Geopolitical mosaic: Americans say thanks to Edward Snowden, and the European Parliament will soon become ultra-right
"Opposition" peace in Syria is not needed. - Killed "is in good health." - The city of Sadad is liberated. - "American honesty." - Iran: sixteen hanged. - Iraq: 56 dead. - Israel will release another 26 Palestinians. - NSA listened, Obama did not know anything. - Cavalier of the big cross. - Is the European Union moving to the right? - Environmentalists on the tower. - Monument to Russian soldiers. - About missile defense. - Ukraine: between the EU and the CU. - Hungry Ukrainian teachers and proletarians. - Lead Margvelashvili. - National heroes. - Georgia was invited to the CIS. - Yuan to replace the dollar? - Japanese maneuvers. - One of the "anonymous". - Killers veteran. - The essence of "democracy." - Americans against the NSA.
"Opposition" peace in Syria is not needed. Representatives of at least nineteen opposition groups said they would not go to the Geneva-2 talks on a peaceful settlement of the conflict, the channel reports "RT".
The words of the head of the brigade "Sakyur al-Sham" Ahmad Issa al-Sheikh reports "France-Press": "We declare that the conference" Geneva-2 "is not and will never be the choice of our people or our revolutionary demands."
According to the head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, Alexei Pushkov, foreign patrons of the Syrian opposition have decided to disrupt the peace conference. The parliamentarian tweeted: “The 19 groups of the Syrian opposition, unable to act without outside support,“ rejected ”the holding of Geneva-2. That is, their sponsors want their failure. ”
Killed "is in good health." Grouping "Front en Nusra" denied reports of the liquidation of its leader Abu Mohammed al-Javlani, reports "Lenta.ru" with reference to France-Presse.
The group claims that Syrian state television reports on the removal of al-Javlani are a lie. The leader of the Al Nusra Front "is in good health."
Earlier, on October 25, Syrian television announced the liquidation of the leader of the Front al-Nusra during a special operation. Also, the message was transmitted through the channels of SANA, but was subsequently removed, reminds "Lenta".
The city of Sadad was liberated. Syrian troops liberated the Christian city of Sadad north of Damascus. According to "RT" With reference to ITAR-TASS, in the afternoon, the last stronghold of terrorists was destroyed in the eastern part of this settlement near the strategic Damascus-Homs highway.
The Syrian officer who commanded the operation, noted that the militants used the Church of St. Theodorus as a firing position. On the approaches to Sadad gangs, which were transferred to the aid of terrorists, were defeated, the same officer said.
"American honesty." Anti-American posters were hung on the streets of Tehran. Their authors questioned the sincerity of the United States in the negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program. Municipal authorities have ordered to remove posters from the streets, reports "RT".
According to a representative of the municipality of Tehran, the posters were hung without the consent of the authorities. He noted that the action was carried out by one of the country's advertising agencies. According to AFP, several posters still hang in different parts of the city.
The poster with the inscription “American honesty” depicts representatives of the United States and Iran at the negotiating table: the American - in a civil jacket and tie, but in military pants and boots. The authors of the posters hint at the use of the US policy of double standards.
Iran: sixteen hanged. In Iran, executed 16 people associated with the groups of rebels. He writes about it Newsru.com with reference to "Fars". The execution took place after a battle on the border with Pakistan, in which Iranian border guards were killed.
Mohammad Marzieh, Prosecutor General of the Province of Sistan and Baluchistan, explained: these people were hanged in order to avenge the bloody attack.
According to official figures, the battle with a group of armed men on the border with Pakistan led to the death of 14 Iranian border guards. Five more border guards were injured.
"We warned the rebels that we would not leave an unanswered attack against civilians or against members of the security forces," quoted Interfax Prosecutor General.
According to the BBC, the sentence was carried out in the prison of the city of Zahedan (north-east of Saravan, where border guards died on Saturday night). The executed were not charged with involvement in clashes and killings at the border. It is not known whether they were related to what happened.
Iraq: 56 dead. The explosions that struck yesterday in the Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad and the suicide attack on soldiers in the north of the country killed at least 56 people. Reports about it "RT" with reference to the Associated Press.
151 man was injured, reports "BBC BBC".
Police officers clarify: the bombs were laid in parked cars. They detonated for half an hour and took the lives of 42 people.
In Mosul, a suicide bomber drove a mined car into a group of soldiers. These soldiers stood on the street around the bank, where they gave out salaries to soldiers. 14 people, including 5 civilians, died, 30 was injured.
The number of victims of terrorist attacks in Iraq since the beginning of the month has exceeded 600 people. In total, over 2013 thousand people were killed in 5,3 year.
Israel will free more 26 Palestinians. A group of 26 Palestinian prisoners will soon leave Israeli prisons under an amnesty. A decree on this has already been approved by the government of the Jewish state; "Vesti" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
The prisoners were held in Israeli prisons from 19 to 28 years. Authorities release them as a gesture of goodwill.
The first group of Palestinian 26 Israel released 13 August.
NSA listened, Obama did not know anything. The NSA of the USA stopped listening to telephone conversations of the German Chancellor and other world leaders after an internal check of the White House this summer. About this writes "Wall Street Journal" with reference to unnamed sources in the US government, reports RIA News".
The NSA has been monitoring the 35 heads of state and government of the world for more than five years until the Obama administration discovered this, a source said. Most of the surveillance programs were discontinued, orders were issued to close others.
An anonymous source told the Wall Street Journal that the US intelligence services are simultaneously conducting such a number of intelligence operations that it is impossible to report to the US President about each. Intelligence agencies are guided by Obama-approved "priorities" of intelligence activities. Decisions on objects by intelligence are taken independently.
Well, let me add, it is ridiculous in the XXI century to talk about the ignorance of the intelligence foundations of the US president. This especially looks ridiculous when it immediately turns out that this supposedly unknowing person himself approved “priorities”. Is, for example, spying on Merkel or the president of Brazil, or the wiretapping of Iran - are not “priorities”? Thank God that the Obama administration has finally “discovered” the existence of the NSA ...
