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 Anton Borisov posted this on  Friday, 7th of October 2011 at 03:53:25 AM PORTLAND — Occupy Wall Street demonstrations were held in Oregon and throughout the nation Thursday, including a heavily attended peaceful march and rally in downtown Portland.
Late Thursday, Portland Police suspended a ban on overnight camping in two city parks, saying protesters could camp the night at Lownsdale and Chapman Square in Southwest Portland as long as park rules were followed. The Portland Marathon holds a permit to start setting up for the run Sunday starting at 9 a.m.
A crowd estimated by Portland Police of between 5,000 and 6,000 eventually massed over the course of Thursday afternoon. Protesters started massing just after noon at Waterfront Park beneath the Burnside Bridge. At around 2:30 p.m., thousands walked city streets to Pioneer Courthouse Square, which they occupied for about an hour before marching through city streets to two city parks.
“The corporations have taken our futures away from us and we’re just not going to stand by and let that happen,” one protester told KGW.
“We are not the problem,” another man said. “The problems are the bankers on Wall Street that destroyed this economy.”
Полностью.
Причины — экономические. И — межпартийные. То есть, и не демократы, и не республиканцы.
Все вместе.
Вообще-то, — удивительно, до последнего времени Портланд считался одним из самых “демократических” городов.
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Anton Borisov posted this on Sunday, 2nd of October 2011 at 11:04:28 PM По ссылке от ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) kouzdra нашел список, который оказался неполным.
У нас в городе тоже есть зона, на которой проезд бесплатный. Это, практически весь центр города. То самое, что у нас здесь называется Downtown
А начинается зона от того самого Lloyd Center
Обидно! Почему про нас забыли?
Anton Borisov posted this on Thursday, 25th of August 2011 at 02:42:25 AM Такая вот новость “потрясла” мир High Tech.
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, who almost single-handedly changed the way people around the world consume music, the Internet and even TV, announced late Wednesday that he has resigned as leader of the company he co-founded in his parents’ garage.
Jobs, who has suffered from pancreatic cancer and had a liver transplant in 2009, has looked increasingly frail in his cultlike appearances in front of Apple fans to introduce new products, but he did not explicitly indicate in a letter to the company’s board and its customers whether his health was failing.
“I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know,” wrote Jobs, who has been on a health leave of absence since January. “Unfortunately, that day has come.”
Although not entirely unexpected given the grave nature of his previous illnesses — he had surgery for a rare form of pancreatic cancer in 2004 — Jobs’s resignation ends one of the most extraordinary runs in business history. This month, Apple briefly became the most valuable company in the world, surpassing oil giant Exxon Mobil.
Jobs has been replaced by Tim Cook, his longtime No. 2 and the company’s chief operating officer. Cook has run Apple’s day-to-day operations during Jobs’s health-related absences. Jobs will be chairman of the board.
Полностью.
Может пора подумать и купить чего-нибудь из “надкушенного яблока”, а?
По ссылке от Нины.
Anton Borisov posted this on Monday, 8th of August 2011 at 04:37:48 PM Но, не так быстро, как ожидалось.
Несмотря на это общее спокойствие на валютных рынках, в развивающихся странах сдержать падение местных валют не удалось. В России средневзвешенный курс евро на ММВБ к середине сессии поднялся сразу на 91 копейку и зафиксировался в районе 40,94 рубля, причем утром курс европейской валюты превышал отметку 41 рубль. Таким образом, евро в России установил максимум 2011 года.
Продажи рубля в паре с долларом были скромнее: средневзвешенный курс американской валюты поднялся лишь на 21 копейку. Тем не менее, инвесторы ясно показали, что снижение рейтинга еще не означает, что рубль вдруг стал надежнее доллара. А значит, в условиях нестабильности на рынке по-прежнему лучше инвестировать в доллар, чем в рубль. Стоимость которого, тем более, напрямую связана со стоимостью нефти.
Полностью
Anton Borisov posted this on Sunday, 31st of July 2011 at 09:55:35 PM Найдено в комментариях, там же, у ninazino
3) Obama doesn’t know if there is money to send off Social Security checks on August 3. The president knows very well how much revenue will be available to send out checks on August 3. Indeed, enough money will be available to not only pay the interest, but to also cover all Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and children’s health insurance, defense, federal law enforcement and immigration, all veterans benefits, Response to natural disasters. Terrifying elderly people who are dependent on their Social Security checks may make good politics, but it is unconscionable. Yet, these scare tactics aren’t really very surprising. The Democrats behaved no differently when they ran television ads bizarrely depicting Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) as pushing an old lady in a wheel chair off a cliff.
