The date of the liberation of the Nazi concentration-camp at Auschwitz, 27 January 1945, has since 2001 been marked in Britain as a moment for the remembrance of the victims of the Nazi holocaust – and, by gradual extension, of all those subjected to genocidal assault over the last century. The annual commemoration of “Holocaust Memorial Day”, now in its tenth year, has become an established part of the national political calendar: the highlights include educational programmes and exhibitions, and a series of events attended by survivors of genocide, leading politicians and representatives of religious groups – most of them taking place under the auspices of a charitable trust which works throughout the year (the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust).
Full Article: www.opendemocracy.net/martin-shaw/britai
И многочисленные петаканомётные блоггеры откликнулись на этот, немедленно пополнивший премьероблоговский арсенал перлов, призыв. "Ну блин, аравот, что с них возьмешь...да вы не обращайте внимания... журналюги..." Вот вам и одобрям-с, как собственно и ожидалось.
А ведь как все начиналось - Իմ սպասելիքները` ձեզնից, ձերը` ինձնից: Ես ձեզ հարցեր ունեմ: Դուք էլ, համոզված եմ, ինձ: Ենթադրում եմ` մենք փոխադարձ ուշադրության պահանջ ունենք, դա նշանակում է, որ մեր շփումը հետաքրքիր է լինելու:
Воистину, Արդյո՞ք մենք միասին մտածում ենք ապագայի մասին: (ц)
Я бы даже сказал, Ով բլոգ գրի, ով գնա Լոնդոն...
Ну что, кореша вы мои драгоценные, вот и подошел к концу мой дембельский аккорд/уикенд в Питере. Работать пришлось сравнительно мало, и в воскресенье мне наконец, на старости лет, посчастливилось попасть в Эрмитаж. Скажу без ложной скромности, что бывал не в одном грандиозном музее, всех не перечислить. Но Эрмитаж меня поразил. К сожалению, пришлось всю эту красоту осматривать второпях, но за шесть с половиной часов непрерывного хождения я, по крайней мере составил сносное представление и твердо решил вернуться в Питер и провести в Эрмитаже еще денек-другой. Сезан, Матисс, Ренуар, Пикассо, Гоген, Ван Гог, Монэ, Да Винчи, Рафаэль, Рембрандт, это ж очуметь можно, кореша вы мои драгоценные. А дворцовые покои, а Египет, а целый зал, посвященный Урарту...
А вчера утром перед возвращением прогулялся от Исаакиевской площади по набережной Мойки до Казанского, оттуда до Спаса на Крови, зашел туда на экскурсию. Поразительной красоты храм, и столь трагичная история, связанная с ним. На обратном пути сел в кафе Зингеровского Дома Книги с видом на Казанский. И опять, пешочком по набережным, кое-где уклоняясь от сбрасываемого с крыш снега, обратно в отель. Мороз этак под -8 и солнце, но мне не привыкать.
Питер, ты теперь один из самых моих любимых городов, и я к тебе обязательно вернусь, и не один, посмотреть, побродить, послушать. На Белые Ночи, если ты не возражаешь.
- Music:Strokes - Room on Fire
People who "don't buy" into the allegations made in the recently published article can be split into the following groups:
- "Good for them, they deserve it, and those who don't like it can go fuck themselves", they say to themselves; "These allegations are absurd and unproven," they say to others. This group are the hypocrites.
- "I cannot live with myself knowing that this is happening, it simply CANNOT be true", they say to themselves; "Lies! Impossible! Nonsense", they say to others. Those who belong to this group are in denial.
- "This may or may not be true, but where is the proof?" they question both themselves and others. These are the sceptics.
Look at the individuals in question, at their past and present activities and deeds, at their track record; look at the power and influence they have mustered in the country; look at the opportunities, both external and internal, that the power and influence present to them; notice the complete lack of oversight over their activities; notice how long they have been in charge and unchecked.
Then ask yourself:
Is this really that far fetched? Why is it that people in similar positions and of similar stature in dozens of other countries were and are doing it, but the ones in question won't? Why would they not convert their power and influence into wealth and business interests for themselves and their families and inner circles? Is it really that far fetched that if a whole country is under complete control, anything can go in, through and out, both legal and illicit. All that needs to be done is create vehicles that would facilitate the extraction, circulation, legitimisation and ultimate transfer of wealth into safeheavens. There isn't a single scheme that has not yet been tried and tested before elsewhere, so as long as you have the levers, the power and the money, the access to lucrative assets, help is on its way. Just don't get caught. And the beauty of it is that internally nobody will ever get caught for they would have to be catching themselves and one another.
