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Perhaps because 9,000 million sounds sexier than 9 billion?Why not just say $9 billion? Doesn't this guy know the word billion? Or he doesn't know 9000 million equals 9 billion?
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Miragedriver
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Why not just say $9 billion? Doesn't this guy know the word billion? Or he doesn't know 9000 million equals 9 billion?
This article originates from Spain (Defensa) and the common practice is to use 9.000 million to say 9 billion
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I saw that and was amazed at him to escape from a shark attack without a major scratch. I heard that he was actually attacked by two sharks as he fight them off by kicking and punching his way out of it.
Miragedriver
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Peru to make 'first contact' with isolated Amazon tribe
Anthropologists to approach Mashco Piro Indians for the first time following bow-and-arrow attack
Reuters
government anthropologists will try to make contact for the first time with that largely lives isolated in the jungle, as part of a bid to ease tensions with nearby villages after a bow-and-arrow attack in May.
The anthropologists will try to talk with a clan of to understand why they have been emerging from the forest.
In recent years the Mashco Piro have increasingly been spotted
Villagers, Christian missionaries and tourists have all interacted with the tribe, often giving them clothes and food.
"The only ones who haven't been in contact with them are representatives of the state!" said deputy culture minister Patricia Balbuena.
Peru prohibits contact with the Mashco Piro and another dozen "uncontacted" tribes, mainly because their immune systems carry little resistance to common illnesses.
Authorities have said they cannot keep people from defying the contact ban because no penalty is attached.
Indigenous group FENAMAD warned that the decision to contact the Mashco Piro could legitimise the kind of unwanted interactions that have decimated isolated tribes in the past.
"Authorities should restrict boat transit and keep people from approaching," said FENAMAD president Klaus Quicque.
Luis Felipe Torres, the head of the state isolated tribes team, said the government will not forcibly contact the Mashco Piro or try to change their nomadic lifestyle.
"But we can no longer pretend they aren't trying to make some sort of contact," Mr Torres said. "They have a right to that, too."
The Mashco Piro have historically rejected outsiders, surviving enslavement during Peru's bloody rubber boom in the late 1800s and later rebuffing missionaries.
But in the past year, the Mashco Piro have appeared in populated areas more than 100 times, especially along the banks of a river where they gesture to passersby, said Ms Balbuena.
Not all interactions with outsiders have been peaceful.
In May, a group of Mashco Piro attacked the native Machiguenga community of Shipetiari, killing a young man with an arrow.
In 2011 the Mashco Piro killed another local man and wounded a park ranger with arrows.
Using interpreters of Yine, a native language similar to the Mashco Piro tongue, the government hopes to prevent future clashes, Ms Balbuena said.
A team of doctors six hours upriver would treat the tribe if disease breaks out, she said.
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Anthropologists to approach Mashco Piro Indians for the first time following bow-and-arrow attack
Reuters
government anthropologists will try to make contact for the first time with that largely lives isolated in the jungle, as part of a bid to ease tensions with nearby villages after a bow-and-arrow attack in May.
The anthropologists will try to talk with a clan of to understand why they have been emerging from the forest.
In recent years the Mashco Piro have increasingly been spotted
Villagers, Christian missionaries and tourists have all interacted with the tribe, often giving them clothes and food.
"The only ones who haven't been in contact with them are representatives of the state!" said deputy culture minister Patricia Balbuena.
Peru prohibits contact with the Mashco Piro and another dozen "uncontacted" tribes, mainly because their immune systems carry little resistance to common illnesses.
Authorities have said they cannot keep people from defying the contact ban because no penalty is attached.
Indigenous group FENAMAD warned that the decision to contact the Mashco Piro could legitimise the kind of unwanted interactions that have decimated isolated tribes in the past.
"Authorities should restrict boat transit and keep people from approaching," said FENAMAD president Klaus Quicque.
Luis Felipe Torres, the head of the state isolated tribes team, said the government will not forcibly contact the Mashco Piro or try to change their nomadic lifestyle.
"But we can no longer pretend they aren't trying to make some sort of contact," Mr Torres said. "They have a right to that, too."
