Results of the week. “Ehhh! This is an Indian national hut! “FIG you” is called! ”
Part I. "Somehow even make a scandal"
Elena Agricultural
Elena Skrynnik in the case of "Rosagrolizing" pointed to Zubkova
Last week, the journalists of the Russia-1 TV company announced the scale of the frauds at Rosagroleasing. It turned out that at the time when the company was managed by Elena Skrynnik, from the treasury in a strange way, as many as 39 billion rubles were lost somewhere. 39 billion! From such a sum, even gentlemen from Oboronservis could swallow saliva ...
Elena Borisovna (who, after working at Rosagrolizing, as is known, sat in the chair of the Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, and then allegedly became an adviser to the president), having recently seen a film about herself, her beloved, stated that all this was a slap and a provocation of journalists. According to her, there were no frauds, and there could not be, and all those unfinished farms and bankrupt agricultural holdings that live and flourish on paper have nothing to do with its activities.
It would seem that we all have to believe Elena Borisovna, because we have any ministers and then no advisers appointed ... But they did not believe. And how can you believe it when the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov himself stated that Elena Skrynnik doesn’t even have any adviser to the head of state ... Is that what you get?
Realizing that the clouds are gathering over her painted head, Elena Borisovna, who is now a witness in the Rosagroleasing case, suddenly decided on a desperate step. She swung at the holy: the gentleman of the Order for Services to the Fatherland, the former Deputy Prime Minister and even once the former acting Prime Minister of Russia - Viktor Zubkov. Viktor Zubkov himself, who oversaw agriculture plus was a member of the board of directors of Rosagroleasing, at the very moment when the billions of the company “went the wrong way” ... “Ask Zubkov”, approximately as Elena Borisovna advised the investigators to do where the money is ...
Elena Borisovna, who at any time can move from the category of witnesses to a completely different level; Elena Borisovna, who is also interested in the Swiss prosecutor's office, decided to go for broke, in effect declaring that “I was not the one to blame - Zubkov misled”. Whether Skrynnik Zubkov misled, or Elena Agricultural was guided by her own considerations in the financial activities of Rosagroleasing, the competent authorities should understand.
It is not even so much the fact that such names appear in the case, but how serious the financial inconsistencies were. After all, if we consider that in 2007-2009, 45 billions of rubles were transferred from the state budget to the authorized fund of Rosagroleasing, it turns out that more than 85% of authorized capital was plundered ... This is the scope, this is the scale! Vasilyeva, Zakutaylo, Smetanova and even Koreiko nervously smoking on the sidelines ...
"My thoughts, my racers"
In the hundred best thinkers of the year were Navalny and "Pussy Riot"
The thought process is extremely fragile. Even more fragile is the assessment of the thinking process of other individuals. They'll tell you: Well, quickly, without thinking, evaluate those who have a thought going in the right direction, and those who don’t. Agree that this is not so easy to do. It is sometimes difficult to bring your thoughts in order, but what about the thoughts of others? In general, the quit is real. Platonov and Aristotle, tea, in the present world can not be found. And if there is neither Aristotle nor Platonov, then the assessment should be postponed until better times.
However, as it turned out during the week, the lack of lumps of philosophy on the body of the planet did not at all prevent the popular American magazine Foreign Policy from calling 100 the world's best world thinkers (in 2012 a year). And looking at this top list, according to the version of this publication, the list of super-thinkers, the idea comes to mind that, perhaps, its compilers showed either the impact of Hurricane Sandy, or overdue antidepressants, and, perhaps, counterfeit alcohol ...
Well, in fact, not every time you can see in the list of the best world thinkers the names of such figures as Alexei Navalny (45 place) and Ben Bernanke (15 place) ... This is where the intellectual activity of these winners is developed, if the first in the process the fight against corruption itself manages to become one of the links of corruption schemes, and the other so skillfully leads the US economy to prosperity that the national debt from such skills expands and rises as a dough to a dough.
In the list of top thinkers on 16 place, after the financial genius Ben, were members of the group «Pussy Riot». It turns out that the pans from the "PR" think a little less vividly than the head of the US Federal Reserve. However, their mind is much more alive, for example, the thinking abilities of Condoleezza Rise (39 place). Apparently, the American magazine put them on the list for the ability to jump on fountains in negligee, to have sex correctly in the last month of pregnancy (in public places), and to put the words recorded in the studio on the video taken in the temple.
Seriously behind Yevgeny Chirikov's Pussy Riot mental activity, which is located in a modest 70 place. However, the race thoughts of Chirikov, Navalny, Tolokonnikova and other laureates cannot be compared with the thoughts of the third prize winners.
Attention! .. Drum roll! .. Third place and a bronze medal for spouting ideas about world peace, a bright democratic future, puppy joy at the overthrow of "the hated anti-human regimes" gets ... Clinton couple: tireless Hillary and her faithful companion - Bill whose joint thought process was almost interrupted at one time by one broken girl who loved to show her black dress in front of the television cameras ... Bill and Hillary, Hillary and Bill! Stormy prolonged applause, comrades! ..
It is amazing how these “sober-minded” people managed to bypass the second-placed Tunisian President Marzuki and the winners - two politicians from the state of Myanmar. A little bit the Clintons did not reach, just a little bit ... But they still have everything ahead.
Ahead of all, and Alexei Navalny, which, it turns out, are already waiting for "friends" in places not so remote. About this, in particular, writes "Moskovsky Komsomolets". The MK journalists talked with a representative of one of the organized criminal groups, who, reflecting on the leaders of the modern opposition in Russia, said that Navalny, if he was “in the zone” in connection with the “swamp business” and “Kirovles”, might not be very lucky. It turns out that the lawyer Navalny deigned in 2007 to unflatteringly respond to the then skinhead Maxim Martsinkevich (nicknamed Tesak), and not only respond, but also to roll, in the appropriate language, “cart” to Martsinkevich to the prosecutor’s office for his nationalist sayings Slasher tore the debate organized by Navalny. As a result, Marcinkiewicz got into jail. After being released in 2010, Martsinkevich sharpens a tooth on the 45 thinker of the whole planet Navalny, and for the company with Martsinkevich they are going to meet the bread and salt of the oppositionist and those who are spiritually close to Comrade Tesak.
