Geopolitical mosaic: Europe serves Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and Hillary Clinton is tipped to become US president in 2016
"Open the gates of Guantanamo ..." Vladimir Putin does not believe that Russia should reconsider its position on Syria, reports Rosbalt.
In an interview with Russia Today, the president said: “In our opinion, the most important thing today is to stop the violence, make all parties to the conflict (and the government part, and the so-called rebels, the armed opposition) sit down at the negotiating table, determine the future that ensures the safety of all participants of the internal political process, and only after that proceed to some practical steps regarding the internal structure of the country itself. ”
According to Comrade Putin, the top priority is to stop the supply of weapons in the conflict zone. In addition, you can not impose development options that are unacceptable for Syria.
The Russian president said that someone would like to use Al-Qaeda fighters or people from other organizations, who also have extreme views about achieving their own goals in Syria. Putin pointed out: “This is a very dangerous and short-sighted policy. But then you need to take now and open the gates of Guantanamo and from there start all the prisoners of Guantanamo to Syria, let them fight. After all, in fact it is the same. Just do not forget that then these citizens will strike their benefactors. ”
How the West became a satellite of Saudi Arabia and Qatar, or the Islamist winter
In the article by Alain Shue and Georges Mallbrune, "The West is naive or just does not know much about Syria?" ("Le Figaro", France; source of translation - "InoSMI") an analysis of the situation around Syria, belonging to the former high-ranking representative of French intelligence. The opinion of Alain Shue, an expert on Syria with more than forty years of experience, runs counter to the demagogic rhetoric of Western European politicians, including the snappy statements of the French President F. Hollande.
The expression "Arab Spring" Alain Shue replaces the phrase "Islamist winter." Referring to the revolt in Sidi Bouzid 17 of December 2010, he writes that the fire spread from Tunisia to Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen and, finally, Syria. But, in his opinion, those who believe that these protests and popular movements are the fruit of the activity of active groups in social networks are fundamentally wrong. Indeed, in these countries only an “advanced” minority has access to the Internet, and censorship is developed there. It can be, for example, simply about the division of wealth. And we must not forget that all these insurrections and revolutions of the Arab world are interconnected by financing from Qatar and other monarchies of the Persian Gulf, as well as the active participation of the Muslim Brotherhood. The consequences are already visible in Tunisia and Libya, and will soon manifest themselves in Egypt. So says the analyst.
In his opinion, this is about the power of religious fundamentalists. For some half a year, the “Arab Spring” managed to turn into an “Islamist winter”.
But how did it happen, the author wonders, that Europe has supported movements that act not only against the interests of nations, but also against its interests? After all, the movement of "winter" to a new form of hidden submission does not bode well for the future.
Concerning the Syrian conflict, Shue takes the position opposite to the generally accepted Western views. In the West, the analyst says, public opinion is in most cases “distinguished by enthusiasm and naivety.”
After all, only a naive person, the expert writes, is able to believe that in a state half a century under dictatorial regimes, freedom and democracy suddenly jumped out like a genie from a bottle - only because Syria has the Internet. The analyst recalls that the network can be used in Syria by a small minority, and among the most privileged segments of society.
The author recalls that after the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, the Islamist parties, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis received the overwhelming majority of parliamentary seats. Today they are moving further and further away from the demands of the people who brought them to power.
“They are experienced hypocrites,” says Alain Shue, “and their actions are fundamentally contrary to their statements. So, in 2011, on the Tahrir Square in Egypt, they argued that they didn’t seek power at all, whereas today they are trying to achieve the presidency of the country, the parliamentary majority and all the political power. In Tunisia, they officially refused to include Sharia law in the constitution, but now they organize in provinces and cities of medium importance, which do not attract the attention of the Western media, religious committees to implement sharia-based resolutions. ”
These movements receive generous funding from Saudi Arabia and Qatar (for which they are the key to dominance in the Arab world). They have all the means to purchase, support, and form an electorate capable of consolidating their dominant position in relation to scattered and poor democratic forces. “Disorder reigns in Libya and Yemen,” the author writes. “After NATO forces far exceeded their UN mandate and destroyed the not too plausible regime of Colonel Gaddafi, the country became hostage to the appetites of rival gangs and tribes, who decided to defend their possessions and access to rent with arms. The ephemeral Transitional National Council, which praised the notorious Bernard-Henri Levy, is now falling to pieces under the blows of the leaders of Islamist gangs. Some of them are al-Qaida's former militants who receive support and funding from Qatar: Doha intends to play an active role in resolving all issues and get its share in the development of the country's hydrocarbon resources. ”
For all his criticism of Western positions, a French expert who lived in Syria for several years and regularly happens there for 45 years (that is, he knows her better than Western journalists who have spent several hours in Damascus and set up two dozen reports later). I am not delighted with how the Syrian society is organized: “From the end of the 1970-s, I had a lot of work to meet with representatives of the Syrian civilian and military special services. I could personally make sure that they do not shy away from the toughest means and can simply behave like savages. The point is not that they understand human rights differently from us. They do not understand any human rights at all ... "Why? Shue explains this syrian historyfull of cruelty. The current power in Syria, the French analyst describes as "authoritarian, brutal and closed regime."
However, Shue says, the Syrian regime is not the dictatorship of one person or family. Bashar Asad - the tip of a complex community iceberg. Two million Alawites are determined to fight for their survival, and several million different minorities will fight with them, who may lose a lot due to the Islamists coming to power (and this, the author suggests, is the only political future of the region that considers West).
Alain Shue recalls that the Syrian National Council demonstrated the true intentions and aspirations in Syria by repainting the national flag. The red color on the flag of Syria embodies the socialist aspirations of the regime, the author writes. But the SNA - immediately after its creation - replaced the red stripe with the green color of Islamism. “You yourself could be convinced of this,” says Shue, “during opposition demonstrations, in which frenzied cries of“ Allah Akbar! ”Are heard more often than democratic slogans. With all this, the Muslim Brotherhood’s dominant position in the SNS, which was provided by the Turkish AKP and the US Department of State, is beginning to irritate almost all players ”(including the opposition within the opposition: for example, Kurds who belong to the SNS: Kurds are not Arabs, and therefore the Arabs look down on them, and America, through the mouth of the State Department, recommends obeying the Muslim Brotherhood).
The West, led by France, the author believes, has offered the vulnerable Syrian minorities nothing but “peremptory condemnation and often hysterical anathema, ensuring everywhere (political and sometimes military) the rise to power of Islamists and the dominance of theocratic states that support political Salafism” . What next? But: “Oil theocracies got rid of (certainly not too virtuous) leaders of Arab nationalism, such as Saddam Hussein, Ben Ali, Mubarak and Gaddafi ... Now they are no longer prevented from gaining control over the League of Arab States with their petrodollars and turn it into a means of pressure on the international community and the UN to support fundamentalist political movements that strengthen their legitimacy and protect against any form of democratic protest. "
But the West is something? .. Shue is surprised: “Much more questions are caused by the desire of the West to establish integrist regimes everywhere, in which there is even less democracy than in the dictatorships they have replaced. Although the West is so eager to condemn Islamism on its own territory, this does not prevent it from stimulating such maneuvers in the Muslim and Arab world. ” Europe does not care about Bahrain, Mali, the killing of Nigerian Christians by the Boko Haram troops, or the kidnapping of four International Criminal Court employees by Libyan "revolutionaries", but she also yells about the Assad regime, which has not yet been replaced by "democracy." Where is the logic, where is the common sense? The author writes about the "incomprehensible schizophrenia of our politicians and the media," and says that "the massive investments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia into our economy" serve to raise barbarism, which, whatever the Europeans might think about it, can harm them.
