Results of the week. “I am a prince! What I want - and I turn back ... uh ... I act in the interests of the state "
In Ukraine, from the second decade of November, protest actions continue, a contrived cause for the start of which was the refusal of the country's government to sign an association agreement with the EU. January 19 protests moved into a hot phase. Went through the first dead.
Is it possible to call what is happening in various cities of Ukraine democratic rallies? This is a question that everyone can answer for themselves. In any case, what is happening in the center of Kiev, in Lviv, Rivne, and a number of other localities in the country is more similar to the next series of a global play called “Guided chaos”. Or, if not for the next series, then for the next tour, for which Ukraine is now the stage.
"Actor's troupe" motley. For the most part, they are young and “promising” in certain circles “actors” who reinforce their “acting skills” with “decorations” of torches, gas cartridges, burning tires, masks, gas masks, self-made wooden or police shields taken from the police. And there is that part of the troupe that has acquired small weapons, silently and coolly shooting at the demonstrators, so that later the world media would raise a fuss about the “bloody deeds of the“ Berkut ”, and of the“ Yanukovych regime ”, of course. This part of the events is extremely similar to what happened at the time in Vilnius, when Soviet officers were accused of shooting “peaceful” demonstrators, and then they found charges from a hunting stream in the bodies of several dead. Soviet officers in 1991 with hunting berdan ... Strong!
In Ukraine, someone persistently tries to play something from the same sphere, strung on updated technologies of “democratic” protest. Well, President Yanukovych seems to have forgotten that there is such a term as “state of emergency” and the constitutional duty of the head of state to comply with the laws in force and demand the same from citizens. But then, if the scenario continues to evolve in the current manner, the demonstrators will begin to burn the floor in the office of Viktor Fedorovich himself.
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Peacemaker Gorbachev
This time, Mikhail Sergeyevich, who, it must be admitted, had not been heard for a long time, decided to show the world that he was extremely worried about the situation that is today in Ukraine and around Ukraine. And he decided to show it in the epistolary version, writing a letter to two current presidents at once - Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama, by publishing it on his website.
Mikhail Gorbachev is a man who managed to destroy for several years (or, if it is politically correct, not to keep from collapse) a country that has been built for decades; the person whose policy has led to a monstrous humanitarian catastrophe, suddenly calls on world leaders to help normalize the situation in Ukraine. That is, it turns out an interesting picture: Mikhail Gorbachev asks to correct his fatal mistakes, but he himself clearly does not recognize mistakes, and is not going to do that. The Nobel Peace Prize and the laurels of the “peacemaker” clearly do not give rest to Mikhail Sergeyevich, who once “rebuilt” the world in such a way that it still sounds like this - in Ukraine as well.
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So maybe he should go as an adviser, to lead the American restructuring?
You look, the situation in Ukraine will settle down ...
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I would look at him if he came to the Maidan himself. I think that his peacekeeping councils would quickly turn into testimony, and on both sides there would be a lot of people willing to strangle them with their own hands.
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"The domestication" of officials
The legislative initiative of the member of the State Duma of United Russia Yevgeny Fyodorov is being actively discussed, in which he proposes to impose restrictions on persons who either already enter the bureaucratic apparatus or are going to enter it.
Restrictions may be of the following character: if a person wishes to enter the cohort of high-ranking officials, then he will be accepted into it in that case (without taking into account the presence of connections "above" and other "goods", of course), if neither he himself nor his relatives relatives do not have real estate abroad, and if the children of the official do not undergo training abroad. Deputy Fedorov is believed that the presence of foreign real estate is a kind of “alternate aerodrome” for a representative of the bureaucratic class, which he can use in the event of legal issues for him on the territory of the Russian Federation.
The idea is robust, but today there are many opportunities for corrupt officials with a rich imagination to circumvent all legislative restrictions. Houses and apartments on the Cote d'Azur or Miami in the blink of an eye are reissued to a brother-in-law, brother-in-law or a favorite second cousin aunt with all the consequences. With training, it is more difficult, but they can easily overstep this prohibition. In general, if the draft law (law) is adopted, but will be executed in the same way as many other recently adopted laws are “executed”, the reasonable initiative of the deputy Fedorov will remain nothing more than beautiful words. For a start, it would be worthwhile to cultivate executive discipline ...
