Roberto Centeno, en el Confidencial
02.02.2015
Esta afirmación, que puede parecer un eslogan de ultraizquierda, es lo que sostiene el prestigioso Martin Wolf del Financial Times, refiriéndose a Grecia. Cuando EEUU no ha podido pagar su deuda no la ha pagado, cuando Alemania no ha podido pagar la suya, no lo ha hecho. No hace falta ser economista para saber que un país cuya deuda total es del 175% del PIB ya no la puede devolver. Y España, cuya deuda total (pasivos en circulación) ascendía a septiembre al 144% del PIB, que ha crecido con Rajoy en 536.000 millones en dos años y nueve meses –¡más que en los 12 años anteriores!–, y una deuda externa neta subiendo sin freno y que supera
“Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip
That started from this tropic port,
Aboard this tiny ship.
The mate was mighty sailing man,
The skipper brave and sure…..”
For those of you who remember the TV show Gilligan’s Island, this theme was the opening of each show. This is how I like to think of the skipper of a ship.
Recent shipwrecks have left us with a much different opinion of the leader of a ship. Most notably, the Costa Concordia in Italy and the Sewol Ferry in South Korea, are examples of shipwrecks where the crew behaved less than admirably.
In 2012, thirty two were killedaboard the Costa Concordia when it capsized off
THE GUARDIAN
Vladimir Putin is the Slobodan Milošević of the former Soviet Union: as bad, but bigger. Behind a smokescreen of lies he has renewed his drive to carve out a puppet para-state in eastern Ukraine.
Innocent bystanders are killed in the Black Sea port of Mariupol. In besieged Debaltseve, a woman scoops water from a giant puddle in the road. The rubble that was once Donetsk airportrecalls a scene from
Jan 30, 2015 10:10 AM
The following is the text of a news release from the U.S. Coast Guard:
(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Coast Guard on Friday announced the publication of the final rule on vessel requirements for notices of arrival and departure and automatic identification systems.
This final rule amends the applicability of notice of arrival requirements to include additional vessels, sets forth a mandatory method for electronic submission of NOAs and modifies related reporting content, timeframes and procedures.
Additionally, the final rule extends applicability of AIS requirements beyond Vessel Traffic Service areas to all U.S. navigable waters and requires that additional commercial vessels install and use AIS.
Is the United States’ littoral combatant ship (LCS) and follow-on small surface combatant (SSC) more survivable than larger combat vessels? Not according to Steven Wills. That’s because these vessels’ ‘operational profiles’ are defined more by weight limitations than anything else.
By Steve Wills for Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC)
This article was originally published on 15 January 2015 by the Center for International Maritime Security.
Chief Pentagon Weapon Tester Dr. Michael Gilmore remains fundamentally dissatisfied with the survivability of the Navy’s littoral combatant ship (LCS) and its upgraded follow-on, the small surface combatant (SSC). In an emailed statement described in a January 8th Bloomberg article, Dr. Gilmore stated, “Notwithstanding reductions to its susceptibility” compared with the design of the first 32 ships,