Thus, let us add on our own, the expert is convinced of the “naivety” of the West, or prefers the mentioned “naivety” to be replaced by “incomprehensible schizophrenia”. There is no doubt, schizophrenia and naivety in advanced Western society is enough, but Comrade Shue forgot about the transatlantic monster-puppeteer, who has long been accustomed to pull the strings of geopolitics, comfortably settled in the White House. If Saudi Arabia and Qatar (Turkey ought to be added here) consider themselves serious players in the international arena, then this is only due to their imaginary friendship with the United States, whose interests are in world hegemony. Once chaos in the Arab world reaches the desired degree (almost reached), neither Saudi Arabia, nor Qatar, nor even the omnipresent Al Qaeda will be needed by America. A crumbling “gerontocracy” among the Saudis will be an excellent reason for a change of power in Riyadh - judging by the time of year, not by the “Arab spring”, but by the “Islamist winter”.
Crisis Europe (and in France, not the worst country in the economic sense, unemployment has already surpassed the 10% of the active population), albeit united in the European Union, does not have its own policy, clearly distinguished from the policy of the United States. If Hollande says something, then he consults with the CIA. If Levi told his friend Sarkozy to recognize the Libyan PNS, then he knew that America wanted it. Europe is secondary in everything, and America is primary. Hillary Clinton is the master's voice!
The difference between Western Europe and Sadovsk Arabia and Qatar is that if the latter are relatively rich oil and gas powers that can fully sponsor Islamist revolutions, Europe (excluding Germany) is drowning in the abyss of the economic crisis and hopes to snatch at least a tiny bit when redistributing the arab world.
Especially do not count on it! The Department of State sausage will be eaten by itself, while the French will, at best, get the skin and trim.
"Nothing but death, fear and chaos." Recently, the Catholic nun Agnès-Mariam de la Croix, the mother superior of the monastery of Saint-Jacques de l'Intercis, who has lived in Syria for more than 20 years, addressed the world community, reports "Holy Mountain".
This nun became famous after exposing the lies of the world media who blamed the killing of civilians in the city of Hula on the Syrian authorities. Agnes-Mariam, relying on the testimony of the congregation's parishioners, accused the Islamist mercenaries of mass extermination of civilians.
Militants, according to the nuns, “at any time, one person or another can be liquidated, accusing him of collaborating with the authorities ... Last week, in the village where our monastery is located, the person accused of complicity with the regime was cut off his fingers and then his head. The unfortunate was cut into pieces and laid right on the road, so that even small children could see him.
Such barbaric acts are weakly matched with the statement that there is a struggle for the liberation of the Syrian people. ”
“In desperation,” said the nun, “we are led by the fact that the Western world actually supports the growth of religious fanaticism and violence, wanting at any cost to change the power in Syria ...
Leave the people of Syria alone. You have brought us nothing but death, fear and chaos. ”
About some exaggerations. Ilya Plekhanov ("InoSMI") Criticized NBC News information about Turkey’s possible transfer of two dozen MANPADS to the Syrian rebels. The source of such an “information bomb” turned out to be anonymous Syrian “insurgents”. Turkey did not respond to the accusations, but the world media happily picked up the story. The hype went further: recently, the rebels said they would shoot down civilian aircraft over Damascus and Aleppo.
Even the Russian Foreign Ministry reacted to this duck. “The Syrian armed opposition now threatens to shoot down civilian aircraft in Syria. This is the result of an irresponsible transfer of MANPADS into their hands, ”wrote Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov in his Twitter.
However, American military journalist Chivers and journalist Damien Splitters, after conducting a study, rendered their verdict: the insurgents have some components of the Strela-2 MANPADS (they are visible in the photographs and video filming of the rebels). But almost everywhere there is no power supply complexes. Experts also believe that the main source of MANPADS - looted warehouses of the Syrian army.
Therefore, the hype around the MANPADS of the Syrian rebels and the transfer of their complexes from Turkey can be considered exaggerated.
What is common to Gaddafi, the CIA, MI-5 and MI-6. The international human rights organization Human Rights Watch has worked closely with the secret archives of Muammar Gaddafi. After the overthrow of the regime, the documents became “ownerless”. But human rights activists drew attention to the headings on the folders in which it was written "United States" and "United Kingdom", transmit "Vesti".
After examining the folders, HRW employees found out that 8 years, from 2003 to 2011, the CIA, MI5 and MI6 worked for Gaddafi, catching and transporting his enemies to Tripoli. The documents also contained evidence of captured Libyans, who said that they had been tortured by the American and British intelligence services.
Human rights activists blamed the United States for aiding the dictatorial regime and human rights violations.
The CIA did not deny cooperation with the intelligence services of Gaddafi and said that it was common practice for intelligence agencies to cooperate with foreign governments in the fight against terrorism.
As for torture, they were used only against those involved in the September 11 act of terrorism, and among them there were no Libyans.
From the UK, a statement was received that they were always against torture.
If Israel hits Iran, then Iran will hit America. Uliana Gortinskaya ("But") told about the statement of Hassan Nasrallah. The Hezbollah leader, in an interview with the Beirut television channel Al Mayadeen, referring to representatives of the Iranian authorities, said that Iran could strike at US military facilities in the Middle East if Israel strikes at Iranian nuclear facilities, even if the Americans do not will have a relationship.
Nasrallah said: “The decision to retaliate has been made, and the answer will be very decisive. The strike will be inflicted not only on the territory of Israel, the target will be American bases throughout the region. If Israel strikes at Iran, America will be held accountable. ”
Israel has no more secrets. As transmits "Lenta.ru" With reference to The Jerusalem Post, Israeli parliamentary opposition leader Shaul Mofaz (the Kadima party) demanded that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be checked in the lie detector. This statement was the reaction of the deputy to the scandal caused by leaks to the press of information from the meeting of the "security cabinet", at which the Iranian topic was discussed.
The fact is that the prime minister, outraged by the publication of meeting data, demanded that the Israeli security service (“Shin Bet”) investigate and find the source of the leak. To this end, he proposed to subject all people present at the meeting to a lie detector.
This question angered the opposition. She believes that it is the prime minister, in pursuit of his political goals, that he “drains” information to journalists. Mofaz said: "The Prime Minister must be the first to be checked, since he presided over the meeting."
Lenta reminds that on Tuesday the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot published an article “The intelligence services cannot agree on Iran.” The material stated that at the meeting of the “Security Cabinet” military intelligence, Mossad and Shin Bet presented completely different assessments of the Iranian nuclear program. They failed to develop a unified point of view on exactly when Iran reaches the “point of no return”.
In Pakistan, child advocates do not complain. Pakistani authorities demanded that all foreign employees of the international organization Save the Children (“Save the Children”) leave the country within a week, reports "Lenta.ru" with reference to The Guardian.
Pakistani authorities claim that they have evidence of the organization’s assistance to the American special services during the operation to eliminate Osama bin Laden.
Rescuers of children are suspected of organizing a meeting of Americans with Pakistani doctor Shakil Afridi. According to Pakistani intelligence, it was Afridi who organized the fake vaccination of the residents of Abbottabad, where bin Laden was hiding, to get a sample of his DNA, and also provided the United States with information about the whereabouts of the terrorist. After being arrested in 2011, Afridi was sentenced to 33 years of imprisonment for high treason.
A representative of Save the Children said that Afridi did not work in the organization, and the organization was not involved in vaccination in Abbottabad.
In February 2012 of the year, reports Lenta, the book Team: Inside the Presidential Secret Army was published in the United States. Its authors claimed that after the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan, the victims of which were 70, thousands of people, dozens of CIA agents were sent to the country - just under the guise of rescuers and humanitarian workers.
The influence of the SCO is growing. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is acting in opposition to the US influence in Afghanistan. This was reported to journalists on Thursday in Moscow after a meeting with teachers of the Academy of the General Staff, the former head of the inter-agency intelligence of Pakistan, Lieutenant-General Asad Durrani, reports RIA News".
Durrani visited Russia with a private visit. "The actions of the SCO are aimed at neutralizing the influence of the United States in Afghanistan," he said.
Durrani also stressed that the influence of the SCO in the region is growing. “The main idea is that while the SCO will act not by military means, its influence will grow,” the general noted.
Supporters of Assange want their money back. Supporters of the founder of WikiLeaks, British cultural figures and media representatives who pledged for his release, probably lost 340 thousand pounds sterling: after all, Assange violated the conditions of release on bail. This was related by Daria Sheremetyeva (Utro.ru).
