Results of the week. “I’m not thinking about the same thing twice!”
Part I. "In our business, the main thing is this very realism"
"Is she a vessel in which is emptiness? .."
Natalia Pereverzeva: "My Russia is a beggar"
Let's think together: what is needed to win a girl in an international beauty contest? Of course, a beautiful figure, long legs, gorgeous hair, in general, an attractive appearance. Of course, from the point of view of any healthy and understanding something in the feminine beauty of the Russian peasant, this is all true. However, in the jury of international competitions, Russian men are completely absent. And they trust there to evaluate the beauty of girls from different countries of the world to those individuals who are difficult to determine with their gender. Understanding this, girls from among the contestants go, as they say, to all heartburns, in order to present themselves as the jury wishes. Therefore, it is almost meaningless to emphasize their beautiful forms at beauty contests of the international (and even intergalactic) level; here we need to come up with something like that, capable of impressing those very “undecided in life” jurors.
And one of these participants, namely Natalya Vladimirovna Pereverzeva, representing Russia, came up with something original. She decided to hit her jury with her Kursk drive right away - right off the bat. Answering the introductory question about what makes her proud of her country, Natalia said something like:
At first everything is beautiful, figuratively, poetic. Well, except that the "patched blanket" could cause some contradictory assessments. But in order to dismiss any kind of misinterpretation, the kuryanochka was further covered up with such words that even those who had seen the species and had heard the rumors sucked under the spoon of surprise.
Well, then it was about Pushkin, and about Plisetskaya, and about music with books, only for those who had gathered all these words were already on duty to the thunder that had just thundered. The whole world from the mouth of the Russian, forgive, my God, beautiful women, learned that she herself literally broke away for the Miss Earth contest from the clawed paws of a beggar and a state drowning in blood; that Pereverzev, from the poverty of his country, was forced to fall asleep under a blanket covered with patches, listening in Kursk to the unceasing roar of cannonade coming from somewhere near Makhachkala ...
So you, Russia, thought everything after the “confession” by Pereverzeva, who apparently dressed her dresses and swimsuits for the contest with a blunted rusty needle, because in the Russian State there are acute problems with the extraction of iron ore. God, how does she live in this terrible country? - the foreign viewers of the show thought after Mrs. Pereverzeva delivered her speech. But Natalya Vladimirovna could even frighten the effect of fainting on the stage, in order to prove by personal example that citizens in Russia eat no more than three times a week, and they drink clean water only on major pagan holidays, melting it from Rus snow. She was able to demonstrate the Kursk rubber galoshes, which were hidden under a long dress, made from a great-grandmother's curtain, because in Russia not only nothing to eat, but nothing to wear ...
In general, the show Natalia Pereverzeva staged a terrific, but a little did not work out with acting effects. Now we should expect that the native of the Nightingale will be awarded victories in any international beauty contest, if she again and again makes such speeches.
Our Miss told everything nicely, but she didn’t mention one thing: how did she manage to get free education in the poorest and war-torn country to get one university (Kursk), leave it and transfer to another (Moscow), graduate graduate school and at the same time get into the world of modeling business, open your musical project, undress for Playboy - and further down the list. Warm, however, a patched blanket from Natalia Pereverzeva ...
Bidzina Ivanishvili: I do not need a Russian coast ...
Georgian Prime Minister makes demands to Russian authorities
During the week I decided to show my political temper a new prime minister of the most democratic in the world (after the USA, of course) the state - Georgia. Mr. Ivanishvili literally in ultimatum presented his version of a visit to Russia. He, you know, will come to us only when the official Russian authorities close the embassies in South Ossetia and Abkhazia. They say that the Russians, the new ruler of Georgian souls, will not see you until your leadership recognizes the two above-mentioned republics as parts of the Georgian state.
The Russians after these words Ivanishvili, obviously, had to get their handkerchiefs and these scarves to wipe away the tears of grief, due to the fact that Bidzina G. will not enter their Voronezh, Tyumen, Izhevsk, Moscow and other houses. Apparently, many should have started to tear their hair out on themselves and shout in the attack of an inconsolable grief: let Bidzina-light Grigorievich come to us - to live without him sickeningly and siro ...
But no one began to sob, the embassies of the Russian Federation in the capitals of independent states (Abkhazia and South Ossetia) remained in their former places. But instead of sobbing, they took a closer look at both the statements of the Georgian Prime Minister and his extensive biography. And in this biography there is one interesting point: for 20 years, Mr. Ivanishvili had a passport of a Russian citizen, which allowed Bidzina Grigorievich to conduct very active financial activities on Russian soil. And the “Georgian dreamer” refused this passport only in 2011 (almost 3 a year later, after Russian embassies appeared in Tskhinvali and Sukhumi).
An amazing thing turns out to be: a certain time Ivanishvili’s shoes were trampled on Russian land, and his heart didn’t suffer any moral humiliation from the presence of Russian diplomatic missions in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and then, you see, everything suddenly turned upside down. Bidzina Grigorievich suddenly understood that he had been wrong for years in 20. I went to warm my shoes to wash off the adhering Russian soil and deliberately dab the Georgian soils to demonstrate to my electorate that he was in his board.
