Korean trade show model Lee Ji Min promoting Sony cameras at Seoul International Photo & Imaging Industry Exhibition in April 2015.
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Sunday, June 21, 2015
Saturday, June 20, 2015
IMF and EU to blame for Greek crisis
The idiotic European Union
What a wonderful, pie-in-the-sky ideal, Europe coming together speaking with one voice. One Land, One People, One Leader. Hang on, we've heard that before...where did that come from? Ah Germany! Right...über Alles, eh what? And what did it bring? Well, the same as previous failed attempts. Ask Hitler, ask Napoleon, ask Charlemagne, ask the Romans. The same attempt to stitch together economies which took thousands of years to develop, based on the foundations of their own peculiarities, impose on them ludicrous constraints which may make sense in Germany (as indeed does eating pickled cabbage) and the same disaster when things that work in Germany do not work in Greece. And why should they?
Add to this the idiotic venture to stitch together twenty-eight nations in a few decades, when the project should have taken well over a century to implement, if not more, and add to this the creation of a Eurozone within the European Union with clear opt-in rules but no idea of how to conduct an opt-out and we have a clear idea of what the EU project is.
It is a project based upon Deutschland über Alles, a Jerry version of "Germany Rules the Waves", creating markets for German goods, catering for German jobs and wealth in Germany at the expense of fishing fleets, farms, factories and employment elsewhere.
Nobody has any clear idea of how a country can disentangle itself from the spider's web of the Eurozone, nobody has any clear idea of how a country can change its currency from Euro back to a New Drachma or whatever, or conduct a dollarization, or allow different currencies to circulate. How stupid and shortsighted is that?
Common sense says that if you implement a plan, you write in the conditions for the plan's dissolution. Common sense also says that if usury has been slammed as unethical and immoral since Biblical times, then you do not practice it and impose it on a people.
For those who claim that Greece's payback on its loan is not that high, I have one word: Bullshit! The interest payment on the loan is currently costing Greece 2.6 per cent of its Gross Domestic Product. So how is the country supposed to grow with this stone around its neck?
Let us not blame the Greek people
So if we are going to blame anyone, let us not blame the Greek people for the mountain of 317 billion Euros of debt they are landed with. The Greek people? Yes, you know, the ones among whom only some 15 per cent of the unemployed receive any subsidy. The Greek people, whose youth unemployment rate stands at over fifty per cent, whose general unemployment rate is a staggering 26 per cent of the workforce.
And what was the wonderful and enlightened answer from the wonderful and enlightened European Union that caused this situation in the first place? Why more austerity, of course. As if poisoning the roots, pruning back the stem to one millimeter above the ground and stamping on it, then depriving it of water and refusing to feed it, is going to help the plant to grow. Only in the wonderful and enlightened European Union.
So let us not blame the Greek people, let us blame the system which led Greece into the European Union, the politicians from the PASOK and New Democracy Parties which have ruled Greece since the Dictatorship of the Colonels was overthrown in 1974, let us blame the European Union, whose constraints have left Greece with no room to maneuver, and let us blame those who lent Greece money with horrific tails attached (financial and political usury).
It was German bank loans over time (using Germany's huge trade surplus), credit default swaps sold to Greece by Goldman Sachs allowing the Government to hide its deficit, and NATO's nonchalance in selling military equipment at inflated prices which created the imbalance and poisoned the foundations. It was the global capitalist crisis from 2007 which constituted the tsunami and the Eurozone straightjacket depriving Greece of a lifejacket that put the people of Greece in the hole they are in today. It was not the Greek people.
Conclusion
The best way out for Greece would be for its creditors to allow Greece to sort out its problems on its own terms - Greek solutions for Greek people - allowing the country and its people space and not prying into its internal affairs inflicting misery on the people, who as we have seen are not to blame any more than today's Germans can be held responsible for what the Nazis did seventy-odd years ago.