Among the “victims” are socialite Jemima Khan, journalist John Pilger, director Ken Loach, publisher Felix Dennis, and others. These people paid more than 200 thousand pounds as a guarantee after the arrest of Assange in 2010. They already lost their money, which were confiscated in favor of the state.
Nine people who acted as guarantors of the pledge now appealed to the Main Magistrates Court to try to get the money back. These people contributed amounts from 5 to 20 thousand pounds as a guarantee.
The newspaper “The Guardian” quotes a lawyer for the victims: “No one could have imagined that Assange would violate the conditions for going on bail. Given that the situation with Ecuador has not yet been resolved, perhaps you should wait and see what happens next. ”
Judge Howard Riddle invited the guarantors to ask Assange, who lives in the Ecuadorian embassy, to surrender to the British authorities.
Thus, we add from ourselves, suddenly a lever was found to effectively influence Assange: the wallets of prudent guarantors.
About Quebec arrow. Richard Baine, who opened fire at a separatist party congress in Quebec, was charged in the Montreal court with premeditated murder and attempted murder, reports "Lenta.ru" with reference to France-Presse.
The hearing will be held on October 1. In addition to murder and attempted murder, the shooter was accused of illegal possession of weapons. Three pistols were found in his car and even more than ten in his home. According to Reuters, the car even had five pistols, and at home there were more than 20.
Baine shot at the Quebec Party's 4 September convention in Montreal. As a result of the shooting, one person was killed and one was wounded. The shooter was wearing a blue bathrobe and a black balaclava.
The murderer turned out to be a local English-speaking businessman who has been fishing and hunting since 2009. The motives behind the act of Bane are still unknown.
Canada broke off diplomatic relations with Iran. Canada closes embassy in Tehran and breaks off all diplomatic relations with this country, reports RBC with reference to the Associated Press. Iranian diplomats in Canada have been given five days to leave the country.
A statement by the head of the Canadian Foreign Ministry, John Byrd, says: “Canada regards the Iranian government as the most serious threat to security in the modern world. Under these conditions, Canada can no longer maintain a diplomatic presence in Iran. ”
Among the reasons that prompted Canada to end diplomatic contacts with Iran, Mr. Baird called Iran’s nuclear program, Tehran’s hostility toward Israel (a longtime ally of Canada), and finally, military support for the Bashar Assad regime.
In China, they talked with Hillary Clinton and announced the change of power in Syria. China officially expressed support for a change of political power in Syria, but against foreign intervention, reports "Lenta.ru" with reference to Reuters.
After talks with the US secretary of state in Beijing, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said: "We, like many other countries, fully support the idea of a peaceful transfer of power in Syria."
At the same time, Beijing opposes the repetition of the Libyan scenario and external intervention.
As for the visit of Clinton to China, then "InoSMI" submitted an interesting selection of comments from Chinese bloggers on this grateful topic:
“The big show has begun. Syria is over, now the US hands are free. ”
"Until! You can never come back! ”
"Hillary has come to breed China again!" The higher the level of American officials, the worse they breed, and their words are worth less! ”
"China will not be the mistress of the United States."
“Everywhere they drive in wedges, kindle a fire according to the principle“ the worse, the better. ”
"China's 1,3 billionth is not happy with it, the instigator of instability in the APR, the devil and the instigator of military rivalry in different countries."
"Spit on their American government, they themselves do not respect human rights, everywhere they plant confusion, they are disgusting in their nakedness."
"Americans cannot sexually satisfy Hillary, the United States has almost entered the era of female domination."
“I wonder how Clinton came to China? Usually like: did filth - joy to the heart, isn't it? You got into the problem of the Diaoyu and the South China Sea, and are you doing well at home? ”
“Let this doll clearly understand our boundaries, or demolish its arrogant head with artillery fire!”
“When will the president of the United States become a Chinese? Then all the Chinese people would be happy to support him! ”
"Stupid sheep! You have to blame yourself, not enough pushiness. We give her money, and she also beats us. ”
"A good friend is greeted with wine, and a wolf with a hunting rifle."
Comments are superfluous.
Georgian friend Rasmussen. As handed 6 September correspondent ITAR-TASS Tengiz Pachkoria, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, while in Tbilisi at a joint press conference with the president, said that Georgia "will become a member of NATO," and no country has the right to interfere in the decisions of the alliance.
He stressed: “If the goal of the 2008 conflict of the year was to interfere in NATO’s decision on the open-door policy, to intervene in the expansion policy, I want to assure that this goal has not been achieved. No third country has the right to interfere in the decisions of the alliance. ”
He also expressed the hope that Russia will respect the decision of the independent states on the alliance with NATO.
Good Kuril news. Completed 3-day expedition to the nameless islands of the Kuril ridge, passes Interfax.
On Thursday, expedition members landed on boats on two islands that are located near the island. Shikotan. The third island could not be visited because of the deteriorating weather.
The expedition, which went on the ship “Igor Farkhutdinov”, included 140 people (scientists, journalists and members of the public: doctors, teachers, artists) from Sakhalin and other regions of the Far Eastern Federal District and the Russian Federation. The expedition was organized by the regional government and the Sakhalin regional branch of the Russian Geographical Society.
As Pavel Sviridov writes ("TVNZ"), around Sakhalin islands with no name - near 90, in the Kuril Islands - a little less than 200. Therefore, in the middle of August, a contest was announced for Russians “Name on the map of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands” (rosostrova.ru).
The “top” names offered include: Igor Farkhutdinov, Anton Chekhov, Yuri Nikulin, Anatoly Papanov, Sergey Kapitsa, Andrei Mironov, Georgy Nevelskoy, Yuri Gagarin, Alexander Pushkin. Participants in the competition support the proposal of the historian Nikolai Vishnevsky to name the nameless islands of all fourteen Heroes of the Soviet Union who participated in the liberation of Sakhalin and the Kuriles in August 1945 of the year.
September 3 Scientific Advisory Board summed up the first voting results. The first three nameless islands decided to name the names of Sergey Kapitsa, the untimely deceased Sakhalin Oblast Governor Igor Farkhutdinov and the Hero of the Soviet Union, the commander of the Kuril landing operation 1945, Alexei Gnechko.
On mutual understanding of Lavrov and Clinton. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed an intergovernmental memorandum of understanding on cooperation in the Antarctic and a joint statement on strengthening Russian-American interregional cooperation yesterday at the APEC summit in Vladivostok, "Vesti" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
The memorandum provides for regular consultations between Russia and the United States on the implementation of the objectives and principles of the Antarctic Treaty 1959 of the year, involves cooperation in the field of scientific research, the exchange of experts, information and increased interaction in expeditionary activities. In addition, it is assumed that the United States and Russia will continue to jointly inspect stations of third states in order to monitor compliance with the Antarctic demilitarization regime and environmental compliance. The first such inspection, reminiscent of "Vesti", took place in January 2012, on the basis of the American station. The next one is scheduled for the end of the year, it will be held on the basis of the Russian Novolazarevskoye station.
Also, the heads of the foreign affairs agencies adopted a statement on cooperation between Russia and the United States in the Bering Strait region. The document also concerns the creation of the Berengia nature reserve in Chukotka and Alaska.
Finally, Hillary Clinton said that the visa facilitation agreement (effective September 9) is of particular importance for relations between the two countries. She called this agreement very important for Russian-American relations. Now, thanks to visa liberalization, it will be more convenient for businessmen in the United States and Russia to make business trips.
Obama is true to the idea of "reloading." As transmits Rosbaltreferring to the RSN, US President Barack Obama promised, in the event of re-election, to continue the "reset" with Russia. So it says in the program of the Congress of the US Democratic Party.
Obama expressed a wish for Washington and Moscow to work together on a plan to reduce nuclear arsenals. Together, the United States and Russia can achieve a worldwide ban on nuclear testing.
Earlier it was reported that the pre-election ratings of Barack Obama and his rival Republican Mitt Romney caught up (results of a Reuters / Ipsos poll published on September 2). For both candidates for the presidency are ready to cast votes on 45% of voters.