The Georgian people, of course, met Ivanishvili’s words with applause, saying that it’s necessary for these barbarians: let them get out of the originally Georgian land, where the percentage of Georgians, it must be said, from time immemorial had the appearance of a statistical error.
Ivanishvili pleased with himself announced that Russia still has a ghostly chance to see his sun-like face: on the territory of a certain third country.
Maybe Ivanishvili is just cunning? Maybe he does not want to go to Russia, not at all, because he is dissatisfied with the presence of a couple of embassies, but because he fears that the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation suddenly decides to check the transparency of his income at a time when his own presence in the First throne did not cause him negative emotions? After all, to be honest, you can hardly imagine that 3 billion dollars (this is the most conservative estimate) even for a couple of decades could be earned by honest and overworking. After all, as far as we know, it was not Ivanishvili who came up with “Facebook”, and Bidzina Grigoryevich hardly economically saved at dinners in Impexbank ...
In general, Ivanishvili pumps for nothing. Apparently, he forgets that Gennady Onishchenko (we have such a person) can change his mind with the resumption of supplies of Georgian wines to Russia. And here no third countries will help Bidzina Grigorievich ...
Reported on the form
Valentin Yudashkin declared that his military uniform design was grossly distorted
After the "tops" were collected at the Ministry of Defense and sent for examination to determine the presence of "putrefactive bacteria" in them, many decided to comment on the work of this department - work in these times. One of those who decided to dot the ё after several years of silence was the famous fashion designer Valentin Yudashkin. The same couturier, who was called the father-creator of the new form for the Russian military. And the couturier began to cut the truth of the womb, not paying any attention to the not yet healed ministerial wounds.
Valentin Abramovich unexpectedly for everyone said that he doesn’t have anything to do with the form that Russian soldiers, officers and generals wear today. It turns out that the famous fashion designer brazenly framed. It was in 2007 that he proposed to the Ministry an elegant form made of high-quality and expensive materials, and it was utterly distorted, replacing everything: from threads to insulation. The military uniform cost less than the one proposed by Valentin Abramovich, and therefore he is not going to bear responsibility for the freezing soldiers.
In response to the criticism of "his" form, Yudashkin decided to justify himself and published in his "Twitter" the very design version that he proposed to the RF Ministry of Defense in 2007. According to the couturier, these photos should have assured the Russian servicemen that he wished them well for good. However, even after the pictures of laudatory reviews revealing the essence of the case, Yudashkin's form did not receive, but the theses “paintball costumes” and “fisherman outfit” could be found quite often.
But let's not question the possibility of the most famous Russian designer to distinguish himself in terms of creating a military uniform for the Russian army. Let us touch on another thing: if a couturier found out a couple of years ago that the soldiers and officers were not “wearing off" their form, then why was he silent? Why did you allow your world name to be used as a label for those inferior clothes that began to enter ware warehouses?
Perhaps, Yudashkin, as one serious politician of our time, knew everything, but was silent: he didn’t want to scare big fish ... And now, when the “fish” spread in different directions, I decided to lay out the whole truth about the substitution.
What will happen? Would Yudashkin really find the military specialist who had distorted his project and sew it with his bare hands into a duffle bag he had designed for the occasion? Or, perhaps, will force the guilty to reel kilometers of threads on reels? Not! The fashion designer is generous: he is not going to bring any claims to the Defense Ministry, and unexpectedly declares that stories he does not consider, and he personally has no complaints about the ex-minister Serdyukov. All in the spirit of the new anti-corruption campaign. Upset, insulted, slandered, but overall, beautiful marquise, all is well, all is well ...
Evasive evaders
Gaps in the draft draft bill
In the outgoing week, the State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill that provides for a number of benefits for those who honestly served in the ranks of the Russian army. The same bill imposes restrictions on the ability to succeed in the public service for those who have retreated from the army, in the usual language. In other words, the law makes it possible to raise the prestige of the army service and at the same time makes it clear to draft dodgers that their possible bureaucratic future is covered with a large copper vessel. Dodgers upset? I would like to, but ...
Why get upset and grieve when there are smart guys who can think and look for ways out of this situation? After all, many officials want to!
Uncles - representatives of "legal" organizations, many of which are fed including on "mowing" clients - right there found a gap in the bill. The white spot is expressed in the fact that so far there is no precise definition of the notion of "draft dodger." At the legal level, a person who has received a subpoena, signed for being obliged to come to the military commissariat at the appointed time, but did not appear there. According to this definition, it turns out that the person who did not sign for the receipt of the agenda, is beyond suspicion. Well ... If so, then now many people who sleep and see themselves as government officials, but do not want to serve the Motherland, there is reason to declare an unexpected fit of hand numbness at the very moment when you have to sign for receiving the agenda. Many may state that they did not teach them to sign the schools, and therefore they do not understand what they are talking about by the staff of the military registration and enlistment offices.
In general, the bill is undoubtedly necessary and timely, but everything can end “as yesterday”. How was it yesterday? No way ... Whoever wanted to go to the army, he went, and to whom such joy of life seems excessive, even without a receipt for receiving the agenda may be in the glorious cohort of Russian officials of the new generation.
By the way, it is a pity that in this case the law is not retroactive. But then, by its effectiveness, it could be judged very soon. This is how many acting statesmen would have to change jobs! Although there is a snag here ... Come on, prove that some of our deputies, advisers, mayors and governors at one time shied away - they will always have a reference with them for such a case ...
