niZAh- Militan Negara Islam di Iraq utara mempunyai sistem
pertahanan udara moden mudah alih yang mampu menembak jatuh sebuah pesawat
penumpang, akhbar Bild am Sonntag Jerman melaporkan memetik agensi perisikan
asing di negara ini.
Menurut laporan media yang disiarkan pada hari Ahad,
Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) memaklumkan kpd Bundestag Jerman ancaman pada
sesi tertutup minggu lepas.
Agensi perisikan Jerman mengatakan bahawa Negara
Islam (IS, yang sebelum ini ISIS) militan yang terletak di utara Iraq telah
memperoleh sistem pertahanan udara dari senjata tentera yang ditawan pd Tentera
Syria, menurut laporan itu.
Militan IS telah memperoleh 1970 model serta sistem
pertahanan udara manusia mudah alih moden (MANPADS). Sistem peluru berpandu
permukaan-ke-udara ringan boleh dilepaskan dari bahu dan dikendalikan oleh satu
orang.
"Tidak seperti senjata pertahanan udara,
MANPADS adalah mudah utk digunakan, militia hampir tidak terlatih dpt
senjata api yang tepat," kata laporan itu, sambil menambah bahawa senjata
adalah sangat berbahaya utk mendarat atau berlepas pesawat.
Pihak berkuasa Jerman masih blm mengesahkan
laporan tersebut. Beberapa sya-rikat penerbangan termasuk Austrian Airlines dan
Qatar Airways, masih terbang di ruang udara di Irak utara mengawal pelampau.
GERMAN Intel WARNS ISIS
Can Shoot down PASSENGER planes - report
Islamic State militants in northern Iraq have modern
portable air defense systems that are capable of shooting down a passenger
plane, Germany’s Bild am Sonntag newspaper reported citing the country’s
foreign intelligence agency.
According to the media report published on Sunday,
the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) informed the German Bundestag of the threat
at a closed session last week.
The German intelligence agency said that the Islamic
State(IS, formerly ISIS) militants located in northern Iraq have obtained
air-defense systems from the captured military arsenal of the Syrian Army,
according to the report.
The IS militants have obtained the 1970s models as
well as modern man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS). These light-weight
surface-to-air missile systems can be fired from the shoulder and operated by
one person.
“Unlike other air defense weapons, MANPADS are easy
to use, barely-trained militiamen can fire the weapon accurately,” the report
said, adding that the weapons are especially dangerous for landing or taking
off aircrafts.
German authorities have not yet confirmed the
report. Several airlines, including Austrian Airlines and Qatar Airways, still
fly in the airspace over northern Iraq in control of the extremists.
(Kurdish peshmerga
troops participate in an intensive security deployment against Islamic State
militants in Zumar (Reuters/Ari Jalal)
Terdahulu beberapa laporan muncul mengatakan bahawa
militan di wilayah itu memiliki MANPADS. Khususnya, militan anti kerajaan
menyerbu pangkalan udara Tabqa di utara-tengah Syria, yang membolehkan mereka
utk mengambil kawalan ke atas keseluruhan Raqqa propinsi tersebut- kini kubu IS
- pada bulan Ogos. Para militan dilaporkan merampas sebuah cache dari
permukaan-ke-udara peluru berpandu mudah alih disimpan di sana. Pada bulan
Oktober, terdapat laporan oleh tentera Iraq yang IS pelampau telah MANPADS di
gudang mereka.
Militan IS - dinilai oleh Amerika Syarikat sebagai
pengganas dibiayai yang terbaik di DUNIA - telah merampas petak besar Syria dan Iraq
utara dan yang mendirikan kekhalifahan memproklamirkan diri di Timur Tengah.
Sebuah koalisi pimpinan Amerika Syarikat melancarkan
serangan udara menya-sarkan kedudukan militan di Syria pada bulan September. Ini
serangan menyertai Amerika Syarikat operasi udara terhadap IS di Iraq yg
bermula sebulan sebelum itu.
Pada hari Ahad, tentera & pasangan negara bagian Amerika
Syarikat menjalankan 12 serangan udara ke atas kedudukan IS di Iraq, kata
Komando Pusat Amerika Syarikat. 5 serangan udara berasingan tlh dilakukan
oleh tentera Amerika Syarikat terhadap sasaran IS di Syria di bandar Kobani,
kata pegawai Amerika Syarikat.
Earlier several reports emerged saying that the
militants in the region were in possession of MANPADs. In particular, the
anti-government militants stormed the Tabqa air base in north-central Syria,
which enabled them to take control of the whole Raqqa province– currently an IS
stronghold - in August. The militants reportedly seized a cache of the portable
surface-to-air missiles stored there. In October, there were reports by the
Iraqi military that IS extremists had MANPADs in their arsenal.
The IS militants - assessed by the US as the
best-funded terrorists in the world - have seized large swaths of Syria and
northern Iraq and established a self-proclaimed caliphate in the Middle East.
