Geopolitical mosaic: bin Laden's ally is registered as a candidate for the presidency of Afghanistan, and a crisis glass is poured into American state employees for free
Syrian sovereignty over the Golan Heights? - What kind of animal is a wolf in wolf's clothing? - Dumb sword of Israel. - The commander of the Iranian cyber warfare was shot in the woods. - Jew? No, an Israeli. - Saudi Arabia is unhappy with the UN. - Yemen: Al-Qaida group defeated. - The Libyan incident. “Help is not needed.” - The Gambia is not friendly with the Commonwealth. - French scientists were afraid of overpopulation. - Project of the United States of Europe. - The American crisis hit NATO structures in Europe. - Panic in the IMF. “The Senate is an ineffective, helpless education ...” - Kosovo ban. - EU minus vehicle? EU plus TC? About Armenian arithmetic. - Bin Laden's ally will sit on the Afghan throne. - Fighting in Kashmir. - India and the SCO. - Steven Seagal as the face of a Russian rifle. - Invitation to a gay club. - Irina Yarovaya upset the UN. - Putin identified the enemy of the people. - Publicity as an obstacle. - “Guantanamo List” in action. - Who will hold the DPRK and how the DPRK will respond. - Between the White House and the Capitol. - The former mayor of Detroit shines 28 years in prison. - News international hacking - The shadow of the military-industrial complex on peace-loving Obama. - American fighters no longer fly. - The crisis as a hindrance to the Ku Klux Klan. - Obama has a black stripe. - The Nightmare on Wall Street. - The first glass is free.
Syrian sovereignty over the Golan Heights? Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem stated that his country's government wants to restore Syrian sovereignty over the Golan Heights, reports "Sight" with reference to MIGnews.com.
Muallem said: "The Syrian Arab Republic confirms its task of returning the Golan Heights occupied by Israel and formally denies all measures taken by Israel to change the geopolitical landscape of the Golan Heights."
The minister criticized Israel for refusing to accede to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty weapons. Israeli obstruction, according to Muallem, "undermines the chance of turning the Middle East into a zone free of weapons of mass destruction."
The minister also spoke on the Palestinian theme: "Syria supports the right of the Palestinian people to return to their country, the formation of an independent state with its capital in Jerusalem."
What kind of beast is a wolf in wolf's clothing? Israeli Prime Minister made a discovery in the field of zoology.
According to MIGnews.com, The United States and Israel are discussing what steps Iran can take to prove that the nuclear program has stopped. About this Benjamin Netanyahu told in an interview with television channel "CBS".
“Ahmadinejad was a wolf in a wolf’s skin, and Rouhani is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, who thinks he can throw dust in the eyes of the international community, like everyone else. I wish we could believe the words of Rouhani, but we need to focus on Iran’s actions, ”the premier said.
According to Netanyahu, the only way to peacefully stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons is a combination of tough sanctions with a military threat. He also stressed that if the state of Israel is forced to stand alone against Iran, then it will be so.
“The world must continue the pressure in the name of all that is holy, in order not to allow them to have nuclear weapons. This is important not only for us, but also for Americans, Europeans, Arabs. The people of Iran, the Persians, you do not want your country to have nuclear weapons, because you cannot get rid of tyranny because of this, ”the premier said.
The rhetoric, we add, is very similar to the American one, the one that comes in daily from the world's most democratic tribunes. What, interestingly, is the connection between tyranny and nuclear weapons? Israel has it too. In the USA too. Or does Netanyahu think that the Ayatollah will start scaring its own people with an atomic bomb? It begs the parallel with the "harassment" of Assad of his people by sarin ...
By the way, Iran answered Netanyahu.
Dumb sword of Israel. Hassan Rouhani struck back a verbal blow to the Israeli Prime Minister after the latter’s speech to the UN, reports MIGnews.com with reference to the agency "Fars".
“Israel is angry because it realizes that its sword has become dull, and Iran is growing day by day,” Rouhani told reporters in Tehran.
He also promised to continue Iran’s nuclear program at full capacity.
The chief of staff of the Iranian army, Hassan Firuzabadi, also spoke out. Israel’s threats against Iran, he said, reflect “the deep despair in which Israel is located.” Chief of General Staff called Netanyahu "the instigator of war," and then added that "it has now become clear that the military option is less relevant than ever." Continuing the presidential line, Firuzabadi said that Netanyahu was waving a “dull sword of war” from the UN rostrum, but such threats are no longer effective.
The commander of the Iranian cyber warfare was shot in the woods. On October 2, in the wooded area near the city of Karaj, north-west of Tehran, was found the body of the headquarters of the Iranian cyber-war headquarters, Mojatab Ahmadi, reports MIGnews.com.
Comrade Ahmadi was killed by two shots to the heart, according to Iranian media. The local police commander says two are involved in the murder on a motorcycle.
Jew? No, an Israeli. The Israeli Supreme Court rejected the demand of the initiative group, which asked to allow a change in the entry in the “nationality” column of the identity documents. These people wanted to write themselves not "Jews", but "Israelis." This tells Anton Urinovskiy ("Voice of Russia").
The “We are Israelis” group, headed by linguist Uzzi Ornan, can now try to challenge the decision of the Supreme Court, demanding consideration of the request by the extended panel of judges. The initiative group seeks separation of the state from religion. The concept of "Jewish" activists believe an indication of religion.
“The court’s decision completely ignores the obligations declared in the Declaration of Independence of Israel, which promised equality to all citizens of a state regardless of their religion, race or gender,” said Ornan in an interview with Haaretz. “Instead, the Jewish majority exercises complete control over the country and works not for the good of all Israelis, but for the benefit of its own majority.”
The submission also states that the identity cards of an Israeli citizen issued after 2005 have no “nationality” column, but the citizens of the country who received the documents before this year (among them Ornan) have a record of nationality there. In 2012, the Knesset decided that Israelis would change their ID cards every 10 years. Therefore, soon all residents of the country will receive documents without the “nationality” column.
Saudi Arabia is unhappy with the UN. The delegate of Saudi Arabia for the first time in stories canceled his own speech at the UN General Assembly. He said that the organization is not able to solve problems in the Islamic world and the Arab countries, writes "Russian newspaper" with reference to Interfax.
According to unnamed diplomatic sources, Riyadh is dissatisfied with the UN position on the Middle East settlement and the conflict in Syria. Also, the Saudis are unhappy that “certain countries have a monopoly” on decision-making in the United Nations.
Yemen: Al-Qaida has been defeated. Yemeni Army units yesterday regained control of the military unit, where the headquarters of the Second Military District of the country in the port city of Mukalla is located, reports "Lenta.ru" with reference to France-Presse.
The troops completed the operation, during which all the terrorists who attacked the headquarters were killed. True, nothing is said about hostages from among the military personnel who were held by extremists.
During the battle, at least 12 people were killed, including five soldiers.
