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The MoA Week In Review – (Not Ukraine) OT 2022-180
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Use as open (not Ukraine) thread …
“to see what that would really be like”
Posted by: Debsisdead | Oct 23 2022 23:17 utc | 33
OK, It is time to prepare for the coming days and what will happen.
I don’t think many people outside the island know what will happen with nuclear weapons. Well, Hollywood movie nonsense notwithstanding.
But nuclear weapons are not convenient bombs that can obliterate humans in an instant. As a Japanese, I would like to describe what exactly happens there.
Here in Japan, up until the 1980s, schools were teaching what happened with a wealth of documentary footage and so on. Now, after the weakening of the left, they probably don’t.
Nuclear bombs explode a few hundred meters above the ground in order to better affect their explosive effects on the surrounding area.
The flash of light can blind or cataract the viewer.
The direct damage from an explosion can be divided into approximately three groups
A) Those lucky enough to be vaporized near the hypocenter.
B) those outside of it who will not die immediately.
C) Those further out, who will suffer for decades.
Group A evaporates in an instant, sometimes leaving shadows on the walls and earth. They are a tiny fraction of victims.
Group B suffers severe burns from the high heat, eyes crushed, skin peeling off, which hangs like a sail from the tips of their fingers to their elbows.
Their lungs are burned, they cannot breathe properly, they struggle with intense pain, heat, and dryness, they wander around like a pack of zombies in search of water, and they fall into the river to die. The river is filled with drowned bodies.
Group C suffers severe radiation injury. Some are severe, others minor. Those with severe damage have trouble replicating their cells, and they dissolve within a week to a month.
Those with less severe damage have ugly burn scars on their skin, their hair falls out, they are discriminated against, suffer from various cancers, and are eventually released by death. They are recorded as “vomiting black blood.”
Their descendants are said to be prone to leukemia and other diseases, even after four generations.
This is what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Those who died that day were 90,000 in Hiroshima and 50,000 in Nagasaki; the death toll through December was 130,000 in Hiroshima and 70,000 in Nagasaki.After this, as many as 500,000 people died (according to the A-bomb casualty lists of both cities).This with only two bombs from about 80 years ago.
They were civilians. Babies, young children, boys and girls, lovers, newlyweds, and the elderly. They are just like you. You may be next.
There are various documents, testimonials, paintings, Manga, etc. that describe what kind of hell it was, but a great number of them have been lost due to censorship.
If nuclear war is inevitable, I would like to belong to Group A.(Ironic, considering that my late father was a lucky survivor of the Tokyo Air Raid.)
Incidentally, although not in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan awarded a medal to the man who led the Tokyo air raid. Hello from the land of slaves.
Thanks for reading.
There is a small amount of information in the NHK archives. (Japanese)
https://www.nhk.or.jp/archives/shogenarchives/no-more-hibakusha/
The English page has little information.(I’m sure you can guess.)
https://www.nhk.or.jp/archives/shogenarchives/no-more-hibakusha/en.html
Some paintings from the period.
https://www.nhk.or.jp/archives/shogenarchives/no-more-hibakusha/library/shogen/ja/578/
https://www.nhk.or.jp/archives/shogenarchives/no-more-hibakusha/library/shogen/ja/576/
https://www.nhk.or.jp/archives/shogenarchives/no-more-hibakusha/library/shogen/ja/598/
https://www.nhk.or.jp/archives/shogenarchives/no-more-hibakusha/library/shogen/ja/605/
https://www.nhk.or.jp/archives/shogenarchives/no-more-hibakusha/library/shogen/ja/599/
https://www.nhk.or.jp/archives/shogenarchives/no-more-hibakusha/library/shogen/ja/593/
https://www.nhk.or.jp/archives/shogenarchives/no-more-hibakusha/library/shogen/ja/574/
https://www.nhk.or.jp/archives/shogenarchives/no-more-hibakusha/library/shogen/ja/597/
This is the face of a man who has done it.(Center) It’s a good smile.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Van_Kirk#/media/File:Enola-Gay-Crew.jpg
Posted by: sam | Oct 24 2022 2:34 utc | 43
Today Putin had a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko who has a very interesting portfolio as you’ll learn from his report. IMO, his report shows very well how much management of Russia’s economy is done by government at all levels, while also revealing how well import substitution is going along with many other issues. The report is long, so I’ll post its machine translation in three parts with no emphasis or additional commentary by me. I find this highly instructive as it contains much information never published by media:
Part One–
Vladimir Putin: Good afternoon.
Dmitry Nikolaevich, by industry. More precisely, in terms of the industries you oversee. You are welcome.
