Japanese Robots to Build Station for Human on Moon by 2020

Japan has developed a strategy of the national space mission. The new strategy stipulates the landing of robots on the Moon by 2020. The robots will build an unmanned station on the south pole of Earth’s satellite. The station will be functioning automatically to generate power for equipment. A wheeled rover is to land on the Moon already in 2015.

Japan ’s Yomiuri newspaper wrote that the total amount of investments in the lunar project was evaluated at 200 billion yens ($2.2 billion). Japan had to considerably cut the budget of the program because of the financial crisis.

The program to explore the lunar surface is divided into two parts. A wheeled rover equipped with a seismograph will be launched to the moon before 2015. The rover will analyze the inner structure of the moon and will transmit image and video files to Earth.

The lunar base will be built and equipped during the next five years. The base will allow to supervise a group of lunar robots within the radius of 100 kilometers.

The construction of Japan’s first base on the moon will mark a new step on the way to new technologies in the field of space exploration.

Japanese scientists said that the robotic devices would be able to generate electric power autonomously.

The previous government of Japan with Taro Aso at the head actively discussed the lunar exploration program. However, the appearance of the new administration in the United States made Japan pay more attention to the exploration of Mars and smaller planets. The Japanese administration has changed too, but the new government of the nation still considers the strategy of the lunar exploration a priority.

It is worthy of note that India and China have recently been promoting their own programs of space exploration too. Therefore, Japan tries to keep leadership in the field of peaceful exploration of Earth’s satellite.

Viktor Kirichenko of Russia’s Institute for Robotic Science and Engineering Cybernetics said in an interview with Pravda.Ru that the robotic exploration of the solar system planets and the Moon was one of the top priorities in the development of space robotic science.

“The goals, which can be achieved in this direction, can be divided in three groups. The first one is connected with autonomous surface research robots. Such robots will provide information about the structure of the surface of a celestial body, the availability of mineral resources, climate conditions and other natural factors which can be very important for would-be manned missions.

“The robots will act like reconnaissance men who will help humans understand the nature of a planet. The second group is the robots designed to create and maintain objects of on-planet infrastructure. Mobile robotic devices equipped with mechanic arms and visual facilities will be able to conduct a whole range of works to build power-generating stations complete with communication and life support systems for humans an many other things.

“The third group is helper robots who will deal with routine operations to maintain the planetary base and provide everything else that humans may need there,” the scientist said.

Turkey's Gandhi' to lead main center-left opposition party

A man dubbed Turkey's Gandhi' is set to be come the leader of the country's opposition people's Republic Party (CHP) after the resignation of the center-left party's longstanding leader.


The new leader of the Turkey's main opposition is being heralded by much of the media as the Turkish 'Gandhi' Kemel Kiliacdaroglu earned his nickedname because of his slight frame and mild demeanor and tendency to reject ostentation. His election is being heralded as a potential earthquake in Turkish politics.

Sixty-one year-old Kiliacdaroglu was elected leader of the center-left Republican People's party(CHP) with a massive majority. In his first speech Kiliacdaroglu promised to bring his party back to its roots.

"We will fight corruption in a real sense and bring injustice to an end" Kiliacdaroglu said. "We will combat unemployment and poverty from the very begining."

Kemel Kiliacdaroglu's background, too, is very different for turkey politics. He is an Aleui-which means he is a member of a progressive Islamic sect which is often discriminated against by orthodox Muslims in Turkey. He also comes from a predominantly Kurdish region of the country.

In his first speech the committed his party to reducing the ten percent electoral threshold which effectively bars kurdish regional parties from gaining entry in parliament.

Kemel Kiliacdaroglu also has a humble reputation, dressing modestly and preferring public transport to chauffeur-driven limousines. And crueially, in a country continually hit by corruption scandals, he has made his political name exposing high-level government graft, forcing two senior resignations from the ruling justice and development Party(AKP).

NATIONAL ELECTION

An opinion poll published last week suggested that Kiliacdaroglu's appointment would attract more votes. With national elections due next year the ruling A K Party is facing its first serious contender since it came to power eight years ago. Turkish media say that's good for democracy.

It remarks unclear whether Kiliacdaroglu can maintain his political momentum, and critics point out he has given few policy details. Moreover, his quite demeanor could mean he'll wither in the cut and thrust of Turkish politics. But with just over a year to go to general elections, he has a momentum and has given belief back to his party, on which has been out of power for more than 3 decades.

UFOs Start to Appear in Moscow on Regular Basis

Lately, Russian media has been reporting on unidentified flying objects seen in Moscow skies. Recently a video was posted online showing a huge triangle 1.5 km wide soaring above the Moscow Kremlin. It was sitting above Red Square and shot by amateurs twice.

The video was widely discussed in foreign communities interested in ufology. According to a former UFO analyst of the British Defense Ministry, this is the most bizarre and unusual video of a UFO he has ever seen.
On October 7, 2009 a strange round cloud resembling a saucer was shot above Moscow Ring Road. At first it was noticed above Leninsky Prospect metro station, which is in downtown Moscow.
According to employees of the independent group “Heritage,” the object probably wanted to provide encoded information that Earth is threatened by asteroids. On October 27, two days after the researchers presented at the 14th Ufology Conference, the media, referring to NASA, released belated information about a meteorite explosion above Sulawesi Island.
In the evening of December 21, 2009, a reporter of Komsomolskaya Pravda who was shooting the panorama of Red Square unexpectedly shot something that looked like a stick with six wings. He did not see anything while he was shooting and only saw it on his pictures, as it often happens with UFOs.
The “hero” of the shoot was identified by the chair of Ufology committee with the Russian Geographical society Michael Gernstein. “This is a skyfish, flying rod, or solar entitiy. Ufology websites are filled with similar pictures.”
Some hot heads stated that these are live beings unknown to science. Others think these are creatures that came from plasma world inhibited by souls and ghosts.
UFOs above Moscow are not a frequent event, but not exclusive one either. In winter of 1584, a cross-shaped object with a lit up bubble in the center was seen in Moscow sky in day light.
Ivan the Terrible, who was then the Tsar, came outside as soon as he heard about it to “see the miracle with his own eyes.” The witnesses said he watched it for a while and then said, his face pale, that it was a sign of his death. It was indeed his last year.
Fireballs are also frequently seen in downtown Moscow. On August 5, 1977, three fireballs were seen. One came down on Ivanovskaya square, another one disappeared in Tainitsky garden, and the third one flew into the Archangelsk cathedral.
It moved along an S-shaped trajectory because the entrance to the cathedral consists of two pairs of doors. From the entrance the fireball moved to the altar, banged against the Tsar gates and exploded. A black spot remained on the altar from the explosion. It is hard to believe that this was an accident.
Some scientists believe such phenomena to be signs of the future. But what do they indicate? Some extraordinary future events? Or, maybe, aliens are trying to tell us that they support us in tough times? We shall see.