And here are the others news about total wiretapping and surveillance.
Between December 10 and 2012 on January 8, the NSA intercepted the order of 2013 million phone calls in Spain - without the consent of the kingdom authorities. This information was provided by journalist Glenn Greenwald, who publishes Snowden's revelations. This was reported by the newspaper "Pais", transmits ITAR-TASS.
The publication clarified: the NSA in Spain did not set the goal "to find out the content of telephone conversations, but set their duration, numbers and location of subscribers."
By order of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, US Ambassador to Spain James Kostos was summoned to the Kingdom’s Foreign Office.
Interception of telephone calls, SMS, e-mails without the sanctions of the justice authorities in Spain is a crime.
Dissatisfied with the behavior of the NSA and South Korea.
According to the correspondent. ITAR-TASS Vladimir Kutakhov, South Korea sent an official request to the United States with a request to clarify the situation with possible listening to the phone of President Park Geun-hye and her predecessors.
This was announced by a representative of the government of the republic, commenting on media reports about the interception of negotiations between the leaders of the states by American intelligence.
Thus, let us add on our own, the planetary dissatisfaction with the activities of the US intelligence services is growing. And the American president, it turns out, did not know anything and only recently discovered everything. Probably, the world community should now conclude: Obama is wonderful, good, and in the NSA - completely scoundrels pulling dirty hands to Merkel or Rousseff’s personal files.
If the president of the country really does not know what his most powerful intelligence service is doing, then he is worthless.
Cavalier of the big cross. Vladimir Putin became a knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Charles (the highest state award of Monaco). The presentation of the award took place during a confidential meeting of heads of state in the Kremlin, reports Anastasia Kirilenko (Radio Liberty).
The Order of Saint Charles, established by the Highest Decree of March 15 of 1858, is awarded for merits and diligent service for the benefit of Monaco or personally the prince. The merits for which Putin was honored were refused to specify in the princely palace of Monaco.
The article states that the Russian president and Prince Albert II are bound by personal friendship. Also, the prince was a supporter of the Olympics in Sochi. In addition, the Russian business is widely represented in Monaco, however, it has an ambiguous reputation: it attracts the attention of the special services fighting money laundering.
In the Bulletin of the decrees of the principality, published on October 11, it is noted: “Princely Decree No. 4504 of October 4 of 2013 of the Year to Establish the Order of St. Charles: Excellency Mr. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, President of the Russian Federation is being promoted to the holder of the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Charles.”
Also in the material it is reported that among the recently awarded with this order is the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev. In the XIX century, this award was awarded to the Russian Emperor Alexander II.
Monaco resident Lawr F. told Radio Liberty correspondent:
“Criticism of power is not allowed. Whatever the prince decides, he needs to applaud. As for the “new Russians,” the red carpet is always laid here, explaining that “they feed us”. Checks exist, but they are formal. Before 2009, they tried to fight this, but now the “Russian oligarchs” have been given a green light, since the prime minister has changed. All media directly or indirectly depend on the princely palace. Any Monegasque who dares to criticize the authorities can put an end to his career. And even in private conversations criticism of the prince is not allowed. Calling a prince by name is considered unacceptable - it is better to say “his highness”. A French comedian who allowed himself a joke on the royal family of Monaco is banned from entering the principality. ”
Is the EU moving to the right? Sergey Duz ("Voice of Russia") spoke about how the leader of the French National Front, Marine Le Pen, intends to unite all European ultra-right in the spring elections to the European Parliament.
According to European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, the upcoming European Parliament elections in May 2014 promise to be “exceptionally difficult.”
The popularity of the European far right is growing. From marginals, they turn into electoral significant forces. This is what Tatyana Zvereva, head of the Center for Euro-Atlantic Research and International Security at the Institute of Actual International Problems of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, said to Voice of Russia:
The author of the material sums up: the idea of a united Europe without borders has cracked. It seems to many experts that the problem lies in the error of the founding fathers of the EU, who tried to unite civilizations and economies at different stages of development.
Marine Le Pen believes in the EU doom. In the spring of elections, she intends to demonstrate to Brussels that at least a quarter of the population of Europe shares her faith.
The right bias of Europe at this historical stage is inevitable, the author notes. Brussels' short-sighted policy brought Europe into a state like the Roman Empire - times of decay and decline.
Environmentalists on the tower. Greenpeace activists on Saturday staged a protest action on the Eiffel Tower against Russia's detention of crew members of the Arctic Sunrise vessel, reports "Lenta.ru" with reference to France-Presse.
With the help of a cable, environmentalists lowered the awning from which the activist was sitting on the second floor of the tower. A poster was attached to the tent to free the environmentalists arrested in Russia.
The action lasted about two hours. The activist was shot by firefighters.
Monument to Russian soldiers. The opening ceremony of the monument to Russian soldiers who died from 1915 to 1918 years in captivity during the First World War, was held near the city of Novi Sad in the north of Serbia, the Russian embassy said. This tells the correspondent. RIA News" Nikolay Sokolov.
The monument in the form of a Russian Orthodox cross was installed at the Petrovaradinsky military cemetery at the burial site of 96 Russian army soldiers who died from wounds and diseases in the Austro-Hungarian prison camp near Novi Sad. The monument was erected for the first time in 1929, however, in 1990, it was destroyed from time to time. In July, 2013, it was restored at the expense of Russia.
About missile defense. The deployment of the European missile defense system should start today at the base in Deveselu in the south of Romania. International news agencies reported this with reference to the US Embassy in Bucharest, writes Alexander Samozhnev ("Russian newspaper").
The American Aegis multi-purpose anti-aircraft missile system, equipped with SM-3 interceptor missiles, will be deployed at the former air base in Deveselu. The total cost of the complex, designed to intercept ballistic missiles of medium and short range, will be about 134 million dollars.
