I am not againest President Obama just trying to think out loud and see other people oppnion in order to help understanding and see between the cloud.

Will President Obama Be Able to Stand Up To China?

November 9, 2012November 9, 2012

By Keith Fitz-Gerald, Chief Investment Strategist, Money Morning

Money Morning

While U.S. Presidential headlines dominate the airwaves this week, there is another "election" under way thousands of miles from our own shores that may be even more important when it comes to your money.

The 18th National Party Congress is now underway in Beijing. Attendees are girding for a week of symbolic posturing and speeches, the culmination of which will be a new set of Chinese leaders and a new Chinese President for the next 10 years.

While this is a complicated process when things are running smoothly, this particular Congress is really critical. China is a mess. Recent economic challenges and corruption on a scale that has boggled even the most jaded of insiders are at the top of the "fix it" list.

Outgoing Chinese President Hu Jintao's replacement and China's presumptive new leader looks to be a man named Xi Jinping.

At 59 years old, he's a power player with close ties to the People's Liberation Army (PLA).

While he's not a military man per se, as the son of a revolutionary general he currently holds several significant offices that give him wide-ranging and very significant exposure to both the State and Communist Party.

What's significant about this is that there are three parallel strands in Chinese government structure: the Communist Party, State, and Military.

The Party and State are deeply intertwined, but the military is less so, except at the top levels of leadership. Consequently, China's new leader is intimately familiar with the Chinese military and also the likely new head of China's Central Military Commission.

I'm not so sure we've ever seen this exact combination before and I think it's going to challenge President Barack Obama in ways that he hasn't thought through yet.

 

China's Drive For Respect

China is not only more powerful economically, but the nation has grown significantly more confident in recent years, especially as it fills the tremendous gaps created by the Global Financial Crisis.

China is notoriously secretive about its intentions, but there are a few clues to what President Obama and his advisers will have to contend with.

For example, Mr. Xi spoke in Washington earlier this year at a luncheon for executives and diplomats as part of a five-day tour.

In his remarks, which were viewed as a major policy statement, Xi explicitly said that there should be "respect" for both Chinese and United States interests.

He also noted the need for "increasing mutual understanding and strategic trust."

That sounds innocuous enough if you take his remarks at face value in English. But if you translate them into Chinese diplomatic speak, a very different message was delivered.

I've talked about this before in Money Morning, highlighting the cultural context behind key phrases and language delivered by Chinese and Japanese diplomats for international consumption.

And that's really what Xi's statement was, a carefully worded, exquisitely postured message. His presumptive appointment is also a warning of sorts.

I say this because the words "mutual" and "respect" are about as loaded as they come, especially when they are used in the same sentence.

Mr. Xi was not playing to the American media nor even our leaders. What he was counting on was that his message would be re-translated into Chinese.

He knows that respect in the Chinese sense of the word involves the mutual acknowledgement of position and, more importantly, status.

According to Chuck Gitomer, a policy and political expert who has spent decades studying the Chinese, there's a sense of victimhood that the Party has cultivated over the decades that China was subject to foreign slights and indignities when they were weak.

In conjunction with the nationalist card, which is recently particularly visible in China's irredentist position taken over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands, Gitomer notes, "this demand for respect will be reciprocated only when the foreigners meet that demand."

I agree.

So, in as much as Mr. Xi made a statement in Washington, what he really did was put Washington on notice that China expects to be treated as an equal on the world's stage.

Very shortly, we're going to see what exactly he meant by that.

On the one hand, Mr. Xi and President Obama have a golden opportunity to put the currently strained relations between the United States and China back on track. His remarks were intended to convey his willingness to work with the United States.

On the other, he's got precisely the wrong background if that's the case. What China needs is a leader with the authority to make great leaps in progress by taking bold chances to move things ahead, rather than risk being trapped in problematic posturing.

In that sense, Obama's not the guy, either. He is woefully unprepared to move away from the heat of politics and engage in true bridge building.

Instead, what China appears to be choosing is a man who spent the bulk of his career in the Zhejiang and Fujian provinces fostering industrial relations with Taiwan before moving for a few years to Shanghai's political structure, then on to Beijing's political "mother hive."

That means he's had very little international exposure until becoming Vice President. Evidently, though, in his defense, he's making the rounds. The New York Times recently reported that Mr. Xi has visited more than 50 countries since becoming Vice President.

