Geopolitical mosaic: in China, those who spread rumors about the end of the world are arrested, and Shinzo Abe believes that the US President is George W. Bush
About the causes of the crash "SSJ-100". The Russian Federation acknowledged that the human factor was the cause of the crash of the Sukhoi Superjet - 100 passenger plane in Indonesia in May 2012, reports "Lenta.ru" with reference to the RIA "News". This was stated by the deputy head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Yuri Slyusar - the head of the Russian commission to investigate the causes of the disaster.
Representatives of the Russian side pointed out to others, which accompanied the pilot’s error, the reasons for what had happened. The participant of the investigation, the general director of the Gromov Flight Research Institute named after Pavel Vlasov, said that the maps that the SSJ pilots did not have indicated the mountains surrounding the flight zone.
Also, Vlasov said that the dispatcher of the Jakarta airport discovered the loss of the aircraft from the radar through 24 minutes after the crash.
“It simply means that he was busy with others - he did not observe this board,” Vlasov said, adding that the load on the dispatchers at Jakarta airport at that time “was almost at the limit of human capabilities.”
Slusar added that the radar at Jakarta airport did not have a minimum safe altitude warning system. According to Vlasov, the representatives of Indonesia agreed with the claims and acknowledged that they have problems with the organization of air traffic.
Precautionary measures. Syrian government does not plan to use chemical weapon against opposition groups, reports "Russian peacemaker" with reference to Rosbalt.
According to the Federal Intelligence Service of Germany (BND), activity recorded in the area of the Syrian arsenals recorded with the help of reconnaissance satellites is most likely associated with the taking of precautionary measures: after all, armed insurgents are operating in the area of chemical weapons warehouses.
Kidnapped NBC News journalists released. NBC journalists abducted in Syria were released and left the country, writes "Lenta.ru" with reference to the website of the American television and the portal "Habera".
Members of the NBC News crew were abducted by unknown 13 December, shortly after crossing the border of Syria to the north-west. The team of journalists, led by leading foreign correspondent Richard Engel, also included his Turkish counterpart Aziz Akiavash. They were put in the back of a truck, they were dressed in blindfolds and taken away in an unknown direction.
The kidnappers did not make any demands and did not get in touch with the management of the channel. It is assumed that they belonged to one of the groups loyal to the government of the President of Syria.
17 December, the kidnappers decided to transport journalists to a new location. On their way was the checkpoint controlled by the Syrian rebels. A shootout ensued. Two kidnappers were killed, some managed to escape. The journalists were released and transported to Turkey.
"The Controlled Chaos Theory": the United States can play the card of Kurdistan. This was told by Nikita Sorokin ("Voice of Russia").
Recently, the United States announced its agreement to support the formation of the Kurdish army in Syria. This news quietly passed between the events of the Syrian war. Meanwhile, Washington’s decision, voiced by the December 10 media, fits in well with plans to use "controlled chaos theory" in American foreign policy.
Probably, the Syrian Kurds will be given military assistance - for the creation of armed formations, as well as monetary assistance.
The leader of the National Kurdistan Council, Shirko Abbas, has already stated that the main task of the army will be “protecting the territory of Syrian Kurdistan from any armed intervention” by anyone - the troops of Bashar al-Assad, detachments of the Syrian free army or Islamist militants. Mr. Abbas stressed that the United States and the countries of Western Europe agreed to provide the Kurds with appropriate assistance, since the army being created would stand in the way of the spread of radical Islamism in northeastern Syria.
However, Syrian Kurdistan is adjacent to Turkish Kurdistan, and Turkey is a US ally in NATO. Is someone wrong here? Not.
An ally, an ally, we add, and Ankara claims regional domination, and this cannot be approved in Washington. There is one hegemon in the world, and everything in the world must be accomplished with his consent. Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey are all parts of a single Kurdish canvas that is about to cross the curve of an American barbarian’s knife, acting in a post-modern style of “controlled chaos”. If with the help of the "Kurdish card" it will be possible to inflame the entire Middle East, the United States will not pass by such a chance.
Iraqi President hospitalized with a stroke. Jalala Talabani was hospitalized for a stroke, reports "Lenta.ru" with links to various sources. Doctors assess the state of the president as critical, but stable.
A sharp deterioration in the condition of Talabani is associated with clogged arteries.
The United States was disappointed in Israel. As transmits correspondent ITAR-TASS Dmitry Kirsanov, The United States has sharply criticized Israel for its plans to build housing in East Jerusalem.
