Results of the week. “We have the means! We don't have enough minds! ”
Part I. "Azazello asked not to worry ..."
Country of the Kuril Sun
This week, the great Japanese saga has received the continuation of how good it would be for the Land of the Rising Sun to have four Russian islands belonging to the Kuril Ridge. In Tokyo, a meeting was held between the deputy heads of the foreign affairs agencies of Russia and Japan, who were to prepare the visit of the Japanese prime minister Yoshihiko Noda at the end of the year to Moscow. At the same time, the Japanese side once again declared that it has every reason to continuebanquet talk on the topic of the transfer from Russia Iturup, Shikotan, Kunashir and Habomai in the bosom of Japan.
The specific points of the future meeting of the Russian president and the Japanese prime minister were prepared by the employees of the foreign ministries of the two countries, but not every time, but as soon as it comes to the very possibility of transferring the Kuril Islands to our samurai neighbors, some vague doubts start to torment the soul. What if the same Yoshihiko Noda has secret eastern mantras that can convince our gullible politicians that returning the islands under the Japanese warm wing is a correct and friendly step ... And what if Yoshihiko Noda can stand on the judo tatami against Vladimir Putin and will hold their crown "Tai-otoshi" or "O-soto-gari"?
In such a situation, one has to rely on the fact that the Russian president has his own trump cards in the arsenal with which he will cover any points of agreement that do not meet the standards of the integrity of the Russian state. And if there are no such trumps? And if Vladimir Putin managed to grab the full hand of the sixes during this time, who will be beaten with Japanese marked cards? Yes, this is a serious matter ... I do not want to think that after writing off debts to the poorest countries of the world in the amount of tens of billions of dollars, the universal virtue encompasses us, and we also thank the “poor” Japanese, badly damaged by Fukushima.
And in order for the thirsting “northern territories” of the shoguns to have no reason to hold their crown grabs and not to lay out before us a set of carefully selected trumps, you just need to carry out a preemptive maneuver. And what is the most effective maneuver in the current political realities? That's right - a referendum. You can even develop a question for such a referendum in the Kuril Islands: “Kurilians, do you want to leave the Kuril Islands forever and pass them to Tokyo?” And two answers: “No, I do not want” and “Yes, I do not want” ... Well, and then show to the Japanese, our trump card - they say, our referendum is for you - get it and sign it. We are very sorry, we may even have wanted to make concessions, but the Russian people are the source of power, and therefore - “call me lads”.
Calculator failed ...
During the week, the head of the Duma defense committee, Vladimir Komoyedov, took out his pocket calculator and decided to calculate the level of funding for the Russian army. It would seem that after the announced grandiose financing of the modernization of the Russian defense sphere there is nothing to count - everything is clear: a lot of money is allocated, thanks to everyone, everyone is happy ...
But Vladimir Petrovich, representing the Communist Party faction in the State Duma of the 6-th convocation, decided to double-check everything related to the amount of this financing. And it all came out for the most part, not with the prefix "re-", but by the incomprehensible kurguzy "under-". Perhaps, the calculator of the deputy Komoyedov was faulty, and maybe he worked simply on the basis of a certain Communist party program, which was not taken into account by all the funds allocated from the budget. As a result, according to the figures highlighted on the scoreboard, it turned out that already after a short period of time, the troops would experience a shortage of petroleum products for the needs of equipment and the lack of a large number of servicemen with a new uniform claiming "haute couture".
In general, some unimpressive calculations turned out at the deputy Komoyedov. Another thing is the calculations of the Ministry of Defense: everything there always converges with enviable accuracy, while the Anatoly Serdyukov’s office does not even allow errors: it is said to allocate a billion rubles in 2013 for new uniforms 12,68 a year. It is said to provide all military personnel with military uniform 30-35 thousand rubles per set - will provide. And it does not matter that when dividing the first by the second, only 35-40% security of the personnel of the new form comes out. Well, and who, in fact, said that it would be easy ... For those who don’t get the new form, they can just wait - walk in the old year or two; where it is necessary, a patchwork to sew, a needle “walk”. And why then in the army of specialists, forgive, for outsourcing hired. Let them deal with business too ...
And if problems arise with patches and waiting, then you can simply save on beer and buy a new uniform yourself so that the troops do not look like a black sheep ... In general, the Ministry of Defense has a classical scheme: the first point is for Anatoly Eduardovich to always agree. point two - if it does not converge, then equal, ss-peacefully, see point one. And after all, this main rule should be well known to Vladimir Komoyedov himself. So, the Defense Ministry should urgently present Vladimir Petrovich for the next holiday with a new nominal calculator that will not drive a person into strange thoughts ...
Sprats virus for NATO
We have long been accustomed to what we are called the main enemies of the West, which is why the messages from Brussels that came during the week that Russia, together with China and Iran, is the main cyber opponent of the North Atlantic alliance, in principle, were not surprised by anyone either. NATO is worried that Russian cyber specialists can disrupt the coordinated work of the computer systems of the alliance and thereby inflict a blow on the security of this “peacekeeping” office.
In order to further attract the attention of those who donate financial donations to the NATO fund, Brussels decided to conduct some kind of cyber attacks. According to the atlantists, some cybercriminals (guess which country) committed cyber attacks against the fraternal alliance of the state of Estonia and Hungary. By the way, Estonia from the moment of its entry into NATO has become a state where all kinds of attacks of potential opponents are practiced. Tallinn, Narva, Tartu and other Estonian cities with an enviable regularity are “attacked” by the enemy, and poor Estonian citizens, according to the plan, the authors of the script of these exercises, should reflect aggression with the citizens of other NATO countries.
