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FAT GERMAN RABBITS TO FEED THE POORMonster Bunnies For N. KOREA
An east German pensioner who breeds rabbits the size of dogs has been asked by the DPRK to help set up a big bunny farm to alleviate food shortages in the communist country. Now journalists and rabbit gourmets from around the world are thumping at his door.
It all started when Karl Szmolinsky won a prize for breeding Germany's largest rabbit, a friendly-looking 10.5 kilogram "German Gray Giant" called Robert, in February 2006.
Images of the chubby monster went around the world and reached the reclusive communist state of North Korea, a country of 23 million which according to the United Nations Food Programme suffers widespread food shortages and where many people "struggle to feed themselves on a diet critically deficient in protein, fats and micronutrients."
Szmolinsky, 67, from the eastern town of Eberswalde near Berlin, recalls how the North Korean embassy approached his regional breeding federation and enquired whether it might be willing to sell some rabbits to set up a breeding farm in North Korea. He was the natural choice for the job.
Each of his rabbits produces around seven kilograms of meat, says Szmolinsky, who was so keen to help alleviate hunger in the impoverished country that he made the North Koreans a special price -- ?80 per rabbit instead of the usual ?200 to ?250.
"They'll be used to help feed the population," Szmolinsky told SPIEGEL ONLINE. "I've sent them 12 rabbits so far, they're in a petting zoo for now. I'll be travelling to North Korea in April to advise them on how to set up a breeding farm. A delegation was here and I've already given them a book of tips."
Greedy Rabbits
Szmolinsky knows what he's talking about. He has been breeding rabbits for 47 years. The 12 bunnies he sent can produce 60 babies a year -- if the North Koreans find enough food to feed them properly. "I feed them everything -- grain, carrots, a lot of vegetables. At the moment they're getting kale," said Szmolinsky.
"One rabbit provides a filling meal for eight people. There are a variety of recipes such as rabbit leg or rabbit roulade. No one buys rabbit fur anymore though, I just throw that in the bin," says Szmolinsky with chilling dispassion.
He breeds between 60 and 80 rabbits per year and manages to stay emotionally detached enough to send the furry, innocent-looking, huge-eared creatures to slaughter. Asked if he has any pet bunnies he could never part with, he said: "You can't hang on to them, if you did you wouldn't be able to breed them."
Szmolinsky's North Korean connection has attracted media attention from around the world, and he seems to be getting tired of it. "I'm getting ambushed by camera crews," he said, adding that he was booked up with interview appointments for days. "There's a Japanese crew flying in from Paris later."
Potential Chinese buyers have also expressed an interest. Szmolinsky doesn't know how many more rabbits he will be sending to North Korea and said he definitely wouldn't be increasing his own production to satisfy growing demand from Asia.
"I'm not increasing production and I'm not taking any more orders after this. They cost a lot to feed," he said.
Der Spiegel, 1.10
☞ Robert der Rammler goes East
☞ Riesen-Kaninchen fuer Nordkorea
2007 - the Beginning of the "Future" of Capitalism(?!)
In 2005 Siemens, one of Germany's main conglomerates, sold its mobile phone production company to BenQ (Taiwan). In the end of last year the mother company of BenQ terminated complete the financing of BenQ-Siemens Mobile, because actually nobody wanted to buy this oldstyle sh.. So in the last days of January 2006 BenQ-Siemens announced insolvency (i.e. the company was complete bancrupt) and the dismissal of all 800 employees (wow, for them it was a very "beautiful" Christmas present!!).
Now a German/American group of investors announced last weekend - according to German magazines and newspapers, like Der Spiegel, Berliner Zeitung, WAZ.. - that they want to take over the company for continuing the production.
But they announced also "great" ideas about the conditions how (only) the take-over can become reality:
1. The investor group will pay NOTHING for (the take-over of) the company
2. The federal government have to pay them 100 Million Euro
3. At least in the first 4 month or so they will pay the employees NOTHING (i.e. no salaries, no health insurance etc...)
TRULY A MAGIC IDEA (for the further development of the capitalism)!! ^^
First of all: Today's Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (the Sunday edition of THE MAIN bourgeois German daily FAZ) maintained that the paper has evidence that the "supernotes" - i.e. the falsified/faked 100-$-notes - were produced in CIA printing offices (to finance CIA undercover activities/operations) and not in the DPRK (Stammen die „Supernotes” von der CIA?).
Anyway.. here's a kind of collections of last week's articles, reports and comments about/from the DPRK:
"On January 4 on Kim Il Sung Square, Pyongyang, 100,000 citizens hold a rally,
vowing that they will follow the direction sought by the government’s New Year’s
joint editorial, which was published in three state-run newspapers.
This year’s joint editorial emphasized the country’s "military-first" policy
and economic recovery as the top agenda items."
