Posts Tagged ‘Shanghai’
Tidbits and notes posted on FB and Twitter. Part 225
Note: I take notes of books I read and comment on events and edit sentences that fit my style. I pay attention to researched documentaries and serious links I receive. The page of backlog opinions and events is long and growing like crazy, and the sections I post contains a month-old events that are worth refreshing your memory
Every society has gone through the same historical development and experienced with feudal systems, caste systems, monarchies, and oligarchies.
China has the mentality of becoming a superpower at par with the USA. Everything that China is doing is at a gigantic measure such as the biggest dam with all the subsequent mass transfer of people, traditions, and customs.
The focus on urban centers and industrialization in China is diverting water from agriculture, the source of its initial prosperity and social stability.
A 7-month dry season in the northern part of China, the wheat basket region, is sending shivers of forthcoming famine. The rivers in China are heavily polluted and the western diseases from water and land pollution are harvesting thousands of young lives. Over 25, millions were forced to vacate the urban centers to their remote villages after this financial crisis.
Shanghai alone has more high rises than New York and Los Angeles combined or 5,000 high-rises.
China and India are two powers that have the technologies, the know-how, and the resources in raw materials and human potential to rival the economies of the western nations. It is no secret that the hurried frenzy of Bush Junior to unilaterally invade Iraq had the main purpose of dominating oil reserves and blackmailing China and India.
Within a century, 50 millions middle class families in the USA and Europe almost exhausted earth minerals and energies.
Currently, over 150 millions middle class families in China and India, and increasing steadily, can afford and demand the same consumer items that the USA and European middle classes enjoyed for a century, and they want them Now.
Just in fiscal 1997 alone, Israel received from a variety of other U.S. federal budgets at least $525.8 million above and beyond its $3 billion from the foreign aid budget, and yet another $2 billion in federal loan guarantees. So the complete total of U.S. grants and loan guarantees to Israel for fiscal 1997 was $5,525,800,000
Although Congress authorizes America’s foreign aid total, the fact that more than a third of it goes to a country smaller in both area and population than Hong Kong probably never has been mentioned on the floor of the Senate or House. Or that Israel standard of living is higher than Spain and Ireland. Yet this influx of financial support has been going on for more than a generation.
Shou hal fawda wal zolm? Leish elleh ma t7aakamo min sneen laazem yentro al “3afou al 3aam”?
Fi 4 voitures biya3touni sha2leh lal maktabeh iza mara2o. Al bakiyya bi kazbo 3ala nafshon “Adonis 7abeb yetmasha”. Ma 3edon jalad yed3esso frem wa yerj3o ye al3o.
Ahssan di3ayat la Hezbollah woukouf Saad Hariri doddahou: Kel Tareek Jdideh, bi omha wa bayya, badha t7ot warakat baydaa2. Kel sawt moush lal Moustakbal houweh sawt la Hezbollah. Sawto lel fassad wa ma tsadko Hassan
Samir Gea3ja3: Akeed, akeed, “Bad. Hezbollah very bad”. Sa3d Hariri: Kel sawt moush la eli houweh la Hezbollah
Adonis Diaries 