This time the thief turned out to be shamelessly insidious and completely paralyzed the livelihoods in the Baltic republic. Hackers infected with terrible viruses (apparently, from the selection of “250 gold incurable viruses from Russian hacker”) everything: from the home laptop of the Estonian president to the game console of the Minister of Defense of the Republic. According to the scenario, these cyber naglings staged Estonia well, a real nightmare, disrupting the work of communication systems with a NATO military carrier flying “peacefully” in the blue skies of the Baltic states. The transport worker even suffered a crash, apparently falling on a strategic Estonian sprat production facility for the needs of NATO.
After such a turn of events, the alliance could not stay aside and, hissing slogans like “You will answer for Estonian sprats,” decided to strike back on hackers, including by military means. Apparently, the alliance fighters decided to strike at one of the Russian rural schools, from where sixth-grader Vasya Zyukin could launch the insidious sprat flu virus that landed the same NATO military transport plane ... It’s good that our education system is reliably protected even from antiviral attacks by NATO ...
In general, our NATO partners live happily - you will not say anything. After this, you can only advise Mr. Kaspersky to send a newsletter to NATO countries with a proposal to buy his anti-virus package, and then, apparently, the Estonian and Hungarian antivirus programs have not been updated for a long time, or they let it through. And so what will happen to these countries if the famous Iranian virus programs dopletut to them?!. Yes, every self-respecting Hungarian and Estonian will then say: Mom, give birth to me back ...
Modify file
This week one of the main armory The famous "Izhmash" became Russia's newsmakers. Just now news from this factory, which produces automatic, sniper and other small arms, came mostly, to put it mildly, not entirely positive. The scandal flared up around the fact that workers of one of the workshops of NPO Izhmash decided to hold a rally right on the territory of the enterprise, which was directed against an obscure decline in wages over the past period.
Representatives of the trade union claim that employees of the 103 workshop received for a month work on 5 thousand rubles of wages, which is more than 2 times lower than the average salary in all workshops of the arms factory. For obvious reasons, even the announced average salary in 11-12 thousand rubles at such a powerful enterprise looks unintelligible, but if it is also trimmed several times, then it smacks of a desire to receive a financial "bonus" in the accounting department to distort the gate of the products they produce ...
However, the management of the enterprise decided to justify itself before the financially offended factory workers and the public. It turns out that the workers of this very 103 workshop of “Izhmash” should also rejoice at the fact that they even paid at least something. The quality check of the products, which are regularly conducted at the Izhevsk enterprise, unexpectedly revealed that the quality of the products in the 103 workshop is low, and even the monthly plan was fulfilled only at 40%.
In this case, it is simply amazing how the workers managed to simply sabotage strategically important production with the whole workshop, while the staff of the other workshops fulfilled the plan and did not fail with the quality ... Maybe, only the undefiled dead beasts who work in the 103 workshop the trunk can not always be distinguished from the butt ... Maybe, for each rifle unit manufactured, the workers put the same anecdotal note “to modify the file” ... But if so, then where did the Izhmash management itself look, why ase not tsehoviki announced that it was time to push for the implementation of the plan and draw already, after all, attention to the quality of products: stop bending fun trunks for ...
One gets the impression that the leadership was drawn to the end: they say, let them stamp the marriage there, and we will take them, and we will cut the salary at the end of the month - let them know! .. But you could wait and wait a year, and at the end declare that The employees of the 103-th workshop worked very badly, and therefore, in general, the salaries are not worthy.
No, 5000 rubles is, of course, a lot for an armory plant ... So, maybe, a manual for this amount should be planted for at least a couple of months. In the end, if the marriage and non-fulfillment of the plan took place, then the directorate is no less to blame.
Kites against Swifts
During the week it became known that the commander of the Strizhi aerobatic team, Lieutenant Colonel Valery Morozov, was dismissed from military service. This was announced by Deputy Defense Minister Nikolai Pankov. The reason for Pankov’s dismissal was formulated as follows: Lieutenant Colonel Morozov was dismissed for unlawful actions incompatible with the rank of a Russian officer. What specific actions, we can only guess ...
Such a formulation will not allow Lieutenant Colonel Morozov to receive all payments due to the dismissed officer.
Recall that the personality of Valery Morozov appeared in connection with more than a strange case of extortion of funds from military personnel who are at the stage of dismissal from the Armed Forces, in exchange for the fact that they may not appear in the service. In addition, the scandal concerned such a person as Alexey Novikov, from whom Morozov allegedly demanded as many 5 thousand rubles for using the symbols of the Swifts on the distributed products.
In general, neither the Ministry of Defense, nor the Military Prosecutor’s Office ever received information about what motives were the reason for the dismissal of a high-profile pilot from the Russian Air Force. And if the information did not come, then it turns out that today any unintelligible slander (after all, the opposite, apparently, has not been proven, and if it is proved, it is certainly not presented in due form) can cause the release of any officer, and not only officer, from his post.
Well, it turns out that now no officer, even among brothers in arms, can go to a bath to go to steam. Suddenly, they will then be accused of seducing junior officers and extorting money for a bottle of foam ... And then go and prove that finding several naked men in the bath is not a fact of seduction by others - liberal laws, what can you do here ...
Today Valery Morozov is going to challenge the decision of the higher management in court, but here again he is plagued by vague doubts that our court will make a turning decision. There the judge in Bryansk already once made a decision about the governor ... Oh, and not just, apparently, she (the judge) will now have to work in close tandem with the executive authority of the famous partisan city, because Nikolai Denin, by will of the people, again became governor of the region ...
Part II. "And yet she spins!"
Chief of the discipline
"Plebeys" against partigenos
There is such a special British minister in Britain, whose position is called "parliamentary party organizer." In Soviet - party organizer. And if you approach the issue from a moral point of view, then - the mind, honor, conscience, and at the same time the discipline of the party. In this case - the Tories, commanded by Mr. Cameron.
This week, the English parttainer Andrew Mitchell became a former party organizer. "Ex", as they say in the West. Put a fat point in his career ... he himself.