Well, this is how Alexey Anatolyevich can rise in the American rating if he finds himself among the cellmate thinkers! How much time will he have for a new intellectual activity! "Pussy Riot" won out with might and main by the thought of the tree, mastering the opposition "according to the concepts" ...
"Favorite city can sleep peacefully ..."
Patrol Moscow streets want not only Cossacks
During the week Moscow streets began to patrol Cossack squads. The first Cossack patrols were seen at the Belorussky railway station. In uniforms, with insignia, with a full, so to speak, bearing ... The task of the Cossacks, in their own words, was to identify unauthorized trading places, unregulated car parks and ensure public order. And if nobody was against the provision of public order at the station, in principle, he had nothing against it, then everything turned out to be much more complicated with unauthorized trade. The Cossacks, of course, walk around and show the boldness of the valiant Dali, but then the words often began to slip: what was it suddenly the Cossacks? We, well, unauthorized trade with parking more and no one to control? ..
One of the critics of the Cossack initiative was the representative of the Dagestan People’s Assembly, Kamil Davdiev. Mr. Davidov said that before patrolling the streets of Moscow, the Cossacks had to ask the opinions of representatives of national diasporas ... Why would this Cossack campaign in Moscow so troubled a representative of the Dagestan legislature? .. Do Cossacks come too close? distance to a certain market stall or car park?
Kamil Davdiev, reinforcing his words that the Cossacks should have "consulted", came out with a unique sentence: "Let us walk together." Apparently, it will be necessary to “walk together” only because one does not allow others to get used to the role of Moscow controllers too. And after all, what good, the Cossacks will approach the Moscow stall with donuts to check, and a stall under the auspices of some Municipal Dagestan vice-speaker or deputy mayor works ... Then assistants from Makhachkala or Derbent will have to prompt the Cossacks, so that they pass by.
In general, the initiative with the Moscow patrol obviously needs to be improved. After all, if even brigade "three Cossacks - three Dagestani", then the other guests of the capital will ask for "advice" on the protection of peace of Muscovites. Then we must take the following path: to form patrol groups according to the multinational principle. Here is one of the options:
Stone can endure
Oppositionists go into the woods
When a cat has nothing to do, everyone knows what occupation he finds for himself. Approximately along the same path, but with the involvement of, let’s say, the general public, a group of people decided to call themselves overgrown oppositionists. This week, this group of comrades, who, apparently, often have itching syndrome in different places, gathered for a unique action of its kind. The essence of the action was that in one company specializing in the manufacture of ritual goods, a monument was ordered with the inscription “This stone is erected in memory of victims of political repressions of the Horde-Kremlin occupation. Ancient settlement Przemysl. The monument was brought to a place where, according to some, in the 13-15 centuries. was located historical Przemysl territory, allegedly fighting for independence from Muscovy, which itself at that time was under the yoke of the Horde. Enthusiasts managed to drag a weighty stone to the forest (about 30 km from MKAD), where they installed it on a hill overgrown with trees and shrubs. The organizers of the installation of the obelisk said that this event is held in memory of Prince Ivan Velyaminov, innocently killed by the Kremlin in 1379, who fought for the independence of the Przemysl.
In general, no matter how hard the child is, as they say ... Put an obelisk - but for God's sake: even a prince, even a princess, even a serf, but an epic dog who died at the hands of a greedy man, who loved the mongrel very much ... but the creative oppositionists are not just a monument they set up in the forest, they obviously wanted at least local fame, and therefore the local authorities notified of their event ... And the local authorities themselves know which ones: they don’t like to joke themselves, and they often don’t allow others.
In general, law enforcement officers arrived at the site of a historic tragedy on an individual scale, and even blocked the laying on of flowers and making fiery speeches about "Horde-Kremlin occupiers." Well, what did the organizers want? They themselves said that the passwords and appearances themselves were called, and then they began to wave their hands: they say, for what ... by what right ... who are you ...
Guided by more and more original ideas of the current Russian oppositionists, it can be assumed that they will soon decide on a new action: installing a memorable metal bucket with text on knights of the Livonian Order, which went to Russia with the obvious goal of bringing democratic ideals to this “wild” one at the bottom of Lake Peipsi. "Land ... The main thing with this is not to forget to inform Rosrybolovstvo, the administration of the Pskov Region and all the Chudsky police stations.
Called things by their names
Foreign agents noted through applied arts
The week also showed itself another original action. While some installed obelisks in the woods near Moscow, others decided to name the names of those who conduct their public activities in Russia at the expense of foreign grantors. The fact is that the recipients of funds from foreign states themselves in a tough form stated that they are not going to recognize themselves as foreign agents. Apparently, this angered the activists from the other flank, and therefore, without thinking twice, they prepared their own banners with the inscriptions “Here sits a foreign agent” and, under cover of night, hoisted them on the buildings of the For Human Rights and Memorial movements. Stickers with similar inscriptions appeared on the doors of the Moscow Helsinki Group office and the USRF foundation. It seemed to them that was not enough, and the “night informers of the population” wrote about a foreign agency of various organizations also on the facades of buildings, with paint.
The action, of course, is no less interesting than the installation of forest obelisks. At the same time, people gathering in the buildings mentioned above, immediately saw the trail of the Kremlin in their actions. They say that Putin took it, and sent his people to climb the night roofs. Putin handed it to everyone in his hands on a can of paint and said: "Go and write." Yes, Putin and Medvedev together created banners in his home workshop: one, you know, spreads the fabric, the other through the stencil prepared by Surkov pouring paint on it ...