Romanian Defense Minister Mircea Dusa confirmed plans to build a missile defense system in Deveselu. The base will be protected with the help of American partners. The preparatory work should be completed in 2015, the Romanian minister said.
Ukraine: between the EU and the CU. President Yanukovych proposed the creation of a Ukraine-EU commission-the Customs Union and expressed hope for the support of such an initiative. This issue was discussed with the European Commission: the latter does not object to Ukraine itself looking for ways to overcome barriers to trade between countries, reports zn.ua with reference to Forbes.ua materials.
Ukraine proposes to create a permanent advisory commission "Ukraine - the European Union - the Customs Union". It will consider the problematic issues that may arise after Ukraine has signed the Association Agreement with the EU. Viktor Yanukovych said this when speaking at a meeting of the CIS heads of state in Minsk.
Yanukovych noted that he had a discussion with the President of the Russian Federation, who expressed concerns about the signing by Ukraine of an agreement with the EU. Yanukovych said: “And they are not unfounded. Indeed, in fact, we have a joint concern about the trade regime with Ukraine after we have created a free trade zone with the EU. ” That is why, according to him, Ukraine proposed the formation of a permanent consultative format between Ukraine, the EU and the CU.
Hungry Ukrainian teachers and proletarians. The Ukrainian government does not see effective ways to remedy the situation with wage arrears and empty budgets, relying only on foreign loans and the printing press. Pavel Dulman writes about this ("Russian newspaper").
The State Statistics Committee of Ukraine has published data on wage arrears to employees of enterprises. By the end of September, the amount of debt amounted to 1,02 billion hryvnia, or 130 million dollars. Half of the debt comes from a working industry.
The record for non-payment - Donetsk and Kiev region. In each of them, the employees did not receive approximately 20 million dollars. If you consider, the correspondent writes that the average salary in the Ukrainian industry rarely exceeds 500 dollars, it turns out that at least 40 thousands of workers sit on a starvation ration.
Moreover, official data do not show a picture of non-payment as a whole. The Ukrainian education and science union says that the state (represented by local authorities) owed 250 millions of dollars (2 billion hryvnias) to education. And that's not all: the teachers also complain about the government canceling the allowances and benefits, and pay attention to the fact that their base job rate is a quarter below the officially established minimum salary in 1218 hryvnia (152 dollar). In medicine - a similar situation.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov acknowledged the problem and at the last meeting of the government ordered the relevant ministers to rectify the situation. But how to fix it, did not say. The state budget deficit is 4,4 billion dollars. Opposition politicians cite the number above: 5 billion dollars.
The only way to stabilize the situation next year is to take a loan of 15 billions from the IMF. It is this money that Ukraine can receive (theoretically) after signing the association agreement.
As for the present, Viktor Yanukovych submitted to the parliament a draft agreement on a loan in 600 million euros: the European Union should provide it. And in the draft budget for 2014, the year is supposed to “reprint” 23 billion hryvnias (about 3 billion dollars). They soften the problem of non-payment, causing inflation ...
Lead Margvelashvili. According to preliminary information from the CEC website after processing data from the 2621 polling station (70,06%), Georgian candidate from the Georgian Dream coalition Georgi Margvelashvili is gaining 62,13% in elections and David Bakradze from the United National Movement (Saakashvili’s party) 21,88 % Nino Burjanadze from the party "Democratic Movement - United Georgia" gains 10,07%, reports RIA News".
The total number of voters in Georgia is 3 million 537 thousand 719 people. The turnout was 46,6%.
National heroes. Mikhail Saakashvili posthumously awarded the former president of the country Zviad Gamsakhurdia and his colleague Merab Kostava the titles of national heroes. Reports about it "Lenta.ru" with reference to Interfax.
At the opening of the memorial to the fallen soldiers in the village of Kvemo Alvaani, the Georgian president called Gamsakhurdia a beacon of the national idea, who fought for the freedom of his country even when almost no Georgians even thought about it. Kostava made an equally important contribution to Georgia’s freedom.
Gamsakhurdia and Kostava organized an organization in Georgia opposition to the Soviet government in 1954. Over the years, 30 has been detained more than once for anti-Soviet activities. The loudest was their arrest in 1977 year. Gamsakhurdia was pardoned after official repentance, and Kostava spent the next ten years in prison.
Subsequently, Kostava became one of the leaders of the movement for secession of Georgia. He was one of the organizers of the demonstration in Tbilisi 1989 of the year, dispersed by Soviet troops. A few months later, Kostava died in a car accident.
Gamsakhurdia came to power in 1990 year. But in 1992, they overthrew him. In 1993, he died hiding from government forces in the village of Dzveli Khibul. According to official information, he committed suicide. There is also a version of the murder.
Georgia was invited to the CIS. The CIS heads of state invited Georgia to re-enter the Commonwealth in order to resist the crisis phenomena in the world economy together, writes Kira Latukhina ("Russian newspaper").
“We would like Georgia to return to the Commonwealth,” Lukashenka told reporters, making it clear that this is a consolidated opinion of the summit participants in Minsk.
Yuan to replace the dollar? China enhances the role of the yuan through agreements with Singapore, which, according to the central bank of Singapore, will provide the possibility of "direct exchange of each other." This writes TA A. Guzman (globalresearch.ca; source of translation - Mixednews.ru).
China is worried about his investment in US Treasury bonds worth up to 1,2 trillion dollars.
"China and Singapore will introduce direct currency exchange between the Chinese yuan and the Singapore dollar," the Singapore Monetary Policy Office (MAS) said, adding that the details would be announced separately.
It is reported that “China will also provide Singapore investors with an investment quota of 50 billion yuan (8,2 billion dollars) as part of its program of qualified foreign institutional investors in RMB. This will allow city-state investors to use the yuan to invest in Chinese stocks and bonds. ”
By diversifying its gold reserves China is rapidly emerging from the US dollar, according to the material. Moreover, this process proceeds from the financial crisis of 2007-2008, which was a consequence of the failure of financial institutions such as Lehman Brothers, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Citigroup and American Insurance Group.
