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Monday, September 26, 2016
West still arming Al-Nusra in Syria, peace almost impossible – Russia’s UN envoy
The Al-Nusra Front in Aleppo keeps receiving tanks and heavy
weapons shipped by their Western backers as the US turns a blind
eye, Russia’s envoy to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, told the Security
Council. He added that securing peace "is almost an impossible task
now."
Al-Nusra Front is currently the most powerful group fighting against
the government in Aleppo, with 2,000 out of 3,500 militants in the city
the group’s members.
“They are armed by tanks, APCs, field artillery, multiple rocket
launchers… dozens and dozens of units, including heavy weaponry…
Of course, they couldn’t have made this equipment themselves. All of
this has been received by them and is still being shipped to them by
generous Western backers, with the US, presumably, turning a blind
eye,” Churkin said.
According to the Russian envoy, the Al-Nusra Front militants use the
civilian population of Aleppo as human shields while indiscriminately
attacking residential areas in the city controlled by the Syrian
government.
“Over 200,000 residents of Aleppo are hostages of the Al-Nusra Front
and groups allied with it, ” Churkin said.
The terrorists are the main reason why attempts to deliver
humanitarian aid to Aleppo have failed, contradicting accusations by
the US, which blames Russia and Damascus, he said.
Moscow’s experience of giving concessions to the Syrian rebels
following requests from the US, in the hope of it culminating in a
ceasefire has not worked, Churkin told the Security Council adding
that Moscow will no longer be following these steps.
Vitaly Churkin said that Russia has pressured Damascus on several
occasions to meet the demands of its opponents, in the hope that this
would lead to a ceasefire. However, this has not had the desired result
and has seen constant violations by some rebel groups despite
Washington's promise to keep them under control.
“The American side de facto signed that it was unable to influence the
groups it sponsors and to deliver on the deal as it promised. First of
all, to separate those groups from terrorists and mark their positions
on the ground accordingly,” he said.
He added that the actions of the US-led coalition, which killed 62
Syrian government soldiers in a miscalculated airstrike near Deir ez-
Zor and exposed them to an offensive by the terrorist group Islamic
State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) damaged relations with Damascus.
He dismissed criticism of the Syrian army, expressed at the Security
Council meeting by the US, France and the UK, over the latest
offensive in eastern Aleppo.
Churkin also turned down statements made by his US counterpart
Samantha Power, who said Russia had to prove that it genuinely has
intentions of bringing peace to Syria, saying the other parties also
have to prove they are willing to take steps towards achieving a
ceasefire.
“The ceasefire can only be salvaged now on a collective basis. It's
not us that have to prove something to somebody unilaterally. We
have to see proof that there is a genuine desire to separate US-allied
rebel groups from the Al-Nusra Front, then destroy the Al-Nusra Front
and bring the opposition into a political process. Otherwise our
suspicions that this was only meant to shield the Al-Nusra Front
would only grow stronger. ”
The UN Security Council meeting was convened at the request of the
US, the UK and France to discuss the escalation of violence in Syria,
after a ceasefire agreement, which was negotiated by Russia and the
US had expired. The three countries accused Russia and Syria of
causing civilian suffering in Aleppo, but did not mention the role
played by armed groups opposing Damascus, which control large
portions of the city.
China took a neutral stance and called on the revival of the ceasefire
and facilitation of humanitarian aid to Aleppo, without accusing any
party for the violence. The Chinese envoy stressed that counter-
terrorism effort is an essential part for resolving the Syrian conflict.
The Syrian envoy said Damascus was determined to take the whole of
Aleppo under its control and dismissed accusations of indiscriminate
attacks against civilians and the use of incendiary weapons, which
the US voiced against the Syrian army.
UN's special envoy for Syria reported to the Council that the
conditions in the contested city are deteriorating and that it needs
relief as soon as possible.
After the UN Security Council meeting, Churkin was asked by the press
if the Syrian peace talks between Moscow and Washington were
“dead” after recent developments.