In general, in this case, no one warned the local authorities about the action, and the Cossack patrol apparently slept soundly that night, and had colored dreams about the Don floods and big-breasted Cossacks.
Part II. "Custom is a punishment for the wise and a thing of worship for fools"
"Milda pissing tours" and other rites
Riga does not need cultural tourists
Former Minister of Culture of Latvia and former chief editor of the newspaper “Diena” Sarmite Elerte is fighting for the post of mayor of Riga: she was nominated by the ruling Latvian party “Unity”.
This lady knows how to fight in an election battlefield. Having become a candidate, she refused to speak with the Voice of Russia radio station in Russian. And in Latvian proclaimed His main goal is the return of Riga ... no, you thought wrong ... the return of Riga to Latvia. Today Riga is run by a mayor by the name of Nil Ushakov, and, therefore, the city looks a lot like Russian. Approximately this conclusion can be drawn from the loud statement of the candidate about the “return”.
If Comrade Ushakov is characterized by many people as a strong and experienced business executive, then Sarmite Elerte previously edited the largest newspaper in Latvia. On its pages it was got both to politicians, and to candidates in politicians, and their opponents, and at the same time and business executives. Now Elerte plans to become both a politician and a business executive at the same time, not quite, apparently realizing that she was suddenly on the other side of the stage. Now the media, clutching at the former professional journalist, will cling to her every word, turn it out in such and such a way, look at it with a magnifying glass, shake it both in Latvian and in Russian. It begs the similarity with the policeman who broke the law and went to prison after the trial. Prisoners, as you know, do not really complain about the former law enforcement officers in their close-knit hooliganism. So the politicians who had previously gotten from Mrs. Elerte would be happy to comment on her new initiatives to turn Riga into places of promise.
The acting mayor reacted with a smile to the appearance of a rival and, with his characteristic irony, promised journalists and other publics a happy election campaign. By the way, he himself is from journalists.
And if so, Sarmīte came up with a new proposal, a bit less ambitious and designed if not to return Riga to the Latvian people, then at least clean the city from the Russian guests. Elerte said she would do everything to attract European tourists to the city.
Unlike the business manager Ushakov, the candidate from Unity forgets that the Russians, among whom there are indeed oligarchs, spend money in Riga. Crisis Latvia, which is already being scolded in Estonia - for the fact that it does not have funds for uniforms for the soldiers - Russian money, even if they smack of an occupation-oligarchic deal, oh, how necessary.
In addition, the ill-considered statements of the former cultural ministry show that she forgets about what she needs to be well remembered - about culture.
The fact is that Russian tourists behave in Latvia much more decently than people from somewhere in non-civilized countries like Britain, Germany or some other Sweden.
Among the British, for example, are popular tours to Latvia, which received a strange name: "Milda pissing tours".
It turns out that it has become fashionable among young Englishmen to try alcoholic beverages in Riga and then to reach the goal of their arrival in a hospitable country: to find Mildu (a monument to Freedom of Latvia) and help him with a little need. Milda has long been smelling badly, but - what can you do: British tourist, face of morality ... Apparently, Neil Ushakov does not want to resist the invasion of the British, who are actively changing the pounds to the armor. And “Milda pissing tours” are continuing, and the British urine is increasingly pulling from the statue of Liberty. The British in the capital of Latvia get drunk until a pig squeal and run around the city streets naked (these carriers of delirium tremens and frost at minus fifteen does not take), and the police calmly collects with them fines - for a hundred euros from the nose.
The passion of the British tourist to drunkenness, debauchery and the demonstration of naked asses has long been known. In 2010, the British Foreign Office conducted a survey in which thousands of English participated in the 34. Every second Englishwoman sunbathed topless, absolutely not interested in the laws of the host country, every seventh Englishman admitted that on vacation he had sex in a public place, and every twentieth ran somewhere naked or bare his ass in front of passersby.
These are the barbarians Mrs. Elerte and would like to see more in Riga. Why, God have mercy, will not breathe the same. The British, who had come to life after such statements, would turn the city into a hybrid of a pigsty with a brothel for some week.
By the way, you can virtually protect Milda from pisso touristo here.
"There are collected, frankly, idiots"
Fate of detroit
Latvians complain that Riga is dying out: if under Gorbachev here lived About 900 thousand people, now Rigans left 650.000.
But where Riga to American Detroit!
Sometime, in the 1950's, Detroit was one of the main centers of american engineering. Automobile factories “General Motors”, “Chrysler”, “Ford” were concentrated here.
Then the US government, obviously, inattentively reading a brief historical background on the Russian reforms of Stolypin, decided to resettle the blacks in the center of Detroit ... The white-skinned workers, among whom there were quite a few skilled engineers and workers, as well as middle-class representatives, one after another began to sell housing and move to the suburbs. Real estate in the city has fallen in price, in Detroit a financial crisis hit. He was aggravated by the oil crisis that began in the year 1973. It led to the bankruptcy of many American automakers, whose cars consumed too much fuel. This was won by the Japanese and Europeans.
And Detroit lost. The factories were closing, people were leaving for sight. Today, entire neighborhoods are left here. There are streets in Detroit, on one side of which shop windows are lit, and on the other there are skyscrapers with broken windows and ruined walls from which trees grow. The city's population declined from 1,8 million at the start of 1950's to 700 thousand by 2012 year.
In 2009, this city, a sad monument to American industry, was recognized in the US one of the hardest hit by the financial crisis. Unemployment in Detroit exceeded 50%!
This week, Senator in Michigan State Congress, Rick Jones, proposed ... to abolish Detroit. Mr jones saidthat the city should be disbanded due to its deplorable financial situation. How to do it? It's very simple: to declare the city bankrupt, and then divide it among other populated areas of Wayne County.