Million for blackmailers. How to transmit "Vesti" With reference to the media, the attackers stole Mitt Romney's income data and now promise to return it for a million dollar reward. Otherwise they will transfer the papers to the press.
The secret service is already investigating this case.
The blackmailers claim that they stole the data of M. Romney from the office of PricewaterhouseCoopers. At night, they entered the building of the company and copied all the tax returns from the computer.
By the way, Mitt Romney refutes everything, but rumors about his dislike for the tax authorities, “Vesti” is noted, have been around for a long time ...
Twitter suicide Barack Obama arrested. The US Secret Service arrested a man who threatened to kill Obama during a Democratic Party convention in Charlotte specialist. correspondent ITAR-TASS Dmitry Kirsanov and Ivan Lebedev.
On Thursday, US authorities reported on the arrest of 21-year-old local resident Donte Jamar Sims, who posted on the Twitter account of plans to attack the head of state.
In particular, this Mr. wrote that "tonight will kill President Obama." A record full of mistakes appeared on Monday, one day before the opening of the convention and two days before arriving in Obama.
During interrogation, Sims admitted that he made an entry on Twitter, smoking marijuana. However, he did not hide the fact that he hates the president. However, frightened by the court, he wrote an apology.
If a marijuana smoker is found guilty, he can get a prison sentence of up to five years.
"Millennium of Darkness" for America. American actor Chuck Norris and his wife believe that America will have a thousand years of darkness if the current president is re-elected. Norris stated this in a video message, which he recorded with his wife and posted on Youtube, writes Cyril Rozhkov (Utro.ru).
“Our great country and our freedom are under threat,” said C. Norris. “We are at a turning point, and our country, as we know it, can be lost forever if we do not change the course in which it moves.”
Chuck does not like the fact that the country "is following the path of socialism or something worse."
Obama’s victory will be the first step in the Millennium of Darkness, the actor’s wife adds.
Republican Norris, notes Morning, has long criticized Obama’s policies. For example, in 2009, in his column on a conservative site, the actor said that if Medicare (Obama’s health care reform), which makes medical care available to most Americans, was held in Bethlehem, Jesus would not have been born, because Mary could would afford an abortion.
Rich Norris, a supporter of rich Romney, should know, for example, how many Americans can now afford medical expenses, and how many medical debtors have accumulated in a “great country” that supposedly took the course of “the road of socialism”.
83.046 dollars for three hours in the hospital. American journalist Michael Snyder ("Infowars") just a lot is known about what and how much is in shtatovskoy medicine.
The fastest way to go broke in America, he writes, is to go to the hospital. It seems that today every American has outrageous hospital stories that he is ready to share.
For example, recently a woman from Arizona was hospitalized with 83046 $ for 3 hours of visits.
Snyder believes that a visit to the doctor should not cost more than a couple hundred bucks, and a hospital stay is no more than a couple thousand dollars.
41 is a percentage of all Americans working, he recalls, owed medicine. “This is because our health care system has turned into a giant money-pumping scam.” Millions of Americans are treated, and then get incredible, outrageous bills - and in many cases, brutal debt collection methods are used against them.
“So why should we pay so much for medical care? Back in 1980, less than 10 percent of US GDP went to health care. Today, about 18 percent of US GDP goes to healthcare. ”
Snyder also writes about the aging of the nation: “... over the next 20 years, the number of Americans at the age of 65 and older is predicted to double ...” That is, the costs will increase even more.
America spent 2470 billions on health care in 2009. The journalist predicts that “we will spend 4500 billion dollars on health care in 2019 year”.
Moreover, Snyder does not believe that Obama’s Medicare program will correct the situation. After all, the American "system is completely broken ..." What is the way out? Here it is: "... quit the whole system and start all over again."
So, the journalist is talking about a rotten system. He illustrates the decay with the example of 52-year-old Marcy Edmonds, who went to a hospital in the state of Arizona in order to undergo treatment after a scorpion bite.
She called the Poison Control Center, where she was advised to go to the nearest hospital, Chandler Regional Medical Center. At the hospital, an emergency doctor told her about the Anascorp antidote, which can quickly relieve her symptoms. According to Edmonds, the doctor did not tell her about the cost of the drug or alternative treatment.
After three hours, she felt better, and she was discharged from the hospital. A few weeks later, she received an 83046 $ bill from the Chandler Regional Medical Center. The dose of Anascorp was worth 39652 $!
But Snyder was much more struck by the fact that for a similar dose of the same drug, hospitals in Mexico take only 100 $.
Snyder cites other “small” accounts of Americans in the article: one healed from osteochondrosis at 66013,40 $, the other had digestion upset (in fact, was not even upset) that he had flown into 11000 dollars - because of which he was declared bankrupt.
It was estimated, Snyder writes further, that American hospitals, by inflating prices, rob their patients by about 10 billion dollars each year.
And bloated medical bills are the number one cause of bankruptcies of ordinary Americans. Moreover, the insurance protects little: about 75% of bankrupts did have medical insurance.
And if you don’t pay bills, the journalist says, many hospitals will chase you mercilessly. Special collection agencies tried to get unpaid medical bills for about thirty million Americans in 2010 alone! These guys can put you in jail!
Yes, the system is no good ... A patient in Illinois was presented with 12712 $ (cataract surgery), and Medicare only gives 675 $ for this. In California, the patient was billed at 20120 $ (knee surgery), but according to Medicare, he will receive only 584 $. In Jersey, the patient decided to take 72000 $ for back surgery, but Medicare only covers 1629 $.
Thus, the author sums up, “we not only pay very high taxes in order to support the Medicaid and Medicare insurance programs, but also have to pay higher medical bills ...”
“We are facing the greatest health crisis in the United States,” writes the journalist, “like whom they have never seen before. And none of our leaders seem to give an answer. ”
Snyder sums it up: “I absolutely dislike the state of our health care system. It is ruled by government officials, pharmaceutical corporations and large health insurance companies. This is a huge money scam, this desire to pump out as much as possible from all of us ... "
For Chuck Norris, let us add, Romney’s associate (for both a few tens of thousands of dollars is nothing), there is simply no acute question of bankruptcy. As for corporations, it is known that Mitt Romney is a big business fan himself, because big business, in the opinion of his and his supporters, pays and the biggest taxes. From whose pocket these taxes are taken, Romney, like the Republicans in general, wisely does not specify.
President Clinton? Corr. RIA "News" Maria Tabak reported that the speech of Bill Clinton, who supported the current head of state Barack Obama at the Democratic Party convention, raised in the United States the question of nominating Clinton's wife as president in 2016.
The ex-president said that he was proud of his wife, and he was also grateful to the Obama team: after all, with these people America became stronger, and in the world she had more partners, and fewer enemies.
Bill's wife liked the speech. Interestingly, the words of the ex-president about her seemed to many not just an appropriate insert in speech. Several prominent members of the Democratic Party immediately declared that Hillary had a good chance of being elected in 2016.
Colorado's governor, Democrat John Hickenlooper, told reporters bluntly: “At least half of those who are now called potential candidates for nomination in 2016, will give up their claims if she chooses to be elected. There is no doubt about that. ”
Jamie Harrison, deputy chairman of the Democratic Party’s office in South Carolina, said that if H. Clinton went to the polls, the main struggle would be for the vice-president’s place. There will be no competitors near Clinton within the game. And the head of the Democratic Party of South. Caroline Dick Harputlyan said: “I supported Barak in 2008, and now I will wait for her. Talk now only about her.
No wonder, add on my own. IN USA there is talk that America is not ruled by Obama proper, but by Hillary Clinton. The Iraqi solution is its solution. The Syrian decision, if, of course, it follows, will also be its decision. Why would Hillary not end his long political career with such a brilliant finale? In this case, journalists will not have to put forward versions of the disadvantaged Barack Obama, who, like Bill Clinton, writes Hillary - the same frantic secretary of state, whose main slogan is: "Assad must go." Analysts will not have to wrestle with their thoughts, which is why “we say“ Obama ”, we mean“ Clinton ”. Complete harmony will come to Washington: Clinton's vigorous theories will no longer disagree with the sluggish practice of the White House.
