USA And The Future Of The World -II

[Husky]

Not about the US. Still, "world" and stuff.



1. theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/belarus-to-pull-out-diplomats-from-sweden/story-fn3dxix6-1226446266808

Belarus to pull out diplomats from Sweden

From: AAP August 08, 2012 9:48PM



BELARUS is withdrawing its remaining embassy staff from Sweden in a widening rift over a pro-democracy stunt involving an air drop of teddy bears on its territory.

Citing what it called an "aggravation" of the diplomatic conflict by Stockholm, the Belarussian foreign ministry also gave Stockholm until August 30 to remove all its diplomats from Minsk.



"The Belarussian side is forced to take a decision to recall its diplomatic staff from Sweden and return its employees to Belarus," the foreign ministry said in a statement. It stressed however it was not severing diplomatic ties with Sweden.



Last week Belarus expelled Sweden's ambassador, accusing him of trying to "destroy" ties with the ex-Soviet state run by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko.

(Despite the reports from the yanks further below, this is the real reason. US/EU wants the nearer eastern-Europe to break ties with Mother Russia.)



Stockholm retaliated immediately, saying it would not welcome a new ambassador named by Minsk to replace an envoy who left the post several weeks ago, and withdrew residency permits for two Belarus diplomats who were asked to leave the Scandinavian country.



...The diplomatic crisis comes after Swedish activists said they had illegally flown a plane into Belarus last month and dropped hundreds of teddy bears attached to little parachutes carrying signs calling for freedom of speech and human rights.





Little evidence of the drop surfaced besides one viral video showing a plane pass over what seems to be a provincial town releasing tiny objects and a photo of a bear holding a tiny placard.

Actually, there's a lot of proof for the Drop Of The Lecturing Teddy Bears, including 2 photos put up just below.



But why is Sweden lecturing? Isn't it famous as one of the major destinations for the traffick of countless ex-Soviet underage girls and women? They're trafficked to paedophilia and prostitution centres in Sweden and elsewhere in the western christoworld, after all. I mean, even that IIRC western-christist fundamentalist Swede, oh what's his face, Lukas Moodysson, had to make the movie "Lilya-4-Ever"* about a Ukrainian or Belarusian girl - the Lilya of the title - who IIRC gets trapped by a dude she thinks she's in love with ["love jihad"] into "eloping" with him to first-world Sweden from her 2nd-world ex-Soviet country. And there he strands her in the first-world hell-hole. <- You know, the side of it that the teddy bears forgot to advertise.

Sweden is one of the last places on the planet that should be lecturing anyone about human rights. If Belarusian President Lukashenko decided he wanted to put Sweden et al in their place, he should just reach for the official figures of kidnapped E European kids and women trafficked to Sweden etc. That should shut *everyone* up. (Besides, it's a topic that really needs to be brought to light more.)



But uh... what was it? "Human rights"? Yes, ex-Soviet nations know *all* about human rights abuses.



*Naturally, I don't recommend Lilya-4-ever: it turns a very real and serious tragedy affecting millions of kids and women across the globe - who usually get kidnapped into the west, btw - into a movie that's an underlying advert for jeebusism. Yet christians studiously avoid making movies about the institutionalised paedophilia within their own churches, schools and homes and are content with exposing paedophilia and trafficking in Europe/US from a more "general" setting. Methinks christians focus outside of themselves in order to deflect their own identical issue.





Anyway, back to the news:



2. bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19176432

8 August 2012 Last updated at 10:25 GMT





[photo caption:] The PR firm released a picture of the bears "in training"



Belarus-Sweden teddy bear row escalates



Belarus has taken strong diplomatic action against Sweden following a stunt involving parachuted teddy bears.



Sweden says all of its diplomats have been expelled from Belarus, which has also closed its embassy in Stockholm.



Belarus was angered when a Swedish public relations firm dropped about 800 teddy bears with pro-democracy messages from a light aircraft.



President Alexander Lukashenko sacked his air defence chief and head of border guards over the 4 July incident.



He told their replacements not to hesitate to use force to stop any future air intrusions from abroad.



...

And look at how the yanks (and the ex-confederates) report it, as if the pettyness is all on the Belarusian side (whose real crime is that they didn't relent into siding with US/Europe against Russia, for which crime they're painted as "anti-human rights fundamentalists"):



3. news.yahoo.com/belarus-orders-sweden-close-embassy-112704150.html

Belarus orders Sweden to close its embassy

By LOUISE NORDSTROM | Associated Press

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Belarus has ordered Sweden to close its embassy in Minsk by the end of the month, a move that comes only days after Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's regime forced the Swedish ambassador out of the country.