Is that going to happen? Hell no. Everyone seems to have forgiven the Germans. As for the Greeks...
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Pravda.Ru
(timothy.hinchey@gmail.com)
*Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey has worked as a correspondent, journalist, deputy editor, editor, chief editor, director, project manager, executive director, partner and owner of printed and online daily, weekly, monthly and yearly publications, TV stations and media groups printed, aired and distributed in Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Portugal, Mozambique and São Tomé and Principe Isles; the Russian Foreign Ministry publication Dialog and the Cuban Foreign Ministry Official Publications. He has spent the last two decades in humanitarian projects, connecting communities, working to document and catalog disappearing languages, cultures, traditions, working to network with the LGBT communities helping to set up shelters for abused or frightened victims and as Media Partner with UN Women, working to foster the UN Women project to fight against gender violence and to strive for an end to sexism, racism and homophobia. He is also a Media Partner of Humane Society International, fighting for animal rights.
Source : english[dot]pravda[dot]ru
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Planet Earth 2015: The role of the Media and responsible reporting
Not everyone has equal rights to education. Guess which gender is the victim of unequal access to education? The same that is over two times more likely to be sexually abused or burnt as a senior citizen, one third of whose members will experience some form of abuse or violence in their lifetime, the same one that has to fight every day just for equal rights.
Sex is coming
Sex is coming. I apologize for boring everyone with yet another serious news piece, this time about the empowerment of women and the right of girls to an equal education. By now I would have lost the attention of over 98 per cent of readers, who would have zapped onto an advertisement for a bikini-clad maiden, clicked on a pic of a fast car or scrolled down to the lower sections hoping to find a snap of a topless model.
I mean let's have a quick look through the dailies, shall we? Sky News is talking about a dog's poo glowing orange, in the printed press there are multiple stories about a new phenomenon, the "competitive eater", namely someone who consumes vast amounts of food within a few minutes, racing against a clock gobbling down a five-food-long sandwich before puking publicly in a bucket, while 700 million people are starving to death. One or two serious publications highlight issues such as child abuse (commendably) and true, there are stories about climate change, the water crisis in California but then the most read are the ones about a new (revolting-looking) pizza, some girl called Esther Dolezal and the hit counters don't lie.
That's why I started the first paragraph with the words "sex is coming". What a caddish, unorthodox way of getting the readers to stay on course and read about something serious: equal rights to education and responsible reporting and now that you've started you may as well finish.
While we congratulate ourselves
So as we pat ourselves on the back and congratulate ourselves on having overcome many of the world's main diseases (for the time being), on having very few children down coal mines, on getting the vote for the woman, even though many still say "I will ask my husband to see who we are voting for", let us ask ourselves whether everything is really so rosy.
How can it be when girls, in the year 2015, continue to have unequal access to education, the fundamental building blocks of the future career, the foundations which define to a great extent who a person is to become and where a person is to go? So let us congratulate ourselves on the statistic that in one third of countries access for girls to elementary education is unequal when compared with access for boys, let us congratulate ourselves on the fact that the statistic is worse (nearly half the countries) when we speak about lower secondary education.
In recent years, there have been attacks against schools for advocating girls' education. Where? Why in Afghanistan, of course. Probably Pakistan as well. Maybe Yemen? According to the UNO, these attacks have been perpetrated in at least seventy countries, seven zero. The violence was not the result of the girls being instructed, it was the result of fear of social change once the girls become educated women.
And what does that mean? The latest report drawn up by experts in the UNO and working with the organization, Statistics on Women, states clearly that the well-being and education of a country's female population is the best indicator of its prospects for peace and development. I repeat, the well-being and education of a country's female population is the best indicator of its prospects for peace and development.
In conclusion, we have nothing to congratulate ourselves on. Any progress we make is ephemeral because the lobbies have decided that the money has to be controlled by mega-corporations which are engaged in the area of banking, weaponry, pharmaceutical products catering for public health calamities, once they have taken hold of course (watch MERS-CoV), and claiming the world's energy resources as their own before selling them to us at inflated prices. They may as well start selling air.
