Geopolitical mosaic: congressmen rebelled in Washington, and 15% of the parts and chips that the Pentagon buys turned out to be Chinese fakes
Fake from the "BBC". - Return to The Hague. - The Syrian opposition demands "guarantees of success." - Children action films. - Children condemn. - Echo of terrorism. “A Saudi preacher was jailed for raping and killing his daughter.” - The Nigerian case against the Russians collapsed. - In France, racism raised his head. - Sarkozy in law. - The case of R. M. from Kaunas. - Ukrainian news. - UAV against moonshiners. - Club of Orthodox Policemen. - Only a TV, the Internet is not needed. - Summit star in Bali. - Mexico: the mafia has grown together with the police. - Maduro will win corruption. - North Korea again insulted. - Fake American missile defense. - The Chinese have asked the Americans to do without default. - Replaced by B. Bernanke. - American courts do not judge for free. - Riot of congressmen. - Tseerushniki went to work. - The book of Agent Dodson was recognized as immoral and banned. - Has misled. - America is not afraid of anyone else.
Fake from the "BBC". The British media company posted on YouTube a video in which a female doctor talks about a chemical attack near Damascus. Users found a trick in the video: the video was overtitled, the words of the physician were changed. Result: The broadcaster removed the material. However, the “Infowars” portal published a remote video, it transmits "RT".
In the frames, the British doctor Rola Hallman in a protective mask gives interviews. The original text: “This is absolute chaos and massacre. We had a massive influx of people with serious burns. It seems that they were the result of an attack with napalm or something like that. ” In another version of the plot, “napalm attack” was replaced by “chemical weapon».
“I suspect that in this case, as in many others, BBC is trying to influence public opinion, intending in this way to create in the community support for a military attack against the Syrian government,” writes one of the network users.
A former British ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray called the video "irrefutable evidence of the astounding hypocrisy of" BBC ". He added that it was possible to completely rewrite the words of the doctor by recording the audio track with any text.
Return to The Hague. The first group of inspectors of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons returned to The Hague from 1 October in Syria. Reports about it "Russian newspaper" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
The experts of the Technical Secretariat of the organization were part of the advanced team. Their task was to interact with the Syrian authorities. Issues related to the arsenals of Syrian chemical weapons were discussed at meetings with representatives of the UAR.
“The discussions were constructive, and the Syrian authorities showed willingness to cooperate,” the organization said.
The Syrian opposition demands "guarantees of success." The opposition is ready to take part in the “Geneva-2” only if Iran does not act as a mediator there. Such a statement was made by the leader of the Syrian Opposition National Coalition, Ahmed Jarba, reports "RT" with links to ITAR-TASS and Al-Arabiya.
“We do not refuse to participate in the“ Geneva-2 ”, but we demand guarantees of its success. If we receive these guarantees, we will demonstrate them to the military leadership, ”said Mr. Jabra. He added: “Iran is the enemy and occupier of Syria. Therefore, he should not act as an intermediary at the conference. ”
At the same time, Jarba stressed that the opposition calls on Hezbollah to immediately leave the territory of Syria.
Children action films. Syrian militants recruit children into their ranks. Syrian journalists present to the public history 12-year-old boy Shaaban Abdullah Hamid: his uncle led him into the ranks of the "Afhad ar-Rasul" group. This tells Catherine Slyusarenko ("Voice of Russia").
Having found poor Shaaban working in a plastic factory, an adult relative gave a teenager a gun and offered to work, “joining the ranks of resistance.”
The sniper received a reward for each victim: he was paid 500 Syrian lira (about 2,5 dollars) for a civilian killed, well, and killing a soldier brought the boy twice as much.
The “change” of a teenager lasted from 8 to 16 hours. In two months, a juvenile sniper killed 13 civilians and 10 soldiers.
“My work ended when Uncle Shiro told my father that I was with Uncle Aziz,” Shaaban said. With his father, the boy fled to Ham. There he lived in a refugee camp under the patronage of the Syrian Red Crescent Society. Then he had the opportunity to move to work on the plantation in Tartus.
To the question of Syrian journalists about what he felt when he killed, Shaaban replied: "Nothing, absolutely nothing."
Children condemn. How is the channel "RT", Syrian children condemned the provocative media campaigns, and also opposed damage to their country. They appealed to the international community through the Syrian embassy in Moscow.
"Due to the ongoing hostilities, a huge number of Syrian children have become refugees, many of them live in camps prepared and provided by the government of the country in cooperation with international organizations," the address says.
Echo of terrorism. The growth of terrorism in the UK is possible due to a sharp increase in the number of British fighting in Syria. This was stated by the head of counterintelligence service MI-5 Andrew Parker, reports "Sight" with reference to RIA "News".
Speaking at the Royal Institute of the Armed Forces, Parker said:
There are fears that some Britons will return from Syria more radicals than they were before.
A Saudi preacher was jailed for raping and killing his daughter. A Saudi court sentenced Muslim preacher Faykhan al-Gamdi to eight years in prison and 800 with lashes for rape and murder of a five-year-old daughter. Reports about it "Lenta.ru" with reference to France-Presse.
In addition to this punishment, Gamdi awarded the payment of one million Saudi riyals (approximately 270 thousand dollars) in compensation for the mother of the girl (the former spouse of the convict). He must pay the money under Sharia law in exchange for the ex-wife’s refusal to seek the death penalty for him. It is reported that the girl's mother demanded 10 millions of rials.
Gamdi’s second wife was also convicted: the court recognized her as an accomplice of the crime, since she did not report the crime to the law enforcement agencies, Gulf News reports. Wife received 10 months in prison and 150 lashes.
As Lenta reminds, the five-year-old daughter Gamdi was taken to hospital in December 2011 of the year. A few months later she passed away. The girl was raped many times. Her ribs and left arm were broken, the skull was fractured, and there were bruises and burns on her body. Human rights activists did not find anything better than to state that the father’s actions were caused by the suspicion that the daughter had lost her virginity.
The Nigerian case against the Russians fell apart. As Olga Khodinova writes ("Vesti"), a court in Nigeria decided to release Russian sailors from the ship “Myre Seadiver”. They will be able to return home within a week.
More than half a year the Russian embassy was their home. Diplomats vouched for them personally. Only after that the Russians were released from prison, where they spent a month and a half. And before that, they were under arrest 2,5 month on the ship.
