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“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

“One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.”

Lao Tzu

We should make Russsia a better place to leave.

All things are admired either because they are new or because they are great.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Uranium sacrifices of Iran,

or Israel burns.
A magnetic bomb was attached to the car by two motorcyclists, Iran says  US has condemned the killing of an Iranian nuclear scientist in a car bomb attack in north Tehran. National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said the US "had absolutely nothing to do" with the attack.

Chinese airlines warn they will refuse to pay EU carbon tax

China's four major airlines – national flag-carrier Air China, China Eastern Airlines, China southern Airlines and Hainan Airlines – are represented by the CATA Photo: Doug Kanter/Bloomberg

By Peter Simpson, Beijing 05 Jan 2012

Beijing said it has deep concerns over the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), which came into force on New year's Day and demands all airlines pay a green duty to offset carbon emissions.

"China opposes the European Union's unilateral legislation. China has expressed to the EU our deep concern and opposition many times on a bilateral level," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said.

Mr Hong urged Brussels to hold urgent talks with Beijing over the controversial carbon allowance scheme, which has also met strong opposition from other countries.

The China Air Transport Association was more militant in its response – declaring its members would not co-operate with the ETS and refuse to pay the added tax.

It also said it would seek legal action and try and attempt to form an international alliance to scrap the scheme.

magic elections

the summing  percentage of all parties in Rostov region exceeds 146.

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Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions. Gilbert Chesterton (1874-1936)

It is impossible for good or evil to last for ever; and hence it follows that the evil having lasted long, the good must be now nigh at hand.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between, he does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan, poet

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world.
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
Gilbert Chesterton (1874-1936)

It seems to me a hard case to make slaves of those whom God and nature have made free.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)

half moon

11.11.11 full moon

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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
Ovid
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)

half moon

bought  € at 1.404 target 1.4276  on November the 2nd )

new moon

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Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

David F. D’Alessandro, author of Executive Warfare suggests a smart way to find smart applicants:
“Humor is a sign of intelligence…I never, ever hired someone who was mirthless. I may have hired a few who were worthless, but never mirthless.”

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Millennium City

Millennium City, a cluster of newer office buildings developed by Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd. (16), has attracted the back offices of banks such as Standard Chartered Plc and Bank of East Asia Ltd. to East Kowloon. Manulife Financial Corp. last year moved its Hong Kong headquarters to the district, while PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP has also relocated part of its operations there.
“We can really have a Canary Wharf here if the government gets its act together,” said John Davies, a Hong Kong-based executive director at CB Richard Ellis.
After spending 10 years in public discussion and consultation, the government in 2007 came up with an outline for the site’s redevelopment. The current plan includes building more than 33,000 units of public and private housing, 20 million square feet of office, retail and hotel spaces, cruise terminals and a stadium.
The plan for the development of Kai Tak “had evolved several times to meet changing community aspirations” before it was approved, the government’s Civil Engineering and Development Department, which is in charge of the development of Kai Tak, said in an e-mail reply to Bloomberg questions.

Removing Stigma

Central’s surging costs have already prompted defections. In 2007, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse Group AG and Deutsche Bank AG moved their entire operations in the city across the harbor to the International Commerce Centre in West Kowloon, a reclaimed area that’s a five-minute train ride from Central.
Property prices on the Kowloon Peninsula, north of Victoria Harbour, have historically been below those of Hong Kong Island, home to the city’s financial district and its most expensive residential area. Before the completion of ICC, few banks would have considered setting up front offices in Kowloon, said Davies.
The move to West Kowloon “has removed the negative stigma of Kowloon,” he said. “To attract the same caliber of clients to East Kowloon, the infrastructure in that area needs to  be improved.”

"They can't without people, -

front sight is disturbing..."

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To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.
Gilbert Chesterton (1874-1936)

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

A steady hand in governing of military affairs is more requisite than in times of peace, because an error committed in war may, perhaps, prove irremediable.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)


"A new motto for the 21st century employee might well be: Be funny, make money. There is a direct correlation between having fun on the job and being more productive."
From Work Like Your Dog Fifty Ways to Work Less, Play More, and Earn More by Matt Weinstein and Luke Barber (Villard)

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

Owning a Canadian

On her radio show, Dr Laura Schlesinger said that, as an observant Orthodox
Jew, homosexuality is an abomination according to Leviticus 18:22,
and cannot be condoned under any circumstance.
The following response is an open letter to Dr. Laura, written by a U.S.
man, and posted on the Internet. It's funny, as well as informative:

Apple is preparing

 to open its first store in Hong Kong this quarter at the International Finance Center Mall amid a surge in China sales.

Sales in the China region, including Hong Kong and Taiwan, were “key” to Apple’s third-quarter results, surging sixfold to $3.8 billion in the period,
The IFC commmercial complex, developed and owned by Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd. (16) and Henderson Land Development Co., includes the 88-story IFC 2 office tower. It’s located in Hong Kong’s Central shopping and business district.
Apple, which didn’t open its first store in China until 2008, now has two stores each in Beijing and Shanghai. Those four stores generate, on average, the company’s highest traffic and highest revenue.

items in Hong Kong

 are less likely than in China to be counterfeit.

A stream of customers in Tsim Sha Tsui’s Canton Road yesterday carrying bags of Vivienne Westwood, Gucci and Burberry brand products and speaking in Mandarin, showed that a $350 billion decline in the value of stocks in China since mid-April has failed to kill off the tourist trade. Their spending may help to limit what Morgan Stanley and Daiwa Capital Markets say is set to be a second straight quarterly contraction in Hong Kong’s economy.
In July, sales jumped 29 percent to HK$35.2 billion ($4.5 billion), also a record gain excluding January and February figures that are distorted by a Lunar New Year holiday. Sales of jewelry, watches and clocks soared 52 percent from a year earlier. For electronics, the increase was 65 percent.