The Mashco Piro have historically rejected outsiders, surviving enslavement during Peru's bloody rubber boom in the late 1800s and later rebuffing missionaries.
But in the past year, the Mashco Piro have appeared in populated areas more than 100 times, especially along the banks of a river where they gesture to passersby, said Ms Balbuena.
Not all interactions with outsiders have been peaceful.
In May, a group of Mashco Piro attacked the native Machiguenga community of Shipetiari, killing a young man with an arrow.
In 2011 the Mashco Piro killed another local man and wounded a park ranger with arrows.
Using interpreters of Yine, a native language similar to the Mashco Piro tongue, the government hopes to prevent future clashes, Ms Balbuena said.
A team of doctors six hours upriver would treat the tribe if disease breaks out, she said.
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Miragedriver
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Brazilian protesters are calling for something downright scary
Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians took to the streets this weekend, calling for the impeachment of recently re-elected President Dilma Rousseff.
The nationwide protests were peaceful, but for observers with knowledge of Brazil's political past, there was a sinister element to them that cannot be ignored.
In sign after sign, middle-class protesters called for the military to wrest control of the country from Rousseff's Brazilian Workers' Party (PT).
Marlon Aymes, a protester seen holding a sign that read "Army, Navy and Air Force. Please save us once again of [sic] communism," told
"They [The PT] are in power for 16 years. That is like a dictatorship ... In 1964 the military of Brazil took a stand against a president who was close to the Kremlin. Today, the PT is in a group that wants a Bolivarian socialist model across Latin America. Common people are protesting and calling for impeachment, but congress is too corrupt to approve that so we need military intervention."
The corruption Aymes was talking about has been center stage in Brazilian politics for about the past year. It all surrounds Petrobras, the Brazilian quasi-state oil company. Once a powerhouse, it has been ransacked by the government. The ruling party has used it to pay kickbacks, to finance the government — you name it. The CEO is gone, the politicians from Rousseff's party investigation.
Rousseff, however, has remained immune. That has infuriated Brazilians and put her
It isn't difficult to see why Brazilians are calling foul, but to call for military rule, however, is a chilling reminder of what has often been a ready alternative in Latin America. Brazil was controlled by a violent military junta from 1964 to 1985. It was that junta that tortured the sitting president when she was a young activist. Calling for the return of military control is a clear signal that some in Brazilian society feel the democratic process has failed.
Despite the corruption, signs within the government point to the contrary. Like it or not, Rousseff was re-elected by Brazilians. It was by a slim margin, but it was indeed a victory. Rousseff won because she promised to continue pouring money into social programs despite the country's ailing economy. Her more conservative opponent, Aecio Neves, said cuts would have to be made.
Now in office and faced with prolonged economic malaise, Rousseff is sounding more like Neves, and that is contrary to the platform that got her elected. Perhaps voters should have seen it coming. Brazil's fairly new finance minister, Joaquim Levy, for his ability to slash budgets.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, leftist governments swept Latin America in what is known as the Pink Revolution. Commodities prices were high, and governments promised to reinvest the proceeds from exports like soy beans, oil, and steel into the people.
It was a new social contract, and the consumption of these commodities around the world (and especially in China) helped fill government coffers from Argentina to Brazil to Venezuela. As citizens were lifted out of poverty, they started to expect that their governments would deliver on the promises they made.
But we're in a new world economic order. Commodities prices have crashed, China is slowing, and cracks in the facade of these regimes are showing.
Brazil, always more moderate that Argentina and Venezuela, is sending a clear message with these protests.
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Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians took to the streets this weekend, calling for the impeachment of recently re-elected President Dilma Rousseff.
The nationwide protests were peaceful, but for observers with knowledge of Brazil's political past, there was a sinister element to them that cannot be ignored.
In sign after sign, middle-class protesters called for the military to wrest control of the country from Rousseff's Brazilian Workers' Party (PT).