A US-led coalition launched airstrikes targeting the
militants’ positions in Syria in September. These strikes joined US air
operations against the IS in Iraq which began a month earlier.
On Sunday, the US military and partner states
conducted 12 airstrikes on the IS positions in Iraq, the US Central Command
said. Five separate airstrikes were conducted by the US military against IS
targets in Syria in the city of Kobani, US officials added.
niZAh-Campuran telur busuk, alkohol dan kuda yang stabil,
dengan suatu catatan mengenai badam pahit - itulah bau 67P komet, ditambah lagi
dgn alat2 pengesan kapal angkasa Rosetta, yang mengorbit, ahli-ahli
sains Eropah berkata.
Komet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko - atau Dhananjay
singkatnya - perjalanan melalui ruang kira-kira 400 juta km (kira-kira 250 juta
batu) dari matahari, tetapi sebahagian es ini telah mula melepaskan gas molekul.
Ianya telah dikesan oleh sensor pengorbit Rosetta bagi ion & analisis neutral
(Rosina) - pertama pd bulan Ogos - tetapi kali ini satu gambaran yg tidak
disangka-sangka yang lebih mewah diturunkan.
'ROTTEN Eggs & Horse
PEE': Rosetta PROBE
Sniffs COMET 67P . .
. And it STINKS! . . .
A mix of rotten eggs, alcohol and a horse stable, with a note of bitter
almonds – that’s the smell of comet 67P, caught by sensor devices of the
Rosetta spacecraft, which is orbiting it, European scientists say.
The comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko – or Chury for short – is traveling
through space some 400 million km (about 250 million miles) from the sun, but
this chunk of ice has already started releasing gas molecules. They were
detected by the Rosetta orbiter sensor for ion and neutral analysis (ROSINA) –
first in August - but this time an unexpectedly much richer picture was
revealed.
Rosetta unmanned spacecraft (Reuters/NASA)
Wangian dari 67P/CG cukup kuat, dengan bau telur
busuk (hidrogen sulfida), kuda stabil (ammonia), & tajam, bau yg
menyesakkan formaldehid. Ini dicampur dengan, yg pahit, seperti badam aroma
yg lemah hidrogen sianida, "Kathrin Altwegg, ketua projek Rosina yang di
Pusat Angkasa dan Habitability (CSH) di ‘University of Bern’, menyifatkan bau. "Tambah
beberapa bau alkohol (metanol) untuk campuran ini, ditambah pula dgn aroma
cuka-seperti sulfur dioksida dan sedikit aroma aromatik manis karbon disulfida,
dan anda tiba di 'wangian' komet kita".
"Apa yang mengejutkan adalah kita sudah mempunyai kimia yang sangat
kaya pada jarak ini dari matahari," katanya.
Untuk mengejar ketinggalan dengan 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko,
Rosetta telah membuat perjalanan 10 tahun lamanya, yang melibatkan 3
penerbangan dari Bumi dan Marikh. Kapal angkasa Rosetta telah mengorbit komet
sejak September.
Pada 12 November kira-kira 09:35 GMT, Rosetta akan
melepaskan satelit men-darat, Philae - objek buatan manusia yang pertama yang
mendarat di atas sebuah komet. Gol bersejarah dijangka berlaku 7 jam
kemudian, dan dalam masa 2 jam gambar pertama dari permukaan tersebut akan
diterima oleh para ilmuwan di ESA Agensi Angkasa Eropah, serta 2 pusat
kawalan pendarat di Jerman dan Perancis.
“The perfume of 67P/C-G is quite strong, with the
odor of rotten eggs (hydrogen sulfide), horse stable (ammonia), and the
pungent, suffocating odor of formaldehyde. This is mixed with the faint,
bitter, almond-like aroma of hydrogen cyanide,” Kathrin Altwegg, head of the
ROSINA project at the Center for Space and Habitability (CSH) at theUniversity of Bern, described the smell. “Add some
whiff of alcohol (methanol) to this mixture, paired with the vinegar-like aroma
of sulfur dioxide and a hint of the sweet aromatic scent of carbon disulfide,
and you arrive at the ‘perfume’ of our comet“.
“What’s surprising is we already have extremely rich chemistry at this
distance from the sun,” she added.
To catch up with 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, Rosetta
has made a 10-year-long journey, which involved three flybys of Earth and one
of Mars. The Rosetta spacecraft has been orbiting the comet since September.
On November 12 at around 09:35 GMT, Rosetta
will release its landing probe, Philae – the first manmade object to land on a
comet. The historic touchdown is expected to happen seven hours later, and in
two hours’ time the first pictures from the surface will be received by
scientists at the European Space Agency ESA, as well as two lander control
centers in Germany and France.
Menurut ahli-ahli astronomi ESA, gas mengarang komet
beku bersama-sama den-gan air dan karbon dioksida boleh membuka pintu kepada
penerokaan tentang asal-usul komet, serta sistem solar. Ia juga boleh
menyediakan dgn sedikit pema-haman tentang perbezaan antara komet yg datang
dari 'keluarga Jupiter' & dari awan Oort yang di pinggir sistem suria kita.
