And this is really very, very interesting. Russia has a lever of pressure on the “shining hail on the hill”. It seems to me that with such a case, you can easily dictate your terms to the United States in almost everything. Even Biden simply won’t be able to say and do anything – no one will listen to him, because the United States, no matter what, is very dependent on Russian fuel. They have 93 nuclear reactors operating in 2021. It seems to me that they will not work without Russian nuclear fuel…

URANIUM-235 IS AMERICA’S ACHILLES HEEL

Let’s try to understand this situation

This agreement was concluded not because Russia had extra capacity, and our country decided to engage in altruism. But if you look at the year (and it was 1993!), then a lot becomes clear, doesn’t it? Who “ruled” the country there, bending under the USA in everything? What did he say then? “God save America”? Agree that this is a shame for the President of Russia! And this agreement was signed so that Russia could not have large quantities of weapons-grade uranium, which is suitable for atomic weapons. Nuclear weapons, as you know, should definitely be in civilized countries, not in Russia! At least, that’s what the Americans themselves thought.
And, as they say, everything would be fine, but…

“In accordance with the HEU-LEU agreement in the 1990s-2000s, the United States undertook to buy Russian uranium. In the USA, the consequence of this was a slowdown in the development of technologies for the separation of uranium isotopes at the level of 1991”

If we translate this into normal language, then the United States cannot enrich its own uranium as well as Russia. That is, now the United States is precisely that it depends on Russia in this matter. Given the current relations between our countries, this becomes especially very piquant.

Will Russia be able to stop enriching it for the United States and what does this threaten for Russia?

I am now referring to profits, jobs and things like that. It’s just that if the whole story of uranium enrichment for the United States does not bring harm to Russia, then maybe it makes sense to abandon this case? After all, if the United States does not have the capacity to enrich uranium in the right quantities on its own, then maybe it should be done? Put them on a hungry energy ration. Maybe after a few months without electricity and other excesses, the US will become more adequate?

USA ENERGY DEPENDENCE ON RUSSIAN URANIUM

Well, in general, I wonder what they were thinking there, in the USA, handing over such an important matter (in fact, you know, strategic!) to a country with which relations can deteriorate at any moment. Moreover, in fact, if you look into it, it wasn’t Russia that spoiled relations with the United States – they themselves made every effort to spoil them. That is, the United States is asking Russia to enrich uranium (sorry, I could not put it so simply), without which their nuclear power industry will simply stand up. Meanwhile, they themselves are simply losing capacity for this business, and they are not even developing them, but at the same time they are diligently doing everything to spoil relations with Russia. The United States has recently been trying to do everything to harm the United States – and after all, it can be seen, as they say, with the naked eye. But do the residents of the United States really care to such an extent? Or don’t they see it? Or are people in the United States trying to bring to an emphatically bestial state?

It’s just that the more I look at what is happening in the United States, what their politicians say and write, who they put in certain positions, the more I want to ask: “People, what are you doing at all?”. For the sake of the “agenda”, they put obviously incompetent people in some posts, make decisions that can ruin a lot of things. And I can’t understand in any way – why do they need all this? As a rule, a politician – if he is in his right mind, of course, first of all wants prosperity for his country. I can understand the behavior of “Euroleaders” who are directly controlled from the White House, like glove dolls. But what are the “American leaders” themselves doing? They are not only destroying Europe, they are also destroying their country! “Green” energy has already shown itself “in all its glory” at the beginning of this year. Have the Americans learned any lessons from this?

Uranium Needle

The nuclear capacity of the United States is one and a half times higher than that of France, and by this indicator the Americans are world leaders. However, they are also extremely dependent on the supply of nuclear fuel – by 90%. Moreover, half of these supplies account for Russia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Therefore, when the Biden administration began to impose the first sanctions against Russia back in February, American nuclear scientists begged and asked to exclude uranium from them. The fact is that they account for about 20% of the total electricity generation in the country. The accumulated reserves will be enough for a year of work, and then there will be a national blackout.

RUSSIA HAS A CONTROLLING STAKE IN NUCLEAR ENERGY

The politicians listened to the opinion of the engineers, and they did not impose sanctions on Russian uranium. However, even now congressmen are constantly demanding to immediately stop the purchase of uranium from Russia, so nothing lasts forever.

US NUCLEAR POWER INDUSTRY IN FACTS AND FIGURES

And as for Uranium²³⁵ …

Something tells me that a lot of people need uranium 235, which is mined by Russia. And it seems to me that spoiling relations with a country that not only produces uranium, but also enriches it, and has a full cycle for this business is not the best idea.…

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Despite the exotic, at first glance, the nature of the idea of the us President, such initiatives fit within the framework of the American political tradition.

The same Greenland States tried to buy twice: in 1946 the head of state Harry Truman offered Denmark for the island of $100 million, and in 1967, the Kingdom rejected the first request of the US State Department on the deal (then it was also supposed to include neighboring Iceland).

