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French Leadership Example At Airbus
Airbus problem is a major blow to French leadership in Europe
Warsaw, Poland July 3, 2006 As the Airbus battle with Boeing for the airline market has been in the headlines over the past year, the French have been patting themselves on the back for the great success. Even though there has been duly German and French leadership and management of the project, Chirac has managed to keep himself in France in the forefront of the project.
Now that the man that Chirac pushed at the company has resigned, France is also in the forefront, but definitely not in a positive way.
Having replaced management of the company is just the first step in finding out what the real problems are that have not been revealed yet. As new management steps in and lays out a game plan so that if there are further delays those delays can be blamed on previous management, the French dominance in public relations issues will only kickback on France more.
Were the loses of the billions of euro that resulted because of this mismanagement not so tragic, this entire affair where almost be a joke. As it stands, the affair is nothing more than an outstanding example of the French way of doing business.
European News Review
http://www.techcentralstation.com/200607022114.k62lefo09364.htm
HEADS OF EADS, AIRBUS RESIGN OVER DELAYS TO A380 SUPERJUMBO
The co-chief executive of the European aerospace group EADS and the head of its Airbus subsidiary paid with their jobs on Sunday for the crisis that has wiped billions of euros off the value of the company. The two companies issued terse statements announcing EADS's French co-boss Noel Forgeard and Airbus's head Gustav Humbert, a German, were stepping down. Both were replaced by Frenchmen. The German co-chief executive of EADS Thomas Enders stays in place. Forgeard is to be replaced by Louis Gallois, the chief of France's state-owned SNCF rail company, while Humbert is to be succeeded by Christian Streiff, a former top executive for the French industrial group Saint Gobain.
Low Airbus valuation blow to BAE
The A380 project has not gone as smoothly as hoped. An independent valuation of Airbus has valued BAE Systems' 20% stake in the business at 2.75bn euros (£1.9bn). BAE had hoped to receive double that amount for its shares before recent disclosures about delays to deliveries of Airbus' A380 superjumbo jet liner. BAE said it would consider the verdict and advise shareholders whether to accept a sale at that price.
Russia lifts controls on currency
The rouble will now be free to buy and sell. Russia is lifting controls on its currency, the rouble, from Saturday, making it fully convertible. The move allows Russians to open foreign bank accounts and will ease restrictions on foreign investors. Russia's Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Friday he expected the move to bring tens of billions of dollars of foreign investment. But analysts warn it means Russia will also face stronger foreign competition and may risk its economy overheating
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2006/07/israel_discover.html
FRUIT RESEARCH YIELDS WAY TO CURB CANCER
While Islamic Jihad works on ridding the world of the Jews, the Jews are working on ridding the world of cancer. The culture of life, a way of life.
Scientists at an Israeli university have found a promising new way to stop the growth and spread of cancer cells while carrying out research to boost the size of peaches and nectarines, the university said on Sunday.
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem scientists found that a protein similar to one researched in their project had the effect of blocking blood supply to tumors.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/7223628c-09ea-11db-ac3b-0000779e2340.html
EU chiefs absorbed in debate over tax on diapers
The conflict has already taxed some of the European Commission’s finest legal minds, required hundreds of hours of internal negotiations and exposed a rare split in the otherwise harmonious 25-strong executive body of the EU.
The issue at stake, however, is neither grand economic policy nor a tricky foreign affairs dilemma, but a bizarre controversy over diapers.
László Kovács, the European Union’s tax commissioner, has for months been waiting for his colleagues’ clearance to launch a legal challenge against five European countries that he says are applying the wrong rate of value added tax on diapers – babies’ nappies.
How unemployed is Poland?
Official figures say it’s just over 16.5 percent. But things are a bit more complicated than a simple statistic. The figures only record those who are registered unemployed. But since benefits can only be drawn for six months – that leaves the numbers of the unrecorded unemployed much higher than 16 percent.
Or does it?
http://www.radio.com.pl/polonia/article.asp?tId=38607
23 Polish hospitals reject National Health Fund contracts
Directors of 23 hospitals in south-eastern Poland have rejected contracts with the National Health Fund.
Left And Right
The left misread, intentionally. I believe, the way the right looks at America. The right does not say we are perfect and because we are perfect we have the moral authority to lead. The right recognizes and attempts to improve upon our failures ( N.B. a higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats voted for Civil Rights in the Senate in the 1960's). What the right does say is that, while we may be imperfect we are better than any other system in history and have done more for more people than any other entity in history. We do not dictate to people, but we have the self confidence (something sorely lacking in the left) to believe in the righteousness of who we are and what we do. We are not paralyzed by our imperfections. We recognize them, strive to fix them and understand that in spite of our imperfections, we are comfortable in seeing and acting upon the difference between good and evil. We do not need world approval. The left needs consensus because it is unwilling to distinguish between good and evil. The left needs 'causes' because they can form great coalitions to address (not solve) these problems. Solving problems requires one to take a position. The right will take a position; the left will not. Causes are far more useful than solutions, and they last far longer!
Al-Qaeda 'increased threat to UK'
It will become harder to tackle the terror threat, says the MPs. The threat to the UK from al-Qaeda is likely to have increased and the Iraq war has provided a boost to extremist groups, a committee of MPs has found. The terror network posed "an extremely serious and brutal threat" to the UK, the latest Foreign Affairs Committee report into the "war on terror" found.
Tackling this threat would become more difficult in the future, it concluded.