D.Chernyshenko: Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich,
For us, your instruction to achieve technological sovereignty in science and technology is probably the most important vector of work now. I will promptly report to you on the results of two and a half years of Work by Mikhail Mishustin’s Government in the areas entrusted to me.
First of all, digital transformation. I must say that, despite the geopolitical situation, the pandemic and other shocks, all the targets of digital transformation have been exceeded. You can look at the graphs, just here [in the presentation] it is convenient to see.
Most importantly, we see a significant increase in the share of mass socially significant services that citizens receive online, and in order for this to happen, of course, you need an Internet connection.
Vladimir Putin: [An increase in the share of socially significant online services] from 2019 to 2022 by a factor of 16?
Dmitry Chernyshenko: Yes, we are showing this on purpose that during the work of Mikhail Vladimirovich’s Government, you assessed the progress that has been made.
Russia now ranks sixth in the world in terms of Internet accessibility. This is a very good result, and it allows us to fulfill your instructions on connecting socially significant objects to the Internet.
Vladimir Putin: Yes. Internet access – plus 12.4. And to socially significant services – [an increase] of 16 times.
Dmitry Chernyshenko: Absolutely.
Vladimir Putin: It’s decent.
Dmitry Chernyshenko: At the moment, last year, the number of connected socially significant facilities has increased ninefold. This is almost 86 thousand FAPs, schools, hospitals, fire departments. We continue this work.
It is very important that we also work with small settlements, as you often told us at our meetings. This population is from 100 to 500 people. This is costly, but it is extremely necessary so that there is connectivity and citizens can receive services online.
If you look at the third part, just the implementation of your Executive Order, we have increased the number of accounts. These are the personal accounts of citizens – 99 million. In fact, this is all the adult, active population of our country, and they will receive, according to forecasts, almost half a billion services this year. And there are such interesting services: more than a third of all applications to the registry office are now submitted online. It is probably more important to say that our mothers received 600,000 payments of maternity capital on your instructions proactively, and they did not need to fill out any formalities and forms – this is very important.
Vladimir Putin: I know.
Dmitry Chernyshenko: I will report to you separately. Now, just during the mobilization, the portal has launched four new services that allow you to eliminate some shortcomings.
We have received such progress for a reason, you support this industry, and unprecedented support measures, and the effects of support measures – on the fourth slide – you see a very preferential income tax – 3 percent, and insurance premiums – 7.6 percent; exempted from VAT from software sales, preferential mortgages.
As you can see, the number of accredited companies has increased sevenfold, that is, 28,000 companies in 2022. This suggests that, of course, many, apparently, came out of the shadows, but many were also created, because we see that the number of IT specialists has increased – this is a million seven hundred. There are still not enough of them: we still have a deficit of about a million in these areas.
But now it is a huge community of very professional people, specialists who work at the world level and who are now given an important task. Every year, our companies, such as Russian Railways, KamAZ, Aeroflot, or the United Aircraft Company (they also worked on foreign software – an automated control system for production processes), spent about 200 billion rubles a year on licenses alone, and they gave them to foreign companies.
Now, on your instructions, Mikhail Vladimirovich has organised the work personally, because he is very deeply versed in these issues. More than 40 industrial competence centers have been created, which have united all these industrial partners, and they have chosen domestic solutions that can now be further developed so that they not only functionally correspond to the foreign software on which we are now working (and licenses have been stopped), but also surpass it. There is a very good export potential there. I will also report to you on this, because we will receive the first projects by 2024. This will be a very serious import substitution. It is the support measures that have allowed us to accumulate such potential so that this can be done.
And of course, information security is at the forefront, because the number of cyber attacks on Russia has increased by 80 percent this year. Moreover, if last year the main target of cyber attacks was the financial sector, this year the public sector.
25 thousand, even more, cyber attacks on state resources and 1200 incidents on critical infrastructure were successfully eliminated. It is clear that this struggle will always continue – cyber troops of all unfriendly countries are fighting against us. But it is very important that, on your instructions, cyber headquarters have been set up in all executive bodies, on the entire critical infrastructure. We continue to defend effectively.
Several fundamental information systems have been created for our country, which will determine the future of our digitalization. For example, a single biometric system – according to your decree. After all, in the past, randomly commercial companies collected casts, and citizens willingly gave them away in exchange for the fact that they could either enter some buildings or rent cars. Banks collected casts in order to open accounts and so on. They were stored in an unprotected form, often on servers that were not located on the territory of Russia. Now all of them will be in a secure Russian cloud and stored in vector form, which complicates the hacking attempt.
Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 24 2022 16:01 utc | 67
Today Putin had a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko who has a very interesting portfolio as you’ll learn from his report. IMO, his report shows very well how much management of Russia’s economy is done by government at all levels, while also revealing how well import substitution is going along with many other issues. The report is long, so I’ll post its machine translation in three-four parts with no emphasis or additional commentary by me. I find this highly instructive as it contains much information never published by media:
Part One–
Vladimir Putin: Good afternoon.
Dmitry Nikolaevich, by industry. More precisely, in terms of the industries you oversee. You are welcome.
D.Chernyshenko: Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich,
For us, your instruction to achieve technological sovereignty in science and technology is probably the most important vector of work now. I will promptly report to you on the results of two and a half years of Work by Mikhail Mishustin’s Government in the areas entrusted to me.
First of all, digital transformation. I must say that, despite the geopolitical situation, the pandemic and other shocks, all the targets of digital transformation have been exceeded. You can look at the graphs, just here [in the presentation] it is convenient to see.
Most importantly, we see a significant increase in the share of mass socially significant services that citizens receive online, and in order for this to happen, of course, you need an Internet connection.
Vladimir Putin: [An increase in the share of socially significant online services] from 2019 to 2022 by a factor of 16?
Dmitry Chernyshenko: Yes, we are showing this on purpose that during the work of Mikhail Vladimirovich’s Government, you assessed the progress that has been made.
Russia now ranks sixth in the world in terms of Internet accessibility. This is a very good result, and it allows us to fulfill your instructions on connecting socially significant objects to the Internet.
Vladimir Putin: Yes. Internet access – plus 12.4. And to socially significant services – [an increase] of 16 times.
Dmitry Chernyshenko: Absolutely.
Vladimir Putin: It’s decent.
Dmitry Chernyshenko: At the moment, last year, the number of connected socially significant facilities has increased ninefold. This is almost 86 thousand FAPs, schools, hospitals, fire departments. We continue this work.
It is very important that we also work with small settlements, as you often told us at our meetings. This population is from 100 to 500 people. This is costly, but it is extremely necessary so that there is connectivity and citizens can receive services online.
If you look at the third part, just the implementation of your Executive Order, we have increased the number of accounts. These are the personal accounts of citizens – 99 million. In fact, this is all the adult, active population of our country, and they will receive, according to forecasts, almost half a billion services this year. And there are such interesting services: more than a third of all applications to the registry office are now submitted online. It is probably more important to say that our mothers received 600,000 payments of maternity capital on your instructions proactively, and they did not need to fill out any formalities and forms – this is very important.
Vladimir Putin: I know.
Dmitry Chernyshenko: I will report to you separately. Now, just during the mobilization, the portal has launched four new services that allow you to eliminate some shortcomings.
We have received such progress for a reason, you support this industry, and unprecedented support measures, and the effects of support measures – on the fourth slide – you see a very preferential income tax – 3 percent, and insurance premiums – 7.6 percent; exempted from VAT from software sales, preferential mortgages.
As you can see, the number of accredited companies has increased sevenfold, that is, 28,000 companies in 2022. This suggests that, of course, many, apparently, came out of the shadows, but many were also created, because we see that the number of IT specialists has increased – this is a million seven hundred. There are still not enough of them: we still have a deficit of about a million in these areas.
But now it is a huge community of very professional people, specialists who work at the world level and who are now given an important task. Every year, our companies, such as Russian Railways, KamAZ, Aeroflot, or the United Aircraft Company (they also worked on foreign software – an automated control system for production processes), spent about 200 billion rubles a year on licenses alone, and they gave them to foreign companies.
Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 24 2022 16:05 utc | 68
@67 Cont’d–
Part Two–
Now, on your instructions, Mikhail Vladimirovich has organised the work personally, because he is very deeply versed in these issues. More than 40 industrial competence centers have been created, which have united all these industrial partners, and they have chosen domestic solutions that can now be further developed so that they not only functionally correspond to the foreign software on which we are now working (and licenses have been stopped), but also surpass it. There is a very good export potential there. I will also report to you on this, because we will receive the first projects by 2024. This will be a very serious import substitution. It is the support measures that have allowed us to accumulate such potential so that this can be done.
And of course, information security is at the forefront, because the number of cyber attacks on Russia has increased by 80 percent this year. Moreover, if last year the main target of cyber attacks was the financial sector, this year the public sector.
25 thousand, even more, cyber attacks on state resources and 1200 incidents on critical infrastructure were successfully eliminated. It is clear that this struggle will always continue – cyber troops of all unfriendly countries are fighting against us. But it is very important that, on your instructions, cyber headquarters have been set up in all executive bodies, on the entire critical infrastructure. We continue to defend effectively.