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Baltic mining in Africa
The Ministry of Defense of Latvia noted that they are ready to send to the CARs, quote: "a few dozen Latvian military." And the Latvian military, carrying "freedom" and "democracy" in Central Africa today, well, really not enough ...
Latvian Defense Minister Artis Pabriks - the one who most recently thought that the Latvians in 1940 should have fought with the Soviet Union - stated that from the number of Latvian servicemen a unit of company number could go to the Central African Republic to “help” EU allies “put things in order” in this state. The order, of course, is democratic ... According to the latest data, the European Union contingent, which will join the French "bayonets" of 1600, which are already actively "pacifying" the CARs by order of the "Generalissimo" Francois Hollande, will be included by the Latvians, but by their Baltic neighbors - Lithuanians and Estonians (in addition to Poles, Slovenes and other “Young Europeans”, forced to work out their Berlin-Paris-Brussels loan bread).
For obvious reasons, none of the Baltic soldiers are eager to go to the center of Africa to “sow democracy”, but apparently the Big Brothers ordered, and the soldier’s lot - to execute orders, but not to discuss them. But this is another bell for the three Baltic sisters that their entry into the European Union was not so gratuitous as Vilnius, Riga and Tallinn would like. Today we have to work out the "money" by several dozens of military men, and tomorrow the "Latvian riflemen" can be called up to the fullest ... Long live freedom and democracy! Hooray!
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Russian-speaking population, if they are so bad? can naturalize in Russia.
It is necessary to periodically prohibit the importation of Baltic products into the Russian market because of the indestructible nationalist flavor.
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Tula "shell"
President Putin visited the Tula defense enterprise Shcheglovsky Val. The company held a meeting of the Advanced Research Foundation (FPI). Opening this meeting, Vladimir Putin noted that the industry expects effective work from the FPI.
During a visit to the defense enterprise, the president was shown samples of military equipment with which military units are already being completed. One of the samples that you can pay special attention to is the Pantsir-С1 air defense system, which literally is hunted (in the commercial sense of the word) by many foreign customers. According to the company's employees, there are so many orders for the said ZRK today that it is time to open additional production facilities with the invitation of qualified workers and engineering specialists. But with regard to qualified personnel, not everything is so rosy, and this is one of the main problems of the military-technical industry today.
A modern young man (let it be Vasya) does not want to be a welder or a machinist, Vasya wants to be a manager or a lawyer, and even immediately, you know, an oligarch ... Vasya wants to live “like in a TV series” - in a villa by the sea, drink “shampusik” , eating truffles, daily changing sexual partners and “giving birth” to children like Philip Kirkorov ... Vasily's hypothetical product is a typical product brought up by modern “entertaining” on television and social networks. He does not understand at all why to create some kind of “Shell” if it can be ordered via the Internet ...
By the way, the information about the FPI direct meeting was closed.
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Dmitry Medvedev. Revelations for CNN
During the week, an interview with CNN was given by Dmitry Medvedev, telling about the state of the Russian economy, preparations for the Winter Olympics in Sochi, corruption, the management system, business, the situation around Syria and other issues and problems.
The quintessence of the “economic” bloc of the interview was the phrase of the Russian Prime Minister that our economy is “normal, but it does not please anyone.” As it turned out, Dmitry Medvedev sees himself among himself, the Russian President Vladimir Putin and “those who are engaged in this” among the people who are not happy with the Russian economy. Does Medvedev say that neither the prime minister nor the president is engaged in economics in Russia? ..
If you refer to the words of the Prime Minister (the words about the “normality” of the economy), it turns out that either the listed persons are not happy with normal things, or the economy in Russia today is still far from normal. Growth in 1,4% (and Medvedev mentioned just such a figure) with forecasts at the beginning of the year at the level of 3-3,5% - this, to put it mildly, is not great. It turns out that, at least, the forecasters from the officials of the government economic segment are definitely useless ...
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“Only the rush is needed when hunting for fleas”
Negotiations have begun between the EU and Belgrade on the entry of Serbia into the European Union. Officials from the European Commission are confident that a plan to fulfill the first conditions for joining the EU will be prepared by the Serbs by the end of this year. European Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fule in Brussels explained the day before that the main focus of the 2014 year will be on preparing for the opening of the chapters of the 23 and 24 EU accession treaty. These chapters deal with reforms in the field of justice, rights, freedoms and security. In reality, all this is nothing more than a democratic “talker”. The real purpose for which Serbia is being drawn into the EU (and it is not at all necessary that the result of the “negotiations” will be its admission to the union) is the final “divorce” of parts of the former Yugoslavia. The most important point for Brussels is not some kind of “rights” (non-citizens live in Latvia), but the fate of Kosovo.
