Results of the week. “They'll give you a favor, but you do not steal!”
Part I. “The body will be taken out now”
Silent Serdyukov
Will the UK talk to the ex-minister?
On Friday, former Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov appeared at the building of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, where he had to testify on the facts of corruption in Oboronservis. He came for the second time ... He came, we recall, as a witness. Everyone expected: here it is! Now will begin! Anatoly Eduardovich will start talking, talking and talking again. But the conversation did not work out again ...
Mr. Serdyukov decided to prefer non-verbal communication with investigators. Either he has problems with the vocal chords, or whether he is completely speechless from such attention on the part of specialists to his modest "witness" person - it is not known. In general, the ex-minister of the entire Russian army and fleet was silent, silent, and again silent. But he brought with him several pieces of paper, which, as reported, contained written explanations of Anatoly Eduardovich. Apparently, these explanations are such that pronouncing them out loud is more expensive for oneself.
In general, they were sitting ... They were silent ... Someone was reading written explanations, someone was chatting with their feet under the table, someone was looking at the portrait of Karl Marx, who is mowing down ... And so much so for two and a half hours. And, apparently, after the words “we are sitting well”, the investigators thought that Anatoly Eduardovich could still sit, and therefore sent him home again.
The ex-minister briskly walked (possibly moving to a sporty) out of the building, jumped into a tinted Mercedes, and whistled past the crowd of journalists gathered outside the building of the IC. In general, it was this ...
There were no comments from either the former official or his lawyer. Maybe they followed, but only through the windows of the Mercedes no one heard them already ...
After an entertaining “interview” with Anatoly Serdyukov, Vladimir Markin, the representative of the Investigation Committee, said something like this: if the ex-minister continues to throw out similar tricks, the next time he will be called in for questioning in a completely different status. Look, they say, he plays here in silence ... “Figvamy” draws on paper ... And now, as we say that he is obstructing the investigation, his voice will cut through at once!
As far as the voice of Anatoly Serdyukov progresses, obviously, his new invitation to the Investigative Committee will show. The main thing now, to the same committee and other interested parties, is to ensure that Anatoly Eduardovich does not switch to a video message from the UK from somewhere in foggy Albion or from the French VIP houses, as other "comrades" did ...
"The moor did his job ..."
Georgia wants to send Saakashvili to resign
20 January 2013 marks exactly 5 years since the man in the red tie for the second time became the president of Georgia. It would seem that, on the basis of the imminent approach of this significant date, Mr. Saakashvili should prepare to receive memorable gifts, festive bouquets and ardent speeches of representatives of many thousands of crowds. But for some reason Mikhail Nikolozovich was sad about his soul ... Why would it? Yes, everything is simple: the second presidential term expires in January, which means that Mr. Saakashvili - after his party’s defeat at the last parliamentary elections - can turn into a mossy deputy of some local legislative assembly, where, you see, inspired thoughts about the prosperity of Georgia will be much more difficult Bring it to life.
However, Mikhail Nikolozovich tries to keep in a proper way: he doesn’t chew clothes on his camera, he doesn’t rush to the ground and doesn’t even appeal to the help of progressive humanity. He hopes that he can “stretch” for the presidency about another 10 months, because the next presidential elections in Georgia are scheduled only for October of this (2013) year. Only now his hope is weakly fed, and representatives of the parliamentary majority and Prime Minister Ivanishvili are blocking more and more channels for this kind of feeding.
According to information coming from Georgia, supporters of the Georgian Dream party, which today is the main political force in the Caucasian republic, as well as representatives of various non-governmental and public organizations, have already collected more than a million signatures for Saakashvili’s early departure from office. If there are a million signatures of Saakashvili’s opponents in stock, it turns out that about a quarter of the population of Georgia speaks out for the early resignation of the president. And if we take into account that the signatures were collected only on the territory of Georgia, then it can be assumed that several hundreds of thousands of citizens of the country who work outside its borders (including in Russia) could be added to these signatures. Here not a quarter of the population is looming, but the majority of Georgian citizens who have the right to vote.
But how is that? .. After all, quite recently Saakashvili himself and his closest supporters stated that their positions in Georgia are unshakable, because they lead the country into a bright democratic future with transparent police stations and the absence of corruption. However, in fact, it turned out that the transparent buildings of the police offices, the victory over petty bribery and Mr. Saakashvili’s own presidential palace, and even greater joy from Western praise (which began to show itself less and less) - these are the main achievements of the current Georgian president’s regime. Corruption in power has not disappeared anywhere, unemployment, on the contrary, increased, national debt reached its maximum value for all the latest history, and its repayment before “good” western creditors threatens with new economic problems.
In general, when as many as one million citizens speak for your speedy resignation (and this number is obviously not final), then you need to think hard. Perhaps Mikhail Nikolozovich should at least take an example from Russia today. Well, remember: "I'm tired, I'm leaving ..."
Passion for Depardieu
Work for a famous actor
After the famous French actor Gerard Depardieu received a Russian passport, the noise around his “tax” demarche with respect to the French authorities increased even more. The society both in Russia and in Europe was divided into two camps opposing each other, representatives of each of which are trying to defeat the “rivals” intellectually and informationally.
Opponents of granting Russian citizenship to Depardieu and, therefore, his ill-wishers, say the following: “Well, this Gerard Xavier completely drunk off to“ squirrel ”, once decided to exchange European appeasement for Russian shakes! And Putin, Putin is good! .. He used the problems of the actor to satisfy his pride. ”
Others say: “What? Well done Depardieu! He lost his nose to these snickering European politicians, who for some reason decided that apart from Paris, London and New York, the creative person has nowhere else to live or work. Not only has he lost it, he also called Russia a great democracy, forcing the entire pro-Western camarilla to convulse in convulsions. ”
And while the irreconcilable camps of supporters and opponents of the decision of Depardieu talked about his action, some people decided to step over the reasoning and move on to more sound things. In particular, during a visit by an actor in Mordovia, local authorities decided to turn Depardieu into a Mordovian official, offering him the post of Minister of Culture. Well, even if he once and again scorched the scooter ... So in France it was - there are big taxes. Yes, any of us, having heard about the size of the French taxes, will reach for a bottle — and for gas…
After such a proposal regarding Depardieu, representatives of French publications in unison rushed to geographical maps in an attempt to find Mordovia on them. They saw and gasped ... Neither to you of Paris, nor Saint-Tropez, nor even Cannes. Some, God forgive me, Saransk. Yes, yes ... They just wrote: “Well, what the hell did he forget in Mordovia?” (Quotation from the French edition of “Liberation”). At the same time, one of the employees of the same publication even remembered that, it turns out, Mordovia is the hard labor of Russia, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, the main prisoner of all recent times (according to the version of “Liberation”, naturally) languishes here.