Connect the dots. Remember the stories that were publicised about these individuals before. Notice some institutions mentioned in the article and the actions taken by some of them. All this can be verified, because the institutions are those of foreign governments. Look around. Do you really think that the residents of all the upscale villas and apratment blocks in your city have made their money legitimately? You simply do not know who most of them are, what they do or did, where and how. And yet their opulent wealth is right there for you to see, touch and smell.
So, sceptics, having read this, are you thinking of joining the first two groups? Hopefully, you are not thinking of joining the locusts and the roaches who are destroying what's left of your home.
В мире шоубизнесу! (c)
It looks like we have the first war of Armo Euro Divas on our hands. The battlelines have been drawn. Some vital warplans have been stolen by cunning spies who infiltrated the heavily publicised tea party that took place in Emmy's Chambers. Her newly loyal fans were outraged and are masterminding a plastic-chair sit-in demonstration at an undisclosed location. The glamour photoshoot from the party has not been released yet.
Are the girls going to kiss and make up and perhaps even form a duo, Eva&Emmy? Not likely, tried it last time, it failed spectacularly, even two sisters couldn't make it work. So when are we gonna have the Eva v Emmy smackdown? Is it gonna be on Youtube? MTV? Can't wait...
- Music:KOL - Molly's Chambers
...ղազաբի շունը ղասաբ էր դարնալու", հաճախ ասում էր մեր քիմիաի դասախոսը: Կարող եմ միայն խոստովանել, որ եթե դա իրոք այդպես լիներ, իմ շունը այսօր կդառնար պաստառ պոկող:
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Քյու և Էյ
Վաղուց, մի 8 տարի առաջ երևի, Երևանի Հեշ Հաուս Հեռռիերների (Hash House Harriers) ակտիվ մասնակից էի: Մի օր ես ու երկու ընկերներս Հեռներն (Haires) էինք, այսինքն ճանապարհը պետք է գծեինք մեր ընտրաց վայրում: Նշան դնելու համար ոգտագործում էինք ալյուր: Սևանի տռասսի վրա միհատ օբսիդիանի մեծ հանք կար, որոշեցինք այնտեղ անել: Ման ենք գալիս, ալյուրով նշաններ դնում գետնին: Մեկ էլ հեռվից ինչ որ նախկինում երիտասարդ գոռում ա.
"Էդ ինչ էք թափում գետնին?"
Ես (գորում եմ):"Ալյուուուուր:"
Ինքը: "Ինչ ալյուր?"
Ես: "Երկրորդ կարգի:"
ՈՒ տենց (ց)
- Music:Aneurysm - Nirvana
Как-то смотрим рекламный ролик сети супермаркетов "Сэйнсбериз". Их продвигает Джейми Оливер, местная знаменитость-телешеф. Ну он там гонит типа "вот так все просто, взяли значит сосиски, салсу, смешали-пожарили, положили на хлеб..."
Я: "Хорошо придумали, то есть даже из самых обычных ингредиентов можно сделать что-то вкусное."
Жена: "Չե, պրոստո "Սեյնսբերիզը" Ջեյմիին զանգել ասելա "սասիսկին լավ չի ծախվում, մի բան արա:"
ՈՒ տենց (ց)
- Mood:
pissed off
So, during the first coffee break I decided to boost my productivity and job satisfaction. I put my Nirvana Unplugged DVD on, which increased the latter; and let the dog in, which ruined the former. Why? Because while trying to get some work done and making sure I didn't scold myself, I also had to chase the bloody dog away from the steaming machine. Not to mention that he nicked the scraper during the second coffee break, right from under my nose, and I had to look for it all over the garden.
To cut the long story short, I got one wall more or less done, and I am knackered, and I have a headache (which I never do) and I need a drink. And Match of the Day is still a few hours away, and I have to cook. And I sound like an old lady. So why are you still reading this? Got nothing better to do?!
- Mood:
tired - Music:Nirvana Unplugged
MUST READ! Highlights - mine
Aerial bombardment
The calibration of destruction
Smaller, cleverer and more accurate munitions are changing warfare
Jan 28th 2010 | From The Economist print edition
THE Perseus, a 900kg (2,000lb) bomb made in Greece, incinerates almost everything in an area larger than a dozen football fields. Farther out, oxygen is sucked from the air and people may be crushed by a pressure wave. The inferno is similar to that caused by napalm—a jellied-petrol explosive heavily restricted by a United Nations weapons convention.
