Geopolitical mosaic: the Fed is going to "print and scatter" dollars, and Serdyukov will be unemployed in law
Children are dying. Iranian satellite channel Al-Alyam reports that Hamas fighters managed to hit an Israeli military ship in Gaza Bay and hit a helicopter. The Israeli military command does not comment on this information; NTV with reference to ITAR-TASS.
It is also noted that a family of 11 people (including five children) were killed by Israeli air strikes in the Hassar quarter. Only in the evening of November 18, the Palestinian 29 became the victims of the raids. Three children died during rocket attacks on El-Breij and Beit Hanoun, three other children were seriously injured and died at the hands of doctors.
Killed by Yahya Abia. As a result of the Sunday attack by the Israeli Air Force, one of the leaders of the movement of the military wing of the Hamas movement, Yahya Abia, was killed. This field commander was responsible for the supply of missiles and ammunition to the militants and coordinated the organization of attacks on southern Israel. He died when a shell hit the house, reported "Vesti" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
It is also reported that Israel opened the border for the importation of humanitarian aid into Gaza. Cargoes are shipped through the terminal at the joint border. Around 70 trucks with essentials have already entered the enclave through the border crossing "Kerem Shalom".
Where did Israel go? The office of the Russia Today TV channel in the Gaza Strip was damaged as a result of an airstrike of the Israeli Air Force, reports "Lenta.ru" with reference to the RIA "News"And the press release" RT ". RIA "Novosti", notes "Lenta", writes that the office was destroyed, but the note "Russia Today" says that it is only damaged.
The specified room is located on the top floor of the Al Shawa business center, on which on the night of November 14 four Israeli rockets hit. Fortunately, the staff of the channel left the building an hour before the shelling. The journalists moved to the office of the Palestinian news agency "Ma'an" on the fifth floor of the same building, and now continue to work.
It is assumed that the purpose of the attack was the office of the satellite television channel Al-Quds, also located on the top floor of the business center Al-Shawa. In Israel, this channel is considered close to Hamas. As a result of the blows, six journalists, Al-Quds employees, were injured. The television operator had to amputate his leg.
On the last floor of Al-Shawa there are also representative offices of a number of western TV channels: German ARD, British Sky News. It is reported that the premises of Sky News and the Al-Arabiya Channel have suffered.
The press service of the IDF said that the blow was inflicted on this building, because there are some means of communication of the Hamas movement. The IDF noted that the air strike was applied on the roof of the building where the antennas were located.
Reporters condemned Israel. As conveyed today from Geneva correspondent ITAR-TASS Ilya Dmitryachev, an international organization, Reporters Without Borders, condemned Israel’s air strikes against the Gaza Strip, whose targets were media offices.
“Such attacks are an obstacle to freedom of information,” the words of the Secretary General of the organization, Christophe Deloire, are quoted in a communiqué circulated yesterday. “We remind the Israeli authorities that, according to the norms of humanitarian law, the media have the right to the same protection as the civilian population and cannot be regarded as military targets.”
“Even if the target media supports Hamas, this does not justify an attack,” he said. - We call for a transparent investigation into the circumstances of these attacks. Attacks on civilian objects are war crimes and serious violations of the Geneva Conventions. Those responsible for them must be named. ”
Corr. ITAR-TASS complements the list of victims of Israeli attacks. The offices of Al-Quds TV channel were destroyed, and as a result of another blow, three employees of Al-Aqsa TV channel were wounded - when two rockets hit Al-Shuruk, a “journalistic building”. In addition, the journalist reports that the following offices were hit by Israeli missiles: the Russian TV channel Russia Today, the German ARD, the Arab MBC, Abu Dhabi TV, Al-Arabiya, Sky TV Arabia, the Reuters news agency and "Maan".
LAS will redefine relations with Israel. The Arab League in Cairo strongly condemned the actions of Israel in the Gaza Strip and decided to revise its relations with Israel, reports Interfax.
On Saturday evening, the League of Arab States held an emergency meeting in Cairo, connected with the exacerbation of the situation around Gaza. The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Arab League countries agreed that their initiative, known as “Peace for Land”, launched in 2002, should be revised. It provides for diplomatic recognition of Israel and ensuring peace in exchange for Israel’s withdrawal of its troops from the occupied Arab territories. It was emphasized at the meeting that the “usefulness of adhering to Arab commitments in the area of peace initiative as a strategic choice” should be reconsidered.
However, this does not apply to peace treaties previously concluded with Israel, Egypt and Jordan.