In addition, China is disappointed with the support of the American government of its neighbors in their intraregional relations with Beijing on the issue of the South China Sea.
China’s long-term economic growth will benefit Singapore, since “Chinese institutional investors will also be allowed to use the yuan for investment in Singapore’s capital markets.”
Japanese maneuvers. The Japanese Armed Forces will conduct large-scale military exercises. Tokyo will work to protect the remote islands. Experts believe that this is a kind of warning to China, which claims to be Senkaku archipelago. This writes Oleg Kiryanov ("Russian newspaper").
The Ministry of Defense of Japan stated that the exercise will be held from 1 to 18 in November in the area of the uninhabited Okollaytozhima atoll. The maneuvers will be attended by 34 thousands of soldiers and officers, air force fighters and naval warships. During the exercise, landing on the island will be worked out, as well as firing with the use of destroyers and F-2 fighters.
Two Japanese TV channels, Asahi TV and Fuji TV, reported that the Japanese Ministry of Defense is going to deploy ground-ship missiles on the island of Ishigaki. The island is located in 150 km from Senkaku. TV channels stressed that there would be no firing on Ishigaki during the next exercises.
One of the "anonymous". A twelve-year-old student in a Montreal school admitted that he had broken into government sites in collusion with the international group Anonymous. For cooperation, hackers promised him video games, the Toronto Sun newspaper writes.
“He saw this as a task, he was only 12 years old. There was no political motive ", - quotes RIA News" the words of the lawyer of the juvenile defendant, said in court.
The defendant admitted that, in addition to that, last year he hacked into the sites of the Montreal police, the Quebec Institute of Public Health and the website of the Government of Chile.
Veteran assassins. Greenville police (USA, Mississippi) arrested four young men suspected of killing 87-year-old World War II veteran Lawrence Sornton. Detained from 18 to 19 years, reports the correspondent. ITAR-TASS Andrei Bekrenev.
October 18 in broad daylight teens snuck up to Sorton's house, hit him, knocked him to the ground and stole his wallet. The victim was taken to the hospital by helicopter. For two days the doctors fought for his life, but they could not save the veteran.
All four of those arrested are black. However, the police ruled out the racial motive of the crime.
The correspondent reminds that earlier, in August, two teenagers in Spokane (Washington) beat 88-year-old World War II veteran Delbert Belton to death. The target of the attack was also a robbery. The veteran died before the arrival of the doctors.
The essence of "democracy." According to Veronika Krasheninnikova, who published an article in "Russian newspaper", there is no “war for democracy all over the world,” but there is support from forces loyal to Washington. The principle of "our son of a bitch" in politics outweighs "freedom, democracy, human rights."
William Bloom, author of The Murder of Democracy: CIA and Pentagon Operations during the Cold War, points out:
In the country, control over which Washington considered important for itself, a “deep state” was created: a complex of hidden political, military and lobbying structures that control the country and ensure the preservation of Washington’s interests in any combination of internal political alignments. The author of the material gives the latest examples.
Egypt. As soon as Mursi and the Muslim Brotherhood stopped securing US interests, the military took to the streets and overthrew the regime.
Qatar. As soon as he began to destroy the strategic security plug in the Middle East, the ruling emir gave up power and handed over the throne to his son.
The author considers the publication of the book The Murder of Democracy: the Operations of the CIA and the Pentagon in the Post-Soviet Period as a sign of the appearance of a sober view of the world around us.
Americans against the NSA. A rally was held in Washington against the activities of the National Security Agency. Svetlana Maksimenko and Lyudmila Chernova ("Voice of Russia") wrote a report from the scene.
By approximate calculations, about a thousand people came to the demonstration. People gathered at one of the central squares (near the train station). After several speeches were made, the people of the columns passed to the Capitol building. There they rallied for another two hours.
Protesters carried posters with the words "Thank you, Edward Snowden", "It is time to stop mass surveillance", "Stop espionage by the national security agency."
The organizers of the rally - about a hundred community groups. Coalition united under the name "Stop following us!"
Solidarity with the demonstrators was announced by former New Mexico Governor Gerry Johnson, actors John Cusack and Maggie Gyllenhaal, TV presenter Phil Donahue, director Oliver Stone, Chinese artist Ive Wei and many others.
At the rally, the greeting of Edward Snowden was announced. Comrade Snowden published his support and message to the protesters a day before the demonstration. “The time has come for the government to learn from us,” he stressed.
The protest rally was dedicated to the 12 anniversary of the “Law on Patriotism”, adopted after the September 11 attacks on 2001, and opened the way for the government to systematically limit civil rights and freedoms.
Thus, let us add from ourselves, not only the whole world protests against NSA surveillance, but protests also take place in the very heart of American imperialism - Washington. Judging by the scandalous news of the last days concerning the activities of the NSA, this protest is not the last. Many exposures from comrade Snowden are also still ahead ...
"Opposition" peace in Syria is not needed. Representatives of at least nineteen opposition groups said they would not go to the Geneva-2 talks on a peaceful settlement of the conflict, the channel reports "RT".
The words of the head of the brigade "Sakyur al-Sham" Ahmad Issa al-Sheikh reports "France-Press": "We declare that the conference" Geneva-2 "is not and will never be the choice of our people or our revolutionary demands."
According to the head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, Alexei Pushkov, foreign patrons of the Syrian opposition have decided to disrupt the peace conference. The parliamentarian tweeted: “The 19 groups of the Syrian opposition, unable to act without outside support,“ rejected ”the holding of Geneva-2. That is, their sponsors want their failure. ”
Killed "is in good health." Grouping "Front en Nusra" denied reports of the liquidation of its leader Abu Mohammed al-Javlani, reports "Lenta.ru" with reference to France-Presse.
The group claims that Syrian state television reports on the removal of al-Javlani are a lie. The leader of the Al Nusra Front "is in good health."
