The Russians believe that Russian-US war has already begun

Monday, April 17, 2017

The Russians believe that Russian-US war has already begun

Three out of ten Russians believe that the war between Moscow and Washington is possible or has already begun, reveals a survey. 


"The group of those who qualify as possible that war or think it is already in progress has reached 30 percent , " has revealed the National Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VCIOM, in Russian), based on the results of a collection survey Monday by the Russian news agency Sputnik. 

The source recalls that in March 2014, when relations between Russia and the West are thinned, with the United States in the lead, for the  reunification of the Crimea to the Russian Federation , only 20% of people predicted a possible war between the two countries. 

The group of those who qualify as possible or think that war is already underway has reached 30 percent , "revealed the National Center for Public Opinion Studies. 

The results of the survey of 1200 people 11 and on April 12 also shows that 16% completely rejects the possibility of the outbreak of a  "direct" military conflict between Russia and the United States , while most citizens, ie 63 percent, remains convinced that an armed conflict between thetwo countries is impossible or highly unlikely. 

On bilateral ties, 80% of respondents Russians calls "negative" relationship between the White House and the Kremlin, while 15% expect a worsening of bilateral relations. 30%, however, thinks otherwise and hopes to resolve the differences. 

The results also reveal that the attitude of Russians regard the US president, Donald Trump, has worsened lately, particularly since 7 April, when  Washington bombed a Syrian airfield in the province of Homs  (center) for weapons chemical. While, after the attack, he could not find them at the base in question. 

"Today, the Russians have a worse attitude towards the US president, Donald Trump, the previous month. Negative evaluations increased from 7% to 39%, while positive evaluations fell from 38% to 13% , "says VCIOM. 

The center added that 31% of respondents do not trust Trump, 19% is disappointed with him, and 29% gives the same personality. 

International experts argue that unilateral and unjustified United States actions, such as the recent attack on Syria  could provoke an international climbing . 

SOURCE: http://www.hispantv.com/noticias/rusia/338925/encuesta-rusos-guerra-eeuu-trmp-conflicto-siria

Los rusos creen que la guerra Rusia-EEUU ya ha empezado

Tres de cada diez rusos creen que la guerra entre Moscú y Washington es posible o ya ‎ha comenzado, revela una encuesta.


“El grupo de los que califican como posible esa guerra o piensan que ya está en curso ha alcanzado el 30 por ciento”, ha revelado el Centro Nacional de Estudios de la Opinión Pública (VCIOM, en ruso), basándose en los resultados de una encuesta recogida este lunes por la agencia rusa de noticias Sputnik.

La fuente recuerda que en marzo de 2014, cuando se enrarecieron las relaciones entre Rusia y el Occidente, con Estados Unidos a la cabeza, por la reunificación de la península de Crimea a la Federación rusa, solo el 20 % de los ciudadanos vaticinaba una posible guerra entre los dos países.

El grupo de los que califican como posible esa guerra o piensan que ya está en curso ha alcanzado el 30 por ciento”, ha revelado el Centro Nacional de Estudios de la Opinión Pública.

Los resultados de la encuesta realizada a 1200 personas el 11 y el 12 de abril demuestran asimismo que el 16 % rechaza por completo la posibilidad de que estalle un conflicto militar “directo” entre Rusia y Estados Unidos, mientras que la mayoría de los ciudadanos, es decir, un 63 por ciento, sigue convencido de que un conflicto armado entre ambos países es imposible o muy improbable.

Sobre lazos bilaterales, el 80 % de los rusos encuestados califica de “negativa” la relación entre la Casa Blanca y el Kremlin, mientras que el 15 % espera un empeoramiento de las relaciones bilaterales. El 30 %, no obstante, opina lo contrario y espera solventar las diferencias existentes.

Los resultados también revelan que la actitud de los rusos respecto al presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, ha empeorado últimamente, en concreto desde el 7 de abril, cuando Washington bombardeó un aeródromo sirio en la provincia de Homs (centro) en busca de armas químicas. Si bien, después del ataque, no las encontró en la base en cuestión.