Personally speaking, we know relatively little about him.

For example, Mr. Xi apparently loves American movies. He has visited the United States six times. His daughter, Xi Mingze, studies at Harvard under an assumed name. His wife, Peng Liyuan, is a famous folk singer. But that's about it.

So what does all this mean?

Assuming Mr. Xi does, in fact, become China's next leader when the Congress concludes next week, I think we'll see a few things happen.

We will see posturing internally but not a lot of action nor reform. Mr. Xi's status as a "sent-down" youth is extraordinarily important, notes Gitomer. It buys him significant political capital. His past dealings with high-profile corruption scandals gives him the air of an incorruptible official.

Of course, we know that's not true since his family has accumulated multiple billions of euros worth of investment holdings, but it makes a nice story domestically, especially when the great firewall keeps the masses from finding out too much.

Expect China to continue to buy global resources companies. China's growth will continue on a pace that's faster than the United States, Europe and likely Japan combined. And it needs fuel quite literally to pull that off.

Mr. Xi will aggressively encourage offshore globalization. The nation is anxious to flex its economic muscles.

Unfortunately, China is also anxious to flex its military muscles. That means we'll also likely see more nationalistic posturing in international trade and politics. The Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands are but a small insight into how mainland China views the world. Similar disputes with the Philippines, Vietnam and even Korea offer a glimpse into an increasingly hawkish contingent that's coming to the top with Mr. Xi.

Since China believes it is a rising power while the U.S. is a declining power, the danger is growing that China will actually use military force to protect its interests. Taiwan is not the prize, as most Westerners believe; being able to engage American carriers in deep water while forcing them to "stand off" is. Long range weapons systems are a top priority at the moment.

Here in the U.S., this will set off all sorts of alarms in the military industrial complex, not to mention inside the Beltway.

But longer term, it's probably not worth the worry. When China realizes that international behavioral norms are worth more money, they'll come to their senses. They're as pragmatic as any capitalist in that sense.

And finally, pay careful attention to regional economics.

China is openly seeking regional economic domination while courting long- held U.S. alliances with Singapore (wary of the communists), Australia (wary but hopeful of the economic hegemons), and South Korea, (they understand what being forced into vassal state status is about) for example. Even Japan is viewed as a resource behind closed doors, rather than the enemy, as is commonly perceived by citizens around the world.

An Investor's Guide to the New Chinese Leadership

When it comes to your money there are a couple of key takeaways.

First, while investing in China directly can be great if you've got a long enough time horizon and a willingness to tolerate volatility, the better plays are going to be big, state- involved entities, particularly if they're energy related.

CNOOC Ltd. (NYSE ADR: CEO) is a good example. It's China's third- largest energy player and a leading offshore/onshore producer that accounts for nearly a million barrels a day of production. It's got emerging markets exposure and, with close ties to Beijing, is a likely avenue for overseas acquisitions.

Second, U.S. and European defense contractors may pick up significant business if China does, in fact, become more aggressive in the region. I particularly like Raytheon Co. (NYSE: RTN) because of its diverse offerings and advanced weapons platform logistics.

The key here is that investors can play China's emergence while enjoying the benefits of stricter reporting requirements and a greater probability of honest balance sheets.

Third, consider the Chinese Yuan itself. You can open Yuan- denominated savings, time and demand based accounts directly through Bank of China branches in the United States, Canada and Europe. Or, perhaps an investment in the Chinese Renminbi deposit account through Everbank is more your speed. There are also RMB Exchange- Traded Notes.

China wants the Yuan to be a hub for international trade and considers Yuan- denominated accounts an important component of that process.

That's why the nation has already signed 1.3 trillion Yuan of currency swap agreements with 14 nations, including Russia, Japan, Brazil, Australia, and Turkey to name a few, according to Forbes and The Wall Street Journal. These agreements make it increasingly powerful at a time when Western fiat currencies are failing.

In closing, the situation is obviously fluid. However, I'll do my best to update you on what's important and what's new.

I'll also continue to identify what I believe are the best investment opportunities created by circumstances like this that are not yet understood in the Western world.

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Mosajet: Halloween.. the Origins

Mosajet: Halloween.. the Origins: Straddling the line between fall and winter, plenty and paucity, life and death, Halloween is a time of celebration and superstition. It ...

