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Price of Justice

"Mister X's wife got a £170,000 Rolls-Royce as a birthday present. " " She and her entourage had a chartered Boeing 747 cargo plane laid on to fly home their shopping. " "Mister X's son enjoyed a £99,000 skiing trip in Colorado for himself and his friends while the Mister X's daughter got a video of her wedding costing almost £200,000." "All paid for by Company Y." Mister X is a Saudi Prince, and Company Y is the British Defense Giant BAE Systems . And the money was paid under the counter to guarantee the most lucrative defense deal in UK History. These allegations were covered in BBC . So British legal authorities stepped into the case to investigate these claims. Something that is expected from a country promoting Democracy and openness in the world. Then... Then the money won. Saudi's got angry and threatened to cancel contracts. The defense industry told the government that thousands of UK jobs were under threat (everyone kno...

I was so funny

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I was cleaning up my hard drive and I came across these pictures. Taken in front of the remaining part of Berlin Wall (between Warschauerstr. and Ostbahnhof) these pictures proveshow funny I am. Thanks to my dear friend Björn for his modelling. Irrespective of the nature of the pictures, he is cool as ice. That's normal for a Phsysicist.

Swedish Mediterranean Tunes

there is something about Swedish that attracts me. No it's not the Swedish Girls (my favorites are the Argentinians), but it is the way seemingly harsh sounds are spoken with ease. So when I came across Swedish-Arabic artist Patrick El Hag in Last FM, and heard how he mixed this beautiful language with smooth Mediterranean tunes I was mesmerized. If you are also interested, try out Vagor Som Viner .

Declan Patrick MacManus, a.k.a. Elvis Costello

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Being the (musical) obsessive freak that I am, I've been listening to "The Very Best of" Declan Patrick MacManus, a.k.a. Elvis Costello 20 times a day. Let I make some humble suggestions if there are guys who would like to explore the incredible career of this musical enigma. "Nice girls, not one with a defect Cellophane shrink-wrapped, so correct Red dogs under illegal legs She looks so good that he gets down and begs" I start the day with a high dose of "Watching the Detectives" from My Aim is True ('77), opening with these honest lyrics. I am not a reggae fan at all, that's why I can state that this is the best reggae song I've ever listened to... "And it's the damage that we do and never know It's the words that we don't say That scare me so " Then comes the base loaded rock ballad Accidents Will Happen from Armed Forces , which goes great on the train ride I take everyday these days next to the sea in Hong Kong...