Part II. “Man is created for happiness, only happiness is not always created for him”
Love in law
America is going to end violence
At the end of November, the US Supreme Court may amend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The wording of this law from 1996 defines marriage exclusively as a union between a man and a woman. In the case of a positive (for same-sex couples, of course) addressing the issue, American homosexuals will receive federal tax breaks - those that currently only apply to traditional married couples. The changes are likely to affect all couples - and those that "married" in states where same-sex marriages are legalized, and those where such legalization is a matter of the near future or not at all.
Nanette Miller, head of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) department at the accounting firm Marcum LLP, is already rejoicing with the same-sex American public that some "couples" will soon be able to claim for a refund of either the taxes that they were forced to pay, or the property they lost, starting from the 2009 year.
In the US, it is allowed to make changes to tax returns no later than three years, so after a court decision, gays and lesbians are advised to hurry. They will have time before 15 April 2013.
Savings on backdated tax breaks can be very substantial for many: each couple will return approximately 40-60 thousand dollars, especially if one of the spouses earns much more than their partner (the benefits will be calculated according to a single declaration, “ family "). Nanette Miller believes that ten thousand dollars a year is a very real amount.
In addition, LGBT couples, just like normal couples, will be able to inherit the property of their “spouses” without paying tax on the inheritance received. Now not recognized by law, gays and lesbians pay 35% tax on real estate inherited from their "wives" and "husbands." If DOMA is rewritten, those who have previously paid the tax (up to 2009 of the year) will be able to return the money.
In general, 2012 is the year of change for American homosexuals.
In May, President Barack Obama publicly supported same-sex marriage, and in the summer he made an ardent speech at the homosexual holiday at the Pentagon. In November, in referendums in the states of Washington and Maryland, the majority of voters voted to legalize same-sex marriages, and in Maine, the majority favored the abolition of the constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriages. In addition, in Minnesota, most voters did not support a constitutional amendment that prohibited marriages between people of the same sex.
Against the background of such present and future success, homosexuals in America have revived ... pedophiles.
No, no, the activation of these powerless individuals was not sudden or accidental. The fact is that psychiatrists began to revise pedophilia as a deviation - just as homosexuality was previously revised, not considered a deviation in the West for a long time.
And if in 1973, the American Psychiatric Association excluded homosexuality from the list of mental disorders, in 2012, a group of psychiatrists along with the organization B4U-Act held a symposium at which a new definition of pedophilia was proposed.
B4U-Act proposed a definition according to which pedophiles would be called “people who are minors”. By the way, the goal of this organization is to “help psychiatrists learn more about attraction to minors and consider the influence of stereotypes, stigma and fear.”
Earlier, in 1998, the American Psychiatric Association released a report stating that the “negative potential” of adult sex with children is exaggerated, and at the same time it was reported that “the overwhelming majority of men and women say there is no negative sexual effect from sexual violence in childhood.
Pedophilia in the United States today has a formal (albeit vague) protection status granted to it by the federal government. The law of M. Shepard and J. Byrd, Jr. on the prevention of crimes motivated by intolerance among protected categories uses the term “sexual orientation” without explanation. Republicans, including many supporters of traditional marriages, wanted to add an amendment to the law, clarifying that “pedophilia is not considered an orientation,” but the freedom-loving democrats rejected the amendment. Rep. Elsie Hastings said:
The White House encouraged the law, agreeing with the words of Hastings. And then there were voices from fraternal Canada. There, two psychologists publicly declared pedophilia sexual orientation. Former University of Montreal professor Van Gijszeghem said:
Whether “he” will refrain is, of course, a completely different question. And the second question: will we soon become witnesses of legal marriages in Canada or the United States of old men of years 80 with children of seven years old?
Honorary Professor of Psychology at Queen’s University in Ontario, Dr. Quincy and a colleague nevertheless agree. The doctor claims that children are preferred in pedophile circles and that "there is no evidence that this type of preference can be changed by treatment or something else."
There were other scientific voices. For example, Milton Diamond, a professor at the University of Hawaii and director of the Pacific Center for Sex and Society, said that child pornography can be beneficial for society, because “potential abusers use child pornography as a substitute for sex with children.”
The website of the Institute for Special Studies of Human Sexuality lists “basic sexual rights”, which include “the right to engage in sexual acts or actions of any kind, if they are not related to disagreement, violence, harassment, coercion or deceit”. The organization states that there should not be “limited opportunities due to age”.
In California, Georgia and Iowa, laws protecting children from sexually oriented criminals have been challenged. Pedophiles protest against unjust law, which prohibits them from settling near schools or parks. Such a law, they say, punishes them for life.
Free American life is becoming freer. Twenty or thirty years later, if the United States existed at that time, it would be possible to meet gray-bearded gentlemen walking boys or girls and gently patting them on their heads somewhere in New York Park or near the Washington school. These old uncles are very offended if someone calls them grandparents, and the children next to them are grandchildren ...
Happy breivik
Norwegian humanity
A couple of weeks ago, the fighter against multiculturalism, Anders Breivik, complained in writing to the correctional institutions of Norway about infringement of his rights by the administration of the Il prison. According to the prisoner, not enough hot coffee was served in his office and not enough butter was placed on the bread. He had to write some kind of rubber pen, from which arthritis could happen. In order to improve the chamber atmosphere, he demanded that the jailers install humidifiers in his three-room apartments. And he was also handcuffed a bit and did not like the view from the window.
