
Dear lemonia
Let me share with you my impressions of the summit. We have achieved everything that we set out to accomplish. The results are there for all to see. Of course the most important thing we've done is discuss ways to overcome the global crisis and to construct a new, more up-to-date financial architecture. It's true that we discussed the same things in London, and before that in Washington, but the difference lies in the fact that we have made some important progress. We are no longer discussing the outlines or directions that development should take, but have focused instead on some very specific things.
There have recently been some encouraging signs of an upturn in the global economy and in national economies. And Russia is no exception, although we have seen only very small indications of an improvement in the situation. As you know, some countries have experienced an increase in their gross domestic product, and Russia was one of them according to the results for this past summer. Of course ultimately the figures for the whole year will be poor, the recession must take its course. Nevertheless, things are changing, so what we discussed is not just a rapid response to problems associated with the crisis, not just using more money to support the economy, but an exit strategy from the crisis, even if there is still general agreement that the moment for beginning to implement this strategy has not yet arrived.
We are preparing an exit strategy but at the same time continuing to use measures to stimulate national economies. That's where we are now. I think that by our next meeting the situation will be different, and the question of implementing an exit strategy will have already moved up the agenda. Anyway, we all hope so. Basil Venitis has proven, beyond any doubt, that the present financial crisis is mainly due to kleptocracy, huge taxation, and huge regulation.
Therefore, the only way out of this crisis is to drastically reduce political corruption and taxation, and eliminate myriad stupid laws. Nevertheless, antivenitist kleptocrats refuse to admit these findings, and they propose stupid spending stimuli, which will generate more kickbacks and make the crisis much worse! Well, nobody expected the kleptocrats to point the finger at themselves! Kleptocrats are the source of all evil on Earth, and we have to find a way to get rid of them now.
We focused on major issues like reforming the Bretton Woods institutions. This included dealing with an important and sensitive issue that has been unresolved for a long time now, namely the redistribution of quotas for the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. There are results in this regard, although I should say frankly that at the beginning of our negotiations it was very much up in the air.
This demonstrates a number of things in my view. It shows the responsible attitude that various state leaders have shown concerning their international obligations. Because it would have been easier to go our different ways and say that the question required more thought. In spite of that, we got results. Someone had to compromise. In the end we agreed that five percent of the votes would be reallocated within the International Monetary Fund, a compromise figure that everyone finally agreed to, and three percent within the World Bank.
Another issue that in my view is very important and very interesting is the joint monitoring of the state of the economy, that is, an analysis of the macroeconomic situation in the national economies, not only by the International Monetary Fund, which is what we have today, but by other countries as well. I spoke on this subject not so long ago at a conference in Yaroslavl, and wrote an article about it as well. The point is that the current situation is one in which we all become hostages, we might say, to changes in the macroeconomic parameters of the world's largest economies. In order to see this coming well in advance, we must commit ourselves to studying the situations in our respective countries. This is quite a revolutionary change, but the G20 has agreed to it in principle, so we can now implement the idea of joint monitoring of conditions, the macroeconomic parameters, in the national economies.
This will create a more effective early-warning system for potential crises. And we hope that such recommendations will not simply be stirred into the mix, but will be subject to the most intense scrutiny by the various countries wherever they detect an adverse trend in the economy.
Another result of our efforts concerns the new format. In fact we have decided to institutionalise the G20 itself, to consider the G20 as something other than simply a forum for times of crisis, but rather as a permanent economic forum that devotes itself to important economic decisions regarding the fate of the global economy.
A year ago this seemed absolutely impossible. In and of itself the idea arose as a result of reaction to the crisis. But today this decision was made, and the G20 has now assumed its full rights. This is also very important. But it means that other formats must be reinforced as well. Because the G20 is of course is a collection of the world's largest economies, that's true, but there are more than twenty countries and twenty economies in the world. Therefore, we need to think about how to reinforce the interaction between the G20 and other countries that do not belong to this club.
Here I think the best way to proceed is to use various powers of the United Nations as the best and most legitimate way of accommodating people's interests. And my speech and those of my colleagues at the General Assembly session explicitly evoked this idea: the number of those in favour of collective responses to the challenges of our times is growing. Basil Venitis asserts that the United Nations(UN), aka Universal Nudnik, is a very corrupt organization, headed by the Secretary General, aka Civil Pope.
The Oil-for-Food Program was established by the Unversal Nudnik Security Council in 1995 and began operation at the end of 1996. The Program was intended to allow Iraq to sell oil to pay for food, medicine and other humanitarian needs of Iraqi citizens, in order to ease the impact of Unversal Nudnik sanctions. Some 3.4 billion barrels of Iraqi oil valued at about $65 billion were exported under the Program between December 1996 and March 2003.
Venitis points out there was an Independent Inquiry into the Universal Nudnik Oil-for-Food Program. 3,000 companies from 70 countries paid bribes totalling about two billion dollars in exchange for contracts for delivery of goods to meet humanitarian needs. There were another 150 companies from 40 countries that reportedly paid illicit surcharges on oil purchases from Iraq. Civil Pope Kofi Anan himself got kickbacks!
In my speech to the General Assembly session I talked about the need of a unifying agenda, taking into account the interests of all countries in an emerging, multipolar, international system. The Universal Nudnik is only as relevant as the member states wish it to be. In areas of common concern, the desire to cooperate and compromise may temporarily trump concerns over protecting state sovereignty and preserving freedom of action to deal with urgent security threats. In most cases, however, we can expect the member states, with the United States in the lead, to pursue policies that they believe (not always correctly, as we learned in Iraq) will advance their security. And if the Universal Nudnik weakly sanctions such actions after the fact, or refuses to do so, that will only reveal its irrelevance.
