la Cina spinge il mondo e le concubine spingono la Cina - gz
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By: GZ on Mercoledì 23 Novembre 2005 01:05
Avverto molta gente tiepida (e alcuni negativi) e non è solo una mia sensazione visto che negli ultimi 12 mesi gli italiani hanno tolto soldi dalle azioni nonostante abbiano reso un 20% circa, inclusi dividendi. Ma il Nasdaq, il Nikkei, il DAX tedesco e altri indici toccano i massimi degli ultimi 3 anni e non è solo "la liquidità".
Ci sono cose nuove oggi che spingono avanti l'economia. Ieri ad esempio l'^Egitto ha firmato un accordo per fornire gas naturale a Israele#http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Briefs/5923.htm^. Per 45 anni si sono ammazzati, ora commerciano tranquilli e la borsa del Cairo ha fatto un altro record.
Sabato otto capi di Al Qaeda si sono dovuti far saltare per non farsi catturare a Mosul c'è ^qualche speranza che zarqawi fosse tra loro#http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/22/051122161512.06wiw87k.html^ e se non è per questa volta è per la prossima ormai
Soprattutto ci sono un miliardo e mezzo di Cinesi che trascinano ormai tutti e molti si chiedono cosa dia alla Cina questa spinta straordinaria. Si leggono tante spiegazioni, ma quella vera è : ^IL BOOM DELLE CONCUBINE##http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fi-mistress22nov22,0,6002074.story?coll=la-home-headlines^.
In Cina funzionari, politici e businessman rischiano anche l'ergastolo pur di arraffare milioni di dollari al fine di mantenere chi cinque, chi sette, chi anche dodici concubine secondo l'antica tradizione cinese che ritorna
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SHANGHAI — 'Second Wives' Are Back
The deputy mayor of Jining, in Shandong province, was pleading with his lover not to report him to authorities.
But in the end, the 51-year-old official was exposed and sentenced to life in prison. His crime: accepting more than $500,000 in bribes, which he used to support at least four mistresses in Jining, Shanghai and Shenzhen.
Li's transgressions were minor compared with those of other public officials. A top prosecutor in Henan province, for example, was recently stripped of his post and Communist Party membership after investigators alleged that he embezzled $2 million to support his lavish lifestyle — and seven mistresses.
"Everyone is saying, 'Behind every corrupt official, there must be at least one mistress,' " says Li Xinde, an anti-corruption activist who researched Li Xin's case and posted on his website a photo of the deputy mayor begging in the hotel room.
China's economic boom has led to a revival of the 2-millennium-old tradition of "golden canaries," so called because, like the showcase birds, mistresses here are often pampered, housed in love nests and taken out at the pleasure of their "masters."
Concubines were status symbols in imperial China. After the Communists took power, they sought to root out such bourgeois evils, even as Chairman Mao Tse-tung reportedly kept a harem of peasant women into his old age.
Now, mistresses have become a must-have for party officials, bureaucrats and businessmen.
"We are in a commodity economy," says retired Shanghai University sociologist Liu Dalin. "Work, technology, love, beauty, power — it's all tradable."
So-called concubine villages — places where lotharios keep "second wives" in comfort and seclusion — are ^now spread across the nation, in booming cities such as Dongguan, Chengdu and Shanghai..#http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fi-mistress22nov22,0,6002074.story?coll=la-home-headlines^.