Milik keluarga Jupiter itu, 67P/CG adalah sebuah
komet berkala dengan orbit yang terkenal dan boleh diramal dari 6.5 tahun.
Ditemui pada tahun 1969 oleh ahli-ahli sains Soviet, ia akan mendekati matahari
pada paling dekat pada Ogos 2015.
Komet adalah objek es yg dianggap fosil dari zaman
ketika sistem solar telah pemula itu, dan mereka boleh menyediakan saintis
dengan beberapa bahan purba. Sebab komet ini yang berasal dari awan Oort yang
jauh, tetamu yang jarang untuk sistem suria dalaman dan oleh itu 'tidak
disentuh' oleh matahari, seperti komet musim bunga tepi ‘comet
Siding Spring’ adalah hadiah murni bagi para ilmuwan bersemangat untuk
belajar lebih lanjut mengenai bahan-bahan asal yang membentuk solar sistem 4.6
bilion tahun yang lalu.
According to ESA astronomers, the gases composing
the comet alongside with frozen water and carbon dioxide could open the door to
the exploration of the origins of comets, as well as of the solar system. It
could also provide with some insight into the differences between the comets
coming from the ‘Jupiter family’ and from the Oort cloud on the outskirts of
our solar system.
Belonging to the Jupiter family, 67P/C-G is a
periodic comet with a well-known and predictable orbit of 6.5 years. Discovered
in 1969 by Soviet scientists, it will approach the sun at its closest in August,
2015.
Comets are icy bodies that are regarded as fossils
from the times when the solar system was originating, and they could provide
scientists with some of the primordial material. That is why comets coming from
the distant Oort cloud, rare guests to the inner solar system and therefore
‘untouched’ by the sun, such as the comet
Siding Springare pristine presents for scientists eager to learn more
about the original materials that formed the solar system 4.6 billion years
ago.
Presiden China, Xi Jinping (C) menunjukkan jalan kepada para tetamu dari Infrastruktur Asia Investment Bank di Dewan Besar Rakyat di Beijing pada 24 Oktober 2014 (Chinese President Xi Jinping (C) shows the way to the guests of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 24, 2014 (AFP Photo/Takaki Yajima)
niZAh- Cina & India yg menyokong 21 negara $100 billion Infrastruktur Asia Investment Bank (AIIB) yg utk mencabar kpd Bank DUNIA & Bank Pembangunan Asia.
Memorandum persefahaman telah ditandatangani dengan 21 negara-negara Asia di Beijing hari ini. Australia, Indonesia dan Korea Selatan tidak hadir berikutan tekanan tersembunyi dari Washington.
Bank pembangunan telah dicadangkan tahun lalu oleh Presiden China, Xi Jinping dan menawarkan pembiayaan bagi projek-projek infrastruktur di negara-negara Asia yang belum berkembang.
Beribu pejabat di Beijing, bekas ketua China International Capital Corp bank pelaburan Jim Liqun, dijangka memainkan peranan utama.
Bank itu pada mulanya akan dipermodalkan dengan $ 50 bilion, sebagian besar disumbangkan oleh China. Negara ini merancang untuk meningkatkan modal dibenarkan kepada $ 100 bilion. Dengan jumlah bahawa AIIB akan 2/3 saiz $175 billion Bank Pembangunan Asia.
India akan menjadi bank pemegang saham yang ke-2 terbesar walaupun Kuwait, Qatar, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Nepal, Oman, dan semua negara-negara di Persatuan Asia Tenggara, kecuali Indonesia yang terlibat.
Australia, Indonesia dan Korea Selatan tidak mengambil bahagian berikut klaim dari 'kebimbangan' mengenai saingan kpd pemberi pinjaman pelbagai hala yang didominasi Barat.
Jepun, saingan utama China di Asia, yang menguasai Bank Pembangunan Asia ber-sama-sama dengan Amerika Syarikat, tidak hadir tetapi telah tidak dijangka ber-buat demikian.
Indonesia enggan menyertai mendakwa ia memerlukan masa untuk membincangkan cadangan China.
Kata Australian Financial Review Setiausaha Negara Amerika Syarikat John Kerry sendiri telah meminta Perdana Menteri Australia, Tony Abbott untuk "mengelak-kan" dari menyertai AIIB.
"Australia telah berada di bawah tekanan dari Amerika Syarikat untuk beberapa waktu untuk tidak menjadi anggota pengasas bank dan ia difahami Encik Kerry meletakkan kes itu terus kepada Perdana Menteri apabila pasangan bertemu di Jakarta pada Isnin berikutan pelantikan Presiden Indonesia Joko Widodo, "kata akhbar itu.