Breivik's lawyer said that his ward might even lay his hands on himself, if he was not replaced with a pen and the coffee was not served at a centigrade temperature.
The prison administration hastened to meet the demands of the unfortunate convict. They gave him an extra change of clothes, put a wardrobe in the bedroom, changed the rubber handle to an ordinary ballpoint. True, instead of humidifiers gave while moisturizer. Also, the terrorist received a shelf for books. The other day he will buy a player to listen to CDs. In order to get ahead of the wishes of the killer 77 people, in addition to the new pen he was handed a new electric typewriter.
Now, the administration is thinking about improving the lighting in Breivik's office: otherwise, he will ruin his eyes by reading books.
Passport Strategy
Once the Japanese took Senkaku, the Chinese will take everything else for themselves.
In their last original decision, the rulers of the Celestial Empire must have been guided by the logic described in the subtitle. Otherwise, the introduction of their new passports can not be explained.
The fact is that the documents contain a map of the People's Republic of China, including the disputed territories that many neighboring countries consider to be theirs. The Philippines and Vietnam are already outraged because of the new Chinese passports that the authorities have given out to their citizens. So much so that protest notes were officially handed over to the PRC representatives.
Discontent of Chinese neighbors with scandal surfaced during the ASEAN summit held in Cambodia. Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei also have territorial claims in the South China Sea.
On passports depicted Paracel Islands (Vietnam disputes them from China from the 1970) and Spratly Islands (some of them are challenged by the Philippines). Interestingly, the new passports do not mark the Senkaku Islands, because of which Beijing is arguing with Tokyo.
Chinese have drawn 90% of the South China Sea - 3,5 million square kilometers.
Vietnam and the Philippines announced the The design of new Chinese passports is a violation of its sovereignty. Now, border guards will have to put stamps in passports - right on the cards. Doesn't this action itself signify, albeit purely symbolic, agreement with the territorial division proposed by Beijing?
In wit Chinese designers can not refuse. We would not be surprised if in the coming weeks someone in China receives an award for developing a new passport.
Overjoyed by his own ingenuity, China informed its neighbors that the new passports fully meet international standards. Representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the PRC said that the cards in the documents are not directed against any particular country.
This is pure Chinese truth. Maps are not directed against any one country. They are directed immediately against all countries. In addition to the American ally of Japan.
Heartless russia
Its inhabitants are as cold in heart as Ukrainians, Belarusians, Kazakhs and Kyrgyz
Gallup Agency in 2009-2011 conducted a sociological study of the emotional state of residents of more than 150 countries. The results were summed up for a long time and were published November only 21 2012 of the year.
The study was based on telephone and personal interviews with thousands of people in each country each year from 2009 to 2011. Age of respondents: from 15 years and older. The maximum sampling error ranged from ± 0,4 percent. points to ± 3,8 percent. item.
Respondents were asked whether they experienced more or less than five positive and five negative emotions for the previous day. Negative emotions included anger, stress, sadness, physical pain, and anxiety. The list of positive emotions includes joy from a good rest, a sense of respect, pleasure, a smile or prolonged laughter, as well as an interest in any occupation, such as learning.
In order to identify the general emotional coldness or “fervor”, the Gallup employees calculated the average percentage of the inhabitants of each country, who confirmed that they experienced each of the ten positive and negative emotions described above.
As it turned out, negative emotions are characteristic primarily for the states of the Middle East and North Africa. When it comes to positive experiences, Latin America takes the lead: Panama, Paraguay and Venezuela occupy the top of the list. The first to appear are the Philippines, which noticeably overtook everyone: here 60% of respondents feel at least ten positive and negative emotions per day.
But the Russian people, as shown by the results of the study, are as gloomy and cold as the Ukrainians or Belarusians, as well as the residents of Singapore and the Georgians.
Here are the top ten "heartless" countries: 1) Singapore (in total 36,% of respondents have about a dozen emotions per day); 2) Georgia (37%); 3) Lithuania (37%); 4) Russia (38%); 5) Madagascar (38%); 6) Ukraine (38%); 7) Belarus (38%); 8) Kazakhstan (38%); 9) Nepal (38%); 10) Kyrgyzstan (38%).
This impressive coverage of the survey confirmed the fact, which nevertheless says nothing on the Gallup website. The peoples of the USSR only felt happy together. And for complete happiness, they did not have enough of Gorbachev’s restructuring and Yeltsin’s reforms, but unification with Singapore, Madagascar and Nepal.
* “I can't think twice about the same thing!” - a phrase from the cartoon “38 parrots”
"Is she a vessel in which is emptiness? .."
Natalia Pereverzeva: "My Russia is a beggar"
Let's think together: what is needed to win a girl in an international beauty contest? Of course, a beautiful figure, long legs, gorgeous hair, in general, an attractive appearance. Of course, from the point of view of any healthy and understanding something in the feminine beauty of the Russian peasant, this is all true. However, in the jury of international competitions, Russian men are completely absent. And they trust there to evaluate the beauty of girls from different countries of the world to those individuals who are difficult to determine with their gender. Understanding this, girls from among the contestants go, as they say, to all heartburns, in order to present themselves as the jury wishes. Therefore, it is almost meaningless to emphasize their beautiful forms at beauty contests of the international (and even intergalactic) level; here we need to come up with something like that, capable of impressing those very “undecided in life” jurors.
