Geopolitical mosaic: Israeli authorities believe that Al-Qaeda in Syria is preferable to Assad, while Paul Craig Roberts compared Obama to Hitler
"Better bad guys without ties with Iran than with them." - A hackneyed American record. - About the helplessness of the UN and the mighty Lavrov. - Who writes American foreign policy. - Equipment for the "chosen". - "Not for foreign citizens." - Additional data for Moscow. - In Egypt, they are fighting again with jihadists. - Uncontrolled Libya. - Who makes the Soviet weapon. - About the "Arctic NATO." - The hypothesis of the Belarusian civilization. - Young and healthy Ukrainian nationalists. - The Georgian award found an Estonian hero. - You stand for “Pussy Riot” - you violate the rights of other citizens. - Thousand tons. - Australia has a new prime minister. - “American Internet” is not for Brazil. - In the US, shooting again and death again. - Paul Craig Roberts on Hitler and the pigs. - Travel incognito.
"Better bad guys without ties with Iran than with them." The Israelis lucidly explained the difference between the bad guys in Syria and the very bad ones.
The Israeli authorities for the first time admitted that they would welcome the removal from office of the president of Syria. About this in an interview with “The Jerusalem Post” said Israeli Ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, reports "Lenta.ru".
The victory of the rebels (even including the al-Qaeda militants), the diplomat said, would be less evil than the preservation of the Syrian-Iranian alliance. The ambassador said: “From the very beginning, we said that Bashar Assad should leave. Better bad guys without ties with Iran than with them. ”
Oren further stressed that the Israeli leadership understands: the people who can replace Assad are not friends of his country. “But from a strategic point of view, the Tehran-Damascus-Beirut arch, in which the Assad regime is the cornerstone, is much more dangerous,” Oren explained his position.
The diplomat also said that Israel in the Syrian conflict has its own “red lines”. Unlike the United States, we are not talking about the use of chemical weapons against civilians, but about the transfer of this (or other dangerous) weapons into the hands of Hezbollah or other terrorist groups. “If this happens, we will not be idle,” the ambassador promised.
A hackneyed American record. Bad tune again sounded in the United States. However, this record was not turned off.
The United States, as before, is going to seek the departure of Bashar Assad from the political scene. This was confirmed in an interview with the American Hispanic television company "Telemundo" Mr. Barack Obama. This tells correspondent ITAR-TASS Dmitry Kirsanov.
"Keep in mind that it is very difficult to imagine ending the civil war if Assad actually remains in power," the American leader said.
Wanting to “leave” Assad, Obama is going to protect minorities and prevent the domination of radical Islamic elements. "We will move here step by step," the White House owner said.
What are these steps? Obama explained everything.
“The first step now is to ensure that we can address the issue of chemical weapons,” said the president. Then there will come a stage of interaction with the parties to the internal conflict in Syria and other states under the motto: put an end to bloodshed.
During the interview, the American president called Assad a "dictator-killer."
After this, Obama's words that he is committed to trying to resolve the Syrian crisis through diplomacy mean nothing, except to justify the Nobel laureate. As before, we add, Obama loyally serves his bosses from the military-industrial complex.
They are echoing Obama about “leaving” Assad and his subordinates.
To consider the Syrian authorities as not involved in the chemical attack on Damascus 21 in August is to turn away from the facts. This statement was made by the US Permanent Representative to the UN Samantha Power, reports correspondent ITAR-TASS Oleg Zelenin.
“It was a carnage, skillfully arranged by a regime that, as we know, has one of the largest undeclared sarin reserves. To think otherwise is to consciously close our eyes to the facts presented, ”the Permanent Representative noted at the UN General Assembly meeting.
The Permanent Representative of the United States claimed that 120 mm caliber shells "were used by the regime in other attacks" (that is, not only in Gute). S. Power rejected the very possibility that such ammunition could be in the hands of militants.
Samantha Power knows, apparently, everything. She said what is then written down in American textbooks. stories: “A few days before, the Assad experts on chemical weapons were preparing for an attack near the place where they synthesized sarin. They distributed gas masks to the soldiers. Then they launched rockets from the region controlled by the authorities in 12 quarters that the regime tried to wrest from the opposition forces. ”
Of course, John Kerry also spoke on the Syrian theme - the same one that was described in the “VO” article "Pathological Liar" from the State Department ".
The report of the UN inspectors published on Monday indicates that it is Bashar Asad who is responsible for the chemical attack in the suburbs of Damascus. This was announced in an interview with journalists by US Secretary of State John Kerry, reports correspondent ITAR-TASS Andrey Surzhansky.
"The details contained in this report are the type of ammunition, the type of poison gas, the type of missiles that were used, their trajectory of flight, all of this is extremely important, indicating that it was the Assad regime that committed the attack," diplomacy before meeting with members of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee.
What kind of report is this? Not otherwise, he was written under the dictation of the State Department.
About the helplessness of the UN and the mighty Lavrov. "Inopressa" made a review of Western newspapers on the reaction of the world community to the report of the UN inspectors.
“The report on the Sarinov attack gives the US courage,” writes The Wall Street Journal, referring to the report of inspectors who visited the Himataka site in Syria, and the statement by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
"The White House and its Western allies say that the UN report on the August chemical attack in Syria provided convincing evidence to support their view that it was government troops who used sarin rockets," journalists said.
"The UN inspectors spent several days in the suburbs of Damascus, collecting materials for a report on the attack last month, including blood samples, missile fragments and other evidence," the article says further. According to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, an 85% blood sample was tested positive for sarin. “The rocket carriers used to launch these missiles are in the hands of only the Syrian military,” say journalists, citing an analyst.
"White House spokesman Jay Carney said that the UN report on Monday confirms the conclusion to which the United States has already reached: it is the Assad regime that is responsible for the August 21 attack," the article says.
Obama knew about the repeated use of chemical weapons in Syria long before the August attack in the suburbs of Damascus, The Washington Times correspondents write. Information on previous incidents of use of agents and forced the administration to give the go-ahead to the secret CIA plan for the delivery of small arms to the Syrian rebels.
An anonymous source in the administration told correspondents that there are two versions in the US intelligence community regarding the August 21 attack.
“The working version is that the Assad regime used small-scale chemical weapons to test the reaction of the world community, and since the reaction was restrained, it was decided to carry out a large-scale attack,” said anonymous. “According to another version, the August 21 attack was supposed to be much less, but the performers“ messed up ”and used a lot more substance than they expected.”
Ban Ki-moon is aware of the helplessness of the organization he leads, writes Massimo Haji in Corriere della Sera.
Only now the “roar” of Ban Ki-moon, “shocked and indignant” about the August 21 himata, is heard, the correspondent is perplexed. “The leader of the structure, which should regulate international relations, limited by the multitude of conditions and the cross-veto of the powers, felt entitled to loudly declare indignation only after receiving the report, which has no specific conclusions,” the author writes.
“Guilty cannot escape punishment. I hope everyone joins me in condemning this nasty crime. ” The Secretary General signs in the impotence of the organism that he controls when he declares that “after two and a half years of the war in Syria, the time has come for 15 members of the UN Security Council to at least slightly demonstrate their leadership.”
