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Friday, 15 April 2016

The Japs are traitors


  A Spanish proverb says "tell me that brag and tell you that you lack." The Japanese who claimed to be heirs of chivalrous warriors, the "samurais" have attacked treacherously, not once but twice before starting a war.

  
The attack on Pearl Harbour knows everyone but 37 years earlier done the same attacking the Russian port of Port Arthur.
Port Arthur

 The 8–9 February 1904 (Monday February 8 - Tuesday February 9) marked the commencement of the Russo-Japanese War. It began with a surprise night attack by a squadron of Japanese destroyers on the Russian fleet anchored at Port Arthur, Manchuria.
   The formal declaration of war between Japan and Russia was issued on 10 February 1904, a day after the battle. The attack was conducted against a largely unassuming and unprepared neutral power in peacetime
   
     At about 22:30 on Monday 8 February 1904, the Port Arthur attack squadron of 10 destroyers encountered patrolling Russian destroyers. The Russians were under orders not to initiate combat, and turned to report the contact to headquarters. However, as a result of the encounter, two Japanese destroyers collided and fell behind and the remainder became scattered. At circa 00:28 on 9 February, the first four Japanese destroyers approached the port of Port Arthur without being observed, and launched a torpedo attack against the Pallada (which was hit amidship, caught fire, and keeled over) and the Retvizan (which was holed in her bow). The other Japanese destroyers were less successful, many of the torpedoes became caught in the extended torpedo nets which effectively prevented most of the torpedoes from striking the vitals of the Russian battleships.[ Other destroyers had arrived too late to benefit from surprise, and made their attacks individually rather than in a group. However, they were able to disable the most powerful ship of the Russian fleet, the battleship Tsesarevich. The Japanese destroyer Oboro made the last attack, around 02:00, by which time the Russians were fully awake, and their searchlights and gunfire made accurate and close range torpedo attacks impossible.


Despite ideal conditions for a surprise attack, the results were relatively poor. Of the sixteen torpedoes fired, all but three either missed or failed to explode. But luck was against the Russians insofar as two of the three torpedoes hit their best battleships: the Retvizan and the Tsesarevich were put out of action for weeks, as was the protected cruiser Pallada.

 It must be prevented, especially China, because who does a bad action twice usually committed it for the third time

  

Monday, 4 April 2016

A new inquisition in Estonia

In Estonia, a part of Russia for centuries and independent only since about 20 years and where a significant percentage of the population is Russian, and logically speaking Russian, Estonian separatists ,called nationalist, inspected companies examining the knowledge of Estonian (a language with great future) and fine and punishes those who do not speak Estonian properly.

This happens now in Europe within the EU and, of course, the European Union looks away.