Deputy national security adviser to the president Ben Rhodes told reporters yesterday that President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu considered it necessary to achieve a de-escalation of tension in the region. Nevertheless, Mr. Rhodes reaffirmed the position of Washington, stated earlier: "We believe that the rocket attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip have become the main cause of the conflict." He explained: “We believe that Israel has the right to self-defense, and it will make an independent decision regarding its tactics in this regard.”
Terms of Israel. The negotiations for an armistice in the Gaza Strip in Cairo with the Egyptian mediation entered a "serious phase." This was announced today to the agency “Ma'an” Nabil Shaath, a member of the Fatah Central Committee in charge of international affairs, reports correspondent ITAR-TASS Dmitry Tarasov.
On the eve, Shaath held a meeting in Cairo with the head of the Hamas political bureau, Khaled Mashaal, who expressed an appropriate opinion. “According to Mashaal, negotiations on a cease-fire entered an extremely important stage,” said Shaath. At the same time, Mashaal, according to Shahat, ruled out the possibility of a truce in the very near future, due to "the conditions put forward by Israel and the latter’s refusal to comply with the demands of the Palestinian factions."
Hamas, who control Gaza, as well as other local groups, demand “to completely block the sector, to stop the invasion of the Israeli army and create security zones inside the enclave, to end the practice of pinpoint elimination of resistance leaders, as well as attacks on Palestinian fishermen,” said a member of the FATH Central Committee.
The Israelis insist on a long-term truce (for 15 years or more), immediately stopping both deliveries weapons in the sector, and rocket attacks and attacks on troops at the border. In addition, Tel Aviv wants to secure the right to pursue militants "hot pursuit" or in the presence of information about impending attacks.
The Israeli side intends to unblock Gaza through the Rafah checkpoint, and not through border terminals. Coordinate this process, as Israel believes, will be directly Egyptians and Hamas. Israel demands that the Egyptian President Mursi be the “political guarantor” of the cease-fire agreement.
If the listed conditions are not met within two to three days, the Israeli leadership threatened to launch a “large-scale war against Gaza on land, from the air and the sea” —and will fight until the Hamas regime collapses.
According to the Palestinian side, the correspondent reports. ITAR-TASS, since the beginning of the Israeli operation in the Gaza Strip, 77 Palestinians have died, including 21 children and 8 women. About 700 people were injured.
Forty-four million cyber attacks. During the five days of the military operation "Cloud Pillar" in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli authorities repulsed almost 44 million cyber attacks on government sites, reports RIA News" with reference to the Lebanese newspaper "Daily Star".
Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said: “All cyber attacks were able to repel, with the exception of one aimed at a special site that did not work for six or seven minutes.”
According to the Lebanese edition, on Saturday, representatives of the hacker group Anonymous declared hacking and damage to the databases of nearly seven hundred Israeli sites, including the site of one of the largest banks in Israel.
Appeal of Palestine. Yesterday Palestine appealed to the Arab League with a request to hold an emergency meeting of Arab heads of state and government to discuss measures to end the Israeli aggression in Gaza, reports correspondent RIA "News" Alexander Elistratov.
The Permanent Representative of Palestine to the League of Arab States Barakat al-Farah sent a formal request to the secretariat of the organization to convene an extraordinary summit, and on the same day the general secretary of the organization Nabil al-Arabi notified the Arab countries of the Palestinian proposal.
According to the League’s secretariat, “LAS intends to hold an Arab summit on the situation in Gaza as soon as possible in order to provide the Palestinians not only with political support, but also with significant economic and financial assistance.”
We quit work and go to war. Anastasia Popova ("Vesti") told that after the recognition of the so-called Syrian National Coalition, the efforts of France turned into the sole legitimate representative of the Syrian people (except Paris, the Council of People's Commissars was recognized by the United States, the Cooperation Council of the Arab States of the Persian Gulf, Italy and Turkey) .
Turkish border guards on the Syrian border behave like owners: they try to drive away our film crew at the sight of the camera, then they trigger the trigger.
“The Turks call it“ hunting. ” They killed my nephew with a bullet with a displaced center of gravity. This is an American or NATO weapon. Neither we nor the Syrian army have such a thing, ”says the Syrian man.
For militants, these borders are open ... "
Al-Qahtaniyah is the only Arab village entirely in the Kurdish north of Syria. Here, many sympathize with the opposition SSA. And therefore, the Kurds seriously fear that this place will become a “gateway” for the militants who come from Turkey.
At the same time, the internal political opposition in Syria is demanding a cease-fire throughout the country, a general dialogue and considers President Assad to be a necessary part of such negotiations. And the external opposition calls the puppet of the West.