Now the city has reached the point where it cannot pay its officials. By mid-December, the budget will run out of money, and municipal employees will be on leave without pay since 1 January 2013. Detroit's debt on long-term bonds exceeds 12 billion dollars.
Jack Brandenburg, Republican Michigan Senator, with anger criticized Members of the Detroit City Senate:
And the former head of Detroit communications, Karen Dumas on Talk Radio 1270, lamented the fact that people in America are poorly versed in the deplorable situation - that is, he hinted that "idiots are sitting" not only in Detroit
There is nothing to console Comrade Dumas. Bye Obama with Romney are eating in the White House, turkey and jointly make plans to maintain US leadership in the world - somewhere out there in Libya, Syria or Asia-Pacific, millions of Americans starving. According to the latest data from the US Census Bureau, the number of Americans living in poverty rose to a new record in 2011, the 49,7 million people. The number of poor Americans is growing by about 6 millions every year. About every fourth worker in the United States brings home a salary that is at or below the federal level of poverty. Food stamps live in excess of 47 millions of Americans.
Helicopter Flight
Venezuelan sky is dangerous for flying
In Venezuela, during the military parade dedicated to the 92 anniversary of the creation of the Air Force, crashed Chinese light attack aircraft K-8. Fortunately, both pilots ejected.
A helicopter immediately flew to the search for pilots. Rescuers flew to the scene in a French car - “Cougar”, that is, the Chinese factor was excluded. The fact is that this is the second collapse of K-8 in the Venezuelan Air Force: the previous happened 21 July 2010 of the year. But the French “Cougar” crashed and crashed to the ground. The crew of the helicopter was still alive.
Last week, when Venezuelans rehearsed the upcoming parade, two light attack aircraft of the Oron-10 “Bronco” model collided in the air. These aircraft are of American manufacture.
Both pilots managed to eject after the collision, but the pilot-instructor José Rafael Marin, who took the damaged aircraft from the dwellings, was killed.
The sad moment here is that if “Bronco” are old, they were produced in the USA from 1967 to 1976, and from the Venezuelan Air Force they were supposed to be in the near future write off, then President Chavez is expanding cooperation with China. Two weeks ago, the first Chinese Yun-8 transport aircraft copied from the Soviet An-12 and Comrade Chavez were solemnly delivered to Venezuela. said:
As for the crashing K-8, then Venezuela bought China has eighteen of these machines.
Gender Things
About blue and pink
Who would have thought that Christmas could cause a scandal! But where else - in Sweden, known for its "Swedish families" and the good old tolerance.
The largest Swedish manufacturer of toys "Top Toy" produced Christmas product catalog. And in the pictures - girls with pistols and machine guns, as well as boys playing dolls.
As it turned out, the country's authorities threatened this firm with punishment for the promoted gender inequality, and therefore, from now on, “Top Toy” is a company that is “gender neutral”.
In the old days, the boys in the catalogs of the company looked like supermen, and girls - like princesses. But representatives of the public service for control of advertising saw through the strategy of “Top Toy” - and criticized the company for introducing gender stereotypes into the masses. It is not good that boys are portrayed as harsh heroes, and girls are feminine and airy. And the small representatives of the weaker sex toy manufacturers were immediately armed with machine guns, and the blond boys in the pictures began to gently lull the dolls.
Representatives of the company made a shocking statement, very similar to the new slogan:
Everything. There are still children in Sweden, but boys and girls are no longer there.
Not the president, not the leopard
Jacob Zuma is ready for party elections
How to prepare for the party elections? Well, you can sit down at the computer and write or edit the party program. Suggest, say, new ways of developing a democratic society of the native country. Outline initiatives, introduce innovative political technologies, and finally develop secretly virtuosic ways of circumventing party rivals, and at the same time a complete and final victory over corruption, finally bribing someone, and also giving someone a thousand and one promises. You can even start your “Twitter” and there you can throw political and domestic mud at your opponents, who also tag the place of the party boss.
All these methods and scripts are known. But besides them, there is also the approach taken by the hero of our report - Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma, who is also the president of South Africa.
In order to secure a victory in the upcoming elections for the head of the ruling party "African National Congress", Mr. Zuma addressed his departed ancestors.
25 November Zuma got into the car and went in his native village. There he threw the skin of a leopard on his shoulders and, with prayers, sacrificed twelve cows to their ancestors, which were then burned with incense.
During the ceremony, the president was given a spear and a shield: they will protect him from opponents in the elections.
Another leader, Inkosi Beki Zuma, handing a spear with a shield to the president, openly advised them to be used against party enemies.
Media representatives were admitted to the election campaign, but at the end of the ritual the presidential guards of journalists kicked out. A notebook was taken from one of them. Later he was returned to the correspondent, tearing out the pages written out.
An old but vigorous 70-year-old Zuma follows Zulu traditions in matrimonial matters. In April, President 2012 married for the sixth time. Back in 2010, he has totaled 20 children. Also wide is known Zuma’s statement that the African National Congress, for the leadership in which he is now fighting, “will rule until the second coming”.
South African President knows what he is talking about. Shaking a spear, putting on skins and making bloody sacrifices, Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma is ready to push this very coming to infinity ...
* “Ehhh! This is an Indian national hut! “Fig for you” is called! ”- a phrase from the cartoon“ Three from Prostokvashino ”.
Elena Agricultural
Elena Skrynnik in the case of "Rosagrolizing" pointed to Zubkova
Last week, the journalists of the Russia-1 TV company announced the scale of the frauds at Rosagroleasing. It turned out that at the time when the company was managed by Elena Skrynnik, from the treasury in a strange way, as many as 39 billion rubles were lost somewhere. 39 billion! From such a sum, even gentlemen from Oboronservis could swallow saliva ...