“A veteran of diplomacy, a lover of cigars and whiskey, loves to outwit the United States,” the newspaper “The New York Times” devoted the comment to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
As soon as Secretary of State Kerry issued an impromptu about how the Syrian government could have avoided a US strike, Lavrov called him. According to the newspaper, he told Kerry that he would immediately make public a proposal to dismantle the Syrian chemical arsenal. Kerry said sharply: "We will not play games." The conversation lasted fourteen minutes.
And on Saturday, Kerry and Lavrov together finalized the dismantling plan. The White House believes that this may be the best way to ban the use of chemical weapons, doing without military force, "but the Kremlin obviously thinks that this plan serves the interests of Russia and the Syrian government."
According to journalists, Lavrov’s work on Syria’s chemical disarmament plan is largely “the pinnacle of his career, in which efforts to block the road to what the Kremlin has long considered dangerous American monopolarism predominate.” Lavrov managed to “ring America” by preventing a unilateral military strike and reasserting the role of Russia, the article notes.
Further, the publication writes about “Russia's own views” that “state sovereignty and stability of an established state of affairs are valued more than the spread of democracy in the Western style”.
Who writes American foreign policy. American weapons companies are rubbing their hands in the hope of winning multimillion-dollar contracts in the event of a military operation in Syria. This correspondent tells "RT" Lindsey France.
Raytheon is the manufacturer of the BGM-109 rocket ("Tomahawk"). Each rocket has a price of approximately $ 1 million. According to The Wall Street Journal, for the 2010 year, Raytheon’s profit from defense orders exceeded 20 billion dollars. Intervention in the Syrian conflict would mean that there will be more orders for Tomahawk. Against the background of the discussion of the upcoming military campaign in Syria from April to August, the company's shares rose by a third.
Lockheed Martin earned gross revenues of just under $ 2010 billion in 3 a year. The company produces guided and unguided missiles, manned and unmanned systems, and airplanes. Before the presidential election, Lockheed Martin threatened to cut a significant part of its state, but after government intervention it abandoned these plans. Against the background of the recent bellicose speeches of politicians, the actions of Lockheed Martin went up.
Boeing supplies the US Army with strategic missile systems, GPS and opto-electronic systems. They can be used in Syria.
During the parliamentary elections of 2010, three named firms donated about 3 million dollars each to those candidates who are responsible for US foreign policy.
Equipment for the "chosen". Barack Obama has signed a number of orders that allow the US government to begin the transfer of chemical protection kits to employees of several international organizations working in Syria, as well as to the forces of the Syrian opposition. This was reported by the representative of the National Security Council of the White House, Caitlin Hayden, reports "RT" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
In a written statement, she clarified that the head of the US administration overturned some of the restrictions under the national Export Control Act, which did not allow such assistance.
Now, the US authorities have the opportunity to transfer personal protective equipment "to international organizations, including the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons" to carry out the necessary work in Syria, said Hayden.
Similar equipment, according to her, will be provided to “selected verified members of the Syrian opposition”, including from the “Supreme Military Council of the Syrian Free Army”. These opposition forces will receive the necessary training from the US.
"Not for foreign citizens." A group of former US security officials warned the White House about intelligence reports from the military scene in Syria, indicating that the rebels had chemical weapons at their disposal. Pentagon veteran Michael Maloof, who is in this group, told "RT" details.
As Maloof said, he has at his disposal a report from a source related to classified information. A former employee of the US military department showed on the air of “RT” a report page with the note “Not for foreign citizens”. Mr MacLuf stated that the document belongs to the National Ground Intelligence Center.
"The US military conducted an investigation based on 50 indicators and secret interrogations, according to which the place of origin of sarin was Iraq," said a Pentagon veteran. He explained that sarin came to Turkey from the territory of Iraq, where in May part of it was confiscated. Much more sarin was produced on the territory of Iraq and Turkey, which fell into the hands of the opposition, mainly to Al-Qaeda.
Michael McLuf added: “We have a variety of information according to which elements of Al-Qaida have been able to penetrate the Syrian opposition in significant quantities. Therefore, the study of smuggling and its origin is a big problem for the authorities. ”
Additional data for Moscow. Syrian authorities handed over to Russian diplomats materials about a chemical attack in the suburbs of Damascus. As stated by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, who is in the Syrian capital, the Syrian side regards these materials as evidence of involvement in the militant attack, reports "Lenta.ru" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
The Russian Foreign Ministry is studying additional data provided by Damascus. What kind of information was given to diplomats is not reported.
It is also reported that the permanent representative to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, suggested studying the evidence that the chemical attack in Guta was a provocation aimed at initiating foreign intervention in the Syrian conflict. He stated this, speaking at the first meeting of the 68 session of the UN General Assembly, which opened on September 17 in New York.
The Turkish Air Force shot down a Syrian military helicopter. According to "Russian newspaper" with reference to the RIA "News, Turkish F-16 fighters conducted reconnaissance flights along the Syrian border. Machines were full of ammunition. The reason for raising fighters was the resumption of battles in the border area.
Reported downed Syrian helicopter. According to Turkey, he violated the airspace of the country. The incident occurred in the province of Hatay.
In Egypt, they are fighting again with jihadists. Egyptian troops are pushing jihadists from the Sinai Peninsula, reports Mixednews.ru with reference to Fox News.
Under the command of General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, troops are stepping up the fight against the growing coalitions of the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda and other Islamist groups. And, although the activities of jihadists in Sinai may be just as serious a threat to the region as the civil war in Syria is, Sisi’s attempts to resist terrorism are not supported by the Obama administration.
An analyst of Islamist groups and a former intelligence officer of the Israel Defense Forces, Mordechai Keidar, in an interview with Fox News said:
Kaydar has no doubt that “Sinai could become a center of terrorism, like Afghanistan. The Egyptian army finally decided to deal with what is happening in Sinai, not because of Israel, not because of Gaza, not because of Sinai, but because of Egypt and the fact that terrorism from these territories may soon leak into Egypt".
Uncontrolled Libya. Today, Libya is flooded with illegal weapons, including components for the creation of chemical weapons, reports "RT" with reference to The Telegraph and the UN report.
“In Libya as a whole and in the eastern and southern regions of the country in particular, the situation leaves much to be desired,” the report said. “Political assassinations, criminal activity and terrorist threats to the diplomatic community literally swept the country, including the capital Tripoli.”
The UN notes that if the situation is not corrected, then Libya is threatened with “political polarization”.
Who makes the Soviet weapons. Some countries are interested in the continued unlicensed production of Soviet weapons. This was stated by Sergei Lavrov, in response to a question about the alleged discovery in Syria of fragments of missiles with an inscription in Cyrillic, reports "Sight" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
According to S. Lavrov, in the region of the Middle East and North Africa a lot of "all kinds of weapons are walking." Moscow stands for "the strictest control of the entire arms trade."
“We are striving to stop the illegal production of Soviet weapons in many countries,” the minister said. “Some EU member states and NATO consider this to be a profitable business and they don’t want to negotiate that this be stopped.”