As recalled "Lenta", the military unit was captured by the militants "Ansar al-Sharia" 30 September. An unnamed number of hostages, including a general, fell into the hands of terrorists.
Libyan incident. In the evening of October 2, unknown persons fired at the Russian embassy in Tripoli and tried to penetrate its territory, reports RIA News". Today, the Emergencies Ministry aircraft, which are carrying the evacuees from Libya and members of their families, who were evacuated from Libya, flew from Tunis to Moscow.
“At 5.30 Moscow time, a special board of the Ministry of Emergency Situations flew out of Djerba, on board of which 51 is a Russian,” said the official representative of the Ministry, Irina Rossius.
RIA "Novosti" reminds that a group of young people on Wednesday organized a protest action outside the Russian embassy in the Libyan capital. The reason was the message about the murder of a Libyan army Air Force officer, in which a Russian citizen is suspected. The participants of the action behaved aggressively: they set fire to a car parked outside the embassy and began to smash the central gates. The embassy guard opened fire. Two were killed and several injured.
The attackers managed to break into the territory of the embassy. However, employees and their families took refuge in protected areas. Then the embassy staff were evacuated to Tunisia.
"Help is not needed." “Help is not needed” is the name of a public campaign in Egypt, whose participants collect signatures on an appeal to the state’s leadership to refuse US financial aid, which totals approximately a half billion dollars a year. This amount includes 1 billion 300 million military aid and 250 million economic, according to Amru Omran ("Voice of Russia").
In a recent speech at the UN General Assembly, the American president said that American assistance to Egypt would depend "on the country's advancement towards democracy." This reinforces Egyptian suspicions that Washington is going to dictate rules of behavior to the AER - both internal and external.
“This is no longer help, but blackmail. Let the Americans keep their money for themselves, Egypt is not bought and not sold, ”say the campaign initiators. Major movements and parties joined the campaign: “Tamarrod”, “Egyptian Popular Movement”, “Al-Wafd”, Nasirist Party, etc.
The campaign coordinator Mohammed Sharaf told the Voice of Russia about her goals:
Today in Egypt they are already talking not only about the refusal of American assistance, but also about the revision of the concept of foreign policy, the article notes.
Gambia is not friendly with the Commonwealth. The Government of the Gambia has decided to withdraw from the Commonwealth of Nations, which unites the former British colonies. Reports about it "RG" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
The government stressed that the Gambia will never become "a member of a neo-colonial organization, and will not be included in education, which is a continuation of colonialism."
French scientists were afraid of overpopulation. According to forecasts of French scientists, the population of the Earth will reach ten billion people by the year of 2050, which cannot but lead to a political reorganization of the world. This tells Sergei Duz ("Voice of Russia").
According to forecasts, by the middle of the century 5,284 billion people will live in Asia. The dynamics of population growth in Europe is not so clear. There are many chances that it will be negative. The population of Africa will double. As for America, there the number of people will overstep for a billion.
In four decades, the human population will increase by almost 3 billion - from the current 7,141 billion. An additional three billion will require its share of resources, and they are already lacking.
United States of Europe project. A group of European parliamentarians submitted in Brussels a draft “basic law” of the European Union, which is a comprehensive revision of the current Lisbon Treaty, reports "RG" with reference to Interfax.
One of the founders of the group, Guy Verhofstadt, leader of the European Parliament Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, summed up: “The crisis has shown that intergovernmental Europe, controlled by 27-th member states, is not working.”
The group suggests that the European Union take a “decisive and responsible step” in the direction of “federal Europe”. From now on, the European Commission (the number of its members should be reduced) should become the European government, and the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers of the EU will be components of legislative power.
The American crisis hit NATO structures in Europe. A part of the staff of the NATO High Command headquarters in Europe, located in Belgium, went on technical leave, reports "RG" with reference to RIA "News".
Due to financial problems in the United States, employees of the headquarters in Mons and the Chevre Air Force Base in Charleroi stayed at home.
Panic in the IMF. No joke: America can turn off not only Europe, but the whole world!
If American politicians fail to avoid default, the global economy can be seriously damaged. This was told by the head of the IMF, Christine Lagard. Her words leads Interfax with reference to the BBC.
“Suspending the government’s work is bad in itself, but refusing to raise the national debt ceiling will be much worse and could very seriously harm not only the US economy, but also the global economy as a whole,” said the head of the foundation, speaking to George Washington University students. “Therefore, it is critically important to resolve this issue as quickly as possible.”
In the coming days, the IMF plans to make public another forecast, which will provide a detailed analysis of the global economic situation.
"Interfax" reminds that the US Treasury Department has warned: if the crisis in Washington is not resolved, the country may plunge into a severe recession.
"The Senate is an inefficient, helpless education ..." In Ireland today will be held a referendum on the elimination of the upper house of the highest legislative body of the country - the Senate, reports corr. ITAR-TASS Ivan Kusch.
The ruling coalition insists that the abolition of the Senate will help save the state treasury substantial funds. “The Senate is an inefficient, helpless entity,” said Prime Minister of the country and party leader Fine Gel Enda Kenny at the closing press conference on Wednesday. - Its maintenance costs the taxpayers 20 million euros per year. It is undemocratic, since only 1’s percentage of the population participates in the election of candidates, and it cannot be reformed. ”
Richard Bruton, the head of the government campaign, Minister for Enterprise, Labor and Innovation of Ireland, added that "no other small country in the world can afford a bicameral parliament." He noted: “Small progressive countries, such as Denmark and Sweden, have long proved that democracy can develop at a lower cost in a single-chamber parliament.”
Public opinion polls conducted by order of the Irish Times, indicate that the ratio of Irish, supporting the abolition of the Senate and advocating its preservation, are in a ratio of two to one.
Kosovo ban. Kosovo’s Deputy Prime Minister Hayredin Kuchi said that the Kosovo authorities had prohibited Serbian officials from entering the self-proclaimed republic. This writes Maxim Makarychev ("Russian newspaper").
The entrance to Kosovo was denied by Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic, who was preparing to arrive there on October 4. The purpose of the proposed trip is to take part in celebrations on the occasion of the start of the election campaign in the South Kosovo city of Strpci.
The ban on visiting Kosovo by Serbian officials was introduced for the period of the election campaign to the local authorities in the unrecognized republic (from October 3 to November 1).
EU minus TC? EU plus TC? About Armenian arithmetic. Armenia is now ready to sign the Associative Agreement with the European Union, Serzh Sargsyan said, speaking at the plenary session of the PACE in Strasbourg on October 2, reports IA "REGNUM".