Korea Selatan, salah satu sekutu paling rapat Amerika di Asia, adalah prevarica-ting ALSE. Kementerian Kewangan yang berkata ia berbicara dengan China untuk meminta lebih banyak masa untuk mempertimbangkan butiran seperti tadbir urus AIIB dan prinsip-prinsip operasi.
Para pejabat Amerika Syarikat mengatakan mereka tidak mahu untuk menyokong inisiatif Washington difikirkan tidak mungkin untuk menggalakkan alam sekitar, perolehan dan piawaian hak asasi manusia baik dengan cara yg Bank DUNIA dan ADB dikehendaki lakukan.
Tetapi pegawai-pegawai Cina yakin pembangkang Amerika adalah satu percubaan untuk membendung kebangkitan global China dan cita-cita untuk kekal kuasa yang dominan di Asia.
"Anda boleh menganggap ini sebagai permainan bola keranjang di mana Amerika Syarikat mahu menetapkan tempoh permainan, saiz mahkamah, ketinggian bakul dan segala sesuatu yg lain yg sesuai dengan dirinya," Wei Jianguo, bekas Menteri Perdagangan China, kepada Financial Times.
Matius Goodman, sarjana di Pusat Strategik dan Pengajian Antarabangsa di Was-hington DC percaya inisiatif Bank BRICS dan AIIB "mewakili cabaran institusi serius pertama dalam tatanan ekonomi global."
Menteri Kewangan Cina Lou Jiwei berkata AIIB akan menetapkan standard yang tinggi, melindungi dasar dan memperbaiki dasar birokrasi, tidak realistik dan tidak relevan, menurut agensi berita Xinhua.
CHINA launches New WORLD Bank RIVAL . . .
China and India are backing a 21 country $100 billion Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to challenge to the World Bank and Asian Development Bank.
Memorandum of understanding were signed with 21 Asian countries in Beijing Friday. Australia, Indonesia and South Korea were absent following hidden pressure from Washington.
The development bank was proposed a year ago by Chinese President Xi Jinping, and is to offer financing for infrastructure projects in underdeveloped Asian countries.
Headquartered in Beijing, former chairman of the China International Capital Corp investment bank Jim Liqun, is expected to take a leading role.
The bank will initially be capitalized with $50 billion, most of it contributed by China. The country is planning to increase authorized capital to $100 billion. With that amount the AIIB would be two-thirds the size of the $175 billion Asian Development Bank.
India will be the second largest bank shareholder though Kuwait, Qatar, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Nepal, Oman, and all the countries of the Association of Southeast Asia, except Indonesia are involved.
Australia, Indonesia and South Korea did not participate following US claims of ‘concerns’ about a rival to Western-dominated multilateral lenders.
Japan, China's main rival in Asia, which dominates the Asian Development Bank along with the United States, did not attend but had not been expected to do so.
Indonesia refused to participate claiming it needs time to discuss China’s proposal.
The Australian Financial Review said US Secretary of State John Kerry had personally asked Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to “steer clear” from joining AIIB.
"Australia has been under pressure from the US for some time to not become a founding member of the bank and it is understood Mr. Kerry put the case directly to the prime minister when the pair met in Jakarta on Monday following the inauguration of Indonesian President Joko Widodo," the paper said.
South Korea, one of America’s closest allies in Asia, is alse prevaricating. Its finance ministry said it spoke with China to request more time to consider details such as the AIIB's governance and operational principles.
US officials have said they do not want to support an initiative Washington thinks is unlikely to promote good environmental, procurement and human rights standards in the way the World Bank and ADB are required to do.
But Chinese officials are convinced the American opposition is an attempt to contain the global rise of China and its ambition to remain the dominant power in Asia.
“You could think of this as a basketball game in which the US wants to set the duration of the game, the size of the court, the height of the basket and everything else to suit itself,” Wei Jianguo, a former Chinese commerce minister, told the Financial Times.
Matthew Goodman, scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC believes the initiatives of a BRICS Bank and AIIB “represent the first serious institutional challenge to the global economic order.”
Chinese Finance Minister Lou Jiwei said the AIIB will set high standards, safeguard policies and improve on bureaucratic, unrealistic and irrelevant policies, according to the Xinhua news agency.
niZAh- Mendaki jambatan tertinggi dan bangunan pencakar
langit adalah tugas-tugas bukan untuk mereka yang lemah semangat. Tetapi
pemberani Rusia ketagih mendaki bandar ekstrim telah melakukan hal itu, skala
kebanyakan permukaan tanpa peralatan keselamatan. Jiwa-jiwa yang berani juga
digodam billboard.
Gadungan 'Skywalker' Vitaly Raskalov telah berjaya memanjat bumbung
bangu-nan-bangunan di seluruh DUNIA, kadang-kadang tanpa kebenaran yang sah.
Hong Kong
Dalam lawatan terakhir mereka ke Hong Kong, Raskalov
& Co memutuskan untuk tidak hanya untuk mengambil gambar mengagumkan dari
bumbung bangunan pencakar langit di Hong Kong, tetapi juga untuk merakam video
dengan bantuan dari berdengung kecil.