Modified with new technologies, however, the Perseus is increasingly considered legitimate. Mark Hiznay, a bombs-control expert at Human Rights Watch, a humanitarian group based in New York, has gone so far as to say it has become a necessary weapon. With a stronger steel casing and backup shock-resistant triggering mechanisms, the Perseus can smash through several metres of reinforced concrete and detonate only after it has gone into a bunker. This makes the bomb a good way to destroy and sterilise germ- and chemical-warfare laboratories while limiting damage nearby, says Mr Hiznay.
A new generation of advanced ordnance, including the Perseus, is making bombing campaigns safer for civilians. During the first Gulf war, in 1991, American warplanes had to drop an average of six 450kg satellite-guided bombs to destroy a tank or a small building. During the second war, 12 years later, a similar attack required bombs half that size, and fewer of them. Today 100kg bombs would suffice, because guidance systems are so good that individual rooms, as opposed to entire buildings, can be aimed at.
Greek fire
Much of this revolution, as Mr Hiznay terms it, is due to guidance kits that can be attached to existing “dumb” bombs. An upgraded bomb, when falling, uses data from the global-positioning system in combination with laser and infra-red sensors to adjust a set of fins that work like aeroplane flaps. This steers the bomb towards its target—even if that target is moving. The AASM, a French navy and air-force guidance system, has fins that can guide and glide bombs for 50km (31 miles) and hit a target within a metre of the bullseye. The LJDAM, a system made by Boeing and first exported in 2008, can land a bomb on a vehicle that is travelling at 110kph.
The market for add-on guidance systems is booming. More than a dozen countries, including South Africa, make them. Two dozen—including India, Pakistan and Turkey—buy them. They are not cheap: $23,000 per bomb will get you one at the bottom of the range. It is not just a more effective weapon, but also a safer one for the bomber. He can fly higher, meaning that he is at less risk from ground fire.
Moreover, these bombs continue to be clever even after arriving at the target. Their fuses can set off explosions at precisely the right moment. One defence contractor, Israel Military Industries, makes a 225kg bomb, the MPR-500, that can hammer through several storeys of a building and explode on a chosen floor. This feat means triggering the detonation about two milliseconds after the bomb hits the ceiling above the doomed storey. The bomb can be programmed to do this just seconds before it is dropped. Such precision means it is sold as a replacement for ordnance two or more times its size.
Bomb-makers are also finding cleverer ways of destroying deeply buried bunkers. Almost five years ago, America’s Congress cut research funding for a controversial bunker-busting nuke called the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator. Today the bulk of effort to develop bunker-smashers in Western countries employs conventional weaponry. In a classic attack, a succession of big bombs is dropped on the same spot. Such “drilling”, however, may require numerous warplanes and inflict great damage on the surrounding area.
Souping up bombs with rockets that speed up their impact might provide an alternative. Bunker-busters work best if they detonate after burrowing into the ground. This helps “couple” the explosion to the ground so that shock waves designed to collapse a bunker travel deeper. Israel Military Industries is studying a rocket that would ignite just before the bomb hit, digging it deeper than ever before exploding.
That, according to Meir Geva, head of aerial munitions at Israel Military Industries, can be very deep indeed. His firm makes a bunker-buster which weighs about as much as a small car. “To my great sorrow”, Mr Geva says, its shockwave ranges cannot be revealed.
Whatever the bunker-buster’s destructive power, the next generation of bombs will dwarf it. The Massive Ordnance Penetrator, an American bunker-buster scheduled for deployment at the end of the year, weighs 15 times as much.
On April 2nd 2003, during the second Gulf war, a hundred or so Iraqi armoured vehicles approached a far smaller American reconnaissance unit south of Baghdad. Responding to a call for help, a B-52 bomber attacked the first 30 or so vehicles in the column with a single, historic pass. It dropped two new CBU-105 bombs, and the result shocked the soldiers of both sides—and, soon enough, military observers everywhere.
While falling, the CBU-105 bombs popped open, each releasing ten submunitions which were slowed by parachutes. Each of these used mini rockets to spin and eject outward four discs the size of ice-hockey pucks.
The 80 free-falling discs from the pair of bombs then scanned the ground with lasers and heat-detecting infra-red sensors to locate armoured vehicles. Those discs that identified a target exploded dozens of metres up. The blast propelled a tangerine-sized slug of copper down into the target, destroying it with the impact and the accompanying shrapnel. The soldiers in the 70 vehicles farther back in the column surrendered immediately.
A kinder, gentler future
The CBU-105, however frightening, may actually point the way toward less violent warfare. Cluster munitions—which release bomblets to cover a wide area—are banned or tightly restricted by an international convention. But the CBU-105 and its cousins, known as sensor-fused weapons, are considered legal because very few discs remain unexploded on the battlefield. Those that fail to detect a target are supposed to self-destruct in the air. The trigger batteries of those that do not will quickly die, so duds are unlikely to kill civilians later.