However, unfortunately, the President of Armenia explained, after the statement on the intention of Armenia to join the Customs Union, representatives of the European Commission stated that there are contradictions between the CU and the Agreement on a deep and comprehensive free trade zone with the EU. Armenia will not retreat from the intended path, stressed Sargsyan. According to him, the basis of the country's policy is the combination, rather than a clash of interests. The head of state said: “Our partners agreed and said that the Eastern Partnership is not directed against other structures. We are now ready to sign the Association Agreement with the EU. ”
Bin Laden's ally will sit on the Afghan throne. According to "Lenta.ru" With reference to Reuters, the influential Afghan imam Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, known for his extensive connections with extremist organizations, yesterday announced his intention to run for office as president of Afghanistan. Moreover, the field commander Ismail Khan decided to go with him to a couple in power. He became a candidate for the post of first vice president. Senator Abdul Wahad Irfan claims to be the second vice-president, reports the Associated Press.
The Central Election Commission registered all three as candidates for the posts of president and vice-presidents.
Sayyaf proclaimed that he was going to the polls for the chance to get a chance to "serve his country and its people along with the real patriots of Afghanistan." It is known that this person does not support the idea of gender equality, political and social freedoms. In 1996, he helped bin Laden move from Sudan to Afghanistan. Among Imam's students are the organizers of the September 11 2001 attacks. The Philippine terrorist group Abu Sayyaf is named after the current candidate.
Ismail Khan is one of the most influential field commanders in Afghanistan. It is believed that today he is busy rearming his loyal formations and is preparing to leave the country for the Americans.
Fighting in Kashmir. In the Indian state of Kashmir, fighting has continued for a week between the Indian armed forces and the sabotage group that penetrated from Pakistan’s territory, reports Rosbalt.
According to Lieutenant General Gurmit Singh, the Pakistani armed group has up to 40 people.
India and the SCO. Moscow supports India’s bid to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. This was announced on Wednesday at a press conference following talks between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Indian counterpart Salman Khurshid, writes Maxim Makarychev ("RG").
“This application must be satisfied. The SCO will benefit from this, ”comrade Lavrov stated.
“India is interested in full membership in the SCO. We strive for this and hope for Russia's support in this issue, ”said Salman Khurshid.
It is also known that Pakistan applied for membership in the SCO.
Steven Seagal as the face of a Russian rifle. Steven Seagal will become the face of the Russian arms manufacturer ORSIS. A high-precision rifle “ORSIS by Steven Seagal” will be created at the facilities of the arms factory in Moscow, the press service of the company reported.
As Sergey Ptichkin writes ("Russian newspaper"), Seagal has repeatedly stated that he, as a professional shooter, is interested in creating a new high-precision rifle. Having visited the plant in Moscow in the spring, Sigal was convinced of the quality of Russian rifles.
To create your own weapons for ultra-long range shooting is an actor's old dream. Russian rifles from Seagal will be distinguished by high accuracy, ergonomics and the ability to hit targets at a distance of 2400 meters.
Invitation to a gay club. State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin said that the rights of sex minorities in Russia are not violated. According to him, MEPs can see this for themselves by arriving in Russia and visiting one of the gay clubs. “If anyone wants to get confirmation of this, please, I invite to Moscow. Unfortunately, I myself will not be able to visit the club with you, but I will definitely take care of you, ”Vadim Zlobin (Utro.ru).
According to RIA “Novosti”, this statement was made by the speaker of the State Duma at the autumn session of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. There, Comrade Naryshkin admitted that he did not attend such establishments himself, but, according to “witnesses,” the gay clubs “are very good, comfortable,” and “these people” have a good time.
Naryshkin also told the Europeans that in Russia there is a fairly large number of people with unconventional orientation. “They are successful in business, in art, in any creative fields of activity ... They have the right to rest and rest comfortably ... in Moscow, in other cities of Russia,” said the speaker.
Irina Yarovaya upset the UN. The proposal of a number of Russian politicians to limit the access of foreign workers to the sphere of trade is disturbing and requires careful study. About this, as transmits Newsru.com with reference to ITAR-TASS, said the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of migrants, Francois Crepot.
“If this is true, then this news is disturbing,” he said.
Earlier, the head of the State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption, Irina Yarovaya, spoke in favor of returning the zero quota for migrants in the field of trade. Now it is 25%.
A State Duma deputy, Mikhail Starshinov, initiated the introduction of labor visas for migrants.
Putin identified the enemy of the people. The President of Russia considers the proposal to transfer the Arctic to international management as "utter folly" and anti-people, reports newsbalt.ru with reference to RIA "News".
At a meeting with the secretaries of the primary branches of the United Russia party, he stated:
The head of state called the Arctic rich in mineral resources and said:
Sergei Medvedev, a professor of political science at the HSE, spoke on the transfer of the Arctic to international jurisdiction. A political scientist wrote on Facebook:
Putin was asked how he relates to the proposal of Professor HSE. The president replied:
Publicity as an obstacle. Officials and businessmen are beginning to refuse to defend dissertations after the entry into force of a new procedure for assigning academic degrees of candidates and doctors of science, said Vladimir Filippov, chairman of the Higher Attestation Commission, reports Interfax.
“I think that the number of refusals will increase, the number of people who will change their mind to defend a thesis. It has already increased dramatically. This is especially true of government officials and businesses - they understand the consequences, ”the head of the Higher Attestation Commission explained to journalists.
The new position tightens the requirements for protection. From now on, texts of dissertations should be published on the Internet prior to defense - along with reviews, names of opponents, the name of the leading organization and other information.
As Filippov emphasized, if plagiarism is revealed, information “about the whole company” - that is, the chairman of the dissovet, opponents, the leading organization - remains on the Internet for everyone to see.
“I emphasize that the number of people who want to defend themselves also depends on the number of people who want to be their opponents - this will affect their reputation,” the WAC chairman added.
"Guantanamo List" in action. The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed that the head of the FIFA Investigation Department, Michael Garcia, will not be able to cross the Russian border: he is on the “Guantanamo List”. Not yet being a football official, but acting as prosecutor for the southern district of New York, Mr. Garcia supported the charges against Viktor Bout, they report "Vesti" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
“There should be no doubt! We intend to respond firmly to unfriendly attacks and arrogant attacks on the rights of Russian citizens. Everyone involved in this should think hard, - said the Russian Foreign Ministry. - Questions arising in connection with visa blacklists should be addressed to the initiators and performers of the extraterritorial and discriminatory “Act of Sergei Magnitsky” that goes against the norms of international law.
The Russian “stop list” turned out to be 18 Americans - as many as the Russians put the US authorities on the Magnitsky list.
Who will hold the DPRK and how the DPRK will respond. In Seoul, in the framework of the 45 meeting on security consultations between the United States and South Korea, the defense ministers of the two countries held talks, Oleg Kiryanov reports ("Russian newspaper").
In Seoul, they do not hide their satisfaction with the outcome of the negotiations: the United States promised the Korean South an “extended protection” against the nuclear weapons of the North. Washington also actually satisfied the request of the southerners to postpone the transfer of command over the combined forces from the United States to South Korea in the event of war. True, in exchange for this, the United States will begin to seek from the Republic of Kazakhstan to join the American system of a global missile defense system.