The Vzglyad reminds that the UN inspectors came to the conclusion that the head parts of the used rockets near Damascus could be both standard and handicrafts. On the preserved part of the engine of one rocket, the elements of marking in Cyrillic were found. It can be read as "G ISH4 25-67-179K". And one of the shells corresponds to the Soviet-made M-14 rocket.
About the "Arctic NATO". As Nadezhda Ermolaeva writes ("Russian newspaper"), a mini-NATO is being created in the north of Europe in order to safeguard the interests of the United States and its allies in the Arctic by military and diplomatic means.
On Monday, near the Russian Arctic, the largest aviation military exercises "Arctic Challenge". They are attended by 80 combat aircraft F-16, F / A-18s and JAS 39 "Gripens" of the air forces of Finland, Sweden, Norway, the USA and Great Britain. Until September 26, they will perform maneuvers over the northern part of the Gulf of Bothnia, the Arctic territory of Norway and the Barents Sea.
It is also reported on the expected implementation of the 5 reached in September in Stockholm during the visit of the US President, that is, the beginning of "the US-Nordic dialogue in the field of security." What is this dialogue?
“This concept is immediately apparent. An outside observer will not be able to immediately tell what it means and that, for example, the United States expects this dialogue, ”said Finnish former defense minister Seppo Kääriäinen. And the chairman of the Suomi parliamentary committee on defense, Jussi Niiniste, even fears that Finland as a result of the “dialogue” will end up between the hammer and the anvil if there is a conflict between the superpowers.
Finns and Swedes are also worried about the fact that the United States agreed with the Nordic countries on a “dialogue” directly, bypassing Brussels.
“It is also alarming that the agreement on dialogue with the United States in the field of security was taken behind the scenes, without a parliamentary mandate,” Janus Putkonen, editor-in-chief of the Verkkomedia information portal, told the RG correspondent. Many in the north of Europe, in his opinion, believe that this “dialogue with the United States” is drawing Finland and Sweden into NATO.
Putkonen offered his conclusion: “We must bear in mind that now the USA has a great interest in the Arctic region. Here, and military exercises are carried out there. And now, apparently, the Americans need a diplomatic channel to defend their interests in the Arctic. To do this, they came up with a "dialogue in the field of security."
Hypothesis of the Belarusian civilization. Establishing in Minsk a separate monument to one of the leaders of the 19th century Polish rebels Vincent Konstantin Kalinovsky is “inexpedient”: his personality will be immortalized in the monument “1000 anniversary of Belarusian statehood (personality in the history of Belarus)”. This is stated in the letters received from the Minsk City Executive Committee by the Belarusian public organization “Alternativa”, seeking the installation of this monument, reports IA "REGNUM".
Appeal with the requirement to establish a monument, supported by a reference to the collected signatures of citizens, the unregistered public organization sent to the Ministry of Culture, Presidential Administration, Minsk City Council and Minsk City Council. Letters were sent to the head of the organization, Oleg Korban, from which it follows that the Belarusian authorities did a lot to perpetuate the memory of Kalinowski, who led the insurgent units in the North-Western region of the Russian Empire during the Polish uprising of 1863-1864.
The Minsk Scientific Research Institute of Socio-Economic Problems informed about the “Scientific concept of creation and installation of memorial structures in Minsk” developed in 2012, “complex sociological research” and “system analysis”, on the basis of which eight promising monumental objects were identified and monumental and decorative art, which is planned to be installed before 2018 year.
Among the latter is the memorial composition “1000 anniversary of the Belarusian statehood (personality in the history of Belarus)”, which should reinforce the “patriotic component of the national idea,” the institute said. “Of course, K. Kalinovsky will take his rightful place in the proposed facility“ The 1000 anniversary of the Belarusian statehood (personality in the history of Belarus) ”, the director of MIISEP stated.
IA "REGNUM" notes that in Belarusian textbooks on "Fundamentals of the ideology of the Belarusian state" (the subject is studied in universities and technical colleges) the Belarusian SSR is named the first Belarusian state. Now there is a revision of this conceptual position along with the substantiation of the theses on the “Belarusian civilization” and the “thousand-year statehood” of Belarus.
Young and healthy Ukrainian nationalists. Over the summer, the cells of the Ukrainian party “Freedom” conducted around 30 camps of various levels, the press service of the political force informs. This correspondent tells IA "REGNUM" in Kiev.
Several hundred young nationalists from all regions of Ukraine took part in the training camps.
“The essence of the camps is fundamentally different from the usual for the modern Ukrainian" tourist "trips with their inherent consumption of a large amount of alcohol. The goal of the camps is to educate a morale and physically healthy person from an ordinary Ukrainian, whose consciousness has suffered from the occupation of the Ukrainian information space, to educate a nationalist, ”explains Freedom.
In camps, organizers pay much attention to the “comprehensive physical development of young people”. “Particular emphasis is placed on such disciplines as various types of martial arts, sports shooting, mountaineering. Camp participants receive skills in first aid, orienteering, and elements of mountain survival. Participants fix all theoretical information with practice, ”the party reports.
Ruslan Andriyko, deputy chairman of Svoboda on youth policy, said: “In view of the fact that young people in the modern Ukrainian state are not receiving proper attention from the state, the liberal media have a materialistic outlook among young Ukrainians. As a result, Ukrainians bring up people who are indifferent to the fate of their nation and the future of their state. Therefore, “Freedom”, which cultivates a healthy lifestyle, national traditions and pride in the achievements of the Ukrainian nation, together with its youth organizations held a lot of activities aimed at the alternative education of Ukrainian youth, that is, education in the nationalist spirit ... We will continue to more such events so that the younger generation of Ukrainians would grow in a national-patriotic spirit. ”
Georgian award found Estonian hero. Mikheil Saakashvili awarded Eric Cross “for supporting independence, freedom and Euro-Atlantic integration of Georgia,” reports IA "REGNUM" with reference to Georgia-Online.
Eric Cross is the former head of the Estonian intelligence service. This man helped Georgia in 2008 to repel the first Russian cyber attack, Georgia-Online points out.
“We will never forget that a few days before the start of open aggression in August 2008, the Russians launched a cyber attack on the websites of the Georgian government. Eric helped us to create backup sites, to protect the information field of Georgia and due to this, to reach many international contacts, to organize the mobilization of international solidarity that the invaders wanted to stop. We will never forget that in Estonia, including with the help of Erik, volunteers mobilized to assist Georgia in the humanitarian sphere, as well as the tremendous international efforts that the Estonians made together with other Baltic countries, our Polish and other friends. from Eastern and Central Europe to rescue Georgian statehood, ”the Georgian president said.
Interestingly, in 2009, the Russian side accused Erik Cross of organizing the pirate seizure of the ocean cargo ship “Arctic Sea”. The investigation of the case went including in Estonia. There, Cross acted as a witness, and evidence of his guilt "was not found."
You play for Pussy Riot - you violate the rights of other citizens. Cologne court sentenced a rally participant in support of Pussy Riot to a fine of 150 euros, writes "Lenta.ru" with reference to Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. Citizen Patrick H. was found guilty of obstructing the performance of a religious ceremony at the Cologne Cathedral and ordered to pay 150 euros.