A month ago, Mr. Mitchell decided to ride a bike through the main entrance of the Prime Minister’s residence, but the police didn't let he was sent to the gate for pedestrians. The spoiled party organizer, surprised that they objected to him and even sent him somewhere, covered the guards with obscenities, called them plebeians (translation option: cattle) and also told them to know their place.
After hearing nasty things from the minister responsible for discipline, the offended senior sergeant, did not “wrap around”, but filed a report to his immediate superiors. There is freedom of speech in Britain, and the report from the chief’s desk flashed to the media.
At first, Mitchell denied accusations of unprintable abuse. Later, he changed his tactics and confessed that yes, this is his own indecent words: “I thought you guys should ... help us” (“I thought you guys were supposed to f… ing help us”). Self-reckoning in the swearing, partigenosseus apologized to the police, but did not admit that he cursed the representatives of law and order "plebeians."
British press offers and a more exotic version of Mitchell’s address to the police, which was witnessed not only by law enforcement officers, but also by tourists: “You better know your ... place, you are not members of this ... government, you ... plebs”. Each dot means the next “fact” of the partigenog, who was thrown into the honest face of a senior police sergeant.
Confess Mitchell at once, the police would not initiate a trial. His own cowardice cost the party organizer of his warm place in the Cabinet.
The Police Federation of Great Britain took up the matter. She did not believe Mitchell, but took the side of the humiliated and offended. For a whole month, they pressed on the party through the press, and in the end he was forced to resign.
His chief commander, Cameron, said that the “political damage” that was inflicted on him was too great, and therefore he demanded his resignation.
The British Tory party organizers who see only one pleb around them do not even ask the Prime Minister, but demand it. Moreover, they consider not the policemen sent to “FAC” to be offended and dropped, but themselves, the loved ones. And so that the one who was retired was not alone, the family and colleagues in the Cabinet of Ministers were simultaneously credited to the victims. In the long list of victims of a complaint from a senior sergeant, only the queen is missing.
Every cricket know your hearth
Turkish Prime Minister announced the shift of the center of the world and decided to reform the UN
This week it became known that Turkey cannot stand aside when someone decides the fate of the world. Mr. R.T. Erdogan, speaking at the World Istanbul Forum, made two decisive futurological statements.
First, the Turkish Prime Minister She urged to United Nations reform. It seems that for a long time they did not let the peacemaking shepherds off the chain. And the truth: according to Erdogan, the UN is not able to resolve the crisis in Syria. Moreover, it is clear who in the organization muddies the water:
A little inconvenient: Syria borders Turkey, and a veto on the decisions of the Security Council imposes, say, China. Or there is Russia.
Erdogan also said:
This is completely inconvenient: after all, out of these 250.000, more than one hundred thousand have moved to Turkey.
True, the Turkish prime minister was silent about the fact that the inconveniences arising from both the decisions of the UN Security Council and the invasion of refugees are man-made. Moreover, the hands of this "character" suspiciously look like the hands of Mr. Erdogan himself. Do not help Turkey led by the Prime Minister in partnership with Saudi Arabia and Qatar Islamist "opposition" in Syria, refugees in Turkey would be much less. Perhaps, it would not exist at all, if one does not consider thugs or other gangsters who want to kindle pockets of democracy in the border areas for fifty bucks a month.
Secondly, Erdogan, disgraced, who, with his anti-Syrian aspirations, is somehow ignored in NATO and Washington, said at the Istanbul Forum that in the modern world, Western countries are no longer the only center.
We are observing nothing but historical the phenomenon of anothernavel of the earth contender for possession of the world axis. Give this navel the will, it will invade Syria - as part of the united UN and NATO, - and in the Security Council will veto the veto. What did you want? Previously, the USA was the hegemon, but then everyone learned about the sixteen trillion of their debt and the fact that almost all of their production was relocated to China. In the world economy, and at the same time in geopolitics, under the leadership of Medvedev, the BRICS countries were elevated. And now BRICS, as Mr. O'Neill, the creator of acronyms, said, is fading, and MIST is entering the arena. And the letter "T" is not Tajikistan and not even Turkmenistan. This is Turkey.
So know your placeplebeians former centers of the world.
One British minister, described above, also swaggered the other day, bulging his chest with a wheel and appealing to the policemen as “bydlu,” hinting at the significant difference between him and them. Every cricket know your hearth. But it so happened that the minister recognized his place.
So, Mr. Erdogan, who periodically calls on the Western countries in the form of the NATO coalition to help the Syrian democracy (suddenly forgetting about the newly formed umbilical cord - despite the apparent shift of the center of the world towards the Turkic peoples), the world’s rulers, gilded to leave their offices to leave, not going ...
Washington Baghdad is not a decree
Sow democracy - shook the power of the people
Iraq decided to buy weapons and military equipment from Russia for 4,2 billion dollars. Ten days ago, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki visited Moscow and the media learnedthat we are talking about several contracts, the largest of which are contracts for the supply of 30 (or 36) attack helicopters MI-28HE and 42 (or 48) ZRPK 96K6 "Armor-C1". The Americans did not like the cooperation of Iraq with Russia: after all, the newest contracts could lead Russia to 2-e place in the list of arms suppliers to Iraq. The US remains the first: they have 467 contracts worth 12,3 billion dollars.
Some analysts have decided that the Iraqi prime minister is looking for weapons where it is cheaper, others have expressed the opinion that Iraq demonstrates its independence to the shadow bosses from the White House, thus speaking to Obama and his followers: "Go, bye."
A couple of days later, al-Maliki clarified the situation. is he saidthat Washington will not be able to block the contract for the purchase of Russian weapons signed by Baghdad:
Exactly. It is not good, Comrade Prime Minister, to build politics based on the interests of another country. At the end of 1980, Gorbachev tried a similar “bilateral” approach to the cause of democracy - and where is the USSR now? And in Iraq, too, tried. Ate American democracy at the most do not indulge.
Washington in the person of vice president and head of the Pentagon made it clear Iraq, which is somehow not human: to re-arm its army without the consent of the US Department of Defense.