Earlier, on October 25, Syrian television announced the liquidation of the leader of the Front al-Nusra during a special operation. Also, the message was transmitted through the channels of SANA, but was subsequently removed, reminds "Lenta".
The city of Sadad was liberated. Syrian troops liberated the Christian city of Sadad north of Damascus. According to "RT" With reference to ITAR-TASS, in the afternoon, the last stronghold of terrorists was destroyed in the eastern part of this settlement near the strategic Damascus-Homs highway.
The Syrian officer who commanded the operation, noted that the militants used the Church of St. Theodorus as a firing position. On the approaches to Sadad gangs, which were transferred to the aid of terrorists, were defeated, the same officer said.
"American honesty." Anti-American posters were hung on the streets of Tehran. Their authors questioned the sincerity of the United States in the negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program. Municipal authorities have ordered to remove posters from the streets, reports "RT".
According to a representative of the municipality of Tehran, the posters were hung without the consent of the authorities. He noted that the action was carried out by one of the country's advertising agencies. According to AFP, several posters still hang in different parts of the city.
The poster with the inscription “American honesty” depicts representatives of the United States and Iran at the negotiating table: the American - in a civil jacket and tie, but in military pants and boots. The authors of the posters hint at the use of the US policy of double standards.
Iran: sixteen hanged. In Iran, executed 16 people associated with the groups of rebels. He writes about it Newsru.com with reference to "Fars". The execution took place after a battle on the border with Pakistan, in which Iranian border guards were killed.
Mohammad Marzieh, Prosecutor General of the Province of Sistan and Baluchistan, explained: these people were hanged in order to avenge the bloody attack.
According to official figures, the battle with a group of armed men on the border with Pakistan led to the death of 14 Iranian border guards. Five more border guards were injured.
"We warned the rebels that we would not leave an unanswered attack against civilians or against members of the security forces," quoted Interfax Prosecutor General.
According to the BBC, the sentence was carried out in the prison of the city of Zahedan (north-east of Saravan, where border guards died on Saturday night). The executed were not charged with involvement in clashes and killings at the border. It is not known whether they were related to what happened.
Iraq: 56 dead. The explosions that struck yesterday in the Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad and the suicide attack on soldiers in the north of the country killed at least 56 people. Reports about it "RT" with reference to the Associated Press.
151 man was injured, reports "BBC BBC".
Police officers clarify: the bombs were laid in parked cars. They detonated for half an hour and took the lives of 42 people.
In Mosul, a suicide bomber drove a mined car into a group of soldiers. These soldiers stood on the street around the bank, where they gave out salaries to soldiers. 14 people, including 5 civilians, died, 30 was injured.
The number of victims of terrorist attacks in Iraq since the beginning of the month has exceeded 600 people. In total, over 2013 thousand people were killed in 5,3 year.
Israel will free more 26 Palestinians. A group of 26 Palestinian prisoners will soon leave Israeli prisons under an amnesty. A decree on this has already been approved by the government of the Jewish state; "Vesti" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
The prisoners were held in Israeli prisons from 19 to 28 years. Authorities release them as a gesture of goodwill.
The first group of Palestinian 26 Israel released 13 August.
NSA listened, Obama did not know anything. The NSA of the USA stopped listening to telephone conversations of the German Chancellor and other world leaders after an internal check of the White House this summer. About this writes "Wall Street Journal" with reference to unnamed sources in the US government, reports RIA News".
The NSA has been monitoring the 35 heads of state and government of the world for more than five years until the Obama administration discovered this, a source said. Most of the surveillance programs were discontinued, orders were issued to close others.
An anonymous source told the Wall Street Journal that the US intelligence services are simultaneously conducting such a number of intelligence operations that it is impossible to report to the US President about each. Intelligence agencies are guided by Obama-approved "priorities" of intelligence activities. Decisions on objects by intelligence are taken independently.
Well, let me add, it is ridiculous in the XXI century to talk about the ignorance of the intelligence foundations of the US president. This especially looks ridiculous when it immediately turns out that this supposedly unknowing person himself approved “priorities”. Is, for example, spying on Merkel or the president of Brazil, or the wiretapping of Iran - are not “priorities”? Thank God that the Obama administration has finally “discovered” the existence of the NSA ...
And here are the others news about total wiretapping and surveillance.
Between December 10 and 2012 on January 8, the NSA intercepted the order of 2013 million phone calls in Spain - without the consent of the kingdom authorities. This information was provided by journalist Glenn Greenwald, who publishes Snowden's revelations. This was reported by the newspaper "Pais", transmits ITAR-TASS.
The publication clarified: the NSA in Spain did not set the goal "to find out the content of telephone conversations, but set their duration, numbers and location of subscribers."
By order of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, US Ambassador to Spain James Kostos was summoned to the Kingdom’s Foreign Office.
Interception of telephone calls, SMS, e-mails without the sanctions of the justice authorities in Spain is a crime.
Dissatisfied with the behavior of the NSA and South Korea.
According to the correspondent. ITAR-TASS Vladimir Kutakhov, South Korea sent an official request to the United States with a request to clarify the situation with possible listening to the phone of President Park Geun-hye and her predecessors.
This was announced by a representative of the government of the republic, commenting on media reports about the interception of negotiations between the leaders of the states by American intelligence.
Thus, let us add on our own, the planetary dissatisfaction with the activities of the US intelligence services is growing. And the American president, it turns out, did not know anything and only recently discovered everything. Probably, the world community should now conclude: Obama is wonderful, good, and in the NSA - completely scoundrels pulling dirty hands to Merkel or Rousseff’s personal files.
If the president of the country really does not know what his most powerful intelligence service is doing, then he is worthless.
Cavalier of the big cross. Vladimir Putin became a knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Charles (the highest state award of Monaco). The presentation of the award took place during a confidential meeting of heads of state in the Kremlin, reports Anastasia Kirilenko (Radio Liberty).