The judge said that the opinion of the protestor deserves respect, but he should have chosen another form of protest. The judge agreed with the prosecutor's office that freedom of expression is limited by the fundamental rights of other citizens, which include the freedom to perform religious rites.
The new sentence was the result of the consideration of the appeal filed by Patrick X. in response to the earlier decision of the prosecutor's office to impose a conditional fine on him in 1,2 thousand euros. Such a measure provides for the payment of a fine only if the guilty person is caught in violation of the law again.
The prosecutor's office fined the second participant of the action conditionally. That decision did not dispute. The case against the next participant of the protest is considered in the court of Aachen.
The protest against the sentence of the punk band was held in Cologne Cathedral in August 2012, reminds "Lenta". Two young men and a girl in colorful clothes and balaclava entered the cathedral during Mass and began chanting slogans calling for the release of the Pussy Riot participants, as well as all political prisoners. They also tried to deploy posters on the altar. Activists expelled from the cathedral gatekeepers who called the police.
Thousand tons. The company serving Fukushima-1 had to drain at least 1 a thousand tons of contaminated water due to new leaks. The station could not withstand the impact of the elements: leaks were discovered after typhoon Man-Yi, reports "RT".
According to Japanese media reports, the workers tried to pump out water from the area surrounding the tanks with radioactive water, but then it was decided to drain the water into the sea.
Representatives of the company "TEPCO" stated that before discharge thousands of tons of water into the ocean, measurements were taken that did not show excess radioactivity.
Australia has a new prime minister. As transmits RIA News", citing FrancePress, Anthony Abbott took over as Prime Minister on Wednesday, after the opposition coalition won the parliamentary elections.
“The people of Australia are waiting for us to get down to business, and this is exactly what the government will do,” said Australia's 28 th prime minister.
The vote, scheduled for September 14, was postponed a week earlier due to the dissolution of the Australian Parliament in early August. In late July, reminds RIA "News", the ruling Labor Party carried out government reshuffle, during which former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd again became the leader of the party and the prime minister. A few days later he asked the governor general to dissolve the Australian parliament.
As the correspondent ITAR-TASS Pavel VanichkinAbbott, speaking at the ceremony, said: "We will be a government that solves problems based on values, not on ideology."
In his speech, he urged to judge the new government not by words, but by deeds. The prime minister also said that on the very first day of work, he would give instructions to start abolishing the “carbon tax” (tax on industrial emissions of carbon dioxide), after the introduction of which by the Labor government in 2012, the cost of utilities in the country increased.
Another priority task Abbott called the preparation of a visa standard, providing for the refusal of illegal immigrants the right to Australian citizenship.
“American Internet” is not for Brazil. The authorities are considering the possibility to refuse the services of US companies that store information from the global network on their servers. This decision is connected with the revelations of Edward Snowden, who told the whole world that the NSA of the USA intercepted telephone conversations of the leaders of the states, including the Brazilian president, the channel "RT".
Dilma Rousseff instructed to develop a series of measures to make the Internet more independent in the country.
True, experts believe that such a step could lead to the fragmentation of the Internet into segments that depend on the policies of certain states.
The Brazilian authorities do not yet prohibit citizens from visiting American resources, writes San Francisco Chronicle. The main idea of the reform is that all data of Brazilian users is stored on local servers.
At the same time, Brazil’s attempt to isolate itself from NSA surveillance will cost the country huge sums of money, many experts say.
As recalled by "RT", according to documents received from Snowden, the NSA intercepted conversations and correspondence with Dilma Rousseff using the DNI Presenter program.
In the US, shooting again and death again. As a result of the shooting at the US Navy headquarters, at least 13 people died, including one of the alleged criminals. 14 injured. This was stated by Washington Mayor Vincent Gray, passes the channel "RT".
The shooting occurred on September 15 in the morning of local time in Washington, on the fourth floor of the building, which is engaged in the ceremonial and administrative affairs of the Naval fleet USA.
The name of the deceased shooter - Aaron Alexis, place of residence - the city of Fort Worth, Texas, reports "Fox News". The police found that 34, a year-old Alexis, served on the Navy from 2007 to 2011 a year, and then worked for an IT company. The police believe that he entered the building through someone else's pass.
11 September 2001, Alexis was next to the twin towers in New York - during the attack. The young man had psychological problems. According to relatives, he could not cope with bouts of anger. These same fits of anger led to problems with the law.
In 2004, Mr. Alexis was arrested in Seattle: he opened fire on a car's tires. In 2010, Fort Worth police detained Alexis, who fired a pistol at the ceiling of her apartment. After the second incident, the man was fired from the US Navy reserve, the agency said.
Shooting commented Barack Obama. The President of the United States expressed condolences to the relatives of the victims of this crime. In accordance with the order of Obama, the national flag over the White House will be lowered until the sunset of September 20.
On Monday, another fatal incident occurred in the United States.
As transmits RIA News" With reference to the Associated Press, a US soldier was killed, another four were injured in an incident that occurred at the base of the United States Marine Corps in the city of Duintin-Palms, California.
On this base is located the control center for combat operations of ground forces and naval infantry aviation.
Investigation is underway. Details unknown.
Paul Craig Roberts on Hitler and the pigs. На ресурсе Segodnya.ru a translation appeared Articles P. Roberts under the name “Violent screeching of pigs” (translator - Konstantin Dushenov).
As the publicist notes, Putin's critics are too “sick in the head" to understand that this humane article made V. Putin a real leader of the free world, as well as a defender of international law. As for Obama, he was always the "leader" of the outcasts, "gathered in his irresponsible, lawless government, entangled in lies and war crimes."
Putin mildly criticized Obama for his speech delivered on September 10. In it, Obama, the author recalls, tried to justify Washington’s lawlessness with “American exclusivity.” Obama, the publicist writes, represents his criminal regime in the position of a moral censor, arguing that "the government policy of the United States is exactly what makes us exceptional."
Incognito travel. В «The Guardian» An article appeared by Shaun Walker “Snowden lives incognito in Russia” (the translation source is "InoSMI").
Snowden lives in Russia under the protection of, and details of his whereabouts are not disclosed. “His place of residence is not given to anyone. This was done at his request, because we understand that the level of danger is high enough, and it seems to me impossible to speak or decipher his place of residence, ”said lawyer Anatoly Kucherena in an interview with Russia Today.
According to Kucherena, Snowden is provided with protection, but he did not specify who provides it - the state or private firms.
Despite the secrecy, Snowden can move freely around Russia. Snowden is traveling, “because he is interested in our history,” A. Kucherena said, adding that no one would recognize him on the street.
Also, the lawyer said that Snowden received a lot of job offers and assistance. The most amazing thing came from a 50-year-old woman. She asked if she could adopt Edward.
"Better bad guys without ties with Iran than with them." The Israelis lucidly explained the difference between the bad guys in Syria and the very bad ones.
The Israeli authorities for the first time admitted that they would welcome the removal from office of the president of Syria. About this in an interview with “The Jerusalem Post” said Israeli Ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, reports "Lenta.ru".