You never know what the European Commissioner said beforehand! That's what said Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Vucic: "We will finish everything that depends on us, by 2018, and then we are not free to decide whether we will be in the EU by the 2020 year." He added that the focus of the talks "will be paid to the head of 35, dedicated to Kosovo." He clarified that “no one knows how exactly the head of 35 will look, some things may arise suddenly, and not everything will be easy.” This, Anna Filimonova writes (“The Fund of Strategic Culture”), somewhat resembles a formula that was common in the West at the end of 1990: “Specific conditions are not so important, the Serbs just have to cease to exist”.
Serbian Prime Minister I. Dacic was also quite frank. According to him, Brussels went to negotiations with Serbia "not because Serbia carried out some fantastic reforms, but because of the progress in relations with Pristina." Dacic warns that “if Serbia had not reached an agreement with Pristina, there would have been no negotiations with the EU, and if we only stumble on this path, both negotiations will be stopped - we must clearly understand this”.
Well, Mr. Füle, and you say - rights and freedoms ... Actually, later that day, apparently, in order not to seem demagogue, Füle said: "The key factor was the readiness of the Serbian authorities to normalize relations with Pristina." His words spread many media. The West seems to be playing openly now. Frankly behave and the statesmen of Serbia. Ivica Dacic stated at a press conference in Brussels in general: "I think that today is the most important day for Serbia since the end of the Second World War."
Anna Filimonova writes:
The sad experience of the countries of Eastern Europe shows that there are no advantages from joining the EU, and it is difficult to count the minuses, the analyst summarizes.
By the way, the Serbian people are also not averse to joining the EU.
As writes the Serbian resource "Serbia.info", more than 67% of Serbian citizens approve of the country's possible entry into the European Union. This is evidenced by the results of a survey conducted by the influential sociological agency "Scan" from the city of Novi Sad in the period from November 24 to December 3 (in total 1700 adults were surveyed).
At the same time, it turned out that the Serbian Orthodox Church enjoys the greatest degree of trust among various institutions of society, while the parliament and the government have the least confidence. The Serbs have criticized the legislative and executive authorities for their slowness in decision-making, lack of organization, and inefficiency.
It must be assumed that the Serbian government, which has intensified its negotiations with the EU, is doing everything possible so that it will not be thought of as sluggish and ineffective. State officials are in a hurry.
As reported by 21 January correspondent RIA "News" Nikolay SokolovSerbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic made a statement in which he said that Serbia asks European partners not to put up “false obstacles” to impede the negotiation process.
“We are ready for difficult negotiations and will even be surprised if it will be easy for us. We do not expect any privileges or benefits. But we hope that we will not be exposed to false obstacles and any moving targets or conditions that will change every year, ”said Dacic in Brussels.
Dacic also noted that Serbia is ready to continue the process of normalizing relations with Kosovo. According to him, at the talks in Brussels no one asked the Serbian authorities to recognize Kosovo: this topic was not discussed at all.
As transmits "Euronews", Ivica Dacic expressed the hope that the negotiation process, which usually takes years for a candidate country before 10, will be completed by the year of 2020.
As for the "moving targets or conditions," those, of course, will be. For the next six years, Kosovo will become the “moving target”. Something will happen there, as a result of which Brussels will recommend Belgrade to recognize the independence of the region. Someone, and Dachich should understand about Kosovo. He is, after all, a native of Kosovo ...
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Are we a little 1914? In the end, as it is not cynical, it is necessary to think first of all about your people. We have neither friends nor brothers, but we have our own people tormented by reforms. Serbs made their voluntary choice. It's time to understand this and leave them alone with their choice.
Bashar Assad, the savior of Europe
January 14 The Wall Street Journal An article by Maria Abi-Habib was published under the heading "European Spies Reach Out to Syria". Yes, this is what you thought. Once Western Europe was ready to send Syria to the Stone Age by bombing and rocket launcher, and now EU intelligence officers, trying to do their work quietly and imperceptibly, consult with B. Assad about how they could protect themselves from the European, that is, from their , homegrown, extremists ...