“We are deeply disappointed that Israel insists on maintaining this pattern of behavior, which includes provocative actions. These multiple announcements and new construction plans are contrary to the cause of peace, ”said Victoria Nuland, head of the US State Department press service, at a regular briefing for journalists yesterday.
According to her, “Israeli leaders constantly say that they support the path to settlement (the conflict in the Middle East) on the basis of the coexistence of two states” - Jewish and Palestinian. However, from the point of view of Washington, such current Israeli actions "only exacerbate the threat" to achieve the goal.
Through diplomatic channels, Washington’s special Middle East ally in the Middle East, David Hale, and US Ambassador to Israel, Daniel Shapiro, also expressed their protest to Washington’s main Middle Eastern ally.
At the same time, Nuland said that the United States would not support a possible European appeal to the UN Security Council to condemn the actions of Israel.
Money for Pakistan. As the correspondent RIA "Novosti" Denis Voroshilov with reference to the Associated Press, the United States will provide Pakistan with $ 688 million in reimbursement of costs to strengthen border security with Afghanistan and combat terrorism. AP journalists received a letter from US Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter to the leadership of the congress. The letter indicates this significant amount.
“I made this decision because I came to the conclusion that such compensation corresponds to the interests of the US national security and will not change the balance of forces in the region,” the letter quotes “AP”.
Earlier in the summer, Washington allocated to Pakistan an appropriate compensation in the amount of 1,1 billion dollars. The total amount of funds that the US will transfer to Pakistan in the current fiscal year could reach $ 2 billion.
Contradictory Bulgarian news. How passed December 17 correspondent RIA "Novosti" Alexey Bogdanovsky, Bulgaria turned to the United States with a proposal to place on its territory a permanent American military contingent. This was reported by the Trud newspaper, referring to information on the outcome of the visit of the country's Defense Minister Anu Angelova to the Pentagon and the US State Department.
The Bulgarian authorities have explained that the presence of the US military will help improve security in the region and provide an opportunity for retraining of Bulgarian soldiers.
The next day, December 18, "Voice of Russia", referring to ITAR-TASS, said that Bulgaria did not appeal to the United States to place on its territory the American military contingent on a permanent basis. On Tuesday, Bulgarian Defense Minister Anu Angelov announced this, commenting on recent publications in the press.
The Secretary of Defense said: "We did not appeal to the United States to ensure the continued presence of American troops in Bulgaria."
Talks held in early December with the US State Department and the Pentagon concerned the issue of increasing the number of joint exercises and improving the quality of military training through more intensive use of joint bases and military facilities, the Bulgarian Defense Ministry said. The agreement between Bulgaria and the United States of 2006 provides for the use of three bases: one land, two aviationas well as a military warehouse.
“In practice, this agreement provides an opportunity to conduct joint exercises with the United States. This is one of the wonderful opportunities to increase the military training of the Bulgarian army, ”explained Angelov, adding that the number of exercises on Bulgarian territory from 16 this year will increase to 29 next year.
Source of enrichment of British telephone companies. The British have spent 136 million pounds (220,4 million dollars) on calls to the tax office, reports "Lenta.ru" with links to “The Independent”, which indicated as an official source the report of the commission on control over government spending.
During the investigation of the National Audit Office, it turned out that over the past year 20 millions (!) Of calls to the tax hotline remained unanswered. Those who managed to wait for the operator had to stay on the line for an average of five minutes. At the same time, about 6,5 million people only in the first three months of the current year waited for a response for more than ten minutes.
According to the commission’s conclusions, if the tax service optimized the work and started answering 90 with percent of calls, as well as reducing waiting time on the line, it would save citizens about 52 million pounds (84,3 million dollars) per year. Currently, HMRC is spending 900 million pounds (1,5 billion dollars) per year to communicate with customers, but is able to cover only 75 percent of calls to the hotline.
How the tax is going to deal with communication problems is not known. Moreover, in the next three years, the management of the service intends to reduce staff by a third.
Russian Depardieu. Brussels will not mind if other Frenchmen follow the lead of actor Gerard Depardieu and run off taxes to Belgium. About this in an interview with the newspaper "Le Figaro" said the Foreign Minister of Belgium Didier Reinders, reports "Lenta.ru".