But are the Americans, sowing around their "values", not themselves to blame here?
Baghdad decided to intensify military-trade cooperation with Moscow after the head of the Senate’s international affairs committee, J. Kerry said, that it is necessary to stop the supply of American weapons to Iraq - because of the refusal of Baghdad to intercept an Iranian aircraft with military cargo en route to Syria.
Kerry blundered: put "values" ahead of profit. And the profit is about to go to Russia. The Obama administration’s business is doing very badly, which is why American “oilmen” now stand behind Romney and give him millions and millions of people to campaign.
Iraqi Prime Minister put quite clear:
Americans, of course, “for patrimony” are offended, but they will have to swallow a bitter pill, and so will “go down in the international arena” (© “The Red Heat”).
However, the deals have not been approved by the Iraqi parliament, and local assessors are not at all pleased with Russian arms. Other members of parliament count them.that, armed to the teeth, al-Maliki will ignite the flames of the internal conflict in Iraq, finally become friends with Iran, help Syria and complicate the country's relations with Turkey.
Time will tell how such a multi-purpose al-Maliki will behave, but one thing is already clear for one hundred percent: not the democracy that the American grain-growers expected to reap has started to work in Iraq.
“Our people cannot live in bunkers ...”
American dictatorship as an episode of the past
The other day, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called upon their relatives and beloved United States continue to support democracy in the Middle East. The outbreaks of violence in different countries should not stop democratization, she said. According to the head of the State Department, Washington’s attitude towards young democracies in countries that have survived the “Arab Spring” should not change after “acts of violence committed by few extremists.”
She acknowledged that the increased influence of Islamists in the Middle East and North Africa (in Libya, Tunisia and Egypt) posed a challenge to American interests. And to answer this very challenge (well, right on Toynbee), the United States must pursue an even more active policy in the region:
“It’s normal to do your job” is to implement an oil strategy. In the Middle East, there is where to profit energy. In the same Libya. Only here with democracy there is one complete inconvenience. Either the ambassador will be killed, or Shaaban tortured, or the city of Bani Walid will capriciously - so that you cannot even take yperite. There is, however, an option to make Yugoslavia out of Libya, starting with Cyrenaica, but you have to allocate another budget to this. And with budgets - green fuel revolutions - at the White House became tight. The Fed already has paint and paper running out ...
Hearing Hillary's call, Susan Rice, the US Permanent Representative to the UN, came out of her bunker. Echoing the formidable state secretary, at a meeting in the Security Council on Syria, she saidthat America will not wait for the decision of all members of the Security Council to be on the "right side of history":
And Rice quoted the words of her president: the future will not belong to the dictators.
Allow me, but no one is able to distinguish a dictator or a terrorist from an ordinary democrat in the USA.
Muammar Gaddafi. Saddam Hussein. Bashar Assad. Alexander Lukashenko. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Hugo Chavez. Or these comrades: Ayman al-Zawahiri and Osama bin Laden. Who among them is alive, who is dead? For the average American, this is one person in whom no, no, yes, Barack Hussein Obama will overlook.
In the US, 88% of Young Americans can not find Afghanistan on the map, 75% - Iran with Israel, and 63% - Iraq, a quarter of the population is not aware of the fact that the country is independent of the UK, and 41% considers China to be the leading economic power of the world. In America, they are conducting "their own investigation" - and they don’t want to know that Ambassador K. Stevens in Benghazi killed a type by the name of Ahmed Abu Hatalla, with the “regime” of Gaddafi isolated from society in prison. The fact that Human Rights Watch is also inconvenient for America unveiled evidence of the atrocities of the Libyan "revolutionaries" who tortured and killed Gaddafi and his 66 supporters in Sirte. Victoria Nuland only said that we are talking about alleged war crimes. She has already forgotten about the joyful "wow" of her boss Hillary, with whom she reacted to the news of the death of Gaddafi. Finally, the recent news that independent American researchers equated UAV attacks in Pakistan to acts of terrorism.
Knowledge and memory are inconvenient for "American values", because they devalue them.
As for the future, Susan Rice is right: the American dictatorship is a thing of the past. John Bolton, Mitt Romney’s foreign policy adviser, and сказал: “We are doing much worse ...”
May you live happily ever after
Unconstitutional!
Human rights and freedoms in the United States have taken another step forward. Thursday appeals court in New York ruled: the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman is contrary to the American constitution. If this decision is confirmed by the Supreme Court, then homosexuals will be able to celebrate a triumphal victory in the difficult task of advancing American values in their own country.
The plaintiff, 83-year-old Edith Windsor, argued that the law discriminated against same-sex marriage, thereby violating the US Constitution. Two out of three members of the panel of judges decided that this is the case: the concept of marriage should include traditional and homosexual unions.
If a claimant appears in court, stating that his union with a goat or a horse should also be equalized in rights with a traditional marriage, what will these judges answer to him? And if to those who freely interpret the Constitution, they will come to the light of necrophilia?
However, Mrs. (hm, or mr.) Windsor did not look this far. She went to sue for money. Her sexual partner, with whom she was legally married in Toronto, died in the 2009 year after many years of struggle with multiple sclerosis and left the spouse with a legacy for which Edith Windsor had to pay more than 300.000 income tax dollars.
Now, if the decision of the appeals instance is approved by the Supreme Court, the plaintiff will not only get back the money, but also open a new series of a long film about American freedoms.
* “We have the means! We do not have enough minds! ”- a phrase from the cartoon“ Three from Prostokvashino ”.
Country of the Kuril Sun
Sakura branch is sloping to the shoulder,
The rice field in the wind rustles.
How beautiful on the other side of the Russian Kuril Islands ...
The rice field in the wind rustles.
How beautiful on the other side of the Russian Kuril Islands ...