The victory of the rebels (even including the al-Qaeda militants), the diplomat said, would be less evil than the preservation of the Syrian-Iranian alliance. The ambassador said: “From the very beginning, we said that Bashar Assad should leave. Better bad guys without ties with Iran than with them. ”
Oren further stressed that the Israeli leadership understands: the people who can replace Assad are not friends of his country. “But from a strategic point of view, the Tehran-Damascus-Beirut arch, in which the Assad regime is the cornerstone, is much more dangerous,” Oren explained his position.
The diplomat also said that Israel in the Syrian conflict has its own “red lines”. Unlike the United States, we are not talking about the use of chemical weapons against civilians, but about the transfer of this (or other dangerous) weapons into the hands of Hezbollah or other terrorist groups. “If this happens, we will not be idle,” the ambassador promised.
A hackneyed American record. Bad tune again sounded in the United States. However, this record was not turned off.
The United States, as before, is going to seek the departure of Bashar Assad from the political scene. This was confirmed in an interview with the American Hispanic television company "Telemundo" Mr. Barack Obama. This tells correspondent ITAR-TASS Dmitry Kirsanov.
"Keep in mind that it is very difficult to imagine ending the civil war if Assad actually remains in power," the American leader said.
Wanting to “leave” Assad, Obama is going to protect minorities and prevent the domination of radical Islamic elements. "We will move here step by step," the White House owner said.
What are these steps? Obama explained everything.
“The first step now is to ensure that we can address the issue of chemical weapons,” said the president. Then there will come a stage of interaction with the parties to the internal conflict in Syria and other states under the motto: put an end to bloodshed.
During the interview, the American president called Assad a "dictator-killer."
After this, Obama's words that he is committed to trying to resolve the Syrian crisis through diplomacy mean nothing, except to justify the Nobel laureate. As before, we add, Obama loyally serves his bosses from the military-industrial complex.
They are echoing Obama about “leaving” Assad and his subordinates.
To consider the Syrian authorities as not involved in the chemical attack on Damascus 21 in August is to turn away from the facts. This statement was made by the US Permanent Representative to the UN Samantha Power, reports correspondent ITAR-TASS Oleg Zelenin.
“It was a carnage, skillfully arranged by a regime that, as we know, has one of the largest undeclared sarin reserves. To think otherwise is to consciously close our eyes to the facts presented, ”the Permanent Representative noted at the UN General Assembly meeting.
The Permanent Representative of the United States claimed that 120 mm caliber shells "were used by the regime in other attacks" (that is, not only in Gute). S. Power rejected the very possibility that such ammunition could be in the hands of militants.
Samantha Power knows, apparently, everything. She said what is then written down in American textbooks. stories: “A few days before, the Assad experts on chemical weapons were preparing for an attack near the place where they synthesized sarin. They distributed gas masks to the soldiers. Then they launched rockets from the region controlled by the authorities in 12 quarters that the regime tried to wrest from the opposition forces. ”
Of course, John Kerry also spoke on the Syrian theme - the same one that was described in the “VO” article "Pathological Liar" from the State Department ".
The report of the UN inspectors published on Monday indicates that it is Bashar Asad who is responsible for the chemical attack in the suburbs of Damascus. This was announced in an interview with journalists by US Secretary of State John Kerry, reports correspondent ITAR-TASS Andrey Surzhansky.
"The details contained in this report are the type of ammunition, the type of poison gas, the type of missiles that were used, their trajectory of flight, all of this is extremely important, indicating that it was the Assad regime that committed the attack," diplomacy before meeting with members of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee.
What kind of report is this? Not otherwise, he was written under the dictation of the State Department.
About the helplessness of the UN and the mighty Lavrov. "Inopressa" made a review of Western newspapers on the reaction of the world community to the report of the UN inspectors.
“The report on the Sarinov attack gives the US courage,” writes The Wall Street Journal, referring to the report of inspectors who visited the Himataka site in Syria, and the statement by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
"The White House and its Western allies say that the UN report on the August chemical attack in Syria provided convincing evidence to support their view that it was government troops who used sarin rockets," journalists said.
"The UN inspectors spent several days in the suburbs of Damascus, collecting materials for a report on the attack last month, including blood samples, missile fragments and other evidence," the article says further. According to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, an 85% blood sample was tested positive for sarin. “The rocket carriers used to launch these missiles are in the hands of only the Syrian military,” say journalists, citing an analyst.
"White House spokesman Jay Carney said that the UN report on Monday confirms the conclusion to which the United States has already reached: it is the Assad regime that is responsible for the August 21 attack," the article says.
Obama knew about the repeated use of chemical weapons in Syria long before the August attack in the suburbs of Damascus, The Washington Times correspondents write. Information on previous incidents of use of agents and forced the administration to give the go-ahead to the secret CIA plan for the delivery of small arms to the Syrian rebels.
An anonymous source in the administration told correspondents that there are two versions in the US intelligence community regarding the August 21 attack.
“The working version is that the Assad regime used small-scale chemical weapons to test the reaction of the world community, and since the reaction was restrained, it was decided to carry out a large-scale attack,” said anonymous. “According to another version, the August 21 attack was supposed to be much less, but the performers“ messed up ”and used a lot more substance than they expected.”
Ban Ki-moon is aware of the helplessness of the organization he leads, writes Massimo Haji in Corriere della Sera.
Only now the “roar” of Ban Ki-moon, “shocked and indignant” about the August 21 himata, is heard, the correspondent is perplexed. “The leader of the structure, which should regulate international relations, limited by the multitude of conditions and the cross-veto of the powers, felt entitled to loudly declare indignation only after receiving the report, which has no specific conclusions,” the author writes.
“Guilty cannot escape punishment. I hope everyone joins me in condemning this nasty crime. ” The Secretary General signs in the impotence of the organism that he controls when he declares that “after two and a half years of the war in Syria, the time has come for 15 members of the UN Security Council to at least slightly demonstrate their leadership.”
“A veteran of diplomacy, a lover of cigars and whiskey, loves to outwit the United States,” the newspaper “The New York Times” devoted the comment to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
As soon as Secretary of State Kerry issued an impromptu about how the Syrian government could have avoided a US strike, Lavrov called him. According to the newspaper, he told Kerry that he would immediately make public a proposal to dismantle the Syrian chemical arsenal. Kerry said sharply: "We will not play games." The conversation lasted fourteen minutes.
And on Saturday, Kerry and Lavrov together finalized the dismantling plan. The White House believes that this may be the best way to ban the use of chemical weapons, doing without military force, "but the Kremlin obviously thinks that this plan serves the interests of Russia and the Syrian government."
According to journalists, Lavrov’s work on Syria’s chemical disarmament plan is largely “the pinnacle of his career, in which efforts to block the road to what the Kremlin has long considered dangerous American monopolarism predominate.” Lavrov managed to “ring America” by preventing a unilateral military strike and reasserting the role of Russia, the article notes.
Further, the publication writes about “Russia's own views” that “state sovereignty and stability of an established state of affairs are valued more than the spread of democracy in the Western style”.
Who writes American foreign policy. American weapons companies are rubbing their hands in the hope of winning multimillion-dollar contracts in the event of a military operation in Syria. This correspondent tells "RT" Lindsey France.