At about the same time that French journalists were wondering how Depardieu could survive on the territory of Mordovia, the leadership of the Tyumen Drama Theater went further. It (the management) made a job offer. At the same time, Depardieu (in absentia) was offered a salary that includes 16 thousand salary (in rubles, rubles ...), 22% allowances, 15% local ratio and another 10% and additional payment for housing rent and additional roles. A couple of bottles of French wine, which Depardieu allows himself, can be enough, well, that's right: the theater management cares about the health of the world-famous actor - two bottles a month, and not a drop more. The main thing is that Gerard Xavier does not become addicted to our traditional (cheaper) fiery products ... But Lensky or Ivan Susanin is suddenly there, and Gerard doesn’t bite ...
The Minister of Culture of Mordovia or the leading actor of the Tyumen Drama Theater ... Yes, at such rates Gerard Depardieu, along with Brigitte Bardot, who also talks about getting a Russian passport, can even be charged with “The Song of the Year”!
"I have a heart and a head ..."
Hospital Yulia Tymoshenko
Serious passions flare up in the Kharkiv region, where another “victim of freedom” is serving a sentence - Yulia Tymoshenko. Now the ex-prime minister of Ukraine is being treated in a hospital and is trying his best to draw attention to herself. Since Yulia Vladimirovna got into a medical institution, an entertaining story has begun, which is called “Guess where it hurts?”
The former prime minister said that she was losing the opportunity not only to move, but also to get up on her feet in general, and pointed to a sore back. Foreign physicians (local Yulia Vladimirovna does not trust) began to treat her aching back, on which all the anti-democratic and anti-BYuT piled on. However, the published footage - first from the colony, then from the hospital room - made it clear: the lady gets up and walks confidently enough, and on 15-centimeter heels ... She walks so actively that even video cameras placed in the ward often lose sight of Yulia Timoshenko. Employees of the Kharkiv penitentiary system find "sick" then settled on the couch in the shower, then lying on the floor, then sitting in a dark corridor. And when they ask: "Yulia Vladimirovna, what are you doing here?", Then they get the answer that all this, it turns out, in protest.
And Ms. Tymoshenko herself declares that she will use the right to disobedience and is ready to start “fighting with the jailers” in the event that they deprive her of this right. So in fact, the trouble is that no one deprives a woman with a scythe so far: if you want to lie on the floor - please, you want to sleep in the bath, like the notorious hero of the film “Afonya” - for God's sake, if you want to climb under the carpet - you are welcome.
Apparently, this brings Orange Yulia out of his oppositional equilibrium. She thought, and decided that it was necessary to urgently attract public attention. But what? Do not back again, and not falling asleep in the bathroom ... It turned out there is a remedy! New disease! This time, Ms. Tymoshenko announced that she had a puncture in her ear. All thought that this is a common puncture for wearing gold earrings, but that's all, and then Yulia Vladimirovna. She, through her supporters, announced that, most likely, they were the very same jailers or “bought” doctors who had inserted some kind of remedy into the earlobe of her opposition ear ... Of course, she didn’t accept any explanations that she scratched her earlobe. . They pricked something on purpose - and that's it! It’s good that they didn’t bite ... For example, Yanukovych with Azarov ... Or zombies ...
But if you were injected, how could Yulia Vladimirovna herself miss this moment, because even her lawyer says that she hasn’t been sleeping at all for the last 24 hours ...
In general, as you can see, dealing with a bunch of Timoshenko's diseases is confusing. Now the back, the neck, the ear ... At the same time, one wonders how with such poor health Yulia Vladimirovna could hold such high posts? How did she not fall from the stands, how did the braid generally braid? In general, launched, apparently launched ...
China and Russia in the tail of the economic rating
How we got hit by Kiribati
The release of the next economic rating noted Western publications. This time, a new report on so-called economic freedom was prepared by the publication The Wall Street Journey together with the analytical center HF (Heritage). According to the compilers of the rating, data on the freedom of national markets from state intervention, the openness of countries to foreign investment, and the rule of law were used. It is not hard to guess that in the first ten there is not a single economy of the world that belongs to a country that has conflicts with the West. Why are there in the top ten - in the first hundred there.
For example, China’s economy was recorded on the 136 position (with the second indicator in the world), the Russian economy was recorded on 139 ... At the same time, economic leaders of China and Nepal, Lebanon, Costa Rica and not much Kiribati ... Apparently, foreign investment in Costa Rica’s economy is much higher than in the PRC economy, and it’s time for you and I to begin to envy Kiribati’s market mechanisms, where the per capita GDP is 8 times lower than the Russian one ...
I wonder how long the experts from Heritage and the Wall Street Journal laughed at their successful joke-rating, counting the income from its publication ...
According to the same rating, the best indicators of economic freedom in Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and Switzerland. USA - at 10 location. This tenth place, The Wall Street Journal, apparently hints to the White House to slow down its efforts to exert tax pressure on the financial tycoons of the United States and interfere less in their affairs.
The state and its citizens should be less involved in the economy, which is made by several dozens of “competent persons” ... This, apparently, should be economic freedom, which is mentioned by the mentioned edition with its rating. Like, where are your hands pulling? Here is all ours! ..
Part II. "All is well, beautiful marquise!"
