially in Spain, Italy and Greece, residents of the Transnistrian republic, covered with reliable Russian citizenship and social guarantees, feel more relaxed.
“They stood for the freedom of Estonia.” Today, Estonia celebrates a state holiday - the Day of Restoration of Independence, reports from Tallinn correspondent RIA "Novosti" Nikolay Adashkevich.
On August 20, 1991, the Supreme Council of the Estonian SSR adopted a resolution on the restoration of Estonia’s independence on the basis of the principle “historical succession of Estonian statehood. "
A meeting of the August 20 Club will be held in Tallinn, which includes former members of the Supreme Council who voted for the restoration of Estonia’s independence in 1991 (69 deputy votes from 101 were given in favor).
In the morning of 21 on August 1991, the soldiers of the Pskov Airborne Division who had entered Tallinn took control of the television tower. Telecasts were stopped for some time, but there was no conflict with the local population. In the afternoon of August 21 it became clear that the coup in Moscow had failed. After negotiations with the leadership of Estonia, the paratroopers released the TV tower and left the city.
Four workers who were in the television tower in Estonia are now considered heroic defenders of not only the television tower, but also the independence of the republic. Before the tower stands a memorial stone with the inscription "Here stood for the freedom of Estonia."
In Britain, they will not continue to fight dangerous flying saucers. The UK Department of Defense has stopped UFO research. Recently, the last department, which studied statements by the British about strange phenomena (flashes of light, noise, and other “effects”), was eliminated, "Vesti".
The decision to close the program was made after an expert opinion that there was no threat to the country from flying saucers. "Vesti" indicate that the disbandment of a special department engaged in extraterrestrial civilizations began 3 a year ago. The first event in the liquidation was the disconnection of the telephone-electronic “hot line”, through which the military received reports of aliens visiting Britain.
Fans of "Pussy Riot" from Cologne face punishment, and the vicar of the Cologne Cathedral calls for a prayer for the "pusek" and for all the Russian people. Yesterday, a rally in support of the Pussy Riot group members was held in Cologne Cathedral, reports "Lenta.ru" with links to DW-WORLD and DAPD.
After the completion of the morning Sunday service, two young men and one girl marched to the altar with the banner “Free Pussy Riot and All Prisoners”, shouting a call to release the members of the group. Protesters dressed up in colorful costumes, one of the activists pulled a balaclava on his head.
The gatekeepers of the cathedral put the participants in the action out and called the police. As stated by the police, participants in the action in the council are threatened with charges of violating the law on assemblies and obstructing the performance of a religious ceremony.
It is curious that the vicar of the Cologne Cathedral Heiner Koch, who conducted the Sunday service, after the end of the rally of supporters of Pussy Riot called on his parishioners to pray for the demands of the protesters, as well as for people in Russia (information of the Domradio radio station belonging to the Cologne episcopacy).
On the aggressive policy of Russia. As transmits Rosbaltreferring to Lentu.ru, John Cornyn, a Texas legislator, demanded an explanation from the Pentagon about publications about a Russian nuclear submarine that supposedly went unnoticed for a month off the coast of the United States.
The senator sent a request to the commander of the US Navy, Admiral Jonathan Grinert, which states: “Submarines off our shores, along with attacks on our airspace, reflect Russia's very aggressive and destabilizing military policy, which is a threat to US national security. This is of particular concern that President Obama is seeking a drastic reduction in the defense budget, including, among other things, a reduction in funding for anti-submarine defense development. ”
Thus, let us add on our own, Mr. Cornyn hinted to the Navy that Obama serves Russia more than America, or maybe even a Russian spy - once he reduces the defense budget at that alarming time when he needs to be increased.
Kornin demanded from the commander of the Navy "a detailed explanation of the facts related to publications about the Russian submarine in the media."
Rosbalt recalls that the Pentagon recently denied reports by the American press about the Russian submarine, which allegedly went unnoticed for a month off the coast of the United States.
Paul Joseph Watson reports: America is turning into a police state in the eyes of Americans. Comrade Watson in his article published on a popular resource. "Infowars", talks about the espionage of the US Department of National Security against a named resource that has long struggled with the totalitarian outrage of the American authorities.
The other day, Alex Jones, the creator of the resource, reported on the spy documents of DHS (Department of National Security), which were devoted to the program infowars.com “I saw something? Say something! ”Information on hundreds of pages of documents has finally been made available under the US Freedom of Information Act.
The analysis of the documents showed, comrade Watson writes, that the Department of National Security is monitoring the campaign “Did you see something? Say something! ”, Initiated by the political opposition. Not only that, DHS tracks articles and comments from Infowars users on many other issues. At the same time, the site itself is already classified by the authorities in the category of “right-wing terrorism”.