Language Inspectorate (Estonia)
Language Inspectorate ( est. Keeleinspektsioon ) - Service consisting under the control of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Estonia . The aim of the Language Inspectorate is the supervision of the implementation of the language law and other legal acts regulating the knowledge and use of the state language. Office provided significant rights on the administrative impact on a wide range of state and public organizations, to private entities and individuals.
Content
·         1 History
·         3 Activity and evaluation
·         4 References
·         5 Notes
History
History of the Language Inspectorate dates back to 23 on November 1990 the year when the State Chancellery in the control of the Estonian SSR was created by the State Department on matters of language , whose main task was to implement the language policy and the development of legal acts on the basis and in pursuance of the language law in 1989 .
Since 1995 Language Department was transferred to the sphere of the Ministry of Education, and in 1998 was reorganized into the Language Inspectorate .
In 1995 he was appointed Director General of Inspection Ilmar Tomusk.
The objectives, powers and techniques
According to the approved 13 June 2002 the year Resolution № 55 Minister of Education, "Regulations on the Language Inspectorate" Language Inspectorate is acting under the control of the Ministry of Education by a government agency, whose main tasks consist in the exercise of state supervision and the use of state coercion on the bases and to the extent provided by law .
As stated on the website of the Language Inspectorate, its main task is
"
to ensure fair and independent oversight of compliance with the law on language, emanating from the linguistic rights of both Estonians and representatives of national minorities.
"
The competence of the inspection includes:
·         supervise the execution of the requirements for language use in proceedings of public authorities and local governments, in the service sector, trade and health
·         supervision of compliance with the official use of literary language norm
·         monitor the implementation of the requirements for knowledge of the state language employees are responsible for knowing his duty.
To achieve these goals before the inspection, inspectors shall have the right to use various administrative measures from warnings to a very significant fines levied from the organizations and individuals, as well as instructions to government agencies and private companies to dismiss workers.
Activities and evaluation
The most famous [2] [3] [4] of the work of the Language Inspectorate is to carry out regular inspections in various institutions, where there is a significant number of Russian-speaking employees, formally obliged to know and use the Estonian language (such are, for example, a teacher of the Russian language in Russian schools or teachers in Russian kindergartens [4] ).
It is widely believed the Language Inspectorate as a repressive organ [5] , the main function of which is the constant pressure on the Russian-speaking part of Estonian society [6] . International organization Amnesty International described the agency as " repressive body, which prevents the spread of human rights " [5] . Among the Russian part of the Estonian population is widespread inspection unofficial name - Language Inquisition [3] [4] [7] [8] .
In the published March 2, 2010 report of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance it noted that according to some representatives of the Russian minority in Estonia, Language Inspectorate enjoys absolute power. The Commission recommended the establishment of a monitoring mechanism for the inspection activities and to consult regularly on these activities to the representatives of the Russian-speaking minorities, in order to improve their relations to the inspection [9] .
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in its decision on the situation in Estonia, issued August 27, 2010, recommended that the authorities review the role of the Estonian Language Inspectorate and abandon the punitive approach to language policy [10] .
Activities Inspectorate enjoys the approval and support of the Estonian nationalists [5] .
references
notes
9.    ↑ European Commission against Racism and Intolerance: ECRI the REPORT the ON ESTONIA (Fourth to monitoring cycle) § 23-§ 24, pp. 14-15   (Eng.)
10. ↑ Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: 77th the Session (2 - 27 August 2010)


Sunday, 3 April 2016

Refugees of first, second and third class. Do try Europe all in the same way?

(By Jesús Domínguez) Under the heading of "refugees" the European Union has received over 2015 , more that  one million people who have come to our borders theoretically driven by conflict in their countries of origin. The truth is that the way in which this phenomenon occurred, exponentially, sudden, massive and without any control, it has caused that have been mixed apples with oranges and Europe have to deal with the most important vital problem from the fall of the Berlin wall.

Familia
Regardless of the multiple causes and explanations of this phenomenon, if anything is clear, it is that in Western public arena there is discrimination or differentiation between different types of mass movement of refugees in Europe, depending on what public opinion is want to transmit or instill. So, we would have more categories or classifications for refugees would receive treatment or received: first refugees (the "famous" hogging covers in the West), refugees of second class, and finally, in the caboose, refugees of regional third class. Let's take a look at the refugees who are not part of the Champions Leage.

Refugees of second class

The current situation in eastern Ukraine is a status-quo of "no-war" way of turning into a frozen low-intensity conflict. But in a year of conflict in Ukraine more than a million and a half refugees from different regions of the country they have crossed the border into Russia to escape the war. Almost uniformly, refugees leaving their homes hastily hardly any belongings, and often alone with nothing.
Viejecitas
East Ukraine´s refugees
This authentic human tide has been completely ignored by the media, politicians, and Western institutions, and has obviously been a serious humanitarian and economic problem for the Russian Federation, which has faced similar solo drama of enormous dimensions. And there are a very important component to note: Russia has opened its borders wide open to all refugees from Ukraine, whichever side they belonged.
Within this half million refugees from Ukraine in Russia, the worst part, the most dramatic undoubtedly is what are now living it thousands of children who have come alone to Russian territory (his parents have died in the fighting , they have remained in the conflict zone, have disappeared or simply been lost) and are being welcomed by charities and the Orthodox Church in Russia. Their situation is very dramatic, both emotional and materially, they lack all the basics, and not be evident need to stop pointing that out, the weather there is very hard.
No one in the West, particularly the European Union, are worrying about the situation of these refugees and the future challenges raise his possible return, and its consequences for Europe .

