Atabey, the guy who went to bed and dreamed one night that he had earned a degree in Business Administration, states

Dready,

A business plan that relies on a single supplier is simply TOO RISKY And the facts have proven this axiom correct once again. Try and try as you might it's very plain and simple: the firm's business model lacked multiple supplier inputs. As I said, a Cardinal sin in business

tell that to guys who make special equipment like neodymium magnets, wherein the only raw material comes from one source...China. try to remember that you are basically a buffoon and know nothing , masquerading as a guy with a brain. by the way...no more LATIN? i guess because i told you i studied it for 5 years, that ran you off.

i post a lot on this board. however, even though i have the highest number of postings, the rate of output from Atabey is due to outstrip me in short order. the guy has to post some absurd nonsense every day, and has to weigh in on every subject. he imagines himself to be some sort of academic, in his demented state of maladjustment. he clearly believes that quantity equals quality, so, he would prefer to make 1000 nonsensical remarks, than to make a single sane observation. now he informs us that he is an adherent to the traditional economic school, whatever the heck that means. at least he makes for moments of levity, embarrassing though they may be

All I will say is that if Atabey were to put so much passion to the problems in the DR, as he puts for Jamaica's (which I know he doesn't care about and is just trying to annoy Dread) the DR would be a better place.

Ok, carry on......................

4 July 2011 Last updated at 00:58 ET

Japan finds rare earths in Pacific seabed

Mike deGruy with Marbled Rays off the Cocos Islands 2002 The number of seabed mining applications is a growing focus for environmentalists' concern


Japanese researchers say they have discovered vast deposits of rare earth minerals, used in many hi-tech appliances, in the seabed.

The geologists estimate that there are about a 100bn tons of the rare elements in the mud of the Pacific Ocean floor.

At present, China produces 97% of the world's rare earth metals.

Analysts say the Pacific discovery could challenge China's dominance, if recovering the minerals from the seabed proves commercially viable.

The British journal Nature Geoscience reported that a team of scientists led by Yasuhiro Kato, an associate professor of earth science at the University of Tokyo, found the minerals in sea mud at 78 locations.

"The deposits have a heavy concentration of rare earths. Just one square kilometre (0.4 square mile) of deposits will be able to provide one-fifth of the current global annual consumption," said Yasuhiro Kato, an associate professor of earth science at the University of Tokyo.

The minerals were found at depths of 3,500 to 6,000 metres (11,500-20,000 ft) below the ocean surface.

Environmental fears

One-third of the sites yielded rich contents of rare earths, Mr Kato said.

The deposits are in international waters east and west of Hawaii, and east of Tahiti in French Polynesia.



Why rare earths are so important to the world's economy

Mr Kato estimated that rare earths contained in the deposits amounted to 80 to 100 billion tonnes.

The US Geological Survey has estimated that global reserves are just 110 million tonnes, found mainly in China, Russia and other former Soviet countries, and the United States.

China's apparent monopoly of rare earth production enabled it to restrain supply last year during a territorial dispute with Japan.

Japan has since sought new sources of the rare earth minerals.

The Malaysian government is considering whether to allow the construction of an Australian-financed project to mine rare earths, in the face of local opposition focused on the fear of radioactive waste.

The number of firms seeking licences to dig through the Pacific Ocean floor is growing rapidly.

The listed mining company Nautilus has the first licence to mine the floor of the Bismarck and Solomon oceans around Papua New Guinea.

It will be recovering what is called seafloor massive sulphide, for its copper and gold content.

The prospect of deep sea mining for precious metals - and the damage that could do to marine ecosystems - is worrying environmentalists.

Tupapaupa, i could not agree with you more. guys like him sit in the comfort of New York, and ponitificate about their patriotism. ask them when was the last time that they bought some school books and crayons for an indigent child here, and they have no answer. if they were so hell bent on change, they would give up some of the relative comforts of places like New York, and come home to help make a change. they could hook up with people who have a forward thinking vision of changing the politics and sociology of the country, whether they manage to effect great change, or not. instead, they defend the patrimony by getting into internet fights with strangers who criticise the mess. it is all so funny. i live in the DR. i see the guys poring through discarded trash in the hope of finding something they can use. i see the guys on the street corners who tell me that they have not eaten all day, because they have no money, no job, and no support system at home to help them. i see the beautiful young ladies who cannot spell their names, and who have to depend on gringo for hope. then, i see the politicos driving by me in the Maseratis , which they import duty and tax free. i see education authorities, who are charged with the responsibility for school nutrition, feeding kids reconstituted orange juice and pound cake for breakfast. then, i get mad, go off on a rant, only to be blindsided by the likes of Atabey. needless to say, he is probably sitting at his computer in an air conditioned room, just having eaten some meal that cost the entire family allocation for food in the DR. but he is the patriot, and his bandera is flapping gaily in the gusts that emanate from the air conditioner.

After 50 years of Independence...

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

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Dear Editor,

There is much yapping in all media about Jamaica's 50th year of Independence — the so-called jubilee year. Yet, despite all the warm and fuzzy feelings that the political directorate and their media wizards are trying to conjure up, reality looms ever so closely, nay threatenly, in the daily lives of ordinary Jamaicans. The image we see is a beleaguered people — hopeless and despairing.

Fifty years after our vaulted independence, our education system is in a shambles, producing cohorts who can mostly only regurgitate inane trivia as is paraded on the Schools Challenge Quiz television show. Nothing like their counterparts in India, Korea or Singapore who create computer software that runs the world.

Fifty years on we have an obsolete education system leading to the miseducation of our children and with factory-like efficiency produces mostly lost generations of youths.

Fifty years after attaining our hard fought Independence from uncaring colonial masters, the stitches of our social fabric, that which binds us as a people, is shredding and busting at every seam. Our male youths see themselves as mere clones of the 'Ugly American'... African American ghetto culture ...gangs, guns, drugs and bloodletting.

And like their mirror counterpart they have caused havoc and let loose the dogs of war — internecine warfare, gang warfare, turf warfare — war on society and its values. Thus in our 50th year of self-governance we have the distinction of being the murder and crime epicentre of the planet.

Fifty years after winning our Independence we have an economy that generates mostly unemployment and hardship for the vast majority of Jamaicans. It produces one-tenth the mean national income of Singapore, Barbados or Malaysia — nations that are the same age as us in terms of self-government. Yet our political directorate and their media conjurers would have us blushing with pride and prancing and whining in the streets in this our Jubilee year.

Fifty years on we have no independence, rather total dependence on foreign monopolists for our energy production. Whether PdVSA of Venezuela or North-East Electrics of Korea there is no independent decision that can be taken concerning our future energy direction... yet the political directorate and their media clowns would have us blushing with pride in this our 50th year of Independence come early August morning.

Thus this lonely soul hereby and thereby commit, that come this August morning, in this the 50th year after our Independence, to pour out libations to our ancestors in atonement; to wail in remorseful grief for having, as a people, squandered the promise of their hard fought and won victory; and in penitent atonement rededicate this life to the continuation of that struggle ...the struggle for the real fruits of independence... not this media charade concocted by the political directorate and their media henchmen.

Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/After-50-years-of-Independence---_11460685#ixzz1uwIqmrVS

says Tupapaupa

All I will say is that if Atabey were to put so much passion to the problems in the DR, as he puts for Jamaica's (which I know he doesn't care about and is just trying to annoy Dread) the DR would be a better place.


he does it because he has the mind of a six year old, and sees everything as a little schoolyard game. when he becomes an adult, he might do some adult things.