"The European intelligence agencies secretly met with the Syrian President and the United States of America and the United States of America since they received their ambassadors." That is, secret services from Europe secretly (oh God, well, of course secretly, secretly, nobody knows) met with the people of Assad and asked those to share information about European extremists operating in Syria. And this was the first meeting of Western state officials with representatives of the Middle Eastern country - the first since the moment when European part was withdrawn from Syria in droves.
This meeting, the journalist notes, was dedicated to collecting information about no less than 1200 European jihadists, who, according to the same Western officials, joined the militant groups in Syria.
Well, as they say, for which they fought, and ran into it. They encouraged war in the West, wrote about democracy, mounted this very democracy in videos, propagandized and threatened - sign it and get it.
Specifically, Western Europe is afraid of militants belonging to al Qaeda affiliates.
It is difficult to judge about the degree of secrecy; it seems that it’s no longer a point to hide fear among Europeans before the invasion of terrorists who fought on the outskirts of Damascus or in Aleppo neighborhoods: they write about it almost every day in newspapers, and sociologists and political scientists conduct research and even pretend, can the special services cope with newly-born jihadists? A terrorist, even if he is one, can be much more dangerous than an open enemy ...
In the press, you can find reports that information about "secret" meetings indirectly issued, for example, the Deputy Foreign Minister of Syria, Faisal Mikdad. is he saidthat representatives of a number of European intelligence services visited Damascus to discuss cooperation with the Syrian authorities in the field of security. “I will not list, but yes, many of the representatives of these countries visited Damascus,” said Mikdad, adding that the meetings discussed “coordinating security measures.”
Who exactly of the foreigners led conversations with representatives of Assad, the Wall Street Journal does not report. It does not matter much; It is clear that the meeting was attended primarily by Western European Krupnyak: Germans, French, British. It is completely excluded that Berlin, London and Paris, where the problem of immigrants is already a key one, should not take preventive measures. European governments are hardly eager to import to themselves the gentlemen of terrorists and make life difficult for their intelligence officers, and most importantly, the citizens. The latter in the case of terrorist attacks in the area of some Champs Elysées will burn more than one car and smash more than one store.
Let's think: why should the Europeans consult with the people of Assad? Will he call them the names and appearances of the London thugs who arrived in Jihad in Syria? Do not call. Assad simply does not know these bandits. But his goal is to destroy them all. And this is the purpose of Europe today. Like. Yesterday, bearded warriors were considered the liberators of Syria from the bloody tyrant and human rights activists, and now, when Assad comes, Washington is weakened, and the militants have gathered home, beards and lice suddenly became signs of medieval obscurantism, rather than democratic symbols.
So: Eurospecialists surely persuaded Assad to destroy all those who were soon going to be imported back to their homeland - who to lick their wounds, and who - to continue the bloody work of freeing the world from the infidels. The scouts understand perfectly well: not just some Caliphate propagandists will go to Europe, people with combat experience will go there. People who are used to killing. People who liked to kill. People who have collaborated with al-Qaeda and have been imbued with the appropriate ideology.
It turns out that the West has admitted: let Assad be, let Assad win. The West even admitted that without Assad, he would not cope with the terrorists. It is clear that the newspaper will not write about this in the West, and the President or the Prime Minister will not say this on television. This is too cool for a tolerant man in the street. His brain does not turn over so quickly. Even in the book of Orwell on the "alteration" stories it took some time, but here it was so sudden ... They just talked about a good opposition and a bad Assad, when suddenly ... Therefore, the issue is solved "secretly" at the level of intelligence services. And the way to solve the problem is known: death. To talk about such a crushing way on TV is embarrassing. Western European man in the street thinks that French or British scouts are completely soft and fluffy and are mainly engaged in the distribution of buns and cookies, like famous Americans on the Maidan in Kiev. And the idea, of course, is sound: Assad is still merciless towards enemies, so why not show Assad with a European trembling finger on those who can prevent Paris and Berlin from sleeping peacefully?
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Made in Qatar
In light of the huge collection of evidence secretly exported from Syria, Syrian officials can be charged with war crimes, according to The Guardian, referring to "three prominent international lawyers." Evidence points to a “systematic murder” of about 11 thousands of those arrested, writes journalist Ian Black. A brief translation of the article posted on the portal "Inopressa".