China: Sri Lanka's 'unconditional' ally

China's influence in Sri Lanka has increased immensely in recent years. The East Asian nation has not only become one of Sri Lanka's key trade partners and a major military ally, but it has helped the South Asian country counter Western pressure on issues such as human rights.

It has been a year since Sri Lanka's army secured victory over the Tamil Tiger rebels or LTTE and the decades' old civil war came to an end. This wouldn't have become possible without the support of Sri Lanka's key ally China, many in the South Asian nation think.
"China helped the Sri Lankan state immensely with the war with the LTTE when the Sri Lankan government needed assistance in terms of weapons and ammunition etc," says SI Keethaponcalan, an expert from the University of Colombo.

Diplomatic support 

The People's Republic's support came on the diplomatic front as well. When the West sharply criticized the Sri Lankan government's handling of the conflict, particularly the final stages of the war, and the US stopped its military aid over human rights issues, Beijing threw its weight behind Colombo by blocking a resolution censuring Sri Lanka at the UN Security Council. After that the relations between the two traditional allies strengthened further.

Experts say the basis for the close bilateral ties between the two sides is the fact that China’s support to Sri Lanka is unconditional. "Unlike the Western countries and organizations which impose conditions when they give us aid, whether it is the World Bank or IMF or bilateral aid, the Chinese have been giving us aid without asking questions," says Kalyananda Godage, a former Sri Lankan ambassador to the EU.

 Countering India

 Another major reason why Sri Lanka values this relationship is that China acts as a counterweight to its long-term ally India, says Jehan Perera, the executive director of the National Peace Council, a civil rights body in Colombo:

 "India has had a major impact on Sri Lanka and has pressurized Sri Lanka in various ways in the past. So Sri Lanka would like to have a counterweight of equal size and stature to India to balance it off," says Perera.

 Growing Chinese investment

With almost $1 billion in development aid, Beijing surpassed Tokyo as Colombo's largest foreign donor last year.

The Chinese are also building a massive port worth almost a billion US dollars in Hambantota on Sri Lanka's southeastern coast. Some Western media have reported that China would like to use it as a naval base. But the Sri Lankan government has insisted that the purpose of the port is purely commercial.

 "China has a huge navy. It is now an emerging superpower and its trade is huge with the West. China needs energy supplies from the Middle East. And all of this passes via Sri Lanka because of our location in the Indian Ocean. So that has become very important," says former diplomat Godage.

 Exciting market

 The emerging superpower has also become an increasingly important trading partner for the Sri Lankans. Gems, jewelry, tea and natural rubber are areas where Colombo sees potential for the bilateral trade to grow further.

 "It is a market that is going to mature," says Shezard Careem, one of the leading gem traders in Colombo. "It is tremendously wealthy and a luxury market as well. It provides a whole gamut of opportunities."

 Human rights: an 'internal issue'

 While China and its western partners have differences over issues such as human rights in China, many in Sri Lanka consider this as China's internal matter.

 "We are not going to be concerned about China's human rights record, they can look after that," says Godage. "We are interested in a good mutually beneficial relationship which also looks after our security, economic and political interests. So we are very happy with our relationship with China."

 The urge to not to lose or upset this 'valuable' partner is so huge that Sri Lanka, a predominantly Buddhist country, even stopped two of its cricket players from meeting the Dalai Lama in India recently.

Pakistan and China - unlikely friends

China is quite possibly the closest international ally of Pakistan. Defense cooperation in particular has a long history. Most Western experts are convinced that even Pakistan's nuclear bomb is based on Chinese designs.

China and Pakistan are unlikely partners. A communist country with a deep suspicion of religion, and a staunchly Islamic Republic, which at the same time is a multi-party democracy, don't seem to make an ideal match - and they wouldn't, were it not for a shared distrust of their common neighbor, India. Former Pakistani Foreign Secretary Shamshad Ahmad explains the special relationship with China in this way:

"I think it's the geopolitics of the region and common interests because of geopolitics. It is, essentially, the mutuality of benefits and the commonality of interests. There is no emotion involved. I don't think in international politics, there is any emotion."

Disappointed with the West

However, when many in Pakistan's foreign policy circles start talking about international relations, they can become very emotional. That is when they talk about Pakistan's disillusionment with the West, who left the region alone after the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan; left it alone with scores of fundamentalist militants groomed by the West, only to return suddenly after 9/11, demanding Pakistan eliminate militancy. Now again, the West is pouring a lot of money into the country, but only a tiny corrupt elite benefits from this, says Shamshad Ahmad. Now, compare that with China:

"They did not ask us to fight any war. They did not use us for any purpose. And the people here know China only by the symbols of well-being that they have erected in our country. You know, whatever assistance they gave to Pakistan has benefited directly the people. They have built projects like the Karakoram Highway, which provides a linkage between Pakistan and China itself, but it has helped the people of Pakistan in terms of trade and interaction."

There is a long list of similar projects that combine a certain strategic value with tangible benefits for millions of Pakistanis - from nuclear power plants to the new deep-water sea port at Gwadar.

Trade can be tricky

And of course, there are the Chinese goods that have swamped the markets in Pakistan just as anywhere else.

They are a tough competition for Pakistani industrialists. And Sadiq-ur-Rehman Rana, a consultant who has been working with China for decades, has good experience with Chinese producers, but says handling the thousands of Chinese trade houses that dominate bilateral trade can be quite a challenge for a Pakistani trader:
"In China, there is no branded production. So the trade house doesn't tell him who is the manufacturer, and he signs the agreement, and then later on he is sent a low-tech item sometimes."

Pakistani businessman Almas Haider says, "there is a tremendous language barrier, which actually has to be somehow managed. Because whatever you are saying may be misunderstood and you might get a wrong thing from them."

China as a model

For Sadiq-ur-Rehman Rana, who studied Chinese in China in the 1970s, there is no language barrier. Like most Pakistanis, the consultant admires China's pace of development:

"I feel that in Pakistan also fast-paced; widespread industrialization is the solution for countering the fundamentalism. If we have this fast-paced and widespread industrialization in Pakistan, a lot of things can change. Minds can open up. I have seen China in the last days of the Cultural Revolution, the planned economy in 1974-76. But then, the commune system dissolved and the fast-paced industrialization made a big change of mindset. It's a different society!"

With China's cheap technology becoming more and more advanced, the mainly defense-related strategic alliance with Pakistan is becoming more broad-based. Although economic cooperation has its difficulties, more and more Pakistanis are interested in benefiting from China's growth.

A Bangladeshi-Chinese love affair

China’s importance is growing day by day in Bangladesh. It is emerging as Bangladesh’s largest trade and development partner. But it wasn't always that way.