North Korea "will not give up nuclear weapons, which is a powerful deterrent in the face of the aggressive US policy." This is stated in a statement by the representative of the political department of the State Committee of Defense of the Republic, reports the correspondent. ITAR-TASS Yuri Sidorov.
"The DPRK will continue to move along the chosen path, strengthening its nuclear potential with simultaneous economic construction in the interests of creating a prosperous state," the statement said.
Between the White House and the Capitol. A woman shot dead in her car by police after a chase between the White House and the Capitol in Washington, suffered from postpartum depression, reports RIA News" with reference to the TV channel "ABC".
Earlier, the authorities established that the dead was called Miriam Carey. 34 is a African-American who lived in Stamford, Connecticut, where she worked as a dentist.
The police arranged a pursuit of a woman after she tried to ram the gates of the White House. After the incident, a one-year-old girl was found in the back seat of the car. She did not suffer.
“She (Miriam Carey) had postpartum depression after giving birth last August. She got sick in a few months. She was depressed. She was in the hospital, ”said the mother of a woman, Idela Carey.
The former mayor of Detroit is shining 28 years in prison. The US attorney’s office is demanding that ex-mayor of Detroit Kwame Kilpatrick be sentenced to at least 28 years in prison for corruption. This tells the correspondent. ITAR-TASS Alexandra Bekreneva.
At a court hearing yesterday, prosecutors said: “Detroit desperately needed a strong mayor to help him cope with his difficult financial situation, poverty and crime. Instead, he received a mayor, who was chasing profits using his official position. ”
In March 2013, a jury convicted Kilpatrick of guilty of racketeering, fraud, bribery, and tax evasion. Kilpatrick himself denies the charges. Sentencing is scheduled for October 10.
International hacking news. The US authorities have charged anonymous activists with violating the 13 Act. The indictment was presented yesterday in the United States District Court in Alexandria (Virginia), reports corr. ITAR-TASS Andrey Shitov.
Hackers are accused of criminal conspiracy to deliberately damage protected computer networks as part of the Operation Payback series of DDoS attacks committed in 2010.
The American corporation "Adobe Systems" yesterday reported the theft of data hackers 2,9 million users, reports corr. ITAR-TASS Alexandra Urusova.
The company noted that among the stolen information are logins, account passwords, credit and debit card data. In addition, unknown hackers managed to steal the source codes of the company's products.
The shadow of the military-industrial complex on the peace-loving Obama. The President of the United States announced on Monday his intention to “postpone” the effect of the law prohibiting military cooperation by the United States with countries that use child soldiers in hostilities. The president is confident that these measures are in the national interest of the United States. As a result, five African and Arab states will receive military assistance, transfers "RT".
Under the 2008 law on the non-involvement of children in military conflicts, signed by President Bush, actions to use children as soldiers in war are considered criminal. Speech in the law is about all children up to 18 years who take part in hostilities on the side of the national armed forces. The law prohibits the supply of weapons to these countries. But the fact is that the President of the United States by his order may limit the operation of the law.
Obama has already done this in 2008, in order to supply weapons to Libya, South Sudan, Yemen and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
In the near future, military support and weapons from the United States will be received in full by Chad, South Sudan and Yemen. Somalia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo will receive only assistance.
American fighters no longer fly. The US Air Force stopped jet fighter flights due to the suspension of government agencies, write John Reed and Gordon Lubold ("Foreign Policy"; source abbr. translation - "Inopressa").
“Entire squadrons of fighters are on the ground. Specialists in the Middle East from the Ministry of Defense are not allowed into the Pentagon. Thousands of computer intelligence geeks play in Minecraft at home, the authors write. - Stopping the work of US government agencies begins to have a real impact on the defense and intelligence infrastructure of America. National Intelligence Director Jim Klapper even calls it a “dream scenario” for other countries to recruit spies.
“The NSA sent more than 960 PhDs to the unpaid leave, more than 4 thousands of programmers, more than a thousand mathematicians,” the head of the NSA General Keith Alexander reported to the Senate Legal Committee.
And here is another excerpt from the article: “At the Pentagon, personnel helping Defense Minister Chuck Hagel and other senior officials formulate the US military doctrine in relation to countries such as Egypt, Syria, Iran and Israel found that they are not among the priority employees” .
The authors also report: "Aviation "the Air Force’s combat command does not allow flights to squadrons that are not planned to be flown abroad after January of the new year."
The crisis as a hindrance to the Ku Klux Klan. The situation in the US Congress on the budget has led to the fact that throughout the country a number of federal agencies have been suspended. Among them is the Gettysburg National Park in Pennsylvania. It was there that the KKK campaign against Barack Obama was scheduled, "RT".
The park was closed until October 11. All planned events were canceled, including the action approved by the authorities "Ku Klux Klan."
“RT” also reports that a message was received from Twitter from the Voyager-2 spacecraft: “Farewell, people! Understand yourself. "
According to media reports, disagreements over the budget will affect three million Americans.
Obama has a black stripe. The US president canceled a trip to the APEC summit in Indonesia and a visit to Brunei. This is stated in a statement the press service of the White House, distributed October 3, reports "Lenta.ru" with reference to Reuters.
Against the backdrop of the crisis in suspending the government’s work, the president cannot go on a foreign tour, explained the White House press service.
As part of the APEC summit, as was reported, Obama was to meet with the Russian president.
Nightmare on Wall Street. Barack Obama said he does not intend to make concessions on the budget, the channel said "RT".
In an interview with CNBC, the US president said: “If it becomes a habit for us that one party can be engaged in extortion, then no subsequent president will be able to effectively run the country. I only know that the American people — and I have to admit that businessmen, too — are tired of the constant transitions from crisis to crisis. ”
The article notes that the chairman of the board of directors of Goldman Sachs asked congressmen to raise the debt ceiling. The country's largest businessmen agree, he said, that otherwise America will face a catastrophe.
The first glass is free. Tina Kaiser («Die Welt»; source abbr. translation - "Inopressa") spoke about some curious manifestations of the American "off".
It turns out that a crisis can make a good business.
The owners of the pubs located around the White House and the Capitol began to earn money on mass vacations of civil servants.
For bored officials have come up with a special advertisement.
One zucchini posted a slogan on its website saying that “suspension of funding is only additional free time and an excellent reason to drink.” In another bar, the first portion of the cocktail is poured in to the vacationers for free - but upon presentation of a certificate from a civil servant.
If the vacation drags on, add for yourself, then for Christmas, the United States will be managed by chronic alcoholics.
Syrian sovereignty over the Golan Heights? Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem stated that his country's government wants to restore Syrian sovereignty over the Golan Heights, reports "Sight" with reference to MIGnews.com.
Muallem said: "The Syrian Arab Republic confirms its task of returning the Golan Heights occupied by Israel and formally denies all measures taken by Israel to change the geopolitical landscape of the Golan Heights."