Crucially, the manufacturer of the CBU-105, Textron Defense Systems, of Wilmington, Massachusetts, is improving sensors to allow the weapon to distinguish the heat signatures of cars, buses and homes from those of military hardware. If there is such a thing as a humanitarian bomb, this might be it.
By contrast, consider another sort of new weapon. The explosion of Russia’s “Father of All Bombs” approaches that of a small nuclear weapon; it would flatten many city blocks. In 2007, the government showed it off proudly on prime-time television. To most military men, such a bomb is not a PR coup, but an embarrassment.
vaykuneci.livejournal.com/103523.html
ֆրենդերիս մաղթում եմ ուրախ "շաբաթավարտ", որը ես կանցկացնեմ սենյակիս հին պաստառները պոկելով:
- Music:The White Stripes - I wanna be the by to warm your mother's heart
Հարցերը, որոնք չունեն միանշանակ պատասխան շատ հետաքրքիր են: (к науке, которую я на данный момент представляю, это не имеет никакого отношения)
Կարծում եմ, այս խոսակցությունը շարունակության կարիք ունի: (К этой теме мы еще вернемся.)
Համերգին հանդիպելու ենք: (Мы еще не поднялись на государственный уровень.)
Ափսոս: (Ցանկանում եք խոսե՞լ այդ մասին:)
Steve Jobs at HIS OWN HI-TECH show:
Իսկ դուք հարցնում էիք, խի ա Իրան գնացել...
Ну вот, кореша вы мои драгоценные, наступил опять сезон Европурги. Повылазали из норок новые звездочки, понаоткрывали себе страничек на ЖЖ, понаприглашали к себе в гости всяко-разно блоговетеранов, "ааах, я такая простая, приходите ко мне, заодно выберем песенку, такую, чтоб звала и вела, но в тоже время и не уводила...аах, а вот у меня презентация песни на носу, приходите зацените..." А Ингу с Анушью кто будет приглашать, а?! Что они скажут, "хир вы го, систа? Мы типа чужие на празднике песни..." А ветераны (ну тысячнеги-то) посмотрели, подумали, а хуле, у них аттеншн спэн-то короткий, от премьерского блога устали, да он там и сам вроде не появляется; потом вся эта волокита с протоколами наскучила - подпишут-не подпишут...
И давай вперед, пиарить доморощенных мегазвезд на всю катушку. Загламурили-заглянцевали свои ЖЖ, засучили рукава. "На правах рекламы! Прошу любить и жаловать! А вот у нас фодге с вечеринки! Под катом, бля!" А позже уже "Обанах, таинственные смс-ки из Азебаржана! За нас проголосовали Фарерские Острова! Нас снова предали греки! Татик&Папик мелькнули в эфире, вместе с правильной картой!"
И так каждый год, и уже столько раз повторяется, что это уже не фарс, кореша вы мои драгоценные, а хуй знает что.
Читал тут о бурной биографии одного министра и вспомнил о моем любимом шоу, Thick of It . Там у премьер министра есть своего рода вышибала по работе с прессой и министрами кабинета, Малколм Такер. Пресса его побаивается и уважает, а министры от него просто обсираются. Потому что, пиздани они чего-то не того в прессе или, еще хуже, в эфире, он их сразу на кол сажает, причем многие из них наверно предпочли бы сесть на кол в буквальном смысле нежели подвергнуться фигуральному "выворачиванию матки" от Малколма. Вот, для иллюстрации, хотя это не самая его жестокая выходка:
Հետաքրքիր կլիներ լսել պարոն վարչապետի մեկնաբանությունները այս նյութի վերաբերյալ, սակայն մյուս կողմից, մակնաբանությունները ավելնորդ են: Ինչպես ասում են, դիտենք ժապավենը:
վիրտուալ զրույցից երևանցի ընկերոջս հետ.
Ինքը. "Հեչ կառնավալների եղել ես?"
Ես. "Չե, խի?"
Ինքը. "Հեչ, ուզում եմ գնալ չեմ որոշել դեռ ուր - Canari, Venice, Koln?"
Ես. "Երևան-Էրեբունի կառնավալին գնա:"
Ինքը. "Էդ քեզ կարամ հրավիրել:"
Ես. "Դե քաղաքապետարանից րազրիշենի հանի վոր հետս թոփլես կրեոլկաներ բերեմ մասնակցեմ:"
ՈՒ տենց (ց)
- Music:mumiy troll - sayonara diska
