A century old antagonism, or “Mapa côr de rosa”….

A century old antagonism, or “Mapa côr de rosa”…. Imagine me walking along the Thames. Then, think about if I trip. What’s happen next? Can I fall over? Well, - the possibility will be that I’m just stumble. For my age, this is important. Making today the article compilation, - I am asking to myself: - ‘It’s you the mammoth? The gigantic proportions faux pas? The social blunder of enormous indiscretion? It’s almost vital to know. More yet, after such hectic last week. So what, - if I try too hard? It’s a regular procedure by now. But, if this effort is the case of backfire? When this quantity of money moves occurred, - the extreme caution are demanded from the euro-schizophrenics like me. Recording the how sranaia churka Alekperov was buying the Picasso’s “Maму”, - how I can preserve my interests, and, to invest in myself? It’s, if not, - not sense, not logic or fare. When the “someone” (i.e. козло-вонючиe кацапскиe твари) change at work (i.e. the spies with ongoing piggy faces), - keep want to put more responsibilities’ on me. If I don’t speak about the being COMPENSATED for my effort, - not the EU (energy), not the Portland 450 cement (salary), not the Santander, mum-m, the “Santanders”, - never will! Even in my “case”, the old ways just aren’t working any more. The proper ‘universe’ is challenging me and you to think in new, “bigger”, and more progressive ways. I will not calling your attention to the fact that this isn’t my strong point. (Since I appreciate the tradition and decency). Since I have right insights into other people’s motives, to carry on carve out an adequate niche.

Their briefs. ENGLAND’SWorld Cup flops suffered one last indignity before heading home in ignominy – robbed of their underwear by cleaners at their five-star hotel. The players, whose trouncing by Germanywas blamed yesterday on ‘tiredness’, discovered Ј7,000 of football kit and souvenirs had been taken from their rooms. The haul included socks, underpants, a commemorative Fifa medal, crockery
and even the shirts they had swapped with the US players.

BP staked its future on expanding offshore drilling a month before the catastrophic explosion on the Deepwater Horizon triggered the United States' worst environmental disaster, according to company documents revealed yesterday. The investigative web site ProPublica published a March 2010 strategy document in which BP named "expanding deepwater" as its number one area for long-term growth.

Telefonica's Vivo Bid Stirs Portuguese Hostility Before Vote. Jun 29, 2010. The vote on Telefonica SA’s 6.5 billion-euro ($8 billion) offer forPortugal Telecom SGPS SA’s stake in their Brazilian venture may be too close to call, turning on how a centuries-old antagonism plays out. Portuguese investors probably control 40 percent to 50 percent of the vote, according to Banco BPI analyst Pedro Pinto Oliveira, meaning the bid’s success may hinge on whether they cast their ballot at tomorrow’s meeting along nationalistic lines. Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates last week asked state-owned lender Caixa Geral de Depositos SA, with 7.3 percent of Portugal Telecom, to reject the bid.
Telefonica’s offer may come up against a four-century-old distrust on the Iberian Peninsula that’s given rise to the Portuguese adage that “from Spain, there are neither good winds nor good marriages.” The two countries are squaring off today too, playing each other in the World Cup soccer match to determine which team goes to the quarterfinals. “There is a certain element of hostility there,” said Roger Appleyard, head of global credit research at RBC Capital Markets in London. “It would probably not be the same if the bid were from a company such as Deutsche Telekom.” Telefonica is offering to buy Portugal Telecom’s stake in their 50-50 venture Brasilcel NV, which owns 60 percent of Vivo Participacoes SA, Brazil’s largest wireless company. Portugal’s Socrates has called the stake in the asset in Brazil, a former Portuguese colony, “strategic.” ‘National Champion’ “It’s a national issue,” Jorge Felix, president of the Portugal Telecom workers’ union. “No one can deny the strategic value Vivo has for the growth of Portugal Telecom, or the strategic interest for the country of having a company that has the capacity to invest and help in its technological development. It’s as much or more important for Portugal than it is for Spain.” Portugal Telecom relies on Brazil for growth, with sales from the Latin American country rising 27 percent in the first quarter, while revenue at home fell 3.6 percent. Yet Portugal Telecom this month acknowledged that the company can provide “no assurance” that “similar value will be delivered to the shareholders for Vivo” should Telefonica’s bid fail. “Portugal wants to remain having a national champion and that’s all fine, but it does not make rational economic sense to reject the offer because it’s significantly more than the Vivo stake value on any measure,” said Appleyard. Telefonica Stake About 36 percent of Portugal Telecom is held by Portuguese investors, according the company’s website. U.S. holders own 23 percent, 21 percent is owned by investors based in the U.K. and Ireland and 19 percent by shareholders in the rest of Europe. Telefonica held 10 percent of Portugal Telecom before reducing its stake to 2 percent last week. Telefonica still controls 10 percent of the voting rights, Portugal’s securities market regulator said yesterday. Antonio Menezes Cordeiro, chairman of the shareholders’ meeting, will decide if the Spanish company can exercise its voting rights or whether it would represent a conflict of interest. Institutional Shareholder Services, the influential group that advises investors, recommended June 14 that Portugal Telecom shareholders accept Telefonica’s offer. On June 18, Proxinvest, another shareholder advisory service, recommended that the bid be rejected. Two large Portuguese shareholders have said they will reject the bid. Ongoing Strategy Investments SGPS SA, which owns a 6.8 percent of the Portuguese company and has board representation, plans to vote against the offer. Close Call The price is not sufficient, Jose Maria Espirito Santo Ricciardi, chief executive officer of Banco Espirito Santo SA’s investment banking unit, said in May. Banco Espirito Santo owns about 8 percent of the stock. “It will be a close call,” said Teresa Martinho, an analyst at Banif Investment Bank in Lisbon. “I still think at this price it will be hard to pass.” Portugal Telecom Chief Executive Officer Zeinal Bava has sought to step up the fight to force his counterpart at Telefonica SA, Cesar Alierta, to put more money on the table. Alierta has refrained from boosting the bid a second time, Portugal Telecom, which rejected an initial 5.7 billion-euro bid without a shareholders vote, has said the revised offer “does not reflect the strategic value of this asset for Telefonica.” Madrid-based Telefonica, which said its first offer was “fair, full and final,” wants control of Vivo to merge it with Telecomunicacoes de Sao Paulo SA, or Telesp, its fixed-line unit in Brazil. ‘Regional Rivalry’ “The offer is more than reasonable and that should be enough,” said Alberto Espelosin, who helps manage about $12 billion at Ibercaja Gestion in Zaragoza, Spain. Still, for some investors, voting on the offer may be less about reason and more about history. Portugal fought off invading Spanish armies in the 1600s as well as the 1800s, when they attacked with Napoleon’s forces. Spain ruled over Portugal for 60 years between the late 1500s and early 1600s. That history is the backdrop for most of Portugal’s dealings with its neighbor -- from business to soccer. “It’s a regional rivalry in every aspect,” said Carlos Queiroz, the Portugal team’s coach said at a press conference yesterday in South Africa. “A Portugal-Spain is a special titbit, like Argentina-Brazil or England-Germany. They are menus you don’t see every day.”