Refugees of regional third class

In Serbia there are currently more than 900,000 refugees from armed conflicts in Croatia (390,000), Bosnia (270,000), and Kosovo (250,000).
Some were taken in by relatives. Others, the "luckier", they had to go later to Canada, USA, Russia and the European Union. But most of these families "third refugees" living in temporary housing, in difficult conditions, which sometimes have to share narrow prefabricated shelters where Balkan jointly face the icy winters for many years.
Kosovares destruyendo iglesias
Muslims destroying churches
They were driven from their homes, and have not received any substantial assistance, or even a mere formal support from any of the institutions that now boast of solidarity both on the front of the media.
There is an aggravating factor in this case should lacerate the manipulated collective consciousness of the European Union: the time factor and inaction. We are talking about situations that persist over time in some cases from 20 (twenty) years, as the case of the more than 250,000 Serbs expelled within 48 hours of the Krajina region by Croatian troops during "Operation Storm" in 1995. all these people have not been able to return home (even in the  land property registration are the names of its original owners) they have to make up for the losses and injustices, and also no one in the West has put the means for resolve this. Moreover, it appears that what has been tried to plug this ethnic cleansing (which occurred in a EU country) with a veil of secrecy.
However, the most poignant comparison, both for its proximity as emotionally which has led to an entire nation, is the case of Western silent about the plight of the Serbs expelled from Kosovo.

A human drama lived in 2 acts

While in early 1999 we saw the news prime-time Western News connected directly with the camps of Kosovo Albanian war refugees displaced to justify armed intervention of NATO in Kosovo, all that media coverage was gone, when unleashed a violent ethnic cleansing against all non-Albanians (Serbs, Roma, Gorani , Bosniaks) after the war ended, and NATO-UN present in the area to ensure peace.
In total 250,000 Serbs they were expelled from Kosovo with one hand in front and behind by Kosovo Albanians, with the consent and acquiescence of the troops who in theory had gone there to prevent such indiscriminate large-scale terror against the population.
Church destroyed
Church destroyed
And was not stop the things here, as the ecstasy of this game against the Serbian arrived with furious pogroms or anti-Christians, 2004 in which churches and monasteries were destroyed in attacks and were desecrated all types of Christian places of worship, were burned houses, farms, and fields ... and again under the auspices of peacekeeping troops of NATO-UN . Since then there have been against the non-Albanian population 8,500 disappearances and extrajudicial executions which have not yet been clarified.
Iglesias destruidas
Churchs destroyed by Muslims.
Finally, note that all this drama of large movements of refugees in Serbia have to frame it in the humiliating paradox alive today its citizens: it is more difficult for a Serb (usually with good training and knowledge of several languages) enter the European Union legally, than for any of the so-called "refugees" from East and Asia, and these last ones must pass through its territory to do so.

Wednesday, 30 March 2016

An unknown history. The 1939 nonaggression pact between Stalin and Hitler was signed because France and England didn´t want to sign it before with Russia .

     One of the most shocking episodes leading up to the Second World War was the sign of nonaggression pact between Russia and Germany on August 23, 1939, just days before Germany invaded Russia and started WWII.

    This episode was surprising for many reasons, propaganda both, Russia and Germany, were furiously attacking the opposite. Further this pact was quoted by the Western media as an example of "perfidy" of Stalin.
Sign of nonaggression pact

    In the book of Alexander Dallin "Russia at War" explained the meeting between the military missions of France and England and Russia in Moscow in August 1939. These military missions arrived with secondary characters and without credentials to make decisions, not only that, but despite being announced their visit more than three weeks in advance, slowly they traveled to Russia for six days by boat to St. Petersburg where they arrived on August 12.

     When the Russians proposed to provide 120 infantry divisions against the aggressor along with 16 cavalry divisions, 5,000 guns, from 9 to 10,000 tanks and from 5000 to 5500 aircraft, General Heywood head of the British mission spoke about five infantry divisions and mechanized division. The difference was so ridiculous that obviously was not taken seriously.

      The Russians proposed a system of alliances if "the aggressors" (obviously Germany) attacked France or England, if attacked Poland or Romania or attacking the Soviet Union from Finland and the Baltic countries. French and English, not only they did not accept the Russian proposals, but also don´t made some counterproposals.