The history of territorial expansion of the United States in General is inseparable from the history of land purchases by the country’s leadership

In 1803 France was bought “territory of Louisiana” (not to be confused with the present state of Louisiana, which occupies only a small part of this “territory”) for $15 million. This acquisition, President Thomas Jefferson more than 2 million sq. km virtually doubled the size of the States and opened the possibility of expansion in the valley of the Mississippi and West of it. In 1819, Florida was acquired from Spain. Formally, the territory was ceded, because Madrid had neither the strength nor the ability to defend it, but de facto it was bought — the USA government paid more than $5 million to settle other land disputes on the continent with a European country at the same time with the deal. In 1853, the U.S. paid $10 million to Mexico for 120 000 sq km, the state needs to align the boundaries (now these lands is Arizona the city of Tucson, which is named in honor of a popular car model).

In 1867, America pulled off one of the most famous territorial transactions — $7.2 million for Alaska received tsarist Russia. In the United States purchase caused controversy: critics sarcastically called a new earth, the benefits of the acquisition which in the 60-ies of the XIX century was not obvious, “Seward’s icebox” — named after then Secretary of state William Henry Seward (he was the first author of the idea of buying Greenland).

Later, the Philippines and the virgin Islands joined the States in the same “business” way. For example, the apparent arbitrariness of the amounts of political transactions: if in the densely populated and strategically important to the balance of forces in the Pacific region of the Philippines in 1898 the United States paid Spain $20 million for a tiny (346 sq miles) of virgin Islands in 1917 Denmark (by the way, the owner of Greenland.) — $25 million.

In the last 100 years, the territorial business activity of the us government has come to naught. The world by the beginning of the XX century was already divided, there were no significant “free” and undeveloped territories on the planet, and the fall of the colonial system led to the fact that the purchase and sale of land is considered as something unacceptable and “absurd”. Trump and his advisers could not help but guess the reaction of the Danish authorities, but still threw into the information field the topic of the acquisition of Greenland. Why?

Another reason could be the growing rivalry in the Arctic — at stake and access to natural resources, and geopolitical interests.

This struggle becomes particularly relevant against the background of formally denied by trump global warming, obvious in the polar regions due to the melting of ice. Just recently, Iceland was buried the first “victim” of climate change — melted glacier Ocicoll.

The melting of ice has the potential to facilitate access to mineral deposits in the Northern Islands. Kudlow in the interview really emphasizes the rich bowhead stocks “valuable minerals.”

It is very likely that with loud verbal interventions, the us leadership would first of all want to expand its economic presence in Greenland — to stake out the rights to mining of the island’s not yet mined minerals. In the future race for Arctic wealth, the very interest in buying Danish territory can be a serious help for Trump.

The rich Greenland

More than 80% of the island is covered by ice. The population is only about 60 thousand people. But the coast is quite fish, and in the depths of a lot of useful things. And as the melting of glaciers to extract minerals easier.

Greenland has oil, uranium, and rare earth metals: neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, and terbium. They are vital for modern high-tech industries, but more than 70% is produced in China, with which Trump is a trade war.

China also bought the largest deposits in Africa. And even if he keeps his promise not to limit supplies to the world market, open stocks will last only for a couple of decades. The USA is the richest country on the planet, the world leader in high technologies and the world’s largest oil producer. To save these positions Greenland America by the way.

Why Greenland Pentagon

Copyright holder illustrations Keystone-France / Getty Images Image caption Thule us Military base in Greenland built in the 1950s.

The island is located in the strategically important Arctic. Through Greenland is the shortest path from Europe to North America, and geographically it is much closer to the latter, though it is an Autonomous territory of European Denmark. Strategically it would be great to buy Greenland, Trump explained his plans.

Since the cold war with the USSR, the US has a military base on the island. And the Pentagon is not against expanding its presence in the Arctic to counter threats from China and Russia.

China is nurturing the idea of an Arctic trade route, and last year was going to build two airports in Greenland – but Denmark has convinced the authorities of autonomy to give her both contracts.

Russia, for its part, is increasing its military power in the Arctic by expanding its northernmost military base ,the Arctic Shamrock, on Franz Josef land. The Nagurskoye airfield located there is almost ready to receive heavy Il-78s, which are used to refuel fighters and bombers in the air.

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At the same time, the older generation, who managed to live during the cold war, prefers the usual capitalism. And if we consider the data on the American society as a whole, the supporters of socialism in it only 34%, and Communists and fascists — 3% and 4%, respectively.

Another interesting figure is the number of those who have a negative attitude to communism

In the minds of Americans, the concepts of “socialism” and “communism” are far from identical. Although a third of the US population is positive about socialism, the vast majority (75%) perceive communism negatively, believing that Communist ideology is still a “problem”. However, among young people, the percentage of those who are negative about communism is the lowest — 34%.

Images of Communist leaders are also more appealing to people in their 20s and 30s than to the older generation. Thus, only 26% of Americans consider che Guevara a hero, 18% also refer to Karl Marx, 17% — to Vladimir Lenin, 16% — to Mao Zedong, 13% — to Stalin. And among Millenials Che Guevara loves 31%, Marx-32%, Lenin-23%, and Mao-19%. The only Communist leader to whom young Americans are more negative than their older fellow citizens is Joseph Stalin. It is positively perceived by only 6% of young people in the United States.