Mereka juga berjaya mendaki 200 meter tinggi Pusat China Online dan
mening-galkan pesan di salah satu papan iklan nya, membaca: "Ada apa, Hong
Kong"
Climbing the tallest bridges and skyscrapers are
tasks not for the faint of heart. But Russian daredevils addicted to extreme
urban climbing have done just that, scaling most surfaces without safety
equipment. The brave souls also hacked a billboard.
Self-styled ‘skywalker’ Vitaly Raskalov has managed to climb the roofs of
many buildings across the globe, sometimes without proper authorization.
Hong Kong
During their last visit to Hong Kong, Raskalov and
Co decided not only to take awesome pictures from the roofs of Hong Kong's
skyscrapers, but also to shoot a video with the help of a small drone.
They also managed to climb the 200-meter tall
China Online Center and left a message on one of its billboards, reading:
“What’s up, Hong Kong?”
Russian President Vladimir Putin (RIA Novosti/Vitaly Belousov)
niZAh- Sekatan yang dikenakan ke atas Rusia oleh Amerika Syarikat dan Barat, di antara kesilapan kewangan yang lain, adalah kesalahan-kesalahan yg telah mence-tuskan DUNIA untuk de-mendolarisasikan. Presiden Rusia Putin menyi-fatkan ini sebagai seperti "mengurangkan cawangan, di mana mereka duduk."
Putin berkata bahawa sekatan mempunyai kesan negatif terhadap masyarakat seluruh global, dan benar-benar mendorong negara untuk mencari kedaulatan kewangan daripada status quo.
Presiden Putin berkata demikian pd mesyuarat tahunan ke-11 dari Valdai Antara-bangsa Perbincangan Kelab di Sochi, Rusia. Panel pantas ini disebut, "Perintah DUNIA: Peraturan Baru atau permainan tanpa Aturan"
"Dari segi politik sekatan bermotifkan telah dipergiatkan trend kedaulatan eko-nomi dan kewangan, keinginan negara-negara dan wilayah ingin mendapatkan diri mereka daripada tekanan di luar," katanya.
Politically-Motivated SANCTIONS See Shift
from Dollar - PUTIN . . .
The sanctions imposed on Russia by the US and the West, among other financial blunders, are mistakes that have triggered the world to de-dollarize. Russian President Putin describes this as like “cutting down the branches, upon which they are sitting.”
Putin said that sanctions have an overall negative effect on the entire global community, and actually motivate countries to seek financial sovereignty from the status quo.
President Putin was speaking at 11th annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club in Sochi, Russia. The panel was fittingly called, "The World Order: New Rules or a Game without Rules."
“Politically-motivated sanctions have intensified the trend of economic and financial sovereignty, the desire of countries and regions would like to secure themselves against outside pressure,” he said.
Pergantungan pada kuasa global tunggal akan berkurangan, dan mata wang rizab baru, seperti yuan dan ruble, sudah mulai muncul.
"Kini, semakin banyak negara sedang berusaha untuk beralih dpd pergantungan pd dolar dan mewujudkan alternatif mata wang rizab dan sistem penyelesaian," kata Presiden.
Mengekalkan keseimbangan global menjadi sukar apabila semua orang berhenti mengikuti peraturan2, kata Presiden, memetik preseden bailout Cyprus & "bermo-tifkan politik" sekatan terhadap Rusia atas tindakannya di Ukraine.
“Now, an increasing number of countries are attempting to move away from dollar dependence and to establish alternative reserve currencies and settlement systems,” the President said.
Maintaining global equilibrium becomes difficult when everyone stops playing by the rules, the President said, citing the precedent of the Cyprus bailout and the “politically-motivated” sanctions against Russia over its action in Ukraine.
“Now they risk losing confidence as the leaders of globalization. My question is- why would they do it? The prosperity of the US depends on its investors, those that own dollar debt,” he said.
“I think our American counterparts are sawing the branch they are sitting on,” Putin said,
Rusia Presiden Vladimir Putin (dariKiri) dan Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama (Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (L) and US President Barack Obama (Rusia Presiden Vladimir Putin (L) dan Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama (Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (L) and US President Barack Obama (AFP Photo/Eric Feferberg)
Putin memberi amaran tentang bahaya politik pencampuran dan ekonomi, terutama ketika negara-negara yang terjalin begitu dalam kewangan.
Barat dan Rusia telah semakin menjadi terbagi atas krisis di Ukraine, di mana Rusia menuduh kuasa-kuasa asing tersebut menggerakkan sentimen, dan Barat bertujuan untuk menghukum Rusia untuk menuntut kembali Crimea.
Sekatan Amerika Syarikat ‘US’ dan EU terhadap Rusia termasuk larangan ke atas pinjaman jangka panjang daripada pasaran modal Barat, dan yang menghalang pengimportan minyak peralatan teknologi tinggi dan teknologi, serta senjata ke Rusia.