It seems the people of Bangladesh no longer think of the negative role China played for the country in its War of Independence in 1971, when China supported Pakistan. Instead, they have accepted China as a great friend.
Imtiaz Ahmed is an analyst of international relations and a professor of Dhaka University. He says China's policy of not mixing politics with trade has helped the situation. He says today, people have forgotten about China's role in the 70s. "Now over the years, China has emerged as the largest trading partner of Bangladesh, it has surpassed even India for quite some years. And is heavily engaged in developing infrastructure, particularly bridges and highways. So I think there has been a radical transformation when it comes to Bangladesh and China's relationship in the last 30 to 35 years."
Tousia Islam is a student at Dhaka University and she is a great fan of China. She thinks China has a lot to offer Bangladeshi people. She says, "Chinese food is so popular here. The most popular thing of China I think is their electronics – they're very cheap and especially like mobile phones or mp3 players so popular in Bangladesh. I personally like one thing of China, that is  their social culture and their family bonding nature. Our country should have a more friendly relation with China because economically they are so developed, they are one of the biggest countries in the world and they are so friendly to all the neighboring countries."
China's image "very positive"
The Chinese have not only impressed the people of Bangladesh with their food and culture, but also with their advancements in science and technology. Young Bangladeshis want to learn from the Middle Kingdom and gain the same technical know-how. Journalist Arif Mahmud says these are the reasons China is welcome: "China has developed in science and technology in the world and especially in the Asia-Pacific region."
China and Bangladesh have come a long way since the 1970s. Now there is a Bangladesh-China Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Bangladesh China Friendship Society promotes cultural exchange.
Shahjahan Mirdha is the head of both organizations. He praises the two countries' historic ties and says China has always been important for Bangladesh, which is why "all the prime ministers and presidents of Bangladesh paid official visits to China – even Bangladesh's founding father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Now 70 percent of our imports come from China. Not only that, but Chinese martial arts and dragon dances are now popular in Bangladesh as well."
The Bangladesh government seems keen to avoid tensions with China. Last year, a photo exhibition on Tibet in Dhaka was closed by the authorities after complaints by the Chinese embassy.

Why Don't They Publish Us?

From The Guardian and The New York Times to The Washington Post and Reuters, I've submitted several op-ed pieces and articles to the world's mainstream media outlets and newspapers over the past years. All of my submissions were responded identically: "Rejected"!

Intrinsically, it's an ambition of every journalist to reach out to a greater audience, achieve more exposure, make progress and improve his portfolio. Putting aside the primary motive of being renowned as a reference of public attention, the journalist aims to elevate his own viewpoint and advertise the way he looks into different matters as a precise and rectified account. The journalist is primarily looking for ways to exalt his own interpretation of stories and inculcate the reader a supposedly reliable, accurate analysis of a certain incident which is presumably "what he believes".

Thinking of methods to expand his coverage, journalist's principal purpose is to get in touch with the global audiences, instruct them on the basis of his own mindset, advocate a certain philosophy and denounce the other scopes of thought. This is actually how the journalist accomplishes his mission regardless of his ideological and reflective belongingness.

The inherent mission of a journalist is to enlighten the public opinions, help them distinguish the right from wrong and encourage the value of critical thinking. Although the journalism of 21st century has become an instrumental mechanism of disseminating falsehood, launching black propaganda and psychological warfare, the foremost responsibility of a journalist is to tell the truth even at the cost of his own defeat.

Anyway, I haven't come this long way to advocate the principles and fundamentals of journalism and sermonize about the basis of ethnic journalism; neither have I come to enumerate the responsibilities of a decent journalist and itemize his duties in respect of the public opinions. What I would like to discuss is the reasons why "they" don't publish "us". So who are these "they" and who are those "us"?

"They" are the chained, corporate media outlets whose interests are intertwined with together. "They" are the news networks, websites, magazines and journals who are afraid of the other side of story, so "they" prefer to withhold it from the public or distort it the other way.

"They" are the media outlets who are wise enough to recognize the difference between "nuclear energy" and "nuclear bomb", and that's why they use them interchangeably while translating the speeches of Iranian President.

"They" are the media outlets who are courteous and considerate enough to refer to the American President as President Obama and call the Iranian President "the hardliner".

"They" are the media outlets who feel free to run the most insulting and offensive cartoons about the Prophet of Islam whom some 1.5 billion people around the world venerate and glorify, because the "freedom of speech" allows them to do so. Interestingly, the same "freedom of speech" disallows them to publish a cartoon questioning the veracity of holocaust or an interview with a German political prisoner who has been jailed for 7 years simply due to his "visa overstay"!

"They" are the media outlets who can ridicule a 70-million nation by calling them "terrorists" collectively. "They" are the media outlets who can equalize a divine religion with radical terrorism, simply because they're free to express whatever they think by the virtue of "freedom of expression". "They" are the media networks who can invite the government opponents in a Third World country to break out into the streets, vandalize the public properties and stage a color revolution, because they have the authority and influence to do so.

"They" are those who can disregard the massacre of 1300 Palestinians as "collateral damage" and conflate the vicious carnage of Gaza with Israel's right to self-defense. "They" are those who can't ever tolerate for Israel only five minutes of the disastrous incidents which the Palestinian people are undergoing.

"They" are those who are affluent enough to finance the Arab media outlets in the Middle East to drop the name "Persian" off the term "Persian Gulf" because they know that the magnificent civilization of Iran is interweaved with the honorable history of Persian Gulf and Iranians are sensitive about this.

So, who is this "us"? It is us, who can't turn a blind eye to the atrocities of a racist regime whose existence is hinged on killing, destroying and devastating. It's us, who can't keep silent, remain indifferent and unconcernedly tolerate the offensive massacre of Palestinian people in the most brutal way. It's us who can't digest the double standards of the hegemonic superpowers. Why should the United States who has dropped hundreds of nuclear bombs on the heads of people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and seized the lives of millions of innocent people impose financial sanctions on Iran which is trying to develop nuclear energy for civilian purposes? What's the fault of millions of Iranian people who are in dire need of special types of medicine which should be imported from the European countries? It's us, who can't call these unilateral and crippling sanctions a respectful homage to the so-called virtue of human rights; if these medicines are not imported to the country, millions of "human beings" will be exposed to the risk of death; it's us who want to call the hegemonic powers to minimally respect the "human rights" which they've invented themselves.

It's "us", who don't classify people on the basis of their color, race, religion or nationality. We don't consider the black, impoverished Africans to be socially lower or less important than the sumptuous, well-off whites in the Northern Europe. We don't call the Muslims terrorist altogether simply because an irreligious, American-manufactured pawn named Osama Bin Laden carries out terrorist attacks all around the world. Who is unaware of the extensive relations between the families of George W. Bush and Osama Bin Laden? Who can demonstrate that Bin Laden is a practicing Muslim? Who can demonstrate that he says prayers during the day and takes fast in the month of Ramadan? Who can rule out the possibility that Al-Qaeda is an American-funded group which is established to portray a brutal and inhuman image of the Muslims all around the world?

