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Magyarország
2016. VII. 6. Az új magyar traktor: Renner 5044 – az 50 a teljesítményre utal, a 44 az összkerékhajtásra. A modern traktorokon mindent elektronika felügyel, a turbó-motortól a sebességváltón át a guminyomásig. Nagy, színes érintőképernyőn kell beadni az utasításokat és leolvasni az adatokat. Ez hallatlanul sokféle lehetőséget nyit meg, és nagyon hatékonnyá teszi, illetve megkönnyíti a munkát. Mégsem vált ki maradéktalan elégedettséget. Ha egy ilyen traktornak bármi üzemzavara támad, a képernyő-böködésre kiképzett gépkezelő csak felteheti a kezét, és hívhatja a laptoppal kiérkező szervizt, ami dologidőben érzékeny veszteséget okozhat. A legkorszerűbb mezőgazdaságú nyugati országokban erősödik az igény kevesebb elektronikát tartalmazó erőgépek iránt. A kis gazdaságoknak feltétlenül, de bizonyos munkákra a nagyoknak is előnyös lenne egy egyszerű, strapabíró, könnyen karbantartható és javítható, alsó méret- és árkategóriájú traktortípus. A 38 éves Renner a gödöllői Szent István Egyetemen szerzett mezőgazdasági gépészmérnöki diplomát és PhD tudományos fokozatot. Az 1991 óta működő családi vállalkozás gumi-autóalkatrészeket (szilent-blokk, gumiharang, karmantyú, kipufogó-függesztő) állított elő, majd a nyereség visszaforgatásával egyre nőtt. Ez a 220 főt foglalkoztató, és kétmilliárd forint fölötti éves árbevételt produkáló cég teremtette meg az anyagi alapot Renner gyerekkori álmának beteljesítésére: mindig is traktort szeretett volna gyártani. Motiválja az a szándék, hogy előrevigye a régiót, és ha lehet, valamennyire az országot is. Szívó-dízel, hagyományos adagolóval, de persze az előírásoknak megfelelő kipufogógázzal. Robotváltó helyett majd kapcsolgat a gazda. Ha kiszámítja magának, hány forintot takarít meg egy-egy kuplungozással és váltással, mosolyogni fog minden egyes alkalommal. A négyhengeres, közvetlen befecskendezésű, 2,4 literes, 50 lóerős motort a japán Kubota szállítja. Az erőátvitel tányérrugós tengelykapcsolóból, kétszer négyfokozatú sebességváltóból és irányváltóból áll, amely egybe van építve a hátsó differenciállal és az összkerékhajtás kiágazásával, mindezt az első és a hátsó híddal együtt az olasz Carraro Drive Tech készíti. A kettő közé öntött acél darázsderék kerül majd. Az elektro-hidraulikus kormánymű (nincs mechanikus kapcsolat a volán és a kerekek között) a Bosch Rexroth Hajtás- és Vezérléstechnika Kft. terméke. A Renner cégnél készül az alváz, a darázsderék, a burkolat a sárvédőkkel és a többféle mechanizmus. 50 lóerő; ez is elegendő könnyű talajmunkákra, vetésre, sorközök művelésére, szállításra és kommunális feladatok ellátására. A Renner traktor vonóerejének átvitelét a talajra 1800 kilogrammos saját tömeg segíti. Előnyös, hogy mivel előrenyúlik a motor, orr-nehéz a gép (az első tengelyterhelés 1000 kg, a hátsó 800), így amikor nagy erővel húz, nem ágaskodik fel. A forgatógombos volánnak nincs meghatározott középállása, úgy állnak a küllők, ahogy induláskor éppen voltak. Billenő felfüggesztésű ugyan az első híd, de rugózás csak annyi van, amennyit a gumiabroncsok rugóznak, szóval dobál egy kicsit a traktor. Még csak két darab készült. Őszre jöhet a CE minősítésű gép típusbizonyítványának megszerzése és a vizsgáztatás, a kereskedelmi forgalmazás megkezdésének célzott időpontja 2018 január elseje. A gumi receptek minden cég szigorúan védett szakmai titkai, a Renner Bt. kincsként őriz hatvan-nyolcvanat, még a saját emberei sem ismerik ezeket, csak a kódszámokat kapják meg. A kaucsukkeverékből akkor lesz gumi, amikor 1000 bar nyomáson és 160 Celsius fokos hőmérsékleten, a formát meghatározó szerszámban, összesütik a speciális ragasztóval bevont felületű fém fegyverzettel. A gumi annyira ellenáll a homogenizálási törekvésnek, hogy a precíz elvárásairól ismert autó- és repülőgépiparban is plusz-mínusz öt százalékos tűréshatárt adnak meg az egyik fő jellemzőre, a Shore-keménységre. (Forrás: TotalCar): http://tinyurl.com/jhv698p
Estonia
July 3, 2016 Near Russia’s border with the Baltics, soldiers on both sides are practicing for war. In the two years since Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, the tiny Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have taken an oversized role in facing down Russia’s challenge to the West. The Kremlin has been building up its military along its border with the former Soviet satellites. Western allies of the Baltics, worried that the region is vulnerable, have responded by pouring tanks, warplanes and soldiers into an area slightly larger than Florida. They will commit thousands more troops to the three countries and Poland at a summit starting. Roughly 2,500 troops that have been sent to the region. Russia plans to create three new divisions of its military by the end of the year — tens of thousands of troops — and station them in its westernmost territories, near the Baltics and Poland. Russian President Putin has framed it as a simple response to NATO activity. A recent Rand Corp. study that simulated a Russian invasion found that Baltic capitals would be overrun within 60 hours. To change the calculus, the authors recommended a significantly higher Western troop presence in the region than NATO is currently contemplating - seven brigades, more than 30,000 troops. NATO officials plan to send a battalion of about a thousand troops to each Baltic nation and Poland, about 4,000 in total. (TheWashingtonPost)
