Geopolitical mosaic: Syrian militants exterminate each other, Islamists sell bottles with the blood of Christians, and the world admires B. Gates, B. Obama and V. Putin
Farewell to Sharon. On Sunday, thousands of Israelis came to bid farewell to former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. He passed away on Saturday, reports Interfax with reference to the BBC.
As Interfax reminds, Ariel Sharon was 85 years old. He has been in a coma since 2006, after having suffered a stroke. On January 1, his condition deteriorated significantly: many vital organs failed.
The coffin with the body of Sharon was installed on a pedestal in front of the Knesset in Jerusalem. President Shimon Peres laid a wreath and stood silently at the tomb.
A minute of silence in memory of Sharon began yesterday’s meeting of the Israeli Cabinet of Ministers. After this, Benjamin Netanyahu stated that Sharon "was closely associated with this land and knew that it needed protection."
An official farewell ceremony will be held in the Knesset building today with Sharon. Sharon will be buried in the Negev on the family farm "Shikmim" near the grave of his wife Lily.
The farewell ceremony will be attended by US Vice President Joseph Biden, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Iranian assets will be unfrozen soon. The timing of the return of assets frozen in sanctions to Iran, reports "Lenta.ru" With reference to "Reuters".
On Iranian accounts in foreign banks, 4,2 billion dollars has been frozen. Access to the first part of these assets Iran will receive in early February. The next part of the assets is planned to be defrosted on March 1, the third part - March 7, the fourth - in April. The last three tranches of 550 million dollars Iran will receive 14 May, 17 Jun and 20 or 21 July. Access to frozen assets will be provided to Iran in exchange for suspending a nuclear program. Iranian Foreign Ministry announced yesterday that an agreement to suspend a nuclear program will enter into force on January 20.
Like spiders in a can. Militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group operating in Syria shot 100 representatives of other extremist organizations, reports "Voice of Russia" with reference to the RIA "News».
The Islamists occupied a number of localities in the province of Raqqah and captured several dozen representatives of the Front-al-Nusra and Ahrar al-Sham groups. The captured militants were shot.
According to the chairman of the international affairs committee of the State Duma, Alexei Pushkov, the split of the militants in Syria deprives them of every chance of defeating Assad.
And more news on the topic of "spiders in the bank."
In the battles between moderate Syrian rebels and militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, at least 700 people died. Reports about it "Lenta.ru" with reference to "France-Presse" (source - "Syrian Observatory for Human Rights").
According to human rights activists, 3 Islamists, 11 rebel and 246 civilians were killed from 351 to 100 in January. Several hundred people on both sides were captured. In recent days, the intensity of fighting has increased. Over the past 48 hours, at least 200 people have been killed.
Neither side has a decisive advantage.
With raised legs. A rally in support of the Syrian government was held yesterday in the center of Damascus by residents of the city of Madaya. In this mountain resort lay down weapon and accepted the terms of a presidential amnesty over 350 rebels. All of them then arrived in Damascus to surrender to the authorities and get tested at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, reports correspondent ITAR-TASS Dmitry Zelenin.
The truce in Madai has become the fourth agreement in December between the authorities and former rebels from the Free Syrian Army.
Abduction of the Archbishop. Militants from “Dzhebhat an-Nusra” kidnapped in the city of Maalyula Archbishop Abdo Arish - brother of the Metropolitan of Melkite Catholic Church of Homs. Reported it correspondent ITAR-TASS Dmitry Zeleninreferring to the Al-Mayadin television station.
In the hands of terrorists are also 13 nuns and four novices from the Orthodox monastery of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Thekla headed by Mother Superior Pelageya and two priests from a Christian corner in Syria: Father Iskah Mahfouz and Father Michelle Kayail.
The fate of the two metropolitans captured last April in Aleppo, Yuhanna Ibrahim and Pavel Yazidzhi (brother of the patriarch of the Antioch Orthodox Church John X Yazidji), is also unknown.
Bloody trade. Walid Shebat, formerly a “Muslim brother”, and now a fighter for peace, spoke about the terrible trade that Islamists are engaged in. Writes Mixednews.ru with reference to Shebat site, at a recent conference, a nun from Germany showed a presentation on her investigation. The subject of the investigation was the treatment of Muslim fundamentalists with Christians in Syria. It turned out that Muslims ruthlessly kill Christians and collect their blood in bottles. Each bottle is then sold for one hundred thousand dollars to Muslims from Saudi Arabia. They wash their hands in it, believing that it redeems their sins.
