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Exploitation of the masses is:
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3. I'm too stupid to have an opinion
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Poll time!!!
Exploitation of the masses is:
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2. Bad
3. I'm too stupid to have an opinion
My vote - 1 !!
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exploitation of the masses
i say go for it - as long as I'm not part of the masses but the elite
i say go for it - as long as I'm not part of the masses but the elite
China
In China everything is on a lease.
I stand corrected, but I think it is 70 years for a residential site and 50 years for a business site.
In the interim if needed the Government at any stage can send you a letter telling you to move if a City Block or Area is within a Development Plan of The Government. Any work or effort applied to your property is lost at that point in time.
Even if your lease is 70 years for a residential site, what effort would you put into that property in lets say the last 10 years of that lease?
Take Hong Kong for example.
Hong Kong was on a lease to the British for 99 years.
This is why Hong Kong was taken back by the Chinese as in effect the British only "rented" the land. Banks, Shopping Magnates had pumped in Billions only to realise that they spent money on something that they could never own, which is OK, but something that could be taken back at the end of the lease. I think not.
Communism does not stimulate human development or create entrepreneurs.
One might as well vegetate in a corner and do precisely nothing, as in the end your life will be meaningless.
Man is measured by his achievements and inventions. At least those are the men that will be remembered by history.
In China everything is on a lease.
I stand corrected, but I think it is 70 years for a residential site and 50 years for a business site.
In the interim if needed the Government at any stage can send you a letter telling you to move if a City Block or Area is within a Development Plan of The Government. Any work or effort applied to your property is lost at that point in time.
Even if your lease is 70 years for a residential site, what effort would you put into that property in lets say the last 10 years of that lease?
Take Hong Kong for example.
Hong Kong was on a lease to the British for 99 years.
This is why Hong Kong was taken back by the Chinese as in effect the British only "rented" the land. Banks, Shopping Magnates had pumped in Billions only to realise that they spent money on something that they could never own, which is OK, but something that could be taken back at the end of the lease. I think not.
Communism does not stimulate human development or create entrepreneurs.
One might as well vegetate in a corner and do precisely nothing, as in the end your life will be meaningless.
Man is measured by his achievements and inventions. At least those are the men that will be remembered by history.
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ROFLMAO.exploitation of the masses
i say go for it - as long as I'm not part of the masses but the elite
China is indeed very interesting. Having to deal with Chinese industry representation every now and then, I'd say that for a communist country they are taking on an increasing amount of capitalist tendencies.
Labour practices for example are changing, with an increasing tendency towards individual contractors as opposed to an "employment by state" relationship.
mancombseepgood
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Yes... absolutely... slaves the lot of them... work for peanuts...
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mancombseepgood
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Aha
True colours come out.
exploitation of the masses
i say go for it - as long as I'm not part of the masses but the elite
True colours come out.
Russians fighting WITH THE BOERS
Makes you think does it not.
Several hundred Russians came out to fight for the Boers and to be their nurses and doctors. It is difficult to be precise about the size of this group because many thousands of Jews, fleeing from the pogroms in Russia, had already joined the great gold rush to the Transvaal in the latter part of the 1880's. A good number of these left the Transvaal at the outbreak of war, some to join the British forces; but many fought for the Boers and probably accounted for the majority of the entire Russian contingent. The problem was that in the eyes of the often anti-Semitic Russian nationalists who flocked to the Boer cause such people were not Russians at all: the nationalists formed a separate Russian Commando unit in the Boer Army and refused to allow Russian Jews to join it. On the other hand, the British, enraged that such recent emigres should take up arms against them, found it convenient to regard them as Russians and deported large numbers of them back to Russia to face the pogroms again, an act of callousness which has never attracted the attention - or opprobrium - it deserves. (In 1946, Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin repeated this heartless procedure by returning Jewish refugees trying to reach Palestine back to detention camps in Germany.)
Not much is known about the Russian Jews who fought on the Boer side, though several rose to significant rank; we find a Commandant Kaplan and a Commandant Isaac Herman, while two others, Josef Segal ('Jackals') and Wolf Jacobson ('Wolf'), who acted as scouts, were legendary figures in their time; Segal became a special adviser and secret agent for the Boer general, Christiaan de Wet. Benzion Aaron, by now a very wealthy man and a personal friend of Kruger, set up a Jewish Ambulance Corps and bankrolled whole depots for the Boers. The anti-Semitism of the Russian nationalist volunteers doesn't seem to have caused any difficulties. Wounded nationalists were shown great solicitousness by Aaron's ambulance corps while the members of the anti-Semitic Russian Commando, according to their own reports, were greeted as compatriots on their arrival by Russian Jews who showered them with fruit, cigars and good wishes.
http://www.dangoor.com/70005.html
Makes you think does it not.
Several hundred Russians came out to fight for the Boers and to be their nurses and doctors. It is difficult to be precise about the size of this group because many thousands of Jews, fleeing from the pogroms in Russia, had already joined the great gold rush to the Transvaal in the latter part of the 1880's. A good number of these left the Transvaal at the outbreak of war, some to join the British forces; but many fought for the Boers and probably accounted for the majority of the entire Russian contingent. The problem was that in the eyes of the often anti-Semitic Russian nationalists who flocked to the Boer cause such people were not Russians at all: the nationalists formed a separate Russian Commando unit in the Boer Army and refused to allow Russian Jews to join it. On the other hand, the British, enraged that such recent emigres should take up arms against them, found it convenient to regard them as Russians and deported large numbers of them back to Russia to face the pogroms again, an act of callousness which has never attracted the attention - or opprobrium - it deserves. (In 1946, Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin repeated this heartless procedure by returning Jewish refugees trying to reach Palestine back to detention camps in Germany.)
Not much is known about the Russian Jews who fought on the Boer side, though several rose to significant rank; we find a Commandant Kaplan and a Commandant Isaac Herman, while two others, Josef Segal ('Jackals') and Wolf Jacobson ('Wolf'), who acted as scouts, were legendary figures in their time; Segal became a special adviser and secret agent for the Boer general, Christiaan de Wet. Benzion Aaron, by now a very wealthy man and a personal friend of Kruger, set up a Jewish Ambulance Corps and bankrolled whole depots for the Boers. The anti-Semitism of the Russian nationalist volunteers doesn't seem to have caused any difficulties. Wounded nationalists were shown great solicitousness by Aaron's ambulance corps while the members of the anti-Semitic Russian Commando, according to their own reports, were greeted as compatriots on their arrival by Russian Jews who showered them with fruit, cigars and good wishes.
http://www.dangoor.com/70005.html
Ekhaatvensters
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Ja, that wqas in the newspaper the other day (not the exact article), but they seem to have had a problem with the boers later. Interesting that the boers whould turn against them in favour of Britain and the West later.
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chiskop
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ajak's post reminded me that I'd read somewhere about a province (? I think?) in Russia named Transvaal, or Transvalia (something) in support of the boers. The theme park near Moscow that collapsed a few years ago was named Transvaal Park [link in Russian], although I'm not sure if thats connected.[also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transvaal_Park.]
It's interesting anyway.
There is a lot more to the history of our two countries than either of the knee jerk responses indicate.
It's interesting anyway.
There is a lot more to the history of our two countries than either of the knee jerk responses indicate.
Skeptik
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I guess the rUSSKIIs will now have to change the name to 'Gauteng' park.