Raytheon is the manufacturer of the BGM-109 rocket ("Tomahawk"). Each rocket has a price of approximately $ 1 million. According to The Wall Street Journal, for the 2010 year, Raytheon’s profit from defense orders exceeded 20 billion dollars. Intervention in the Syrian conflict would mean that there will be more orders for Tomahawk. Against the background of the discussion of the upcoming military campaign in Syria from April to August, the company's shares rose by a third.
Lockheed Martin earned gross revenues of just under $ 2010 billion in 3 a year. The company produces guided and unguided missiles, manned and unmanned systems, and airplanes. Before the presidential election, Lockheed Martin threatened to cut a significant part of its state, but after government intervention it abandoned these plans. Against the background of the recent bellicose speeches of politicians, the actions of Lockheed Martin went up.
Boeing supplies the US Army with strategic missile systems, GPS and opto-electronic systems. They can be used in Syria.
During the parliamentary elections of 2010, three named firms donated about 3 million dollars each to those candidates who are responsible for US foreign policy.
Equipment for the "chosen". Barack Obama has signed a number of orders that allow the US government to begin the transfer of chemical protection kits to employees of several international organizations working in Syria, as well as to the forces of the Syrian opposition. This was reported by the representative of the National Security Council of the White House, Caitlin Hayden, reports "RT" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
In a written statement, she clarified that the head of the US administration overturned some of the restrictions under the national Export Control Act, which did not allow such assistance.
Now, the US authorities have the opportunity to transfer personal protective equipment "to international organizations, including the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons" to carry out the necessary work in Syria, said Hayden.
Similar equipment, according to her, will be provided to “selected verified members of the Syrian opposition”, including from the “Supreme Military Council of the Syrian Free Army”. These opposition forces will receive the necessary training from the US.
"Not for foreign citizens." A group of former US security officials warned the White House about intelligence reports from the military scene in Syria, indicating that the rebels had chemical weapons at their disposal. Pentagon veteran Michael Maloof, who is in this group, told "RT" details.
As Maloof said, he has at his disposal a report from a source related to classified information. A former employee of the US military department showed on the air of “RT” a report page with the note “Not for foreign citizens”. Mr MacLuf stated that the document belongs to the National Ground Intelligence Center.
"The US military conducted an investigation based on 50 indicators and secret interrogations, according to which the place of origin of sarin was Iraq," said a Pentagon veteran. He explained that sarin came to Turkey from the territory of Iraq, where in May part of it was confiscated. Much more sarin was produced on the territory of Iraq and Turkey, which fell into the hands of the opposition, mainly to Al-Qaeda.
Michael McLuf added: “We have a variety of information according to which elements of Al-Qaida have been able to penetrate the Syrian opposition in significant quantities. Therefore, the study of smuggling and its origin is a big problem for the authorities. ”
Additional data for Moscow. Syrian authorities handed over to Russian diplomats materials about a chemical attack in the suburbs of Damascus. As stated by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, who is in the Syrian capital, the Syrian side regards these materials as evidence of involvement in the militant attack, reports "Lenta.ru" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
The Russian Foreign Ministry is studying additional data provided by Damascus. What kind of information was given to diplomats is not reported.
It is also reported that the permanent representative to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, suggested studying the evidence that the chemical attack in Guta was a provocation aimed at initiating foreign intervention in the Syrian conflict. He stated this, speaking at the first meeting of the 68 session of the UN General Assembly, which opened on September 17 in New York.
The Turkish Air Force shot down a Syrian military helicopter. According to "Russian newspaper" with reference to the RIA "News, Turkish F-16 fighters conducted reconnaissance flights along the Syrian border. Machines were full of ammunition. The reason for raising fighters was the resumption of battles in the border area.
Reported downed Syrian helicopter. According to Turkey, he violated the airspace of the country. The incident occurred in the province of Hatay.
In Egypt, they are fighting again with jihadists. Egyptian troops are pushing jihadists from the Sinai Peninsula, reports Mixednews.ru with reference to Fox News.
Under the command of General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, troops are stepping up the fight against the growing coalitions of the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda and other Islamist groups. And, although the activities of jihadists in Sinai may be just as serious a threat to the region as the civil war in Syria is, Sisi’s attempts to resist terrorism are not supported by the Obama administration.
An analyst of Islamist groups and a former intelligence officer of the Israel Defense Forces, Mordechai Keidar, in an interview with Fox News said:
“I am more than confident that the Muslim Brotherhood and their leaders in Egypt were supported by America — and not only in Egypt. The US Department of Foreign Affairs supported the Muslim Brotherhood, because they wanted the Islamists to love America. They will do anything to look good in the eyes of these Islamists. ”
Kaydar has no doubt that “Sinai could become a center of terrorism, like Afghanistan. The Egyptian army finally decided to deal with what is happening in Sinai, not because of Israel, not because of Gaza, not because of Sinai, but because of Egypt and the fact that terrorism from these territories may soon leak into Egypt".
Uncontrolled Libya. Today, Libya is flooded with illegal weapons, including components for the creation of chemical weapons, reports "RT" with reference to The Telegraph and the UN report.
“In Libya as a whole and in the eastern and southern regions of the country in particular, the situation leaves much to be desired,” the report said. “Political assassinations, criminal activity and terrorist threats to the diplomatic community literally swept the country, including the capital Tripoli.”
The UN notes that if the situation is not corrected, then Libya is threatened with “political polarization”.
Who makes the Soviet weapons. Some countries are interested in the continued unlicensed production of Soviet weapons. This was stated by Sergei Lavrov, in response to a question about the alleged discovery in Syria of fragments of missiles with an inscription in Cyrillic, reports "Sight" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
According to S. Lavrov, in the region of the Middle East and North Africa a lot of "all kinds of weapons are walking." Moscow stands for "the strictest control of the entire arms trade."
“We are striving to stop the illegal production of Soviet weapons in many countries,” the minister said. “Some EU member states and NATO consider this to be a profitable business and they don’t want to negotiate that this be stopped.”
The Vzglyad reminds that the UN inspectors came to the conclusion that the head parts of the used rockets near Damascus could be both standard and handicrafts. On the preserved part of the engine of one rocket, the elements of marking in Cyrillic were found. It can be read as "G ISH4 25-67-179K". And one of the shells corresponds to the Soviet-made M-14 rocket.
About the "Arctic NATO". As Nadezhda Ermolaeva writes ("Russian newspaper"), a mini-NATO is being created in the north of Europe in order to safeguard the interests of the United States and its allies in the Arctic by military and diplomatic means.
On Monday, near the Russian Arctic, the largest aviation military exercises "Arctic Challenge". They are attended by 80 combat aircraft F-16, F / A-18s and JAS 39 "Gripens" of the air forces of Finland, Sweden, Norway, the USA and Great Britain. Until September 26, they will perform maneuvers over the northern part of the Gulf of Bothnia, the Arctic territory of Norway and the Barents Sea.
It is also reported on the expected implementation of the 5 reached in September in Stockholm during the visit of the US President, that is, the beginning of "the US-Nordic dialogue in the field of security." What is this dialogue?