Translation of selected quotes from the video:
This girl and her sister were abducted. They were held for months in a room and raped, and in the end they both had their left breast cut off, because the kidnappers did not satisfy the ransom. In general, I talked with 218-th girls who were abducted, raped, and then redeemed. Thirteen of them cut off the labia, and three breasts. I do not know the number of such unregistered cases. I tell you only about those that I know.
I have 174 similar videos that I received from family members. According to the killers, God orders them to do this, and they only embody the word of God. You will be sacrificed to God. The death of the USA, the death of the West, is written there. This is the ceremony of killing people by jihadists. If someone does not want to see this, please turn away. His name is Joseph. He is a Christian from Baghdad. This video was given to me by his sister. I think I'll turn it off now.
I met someone. The priest told me: "Sister, there is someone you must meet with." He was one of those killers. He had serious psychological problems. He became a Christian and dropped it all. I asked only: “What are you doing with the collected blood?” He replied: “This is a big business. A small bottle of Christian blood sent to fanatics from Saudi Arabia is worth one hundred thousand dollars. ” According to their Islamic concept, by washing their hands in this blood, they become part of donating to Allah. Not to our god, but to their Allah. Human sacrifices are asked by their allah. It is not the same god. Thus, this means that they have a big business built on Christian blood. ”
Lavrov talked with Jarba. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met in Paris with the head of the opposition Syrian National Coalition, Ahmad Jarboy, reports ITAR-TASS.
“I understand that you are primarily concerned with the fate of your homeland. We are also not indifferent to the fate of the Syrian people, ”said Comrade Lavrov at the meeting.
The Russian Foreign Minister arrived in the French capital to discuss preparations for the international conference "Geneva-2", ITAR-TASS reminds.
The terrorist attacks in Baghdad. At least eight people died and 45 was injured as a result of a double terrorist attack north of Baghdad. The bombers almost simultaneously undermined the mined cars near the Tuz-Khurmatu stadium, reports correspondent ITAR-TASS Dmitry Tarasov with reference to Al-Arabya.
On Sunday, the correspondent reminds, the car filled with explosives blew up in the center of Baghdad. Eight recruits of the Iraqi army became the victims of the attacks of extremists.
A similar terrorist attack was committed on the northern outskirts of the capital - in the quarter of El-Kazymia. Five Iraqis died there.
The blockade of Bangkok. The Thai opposition announced the beginning of the blockade of Bangkok on January 13, reports "Lenta.ru" with reference to France-Presse.
As part of the protest, which, according to organizers, will continue until early February, opposition supporters intend to paralyze traffic and stop the work of all state bodies.
Last night, opposition supporters began building obstacles at major road junctions in the city. The participants of the action intend to turn off the power supply of public institutions in Bangkok.
The organizers of the “blockade” expect that their action will disrupt the early parliamentary elections scheduled for February 2 and will force the cabinet ministers headed by Yinglak Chinawatra to resign.
Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry recommended that Russians avoid traveling to Bangkok.
Captain let go ashore. The captain of the Russian ship Oleg Naydyonov, which has been under arrest in the port of Dakar since January 5, is expected to be released ashore.
Vadim Mantorov and two more crew members require medical assistance. Doctors who visited aboard the trawler on Saturday recorded beatings with them, according to "Vesti".
Trawler is protected by warships. No formal charges were filed to the shipowner. The captain of the vessel told reporters by telephone that the authorities of Senegal were trying to force him to sign an act with false coordinates of the vessel’s location at the time of his detention.
Nigerian aviation struck the senator’s motorcade. The Nigerian Air Force made four air strikes on the senator’s motorcade, reports "Lenta.ru" with reference to the Associated Press. No harm done.
The incident occurred on January 11 in the state of Borno. Nigerian Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume was driving to Ardoko village, where shortly before that, extremists killed eight people. The politician was going to bring condolences to the locals. The motorcade, guarded by a military vehicle and a police mini bus, drove through the village of Pulka - and at that moment the fighter of the Nigerian Air Force dropped four bombs on it.
At first, Ndume decided that he was attacked by militants from the Boko Haram group. But at the nearest checkpoint he was told that the bombs had been dropped from a Nigerian Air Force plane. Gearbox officers tried to contact the fighter pilot, but they did not succeed, Ndume said.
Ndume himself in 2011 was arrested on suspicion of financing terrorists from Boko Haram. He was released due to lack of evidence.