Dead freedom
Life and death by the Second Amendment
In July, 2012, a young Mr. James Holmes, a future neuroscientist, psychiatric patient and enemy of Batman, dyed his hair the color of flame, armed himself to the teeth and went to kill native American citizens in the cinema of the city of Aurora (Colorado). In all, he shot twelve people and wounded about sixty more.
Over the next week, the demand for gunshot weapon.
The next jump in weapon sales was recorded on Black Friday, November 23, and on the next two days, due to sales of pistols and rifles at discounted prices.
14 December in the USA at the Sandy Hook School of Newtown in Connecticut at the hands of an 20-year-old assassin killed an 26 man (27 was the shooter himself), among them twenty children. Adam Lanza shot Nancy's mother at home, then drove her car, taking two pistols and a semi-automatic rifle with him, and drove to the city primary school. Arriving there, he opened fire on adults and children, then, sensing the approach of the police, shot himself.
After this shooting, the demand for weapons in the US jumped again.
Then he grew up already because Obama and Mr. Vice President Biden began to talk languidly on the topic of limiting the circulation of weapons, prompted by some kind senators and senators, opponents and opponents of firearms (one stubborn democrat Dian Fainstein is worth something).
At the end of December, the main arms lobbyist in the United States — the National Rifle Association — launched a powerful campaign against the disarmament of the motherland. People from NSA emerged in almost all programs of leading American TV companies. For Sunday “attacks” on the public, the largest forces were tightened: NSA Executive Director Wayne Lapierre, organization president David Keane, a member of its leadership, and former Republican Congressman Asa Hutchinson. However, these aggressive monotonous masters could not tell the public anything new.
For example, Wayne Lapierre pushed the only argument of weapon lobbyists: “A pistol is a tool. The problem is the criminal. ” So he said in an interview with NBC. He suggested a painfully simple way out: in order to stop the armed violence in America, people need even more weapons. Previously, he proposed introducing armed guards in American schools: “... the best remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun”.
Speech about the "guys with pistols" outraged many politicians, provoked criticism in reputable print media, and the New York newspaper The Daily News called the head of the NSA "the craziest man on earth."
NSA did not stop at speeches. Last week, the regional satellites of this office, more than once seen in the million-dollar funding for the hawkish senate campaigns, opened free teacher training courses in Ohio and Texas. Of course, their organizers assurethat their intentions are the best - to prevent tragedies like Newtown.
The three-day courses conducted by the Ohio Firearms Association enrolled almost a thousand teachers and other school staff. And in Texas, four hundred places allocated for teachers, was not enough, and the organizers had to expand the program.
While weapons distributors taught them to use teachers in Ohio and Texas (and earlier in Utah), shots rang out in one of the Californian schools.
10 January shooting school in Taft has opened 16-year-old student. It happened about ten o'clock in the morning yesterday local time. Two students injured; one schoolboy with serious injuries was taken by helicopter to the hospital.
The gunner had a hunting rifle and enough ammunition to kill many people. Fortunately, the employees of Taft Union High School were able to persuade the criminal to surrender. The campus manager and teacher boldly entered the classroom where the shooting was going and demanded that the teenager cease fire.
Donnie Youngblood, Kern County Sheriff, said: “There is nothing to talk about the heroism of these two people. They could leave the class and leave the students there, but they did not do that. ”
Shooting could happen on January 10 at a school in Alabama. There the police задержала 13-year-old teenager, in the bag which in gym class showed a loaded pistol and in addition a knife. The boy explained to the police that he was constantly bullied at school — and so he brought a weapon for self-defense.
Mr Obama and Biden, who, in the light of such unpleasant events, are forced to contact the public and senators, are trying to get rid of outraged citizens with statements in the spirit of M. Gorbachev. US Vice President Joseph Biden, for example, after meeting with regular "experts," muttered guiltily on the air that, they say, the actions of the interdepartmental commission to counter violence could soon be expressed in the use of the verbs "toughen", "sanction", "activate". More specifically, the commission will be recommend US President to tighten the system of verification of buyers of weapons, to authorize the exchange of information about crimes with the use of weapons and to intensify scientific work on the analysis of their circumstances.
At one time, one Soviet secretary general wanted to "develop", "deepen" and "improve." There is one difference here, not significant for America. Gorbachev was talking about the good that he wanted to spoil. And Biden and Obama (according to Gorbachev, the formalists) talk about the bad things that they are going to leave as bad.
In Australia, by the way, the bad guys with pistols have been hanging out for a decade and a half just because the government has imposed a ban on private arms trade since 1996, after the famous massacre in Tasmania, and bought weapons from the population. Since 1996, there has not been a single "shooting" there.
American economic miracle
About coins and straws
Once upon a time, in the 18th century, a comrade named John Law lived in Europe. Even in his youth, this very John managed almost instantly to profukat and drink away a huge inheritance, inherited from the Scottish father. The young man even had to sell the patrimonial nest so that creditors would not put him in jail. This guy is also known for having shot Count Wilson in a duel, sat in prison, from where he managed to escape, and then lived in Amsterdam, Rome, Venice, Florence, Naples, where he cheated cards, and for the sake of prestige pretended to study banking a business.
Later, the guy traveled to Scotland, where he offered the Parliament a couple of quick enrichment projects. One project concerned monetary reform. (Oh, this is a terrible word - reforms!) In Scotland of that time, the genius of Mavrodi was not yet mature, and the projects of the latter-day adviser were rejected.
No lucky gambler in France. The police simply threw him abroad because he was "too skilled in games that bring him big money."
After Paris, Mr. Law attempted to implement his financial projects in Italy and Germany, but even there his proposals were rejected.
The persistent financier returned to Paris: Louis XIV had just died there, and Philip of Orleans, a great friend of John, became the regent of Louis XV. A clever sharper received French citizenship.
In 1716, the former cardholder organized the “Bank Generale”, which already in 1718 became the state. At this time, Lo himself became Minister of Finance of France.
His policy was simple: the bank simply printed money that was not secured with either silver or gold. Lo thought: the more money, the richer the people. Luo also had an “international company” that stamped stocks in the same limitless way as money. "Reform" Law failed in 1720 year. The great financier himself fled to Genoa.