And one of these participants, namely Natalya Vladimirovna Pereverzeva, representing Russia, came up with something original. She decided to hit her jury with her Kursk drive right away - right off the bat. Answering the introductory question about what makes her proud of her country, Natalia said something like:
“I have always been proud of the country in which I live. I can not imagine myself without it. My country is all that I have, all the people I love, everything that is dear to me. My Russia is like a bright, warm, patched blanket, but it is so nice to climb under it on a winter evening when a blizzard sweeps through the window. ”
At first everything is beautiful, figuratively, poetic. Well, except that the "patched blanket" could cause some contradictory assessments. But in order to dismiss any kind of misinterpretation, the kuryanochka was further covered up with such words that even those who had seen the species and had heard the rumors sucked under the spoon of surprise.
“But my Russia is a yearning and suffering country, ruthlessly torn to pieces by greedy, dishonest, unbelieving people. My Russia is a huge artery from which few “chosen” people extort its wealth. My Russia is a beggar. My Russia can not help the elderly and orphans. Engineers, doctors and teachers are fleeing from it, as from a sinking ship, because they have nothing to live for. My Russia is in the endless Caucasian war. These are fierce brotherly peoples who once spoke the same language and who now prohibit teaching this language in their schools. ”
Well, then it was about Pushkin, and about Plisetskaya, and about music with books, only for those who had gathered all these words were already on duty to the thunder that had just thundered. The whole world from the mouth of the Russian, forgive, my God, beautiful women, learned that she herself literally broke away for the Miss Earth contest from the clawed paws of a beggar and a state drowning in blood; that Pereverzev, from the poverty of his country, was forced to fall asleep under a blanket covered with patches, listening in Kursk to the unceasing roar of cannonade coming from somewhere near Makhachkala ...
So you, Russia, thought everything after the “confession” by Pereverzeva, who apparently dressed her dresses and swimsuits for the contest with a blunted rusty needle, because in the Russian State there are acute problems with the extraction of iron ore. God, how does she live in this terrible country? - the foreign viewers of the show thought after Mrs. Pereverzeva delivered her speech. But Natalya Vladimirovna could even frighten the effect of fainting on the stage, in order to prove by personal example that citizens in Russia eat no more than three times a week, and they drink clean water only on major pagan holidays, melting it from Rus snow. She was able to demonstrate the Kursk rubber galoshes, which were hidden under a long dress, made from a great-grandmother's curtain, because in Russia not only nothing to eat, but nothing to wear ...
In general, the show Natalia Pereverzeva staged a terrific, but a little did not work out with acting effects. Now we should expect that the native of the Nightingale will be awarded victories in any international beauty contest, if she again and again makes such speeches.
Our Miss told everything nicely, but she didn’t mention one thing: how did she manage to get free education in the poorest and war-torn country to get one university (Kursk), leave it and transfer to another (Moscow), graduate graduate school and at the same time get into the world of modeling business, open your musical project, undress for Playboy - and further down the list. Warm, however, a patched blanket from Natalia Pereverzeva ...
Bidzina Ivanishvili: I do not need a Russian coast ...
Georgian Prime Minister makes demands to Russian authorities
During the week I decided to show my political temper a new prime minister of the most democratic in the world (after the USA, of course) the state - Georgia. Mr. Ivanishvili literally in ultimatum presented his version of a visit to Russia. He, you know, will come to us only when the official Russian authorities close the embassies in South Ossetia and Abkhazia. They say that the Russians, the new ruler of Georgian souls, will not see you until your leadership recognizes the two above-mentioned republics as parts of the Georgian state.
The Russians after these words Ivanishvili, obviously, had to get their handkerchiefs and these scarves to wipe away the tears of grief, due to the fact that Bidzina G. will not enter their Voronezh, Tyumen, Izhevsk, Moscow and other houses. Apparently, many should have started to tear their hair out on themselves and shout in the attack of an inconsolable grief: let Bidzina-light Grigorievich come to us - to live without him sickeningly and siro ...
But no one began to sob, the embassies of the Russian Federation in the capitals of independent states (Abkhazia and South Ossetia) remained in their former places. But instead of sobbing, they took a closer look at both the statements of the Georgian Prime Minister and his extensive biography. And in this biography there is one interesting point: for 20 years, Mr. Ivanishvili had a passport of a Russian citizen, which allowed Bidzina Grigorievich to conduct very active financial activities on Russian soil. And the “Georgian dreamer” refused this passport only in 2011 (almost 3 a year later, after Russian embassies appeared in Tskhinvali and Sukhumi).
An amazing thing turns out to be: a certain time Ivanishvili’s shoes were trampled on Russian land, and his heart didn’t suffer any moral humiliation from the presence of Russian diplomatic missions in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and then, you see, everything suddenly turned upside down. Bidzina Grigorievich suddenly understood that he had been wrong for years in 20. I went to warm my shoes to wash off the adhering Russian soil and deliberately dab the Georgian soils to demonstrate to my electorate that he was in his board.