“This concept is immediately apparent. An outside observer will not be able to immediately tell what it means and that, for example, the United States expects this dialogue, ”said Finnish former defense minister Seppo Kääriäinen. And the chairman of the Suomi parliamentary committee on defense, Jussi Niiniste, even fears that Finland as a result of the “dialogue” will end up between the hammer and the anvil if there is a conflict between the superpowers.
Finns and Swedes are also worried about the fact that the United States agreed with the Nordic countries on a “dialogue” directly, bypassing Brussels.
“It is also alarming that the agreement on dialogue with the United States in the field of security was taken behind the scenes, without a parliamentary mandate,” Janus Putkonen, editor-in-chief of the Verkkomedia information portal, told the RG correspondent. Many in the north of Europe, in his opinion, believe that this “dialogue with the United States” is drawing Finland and Sweden into NATO.
Putkonen offered his conclusion: “We must bear in mind that now the USA has a great interest in the Arctic region. Here, and military exercises are carried out there. And now, apparently, the Americans need a diplomatic channel to defend their interests in the Arctic. To do this, they came up with a "dialogue in the field of security."
Hypothesis of the Belarusian civilization. Establishing in Minsk a separate monument to one of the leaders of the 19th century Polish rebels Vincent Konstantin Kalinovsky is “inexpedient”: his personality will be immortalized in the monument “1000 anniversary of Belarusian statehood (personality in the history of Belarus)”. This is stated in the letters received from the Minsk City Executive Committee by the Belarusian public organization “Alternativa”, seeking the installation of this monument, reports IA "REGNUM".
Appeal with the requirement to establish a monument, supported by a reference to the collected signatures of citizens, the unregistered public organization sent to the Ministry of Culture, Presidential Administration, Minsk City Council and Minsk City Council. Letters were sent to the head of the organization, Oleg Korban, from which it follows that the Belarusian authorities did a lot to perpetuate the memory of Kalinowski, who led the insurgent units in the North-Western region of the Russian Empire during the Polish uprising of 1863-1864.
The Minsk Scientific Research Institute of Socio-Economic Problems informed about the “Scientific concept of creation and installation of memorial structures in Minsk” developed in 2012, “complex sociological research” and “system analysis”, on the basis of which eight promising monumental objects were identified and monumental and decorative art, which is planned to be installed before 2018 year.
Among the latter is the memorial composition “1000 anniversary of the Belarusian statehood (personality in the history of Belarus)”, which should reinforce the “patriotic component of the national idea,” the institute said. “Of course, K. Kalinovsky will take his rightful place in the proposed facility“ The 1000 anniversary of the Belarusian statehood (personality in the history of Belarus) ”, the director of MIISEP stated.
IA "REGNUM" notes that in Belarusian textbooks on "Fundamentals of the ideology of the Belarusian state" (the subject is studied in universities and technical colleges) the Belarusian SSR is named the first Belarusian state. Now there is a revision of this conceptual position along with the substantiation of the theses on the “Belarusian civilization” and the “thousand-year statehood” of Belarus.
Young and healthy Ukrainian nationalists. Over the summer, the cells of the Ukrainian party “Freedom” conducted around 30 camps of various levels, the press service of the political force informs. This correspondent tells IA "REGNUM" in Kiev.
Several hundred young nationalists from all regions of Ukraine took part in the training camps.
“The essence of the camps is fundamentally different from the usual for the modern Ukrainian" tourist "trips with their inherent consumption of a large amount of alcohol. The goal of the camps is to educate a morale and physically healthy person from an ordinary Ukrainian, whose consciousness has suffered from the occupation of the Ukrainian information space, to educate a nationalist, ”explains Freedom.
In camps, organizers pay much attention to the “comprehensive physical development of young people”. “Particular emphasis is placed on such disciplines as various types of martial arts, sports shooting, mountaineering. Camp participants receive skills in first aid, orienteering, and elements of mountain survival. Participants fix all theoretical information with practice, ”the party reports.
Ruslan Andriyko, deputy chairman of Svoboda on youth policy, said: “In view of the fact that young people in the modern Ukrainian state are not receiving proper attention from the state, the liberal media have a materialistic outlook among young Ukrainians. As a result, Ukrainians bring up people who are indifferent to the fate of their nation and the future of their state. Therefore, “Freedom”, which cultivates a healthy lifestyle, national traditions and pride in the achievements of the Ukrainian nation, together with its youth organizations held a lot of activities aimed at the alternative education of Ukrainian youth, that is, education in the nationalist spirit ... We will continue to more such events so that the younger generation of Ukrainians would grow in a national-patriotic spirit. ”
Georgian award found Estonian hero. Mikheil Saakashvili awarded Eric Cross “for supporting independence, freedom and Euro-Atlantic integration of Georgia,” reports IA "REGNUM" with reference to Georgia-Online.
Eric Cross is the former head of the Estonian intelligence service. This man helped Georgia in 2008 to repel the first Russian cyber attack, Georgia-Online points out.
“We will never forget that a few days before the start of open aggression in August 2008, the Russians launched a cyber attack on the websites of the Georgian government. Eric helped us to create backup sites, to protect the information field of Georgia and due to this, to reach many international contacts, to organize the mobilization of international solidarity that the invaders wanted to stop. We will never forget that in Estonia, including with the help of Erik, volunteers mobilized to assist Georgia in the humanitarian sphere, as well as the tremendous international efforts that the Estonians made together with other Baltic countries, our Polish and other friends. from Eastern and Central Europe to rescue Georgian statehood, ”the Georgian president said.
Interestingly, in 2009, the Russian side accused Erik Cross of organizing the pirate seizure of the ocean cargo ship “Arctic Sea”. The investigation of the case went including in Estonia. There, Cross acted as a witness, and evidence of his guilt "was not found."
You play for Pussy Riot - you violate the rights of other citizens. Cologne court sentenced a rally participant in support of Pussy Riot to a fine of 150 euros, writes "Lenta.ru" with reference to Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. Citizen Patrick H. was found guilty of obstructing the performance of a religious ceremony at the Cologne Cathedral and ordered to pay 150 euros.
The judge said that the opinion of the protestor deserves respect, but he should have chosen another form of protest. The judge agreed with the prosecutor's office that freedom of expression is limited by the fundamental rights of other citizens, which include the freedom to perform religious rites.
The new sentence was the result of the consideration of the appeal filed by Patrick X. in response to the earlier decision of the prosecutor's office to impose a conditional fine on him in 1,2 thousand euros. Such a measure provides for the payment of a fine only if the guilty person is caught in violation of the law again.
The prosecutor's office fined the second participant of the action conditionally. That decision did not dispute. The case against the next participant of the protest is considered in the court of Aachen.
The protest against the sentence of the punk band was held in Cologne Cathedral in August 2012, reminds "Lenta". Two young men and a girl in colorful clothes and balaclava entered the cathedral during Mass and began chanting slogans calling for the release of the Pussy Riot participants, as well as all political prisoners. They also tried to deploy posters on the altar. Activists expelled from the cathedral gatekeepers who called the police.
