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Eating cats and dogs.....

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Incredibly the blonde vacuous imbecile presenter on CNBC and Paul Hansen (Head of Stanlib) had the sensitivity and wit to crack jokes about the Standard Bank staff who may be transfered to Beijing having to eat cats and dogs......amazing...where do they get these people?
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Project_Directo
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Charto, i heard them out the corner of my ear whilst doin breka this morn, pink tie dodgy, and she couldnt even get in the studio on time yesturday,lol. My next career, share pundit with STEWIE THEOBALD,who left uni last year. Na, porn star with the other blonde babe.lol
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I believe the Chinese embassy is reviewing the tape....
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topgun
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PH was at school with JM...protected employment....trust me, you would not give this man 5 cents to manage on your behalf.
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DZ
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I also saw an interview about a month ago when the deal first came out and a panel "experts" on CNBC were commenting on the deal and making snide remarks about China. These people are so tunnel visioned that by the time they realise whats happening the big four will be no more, rather the big blue one and his three rainbow nation siblings.
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Paul Hansen in his infinite wisdom then went on to make a remarkable statement about Russians and I quote..."they dont seem to like democracy...they seem to need to be told what to do"....
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Brazen
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Yip, you get the smart bankers and you get the dumb bankers. And I don't know which is worse.
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dimitrius
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Well, if the truth be told, unfortunately that's what the majority of Russians do believe. I worked with three highly educated Russian scientists for five years, pre Putin, and I've come across quite a few in my dealings, and every one of them never supported democracy as an option for Russia. Perhaps out of being brainwashed by propaganda all their lives, but still, they don't like democracy. Why do you think Putin still has the majority of Russians support.
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Russ
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Can we conclude then that Russian scientists don't support democracy?
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topgun
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Putin is clamping down on civil liberties, shutting down the independent press and stifling the opposition and still the masses support him as was evident in Sunday's presidential elections. Really strange given their totalitarian legacy....maybe fear of the unknown?
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john_1
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The Dude is the ex head of the KGB the fear is well known..
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topgun
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The russian youth seem particularly supportive of him in his nationalism drive....they are too young to have experienced the KGB's workings...maybe naivety. Catching them young could very well be part of the KGB's strategy though.
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putin is liked by the russians because he took his countries resources back from russian plunderers and is standing up to america in the political sphere. Democracy is an option if you want a leader like bush. Our next democratic choice is ..... ZUMA. Maybe the russians dont like democracy because they always see the people choosing the wrong leaders.Democracy only works when the people are free thinkers who can make the right choices. I do not support dictatorships even though a person once told me a democracy is a 4 or 5 year dictatorship because once elected the government still passes laws that the majority of citizens never wanted passed.These governments then stay in power with the complicity of the MSM (mainstream media) who shape public opinion by only making known one side (distorted) of the story. You can see it here in Soth Africa
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john_1
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On that point I heard a young black man talking on TV last night saying he is not an Mbeki suporter as he has done nothing about the fact that millions have died of aids.. he also does not suport Zuma in his words "I would not follow him down to the shop never mind let him run my country"... both valid points I thought.
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SimonPB
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Democracy is voting in unrigged elections. If the people then elect someboy you don't like one can;t then say it's not Democracy.
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Russ
Super Contributor
This sounds a bit like one of our close neighbours.
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john_1
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very interesting article in the Cape Times this am about.. the electorial collages in the US and how the Republicans are trying to change California's electorial collage system. If sucsesful making it near impossible for the democrats to ever gain power without a complete change of that system... the systems purpose was to stop the man of the masses from gaining power... just look a Al Gore.
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hobo
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Democracy is an obsolete political system. It works in a homogeneous society where there is not a colossal range in education levels. That a street sweeper has the same voting power as a Professor is the absurd reality. Street sweepers out-number Professors so what sort of government does one get? They say a country gets the government they deserve... Don't ask me what the alternative is. A benevolent dicatorship - if such a thing ever existed? The world needs an alternative to the democratic system but what is it?
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SKALA
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Since we are living in a so called democracy, my worthless comment; I like hobo's view as it resembles mine. A benevolent dictatorship works very well as is seen with the Arab nations (not the Persians/Iranians, or Syria), democracy to my view can also never work in Africa, China or Russia for now. About the Chinese and eating dogs, very true; spent some time working with their navy (most filthy work and living conditions you can thinks of) but the people are friendly when they know you. Still refer to westeners as "devils" and "uncivilised barabarians".
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Gees, I never knew that we've got so many politicians on a site that supposed too talk about capitalism and not socialism!
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