The Georgian people, of course, met Ivanishvili’s words with applause, saying that it’s necessary for these barbarians: let them get out of the originally Georgian land, where the percentage of Georgians, it must be said, from time immemorial had the appearance of a statistical error.
Ivanishvili pleased with himself announced that Russia still has a ghostly chance to see his sun-like face: on the territory of a certain third country.
Maybe Ivanishvili is just cunning? Maybe he does not want to go to Russia, not at all, because he is dissatisfied with the presence of a couple of embassies, but because he fears that the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation suddenly decides to check the transparency of his income at a time when his own presence in the First throne did not cause him negative emotions? After all, to be honest, you can hardly imagine that 3 billion dollars (this is the most conservative estimate) even for a couple of decades could be earned by honest and overworking. After all, as far as we know, it was not Ivanishvili who came up with “Facebook”, and Bidzina Grigoryevich hardly economically saved at dinners in Impexbank ...
In general, Ivanishvili pumps for nothing. Apparently, he forgets that Gennady Onishchenko (we have such a person) can change his mind with the resumption of supplies of Georgian wines to Russia. And here no third countries will help Bidzina Grigorievich ...
Reported on the form
Valentin Yudashkin declared that his military uniform design was grossly distorted
After the "tops" were collected at the Ministry of Defense and sent for examination to determine the presence of "putrefactive bacteria" in them, many decided to comment on the work of this department - work in these times. One of those who decided to dot the ё after several years of silence was the famous fashion designer Valentin Yudashkin. The same couturier, who was called the father-creator of the new form for the Russian military. And the couturier began to cut the truth of the womb, not paying any attention to the not yet healed ministerial wounds.
Valentin Abramovich unexpectedly for everyone said that he doesn’t have anything to do with the form that Russian soldiers, officers and generals wear today. It turns out that the famous fashion designer brazenly framed. It was in 2007 that he proposed to the Ministry an elegant form made of high-quality and expensive materials, and it was utterly distorted, replacing everything: from threads to insulation. The military uniform cost less than the one proposed by Valentin Abramovich, and therefore he is not going to bear responsibility for the freezing soldiers.
In response to the criticism of "his" form, Yudashkin decided to justify himself and published in his "Twitter" the very design version that he proposed to the RF Ministry of Defense in 2007. According to the couturier, these photos should have assured the Russian servicemen that he wished them well for good. However, even after the pictures of laudatory reviews revealing the essence of the case, Yudashkin's form did not receive, but the theses “paintball costumes” and “fisherman outfit” could be found quite often.
But let's not question the possibility of the most famous Russian designer to distinguish himself in terms of creating a military uniform for the Russian army. Let us touch on another thing: if a couturier found out a couple of years ago that the soldiers and officers were not “wearing off" their form, then why was he silent? Why did you allow your world name to be used as a label for those inferior clothes that began to enter ware warehouses?
Perhaps, Yudashkin, as one serious politician of our time, knew everything, but was silent: he didn’t want to scare big fish ... And now, when the “fish” spread in different directions, I decided to lay out the whole truth about the substitution.
What will happen? Would Yudashkin really find the military specialist who had distorted his project and sew it with his bare hands into a duffle bag he had designed for the occasion? Or, perhaps, will force the guilty to reel kilometers of threads on reels? Not! The fashion designer is generous: he is not going to bring any claims to the Defense Ministry, and unexpectedly declares that stories he does not consider, and he personally has no complaints about the ex-minister Serdyukov. All in the spirit of the new anti-corruption campaign. Upset, insulted, slandered, but overall, beautiful marquise, all is well, all is well ...
Evasive evaders
Gaps in the draft draft bill
In the outgoing week, the State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill that provides for a number of benefits for those who honestly served in the ranks of the Russian army. The same bill imposes restrictions on the ability to succeed in the public service for those who have retreated from the army, in the usual language. In other words, the law makes it possible to raise the prestige of the army service and at the same time makes it clear to draft dodgers that their possible bureaucratic future is covered with a large copper vessel. Dodgers upset? I would like to, but ...
Why get upset and grieve when there are smart guys who can think and look for ways out of this situation? After all, many officials want to!
Uncles - representatives of "legal" organizations, many of which are fed including on "mowing" clients - right there found a gap in the bill. The white spot is expressed in the fact that so far there is no precise definition of the notion of "draft dodger." At the legal level, a person who has received a subpoena, signed for being obliged to come to the military commissariat at the appointed time, but did not appear there. According to this definition, it turns out that the person who did not sign for the receipt of the agenda, is beyond suspicion. Well ... If so, then now many people who sleep and see themselves as government officials, but do not want to serve the Motherland, there is reason to declare an unexpected fit of hand numbness at the very moment when you have to sign for receiving the agenda. Many may state that they did not teach them to sign the schools, and therefore they do not understand what they are talking about by the staff of the military registration and enlistment offices.
In general, the bill is undoubtedly necessary and timely, but everything can end “as yesterday”. How was it yesterday? No way ... Whoever wanted to go to the army, he went, and to whom such joy of life seems excessive, even without a receipt for receiving the agenda may be in the glorious cohort of Russian officials of the new generation.