Meskipun pertukaran diplomatik dingin pada tahun lepas, Rusia bersedia ‘ready’ untuk berdialog untuk memulihkan hubungan, kata Presiden.
Panel tahunan termasuk Presiden dan Perdana Menteri Rusia, yang bertemu dengan ahli-ahli kelab, kedua-dua pakar Rusia dan asing dalam hal ehwal antarabangsa.
Kelab ini telah dibuat pada bulan September 2004 untuk menggalakkan dialog antara elit intelektual Rusia dan antarabangsa, dan memenuhi setiap tahun di wilayah Rusia yang berbeza. Nama 'Valdai' berasal dari tasik di mana persidangan pertama telah diadakan di Veliky Novgorod.
Dalam dekad yang lalu, lebih 600 ahli dari 47 buah negara telah mengambil bahagian dalam perbincangan.
Putin warned of the danger of mixing politics and economics, especially when nations are so deeply financially intertwined.
The West and Russia have increasingly become divided over the crisis in Ukraine, in which Russia accuses foreign powers of stirring up sentiment, and the West seeks to punish Russia for reclaiming Crimea.
USand EU sanctions against Russia include bans on long-term loans from Western capital markets, and bars the import of high tech oil equipment and technology, as well as weaponry to Russia.
Despite the cold diplomatic exchanges in the past year, Russia is ready for dialogue to normalize relations, the President said.
The annual panel includes the President and Prime Minister of Russia, who meet with the club members, both Russian and foreign experts in international affairs.
The club was created in September 2004 to promote dialogue between the Russian and international intellectual elite, and meets each year in a different Russian region. The name ‘Valdai’ comes from the lake where the first conference was held in Veliky Novgorod.
In the last decade, over 600 experts from 47 countries have participated in the talks.
RUSIA di pintu GERBANG ? Jabatan Negara Amerika
Syarikat, jurucakap Pentagon DIPANGGANG di atas perluasan NATO . . .
Still from youtube channel (U.S. Department of State)
niZAh- Jurucakap Jabatan Negara Amerika Syarikat Jen Psaki dan Laksamana Pentagon Setiausaha Akhbar. John Kirby telah dicabar atas tuntutan Jabatan Per-tahanan bahawa Amerika Syarikat harus "deal" dengan angkatan tentera Rusia "mampu dan moden" yang paling dekat dengan NATO.
Menteri Pertahanan Rusia Sergey Shoigu menyatakan expressed"membimbang-kan" & "kejutan" pada Rabu membuat ucapan oleh Setiausaha Pertahanan Amerika Syarikat Chuck Hagel selama Persatuan persidangan tahunan Amerika Syarikat Tentera. Hagel menyatakan bahawa pasukan bersenjata "harus berurusan dgn revisionis Rusia - dengan tentera moden & handal yang dimiliki - Yang paling dekat dengan NATO"
Semasa taklimat Jabatan Negara pd hari Jumaat, bagaimanapun, seorang war-tawan AP mencadangkan bahawa ia akan menjadi lebih logik untuk mengatakan bahawa "NATO telah bergerak lebih dekat dengan sempadan Rusia."
"Adakah ia tidak logik untuk melihat ini & berkata - sebab mengapa tentera Rusia adalah yang paling dekat dengan NATO, adalah kerana NATO mengembang," kata wartawan Matt Lee.
"Itulah cara [Rusia] Presiden Putin mungkin melihat hal itu, itu pasti bukan cara kita melihatnya," kata Kirby dalam menanggapi hujah wartawan.
Walaupun dia akhirnya mengakui bahawa NATO tlh berkembang, Kirby menambah bahawa "NATO tidak merupakan pakatan anti-Rusia, ia merupakan satu ikatan keamanan."
RUSSIAN at the gates? US State Dept, Pentagon Spokespersons GRILLED Over NATO EXPANSION . . .
US State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki and Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby have been challenged over the Department of Defense's claims that the US must “deal” with “modern and capable” Russian armed forces on NATO's doorstep.
Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoiguexpressed“grave concern” and “surprise” at a Wednesday speech made by US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel during the Association of the United States Army’s annual conference. Hagel declared that US armed forces "must deal with a revisionist Russia - with its modern and capable army - on NATO's doorstep.”
During a State Department briefing on Friday, however, an AP journalist suggested that it would be more logical to say that “NATO has moved closer to Russia’s borders.”
“Is it not logical to look at this and say – the reason why Russia’s army is on NATO’s doorstep, is because NATO expands,” journalist Matt Lee said.
“That’s the way [Russian] President Putin probably looks at it, it’s certainly not the way that we look at it,” Kirby said in response to the journalist’s reasoning.
Though he eventually admitted that NATO has expanded, Kirby added that “NATO is not an anti-Russia alliance, it is a security alliance.”
"Ia bukan NATO yg memesan tan batalion taktikal & tentera ke Ukraine sempadan [itu]," kata Kirby, sebelum diingatkan bahawa Ukraine bukan sebahagian dari NATO.