     Last but not least the Poles refused any kind of cooperation with the Russians. In a political suicide, denying even the passage of Russian troops to fight against the Germans, as they did when Russia try to help Czechoslovakia when she was invaded by the Germans - another historical fact largely unknown -.The impression left with the Russians is that France and England were less interested in helping Poland that in Russia fighted alone in a war with Germany.    All this within two weeks of the start of WWII.

   Interestingly Stalin's summary on the international situation in his report to the 18th Congress of the Communist Party of March 10, 1939 :

   "... Most of the non-aggressive states, and first of all, England and France have abandoned the theory of collective security, and have changed rather than a policy of" non-intervention "by a policy of" neutrality ".... there is a clear desire to allow their dirty and criminal aggressors work- allow Japan to go to war with China, or better still, with the Soviet Union ... or allow Germany to go to war with the Soviet Union .. and until all the belligerents are completely exhausted, non-aggressive powers went forward- of course "in the interests of peace" - with their own proposals and dictate its terms to the powers that have warred with each other. A nice and cheap way of doing things!

   When we think of WWII and we see the Normandy landing did not take place until mid-1944 when already the Russians were almost in Poland, 
after fighting virtually alone against the Germans for more of three  years, and ask uselessly, USA and England to the opening of the second front,and these were waiting they will bleed,  these words are prophetic. Stalin was a murderer but obviously was not stupid.

 Is it any wonder that with this attitude of France and England Stalin signed the nonaggression pact with Germany ? 


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Wednesday, 7 October 2015

In the Line of Fire




The war and the destruction of the economy has also led the Ukrainian economic blockade have caused a catastrophic humanitarian situation in part of the territory of Donbass, trying to prepare, often precariously, for the second winter in war. Despite the attempts efficiently distribute humanitarian aid coming from Russia or provided by humanitarian organizations, the situation of the most vulnerable sectors of society remains serious in some areas, especially in small localities not served by that institutional support.

Humanitarian battalions of militias or private initiatives, mainly Russian citizens or organizations have tried to fill those gaps. In his blog, Littlehirosima, Yevdokia Sheremetyeva usually relates humanitarian missions acquired with funds collected through the Internet and distributed in different areas of Donbass, both in times of war and ceasefire. Sheremetyeva also has its views on the actual situation of the population of Donbass and small stories of those who have lost everything and who have been unable to leave the area despite the hunger and destruction have no place to go.

This is Alekseyevna Doroshenko. He suffered hell of Debaltsevo.



We met on a city street by chance. our van unloaded He came as humanitarian aid to a woman suffering from skin cancer. He quietly approached us and took my hand.

"Guys, bring humanitarian aid?

The woman, like a wounded animal, he looked at us with hope.

"That have you?"

Unfortunately, we can not help the whole city. Sorry but we can not ...

"My house is destroyed, comes, I show it".

"Go ahead, this is my home. Or was my home.

And there it was. A house. Have you ever been completely burned houses, where even the remains of past life are: calcined beds, appliances?

Have you ever seen anything so by the owner? Even the bravest get dizzy when entering the "ground zero". It's like they ripped the soul. The woman began to run from one place to another in search of something.

"When we destroyed the house, everything around was burning. My daughter told me "go, go". All around us there was nothing but flames. And tanks. "

The street where his house was suffered more than any other in Debaltsevo. He was in the firing line.

The woman walked confused by the ground covered with the remains of a past life. Just listen. They are not more than two minutes.

 


Irina Alekseyevna picked all the dishes have endured. He also collected all the fragments of shells and placed them in a corner. The dishes are in sight. Eight months have passed since the slaughter of February.

Washed first snow, then rain. Now the sun dries the dishes. Ririna Alexeyevna carefully protects their dishes. No moves. Nor uses.

"Where do you live? With family, with neighbors? "

"I live here".

Next to the house is shed. The entrance leads to a completely filled room furniture and other belongings. There is no space at all.

"Where she is your daughter?"

Do you live nearby in Cheremushky ".

"Why not welcome you there?"

"How could They? They live four, including her husband, in an apartment in one room. "

And standing there like an idiot, you can not hold and asked: "How is it possible? It is very cold here! And there's no room! "

He turned to me looking at me with his piercing gaze. So much pain and sadness at a glance. He put his hand on my shoulder and walked away.

Plates, small cups still in my mind. Long time nobody needs, but were carefully collected in the chaos. The owner continues to care the day walking through the rubble of his house.