The minister criticized Israel for refusing to accede to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty weapons. Israeli obstruction, according to Muallem, "undermines the chance of turning the Middle East into a zone free of weapons of mass destruction."
The minister also spoke on the Palestinian theme: "Syria supports the right of the Palestinian people to return to their country, the formation of an independent state with its capital in Jerusalem."
What kind of beast is a wolf in wolf's clothing? Israeli Prime Minister made a discovery in the field of zoology.
According to MIGnews.com, The United States and Israel are discussing what steps Iran can take to prove that the nuclear program has stopped. About this Benjamin Netanyahu told in an interview with television channel "CBS".
“Ahmadinejad was a wolf in a wolf’s skin, and Rouhani is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, who thinks he can throw dust in the eyes of the international community, like everyone else. I wish we could believe the words of Rouhani, but we need to focus on Iran’s actions, ”the premier said.
According to Netanyahu, the only way to peacefully stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons is a combination of tough sanctions with a military threat. He also stressed that if the state of Israel is forced to stand alone against Iran, then it will be so.
“The world must continue the pressure in the name of all that is holy, in order not to allow them to have nuclear weapons. This is important not only for us, but also for Americans, Europeans, Arabs. The people of Iran, the Persians, you do not want your country to have nuclear weapons, because you cannot get rid of tyranny because of this, ”the premier said.
The rhetoric, we add, is very similar to the American one, the one that comes in daily from the world's most democratic tribunes. What, interestingly, is the connection between tyranny and nuclear weapons? Israel has it too. In the USA too. Or does Netanyahu think that the Ayatollah will start scaring its own people with an atomic bomb? It begs the parallel with the "harassment" of Assad of his people by sarin ...
By the way, Iran answered Netanyahu.
Dumb sword of Israel. Hassan Rouhani struck back a verbal blow to the Israeli Prime Minister after the latter’s speech to the UN, reports MIGnews.com with reference to the agency "Fars".
“Israel is angry because it realizes that its sword has become dull, and Iran is growing day by day,” Rouhani told reporters in Tehran.
He also promised to continue Iran’s nuclear program at full capacity.
The chief of staff of the Iranian army, Hassan Firuzabadi, also spoke out. Israel’s threats against Iran, he said, reflect “the deep despair in which Israel is located.” Chief of General Staff called Netanyahu "the instigator of war," and then added that "it has now become clear that the military option is less relevant than ever." Continuing the presidential line, Firuzabadi said that Netanyahu was waving a “dull sword of war” from the UN rostrum, but such threats are no longer effective.
The commander of the Iranian cyber warfare was shot in the woods. On October 2, in the wooded area near the city of Karaj, north-west of Tehran, was found the body of the headquarters of the Iranian cyber-war headquarters, Mojatab Ahmadi, reports MIGnews.com.
Comrade Ahmadi was killed by two shots to the heart, according to Iranian media. The local police commander says two are involved in the murder on a motorcycle.
Jew? No, an Israeli. The Israeli Supreme Court rejected the demand of the initiative group, which asked to allow a change in the entry in the “nationality” column of the identity documents. These people wanted to write themselves not "Jews", but "Israelis." This tells Anton Urinovskiy ("Voice of Russia").
The “We are Israelis” group, headed by linguist Uzzi Ornan, can now try to challenge the decision of the Supreme Court, demanding consideration of the request by the extended panel of judges. The initiative group seeks separation of the state from religion. The concept of "Jewish" activists believe an indication of religion.
“The court’s decision completely ignores the obligations declared in the Declaration of Independence of Israel, which promised equality to all citizens of a state regardless of their religion, race or gender,” said Ornan in an interview with Haaretz. “Instead, the Jewish majority exercises complete control over the country and works not for the good of all Israelis, but for the benefit of its own majority.”
The submission also states that the identity cards of an Israeli citizen issued after 2005 have no “nationality” column, but the citizens of the country who received the documents before this year (among them Ornan) have a record of nationality there. In 2012, the Knesset decided that Israelis would change their ID cards every 10 years. Therefore, soon all residents of the country will receive documents without the “nationality” column.
Saudi Arabia is unhappy with the UN. The delegate of Saudi Arabia for the first time in stories canceled his own speech at the UN General Assembly. He said that the organization is not able to solve problems in the Islamic world and the Arab countries, writes "Russian newspaper" with reference to Interfax.
According to unnamed diplomatic sources, Riyadh is dissatisfied with the UN position on the Middle East settlement and the conflict in Syria. Also, the Saudis are unhappy that “certain countries have a monopoly” on decision-making in the United Nations.
Yemen: Al-Qaida has been defeated. Yemeni Army units yesterday regained control of the military unit, where the headquarters of the Second Military District of the country in the port city of Mukalla is located, reports "Lenta.ru" with reference to France-Presse.
The troops completed the operation, during which all the terrorists who attacked the headquarters were killed. True, nothing is said about hostages from among the military personnel who were held by extremists.
During the battle, at least 12 people were killed, including five soldiers.
As recalled "Lenta", the military unit was captured by the militants "Ansar al-Sharia" 30 September. An unnamed number of hostages, including a general, fell into the hands of terrorists.
Libyan incident. In the evening of October 2, unknown persons fired at the Russian embassy in Tripoli and tried to penetrate its territory, reports RIA News". Today, the Emergencies Ministry aircraft, which are carrying the evacuees from Libya and members of their families, who were evacuated from Libya, flew from Tunis to Moscow.
“At 5.30 Moscow time, a special board of the Ministry of Emergency Situations flew out of Djerba, on board of which 51 is a Russian,” said the official representative of the Ministry, Irina Rossius.
RIA "Novosti" reminds that a group of young people on Wednesday organized a protest action outside the Russian embassy in the Libyan capital. The reason was the message about the murder of a Libyan army Air Force officer, in which a Russian citizen is suspected. The participants of the action behaved aggressively: they set fire to a car parked outside the embassy and began to smash the central gates. The embassy guard opened fire. Two were killed and several injured.
The attackers managed to break into the territory of the embassy. However, employees and their families took refuge in protected areas. Then the embassy staff were evacuated to Tunisia.
"Help is not needed." “Help is not needed” is the name of a public campaign in Egypt, whose participants collect signatures on an appeal to the state’s leadership to refuse US financial aid, which totals approximately a half billion dollars a year. This amount includes 1 billion 300 million military aid and 250 million economic, according to Amru Omran ("Voice of Russia").
In a recent speech at the UN General Assembly, the American president said that American assistance to Egypt would depend "on the country's advancement towards democracy." This reinforces Egyptian suspicions that Washington is going to dictate rules of behavior to the AER - both internal and external.
“This is no longer help, but blackmail. Let the Americans keep their money for themselves, Egypt is not bought and not sold, ”say the campaign initiators. Major movements and parties joined the campaign: “Tamarrod”, “Egyptian Popular Movement”, “Al-Wafd”, Nasirist Party, etc.