Cameron can only help Putin, or Bridle for Salmond. In the article "Cameron asked Putin to help him curb Salmond" ("Herald Scotland", UK; source of translation - "InoSMI") David Lisk and Paul Hatchen said that the government of David Cameron hopes for the support of the President of Russia in a dispute with Scotland about its withdrawal from the United Kingdom.
The authors recall that, according to ITAR-TASS, Britain is “extremely interested” in supporting Russia at the referendum on the independence of Scotland: after all, Moscow has taken the post of chairman of the Big Eight this year. And ITAR-TASS is not just for you, but the main mouthpiece of the Kremlin’s official point of view.
In response to reports of Cameron’s desire to enlist Russia's support, the first minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond, said: “These reports from Russia raise serious questions about the backstage games of the British government. If these messages correspond to reality, then it turns out that Westminster was caught red-handed, trying to stir up hostility towards Scotland, instead of representing the interests of the Scottish people. ”
Recently, journalists say, Cameron, apparently trying to improve relations with Putin. The author of the ITAR-TASS report focused on this very moment. London hopes to establish “special relations” with Moscow on the eve of the summit in Sochi. “We are looking forward to Russia's consultations at the G8 summit,” ITAR-TASS quoted the words of Cameron’s cabinet representative.
This summit will be attended by the leaders of France, the United States, Canada and Russia. All of them, the authors write, have a negative attitude towards the independence of Scotland. At the same time, state leaders prefer not to make public statements regarding the Scottish referendum.
Meanwhile, the Russian state-owned media issued warnings about the possibility of the development of an “epidemic of separatism,” which covered both Scotland and Catalonia.
Hundred thousand march in Bilbao. More than 100 thousands of supporters of the Basque separatist organization "ETA" marched through the streets of Bilbao - the administrative center of the Spanish province of Biscay. They demanded a softening of the prison regime for ETA activists. He writes about it "Voice of Russia" with reference to the BBC.
The explosions and assassinations organized by ETA have killed more than 800 people in forty years. In 2011, an organization seeking separation of the Basque Country from Spain announced the end of the armed struggle.
Where ran from the palace Hollande. As reported by Anastasia Popova ("Vesti"), the first lady of France went to the hospital. In the Elysée Palace insist that this hospitalization is planned, but the media associate it with a scandal in the presidential family that broke out after the information about the connection of Hollande and actress Julie Gaye came to the magazine "Closer".
Rumors of treason caused Valerie Trierweiler depression and nervous breakdown.
At the same time, the French press noted a sharp cooling of Hollande’s relationship with the first lady, with whom he had met for the last 8 years. Is it unclear whether to wait for a loud break and clarify the relationship? In the office of the first lady they say that the decision will be made pretty soon, perhaps - today, on January 13, when Valerie will be discharged from the hospital. ”
Well, let's add on my own, now everything is clear. And we thought, why did Francois Hollande have such a low rating and so many failures in domestic policy (if, of course, not to count, success with freedoms for the “blue” ones)! It turns out that the president plunged into a love affair, and even escapes from the palace, clearly preferring to spend time with his mistress and crack croissants with her than listen to boring ministerial reports. Wait a minute, Julie Gaye will still be a Russian spy ...
From France to America on a raft. In the south-west of France, 11 January police detained a homemade raft with Russian citizen Andrei Novosyolov on board. Reports about it "Lenta.ru" with reference to France-Presse.
Earlier, France refused this person refugee status. Comrade Novoselov traveled along the Tet River toward the Mediterranean. From there, he planned to reach the territory of the United States through Spain - and there he would be given political asylum. According to the newspaper L'Independent, there were stocks of dried fruit and nuts on the raft.
This is not the first attempt Novoselov float thus from France. In August last year, French law enforcement officers detained him under similar circumstances, at the same time accusing him of disturbing public order. The court demanded to release him from arrest and ordered Novosyolov to leave the country.
Novoselov himself had previously claimed that he was not going to return to Russia: there his life was in danger. L'Independent writes that in Russia Novoselov worked as a journalist, but because of his political and religious views he was persecuted, tortured, and imprisoned. In which edition he worked, not reported. He left Russia in 2006 year.
The correct story. As Alexander Balitsky tells ("Vesti"), Ukraine was shocked by a new scandal: Vitali Klitschko suggested taking a fresh look at history and henceforth not using the term “Great Patriotic War”. In his opinion, in the European Union such definitions are not understood, which means that they are incorrect.
