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following items are posted for educational and information purposes
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the
views of Global Action.
Breaking
News Plus
30th May 2010
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QUOTATION OF THE DAY
"Sometimes
the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious."
- George
Orwell
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China Triples Size Of
African Equity Fund To $3 Billion
Aggressive
backdoor neocolonialism? Australia in the cross-hairs too!
 China's Africa development fund is
set to triple in size to $3 billion, according to China Daily.
The China-Africa
Development Fund (CAD) targets investment projects on the African
continent, including both industrial and infrastructure enterprises.
Specifically,
the fund has been involved in the creation of a glass factory in
Ethiopia and a power plant in Ghana. The fund has also been involved in
the creation of "trade zones" in Egypt and Nigeria.
Eventually, CAD
is to top out at a total of $5 billion. Full
Story Link
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German physicists develop a quantum interface
between light and atoms
 German hysicists at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
have developed a quantum interface which connects light particles and
atoms.
The
interface is based on an ultra-thin glass fiber and is suitable for the
transmission of quantum information. This is an essential prerequisite
for quantum communication which shall be used for secure data
transmission via quantum cryptography. "Our quantum interface might
also prove useful for the realization of a quantum computer," adds
Professor Dr Arno Rauschenbeutel from the Institute of Physics at Mainz
University.
Today,
telephone and internet primarily rely on the optical transmission of
data using glass fiber cables. In that sense, glass fiber networks can
be considered as the backbone of the modern communication society. The
light that travels through them is not a continuous flow of energy. It
rather consists, as was discovered by Albert Einstein, of indivisible
energy quanta, or photons. Each photon can then transmit one bit of
information, corresponding to a zero or one.
In
addition to being very efficient, this also opens the route towards
entirely new ways of communication because, being quantum objects,
photons can exist simultaneously in both states, zero and one. As an
example, this property is what makes quantum cryptography possible and
thereby enables absolute protection against eavesdropping.
In
order to fully exploit the potential of quantum communication, however,
one additionally needs the possibility to store the quantum information
that is encoded on each photon. Photons themselves are not well suited
for this purpose because one cannot hold them at a given position.
Therefore, it would be much more advantageous to transfer the quantum
information to atoms. For this purpose one thus requires a quantum
interface between photons and atoms which should ideally be easily
integrated into glass fiber networks.
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Greece, Argentina, Zimbabwe... I Mean We
Are Nowhere Near Japan
The
Economic Situation in the US
Greece, Argentina, Zimbabwe... I mean we are nowhere near Japan. When
Japan started to make its mistakes, it did it from a position of
strength. The japanese had significant domestic savings, they had huge
trade surpluses and current account surpluses. We are on the opposite
situation. We have exhausted our domestic savings, we have a huge trade
deficit. We can only borrow money if the japanese, the chinese and the
saudis lend it to us.
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IMPORTANT
STUFF
Blonde Logic
Last year I replaced all the windows in my house with those expensive
double-pane energy efficient kind. But this week I got a call from the
contractor complaining that his work had been completed a whole year
ago and I hadn't paid for them.
Boy oh boy, did
we go a round!
Just because I'm
blonde doesn't mean that I am automatically stupid. So, I proceeded to
tell him just what his fast talking sales guy had told me...that in one
year the windows would pay for themselves. There was silence on the
other end, so I just hung up, and I haven't heard back from him.
Guess I won that
stupid argument!
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"Five thousand
years of lawmaking have failed to achieve what simple human
RESPECT, TRUST and GOODWILL do
each day to make
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good faith
there would be no
work for lawyers." Lyn Vickery
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