MAY DAY RALLY ON FREEDOM SQUARE, MAY 1, 2017, WASHINGTON, DC

Vladimir Putin, whom the survey organizers for some reason attributed to Communist leaders, is considered a hero by 25% of all Americans (among young people, 21%).

Founded by former national security adviser to President Carter Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1994, the Foundation for the memory of the victims of communism became interested in the study of the attitude of American society to socialism only in 2016. It was then that the first survey of this kind was conducted.

The researchers did not hide that the reason for the survey was the growing popularity of Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders, who put forward his candidacy for President of the United States in the 2016 elections. The politician, who in the US is called a socialist, almost bypassed the democratic primaries of the main favorite of the Hillary Clinton party, and voted for the 75-year-old Senator, mostly young Americans.

In the course of the study in 2016, the question of what social and economic system they would prefer to live, the us residents were not asked. We only found out how many of them have a negative attitude to socialism, communism and capitalism and how they perceive the current situation in the economy of the United States.

In 2015, YouGov conducted an independent study, according to which 36% of young Americans positively perceived socialism, and 39% — capitalism. In General, only 26% of all Americans were positive about socialism and 52% — about capitalism. As the figures show, over the past two years the number of supporters of socialist ideas in American society has increased.

Generation of losers

According to a survey by YouGov And the Fund for the memory of victims of communism, American youth is the only age group that is predominantly negative about the economic situation in the country. 53% of young people are ready to agree with the statement “the American economic system works against me”.

AMERICANS ARE LOSING THE MEANING OF LIFE

“Young Americans now live worse than their parents. Previously, it was the opposite: every new generation of Americans wanted to live better than their parents, and now American young people live worse or will live worse after graduation than mom and dad,” HSE Professor Alexander Domrin outlined the reason for the discontent of young Americans.

As foreign Policy magazine columnist Sarah Kenzior notes in the article “Why young Americans abandon capitalism”, the cause of discontent is the economic problems that the United States is experiencing after the crisis of 2008.

“Wages stagnate or decrease. The cost of services in areas such as health, education and child care is growing exponentially. Full-time work becomes contract work and benefits are reduced. Jobs associated with the middle class are replaced by low-paid service jobs. Expectations that you will live just like your parents when you were born,<…> crumble to dust,” — said Kendzior.

“American society was permeated with anti-communism, which was cultivated and planted during the cold war and which was preserved thanks to the well — being of the 1990s, the time of bill Clinton, – said in a conversation RT head of the Center for economic research of the Institute of globalization and social movements Vasily Koltashov. – But then came another era-the era of active implementation of neoliberal programs, reducing social spending and most importantly — the maintenance of universal commercialization”.

“Jobs with a good salary becomes less than a year from year. And those young people who came to work at MacDonald’s or some kind of trading network like Walmart, then to find a good job, were there forever,” explains the reasons for the special discontent of young Americans expert.

The reasons for the protest

However, more and more people are dissatisfied with the current state of Affairs in other age groups of American society. A year ago, before Donald trump was elected President of the United States, according to a study by YouGov and the victims of communism memorial Fund, 52% of Americans were negative about the existing economic system, and the only generation it suited were those born in the 1920s and 1940s. However, even now 48% of Americans believe that the economy is working against them, although the number of supporters of the existing system after the election of a populist President exceeded 50%.

Now the unemployment rate in the United States shows a downward trend and is about 4% (the lowest rate in the last 17 years), which roughly corresponds to other developed countries, such as Germany or the UK. However, wage growth is almost non-existent.

Since 2009, hourly wages have been growing at a low rate (less than 3% annually). In October this year, wage growth in the United States increased by only 0.4%. At the same time, in 2017, the cost of health services increased by 4.6%, and in 2018, the already expensive medical care in the US will become even more expensive by more than 5%. Although inflation in the US is quite low (less than 2% in recent years) and prices are rising slowly, there are many other problems that seriously complicate the lives of ordinary people.

“There is a debt load of the population, the problems with the labor code in the US, where the hospital is due to leave, problems with the health care system” — lists the RT questions, forcing the Americans to advocate for the expansion of social functions of the state, research fellow, Center for North American studies, IMEMO ran Sergey Kislitsin. “Young people have no prospects, the American economy is in crisis, the real incomes of Americans have decreased by a third since the beginning of the global crisis in 2008,” adds Vasily Koltashov.

According to the same study by YouGov and the victims of communism memorial Fund, in 2017, seven out of ten Americans believed that high-income people paid too little and advocated for tax increases, eight out of ten considered the division into rich and poor “a serious problem,” and 37% of Americans advocated “a complete change in the economic system.”
New division

DEATH OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

“The Americans felt the need for a social state and under socialism they understand primarily the social democratic model, where there is free medicine, free education, where everyone is guaranteed a pension and no one dies of hunger,” Koltashov notes. – There was a grandiose rehabilitation of the ideas of socialism, which since the 1930s, probably, have never been so popular in the United States, so clear and popular.”