Полностью.
Anton Borisov posted this on Sunday, 31st of July 2011 at 09:30:46 PM Нет, не угадали.
Не про Медведева.
Про Обаму.
And so his failures in the debt ceiling fight. He wasn’t serious, he was only shrewd—and shrewdness wasn’t enough. He demagogued the issue—no Social Security checks—until he was called out, and then went on the hustings spouting inanities. He left conservatives scratching their heads: They could have made a better, more moving case for the liberal ideal as translated into the modern moment, than he did. He never offered a plan. In a crisis he was merely sly. And no one likes sly, no one respects it.
So he is losing a battle in which he had superior forces—the presidency, the U.S. Senate. In the process he revealed that his foes have given him too much mystique. He is not a devil, an alien, a socialist. He is a loser. And this is America, where nobody loves a loser.
Полностью.
По ссылке от ninazino
Anton Borisov posted this on Sunday, 31st of July 2011 at 08:34:03 PM И, кого?..
Говорят, кризис разрешился.
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Anton Borisov posted this on Saturday, 9th of July 2011 at 01:31:40 AM Очень оптимистичный вывод, особенно на фоне того, что я сейчас собираюсь процитировать.
Главный итог сезона в том, что в России окончательно сформировался сверхкоррумпированный псевдогосударственный капитализм, превратившийся, по сути, в механизм обогащения высокопоставленных чиновников и их друзей, управляемый непубличными, но очень влиятельными кланами, без одобрения которых ни одно серьезное экономическое или политическое решение не может быть принято или реализовано. В недрах этих кланов сосредоточилась вся административная, финансовая и законодательная власть, а также юридические механизмы, что позволяет формировать нужный им правовой режим. Там принимаются главные кадровые решения. Возвращается практика 90-х гг., когда законы подгоняются под чьи-то конкретные обстоятельства и нужды. С одной стороны, общественная жизнь деградирует, с другой — сложилось своеобразное параллельное, теневое, но по-своему эффективное псевдогосударство. Процессы принятия государственных решений почти полностью монополизированы людьми, никем на это не уполномоченными. Мощный административный ресурс государства поставлен на службу коррупции и личного обогащения. Вместо системной власти в ходу остается ручной режим, т. е. субъективный экспромт. Чиновники без стеснения занимаются лоббированием частных проектов, прямо противоречащих национальным интересам, а кланы откровенно делят между собой страну и уже не стесняются проявляться в публичном поле.
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Anton Borisov posted this on Sunday, 19th of June 2011 at 12:54:18 AM Точнее, об американском долге.
…U.S. lawmakers are wrangling over spending cuts and budget reforms as they seek an agreement to increase the $14.3 trillion debt limit before Aug. 2, the date on which the Treasury Department said it will have exhausted its borrowing authority.
The U.S. debt issue is becoming “horrendously dangerous,” said Greenspan, who added he doubts lawmakers have another year or two to solve it.
After leaving the Fed, the former chairman founded the consulting firm Greenspan Associates and became a consultant or adviser to Deutsche Bank AG, Pacific Investment Management Co. and Paulson & Co., a hedge-fund firm that profited from the collapse of the U.S. subprime-mortgage market.
Greenspan, appointed Fed chairman by Republican President Ronald Reagan, was once described as “the greatest central banker who ever lived” by economist Alan Blinder, the central bank’s former vice chairman.
Это я нашел у Кирилла.
Тот самый Алан Гринспен (Alan Greenspan).
И об американском долге у neznaika-nalune
Anton Borisov posted this on Saturday, 28th of May 2011 at 10:14:14 PM Хорошая статья, из Newsweek.
This goes to the heart of the matter. In 1971, when Kissinger first went to China, the U.S. economy was roughly five times that of the People’s Republic. Forty years later, as a result of the industrial revolution unleashed by Mao’s successor Deng Xiao-ping, it is conceivable that China could overtake America within a decade. This is a feat the Soviet Union never came close to achieving. Moreover, China is now the biggest foreign holder of U.S. Treasury notes, which form an important part of its vast $3 trillion of international reserves. How China will use its newfound economic power may be the most important question of our time. Few Americans are better placed to answer that question than Kissinger, who has dealt with four generations of Chinese leaders.
Полностью.
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