In an interview with Russia Today, the president said: “In our opinion, the most important thing today is to stop the violence, make all parties to the conflict (and the government part, and the so-called rebels, the armed opposition) sit down at the negotiating table, determine the future that ensures the safety of all participants of the internal political process, and only after that proceed to some practical steps regarding the internal structure of the country itself. ”
According to Comrade Putin, the top priority is to stop the supply of weapons in the conflict zone. In addition, you can not impose development options that are unacceptable for Syria.
The Russian president said that someone would like to use Al-Qaeda fighters or people from other organizations, who also have extreme views about achieving their own goals in Syria. Putin pointed out: “This is a very dangerous and short-sighted policy. But then you need to take now and open the gates of Guantanamo and from there start all the prisoners of Guantanamo to Syria, let them fight. After all, in fact it is the same. Just do not forget that then these citizens will strike their benefactors. ”
How the West became a satellite of Saudi Arabia and Qatar, or the Islamist winter
In the article by Alain Shue and Georges Mallbrune, "The West is naive or just does not know much about Syria?" ("Le Figaro", France; source of translation - "InoSMI") an analysis of the situation around Syria, belonging to the former high-ranking representative of French intelligence. The opinion of Alain Shue, an expert on Syria with more than forty years of experience, runs counter to the demagogic rhetoric of Western European politicians, including the snappy statements of the French President F. Hollande.
The expression "Arab Spring" Alain Shue replaces the phrase "Islamist winter." Referring to the revolt in Sidi Bouzid 17 of December 2010, he writes that the fire spread from Tunisia to Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen and, finally, Syria. But, in his opinion, those who believe that these protests and popular movements are the fruit of the activity of active groups in social networks are fundamentally wrong. Indeed, in these countries only an “advanced” minority has access to the Internet, and censorship is developed there. It can be, for example, simply about the division of wealth. And we must not forget that all these insurrections and revolutions of the Arab world are interconnected by financing from Qatar and other monarchies of the Persian Gulf, as well as the active participation of the Muslim Brotherhood. The consequences are already visible in Tunisia and Libya, and will soon manifest themselves in Egypt. So says the analyst.
In his opinion, this is about the power of religious fundamentalists. For some half a year, the “Arab Spring” managed to turn into an “Islamist winter”.
But how did it happen, the author wonders, that Europe has supported movements that act not only against the interests of nations, but also against its interests? After all, the movement of "winter" to a new form of hidden submission does not bode well for the future.
Concerning the Syrian conflict, Shue takes the position opposite to the generally accepted Western views. In the West, the analyst says, public opinion is in most cases “distinguished by enthusiasm and naivety.”
After all, only a naive person, the expert writes, is able to believe that in a state half a century under dictatorial regimes, freedom and democracy suddenly jumped out like a genie from a bottle - only because Syria has the Internet. The analyst recalls that the network can be used in Syria by a small minority, and among the most privileged segments of society.
The author recalls that after the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, the Islamist parties, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis received the overwhelming majority of parliamentary seats. Today they are moving further and further away from the demands of the people who brought them to power.
“They are experienced hypocrites,” says Alain Shue, “and their actions are fundamentally contrary to their statements. So, in 2011, on the Tahrir Square in Egypt, they argued that they didn’t seek power at all, whereas today they are trying to achieve the presidency of the country, the parliamentary majority and all the political power. In Tunisia, they officially refused to include Sharia law in the constitution, but now they organize in provinces and cities of medium importance, which do not attract the attention of the Western media, religious committees to implement sharia-based resolutions. ”
These movements receive generous funding from Saudi Arabia and Qatar (for which they are the key to dominance in the Arab world). They have all the means to purchase, support, and form an electorate capable of consolidating their dominant position in relation to scattered and poor democratic forces. “Disorder reigns in Libya and Yemen,” the author writes. “After NATO forces far exceeded their UN mandate and destroyed the not too plausible regime of Colonel Gaddafi, the country became hostage to the appetites of rival gangs and tribes, who decided to defend their possessions and access to rent with arms. The ephemeral Transitional National Council, which praised the notorious Bernard-Henri Levy, is now falling to pieces under the blows of the leaders of Islamist gangs. Some of them are al-Qaida's former militants who receive support and funding from Qatar: Doha intends to play an active role in resolving all issues and get its share in the development of the country's hydrocarbon resources. ”
For all his criticism of Western positions, a French expert who lived in Syria for several years and regularly happens there for 45 years (that is, he knows her better than Western journalists who have spent several hours in Damascus and set up two dozen reports later). I am not delighted with how the Syrian society is organized: “From the end of the 1970-s, I had a lot of work to meet with representatives of the Syrian civilian and military special services. I could personally make sure that they do not shy away from the toughest means and can simply behave like savages. The point is not that they understand human rights differently from us. They do not understand any human rights at all ... "Why? Shue explains this syrian historyfull of cruelty. The current power in Syria, the French analyst describes as "authoritarian, brutal and closed regime."
However, Shue says, the Syrian regime is not the dictatorship of one person or family. Bashar Asad - the tip of a complex community iceberg. Two million Alawites are determined to fight for their survival, and several million different minorities will fight with them, who may lose a lot due to the Islamists coming to power (and this, the author suggests, is the only political future of the region that considers West).
Alain Shue recalls that the Syrian National Council demonstrated the true intentions and aspirations in Syria by repainting the national flag. The red color on the flag of Syria embodies the socialist aspirations of the regime, the author writes. But the SNA - immediately after its creation - replaced the red stripe with the green color of Islamism. “You yourself could be convinced of this,” says Shue, “during opposition demonstrations, in which frenzied cries of“ Allah Akbar! ”Are heard more often than democratic slogans. With all this, the Muslim Brotherhood’s dominant position in the SNS, which was provided by the Turkish AKP and the US Department of State, is beginning to irritate almost all players ”(including the opposition within the opposition: for example, Kurds who belong to the SNS: Kurds are not Arabs, and therefore the Arabs look down on them, and America, through the mouth of the State Department, recommends obeying the Muslim Brotherhood).
The West, led by France, the author believes, has offered the vulnerable Syrian minorities nothing but “peremptory condemnation and often hysterical anathema, ensuring everywhere (political and sometimes military) the rise to power of Islamists and the dominance of theocratic states that support political Salafism” . What next? But: “Oil theocracies got rid of (certainly not too virtuous) leaders of Arab nationalism, such as Saddam Hussein, Ben Ali, Mubarak and Gaddafi ... Now they are no longer prevented from gaining control over the League of Arab States with their petrodollars and turn it into a means of pressure on the international community and the UN to support fundamentalist political movements that strengthen their legitimacy and protect against any form of democratic protest. "
But the West is something? .. Shue is surprised: “Much more questions are caused by the desire of the West to establish integrist regimes everywhere, in which there is even less democracy than in the dictatorships they have replaced. Although the West is so eager to condemn Islamism on its own territory, this does not prevent it from stimulating such maneuvers in the Muslim and Arab world. ” Europe does not care about Bahrain, Mali, the killing of Nigerian Christians by the Boko Haram troops, or the kidnapping of four International Criminal Court employees by Libyan "revolutionaries", but she also yells about the Assad regime, which has not yet been replaced by "democracy." Where is the logic, where is the common sense? The author writes about the "incomprehensible schizophrenia of our politicians and the media," and says that "the massive investments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia into our economy" serve to raise barbarism, which, whatever the Europeans might think about it, can harm them.
Thus, let us add on our own, the expert is convinced of the “naivety” of the West, or prefers the mentioned “naivety” to be replaced by “incomprehensible schizophrenia”. There is no doubt, schizophrenia and naivety in advanced Western society is enough, but Comrade Shue forgot about the transatlantic monster-puppeteer, who has long been accustomed to pull the strings of geopolitics, comfortably settled in the White House. If Saudi Arabia and Qatar (Turkey ought to be added here) consider themselves serious players in the international arena, then this is only due to their imaginary friendship with the United States, whose interests are in world hegemony. Once chaos in the Arab world reaches the desired degree (almost reached), neither Saudi Arabia, nor Qatar, nor even the omnipresent Al Qaeda will be needed by America. A crumbling “gerontocracy” among the Saudis will be an excellent reason for a change of power in Riyadh - judging by the time of year, not by the “Arab spring”, but by the “Islamist winter”.