The Nigerian Navy detained the “Myre Seadiver” 23 October 2012. In the vessel's hold, Kalashnikov assault rifles, rifles and ammunition, as if undeclared, were found. The team said that the documents are there, and the weapons are necessary: the ship is working in the danger zone.
Myre Seadiver is still on one of the Nigerian Navy bases. Representatives of the owner of the vessel consider the arrest of the ship illegal.
In France, racism raised its head. Opinion polls show: racist sentiment in France is stronger than 30 years ago. According to the inhabitants of the country, it has now become more difficult to "be a Muslim, a Jew or a black man." This tells "RT".
According to The Local, about 60% of French people believe that racism in their country has become more prevalent than before. According to the representative of the Council of Associations of Black French People, Louis-Georges Tina, the previous president, Nicolas Sarkozy, did a lot to provoke a rise in racism, and Francois Hollande did not bother to change the situation.
“When socialists are in power, it is assumed that they should be more tolerant and pursue a policy of bringing together different segments of the population. But despite this, the situation is only getting worse, ”Tin says.
Sarkozy in law. The French prosecutor’s office did not appeal the decision of the court, which dismissed the charges of illegally obtaining funds for the conduct of the election campaign from the former French president, "Lenta.ru" with reference to "Euronews".
Removing charges from Sarkozy opens up the way for his re-election as president in 2017.
The case of R. M. from Kaunas. One resident of Kaunas was sentenced to a year and four months in prison. He spread negative comments about the republic and its statesmen on the Internet. Such a solution, as transmits "Lenta.ru" With reference to DELFI, the district court of the city of Jonava took it.
Only the initials of the convict are known - R. M. He is 33 of the year. According to the verdict, this person commented on photographs of Lithuanian politicians, judges and other famous people, “mocked them, humiliated them by ethnicity and incited ethnic strife.” Moreover, R. M. "rejected the aggression of the USSR against Lithuania and its inhabitants in 1990-1991 and expressed disrespect for the judges, diminishing their authority in society."
In 2010, amendments were made to the Lithuanian Criminal Code, according to which a public denial of the crimes of the Soviet and Nazi regimes is a criminal offense, Lenta reminds.
Comments Lithuanian posted on the sites kantas.wordpress.com, critisizmoflife.wordpress.com and kantas.net.
The victims in the case were four people. The court satisfied the claims of the three plaintiffs: the accused will have to pay them for 15 thousand litas (about six thousand dollars).
Ukrainian news. As Pavel Dulman writes ("RG"), in Ukraine - abnormally cold autumn (temperature below 10 degrees). Utilities are required to turn on the heating. But a third of the houses in the country are still without heat.
According to the Ministry of Regional Development, Construction and Housing and Communal Services of Ukraine, by the beginning of the week 53,5 thousand houses, or 30,1% of the housing stock, are not heated in the country. In the Ukrainian capital, there is no heating in the city center, on Khreshchatyk. In the Zaporozhye region, heat is in 16% of residential buildings. In Sevastopol, all 8% of consumers were able to warm up.
“Generally speaking, because each region has its own nuances, then cold batteries in houses are due to expensive gas. Privately owned regional energy companies are saving for their boilers and CHP. In turn, city administrations, which buy the already prepared heat from them, also suffer from a lack of funds everywhere. One can only imagine what a blow to the gas balance of the oblenergo and the financial possibilities of the mayors and heat utilities imposes the need to start the heating season almost a month earlier. All this is superimposed on the crisis of non-payments, because the existing tariffs for some segments of the population are already overwhelming, and the state budget does not have money for the traditional compensation of this difference. And as the crown of the pyramid is a worn-out infrastructure, that is, roughly speaking, pipes that burst, ”described Aleksandr Kharchenko, director of the Ukrainian Center for Energy Research, at the RG.
Minus thirty five percent - Ukraine received such a discount on gas from Russia.
As Olga Samofalova writes ("Sight"), Gazprom provided Kiev with a discount on gas pumped into underground storage facilities. Ukraine will save 700 million dollars, and 750 million dollars she received from Moscow in the form of a loan.
Vladimir Putin, during a press conference in Bali, pointed out the support Moscow is giving Kiev:
Gazprom has provided an unprecedented 35-percentage discount to Ukrainian gas buyers. For European customers, the Russian monopoly has previously given 10-20-percent discounts.
Experts say that the responsibility for the reliable transit of Russian gas to Europe makes Gazprom respond to Ukraine’s blackmail by lowering gas prices.
“Every season we experience blackmail on the part of Ukraine, which says that it does not have money for pumping gas into UGS. In the winter, gas that will be supplied by Russia for Europe through Ukraine will be quickly consumed by Ukraine itself, it will select it at the entrance for its own needs. As a result, there will be nothing to supply to Europe. Therefore, it is necessary to pre-pump the required amount of gas into Ukrainian underground gas storage facilities, which will be physically redirected to Europe in the winter, ”explained Konstantin Simonov, director general of the National Energy Security Foundation. The expert added: “We are the natural hostages of Ukraine. And in this situation, Kiev says: buy gas in underground storage facilities yourself, with your own money. However, Ukraine should buy gas in UGS facilities, because this is the gas that it should consume in winter. ”
According to the expert, in winter only a “replacement” takes place: Ukraine chooses for itself Russian gas, which goes for Europe, in return it gives Europe gas acquired for itself from UGS.
According to Simonov, the scheme has always worked in this way, but in recent years, Ukraine has refused to pump additional gas into underground gas storage facilities.
“We have to make concessions, otherwise gas transit to Europe will break down, another scandal will begin, Brussels will throw all the stones at us, not Ukraine. We are right, but it is difficult for Europeans to prove it. In Europe, unfortunately, there are many anti-Russian politicians who inflate any such story into hysterics, ”said the official of the Vzglyad newspaper. And he made the final conclusion: “We need to wait only a few years, and as soon as the South Stream is working, we will not deal with Ukraine. The entire transit will actually go to South Stream, and we will not need Ukrainian UGS facilities either, we ourselves will be able to ensure reliable gas supplies to Europe. ”
Here is an unreliable brotherhood, we add from myself.
UAV against moonshiners. Belarusian police and Emergencies Ministry officers used the UAVs "Busel-M" to detect underground mini-factories for the production of moonshine hidden in the forests. It is reported by the press service of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Minsk Regional Executive Committee, reports "Lenta.ru".