By the way, it is a pity that in this case the law is not retroactive. But then, by its effectiveness, it could be judged very soon. This is how many acting statesmen would have to change jobs! Although there is a snag here ... Come on, prove that some of our deputies, advisers, mayors and governors at one time shied away - they will always have a reference with them for such a case ...
Part II. “Man is created for happiness, only happiness is not always created for him”
Love in law
America is going to end violence
At the end of November, the US Supreme Court may amend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The wording of this law from 1996 defines marriage exclusively as a union between a man and a woman. In the case of a positive (for same-sex couples, of course) addressing the issue, American homosexuals will receive federal tax breaks - those that currently only apply to traditional married couples. The changes are likely to affect all couples - and those that "married" in states where same-sex marriages are legalized, and those where such legalization is a matter of the near future or not at all.
Nanette Miller, head of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) department at the accounting firm Marcum LLP, is already rejoicing with the same-sex American public that some "couples" will soon be able to claim for a refund of either the taxes that they were forced to pay, or the property they lost, starting from the 2009 year.
In the US, it is allowed to make changes to tax returns no later than three years, so after a court decision, gays and lesbians are advised to hurry. They will have time before 15 April 2013.
Savings on backdated tax breaks can be very substantial for many: each couple will return approximately 40-60 thousand dollars, especially if one of the spouses earns much more than their partner (the benefits will be calculated according to a single declaration, “ family "). Nanette Miller believes that ten thousand dollars a year is a very real amount.
In addition, LGBT couples, just like normal couples, will be able to inherit the property of their “spouses” without paying tax on the inheritance received. Now not recognized by law, gays and lesbians pay 35% tax on real estate inherited from their "wives" and "husbands." If DOMA is rewritten, those who have previously paid the tax (up to 2009 of the year) will be able to return the money.
In general, 2012 is the year of change for American homosexuals.
In May, President Barack Obama publicly supported same-sex marriage, and in the summer he made an ardent speech at the homosexual holiday at the Pentagon. In November, in referendums in the states of Washington and Maryland, the majority of voters voted to legalize same-sex marriages, and in Maine, the majority favored the abolition of the constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriages. In addition, in Minnesota, most voters did not support a constitutional amendment that prohibited marriages between people of the same sex.
Against the background of such present and future success, homosexuals in America have revived ... pedophiles.
No, no, the activation of these powerless individuals was not sudden or accidental. The fact is that psychiatrists began to revise pedophilia as a deviation - just as homosexuality was previously revised, not considered a deviation in the West for a long time.
And if in 1973, the American Psychiatric Association excluded homosexuality from the list of mental disorders, in 2012, a group of psychiatrists along with the organization B4U-Act held a symposium at which a new definition of pedophilia was proposed.
B4U-Act proposed a definition according to which pedophiles would be called “people who are minors”. By the way, the goal of this organization is to “help psychiatrists learn more about attraction to minors and consider the influence of stereotypes, stigma and fear.”
Earlier, in 1998, the American Psychiatric Association released a report stating that the “negative potential” of adult sex with children is exaggerated, and at the same time it was reported that “the overwhelming majority of men and women say there is no negative sexual effect from sexual violence in childhood.
Pedophilia in the United States today has a formal (albeit vague) protection status granted to it by the federal government. The law of M. Shepard and J. Byrd, Jr. on the prevention of crimes motivated by intolerance among protected categories uses the term “sexual orientation” without explanation. Republicans, including many supporters of traditional marriages, wanted to add an amendment to the law, clarifying that “pedophilia is not considered an orientation,” but the freedom-loving democrats rejected the amendment. Rep. Elsie Hastings said:
"This law reflects our determination to end violence based on prejudice and ensure that all Americans, regardless of race, color, religion, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or all of these affiliates, fetishes and" isms ”will not live in fear no matter who they are. I urge my colleagues to vote for this law. ”
The White House encouraged the law, agreeing with the words of Hastings. And then there were voices from fraternal Canada. There, two psychologists publicly declared pedophilia sexual orientation. Former University of Montreal professor Van Gijszeghem said:
“True pedophiles give exceptional preference to children, which is the same as having sexual orientation. You cannot change this person’s sexual orientation. He can, however, refrain. ”
Whether “he” will refrain is, of course, a completely different question. And the second question: will we soon become witnesses of legal marriages in Canada or the United States of old men of years 80 with children of seven years old?
Honorary Professor of Psychology at Queen’s University in Ontario, Dr. Quincy and a colleague nevertheless agree. The doctor claims that children are preferred in pedophile circles and that "there is no evidence that this type of preference can be changed by treatment or something else."
There were other scientific voices. For example, Milton Diamond, a professor at the University of Hawaii and director of the Pacific Center for Sex and Society, said that child pornography can be beneficial for society, because “potential abusers use child pornography as a substitute for sex with children.”
The website of the Institute for Special Studies of Human Sexuality lists “basic sexual rights”, which include “the right to engage in sexual acts or actions of any kind, if they are not related to disagreement, violence, harassment, coercion or deceit”. The organization states that there should not be “limited opportunities due to age”.
In California, Georgia and Iowa, laws protecting children from sexually oriented criminals have been challenged. Pedophiles protest against unjust law, which prohibits them from settling near schools or parks. Such a law, they say, punishes them for life.