Why this story? .. Now Lo's initiative, other active citizens are trying to implement in the United States. And here they are going to avoid large printing costs and solve all the problems with one coin. Platinum. Nominal ... in a trillion dollars.
With a monetary initiative to Barack Obama through a petition requested some "financial experts". These people believe that by issuing trillionth coins it is quite possible to solve the issue of public debt, which 31 of December reached the “ceiling” - the sum of 16,4 trillion dollars.
Issuing a trillion-worth coin will help avoid raising the government debt ceiling and cutting government spending, not to mention the eternal disputes between Democrats and Republicans, which March 1 can lead to a “fiscal cliff”.
Experts believe that the new money will not cause the country "no economic damage." And the platinum coin can be issued by the Ministry of Finance - for this it has a special right. The Fed is not in the business here.
В petition text (it has already been signed by 8 thousand people) it is said that chasing a new coin may seem like an extreme measure, however, it is no more absurd than “playing political football”.
The idea of "coins" supported Nobel laureate in economics Paul Krugman:
He twisted Krugman in such a way that it becomes clear that the US has not built an economy for a long time, but only postmodernists play it. The trick on the trick, and no realism.
A few more coins - and in general there is no public debt. And America rises again in world rankings, financial and democratic, because the second without the first does not happen, like smoke without fire. John Law, as they say, nervously smokes on the sidelines. And Mavrodi lights it.
Mr. Kalen Roche, founder of the investment company Orcam Financial Group, thinksthat one ounce of platinum is enough for a coin. But another Mr. James Bukey, who works at MarketWatch, sat down at a computer and calculated that from platinum worth 1 trillion. dollars would have been a “coin” with a mass of 22.048 tons, a diameter of 241 foot (almost 73,5 m) and a thickness of 1 foot (30,5 cm).
If it took Schuler Law only a couple of years to ruin the economy of France, then for how long the drafters of the petition expect to end America? And who are these people?
If you look at the location of the signatories, the picture becomes clearer. Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Ohio, Maryland, Georgia, North Carolina, Kentucky ... Southern states! Places where black presidents traditionally don’t favor black presidents (especially in Texas, and from there just a lot of signatories). In addition, these states, starting with Texas and Louisiana, were in the lead last year in the number of signatures for separation from the United States.
Obviously, the descendants of the Confederates found a new path to historical justice: through the Mint of the Ministry of Finance. F
In addition, Southerners (and not only they) are not ready to accept the clumsy signature of a candidate for US Treasury ministers, which should appear on the new dollar bills. 57-year-old Jack Lew has not yet become Head of the Ministry of Finance, and the Americans are already twisting their faces from his signature squiggles, which looks like something that does not stretch a spring, or something that looks like a “crazy straw”.
They sayHaveJohn lo Jack Lew is a gentle nature. Probably almost the same as Obama. And therefore, several trillion-dollar coins in the form of concessions to the stern southern states will have to be minted by these two ... And there - goodbye, the key currency is the dollar, and hello, petrodollar of Texas!
And again these hot Colombian girls
They drive all the visitors crazy.
No, this time it was not the Americans who protested. Not Obama's guards, no marines, and no shredded secret agents. Since last year, you can not drink in the morning and on weekdays, and in the evening, they say, a new secret instruction more than half a liter can not be taken on the chest.
Today in Colombia distinguished Hondurans. And distinguished themselves in a big way. Ambassadors of Honduras have cracked up alcohol right in the embassy, called in confused people and organized an orgy. The ambassadors of the ambassador took advantage of, apparently, the fact that he himself was not in the diplomatic mission: Carlos Rodriguez, most likely, also drank, but in another place - on Christmas holidays in the USA.
However, it was he who suffered the first: the Honduran Ambassador to Colombia resigned after the scandalous "party" at the request of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Arturo Corrales. Now the Honduran Foreign Ministry is investigating an alcoholic incident.
As for confused, the Colombian girls are not fools. In life, they have seen a lot of drunkards, including the most prominent - American, and they know how to deal with them. Finally, after grieving the hapless Honduran envoys and their buddies at the embassy, local prostitutes stole two computers from the building. According to some reports, there was a pogrom in general. The police do not know how to find prostitutes thieves: nobody in the embassy remembers anything ...
Purely positive Turkish economy
For her criticism - in the cell to the criminals
In Turkey It entered into force The new law, equating the publication of negative articles about the country's economy to a serious criminal offense. If you criticize the country's economy, you will sit down.
Bank of America and Merrill Lynch sat down for legal due diligence on the impact of the law on their activities in the Republic of Turkey. The German Commerzbank acted easier: it recalled its employees from Turkey.
If you think about it, then the government of this eastern country needs to go further, and even if something is really a lot of criticism has divorced.
Some Turks, for example, criticize the policy - moreover, both external and internal. This is done by oppositionists who go to rallies and organize protest actions against Erdogan and Davutoglu’s actions: the National Movement public movement, the Confederation of Revolutionary Workers ’Unions, the Confederation of Civil Servants’ Unions, the Federation of Turkish Doctors and Architects, the Halkavleri Federation , Turkish Communist Party, Workers Movement Party and others.
The following citizens are ready to criticize religious ministers. Of the latter, the talented pianist and composer Fazil Sai is widely known. He continues to be tried for insulting the feelings of believers and inciting religious hatred - for criticizing a muezzin who sang a call to prayer in 22 seconds:
Still others believe that Turkey has become too dependent on the global economy, and just a little crisis, it is slipping ...
Well, enough already, and then the Turkish judicial branch of power we all sit down for quotations, overfishing with the help of the branch of the executive, pulling out of the planes forcibly planted in Ankara or getting some other tedious way.
Erdogan should ban criticism in the country in an absolute sense. As such. Political, philosophical, religious, ideological, economic, social, moral, scientific and, finally, literary. To hell with criticism. All is well, beautiful marquise!
* “They'll do it for you, but don't steal it!” - a phrase from the movie “Beware of the car!”.