It's "us", who don't reiterate the obsolete threatening sentence of "all options are on the table". Unlike President Obama and his affiliated media outlets including, among others, Fox News and Voice of America we don't threaten any country of a nuclear strike and don't stage a propaganda project against any nation to demoralize them 24 hours a day.

There are countless differences between "they" and "us" and that's why they'll never publish something which is written by "us". The other side of story has to remain obscured and unrevealed routinely. It will not be a privilege for them to discuss something which is "out of context" or out of "popular interest", so it's not that much of a surprise to receive emails, telling us that "we receive many more submissions than we can publish; thank you this time, but we may regret that…"

In their eyes, our writings always contain a hoard of grammatical slips, factual errors, contextual deviations and whatever of the writing gaffes and inaccuracies you may visualize. That's why they don't publish us.

The World Has No Money, and the Emperor Has No Clothes

Most of us are aware of the very old fairly tale by Hans Christian Andersen in which two weavers promise an emperor the finest suit of clothes imaginable, but from a fabric invisible to anyone who is unfit for his position or "just hopelessly stupid". Well, in the fairy tale it turns out that nobody wants to admit that they are "unfit" or "stupid", so when the emperor parades before his subjects in his imaginary new suit of clothes, it takes a child to cry out: "But he isn't wearing anything at all!" Well, many of us have been declaring that the world economy "has no clothes" for some time now, but when the anchor of NBC News declares it on national television it gets a bit more attention. During his recent appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman, NBC's Brian Williams was asked about the world financial situation. His answer included this shocking statement: "The world has no money, and the Emperor has no clothes."

During the interview, it was readily apparent that Williams was honestly shaken up by what had happened last Thursday in the stock market. But who can blame him? After all, most of us who watch the markets were totally stunned when the stock market dropped almost 1000 points exactly in less than an hour.

Normally a network news anchor is much more guarded and is much more careful about what is revealed to the public. But on Letterman's show, Williams gave us a glimpse of what he really thinks about the world economic situation....

"If I wasn't a tad too close to this, I'd probably not leave the house. But that's how bad it is."



So why did the U.S. stock market plunge so rapidly last Thursday?

Well, many have blamed the episode on a "bad trade" or a "computer glitch". Others claim that the Greek debt crisis caused a brief panic. There are yet others who see something more insidious going on - such as Goldman Sachs seeking to remove their name from the financial headlines, or the Federal Reserve sending a message that S. 604 (the bill to audit the Federal Reserve) should not be passed.

The truth is that we will probably never know what actually caused the market to fall through the floor that afternoon.

But it did pave the way for more bailouts.

Over the weekend, European policy makers unveiled an unprecedented loan package worth almost $1 trillion and a program of bond purchases designed to stop the sovereign debt crisis that threatened to shatter confidence in the euro.

The Federal Reserve got into the act as well. Over the weekend the Fed promised to flood the international financial system with U.S. dollars. This was seen in the markets as a sign of "resolve" meant to keep doubt about the European economy from turning into a global crisis of confidence.

So on Monday, investors responded to these bailouts with exuberance. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 405 points that day, which was the average's biggest one day point gain since March 23rd, 2009.

But are more bailouts, more debt and a flood of paper money really something to celebrate?

No.

The truth is that debt and paper money that continually declines in value are some of the chief causes of the financial mess that the world is now in.

In fact, Congressman Ron Paul is warning that the European bailout that was just announced will just lead to even larger financial problems in the future....

And Ron Paul is right - all of these bailouts and all of this debt will eventually cause all of the major paper currencies (including the U.S. dollar) to collapse.

The funny thing about these bailouts is that they never seem to help the average people on the street. Just take a look at the U.S. economy. We are told that Wall Street has recovered and that things are getting back to normal, and yet more Americans than ever find themselves dependent on the U.S. government for their survival.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently announced that 39.68 million people, or 1 out of every 8 Americans, were enrolled in the food stamp program during February, an increase of 260,000 from the previous month.

Nearly 40 million Americans on food stamps?

How in the world did that happen?

Once upon a time, the old timers would tell us that one day things would get so bad that we would all have to stand in bread lines.

Well, today food stamps are the new bread lines.

If you have to rely on the government for the very bread that you eat, what kind of a position does that put you in?

The truth is that the once great American middle class is allowing the system to slowly keep grinding them into oblivion.

Like never before in our lifetimes, wealth is being concentrated in the hands of the "lucky one percent", while the rest of us are rapidly being marginalized.

Do you ever stop to wonder why it seems like almost everyone is either broke or up to their eyeballs in debt?

That even goes for the major governments of the world. The U.S. government (the "wealthiest" nation on the globe) has piled up the biggest mountain of debt in world history.

You see, Brian Williams was actually chillingly accurate when he declared that "the world has no money".

So if the world doesn't have any money, then who does have it?

The international bankers.

But, shhhhh, don't tell anybody.

Just keep quietly clapping as the emperor walks down the street with no clothes on.

Russia To Become One of World’s Leading IT Trendsetters

Russia must become one of the world’s leading developers of IT technologies, President Dmitry Medvedev told the committee for modernization and technological development of the nation’s economy. The president also said that he was satisfied with the introduction of telecommunication systems of new generation in Russia.
“We do not have to invent a wooden bicycle in the field of communication standards. But if Russia could become a trendsetter in the field of IT technologies, it would be good. It is much more pleasant when the world lives on your standards than when you have to adjust to someone else’s standards,” he said.

Medvedev also said that the solution of such complicated problems as rescue operations, effective energy-saving and the work of the electronic government depends on the development of information technologies.

“The total income which 3G communication systems can give today may reach the number of $300 billion,” Medvedev said.

“Russia is currently modernizing its communication networks, provides high-sped access to information networks, introduces digital technologies and replaces outdated telephone stations with state-of-the-art communication systems,” the head of state said.

Most of the above-mentioned projects are conducted successfully, the president said. Medvedev also reminded that Russia successfully launched its first-ever Cyrillic .rf (.рф) national domain.

“I have just checked, the website президент.рф is up and running. The Cyrillic website of the government downloads too. The websites of other state departments will have Cyrillic domains ready this month. Commercial companies will be able to use Cyrillic domain names a bit later. Russia has become the first country in the world which obtained the national domain of the top level,” Medvedev said.

Ten Things All Women Hate about All Men

Have you ever thought something like “Men are terrible creatures.. They wage wars, start conflicts and then blame us for everything saying that all they do they do it for women. They demand impossible from women expecting them to do dishes, cook, work, and look like women on magazine covers. At the same time, men are incapable of doing anything they consider unpleasant. They behave as though it’s a man’s world, but do they have a right to it? What can a person demand if he is not capable of doing his own dishes? It turns out that even the most peaceful and loving wives feel this way once in a while. We conducted an opinion poll to find out what are the top pet peeves wives have about their husbands.