Later, the party "UDAR" reported that Mr. Klitschko did not say anything like that.
However, the correspondent notes, “in the context of historical theories of the opposition, such a viewpoint is somehow not surprising, as are the actions of those for whom these theories are a guide to action.”
About the 32 feat of Soviet soldiers buried in the Lviv region, now only their surnames and black polyethylene stamped on a pedestal remind. Vandals almost completely destroyed the monument. The hands and heads recaptured from the sculptures outraged the entire three thousandth town. “We tinted and repaired this monument ourselves. Park cleaned. All - for their money, because the city does not have them. They did everything themselves, ”said a local resident Oleg Charkovsky.
“The nationalists want to prove that the Red Army is the invaders, they want to convince the local population that they don’t have to look after the graves of the“ invaders ”, although they are rushing towards Europe. But after all, in Europe they are just caring for the graves, especially enemies, ”said Tatiana Yasakova, deputy head of the Lviv City Veterans Organization.
Six years in prison for a war with monuments. The Ukrainian court sentenced Vladimir Shpar, Igor Mosiychuk and Sergey Bevz to six years in prison. They planned to blow up a monument to Lenin in Boryspil, reports "Lenta.ru" with reference to UNIAN.
By decision of the Kyiv-Svyatoshinsky Court, the defendants were found guilty of preparing a terrorist attack, illegal handling of weapons and explosives, and appeals to overthrow the constitutional order.
After the verdict was announced in the courtroom, a scuffle took place between the police and the convicts' supporters who came to the meeting.
Lenta reminds that the deputies of the Vasilсkovsk city council Igor Mosiychuk, Sergey Bevza and the assistant deputy Vladimir Shpar were detained in 2011 year. During a search in the office of the organization "Patriot of Ukraine", in which the detainees were detained, an explosive device was found. The investigation found that the persons named had planned on Independence Day of Ukraine (24 of August 2011 of the year) to undermine the monument to Lenin in Boryspil, which had already been dismantled by the city authorities.
About "Golden Eagle" and lists. A list of employees of the special unit “Berkut” appeared in the Internet, allegedly involved in the beating of participants of protest actions. It is published on the Bandosam.net website, reports "Lenta.ru".
The document consists of the names of special forces soldiers, suspected by the creators of the named resource of beating oppositionists. The dates of birth of fighters and information about the places of their service are given in part. The site administration stated that it does not publish the data completely for humanistic reasons, but reserves the right to do so in case of escalation of violence.
The list has almost three thousand people. The site administration notes that it is not finished and will be replenished.
As recalled by "Lenta", the last loud incident involving the "Berkut" occurred on the evening of January 10 during a protest action against the actions of the police. Reportedly, the fighters used force against the demonstrators who were shaking their bus, and then beat one of the leaders of the Ukrainian opposition, Yuriy Lutsenko, when he tried to prevent further clashes. The policy was taken to intensive care with a traumatic brain injury.
The Tajiks with the Kyrgyz did not share the border. More than ten Tajik and Kyrgyz border guards were injured during a firefight at the border. According to official figures, five border guards from the Kyrgyz side and six from the Tajik side were injured. One of the Kyrgyz border guards is in a critical condition. Information on the status of the injured Tajik border guards is not yet available. The conflict occurred in the Batken region in southern Kyrgyzstan near the Tajik enclave Vorukh, transfer Bakyt Aman and Vladimir Ardaev ("Voice of Russia").
After the incident, countries temporarily closed border checkpoints. Bishkek claims that Tajik border guards started shooting. Kyrgyz Prime Minister Zhantoro Satybaldiev held a meeting on the situation in the Batken region and instructed the security forces to move to an enhanced border guard regime. Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry is preparing a note of protest.
According to correspondents, the incident occurred against the background of negotiations on the delimitation and demarcation of the border.
He had a surgery the day before. The condition of the other two is assessed as moderate and severe.
It lasted about an hour. The armed confrontation was stopped only after representatives of the border departments of both countries ordered to stop the fire on both sides. ”
Sochi and the "pursuit of widows." The city of Sochi has been turned into a fortified citadel and cut off from its usual ties with the world, and the surrounding areas are teeming with terrorist threats. This is written by Western newspapers, a review of which made "Inopressa".
On the eve of the Olympics, the city of Sochi was turned into a fortress and almost cut off from ties with the world. However, many surrounding areas are teeming with potential terrorist threats, claims The Christian Science Monitor. Six corpses were found at various points near Pyatigorsk, writes journalist Fred Weir. And on December 27 a car was blown up in the same city. Investigators believe that there are good reasons to associate this with the Volgograd explosions.