The notes state that infowars.com has launched an opposition campaign against the DHS program, which calls on citizens, including through television screens on Wal-Mart Stores, to report “suspicious activity” to the authorities.
The Department of National Security did not like the fact that the campaign “Infowars” was based on the use of the symbol “V”, which meant the coming “Victory” of the French resistance against the Nazi occupation in World War II. In DHS decided that this letter is taken from the film "V" means vendetta. "
The declassified DHS report includes posters used in the campaign along with the text: “Alex Jones encourages people to place campaign posters in public places to counter alleged“ police state ”measures. Supporters can also paint the letter “V” on the walls of public property - in protest. ”
The report directly states that the development and success of the campaign was controlled by the federal authorities. The number of friends of A. Jones on Facebook (more than 135000) is counted, the number of those who "love" the letter "V" (1840 on January 24) is counted. It is calculated and the number of different posters with the letter "V" (58). The documents also include a photo of an activist sticking a “V” on a telegraph pole in support of the campaign.
Another Jon's website, Prison Planet (PrisonPlanet.com), came to DHS’s attention.
DHS employees and website comments made as part of the campaign were analyzed.
The document states that the screening policy was introduced in 2010. Just two years ago, the wave of criticism of the US government, characterized as “a police state abusing the concept of individual freedom”, increased.
The campaign of Alex Jones is shown in the DHS documents as a program whose goal is to counterpose the activities of the Intelligence and Analysis Department, aimed at involving the citizens of the country in identifying “suspicious activity”, which should be reported to the authorities.
That is, let us add on our own, if the Department of National Security calls on Americans to knock on their neighbors - on those who have no confidence in the “police state” and do not approve of his methods, then Alex Jones expects a similar attitude from the Americans towards DHS itself: police tyranny - tell the site! It is clear that this model of freedom of speech did not escape the all-seeing eye of Big Brother.
One of DHS's internal letters, Comrade Watson continues, contains a story told by Infowars: “No matter where you see the world, from East Germany, from communist Russia, from Nazi Germany. Historically, governments that encourage their citizens to knock on each other do not do this for the sake of solving any real security problems or the planned improvement in security, but in order to create an authoritarian police state and coerce people into a police way of life and thoughts regarding each other".
The letters also indicate what news resources are monitored by the Department of Homeland Security along with Infowars.
Monitoring of A. Jones' websites attributable to the wing of "right-wing terrorism" has been carried out, as it turned out, since the 2009 year.
The reviewed documents, Comrade Watson writes, illustrate the fact that the Department of National Security is gradually turning into an easy-to-understand KGB - to the secret police, which seems to be so concerned about political freedom of speech, as if it were real threats to the country.
In addition to DHS, some claims to Alex Jones also have the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). It also recently admitted that he has documents containing materials related personally to Alex Jones, the Infowars website, and the Drudge Report website. However, the TSA refused to make them public, despite the Freedom of Information Act.
Links to the full list of published documents produced and provided by USWGO.com are available. here (English.).
Commentators who have read the Watson article write (censored, corrected, and abbreviated here and there):
“They can't get all of us infoins! These people, as Alex Jones said, are pure landfill ... Take one website from us and you will get ten more. Freedom is contagious, and its time has now come! .. ”
"... The libertarian ideology is the most idiotic, corporate, undemocratic belief system you can imagine."
“Jefferson was a true liberal. What is meant by liberals now? .. These are communists. If Jefferson was alive, he would have said only a couple of words, having learned that the Communist Democrats and the Communist Republicans did to the country - with the country he was creating: “Shoot them !!!!!”
“Yes, I also think that Jefferson was a liberal.
But you are extremely ignorant and misinformed about the concept of "communist".
“What exactly are people shocked here?”
Every day, neo-Nazis, “sovereign citizens”, anti-Semites, homophobes, racists, and the United States government declare war on “Infowars”. All this is incitement to insurrection and murder. I would feel in danger if the law enforcement agencies did not control Infowars.
"We are not terrorists, we are patriotic Americans who believe in the oath of service to the motherland, we believe in the military code of conduct, and we believe in the fundamental principles of our nation ..."
So, the White House finally undertook to build democracy in its own country. Criticizing censorship in China and the suppression of dissent and freedom of speech in Russia or Syria in general, the United States diligently monitors their native free speech and urges citizens to be vigilant and actively "knock" on their loved ones in the Department of National Security - to those who see political freedom " incitement to rebellion and murder "could live in peace and security, sipping their Coca-Cola, biting her with another donut and quietly fattening at the TV, watching Hillary Clinton urging Bashar al-Assad to" leave, and Mitt Romney is looking for enemies of America around the world.
Observed and translated by Oleg Chuvakin
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