“Hoy en día, los rusos tienen peor actitud hacia el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, que el mes anterior. Evaluaciones negativas aumentaron del 7 % al 39 %, mientras que las evaluaciones positivas cayeron del 38 % al 13 %”, precisa VCIOM.

El centro añade que el 31 % de los encuestados no confía en Trump, el 19 % se siente decepcionado con él, y al 29 % le da igual su personalidad.

Expertos internacionales argumentan que las acciones unilaterales e injustificadas de Estados Unidos, como el reciente ataque a Siria, podrían provocar una escalada internacional.

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Putin on Washington’s Creation of Fictional and Mythical Threats

April 17, 2017 

Putin on Washington’s Creation of Fictional and Mythical Threats

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The US should stop brazenly blaming Russia for the situation in Syria as it may face an equally harsh response, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned at the Valdai forum in Sochi, also addressing American exceptionalism, Trump and other issues.

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It's a class war

by Leith van OnselenApril 11, 2017

from MacroBusiness Website

From the IMF Direct blog comes an interesting analysis of the declining share of income going to workers, which is being driven byautomation and globalization:

After being largely stable in many countries for decades, the share of national income paid to workers has been falling since the 1980s.

Chapter 3 of the April 2017 World Economic Outlook finds that this trend is driven by rapid progress in technology and global integration.

Labor's share of income declines when wages grow more slowly than productivity, or the amount of output per hour of work.

The result is that a growing fraction of productivity gains has been going to capital.

And since capital tends to be concentrated in the upper ends of the income distribution, falling labor income shares are likely to raise income inequality…

In advanced economies, labor income shares began trending down in the 1980s.

They reached their lowest level of the past half century just prior to the global financial crisis of 2008, and have not recovered materially since. Labor income shares now are almost 4 percentage points lower than they were in 1970…

Indeed, as growth remains subpar in many countries, an increasing recognition that the gains from growth have not been broadly shared has strengthened a backlash against economic integration and bolstered support in favor of inward-looking policies.

This is especially the case in several advanced economies…

In advanced economies, about half of the decline in labor shares can be traced to the impact of technology.

The decline was driven by a combination of rapid progress in information and telecommunication technology, and a high share of occupations that could be easily be automated.

Global 'integration' - as captured by trends in final goods trade, participation in global value chains, and foreign direct investment - also played a role.

Its contribution is estimated at about half that of technology.

Because participation in global value chains typically implies offshoring of labor-intensive tasks, the effect of integration is to lower labor shares in tradable sectors…

Taken together, technology and global integration explain close to 75 percent of the decline in labor shares in Germany and Italy, and close to 50 percent in the United States…

Another key finding of our research is that the decline in labor shares in advanced economies has been particularly sharp for middle-skilled labor.

Routine-biased technology has taken over many of the tasks performed by these workers, contributing to job polarization toward high-skilled and low-skilled occupations.

This “hollowing-out” phenomenon has been reinforced by global integration, as firms in advanced economies increasingly have access to a global labor supply through cross-border value chains…

Sadly, Australian workers has fared badly against their Advanced Nation counterparts.

As shown recently by Greg Jericho, Australia's decline in wages' share of GDP has been particularly steep:

In 1975, two thirds of Australia's GDP was in the form of wages, whereas in 2014 it was just 53%.

The below charts, which come from the ABS National Accounts, illustrates the decline in Australian workers' shares.

First, the growth in average employee earnings is the lowest on record:

And has failed dismally to keep pace with growing labour productivity:

Meanwhile, the share of total factor income going to workers (as opposed to business owners) has been falling for decades:

While the elites continue to sell us the economic virtues of globalization and mass immigration, the gains are flowing primarily to the wealthy owners of land and capital, who get to privatization the gains and socialize the losses.

Ordinary workers, by contrast, have been largely left behind, experiencing weak income growth, rising debt levels, deteriorating housing affordability, worsening congestion, and overall declining livability.

These factors, above all others, help to explain the rise of fringe political movements like,

• Brexit
• Donald Trump
• One Nation at home

It's a class war...

guerra de classes

per Leith van Onselen 11 d'abril de, 2017

de MacroBusiness Lloc Web

Des del bloc de FMI directa ve un interessant anàlisi de la participació cada vegada menor dels ingressos va als treballadors, que està sent impulsat per l'automatització i la globalització :

Després de ser força estable en molts països des de fa dècades, la proporció de l'ingrés nacional pagat als treballadors ha estat caient des de la dècada de 1980.