Marlon Aymes, a protester seen holding a sign that read "Army, Navy and Air Force. Please save us once again of [sic] communism," told
"They [The PT] are in power for 16 years. That is like a dictatorship ... In 1964 the military of Brazil took a stand against a president who was close to the Kremlin. Today, the PT is in a group that wants a Bolivarian socialist model across Latin America. Common people are protesting and calling for impeachment, but congress is too corrupt to approve that so we need military intervention."
The corruption Aymes was talking about has been center stage in Brazilian politics for about the past year. It all surrounds Petrobras, the Brazilian quasi-state oil company. Once a powerhouse, it has been ransacked by the government. The ruling party has used it to pay kickbacks, to finance the government — you name it. The CEO is gone, the politicians from Rousseff's party investigation.
Rousseff, however, has remained immune. That has infuriated Brazilians and put her
It isn't difficult to see why Brazilians are calling foul, but to call for military rule, however, is a chilling reminder of what has often been a ready alternative in Latin America. Brazil was controlled by a violent military junta from 1964 to 1985. It was that junta that tortured the sitting president when she was a young activist. Calling for the return of military control is a clear signal that some in Brazilian society feel the democratic process has failed.
Despite the corruption, signs within the government point to the contrary. Like it or not, Rousseff was re-elected by Brazilians. It was by a slim margin, but it was indeed a victory. Rousseff won because she promised to continue pouring money into social programs despite the country's ailing economy. Her more conservative opponent, Aecio Neves, said cuts would have to be made.
Now in office and faced with prolonged economic malaise, Rousseff is sounding more like Neves, and that is contrary to the platform that got her elected. Perhaps voters should have seen it coming. Brazil's fairly new finance minister, Joaquim Levy, for his ability to slash budgets.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, leftist governments swept Latin America in what is known as the Pink Revolution. Commodities prices were high, and governments promised to reinvest the proceeds from exports like soy beans, oil, and steel into the people.
It was a new social contract, and the consumption of these commodities around the world (and especially in China) helped fill government coffers from Argentina to Brazil to Venezuela. As citizens were lifted out of poverty, they started to expect that their governments would deliver on the promises they made.
But we're in a new world economic order. Commodities prices have crashed, China is slowing, and cracks in the facade of these regimes are showing.
Brazil, always more moderate that Argentina and Venezuela, is sending a clear message with these protests.
Link:
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So Lockheed is being subsidized by the government to invest in the acquisition of Sikorsky, thus reducing competition in the military equipment market?
Miragedriver
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I think you are correct. interesting about the interest of European Airbus Helicopters.
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The USS The Sullivansgot more than it expected during a test launch of a SM-2 “Standard” missile today. The DDG-68 ship was sailing off the coast of Virginia performing when the missile was boosted out of the Arleigh Burke Class Destroyer’s Vertical Launch System cell and the SM-2 detonated in spectacular fashion.
Luckily nobody was hurt and damage to ship was minimal, with a small fire breaking out on its stern.
The SM-2 “Standard” missile has been the backbone of the U.S. Navy’s cruiser and destroyer force for decades, mainly being used against air breathing aerial threats, although the RIM-66M/SM-2MR – particularly the dual radar/infrared seeker wielding Block IIIB – can even attack surface targets. Later versions of the SM-2 have a range of over 100 miles.
Here is the official Navy statement:
On July 18 at approximately 9 a.m. (EDT) a Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) test missile exploded after suffering a malfunction as it was fired from the guided-missile destroyer USS The Sullivans (DDG 68) during a planned missile exercise off the coast of Virginia. There were no injuries and only minor damage to the port side of the ship resulting from missile debris. The ship returned to Naval Station Norfolk for assessment. An investigation into the malfunction has been ordered and is being conducted by the Navy’s Program Executive Office for Integrated Warfare Systems, which is part of Naval Sea Systems Command. It is too early to determine what, if any, effect this will have on the ship’s schedule.
If anything, this failed test just goes to show how a modern U.S. Navy surface combatant can take an indirect hit and keep on functioning. As far as the missile goes, these are complex rockets, packed in a sealed coffin for long periods of time and battered by the sea for months at a time. Failures are bound to happen, especially with older stocks. As long as they don’t occur in VLS cell itself, the ship, in most cases, can just launch another and continue to fight.