Germany
6 Jul 2016 Forty Roma migrants have occupied the cathedral in Regensburg to protest the German government’s classification of the Balkan nations as “safe countries” demanding that they not be sent back to the Balkans and be allowed to stay in Germany. They are backed by the left-wing extremist organisation Anti-Fascist Action (Antifa). The left-wing extremist group is known for their readiness to employ violence against their political opponents and have been alleged to be behind attacks on the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party at their party conference in Stuttgart earlier this year and on individual members. The extremists make it clear that for the Roma migrants “the solution to our problems lies here” in Germany. Several of the migrants taking part in the demonstration had already received orders from the German authorities that they must voluntarily leave the country. Some of the migrants have been in the country illegally for months while others had been in Germany for decades. The protest bears striking similarity to a migrant sit-in that occurred in the Austrian capital of Vienna in 2012. In that case left-wing extremists paired up with migrants to demand an end to deportations as they occupied the Vienna Votive Church. The Diocese of Regensburg has requested that the police not be involved in the protest. They have told the media in a statement: “The diocese of Regensburg is committed to humanitarian assistance and care” which will include medical assistance and bedding for the families and care for the children. (Breitbart)
Great Britain
5 July 016 Scientists use unnerving trick to plant false experiences into people's brains. Research looks at how to 'induce' knowledge through the visual cortext. In new study, the group were able to train volunteers into seeing colours. Participants thought they saw colour red when looking at vertical stripes. The process is called Decoded Neurofeedback, or 'DecNef'. The idea for neurofeedback technique grew out of research from the 1960s showing that a person could regulate his heart rate or temperature just by thinking about it. Because our brains regulate temperature and heart rate, the researchers wanted to see if we could also regulate other aspects of brain activity. With volunteers in the scanner, the patterns of activity in two areas of the brain were first measured when the subjects saw different combinations of coloured backgrounds (red, green and grey) behind two different stripe orientations (vertical and horizontal). This data was used to encode a 'classifier' that could distinguish between red and green - to recognise the brain activity the volunteers induced in those areas in future experiments. Over three days of training, looking at disks with vertical and horizontal stripes. volunteers were asked to think of a variety of ways they might use their brains to enlarge a disk they were looking at. But in reality the disk only got larger, and the participants were given a higher 'score', when the classifier saw signs they were thinking of the colour red. (Source: DailyMail): http://tinyurl.com/jgj6ba2
Lengyelország
2016. VII. 10. Egy lengyel századot Romániába, egy román századot pedig Lengyelországba telepítenek azoknak a döntéseknek az értelmében, amelyeket a szövetség keleti szárnyának megerősítésére hoztak a varsói NATO-csúcson – jelentette be Duda lengyel és Iohannis román elnök. A varsói csúcstalálkozón a NATO keleti szárnyának megerősítése mellett arról döntöttek, hogy meghosszabítják az Eltökélt Támogatás (Resolute Support) fedőnevű NATO-missziót, sor kerül az atlanti szövetség közvetlen szerepvállalására az Egyesült Államok vezette, iszlám állam elleni koalícióban. A csúcs során jóváhagyott NATO-EU megállapodások értelmében megerősítik a szövetséges erőknek az Európába irányuló illegális bevándorlás és az embercsempészet elleni harcban való részvételét is. (Forrás: MagyarIdők)
Russia
03.07.2016 For whatever reason, Putin has decided to out Snowden as the collaborator that he actually is – and has been for three years already. In an interview this week, Klintsevich, a senior Russian security official, explained the case matter-of-factly: “Let's be frank. Snowden did share intelligence. This is what security services do. If there's a possibility to get information, they will get it.” With this, Klintsevich simply said what all intelligence professionals already knew – that Snowden is a collaborator with the FSB. Klintsevich is a senator who has served in the State Duma for nearly a decade. More importantly, he is the deputy chair of the Senate’s Defense and Security Committee, which oversees the special services. The 59-year-old Klintsevich thus has access to many state secrets – for instance