The device was launched on the territory of Nalibokskaya Forest. He videotaped the area using a thermal imager. Not far from the villages of Borki, Dorogun and Yatskovo five moonshine was found.
"Busel-M" was designed and manufactured at the Physico-Technical Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
Club of Orthodox Policemen. A club of Orthodox militiamen has been created in Belarus. Reports about it "Lenta.ru" with reference to "Interfax-West".
The club works in the Minsk parish of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow." An open meeting of its participants is scheduled for November 2.
The union of Orthodox militiamen has been operating in Belarus for several years. Its members regularly send sports equipment, toys and sweets to children's institutions, care for old people in nursing homes. They are engaged in spiritual and educational work among colleagues. Now the union, apparently decided to give an official status.
Only the TV, the Internet is not needed. Benjamin Bidder and Kristina Hebel ("Der Spiegel"; source abbr. translation - "Inopressa") write that the German branch of Reporters Without Borders presented a report entitled "The Kremlin through all channels: how the Russian state controls television."
Creating a report, journalist Ulrike Gruske interviewed about 30 Russian television and journalists. Many employees of TV channels related to the state agreed to the conversation on condition of anonymity (they were afraid of losing their job).
As Benjamin Bidder and Christina Hebel write, the result was a picture showing the mechanisms by which the Kremlin controls television - “the pillar on which the authority of state bodies rests”.
Despite the success of Twitter, Facebook and Russian social networks, the dominance of state television in Russia is indisputable.
90% of the country's population learns political news precisely because of television, and there "every evening the three main television channels extol the Russian president."
Journalist Irina Petrovskaya says: "Television has turned, as in Soviet times, into a department of the power apparatus." True, the department responsible for censorship, no.
Putin’s propaganda works more delicately: “It doesn’t try to ban absolutely all criticism - as you know, there’s no shortage of publications criticizing the government in the kiosks - it’s content only to control the maximum coverage area”.
“Unlike Stalin, Putin realized that he did not need total control over the media,” said Dutch media mogul Derk Sauer, who works in Russia. “For Putin, only television is of paramount importance.”
51% of the shares of Channel One belongs to the state, the rest to Putin’s friend Yuri Kovalchuk and Roman Abramovich. Channel "Russia" is part of the state media holding. "NTV" after the assault of special forces in the 2000 year, came under the control of "Gazprom". At the same time, “NTV” can be seen in 75% of Russian houses, “Russia” - in 95%, and “First Channel” - in 99%.
As for, for example, the anti-government TV channel “Rain”, only 0,2% of the population watches it in the country.
The summit star in Bali. The topic of the APEC summit is devoted to a new review of Western newspapers from "Foreign Press".
Never before has the invisible presence of Barack Obama been so tangible, writes Le Figaro correspondent Arnaud Rodier. The budget crisis in Washington and the specter of default were on the lips of all the participants of the event.
“If the impasse is prolonged, it can affect the economies of East Asia,” the World Bank representative in the region warned.
The US Secretary of State, delegated to the summit instead of Obama, assured the audience that the “shatdown” of Washington would end soon.
"Star of the summit" was the chairman of the PRC Xi Jinping.
“China cannot develop in isolation from the Asia-Pacific region, and the countries of the region cannot flourish without China,” said the leader of the Middle Kingdom.
“Obama’s absence has made China the dominant force at the APEC summit,” notes The New York Times.
Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech that focused on the economic reorganization of China and the importance of the Asia-Pacific partnership for this country, and Obama was not even mentioned.
Meanwhile, Obama was going to use the summit to stimulate negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (this trade bloc is led by the United States, but China is not included).
The White House administration hoped that South Korea would announce at the summit that Seoul was ready to enter into negotiations, but the expectations were not met. "Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak also undermined hopes for a trade agreement," the newspaper continues.
Around the bad news for the United States, add on my own.
Mexico: the mafia has grown together with the police. According to representatives of the Mexican prosecutor's office, 18 members of a criminal gang were arrested in the territory of the State of Guerrero, 13 of whom were members of the federal police. This was told by the correspondent. ITAR-TASS Sergey Novozhilov.
Gang members engaged in kidnapping for ransom, murder and other cases.
Maduro wins corruption. The President of Venezuela personally presented to the parliament of the country a bill on the provision of special powers for him to counter corruption, reports corr. RIA News" Dmitry Znamensky.
“I am ready to activate this constitutional mechanism in order to give battle for this new political ethics, new life of the republic, new society,” local media quoted Comrade Maduro.
The new document proposes the introduction of maximum penalties for those who, according to Maduro, declared Venezuela an "economic war." Such people include the president of corrupt officials and saboteurs.
The President of Venezuela said: “Conducting a continuous war against corruption every day - this is how we implement the covenant of our Comandante Chávez, if corruption continues to develop in its capitalist logic, there will be no socialism.”
The law must be approved by a national assembly of at least three fifths of the votes.
North Korea again insulted. The statements by the ministers and conservative press of South Korea "insult the dignity of the DPRK top leadership." This is stated in a statement by the representative of the political department of the State Committee of Defense of the People's Republic, a correspondent reports. ITAR-TASS Yuri Sidorov.
According to the statement, the South Korean regime, led by Park Geun-hye, "continues to strengthen the confrontation with compatriots in the North, despite the warning from the DPRK." The special indignation in the committee was caused by the demands “to abandon nuclear weapons and carry out transformations” addressed to Pyongyang.
The representative of the State Defense Committee is convinced that such actions violate the agreements reached by the North and the South, providing for refusal to interfere in each other’s internal affairs and respect for the other party’s system.
He warned that "the people and the army of the DPRK will closely monitor the behavior of Park Geun-hye and her entourage."
Fake American missile defense. China is the epicenter of world trade in fakes, the report of the US Senate Commission says, the newspaper writes "Sight".
“US military contractors acquired many of the critical components from US companies, which, in turn, acquired them from Chinese firms, but did not test them before handing them over to the Pentagon,” the Military Parity resource reports, citing WND.com.
General Patrick O'Reilly, director of the US missile defense agency, said: “We don’t want the reliability of the anti-missile missiles worth 12 million dollars to depend on the fake details of the price of the 2 dollar.”