1. Selfishness

This one is the basis for all other faults since a selfish man is convinced it is his world, and you are entitled to follow him wherever he goes whether you want it or not.

The reality is not that bad. Of course, men can be selfish, but please understand them. They feel lonely because they cannot bear children. Men’s games for the right to be on top cause additional stress. It is not easy to keep trying to prove something to yourself and the world all life long, hence selfishness.

2. Indifference to the wife’s family

He is always ready to take care of his own family, but keeps telling you that your mother (sister, friend) does not know much about life. You can get offended or try proving that you relatives are, in fact, very bright people. But it is a waste of energy. Just tell him: “No matter what they are like, I still love them and they will always be a part of my life.” If he does not want to celebrate you grandma’s birthday, don’t be upset. You can party just fine without him.

3. Dirty dishes

Even clearing a plate can be a problem, let alone washing it. But in his family, his mother was the one who did dishes, and he expects the same from you. Even if you work 5 days a week and not 2 like his mother and hate doing dishes. Try leaving his dish unwashed after every meal. It will take him some time to notice, but he will.

4. Watching a soccer game at the maximum volume

Soccer is an “intellectual game” where 22 guys are catching one ball. The game seems more important to him than your peace and your kid’s sleep. At the very least this is the time when he is not to be bothered with any questions. But when you are watching a movie, he is entitled to ask silly questions every five minutes, and demand that the sound is off because he has a headache. To solve the issue, you should have two TVs and place the one intended for him in the kitchen or a den. This way, you will be able to enjoy your movie or sleep if the doors are shut.

5. Household helplessness

Men sometimes know better than their wives where things are stored. But for some reason it is the wives who have to look for their things because men are too busy. They cannot decide on their own which pair of socks to wear, they have to bug you. It would be easier to give him a special shelf or a closet where he can keep all his belongings. If he can’t find something, it’s not your problem. You know where your stuff is.

6. His belief that his work is more important

This one comes from fault number one. If a man suggests that something can be more important than his business, his world might collapse. Please be companionate as he is very dependent on the opinion of others. Do not pay attention to his comments (unless they are made in front of someone else). You know you are worthy.

7. His belief that women are bad drivers

Men have better concentration and faster reaction due to the level of testosterone in their bodies. Women have to spend more time practicing. But one day your spouse will understand that arrogance on the road is not good either.

8. His habit to embarrass you in front of others

It is always embarrassing when spouses criticize each other in front of other people. If your husband acts differently when you are alone, it has to do with his complexes and his desire to seem better than you. Discuss the issue with him. If he continues to criticize you, refuse to go out with him. Even the most stubborn man will sooner or later realize that it is not in his best interests.

9. When you leave on a business trip, he does all the chores with ease, but as soon as you come back, he pretends to be a helpless baby

When you come back from a trip, praise his talents and make him believe that a real man should be able to do everything, even dishes. Try to divide responsibilities equally. If you failed to do it in the beginning, continue praising him for every little thing he does.

10. Instead of doing something, he talks about it

This happens because he has to demonstrate his story-telling talent and avoid responsibility. Do not buy it. Listen to him respectfully and then say “See, you are so good at it, unlike me. Now you know that you are the only one who can handle the task.” If he still refuses to do the work, you are entitled to refuse to do your chores, too, for instance, cooking dinner. Why not?


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Junk Food Develops Addiction to Drugs

For a long time scientists were puzzled with people’s addiction to junk food. Only recently, scientists from the Scripps Research institute in Florida discovered that foods high in calories can be as addictive as drugs. Doughnuts, hamburgers and chips contain a whole bouquet of addictive components.

Normally, obese people get very nervous when hungry. They remain nervous until they eat a pizza, hamburger or any other food high in calories and harmful for their health.

Feeling of being fool makes obese people relaxed and happy. When overweight people diet, they may feel continuous psychological discomfort despite of the lost weight.

Usually we judge these people saying they are weak-willed. Yet, junk food is a necessity for them, not a whim. Of course, no one adds drugs into food. Salt, sugar and fat contained in most junk food stimulate production of endorphins, hormones of happiness, in our body.

If junk food is consumed on a regular basis, our body starts demanding it in larger quantities, same as drug addicts require bigger dosages of cocaine or heroin. Obese people cannot help but stop at a fast food joint or eat two desserts instead of one.

In the course of the experiment, Paul Kenny, head of research, used three groups of lab rats. The first group was fed regular portions of healthful food, the second group was fed limited amounts of junk food, and the third group was given high-calorie foods including fatty meats, cookies, chocolate and donuts.

The rats in the first two groups displayed no changes, while the rats in the third group quickly gained weight.

The scientists used electrical stimulations to activate pleasure centers in the rats' brains. They discovered that the rats fed junk food needed more food, indicating that they needed more stimulation to feel good. The researchers suggested the same happens to people.

Paul Kenny said that copious amounts of junk food make people lose control, which is the main sign of addiction.

"This is the most complete evidence to date that suggests obesity and drug addiction have common neurobiological underpinnings," said study coauthor Paul Johnson.

It has been proven long time ago that there is addiction to sweets. Many confess that they cannot live without candy or other sweets. When these people remove sugar from their diet for a couple of days, they become depressed.

Recently, scientists from the Princeton Neuroscience Institute conducted an experiment where they daily fed lab rats with sugar, increasing the dosage. When sugar was removed from the rats’ diet, they showed signs of withdrawal. It turned out that, among other things, sugar had a calming effect.

Why are some people more addicted than others?

First of all, it is all individual. Some people gain weight after eating a sandwich, while others can eat all they want without gaining any weight.

Second, the reasons that make us consume junk food matter . People eat sweets when they are not happy with something. Children who have difficulties building relationships with other kids or feel under-loved often develop a sweet tooth.

Adults eat when they are stressed because sweets can alleviate stress. When we feel relived eating sweets it is a sure sign we will use the same stress reliever next time. Later, we will need a double portion to feel good.

Seek alternative ways of stress-relief, watch your kids and do not shy away from therapists – this will help to avoid junk food addiction.

The Biggest Ecological Disaster - and a Warning

The day April 20, 2010 will certainly mark the biggest environmental disaster of all time, when the oil extraction platform Deepwater Horizon, BP, exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and injuring 17. The deepwater platform operated at 1500 meters below sea level, about three times less than the depth of our pre-salt, and just 60 km from the coast of the State of Louisiana.

The National Guard of the United States estimates the spill at 5,000 barrels (159 liters) of oil daily, although dissenting voices, based on the video of the site, circulated only on May 13, estimate that it could be 12 times higher.