(Korean Central News Agency, Yonhap, Hankyoreh)
"The New Year's Day of Juche 96 (2007) has come. From the early morning,
streams of the Korean people visit statues of the great President Kim Il Sung,
the eternal sun of Juche... to make a New Year's bow to him" (KCNA)
I Will Be the Highest Leader till 90 Years (DailyNK)
Reports Indicate N. Korea Plans New Test (AP)
North Korea accuses US of conducting practice aerial strikes (AP)
North Korea on Saturday accused the US of carrying out aerial exercises to practice strikes on targets in the country.
The North's Korean Central News Agency said the exercises were conducted over South Korea, but were meant as practice runs for possible aerial attacks against North Korea. "Strategic bombers of the US imperialist aggression forces staged a DPRK-targeted madcap air strike exercise" on Friday, KCNA reported, citing an unidentified military source..
U.S. warns N.K. against another nuclear test (K. Herald)
The Book A Year in Pyongyang, written by Andrew Holloway, was already published in 2003, but - in my opinion - it is still very interesting to read it.
^^(*)
Chapter 1
There are times in life when even the dullest and most complacent among us feel the need to make a change. It was at such a time in my life that a friend drew my attention to a job she had seen advertised on a Leeds University notice board. It was an unusual job in a little known country. The remuneration was not extravagant, but I estimated it would be sufficient for me to meet my ongoing commitments and save enough to tide me over on my return until I could find another job.
The country was the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, better known in the west as North Korea. The job entailed raising translations into English that Koreans had made of the works of their President, Kim Il Sung, his son and heir apparent Kim Jong Il, and sundry other propaganda...
Please read the entire book (23 chapters!!) here!
* source of the pic(the t-shirt):
Jean-Baptiste KIM, one of the main promoters (or better said: THE main promoter) of "2007 PY Rock Festival/ROCK FOR PEACE" (☞ 평양 2007年 5月) published on the first day of the new year following statement:
"I .. need to announce that ROCK FOR PEACE will be suspended along with myself. It was my passion to bring rock festival into North Korea but I decided not to continue on this project because I know full details of the event, the reasons, the purposes, the backgrounds, everything. The reason why I abandon the event is because the event was politically designed which gives more pains to ordinary people but more benefits to the regime. The event was designed to generate westernized reputations over the current isolated image of the regime. I have generated lots of reactions from world medias and I was about to use them in order to generate new political images for internal and external political purposes. It has been also designed to make more money while UN sanction is restricting DPRK rulers. I am pretty much sure that the money I create from this project will not benefit ordinary people but only gives political fund for ruling minority only..."
His entire statement ("MY COUP D'ETAT, CONSCIENCE AGAINST REASONS OF STATE") - actually he's breaking complete with the DPRK - you can read here: http://www.voiceofkorea.org
"HAPPY" NEW YEAR!
But Unfortunately the Capitalism
is Still Ruling!!
K. Times predicted in its latest (online)edition following for S. Korea's working class - at least for a large part of it:
Non-Regular Workers Face Mass Layoffs
Non-regular workers face layoffs en masse as employers are trying to beat the July 1 deadline to give regular worker status to part-timers who have worked in the same job for more than two years.
Already the Office of Court Administration decided to let go of its non-regular security guards, while HSBC is moving to replace its sizable non-regular workforce.
This sentiment is generally shared by employers who fear an increase in payroll and benefits.
Only 11 percent of the surveyed 592 companies said they will provide regular jobs for non-regular workers, while 63.3 percent of the respondents said they will give the status to only those eligible for regular job status. The Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry conducted the survey.
The law on the protection of non-regular workers will take effect in July for firms having 300 employees or more. Companies with 100 to 299 workers will be subject to the law from July 2008 and those with less than 100 workers from September 2009.
The first case of dismissal started in the public sector. The Office of Court Administration said it has not renewed yearly contracts with 40 non-regular security guards in courts nationwide last month.
The Office of Court Administration is expected to hire new non-regular employees who will replace those who worked for two years or more.
In the case of HSBC, a major foreign bank operating here, some 500 or 40 percent of its total 1,200 employees have the status of non-regular workers.
The ratio of non-regular employees including temporary workers in the bank is high, compared with the average of 20 percent to 30 percent in Korean banks.
HSBC hires all newcomers in the form of non-regular or contract jobs. It gave regular worker status to only 10 percent to 20 percent of these in the past, although it raised this to 60 percent to 70 percent between 2005 and 2006.
Financial firms have hired more contract workers of late to cut costs but are under growing pressure to convert their status to regular jobs.
An official of the Federation of Korean Industries (FKI), a business lobby, said the obligatory conversion to regular jobs will be a big burden on enterprises, citing unfavorable economic conditions.