Chinese counterfeit was found on SH-60B, AH-64 and CH-46 helicopters, C-17, C-130J, C-27J and P-8A "Poseidon" aircraft. Earlier, in the 2005 year, Chinese chips were found in the on-board computers of the F-15 fighter jets.
It is estimated that at least 15% of spare parts and electronic chips purchased by the Pentagon are fakes.
The Chinese have asked the Americans to do without default. The US government crisis lasts a second week. China - the main American creditor - called on Washington to take measures to avoid bankruptcy, reports "RT".
“China, the largest US lender, naturally has concerns about the US fiscal cliff,” said Chinese Deputy Finance Minister Zhu Guangzhao.
Celestial accounts for almost 23% of US government debt, according to the Associated Press.
Earlier, US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said that by October 17, the United States would "exhaust the limits of borrowing."
Replaced by B. Bernanke. Barack Obama may today (in 23: 00 Moscow time) announce the appointment of Janet Yellen as head of the US Federal Reserve System. This was stated by the American media representative of the White House on condition of anonymity, reports corr. ITAR-TASS Ivan Sawers.
Yellen - Deputy Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Fed. According to experts, if she becomes the head of the central bank, the Fed is likely to refrain from abrupt steps, which could result in a significant change in interest rates.
The powers of the current head of Ben Bernanke expire on 31 on January 2014 of the year. He is not expected to run for the next term.
American courts do not judge for free. Proceedings on a number of civil cases in the United States will be postponed due to insufficient funding, reports "RG" with reference to RAPS.
Prosecutors in the United States received instructions from the Department of Justice. The Office advised them to reduce or postpone the consideration of cases in civil proceedings. We are talking about cases where the stop does not damage the security of human life or the protection of property. With regard to criminal proceedings, it will continue.
Congressional riot. According to the correspondent. ITAR-TASS Ivan Lebedev, eight Democratic Congressmen, were detained yesterday by police in the center of Washington along with 200 other demonstrators. The lawmakers in handcuffs were taken to the police station.
The action of disobedience was conceived, “so that the Speaker of the House of Representatives would finally approve of immigration reform,” explained Illinois Rep. Louis Gutierrez.
The bill providing for amnesty for illegal immigrants, which in the US, according to various estimates, there are about 11 million people, the Senate has already passed. But the House of Representatives (most of the seats there are Republicans) oppose a number of provisions of this document.
Comrade Gutierrez and his colleagues face a fine - 50 dollars.
Tseerushniki went to work. The US Central Intelligence Agency returns most of its employees to work. As the CIA director John Brennan announced, this decision was made due to the fact that the lack of specialists was detrimental to national security. This tells the correspondent. ITAR-TASS Ivan Lebedev.
Forced vacations of CIA officers undermined work in such areas as intelligence information gathering and analysis, covert operations abroad and counterintelligence, Brennan explained.
He indicated that “a significant part of the personnel” would return to work.
The book of Agent Dodson was recognized as immoral and banned. The book of agent John Dodson about the failure of the operation "Fast and Furious" was forbidden to be published in the United States for moral reasons, reports "RT" with reference to The Washington Times.
Special agent John Dodson revealed the details of the operation of the Bureau for the Control of the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
The operation consisted in selling weapons to Mexican drug cartels in order to track its movement and reach its recipients in the drug mafia. But part of the weapon was lost, and later from it killed the citizens of Mexico and the Americans.
“The book will have a detrimental effect on readers and will damage our relationship with the Drug Enforcement Agency and the FBI,” the ATF recalls.
At the same time, the bureau is considering whether Agent Dodson violated state secrets.
As recalled by "RT", the Bureau for Control of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives found itself at the center of the scandal in 2011, recognizing the failure of Operation Fast and Furious. ATF acting head Kenneth Melson was forced to resign in August of the same year.
Misled. The head of the National Security Agency, Kate Alexander, said that the US administration had misled the public by presenting arguments in defense of the intelligence service’s activity in tracking conversations and electronic correspondence of Americans, writes fbii.org.
Alexander said this at the Senate hearing on the control of private data of American citizens.
It is known that earlier representatives of the administration claimed that the study of private data allowed 54 to reveal cases of preparation of terrorist acts. Senator Patrick Leahy studied this data and concluded that spying on network activity could help fight criminals only in thirteen cases.
At the hearing, the senator asked Alexander whether he agrees that not all cases involved conspiracies and not all of them were exposed. The head of the NSA responded affirmatively, according to Watchdog.
Now Senator Leahy is preparing a bill that should review the authority of the NSA to monitor the exchange of private data between Americans.
America no one is afraid. Thierry Maysan (Global Research - “Voltaire Network”; source of translation - Mixednews.ru) speculated on a curious topic: is it worth today to consider America a superpower, which it declared itself after the collapse of the USSR?
A well-known publicist recalls that in 1991, the United States decided that after the "death" of the main global enemy, a period of cloudless prosperity would begin: after all, military spending would be reduced. Moreover, the theory began to resemble practice when, after Operation Storm in the Desert, President George Bush Sr. began to reduce the size of the armed forces, and then Bill Clinton accelerated this trend.
But the Republican Congress elected in 1995 year questioned the correctness of this choice. Republicans have proposed rearmament, not having certain enemies in mind.
According to the expert, the September 11 attack on 2001 was only a pretext for George W. Bush, who invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, Libya and Syria, Somalia and Sudan. The United States military budget grew by leaps and bounds - and finally exceeded 40 percent of world military spending.
But then the economic crisis struck. He forced Washington to cut its military budget. Over the past year, the Pentagon has disbanded a fifth of the army, Meissan notes, and suspended several research programs. It is clear that the United States is not able to get involved in a major military conflict today. Therefore, Washington had to abandon a military strike on Syria, it cost Russian the fleet turn around along the Mediterranean coast.
In an article published in the New York Times, Vladimir Putin stressed that “American exclusivity” is an insult to the idea of equality between people.
However, the United States intends to continue to look down on the rest of the world. Equality of people for them is equality among subordinates.
But Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff offered Washington to apologize for espionage, the author recalls. Bolivian President Evo Morales wants to bring Americans to justice for crimes against humanity. The President of Serbia accused the international courts of arranging a “masquerade”, pursuing only imperial opponents. And this is not a complete list of critics. Protests are coming from all sides, including the allies of Washington.
We conclude the review on this positive note.