The Order of Saint Charles, established by the Highest Decree of March 15 of 1858, is awarded for merits and diligent service for the benefit of Monaco or personally the prince. The merits for which Putin was honored were refused to specify in the princely palace of Monaco.
The article states that the Russian president and Prince Albert II are bound by personal friendship. Also, the prince was a supporter of the Olympics in Sochi. In addition, the Russian business is widely represented in Monaco, however, it has an ambiguous reputation: it attracts the attention of the special services fighting money laundering.
In the Bulletin of the decrees of the principality, published on October 11, it is noted: “Princely Decree No. 4504 of October 4 of 2013 of the Year to Establish the Order of St. Charles: Excellency Mr. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, President of the Russian Federation is being promoted to the holder of the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Charles.”
Also in the material it is reported that among the recently awarded with this order is the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev. In the XIX century, this award was awarded to the Russian Emperor Alexander II.
Monaco resident Lawr F. told Radio Liberty correspondent:
“Criticism of power is not allowed. Whatever the prince decides, he needs to applaud. As for the “new Russians,” the red carpet is always laid here, explaining that “they feed us”. Checks exist, but they are formal. Before 2009, they tried to fight this, but now the “Russian oligarchs” have been given a green light, since the prime minister has changed. All media directly or indirectly depend on the princely palace. Any Monegasque who dares to criticize the authorities can put an end to his career. And even in private conversations criticism of the prince is not allowed. Calling a prince by name is considered unacceptable - it is better to say “his highness”. A French comedian who allowed himself a joke on the royal family of Monaco is banned from entering the principality. ”
Is the EU moving to the right? Sergey Duz ("Voice of Russia") spoke about how the leader of the French National Front, Marine Le Pen, intends to unite all European ultra-right in the spring elections to the European Parliament.
According to European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, the upcoming European Parliament elections in May 2014 promise to be “exceptionally difficult.”
The popularity of the European far right is growing. From marginals, they turn into electoral significant forces. This is what Tatyana Zvereva, head of the Center for Euro-Atlantic Research and International Security at the Institute of Actual International Problems of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, said to Voice of Russia:
“Support for the right in Europe is growing along with Euroskepticism. One of the main reasons is the rise in unemployment. Europe is adapting to globalization. This is a painful and difficult process. At the same time, the European institutions were not fully adapted to the solution of new tasks that they face in connection with globalization.
Brussels is often perceived by citizens as an organism that imposes budgetary savings, which is to blame for cuts in social programs. Hence Euroskepticism. And at the same time, the popularity of political parties, which build their rhetoric around the complete rejection of any ideas coming from outside, is increasing.
The general amendment of Europe takes place over the past few years. But it is difficult to predict the sustainability of this phenomenon. It seems to me that much depends on the change in the economic situation in the next few years. Will it be sustainable economic growth, will there be a decrease in unemployment - if events start to develop according to such a scenario, the ultra-right will gradually lose their support. After all, it is the unemployed disadvantaged people who are a good breeding ground for far-right sentiment.
Brussels is often perceived by citizens as an organism that imposes budgetary savings, which is to blame for cuts in social programs. Hence Euroskepticism. And at the same time, the popularity of political parties, which build their rhetoric around the complete rejection of any ideas coming from outside, is increasing.
The general amendment of Europe takes place over the past few years. But it is difficult to predict the sustainability of this phenomenon. It seems to me that much depends on the change in the economic situation in the next few years. Will it be sustainable economic growth, will there be a decrease in unemployment - if events start to develop according to such a scenario, the ultra-right will gradually lose their support. After all, it is the unemployed disadvantaged people who are a good breeding ground for far-right sentiment.
The author of the material sums up: the idea of a united Europe without borders has cracked. It seems to many experts that the problem lies in the error of the founding fathers of the EU, who tried to unite civilizations and economies at different stages of development.
Marine Le Pen believes in the EU doom. In the spring of elections, she intends to demonstrate to Brussels that at least a quarter of the population of Europe shares her faith.
The right bias of Europe at this historical stage is inevitable, the author notes. Brussels' short-sighted policy brought Europe into a state like the Roman Empire - times of decay and decline.
Environmentalists on the tower. Greenpeace activists on Saturday staged a protest action on the Eiffel Tower against Russia's detention of crew members of the Arctic Sunrise vessel, reports "Lenta.ru" with reference to France-Presse.
With the help of a cable, environmentalists lowered the awning from which the activist was sitting on the second floor of the tower. A poster was attached to the tent to free the environmentalists arrested in Russia.
The action lasted about two hours. The activist was shot by firefighters.
Monument to Russian soldiers. The opening ceremony of the monument to Russian soldiers who died from 1915 to 1918 years in captivity during the First World War, was held near the city of Novi Sad in the north of Serbia, the Russian embassy said. This tells the correspondent. RIA News" Nikolay Sokolov.
The monument in the form of a Russian Orthodox cross was installed at the Petrovaradinsky military cemetery at the burial site of 96 Russian army soldiers who died from wounds and diseases in the Austro-Hungarian prison camp near Novi Sad. The monument was erected for the first time in 1929, however, in 1990, it was destroyed from time to time. In July, 2013, it was restored at the expense of Russia.
About missile defense. The deployment of the European missile defense system should start today at the base in Deveselu in the south of Romania. International news agencies reported this with reference to the US Embassy in Bucharest, writes Alexander Samozhnev ("Russian newspaper").
The American Aegis multi-purpose anti-aircraft missile system, equipped with SM-3 interceptor missiles, will be deployed at the former air base in Deveselu. The total cost of the complex, designed to intercept ballistic missiles of medium and short range, will be about 134 million dollars.
Romanian Defense Minister Mircea Dusa confirmed plans to build a missile defense system in Deveselu. The base will be protected with the help of American partners. The preparatory work should be completed in 2015, the Romanian minister said.