Elena Borisovna (who, after working at Rosagrolizing, as is known, sat in the chair of the Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, and then allegedly became an adviser to the president), having recently seen a film about herself, her beloved, stated that all this was a slap and a provocation of journalists. According to her, there were no frauds, and there could not be, and all those unfinished farms and bankrupt agricultural holdings that live and flourish on paper have nothing to do with its activities.
It would seem that we all have to believe Elena Borisovna, because we have any ministers and then no advisers appointed ... But they did not believe. And how can you believe it when the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov himself stated that Elena Skrynnik doesn’t even have any adviser to the head of state ... Is that what you get?
Realizing that the clouds are gathering over her painted head, Elena Borisovna, who is now a witness in the Rosagroleasing case, suddenly decided on a desperate step. She swung at the holy: the gentleman of the Order for Services to the Fatherland, the former Deputy Prime Minister and even once the former acting Prime Minister of Russia - Viktor Zubkov. Viktor Zubkov himself, who oversaw agriculture plus was a member of the board of directors of Rosagroleasing, at the very moment when the billions of the company “went the wrong way” ... “Ask Zubkov”, approximately as Elena Borisovna advised the investigators to do where the money is ...
Elena Borisovna, who at any time can move from the category of witnesses to a completely different level; Elena Borisovna, who is also interested in the Swiss prosecutor's office, decided to go for broke, in effect declaring that “I was not the one to blame - Zubkov misled”. Whether Skrynnik Zubkov misled, or Elena Agricultural was guided by her own considerations in the financial activities of Rosagroleasing, the competent authorities should understand.
It is not even so much the fact that such names appear in the case, but how serious the financial inconsistencies were. After all, if we consider that in 2007-2009, 45 billions of rubles were transferred from the state budget to the authorized fund of Rosagroleasing, it turns out that more than 85% of authorized capital was plundered ... This is the scope, this is the scale! Vasilyeva, Zakutaylo, Smetanova and even Koreiko nervously smoking on the sidelines ...
"My thoughts, my racers"
In the hundred best thinkers of the year were Navalny and "Pussy Riot"
The thought process is extremely fragile. Even more fragile is the assessment of the thinking process of other individuals. They'll tell you: Well, quickly, without thinking, evaluate those who have a thought going in the right direction, and those who don’t. Agree that this is not so easy to do. It is sometimes difficult to bring your thoughts in order, but what about the thoughts of others? In general, the quit is real. Platonov and Aristotle, tea, in the present world can not be found. And if there is neither Aristotle nor Platonov, then the assessment should be postponed until better times.
However, as it turned out during the week, the lack of lumps of philosophy on the body of the planet did not at all prevent the popular American magazine Foreign Policy from calling 100 the world's best world thinkers (in 2012 a year). And looking at this top list, according to the version of this publication, the list of super-thinkers, the idea comes to mind that, perhaps, its compilers showed either the impact of Hurricane Sandy, or overdue antidepressants, and, perhaps, counterfeit alcohol ...
Well, in fact, not every time you can see in the list of the best world thinkers the names of such figures as Alexei Navalny (45 place) and Ben Bernanke (15 place) ... This is where the intellectual activity of these winners is developed, if the first in the process the fight against corruption itself manages to become one of the links of corruption schemes, and the other so skillfully leads the US economy to prosperity that the national debt from such skills expands and rises as a dough to a dough.
In the list of top thinkers on 16 place, after the financial genius Ben, were members of the group «Pussy Riot». It turns out that the pans from the "PR" think a little less vividly than the head of the US Federal Reserve. However, their mind is much more alive, for example, the thinking abilities of Condoleezza Rise (39 place). Apparently, the American magazine put them on the list for the ability to jump on fountains in negligee, to have sex correctly in the last month of pregnancy (in public places), and to put the words recorded in the studio on the video taken in the temple.
Seriously behind Yevgeny Chirikov's Pussy Riot mental activity, which is located in a modest 70 place. However, the race thoughts of Chirikov, Navalny, Tolokonnikova and other laureates cannot be compared with the thoughts of the third prize winners.
Attention! .. Drum roll! .. Third place and a bronze medal for spouting ideas about world peace, a bright democratic future, puppy joy at the overthrow of "the hated anti-human regimes" gets ... Clinton couple: tireless Hillary and her faithful companion - Bill whose joint thought process was almost interrupted at one time by one broken girl who loved to show her black dress in front of the television cameras ... Bill and Hillary, Hillary and Bill! Stormy prolonged applause, comrades! ..
It is amazing how these “sober-minded” people managed to bypass the second-placed Tunisian President Marzuki and the winners - two politicians from the state of Myanmar. A little bit the Clintons did not reach, just a little bit ... But they still have everything ahead.
Ahead of all, and Alexei Navalny, which, it turns out, are already waiting for "friends" in places not so remote. About this, in particular, writes "Moskovsky Komsomolets". The MK journalists talked with a representative of one of the organized criminal groups, who, reflecting on the leaders of the modern opposition in Russia, said that Navalny, if he was “in the zone” in connection with the “swamp business” and “Kirovles”, might not be very lucky. It turns out that the lawyer Navalny deigned in 2007 to unflatteringly respond to the then skinhead Maxim Martsinkevich (nicknamed Tesak), and not only respond, but also to roll, in the appropriate language, “cart” to Martsinkevich to the prosecutor’s office for his nationalist sayings Slasher tore the debate organized by Navalny. As a result, Marcinkiewicz got into jail. After being released in 2010, Martsinkevich sharpens a tooth on the 45 thinker of the whole planet Navalny, and for the company with Martsinkevich they are going to meet the bread and salt of the oppositionist and those who are spiritually close to Comrade Tesak.
Well, this is how Alexey Anatolyevich can rise in the American rating if he finds himself among the cellmate thinkers! How much time will he have for a new intellectual activity! "Pussy Riot" won out with might and main by the thought of the tree, mastering the opposition "according to the concepts" ...
"Favorite city can sleep peacefully ..."