He said: “They want to turn the Belgian state into a scapegoat.” I do not care that France advertises the tax regime of Belgium. If other French want to come to Belgium, I don’t mind. But it’s absolutely wrong to think that we, the Belgians, have been doing everything for years to lure the French to us. ”
The Belgian Foreign Minister noted that similar incidents occur in his country. “I always spoke directly about the Belgians who were leaving for Monaco or somewhere else for the sake of lesser taxes. But I never allowed myself to become personal, ”the Minister noted.
Meanwhile, Depardieu does not necessarily take the Belgian citizenship. He is now at a crossroads. As transmits correspondent ITAR-TASS Ilya Baranovreferring to the Le Monde newspaper, the actor is considering the possibility of becoming a Belgian citizen, a citizen of Montenegro or ... Russia.
Last weekend, an open letter was published by Depardieu to French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Eyreau, in which he declared a renunciation of French citizenship. Since then, the passion around the actor boiled with a new force. Yesterday, Depardieu was spotted on Rue Scherche-Midi in Paris: he visited his restaurant Le Bian Deside.
“He was in excellent spirits and decided to form a movement opposing Francois Hollande and Jean-Marc Eyreau,” Mond quotes one of the participants in a meeting with a celebrity leaving France. The actor himself joked at a "farewell dinner" that he planned to flee the country "the day after the election of the socialist president." He stressed that he has been living abroad for half a year.
Then Monsieur Depardieu said that “he is now considering three countries,” whose citizenship he would like to receive. “This is Belgium, where he just bought real estate, Montenegro, where he has friends and business ties, and Russia,” writes Le Monde.
“Putin has already sent me a passport!” Said the actor.
For rumors of the end of the world - in jail. "Voice of Russia" reports that the number of people arrested by Chinese policemen accused of spreading rumors about the imminent end of the world exceeded 500 people.
Most of the detainees who distributed leaflets, books, and films were members of the God Almighty sect, which is banned in China. The cornerstone of the sectarian "faith" is the idea of the rebirth of Jesus Christ in a woman who lived in one of the central Chinese provinces. Sectarians were repeatedly noticed in attacks on Christians, in their abductions and beatings: in this way they convinced them of the fallacy of Christian dogmas and inclined to a change of faith.
Nowadays sect adepts preach a quick end of the world, claiming that only those who join their ranks will be saved. However, they referred not to the Bible, but to the predictions of the Mayan calendar.
The Voice of Russia reminds us that crimes are being committed under the influence of rumors about the end of the world in China. A man was recently arrested for injuring 23 schoolchildren in the central Chinese province of Henan. Another mentally unbalanced type wounded last Friday with a knife over 20 children in kindergarten.
America continues to rule George Bush. Mr. Shinzo Abe, who will become the Prime Minister of Japan the other day, showed a vague memory. He is confused in the American presidents. Reports about it "Lenta.ru" with reference to France-Presse.
Speaking in public, the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan said that he had a telephone conversation with "President Bush." The audience laughed delicately. At first, Abe did not understand what was wrong, but then he realized the mistake and clarified that the conversation took place with Barack Obama.
"Ribbon" reminds that Abe, who is now 58 years old, was the prime minister of Japan in 2006-2007, when the head of the United States was George W. Bush.
"The entire planet is covered by drug routes and a logistics infrastructure for delivery and marketing." Dmitry Zavodin ("Russian peacemaker") spoke about the visit of the Chairman of the State Anti-Drug Committee, Director of the Federal Drug Control Service of Russia Viktor Ivanov to the United States, which took place on December 12-14. Within the framework of the visit, co-chaired by Viktor Ivanov and Gil Kerlikowski, Director of the State Policy Department for Drug Control of the US Presidential Administration, the 7-th meeting of the Working Group on combating illicit drug trafficking of the bilateral Russian-American presidential commission was held .
December 12 V. Ivanov and G. Kerlikowski spoke to faculty and political scientists at Harvard University. The theme of the speech was: “Drugs and security: building policies in the 21st century to counter domestic and global challenges.”
In his speech, V. Ivanov emphasized that "the entire planet is covered by drug routes and a logistics infrastructure for delivery and marketing." At the same time, production is concentrated in several countries, and transit and distribution covers dozens of states.
The head of the Federal Drug Control Service of Russia stated: "This means the essence of the new phenomenon and the problems of anti-drug policy: no processes can be considered outside the drug flow - neither political, nor military, even cultural, since new pronarcotic quasi-cultural samples and models are constantly being developed."