What are three lawyers? It turns out that this is really experts with experience.
All three are former prosecutors in criminal proceedings related to Yugoslavia and Sierra Leone. These experts, the journalist writes, “studied thousands of photographs and materials of the Syrian government, which recorded the death of persons in custody of the security forces of the regime, from March 2011 to August last year. Most of the victims are young men. Many corpses are stained with blood, have signs of exhaustion and marks from torture. Some did not have eyes; others had visible signs of suffocation or death from an electrical discharge. ”
Lawyers talked with the source from which information comes. “This is a military policeman who secretly collaborated with a Syrian opposition group, and later deserted and fled the country. With the three conversations that took place in the last 10 days, they found that he is trustworthy and truthful, and his story is “very convincing,” the article says.
The lawyers report says that they have subjected all the evidence to meticulous verification. “The authors of the report are royal lawyer Sir Desmond de Silva, formerly the chief prosecutor of the special court in the Sierra Leone case, royal lawyer Sir Jeffrey Nice, formerly the prosecutor in the case of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, and Professor David Crane, who presented indictment of the President of Liberia, Charles Taylor, in the trial of Sierra Leone, ”the newspaper said.
Ian Black cites the details: the defector (“for security reasons, he is simply referred to as“ Caesar ”) was a photographer of the Syrian military police. “He secretly took the images out of the country on flash drives and handed him over to a friend from the Syrian national movement who enjoys the support of Qatar. Qatar, sponsoring and arming the rebel groups, called for the overthrow of Assad and demanded that he be brought to justice. ”
Once there is such a report, we note there is a customer. And for sure.
Further, the author writes that the report was commissioned by a large law firm from London, representing the interests of the same Qatar.
A further road, we note, this kind of paper is known.
The document is going to be sent to the UN, to governments of different countries and human rights organizations. "It seems that the time of its publication was chosen specifically for the Geneva-2 peace conference, which the UN is organizing this week," the journalist said.
Caesar explained to the investigators that his work consisted in "photographing the dead of those arrested." “He did not claim to have witnessed executions or torture. But he described a highly bureaucratized system. ” According to the report, Caesar photographed up to 50 corpses per day. The photographs were taken so that it was possible to issue a death certificate without relatives identifying the body and “to confirm that the orders for the execution of specific persons were executed”. According to the report, relatives were told that a man died of a heart attack or problems with the respiratory system.
Already connected the United States.
A certain “unnamed official” from the US administration said: “We, along with the rest of the world, are terrified of these images, which have become known. We condemn in the strongest terms the actions of the regime and urge it to comply with international obligations in the field of the treatment of prisoners. ”
This corpse photographic essay, we add, is no longer surprising. The cruel tyrant, the chemical warrior and the fighter of his own people, against whom the democratic Qatar fights in vain, purposely created evidence of mass torture and murder - even the photographer hired him. And he didn’t just create evidence, but scrupulously: every corpse, every person who was tortured was filmed.
And the recruitment of lawyers in this “case” is not accidental. Asad is still being prepared for the fate of Milosevic, and Syria is the fate of Yugoslavia. True, NATO has not the same strengths of NATO ... But neither Qatar, nor Saudi Arabia will not abandon its bloody Islamist plans.
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The other day in the transfer "P.S" with A. Pushkov was told about “Al-Qaeda” - in the sense that the Americans cannot defeat it in any way. They struggle with it, they fight, that Osama was killed, and Al-Qaida is not only thriving, but it is creating more and more new cells and branches, and there’s no end to it. Al-Qaeda is everywhere - in Africa, in the Middle East, and in Pakistan and Afghanistan. It operates in dozens of countries (in 34-x, according to some). But what to say, the militants are about to unfold in the US! The NSA, let us add to this, probably, therefore, it bugs the entire globe: after all, the chances that every second person is a member of a terrorist network are very high.
In the program of comrade Pushkov, the view was expressed that Al-Qaida was a political myth, to someone very profitable. It is not excluded that Western intelligence services are turning up all sorts of "staged" terrorist acts, which are then used to put pressure on parliaments and increase their budgets.