This week, the great Japanese saga has received the continuation of how good it would be for the Land of the Rising Sun to have four Russian islands belonging to the Kuril Ridge. In Tokyo, a meeting was held between the deputy heads of the foreign affairs agencies of Russia and Japan, who were to prepare the visit of the Japanese prime minister Yoshihiko Noda at the end of the year to Moscow. At the same time, the Japanese side once again declared that it has every reason to continue
The specific points of the future meeting of the Russian president and the Japanese prime minister were prepared by the employees of the foreign ministries of the two countries, but not every time, but as soon as it comes to the very possibility of transferring the Kuril Islands to our samurai neighbors, some vague doubts start to torment the soul. What if the same Yoshihiko Noda has secret eastern mantras that can convince our gullible politicians that returning the islands under the Japanese warm wing is a correct and friendly step ... And what if Yoshihiko Noda can stand on the judo tatami against Vladimir Putin and will hold their crown "Tai-otoshi" or "O-soto-gari"?
In such a situation, one has to rely on the fact that the Russian president has his own trump cards in the arsenal with which he will cover any points of agreement that do not meet the standards of the integrity of the Russian state. And if there are no such trumps? And if Vladimir Putin managed to grab the full hand of the sixes during this time, who will be beaten with Japanese marked cards? Yes, this is a serious matter ... I do not want to think that after writing off debts to the poorest countries of the world in the amount of tens of billions of dollars, the universal virtue encompasses us, and we also thank the “poor” Japanese, badly damaged by Fukushima.
And in order for the thirsting “northern territories” of the shoguns to have no reason to hold their crown grabs and not to lay out before us a set of carefully selected trumps, you just need to carry out a preemptive maneuver. And what is the most effective maneuver in the current political realities? That's right - a referendum. You can even develop a question for such a referendum in the Kuril Islands: “Kurilians, do you want to leave the Kuril Islands forever and pass them to Tokyo?” And two answers: “No, I do not want” and “Yes, I do not want” ... Well, and then show to the Japanese, our trump card - they say, our referendum is for you - get it and sign it. We are very sorry, we may even have wanted to make concessions, but the Russian people are the source of power, and therefore - “call me lads”.
Calculator failed ...
During the week, the head of the Duma defense committee, Vladimir Komoyedov, took out his pocket calculator and decided to calculate the level of funding for the Russian army. It would seem that after the announced grandiose financing of the modernization of the Russian defense sphere there is nothing to count - everything is clear: a lot of money is allocated, thanks to everyone, everyone is happy ...
But Vladimir Petrovich, representing the Communist Party faction in the State Duma of the 6-th convocation, decided to double-check everything related to the amount of this financing. And it all came out for the most part, not with the prefix "re-", but by the incomprehensible kurguzy "under-". Perhaps, the calculator of the deputy Komoyedov was faulty, and maybe he worked simply on the basis of a certain Communist party program, which was not taken into account by all the funds allocated from the budget. As a result, according to the figures highlighted on the scoreboard, it turned out that already after a short period of time, the troops would experience a shortage of petroleum products for the needs of equipment and the lack of a large number of servicemen with a new uniform claiming "haute couture".
In general, some unimpressive calculations turned out at the deputy Komoyedov. Another thing is the calculations of the Ministry of Defense: everything there always converges with enviable accuracy, while the Anatoly Serdyukov’s office does not even allow errors: it is said to allocate a billion rubles in 2013 for new uniforms 12,68 a year. It is said to provide all military personnel with military uniform 30-35 thousand rubles per set - will provide. And it does not matter that when dividing the first by the second, only 35-40% security of the personnel of the new form comes out. Well, and who, in fact, said that it would be easy ... For those who don’t get the new form, they can just wait - walk in the old year or two; where it is necessary, a patchwork to sew, a needle “walk”. And why then in the army of specialists, forgive, for outsourcing hired. Let them deal with business too ...
And if problems arise with patches and waiting, then you can simply save on beer and buy a new uniform yourself so that the troops do not look like a black sheep ... In general, the Ministry of Defense has a classical scheme: the first point is for Anatoly Eduardovich to always agree. point two - if it does not converge, then equal, ss-peacefully, see point one. And after all, this main rule should be well known to Vladimir Komoyedov himself. So, the Defense Ministry should urgently present Vladimir Petrovich for the next holiday with a new nominal calculator that will not drive a person into strange thoughts ...
Sprats virus for NATO
We have long been accustomed to what we are called the main enemies of the West, which is why the messages from Brussels that came during the week that Russia, together with China and Iran, is the main cyber opponent of the North Atlantic alliance, in principle, were not surprised by anyone either. NATO is worried that Russian cyber specialists can disrupt the coordinated work of the computer systems of the alliance and thereby inflict a blow on the security of this “peacekeeping” office.
In order to further attract the attention of those who donate financial donations to the NATO fund, Brussels decided to conduct some kind of cyber attacks. According to the atlantists, some cybercriminals (guess which country) committed cyber attacks against the fraternal alliance of the state of Estonia and Hungary. By the way, Estonia from the moment of its entry into NATO has become a state where all kinds of attacks of potential opponents are practiced. Tallinn, Narva, Tartu and other Estonian cities with an enviable regularity are “attacked” by the enemy, and poor Estonian citizens, according to the plan, the authors of the script of these exercises, should reflect aggression with the citizens of other NATO countries.
This time the thief turned out to be shamelessly insidious and completely paralyzed the livelihoods in the Baltic republic. Hackers infected with terrible viruses (apparently, from the selection of “250 gold incurable viruses from Russian hacker”) everything: from the home laptop of the Estonian president to the game console of the Minister of Defense of the Republic. According to the scenario, these cyber naglings staged Estonia well, a real nightmare, disrupting the work of communication systems with a NATO military carrier flying “peacefully” in the blue skies of the Baltic states. The transport worker even suffered a crash, apparently falling on a strategic Estonian sprat production facility for the needs of NATO.