In Astrakhan, the police also do not sleep. Dozens of wives and widows of Islamist insurgents are tested there. At the cottage of one of them, it was allegedly found a bomb.
“This pursuit of widows seems absurd to me,” commented Alexei Kondaurov, a retired KGB general, now an opposition politician. - It seems that experts simply do not control the situation. See what happens in Dagestan. Something bad happens almost every day. ”
FBI Director James B. Komi said that he was sending his staff to Russia to help strengthen security at the Winter Olympics, The Washington Post reports. “Ensuring the safety of any Olympics is a gigantic task,” Komi said. “I think this is especially difficult in Sochi because of the proximity of regions with an unstable situation and sources of a terrorist threat.”
Representing Sochi at the 119 session of the IOC in Guatemala, V. Putin called the Black Sea resort a unique place: “On the coast, you can enjoy a beautiful spring day, while in the mountains it is a real winter.” However, not so much geographical dualism, as the size of the estimated costs (unprecedented for the Winter Games 12 billion dollars) - struck the imagination of committee members, I'm sure the journalist of “Le Monde” Bruno Lepri. And since then, the amount has quadrupled, breaking even the Beijing record 2008 of the year - 26 billion euros. "Pharaoh" costs are explained primarily by the lack of infrastructure, the article says.
For competitions were built the stadium "Fisht", two ice hockey arenas, two for figure skating and one (collapsible) - for curling. In the village of Krasnaya Polyana, the Rosa Khutor Alpine Center was erected. Krasnaya Polyana and Sochi connected the most expensive highway in the world (6 billion euros).
According to Boris Nemtsov, the Sochi “scam on the scale cannot be compared with the adventure of Nikita Khrushchev to sow the Russian Arctic with corn and the project of the communists to reverse the northern rivers.” If something changed, it’s cash flow, he said.
The author concludes: “For Putin, the Olympic Games are, first of all, a reason to confirm the power of Russia and to show that it controls this region.”
Reporting about athletes - or a chronicle of blue? In the article “NBC confirmed its readiness to cover anti-gay law in reports from Sochi” (“Huffington Post”, USA; translation source - "InoSMI") Michael Calderon writes that
Speaking to Associated Press reporters, Bob Kostas, the face of sports reporting on the Sochi Olympic Games on NBC, admitted that he was much more interested in interviewing Putin and hearing his point about the anti-gay law in Russia than commenting on himself . Kostas later said that his words were misinterpreted. In fact, he is not going to avoid discussions on Russian law prohibiting the propaganda of homosexuality.
“If Putin does not want to come to our studio, then we will discuss it without him,” said Kostas. - But if he appears, then we better discuss this issue with him. Do not you want to hear a first-hand explanation? I would like to. That is what I meant. "
On Tuesday last week, Costas and other representatives of the channel stressed that NBC plans to inform about political and social issues that are relevant to the game.
According to Kostas, although everyone has already crossed their fingers in the hope that nothing bad will happen, the threat of terrorist attacks, combined with the contradictions around Russian anti-gay laws, most likely “increased interest in these games.”
“These events will not be able to overshadow the competitions themselves, however, it seems to me that people will be interested to learn more about them,” said Kostas. “And from the very beginning we would like to disclaim responsibility for covering these topics, because these events are just the background.” They can be compared with the description of the weather during a match or spectators in the stands. We need to briefly report on the events against which the competition takes place, and then we can once again return to them in more detail if they have a direct impact on the course of the games. ”
Constantly turning on the topic of "anti-anti-laws", Mr. Kostas, we add from himself, it is unlikely that he accidentally used the expression "background". Obviously, NBC will try its best to give the green light to this particular, "back", background. Carefully observe the direction of camera operators, comrades. The ass in the frame, without a doubt, means channel engagement.
Delightful Putin. Vladimir Putin took the third place in the list compiled by the newspaper “The Times” according to the results of a sociological survey of people who are most admired in the world, reports "Voice of Russia".
At the head of the list is Bill Gates. In second place - Barack Obama.
People admire Putin more than Pope Francis (he was in fourth position).
The survey conducted “YouGov” on the phone and on the Internet. The survey involved 13.895 thousand people from 13 countries, including Russia, said RIA "Novosti".
