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Военная Мощь: Европа vs Московия
Dossier: Europe and military affairs facts for Dummies
Military spending
Military spending
European NATO and EU are military powerhouses on the global scale, dwarfing Russian military spending. European NATO spends about five times as much as Russia on military affairs, using regular exchange rates...
Military personnel
European NATO and EU outnumber Russia in military personnel almost by a factor of two. Active NATO members' military personnel without the U.S. and Canada (= European NATO, also counting Turkey) exceeds two million, and thus exceeds North American military personnel (little over 1.4 million) almost by half...
Nuclear arms
Both France (Triomphant class) and the UK (Vanguard class) maintain at all times at least one nuclear-powered submarine with enough ballistic missiles and thermonuclear warheads on station (presumably the Atlantic Ocean, but maybe Mediterranean or below Arctic ice). This is enough to crash the Russian society and economy by obliteration of a dozen or more cities even if both the UK and France were destroyed by a thermonuclear first strike.
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Экономика: Гибель Британии 2
TheTelegraph - Without even trying, Brexit Britain is thriving. Wait until we really go for it.
..Sir James’s multi-billion-pound bet is just the latest confirmation that Britain has spectacularly won Brexit’s first phase, against almost all expert opinion. It’s not just that the GDP data and employment figures have continued to grow as if nothing had happened, with the UK expanding faster than America and the Eurozone last year. Crucially, even without any extra tax cuts or deregulatory measures, we continue to attract investors from all over the world.
Take the broader tech industry: all of the larger firms have upped their commitment to Britain since the referendum. Apple will become the biggest tenant in the regenerated Battersea power station. Facebook will increase its UK staff by half after it, too, opens new London headquarters; it will primarily hire engineers. Google is spending £1 billion on its new buildings and will hire 3,000 people. Snapchat will report its non-US revenues through London. Softbank’s post-Brexit acquisition of the UK’s flagship chip designer Arm will boost, rather than reduce, our science base: the Japanese buyer will be doubling Arm’s UK staff by 2021 and has already hired several hundred workers. With IBM and Amazon also growing, Britain is now Europe’s tech capital, and our lead will only grow, especially now that the Government has made it clear that firms will continue to be able to hire the best and brightest from overseas.
The good news isn’t confined to one industry. In the past few days alone, Canary Wharf has submitted plans for four more skyscrapers and China has bought the City’s Cheesegrater skyscraper for £1 billion. Boeing announced last week that it would be opening its first European factory in Britain. It will be a small plant in Sheffield making actuators for Boeing’s next-generation aircraft, but it’s a great first step. Even older industries are seeing a fresh burst of investment: Tata Steel, Liberty and British Steel have all announced major investments.
When it comes to the City, the situation is better than anybody expected by this stage. Bank of America and Wells Fargo have commissioned new headquarters, and everybody now agrees that London will remain a dominant financial centre.
P.S. Кто бы мог подумать...
..Sir James’s multi-billion-pound bet is just the latest confirmation that Britain has spectacularly won Brexit’s first phase, against almost all expert opinion. It’s not just that the GDP data and employment figures have continued to grow as if nothing had happened, with the UK expanding faster than America and the Eurozone last year. Crucially, even without any extra tax cuts or deregulatory measures, we continue to attract investors from all over the world.
Take the broader tech industry: all of the larger firms have upped their commitment to Britain since the referendum. Apple will become the biggest tenant in the regenerated Battersea power station. Facebook will increase its UK staff by half after it, too, opens new London headquarters; it will primarily hire engineers. Google is spending £1 billion on its new buildings and will hire 3,000 people. Snapchat will report its non-US revenues through London. Softbank’s post-Brexit acquisition of the UK’s flagship chip designer Arm will boost, rather than reduce, our science base: the Japanese buyer will be doubling Arm’s UK staff by 2021 and has already hired several hundred workers. With IBM and Amazon also growing, Britain is now Europe’s tech capital, and our lead will only grow, especially now that the Government has made it clear that firms will continue to be able to hire the best and brightest from overseas.
The good news isn’t confined to one industry. In the past few days alone, Canary Wharf has submitted plans for four more skyscrapers and China has bought the City’s Cheesegrater skyscraper for £1 billion. Boeing announced last week that it would be opening its first European factory in Britain. It will be a small plant in Sheffield making actuators for Boeing’s next-generation aircraft, but it’s a great first step. Even older industries are seeing a fresh burst of investment: Tata Steel, Liberty and British Steel have all announced major investments.