Ukraine: between the EU and the CU. President Yanukovych proposed the creation of a Ukraine-EU commission-the Customs Union and expressed hope for the support of such an initiative. This issue was discussed with the European Commission: the latter does not object to Ukraine itself looking for ways to overcome barriers to trade between countries, reports zn.ua with reference to Forbes.ua materials.
Ukraine proposes to create a permanent advisory commission "Ukraine - the European Union - the Customs Union". It will consider the problematic issues that may arise after Ukraine has signed the Association Agreement with the EU. Viktor Yanukovych said this when speaking at a meeting of the CIS heads of state in Minsk.
Yanukovych noted that he had a discussion with the President of the Russian Federation, who expressed concerns about the signing by Ukraine of an agreement with the EU. Yanukovych said: “And they are not unfounded. Indeed, in fact, we have a joint concern about the trade regime with Ukraine after we have created a free trade zone with the EU. ” That is why, according to him, Ukraine proposed the formation of a permanent consultative format between Ukraine, the EU and the CU.
Hungry Ukrainian teachers and proletarians. The Ukrainian government does not see effective ways to remedy the situation with wage arrears and empty budgets, relying only on foreign loans and the printing press. Pavel Dulman writes about this ("Russian newspaper").
The State Statistics Committee of Ukraine has published data on wage arrears to employees of enterprises. By the end of September, the amount of debt amounted to 1,02 billion hryvnia, or 130 million dollars. Half of the debt comes from a working industry.
The record for non-payment - Donetsk and Kiev region. In each of them, the employees did not receive approximately 20 million dollars. If you consider, the correspondent writes that the average salary in the Ukrainian industry rarely exceeds 500 dollars, it turns out that at least 40 thousands of workers sit on a starvation ration.
Moreover, official data do not show a picture of non-payment as a whole. The Ukrainian education and science union says that the state (represented by local authorities) owed 250 millions of dollars (2 billion hryvnias) to education. And that's not all: the teachers also complain about the government canceling the allowances and benefits, and pay attention to the fact that their base job rate is a quarter below the officially established minimum salary in 1218 hryvnia (152 dollar). In medicine - a similar situation.
“In turn, the local authorities have been sounding the alarm for the first month and complaining about the treasury and empty budgets. For example, the mayor of the city of Rawa-Russkaya, Irina Vereshchuk, at the local government assembly that took place the other day directly threatened the central government with a hungry rebellion, since the budget is empty and “workers are in despair”. Three weeks earlier, the city of Kalush announced a strike due to lack of funding. It is because of the lack of money in the city budget for the compensation of payments for housing and communal services at the end of August the residents of Poltava stormed their city administration. The mayors of Ternopil, Kremenchug, Ivano-Frankivsk and even Donetsk had previously announced no funds in the city budgets for the most necessary. ”
Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov acknowledged the problem and at the last meeting of the government ordered the relevant ministers to rectify the situation. But how to fix it, did not say. The state budget deficit is 4,4 billion dollars. Opposition politicians cite the number above: 5 billion dollars.
The only way to stabilize the situation next year is to take a loan of 15 billions from the IMF. It is this money that Ukraine can receive (theoretically) after signing the association agreement.
As for the present, Viktor Yanukovych submitted to the parliament a draft agreement on a loan in 600 million euros: the European Union should provide it. And in the draft budget for 2014, the year is supposed to “reprint” 23 billion hryvnias (about 3 billion dollars). They soften the problem of non-payment, causing inflation ...
Lead Margvelashvili. According to preliminary information from the CEC website after processing data from the 2621 polling station (70,06%), Georgian candidate from the Georgian Dream coalition Georgi Margvelashvili is gaining 62,13% in elections and David Bakradze from the United National Movement (Saakashvili’s party) 21,88 % Nino Burjanadze from the party "Democratic Movement - United Georgia" gains 10,07%, reports RIA News".
The total number of voters in Georgia is 3 million 537 thousand 719 people. The turnout was 46,6%.
National heroes. Mikhail Saakashvili posthumously awarded the former president of the country Zviad Gamsakhurdia and his colleague Merab Kostava the titles of national heroes. Reports about it "Lenta.ru" with reference to Interfax.
At the opening of the memorial to the fallen soldiers in the village of Kvemo Alvaani, the Georgian president called Gamsakhurdia a beacon of the national idea, who fought for the freedom of his country even when almost no Georgians even thought about it. Kostava made an equally important contribution to Georgia’s freedom.
Gamsakhurdia and Kostava organized an organization in Georgia opposition to the Soviet government in 1954. Over the years, 30 has been detained more than once for anti-Soviet activities. The loudest was their arrest in 1977 year. Gamsakhurdia was pardoned after official repentance, and Kostava spent the next ten years in prison.
Subsequently, Kostava became one of the leaders of the movement for secession of Georgia. He was one of the organizers of the demonstration in Tbilisi 1989 of the year, dispersed by Soviet troops. A few months later, Kostava died in a car accident.
Gamsakhurdia came to power in 1990 year. But in 1992, they overthrew him. In 1993, he died hiding from government forces in the village of Dzveli Khibul. According to official information, he committed suicide. There is also a version of the murder.
Georgia was invited to the CIS. The CIS heads of state invited Georgia to re-enter the Commonwealth in order to resist the crisis phenomena in the world economy together, writes Kira Latukhina ("Russian newspaper").
“We would like Georgia to return to the Commonwealth,” Lukashenka told reporters, making it clear that this is a consolidated opinion of the summit participants in Minsk.
Yuan to replace the dollar? China enhances the role of the yuan through agreements with Singapore, which, according to the central bank of Singapore, will provide the possibility of "direct exchange of each other." This writes TA A. Guzman (globalresearch.ca; source of translation - Mixednews.ru).
China is worried about his investment in US Treasury bonds worth up to 1,2 trillion dollars.
"China and Singapore will introduce direct currency exchange between the Chinese yuan and the Singapore dollar," the Singapore Monetary Policy Office (MAS) said, adding that the details would be announced separately.