Silent Serdyukov
Will the UK talk to the ex-minister?
On Friday, former Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov appeared at the building of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, where he had to testify on the facts of corruption in Oboronservis. He came for the second time ... He came, we recall, as a witness. Everyone expected: here it is! Now will begin! Anatoly Eduardovich will start talking, talking and talking again. But the conversation did not work out again ...
Mr. Serdyukov decided to prefer non-verbal communication with investigators. Either he has problems with the vocal chords, or whether he is completely speechless from such attention on the part of specialists to his modest "witness" person - it is not known. In general, the ex-minister of the entire Russian army and fleet was silent, silent, and again silent. But he brought with him several pieces of paper, which, as reported, contained written explanations of Anatoly Eduardovich. Apparently, these explanations are such that pronouncing them out loud is more expensive for oneself.
In general, they were sitting ... They were silent ... Someone was reading written explanations, someone was chatting with their feet under the table, someone was looking at the portrait of Karl Marx, who is mowing down ... And so much so for two and a half hours. And, apparently, after the words “we are sitting well”, the investigators thought that Anatoly Eduardovich could still sit, and therefore sent him home again.
The ex-minister briskly walked (possibly moving to a sporty) out of the building, jumped into a tinted Mercedes, and whistled past the crowd of journalists gathered outside the building of the IC. In general, it was this ...
There were no comments from either the former official or his lawyer. Maybe they followed, but only through the windows of the Mercedes no one heard them already ...
After an entertaining “interview” with Anatoly Serdyukov, Vladimir Markin, the representative of the Investigation Committee, said something like this: if the ex-minister continues to throw out similar tricks, the next time he will be called in for questioning in a completely different status. Look, they say, he plays here in silence ... “Figvamy” draws on paper ... And now, as we say that he is obstructing the investigation, his voice will cut through at once!
As far as the voice of Anatoly Serdyukov progresses, obviously, his new invitation to the Investigative Committee will show. The main thing now, to the same committee and other interested parties, is to ensure that Anatoly Eduardovich does not switch to a video message from the UK from somewhere in foggy Albion or from the French VIP houses, as other "comrades" did ...
"The moor did his job ..."
Georgia wants to send Saakashvili to resign
20 January 2013 marks exactly 5 years since the man in the red tie for the second time became the president of Georgia. It would seem that, on the basis of the imminent approach of this significant date, Mr. Saakashvili should prepare to receive memorable gifts, festive bouquets and ardent speeches of representatives of many thousands of crowds. But for some reason Mikhail Nikolozovich was sad about his soul ... Why would it? Yes, everything is simple: the second presidential term expires in January, which means that Mr. Saakashvili - after his party’s defeat at the last parliamentary elections - can turn into a mossy deputy of some local legislative assembly, where, you see, inspired thoughts about the prosperity of Georgia will be much more difficult Bring it to life.
However, Mikhail Nikolozovich tries to keep in a proper way: he doesn’t chew clothes on his camera, he doesn’t rush to the ground and doesn’t even appeal to the help of progressive humanity. He hopes that he can “stretch” for the presidency about another 10 months, because the next presidential elections in Georgia are scheduled only for October of this (2013) year. Only now his hope is weakly fed, and representatives of the parliamentary majority and Prime Minister Ivanishvili are blocking more and more channels for this kind of feeding.
According to information coming from Georgia, supporters of the Georgian Dream party, which today is the main political force in the Caucasian republic, as well as representatives of various non-governmental and public organizations, have already collected more than a million signatures for Saakashvili’s early departure from office. If there are a million signatures of Saakashvili’s opponents in stock, it turns out that about a quarter of the population of Georgia speaks out for the early resignation of the president. And if we take into account that the signatures were collected only on the territory of Georgia, then it can be assumed that several hundreds of thousands of citizens of the country who work outside its borders (including in Russia) could be added to these signatures. Here not a quarter of the population is looming, but the majority of Georgian citizens who have the right to vote.
But how is that? .. After all, quite recently Saakashvili himself and his closest supporters stated that their positions in Georgia are unshakable, because they lead the country into a bright democratic future with transparent police stations and the absence of corruption. However, in fact, it turned out that the transparent buildings of the police offices, the victory over petty bribery and Mr. Saakashvili’s own presidential palace, and even greater joy from Western praise (which began to show itself less and less) - these are the main achievements of the current Georgian president’s regime. Corruption in power has not disappeared anywhere, unemployment, on the contrary, increased, national debt reached its maximum value for all the latest history, and its repayment before “good” western creditors threatens with new economic problems.
In general, when as many as one million citizens speak for your speedy resignation (and this number is obviously not final), then you need to think hard. Perhaps Mikhail Nikolozovich should at least take an example from Russia today. Well, remember: "I'm tired, I'm leaving ..."
Passion for Depardieu
Work for a famous actor
After the famous French actor Gerard Depardieu received a Russian passport, the noise around his “tax” demarche with respect to the French authorities increased even more. The society both in Russia and in Europe was divided into two camps opposing each other, representatives of each of which are trying to defeat the “rivals” intellectually and informationally.
Opponents of granting Russian citizenship to Depardieu and, therefore, his ill-wishers, say the following: “Well, this Gerard Xavier completely drunk off to“ squirrel ”, once decided to exchange European appeasement for Russian shakes! And Putin, Putin is good! .. He used the problems of the actor to satisfy his pride. ”
Others say: “What? Well done Depardieu! He lost his nose to these snickering European politicians, who for some reason decided that apart from Paris, London and New York, the creative person has nowhere else to live or work. Not only has he lost it, he also called Russia a great democracy, forcing the entire pro-Western camarilla to convulse in convulsions. ”
And while the irreconcilable camps of supporters and opponents of the decision of Depardieu talked about his action, some people decided to step over the reasoning and move on to more sound things. In particular, during a visit by an actor in Mordovia, local authorities decided to turn Depardieu into a Mordovian official, offering him the post of Minister of Culture. Well, even if he once and again scorched the scooter ... So in France it was - there are big taxes. Yes, any of us, having heard about the size of the French taxes, will reach for a bottle — and for gas…
After such a proposal regarding Depardieu, representatives of French publications in unison rushed to geographical maps in an attempt to find Mordovia on them. They saw and gasped ... Neither to you of Paris, nor Saint-Tropez, nor even Cannes. Some, God forgive me, Saransk. Yes, yes ... They just wrote: “Well, what the hell did he forget in Mordovia?” (Quotation from the French edition of “Liberation”). At the same time, one of the employees of the same publication even remembered that, it turns out, Mordovia is the hard labor of Russia, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, the main prisoner of all recent times (according to the version of “Liberation”, naturally) languishes here.
