2012-11-09, 18:51 | Link #24521 | |
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Google says multiple services blocked in China
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2012-11-09, 19:24 | Link #24522 | |
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45% aid to PIIGS (until '90s), East Germany (until '00s), and for the past decade Eastern Europe. 31% the controversial agricultural programs, that despite being unanimously hated, without it almost no small/mid-range farm will survive in west and north Europe (in the south they are already destroyed by it). 11% environmental policies 6% foreign aid (mainly bribing former english, french, and dutch colonies' politicians) 6% The Bureaucracy of Brussels 1% funding social care, equality in employment, and modernization of buisness and governance programs ECB and rescue packages are mainly self-funded, since they bring back more money than they give (that is subject to change). But since they were based on former public banks, one can also claim that they originated from tax-payers, but that's a very complicated issue A more interesting statistic is the allocation of their GDP to the EU budget (2009): -0.53% Denmark -0.41% Italy -0.37% Germany -0.36% Finland -0.34% France -0.26% Netherlands -0.24% UK -0.18% Austria -0.18% Cyprus -0.13% Sweden -0.19% Ireland In other words for each 100 euros or pounds a German or British tax-payer makes, his states sends 37 or 24 cents or pennies back to the union... to keep things into perspective IMHO, 1 trillion is way too few money, and there is a lot of waste because most conservative governments obstruct unification and modernization. |
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2012-11-09, 20:07 | Link #24523 | |
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Anyway, most of the CAP doesn't go to small farmers (it's paid by the acre) but to large ones, who don't really need the help. The CAP also inordinately harms less developed nations, as they can't compete against the flood of cheap subsidized produce that comes out of the EU. And is it fair that I have to pay French, Polish or, yes, Irish Farmers for them to produce goods that I may never want? So my argument regarding the CAP, is that if a European farmer can't survive without the CAP, maybe they should get out of farming. Or modernize. But as I said earlier, the most egregious problems with the CAP are already being dealt with, thankfully. I still disagree with carte blanche agricultural subsidies. The only measure I think the EU should take is to buy up food at market prices to stabilize the food supply in case of drought. |
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2012-11-09, 20:09 | Link #24524 | |
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2012-11-09, 21:11 | Link #24525 |
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stor...day-night.html
Harper's visit to the Philippines. Just go on as usual even with that protests at the Canadian embassy.
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2012-11-10, 02:49 | Link #24526 |
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Climate Change Report Outlines Perils for US Military
It's kind of an opinion piece, but not too far from the reality.
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2012-11-10, 07:46 | Link #24528 |
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Jailing of protester underlines harsh Russia crackdown: Navalny
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...8A909H20121110
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2012-11-10, 13:42 | Link #24529 | |
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2012-11-10, 15:07 | Link #24530 |
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http://e.weibo.com/tmall
There is a huge online one day sale (Nov. 11) going on in China starting from midnight. Within 3 hours the transaction amount exceeds 3 billion yuan (half of a billion USD). |
2012-11-10, 20:20 | Link #24531 | |
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Hu opens Chinese congress with call to fight corruption
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2012-11-11, 03:48 | Link #24535 |
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http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/qu...le-loi-101.php (article in French)
Looks like that big fat walrus, Pauline Marois, will try again implementing a new bill to enforce French in Quebec... which is more an initiative smeared with bigotry because they can't stand English words in various businesses. That's the job of the people to preserve languages and culture, not legislation. To hell with Parti Québécois!!! And I am one who grew up with French education BTW. Last edited by KiraYamatoFan; 2012-11-11 at 08:47. |
2012-11-11, 08:12 | Link #24536 | |
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The ''loi 101'' was intended to be temporary, to help at putting french at his real place (back them it was really needed), like a crutch helping to it stand up. But the PQ see it like the graal . Two things to keep in mind; Pauline Marois can barely speak in english ( and barely might be too generous) and the PQ pretty much given up the possibility to get the anglophone vote for both election and a potential referendum.
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2012-11-11, 08:20 | Link #24537 |
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I like looking at his facial reaction.
----------- As for Petraeus, well, the news about him booted off from the CIA would make a big splash in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
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2012-11-12, 03:20 | Link #24538 | |
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Deadly blast devastates Indianapolis neighborhood
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Whoa, look at the scattered rubble on this one. The house (or houses) were totally shattered. It was mentioned in the article that a bomb or meth lab explosion was ruled out, according to a local representative. If that's really the case, I wonder what could have caused such a violent blast.
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2012-11-12, 03:57 | Link #24539 | |
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2012-11-12, 04:36 | Link #24540 | |
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Looks like a compression blast from the picture, which means it's not meth, and extremely unlikely to be gas - you'd need a lot of gas, which also happens to be pressurized somehow for this to happen. Not impossible, but not very likely. You're looking at some serious tonnage of explosives here, old TNT or solidox comes to mind first, eitherway, whatever it was, they had enough of it to give a 500 pounder a run for its money. |
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