Crisis Europe (and in France, not the worst country in the economic sense, unemployment has already surpassed the 10% of the active population), albeit united in the European Union, does not have its own policy, clearly distinguished from the policy of the United States. If Hollande says something, then he consults with the CIA. If Levi told his friend Sarkozy to recognize the Libyan PNS, then he knew that America wanted it. Europe is secondary in everything, and America is primary. Hillary Clinton is the master's voice!
The difference between Western Europe and Sadovsk Arabia and Qatar is that if the latter are relatively rich oil and gas powers that can fully sponsor Islamist revolutions, Europe (excluding Germany) is drowning in the abyss of the economic crisis and hopes to snatch at least a tiny bit when redistributing the arab world.
Especially do not count on it! The Department of State sausage will be eaten by itself, while the French will, at best, get the skin and trim.
"Nothing but death, fear and chaos." Recently, the Catholic nun Agnès-Mariam de la Croix, the mother superior of the monastery of Saint-Jacques de l'Intercis, who has lived in Syria for more than 20 years, addressed the world community, reports "Holy Mountain".
This nun became famous after exposing the lies of the world media who blamed the killing of civilians in the city of Hula on the Syrian authorities. Agnes-Mariam, relying on the testimony of the congregation's parishioners, accused the Islamist mercenaries of mass extermination of civilians.
Militants, according to the nuns, “at any time, one person or another can be liquidated, accusing him of collaborating with the authorities ... Last week, in the village where our monastery is located, the person accused of complicity with the regime was cut off his fingers and then his head. The unfortunate was cut into pieces and laid right on the road, so that even small children could see him.
Such barbaric acts are weakly matched with the statement that there is a struggle for the liberation of the Syrian people. ”
“In desperation,” said the nun, “we are led by the fact that the Western world actually supports the growth of religious fanaticism and violence, wanting at any cost to change the power in Syria ...
Leave the people of Syria alone. You have brought us nothing but death, fear and chaos. ”
About some exaggerations. Ilya Plekhanov ("InoSMI") Criticized NBC News information about Turkey’s possible transfer of two dozen MANPADS to the Syrian rebels. The source of such an “information bomb” turned out to be anonymous Syrian “insurgents”. Turkey did not respond to the accusations, but the world media happily picked up the story. The hype went further: recently, the rebels said they would shoot down civilian aircraft over Damascus and Aleppo.
Even the Russian Foreign Ministry reacted to this duck. “The Syrian armed opposition now threatens to shoot down civilian aircraft in Syria. This is the result of an irresponsible transfer of MANPADS into their hands, ”wrote Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov in his Twitter.
However, American military journalist Chivers and journalist Damien Splitters, after conducting a study, rendered their verdict: the insurgents have some components of the Strela-2 MANPADS (they are visible in the photographs and video filming of the rebels). But almost everywhere there is no power supply complexes. Experts also believe that the main source of MANPADS - looted warehouses of the Syrian army.
Therefore, the hype around the MANPADS of the Syrian rebels and the transfer of their complexes from Turkey can be considered exaggerated.
What is common to Gaddafi, the CIA, MI-5 and MI-6. The international human rights organization Human Rights Watch has worked closely with the secret archives of Muammar Gaddafi. After the overthrow of the regime, the documents became “ownerless”. But human rights activists drew attention to the headings on the folders in which it was written "United States" and "United Kingdom", transmit "Vesti".
After examining the folders, HRW employees found out that 8 years, from 2003 to 2011, the CIA, MI5 and MI6 worked for Gaddafi, catching and transporting his enemies to Tripoli. The documents also contained evidence of captured Libyans, who said that they had been tortured by the American and British intelligence services.
Human rights activists blamed the United States for aiding the dictatorial regime and human rights violations.
The CIA did not deny cooperation with the intelligence services of Gaddafi and said that it was common practice for intelligence agencies to cooperate with foreign governments in the fight against terrorism.
As for torture, they were used only against those involved in the September 11 act of terrorism, and among them there were no Libyans.
From the UK, a statement was received that they were always against torture.
If Israel hits Iran, then Iran will hit America. Uliana Gortinskaya ("But") told about the statement of Hassan Nasrallah. The Hezbollah leader, in an interview with the Beirut television channel Al Mayadeen, referring to representatives of the Iranian authorities, said that Iran could strike at US military facilities in the Middle East if Israel strikes at Iranian nuclear facilities, even if the Americans do not will have a relationship.
Nasrallah said: “The decision to retaliate has been made, and the answer will be very decisive. The strike will be inflicted not only on the territory of Israel, the target will be American bases throughout the region. If Israel strikes at Iran, America will be held accountable. ”
Israel has no more secrets. As transmits "Lenta.ru" With reference to The Jerusalem Post, Israeli parliamentary opposition leader Shaul Mofaz (the Kadima party) demanded that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be checked in the lie detector. This statement was the reaction of the deputy to the scandal caused by leaks to the press of information from the meeting of the "security cabinet", at which the Iranian topic was discussed.
The fact is that the prime minister, outraged by the publication of meeting data, demanded that the Israeli security service (“Shin Bet”) investigate and find the source of the leak. To this end, he proposed to subject all people present at the meeting to a lie detector.
This question angered the opposition. She believes that it is the prime minister, in pursuit of his political goals, that he “drains” information to journalists. Mofaz said: "The Prime Minister must be the first to be checked, since he presided over the meeting."
Lenta reminds that on Tuesday the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot published an article “The intelligence services cannot agree on Iran.” The material stated that at the meeting of the “Security Cabinet” military intelligence, Mossad and Shin Bet presented completely different assessments of the Iranian nuclear program. They failed to develop a unified point of view on exactly when Iran reaches the “point of no return”.
In Pakistan, child advocates do not complain. Pakistani authorities demanded that all foreign employees of the international organization Save the Children (“Save the Children”) leave the country within a week, reports "Lenta.ru" with reference to The Guardian.
Pakistani authorities claim that they have evidence of the organization’s assistance to the American special services during the operation to eliminate Osama bin Laden.
Rescuers of children are suspected of organizing a meeting of Americans with Pakistani doctor Shakil Afridi. According to Pakistani intelligence, it was Afridi who organized the fake vaccination of the residents of Abbottabad, where bin Laden was hiding, to get a sample of his DNA, and also provided the United States with information about the whereabouts of the terrorist. After being arrested in 2011, Afridi was sentenced to 33 years of imprisonment for high treason.
A representative of Save the Children said that Afridi did not work in the organization, and the organization was not involved in vaccination in Abbottabad.
In February 2012 of the year, reports Lenta, the book Team: Inside the Presidential Secret Army was published in the United States. Its authors claimed that after the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan, the victims of which were 70, thousands of people, dozens of CIA agents were sent to the country - just under the guise of rescuers and humanitarian workers.
The influence of the SCO is growing. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is acting in opposition to the US influence in Afghanistan. This was reported to journalists on Thursday in Moscow after a meeting with teachers of the Academy of the General Staff, the former head of the inter-agency intelligence of Pakistan, Lieutenant-General Asad Durrani, reports RIA News".
Durrani visited Russia with a private visit. "The actions of the SCO are aimed at neutralizing the influence of the United States in Afghanistan," he said.
Durrani also stressed that the influence of the SCO in the region is growing. “The main idea is that while the SCO will act not by military means, its influence will grow,” the general noted.
Supporters of Assange want their money back. Supporters of the founder of WikiLeaks, British cultural figures and media representatives who pledged for his release, probably lost 340 thousand pounds sterling: after all, Assange violated the conditions of release on bail. This was related by Daria Sheremetyeva (Utro.ru).