Fake from the "BBC". The British media company posted on YouTube a video in which a female doctor talks about a chemical attack near Damascus. Users found a trick in the video: the video was overtitled, the words of the physician were changed. Result: The broadcaster removed the material. However, the “Infowars” portal published a remote video, it transmits "RT".
In the frames, the British doctor Rola Hallman in a protective mask gives interviews. The original text: “This is absolute chaos and massacre. We had a massive influx of people with serious burns. It seems that they were the result of an attack with napalm or something like that. ” In another version of the plot, “napalm attack” was replaced by “chemical weapon».
“I suspect that in this case, as in many others, BBC is trying to influence public opinion, intending in this way to create in the community support for a military attack against the Syrian government,” writes one of the network users.
A former British ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray called the video "irrefutable evidence of the astounding hypocrisy of" BBC ". He added that it was possible to completely rewrite the words of the doctor by recording the audio track with any text.
Return to The Hague. The first group of inspectors of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons returned to The Hague from 1 October in Syria. Reports about it "Russian newspaper" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
The experts of the Technical Secretariat of the organization were part of the advanced team. Their task was to interact with the Syrian authorities. Issues related to the arsenals of Syrian chemical weapons were discussed at meetings with representatives of the UAR.
“The discussions were constructive, and the Syrian authorities showed willingness to cooperate,” the organization said.
The Syrian opposition demands "guarantees of success." The opposition is ready to take part in the “Geneva-2” only if Iran does not act as a mediator there. Such a statement was made by the leader of the Syrian Opposition National Coalition, Ahmed Jarba, reports "RT" with links to ITAR-TASS and Al-Arabiya.
“We do not refuse to participate in the“ Geneva-2 ”, but we demand guarantees of its success. If we receive these guarantees, we will demonstrate them to the military leadership, ”said Mr. Jabra. He added: “Iran is the enemy and occupier of Syria. Therefore, he should not act as an intermediary at the conference. ”
At the same time, Jarba stressed that the opposition calls on Hezbollah to immediately leave the territory of Syria.
Children action films. Syrian militants recruit children into their ranks. Syrian journalists present to the public history 12-year-old boy Shaaban Abdullah Hamid: his uncle led him into the ranks of the "Afhad ar-Rasul" group. This tells Catherine Slyusarenko ("Voice of Russia").
Having found poor Shaaban working in a plastic factory, an adult relative gave a teenager a gun and offered to work, “joining the ranks of resistance.”
“During the month, Shaaban, under the leadership of the militants, was trained in sniper combat techniques and mastered the disguise in the crowns of trees. After that, he was sent on a mission — Shaaban was put on the roof of a building near Al-Shahar Bridge in Aleppo and ordered to shoot at all the people passing by and passing vehicles. ”
The sniper received a reward for each victim: he was paid 500 Syrian lira (about 2,5 dollars) for a civilian killed, well, and killing a soldier brought the boy twice as much.
The “change” of a teenager lasted from 8 to 16 hours. In two months, a juvenile sniper killed 13 civilians and 10 soldiers.
“My work ended when Uncle Shiro told my father that I was with Uncle Aziz,” Shaaban said. With his father, the boy fled to Ham. There he lived in a refugee camp under the patronage of the Syrian Red Crescent Society. Then he had the opportunity to move to work on the plantation in Tartus.
To the question of Syrian journalists about what he felt when he killed, Shaaban replied: "Nothing, absolutely nothing."
Children condemn. How is the channel "RT", Syrian children condemned the provocative media campaigns, and also opposed damage to their country. They appealed to the international community through the Syrian embassy in Moscow.
"Due to the ongoing hostilities, a huge number of Syrian children have become refugees, many of them live in camps prepared and provided by the government of the country in cooperation with international organizations," the address says.
Echo of terrorism. The growth of terrorism in the UK is possible due to a sharp increase in the number of British fighting in Syria. This was stated by the head of counterintelligence service MI-5 Andrew Parker, reports "Sight" with reference to RIA "News".
Speaking at the Royal Institute of the Armed Forces, Parker said:
“Since 2000, we have witnessed once or twice a year attempts to carry out major terrorist attacks. It seems to me that in the coming years the situation is unlikely to change. Now an increasing number of cases in which we conduct work have a certain connection with Syria. First of all, we are talking about people who went from Great Britain to Syria to take part in hostilities there. ”
There are fears that some Britons will return from Syria more radicals than they were before.
A Saudi preacher was jailed for raping and killing his daughter. A Saudi court sentenced Muslim preacher Faykhan al-Gamdi to eight years in prison and 800 with lashes for rape and murder of a five-year-old daughter. Reports about it "Lenta.ru" with reference to France-Presse.
In addition to this punishment, Gamdi awarded the payment of one million Saudi riyals (approximately 270 thousand dollars) in compensation for the mother of the girl (the former spouse of the convict). He must pay the money under Sharia law in exchange for the ex-wife’s refusal to seek the death penalty for him. It is reported that the girl's mother demanded 10 millions of rials.
Gamdi’s second wife was also convicted: the court recognized her as an accomplice of the crime, since she did not report the crime to the law enforcement agencies, Gulf News reports. Wife received 10 months in prison and 150 lashes.
As Lenta reminds, the five-year-old daughter Gamdi was taken to hospital in December 2011 of the year. A few months later she passed away. The girl was raped many times. Her ribs and left arm were broken, the skull was fractured, and there were bruises and burns on her body. Human rights activists did not find anything better than to state that the father’s actions were caused by the suspicion that the daughter had lost her virginity.
The Nigerian case against the Russians fell apart. As Olga Khodinova writes ("Vesti"), a court in Nigeria decided to release Russian sailors from the ship “Myre Seadiver”. They will be able to return home within a week.
More than half a year the Russian embassy was their home. Diplomats vouched for them personally. Only after that the Russians were released from prison, where they spent a month and a half. And before that, they were under arrest 2,5 month on the ship.
The Nigerian Navy detained the “Myre Seadiver” 23 October 2012. In the vessel's hold, Kalashnikov assault rifles, rifles and ammunition, as if undeclared, were found. The team said that the documents are there, and the weapons are necessary: the ship is working in the danger zone.
Myre Seadiver is still on one of the Nigerian Navy bases. Representatives of the owner of the vessel consider the arrest of the ship illegal.
In France, racism raised its head. Opinion polls show: racist sentiment in France is stronger than 30 years ago. According to the inhabitants of the country, it has now become more difficult to "be a Muslim, a Jew or a black man." This tells "RT".