The huge oil slick following the direction of the Mississippi River Delta, and small quantities of oil reached the coast of the States of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi on May 3.

Satellite images permit precisely assessing the extent of the calamity. The NASA ASTER satellite captured night images of the increasing spill on the 7th of May. The thermal photographs cover an area measuring 60 by 240 km, mostly over the Gulf of Mexico.

A new NASA satellite photo shows the extent of the growing oil slick in the Gulf, the ASTER image covers an area measuring 79.1 by 103.9 kilometers, about 32 km of the Mississippi Delta.

National Guard helicopters from the United States throw sand bags on the beach west of Grand Isle, Louisiana, in an attempt to protect delicate wetlands from the oil slick that is approaching.

There are 13 000 officials of BP, government and other companies involved in containment work and attempting to stop the leak. From the beginning response to the incident, 120 flights to dump dispersants were made so far, and 97 million barrels, according to BP, were recovered. Just two days after the accident, the company said there were more than 530 vessels in operation, including the C-130 Hercules aircraft pouring dispersants on the affected areas.

The total length of barrier buoys thrown overboard to try to prevent oil from reaching the coast is, so far, 1.2 million feet, more than 400,000 feet of buffer for immediate use.

The cost of operations, until May 13, reached $450 million, and given the estimated time for resolving the problem - up to 80 days - will go much beyond this figure, especially estimated environmental damage.

The pre-salt here is imagined in much greater depth, 300 km from the coast, and the cost of any eventual similar accident. Oh, it is fit to ask, time to put a hand in the pocket: the royalty serves to compensate the losses, but states would bear the incalculable costs? It would be very prudent for the government create a substantial contingency fund for a similar event.

In fact, such a great distance from the coast, it's not possible to speak in the States, but in Brazilian territorial waters, and point.

Political-Economic Decline, Military Dominance

Why is it inviting to have the fox guard the henhouse? Although a really popular Brazilian government could actually be able to maintain a balance between collaborating militarily with the U.S. and keeping the integrity of the country's future, it is now more questionable as, say, the PSDB.


Even a truly popular Brazilian government risks a military collaboration with the U.S. which now seems to me to outweigh the benefits. This is given the fact that an Obama administration in all probability sooner or later will be replaced by one that more closely matches the historical U.S.factors, in other words, a kind of neocon government. Also you never know what kind of government or economic interests that will be possible to give the cards in Brazil.

The U.S. is decidedly in a phase of political and economic decay. When one sees the U.S. as an absolutely invincible world power a great error is being committed. In analysis, those that only see the greatest military power forget to take into account the colossus is sustained on clay feet, namely: - [1]

The American economic decline relative to the emergent powers,and the great de-industrialization and financialization of the American economy. [2] Here too, the precarious situation of the dollar as reserve currency for international economic transactions adds to the vulnerability of countries "supporting the super-power," one of the foundations of American power on beside military force. [3]

The strong U.S. military predominance in the world is unfortunately supported by the power of the international media that is essentially in the hands of Americans preventing an awareness of the problem by the world's population. [4] U.S. military strength, even though relying on the push by the international media, is also accompanied by the great economic weakness in the U.S.. An eventual recovery, judging by the probabilities is not to be counted on, or be credited with confidence. The astronomical debts of the country and the relations of these with the American gross domestic product - GDP - discourage such an optimistic judgement.


The great emerging economic potentials in many current cases de-facto and of strategic importance in the global economy has surpassed by far in terms of markets and U.S. industrial production. The big emerging powers also join older ones that have never reached a place in the sun for themselves in the historical and global political situation, keeping in the shadow of the colossus with clay feet. The Colossus that today threatens them with suffocation if not with smashing itself with its final fall, taking them and those who associate with them to a last glimpse of power and dominance.



The weaknesses endemic North American also can highlight the following equation: x 5% = 20% followed by the comprehensive set of 50%. The terms of the mean equation and note that it is very important: A U.S. is as few as 5% of world population, spending on war production more than 50% of the total war spending worldwide. Alone, the U.S. spends more on war-related activities than all other countries in the world - together. And 20% is what they represent in terms of GDP - gross domestic product worldwide. [5]

This weakness is explained in precise mathematical terms. Add to this the arrogance and ostentation to what might be added the following information: The United States has 2% of global energy reserves that can be compared with 65% of the Middle East, where Iran has only 10% of those 65. A point to investigate is the exact level of energy consumption in the United States. In x of the equation is found the explanation of why Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and Syria in mathematical form, so to speak.

If we add an equation y we will find the exact reason for North American military interests in Latin America, that not for one minute do I believe is a remedy for the will to fight: [6] transnational terrorism, narcotics trafficking, the laundering and counterfeiting money or natural disasters that ultimately can always be used, as they did in theory and practice to move their financial interests off.

Fighting radical social movemente and massive migration seems to me to be a good reason to justify the US military presence in Latin America. This, apart from the natural strategic interests linked to access to potable water and other necessary goods required in emergency situations, as per point 6.

A central point to be emphasized is that in the situation above aspects such as combating transnational terrorism, drug trafficking and related, should be within an area of police powers, which in its transnational aspects should be solved through agreements of mutual cooperation among Latin American countries.

Calling U.S. military personnel to solve law enforcement problems throughout Latin America, where they would have on account access to call centers for strategic mobility with the possible use of decisive force in wars with lightning quick mobilization [6] it is, in my opinion, like asking the fox to take over the henhouse. I will not cry when you have not even a hen to tell the story of how it happened.

Already in advance one can conclude that the paradox of U.S. foreign military expansion while in the process of internal economic deterioration would not help the situation in the case studied above, that is a broader military cooperation with the U.S.. Solutions? In addition to solidifying a political position compatible with the exercise of legitimate socio-economic interests in Brazil by conscious popular vote, wait and watch developments in anticipation of them when needed, a very active and far-sighted limiting of the privileges offered to them before they keep our hands and feet tied.

References:

[1] Prof. James Petras, [War with China? The Dangers of a global conflagration. Emerging Economic Powers and Decline: The Sino-US Conflict deepens] "War with China? The Dangers of Global Conflagration. Rising and Declining Economic Powes: The Sino-US Conflict Deepens "in www.globalresearch.ca

[2] Anna Malm, Wars of fraud and deceits mistakes in www.patrialatina.com.br

[3] Anna Malm, diversity in economic and military www.patrialatina.com.br

[4] Emir Sader - Interview with the Italian philosopher Domenico Losurdo: "Situation in the U.S. is unsustainable in the long run" in www.cartamaior.com.br

[5] and

[6] Manuel Freitas, Pravda.ru, "Empire and Sub-empire, Our America www.patrialatina.com.br

Nostradamus Predicted World War III for 2010

According to astrologists and prophets, the next year of the Yellow Metal Tiger will not be easy. Researchers of Nostradamus’s predictions talk about some mysterious Virgin whose death is wanted and about the appearance of some “heartless, blood-thirsty” leader who will rule with “sword and fire.” Pavel Globa, a famous Russian astrologist, thinks that the year will be easier for Russians, but Europe and the USA can expect another economic downturn.