At about the same time that French journalists were wondering how Depardieu could survive on the territory of Mordovia, the leadership of the Tyumen Drama Theater went further. It (the management) made a job offer. At the same time, Depardieu (in absentia) was offered a salary that includes 16 thousand salary (in rubles, rubles ...), 22% allowances, 15% local ratio and another 10% and additional payment for housing rent and additional roles. A couple of bottles of French wine, which Depardieu allows himself, can be enough, well, that's right: the theater management cares about the health of the world-famous actor - two bottles a month, and not a drop more. The main thing is that Gerard Xavier does not become addicted to our traditional (cheaper) fiery products ... But Lensky or Ivan Susanin is suddenly there, and Gerard doesn’t bite ...
The Minister of Culture of Mordovia or the leading actor of the Tyumen Drama Theater ... Yes, at such rates Gerard Depardieu, along with Brigitte Bardot, who also talks about getting a Russian passport, can even be charged with “The Song of the Year”!
"I have a heart and a head ..."
Hospital Yulia Tymoshenko
Serious passions flare up in the Kharkiv region, where another “victim of freedom” is serving a sentence - Yulia Tymoshenko. Now the ex-prime minister of Ukraine is being treated in a hospital and is trying his best to draw attention to herself. Since Yulia Vladimirovna got into a medical institution, an entertaining story has begun, which is called “Guess where it hurts?”
The former prime minister said that she was losing the opportunity not only to move, but also to get up on her feet in general, and pointed to a sore back. Foreign physicians (local Yulia Vladimirovna does not trust) began to treat her aching back, on which all the anti-democratic and anti-BYuT piled on. However, the published footage - first from the colony, then from the hospital room - made it clear: the lady gets up and walks confidently enough, and on 15-centimeter heels ... She walks so actively that even video cameras placed in the ward often lose sight of Yulia Timoshenko. Employees of the Kharkiv penitentiary system find "sick" then settled on the couch in the shower, then lying on the floor, then sitting in a dark corridor. And when they ask: "Yulia Vladimirovna, what are you doing here?", Then they get the answer that all this, it turns out, in protest.
And Ms. Tymoshenko herself declares that she will use the right to disobedience and is ready to start “fighting with the jailers” in the event that they deprive her of this right. So in fact, the trouble is that no one deprives a woman with a scythe so far: if you want to lie on the floor - please, you want to sleep in the bath, like the notorious hero of the film “Afonya” - for God's sake, if you want to climb under the carpet - you are welcome.
Apparently, this brings Orange Yulia out of his oppositional equilibrium. She thought, and decided that it was necessary to urgently attract public attention. But what? Do not back again, and not falling asleep in the bathroom ... It turned out there is a remedy! New disease! This time, Ms. Tymoshenko announced that she had a puncture in her ear. All thought that this is a common puncture for wearing gold earrings, but that's all, and then Yulia Vladimirovna. She, through her supporters, announced that, most likely, they were the very same jailers or “bought” doctors who had inserted some kind of remedy into the earlobe of her opposition ear ... Of course, she didn’t accept any explanations that she scratched her earlobe. . They pricked something on purpose - and that's it! It’s good that they didn’t bite ... For example, Yanukovych with Azarov ... Or zombies ...
But if you were injected, how could Yulia Vladimirovna herself miss this moment, because even her lawyer says that she hasn’t been sleeping at all for the last 24 hours ...
In general, as you can see, dealing with a bunch of Timoshenko's diseases is confusing. Now the back, the neck, the ear ... At the same time, one wonders how with such poor health Yulia Vladimirovna could hold such high posts? How did she not fall from the stands, how did the braid generally braid? In general, launched, apparently launched ...
China and Russia in the tail of the economic rating
How we got hit by Kiribati
The release of the next economic rating noted Western publications. This time, a new report on so-called economic freedom was prepared by the publication The Wall Street Journey together with the analytical center HF (Heritage). According to the compilers of the rating, data on the freedom of national markets from state intervention, the openness of countries to foreign investment, and the rule of law were used. It is not hard to guess that in the first ten there is not a single economy of the world that belongs to a country that has conflicts with the West. Why are there in the top ten - in the first hundred there.
For example, China’s economy was recorded on the 136 position (with the second indicator in the world), the Russian economy was recorded on 139 ... At the same time, economic leaders of China and Nepal, Lebanon, Costa Rica and not much Kiribati ... Apparently, foreign investment in Costa Rica’s economy is much higher than in the PRC economy, and it’s time for you and I to begin to envy Kiribati’s market mechanisms, where the per capita GDP is 8 times lower than the Russian one ...
I wonder how long the experts from Heritage and the Wall Street Journal laughed at their successful joke-rating, counting the income from its publication ...
According to the same rating, the best indicators of economic freedom in Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and Switzerland. USA - at 10 location. This tenth place, The Wall Street Journal, apparently hints to the White House to slow down its efforts to exert tax pressure on the financial tycoons of the United States and interfere less in their affairs.
The state and its citizens should be less involved in the economy, which is made by several dozens of “competent persons” ... This, apparently, should be economic freedom, which is mentioned by the mentioned edition with its rating. Like, where are your hands pulling? Here is all ours! ..
Part II. "All is well, beautiful marquise!"
