Many famous newspapers are writing about a new crisis between the Chinese government and France. The reason for this escalation is that the auction house Christie’s sold 2 works of art, which were robbed from the Chinese imperial palace in 19th century.
The problem is that the previous owners of the two bronze figures, have acquired them legally and under the French law the current owner is the legal owner. Thus, China could not enforce the auction house, to confiscate both characters simply. The Chinese government could not provide enough money to buy these two bronze figures.
However, it is really a difficult question, about the legality of this deal. China still can use the argument that the buyer should be aware, that both works of art were robbed and come to Europe illegally. So if I see this issue from this perspective, then I think that China is the legal owner of those bronze figures.
France-China Crisis
January 12th, 2009Gas war between Russia and Ukraine (reloaded)
December 16th, 2008It’s almost tradition. At the end of a year Ukraine and Russia beginning with a new conflict because of transit of gas though Ukraine into EU and price of gas for Ukraine.
I’m would like to try to describe this conflict as I understand it accourding to different news media.
Russia accuses Ukraine that Ukraine did not pay for gas.
Ukraine accuses the joint Russian-Ukrainian company “RosUrkEnergo”, that it is responsible for delay and therefore refuses, to pay fines.
The Ukraine got then a credit to the able to pay for gas for last year and transfer it to RosUkrEnergo, without the fees to be taken into account, since Ukraine does not recognize this.
The company RosUkrEnergo did not transfer the money simply to Gasprm, but they divide the money and tranfer a part of it, in order to pay the fines and the balance were transfered as payment of the debt for the year 2008.
The rest of money is no longer sufficient to pay for the consumption of natural gas for 2008 because RosUkrEnergo used a part of it as a controversial transfer fees.
It seems that Russia used the company RosUrkEnergo to achieve their own purposes. Ukraine is of course recognized the problem a year ago, but Russia is trying to save the position of this company as mediator.. This is also understandable why Russia will try to save a status of RusUkrEnergo, because otherwise Russia would have fewer opportunities, to turn the situation in their own direction.
This all sounds to some one-sided. Therefore, I would like to say that I do not trust both sides 100%. So I try to consider the statements of both parties critical. Of course it could be that my conclusions are wrong, but they seem to me quite logical.
World crisis, for which the U.S. allegedly guilty are and how these events will be politically exploited
September 29th, 2008Thanks to our media, it is generally known that the global financial crisis originated in the United States of America. Everything began on crash of the mortgage system. The reason is that the banks’ loans were given to the citizens with unfair conditions, so these people from the beginning were condemned not pay off their loans. Apparently no one expected that the level of unpaid loans will be so high that the banks themselves will make a loss.
But how did it become a world crisis? Many foreign banks bought the mortgaes from American banks in order to make big profits in short time. The American mortages were very cheap. Many banks organized branches in offshore countries that are not considered as affiliates of this banks officially. These stores were made to work with American mortages. So banks avoided the payment of taxes in their home country.
Then came the crisis and many American banks were declared as bankrupt. The mortgages have become useless and foreign banks lost a lot of money.
But how is this fact exploited by some states? I explain that in example of Russia. The government of this country pumped several billion rubles in the domestic financial market to reduce the consequences of the crisis. They are used allmast all reserves, only to avoid the crash of their own economy. And what say the Russian politicians? They explain that Russia’s economic feels itself very well and that the United States are evil because they tried to destroy economics of foreign countries with help of this crysis but crashed only their own economic. This is pure propaganda.