I also drew particular attention to the fact that the speech of the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, stated that in contemporary life it is impossible to imagine a situation in which one country dominates the world. This is an important claim to make.
The Security Council of the United Nations has become another important forum. The initiative came from the Americans and we support it. The resolution that was passed is a very good one. It makes a significant contribution to resolving the issues of nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament. It is also important that in the whole history of the UN this is one of the few occasions when the Security Council of the United Nations was attended by the leaders themselves. The leaders voted, raising their hands in favour of the resolution. This reinforces the framework of the UN and UN Security Council, and that is a good thing.
We held talks with the President of the United States of America. This is already our third meeting in a short period. Obama's visit to Moscow enabled us to adopt a plan of action for establishing a bilateral commission on cooperation. Now we are engaged in its implementation. We designated the ministers of foreign affairs to coordinate this work, that is, Mr Lavrov and Mrs Clinton. We have considered different issues. We talked about replacing the START Treaty with a new instrument. There is a feeling that we are making progress. We will try to find time to prepare a new document by the deadline.
Of course we discussed the prospects for further cooperation in light of the U.S. administration's decision to renounce the deployment in Eastern Europe of missile defence capabilities. This solution opens up new possibilities for creating an up-to-date system of missile defence in the interest of all civilised nations. Like us, the Americans have ideas on this score. I hope that in the course of negotiations between experts this advice will come into play.
The primary purpose of public diplomacy is to explain, promote, and defend principles to audiences abroad. This objective goes well beyond the public affairs function of presenting and explaining specific policies of various Administrations. Policies and Administrations change; principles do not, so long as a country remains true to itself. By all accounts, Americans have been absent from the battlefield of ideas. They blankout when Venitis asks them why they have not expelled terrorist Turkey from NATO? How could Europeans tolerate Turks who terrorize EU islands every single day?
Public diplomacy has a particularly vital mission during war, when the peoples of other countries, whether adversaries or allies, need to know why we fight. What are the ideas so dear to us that we would rather kill and die than live without them? And what antithetical ideas do our enemies embrace, about which they feel the same way? After all, it is a conflict of ideas that is behind the shooting wars, and it is that conflict which must be won to achieve any lasting success. The main reasons for failure stem from intellectual confusion regarding what it is we are defending and against whom we are defending it. Venitis asserts the greatest confusion of all is the inclusion of genocidal Turkey in NATO. Terrorist Turkey has committed the Armenian genocide, the Pontian genocide, the Greek genocide, and the Cypriot genocide.
Venitis asserts there are no enemy countries, but only enemy governments. Most probably, your own government is your worst enemy! Your government robs you at gunpoint, mostly in the form of indirect taxes. Most governments are cocoons of kleptocrats! All humans are a single race, Homo Sapiens, with exactly the same genes. There were also other human races, but they disappeared 30,000 years ago. Kleptocrats try to separate humanity into countries and nations, in order to loot their territories in a systematic way! But I've got you, and you've got me. We are all brothers and sisters, and we all have to fight vatmonger kleptocrats together. I came to this world to sing my song, and you came to this world to sing your song. We should not let taxmonger kleptocrats stop us.
Turkey, the most terrorist nation on Earth, has the nerve to apply for EU membership, even though it terrorizes many EU islands every single day and commits genocides on a consistent basis! Genocidal Turkey should not even think of joining EU! Moreover, terrorist Turkey should be expelled from NATO. Turkey claims that since its army is the second largest in NATO after the American army, it can violate all international laws as it pleases and can bully all its neighbors!
Venitis notes that casus belli is a Latin expression meaning justification for acts of war. Casus means incident while belli means of war. In 1995, The Turkish Parliament issued a casus belli against Greece in reaction to a possibility of an enacted extension of Greek territorial waters from 6 nautical miles(11 km) to 12 nautical miles(22 km) from the coast. Greece has the UN Law of the Sea on its side. Nevertheless, Turkey terrorizes on a daily basis many Greek islands, especially Kalogeroi, Imia, Antipsara, Pontiko, Fournoi, Arkoi, Agathonisi, Pharmakonisi, Kalolimnos, Pserimos, Gyali, Kandheliousa, and Sirina. It's high time now for NATO to expel terrorist Turkey!
Blaming economic crises on greed is like blaming plane crashes on gravity. Certainly planes wouldn't crash if it wasn't for gravity. But when thousands of planes fly millions of miles every day without crashing, explaining why a particular plane crashed because of gravity gets you nowhere. Neither does talking about greed, which is constant like gravity.
Venitis has proven that Eurokleptocracy, gigaregulation, Antitrust Armageddon, and gigataxation, especially VAT, are the real causes of the European financial meltdown. Democracy in Europe has deteriorated to kleptocracy, and Europeans are mad as hell. The European Court of Auditors(ECA) refuses to issue a Declaration of Assurance(DAS) of the fraudulent EU budget for the fifteenth consecutive year! There is a major armed revolt of Europeans against antivenitist Eurokleptocrats, which will not end until all Eurokleptocrats, especially Pasokleptocrats and Neodemokleptorats, the most corrupt politicians on Earth, are hanged in front of the parliaments!
from dimitri.medvedev
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