After such a turn of events, the alliance could not stay aside and, hissing slogans like “You will answer for Estonian sprats,” decided to strike back on hackers, including by military means. Apparently, the alliance fighters decided to strike at one of the Russian rural schools, from where sixth-grader Vasya Zyukin could launch the insidious sprat flu virus that landed the same NATO military transport plane ... It’s good that our education system is reliably protected even from antiviral attacks by NATO ...
In general, our NATO partners live happily - you will not say anything. After this, you can only advise Mr. Kaspersky to send a newsletter to NATO countries with a proposal to buy his anti-virus package, and then, apparently, the Estonian and Hungarian antivirus programs have not been updated for a long time, or they let it through. And so what will happen to these countries if the famous Iranian virus programs dopletut to them?!. Yes, every self-respecting Hungarian and Estonian will then say: Mom, give birth to me back ...
Modify file
This week one of the main armory The famous "Izhmash" became Russia's newsmakers. Just now news from this factory, which produces automatic, sniper and other small arms, came mostly, to put it mildly, not entirely positive. The scandal flared up around the fact that workers of one of the workshops of NPO Izhmash decided to hold a rally right on the territory of the enterprise, which was directed against an obscure decline in wages over the past period.
Representatives of the trade union claim that employees of the 103 workshop received for a month work on 5 thousand rubles of wages, which is more than 2 times lower than the average salary in all workshops of the arms factory. For obvious reasons, even the announced average salary in 11-12 thousand rubles at such a powerful enterprise looks unintelligible, but if it is also trimmed several times, then it smacks of a desire to receive a financial "bonus" in the accounting department to distort the gate of the products they produce ...
However, the management of the enterprise decided to justify itself before the financially offended factory workers and the public. It turns out that the workers of this very 103 workshop of “Izhmash” should also rejoice at the fact that they even paid at least something. The quality check of the products, which are regularly conducted at the Izhevsk enterprise, unexpectedly revealed that the quality of the products in the 103 workshop is low, and even the monthly plan was fulfilled only at 40%.
In this case, it is simply amazing how the workers managed to simply sabotage strategically important production with the whole workshop, while the staff of the other workshops fulfilled the plan and did not fail with the quality ... Maybe, only the undefiled dead beasts who work in the 103 workshop the trunk can not always be distinguished from the butt ... Maybe, for each rifle unit manufactured, the workers put the same anecdotal note “to modify the file” ... But if so, then where did the Izhmash management itself look, why ase not tsehoviki announced that it was time to push for the implementation of the plan and draw already, after all, attention to the quality of products: stop bending fun trunks for ...
One gets the impression that the leadership was drawn to the end: they say, let them stamp the marriage there, and we will take them, and we will cut the salary at the end of the month - let them know! .. But you could wait and wait a year, and at the end declare that The employees of the 103-th workshop worked very badly, and therefore, in general, the salaries are not worthy.
No, 5000 rubles is, of course, a lot for an armory plant ... So, maybe, a manual for this amount should be planted for at least a couple of months. In the end, if the marriage and non-fulfillment of the plan took place, then the directorate is no less to blame.
Kites against Swifts
During the week it became known that the commander of the Strizhi aerobatic team, Lieutenant Colonel Valery Morozov, was dismissed from military service. This was announced by Deputy Defense Minister Nikolai Pankov. The reason for Pankov’s dismissal was formulated as follows: Lieutenant Colonel Morozov was dismissed for unlawful actions incompatible with the rank of a Russian officer. What specific actions, we can only guess ...
Such a formulation will not allow Lieutenant Colonel Morozov to receive all payments due to the dismissed officer.
Recall that the personality of Valery Morozov appeared in connection with more than a strange case of extortion of funds from military personnel who are at the stage of dismissal from the Armed Forces, in exchange for the fact that they may not appear in the service. In addition, the scandal concerned such a person as Alexey Novikov, from whom Morozov allegedly demanded as many 5 thousand rubles for using the symbols of the Swifts on the distributed products.
In general, neither the Ministry of Defense, nor the Military Prosecutor’s Office ever received information about what motives were the reason for the dismissal of a high-profile pilot from the Russian Air Force. And if the information did not come, then it turns out that today any unintelligible slander (after all, the opposite, apparently, has not been proven, and if it is proved, it is certainly not presented in due form) can cause the release of any officer, and not only officer, from his post.
Well, it turns out that now no officer, even among brothers in arms, can go to a bath to go to steam. Suddenly, they will then be accused of seducing junior officers and extorting money for a bottle of foam ... And then go and prove that finding several naked men in the bath is not a fact of seduction by others - liberal laws, what can you do here ...
Today Valery Morozov is going to challenge the decision of the higher management in court, but here again he is plagued by vague doubts that our court will make a turning decision. There the judge in Bryansk already once made a decision about the governor ... Oh, and not just, apparently, she (the judge) will now have to work in close tandem with the executive authority of the famous partisan city, because Nikolai Denin, by will of the people, again became governor of the region ...
Part II. "And yet she spins!"
Chief of the discipline
"Plebeys" against partigenos
There is such a special British minister in Britain, whose position is called "parliamentary party organizer." In Soviet - party organizer. And if you approach the issue from a moral point of view, then - the mind, honor, conscience, and at the same time the discipline of the party. In this case - the Tories, commanded by Mr. Cameron.
This week, the English parttainer Andrew Mitchell became a former party organizer. "Ex", as they say in the West. Put a fat point in his career ... he himself.
A month ago, Mr. Mitchell decided to ride a bike through the main entrance of the Prime Minister’s residence, but the police didn't let he was sent to the gate for pedestrians. The spoiled party organizer, surprised that they objected to him and even sent him somewhere, covered the guards with obscenities, called them plebeians (translation option: cattle) and also told them to know their place.
After hearing nasty things from the minister responsible for discipline, the offended senior sergeant, did not “wrap around”, but filed a report to his immediate superiors. There is freedom of speech in Britain, and the report from the chief’s desk flashed to the media.
