Chez Seb & Cris
strida
April 28, 2008 – 5:38 pm
in the news…
April 28, 2008 – 4:49 pm
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China to s(t)eal $9bn DR Congo deal
(by John C Dvorak at http://www.dvorak.org/blog)
BBC NEWS | Programmes | Newsnight | China to seal $9bn DR Congo deal –This is one of those China-Africa deals I’ve been harping about on the weekly No Agenda podcast. If you read between the lines you can see how the Chinese are operating in Africa.
Due to be signed in Beijing in the next few days, it gives DR Congo $6bn of desperately needed infrastructure - about 2,400 miles of road, 2,000 miles of railway, 32 hospitals, 145 health centres and two universities.
In return, China gets a slice of DR Congos precious natural resources to feed its booming industries - 10m tonnes of copper and 400,000 tonnes of cobalt.
Its a barter deal - what the Chinese side loves to call “win-win”. Not aid with strings attached, like Western powers have given DR Congo over the years, but pure business.
Any bets that they get started on the mining before the 32 hospitals?
Here is the kicker paragraph late in the article:
A copy of the original DR Congolese-Chinese memorandum of understanding obtained by Newsnight appears to exonerate the Chinese side from all taxes and customs duties until the promised building work is completed.
So the Chinese flood the local economy with everything from spatulas to food to computers paying no duties. This goes into the local economy and drives competition out of business. They keep this up forever because there is no timetable in these deals and the building work is never completed so the Chinese get this sweet deal forever as they stall on the projects while raping the mines. Slick. This was explained to me two years ago yet nobody does anything about it. Oh, and in the process, the Chinese colonize the area since they have to bring in their own workers. Everyone will wonder what is wrong with Africa when someone gets a clue and the populace goes on a rampage and butchers all the colonists some years from now. Unless, of course, the Chinese bail out by then leaving half-finished projects and the country in a shambles with no resources left. They can then blame the Western powers for somehow meddling. Somehow the USA will get blamed. Smooth.
remember the milk
April 25, 2008 – 9:01 am
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ze drem vil finali kum tru!
April 21, 2008 – 2:18 pm
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The European Commission have just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty’s Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in plan that would be known as “EuroEnglish”: In the first year, “s” will
replace the soft “c”. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard “c” will be dropped in favor of the “k”. This should klear up konfusion and
keyboards kan have 1 less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome “ph” will be replaced with the “f”. This will make words like “fotograf” 20% shorter. In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horrible mes of the silent “e”’s in the languag is disgraceful, and they should go away.
By the 4th yar, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing “th” with “z” and “w” with “v”.
During ze fifz year, ze unesesary “o” kan be dropd from vords kontaiining “ou” and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. ZE DREM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!!
sabiduria suprema
April 21, 2008 – 2:13 pm
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April 18, 2008 – 3:33 pm
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zamzar
April 7, 2008 – 6:49 pm
Wine fair
April 5, 2008 – 1:50 pm
homelidays
April 4, 2008 – 8:51 am
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la vida misma
April 2, 2008 – 10:08 am
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Anoche, mi novia y yo estábamos sentados en la sala, hablando de las muchas cosas de la vida. Estábamos hablando de la idea de vivir o morir.
Le dije: ‘Nunca me dejes vivir en estado vegetativo,dependiendo de máquinas y líquidos de una botella, si me ves en ese estado,desenchufa los artefactos que me mantienen vivo, prefiero morir’
Entonces .. ella se levantó con cara de admiración …
… y desenchufó el televisor, el ordenador, la ipod y la play station…
Y me quitó la cerveza!!!
Qué hijaputa … casi me muero !!!!!!
B-boy Cico
April 2, 2008 – 9:21 am
CERN open doors
April 1, 2008 – 11:33 am
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CERN opens its doors to the public
On 6 April 2008, CERN will open its doors to the public, offering a unique chance to visit its newest and largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), before it goes into operation later this year. This scientific instrument, the largest and most complex in the world, is installed in a 27 km tunnel, 100 metres underground in the Swiss canton of Geneva and neighbouring France. CERN will open all access points around the ring for visits underground, to the tunnel and the experiment caverns. On the surface, a wide-ranging programme will be on offer, allowing people to learn about the physics for which this huge instrument is being installed, the technology underlying it, and applications in other fields.