Under the socialist slogans were protests Occupy Wall Street 2011 and demonstrations Fight for $15 (“Fight for $15”) in 2015, when the Americans demanded the introduction of a minimum hourly wage of $ 15. In 2015-2016, millions of us citizens at the democratic primaries voted for Bernie Sanders, but he, according to Vasily Koltashov, “was not up to the historical task.”

“When the question arose, where to lead the United States and how to act, he went to a deal with the right Democrats,” — said the expert.
Tired of Democrats and Republicans: 69% of Americans surveyed want to see a new party in the us Congress

Most of the us citizens interviewed by Rasmussen Reports said they were tired of the bipartisan system and wanted their interests…

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The world watches with amazement the strange throwing of the USA in the field of foreign policy. They are in bad harmony with their image of a powerful superpower – a recognized “world gendarme”. But we must understand that this superpower is entering an extremely difficult period for itself: the economic stratification within the country is growing, the number of poor is increasing, and the Great Recession (as it is almost officially called the period that began in 2008) risks being greatly delayed.

You can argue for a long time how rich Americans live compared to residents of other countries. Undoubtedly another-many Americans do not want to live any more. According to the Center for disease control and prevention in the United States, for seventeen years the number of suicides in the country increased by almost 30 percent, and in half of the States the growth was from 30 to 58 percent.

America is catching up with Lithuania

Only in 2016, committed suicide nearly 45 million Americans in the age of 10 years. The country likes to be reproached for being too liberal in the field of carrying weapons, which makes it vulnerable to “lone gunmen”. But the figure in 45 thousand cases is twice the number of us citizens killed in the same 2016.the Average rating of suicides in the country is 16 per hundred thousand people. Such figures in America have not seen since the great Depression.

Legislator sad trend is traditionally the youth. The Americans from 15 to 34 years suicide was the second “yield” cause of death. In the same group there was an off-scale increase in cases of opioid poisoning. Among girls aged 10 to 14, the number of suicides has tripled.

In prosperous States such as Washington (not to be confused with the same city – the capital of the United States), the total number of suicides is relatively small – about 7 cases per 100 thousand population. But in States like Montana, that’s 29 cases. For comparison: in Lithuania-the absolute record for the number of suicides in the EU and one of the world Champions — this figure is 32.7 per 100 thousand.

It turns out that in one of the richest countries in the world there are areas where residents kill themselves with almost the same speed as in the depressed Baltic States. However, these grim statistics are rarely discussed in the American media. And now she hit the headlines mainly because of two high-profile suicides that occurred almost simultaneously. With a difference of a few days committed suicide designer Katie spade and a leading culinary talk show Anthony Bourdain.

They belonged to the democratic establishment, were rich, famous and successful. However, Bourdain, according to rumors, was never able to overcome his dependence on heroin. And spade has long been treated for bipolar disorder — in this case, the us prescribes medicines, one of the recognized side effects of which are “suicidal ideation”. Thus, both deaths are linked to the epidemic of opioid and drug dependence, which has covered the country and is already recognized as a national disaster. In the last 15 years alone, the number of overdose deaths has tripled. Analysis of the reasons for the popularity of suicide in the press usually comes down to a showdown between Democrats and trappiste.

Liberal media explain the situation by the unavailability of psychological assistance and the availability of firearms. It turns out that people kill themselves because they can not make an appointment with a psychologist, but if they do get to the doctor, he will prescribe them such drugs, from which suicidal sentiments will only increase. In addition, more than half of the reported suicides are not related to mental illness at all.

The problem of access to weapons also does not stand up to criticism. More than half of Americans really prefer to “put the bullet point at the end”. However, those who do not have weapons find other ways to die. The same spade and burden, as well as it is necessary to democratic elite, couldn’t stand firearms.

In turn, the right blame Barack Obama, in which industrial production has declined sharply, and hundreds of industrial cities have become a “rusty belt” of America. In their opinion, before trump came to power, Americans died of poverty and lack of prospects, but now everything will magically change.

Experts, however, believe that the suicidal trend will only increase – as well as the trend to reduce life expectancy.

White men don’t belong here

DEATH OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

The overwhelming number of suicides in America are committed by white men. Middle-aged people are at particular risk. This is not a typical situation. Usually in this terrible competition leading teenagers and the elderly, and only in the United States in recent years, the death rate from suicide among adults is growing faster. Since 1999, the number of suicides among white males aged 45-64 has increased by 63 per cent. There are, however, groups where the dynamics are even worse-these are women from among the descendants of indigenous people, politically speaking-Indian women; among the latter, the increase in suicide reached 89%.

Researchers associate this trend with the crisis of the “working aristocracy”. From 2001 to 2012 in the country 42400 factories and plants were closed, 5,5 million vacancies on production were reduced. The loss of a well – paid job meant for the American proletarians not only impoverishment-together with the position they lost self-respect and meaning of life. Yes, some time they could feed themselves jobs in fast food or car washes. But no hopes to give their children education or earn a decent pension, they have no choice. Benefits saved from starvation, but killed self-esteem. Hence the rampant alcoholism, drug abuse and an epidemic of suicides that swept the rust belt of America.

