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...слышал ни об одной стране из BRIC, жители которой не жаловались бы на вопиющую коррупцию. Вот и новоприбывшие южноафриканцы туда же.

Here’s the thing– political corruption is rampant everywhere. In the developed world of North America and Western Europe, though, politicians are skillfully subtle at their corruption.

...In South Africa, though, the corruption is blatantly obvious. It’s almost insulting. The politicians here must think their citizens are so stupid, they won’t notice massive financial aberrations.


http://www.sovereignman.com/expat/south-africa-electricity-corruption/

Etymological observations

The different articulations of the word for tea into the two main groups: "te-derived" (Min Chinese dialects) and "cha-derived" (Mandarin, Cantonese and other non-Min Chinese dialects) reveals the particular Chinese local cultures where non-Chinese nations acquired their tea and tea culture.

• India and the Arab world most likely got their tea cultures from the Cantonese or the Southwestern Mandarin speakers.
• Russia encountered tea via the northern Mandarin speakers.
• The Portuguese, the first Europeans to import the herb in large amounts, took the Cantonese form "chá," as used in their trading posts in the south of China, especially Macau.
• Western Europeans who copied the Min articulation "teh" probably traded with the Hokkienese while in Southeast Asia.

theory and practice

ex-ECB chief economist ottmar issing on Euro-bonds

Auch vor Eurobonds, also gemeinsamen Anleihen der Eurozone, warnte der Ökonom. "Wer Eurobonds will, wird sich als Totengräber eines stabilen Euro erweisen", sagte Issing. "Am Ende drohen bislang solide Länder in einem Verschuldungsstrudel zu versinken. Dann würde auch Deutschland finanzpolitisch ersticken. Dann ist das Projekt stabiler Euro gestorben."


http://www.stern.de/wirtschaft/news/issings-prognose-fuer-griechenland-schuldenschnitt-und-raus-aus-dem-euro-1732987.html