“I don’t think so,” he replied, but added: “The situation is very
difficult.”
“We made our position clear. We need a serious process without
trickery, without people changing their demands every two days. We
had an agreement and the only thing required was fulfilling it without
changing stances,” the envoy said.
If Washington “continues acting in the same manner, it will be difficult
to have a serious peace process,” he warned.
The US and its allies aren’t paying enough attention to the violations
by the Syrian opposition because in that case “we would find that
there aren’t really any moderates” among them, former US diplomat
Jim Jatras told RT.
“You have group like al-Zenki that cut the head of a Palestinian kid
two weeks ago and was accused of using chlorine gas; Ahrar al-
Sham, which is another jihadist group that chased the Americans out
of northern Syria,” he said.
According to Jatras, Washington is failing to keep its promise to
persuade the opposition to obide with the ceasefire because “frankly, I
don’t think [the US] have that much influence.”
“It’s part of a problem that the US has had in repeated wars where we
have supported Wahhabist terrorist groups,” including Libya and
Afghanistan, where previously backed militants eventually turned
against the Americans, Jatras said.
One of the key problems that makes the current situation in Syria
particularly difficult is the fact that there are actually no moderate
opposition groups, as various rebel groups are in fact controlled by
several powerful terrorist organizations, Willy van Damme, a Belgian
journalist who has closely followed the Syrian crisis, told RT.
“The problem is that Al Qaeda controls the rebels together with some
other terrorist groups. As long as it continues, it is useless to talk
about the ceasefire, it is useless to talk about a political solution – it
will not happen,” van Damme said.
He also added that even “Col. Steve Warren, the spokesman for the US
Army fighting Islamic State in Baghdad, said on April 26 that the
eastern part of Aleppo is controlled by Al Qaeda.” At the same time,
van Damme stressed that “Western governments and western media
do not pay any attention in reality to what the so called rebels… do.”
iphone 7's ugly smart battery case
As expected, Apple has released an updated
iPhone Smart Battery Case alongside the
release of the iPhone 7. As expected it
addresses the key issue of the 4.7 inch iPhone
not having enough battery power to make it
through a decent day’s work. And as expected,
upgrading users who have the iPhone 6 Smart
Battery Case will have to decide if they want to
sacrifice the new optical image stabilised
camera, or hand over another ninety-nine
dollars to Apple just to get the same
functionality they already have with the
existing case.
All of which sums up the latest iPhone
experience in a nutshell. Take last year’s
model, tweak it just enough so everyone feels
the need to upgrade to the latest model, and
rely on a bigger number in the specification
sheet to make it feel ‘new’ while retaining the
same functionality.
With so much time spent talking about the
choice of colors and finish on the iPhone 7, this
would have been a good time to tweak the
design of the Battery Case to something that
looked attractive, alluring, and Apple-like.
Unfortunately the case still looks like a rushed
school science project.
Yes the functionality of the battery case is
there, but the form of the case still looks
improvised. There are no clean lines, the
battery pack projects out like an awkward
balcony, and the charging LED is still on the
inside of the case and not visible when the
iPhone is in situ. Annoyingly, the new case
makes no accommodation for the iPhone 6 or
iPhone 6S.
In the past, Apple has sweated the small
details. To take one example the centre of the
speaker holes, lightning port, and the 3.5mm
headphone jack (when it was present) all line
up along a single axis. Because Apple has
moved the centre point of the camera lens, the
cutout for the larger camera housing on the
iPhone 7 Smart Battery Case still obscures the
lens on the iPhone 6 and 6S. The same is true
going in the opposite direction – pop the
iPhone 7 into the older generation of Smart
Battery Cover and the camera lens is once
more obscured.
Saturday, September 24, 2016
Actor Richard Hong found dead at George Stroumboulopoulos's LA home CBC.ca
The body of Canadian
actor Richard Hong was found early Friday
morning at a Los Angeles home rented by
George Stroumboulopoulos. Los Angeles police
said Hong, 41, died of blunt force trauma.