The decision for Kosovo

Filed under:General — posted by webmaster on February 6, 2007 @ 6:12 am

The Balkan province should become independent 

Martti Ahtisaari, the special representative of the General Secretary of United Nations Organization, has arrived to the Balkans to begin the process of the final decision of the conflict between Serbia and a province of Kosovo. It has already passed eight years after military operation of forces of the NATO spent under direction of the United States which pursued the purpose the termination of campaign of the ethnic cleanings, carried out Serbs concerning the Albanian majority living in Kosovo. Since then this territory (with the population in two million persons) is under the control of the United Nations. NATO armies, including American armies, are still remaining there.  

During all this time it was clear, that for final settlement of this conflict it is necessary to recognize Kosovo as the independent state, having provided thus protection of Serbian minority living there. The question consist in, whether it is possible to reach it without diplomatic contentions or even military conflicts - militant nationalism till now is present between Kosovo and Serbia, or the same situation is between the West and Russia, causing the increasing anxiety.  

Bush’s administration hopes with the constrained optimism, that the transient can begin in the nearest months. However for this purpose skilful diplomacy of the West and, maybe, demonstration of some hardness by the United States is required.  

The province will be still under the international supervision in which the leading role will be given to the European Union; however it can enter the United Nations and other international organizations. When the Security Council will approve the given conditions, the government of Kosovo in which the main role is played by Albanians, can declare independence and at once will be recognized the United States and the majority of the countries of the Europe. Serbia can protest, but cannot interfere with new arrangements. 


Bush’s wars manage more and more expensive to Americans

Filed under:General — posted by webmaster on February 5, 2007 @ 8:35 am

Georges Bush has directed to the congress the project of the federal budget of the USA for 2008. The total amount of the state budgetary charges in 2008 under plans of the White house will make $2, 9 billion. Defensive charges reach $481 billion. In the White House believes that it would be the exactly required sum for the Pentagon in 2008.
But at all relevancy of this sum, it will not be sufficient for two wars - in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Bush’s opinion, two military campaigns will require $295 billion of additional financing within the nearest three years.  Robert Portman, the chief of White House’s budgetary management, has informed that additional financing assumes $100 billion for current year, $145 billion - for 2008 and $50 billion - on 2009.
If the project of the budget will be approved, the total volume of charges of the USA on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for 2003-2009 will reach $800 billion. According to the Los Angeles Times research, Iraq and Afghanistan in view of new figures will manage to the American tax bearers more expensive, than Vietnam has managed before.
In the current and the next fiscal years military charges of the USA (in view of additional means for military campaigns) will reach $245 billion. It means that each American should spend 800 dollars on defense up to the end of 2008.
The increase in the military budget up to $481 billion in following year will mean that the charges of defensive department have increased on 10 % in comparison with the last year.
Earlier, some democrats threatened Bush not to satisfy his financial inquiries about war and, thus, to stop it. The majority of them, nevertheless, understand that, having given up to the President in money, they will only deprive USA militaries of necessary equipment, the weapon and ammunition, but the war will not be stopped. As a result, the democrats promise to study very carefully Bush’s project, considering each dollar. The speaker of the House of Representatives has noticed that the President wastes huge sums of money on the war.
The USA posses 40 % of military assignments of all world. Nevertheless, last years the Pentagon has a lack of money on a regular basis. From 1990 till 2005 of the USA have spent $2billion for arms, but the military men in Iraq have received only 16 % of this sum.
Military “toys” also rise in price. For example, during last years the military jeep has risen in price from $32 up to $225 thousand. The equipment of one soldier since 1999 has risen in price from $7 up to $25 thousand. Army boots cost $94, carbine М-4 - $1 thousand 382, armored garment - $3 thousand 145, and a portable radio set - $7 thousand $100.