``Smaller companies could lower payrolls under the law. The law aimed at reducing the number of non-regular workers may bring about an overall reduction in new hiring,'' he said.
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200701/kt2007010317243310230.htm
Following idiotic story - actually just the subject of the story is complete idiotic - was published in today's Yedioth Ahronoth (IL):
Iran: Hitler was a Jew
Advisor to President Ahmadinejad claims Nazi leader was Jew who conspired with USSR and Britain to establish Jewish state
Just when you thought the Iranian leadership could stoop no further: A top advisor to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed in an interview with Iranian website Baztab that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's parents were both Jewish and that Hitler himself was one of the founders of the State of Israel.
In the interview, translated by MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute) Mohammad-Ali Ramin, a chief aide to Ahmadinejad, told Baztab that Hitler's paternal grandmother was a Jewish prostitute and his father even kept his Jewish name until finally changing it to Hitler when he was 40.
Ramin also claimed that the reason Hitler developed such an aversion to Judaism was because his Jewish mother was a promiscuous woman. Hitler therefore, says Ramin, tried to escape his religion.
Ramin cites a 1974 book by Hennecke Kardel titled 'Adolf Hitler: Founder of Israel', which alleges that Hitler strived to create a Jewish state as a result of being influenced by his Jewish relatives and his cooperation with Britain – which also wanted to drive the Jews out of Europe.
Ramin claims in the interview that Hitler both identified with his Judaism and was disgusted by it. It is these ambivalent feelings, said Ramin, that formed the basis for his treatment of Jews.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3347309,00.html
Berlin 1940: the gang of Jewish German politicians on their final meeting
to prepare the Communist World Empire of Juda/Israel [harrharrharr~(*)]
* Sorry, of course I don't see this part of the human history not as a joke, not at all!!
Already last week (12.24) WSJ published following interesting but also a kind of provocative article (written by B. Myers):
AXIS OF EVIL
'Concerted Front'
Why Seoul is soft on North Korea.
No country today is as misunderstood as North Korea. Journalists still refer to it as a Stalinist or communist state, when in fact it espouses a race-based nationalism (!!) such as the West last confronted during the Pacific War. Pyongyang's propaganda touts the moral superiority of the Korean race, condemns South Korea for allowing miscegenation, and stresses the need to defend the Dear Leader with kyeolsa, or dare-to-die spirit--the Korean version of the Japanese kamikaze slogan kesshi. The six-party talks are therefore less likely to replicate the successes of Cold War détente than the negotiating failures of the 1930s. According to early reports from Beijing, the North Korean delegation appears more confident than ever. It has clearly been emboldened not only by its accession to the nuclear club, but by the awareness that Seoul will continue providing food and financial support no matter what happens.
This support is not meant to expedite unification, which South Koreans are happy to put off indefinitely. Nor has it much to do with concern for starving children; by now everyone knows where the "humanitarian" aid really goes. No, the desire to help North Korea derives in large part from ideological common ground. South Koreans may chuckle at the personality cult, but they generally agree with Pyongyang that Koreans are a pure-blooded race whose innate goodness has made them the perennial victims of rapacious foreign powers. They share the same tendency to regard Koreans as innocent children on the world stage--and to ascribe evil to foreigners alone. Though the North expresses itself more stridently on such matters, there is no clear ideological divide such as the one that separated West and East Germany. Bonn held its nose when conducting Ostpolitik. Seoul pursues its sunshine policy with respect for Pyongyang.
The relationship between the Koreas can therefore be likened to the relationship between a moderate Muslim state such as Turkey and a fundamentalist one like Iran. The South Koreans have compromised their nationalist principles in a quest for wealth and modernity, and while they're glad they did, they feel a nagging sense of moral inferiority to their more orthodox brethren. They often disapprove of the North's actions, but never with indignation, and always with an effort to blame the outside world for having provoked them. (The same is true of moderate Islam's response to fundamentalist terrorism.) To be sure, there was public anger at Kim Jong Il when his nuclear test made stock prices drop in Seoul, but it dissipated the moment the U.S. began talking sanctions. Seoul has since made clear that the nuclear issue will have no significant effect on its sunshine policy. This earns it no goodwill from the North, mind; between soft-liners and hard-liners, sympathy can only go in one direction.
The ideological landscape of the peninsula defeats the reasoning that led to the six-party talks in the first place. North Korea is not a communist country with ideological and sentimental reasons to listen to China and Russia; it is a virulently nationalist state that distrusts all the other parties at the table. And though the rhetoric of a "concerted front" against North Korea has proved to be just that, it has sufficed to heighten South Korea's sense of solidarity with the North. This will continue to mean plenty of aid money for Kim Jong Il with which to build weapons. The U.S. has urged Beijing to bring more pressure to bear on the North. But if America can do nothing with its own ally, it can hardly expect the Chinese to do more with theirs.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009427
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