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Christoph Zed

Gaddafi proposes 'Nato of the South' at South America-Africa summit - Times Online - 0 views

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nato power-play politics

shared by Christoph Zed on 28 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Colonel Gaddafi proposed an African-Latin American defence alliance yesterday at an intercontinental summit hosted by Venezuela.
  • President Mugabe of Zimbabwe and President Zuma of South Africa were among almost 30 leaders from across the two continents present as Mr Chávez sought to promote his socialist policies abroad, urging a new world order that would confront Western dominance
  • “The world’s powers want to continue to hold on to their power,” said Mr Gaddafi, who had a white limousine flown to Venezuela to meet him at the airport.
Christoph Zed

AFP: Kadhafi calls for 'NATO of the south' at Venezuela summit - 0 views

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nato politics power-play

shared by Christoph Zed on 28 Sep 09 - Cached
  • pushing for the creation of a "NATO of the South" by 2011 to counter the military bloc of the United States and European powers.
  • Energy infrastructure development and joint oil project cooperation were the central topics of the meeting,
  • Libya is the gateway to Africa for us because it is a country well-known for its socialist policies that plays an important and strategic role for us
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  • no global challenge in the 21st Century that cannot be tackled by Africa and South America, and there is no challenge that can be addressed without
Yair Frid

YouTube - Food Fight - 0 views

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Food nationalism history war

shared by Yair Frid on 24 Aug 09 - Cached
  • xinning ji on 24 Aug 09
     
    it is a quite funny animation. Also, in an interesting way, it uses symbolic languages to represent the modern world, pop culture and globalization. In my point of view, there is a global war in which sushi represents Asia and hanburg and chips play as West. they fight with each other in order to prove which one is more dominant and powerful.
  • Yair Frid on 25 Aug 09
     
    Its the recent history of war:Go here to see which country is represented by which food, its quite cool http://www.touristpictures.com/foodfight/cheat.htm
Christoph Zed

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Australia-China tie 'challenging' - 0 views

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globalixation china politics economics power-play

shared by Christoph Zed on 20 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Australia is disturbed by China's detention of an Australian executive; China is angry that Australia allowed a Uighur leader, Rebiya Kadeer, to visit.
  • Australia sells huge amounts of natural resources to China and, despite hitches in the relationship, signed a new gas deal this week with PetroChina.
  • "China has significant interests in Australia. China's interests in Australia go to its long-term needs for its resource security," Mr Rudd said.
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  • Chinese media meanwhile, has called Australia "sino-phobic".
Christoph Zed

McCurry wins row with McDonald's - 0 views

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globalisation legislation dominance power-play

shared by Christoph Zed on 08 Sep 09 - Cached
  • The American fast-food giant McDonald's has lost an eight-year legal battle to prevent a Malaysian restaurant calling itself McCurry.
  • McDonald's argued that the use of the "Mc" prefix infringed its trademark. But the Federal Court in Kuala Lumpur ruled that there was no evidence to show McCurry was trying to pass itself off as part of the McDonald's empire.
  • The owner of McCurry insists its "Mc" prefix is an abbreviation for Malaysian Chicken Curry.
  • Christoph Zed on 08 Sep 09
     
    interesting outcome of this 8 year-long legal battle
  • Nora Ibrahim on 10 Sep 09
     
    This news is of particular interest to me because I am from Malaysia and when the news broke out in Malaysia, I thought it was hilarious (at the expense of the owner of McCurry and McDonalds). The funny thing thing is there are numerous of eateries or restaurants that sound similar to the American imports, and this not only happens in Malaysia but in other countries as well. For example, there was a fast food fried chicken joint similar to KFC, that is called McDota (I can't remember the exact spelling) in Malaysia quite some time ago. Anyways, I just thought this piece of news is interesting and funny!
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