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China Warns U.S. Not To Interfere With Its Spying
Syria yesterday zapped a U.S. spy drone over Latakia in north-west Syria. Latakia is a well protected pro-government area and fully in government hands. There are no Islamic State' nor any other anti-government fighters in the area.
"Did the drone come into Syrian territory just to have a picnic?" asked the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"As soon as it entered Syrian air space, we considered it to be gathering security and military information on Syria's territory," he told AFP.
The source said the aircraft was not immediately identified as being American, but was "dealt with as a hostile target".
Syrian air defences shot down the aircraft over the coastal province of Latakia, a stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad, state media said Tuesday.
There is a silent agreement between the Syrian government and the U.S. that U.S. strikes on Islamic State targets in areas held by forces hostile to the Syrian government will not be interfered with.
But that certainly does not extend to areas where the Syrian military is the only force worth to spy on. It is obvious that the drone, unidentified when it was shot down, was an imminent danger to Syrian interests. It had no legitimate business in the area and was correctly identified as hostile.
But U.S. hubris has no bounds so the spokesperson of the State Department, Jen Psaki, asked about the incident threatened Syria:
[W]e, of course, reiterate our warning to the Assad regime not to interfere with U.S. aerial assets over Syria.
In other news the Chinese government reiterated its warning to the Obama regime not to interfere with Chinese cyber assets on U.S. computer systems.
How will Psaki respond to that?
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Money stinks! Let’s stop the convention of fascists in Holiday Inn (St. Petersburg)
On the 22 of March in St. Petersburg the convention of European Neo-Nazi parties, is going to pass. The fact that such action takes place in the city, which lost 1,5 millions people during the years of blockade, moreover on the eve of the 70th anniversary of Victory, does cause indignation.
Undoubtedly, the Kremlin, actively flirting with European far-right politicians in its confrontation with the West because of Ukraine, and the governor Georgy Poltavchenko are primarily responsible for the desecration of the memory of the victims of Nazism.
However, the most astonishing is that exactly the hotel Holiday inn, belonging to the Britain corporation InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), considered to be the world’s largest hotel chains, provides the platform for the Neo-Nazi forum. Someone may object that the hotel management shouldn’t be interested in moral and political side of actions, held at its territory. After all, Holiday inn is a commercial organization, doing “just business”… But not exactly this way did European and American corporations and banks justify the cooperation with Nazi regime – including Ford, Coca cola, Siemens, General Electric, Nestle? Business, surely, is responsible for the consequences of their deals, which are not always politically and morally neutral.
In case of fashionable hotel Holiday inn, hospitably opening its doors to racists, antisemits, right-wing terrorists accomplices from the Greek “Golden Dawn”, the National Democratic Party of Germany, the British National Party and similar organizations, we have classic example of social irresponsibility and capitalistic cynicism.
Such openly militaristic concourse, whose only purpose is to provide the semblance of European public opinion support to Putin, to put it mildly, shows IHG in an unfavorable light. We wonder if the general director of InterContinental Hotels Group Richard Solomons knows about it?
We need your help! We are going to refer the petition with the requirements to the hotel management. What can you do? Right now send a letter with the expression of your protest to the IHG and the hotel Holiday inn in St. Petersburg management: Genush L.U. agm@hi-spb.com; Zoë Bird, global corporate communications manager of the InterContinental Hotels Group, Denham, UK zoe.bird@ihg.com.
Letter text:
I … am indignant at the Holiday Inn in St. Petersburg management decision to provide a platform to so-called “International Russian conservative forum” (March 22th, 2015), which is in fact the convention of European Neo-Nazi parties. Participation of such odious organizations like the “Golden Dawn” (Greece), the National Democratic Party of Germany, the Freedom Party (Austria), the British National Party does offend the feelings of St. Petersburg residents on the eve of the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patronic War.
I demand to immediate canceling the lease contract with the organizers of the forum!
Signature
18 марта 2015 — РСД
ihg, holiday inn, международный русский консервативный форум, антифашизм, левые, РСД, неонацизм
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