The dispute is the latest in a series of diplomatic spats between Belarus and Western nations, especially European Union states that have taken steps against the ex-Soviet country and its longtime leader, Lukashenko, over its stifling of human rights.



The move comes days after Belarus expelled Sweden's ambassador to Minsk for allegedly irritating authorities by meeting with the country's opposition and providing a university with books containing material about human rights issues. In turn, Sweden said it would not allow entry for the incoming Belarusian ambassador to Stockholm and by asking two Belarusian diplomats to leave the Nordic country.



Sweden's Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said Wednesday that Lukashenko's "fear of human rights (is) reaching new heights," by deciding to also kick out Sweden's six envoys there.



Lukashenko has ruled Belarus, a nation of 10 million, since 1994, repressing opposition groups and independent news media while preserving a quasi-Soviet economy with about 80 percent of industry in state hands. He has earned the nickname in the West of "Europe's last dictator."



The expulsion also comes weeks after a pair of Swedish activists were reported to have used a light plane to drop hundreds of teddy bears bearing messages supportive of human rights into Belarusian territory.



Lukashenko fired two generals over the incident. Bildt, however, have said there was no word that the teddy bears were linked to the expulsion.

4. worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/03/13107289-belarus-sweden-kick-out-ambassadors-as-teddy-bear-war-heats-up?lite

Belarus, Sweden kick out ambassadors as teddy bear war heats up





[photo caption:] The teddy bears — 879 of them — landing by parachute in a residential area in Minsk, Belarus, on July 4, the country's Independence Day.

(Reminiscent of the choice of timing of papal invasions I mean visits to unconverted nations.)



By M. Alex Johnson, NBC News

Sweden and Belarus are locked in a diplomatic war over hundreds of cute, fuzzy teddy bears — a threat so menacing that two Belarusan generals have been fired and the countries have rejected each other's ambassadors.



M. Alex Johnson is a reporter for NBC News. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.

The strife over the stuffies began July 4 — which is also Belarus' Independence Day.



A light plane flew over Minsk from Sweden and dropped 879 teddy bears, which carried pro-democracy messages. Sweden has long been open about its desire to see democracy take root in Belarus, a former Soviet republic led by a Soviet-style strongman, Alexander Lukashenko.

(You know, like Norway's meddling in support of the christo-LTTE. Etc.)



Belarus didn't publicly acknowledge the airdrop until last week, when Lukashenko criticized military authorities for allowing the plane to enter Belarusan air space and carry out its "provocation."





After that, action was swift: Lukashenko fired the generals in charge of air defense and the border patrol Tuesday, and authorities arrested two civilians — a journalism student who put pictures of the teddy bears on his website and a property manager who offered an apartment to the plane's Swedish pilots, two pro-democracy advertising agents.

(Since when does a property manager just "offer" an appartment to people - and "coincidentally" to foreigners bent on causing civil unrest, what's more? Don't know about the student journo, but my guess is that that property manager is just a strategically placed bought-and-paid for individual.)



The two men were accused of assisting border violators and face up to seven years in prison if convicted, said Amnesty International, which declared them prisoners of conscience.





Lukashenko ordered his new border guard chief to "stop any and all air intrusions "by all force and means, including weapons, regardless of anything," Reuters reported.

"The border guards must prove their loyalty to the fatherland," he said.



Friday, the Swedish Foreign Ministry claimed that Belarus had expelled its ambassador, Stefan Eriksson, in retaliation for the airdrop, calling it "a serious breach of the norms for relations between states."



Belarus denied that it had expelled the diplomat — it said it had merely decided "not to renew his accreditation" because "his activities were aimed not at the strengthening of relations between Belarus and Sweden, but on their erosion."



In a statement, Sweden responded with its own tat for Belarus' tit:



"The Embassy of Belarus in Stockholm will be informed during the day that the proposed new Belarus Ambassador is not welcome here and that the residence permits in Sweden of two of its representatives will be withdrawn."



The latest move by Belarus — which said it would be "forced to react adequately" — was still awaited Friday afternoon.

Western European condescension to the "2nd world" is amazing. They feel they need to "teach" Belarus about what "human rights" mean. Tsss. But nice to see Witrusland not taking any of the crap.

(Unlike the christogovt in India, the Belarusian govt is at least not some hired puppet govt working for alien interests. Sigh. Belarus' govt may be a dictatorship but at least its primary interests seem to be the nation itself. The tyrannical Indian govt is a foreign-installed pseudo-democratic dictatorship, whose interest is everyone *except* the native populace. A tale of 2 dictatorships.)