Israel plans scale intervention into Gaza

Filed under:General — posted by webmaster on February 4, 2007 @ 8:55 am

The army of defense of Israel has accelerated planning large military operation in sector Gaza, being afraid, that the inter-Palestinian collisions would be turned into the next wave of the anti-Israeli terror. Militaries and special services do not exclude, that ruling Palestinian grouping Hamas can break the Palestinian-Israeli armistice and renew the acts of terrorism, having accused Israel in support of Fatah movement competing to Islamizes for the control over the Palestinian territories.
For neutralization of threat the operation, comparable on scales with by “the Protective wall” 2002, during which the Israeli army has undermined potential of the Palestinian militarized groupings on Western, can be demanded. The operation will be aimed at protecting of the river Jordan. The Israeli armies have left sector Gaza in the end of November, 2006 after the five-monthly operation, begun in reply to kidnap by insurgents of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, was finished.
 


Fatah and Hamas have renewed an armistice

Filed under:General — posted by webmaster on February 3, 2007 @ 1:10 pm

Hamas and Fatah have agreed about cease-fire for the second time of this week. The last arrangement was in force literally for a day. 

The agreement has been reached in the evening on February, 2nd. The leaders of conflicting groupings have sat down for a negotiating table under the request of the Egyptian diplomats. According to the results of the meeting the representatives of movements have acted with the joint statement in which it was spoken, that the parties undertake to stop bloodshed, to withdraw from streets of insurgents and to continue negotiations. 

Let’s remind, fierce firing were being held in Gaza within the last few days. Radical Islamizes and autonomies of the army (under the President’s control) led to the death of 50 persons. Women and children are also among the victims of conflicting parties. 

 


Hugo Chavez has named Bush’s policy as a dictatorship

Filed under:General — posted by webmaster on February 2, 2007 @ 12:01 pm

After the President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez has come to power to publish the decrees which are valid the law without approval of the parliament, Georges Bush has expressed concern in deviation from democracy in Venezuela. In reply to these critics Hugo Chavez has declared, that serious threat of world democracy is represented in the dictatorship of the President of the USA.
Hugo Chavez, while making a speech at the conference in Caracas after receiving special powers from the parliament, has publicly named the President of the USA Georges Bush and the chapter of prospecting services of the USA of John Negroponte as military criminals.
 According to Chavez’s words, they should face the charges before the court for «war crimes which have been done by the American armies» during various operations.
The Venezuelan president has told that he considers them as criminals who should stay up for life imprisonment.
Let’s remind that recently the leader of Venezuela has ignored the opposition. Such reaction has followed on the comment of the USA in occasion of total nationalization which Hugo Chavez has declared soon after his election for the third term.
Now Hugo Chavez is having emergency powers for 18 months, according to which all the decrees signed by him automatically (without approval of parliament) receive the status of the law.  According to the President’s policy it is necessary to lead nationalization of strategic sectors of economy (basically oil extracting and telecommunications), to deprive with independence the Central bank and to abolish the restriction of number of terms of the President’s power.


The project of Terrorism Understanding

Filed under:General — posted by webmaster on February 1, 2007 @ 7:27 pm

The project of Terrorism Understanding aspires to bring understanding to students of college around of the United States about serious threat, which they meet as jihad terrorism. It is pertinent, however, to all civilized societies which fight for freedom and democracy.
Recently, Osama Bin Laden has added India to its list of enemies which should be erased. India is one of four countries which Osama Bin Laden and his group aspire to eliminate; the other countries are the USA, the Great Britain and Israel. That touched interestingly that India never did anything that would irritate Iraqi on difference from the Great Britain’s colonialism. Simply much Muslims hate India just because India is not the Islamic state.
The established purpose of Lashkar-e-Toiba, and the Islamic Movement of Students of India (SIMI), the groups responsible for July, 11th of 2006 explosions of train Mumbai, should bring all India according to the Islamic rule. In other words, they should transform India from the secular and democratic nation to the Islamic state, which will be ruled by the Shariat (the Islamic law), the system of the law which is reputed as that has suppressed individual freedom during many years.
The president of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad chains the project, which purpose is in denying the Jewish Holocaust which has led to the death of 6 million Jews. But it is not the end. Each radical Islamic adherent denies the Jewish Holocaustall over the world. Not so unlike the Nazism, the radical Islam adherents consider Jews as animals and bent at their elimination.


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