Patrol Moscow streets want not only Cossacks
During the week Moscow streets began to patrol Cossack squads. The first Cossack patrols were seen at the Belorussky railway station. In uniforms, with insignia, with a full, so to speak, bearing ... The task of the Cossacks, in their own words, was to identify unauthorized trading places, unregulated car parks and ensure public order. And if nobody was against the provision of public order at the station, in principle, he had nothing against it, then everything turned out to be much more complicated with unauthorized trade. The Cossacks, of course, walk around and show the boldness of the valiant Dali, but then the words often began to slip: what was it suddenly the Cossacks? We, well, unauthorized trade with parking more and no one to control? ..
One of the critics of the Cossack initiative was the representative of the Dagestan People’s Assembly, Kamil Davdiev. Mr. Davidov said that before patrolling the streets of Moscow, the Cossacks had to ask the opinions of representatives of national diasporas ... Why would this Cossack campaign in Moscow so troubled a representative of the Dagestan legislature? .. Do Cossacks come too close? distance to a certain market stall or car park?
Kamil Davdiev, reinforcing his words that the Cossacks should have "consulted", came out with a unique sentence: "Let us walk together." Apparently, it will be necessary to “walk together” only because one does not allow others to get used to the role of Moscow controllers too. And after all, what good, the Cossacks will approach the Moscow stall with donuts to check, and a stall under the auspices of some Municipal Dagestan vice-speaker or deputy mayor works ... Then assistants from Makhachkala or Derbent will have to prompt the Cossacks, so that they pass by.
In general, the initiative with the Moscow patrol obviously needs to be improved. After all, if even brigade "three Cossacks - three Dagestani", then the other guests of the capital will ask for "advice" on the protection of peace of Muscovites. Then we must take the following path: to form patrol groups according to the multinational principle. Here is one of the options:
Cossack, Moldavian, Avar,
Tajik, Armenian and Chinese,
Bakinets, Gypsies and Georgians:
"Moskvich, remember: you are not alone!"
Chechen, Jew and Yakut:
"Moskvich, all you cherish!"
Tajik, Armenian and Chinese,
Bakinets, Gypsies and Georgians:
"Moskvich, remember: you are not alone!"
Chechen, Jew and Yakut:
"Moskvich, all you cherish!"
Stone can endure
Oppositionists go into the woods
When a cat has nothing to do, everyone knows what occupation he finds for himself. Approximately along the same path, but with the involvement of, let’s say, the general public, a group of people decided to call themselves overgrown oppositionists. This week, this group of comrades, who, apparently, often have itching syndrome in different places, gathered for a unique action of its kind. The essence of the action was that in one company specializing in the manufacture of ritual goods, a monument was ordered with the inscription “This stone is erected in memory of victims of political repressions of the Horde-Kremlin occupation. Ancient settlement Przemysl. The monument was brought to a place where, according to some, in the 13-15 centuries. was located historical Przemysl territory, allegedly fighting for independence from Muscovy, which itself at that time was under the yoke of the Horde. Enthusiasts managed to drag a weighty stone to the forest (about 30 km from MKAD), where they installed it on a hill overgrown with trees and shrubs. The organizers of the installation of the obelisk said that this event is held in memory of Prince Ivan Velyaminov, innocently killed by the Kremlin in 1379, who fought for the independence of the Przemysl.
In general, no matter how hard the child is, as they say ... Put an obelisk - but for God's sake: even a prince, even a princess, even a serf, but an epic dog who died at the hands of a greedy man, who loved the mongrel very much ... but the creative oppositionists are not just a monument they set up in the forest, they obviously wanted at least local fame, and therefore the local authorities notified of their event ... And the local authorities themselves know which ones: they don’t like to joke themselves, and they often don’t allow others.
In general, law enforcement officers arrived at the site of a historic tragedy on an individual scale, and even blocked the laying on of flowers and making fiery speeches about "Horde-Kremlin occupiers." Well, what did the organizers want? They themselves said that the passwords and appearances themselves were called, and then they began to wave their hands: they say, for what ... by what right ... who are you ...
Guided by more and more original ideas of the current Russian oppositionists, it can be assumed that they will soon decide on a new action: installing a memorable metal bucket with text on knights of the Livonian Order, which went to Russia with the obvious goal of bringing democratic ideals to this “wild” one at the bottom of Lake Peipsi. "Land ... The main thing with this is not to forget to inform Rosrybolovstvo, the administration of the Pskov Region and all the Chudsky police stations.
Called things by their names
Foreign agents noted through applied arts
The week also showed itself another original action. While some installed obelisks in the woods near Moscow, others decided to name the names of those who conduct their public activities in Russia at the expense of foreign grantors. The fact is that the recipients of funds from foreign states themselves in a tough form stated that they are not going to recognize themselves as foreign agents. Apparently, this angered the activists from the other flank, and therefore, without thinking twice, they prepared their own banners with the inscriptions “Here sits a foreign agent” and, under cover of night, hoisted them on the buildings of the For Human Rights and Memorial movements. Stickers with similar inscriptions appeared on the doors of the Moscow Helsinki Group office and the USRF foundation. It seemed to them that was not enough, and the “night informers of the population” wrote about a foreign agency of various organizations also on the facades of buildings, with paint.
The action, of course, is no less interesting than the installation of forest obelisks. At the same time, people gathering in the buildings mentioned above, immediately saw the trail of the Kremlin in their actions. They say that Putin took it, and sent his people to climb the night roofs. Putin handed it to everyone in his hands on a can of paint and said: "Go and write." Yes, Putin and Medvedev together created banners in his home workshop: one, you know, spreads the fabric, the other through the stencil prepared by Surkov pouring paint on it ...
In general, in this case, no one warned the local authorities about the action, and the Cossack patrol apparently slept soundly that night, and had colored dreams about the Don floods and big-breasted Cossacks.