If, with B. Gates and V. Putin, we add on our own, everything is more or less clear, just like with the Pope, what does B.H. Obama do in second place? What he admired the respondents? Maybe the fact that he abandoned the idea to shower Syria with “Tomahawks” and got into a mess with Iran? Or by the fact that with it the blue in the USA became freer, and even the Pentagon is now celebrating the LGBT days? Or the fact that the national debt is growing and that the matter has already reached the “shutdown” of the government? Analysts have not yet clarified this riddle.
Cubans will live for three hundred years. In Cuba, the majority of the population was deprived of the right to buy a new personal car. In 2014, the government abolished this restriction. But set prices for cars. Sale of new cars will be carried out only by state organizations that set their own prices on them, according to "Avtovesti".
Judging by the price lists published by Café Fuerte, an ordinary Cuban with a salary of 20 dollars will have to work hard for at least 150 years to save up for a relatively decent car.
“Peugeot 206” 2013 of the year of release is priced at 91113 “convertible pesos” (about 2,5 million rubles), and “Kia Picanto” 2011 g. - in 40854 peso (more than a million rubles).
One of two things, add on my own. Either all Cubans are getting rich, or Cuban medicine has discovered the secret of longevity.
American fungus. At the beginning of the 1960-s, the US ground forces conducted field tests in the field of biological weapons in the Okinawa prefecture in Japan. This was reported by the information agency "Kyodo", at the disposal of which turned out to be documents confirming this fact, reports correspondent ITAR-TASS Igor Belyaev.
At least ten field trials were conducted during which the fields were sprayed with a fungus causing pyriculariasis (a disease of rice crops).
Earlier, the US government submitted to the public the secret documents on the testing of chemical and biological weapons in Puerto Rico and Hawaii. Regarding Japan, such information appears for the first time.
The US military will cost 4% more for South Koreans. In the next five years, on average, more than 4% will increase the expenses of the Republic of Korea on the maintenance of American troops on its territory. Such an agreement was reached at the completed bilateral negotiations, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan reported. Told about it correspondent ITAR-TASS Vladimir Kutakhov.
For the current year, South Korea will pay 920 billion won (866 million dollars) for these purposes, which is 5,8% more than last year. “And by the year 2018, this figure for South Korea will be close to 1 trillion. won (941 million dollars), "- noted in the Foreign Ministry of Kazakhstan.
In the US, people began to implant chips. Wyoming has launched a chipization program. A decree has been issued in the Hannah County of Wyoming that makes it necessary to install chips for people receiving social benefits and working in public institutions, Nina Kutuzova writes ("Great Age").
The MINI RFID process provides for automatic identification of citizens. A chip is a mini-computer with 100 gigabytes of memory, where medical information, insurance data, driver's license number, credit history, criminal history, etc. are placed.
A sharp denial of the chipization program was caused by Christians. They believe that this is consistent with the prophecy described in the Bible about the mark on the hands of people "the number of the Beast."
But most state residents are happy with the MINI RFID installation: it makes life easier: it is more convenient to undergo a medical examination, parents are calm for their children and so on.
But it is strange: people subjected to chipping, began to complain of a feeling of tiredness, insomnia, anxiety ...
The price of trust. 268 of 534 members of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States own assets worth over a million dollars. This situation is marked for the first time in US history, reports “Russian service“ BBC ”.
The data of property declarations for 2012, which are in the public domain, was published on the website OpenSecrets.org by the public organization Center for Responsible Policy.
The average state of a Democratic congressman is 1,04 million dollars, the Republican is exactly one million. At the same time, senators are richer than their colleagues from the lower house: 2,7 million versus 896 thousand dollars.
The most wealthy congressman is Rep. Darrell Issa, Rep. Of the Republican Party of California. The sale of anti-theft systems for cars brought him 598 million dollars, said "Bi-bi-si."
The poorest is a Republican from California, who also sits in the lower house. This is David Valadao, whose family dairy farm is burdened with debts worth over 12 million dollars.
“The tendency of our citizens to trust the representation of their interests in Washington to people who are well-off remains unchanged,” explained Sheila Krumholtz, head of the Center for Responsible Politics, to France-Press journalists.
But who, add on our own, in the era of postmodernism, will believe in such an explanation? And the director had to add that financial well-being is a prerequisite for campaigning.
As for trust, the BBC further notes that the level of trust in Congress as a political institution is now one of the lowest in the entire history of sociological research!
Therefore, we note that the American people need to go on the opposite: to vote for poor candidates. And the level of confidence in congressmen will immediately increase - along with the level of public debt.
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