Member of the Executive Bureau of the Syrian National Committee for Democratic Change Ahmed al-Israoui explains: “We are against everyone who uses and calls for the use of weapons. External opposition is outside Syria, it has no influence inside, so it turns for help to the West. Their support is those who have never been our friends - the United States, France, Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, those who proceed from their own selfish interests. The last meeting in Qatar - work on the image, that's all. ”
French Catholics against Femen. Activists of the Ukrainian women's movement “Femen” appeared yesterday at a demonstration held in defense of traditional marriages in Paris. Half-naked feminists were beaten, reports "Lenta.ru" with reference to the Associated Press.
About a dozen gologrudnyh girls (some of them were dressed in the costumes of nuns) appeared before those who protested against the legalization of same-sex marriage. Feminists shouted slogans like "We believe in gays" (by a deliberate analogy with "We believe in God"). At the same time, Ukrainian women bombarded the demonstrators with white powder.
Catholic activists pushed the girls to the ground. However, it was not seriously affected. Police hid Ukrainian women on the bus for their own safety.
A demonstration in support of traditional marriages and family values was organized by the conservative Catholic organization Civitas, one of the goals of which was the “re-Christianization of France”. Several thousand people took part in the march.
On the eve of France held mass demonstrations against gay marriage. In total, almost 100 thousands of people rallied against the government’s intention to legalize same-sex marriage.
The Associated Press recalls that if approved, the government will allow French gays and lesbians to “marry” and adopt children at the beginning of 2013.
Thus, we add from ourselves, what was described in the "VO" in the last "The results of the week", in decaying Europe, it is getting stronger and stronger.
Incidentally, RIA News" leads the slogans, under which about 10 thousands of people took to the streets of Paris yesterday at the call of the Catholic Institute "Civitas": "One father, one mother for all children" and "No homobezium."
Pilots sleep in flights, or the costs of capitalism. As transmits correspondent ITAR-TASS Anton Dolgunov, every third pilot working for European companies, due to excessive workload at least once, fell asleep at the helm without the knowledge of the second pilot. Such statistics were published in the German media.
From a survey conducted by the European Cockpit Association, among 6 thousands of thousands of professional pilots 90% admitted that during the flight they at least once had to contend with sleep. 80% of respondents indicated that due to fatigue, mistakes were made, fortunately, not serious ones.
ECA spokesman Jörg Handwerg says the pilots' long working hours are to blame. According to him, the optimal number of hours at which one can be at the helm without a threat to safety is 12, and the European Agency for aviation safety believes that you can fly up to 14 hours a day.
Handverg criticized the working conditions of the pilots and at night flights. Doctors insist that more 10 hours are strictly not to be at the helm, but airtime rules allow 11-hour night shifts.
“Wearing Arab hijabs and sending girls and women to the Middle Ages is not our way ...” Wearing a hijab is not typical of Kazakh culture, says President Nursultan Nazarbayev, reports "Voice of Russia".
Speaking in Astana at the congress of the youth wing of the ruling party “Nur Otan” (“Light of the Fatherland”), the head of state said: “Wearing Arab hijabs and sending girls and women to the Middle Ages is not our way ... We will not pull our people back.” Wearing the hijab, moreover, is not typical of Kazakh culture, the president believes.
“Yes, our religion is Islam, we support Muslims and will support them in the future. But in Islam there are different trends and directions ... - said Comrade Nazarbayev. “We, the Kazakhs, have been nomads from time immemorial, we have our own way.”
Political analyst Dmitry Verkhoturov notes that the majority of the population of Kazakhstan shares Nazarbayev’s opinion about the hijab. However, the analyst noted: “But there are some groups of people who are prone to Islamization, mainly in the south and west of Kazakhstan. Mainly they are represented by oralmans - Kazakhs, who returned from Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, that is, from countries that have already experienced the influence of another Islamic, non-Kazakh, society. ”
The highest measure for Chelah? Vitaly Akinshin ("Vesti") reports that today in the Kazakh city of Taldy-Kurgan there will be a main court hearing on the case of the border guard Vladislav Chelakh, who is known to be accused of killing 15 people at Arkankergen frontier post. In May, a 19-year-old soldier, the correspondent reports, shot his colleagues and fled into the woods, where he was later detained.
The court must find out Vladislav’s degree of guilt. In the event that his guilt is proven on all nine points, he could face the death penalty - life imprisonment.
In Taldygorgan city court say that the process will be open.
How to cut budgets in Japan. Sergey Mingazhev ("Vesti") said that the current government of Japan has to answer the delicate question of misappropriation of budget funds: the audit showed that much of the money allocated to eliminate the effects of the 2011 earthquake of the year was spent on restoring completely different objects.