Criminals foreigners
July 23rd, 2008This theme was a taboo for the media for a long time. No one dared to publicly critical about it, because you could be accused that you are a racist. This was the problem for a long time. But when 2 young foreigners attacked a pensioner in Munich and harmed him, concealment of the problem was finally concluded. From now the newspapers and other media feel finally free to report in detail about this issue. But how this problem should be solved? Should we try to change these people? Or simply deport those people? Or maybe we the prison is a solution for the problem? A good question, I think. I believe that the first thing we have to do is to teach these people to respect our country and the people living here. Who does not recognise our values or our country, may no longer live here. That is my opinion. No, seriously, how long should we tolerate people here who are not willing to tolerate our Western culture? I am talking here not about the acceptance. I can understand that some people from another cultural background can’t accept Christianity and some based on it values. If they choose a life in this country they should at least behave respectfully to the people leaving here. Otherwise, they should choose a different place to live.
Burma
May 15th, 2008
Almost no media in the world stay silent, after these tragic events in this Asian country. A big natural disaster hit a country that, althought of the military dictatorship and centralisation of force is not able protected itself.
On the example of Burma we see clearly that the arguments of some people that a democratic country is less powerful then the country with dictatorship is baseless and finds no support in real life. This example reveals the tragic reality, where the government of the country is ready for everything in order to keep the power. These people make their own prosperity more importnat than the life of their own people. They have failed on all fronts. They have failed by the denying of international help, they have failed by providing such assistance as its own help and by not recognizing that they have failed. A government which does not recognise its own mistakes, is weak, a government that see own people dying in these inhuman conditions without to help them, must take the responsibility. People, like this, in my opinion, according to Hague.
I wonder why the UN look away? Why I hear nothing from the UN Security Council? A government militant kills own people and United Nations are looking away. Is the difference that the military of Burma kills own people and not one of the people of neighbouring countries makes the UN free of the responsibility?
I am very disappointed.
Peacekeeper for Darfur
August 7th, 2007Today I read an article in New York Times about U.N. Resolution to approve 26 000 peacekeeper for Darfur (western Sudan) to stop the violence. In Sudan more than 200 000 people were killed during of last 4 years.
As for me, the conflict of Darfur is a good example of disability of U.N. to prevent genocide or other manifestation of violence. It is obvious that renaming of League of Nations to United Nations was only a “cosmetic change”, but this organization is still the same.
Blast of fuel tanker kills at least 50 people at Baghdad gas station
August 7th, 2007I read about those terrorist incidents at least once at week, unfortunately those acts take place very often. If I would live in Baghdad, I would leave this city as soon as possible. I can’t imagine that people can live in that city and don’t want to go away.
Russian expedition to the North Pole reached their aim
August 2nd, 2007Russians started an expedition in the Artic Ocean to put their flag to the sea floor and argue that this territory is a part of Russia. This territory has much oil and gas resources and that’s why Russia is interested to appropriate it. I watched “Vremya” (Russian news) and a television announcer said that in time of UDSSR this territory was a part of country and that’s why it should be a part of Russia again.
But Russia and UDSSR are 2 different countries. UDSSR consisted of a lot of countries. Why Russia of all countries should get this territory? Should they get it, only because this territory is near Russian border? And what is with Koenigsberg (Kaliningrad)? This city has not any border with Russia, but it is a part of it. So, Ukraine or Kazakhstan or maybe Uzbekistan could claim to it? If you tell to Russians about crimes of UDSSR, they answer you that they don’t have anything in common with this country that Russia can’t bequeath past of UDSSR. But if we speak about money, resources or achievements, Russians will say: “Yes, of course that were we!”
Secret medical file at Lidl
February 9th, 2010This privacy scandals in the recent times are the often thing in the press, so I almost take it for granted. This art of thinking is very dangerous, because, indirectly, the situation is took as a given one and it is as well tolerated. That is wrong. An ordinary consumer is not able to do anything if the data that was collected by government agencies is lost , as it happened in Britain. The medical cards of an ordinary Lidl-seller was stored without wising about that the employees. But every man can afford to do it more difficult to get the contribution to the personal life for the data-hungry foreign companies, by means of giving as little information as possible. This is done by using social networks on the Web, and similar PayBack Data renounces what is possible.
So people who takes part?!