A classic example is the state of North Dakota, familiar to us from the town of Fargo, famed by the Cohen brothers. There is the growth of suicides reached a record 58.6 per cent. A month ago in the town of Grand forks in his own house were found the bodies of 35-year-old local resident and her three sons 6, 10 and 14 years. A week before her death, the woman asked for donations on the GoFundMe website: she was charged thousands of bills for the treatment and treatment of children, which she was unable to pay. Not receiving a penny on the resource, she shot her children, and then committed suicide.

Similar stories from residents of the city of Bute in Montana

In the XX century copper, gold, silver were mined here, but then it became unprofitable and people began to lose their jobs. When the pulp mill closed, four people killed themselves.

“I regularly think about suicide,” Kevin lawney, a 54 – year-old supermarket cashier, told reporters at the Guardian. A devout Catholic torment of the infinite debt for insurance. Looney suffers from diabetes and hypertension, recently won the cancer, and after several operations, his debt to the clinic exceeded 40 thousand dollars despite the correct payment of health insurance. Such money at the cashier isn’t present, but also he can’t declare bankruptcy: to start the corresponding procedure, it is necessary to pay about one and a half thousand dollars.

“All my life I worked hard. I was the typical forever-processing American. I did not drink, I did not smoke, I am a devout Catholic, I worked all my life, graduated from College, raised three children, and now in my old age I am deeply in debt,” he tells reporters.

Only faith in God and a daughter, with whom a single father huddles in a social housing, is kept from Looney’s suicide. He will never have a pension – all the savings went to pay his medical bills. But Americans are killed not only by poverty and idleness

From 2004 to 2012, the number of suicides in the us army tripled. And in the same Montana 20% suicides account for on troops in resignation-usually this relatively prosperous people with pension and a good social package.

Their example is followed by real rich people and celebrities. Arranging a mass shooting in Las Vegas, committed suicide multimillionaire Stephen Paddock. Provoking a lot of copycats, suicides, passed away comedian Robin Williams.

Many are particularly afraid of the fact that suicide has become a fashionable topic. If previously, he sang songs only depressive rockers, but now do such pop divas like Rihanna and Beyonce. In the thriving funeral industry, the United States even had a special offer for suicides: for their families write special sermons, they devote the appropriate verses.

Obviously, the causes of this epidemic are rooted in the General moral climate in the United States. Lack of prospects and General disillusionment in life are equally ruining the poor and the rich, Republicans and Democrats. Plays a role and the cult of success-the notorious “American dream”. Not having achieved what he hoped for, the white American experiences what happened as the end of his path – and at this moment he does not have that support group (for example, relatives or friends) that helps his colored peers survive.

Individualism, which was so proud of the people of the United States, today becomes the risk factor. And the unrealized American dream literally brings to the grave.

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On arrival in America, a friend faced the typical problem of all visitors-where to snatch so that everything was and nothing for it was not. Options loader/ cleaner / fast food worker / pool cleaner / gardener, he brushed off immediately because of the small fee, so began to look for work with the same interests. I was looking for a long time and in the end was able to get a job as a mechanic in the “underground” Stoshka to the Ukrainian. Why underground because the majority of the local population prefers to address in the authorized centers where anybody won’t begin to repair anything plainly – will stupidly replace with new details and everything, the price tag corresponding. For this reason, the most fearless and economical Americans prefer to look for such as my friend. After two years of work there, his boss said that today he will come to serious people and will talk to my friend. Therefore, face wash and for the market to follow. The result of the conversation was a proposal to go to work “on the profile”, but in a more prestigious and highly paid place. As it turned out, collect and disassemble stolen cars and everything connected with it. So he fell in ” family.” From there he destroyed the stereotypes about the Russian mafia and gave a stimulating kick in the form of some “lift” amounts of money.

Now we will focus on the “family”

To name fingers and point names, I will not, for fraught and know from each other only on the branch where it is located, but the essence will try to pass. Let’s start, steer all the so-called “fingers” , this is the top, few people know them, each of them is responsible and holds some sphere of business : drugsmedicines, prostitution, weapons, and so on. They are the elite, the dark horse. All the others who stand below are replaceable characters who constantly move up and down the career ladder for shoals and successes, but they are the basis. To a greater extent , they are “painted”, that is, have tattoos, talking about their way of becoming who they are now. In parallel with the basis there are “neutrals”: wives, husbands, children, workers (as my friend) and beginners. They are used for civil work such as: give, bring, take, talk, buy. Because they are “clean” both skin and criminal history.