Halloween.. the Origins

Straddling the line between fall and winter, plenty and paucity, life and death, Halloween is a time of celebration and superstition. It is thought to have originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off roaming ghosts. In the eighth century, Pope Gregory III designated November 1 as a time to honor all saints and martyrs; the holiday, All Saints’ Day, incorporated some of the traditions of Samhain. The evening before was known as All Hallows’ Eve and later Halloween. Over time, Halloween evolved into a secular, community-based event characterized by child-friendly activities such as trick-or-treating. In a number of countries around the world, as the days grow shorter and the nights get colder, people continue to usher in the winter season with gatherings, costumes and sweet treats.

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Ancient Origins of Halloween

Halloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31 they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future. For a people entirely dependent on the volatile natural world, these prophecies were an important source of comfort and direction during the long, dark winter.
To commemorate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities. During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, typically consisting of animal heads and skins, and attempted to tell each other's fortunes. When the celebration was over, they re-lit their hearth fires, which they had extinguished earlier that evening, from the sacred bonfire to help protect them during the coming winter.
By 43 A.D., the Roman Empire had conquered the majority of Celtic territory. In the course of the four hundred years that they ruled the Celtic lands, two festivals of Roman origin were combined with the traditional Celtic celebration of Samhain. The first was Feralia, a day in late October when the Romans traditionally commemorated the passing of the dead. The second was a day to honor Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit and trees. The symbol of Pomona is the apple and the incorporation of this celebration into Samhain probably explains the tradition of "bobbing" for apples that is practiced today on Halloween.
On May 13, 609 A.D., Pope Boniface IV dedicated the Pantheon in Rome in honor of all Christian martyrs, and the Catholic feast of All Martyrs Day was established in the Western church. Pope Gregory III (731–741) later expanded the festival to include all saints as well as all martyrs, and moved the observance from May 13 to November 1. By the 9th century the influence of Christianity had spread into Celtic lands, where it gradually blended with and supplanted the older Celtic rites. In 1000 A.D., the church would make November 2 All Souls' Day, a day to honor the dead. It is widely believed today that the church was attempting to replace the Celtic festival of the dead with a related, but church-sanctioned holiday. All Souls Day was celebrated similarly to Samhain, with big bonfires, parades, and dressing up in costumes as saints, angels and devils. The All Saints Day celebration was also called All-hallows or All-hallowmas (from Middle English Alholowmesse meaning All Saints' Day) and the night before it, the traditional night of Samhain in the Celtic religion, began to be called All-hallows Eve and, eventually, Halloween.

Halloween Comes to America

Celebration of Halloween was extremely limited in colonial New England because of the rigid Protestant belief systems there. Halloween was much more common in Maryland and the southern colonies. As the beliefs and customs of different European ethnic groups as well as the American Indians meshed, a distinctly American version of Halloween began to emerge. The first celebrations included "play parties," public events held to celebrate the harvest, where neighbors would share stories of the dead, tell each other's fortunes, dance and sing. Colonial Halloween festivities also featured the telling of ghost stories and mischief-making of all kinds. By the middle of the nineteenth century, annual autumn festivities were common, but Halloween was not yet celebrated everywhere in the country.
In the second half of the nineteenth century, America was flooded with new immigrants. These new immigrants, especially the millions of Irish fleeing Ireland's potato famine of 1846, helped to popularize the celebration of Halloween nationally. Taking from Irish and English traditions, Americans began to dress up in costumes and go house to house asking for food or money, a practice that eventually became today's "trick-or-treat" tradition. Young women believed that on Halloween they could divine the name or appearance of their future husband by doing tricks with yarn, apple parings or mirrors.
In the late 1800s, there was a move in America to mold Halloween into a holiday more about community and neighborly get-together than about ghosts, pranks and witchcraft. At the turn of the century, Halloween parties for both children and adults became the most common way to celebrate the day. Parties focused on games, foods of the season and festive costumes. Parents were encouraged by newspapers and community leaders to take anything "frightening" or "grotesque" out of Halloween celebrations. Because of these efforts, Halloween lost most of its superstitious and religious overtones by the beginning of the twentieth century.
By the 1920s and 1930s, Halloween had become a secular, but community-centered holiday, with parades and town-wide parties as the featured entertainment. Despite the best efforts of many schools and communities, vandalism began to plague Halloween celebrations in many communities during this time. By the 1950s, town leaders had successfully limited vandalism and Halloween had evolved into a holiday directed mainly at the young. Due to the high numbers of young children during the fifties baby boom, parties moved from town civic centers into the classroom or home, where they could be more easily accommodated. Between 1920 and 1950, the centuries-old practice of trick-or-treating was also revived. Trick-or-treating was a relatively inexpensive way for an entire community to share the Halloween celebration. In theory, families could also prevent tricks being played on them by providing the neighborhood children with small treats. A new American tradition was born, and it has continued to grow. Today, Americans spend an estimated $6 billion annually on Halloween, making it the country's second largest commercial holiday.