And who is to blame for this? The guy whose first act of the day on leaving home is to walk to the newspaper kiosk, grab a tabloid, open it at page three and say "Cor! Look at those!" on seeing a half-clad student who bore her breasts to help pay for her studies, or the "newspaper" that carries such nonsense? Forgive me, dear reader, for speaking about serious issues.
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Pravda.Ru
(timothy.hinchey@gmail.com)
*Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey has worked as a correspondent, journalist, deputy editor, editor, chief editor, director, project manager, executive director, partner and owner of printed and online daily, weekly, monthly and yearly publications, TV stations and media groups printed, aired and distributed in Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Portugal, Mozambique and São Tomé and Principe Isles; the Russian Foreign Ministry publication Dialog and the Cuban Foreign Ministry Official Publications. He has spent the last two decades in humanitarian projects, connecting communities, working to document and catalog disappearing languages, cultures, traditions, working to network with the LGBT communities helping to set up shelters for abused or frightened victims and as Media Partner with UN Women, working to foster the UN Women project to fight against gender violence and to strive for an end to sexism, racism and homophobia. He is also a Media Partner of Humane Society International, fighting for animal rights.
Source : english[dot]pravda[dot]ru
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Song Ju Ah Studio Photoshoot
Model Song Ju Ah (송주아) looks beautiful, sexy and fit in a studio photoshoot.
Source : koreangirlshd[dot]com
Sunday, June 14, 2015
Ebola is not beaten, it is coming back
After the massive international response last year kicked in against Ebola, bringing a tide of new cases down to a trickle, a year and a half since the outbreak was reported, the last two successive weeks have sharp shown rises in new cases, with unknown causes. The conclusion is that Ebola Virus Disease is not beaten. It is coming back.
Rule number one is that when a story breaks in the media, it has a two-week climax between the wow! and ah! Factors. The wow! factor is accompanied by drum beats at peak viewing time with "Breaking News" flashing all over the screen, the newscasters looking stern and serious, their eyes wide open, staring in panic at camera number three, speaking breathlessly, raising the heartbeat of the viewers who will be less inclined to zap over to a crime show or the latest episode of The Simpsons. The ah! factor is when "our boys go in" risking their lives to help, when the camera picks up a child, when the visiting politician spots the camera and child and makes a dash to raise it up just as the transmission goes live, asking "Let's go and find Mommy, shall we?"
On-camera and off-camera
What the camera does not pick up is the two-second period later when the same do-gooder asks why the light has gone off the camera, whether the audience saw that shot with the child and when the child is unceremoniously dumped, off-camera, and not looked at again.
With high impact stories like Ebola Virus Disease with its links to bats, the coolest of creatures in societies suddenly obsessed with Dracula and Zombies, and the much-vaunted horrific symptoms of sudden hemorrhage, bleeding from the eyes or skin or vomiting of copious quantities of blood (in a few cases only), the likelihood of the media circus hanging around for a while after the two-week climax is higher, with sporadic snippets of information coming out as the world moves on to soccer, air crashes, soccer, train crashes, soccer, people being beheaded by Islamic State, soccer, soccer and soccer, just before the silly season when stories of funny animals in forests proliferate, before and after post-mortems of last soccer season and forecasts of next.
The question is, when used properly, the media do have an important role to play. I am not speaking about misquoting an interviewee so that when s/he reads the newspaper the morning after the interview, s/he swears never to speak to a journalist again because the opposite of what s/he said is what is printed. Few journalists these days (apart from myself and a handful of others) send the piece back to the interviewee to check and make any additions before publishing. I am also not speaking about prying into the private lives of others and splashing their sexual desires and preferences all over the front pages of the tabloids. Few journalists these days, unfortunately, refuse to use "material" sent to them about what famous singers get up to in hotels before or after concerts. Neither am I speaking about fabrications and lies, half-truths and misinformation, manipulation of photographs, purposefully placed to shape public opinion and this goes deeper than page three of your newspaper. For instance, watch British detective series these days and the villain will always and without exception be a Russian.