Several fundamental information systems have been created for our country, which will determine the future of our digitalization. For example, a single biometric system – according to your decree. After all, in the past, randomly commercial companies collected casts, and citizens willingly gave them away in exchange for the fact that they could either enter some buildings or rent cars. Banks collected casts in order to open accounts and so on. They were stored in an unprotected form, often on servers that were not located on the territory of Russia. Now all of them will be in a secure Russian cloud and stored in vector form, which complicates the hacking attempt.
We are working, on your instructions, on the reunited territories.
First of all, of course, the restoration of communication networks. We set almost the same standard as for the whole country for the availability of multiplexes and radio channels. We have allocated capacities under the number +7 for phone numbers. VGTRK opens its branches there.
Most importantly, we are handing over ready-made IT solutions and IT technologies so that new territories can be connected to the public services portal and state information systems.
In the field of science, the achievements of our scientists and the indicator of the sphere of science is the world ranking – the ninth place.
Until now, the main source of money now for internal research and development is the budget. This is almost 1.4 trillion rubles. But we see that extra-budgetary funds are also growing. This parameter of extra-budgetary co-financing is probably the most important in the entire logic that I will talk about, because it reflects the very connection that we need between education, science and technological entrepreneurship. Because it so happened that earlier our entrepreneurs did not choose our technologies. They were not interested in ordering from our science, they could buy cheap Western technology and often introduced it.
We are now making full use of that potential. An important role was played by the holding of the Year of Science and Technology on your initiative, which, in fact, opened for our population through landmark events – and we held more than 6,000 events – our key achievements of modern science, which we were able to present to society. As a result, we saw that 82 percent of our citizens trust Russian scientists, and, very importantly, 78 percent of respondents would like their children to link the future with science and technology. This is a very high result. 56 percent are proud. We thank you very much for extending the Decade of Science and Technology, where the main focus now is on involving young people in science.
Probably the most important “spine” of creating a foundation for the entire science, of course, was your decision to create a new state program for scientific and technological development, which brought together 34 disparate state programs that were implemented by 54 participants (federal executive bodies and various state-owned companies) for a huge amount – 1.2 trillion rubles, which we have now consolidated. Now we have prioritised all this state assignment money in accordance with uniform rules that work for import substitution and import anticipation.
Because earlier, in general, they did the state task on various disparate topics, and now exactly what we need to replace, and exactly what we need now. In this we are actively helped by the Academy of Sciences and the newly elected President of the Academy of Sciences Krasnikov Gennady Yakovlevich, who is a great specialist, as they say, “from the plow”. We have high hopes that we will now inspire new cooperation between the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Government.
Of course, as you said at the last Strategic Development Council, access to higher education is very important. On your instructions, we are constantly increasing the target figures for full-time admissions every year. At the same time, 75 percent is the share of the regions. The accessibility index is more than 56 percent.
Everyone accuses me of lobbying only for state-funded places in the digital economy. Indeed, we see an increase of 203 percent. But this, as they say, is a market request, a request for time. At the same time, of course, engineering and technological areas of training are also extremely important for us.
There are a large number of tools that have shown their effectiveness, which were launched on your instructions. These are the Program “Priority-2030” and advanced engineering schools. You visited Yaroslav the Wise University in Novgorod and saw how this school works.
I would like to draw your attention, as well as to world-class campuses and world-class national research and educational centres, to the extra-budgetary component. For me, the most important indicator is the confirmed amount of co-financing of high-tech companies, which suggests that they rely on our universities, on our scientific organisations, and they, in fact, as they say, vote in rubles. And you see that advanced engineering schools account for 12.7 billion.
The world-class campuses that you have commissioned to build by 2030, 25 campuses, eight are already in production, and now there will be a second wave of selection for the remaining launches. We have already received 39 applications from 34 regions. There’s a lot of co-financing. More than half goes extra-budgetary. This means that business consciously invests in education and in the creation of the environment and expects that it will receive technologies, scientific discoveries from our science. Therefore, we are sure that science will not fail.
Vladimir Putin: Are these billions?
Dmitry Chernyshenko: Yes, these are billions.
Vladimir Putin: I also see good growth: it was 5.3, and now it is 106.4.
Dmitry Chernyshenko: Yes, that’s exactly right. At the same time, they are ahead of their own plans, and, you know, it is very interesting: we laid the rotation, selected five scientific and educational centers, and now they are working for retirement. We have a very long bench, and every two years we check, and the one who is the worst in terms of indicators is replaced by the one who stands on the bench. Such competition works very well.
Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 24 2022 16:08 utc | 69
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