The main break patterns of my friend were the facts : – the whole “family” consists of an equal number of Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians. There is some numerical superiority thereof under the command of one or other of the “fingers”. – business areas are no longer divided “by nationality”. And the Russian, and Jewish, and Chinese mafia engaged in all a little bit. They earn on everything they have, but, of course, each of them has different interests and inclinations. – all “black” and Latin gangs have weight only in ghettos and in”favellas”. In the “Big game”they are at the level of the Bird, which presses mobile phones in school. – American police bought more reliable than at home and it is more responsible in this regard. If he is “selling”, the chance that he will become a whore or a rat is almost zero. That’s why we don’t see reports of corrupt cops. – criminal manners, “Fenya” and zekov’s antics, which we often see at home, are no longer welcomed there. This was the place before, but now it is dangerous. Belonging to crime there hide and try not to advertise. Because the media in America is like nonstop diarrhea. News “vyser” will go such that not every book writer can come up with. So, what exactly was my friend doing? As I said, they redid and” reissued ” stolen cars, but also were responsible for all transport. Daily checks for the presence of” surprises ” in the form of bugs, explosive devices and marks, which could be considered as a special sign. The most important part is the preparation of courier and freight transport, here is more interesting. When we are talking about the carriage of “goods” , I , a man vzroslii on action movies and TV shows about gangsters, was a huge truck traveling in the night, with a crowd of protection and support, but no. Huge BUMMER! To cover transportation use taxi cars and official cars of companies “help in moving”. All eggs in one basket, no one carries, so the delivery is in small batches, but in large quantities. To clean to police and city services “neutrals” and deliver exemplary order taxi services and transfers from each other. There is no shortage of people.

Briefly about other types of mafia: – Chinese mafia. This is a huge caste of people with a lot of traditions and some strange rituals. The hierarchy is complicated and is strongly tied to blood relations. Quite well are doing business with the Russian mafia, a lot of common interests. Very cruel and ruthless. But for them it is in the order of things, because in General a different mentality and they are difficult to understand. Unable to forgive the murder of someone from the basics, but the massacre of over a cook or a courier. The only one who deals with organ trafficking and slaves ( Yes, blacks are still slaves). – Jewish mafia. A complete set of stereotypes that they do not deny, and often even emphasize. There are quite a lot of immigrants from Ukraine and Russia, too, but they are usually one foreskin less than those in the Russian mafia. They are mainly engaged in Finance and everything connected with it. Black bookkeeping, money laundering, storage , contracts, arranging meetings. Often act as a third, “independent” party at the conclusion of contracts. But their main source of income is trading information, learn everything, everywhere and before anyone. – Italian mafia. They were still really little. They try to deal with weapons and drugs, but it turns out bad. Trying to learn to do more honest business and hospitality. They are often approached about the storage of goods as they have a lot of legal “nychek”. – Irish mafia. These are cool babies who are always fighting with someone. Along with the Russian mafia engaged in the supply of weapons. Everything about illegal alcohol goes through them. Very devout. St. Patrick’s day turns into a headache, because if they celebrate this holiday, then everyone around should celebrate this holiday. Failure is fraught with a lethal grudge and even serious arrangements may be under threat.

Why blacks are afraid to go to the Chinese and Russian areas?

Because they’re merchandise, I’m not trying to insult them, but they’re really expendable. Some kind of power is only in the ghetto, outside the territory-an empty place. All that we see in the movie about the black brotherhood and “blood” revenge blacks – nonsense. Protect each other only in the “civil” world, when it comes to other representatives of crime, it is easier for them to forget about the loss of a beloved brothersister. Almost every black person is in some kind of group. All, who refuses or wants to live honestly, immediately stigmatize a traitor and are beginning to poison. Blacks often lost on foreign soil. It sounds a little strange, but the Chinese love Negroes. They are tweeting to the authorities and taken into slavery. The funny thing is that black penises and eggs are very popular. They are really cut and make some magic potions / powders of folk medicine. The Chinese are obsessed with her.

Russians also ” use ” blacks, but a little differently

They experience different products of underground medicine and drug trafficking. Steroids, fake drugs, new drugs — all tested on black people. They’re actually tougher in that respect than our white brothers. But Russians also use blacks and Latinos in their contracts with the police. To “purchased” policeman remained in the right area and the right post – he needs the performance of detection. Therefore Russians often give them such rabble as a change coin. The plus is that black people always leak information about their gangs and families. They are ready on all for the sake of preserving the skins intact, even before the torture comes. Therefore, the harsh Negroes who keep silence under the soldering iron is completely a fiction of Hollywood. This information is a nice bonus, because you can intercept someone else’s “cargo” or find new suppliers.

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It is no coincidence that, according to a study by an independent nonpartisan group called the Public Campaign, in recent years 30 of the most important American corporations have spent more money on lobbying politicians than on Federal taxes. This feature is the basis of democracy in the style of fascism-shifter…

The onset of democracy in the style of fascism – сhangeling

Wednesday will mark the anniversary of the first democratic elections in the United States, held in 1789. During the second half of the last century, the United States turned from a people’s democracy into a democracy in the style of fascism-a shifter. Democracy in the style of fascism-shifter a new American system, as proclaimed by the Fathers of the Constitution of the American ideals are clearly contrary to modern real us policy.

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The United States government can, of course, convince us all that it provides freedom and protection from injustice to every citizen. But, in fact, this government reveals all the most basic features of the fascist state: a one-party government, extreme economic inequality, a totalitarian police regime at home and militarism abroad, a very large-scale use of propaganda.