According to The Local, about 60% of French people believe that racism in their country has become more prevalent than before. According to the representative of the Council of Associations of Black French People, Louis-Georges Tina, the previous president, Nicolas Sarkozy, did a lot to provoke a rise in racism, and Francois Hollande did not bother to change the situation.
“When socialists are in power, it is assumed that they should be more tolerant and pursue a policy of bringing together different segments of the population. But despite this, the situation is only getting worse, ”Tin says.
Sarkozy in law. The French prosecutor’s office did not appeal the decision of the court, which dismissed the charges of illegally obtaining funds for the conduct of the election campaign from the former French president, "Lenta.ru" with reference to "Euronews".
Removing charges from Sarkozy opens up the way for his re-election as president in 2017.
The case of R. M. from Kaunas. One resident of Kaunas was sentenced to a year and four months in prison. He spread negative comments about the republic and its statesmen on the Internet. Such a solution, as transmits "Lenta.ru" With reference to DELFI, the district court of the city of Jonava took it.
Only the initials of the convict are known - R. M. He is 33 of the year. According to the verdict, this person commented on photographs of Lithuanian politicians, judges and other famous people, “mocked them, humiliated them by ethnicity and incited ethnic strife.” Moreover, R. M. "rejected the aggression of the USSR against Lithuania and its inhabitants in 1990-1991 and expressed disrespect for the judges, diminishing their authority in society."
In 2010, amendments were made to the Lithuanian Criminal Code, according to which a public denial of the crimes of the Soviet and Nazi regimes is a criminal offense, Lenta reminds.
Comments Lithuanian posted on the sites kantas.wordpress.com, critisizmoflife.wordpress.com and kantas.net.
The victims in the case were four people. The court satisfied the claims of the three plaintiffs: the accused will have to pay them for 15 thousand litas (about six thousand dollars).
Ukrainian news. As Pavel Dulman writes ("RG"), in Ukraine - abnormally cold autumn (temperature below 10 degrees). Utilities are required to turn on the heating. But a third of the houses in the country are still without heat.
According to the Ministry of Regional Development, Construction and Housing and Communal Services of Ukraine, by the beginning of the week 53,5 thousand houses, or 30,1% of the housing stock, are not heated in the country. In the Ukrainian capital, there is no heating in the city center, on Khreshchatyk. In the Zaporozhye region, heat is in 16% of residential buildings. In Sevastopol, all 8% of consumers were able to warm up.
“Generally speaking, because each region has its own nuances, then cold batteries in houses are due to expensive gas. Privately owned regional energy companies are saving for their boilers and CHP. In turn, city administrations, which buy the already prepared heat from them, also suffer from a lack of funds everywhere. One can only imagine what a blow to the gas balance of the oblenergo and the financial possibilities of the mayors and heat utilities imposes the need to start the heating season almost a month earlier. All this is superimposed on the crisis of non-payments, because the existing tariffs for some segments of the population are already overwhelming, and the state budget does not have money for the traditional compensation of this difference. And as the crown of the pyramid is a worn-out infrastructure, that is, roughly speaking, pipes that burst, ”described Aleksandr Kharchenko, director of the Ukrainian Center for Energy Research, at the RG.
Minus thirty five percent - Ukraine received such a discount on gas from Russia.
As Olga Samofalova writes ("Sight"), Gazprom provided Kiev with a discount on gas pumped into underground storage facilities. Ukraine will save 700 million dollars, and 750 million dollars she received from Moscow in the form of a loan.
Vladimir Putin, during a press conference in Bali, pointed out the support Moscow is giving Kiev:
“The process is underway. Here are our banks a few days ago, of course, not without my knowledge, issued another loan to Ukraine: 750 million dollars. And Gazprom, also not without the knowledge of the Russian leadership, agreed that it helped Ukraine to pump the necessary gas into an underground gas storage facility at a discount. That is, we cooperate, help Ukraine, our Ukrainian partners, our friends. But if we see that the signed document undermines our own market, we will be forced to take retaliatory measures to protect our own market. ”
Gazprom has provided an unprecedented 35-percentage discount to Ukrainian gas buyers. For European customers, the Russian monopoly has previously given 10-20-percent discounts.
Experts say that the responsibility for the reliable transit of Russian gas to Europe makes Gazprom respond to Ukraine’s blackmail by lowering gas prices.
“Every season we experience blackmail on the part of Ukraine, which says that it does not have money for pumping gas into UGS. In the winter, gas that will be supplied by Russia for Europe through Ukraine will be quickly consumed by Ukraine itself, it will select it at the entrance for its own needs. As a result, there will be nothing to supply to Europe. Therefore, it is necessary to pre-pump the required amount of gas into Ukrainian underground gas storage facilities, which will be physically redirected to Europe in the winter, ”explained Konstantin Simonov, director general of the National Energy Security Foundation. The expert added: “We are the natural hostages of Ukraine. And in this situation, Kiev says: buy gas in underground storage facilities yourself, with your own money. However, Ukraine should buy gas in UGS facilities, because this is the gas that it should consume in winter. ”
According to the expert, in winter only a “replacement” takes place: Ukraine chooses for itself Russian gas, which goes for Europe, in return it gives Europe gas acquired for itself from UGS.
According to Simonov, the scheme has always worked in this way, but in recent years, Ukraine has refused to pump additional gas into underground gas storage facilities.
“We have to make concessions, otherwise gas transit to Europe will break down, another scandal will begin, Brussels will throw all the stones at us, not Ukraine. We are right, but it is difficult for Europeans to prove it. In Europe, unfortunately, there are many anti-Russian politicians who inflate any such story into hysterics, ”said the official of the Vzglyad newspaper. And he made the final conclusion: “We need to wait only a few years, and as soon as the South Stream is working, we will not deal with Ukraine. The entire transit will actually go to South Stream, and we will not need Ukrainian UGS facilities either, we ourselves will be able to ensure reliable gas supplies to Europe. ”
Here is an unreliable brotherhood, we add from myself.
UAV against moonshiners. Belarusian police and Emergencies Ministry officers used the UAVs "Busel-M" to detect underground mini-factories for the production of moonshine hidden in the forests. It is reported by the press service of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Minsk Regional Executive Committee, reports "Lenta.ru".