A year and a half after the tsunami, most of the affected areas remain lifeless wastelands. Ruins surrounded by piles of garbage are less than half cleaned up in many places. Now, no one even says that they will start rebuilding a new life here, and this despite the multi-billion-dollar help packages ... ”
From 150 billions of dollars around 40 "left", as they say, in the wrong direction. Funds were lent, for example, to purchase new equipment for prisons of the Ministry of Justice, to renovate Tokyo’s administrative buildings, to modernize the capital’s stadium, to help a fishing agency to strengthen protection against foreign activists who prevent it from whaling (by the way, Japan is the official participant moratorium on shooting whales).
“It doesn’t cause anything but indignation,” said Futoshi Toba, mayor of the city of Rikuzentakata. - People paid taxes in order to help compatriots who got into trouble. The fact that this money is used completely for extraneous needs is absolutely unacceptable. It doesn't fit my mind. ”
Nearly three hundred thousand people who have lost their homes, still live in temporary houses of corrugated iron.
American traditions in Okinawa are alive. On Okinawa, Japanese police arrested another US military, reports "Lenta.ru" with reference to the Associated Press. This bad guy is suspected of illegal entry into the apartment of a local resident.
Marine Senior Lieutenant Thomas Schonke used the unlocked door and made his way into the room. There he fell asleep - and he was noticed by a local resident, who called the police.
Declaration of Human Rights by ASEAN. The leaders of the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations at the summit in Phnom Penh signed a declaration of human rights, reports "Lenta.ru" with links to the Associated Press, Reuters and France-Presse.
The text of the declaration begins with the words: “All people are born free and equal in dignity and rights”. The document states that the rights of citizens should be correlated with the performance of "relevant duties" by them. Human rights should, according to the declaration, “be considered in a regional and national context”.
According to human rights activists, in the adopted document there are many loopholes that will not allow to fully respect human rights.
North Korean serdyukovschina. Oleg Kiryanov spoke about the purges in the DPRK ("Russian newspaper"), referring to the South Korean newspapers.
As a result of the purges of Kim Jong-un, many influential generals in the DPRK lost their ranks and positions. A few months ago, the most influential military man was dismissed - Chief of the General Staff Ri Yen Ho. The post of Minister of Defense, much to the displeasure of the North Korean generals, was appointed not by a regular military officer, but by Party functionary Choi Ren Hae (the North Korean version of Mr. Serdyukov, we add, from himself).
Many of the generals were lowered in rank. For three months, the new chief of the General Staff, Hen Yong Chol, wore the vice-marshal's star on epaulets. In October, he was lowered to Army General. In Seoul, they believe that he was punished for escaping a North Korean soldier to South Korea, who killed two commanders along the way.
Stars on epaulets are also reduced by other high-ranking military leaders. A total of six demoted generals were counted in North Korea. Hence the conclusion: the military of the North is reeling because of personnel problems.
And further. Kim Jong-un took out of the army’s subordination and transferred many foreign trade firms, companies and factories with the ability to earn freely convertible currency under the control of civilian government structures. As a result, the generals lost a significant part of the financial support - and lost their influence.
Now Seoul has become worried that the generals of the DPRK, who have lost many privileges, may try to make armed provocations against South Korea, so that later, in a military operation, they can increase their staggering authority ...
"Print and scatter." The US Fed is preparing to change its monetary policy, and radically: from now on, the regulator will maintain low rates until unemployment drops to a certain level and inflation rises. As a result, the program of "mitigation", which are implemented under Obama, will be simply endless, transfers Interfax.
Instead of observing the timeframe, the Fed will set only two goals: unemployment and inflation, and will “print and scatter” dollars until these goals are achieved, and nothing that one goal contradicts the other.
Simply put, the American central bank of the world will try to treat its home economy with freshly printed money and zero rates. Whether it will cure is another question.
Currently, the Fed’s monetary policy is tied to specific dates: the regulator must maintain low rates until the middle of 2015. However, the Deputy Chairman of the Fed Janette Yellen made a statement that financial policy should be tied to macroeconomic indicators, for example, to the level of unemployment and GDP growth rates. It turned out that other members of the US Open Market Committee (the so-called “Council of Wise Men”) are similarly thinking.
What Janet Yellen has said has produced the effect of a bombs among world economists. The idea of "growth targeting" has already been carried away by other central banks ...
Tomorrow morning, Comrade Lavrov will talk to Mrs. Clinton. According to "Voices of Russia", Russian Foreign Minister will meet with the US Secretary of State in Phnom Penh on November 20 in the morning, on the margins of the ASEAN summit.