Researchers of Nostradamus believe that his predictions for the year 2010 can be found in X quatrain of X century.

The passage speaks about some mysterious Virgin, whose death is wanted, problems with trade, and appearance of some “heartless, blood-thirsty” leader who will rile with “sword and fire.” There is also a mentioning of “Satan’s arch of fury.” Interpreters think that it might be a ballistic missile.

Famous Nostradamus specialists think that his quatrains contain the following information for 2010:

- Possibly, World War III will start in November, and bacteriological and chemical weapons will be used.

- There will be conflict between Western Europe and the USA.

- There will be conflict between Great Britain and France.

- There is a possibility of armed military conflict on the Crimean peninsula.

- Europe will suffer an economic downturn.

- There will be a catastrophe in the Black Sea involving sulphuretted hydrogen.

Will the financial crisis end?

One of the famous astrologists predicted that economic problems in 2010 will grow. Many large companies will declare bankruptcy. This will cause hunger, religious and ethnical conflicts, and ecological problems. Global warming will greatly damage agriculture. An armed conflict is possible in Central Asia.

Russian “prophet” Pavel Globa believes that the year will be easier for Russians, while Europe and the USA can expect another economic downturn. This will happen because Russian officials will change their financial policy.

In September, predictions of a psychic named Ekaterina were spread on Russian websites. The predictions were as follows:

- Russia will suffer from a wave of earthquakes. One of them will destroy a huge building.

- Many cataclysms will take place in the US.

- On November 11, 2010, a war will be waged between two large countries. Only those who will be able to hide in the East or Caucuses will survive. 50 million Russians will die. There will be a short period of peace after the war.

- Four kings will clash in a battle, and another World War will commence.

- A large bird will fly over the USA, Satan himself will lay a bomb, and people will cry bloody tears.

What do futurologists think about it? In the end of the 20th century, a group of specialists formulated the following scientifically-based predictions for 2010:

- Solar activity will drop.

- There will be a large flood in South-East Asia

- Birth-rate in Europe will decrease.

- Russia and Belarus will experience economic upturn.

- An era of matriarchate will commence to last for 23 years.

- A new union will be formed involving the US, Europe, and countries of the Pacific basin

- New political and economic theories will start to form, and they will drastically change the future.

- New robots-androids will appear and will be introduced to day-to-day life

- Scientific evidence of the existence of soul will be discovered.

- Hadron collider will crash and form a black hole of artificial origin.

Predictions of Lev Melnikov, Russian futurologist.

- A possibility of development of virtual human nature will be researched.

- Cloning will be banned.

- A cluster computer of the world scale will be introduced.

- Households will use robots to help with chores.

- The UFO mystery will be solved, and our planet will be visited by guests from other planets.

The majority of predictors are inclined to believe that although years of the Tiger can be tough, they bring about many changes that are necessary to move forward. Let’s hope this happens again.

Tobacco kills 15,000 Nepalis every year

As many as 15,000 people are estimated to die due to tobacco consumption in Nepal every year, according to a report issued here by Nepal Cancer Relief Society on Wednesday.

Due to the delay in ratification of the framework convention in tobacco control, the promotion of tobacco products hasbeen going unabated.

"Earlier, the ratification was delayed citing the lack of authentic legal body in the country. No efforts have been made on that front even after the formation of a new government and the revival of the House of Representative," president of the NCRS Diwakar Raj Karnikar said in the Report.

"The government should not make compromise on the matter as it concerns public health," he said.

According to WHO, concrete measure included in the treaty could help save. 200 million lives world wide by the year 2050, if a progressive 50 percent reduction in uptake consumption rates in achieved.

Many measures in the WHO and FCTC have deadline and clear guidelines. With the treaty is entry into force, countries have three years to enforce health warnings on tobacco products, and five years to implement comprehensive bans on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship.

The Kathmandu Metropolitan Corporation has agreed to provide space for putting hoardings against smoking and tobacco consumption in 10 major places of the valley.

According to the WHO, 85 percent of liver cancer is caused by smoking. Globally, 5 million people die of smoking every year.

Husband and Wife Rape Their Daughter for Two Years

The police of St. Petersburg complete the preliminary investigation on the case of a family of pedophiles. A married couple abused their own daughter on their mutual consent for two years. The woman’s husband had been raping his step daughter and offering her to other pedophiles. The woman said that she agreed for all that to preserve her family


The man, a 44-year-old driver Nikolai Yeroshevich, and his common-law 36-year-old wife, named only as Natalia, had been abusing their daughter for two years after the girl turned 15, Fontanka.ru reports.

The man started having an intimate relationship with the woman’s daughter Olesya after the girl’s mother split with her father and came to live with Nikolai Yeroshevich. One day the woman found a nude picture of her daughter in Nikolai’s cell phone and asked him for an explanation. The family scandal had a bizarre ending: the man said that he wanted to sleep with both of them, otherwise he would leave.

When interrogated, the woman told the police that she had fallen in love with Nikolai and did not want to lose him. She talked to her daughter in an attempt to make the girl keep their new family alive. The woman told the girl that many families live like that, and the girl eventually agreed to have sexual contacts with her step-father.

Olesya started sleeping with Nikolai on a regular basis. Her mother joined them afterwards. The pervert told the woman that he had to touch a young body to be able to fulfill his bedroom duties. The intimate family relationship developed into sex orgies: the family couple took explicit pictures of each other and uploaded them on the internet.

The pervert parents made a whole gallery of their daughter’s pictures. Afterwards, they decided to offer the girl to someone else. Investigators found a lot of pornographic pictures and videos in their apartment.

Olesya realized the insanity of her situation in 2008. The girl tried to refuse from sex with her step-father, but she was forced to have sexual intercourses with the man again. The girl started drinking to escape from her terrible reality.

One day she came home drunk and said that she did not want to continue living like that. When the man came back home he said that she would have to sleep with him if she wanted to stay alive. The frightened girl grabbed a knife and stabbed herself in the stomach.

The wound was not serious: the girl was hospitalized but recovered in a week. When she returned home, Nikolai began to rape her again. Afterwards, the girl’s mother brought another man home and said that Olesya would have to sleep with him for money.

Olesya became pregnant with her step-father’s baby in March 2009. Her mother took her to a hospital for an abortion. Sexual violence did not stop afterwards, and the girl left her home in July 2009. She went to police two months later.

The police were so shocked with the girl’s story that they did not even believe her at first. A brief investigation showed that all of the girl’s words were true, and the couple of perverts was arrested.