Proper use of the media
When properly used, the media will inform the audience about what is happening, be it a Fascist Putsch in Ukraine ousting the democratically elected President and replacing him with a motley bunch of misfits on the fringes of society who boast about links to terrorist groups and who start to perform massacres and curtail the rights of Russian-speaking Ukrainians, be it who and what is really behind Islamic State and why the West sat back and used this group against President Assad, be it what was really behind the attacks against Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya and so on.
And when properly used, the media will bring public attention to places such as West Africa fighting a serious public health calamity such as Ebola Virus Disease, focusing attention on the plight of the victims so that hopefully, public awareness and fund-raising campaigns can get under way for the agencies, NGOs and volunteer organizations to help - and this was indeed the case after the circus came to town last year.
But now it has moved on, the rainy season has started, hampering field activities and the reports of new cases of Ebola Virus Disease have started to increase - the last two weeks showing rises in cases. Worse, the new cases are from previously unaffected areas and the causes of transmission are unknown.
The World Health Organization has stated that the new situation highlights the challenges involved, since the latest report of new cases was the highest in several weeks, because "the outbreak is not over and the response efforts must be sustained until we get to zero cases throughout the region and are able to stay at zero for several months". The reality is different. The latest update indicates 31 new cases in the week ending June 7 (16 in Guinea, 15 in Sierra Leone).
Ebola Virus Disease to date has caused 11,173 deaths among 27,273 cases (Sierra Leone 12,901 cases 3,915 deaths; Liberia 10,666 cases 4,806 deaths; Republic of Guinea 3,670 cases 2,437 deaths; Nigeria 20-8; Mali 8-6; USA 4-1; UK, Spain, Senegal, Italy 1-0 each).
Let us not forget, zero cases for several months. Until then, the battle is far from over. I am sorry to say it but the notion arises that only if such a disease took hold in a European or North American capital would there be a serious and sustained response, otherwise the politicians would not get elected and the lobbies they represent would lose power. And money. A fitting epitaph to Humankind 2015.
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Pravda.Ru
*Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey has worked as a correspondent, journalist, deputy editor, editor, chief editor, director, project manager, executive director, partner and owner of printed and online daily, weekly, monthly and yearly publications, TV stations and media groups printed, aired and distributed in Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Portugal, Mozambique and São Tomé and Principe Isles; the Russian Foreign Ministry publication Dialog and the Cuban Foreign Ministry Official Publications. He has spent the last two decades in humanitarian projects, connecting communities, working to document and catalog disappearing languages, cultures, traditions, working to network with the LGBT communities helping to set up shelters for abused or frightened victims and as Media Partner with UN Women, working to foster the UN Women project to fight against gender violence and to strive for an end to sexism, racism and homophobia. He is also a Media Partner of Humane Society International, fighting for animal rights.
Source : english[dot]pravda[dot]ru
(Future) App of the Week: Infant SOS
This amazing app aims to save the lives of babies across the world.
It’s hard to imagine, but accidentally leaving your child in a car seat is incredibly common. In fact, according to Kidsafe, during the period from August 2013 to September 2014, paramedics rescued 1165 children that had been left unattended in cars in the state of Victoria alone.
And in a country like Australia, that regularly sees very high temperatures; the consequences of doing so can often be fatal.
While in some cases, parents aren’t aware of the dangers of popping to the shops while leaving their kids in the car, in many of the cases; parents have simply forgotten that their child is still in the car. This phenomenon has been dubbed ‘fatal distraction’.
So what can we do to prevent such horrible mistakes?
A group of mechanical engineering students from Rice University in the US may just have the answer.