At first, Mitchell denied accusations of unprintable abuse. Later, he changed his tactics and confessed that yes, this is his own indecent words: “I thought you guys should ... help us” (“I thought you guys were supposed to f… ing help us”). Self-reckoning in the swearing, partigenosseus apologized to the police, but did not admit that he cursed the representatives of law and order "plebeians."
British press offers and a more exotic version of Mitchell’s address to the police, which was witnessed not only by law enforcement officers, but also by tourists: “You better know your ... place, you are not members of this ... government, you ... plebs”. Each dot means the next “fact” of the partigenog, who was thrown into the honest face of a senior police sergeant.
Confess Mitchell at once, the police would not initiate a trial. His own cowardice cost the party organizer of his warm place in the Cabinet.
The Police Federation of Great Britain took up the matter. She did not believe Mitchell, but took the side of the humiliated and offended. For a whole month, they pressed on the party through the press, and in the end he was forced to resign.
“It became obvious to me that no matter who is right or guilty in this matter, I can no longer properly perform my duties,” he said in an explanatory note. сказал Mitchell. “I also do not consider it fair to expose my family and colleagues to an unpleasant and humiliating public flogging.”
His chief commander, Cameron, said that the “political damage” that was inflicted on him was too great, and therefore he demanded his resignation.
The British Tory party organizers who see only one pleb around them do not even ask the Prime Minister, but demand it. Moreover, they consider not the policemen sent to “FAC” to be offended and dropped, but themselves, the loved ones. And so that the one who was retired was not alone, the family and colleagues in the Cabinet of Ministers were simultaneously credited to the victims. In the long list of victims of a complaint from a senior sergeant, only the queen is missing.
Every cricket know your hearth
Turkish Prime Minister announced the shift of the center of the world and decided to reform the UN
This week it became known that Turkey cannot stand aside when someone decides the fate of the world. Mr. R.T. Erdogan, speaking at the World Istanbul Forum, made two decisive futurological statements.
First, the Turkish Prime Minister She urged to United Nations reform. It seems that for a long time they did not let the peacemaking shepherds off the chain. And the truth: according to Erdogan, the UN is not able to resolve the crisis in Syria. Moreover, it is clear who in the organization muddies the water:
“UN reform is necessary, and this problem should be solved. Today, what is happening is said by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council. There is a situation in which they decide the fate of the world. "
A little inconvenient: Syria borders Turkey, and a veto on the decisions of the Security Council imposes, say, China. Or there is Russia.
Erdogan also said:
“Despite all our efforts, the UN did not intervene in the human drama in Syria, which lasted for 20 months and resulted in the death of 30 thousands of people. More than 250 thousand people left the country. ”
This is completely inconvenient: after all, out of these 250.000, more than one hundred thousand have moved to Turkey.
True, the Turkish prime minister was silent about the fact that the inconveniences arising from both the decisions of the UN Security Council and the invasion of refugees are man-made. Moreover, the hands of this "character" suspiciously look like the hands of Mr. Erdogan himself. Do not help Turkey led by the Prime Minister in partnership with Saudi Arabia and Qatar Islamist "opposition" in Syria, refugees in Turkey would be much less. Perhaps, it would not exist at all, if one does not consider thugs or other gangsters who want to kindle pockets of democracy in the border areas for fifty bucks a month.
Secondly, Erdogan, disgraced, who, with his anti-Syrian aspirations, is somehow ignored in NATO and Washington, said at the Istanbul Forum that in the modern world, Western countries are no longer the only center.
We are observing nothing but historical the phenomenon of another
So know your place
One British minister, described above, also swaggered the other day, bulging his chest with a wheel and appealing to the policemen as “bydlu,” hinting at the significant difference between him and them. Every cricket know your hearth. But it so happened that the minister recognized his place.
So, Mr. Erdogan, who periodically calls on the Western countries in the form of the NATO coalition to help the Syrian democracy (suddenly forgetting about the newly formed umbilical cord - despite the apparent shift of the center of the world towards the Turkic peoples), the world’s rulers, gilded to leave their offices to leave, not going ...
Washington Baghdad is not a decree
Sow democracy - shook the power of the people
Iraq decided to buy weapons and military equipment from Russia for 4,2 billion dollars. Ten days ago, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki visited Moscow and the media learnedthat we are talking about several contracts, the largest of which are contracts for the supply of 30 (or 36) attack helicopters MI-28HE and 42 (or 48) ZRPK 96K6 "Armor-C1". The Americans did not like the cooperation of Iraq with Russia: after all, the newest contracts could lead Russia to 2-e place in the list of arms suppliers to Iraq. The US remains the first: they have 467 contracts worth 12,3 billion dollars.
Some analysts have decided that the Iraqi prime minister is looking for weapons where it is cheaper, others have expressed the opinion that Iraq demonstrates its independence to the shadow bosses from the White House, thus speaking to Obama and his followers: "Go, bye."
A couple of days later, al-Maliki clarified the situation. is he saidthat Washington will not be able to block the contract for the purchase of Russian weapons signed by Baghdad:
“Whether it is the purchase of weapons or oil or political consultations, we do not consult anyone on these issues. Our foreign policy is to proceed from our own interests. ”
Exactly. It is not good, Comrade Prime Minister, to build politics based on the interests of another country. At the end of 1980, Gorbachev tried a similar “bilateral” approach to the cause of democracy - and where is the USSR now? And in Iraq, too, tried. Ate American democracy at the most do not indulge.
Washington in the person of vice president and head of the Pentagon made it clear Iraq, which is somehow not human: to re-arm its army without the consent of the US Department of Defense.
But are the Americans, sowing around their "values", not themselves to blame here?
Baghdad decided to intensify military-trade cooperation with Moscow after the head of the Senate’s international affairs committee, J. Kerry said, that it is necessary to stop the supply of American weapons to Iraq - because of the refusal of Baghdad to intercept an Iranian aircraft with military cargo en route to Syria.