Catholic priest knifed in Turkey
A French Roman Catholic priest has been stabbed by a knife-carrying attacker in the Turkish Black Sea port of Samsun. The attack on Father Pierre Brunissen, 74, is the third assault on a Catholic priest in Turkey in recent months.
Long-haul birds 'returning early'
Birds that migrate long distances have adapted to the world's changing climate in unexpected ways, a study shows. As the planet warms, and spring arrives earlier in Europe, birds are being forced to change their migration patterns. It had been thought that birds travelling long distances from Africa to Europe would be unable to adapt. But a study in Science suggests they have evolved in response to climate change and are returning earlier.
Yanukovich calls for being ready for acts of civil disobedience
Leader of the Party of Regions, Viktor Yanukovich, called on electors to be ready for acts of civil disobedience. “We call on our electors to be ready for acts of civil disobedience whether the ‘Orange Coalition’ continues to violate human rights, laws and Ukraine’s Constitution. We jointly make our authorities to work for the sake of the people,” Yanukovich said on Saturday.
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060702/NEWS07/607020575/1009
In Europe, Islam rises, Christianity falls
Muslims may soon become majority. Muslims pray at Al Fath mosque in Paris on May 26. Princeton University historian Bernard Lewis, the dean of American Middle East scholars, predicts Europe will be mostly Muslim by the end of this century. (MANCA JUVAN/Chicago Tribune)
The American Religious Identification Survey of 51,000 adult Americans last month found some of the secularizing trends seen in Europe.
Unchurched increase: 14% claimed no religious affiliation. That number was 8% in a similar study from 1990.
Unaffiliated young: Of respondents younger than 35, 23% of men and 18% of women said they did not follow any organized faith. About 43% of the unaffiliated were former Catholics.
"Look at Europe, where a secular trend is prevalent," said Ariela Keysar, a demographer at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., who is affiliated with the survey. "We're not there, but we're going in that direction."
Abandoning: The survey found 19% of baptized Catholics leave the church, compared with an average of 16% for Americans of all faiths. Twenty-eight percent of Catholics who drop out do not join another faith.
http://www.operationdoubles.com/zoo-blog/2006/07/what-freedom-in-europe.html
What freedom in Europe?
What's with the nice guys in Germany, France, Belgium, and the rest of Europe who think they're not anti-American just because they admit that some of the accusations go too far? They completely don't get it.
The very IDEA that we Americans must conform to European specifications or be held in contempt is offensive, insufferably arrogant, and overdosed with hubris.
There (and in our lefty nests on the coasts here) the snarky enforcers of political correctness make everything a moral issue. (People are much easier to train than to persuade.) In such a society, nobody says or does a thing without first looking around to see what everyone else is doing.
So, not just your opinions, but even your tastes and personal preferences are a moral issue with them. Every bit of noncomformity is viewed as some outward sign of degeneracy.
Ding-dong? THAT is fascism. So what are socialists playing this odious game for?
They think we must conform as they must conform. So our being religious (say the word in a sinsiter tone) is bad (unless you're Islamist). Liking hamburgers is bad. Spelling color without a "u" is bad. (Say either of those things in a snarky tone.) You wouldn't believe what they can read-into stuff like that so as to make a moral issue of it. Making domestic laws they don't approve of is bad. And it isn't just our laws they berate us for: they berate us for not giving into their "protest" on these issues! Like they have some say in the matter!
Malta complains of lack of EU support over immigrant problem
Malta complained Sunday about what it said was lack of support from its European Union partners in coping with an unprecedented wave of clandestine immigrants from North Africa. Malta feels that the EU, which it joined two years ago, "lacks real commitment with regard to illegal immigration" to the island and is dealing with Malta with the "mentality of small countries, small problems and this is not acceptable," Foreign Minister Michael Frendo said in a statement.
Danes Sentence Entire Clan for Honour Killing
This week, for the very first time, a court in Europe sentenced nine members of the same family for the honour killing of a female relative. Honour killings, where a woman is murdered for the shame that she is said to have brought on her family, are a growing phenomenon in Western Europe.
European Central Bank knew about US data access
The European Central Bank and the Bank of England were aware that customers' payment data were being transferred to US authorities, according to a document obtained by Belgium's Le Soir newspaper.
China rising
One of my favourite blogs just now is China Law Blog. Its writers are very pro-freedom and pro-capitalist, and are optimistic about the future progress of China, both economically and politically, despite all the present miseries, muddles and horrors.
A recent post there by Dan Harris is about the relationship between the rise of capitalism in China, and corruption. The cliché is that the former causes the latter, by providing the money for it. The price of politicians in China is being driven up by the increased amounts of money now available to pay for them. Ergo, there is more corruption in China now, because there must be. Besides, better to blame corruption on the evil capitalist buyers of politicians than on the sellers, the corrupt politicians themselves.
http://www.zaman.com/?bl=hotnews&alt=&trh=20060703&hn=34460
FM Gul says Blackmail will not Solve Cyprus Problem
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said on Saturday that the Cyprus problem could not be solved through blackmail, in an interview with Greek weekly economy newspaper, Kozmos Tu Ependiti.
Reiterating the statement he made on Wednesday during his Moscow visit, FM Gul stated that blackmailing over the Cyprus issue would not bring a solution, adding that Turkey and Greece, as guarantor countries, should make efforts to contribute to a solution to the problem.
Bribes suspected in sale of warships to SA
German prosecutors are investigating possible kickbacks in a sale of warships to South Africa by a German ship building consortium, a prosecutor confirmed on Saturday.
The German news magazine Der Spiegel was to appear Monday with a report that the "irregularities" were suspected of occurring in 1999.
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