The device was launched on the territory of Nalibokskaya Forest. He videotaped the area using a thermal imager. Not far from the villages of Borki, Dorogun and Yatskovo five moonshine was found.
"Busel-M" was designed and manufactured at the Physico-Technical Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
Club of Orthodox Policemen. A club of Orthodox militiamen has been created in Belarus. Reports about it "Lenta.ru" with reference to "Interfax-West".
The club works in the Minsk parish of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow." An open meeting of its participants is scheduled for November 2.
The union of Orthodox militiamen has been operating in Belarus for several years. Its members regularly send sports equipment, toys and sweets to children's institutions, care for old people in nursing homes. They are engaged in spiritual and educational work among colleagues. Now the union, apparently decided to give an official status.
Only the TV, the Internet is not needed. Benjamin Bidder and Kristina Hebel ("Der Spiegel"; source abbr. translation - "Inopressa") write that the German branch of Reporters Without Borders presented a report entitled "The Kremlin through all channels: how the Russian state controls television."
Creating a report, journalist Ulrike Gruske interviewed about 30 Russian television and journalists. Many employees of TV channels related to the state agreed to the conversation on condition of anonymity (they were afraid of losing their job).
As Benjamin Bidder and Christina Hebel write, the result was a picture showing the mechanisms by which the Kremlin controls television - “the pillar on which the authority of state bodies rests”.
Despite the success of Twitter, Facebook and Russian social networks, the dominance of state television in Russia is indisputable.
90% of the country's population learns political news precisely because of television, and there "every evening the three main television channels extol the Russian president."
Journalist Irina Petrovskaya says: "Television has turned, as in Soviet times, into a department of the power apparatus." True, the department responsible for censorship, no.
Putin’s propaganda works more delicately: “It doesn’t try to ban absolutely all criticism - as you know, there’s no shortage of publications criticizing the government in the kiosks - it’s content only to control the maximum coverage area”.
“Unlike Stalin, Putin realized that he did not need total control over the media,” said Dutch media mogul Derk Sauer, who works in Russia. “For Putin, only television is of paramount importance.”
51% of the shares of Channel One belongs to the state, the rest to Putin’s friend Yuri Kovalchuk and Roman Abramovich. Channel "Russia" is part of the state media holding. "NTV" after the assault of special forces in the 2000 year, came under the control of "Gazprom". At the same time, “NTV” can be seen in 75% of Russian houses, “Russia” - in 95%, and “First Channel” - in 99%.
As for, for example, the anti-government TV channel “Rain”, only 0,2% of the population watches it in the country.
The summit star in Bali. The topic of the APEC summit is devoted to a new review of Western newspapers from "Foreign Press".
Never before has the invisible presence of Barack Obama been so tangible, writes Le Figaro correspondent Arnaud Rodier. The budget crisis in Washington and the specter of default were on the lips of all the participants of the event.
“If the impasse is prolonged, it can affect the economies of East Asia,” the World Bank representative in the region warned.
The US Secretary of State, delegated to the summit instead of Obama, assured the audience that the “shatdown” of Washington would end soon.
"Star of the summit" was the chairman of the PRC Xi Jinping.
“China cannot develop in isolation from the Asia-Pacific region, and the countries of the region cannot flourish without China,” said the leader of the Middle Kingdom.
“Obama’s absence has made China the dominant force at the APEC summit,” notes The New York Times.
Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech that focused on the economic reorganization of China and the importance of the Asia-Pacific partnership for this country, and Obama was not even mentioned.
Meanwhile, Obama was going to use the summit to stimulate negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (this trade bloc is led by the United States, but China is not included).
The White House administration hoped that South Korea would announce at the summit that Seoul was ready to enter into negotiations, but the expectations were not met. "Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak also undermined hopes for a trade agreement," the newspaper continues.
Around the bad news for the United States, add on my own.
Mexico: the mafia has grown together with the police. According to representatives of the Mexican prosecutor's office, 18 members of a criminal gang were arrested in the territory of the State of Guerrero, 13 of whom were members of the federal police. This was told by the correspondent. ITAR-TASS Sergey Novozhilov.
Gang members engaged in kidnapping for ransom, murder and other cases.
Maduro wins corruption. The President of Venezuela personally presented to the parliament of the country a bill on the provision of special powers for him to counter corruption, reports corr. RIA News" Dmitry Znamensky.
“I am ready to activate this constitutional mechanism in order to give battle for this new political ethics, new life of the republic, new society,” local media quoted Comrade Maduro.
The new document proposes the introduction of maximum penalties for those who, according to Maduro, declared Venezuela an "economic war." Such people include the president of corrupt officials and saboteurs.
The President of Venezuela said: “Conducting a continuous war against corruption every day - this is how we implement the covenant of our Comandante Chávez, if corruption continues to develop in its capitalist logic, there will be no socialism.”
The law must be approved by a national assembly of at least three fifths of the votes.
North Korea again insulted. The statements by the ministers and conservative press of South Korea "insult the dignity of the DPRK top leadership." This is stated in a statement by the representative of the political department of the State Committee of Defense of the People's Republic, a correspondent reports. ITAR-TASS Yuri Sidorov.
According to the statement, the South Korean regime, led by Park Geun-hye, "continues to strengthen the confrontation with compatriots in the North, despite the warning from the DPRK." The special indignation in the committee was caused by the demands “to abandon nuclear weapons and carry out transformations” addressed to Pyongyang.
The representative of the State Defense Committee is convinced that such actions violate the agreements reached by the North and the South, providing for refusal to interfere in each other’s internal affairs and respect for the other party’s system.
He warned that "the people and the army of the DPRK will closely monitor the behavior of Park Geun-hye and her entourage."
Fake American missile defense. China is the epicenter of world trade in fakes, the report of the US Senate Commission says, the newspaper writes "Sight".
“US military contractors acquired many of the critical components from US companies, which, in turn, acquired them from Chinese firms, but did not test them before handing them over to the Pentagon,” the Military Parity resource reports, citing WND.com.
General Patrick O'Reilly, director of the US missile defense agency, said: “We don’t want the reliability of the anti-missile missiles worth 12 million dollars to depend on the fake details of the price of the 2 dollar.”
Chinese counterfeit was found on SH-60B, AH-64 and CH-46 helicopters, C-17, C-130J, C-27J and P-8A "Poseidon" aircraft. Earlier, in the 2005 year, Chinese chips were found in the on-board computers of the F-15 fighter jets.
