Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Magnetic Tape Reader And Writer

When China will collapse


An old book, which was once a best-seller "found by chance in my library: When China awakes (shake the world ...). A written survey by Academician and former minister of General de Gaulle Alain Peyrefitte .
The title that caught on was borrowed by the author to Napoleon, who had issued the ruling.

Alas, as the Romans said, there not far from the Capitol to the Roche Tarpeian and so do not be a genius or prophet to predict a future collapse (false) Chinese miracle.
History teaches us that rebellion and revolutions are always the result of a confrontation between two blocs:
- A minority that holds the most power and wealth.
- A majority aggrieved
Between the two blocks, no communication, no understanding, as if a bulkhead separating them. This can last for years or even centuries. The steam rises, the pressure increases until the outbreak of the company become a pressure cooker.
We find this pattern in the French Revolutions of 1789 and the Bolshevik of 1917 but before our eyes, now, in spasms that shook the Arab world.

What about China?

The Power: A

party "communist"
mass movement of 70 million members but in fact governed by a true mafia of some 300 to 400 people. (Central Committee and Political Bureau)

unbridled capitalist economy, without checks and balances cons. No welfare, no labor unions. In short, a joyous atmosphere to Zola.

a very powerful weapon that holds more and more control stations at the expense of the party. Ubiquitous, it organizes the continuous surveillance of "people"

In summary, nepotism, corruption and human rights violated

Opposite: "The Opposition "

A mass still hungry representing about two thirds of the country: the campaigns, the interior provinces in relation to the Coast. We are not talking about Shanghai, or Guangzhou that are obscuring the rest showcases less bright.

remaining one third (but it should still be close 300/400 million) with an advanced population with a high educational level . High unemployment among young graduates who come to live in makeshift homes in major cities. New lumpenproletariat who handles Internet and yearns for more freedom, and simply work
.

Linguistic minorities and ethnic
who aspire to greater autonomy or even independence unspoken, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang Turkic and Muslim.

centripetal forces have always existed in China (Manchuria, Taiwan), and would do in a more subdued and linguistics. Mandarin, the official language-in fact the dialect of the region, Beijing is often seen as a mandatory language in the south of the country which is its "Cantonese".

So where are we?

Jolts have already taken place between the two blocks or strata above: Tiananmen, autonomist protests in Tibet and Xin Jiang fiercely repressed. Events following the movements of the Middle East (which the Chinese media operate censorship rigorous) ... Then there is the rampage of the Chinese government after award of the Nobel Peace Liu Xiaobo (in prison for 11 years) All these tremors heralding the great crash .

course the collapse of China will cause a tsunami unimaginable given the role it plays in the global economy.

remember that China is financing the U.S. debt growth by ensuring the interdependence between China and the United States is no longer a mystery. The export of products of the first funds the debt of the second. The two are held by the goatee. To a lesser
degree, it's the same for France and Europe

Certainly the worst is not always reliable. But when Alain Peyrefitte included a rise of China, it was not believed.

It seems to be no expert, that all elements of a collapse are met, all the ingredients for a spicy, explosive recipes are arranged on the table near the stove. There's missing a spark to light it.



In a more general look at the gaping democratic deficit of China, and movements which affect all Arab countries, one can say that the principle of entropy has bright future in politics as in science.

Saturday, February 19, 2011

How Much The Braces Cost In Lebanon

PAPERS Aspern


HENRY JAMES

Henry James (1843-1916) is arguably the greatest American writers (but it really was since 'he finally naturalized British?) His work seems the perfect illustration of this quip that Fernando Pessoa: "Literature is the proof that life is not enough." Each new each James's novel explores a mood effect that the reader can not but recognize as his own, at some point in its existence. His intrigues
adopting the viewpoint of a central character in the story, exploring the phenomena of consciousness and perception and are described in the mode of interior monologue. The style of his later works have been compared to an impressionist painter. It proceeds in effect to "small touches" and shows himself an enemy of any pomposity.
"In Art Is Always beauty economy", he said.
One of its most famous new one that seems to best sum up his art is:


Aspern Papers


The new happening in Venice in the late nineteenth century. American literary critic, desperate to get hold of unpublished personal papers of poet Jeffrey Aspern, his compatriot, is introduced as a tenant in Slip Juliana, who was sixty years before the muse and lover of writer. The old lady lives with her reclusive niece, Tita, and intends to stand against the wiles of the narrator: money, gallantry, burglary, everything fails. When she finally dies, it's back to Tita that paper as desired. The hero is forced to accept the prize it very special to him in demand.
The splendor of a summer on the lagoon, the picturesque ruins of a palace in a garden where flowers again forgotten the passion that we can devote to the work of a poet, too late revival of an old small daughter became all-powerful, his revenge, these are visible from the seductions of this classic Henry James. Under the shiny surface, dialogues content
emerges ambiguous thinking about writing, and where a hidden trap each reader will discover his own reflection.

Henry James and Virginia Woolf! : Probably the greatest of the English language literature.






Thursday, February 17, 2011

Conversation Protocol

STOP


Stop: in French: STOP.

What hides behind the attempts to convince us that English is a must educational, cultural, commercial, scientific, which we can not avoid, is simply a kind of contempt towards the French language and what it represents. This is to convince the average citizen, French (but also germanophone, Italian-, Russian-speaking Hispanic or Lusophone) there is a "redneck" retarded, and only in the game are the Malignant who speak English or pretend to speak it.
In the intemperate use of English, behind the cultural treason, appears perhaps some self-hatred.

- Stop Therefor these French singers who believe it necessary to articulate their mouth sounds that vaguely resemble the English, thinking that "being in the loop". Far from being brilliant or "genuine", they are .... Remain "polite" to say the least ridiculous.
- Stop these stores believe that "smart" because they are taught in English.
- Stop these films whose title and the posters are in English (even if they are American). Translate the title would be the least polite.
- Stop the lectures in English with an accent impenetrable imposed on French, which to bend to fashion, pretending to understand what balderdash
- Stop these ads speaking in the corridors subway.
- Stop the diplomats of the Quai d'Orsay and the officials in Brussels, the UN or IMF who, while they are perfectly speaking, do speak in English. French is an international language and must remain so.
- Stop all these barbarians who defile our media : Buzz; talk and so on.
I speak English when I gladly am in the U.S. or Great Britain because it is polite to try to use the language of the country we visit. I expect the converse of our English speaking visitors.

worth noting that all these "Communications" as pidgin English, is an insult to the English language and that countries like China or Russia, remain inscrutable and fundamentally opposed to this linguistic imperialism rampant.

Stop. Although Shelley, Henry James and Virginia Woolf are among my gods.