Today's Halloween Traditions

The American Halloween tradition of "trick-or-treating" probably dates back to the early All Souls' Day parades in England. During the festivities, poor citizens would beg for food and families would give them pastries called "soul cakes" in return for their promise to pray for the family's dead relatives. The distribution of soul cakes was encouraged by the church as a way to replace the ancient practice of leaving food and wine for roaming spirits. The practice, which was referred to as "going a-souling" was eventually taken up by children who would visit the houses in their neighborhood and be given ale, food, and money.
The tradition of dressing in costume for Halloween has both European and Celtic roots. Hundreds of years ago, winter was an uncertain and frightening time. Food supplies often ran low and, for the many people afraid of the dark, the short days of winter were full of constant worry. On Halloween, when it was believed that ghosts came back to the earthly world, people thought that they would encounter ghosts if they left their homes. To avoid being recognized by these ghosts, people would wear masks when they left their homes after dark so that the ghosts would mistake them for fellow spirits. On Halloween, to keep ghosts away from their houses, people would place bowls of food outside their homes to appease the ghosts and prevent them from attempting to enter.

Halloween Superstitions

Halloween has always been a holiday filled with mystery, magic and superstition. It began as a Celtic end-of-summer festival during which people felt especially close to deceased relatives and friends. For these friendly spirits, they set places at the dinner table, left treats on doorsteps and along the side of the road and lit candles to help loved ones find their way back to the spirit world. Today's Halloween ghosts are often depicted as more fearsome and malevolent, and our customs and superstitions are scarier too. We avoid crossing paths with black cats, afraid that they might bring us bad luck. This idea has its roots in the Middle Ages, when many people believed that witches avoided detection by turning themselves into cats. We try not to walk under ladders for the same reason. This superstition may have come from the ancient Egyptians, who believed that triangles were sacred; it also may have something to do with the fact that walking under a leaning ladder tends to be fairly unsafe. And around Halloween, especially, we try to avoid breaking mirrors, stepping on cracks in the road or spilling salt.
But what about the Halloween traditions and beliefs that today's trick-or-treats have forgotten all about? Many of these obsolete rituals focused on the future instead of the past and the living instead of the dead. In particular, many had to do with helping young women identify their future husbands and reassuring them that they would someday—with luck, by next Halloween—be married. In 18th-century Ireland, a matchmaking cook might bury a ring in her mashed potatoes on Halloween night, hoping to bring true love to the diner who found it. In Scotland, fortune-tellers recommended that an eligible young woman name a hazelnut for each of her suitors and then toss the nuts into the fireplace. The nut that burned to ashes rather than popping or exploding, the story went, represented the girl's future husband. (In some versions of this legend, confusingly, the opposite was true: The nut that burned away symbolized a love that would not last.) Another tale had it that if a young woman ate a sugary concoction made out of walnuts, hazelnuts and nutmeg before bed on Halloween night she would dream about her future husband. Young women tossed apple-peels over their shoulders, hoping that the peels would fall on the floor in the shape of their future husbands' initials; tried to learn about their futures by peering at egg yolks floating in a bowl of water; and stood in front of mirrors in darkened rooms, holding candles and looking over their shoulders for their husbands' faces. Other rituals were more competitive. At some Halloween parties, the first guest to find a burr on a chestnut-hunt would be the first to marry; at others, the first successful apple-Bobbee would be the first down the aisle.
Of course, whether we're asking for romantic advice or trying to avoid seven years of bad luck, each one of these Halloween superstitions relies on the good will of the very same "spirits" whose presence the early Celts felt so keenly
    In all case, we must keep in our mind that Halloween is not originally created to get drunk,ware all these scary costumes ..It is about How people think about things at that time It is about Poor kids,neighbours to get to know each other it is NOW should go towards our communities how to connect to each other and be close to each other..
  Thanks for reading..Mosa.