Al Qaeda is essentially a satellite of American foreign policy. As noted in the program, it’s scary to think what would have happened to this policy if al Qaeda had disappeared! Intelligence officers, military, computer scientists could lose their jobs. An unenviable fate would have waited for all sorts of "experts." Most importantly, such a convenient reason for manipulating the consciousness of society in different parts of the world would disappear. Therefore, the elimination of bin Laden (although, most likely, it was not him) did not affect the organization itself, nor the struggle with it. This sounds ridiculous, but Obama’s great victory in eliminating the “terrorist number one” from the point of view of combating terrorism has produced absolutely no results, according to the PostScript. On the contrary, we are told every day about threats from al-Qaida ...
And one cannot say that Comrade Pushkov is mistaken or has suddenly become a supporter of fashionable conspiracy theory. The events of the last days just confirm the opinions voiced in the telecast.
22 January RIA News" reported that the United States, Qatar and Saudi Arabia are supporting the Syrian opposition rebels, who are fighting Islamist groups. This was told the British newspaper «Daily Telegraph». She writes:
Interestingly, the girls are dancing ... And what does Ayman al-Zavahiri think on this subject?
On the "Tape.ru", referring to the "France-Presse", passed the message that there was a two-week confrontation between Islamist radicals and moderate rebels in Syria. Mass of corpses. The jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant lost 312 people killed, and their opponents from among the other militants lost 608 people. At the same time, not only moderate Islamists, but also al-Qaida, came out against ISIS. Ayman az-Zawahiri announced that ISIS should disband its formations, because the only "legitimate" representative of Al-Qaida in Syria is the "Front of al-Nusra".
That's the case! Zavahiri something - against LIH! And Washington, using the hands of Riyadh, is fighting against ISIS, because this organization, they say, is part of Al Qaeda!
As for the war against Al-Qaeda of such “democratic” strongholds of the Middle East as Qatar or Saudi Arabia, then the Americans have completely forgotten about logic.
Recently, the Permanent Representative of Syria to the UN, Bashar Jaafari, in a letter to the Security Council and Ban Ki-moon accused the Saudi Arabian authorities of having links to al-Qaida and supporting terrorists, and even demanded that Riyadh be brought to justice. Reported it correspondent ITAR-TASS Oleg Zelenin.
A diplomat’s letter appeared on the UN’s website in which he recalled that in October, Ayman al-Zawahiri declared a “war against the infidels” in the Middle East. Jaafari cites the names of 72 theologians and theologians of Saudi Arabia, who, after az-Zawahiri, addressed the Muslims of the whole world, urging them to “continue to support the Mujahideen in Syria”, in particular, the Islamic Front grouping (it interacts with “Dzhebhat an- Nusra ").
“This is proof that these theologians and rulers of Saudi Arabia who stand behind them are associated with al-Qaeda and its leader Ayman al-Zawahiri,” wrote the permanent representative of Syria. He called the kingdom the “source of global jihad” throughout the world.
The Permanent Representative of the SAR pointed out to the UN Security Council the need to “take serious measures” against Saudi Arabia.
So the Americans took serious measures. Now the press is drawing a new image of Riyadh - as a central fighter against al-Qaida terrorism. It remains only to believe it ...
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America has long been mired in lies.
And if the terrorists are strangling the left hand,
That right gives them the development of shishi!
Koseyak yes bottle
B. H. Obama has a negative attitude towards smoking marijuana, but believes that it is no more dangerous than alcohol. This opinion was expressed by the US President in an interview with the weekly "New Yorker", reports "Voice of Russia" with links to ITAR-TASS and "Lentu.ru".
According to Obama, marijuana is not such a social evil, as previously thought. True, Obama does not advise his daughters to smoke weed: “I told my daughters that, in my opinion, this is a bad idea, a waste of time and not very good for health.”
Obama himself, however, just in adolescence indulged in weed. “As you know, as a teenager I smoked weed.” I think this is a bad habit and a vice similar to cigarette smoking. I smoked cigarettes in adolescence and for a long period of my adult life, ”said the head of the White House.
By the way, note Obama also has his own brewery. So to tell only that he smoked means to give an incomplete picture. I used to smoke, now I drink - that would be more accurate.
B. H. Obama noted that the laws adopted in Colorado and Washington are important - they exclude smoking of marijuana from the number of criminal acts. However, the danger lies in the fact that someone may consider that other prohibited substances, in particular cocaine and methamphetamine, should be recognized as legal.