The campaign coordinator Mohammed Sharaf told the Voice of Russia about her goals:
“The goal of our campaign is to achieve national independence. After the June 30 Revolution, Americans began to actively intervene in the affairs of Egypt. This is unacceptable. All this time, the United States has supported in various ways its agents, the Muslim Brotherhood, in their opposition to the revolution. And at the same time, in their inimitable purely American style they make it clear that if we do not make concessions, they will stop paying us - as if they are the masters, and we are their servants. So let them keep their money for themselves!
Therefore, we are now collecting signatures of the Egyptians for refusing American so-called aid. In fact, we say out loud what many Egyptians think without us, so people accept us very well. The Egyptians do not want this toxic help with the conditions. A lot of prominent public figures signed our newsletters.
In a matter of days, we have already collected thousands of signatures 700 - and there will be millions of them, we are sure of that. We will transfer all the signatures we collected to the new president of Egypt when he is elected. We do not want to “load” the current transitional government, it is already difficult for him now. Therefore, we will wait for the election of a new president and a new parliament. ”
Therefore, we are now collecting signatures of the Egyptians for refusing American so-called aid. In fact, we say out loud what many Egyptians think without us, so people accept us very well. The Egyptians do not want this toxic help with the conditions. A lot of prominent public figures signed our newsletters.
In a matter of days, we have already collected thousands of signatures 700 - and there will be millions of them, we are sure of that. We will transfer all the signatures we collected to the new president of Egypt when he is elected. We do not want to “load” the current transitional government, it is already difficult for him now. Therefore, we will wait for the election of a new president and a new parliament. ”
Today in Egypt they are already talking not only about the refusal of American assistance, but also about the revision of the concept of foreign policy, the article notes.
Gambia is not friendly with the Commonwealth. The Government of the Gambia has decided to withdraw from the Commonwealth of Nations, which unites the former British colonies. Reports about it "RG" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
The government stressed that the Gambia will never become "a member of a neo-colonial organization, and will not be included in education, which is a continuation of colonialism."
French scientists were afraid of overpopulation. According to forecasts of French scientists, the population of the Earth will reach ten billion people by the year of 2050, which cannot but lead to a political reorganization of the world. This tells Sergei Duz ("Voice of Russia").
According to forecasts, by the middle of the century 5,284 billion people will live in Asia. The dynamics of population growth in Europe is not so clear. There are many chances that it will be negative. The population of Africa will double. As for America, there the number of people will overstep for a billion.
In four decades, the human population will increase by almost 3 billion - from the current 7,141 billion. An additional three billion will require its share of resources, and they are already lacking.
“... Rather, enough, but not all. The problem lies in the uneven distribution of the benefits of civilization. From the standpoint of today, this system is unshakable. Few people believe that in the coming decades, the human community will step onto a new stage of development in order to find itself on the threshold of an era of universal equality and fraternity. Consequently, the current socio-economic contradictions will deepen even more. That, most likely, will entail global political shifts. ”
United States of Europe project. A group of European parliamentarians submitted in Brussels a draft “basic law” of the European Union, which is a comprehensive revision of the current Lisbon Treaty, reports "RG" with reference to Interfax.
One of the founders of the group, Guy Verhofstadt, leader of the European Parliament Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, summed up: “The crisis has shown that intergovernmental Europe, controlled by 27-th member states, is not working.”
The group suggests that the European Union take a “decisive and responsible step” in the direction of “federal Europe”. From now on, the European Commission (the number of its members should be reduced) should become the European government, and the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers of the EU will be components of legislative power.
The American crisis hit NATO structures in Europe. A part of the staff of the NATO High Command headquarters in Europe, located in Belgium, went on technical leave, reports "RG" with reference to RIA "News".
Due to financial problems in the United States, employees of the headquarters in Mons and the Chevre Air Force Base in Charleroi stayed at home.
Panic in the IMF. No joke: America can turn off not only Europe, but the whole world!
If American politicians fail to avoid default, the global economy can be seriously damaged. This was told by the head of the IMF, Christine Lagard. Her words leads Interfax with reference to the BBC.
“Suspending the government’s work is bad in itself, but refusing to raise the national debt ceiling will be much worse and could very seriously harm not only the US economy, but also the global economy as a whole,” said the head of the foundation, speaking to George Washington University students. “Therefore, it is critically important to resolve this issue as quickly as possible.”
In the coming days, the IMF plans to make public another forecast, which will provide a detailed analysis of the global economic situation.
"Interfax" reminds that the US Treasury Department has warned: if the crisis in Washington is not resolved, the country may plunge into a severe recession.
"The Senate is an inefficient, helpless education ..." In Ireland today will be held a referendum on the elimination of the upper house of the highest legislative body of the country - the Senate, reports corr. ITAR-TASS Ivan Kusch.
The ruling coalition insists that the abolition of the Senate will help save the state treasury substantial funds. “The Senate is an inefficient, helpless entity,” said Prime Minister of the country and party leader Fine Gel Enda Kenny at the closing press conference on Wednesday. - Its maintenance costs the taxpayers 20 million euros per year. It is undemocratic, since only 1’s percentage of the population participates in the election of candidates, and it cannot be reformed. ”
Richard Bruton, the head of the government campaign, Minister for Enterprise, Labor and Innovation of Ireland, added that "no other small country in the world can afford a bicameral parliament." He noted: “Small progressive countries, such as Denmark and Sweden, have long proved that democracy can develop at a lower cost in a single-chamber parliament.”
Public opinion polls conducted by order of the Irish Times, indicate that the ratio of Irish, supporting the abolition of the Senate and advocating its preservation, are in a ratio of two to one.
Kosovo ban. Kosovo’s Deputy Prime Minister Hayredin Kuchi said that the Kosovo authorities had prohibited Serbian officials from entering the self-proclaimed republic. This writes Maxim Makarychev ("Russian newspaper").
The entrance to Kosovo was denied by Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic, who was preparing to arrive there on October 4. The purpose of the proposed trip is to take part in celebrations on the occasion of the start of the election campaign in the South Kosovo city of Strpci.
The ban on visiting Kosovo by Serbian officials was introduced for the period of the election campaign to the local authorities in the unrecognized republic (from October 3 to November 1).
EU minus TC? EU plus TC? About Armenian arithmetic. Armenia is now ready to sign the Associative Agreement with the European Union, Serzh Sargsyan said, speaking at the plenary session of the PACE in Strasbourg on October 2, reports IA "REGNUM".