Capítol 3 de la d'abril de 2017 Panorama Econòmic Mundial considera que aquesta tendència està impulsada per un ràpid progrés en la tecnologia i la integració global.

la participació del treball en l'ingrés declina quan els salaris creixen més lentament que la productivitat, o la quantitat de producció per hora de treball.

El resultat és que una fracció cada vegada més gran dels guanys de productivitat ha estat anant a la capital.

I ja que el capital tendeix a concentrar-se en els extrems superiors de la distribució dels ingressos, la caiguda de participacions en l'ingrés laboral són propensos a augmentar la desigualtat d'ingressos ...

En les economies avançades, les accions dels ingressos del treball van començar tendència a la baixa en la dècada de 1980.

Van arribar al seu nivell més baix dels últims cinquanta anys, just abans de la crisi financera mundial de 2008, i no s'han recuperat substancialment des de llavors. participació en l'ingrés laboral ara són gairebé 4 punts percentuals per sota del que eren en 1970 ...

De fet, ja que el creixement segueix sent insatisfactòria en molts països, un creixent reconeixement que els beneficis del creixement no s'han distribuït àmpliament ha enfortit una reacció en contra de la integració econòmica i reforçat el suport a favor de les polítiques orientades cap a l'interior.

Aquest és especialment el cas en diverses economies avançades ...

En les economies avançades, aproximadament la meitat de la disminució de les accions de treball es pot remuntar l'impacte de la tecnologia.

El descens va ser impulsat per una combinació d'un ràpid progrés en la tecnologia de la informació i telecomunicacions, i una alta proporció de treballs que podrien ser fàcilment automatitzat.

'Integració' global - com es recull en les tendències del comerç final dels béns, participació en les cadenes globals de valor, i la inversió estrangera directa - també va exercir un paper.

La seva contribució s'estima en al voltant de la meitat que el de la tecnologia.

A causa de la participació en les cadenes de valor globals normalment implica la deslocalització de les tasques intensives en mà d'obra, l'efecte de la integració és baixar les accions de treball en els sectors transables ...

En el seu conjunt, la tecnologia i la integració global expliquen prop del 75 per cent de la disminució de la participació del treball a Alemanya i Itàlia, i prop de 50 per cent als Estats Units ...

Un altre descobriment clau de la nostra investigació és que la disminució de la participació del treball en les economies avançades ha estat particularment agut per al treball de mitjana expert.

tecnologia de rutina esbiaixada ha fet càrrec de moltes de les tasques realitzades per aquests treballadors, la qual cosa contribueix a la polarització d'ocupació cap a ocupacions altament qualificats i poc qualificats.

Aquest fenomen de "buidatge" ha estat reforçada per integració global, ja que les empreses en les economies avançades cada vegada tenen accés a una oferta de treball global a través de les cadenes de valor transfrontereres ...

Lamentablement, els treballadors australians li ha anat malament en contra dels seus Nació Avançada homòlegs.

Com es mostra recentment per Greg Jericho , disminució d'Austràlia en percentatge del PIB, els salaris dels ha estat particularment pronunciada:

El 1975, dos terços del PIB d'Austràlia va ser en forma de salaris, mentre que el 2014 era només el 53%.

Els gràfics següents, que provenen de les Comptes Nacionals d'ABS , il·lustra la disminució de la participació dels treballadors australians.

En primer lloc, el creixement de la remuneració mitjana dels treballadors és la més baixa en el registre:

I ha fracassat estrepitosament a mantenir el ritme de creixement de la productivitat laboral:

Mentrestant, la proporció de l'ingrés total dels factors d'anar als treballadors (en contraposició als propietaris de negocis) ha anat disminuint des de fa dècades:

Mentre que les elits segueixen vendre'ns les virtuts econòmiques de la globalització i la immigració massiva, els guanys estan fluint principalment als rics propietaris de terra i capital, que arriben a la privatització dels guanys i socialitzar les pèrdues.

els treballadors ordinaris, per contra, han estat en gran part deixat enrere, experimentant un creixement d'ingressos feble, l'augment dels nivells de deute, el deteriorament de la disponibilitat d'habitatges, l'empitjorament de la congestió, i en general la disminució d'habitabilitat.