Kirby kemudian menolak untuk bersetuju dengan fakta bahawa Rusia dimengerti boleh melihat perluasan NATO sebagai "ancaman", terutama mengingat bahwa perikatan wujud sebagai "anti-Soviet" untuk setengah abad.
"Saya tidak akan berpura-pura tahu apa yang berlaku dalam fikiran Presiden Putin atau komander tentera Rusia . . . Maksud saya, saya hampir tidak punya gelar sejarah di University of South Florida," Kirby bergurau, mengelakkan soalan.
Kirby memberi jaminan bahawa langkah NATO tidak "bermusuhan dan mengan-cam," tetapi lebih kepada soal keselamatan. Beliau menambah bahawa beliau "bim-bang tentang mereka [Rusia] bergerak di seluruh Ukraine." Psaki kemudian dipo-tong, berkata bahawa "negara2 lain merasa terancam," dan mendesak perbualan untuk meneruskan perjalanan.
Dari segi ancaman baru di sempadan NATO, Menteri Pertahanan Rusia Sergey Shoigu berkata pd hari Jumaat bahawa Amerika Syarikat yang telah "keras kepala menghampiri . . . lebih dekat dengan pintu."
Hubungan antara Rusia dan NATO telah tegang sejak perikatan menuduh Rusia terlibat dalam konflik Ukraine - tuntutan Rusia telah secara berterusan menafikan.
Berikutan kesertaan Crimea ke Rusia pd bulan Mac, Amerika Syarikat dan Eropah menghujani Moscow dengan sekatan. NATO juga ketara meningkatkan kehadiran tenteranya dekat sempadan Rusia, terutamanya di Poland & negara2 bekas Soviet Baltik dari Latvia, Lithuania dan Estonia, yg telah menyatakan keprihatinan atas potensi serangan Rusia ke wilayah mereka.
“It wasn’t NATO that was ordering tons of tactical battalions and army to [the] Ukraine border,” Kirby added, before being reminded that Ukraine is not part of NATO.
Kirby then refused to agree with the point that the Russians could understandably perceive NATO’s expansion as a “threat,” especially given that the alliance existed as “anti-Soviet” for half a century.
“I’m not going to pretend to know what goes in President Putin’s mind or Russian military commanders . . . I mean, I barely got a history degree at the University of South Florida,” Kirby joked, dodging the question.
Kirby assured that NATO's moves were not “hostile and threatening,” but rather a matter of security. He added that he was “worried about their [Russia’s] moves around Ukraine.” Psaki then cut in, saying that “other countries feel threatened,” and urged the conversation to move on.
In terms of new threats at NATO’s borders, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on Friday that it is the US which has been “stubbornly approaching . . . closer to our doors.”
Relations between Russia and NATO have been tense since the alliance accused Russia of becoming involved in the Ukrainian conflict – a claim Russia has conti-nuously denied.
Following Crimea's accession to Russia in March, the US and Europe bombarded Moscow with sanctions. NATO also significantly increased its military presence near Russia's borders, especially in Poland and the former Soviet Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, which have expressed concern at the potential for Russian incursions into their territories.
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BERATUS-ratus Ribu PERHIMPUNAN di ROM sebagai
PROTES atas Reformasi 'Anti-JOB' (FOTO) . . .
niZAh- Penunjuk perasaan dari seluruh Itali telah memadati jalan-raya di Rome untuk menyatakan kemarahan mereka pada pembaharuan pasaran buruh, salah satu blok bangunan utama kerajaan dasar Perdana Menteri Matteo Renzi ini.
Sehingga 1 juta orang membanjiri jalan-raya di ibu negara Itali, penganjur perhim-punan tersebut. Sehingga 300,000 lebih peserta yang ditetapkan untuk tiba di Roma sepanjang hari untuk mengambil bahagian dalam protes, termasuk bot dan 2 pesawat sewa khas dari Sardinia.
CGIL, kesatuan buruh terbesar Italia, menganjurkan perarakan dan perhimpunan di Piazza St Giovanni, dgn banyak penunjuk perasaan membawa belon merah dan melambaikan sepanduk kesatuan merah.
HUNDREDS Of thousands Rally in ROME in protest Over ‘Anti-JOB’ Reforms (PHOTOS) . . .
Protesters from all over Italy have packed the streets of Rome to express their anger at labor market reforms, one of the main building blocks of the government of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s policy.
Up to 1 million people flooded the streets of the Italian capital, the organizers of the rally said. Up to 300,000 more participants were set to arrive in Rome throughout the day to take part in the protests, including a boat and two chartered planes from Sardinia.
CGIL, Italy’s biggest labor union, organized the march and rally in Piazza St. Giovanni, with many protesters carrying red balloons and waving red union banners.