However, unfortunately, the President of Armenia explained, after the statement on the intention of Armenia to join the Customs Union, representatives of the European Commission stated that there are contradictions between the CU and the Agreement on a deep and comprehensive free trade zone with the EU. Armenia will not retreat from the intended path, stressed Sargsyan. According to him, the basis of the country's policy is the combination, rather than a clash of interests. The head of state said: “Our partners agreed and said that the Eastern Partnership is not directed against other structures. We are now ready to sign the Association Agreement with the EU. ”
Bin Laden's ally will sit on the Afghan throne. According to "Lenta.ru" With reference to Reuters, the influential Afghan imam Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, known for his extensive connections with extremist organizations, yesterday announced his intention to run for office as president of Afghanistan. Moreover, the field commander Ismail Khan decided to go with him to a couple in power. He became a candidate for the post of first vice president. Senator Abdul Wahad Irfan claims to be the second vice-president, reports the Associated Press.
The Central Election Commission registered all three as candidates for the posts of president and vice-presidents.
Sayyaf proclaimed that he was going to the polls for the chance to get a chance to "serve his country and its people along with the real patriots of Afghanistan." It is known that this person does not support the idea of gender equality, political and social freedoms. In 1996, he helped bin Laden move from Sudan to Afghanistan. Among Imam's students are the organizers of the September 11 2001 attacks. The Philippine terrorist group Abu Sayyaf is named after the current candidate.
Ismail Khan is one of the most influential field commanders in Afghanistan. It is believed that today he is busy rearming his loyal formations and is preparing to leave the country for the Americans.
Fighting in Kashmir. In the Indian state of Kashmir, fighting has continued for a week between the Indian armed forces and the sabotage group that penetrated from Pakistan’s territory, reports Rosbalt.
According to Lieutenant General Gurmit Singh, the Pakistani armed group has up to 40 people.
India and the SCO. Moscow supports India’s bid to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. This was announced on Wednesday at a press conference following talks between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Indian counterpart Salman Khurshid, writes Maxim Makarychev ("RG").
“This application must be satisfied. The SCO will benefit from this, ”comrade Lavrov stated.
“India is interested in full membership in the SCO. We strive for this and hope for Russia's support in this issue, ”said Salman Khurshid.
It is also known that Pakistan applied for membership in the SCO.
Steven Seagal as the face of a Russian rifle. Steven Seagal will become the face of the Russian arms manufacturer ORSIS. A high-precision rifle “ORSIS by Steven Seagal” will be created at the facilities of the arms factory in Moscow, the press service of the company reported.
As Sergey Ptichkin writes ("Russian newspaper"), Seagal has repeatedly stated that he, as a professional shooter, is interested in creating a new high-precision rifle. Having visited the plant in Moscow in the spring, Sigal was convinced of the quality of Russian rifles.
To create your own weapons for ultra-long range shooting is an actor's old dream. Russian rifles from Seagal will be distinguished by high accuracy, ergonomics and the ability to hit targets at a distance of 2400 meters.
Invitation to a gay club. State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin said that the rights of sex minorities in Russia are not violated. According to him, MEPs can see this for themselves by arriving in Russia and visiting one of the gay clubs. “If anyone wants to get confirmation of this, please, I invite to Moscow. Unfortunately, I myself will not be able to visit the club with you, but I will definitely take care of you, ”Vadim Zlobin (Utro.ru).
According to RIA “Novosti”, this statement was made by the speaker of the State Duma at the autumn session of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. There, Comrade Naryshkin admitted that he did not attend such establishments himself, but, according to “witnesses,” the gay clubs “are very good, comfortable,” and “these people” have a good time.
Naryshkin also told the Europeans that in Russia there is a fairly large number of people with unconventional orientation. “They are successful in business, in art, in any creative fields of activity ... They have the right to rest and rest comfortably ... in Moscow, in other cities of Russia,” said the speaker.
Irina Yarovaya upset the UN. The proposal of a number of Russian politicians to limit the access of foreign workers to the sphere of trade is disturbing and requires careful study. About this, as transmits Newsru.com with reference to ITAR-TASS, said the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of migrants, Francois Crepot.
“If this is true, then this news is disturbing,” he said.
Earlier, the head of the State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption, Irina Yarovaya, spoke in favor of returning the zero quota for migrants in the field of trade. Now it is 25%.
A State Duma deputy, Mikhail Starshinov, initiated the introduction of labor visas for migrants.
Putin identified the enemy of the people. The President of Russia considers the proposal to transfer the Arctic to international management as "utter folly" and anti-people, reports newsbalt.ru with reference to RIA "News".
At a meeting with the secretaries of the primary branches of the United Russia party, he stated:
“To speak in these conditions that this region of the world should be brought under someone's control is complete nonsense. This is an anti-popular stance, I’m not saying, it is non-patriotic. ”
The head of state called the Arctic rich in mineral resources and said:
“The Arctic is certainly an integral part of the Russian Federation, under our sovereignty for several centuries. So it will remain in all subsequent times. "
Sergei Medvedev, a professor of political science at the HSE, spoke on the transfer of the Arctic to international jurisdiction. A political scientist wrote on Facebook:
"In an amicable way, Russia, as from an unbeaten and irresponsible host, has the Arctic to be taken away and put under international jurisdiction."
Putin was asked how he relates to the proposal of Professor HSE. The president replied:
"Fool".
Publicity as an obstacle. Officials and businessmen are beginning to refuse to defend dissertations after the entry into force of a new procedure for assigning academic degrees of candidates and doctors of science, said Vladimir Filippov, chairman of the Higher Attestation Commission, reports Interfax.
“I think that the number of refusals will increase, the number of people who will change their mind to defend a thesis. It has already increased dramatically. This is especially true of government officials and businesses - they understand the consequences, ”the head of the Higher Attestation Commission explained to journalists.
The new position tightens the requirements for protection. From now on, texts of dissertations should be published on the Internet prior to defense - along with reviews, names of opponents, the name of the leading organization and other information.
As Filippov emphasized, if plagiarism is revealed, information “about the whole company” - that is, the chairman of the dissovet, opponents, the leading organization - remains on the Internet for everyone to see.
“I emphasize that the number of people who want to defend themselves also depends on the number of people who want to be their opponents - this will affect their reputation,” the WAC chairman added.
"Guantanamo List" in action. The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed that the head of the FIFA Investigation Department, Michael Garcia, will not be able to cross the Russian border: he is on the “Guantanamo List”. Not yet being a football official, but acting as prosecutor for the southern district of New York, Mr. Garcia supported the charges against Viktor Bout, they report "Vesti" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
“There should be no doubt! We intend to respond firmly to unfriendly attacks and arrogant attacks on the rights of Russian citizens. Everyone involved in this should think hard, - said the Russian Foreign Ministry. - Questions arising in connection with visa blacklists should be addressed to the initiators and performers of the extraterritorial and discriminatory “Act of Sergei Magnitsky” that goes against the norms of international law.
The Russian “stop list” turned out to be 18 Americans - as many as the Russians put the US authorities on the Magnitsky list.
Who will hold the DPRK and how the DPRK will respond. In Seoul, in the framework of the 45 meeting on security consultations between the United States and South Korea, the defense ministers of the two countries held talks, Oleg Kiryanov reports ("Russian newspaper").