Aquests factors, per sobre de tots els altres, ajuden a explicar el sorgiment de moviments polítics marginals com,

• Brexit
• Donald Trump
• Una nació a la llar

És una guerra de classes ... 

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Declassified CIA documents reveals, plan to Destroy Syria for Oil Pipeline

by Claire BernishApril 11, 2017

from TheFreeThoughtProject Website

 

Geostrategically-crucial Syria has been at the center of a decades-long plot by the United States to depose the sovereign government and install one supportive of goals in the Middle East must be revisited - and quickly - before the beating of war drums drowns out the truth of our government's recently-espoused mission.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly castigated President Bashar al-Assad forordering a gruesome mass killing of civilianswith chemical weapons in Khan Sheikhoun.

This accusation, unsubstantiated due to lack of investigation, sparked a bolstering of support for the Syrian regime from both Moscow and Tehran.

Were the account of an ordered chemical weapons attack to prove unassailably true - and Assad isn't exactly known for being a gentle despot - Trump could have handily earned a congressional green light and perhaps approval from NATO to obliterate Syrian Arab Army forces responsible.

Perhaps...

Yet - images of deceased children, women, and men still echoing in shock waves around the planet - the reality show host-turned American President, tellingly, did neither.

Fifty-nine $1.87 million Tomahawk missiles raining down on a Syrian air base not long after the ostensive toxic gassing answered with finality whether Trump would fall in line with a succession of pompously bellicose presidents - as well as whether the neocon political establishment's longstanding mission to forcibly bend Syria to its will.

"Syria at present has a hammerlock on US interests both in Lebanon and in the Gulf - through closure of Iraq's pipeline thereby threatening Iraqi internationalization of the war.

The US should consider sharply escalating the pressures against Assad through covertly orchestrating simultaneous military threats against Syria from three border states hostile to Syria:

• Iraq
• Israel
• Turkey"

While the preceding bears the names of leaders and nations familiar to current headlines, that assessment, cogently titled, "Bringing Real Muscle to Bear Against Syria," from former CIA officer Graham Fuller in actuality discusses Syria under Assad's predecessor - his father, Hafez al-Assad - and is dated September 14, 1983, amid the Iran-Iraq War.

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"Bringing Real Muscle to Bear Against Syria"

Fuller's analysis, points out evinces Assad as a nuisance hindering American empire's lust to control vast fossil fuel stores and protect ally, Israel, against multiple threats in the Middle East.

Destabilization of Iraq and Iran also features prominently in the intricate U.S. plan to deal with the irritant, elder Assad - who, incidentally, recognized Western ulterior motives for what they were.

As the six-page above document continues,

Syria continues to maintain a hammerlock on two key U.S. interests in the Middle East:

• Syrian refusal to withdraw its troops from Lebanon ensures Israeli occupation in the south

• Syrian closure of the Iraqi pipeline has been a key factor in bringing Iraq to its financial knees, impelling it towards dangerous internationalization of the war in the Gulf.

Diplomatic initiatives to date have had little effect on Assad who has so far correctly calculated the play of forces in the area and concluded that they are only weakly arrayed against him.

If the U.S. is to rein in Syria's spoiling role, it can only do so through the exertion of real muscle which will pose a vital threat to Assad's position and power.

With Iraq seeking to enjoin support internationally in the war, the U.S. had to scramble to prevent the shutdown of a pipeline - a dilemma Fuller suggests could be alleviated through a change in narrative to present Syria as a more deviant enemy than even Iran.

That, alone, would have changed the face of the war bearing the names of the two principal adversaries:

• Sunni majority, Iraq
• Syria-allied, Shi'a, Iran

Fuller asserted,

"The US should consider urging Iraq to take the war to the other key source of its predicament: Syria."