Part II. "Custom is a punishment for the wise and a thing of worship for fools"
"Milda pissing tours" and other rites
Riga does not need cultural tourists
Former Minister of Culture of Latvia and former chief editor of the newspaper “Diena” Sarmite Elerte is fighting for the post of mayor of Riga: she was nominated by the ruling Latvian party “Unity”.
This lady knows how to fight in an election battlefield. Having become a candidate, she refused to speak with the Voice of Russia radio station in Russian. And in Latvian proclaimed His main goal is the return of Riga ... no, you thought wrong ... the return of Riga to Latvia. Today Riga is run by a mayor by the name of Nil Ushakov, and, therefore, the city looks a lot like Russian. Approximately this conclusion can be drawn from the loud statement of the candidate about the “return”.
If Comrade Ushakov is characterized by many people as a strong and experienced business executive, then Sarmite Elerte previously edited the largest newspaper in Latvia. On its pages it was got both to politicians, and to candidates in politicians, and their opponents, and at the same time and business executives. Now Elerte plans to become both a politician and a business executive at the same time, not quite, apparently realizing that she was suddenly on the other side of the stage. Now the media, clutching at the former professional journalist, will cling to her every word, turn it out in such and such a way, look at it with a magnifying glass, shake it both in Latvian and in Russian. It begs the similarity with the policeman who broke the law and went to prison after the trial. Prisoners, as you know, do not really complain about the former law enforcement officers in their close-knit hooliganism. So the politicians who had previously gotten from Mrs. Elerte would be happy to comment on her new initiatives to turn Riga into places of promise.
The acting mayor reacted with a smile to the appearance of a rival and, with his characteristic irony, promised journalists and other publics a happy election campaign. By the way, he himself is from journalists.
And if so, Sarmīte came up with a new proposal, a bit less ambitious and designed if not to return Riga to the Latvian people, then at least clean the city from the Russian guests. Elerte said she would do everything to attract European tourists to the city.
“Riga should be a North European star, not a place for Russian oligarchic entertainment,” said Elerte.
Unlike the business manager Ushakov, the candidate from Unity forgets that the Russians, among whom there are indeed oligarchs, spend money in Riga. Crisis Latvia, which is already being scolded in Estonia - for the fact that it does not have funds for uniforms for the soldiers - Russian money, even if they smack of an occupation-oligarchic deal, oh, how necessary.
In addition, the ill-considered statements of the former cultural ministry show that she forgets about what she needs to be well remembered - about culture.
The fact is that Russian tourists behave in Latvia much more decently than people from somewhere in non-civilized countries like Britain, Germany or some other Sweden.
Among the British, for example, are popular tours to Latvia, which received a strange name: "Milda pissing tours".
It turns out that it has become fashionable among young Englishmen to try alcoholic beverages in Riga and then to reach the goal of their arrival in a hospitable country: to find Mildu (a monument to Freedom of Latvia) and help him with a little need. Milda has long been smelling badly, but - what can you do: British tourist, face of morality ... Apparently, Neil Ushakov does not want to resist the invasion of the British, who are actively changing the pounds to the armor. And “Milda pissing tours” are continuing, and the British urine is increasingly pulling from the statue of Liberty. The British in the capital of Latvia get drunk until a pig squeal and run around the city streets naked (these carriers of delirium tremens and frost at minus fifteen does not take), and the police calmly collects with them fines - for a hundred euros from the nose.
The passion of the British tourist to drunkenness, debauchery and the demonstration of naked asses has long been known. In 2010, the British Foreign Office conducted a survey in which thousands of English participated in the 34. Every second Englishwoman sunbathed topless, absolutely not interested in the laws of the host country, every seventh Englishman admitted that on vacation he had sex in a public place, and every twentieth ran somewhere naked or bare his ass in front of passersby.
These are the barbarians Mrs. Elerte and would like to see more in Riga. Why, God have mercy, will not breathe the same. The British, who had come to life after such statements, would turn the city into a hybrid of a pigsty with a brothel for some week.
By the way, you can virtually protect Milda from pisso touristo here.
"There are collected, frankly, idiots"
Fate of detroit
Latvians complain that Riga is dying out: if under Gorbachev here lived About 900 thousand people, now Rigans left 650.000.
But where Riga to American Detroit!
Sometime, in the 1950's, Detroit was one of the main centers of american engineering. Automobile factories “General Motors”, “Chrysler”, “Ford” were concentrated here.
Then the US government, obviously, inattentively reading a brief historical background on the Russian reforms of Stolypin, decided to resettle the blacks in the center of Detroit ... The white-skinned workers, among whom there were quite a few skilled engineers and workers, as well as middle-class representatives, one after another began to sell housing and move to the suburbs. Real estate in the city has fallen in price, in Detroit a financial crisis hit. He was aggravated by the oil crisis that began in the year 1973. It led to the bankruptcy of many American automakers, whose cars consumed too much fuel. This was won by the Japanese and Europeans.
And Detroit lost. The factories were closing, people were leaving for sight. Today, entire neighborhoods are left here. There are streets in Detroit, on one side of which shop windows are lit, and on the other there are skyscrapers with broken windows and ruined walls from which trees grow. The city's population declined from 1,8 million at the start of 1950's to 700 thousand by 2012 year.
In 2009, this city, a sad monument to American industry, was recognized in the US one of the hardest hit by the financial crisis. Unemployment in Detroit exceeded 50%!
This week, Senator in Michigan State Congress, Rick Jones, proposed ... to abolish Detroit. Mr jones saidthat the city should be disbanded due to its deplorable financial situation. How to do it? It's very simple: to declare the city bankrupt, and then divide it among other populated areas of Wayne County.
Now the city has reached the point where it cannot pay its officials. By mid-December, the budget will run out of money, and municipal employees will be on leave without pay since 1 January 2013. Detroit's debt on long-term bonds exceeds 12 billion dollars.