Dead freedom
Life and death by the Second Amendment
In July, 2012, a young Mr. James Holmes, a future neuroscientist, psychiatric patient and enemy of Batman, dyed his hair the color of flame, armed himself to the teeth and went to kill native American citizens in the cinema of the city of Aurora (Colorado). In all, he shot twelve people and wounded about sixty more.
Over the next week, the demand for gunshot weapon.
The next jump in weapon sales was recorded on Black Friday, November 23, and on the next two days, due to sales of pistols and rifles at discounted prices.
14 December in the USA at the Sandy Hook School of Newtown in Connecticut at the hands of an 20-year-old assassin killed an 26 man (27 was the shooter himself), among them twenty children. Adam Lanza shot Nancy's mother at home, then drove her car, taking two pistols and a semi-automatic rifle with him, and drove to the city primary school. Arriving there, he opened fire on adults and children, then, sensing the approach of the police, shot himself.
After this shooting, the demand for weapons in the US jumped again.
Then he grew up already because Obama and Mr. Vice President Biden began to talk languidly on the topic of limiting the circulation of weapons, prompted by some kind senators and senators, opponents and opponents of firearms (one stubborn democrat Dian Fainstein is worth something).
At the end of December, the main arms lobbyist in the United States — the National Rifle Association — launched a powerful campaign against the disarmament of the motherland. People from NSA emerged in almost all programs of leading American TV companies. For Sunday “attacks” on the public, the largest forces were tightened: NSA Executive Director Wayne Lapierre, organization president David Keane, a member of its leadership, and former Republican Congressman Asa Hutchinson. However, these aggressive monotonous masters could not tell the public anything new.
For example, Wayne Lapierre pushed the only argument of weapon lobbyists: “A pistol is a tool. The problem is the criminal. ” So he said in an interview with NBC. He suggested a painfully simple way out: in order to stop the armed violence in America, people need even more weapons. Previously, he proposed introducing armed guards in American schools: “... the best remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun”.
Speech about the "guys with pistols" outraged many politicians, provoked criticism in reputable print media, and the New York newspaper The Daily News called the head of the NSA "the craziest man on earth."
NSA did not stop at speeches. Last week, the regional satellites of this office, more than once seen in the million-dollar funding for the hawkish senate campaigns, opened free teacher training courses in Ohio and Texas. Of course, their organizers assurethat their intentions are the best - to prevent tragedies like Newtown.
The three-day courses conducted by the Ohio Firearms Association enrolled almost a thousand teachers and other school staff. And in Texas, four hundred places allocated for teachers, was not enough, and the organizers had to expand the program.
While weapons distributors taught them to use teachers in Ohio and Texas (and earlier in Utah), shots rang out in one of the Californian schools.
10 January shooting school in Taft has opened 16-year-old student. It happened about ten o'clock in the morning yesterday local time. Two students injured; one schoolboy with serious injuries was taken by helicopter to the hospital.
The gunner had a hunting rifle and enough ammunition to kill many people. Fortunately, the employees of Taft Union High School were able to persuade the criminal to surrender. The campus manager and teacher boldly entered the classroom where the shooting was going and demanded that the teenager cease fire.
Donnie Youngblood, Kern County Sheriff, said: “There is nothing to talk about the heroism of these two people. They could leave the class and leave the students there, but they did not do that. ”
Shooting could happen on January 10 at a school in Alabama. There the police задержала 13-year-old teenager, in the bag which in gym class showed a loaded pistol and in addition a knife. The boy explained to the police that he was constantly bullied at school — and so he brought a weapon for self-defense.
Mr Obama and Biden, who, in the light of such unpleasant events, are forced to contact the public and senators, are trying to get rid of outraged citizens with statements in the spirit of M. Gorbachev. US Vice President Joseph Biden, for example, after meeting with regular "experts," muttered guiltily on the air that, they say, the actions of the interdepartmental commission to counter violence could soon be expressed in the use of the verbs "toughen", "sanction", "activate". More specifically, the commission will be recommend US President to tighten the system of verification of buyers of weapons, to authorize the exchange of information about crimes with the use of weapons and to intensify scientific work on the analysis of their circumstances.
At one time, one Soviet secretary general wanted to "develop", "deepen" and "improve." There is one difference here, not significant for America. Gorbachev was talking about the good that he wanted to spoil. And Biden and Obama (according to Gorbachev, the formalists) talk about the bad things that they are going to leave as bad.
In Australia, by the way, the bad guys with pistols have been hanging out for a decade and a half just because the government has imposed a ban on private arms trade since 1996, after the famous massacre in Tasmania, and bought weapons from the population. Since 1996, there has not been a single "shooting" there.
American economic miracle
About coins and straws
Once upon a time, in the 18th century, a comrade named John Law lived in Europe. Even in his youth, this very John managed almost instantly to profukat and drink away a huge inheritance, inherited from the Scottish father. The young man even had to sell the patrimonial nest so that creditors would not put him in jail. This guy is also known for having shot Count Wilson in a duel, sat in prison, from where he managed to escape, and then lived in Amsterdam, Rome, Venice, Florence, Naples, where he cheated cards, and for the sake of prestige pretended to study banking a business.
Later, the guy traveled to Scotland, where he offered the Parliament a couple of quick enrichment projects. One project concerned monetary reform. (Oh, this is a terrible word - reforms!) In Scotland of that time, the genius of Mavrodi was not yet mature, and the projects of the latter-day adviser were rejected.
No lucky gambler in France. The police simply threw him abroad because he was "too skilled in games that bring him big money."
After Paris, Mr. Law attempted to implement his financial projects in Italy and Germany, but even there his proposals were rejected.
The persistent financier returned to Paris: Louis XIV had just died there, and Philip of Orleans, a great friend of John, became the regent of Louis XV. A clever sharper received French citizenship.
In 1716, the former cardholder organized the “Bank Generale”, which already in 1718 became the state. At this time, Lo himself became Minister of Finance of France.
His policy was simple: the bank simply printed money that was not secured with either silver or gold. Lo thought: the more money, the richer the people. Luo also had an “international company” that stamped stocks in the same limitless way as money. "Reform" Law failed in 1720 year. The great financier himself fled to Genoa.