Lavrov will take part in the events held in the framework of the annual meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the 7-th East Asian Summit. The situation in the Gaza Strip will also be discussed.
The forum brings together the 10 states of ASEAN, as well as Australia, India, China, New Zealand, the Republic of Korea, Russia, the USA and Japan.
Press about Serdyukov. 16 November, Vladimir Putin said: “Regarding the fact that he (Serdyukov) works in some capacity, as, for example, an adviser in Russian Technologies, - it is incorrect. He still does not work anywhere. But if he wants to find a job somewhere and they will take it, I do not think that we should interfere. A person has the right to work. We are not the 37 year ”. So the president said at a press conference following negotiations with the Federal Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, writes Gazeta.ru with reference to RIA "News". At the same time com. Putin noted that the investigation had no complaints about Serdyukov.
Mikhail Rostovsky ("MK") writes:
If in the West, the author believes, the separation of powers is a reality, in Russia such a division is a myth, and so unsuccessful, that no one believes in it.
By the way, let us add on my own, the public on the Internet expressed very different opinions about the appointment of Serdyukov in Russian Technologies as an adviser. It was rumored that the appointment was, but he was not put into practice, because the president of the state corporation fought off the figure of Serdyukov. According to another version, the former Minister of Defense was not appointed to this position at all, and the media launched a special “duck”, the purpose of which is to check the reaction of the masses, that is, those masses who, instead of working and doing useful work, stare all day monitors and heated modems and routers. We are referring to the reaction with which society can respond to further Serdyuk's biographical well-being. According to the third version, Mr. Ex-Minister simply went to a free voyage, and everything else must be discarded as rumors or empty speculation. Comrade Putin will not give his protege a grudge. Like this.
In fact, Serdyukov was appointed to the position of adviser to Russian Technologies. It is easy to prove it: you just have to visit the site of the state corporation. On the page "Management Bodies" the first number is “Anatoly Eduardovich Serdyukov, Chairman of the Supervisory Board”. Not just an adviser, but even the chairman of all advisors.
Everybody is dancing! In the US, residents of all fifty states have filed petitions to the White House to withdraw from the country, reports Marina Ilyina (Utro.ru) with reference to the "Examiner".
Seven states scored the required number of signatures for the US administration to give an official response to the petition.
In terms of the number of votes, leadership for Texas: 114.689 people signed up for the petition. Behind him is Louisiana with 36.419 signatures. In third place - Florida (34.067 votes). Next come Georgia with 31.483 signatures, Tennessee with 30.503, North Carolina with 29810 and Alabama with 29.758.
Obviously, let us add on our own, in a short time Obama will have to give an answer to the American separatists.
Also on the site of "electronic government" is very popular petition about the recount of votes in the November 6 election, due to the fact that in one Ohio district, Mr. Obama got ... 108% of voters.
Man ipad Steve Connor («The Independent», Great Britain; translation source - "InoSMI") told that the human race is doomed to degradation: after a few hundred years, Homo will cease to be sapiens. The descendants of the people of the 21st century will not even be able to use the technical means that their ancestors invented.
Professor Gerald Crabtree, who heads the lab at Stanford University in California, hypothesized that the current man is not getting smarter. On the contrary, his intellect reached its peak several thousand years ago, and since then people only do what they degrade - both with the mind and with the senses.
Technical and medical advances only allow to mask the deeply hidden signs of the extinction of the capabilities of the brain. We walk with iPads, but in our heads - empty.
The fact is that since the development of farming and animal husbandry, and especially the appearance of large cities, natural selection has ceased to promote the development of mental abilities, and therefore in the vital genes responsible for intelligence, mutations have accumulated and continue to accumulate.
In an article published in the journal "Directions in the Development of Genetics," Professor Crabtree writes:
He further states:
An analysis of the genomes of parents and children has shown that each next generation has an average of 25 to 65 new DNA mutations. This analysis, according to Crabtree, suggests that over the past approximately 3 thousands of years, about 120 thousands of new mutations have occurred in 5 of previous generations. Some of them will occur in 2-5 thousands of genes that are associated with human mental abilities.
The life of a hunter or gatherer demanded much more from him than we think now:
The development and degeneration of a person is described by the professor as follows: a hunter and a collector - an Athenian - a couch-man, couch-player - an ipad man.
This add-on, we add, is insured with the best medical policy or two, holds a flag with six rainbow colors in its right hand, and a ticket to a homosexual show at the Pentagon in its left, and does not even think about posterity.
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