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Sees New Source Of Cheap Labor: The United States
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Russia's
newly-appointed Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu nominated 57-year old
Colonel General Gerasimov who has been commander of the Central
Military District to take over the top post.
“He is a military man from head to toe, a man who has served for a long time in the Armed Forces and is respected there. He has enormous experience of work both in the General Staff and on the battlefield," Shoigu said at a meeting with President and Commander-in-Chief Putin.
Under the decree signed by the President, from now on Gerasimov is also Russia’s First deputy Defense Minister.
Straight to business, Putin outlined tasks for the new head of the General Staff: to build stable partnership with leading defense industry plants, to continue rearmament of the Army and Fleet and to improve the structure and command of troops.
Gerasimov is known to be a critic of the reforms pushed through by Serdyukov which were unpopular among the Russian military.....
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Corruption
Destruction: Multi-million fraud scandals flare up in Russia
November
9th, 2012
Since
MIT did it with Open Courseware years ago, I suspected that the point
of the “free education” offerings was to create a pool of
relatively skilled workers in some of the poorest countries in the
world. You know, places with open sewers where people sleep on dirt
floors… and where lots of these people have Internet access! (The
way things are headed, this might refer to parts of the U.S. Soon.)
Foxconn
Electronics – the China-based contract electronics manufacturer
also known as Hon Hai – is planning to build manufacturing plants
in the U.S., DigiTimes reports, in a story attributed to “market
watchers.”
The
company is reportedly evaluating “cites such as Detroit and Los
Angeles.”
Research
Credit: dilinger
CIA
Chief Petraeus resigns due to extramarital affair
CIA
Director David Petraeus has announced he will resign from the Central
Intelligence Agency.
RT,
9
November, 2012
Petraeus,
age 60, released a statement on Friday obtained by CNN confirming
that his resignation has already been accepted by US President Barack
Obama, who nominated him to replace General Stanley A. McChrystal as
the commander of US Forces in Afghanistan in June 2010. A four-star
general, Petraeus retired from the Army in August 2011 and was sworn
in as new CIA chief one month later.
According
to the statement, Petraeus’ stepping down is due to personal
reasons, namely an affair he now admits to having outside of his
relationship with his wife....
On
the same day as the CIA director resigns...
Big
army reshuffle: Head of the General Staff replaced
President
Vladimir Putin has appointed Colonel General Valery Gerasimov to be
the new Chief of the General Staff, replacing the resigned Nikolay
Makarov.
RT,
9
November, 2012
Makarov
handed in his resignation after the Defense Minister Anatoly
Seryukov was sacked earlier this week over a property scandal
involving the ministry.
“He is a military man from head to toe, a man who has served for a long time in the Armed Forces and is respected there. He has enormous experience of work both in the General Staff and on the battlefield," Shoigu said at a meeting with President and Commander-in-Chief Putin.
Under the decree signed by the President, from now on Gerasimov is also Russia’s First deputy Defense Minister.
Straight to business, Putin outlined tasks for the new head of the General Staff: to build stable partnership with leading defense industry plants, to continue rearmament of the Army and Fleet and to improve the structure and command of troops.
Gerasimov is known to be a critic of the reforms pushed through by Serdyukov which were unpopular among the Russian military.....
Divers
recovery body from sunken gold ship, 8 crew still missing
RT,
9
November, 2012
Search
and rescue divers have recovered a body from the cargo ship
“Amurskaya” that sank in the Sea of Okhotsk at the end of
October. The search continues for 8 crewmen who were on board the
freighter carrying 700 tonnes of gold ore.
The
ship went down in heavy seas on her way from Kiran to Okhotsk in
Russia’s Far East carrying a cargo of gold ore worth an estimated
quarter of a million dollars.
It
was more than a week before rescuers spotted an oil slick ten miles
off shore marking where the vessel went down. The ship was discovered
by dive teams from the Emergencies Ministry lying on her port side in
25 metres of water.
An
air and sea search was launched looking for the nine man crew despite
the extreme weather conditions.....
FEMA
centers in New York closed due to... bad weather
CIA
Director David Petraeus has announced he will resign from the Central
Intelligence Agency.