Orang-orang berdiri di San Giovanni persegi semasa demonstrasi yang dianjurkan oleh Umum Konfederasi Buruh Itali (CGIL) kesatuan pada 25 Oktober 2014 di tengah-tengah Rom (People stand in San Giovanni square during a demonstration organised by Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL) union on October 25, 2014 in central Rome (AFP Photo/Filippo Monteforte)
Mata Renzi mengubah aturan perlindungan pekerja. Pd bulan September rancan-gan itu memperoleh dukungan dari partinya. Pengkritik berkata pindaan akan mengakibatkan syarikat tidak mengambil pekerja yg mencukupi dan mewujudkan risiko kelemahan ekonomi kronik.
"Kami mahu bekerja utk semua orang, dan bekerja dgn hak. Ini adalah demonstrasi untuk mereka yang tidak bekerja, tanpa hak, mereka yang menderita, yang tidak mempunyai kepastian untuk masa depan," Susanna Camusso, ketua CGIL, menan-gani penunjuk perasaan.
"Jika Renzi dan kerajaannya mempunyai antena yg mereka sampai, kerana mereka biasanya lakukan, mereka akan menerima isyarat yang sangat kuat pada hari ini dan ini adalah bahawa majoriti orang-orang yang bekerja dan yang ingin bekerja di negara ini tidak bersetuju dengan politik mereka," FIOM kesatuan Setiausaha Agung Maurizio Landini kepada TV Reuters.
"Jika dia benar-benar mahu mengubah negara ini dia perlu melakukannya dengan orang-orang ini, bukan terhadap kami," katanya.
Renzi eyes changing employee protection rules. In September the plan won backing from his party. Critics say the amendments would result in companies not hiring enough staff and creating the risks of chronic economic weakness.
"We want work for everyone, and work with rights. This is a demonstration for those without work, without rights, those who suffer, who have no certainties for the future," Susanna Camusso, head of the CGIL, addressed the protesters.
"If Renzi and his government have their antennas up, as they usually do, they will receive a very strong signal today which is that the majority of the people who work and who want to work in this country do not agree with their politics," Fiom union Secretary-General Maurizio Landini told Reuters TV.
"If he really wants to change this country he needs to do it with these people, not against us," he added.
Seorang wanita memegang sepanduk membaca "Renzi-Monti-Berlusconi = kemelesetan" semasa demonstrasi yang dianjurkan oleh Itali Umum Konfederasi Buruh (CGIL) kesatuan pada 25 Oktober 2014 di tengah-tengah Rom (A woman holds a banner reading "Renzi-Monti-Berlusconi = recession" during a demonstration organised by Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL) union on October 25, 2014 in central Rome (AFP Photo/Filippo Monteforte)
Juga memicu kemarahan orang ramai adalah dasar penjimatan: meningkatkan pemotongan perbelanjaan awam untuk mengatasi sekatan bajet EU.
Kadar pekerjaan sekarang Itali adalah salah satu yang terendah di Kesatuan Eropah, berada pada 55.7 % peratus pada Ogos, dengan pengangguran dalam kalangan belia di 44.2 % peratus.
Demonstrasi semasa mengikuti udara dan pengangkutan darat mogok 24 jam. Lebih banyak gangguan yg ditetapkan berlaku pd 14 November, apabila Alitalia & EasyJet kakitangan akan mengadakan berjalan kaki keluar, menurut satu kenya-taan yang diterbitkan di laman web Kementerian Pengangkutan Itali.
Kesatuan-kesatuan pekerja merancang untuk mengadakan demonstrasi lain pada 8 November.
Also fueling the public’s outrage is the austerity policies: increasing public spending cuts to cope with the EU budget restrictions.
Italy’s current employment rate is one of the lowest in the EU, standing at 55.7 percent in August, with joblessness among the youth at 44.2 percent.
The current demonstration follows a 24-hour air and ground transport strike. More disruptions are set to happen on November 14, when Alitalia and Easyjet staff will stage a walk-out, according to a statement published on the Italian Transport Ministry’s website.
The unions plan to hold another demonstration on November 8.
Pekerja Umum Gabungan kesatuan Buruh Itali (CGIL) berkumpul untuk perhimpunan di pusat Rom San Giovanni Square pada 25 Oktober 2014 sebagai sebahagian daripada demonstrasi di seluruh negara yang dipanggil untuk membantah rancangan Perdana Menteri Matteo Renzi untuk merombak pasaran buruh (Italian General Confederation of Labour union (CGIL) workers gather for a rally in central Rome's San Giovanni Square on October 25, 2014 as part of a nationwide demonstration called to protest Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's plans to overhaul the labour market (AFP Photo/Filippo Monteforte)
Petani pendatang mengadakan bacaan banner "dari bidang" dalam demonstrasi yang dianjurkan oleh Umum Konfederasi Buruh Itali (CGIL) kesatuan pada 25 Oktober 2014 di tengah-tengah Rom (Immigrant farmers hold a banner reading "away from the field" during a demonstration organised by Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL) union on October 25, 2014 in central Rome (AFP Photo/Filippo Monteforte)