They’ve come up with a technology driven solution called Infant SOS that combines a mobile app with sensors that has the potential to save many lives.
The Infant SOS system been designed to that can be retrofitted to any child car seat. The device sounds an alarm after 30 seconds if the sensors in the child’s car seat detect that the child has been left unattended. Plus, the Infant SOS system is linked to a mobile app that sends up to 10 text messages to parents or carers alerting them to the fact that their child has been left alone in the car.
And if that’s not enough, the students have gone one step further, by incorporating a cooling pad that is automatically triggered to switch on in the case of such an emergency.
So far the Infant S.O.S. system is still in the development and prototyping phase, but hopefully the system gets onto the market soon.
Is this possibly the most helpful and useful app ever invented?
Source : nickjrparents[dot]com[dot]au
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Obama: Hypocrite of the Year!
By Xavier Lerma
The US continues to be a joke to the world as Obama threatens President Putin and Russia with sanctions. The USA channel is better than any comedy channel I've ever seen. The Clown from out of town and his minions are threatening Russia, a country Hitler and Napoleon couldn't destroy. As I've said before, the US eagle can poop everywhere but the Bear can still do whatever it wants. This reality show would be even funnier were it not for the dead Obama is guilty of.
Obama, at the G7 Summit Monday said about Putin, "continues to wreck his country's economy and continues Russia's isolation in pursuit of a wrong-headed desire to recreate glories of the Soviet empire, or he recognizes that Russia's greatness does not depend on violating the territorial integrity and sovereignty of other countries." Obama knows he's at fault. He even knows about the thousands who rallied for Poroshenko's government to resign. He knows about the many protests at the US embassy in Kiev. Look cool in front of everyone and kill millions. That's his game.
Obama has blamed Russia for the invasion of Ukraine which the US has overthrown and invaded. Obama admitted the US "Brokered" a coup in Ukraine. The "uh" video was not enough even with US troops in Yavoriv, Ukraine. Kiev's General Viktor Muzhenko's statement that there are no Russian troops in Ukraine was not made public in the west. Regarding the fighting in Ukraine, Americans are not aware of the fact that Russian troops have never been and do not exist there. The OSCE confirms it but the sanctions continue against Russia even though they are trying to bring peace in the Ukraine crisis. In the tradition of Cato, the war rhetoric continues, "Russia must be destroyed!" The US government beats their war drums louder than before.
Everyone knows the US has the reputation of overthrowing governments for business reasons. Their media shrouds their people in dark ignorance. Past wars are burnt ashes but new ones exhibit flames burning higher and brighter so the evil is obvious to almost everyone in the world except most Americans. Obama's confession still does not change the course of US policy. Like throwing wood onto a bonfire, Obama throws billions into the US war machine. Burning bodies like a sacrificial satanic rite. Obama destroys his own country and the world.
Novorossiya is still fighting a terrible war with Kiev,USA. Obama recently signed a bill to give $350 million to Kiev to kill civilians in SE Ukraine. Fortunately, Crimea is safe from the war Kiev,USA wanted to bring her. The Four Horsemen will not visit Crimea like it has Donetsk or Lughansk. Crimea recognized the evil from the West and will not kowtow to the puppet government in Kiev which has caused chaos and ruin. Crimea's parliament voted in favor of joining Russia and lives in peace.
Oleg Tsarov, who was the People's Deputy of Ukraine, talked about US preparations for civil war in Ukraine, November 2013 in Kiev parliament. "American instructors presented examples of successful use of social networks used to organize protests in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya. Recent conference took place Nov 14-15, 2013, in the heart of Kiev in the Embassy of the United States of America!" Thousands of deaths could have been avoided if people had listened to Oleg. He could not fight the tide of billions of dollars from Obama and the US Congress. Oleg was beaten by a mob when he was running for president but fortunately survived. His face was badly beaten as shown here. The Nazis in Kiev had their way while Poroshenko sent men to their deaths. What a waste into a whirlpool of misery.
