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Prodi: Not at the moment --Monti is too highly regarded for that. But Berlusconi won't give in. He has lost his magic, but I am convinced he will try again.
SPIEGEL: Are you afraid of that?
Prodi: You cannot imagine how I have suffered in the last years. Wherever I went, it was all "bunga bunga". In Beijing, they laughed at my wife and I. Even in Kenya, the park rangers pointed at the monkeys in the trees and said, "Look, they are doing 'bunga bunga'.
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Psychiatrists have found that Anders Behring Breivik was insane at the time of the crime.
But of course. This is Scandinavia; evil doesn't exist there. Unless you're a Lutheran or a Lapplander...
The finding by the two forensic psychiatrists will help determine whether Breivik is sentenced to prison or psychiatric care. Prosecutor Svein Holden says the report shows Breivik was "psychotic" during the attack.
If that assessment is upheld by the court then Breivik cannot be sentenced to prison for the attacks.
"The conclusion is ... is that he is insane," Holden told a news conference. "He lives in his own delusional universe and his thoughts and acts are governed by this universe."
The two psychiatrists, Synne Serheim and Torgeir Husby, delivered their finding to the Oslo district court on Tuesday morning.
"We have no doubt when it comes to our conclusions," Husby told reporters as he submitted the report.
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#1
Oh I think he was, this is just more convenient for the state (and forcing a sane man onto psychotics is much worse punishment than a Danish prison).
#3
By "counterrevolutionary" standards, what he did was well planned, well executed, and accomplished his goals.
I read an excellent analogy, which compared Utoya Island, and the "Workers' Youth League"(*) to a Hitlerjugend ideological training camp. The HJ was formed in 1922, and many of its graduates went on to become doctrinally pure party functionaries. Had such an incident taken out a large number of HJs, it would have stripped the Nazi party of much of its core management when it was ascending to power eleven years later, in 1933.
So unless there is clinical evidence, not just observation and opinion, Breivik is being judged insane at the behest of the government, the Red-Green Coalition, to try and limit discussion and debate it doesn't want to have.
However, the political hard left has been substantially crippled.
(*) The Workers' Youth League took its current form in April 1927, following the merger of Left Communist Youth League and Socialist Youth League of Norway corresponding with the merger of its mother parties. Many former leaders of AUF have later become significant figures in Norway's political life.
#4
Deliberation is patently obvious. He has plead not guilty, and declared an intent to put Norway's immigration policy in the docket. Let's not forget that one day before the atrocity, Norway's Foreign Minister appeared on Utoya with paleo propagandists and attacked Israel. The insanity finding manifests an intent to prevent the murderer from getting a platform that would embarass the government.
A diagnosis of paranoia hardly fits a case where the murderer had cause for protest but not to commit mass slaughter. Let's not forget the "islamophobia" smears against anyone who doesn't want jihadis in their neighborhood.
h/t Gates of Vienna
The head of Elstat, Greeces new independent statistics agency, faces an official criminal investigation for allegedly inflating the scale of the countrys fiscal crisis and acting against the Greek national interest. How, why does this sounds familiar? Continued on Page 47
h/t Gates of Vienna
China is looking to buy EU factories and railways instead of wobbly government bonds as prices fall amid the eurozone crisis.
Minister of commerce Chen Deming articulated the strategy at a business congress in China on Monday (28 November).
"Next year, we will send a delegation for promoting trade and investment to the European countries ... Some European countries are facing a debt crisis and hope to convert their assets to cash and would like foreign capital to acquire their enterprises. We will be closely watching and pushing forward the process," he said.
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#1
Makes sense, Hard Currency where the currency isn't.
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#2
Always a risk. The US has long had a proud reputation of ripping off foreigners who tried to speculate here.
One favorite tale on the subject was when the English tried to speculate in a US longhorn drive, even sending a Scottish accountant to Texas to ride with the cowboys. When they left Texas they had a huge herd, but by the time they reached KC, there was nary a longhorn to see for miles around.
#5
Fire sale prices. Looks like barter. So if they have hyperinflation, China is sitting pretty. Value of EU factories, railways, resources go up and the money value given goes down.
#6
...I'm not sure the Chinese are interesting in obtaining 'industries' that have heavy doses of employee entitlements that don't directly contribute to productivity and often act counter to productivity. They seem to put stock in the old adage 'he who will not work will not eat'.
#7
If you HAVE to, you can always dismantle it, and haul it away.
I'm sure China is hurting for Railroads.
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#8
..now just guessing, it is indeed a good opportunity to loot technology and large industrial equipment stocks avoiding 'start up costs' back home. Sort of like corporate raiders stripping a buy of its non-essential assets and turning around and trading the core elements that had value.
#10
China doesn't need to dismantle anything. From the industries they will look to reverse engineer / take home intellectual property and manufacturing processes.
I have a bunch of bearings on my desk, that were made in China. They were made in a factory China bought lock stock and barrel in Japan and shipped to China. The boxes even have "Made in Japan" printed on them, above the "Made in China" sticker glued on below.
They probably don't have to do it, but... they've done it before.
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