Further, he continued,

"The US should consider sharply escalating the pressures against Assad [Sr.] through covertly orchestrating simultaneous military threats against Syria from three border states hostile to Syria: Iraq, Israel and Turkey.

Iraq, perceived to be increasingly desperate in the Gulf war, would undertake limited military (air) operations against Syria with the sole goal of opening the pipeline.

Although opening war on a second front against Syria poses considerable risk to Iraq, Syria would also face a two-front war since it is already heavily engaged in the Bekaa, on the Golan and in maintaining control over a hostile and restive population inside Syria.

"Israel would simultaneously raise tensions along Syria's Lebanon front without actually going to war.

Turkey, angered by Syrian support to Armenian terrorism, to Iraqi Kurds on Turkey's Kurdish border areas and to Turkish terrorists operating out of northern Syria, has often considered launching unilateral military operations against terrorist camps in northern Syria.

Virtually all Arab states would have sympathy for Iraq.

"Faced with three belligerent fronts, Assad would probably be forced to abandon his policy of closure of the pipeline. Such a concession would relieve the economic pressure on Iraq, and perhaps force Iran to reconsider bringing the war to an end.

It would be a sharpening blow to Syria's prestige and could effect the equation of forces in Lebanon."

In context, then-President Ronald Reagan faced pressure both to insert military power in Lebanon - a theater of stated neutrality for the U.S. - and to prohibit actual military assistance in the fraught regional entanglement.

That is, until a suicide bomber decimated a U.S. Marines barracks encamped at an airport in Beirut, killing hundreds - just one month subsequent to the date on Fuller's Syria action plan.

Micah Zenko, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) - an albeit establishment - and Deep State-connected think tank - in "When America Attacked Syria,"wrote in 2012:

"The October 23, 1983, suicide truck bombing of the Marine barracks at the Beirut International Airport would kill 241 U.S. military personnel; simultaneously, another suicide bomber killed fifty-eight French servicemen of the MNF several kilometers away.

(Two weeks later, yet another truck bomb exploded in the Israeli military headquarters in Tyre, killing sixty.)

A FBI forensics assessment called the Marine barracks bombing the 'biggest non-nuclear explosion since World War II.'

According to a Pentagon commission formed to investigate the attack, it was 'tantamount to an act of war using the medium of terrorism.'

Within weeks, the CIA determined that,

'the bombings… of the United States and French MNF headquarters were carried out by Shia radicals, armed, trained, and directed by Syria and Iran'."

That the CIA - master meddler in the affairs of sovereign nations - determined fault for the bombings rested with Syria and Iran left both plausibly responsible, with public perception largely following suit.

That a situation eerily similar - in behind-the-scenes string-pulling and long-term U.S. commitment to deposing an Assad from rule in Syria - appears to be playing out nearly three-and-a-half decades later, bellows resoundingly on failures of interventionist foreign policy.

Or, perhaps, its successes.

"Such a threat must be primarily military in nature.

At present there are three relatively hostile elements around Syria's borders:

• Israel
• Iraq
• Turkey

Consideration must be given to orchestrating a credible military threat against Syria in order to induce at least some moderate change in its policies," Fuller explained in the document.

"This paper proposes serious examination of the use of all three states – acting independently – to exert the necessary threat. Use of any one state in isolation cannot create such a credible threat."

Syria is now a landmine for the Trump administration - as it has been in varying intensity for a lengthy succession of presidents before.

To make proud the neocon war-hawks ravenous to rain missiles upon Assad's forces would duly emblazon the already blood-tinged U.S. government as chief aggressor in a conflict that had been nearing resolution - if not, ultimately, the catalyst for the third world war.

To withdraw militarily and negotiate a reasonable conclusion to the quagmire in Syria, would mean admitting defeat in the removal of Assad - as well as a black eye from the propaganda-suckered who find solace in the Western policy of killing people to teach people killing people is wrong.

In fact, for Trump and his ilk to save face over Syria and prevent the increasing likelihood of direct military conflict with Russia seems an impossibility at this late hour.

In only the past week, incessant drums of war reached a frenetic and dizzying pace - met only by furious uproar over yet another theater of war - despite Syria unofficially having been precisely that for the United States for decades.