Among the “victims” are socialite Jemima Khan, journalist John Pilger, director Ken Loach, publisher Felix Dennis, and others. These people paid more than 200 thousand pounds as a guarantee after the arrest of Assange in 2010. They already lost their money, which were confiscated in favor of the state.
Nine people who acted as guarantors of the pledge now appealed to the Main Magistrates Court to try to get the money back. These people contributed amounts from 5 to 20 thousand pounds as a guarantee.
The newspaper “The Guardian” quotes a lawyer for the victims: “No one could have imagined that Assange would violate the conditions for going on bail. Given that the situation with Ecuador has not yet been resolved, perhaps you should wait and see what happens next. ”
Judge Howard Riddle invited the guarantors to ask Assange, who lives in the Ecuadorian embassy, to surrender to the British authorities.
Thus, we add from ourselves, suddenly a lever was found to effectively influence Assange: the wallets of prudent guarantors.
About Quebec arrow. Richard Baine, who opened fire at a separatist party congress in Quebec, was charged in the Montreal court with premeditated murder and attempted murder, reports "Lenta.ru" with reference to France-Presse.
The hearing will be held on October 1. In addition to murder and attempted murder, the shooter was accused of illegal possession of weapons. Three pistols were found in his car and even more than ten in his home. According to Reuters, the car even had five pistols, and at home there were more than 20.
Baine shot at the Quebec Party's 4 September convention in Montreal. As a result of the shooting, one person was killed and one was wounded. The shooter was wearing a blue bathrobe and a black balaclava.
The murderer turned out to be a local English-speaking businessman who has been fishing and hunting since 2009. The motives behind the act of Bane are still unknown.
Canada broke off diplomatic relations with Iran. Canada closes embassy in Tehran and breaks off all diplomatic relations with this country, reports RBC with reference to the Associated Press. Iranian diplomats in Canada have been given five days to leave the country.
A statement by the head of the Canadian Foreign Ministry, John Byrd, says: “Canada regards the Iranian government as the most serious threat to security in the modern world. Under these conditions, Canada can no longer maintain a diplomatic presence in Iran. ”
Among the reasons that prompted Canada to end diplomatic contacts with Iran, Mr. Baird called Iran’s nuclear program, Tehran’s hostility toward Israel (a longtime ally of Canada), and finally, military support for the Bashar Assad regime.
In China, they talked with Hillary Clinton and announced the change of power in Syria. China officially expressed support for a change of political power in Syria, but against foreign intervention, reports "Lenta.ru" with reference to Reuters.
After talks with the US secretary of state in Beijing, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said: "We, like many other countries, fully support the idea of a peaceful transfer of power in Syria."
At the same time, Beijing opposes the repetition of the Libyan scenario and external intervention.
As for the visit of Clinton to China, then "InoSMI" submitted an interesting selection of comments from Chinese bloggers on this grateful topic:
“The big show has begun. Syria is over, now the US hands are free. ”
"Until! You can never come back! ”
"Hillary has come to breed China again!" The higher the level of American officials, the worse they breed, and their words are worth less! ”
"China will not be the mistress of the United States."
“Everywhere they drive in wedges, kindle a fire according to the principle“ the worse, the better. ”
"China's 1,3 billionth is not happy with it, the instigator of instability in the APR, the devil and the instigator of military rivalry in different countries."
"Spit on their American government, they themselves do not respect human rights, everywhere they plant confusion, they are disgusting in their nakedness."
"Americans cannot sexually satisfy Hillary, the United States has almost entered the era of female domination."
“I wonder how Clinton came to China? Usually like: did filth - joy to the heart, isn't it? You got into the problem of the Diaoyu and the South China Sea, and are you doing well at home? ”
“Let this doll clearly understand our boundaries, or demolish its arrogant head with artillery fire!”
“When will the president of the United States become a Chinese? Then all the Chinese people would be happy to support him! ”
"Stupid sheep! You have to blame yourself, not enough pushiness. We give her money, and she also beats us. ”
"A good friend is greeted with wine, and a wolf with a hunting rifle."
Comments are superfluous.
Georgian friend Rasmussen. As handed 6 September correspondent ITAR-TASS Tengiz Pachkoria, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, while in Tbilisi at a joint press conference with the president, said that Georgia "will become a member of NATO," and no country has the right to interfere in the decisions of the alliance.
He stressed: “If the goal of the 2008 conflict of the year was to interfere in NATO’s decision on the open-door policy, to intervene in the expansion policy, I want to assure that this goal has not been achieved. No third country has the right to interfere in the decisions of the alliance. ”
He also expressed the hope that Russia will respect the decision of the independent states on the alliance with NATO.
Good Kuril news. Completed 3-day expedition to the nameless islands of the Kuril ridge, passes Interfax.
On Thursday, expedition members landed on boats on two islands that are located near the island. Shikotan. The third island could not be visited because of the deteriorating weather.
The expedition, which went on the ship “Igor Farkhutdinov”, included 140 people (scientists, journalists and members of the public: doctors, teachers, artists) from Sakhalin and other regions of the Far Eastern Federal District and the Russian Federation. The expedition was organized by the regional government and the Sakhalin regional branch of the Russian Geographical Society.
As Pavel Sviridov writes ("TVNZ"), around Sakhalin islands with no name - near 90, in the Kuril Islands - a little less than 200. Therefore, in the middle of August, a contest was announced for Russians “Name on the map of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands” (rosostrova.ru).
The “top” names offered include: Igor Farkhutdinov, Anton Chekhov, Yuri Nikulin, Anatoly Papanov, Sergey Kapitsa, Andrei Mironov, Georgy Nevelskoy, Yuri Gagarin, Alexander Pushkin. Participants in the competition support the proposal of the historian Nikolai Vishnevsky to name the nameless islands of all fourteen Heroes of the Soviet Union who participated in the liberation of Sakhalin and the Kuriles in August 1945 of the year.
September 3 Scientific Advisory Board summed up the first voting results. The first three nameless islands decided to name the names of Sergey Kapitsa, the untimely deceased Sakhalin Oblast Governor Igor Farkhutdinov and the Hero of the Soviet Union, the commander of the Kuril landing operation 1945, Alexei Gnechko.
On mutual understanding of Lavrov and Clinton. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed an intergovernmental memorandum of understanding on cooperation in the Antarctic and a joint statement on strengthening Russian-American interregional cooperation yesterday at the APEC summit in Vladivostok, "Vesti" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
The memorandum provides for regular consultations between Russia and the United States on the implementation of the objectives and principles of the Antarctic Treaty 1959 of the year, involves cooperation in the field of scientific research, the exchange of experts, information and increased interaction in expeditionary activities. In addition, it is assumed that the United States and Russia will continue to jointly inspect stations of third states in order to monitor compliance with the Antarctic demilitarization regime and environmental compliance. The first such inspection, reminiscent of "Vesti", took place in January 2012, on the basis of the American station. The next one is scheduled for the end of the year, it will be held on the basis of the Russian Novolazarevskoye station.
Also, the heads of the foreign affairs agencies adopted a statement on cooperation between Russia and the United States in the Bering Strait region. The document also concerns the creation of the Berengia nature reserve in Chukotka and Alaska.
Finally, Hillary Clinton said that the visa facilitation agreement (effective September 9) is of particular importance for relations between the two countries. She called this agreement very important for Russian-American relations. Now, thanks to visa liberalization, it will be more convenient for businessmen in the United States and Russia to make business trips.
Obama is true to the idea of "reloading." As transmits Rosbaltreferring to the RSN, US President Barack Obama promised, in the event of re-election, to continue the "reset" with Russia. So it says in the program of the Congress of the US Democratic Party.
Obama expressed a wish for Washington and Moscow to work together on a plan to reduce nuclear arsenals. Together, the United States and Russia can achieve a worldwide ban on nuclear testing.
Earlier it was reported that the pre-election ratings of Barack Obama and his rival Republican Mitt Romney caught up (results of a Reuters / Ipsos poll published on September 2). For both candidates for the presidency are ready to cast votes on 45% of voters.
Million for blackmailers. How to transmit "Vesti" With reference to the media, the attackers stole Mitt Romney's income data and now promise to return it for a million dollar reward. Otherwise they will transfer the papers to the press.