Miller's Gazprom increased. "Gazprom has increased its payments to its senior executives by 25% - a man had more than 60 million rubles. And this despite the fact that last year the company lost and markets, and revenues.

In a warehouse next to the ID "Izvestia in Moscow there was a fire. June 29, 2010, 14:: 44. On Tuesday afternoon near the Publishing House (ID) Izvestia in Moscow warehouse caught fire with waste paper products, said spokesman capital MOE. According to him, pressed paper and waste paper products caught fire at 13.18 in a two-story warehouse at: Nastasyinsky lane, 4. "Arrived at the scene firefighters quickly coped with the fire. The area of the fire was 30 square meters ", - said the spokesman, reports RIA Novosti. He did not specify whether the stock belongs to the ID "Izvestia", or other organization. Causes of fires are set, they said in the main emergency department of Moscow.

Odessa stolen Caravaggio painting worth $ 100 million found in Germany. proUA / 29.6.2010 half past eight. Police found the stolen Caravaggio painting "Christ Taking into custody, or Judas Kiss" by law enforcement searched for two years, the "Today". As writes edition, the picture cost $ 100 million were deported from Ukraine in skrutyvshy tube. In pursuit operations hijackers attended special secret police. "Caravaggio found! Painting found in Berlin on June 25. On suspicion of kidnapping arrested three citizens of Ukraine. First, the picture will bring to Kyiv. And then sent home to the Museum of Western and Eastern art "- not hide the joy, the chief of the Odessa Regional Police Michael Yatskov.
In Ukraine, after two years of searches canvas delivered accompanied by Interior Ministry special employees "Titan". "Delayed attackers had already invaded the field of law enforcement. But then their involvement in the theft of paintings by Caravaggio show failed. Now, after examination by the German and Ukrainian specialists, established reliability and picture because it was necessary to ensure that no copy of it "- said the chief adviser to Interior Minister Konstantin Stogniy. Stogniy confirmed that employees were involved in operations of one of the structural units of central MIA.According to the paper, it is police officers from the newly established Office of the secret special operations, dealing with the operational development of organized criminal groups. "Germany got the sight long ago. There's a large black market among connoisseurs of Russian art. We contacted the German police, which began to process underground antiques dealers. "Judas Kiss" found by chance - three Ukrainian suspected of illegally selling a totally different work of art and searched the apartment of one of them.Caravaggio was also found other masterpieces. That is a picture of robbers tied up in the carriage. Because of this paint on canvas potriskalasya somewhat, but minor damage "- says a source in the Odessa police. Despite assurances from police that the accuracy of the painting is set in Odessa Museum until no hurry to rejoice. "I am afraid that this finding was not the same holder as information about the sale of Caravaggio on one of Moscow's websites for 60 million rubles. Later it turned out that the "duck", launched by police who tried to catch the thieves to "alive". If the picture is really ours, provide a good reception. There will be an exhibition of one painting - "Caravaggio", - said museum director Vladimir Ostrovsky. Recall brilliant masterpiece of Michelangelo and Caravaggio Merizi "taking Christ into custody, or Judas Kiss" worth about $ 100 million stolen, presumably Odessa law enforcement officers the night of August 4, 2008.