Political philosopher Sheldon Wolin (Sheldon Wolin) made a ruthless analysis of how the United States is increasingly becoming a totalitarian state. The US lives politically, creating a deceptive impression of a multi-party state. But don’t believe it. In fact, there is only one batch in the US. And this ruling party is a corporate-type party.

Elections offer the population two options for a single pre-prepared program: free market, neoliberal capitalism. Such a program is designed for the benefit of one elite at the expense of the majority: privatization of social services, freezing of salaries, unjustified dismissals and reduction of social security programs are strongly supported.

Adoption of the system in the style of fascism-Changeling in America did not require such strict policy measures, like voter fraud, the use of force to quell the unrest and violence. As a rule, fascism-shifter based on a policy of soft power and the illusion of choice.

The American state forces its citizens to choose between individuals, but not between real political alternatives. For example, all three candidates having the highest chances of becoming the next President of the United States inherited their political status through family: Jeb Bush, Rand Paul and Hillary Clinton.

Of the last 36 years, the Bush and Clinton clans can collectively occupy the White House for as long as 28 years. The gradual disappearance of ideological differences between the political positions of the main parties reflects the decline of the national democratic system.

In America, on the contrary, corporations have a strong influence on the state, although also in favor of a rich minority. It is no coincidence that, according to a study by an independent nonpartisan group called the Public Campaign, in recent years 30 of the most important American corporations have spent more money on lobbying politicians than on Federal taxes. This peculiarity is the basis of democracy in the style of fascism-a shifter: coercive measures of rigid statehood were replaced by a hidden coup, which led to a seemingly soft, imperceptible dictatorship of corporations.

The 400 richest Americans have more wealth than most of the combined 150 million Americans. It’s very simple: the US has proved that the free market and free elections simply cannot coexist. Electoral contributions from corporations become votes; thus, the poor are marginalized in the political process. Money becomes freedom of speech-and a gag in the mouth of the poor.

How can capitalism and democracy coexist if the former seeks to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a few and the other seeks to share power and wealth among the members of the majority?

Organized greed always defeats unorganized democracy

Fascism of the 20th century perceived relations between people from the point of view of social Darwinism. The theory was to elevate the status of supposedly racially superior individuals and systematically weed out the weak. Historian William L. Shearer described in his works how Hitler outlawed trade unions, the right to strike and collective bargaining. German worker in the Third Reich was no different from the” industrial slave”, subordinate to his master-employer no less than the medieval peasants, dependent on their masters.

And the Republican and democratic groups of the United corporate party, which rules America, have just destroyed the trade unions and, at the same time, very “democratically” promoted and approved the idea of corporate welfare. In the system of democracy in the style of fascism-a shifter, the richest man in the United States, Warren Buffett, pays a real tax rate, which is several times lower than that paid by his Secretary. Like all fascist regimes in history, income in the US is considered private and individual, while losses and public debt are a public, public burden.

Domestic financial policy in the Spanish, Italian, German fascist regimes was based on the nationalization of production facilities and aimed at protecting the interests of the rich, politically influential elite. In the US, financial processes that allow the elite to strengthen its economic and political privileged status have been achieved in the opposite way, that is, through privatization. Private jets, private medical care, private elite schools and private security of property and people. Therefore, we should not be surprised that the elite American politicians, regardless of the faction, always see the regime of austerity and privatization as an unshakable basis for their financial policy.

The only question where there are no differences at all between the American fascist regime and the fascist regimes of the past is foreign policy burdened with a huge military budget. In 1933, Nazi Germany’s military expenditure was 2% of the national budget; by 1940, military expenditure was 44%.

Today, the US spends more on its military needs than the entire world combined. The United States expanded its military presence through 662 bases located around the world, according to data released by the Department of the Interior’s structural report on foreign bases in 2010.

The US is hiding behind self-defence to justify its military incursions. Similarly, Germany justified its military operations by the need to protect its racial superiority. Self-defense through assault or assault for self-defense? It does not matter, the result is still the same: excessively inflated armed forces that kill hundreds of thousands of people abroad, bring the nation itself to bankruptcy, because their maintenance costs billions.

Tools of fascism of the 20th century were obvious and frankly terrible: from public executions at Franco to references in Italy Mussolini

In 1945, President Truman ordered American bombers to drop two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, instantly killing 140,000 people. A terrible sight discovered after the clearing of the stone debris was shown on TV in American homes and responded to the public with an unprecedented political scandal. Charred bodies and destroyed Japanese family made us experts on the development of political strategies to create a more subtle weapon of mass destruction: sanctions.

In our time, American weapons have evolved perversely; new weapons are invisible and insidious, but no less deadly: they are either economic sanctions or drones or something like that.

Many Americans believe that drones (drones) and sanctions are a point and humane weapon. It is difficult to imagine more far from truth self-deception. All studies and reports agree that the guided missiles and drones have killed more children than terrorists. In addition, the UN believes that half a million Iraqi children died because of the sanctions of bill Clinton.

More innocent people have died from American sanctions than from all the nuclear, biological and chemical weapons ever used by humanity.

And at home, the Americans have to face another threat, which is becoming increasingly aggressive militarized: it is a growing police lawlessness. The most important criterion by which the emergence of a fascist regime can be determined is the state persecution of groups or persons on the basis of their social status or race. Today, the main attacks of the American police state are directed at Muslims.

