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Despite the US's declared withdrawal of its military personnel and contractors out of Iraq, Washington has prepared to control the country's rich o...
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Despite the US's declared withdrawal of its military personnel and contractors out of Iraq, Washington has prepared to control the country's rich oil reserves in any case, shared Ranjit Singh Kalha, former India's ambassador to Iraq in the 1990s. Having spent $3 trillion in Iraq, a country with harsh weather conditions (+50 C most of the time) and absolutely nothing valuable but oil reserves, the Americans simply cannot give up the plentiful and very high quality oil they went there for. "It takes $1.50 to take out this oil that's just below the surface. Anybody who has access to this oil can be a game changer -- as far as the politics of oil is concerned," Ranjit Singh Kalha concluded. The problem Americans encountered in Iraq is that once given "some symbols" of democracy, the Iraqi voted for a Shia-led government. The headache is that the Shia traditionally have close links with Iran, the core territory of this affiliation. "That is the present dilemma. If you withdraw from Iraq completely, you leave this vast oil wealth of Iraq in the hands of Shia (Iran-oriented) government. And therefore it upsets the political balance in the Middle East," Ranjit Singh Kalha explained. He said that to counter such adverse developments the US will have almost 20,000-strong embassy in Baghdad (the largest US embassy in the world) and consulates in Basra, Kerkuk and in northern Kurd-inhabited territory, each consulate 1,000-strong. "Americans cannot afford to be completely absent from Iraq," the former ambassador argued, adding he does not see any lessening of American influence in Iraq. Iraq is a multi-confessional country and to curb religious extremism all previous country's rulers had to be very tough with the population, the diplomat stressed. In Saddam's Iraq most of the military and law enforcement was Sunni and the rule of law was first of all a rule of military power preventing sectarian violence. Today's Iraq is ruled by Shia government which does not have the necessary experience of ruling with an iron fist, so the country risks a full fledged civil war to start at any time given. American troops will not go far from Iraq -- they will be re-deployed to next door Kuwait.
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Λίγο πριν τις 9 το βράδυ, οδός Μητροπόλεως. Χιλιάδες κόσμου μετά τις πρώτες επιθέσεις των ΜΑΤ στο Σύνταγμα αρνούνται να αποχωρήσουν και κατακλύζουν...
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Λίγο πριν τις 9 το βράδυ, οδός Μητροπόλεως. Χιλιάδες κόσμου μετά τις πρώτες επιθέσεις των ΜΑΤ στο Σύνταγμα αρνούνται να αποχωρήσουν και κατακλύζουν τις οδούς Ερμού, Κ. Σερβίας Μητροπόλεως, αλλά και τις πλατείες στο Μοναστηράκι και στη Μητρόπολη. Καθε φορά που αυτό το ποτάμι κόσμου αποπειράται να πλησιασει το Σύνταγμα δέχεται διαδοχικές εφόδους των ΜΑΤ με ασφυξιογόνα και κρότου-λάμψης. Ο κόσμος αρνείται πεισματικά να αποχωρήσει. Επί 2 ώρες ανασυντάσσεται στις παραπάνω οδούς και προσπαθεί ξανά και ξανά και ξανά. Την ίδια ώρα πληροφορούμαστε ότι τα Μέσα Μαζικής Εξαπάτησης αναφέρουν στα δελτία τους ότι ο κόσμος είναι ελάχιστος και έχει αποχωρήσει. Άλλοι γελάνε, άλλοι εξαγριώνονται γιατί συνειδητοποιούν ότι το σχέδιο του Υπουργού Προστασίας του Μνημονίου, Παπουτσή, είναι οι συνεχείς επιθέσεις της αστυνομίας ώστε να κρατούν τον κόσμο εκτός πλ. Συντάγματος όπου βρίσκονται όλες οι κάμερες εγχώριων και ξένων καναλιών, αλλά κι ο τρόμος ότι όλες αυτές οι χιλιάδες που παραμένουν πεισματικά στα στενά έχουν στόχο το κυνοβούλιο κατά την ανακοίνωση του αποτελέσματος της ψηφοφορίας. Ξαφνικά μέσα στον κόσμο και χωρίς να συμβαίνει απολύτως τίποτε στο σημείο από την πίσω πλευρά ακούγονται σειρήνες και ο κόσμος αρχικά παραμερίζει πιστεύοντας ότι πρόκειται για σσθενοφόρο. Η συνέχεια στο βίντεο.
Σημείωση: Εκτός από τα χημικά που έριχναν διαρκώς οι ΔΙΑΣ και οι ΔΕΛΤΑ που εμβόλισαν τον κόσμο (όπως φαίνεται και στο βίντεο) πετούσαν εναντίον των συγκεντρωμένων φωτοβολίδες και καπνογόνα (επίσης φαίνεται στο βίντεο) και σε μία περίπτωση παραλίγο να πάρει φωτιά ένα παρκαρισμένο αμάξι.
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The video was shot at about 21:00 (local time) outside the main cathedral of Athens.
At that particular time thousands of people, after the initial brutal and unprovoked attacks by the riot police in the Constitution Sq. (Syntagma Sq.) a little bit afte 18:00, they simply refused to evacuate the city centre by force and flooded all the main and smaller streets around the Square (streets like of Ermou, K. Serbia, Mitropoleos and the nearby squares of Monastiraki and Mitropoli).
Each time this "river" of people attempted to approach the Syntagma Sq. in front of the parliament they suffered successive attacks by the riot police with asphyxiating gas and flash-noise grenades.
It was amazing that the people stood their ground and refused to leave, while for at least 2 hours they were regrouping and attempting to approach the parliament again and again and again.
At the same time people with smartphones or radios were informing the crowd that the greek mass media were falsely reporting that the demonstrators were just a handfull and even the last few were leaving the area. Some people laughed, some others got frustrated and angry by that fact, while realizing that the Police purpose was not to let people gather outside te parliament, because that was where all the TVcameras were positioned. It was to deter others to come and join the protesters.
Suddenly and while nothing was happening at the spot, as you may see in the video, from the rear, we heard sirens and people initially stood aside thinking that it was an ambulance that was trying to make its way. The rest is clearly depicted in the video.
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