In Seoul, they do not hide their satisfaction with the outcome of the negotiations: the United States promised the Korean South an “extended protection” against the nuclear weapons of the North. Washington also actually satisfied the request of the southerners to postpone the transfer of command over the combined forces from the United States to South Korea in the event of war. True, in exchange for this, the United States will begin to seek from the Republic of Kazakhstan to join the American system of a global missile defense system.
North Korea "will not give up nuclear weapons, which is a powerful deterrent in the face of the aggressive US policy." This is stated in a statement by the representative of the political department of the State Committee of Defense of the Republic, reports the correspondent. ITAR-TASS Yuri Sidorov.
"The DPRK will continue to move along the chosen path, strengthening its nuclear potential with simultaneous economic construction in the interests of creating a prosperous state," the statement said.
Between the White House and the Capitol. A woman shot dead in her car by police after a chase between the White House and the Capitol in Washington, suffered from postpartum depression, reports RIA News" with reference to the TV channel "ABC".
Earlier, the authorities established that the dead was called Miriam Carey. 34 is a African-American who lived in Stamford, Connecticut, where she worked as a dentist.
The police arranged a pursuit of a woman after she tried to ram the gates of the White House. After the incident, a one-year-old girl was found in the back seat of the car. She did not suffer.
“She (Miriam Carey) had postpartum depression after giving birth last August. She got sick in a few months. She was depressed. She was in the hospital, ”said the mother of a woman, Idela Carey.
The former mayor of Detroit is shining 28 years in prison. The US attorney’s office is demanding that ex-mayor of Detroit Kwame Kilpatrick be sentenced to at least 28 years in prison for corruption. This tells the correspondent. ITAR-TASS Alexandra Bekreneva.
At a court hearing yesterday, prosecutors said: “Detroit desperately needed a strong mayor to help him cope with his difficult financial situation, poverty and crime. Instead, he received a mayor, who was chasing profits using his official position. ”
In March 2013, a jury convicted Kilpatrick of guilty of racketeering, fraud, bribery, and tax evasion. Kilpatrick himself denies the charges. Sentencing is scheduled for October 10.
International hacking news. The US authorities have charged anonymous activists with violating the 13 Act. The indictment was presented yesterday in the United States District Court in Alexandria (Virginia), reports corr. ITAR-TASS Andrey Shitov.
Hackers are accused of criminal conspiracy to deliberately damage protected computer networks as part of the Operation Payback series of DDoS attacks committed in 2010.
The American corporation "Adobe Systems" yesterday reported the theft of data hackers 2,9 million users, reports corr. ITAR-TASS Alexandra Urusova.
The company noted that among the stolen information are logins, account passwords, credit and debit card data. In addition, unknown hackers managed to steal the source codes of the company's products.
The shadow of the military-industrial complex on the peace-loving Obama. The President of the United States announced on Monday his intention to “postpone” the effect of the law prohibiting military cooperation by the United States with countries that use child soldiers in hostilities. The president is confident that these measures are in the national interest of the United States. As a result, five African and Arab states will receive military assistance, transfers "RT".
Under the 2008 law on the non-involvement of children in military conflicts, signed by President Bush, actions to use children as soldiers in war are considered criminal. Speech in the law is about all children up to 18 years who take part in hostilities on the side of the national armed forces. The law prohibits the supply of weapons to these countries. But the fact is that the President of the United States by his order may limit the operation of the law.
Obama has already done this in 2008, in order to supply weapons to Libya, South Sudan, Yemen and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
In the near future, military support and weapons from the United States will be received in full by Chad, South Sudan and Yemen. Somalia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo will receive only assistance.
American fighters no longer fly. The US Air Force stopped jet fighter flights due to the suspension of government agencies, write John Reed and Gordon Lubold ("Foreign Policy"; source abbr. translation - "Inopressa").
“Entire squadrons of fighters are on the ground. Specialists in the Middle East from the Ministry of Defense are not allowed into the Pentagon. Thousands of computer intelligence geeks play in Minecraft at home, the authors write. - Stopping the work of US government agencies begins to have a real impact on the defense and intelligence infrastructure of America. National Intelligence Director Jim Klapper even calls it a “dream scenario” for other countries to recruit spies.
“The NSA sent more than 960 PhDs to the unpaid leave, more than 4 thousands of programmers, more than a thousand mathematicians,” the head of the NSA General Keith Alexander reported to the Senate Legal Committee.
And here is another excerpt from the article: “At the Pentagon, personnel helping Defense Minister Chuck Hagel and other senior officials formulate the US military doctrine in relation to countries such as Egypt, Syria, Iran and Israel found that they are not among the priority employees” .
The authors also report: "Aviation "the Air Force’s combat command does not allow flights to squadrons that are not planned to be flown abroad after January of the new year."
The crisis as a hindrance to the Ku Klux Klan. The situation in the US Congress on the budget has led to the fact that throughout the country a number of federal agencies have been suspended. Among them is the Gettysburg National Park in Pennsylvania. It was there that the KKK campaign against Barack Obama was scheduled, "RT".
The park was closed until October 11. All planned events were canceled, including the action approved by the authorities "Ku Klux Klan."
“RT” also reports that a message was received from Twitter from the Voyager-2 spacecraft: “Farewell, people! Understand yourself. "
According to media reports, disagreements over the budget will affect three million Americans.
Obama has a black stripe. The US president canceled a trip to the APEC summit in Indonesia and a visit to Brunei. This is stated in a statement the press service of the White House, distributed October 3, reports "Lenta.ru" with reference to Reuters.
Against the backdrop of the crisis in suspending the government’s work, the president cannot go on a foreign tour, explained the White House press service.
As part of the APEC summit, as was reported, Obama was to meet with the Russian president.
Nightmare on Wall Street. Barack Obama said he does not intend to make concessions on the budget, the channel said "RT".
In an interview with CNBC, the US president said: “If it becomes a habit for us that one party can be engaged in extortion, then no subsequent president will be able to effectively run the country. I only know that the American people — and I have to admit that businessmen, too — are tired of the constant transitions from crisis to crisis. ”
The article notes that the chairman of the board of directors of Goldman Sachs asked congressmen to raise the debt ceiling. The country's largest businessmen agree, he said, that otherwise America will face a catastrophe.
The first glass is free. Tina Kaiser («Die Welt»; source abbr. translation - "Inopressa") spoke about some curious manifestations of the American "off".
It turns out that a crisis can make a good business.
The owners of the pubs located around the White House and the Capitol began to earn money on mass vacations of civil servants.
For bored officials have come up with a special advertisement.
One zucchini posted a slogan on its website saying that “suspension of funding is only additional free time and an excellent reason to drink.” In another bar, the first portion of the cocktail is poured in to the vacationers for free - but upon presentation of a certificate from a civil servant.
If the vacation drags on, add for yourself, then for Christmas, the United States will be managed by chronic alcoholics.
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