When it comes to the City, the situation is better than anybody expected by this stage. Bank of America and Wells Fargo have commissioned new headquarters, and everybody now agrees that London will remain a dominant financial centre.
P.S. Кто бы мог подумать...
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В Швеции ничего не происходит...
No, Fox News & Trump aren’t lying about Sweden
Aftonbladet is probably the biggest newspaper in Sweden. When Donald Trump mentioned what happened “last night in Sweden” they were quick to mock him, and soon followed up with a serious article attempting to debunk Ami Horowitz documentary Stockholm Syndrome.
It’s just a shame it’s full of fallacies.
Стандарты BBC
При всем отношении к BBC как весьма пристрастной новостной организации, тем не менее стандарты все же действительно существуют в отличие от. Так пока рускоязычный Интерфакс рапространяет Fake News про цитату Трампа о Швеции, BBC включило в свой текст, следующее:
Was he referring to something else?
Some people suggest Donald Trump might have been referring to a clip aired on Fox News on Friday night of a documentary about alleged violence committed by refugees in Sweden.
"There was an absolute surge in both gun violence and rape in Sweden once they began this open-door policy," Ami Horowitz, who made the documentary, told Fox News, referring to Sweden's decision to open its doors to large numbers of refugees in 2013.
— Не читайте перед завтраком советских газет.
— Так ведь других нет.
— Вот никаких и не читайте.
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Беженцы: Несчастные Дети и злые Британцы
The Telegraph - Two-thirds of child refugees screened by officials found to be adults, Home Office figures show:
The Telegraph - Officials only challenge age of child refugees if they look over 25:
Officials are only challenging the age of child migrants if they look like they are over 25, The Daily Telegraph has learned as it emerged some of those claiming to be under 18 have already been proven to be adults...It also emerged that one of the first child refugees to arrive in Britain has been proven to be an adult. According to reports the man's fingerprints were already on the UK's biometric database, proving that he was older.
Собственно суть негативного отношения в Британии к детям беженцам - LBC - The Child Refugees Should Be Kids, Not 30-Year-Olds: Ferrari
Nick Ferrari says public opinion would be so much most positive about child refugees if they looked like children, rather than the "men" that arrived last year.
Nearly two-thirds of "child" refugees who officials questioned about their real age were found to be adults, Home Office documents show.
Figures show that in the year to September 2015, 65 per cent of the child refugees who had their age disputed were found to be over 18.
The Telegraph - Officials only challenge age of child refugees if they look over 25:
Officials are only challenging the age of child migrants if they look like they are over 25, The Daily Telegraph has learned as it emerged some of those claiming to be under 18 have already been proven to be adults...It also emerged that one of the first child refugees to arrive in Britain has been proven to be an adult. According to reports the man's fingerprints were already on the UK's biometric database, proving that he was older.
The fact he was on the database could mean that he had previously attempted to enter the UK or had a criminal record.
Собственно суть негативного отношения в Британии к детям беженцам - LBC - The Child Refugees Should Be Kids, Not 30-Year-Olds: Ferrari
Nick Ferrari says public opinion would be so much most positive about child refugees if they looked like children, rather than the "men" that arrived last year.
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Экономика: Британия продолжает гибнуть
The Telegraph - Bank of England hikes UK economic growth forecasts but warns of rising inflation:
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The Bank of England has upgraded its growth forecasts for the next three years as policymakers acknowledged the UK's economic performance had been "markedly stronger" than its gloomy predictions following the Brexit vote.
Bank officials expect the UK economy will grow by 2pc this year. This is up from a forecast of 1.4pc in November and just 0.8pc last August.
Growth in 2017 is now projected to be only slightly weaker than 2016, as well as the projection of 2.3pc growth for 2017 that officials forecast last May, ahead of the EU referendum.
Policymakers also raised their forecasts for growth in 2018 and 2019 to 1.6pc and 1.7pc respectively, from 1.5pc and 1.6pc in November.
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Переговоры: Большой ЕС против маленькой Британии.
"The other EU 27 don't know it yet, but the Brits know very well how they can tackle this," Juncker told Deutschlandfunk radio. "They could promise country A this, country B that and country C something else and the end game is that there is not a united European front."
"Now everyone is saying in relation to Trump and Brexit: 'Now is Europe's big chance. Now is the time to close ranks and march together,'" Juncker said in the radio interview which will be aired on Sunday.
"I wish it will be like this, but will it happen? I have some doubt. Because the Brits will manage without big effort to divide the remaining 27 member states."
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Кто бы мог подумать...