It is estimated that at least 15% of spare parts and electronic chips purchased by the Pentagon are fakes.
The Chinese have asked the Americans to do without default. The US government crisis lasts a second week. China - the main American creditor - called on Washington to take measures to avoid bankruptcy, reports "RT".
“China, the largest US lender, naturally has concerns about the US fiscal cliff,” said Chinese Deputy Finance Minister Zhu Guangzhao.
Celestial accounts for almost 23% of US government debt, according to the Associated Press.
Earlier, US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said that by October 17, the United States would "exhaust the limits of borrowing."
Replaced by B. Bernanke. Barack Obama may today (in 23: 00 Moscow time) announce the appointment of Janet Yellen as head of the US Federal Reserve System. This was stated by the American media representative of the White House on condition of anonymity, reports corr. ITAR-TASS Ivan Sawers.
Yellen - Deputy Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Fed. According to experts, if she becomes the head of the central bank, the Fed is likely to refrain from abrupt steps, which could result in a significant change in interest rates.
The powers of the current head of Ben Bernanke expire on 31 on January 2014 of the year. He is not expected to run for the next term.
American courts do not judge for free. Proceedings on a number of civil cases in the United States will be postponed due to insufficient funding, reports "RG" with reference to RAPS.
Prosecutors in the United States received instructions from the Department of Justice. The Office advised them to reduce or postpone the consideration of cases in civil proceedings. We are talking about cases where the stop does not damage the security of human life or the protection of property. With regard to criminal proceedings, it will continue.
Congressional riot. According to the correspondent. ITAR-TASS Ivan Lebedev, eight Democratic Congressmen, were detained yesterday by police in the center of Washington along with 200 other demonstrators. The lawmakers in handcuffs were taken to the police station.
The action of disobedience was conceived, “so that the Speaker of the House of Representatives would finally approve of immigration reform,” explained Illinois Rep. Louis Gutierrez.
The bill providing for amnesty for illegal immigrants, which in the US, according to various estimates, there are about 11 million people, the Senate has already passed. But the House of Representatives (most of the seats there are Republicans) oppose a number of provisions of this document.
Comrade Gutierrez and his colleagues face a fine - 50 dollars.
Tseerushniki went to work. The US Central Intelligence Agency returns most of its employees to work. As the CIA director John Brennan announced, this decision was made due to the fact that the lack of specialists was detrimental to national security. This tells the correspondent. ITAR-TASS Ivan Lebedev.
Forced vacations of CIA officers undermined work in such areas as intelligence information gathering and analysis, covert operations abroad and counterintelligence, Brennan explained.
He indicated that “a significant part of the personnel” would return to work.
The book of Agent Dodson was recognized as immoral and banned. The book of agent John Dodson about the failure of the operation "Fast and Furious" was forbidden to be published in the United States for moral reasons, reports "RT" with reference to The Washington Times.
Special agent John Dodson revealed the details of the operation of the Bureau for the Control of the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
The operation consisted in selling weapons to Mexican drug cartels in order to track its movement and reach its recipients in the drug mafia. But part of the weapon was lost, and later from it killed the citizens of Mexico and the Americans.
“The book will have a detrimental effect on readers and will damage our relationship with the Drug Enforcement Agency and the FBI,” the ATF recalls.
At the same time, the bureau is considering whether Agent Dodson violated state secrets.
As recalled by "RT", the Bureau for Control of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives found itself at the center of the scandal in 2011, recognizing the failure of Operation Fast and Furious. ATF acting head Kenneth Melson was forced to resign in August of the same year.
Misled. The head of the National Security Agency, Kate Alexander, said that the US administration had misled the public by presenting arguments in defense of the intelligence service’s activity in tracking conversations and electronic correspondence of Americans, writes fbii.org.
Alexander said this at the Senate hearing on the control of private data of American citizens.
It is known that earlier representatives of the administration claimed that the study of private data allowed 54 to reveal cases of preparation of terrorist acts. Senator Patrick Leahy studied this data and concluded that spying on network activity could help fight criminals only in thirteen cases.
At the hearing, the senator asked Alexander whether he agrees that not all cases involved conspiracies and not all of them were exposed. The head of the NSA responded affirmatively, according to Watchdog.
Now Senator Leahy is preparing a bill that should review the authority of the NSA to monitor the exchange of private data between Americans.
America no one is afraid. Thierry Maysan (Global Research - “Voltaire Network”; source of translation - Mixednews.ru) speculated on a curious topic: is it worth today to consider America a superpower, which it declared itself after the collapse of the USSR?
A well-known publicist recalls that in 1991, the United States decided that after the "death" of the main global enemy, a period of cloudless prosperity would begin: after all, military spending would be reduced. Moreover, the theory began to resemble practice when, after Operation Storm in the Desert, President George Bush Sr. began to reduce the size of the armed forces, and then Bill Clinton accelerated this trend.
But the Republican Congress elected in 1995 year questioned the correctness of this choice. Republicans have proposed rearmament, not having certain enemies in mind.
According to the expert, the September 11 attack on 2001 was only a pretext for George W. Bush, who invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, Libya and Syria, Somalia and Sudan. The United States military budget grew by leaps and bounds - and finally exceeded 40 percent of world military spending.
But then the economic crisis struck. He forced Washington to cut its military budget. Over the past year, the Pentagon has disbanded a fifth of the army, Meissan notes, and suspended several research programs. It is clear that the United States is not able to get involved in a major military conflict today. Therefore, Washington had to abandon a military strike on Syria, it cost Russian the fleet turn around along the Mediterranean coast.
In an article published in the New York Times, Vladimir Putin stressed that “American exclusivity” is an insult to the idea of equality between people.
However, the United States intends to continue to look down on the rest of the world. Equality of people for them is equality among subordinates.
But Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff offered Washington to apologize for espionage, the author recalls. Bolivian President Evo Morales wants to bring Americans to justice for crimes against humanity. The President of Serbia accused the international courts of arranging a “masquerade”, pursuing only imperial opponents. And this is not a complete list of critics. Protests are coming from all sides, including the allies of Washington.
“Never before has the power of the“ masters ”been subjected to such public condemnation — a sign that after the Syrian retreat, they no longer frighten anyone.”
We conclude the review on this positive note.
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