regarding the Snowden case. He is also a retired Russian army colonel, having served 22 years in the elite Airborne Forces (VDV). Klintsevich saw action in Afghanistan in the 1980s with the VDV and, based on a careful reading of his biography, appears to have served with GRU, that is military intelligence. One reason for Snowden may be his recent tepid criticism via Twitter of Russia’s draconian new laws on domestic surveillance – which vastly exceed any of the activities of the Western democracies that Snowden has so strongly criticized from his FSB hideaway. His value to Moscow has been as a key player in Kremlin propaganda designed to discredit the Western intelligence alliance. In that role, Snowden has done a great deal of damage to the West. But he was never a “mole” for Moscow inside NSA. In reality, the Snowden Operation is probably a cover to deflect attention from the one or more actual Russian moles who have been lurking inside NSA for years, undetected. (Source: Bild): http://tinyurl.com/hqnmbd3
Bangladesh
July 2, 2016 Hostage crisis leaves 28 dead in Bangladesh diplomatic zone. The hostages were given a test: recite verses from the Quran. The 20 hostages killed included nine Italians, seven Japanese, three Bangladeshis and one Indian. (Yahoo)
China
2016-7-5 As the result of the international arbitration over the South China Sea dispute approaches, China is undertaking a military drill from July 5 to 11 in the waters around the Xisha Islands. In Western media reports, this exercise is happening "at a sensitive time," because the arbitral result will be announced on July 12. Beijing has announced its position of neither participation in nor recognition of the arbitration. Washington has deployed two carrier battle groups around the South China Sea, and it wants to send a signal by flexing its muscles: As the biggest powerhouse in the region, it awaits China's obedience. The US will probably project more military power to the West Pacific in a bid to press China militarily and politically. If the US is taking advantage of the mess to deploy more military forces to the South China Sea, which are a direct threat to China's national security, China's military exercises could be regarded as a countermeasure. The trajectory of the South China Sea dispute, after July 12, will be decided by the intentions of the major players. The new Philippine government seems reluctant to keep the territorial face-off as a priority for Sino-Philippine ties. Now, it is some outside powers that are eager to make waves in the region. China should speed up building its military capabilities of strategic deterrence. Even though China cannot keep up with the US militarily in the short-term, it should be able to let the US pay a cost it cannot stand if it intervenes in the South China Sea dispute by force. China is a peace-loving country and deals with foreign relations with discretion, but it won't flinch if the US and its small clique keep encroaching on its interests on its doorstep. China hopes disputes can be resolved by talks, but it must be prepared for any military confrontation. This is common sense in international relations. (Source: GlobalTimes): http://tinyurl.com/j87f2p7
Iraq
Jul. 3, 2016 Deadliest attack in a year kills 115 in central Baghdad. A devastating truck bombing on a bustling commercial street in downtown Baghdad killed 115 people, brutally underscoring the islamic state group's ability to strike the capital. (AP)
July 3, 2016 Nearly 120 killed and 200 wounded in two bombings in overnight Baghdad bombings claimed by islamic state. Most of them were in a busy shopping area as residents celebrated Ramadan. (Yahoo)
Szíria
2016. VII. 5. Szíriai frontvonalak - térkép (Forrás: MNO): http://tinyurl.com/j7hzv2l
Törökország
2016. VII. 5. A szíriai konfliktus megoldása nem Szírián belül, hanem a határok mentén rejlik, hiszen a 800 kilométeres határszakasz már évek óta a dzsihadisták fő utánpótlási útvonala. Különösen igaz ez a törökországi Kilistől az Eufráteszig ívelő szakaszra, ahol az iá már lassan két éve őrzi pozícióit. A Deutsche Welle riportjából is kiderült, hogy Törökországból számolatlanul és ellenőrizetlenül lépnek át itt áruval – vélhetőleg fegyverrel – megrakott kamionok, amelyek feltételezések szerint a dzsihadistáknál landolnak. Egy idő után még az Egyesült Államok is azzal vádolta a katonai szövetségesének számító Törökországot, hogy folyamatosan üzletel az iszlám állammal. Azt állította: olajat adnak-vesznek, sőt szélsőségesek kedvük szerint járnak-kelnek Törökország és Szíria között. Végül Törökország arra kényszerült, hogy falat építsen a határán. Először a Kilistől délnyugatra fekvő, a csempészek központjaként számon tartott Reyhanli határvárosnál emeltek kerítést, majd múlt év decemberében egy nyolcvankét kilométer hosszú és négy méter magas akadály építésébe kezdtek Kilis és Gaziantep tartományban. Mindez nem különösebben keserítette meg a dzsihadisták életét, a menekültekét viszont annál inkább. Az orosz–török kapcsolatok javulása hatással lesz a a dzsihadistákra: ha a két katonai hatalom összefog, végleg karanténba kerülhetnek a terroristák. (Forrás: MNO)