Well, let's add on our own. The logic is correct. In the same way it is true that if gays in the USA are becoming freer and freer, then why not finally legalize zoophiles, pedophiles, necrophiles and other fighters for democracy?
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“There were people. And suddenly, all became nerds. Paradox!"
American culture in its movement to simplify reached the limit. Moving on - just nowhere. So say the researchers. About the American impasse tells the resource Mixednews.ru with reference to thedailymash.co.uk.
Research Institute experts warn: the process of simplifying content news and entertainment media has crossed all boundaries. Professor Henry Brubaker says: “Most television programs are about cooking, the paranormal, or the squabbling of people who have gone down. The news consists of reviews about something mixed with reports of natural disasters. "
And more: “At present, only celebrities' autobiographies written for them by hired authors or thrillers about serial killers with names like“ Face Collector ”are published. In addition, people still read articles on the Internet, such as "10 facts about how to build muscle."
Moreover, the population's debilization is practically impossible to stop: “The problem is that although our culture has no place to move further in the process of its debilization, the human intellect can continue to deteriorate.”
What is the result? Here's what: “The result can be a world in which no one understands anything. Even an action movie episode, where the hero, who is trying to save the planet once again, explodes in his jeep, will soon be puzzled by the audience and cause criticism of excessive pretentiousness. ”
But who will listen to some scientist? Business is business.
The head of one of the TV channels, Mary Fisher, said the news: "We are launching a new program, Paranormal Antiques Auction Sex News, where paranormal, strange news will be broadcast, all about sex and auctions."
The scientist sadly summarizes: “And I’m sure we can sink even lower. We show enviable persistence in finding ways to new levels of idiocy. ”
By the way, let us add from myself, this dead end of mass culture to the people was briefly described by Chekhov: “... both folk theaters and folk literature are all nonsense, everything is folk caramel. We must not lower Gogol to the people, but raise the people to Gogol ”(from a letter to Nemirovich-Danchenko from November 2 of 1903 of the year). True, Anton Pavlovich was not meant for business, but only a conscious simplification, “framing”. But when capitalists take on the "popular" business, and indeed with such a scale as in the USA, truly - there is no limit to perfection.
One thing is to be regretted: Russia, for a quarter of a century, has taken an example from the Western mass culture, imposed primarily by the local media. It is enough to turn on the TV or read the headlines of our press to understand: the cultural dead end looms not only in front of the United States. Here are just a few of the headlines from Vesti's Editor's Pick: “The famous Playboy model is found dead”; "Toilet brothel in the mall worked for almost a year"; "New potato killer victims"; “The millionaire secretly works as a janitor. Video"; "Buffets in the Moscow metro will be replaced with toilets" ... Welcome to the American world!
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Grass reduces the threshold of critical thinking. Each joint lowers the bar, above which you will not argue, but simply do what you are told. Just something simple. Because thinking is simplified at the same time. In this case, you, of course, fun and enjoyable.
So the transfer of "House-2", etc. concern you only now. Smoke and everything will pass. I mean, it will stop worrying you, you will just watch them (because they told you so - look, right in the store where you are stupid), as an instruction, and do everything as they tell you. And you will be good and fun ...
Chicot 1
That home-scorched "House-2", the cooking show, tailored to the principle of "Eat, dear guests, still throw out to the dogs", then endless talkers a la "talk show" ... About the countless and tedious serials even say ...
Yes, and with our modern literature things are also not the best way. The authors are shrinking and “on the mountain” give out completely meaningless books ...
So why is our culture better than the same American? .. Past achievements? .. Unless only them ...
President's wife
LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky said this week that the leaders of the major world powers should not have wives. It was because of his wife, the US president began to look bad lately. About this newspaper writes "Sight" with reference to RIA "News".
Zhirinovsky said:
The leader of the Liberal Democratic Party is sure: his wife prevents to govern the state.
What to do? I mean, with Obama's wife?
Zhirinovsky knows that. He has already announced that he will send a letter to Mr. Obama so that he “will get rid of her sooner”.
By the way, with a statement about the fact that Obama “rules the whole world,” we add, Mr. Zhirinovsky obviously got excited.
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Salamander
Alexander Romanov
* “I am a prince! What I want - and I roll back ... uh ... acting in the interests of the state "- a phrase from the cartoon" Ilya Muromets and Nightingale the Robber "
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