Why this story? .. Now Lo's initiative, other active citizens are trying to implement in the United States. And here they are going to avoid large printing costs and solve all the problems with one coin. Platinum. Nominal ... in a trillion dollars.
With a monetary initiative to Barack Obama through a petition requested some "financial experts". These people believe that by issuing trillionth coins it is quite possible to solve the issue of public debt, which 31 of December reached the “ceiling” - the sum of 16,4 trillion dollars.
Issuing a trillion-worth coin will help avoid raising the government debt ceiling and cutting government spending, not to mention the eternal disputes between Democrats and Republicans, which March 1 can lead to a “fiscal cliff”.
Experts believe that the new money will not cause the country "no economic damage." And the platinum coin can be issued by the Ministry of Finance - for this it has a special right. The Fed is not in the business here.
В petition text (it has already been signed by 8 thousand people) it is said that chasing a new coin may seem like an extreme measure, however, it is no more absurd than “playing political football”.
The idea of "coins" supported Nobel laureate in economics Paul Krugman:
“Of course, this is just a ploy, but since the principle of the national debt limit is insane, since it gives Congress the right to order the president to spend money, and then forbid him to find the money he has to spend, it is so necessary to use any tricks that are possible ".
He twisted Krugman in such a way that it becomes clear that the US has not built an economy for a long time, but only postmodernists play it. The trick on the trick, and no realism.
A few more coins - and in general there is no public debt. And America rises again in world rankings, financial and democratic, because the second without the first does not happen, like smoke without fire. John Law, as they say, nervously smokes on the sidelines. And Mavrodi lights it.
Mr. Kalen Roche, founder of the investment company Orcam Financial Group, thinksthat one ounce of platinum is enough for a coin. But another Mr. James Bukey, who works at MarketWatch, sat down at a computer and calculated that from platinum worth 1 trillion. dollars would have been a “coin” with a mass of 22.048 tons, a diameter of 241 foot (almost 73,5 m) and a thickness of 1 foot (30,5 cm).
If it took Schuler Law only a couple of years to ruin the economy of France, then for how long the drafters of the petition expect to end America? And who are these people?
If you look at the location of the signatories, the picture becomes clearer. Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Ohio, Maryland, Georgia, North Carolina, Kentucky ... Southern states! Places where black presidents traditionally don’t favor black presidents (especially in Texas, and from there just a lot of signatories). In addition, these states, starting with Texas and Louisiana, were in the lead last year in the number of signatures for separation from the United States.
Obviously, the descendants of the Confederates found a new path to historical justice: through the Mint of the Ministry of Finance. F
In addition, Southerners (and not only they) are not ready to accept the clumsy signature of a candidate for US Treasury ministers, which should appear on the new dollar bills. 57-year-old Jack Lew has not yet become Head of the Ministry of Finance, and the Americans are already twisting their faces from his signature squiggles, which looks like something that does not stretch a spring, or something that looks like a “crazy straw”.
They sayHave
And again these hot Colombian girls
They drive all the visitors crazy.
No, this time it was not the Americans who protested. Not Obama's guards, no marines, and no shredded secret agents. Since last year, you can not drink in the morning and on weekdays, and in the evening, they say, a new secret instruction more than half a liter can not be taken on the chest.
Today in Colombia distinguished Hondurans. And distinguished themselves in a big way. Ambassadors of Honduras have cracked up alcohol right in the embassy, called in confused people and organized an orgy. The ambassadors of the ambassador took advantage of, apparently, the fact that he himself was not in the diplomatic mission: Carlos Rodriguez, most likely, also drank, but in another place - on Christmas holidays in the USA.
However, it was he who suffered the first: the Honduran Ambassador to Colombia resigned after the scandalous "party" at the request of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Arturo Corrales. Now the Honduran Foreign Ministry is investigating an alcoholic incident.
As for confused, the Colombian girls are not fools. In life, they have seen a lot of drunkards, including the most prominent - American, and they know how to deal with them. Finally, after grieving the hapless Honduran envoys and their buddies at the embassy, local prostitutes stole two computers from the building. According to some reports, there was a pogrom in general. The police do not know how to find prostitutes thieves: nobody in the embassy remembers anything ...
Purely positive Turkish economy
For her criticism - in the cell to the criminals
In Turkey It entered into force The new law, equating the publication of negative articles about the country's economy to a serious criminal offense. If you criticize the country's economy, you will sit down.
Bank of America and Merrill Lynch sat down for legal due diligence on the impact of the law on their activities in the Republic of Turkey. The German Commerzbank acted easier: it recalled its employees from Turkey.
If you think about it, then the government of this eastern country needs to go further, and even if something is really a lot of criticism has divorced.
Some Turks, for example, criticize the policy - moreover, both external and internal. This is done by oppositionists who go to rallies and organize protest actions against Erdogan and Davutoglu’s actions: the National Movement public movement, the Confederation of Revolutionary Workers ’Unions, the Confederation of Civil Servants’ Unions, the Federation of Turkish Doctors and Architects, the Halkavleri Federation , Turkish Communist Party, Workers Movement Party and others.
The following citizens are ready to criticize religious ministers. Of the latter, the talented pianist and composer Fazil Sai is widely known. He continues to be tried for insulting the feelings of believers and inciting religious hatred - for criticizing a muezzin who sang a call to prayer in 22 seconds:
“Why the rush? Does he have a mistress in bed getting cold or is the raki on the table heated? ”
Still others believe that Turkey has become too dependent on the global economy, and just a little crisis, it is slipping ...
Well, enough already, and then the Turkish judicial branch of power we all sit down for quotations, overfishing with the help of the branch of the executive, pulling out of the planes forcibly planted in Ankara or getting some other tedious way.
Erdogan should ban criticism in the country in an absolute sense. As such. Political, philosophical, religious, ideological, economic, social, moral, scientific and, finally, literary. To hell with criticism. All is well, beautiful marquise!
* “They'll do it for you, but don't steal it!” - a phrase from the movie “Beware of the car!”.
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