Nikolai Yeroshevich and Natalia have been charged with 77 counts of child sex abuse.

“The girl was living in hell. She was convinced by her own mother that every family lives like that. The girl was morally and psychologically crushed, and she depended on her parents financially,” a lawyer said. “She had to have a lot of courage to come to the police and tell her story to other people,” the lawyer added.

A psychiatric examination revealed that Natalia and Nikolai were absolutely sane. The adults do not deny the charges, but say that they can not see anything criminal in their actions.

“I could not have sex life with my wife otherwise,” Yeroshevich told the police.

“I was madly in love with him and I wanted to preserve my family,” the woman said.

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Nine-Year-Old Girl Gives Birth to Healthy Child in China

A shocking story took place in China. A nine-year-old girl gave birth to a healthy baby in Changchun Hospital in China’s northeastern province of Jilin. Doctors performed Cesarean section on the little mother after she started having contractions.


The medics of the hospital did not give any other comments to reporters. No wonder, because the subject of early pregnancy is tabooed in the communist country.

A correspondent of a local newspaper penetrated into the hospital twice in an attempt to see the young mother, but his efforts returned no result. He only managed to find out that the girl looked older for her nine years. Nothing is known about the details of the child’s pregnancy.

The police are trying to find the father of the girl’s child – they have already questioned the members of the young mother’s family. A sexual relationship with females under 14 years of age is considered a severe sex crime in China.

Statistics says that Chinese girls get pregnant and subsequently try to make an abortion a lot more frequently than it is believed. Chinese schoolgirls make about 30 percent of all abortions performed in the country. Female college students add another 20 percent to this number.

In 1910, a Chinese boy aged 9 and a Chinese girl aged 8 became the nation’s youngest parents ever. The youngest mother in the USSR was a six-year-old girl, who gave birth to a dead child in 1930. The little girl had been raped by her own grandfather.

In April of 2000, a Russian girl from the Rostov region gave birth to her child when she was eight. The child’s father was a 13-year-old boy.

The world record for ‘youngest mother’ belongs to Peru, where Lina Medina, aged only five, delivered a baby in 1939.

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World War III Has Already Begun

World War III will start 100 years after the first one and will take lives of hundreds of millions of people, say experts. Some scientists think that the war is already going on, nareing the completion of its first stage.
Konstantin Sivkov, first VP of the Academy for Geopolitical Issues, developed a scientific concept of the reasons, stages and timeframes of World War II. He shared his forecast with Svobodnaya Pressa.
Sivkov believes that planet Earth has experienced a global, civilized crisis. The crisis was caused by several disproportions, namely: 1) conflicts between growth of production/consumption and available resources 2) conflicts between “poor” developing countries and “rich” industrially developed countries, between nations and transnational elite; 3) conflicts between spiritless free market with the power of money and spiritual roots of various civilizations, including Orthodox, Muslim, Buddhist and others.
“The analysis of possible solutions of these misbalances and conflicts shows that they are of antagonistic nature, and the crisis cannot be solved without significant infringement of interests of some large geopolitical subjects. This means that participation of military forces is unavoidable. Considering the global nature of the crisis, we may assume that military participation will be global as well, “Sivkov believes.
He predicts that World War III will be of coalitional nature. Countries will form coalitions based on their loyalty to one of the two models of world order.
The first model is “the world of civilized hierarchy.” Select few brutally exploit the rest of humanity. The second model is “civilized mutual support” or “civilized harmony.”
“In other words, the war will be waged to define the spiritual basis of new world order. It will either be based on individualism, selfishness and suppression, or community, domination of mutual interest to survive and develop and support each other. This is the main difference between the war to come and previous wars that were fought for economic redistribution.”
Two coalitions already exist. The first one is the alliance of the so-called industrially developed countries represented by Western civilizations. Spiritual foundations of this coalition are based on individualism and material possessions generating power of money. The coalition’s military and political core is represented by the block NATO. The second coalition involves countries of orthodox, Islamic and other civilizations based on the domination of spiritual over material. This coalition is interested in multipolar world order. Yet, these countries have not realized that they have mutual geopolitical interests, let alone a necessity in a political or military unity.
“The countries that are not a part of Western civilization are not ready for military confrontation neither in terms of organization nor technical preparedness. On the other hand, this coalition has overwhelming majority of people and control over ample natural resources and territories. This greatly increases their chances to win a long war and provides favorable circumstances for fighting the aggressor during the initial stages of war. Another potential advantage is that simultaneous attacks in all directions are practically impossible. This creates a reserve of time for consolidation of countries into an anti-imperialistic coalition. There is a possibility of supporting the countries that will become the first victims of aggressors,” Sivkov says.
The scientist is convinced that the war is already going on. So far it is in a relatively peaceful stage.
“The first stage that we may call an “attempt of peaceful crisis resolution” is nearing its completion. 20G summits fighting in the battle field right now are obviously not bringing the results. Imedi and Helsingin Sanomat provocations mark the beginning of stage two, that we may call a “threat period before the beginning of world war.” During this stage Western civilization has commenced preparation for local wars and armed conflicts for resources.
The main actions at this stage are information operations and actions in economic area that may take various forms, from economic sanctions to terrorist attacks against industrial facilities, as well as different activities of Special Forces,” says Sivkov.
“In a few years, the third stage will commence, the stage of “limited wars,” that will later turn into a full scale world war with all types of weapons.
The only restricting factor at the moment is Russia ’ s nuclear potential . According to the forecast of the scientist, the West will try to take away Russia’s nuclear shield.
“Considering the situation in Russia, when the fifth column of the West significantly affects decisions in Russia’s defense sector, in particular, the direction Russia’s armed forces will take, we can expect the form of SNF contract that will deprive Russia of its nuclear shield. Of course, it will be presented with a beautiful wrapping of struggle for the world without nuclear weapons.
Russia may expect physical elimination of its nuclear potential during first stages of the world war (organized terrorist attacks, etc.) with further transition of neo-imperialistic coalition to unlimited use of nuclear weapons, which will bring it victory in the war,” Sivkov stated.
He believes that aggressors will not be stopped with a possibility of death of hundreds of millions of people.
“History shows that the elite of “selfish” civilization do not get stopped by human sacrifices if there is a guarantee they themselves will survive in bunkers. The analysis shows that if the new world war is waged, it will touch the majority of the world population, all continents, oceans and seas. Over 100 million people may participate in this war. Total demographic losses may exceed several hundred millions of people. Therefore, all honest people on Earth, including those who form the “selfish” coalition must do everything they can not to allow it to happen. To do this, we have to mitigate with the force of law or other methods, the greed of transnational and national
Tycoons of the financial sector. We have to stop their ambitious, greedy, shameless and sometimes stupid politicians. This can only be done based on international consolidation efforts,” the expert summarized.