RT,
9
November, 2012
Instead
of staying open to help displaced victims of the hurricane during the
nor’easter that blanketed New York City in snow, the Federal
Emergency Management Agency was “closed due to weather” as the
storm approached.
FEMA,
headed by Craig Fugate, exists to “prepare for, protect against,
respond to, recover from and mitigate all hazards,” the agency
states. Its team is employed to fly into disaster areas to provide
relief to victims of both of manmade or natural disasters – like
storms.
But
this week FEMA seemingly added a special condition to its services:
The agency will only help as long as it’s not raining, snowy or too
windy. As the nor’easter brought snowflakes to an area where
thousands are still without electricity or homes in freezing
temperatures, FEMA shut down its operations “due to bad weather.”
“We
were abandoned yesterday,” Staten Island resident MaryAnne Alessio
told Neil Cavuto.
After
being questioned on the reasons behind the closed doors, Fugate told
reporters that services needed to be postponed during the storm and
would resume when the weather improves. FEMA’s response angered
some New Yorkers who relied on the relief service after the storm had
demolished their homes.
“Really?
You’re telling Staten Island people that sorry, we’re closed due
to the weather?” said Alessio. “These are people walking the
streets that don’t have no homes, no electricity, no life, no place
to go. They’re put out of their houses. And then they go to the
FEMA center and they’re closed due to the weather. I think it’s a
disgrace.”
FEMA
buses vanished on Wednesday, taking away some New Yorkers’ only
source of warmth and electricity. Trucks were removed from Staten
Island and tents were taken down throughout the city.
And
while the emergency management agency could not cope with the
weather, the Red Cross stepped in and opened warming centers to help
displaced hurricane victims survive the snowy weather.
But
the Red Cross did not have the resources to provide many shelters.
With only one shelter, located on Staten Island, FEMA’s help was
much-needed.
“It’s
just annoying when many people here need help, and they just didn’t
do what they’re supposed to do,” a Queens resident told
DNAinfo.com. “It’s emergency, and they should be open by now.”
To
make up for the loss in aid that FEMA should have been providing,
volunteers across New York tried to provide crucial resources to
hurricane victims – including water bottles, food, electricity and
places to warm up.
“FEMA
packed up and left. We don’t know where they are, so there’s
nothing here but us,” said volunteer Louis Giraldi.
The
agency reopened its mobile sites after the second storm passed.
Viral
outbreak at Hurricane Sandy evacuation shelter shuts 3 Brooklyn
schools
Many
students in limbo as officials scramble to repair school system
impacted by storm
9
November, 2012
Three
Brooklyn high schools will be closed on Wednesday due to a vicious
viral outbreak that struck an evacuation shelter based in the
schools’ building.
Five
other schools will be closed because officials failed to move shelter
residents in time.
And
some schools that will open will have crowded conditions with one
Staten Island school expecting to fill its auditorium with seven
classes from a storm-damaged school.
Officials
are scrambling to repair the school system in the wake of the
devastation from Hurricane Sandy. But countless children and teachers
are displaced far from home, 43 schools are too damaged to open their
doors and some students don’t know where they’re living, let
alone where they’ll go to school....
Revelations
of mass fraud and embezzlement involving hundreds of millions of
dollars are hogging the headlines in Russia.
It's
emerged that some of the country's most ambitious projects -
including its satellite positioning system GLONASS - were plagued by
corruption. There's also a scandal at the highest levels of the
military.
Karl
Rove Causes Fox News Chaos By Challenging Obama Victory Projection
After
Fox News called the election in favor of President Barack Obama, Fox
contributor Karl Rove challenged their decision to give Ohio to the
president, causing chaos on-air as hosts Bret Baier and Megyn Kelly
scrambled to refute Rove's reluctance to believe the Fox News
"decision desk's" call in favor of Obama.
"We
have got to be careful about calling things when we have like 991
votes separating the two candidates and a quarter of the vote yet to
count," Rove warned the Fox anchors, much to their dismay. "Even
if they have made it on the basis of select precincts, I would be
very careful about intruding in this process."
After
a brief pause, Baier, Kelly and Chris Wallace joked about how
"awkward" Rove has just made the entire situation, with
Baier deadpanning: "It's great to have you guys here."
Watch
Rove's challenge below, via Fox:
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