Jack Brandenburg, Republican Michigan Senator, with anger criticized Members of the Detroit City Senate:
"There are collected, frankly, idiots."
And the former head of Detroit communications, Karen Dumas on Talk Radio 1270, lamented the fact that people in America are poorly versed in the deplorable situation - that is, he hinted that "idiots are sitting" not only in Detroit
“I don’t think disbanding will be a solution to the problems. With each step, everything is worse and worse. On some day, maybe we will wake up and realize that enough of playing politics, we need to think of a way for development. True, I do not know when this will happen. "
There is nothing to console Comrade Dumas. Bye Obama with Romney are eating in the White House, turkey and jointly make plans to maintain US leadership in the world - somewhere out there in Libya, Syria or Asia-Pacific, millions of Americans starving. According to the latest data from the US Census Bureau, the number of Americans living in poverty rose to a new record in 2011, the 49,7 million people. The number of poor Americans is growing by about 6 millions every year. About every fourth worker in the United States brings home a salary that is at or below the federal level of poverty. Food stamps live in excess of 47 millions of Americans.
Helicopter Flight
Venezuelan sky is dangerous for flying
In Venezuela, during the military parade dedicated to the 92 anniversary of the creation of the Air Force, crashed Chinese light attack aircraft K-8. Fortunately, both pilots ejected.
A helicopter immediately flew to the search for pilots. Rescuers flew to the scene in a French car - “Cougar”, that is, the Chinese factor was excluded. The fact is that this is the second collapse of K-8 in the Venezuelan Air Force: the previous happened 21 July 2010 of the year. But the French “Cougar” crashed and crashed to the ground. The crew of the helicopter was still alive.
Last week, when Venezuelans rehearsed the upcoming parade, two light attack aircraft of the Oron-10 “Bronco” model collided in the air. These aircraft are of American manufacture.
Both pilots managed to eject after the collision, but the pilot-instructor José Rafael Marin, who took the damaged aircraft from the dwellings, was killed.
The sad moment here is that if “Bronco” are old, they were produced in the USA from 1967 to 1976, and from the Venezuelan Air Force they were supposed to be in the near future write off, then President Chavez is expanding cooperation with China. Two weeks ago, the first Chinese Yun-8 transport aircraft copied from the Soviet An-12 and Comrade Chavez were solemnly delivered to Venezuela. said:
"We need them to protect national sovereignty ... We almost did not have transport aircraft, two Hercules, and sometimes there was only one, because we had to remove spare parts from the second one so that the first could take off. These are the wonderful airplanes of Hercules, but also the Chinese Yun-8 are not worse. ”
As for the crashing K-8, then Venezuela bought China has eighteen of these machines.
Gender Things
About blue and pink
Who would have thought that Christmas could cause a scandal! But where else - in Sweden, known for its "Swedish families" and the good old tolerance.
The largest Swedish manufacturer of toys "Top Toy" produced Christmas product catalog. And in the pictures - girls with pistols and machine guns, as well as boys playing dolls.
As it turned out, the country's authorities threatened this firm with punishment for the promoted gender inequality, and therefore, from now on, “Top Toy” is a company that is “gender neutral”.
In the old days, the boys in the catalogs of the company looked like supermen, and girls - like princesses. But representatives of the public service for control of advertising saw through the strategy of “Top Toy” - and criticized the company for introducing gender stereotypes into the masses. It is not good that boys are portrayed as harsh heroes, and girls are feminine and airy. And the small representatives of the weaker sex toy manufacturers were immediately armed with machine guns, and the blond boys in the pictures began to gently lull the dolls.
Representatives of the company made a shocking statement, very similar to the new slogan:
Top Toy produces toys for children, not for boys and girls. ”
Everything. There are still children in Sweden, but boys and girls are no longer there.
Not the president, not the leopard
Jacob Zuma is ready for party elections
How to prepare for the party elections? Well, you can sit down at the computer and write or edit the party program. Suggest, say, new ways of developing a democratic society of the native country. Outline initiatives, introduce innovative political technologies, and finally develop secretly virtuosic ways of circumventing party rivals, and at the same time a complete and final victory over corruption, finally bribing someone, and also giving someone a thousand and one promises. You can even start your “Twitter” and there you can throw political and domestic mud at your opponents, who also tag the place of the party boss.
All these methods and scripts are known. But besides them, there is also the approach taken by the hero of our report - Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma, who is also the president of South Africa.
In order to secure a victory in the upcoming elections for the head of the ruling party "African National Congress", Mr. Zuma addressed his departed ancestors.
25 November Zuma got into the car and went in his native village. There he threw the skin of a leopard on his shoulders and, with prayers, sacrificed twelve cows to their ancestors, which were then burned with incense.
During the ceremony, the president was given a spear and a shield: they will protect him from opponents in the elections.
"We are gathered here to send our father to Mangang, - сказал Nomtandazo Zuma, one of the leaders of the native clan of the President of South Africa. “After this ceremony, we will be sure that the ancestral spirits will protect him and that he will return to celebrate the victory with us.”
Another leader, Inkosi Beki Zuma, handing a spear with a shield to the president, openly advised them to be used against party enemies.
Media representatives were admitted to the election campaign, but at the end of the ritual the presidential guards of journalists kicked out. A notebook was taken from one of them. Later he was returned to the correspondent, tearing out the pages written out.
An old but vigorous 70-year-old Zuma follows Zulu traditions in matrimonial matters. In April, President 2012 married for the sixth time. Back in 2010, he has totaled 20 children. Also wide is known Zuma’s statement that the African National Congress, for the leadership in which he is now fighting, “will rule until the second coming”.
South African President knows what he is talking about. Shaking a spear, putting on skins and making bloody sacrifices, Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma is ready to push this very coming to infinity ...
* “Ehhh! This is an Indian national hut! “Fig for you” is called! ”- a phrase from the cartoon“ Three from Prostokvashino ”.
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