Why has America changed from being a wholesome and decent society to Sodom and Gomorrah? America is covered in blood to the top of their heads. Do you see the blood? Look again America. It cries to Heaven for vengeance! "Cry 'Havoc!,' and let slip the dogs of war". The Bush's, Clintons and Obama. They push for their masters New World Order and they do it well. Each successor to the presidency creates more havoc than the previous. They establish an enemy in public view then attack civilians like Hitler did. They even use Muslims like the British used Native Americans to attack colonists. Americans may have not killed them directly but they voted for those who perpetuate wars and there is a responsibility upon them.
A brave Texan, Russell Bonner Bentley, fights in Ukraine with Novorossiya. "What if a foreign government took over your government, put a puppet in power and said that the people in one part of the country that didn't want to be under the control of a foreign government and they unleashed the entire power of a national military against the CIVILIANS. Every one of these houses, every one of these houses that have been destroyed - the bombs came straight from the United States. The orders came straight from the United States. The guys who pulled the trigger on these bombs get paid by American tax dollars. US government doesn't have money to fix their own roads, their own schools but they got money to destroy the roads and schools and homes and churches and families here in Ukraine. It's just random attacks. Just random. They just shoot where the people are. They shoot at the people here. We're here, we're defending them. We're defending this land for these people. But the Ukrainians, the fascists, they would be here if not for the defense forces of Donbass. I am proud to have fought here. It's just random acts of terrorism. Random acts of terrorism against the civilians, against the people here. I came here to fight these Nazis that do this to end this war. You don't have to join the army, but you need to help. Because this is the responsibility. This is the work of the American government. And the people of a country bear the responsibility for the crimes of their government. So, we need to do something about this. I'm doing my part you need to do yours." Have you seen his video?
Xavier Lerma
Contact Xavier Lerma at xlermanov@swissmail.org
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App of the Week: Talk Different
They say a picture speaks a thousand words – this app proves it!
Imagine a world where anyone could communicate with anyone – no language barriers, no barriers for disability, and no barriers for kids. This ‘world’ has just been created in an innovative and incredibly simple new app! Originally designed by an inspired Mum for her autistic daughter, this app is opening up communication across the world
What’s it About: Talk Different is one of the most simple and yet one of the most innovative apps we’ve ever seen. The app transforms the idea of communication, by using images instead of words to allow communication between all people at any time – from young kids, to those with communication disabilities to people who don’t speak the same language, to even those who struggle to express themselves in words.
The app allows the user to select individual images to create “picture phrases” – the equivalent of sentences.
The Good Bits: By using pictures instead of words, this app allows communication to flow freely no matter the circumstances. We can imagine this app being amazing for use for kids with autism, for people travelling or living in a country where they don’t speak the language, as a fun ‘game’ to play with young kids (you could make up silly ‘sentences’), to an excellent tool to use to communicate to your hard-to-reach teenager.
The Not So Good Bits: Just beware when downloading this app on different devices – on the iPad the only version available is the ‘Talk Different Pro’, which has more features but is also waaaaay more expensive at $6.99. The iPhone version however is not the ‘pro’ version but is also only $1.99. On Google Play the regular version sets you back $1.46 and the Pro version costs $7.38.
What It Teaches: This app teaches anyone to communicate with anyone, and also provides a really fascinating insight into the world of communication.
Most Suitable Age Range: This app is genuinely universal – from young kids to adults of any age and ability.
How Much: Google Play - $1.46 - $7.38. Apple Store: $1.99 - $6.99
Source : nickjrparents[dot]com[dot]au
Shin Se Ha Sports & Leisure Show 2015
Korean promotional model Shin Se Ha at Seoul International Sports & Leisure Industry Show (SPOEX) at COEX in February 2015.
Source : koreangirlshd[dot]com
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