Thousand tons. The company serving Fukushima-1 had to drain at least 1 a thousand tons of contaminated water due to new leaks. The station could not withstand the impact of the elements: leaks were discovered after typhoon Man-Yi, reports "RT".
According to Japanese media reports, the workers tried to pump out water from the area surrounding the tanks with radioactive water, but then it was decided to drain the water into the sea.
Representatives of the company "TEPCO" stated that before discharge thousands of tons of water into the ocean, measurements were taken that did not show excess radioactivity.
Australia has a new prime minister. As transmits RIA News", citing FrancePress, Anthony Abbott took over as Prime Minister on Wednesday, after the opposition coalition won the parliamentary elections.
“The people of Australia are waiting for us to get down to business, and this is exactly what the government will do,” said Australia's 28 th prime minister.
The vote, scheduled for September 14, was postponed a week earlier due to the dissolution of the Australian Parliament in early August. In late July, reminds RIA "News", the ruling Labor Party carried out government reshuffle, during which former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd again became the leader of the party and the prime minister. A few days later he asked the governor general to dissolve the Australian parliament.
As the correspondent ITAR-TASS Pavel VanichkinAbbott, speaking at the ceremony, said: "We will be a government that solves problems based on values, not on ideology."
In his speech, he urged to judge the new government not by words, but by deeds. The prime minister also said that on the very first day of work, he would give instructions to start abolishing the “carbon tax” (tax on industrial emissions of carbon dioxide), after the introduction of which by the Labor government in 2012, the cost of utilities in the country increased.
Another priority task Abbott called the preparation of a visa standard, providing for the refusal of illegal immigrants the right to Australian citizenship.
“American Internet” is not for Brazil. The authorities are considering the possibility to refuse the services of US companies that store information from the global network on their servers. This decision is connected with the revelations of Edward Snowden, who told the whole world that the NSA of the USA intercepted telephone conversations of the leaders of the states, including the Brazilian president, the channel "RT".
Dilma Rousseff instructed to develop a series of measures to make the Internet more independent in the country.
True, experts believe that such a step could lead to the fragmentation of the Internet into segments that depend on the policies of certain states.
The Brazilian authorities do not yet prohibit citizens from visiting American resources, writes San Francisco Chronicle. The main idea of the reform is that all data of Brazilian users is stored on local servers.
At the same time, Brazil’s attempt to isolate itself from NSA surveillance will cost the country huge sums of money, many experts say.
As recalled by "RT", according to documents received from Snowden, the NSA intercepted conversations and correspondence with Dilma Rousseff using the DNI Presenter program.
In the US, shooting again and death again. As a result of the shooting at the US Navy headquarters, at least 13 people died, including one of the alleged criminals. 14 injured. This was stated by Washington Mayor Vincent Gray, passes the channel "RT".
The shooting occurred on September 15 in the morning of local time in Washington, on the fourth floor of the building, which is engaged in the ceremonial and administrative affairs of the Naval fleet USA.
The name of the deceased shooter - Aaron Alexis, place of residence - the city of Fort Worth, Texas, reports "Fox News". The police found that 34, a year-old Alexis, served on the Navy from 2007 to 2011 a year, and then worked for an IT company. The police believe that he entered the building through someone else's pass.
11 September 2001, Alexis was next to the twin towers in New York - during the attack. The young man had psychological problems. According to relatives, he could not cope with bouts of anger. These same fits of anger led to problems with the law.
In 2004, Mr. Alexis was arrested in Seattle: he opened fire on a car's tires. In 2010, Fort Worth police detained Alexis, who fired a pistol at the ceiling of her apartment. After the second incident, the man was fired from the US Navy reserve, the agency said.
Shooting commented Barack Obama. The President of the United States expressed condolences to the relatives of the victims of this crime. In accordance with the order of Obama, the national flag over the White House will be lowered until the sunset of September 20.
On Monday, another fatal incident occurred in the United States.
As transmits RIA News" With reference to the Associated Press, a US soldier was killed, another four were injured in an incident that occurred at the base of the United States Marine Corps in the city of Duintin-Palms, California.
On this base is located the control center for combat operations of ground forces and naval infantry aviation.
Investigation is underway. Details unknown.
Paul Craig Roberts on Hitler and the pigs. На ресурсе Segodnya.ru a translation appeared Articles P. Roberts under the name “Violent screeching of pigs” (translator - Konstantin Dushenov).
“Putin’s September 11 article in The New York Times caused a harsh squeal of pigs. It was the very pigs you thought about — those with vested interests and benefits associated with the attack on Obama’s Nazi regime by Syria.
Among these shrieks, particularly prominent were human rights watch pigs from Human Rights Watch, whom the CIA appears to be funding from their back pockets. Curiously, is there anyone else among them who has not been bought off by Washington?
Note: the pigs criticize Putin for not allowing the Obama regime to bomb Syria and thus prevent massacres of innocent Syrians in the name of "human rights". Screaming pigs are genuinely outraged that Obama is forced to retreat. After all, they were so eager to extract the maximum benefits and profits from this mass slaughter. ”
Among these shrieks, particularly prominent were human rights watch pigs from Human Rights Watch, whom the CIA appears to be funding from their back pockets. Curiously, is there anyone else among them who has not been bought off by Washington?
Note: the pigs criticize Putin for not allowing the Obama regime to bomb Syria and thus prevent massacres of innocent Syrians in the name of "human rights". Screaming pigs are genuinely outraged that Obama is forced to retreat. After all, they were so eager to extract the maximum benefits and profits from this mass slaughter. ”
As the publicist notes, Putin's critics are too “sick in the head" to understand that this humane article made V. Putin a real leader of the free world, as well as a defender of international law. As for Obama, he was always the "leader" of the outcasts, "gathered in his irresponsible, lawless government, entangled in lies and war crimes."
Putin mildly criticized Obama for his speech delivered on September 10. In it, Obama, the author recalls, tried to justify Washington’s lawlessness with “American exclusivity.” Obama, the publicist writes, represents his criminal regime in the position of a moral censor, arguing that "the government policy of the United States is exactly what makes us exceptional."
“Exactly what Obama told the Americans, before Hitler spoke to the Germans. The Russians, who have borne the brunt of the war with the German military machine, know how dangerous it is to encourage people to consider themselves exceptional. Therefore, Putin reminded Obama that "God made us equal."
Incognito travel. В «The Guardian» An article appeared by Shaun Walker “Snowden lives incognito in Russia” (the translation source is "InoSMI").
Snowden lives in Russia under the protection of, and details of his whereabouts are not disclosed. “His place of residence is not given to anyone. This was done at his request, because we understand that the level of danger is high enough, and it seems to me impossible to speak or decipher his place of residence, ”said lawyer Anatoly Kucherena in an interview with Russia Today.
According to Kucherena, Snowden is provided with protection, but he did not specify who provides it - the state or private firms.
Despite the secrecy, Snowden can move freely around Russia. Snowden is traveling, “because he is interested in our history,” A. Kucherena said, adding that no one would recognize him on the street.
Also, the lawyer said that Snowden received a lot of job offers and assistance. The most amazing thing came from a 50-year-old woman. She asked if she could adopt Edward.
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