Kerry blundered: put "values" ahead of profit. And the profit is about to go to Russia. The Obama administration’s business is doing very badly, which is why American “oilmen” now stand behind Romney and give him millions and millions of people to campaign.
Iraqi Prime Minister put quite clear:
“For example, we have good relations with both America and Iran, although, as you know, they have contradictions with each other. When purchasing weapons, we proceed from the needs that we have. Everyone knows that we are pursuing an open policy and do not want Iraq to become a patrimony. ”
Americans, of course, “for patrimony” are offended, but they will have to swallow a bitter pill, and so will “go down in the international arena” (© “The Red Heat”).
However, the deals have not been approved by the Iraqi parliament, and local assessors are not at all pleased with Russian arms. Other members of parliament count them.that, armed to the teeth, al-Maliki will ignite the flames of the internal conflict in Iraq, finally become friends with Iran, help Syria and complicate the country's relations with Turkey.
Time will tell how such a multi-purpose al-Maliki will behave, but one thing is already clear for one hundred percent: not the democracy that the American grain-growers expected to reap has started to work in Iraq.
“Our people cannot live in bunkers ...”
American dictatorship as an episode of the past
The other day, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called upon their relatives and beloved United States continue to support democracy in the Middle East. The outbreaks of violence in different countries should not stop democratization, she said. According to the head of the State Department, Washington’s attitude towards young democracies in countries that have survived the “Arab Spring” should not change after “acts of violence committed by few extremists.”
She acknowledged that the increased influence of Islamists in the Middle East and North Africa (in Libya, Tunisia and Egypt) posed a challenge to American interests. And to answer this very challenge (well, right on Toynbee), the United States must pursue an even more active policy in the region:
“For the United States, supporting the transition to democracy is not idealism, but a strategic necessity. We can never prevent every act of terrorism or achieve absolute security. Our people cannot live in bunkers and at the same time do their work normally. ”
“It’s normal to do your job” is to implement an oil strategy. In the Middle East, there is where to profit energy. In the same Libya. Only here with democracy there is one complete inconvenience. Either the ambassador will be killed, or Shaaban tortured, or the city of Bani Walid will capriciously - so that you cannot even take yperite. There is, however, an option to make Yugoslavia out of Libya, starting with Cyrenaica, but you have to allocate another budget to this. And with budgets - green fuel revolutions - at the White House became tight. The Fed already has paint and paper running out ...
Hearing Hillary's call, Susan Rice, the US Permanent Representative to the UN, came out of her bunker. Echoing the formidable state secretary, at a meeting in the Security Council on Syria, she saidthat America will not wait for the decision of all members of the Security Council to be on the "right side of history":
“In the face of increasing violence and cruelty, the United States will not wait for all members of this Council to be on the right side of history. Together with our allies, we support the opposition in its quest for inclusive and democratic change. We continue to put pressure on the regime, and we are addressing the growing humanitarian needs in the region. ”
And Rice quoted the words of her president: the future will not belong to the dictators.
Allow me, but no one is able to distinguish a dictator or a terrorist from an ordinary democrat in the USA.
Muammar Gaddafi. Saddam Hussein. Bashar Assad. Alexander Lukashenko. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Hugo Chavez. Or these comrades: Ayman al-Zawahiri and Osama bin Laden. Who among them is alive, who is dead? For the average American, this is one person in whom no, no, yes, Barack Hussein Obama will overlook.
In the US, 88% of Young Americans can not find Afghanistan on the map, 75% - Iran with Israel, and 63% - Iraq, a quarter of the population is not aware of the fact that the country is independent of the UK, and 41% considers China to be the leading economic power of the world. In America, they are conducting "their own investigation" - and they don’t want to know that Ambassador K. Stevens in Benghazi killed a type by the name of Ahmed Abu Hatalla, with the “regime” of Gaddafi isolated from society in prison. The fact that Human Rights Watch is also inconvenient for America unveiled evidence of the atrocities of the Libyan "revolutionaries" who tortured and killed Gaddafi and his 66 supporters in Sirte. Victoria Nuland only said that we are talking about alleged war crimes. She has already forgotten about the joyful "wow" of her boss Hillary, with whom she reacted to the news of the death of Gaddafi. Finally, the recent news that independent American researchers equated UAV attacks in Pakistan to acts of terrorism.
Knowledge and memory are inconvenient for "American values", because they devalue them.
As for the future, Susan Rice is right: the American dictatorship is a thing of the past. John Bolton, Mitt Romney’s foreign policy adviser, and сказал: “We are doing much worse ...”
May you live happily ever after
Unconstitutional!
Human rights and freedoms in the United States have taken another step forward. Thursday appeals court in New York ruled: the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman is contrary to the American constitution. If this decision is confirmed by the Supreme Court, then homosexuals will be able to celebrate a triumphal victory in the difficult task of advancing American values in their own country.
The plaintiff, 83-year-old Edith Windsor, argued that the law discriminated against same-sex marriage, thereby violating the US Constitution. Two out of three members of the panel of judges decided that this is the case: the concept of marriage should include traditional and homosexual unions.
If a claimant appears in court, stating that his union with a goat or a horse should also be equalized in rights with a traditional marriage, what will these judges answer to him? And if to those who freely interpret the Constitution, they will come to the light of necrophilia?
However, Mrs. (hm, or mr.) Windsor did not look this far. She went to sue for money. Her sexual partner, with whom she was legally married in Toronto, died in the 2009 year after many years of struggle with multiple sclerosis and left the spouse with a legacy for which Edith Windsor had to pay more than 300.000 income tax dollars.
Now, if the decision of the appeals instance is approved by the Supreme Court, the plaintiff will not only get back the money, but also open a new series of a long film about American freedoms.
* “We have the means! We do not have enough minds! ”- a phrase from the cartoon“ Three from Prostokvashino ”.
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