United States
July 7, 2016 Does Clinton possess the integrity and honesty to be president of the United States? FBI director Comey all but declared that Clinton lied when she said she had State Department approval for the email server in her home. He all but declared that she lied when she said she had only one server, and that no classified or secret material was transmitted. He also implied that she lied when she said she had used only one device and had turned over all of her work-related emails to State. The FBI found “several thousand” more. Clinton said her emails were stored in a secure area. This, too, was false. Hostile actors and hostile regimes, said Comey, had access to email systems of those with whom she communicated. Comey said he found no criminal “intent” in what Clinton did. If, knowing what we know of the congenital mendacity of Clinton, the nation chooses her as head of state and commander in chief, then that will tell us something about the America of 2016. And it will tell us something about the supposed superiority of democracy over other forms of government. (Source: WND)
Globalization
July 6 2016 The International Monetary Fund admits that it’s time to discard some of the old neoliberal dogmas. The research department of the International Monetary Fund dropped a political bombshell last month - publication of an article - “Neoliberalism: Oversold?” —- that sparked a near-panic among advocates of free market policies and celebrations among their critics. The piece concluded that, over the past 30 years, the proponents of the economic philosophy known as “neoliberalism” have been systematically overselling the benefits of the two planks at its heart - namely, fiscal austerity during economic slowdowns and the deregulation of financial markets. This is a huge concession for an institution long known for its ideological self-assuredness. The challenges raised by neoliberal economic development policies were easy for Western leaders to ignore when they were limited to crises in the developing world, such as Latin America in the 1980s, East Asia in the 1990s, and Russia and Turkey in the early 2000s. But since the 2008 financial crisis struck the rich countries too, their shortcomings have been harder to deny. With economic inequality untamed, financial markets still unstable, and fiscal austerity having utterly failed to revive economic growth and employment to pre-2008 levels, it’s increasingly difficult to keep pretending that the status quo is working. Before Reagan and Thatcher repopularized the ideology of free markets in the 1980s, the need for Keynesian economics and financial regulation had been widely accepted for a 40-year stretch following the Great Depression, and the advocates of free markets languished on the sidelines. Western leaders had learned the best way to prevent socialist revolutions and fascist dictatorships was to adopt policies that would avoid financial crises and lessen economic inequality. But the Reagan-Thatcher revolution set about unlearning those lessons, and the worsening inequality and financial instability of the last 30 years were the unfortunate result. The IMF’s article is the first sign of a swing back in the other direction. The popularity of free market policies has risen and fallen cyclically throughout history, such as before and then after the French Revolution, before the 1847 financial crisis that was followed by a string of social revolutions across Europe in 1848, and before the stock market crash of 1929 that was followed by the Great Depression. During each of these cycles, free markets were championed for a while but then eventually abandoned as financial crises became more frequent and economic inequality more pronounced. Today, in a time when leading U.S. presidential candidates rail against free trade deals, right-wing anti-immigrant parties win elections across Europe, and even the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development calls on its members to put the brakes on austerity, it’s clear that the political center, which has favored neoliberal policies for the last 30 years, is no longer holding. The high-profile IMF mea culpa may well be a first shot across the bow, a sign that we are now entering our own modern-day “1848 moment.” (Source: ForeignPolicy): http://tinyurl.com/jbv2z8q
Space
July 9,2016 The mysterious syndrome impairing astronauts’ sight. In 2005, astronaut Phillips took a break from his work on the International Space Station and looked out the window at Earth. He was about halfway through a mission that had begun in April and would end in October. When he gazed down at the planet, the Earth was blurry. He couldn’t focus on it clearly. That was strange - his vision had always been 20/20. He wondered: Was his eyesight getting worse? During Phillips’ post-flight physical, NASA found that his vision had gone from 20/20 to 20/100 in six months. (Source: TheWashingtonPost): http://tinyurl.com/hx4qvlg
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