Recalling the drug scandals associated with the largest banking networks - Wachovia and HSBC, Comrade Ivanov said that international banks need criminal money from drug trafficking, more than drug cartels in banks: “If we look at the financial component of drug crime, we can define multiple zones. Take Afghanistan’s drug-producing country of Afghanistan, which produces heroin worth 100 billion. Of these, no more than $ 4 billion remain in Afghanistan, and the rest of the proceeds go to other countries. Peasants in Afghanistan receive a total of $ 1,5 billion. Taliban —150 million. The main beneficiary of this entire network is global banking systems. All these drug dollars don't lie somewhere "under the pillow", but revolve in the banking system. "
The head of the Federal Drug Control Service believes that it is necessary to focus efforts on combating drug trafficking not on drug manufacturers, but on top of the criminal pyramid - the international banking system, where the main profits are concentrated: “If the world community, trying to fight drug cartels, focuses its efforts on combating drug manufacturers, that are scattered around the world, this task seems almost impossible. However, if we hit the very heart of the world drug trade — the banking system, then we will be able to change the situation. ”
According to the British newspaper The Guardian, the largest US bank, Wachovia, from 2004 to 2007, laundered 378 billion dollars from the drug industry in Mexico, which is booming in Mexico. And the US Senate in 2012 published the results of the investigation, which established that Mexican drug cartels laundered their income through the British bank HSBC: in 2007-2008, the Mexican branch of the bank transferred its subsidiaries 7 billion.
Wachovia, after disclosing money laundering, was fined 50 millions of dollars and was forced to abandon 110 millions of dollars in proven drug profits. However, none of the employees of this bank went to jail. As for HSBC, it faces a fine of 1,5 billion dollars. There, too, it is unlikely anyone will be arrested: too much money, we will add on our own, are the best guarantee of protection against the encroachments of the judicial branch of government.
In America they shoot again. As passed correspondent ITAR-TASS Andrey Bekrenev, four people were killed in a December 18 shooting by an unidentified man in a residential building near the city of Longmont, Colorado.
At about four in the morning, 911 received a call from a woman. She reported firing. After a few seconds, the operator heard her screams and crashing gunfire. Then the man picked up the phone and announced that he was going to commit suicide. Another shot rang out.
Policemen arrived to the scene of the incident and found four bodies in the house. One of the victims was a child. According to preliminary data of law enforcement agencies, a family quarrel could be the cause of the massacre.
Lanza loved weapons, went with his mother to the shooting range and played Call of Duty. The intention of the mother of Adam Lanza, who organized the slaughter in elementary school in Newtown, to send him to a psychiatric hospital for compulsory treatment could have prompted him to commit a crime. This was reported on Tuesday by the American media, citing law enforcement officers involved in the investigation of this case, reports from New York correspondent ITAR-TASS Alexander Bekreneva.
As Joshua Flashman, the son of the pastor of one of the local churches, who is familiar with the families of Lanza and many of his victims, told Adam could find out that his mother was filling out documents to send him for compulsory treatment.
“Apparently, Adam is very upset and angry. He might have thought that she just wanted to get rid of him. Perhaps this was the reason for his “breakdown,” Flashman told Fox News.
Law enforcement officials confirmed that Nancy Lanza’s intention to send her son for psychiatric treatment is considered a potential motive for the crime.
As a child, Lanza studied at the same Sandy Hook school. His mother worked there as a volunteer for several years and worked with many of the children her son later shot.
“Perhaps Adam thought that she loved these children more than him, which is why he wants to send him to a mental hospital,” Flashman noted. According to him, Nancy Lanza was friends with the director and psychologist Sandy Hook. Both women were among the first victims of the criminal.
Adam, who suffered from Asperger syndrome, was a very shy and unsociable youth. According to the plumber Peter Vlasyuk, who often worked in the house of the Lanza family, Adam lived in a windowless basement hung with posters with various types of weapons and military equipment. He spent hours playing Call of Duty. At the same time, Lanza’s mother, as it turned out, was a great lover of weapons and often took her son to the shooting range. The whole arsenal of firearms was kept in the house.
11-year-old with a gun. Utah authorities arrested a 11-year-old boy yesterday: he brought a weapon to school. According to the child, he needed a gun for self-defense - what if something happened in Connecticut again? This tells correspondent ITAR-TASS Alexander Bekreneva.
According to local media, two classmates told the teacher that the boy has a weapon. The teacher immediately called the police.