Free American life is becoming freer. Twenty or thirty years later, if the United States existed at that time, it would be possible to meet gray-bearded gentlemen walking boys or girls and gently patting them on their heads somewhere in New York Park or near the Washington school. These old uncles are very offended if someone calls them grandparents, and the children next to them are grandchildren ...
Happy breivik
Norwegian humanity
A couple of weeks ago, the fighter against multiculturalism, Anders Breivik, complained in writing to the correctional institutions of Norway about infringement of his rights by the administration of the Il prison. According to the prisoner, not enough hot coffee was served in his office and not enough butter was placed on the bread. He had to write some kind of rubber pen, from which arthritis could happen. In order to improve the chamber atmosphere, he demanded that the jailers install humidifiers in his three-room apartments. And he was also handcuffed a bit and did not like the view from the window.
Breivik's lawyer said that his ward might even lay his hands on himself, if he was not replaced with a pen and the coffee was not served at a centigrade temperature.
The prison administration hastened to meet the demands of the unfortunate convict. They gave him an extra change of clothes, put a wardrobe in the bedroom, changed the rubber handle to an ordinary ballpoint. True, instead of humidifiers gave while moisturizer. Also, the terrorist received a shelf for books. The other day he will buy a player to listen to CDs. In order to get ahead of the wishes of the killer 77 people, in addition to the new pen he was handed a new electric typewriter.
Now, the administration is thinking about improving the lighting in Breivik's office: otherwise, he will ruin his eyes by reading books.
Passport Strategy
Once the Japanese took Senkaku, the Chinese will take everything else for themselves.
In their last original decision, the rulers of the Celestial Empire must have been guided by the logic described in the subtitle. Otherwise, the introduction of their new passports can not be explained.
The fact is that the documents contain a map of the People's Republic of China, including the disputed territories that many neighboring countries consider to be theirs. The Philippines and Vietnam are already outraged because of the new Chinese passports that the authorities have given out to their citizens. So much so that protest notes were officially handed over to the PRC representatives.
Discontent of Chinese neighbors with scandal surfaced during the ASEAN summit held in Cambodia. Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei also have territorial claims in the South China Sea.
On passports depicted Paracel Islands (Vietnam disputes them from China from the 1970) and Spratly Islands (some of them are challenged by the Philippines). Interestingly, the new passports do not mark the Senkaku Islands, because of which Beijing is arguing with Tokyo.
Chinese have drawn 90% of the South China Sea - 3,5 million square kilometers.
Vietnam and the Philippines announced the The design of new Chinese passports is a violation of its sovereignty. Now, border guards will have to put stamps in passports - right on the cards. Doesn't this action itself signify, albeit purely symbolic, agreement with the territorial division proposed by Beijing?
In wit Chinese designers can not refuse. We would not be surprised if in the coming weeks someone in China receives an award for developing a new passport.
Overjoyed by his own ingenuity, China informed its neighbors that the new passports fully meet international standards. Representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the PRC said that the cards in the documents are not directed against any particular country.
This is pure Chinese truth. Maps are not directed against any one country. They are directed immediately against all countries. In addition to the American ally of Japan.
Heartless russia
Its inhabitants are as cold in heart as Ukrainians, Belarusians, Kazakhs and Kyrgyz
Gallup Agency in 2009-2011 conducted a sociological study of the emotional state of residents of more than 150 countries. The results were summed up for a long time and were published November only 21 2012 of the year.
The study was based on telephone and personal interviews with thousands of people in each country each year from 2009 to 2011. Age of respondents: from 15 years and older. The maximum sampling error ranged from ± 0,4 percent. points to ± 3,8 percent. item.
Respondents were asked whether they experienced more or less than five positive and five negative emotions for the previous day. Negative emotions included anger, stress, sadness, physical pain, and anxiety. The list of positive emotions includes joy from a good rest, a sense of respect, pleasure, a smile or prolonged laughter, as well as an interest in any occupation, such as learning.
In order to identify the general emotional coldness or “fervor”, the Gallup employees calculated the average percentage of the inhabitants of each country, who confirmed that they experienced each of the ten positive and negative emotions described above.
As it turned out, negative emotions are characteristic primarily for the states of the Middle East and North Africa. When it comes to positive experiences, Latin America takes the lead: Panama, Paraguay and Venezuela occupy the top of the list. The first to appear are the Philippines, which noticeably overtook everyone: here 60% of respondents feel at least ten positive and negative emotions per day.
But the Russian people, as shown by the results of the study, are as gloomy and cold as the Ukrainians or Belarusians, as well as the residents of Singapore and the Georgians.
Here are the top ten "heartless" countries: 1) Singapore (in total 36,% of respondents have about a dozen emotions per day); 2) Georgia (37%); 3) Lithuania (37%); 4) Russia (38%); 5) Madagascar (38%); 6) Ukraine (38%); 7) Belarus (38%); 8) Kazakhstan (38%); 9) Nepal (38%); 10) Kyrgyzstan (38%).
This impressive coverage of the survey confirmed the fact, which nevertheless says nothing on the Gallup website. The peoples of the USSR only felt happy together. And for complete happiness, they did not have enough of Gorbachev’s restructuring and Yeltsin’s reforms, but unification with Singapore, Madagascar and Nepal.
* “I can't think twice about the same thing!” - a phrase from the cartoon “38 parrots”
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