Contrary to popular opinion, after the September 11 attack, right-wing radical terrorists, including white supremacists and Jewish extremists, killed many more people in the United States than people motivated by Muslim radical ideologies.

According to data at the disposal of the FBI, Muslims have committed only 6% of the total number of terrorist attacks carried out in the United States in recent decades. After September 11, the threat posed by the domestic Muslim community was deliberately exaggerated in order to spread the myth of the War on Terrorism. The results are well known: constant wars abroad, financed by corporations and costing many billions of dollars, and the gradual destruction of 200 years of civil freedom in the United States.

Without any doubt, American Muslims are exposed in their homeland fascist control system, not inferior in its debug even the East German spy network Stasi. The researcher Arun Kundnani proved that the FBI has one agent for every 94 Muslims living in the United States, which is very close to the Stasi figures (one agent for every 66 citizens).

In East Germany, the Stasi wanted people under their control to feel the oppressive power of surveillance and surveillance, because the emerging fear supported the political power of the Party. In America, the option of this tactic-style fascism-the shifter is to the vigilance of the public were euthanized, and the constant, pervasive control was invisible. There is also a very thin wall at risk, blocking the right of society to be free from government claims: the American government understands the potential risk of systematically restricting this right, so it prefers to observe its objects behind the scenes and under cover.

By actively developing a government program to improve covert surveillance of citizens, the Obama government finally strengthens the right to control Americans and, at the same time, deprives the public of the right to control their own government.

Propaganda is an indispensable tool for the establishment of democracy in the style of fascism-a shifter. Sheldon Wolin shrewdly observed that in the United States propaganda is represented by highly centralized media corporations, while in Nazi Germany it was exclusively under the strict control of the state. Thus, the illusion of a “free press”remains in America.

The American propaganda machine is extremely sophisticated

BEFORE OUR VERY EYES FAKE WARS AND BIG LIES FROM 9/11 TO DONALD TRUMP

It is not based on radio messages, speeches or leaflets distributed by the Nazi Ministry of Propaganda and public Education, on gross censorship, or on the open persecution of a free press by a Politburo. Propaganda carried out by order of “one percent” (super elite), invisible, but at the same time, almost ubiquitous. It relies not only on government brute force, but also on pop culture, Hollywood movies, mainstream art, and, of course, the media.

After all, the media form our speech, our language or semantic images. Subsequently, these images will determine our actions. Our speech is the logical core through which the public perceives the surrounding reality. Therefore, the one who controls the sources of our language and our speech also controls the sources of the collective consciousness of the society in which we live.

The corporate elites who run the editorial Board in the media control all of these sources. In 1983, the year 90% of American media was owned by 50 companies. Today, the same share belongs to 6 information giants. And that’s scary, because it only means one thing: six corporations across the country decide and dictate what to read, listen and watch to the American people.

Democracy in the style of fascism-Changeling – this is when you, of course, still recognizes freedom of speech, but the administration did not pay attention to you. “Imagine the press as a huge keyboard that the government can play on,” Joseph Goebbels, a Nazi propaganda Minister, once said.

In the Soviet Union, people were aware that only state propaganda could be read in Pravda, so they learned not to remember what they had to read. Many Americans believe that the WSJ, New York Times, CNN – reliable sources, despite numerous evidence to the contrary. How can we forget the high-profile articles published in these Newspapers about non-existent weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, how can we forget the unconditional support given by these Newspapers to the catastrophic invasion of Libya or the idea of supplying weapons to the Syrian rebels who later founded the Islamic State? And this is only an incomplete list of the constant lies preached by these seemingly reliable Newspapers.

The advantage of American propaganda is that it creates the appearance of impartiality, allowing the presence of different opinions only in minor matters. But when it comes to these functionally important for the privileged classes of corporate issues like tax inequality, or war for the enrichment of the elite, mass media is characterized by remarkable unanimity. Instilling that” socialism“,” Marxism “and” communism ” are prohibited items, the ruling elite has successfully outlawed any mention of class reforms and democratic choice.

In the terminology of the fascist shifter, corporations are people. Drones are flying machines controlled from a distance. Torture is enhanced interrogation. Conquest is liberation.

Unlike traditional fascism, the American system of control does not seek to mobilize the population, but to lull its vigilance

As Noam Chomsky pointed out, American propaganda works at a very deep level of suggestion, its behavioral and value models are fully accepted by the population, sometimes even subconsciously, its presence within society is never captured.

Life, as living from moment to moment, in a state of democracy in the style of fascism-shifter consists of alternating States of boredom, stress and acute consumer distraction. Americans are increasingly immersed in reality shows and sensor technology only to escape reality.

Americans voted for American Idol finalists more actively than for any candidate in any presidential race. Separation from reality is increasingly replacing reality itself. History has shown that elections in a distorted electoral system can not lead to the correct, opposite to the system itself, the result. 226 years have passed since the first democratic elections in America. Today, real democracy has finally died, and its place was taken by fascism-a shifter.

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