The secret service is already investigating this case.
The blackmailers claim that they stole the data of M. Romney from the office of PricewaterhouseCoopers. At night, they entered the building of the company and copied all the tax returns from the computer.
By the way, Mitt Romney refutes everything, but rumors about his dislike for the tax authorities, “Vesti” is noted, have been around for a long time ...
Twitter suicide Barack Obama arrested. The US Secret Service arrested a man who threatened to kill Obama during a Democratic Party convention in Charlotte specialist. correspondent ITAR-TASS Dmitry Kirsanov and Ivan Lebedev.
On Thursday, US authorities reported on the arrest of 21-year-old local resident Donte Jamar Sims, who posted on the Twitter account of plans to attack the head of state.
In particular, this Mr. wrote that "tonight will kill President Obama." A record full of mistakes appeared on Monday, one day before the opening of the convention and two days before arriving in Obama.
During interrogation, Sims admitted that he made an entry on Twitter, smoking marijuana. However, he did not hide the fact that he hates the president. However, frightened by the court, he wrote an apology.
If a marijuana smoker is found guilty, he can get a prison sentence of up to five years.
"Millennium of Darkness" for America. American actor Chuck Norris and his wife believe that America will have a thousand years of darkness if the current president is re-elected. Norris stated this in a video message, which he recorded with his wife and posted on Youtube, writes Cyril Rozhkov (Utro.ru).
“Our great country and our freedom are under threat,” said C. Norris. “We are at a turning point, and our country, as we know it, can be lost forever if we do not change the course in which it moves.”
Chuck does not like the fact that the country "is following the path of socialism or something worse."
Obama’s victory will be the first step in the Millennium of Darkness, the actor’s wife adds.
Republican Norris, notes Morning, has long criticized Obama’s policies. For example, in 2009, in his column on a conservative site, the actor said that if Medicare (Obama’s health care reform), which makes medical care available to most Americans, was held in Bethlehem, Jesus would not have been born, because Mary could would afford an abortion.
Rich Norris, a supporter of rich Romney, should know, for example, how many Americans can now afford medical expenses, and how many medical debtors have accumulated in a “great country” that supposedly took the course of “the road of socialism”.
83.046 dollars for three hours in the hospital. American journalist Michael Snyder ("Infowars") just a lot is known about what and how much is in shtatovskoy medicine.
The fastest way to go broke in America, he writes, is to go to the hospital. It seems that today every American has outrageous hospital stories that he is ready to share.
For example, recently a woman from Arizona was hospitalized with 83046 $ for 3 hours of visits.
Snyder believes that a visit to the doctor should not cost more than a couple hundred bucks, and a hospital stay is no more than a couple thousand dollars.
41 is a percentage of all Americans working, he recalls, owed medicine. “This is because our health care system has turned into a giant money-pumping scam.” Millions of Americans are treated, and then get incredible, outrageous bills - and in many cases, brutal debt collection methods are used against them.
“So why should we pay so much for medical care? Back in 1980, less than 10 percent of US GDP went to health care. Today, about 18 percent of US GDP goes to healthcare. ”
Snyder also writes about the aging of the nation: “... over the next 20 years, the number of Americans at the age of 65 and older is predicted to double ...” That is, the costs will increase even more.
America spent 2470 billions on health care in 2009. The journalist predicts that “we will spend 4500 billion dollars on health care in 2019 year”.
Moreover, Snyder does not believe that Obama’s Medicare program will correct the situation. After all, the American "system is completely broken ..." What is the way out? Here it is: "... quit the whole system and start all over again."
So, the journalist is talking about a rotten system. He illustrates the decay with the example of 52-year-old Marcy Edmonds, who went to a hospital in the state of Arizona in order to undergo treatment after a scorpion bite.
She called the Poison Control Center, where she was advised to go to the nearest hospital, Chandler Regional Medical Center. At the hospital, an emergency doctor told her about the Anascorp antidote, which can quickly relieve her symptoms. According to Edmonds, the doctor did not tell her about the cost of the drug or alternative treatment.
After three hours, she felt better, and she was discharged from the hospital. A few weeks later, she received an 83046 $ bill from the Chandler Regional Medical Center. The dose of Anascorp was worth 39652 $!
But Snyder was much more struck by the fact that for a similar dose of the same drug, hospitals in Mexico take only 100 $.
Snyder cites other “small” accounts of Americans in the article: one healed from osteochondrosis at 66013,40 $, the other had digestion upset (in fact, was not even upset) that he had flown into 11000 dollars - because of which he was declared bankrupt.
It was estimated, Snyder writes further, that American hospitals, by inflating prices, rob their patients by about 10 billion dollars each year.
And bloated medical bills are the number one cause of bankruptcies of ordinary Americans. Moreover, the insurance protects little: about 75% of bankrupts did have medical insurance.
And if you don’t pay bills, the journalist says, many hospitals will chase you mercilessly. Special collection agencies tried to get unpaid medical bills for about thirty million Americans in 2010 alone! These guys can put you in jail!
Yes, the system is no good ... A patient in Illinois was presented with 12712 $ (cataract surgery), and Medicare only gives 675 $ for this. In California, the patient was billed at 20120 $ (knee surgery), but according to Medicare, he will receive only 584 $. In Jersey, the patient decided to take 72000 $ for back surgery, but Medicare only covers 1629 $.
Thus, the author sums up, “we not only pay very high taxes in order to support the Medicaid and Medicare insurance programs, but also have to pay higher medical bills ...”
“We are facing the greatest health crisis in the United States,” writes the journalist, “like whom they have never seen before. And none of our leaders seem to give an answer. ”
Snyder sums it up: “I absolutely dislike the state of our health care system. It is ruled by government officials, pharmaceutical corporations and large health insurance companies. This is a huge money scam, this desire to pump out as much as possible from all of us ... "
For Chuck Norris, let us add, Romney’s associate (for both a few tens of thousands of dollars is nothing), there is simply no acute question of bankruptcy. As for corporations, it is known that Mitt Romney is a big business fan himself, because big business, in the opinion of his and his supporters, pays and the biggest taxes. From whose pocket these taxes are taken, Romney, like the Republicans in general, wisely does not specify.
President Clinton? Corr. RIA "News" Maria Tabak reported that the speech of Bill Clinton, who supported the current head of state Barack Obama at the Democratic Party convention, raised in the United States the question of nominating Clinton's wife as president in 2016.
The ex-president said that he was proud of his wife, and he was also grateful to the Obama team: after all, with these people America became stronger, and in the world she had more partners, and fewer enemies.
Bill's wife liked the speech. Interestingly, the words of the ex-president about her seemed to many not just an appropriate insert in speech. Several prominent members of the Democratic Party immediately declared that Hillary had a good chance of being elected in 2016.
Colorado's governor, Democrat John Hickenlooper, told reporters bluntly: “At least half of those who are now called potential candidates for nomination in 2016, will give up their claims if she chooses to be elected. There is no doubt about that. ”
Jamie Harrison, deputy chairman of the Democratic Party’s office in South Carolina, said that if H. Clinton went to the polls, the main struggle would be for the vice-president’s place. There will be no competitors near Clinton within the game. And the head of the Democratic Party of South. Caroline Dick Harputlyan said: “I supported Barak in 2008, and now I will wait for her. Talk now only about her.
No wonder, add on my own. IN USA there is talk that America is not ruled by Obama proper, but by Hillary Clinton. The Iraqi solution is its solution. The Syrian decision, if, of course, it follows, will also be its decision. Why would Hillary not end his long political career with such a brilliant finale? In this case, journalists will not have to put forward versions of the disadvantaged Barack Obama, who, like Bill Clinton, writes Hillary - the same frantic secretary of state, whose main slogan is: "Assad must go." Analysts will not have to wrestle with their thoughts, which is why “we say“ Obama ”, we mean“ Clinton ”. Complete harmony will come to Washington: Clinton's vigorous theories will no longer disagree with the sluggish practice of the White House.
Observed and translated by Oleg Chuvakin
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