It is reported that “China will also provide Singapore investors with an investment quota of 50 billion yuan (8,2 billion dollars) as part of its program of qualified foreign institutional investors in RMB. This will allow city-state investors to use the yuan to invest in Chinese stocks and bonds. ”
By diversifying its gold reserves China is rapidly emerging from the US dollar, according to the material. Moreover, this process proceeds from the financial crisis of 2007-2008, which was a consequence of the failure of financial institutions such as Lehman Brothers, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Citigroup and American Insurance Group.
In addition, China is disappointed with the support of the American government of its neighbors in their intraregional relations with Beijing on the issue of the South China Sea.
China’s long-term economic growth will benefit Singapore, since “Chinese institutional investors will also be allowed to use the yuan for investment in Singapore’s capital markets.”
“Times for the global economy are changing. China and other countries are busy preparing for a possible future US default. When will the dollar collapse? It is difficult to say, given that the American economy is closely linked to the world. But one thing is certain - China and other countries all over the planet are dying out of the US dollar, and this process is accelerating. It is a fact. Singapore also does not consider other options ... "
Japanese maneuvers. The Japanese Armed Forces will conduct large-scale military exercises. Tokyo will work to protect the remote islands. Experts believe that this is a kind of warning to China, which claims to be Senkaku archipelago. This writes Oleg Kiryanov ("Russian newspaper").
The Ministry of Defense of Japan stated that the exercise will be held from 1 to 18 in November in the area of the uninhabited Okollaytozhima atoll. The maneuvers will be attended by 34 thousands of soldiers and officers, air force fighters and naval warships. During the exercise, landing on the island will be worked out, as well as firing with the use of destroyers and F-2 fighters.
Two Japanese TV channels, Asahi TV and Fuji TV, reported that the Japanese Ministry of Defense is going to deploy ground-ship missiles on the island of Ishigaki. The island is located in 150 km from Senkaku. TV channels stressed that there would be no firing on Ishigaki during the next exercises.
One of the "anonymous". A twelve-year-old student in a Montreal school admitted that he had broken into government sites in collusion with the international group Anonymous. For cooperation, hackers promised him video games, the Toronto Sun newspaper writes.
“He saw this as a task, he was only 12 years old. There was no political motive ", - quotes RIA News" the words of the lawyer of the juvenile defendant, said in court.
The defendant admitted that, in addition to that, last year he hacked into the sites of the Montreal police, the Quebec Institute of Public Health and the website of the Government of Chile.
Veteran assassins. Greenville police (USA, Mississippi) arrested four young men suspected of killing 87-year-old World War II veteran Lawrence Sornton. Detained from 18 to 19 years, reports the correspondent. ITAR-TASS Andrei Bekrenev.
October 18 in broad daylight teens snuck up to Sorton's house, hit him, knocked him to the ground and stole his wallet. The victim was taken to the hospital by helicopter. For two days the doctors fought for his life, but they could not save the veteran.
All four of those arrested are black. However, the police ruled out the racial motive of the crime.
The correspondent reminds that earlier, in August, two teenagers in Spokane (Washington) beat 88-year-old World War II veteran Delbert Belton to death. The target of the attack was also a robbery. The veteran died before the arrival of the doctors.
The essence of "democracy." According to Veronika Krasheninnikova, who published an article in "Russian newspaper", there is no “war for democracy all over the world,” but there is support from forces loyal to Washington. The principle of "our son of a bitch" in politics outweighs "freedom, democracy, human rights."
William Bloom, author of The Murder of Democracy: CIA and Pentagon Operations during the Cold War, points out:
“Neither in Soviet, nor in post-Soviet times, the actions of the USA were a glorious and noble movement in support of freedom and democracy. This Washington movement aims to support authoritarian regimes and absolute monarchies who are ready to abide by strict American rules on oil, military bases and Israel, to respect the political and economic interests of the United States in their countries in exchange for support by the Pentagon and the CIA of their time in power. ”
In the country, control over which Washington considered important for itself, a “deep state” was created: a complex of hidden political, military and lobbying structures that control the country and ensure the preservation of Washington’s interests in any combination of internal political alignments. The author of the material gives the latest examples.
Egypt. As soon as Mursi and the Muslim Brotherhood stopped securing US interests, the military took to the streets and overthrew the regime.
Qatar. As soon as he began to destroy the strategic security plug in the Middle East, the ruling emir gave up power and handed over the throne to his son.
The author considers the publication of the book The Murder of Democracy: the Operations of the CIA and the Pentagon in the Post-Soviet Period as a sign of the appearance of a sober view of the world around us.
Americans against the NSA. A rally was held in Washington against the activities of the National Security Agency. Svetlana Maksimenko and Lyudmila Chernova ("Voice of Russia") wrote a report from the scene.
By approximate calculations, about a thousand people came to the demonstration. People gathered at one of the central squares (near the train station). After several speeches were made, the people of the columns passed to the Capitol building. There they rallied for another two hours.
Protesters carried posters with the words "Thank you, Edward Snowden", "It is time to stop mass surveillance", "Stop espionage by the national security agency."
The organizers of the rally - about a hundred community groups. Coalition united under the name "Stop following us!"
Solidarity with the demonstrators was announced by former New Mexico Governor Gerry Johnson, actors John Cusack and Maggie Gyllenhaal, TV presenter Phil Donahue, director Oliver Stone, Chinese artist Ive Wei and many others.
At the rally, the greeting of Edward Snowden was announced. Comrade Snowden published his support and message to the protesters a day before the demonstration. “The time has come for the government to learn from us,” he stressed.
The protest rally was dedicated to the 12 anniversary of the “Law on Patriotism”, adopted after the September 11 attacks on 2001, and opened the way for the government to systematically limit civil rights and freedoms.
Thus, let us add from ourselves, not only the whole world protests against NSA surveillance, but protests also take place in the very heart of American imperialism - Washington. Judging by the scandalous news of the last days concerning the activities of the NSA, this protest is not the last. Many exposures from comrade Snowden are also still ahead ...
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