What is sense of humor?   

Someone Said;

Is to "get it" in the way it was intended. It is sense of humor mainly relying upon sarcasm, timing, and wit. Can easily

Or said dry sense of humor !!

 

Dry Humor is when you deliver a joke or something funny, without being cracked up yourself. A good poker face is a pre requisite for dry humor. The British are masters of dry humor and their television and movies are a great example of dry humor.

I said It is Correct, add to it that someone can pick up the meaning “from the Air” we said in Egypt.

That also can apply for how we all could behave on a practical side of life, as we go !

·         We see a jammed traffic and someone stuck to get out of turn and we still blocking the way

·         We see people do not like to apologize for mistakes or say thank you for favors even it is simple

·         It is how you handle yourself in a situation, it take courage, experience, practice, patient

·         It is how you grow up to behave and deal with things with morality and sympathy

·         May be It is your culture..Means it is the Experiences passed through our generations to understand and try to understand things or deal with daily things with the “sense of Humor”

 

Sense of humor

• The phrase 'sense of humor' means the trait of appreciating and being able to express

How to get a sense of humor?

Do not take yourself so seriously, and laugh at the outrageousness of the inconsistencies, and ignorance in the world.. people are crazy! Do not take others so seriously either.. they often only mean what they say in the moment, or before they have more information or more maturity..

 

How is American sense of humor different from British sense of humor?

Some aspects are however British comedy is often thought of though as more witty

 

If you have a dry sense of humor how you can get people to like you?

From the wording of your question, I gather you've found a dry sense of humor sometimes offends or alienates people. If that's what's going on, then I have a lot of sympathy. I've had to learn how not to offend people with my sense of humor! Here are a few things you can do.

1) When you find a situation ironic or funny, consider the people you're with. Will they find it funny if you point it out? Do they share your sense of humor? Pointing out irony or making witty comments can be like banging your head against a wall when the company you keep doesn't share your appreciation of subtlety.

2) Timing is everything. So is relaxation. To tell a joke and get it appreciated without alienating others or embarrassing yourself, make sure you're relaxed and comfortable. Don't try to insert the joke in over somebody else's voice. It's better to show you're amused in subtle ways, and if someone picks up on it and asks you, to test the waters delicately with a small joke, then build on it if you develop a rapport.

3) Use your dry sense of humor to acknowledge similarities between you and the people you're talking to. This involves being sensitive to others and what they might be thinking or feeling. I wrote an eHow article called How to Be Witty at Parties where I talk about this - http://www.ehow.com/how_4548785_be-witty-parties.html . When you use humor to point out how you and others are alike, you're drawing a link between you and the other person, and they're more likely to like you.

I hope this helps a bit. I don't know if it makes sense or if I answered the question as you'd like. Good luck!

Business Greed Ethics and Morality

Business Greed Ethics and Morality
  
I have seen on my own eyes along with my life lots of business chance. Great choices have done by  intelligent/non intelligent folks and it works & other Poor choices are made daily … Temptations to take things too far are always there. What separates those that make correct business choices and those that don’t? Let’s take a look.

Greed..is connected very tightly with the business it seems sometimes to be attainable targets but obviously it won't happened
   I see lots of that through my business broker a lot,on my own I do the same thing on a small or big scales.
last two weeks,I was trying to fix my Mercedes it has a problem with aromatic shacks system which could cost me a 700 USDA per piece.
I gave my ears to one Mexican,gave him my trust and 400 and off course my car to fix, it ends that I lost my money and he drove the car destroying my tire and towing rod is missing !!
    What I want to say that everyone in the business has to work on his own personal greediness in order to be able to judge and monitor other sides reactions.

In a bigger scales, A jobber..Gasoline wholesalers..knows that the business is down and the tenant is suffering want to get out, then He still does not have flexibility ,no free rent or propose high rent rates.
   And supposedly he is trying to find someone to put losses from his pocket and set the business and wait for the progress without his shares, In this case the greed of business ethics with no morals.

Other greed will appear all the time at the end of the business transaction the seller wants not to pay the commission, he previously agreed to it.
At the end of that unhealthy attitude and people behaviours I saw,how is the balance of God on those whom are greedy under my own eyes, either they got sick,or stupid behaviour kids or sudden accidents or loose very fast there business.
           Examples is there you can see it and notice the difference but we have to learn from our mistakes.