Law enforcement officers who arrived at the school found an unloaded pistol and cartridges in the boy’s backpack.
Obama ban supports. As the correspondent RIA "News" Maria TabakThe US president supports the idea of submitting to Congress a bill to ban the sale of military weapons, but considers this to be only one of the measures to end violence in the country.
"He supports the idea of Senator Feinstein to revive a bill banning the sale of military weapons, but the problem is wider," White House spokesman Jay Carney told a press briefing yesterday. According to him, the president considers it necessary a national dialogue on the problems of combating violence.
Earlier, Senator Dianne Feinstein promised to introduce a bill banning the sale of military weapons on the first day of the new US Congress. According to her, the draft law, which was being drafted, will be submitted to both chambers of congress at the same time in early January.
In all the fault of the State Department. The leadership of the Department of State neglected requests to increase the number of guards and strengthen security measures for diplomatic missions in Libya, which caused the death of US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three employees during the terrorist attack on the Consulate in Benghaz on September 12, 11. Such a conclusion is contained in the report of the commission of inquiry into the attack, the open part of which was provided to the American media by anonymous staff of the State Department and Congress, reports correspondent RIA "Novosti" Denis Voroshilov.
“The diplomatic mission noted a shortage of security personnel ... the State Department in organizing the security of the consulate complex relied on local law enforcement forces whose effectiveness was not verified ... The State Department ignored requests (embassies in Libya) to increase the number of consulate security and improve security infrastructure. The ministry chose to take action upon receiving information on confirmed threats, rather than constantly improving security procedures, ”the news channel quoted Fox News as saying.
According to the document, several departments of the State Department are accused of inadequate coordination and poor-quality planning of security measures.
On the way of the "Bolsheviks" - Russia. On the terrible plans of the new "Bolsheviks" told the Iranian channel Press TV (The author of the material is Gordon Duff, the source of translation is Mixednews.ru). Before we cover the news, we will translate some information about the author that is missing on Mixednews.
Gordon Duff is a Vietnam veteran, a former marine. He gave advice in the international banking field, in matters of opposition, the use of military equipment, and others. Gordon Duff visited more than 80 countries. His articles are published worldwide and translated into several languages. He is widely known and regularly appears on television and radio.
Starts Duff with Iskander:
Iskander, a very unusual missile system with an equally unusual mission, would be a very intractable opponent, and Russia seems to be starting to behave like a country that has enemies. ”
The current “Bolsheviks”, the author believes, no, not Russians, but key groups from Israel and the United States, have one goal - to serve “an invisible international regime, secretive, totalitarian and ruthless.” Among the new “Cominternists”, Duff calls the AIPAC (American-Israeli Public Relations Committee), the preacher John Hagee, the founder of the “Christians United for Israel” movement, the Anti-Defamation League and the “Great Old Party” (the second name of the Republican Party). It is these institutions that serve as screens to cover what “was once a very real communist plot to seize the whole world.”
Duff talks about the plans of the new communists in the Middle East and Africa, and further finds that
They write:
But comrade Putin has something to say:
Iskander can carry anti-bunker warheads for defensive systems hidden deep under the ground, EMI devices (electromagnetic impulse) for disabling defensive systems, communications, and other equipment options for destroying runways and a volume explosion for hitting manpower concentrations .
Being extremely effective and the best weapon of its kind, Iskander is a factor that can change the course of the game, and Russia can provide this system at its discretion to any ally - Syria, Iran - or deploy it wherever it pleases.
Russia has hundreds, perhaps even thousands of such systems, fully deployed over the past two years. ”
According to the author, in the current “critical time” this system holds the world
“The project of the new American century,” the analyst writes, is Israeli. Israel is expected to go underground with the simultaneous intimidation of Europe and the United States with ultramodern nuclear ballistic systems.
The Russian countermeasure of the project is the Iskander, whose missile has a range of 600 km and can change the direction of flight and sweep the missile defense system without being subjected to any military countermeasures. Iskander is immune to attempts to knock him down.
It cannot be coped, it cannot be rejected, and it hits hard, destroying any fortified object, and so quickly that it cannot be destroyed without upgrading the missile defense system to a level involving the use of energy weapons operating at the speed of light, which is unlikely in the coming years. ” .
Finishing the advertisement of Iskander, the expert concludes:
The flying rocket, we add from ourselves, will be the last thing that any, even the most frostbitten, “element” will see.
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