Time was when we used to look forward to Christmas but in the last few years it’s been one turkey after the other and I should know, as I’m revisiting my seasonal theme of utter chaos and abject disappointment as you read. In 2019 everyone across Europe was on high …
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Disaster contingency planning is the sort of thing to make any consultant’s mouth water. Dreaming up catastrophic scenarios where things go very wrong is a good way to milk a client by exploiting their fears. When I worked on Fleet Street, one big newspaper group used to host regular disaster …
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In spite of the obvious need to develop the economy of Russia and its authorities are doing the opposite. Interesting questions asked in his blog journalist Paul Gingerbread, commenting on yet another increase in taxes: “The government raises the excise tax on wine: Russian 5 to 30 rubles per litre, …
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The party arrived from Costa Rica.In boxes of bananas that arrived in the port of Rotterdam, customs officials found 1,600 pounds of cocaine. The publication said that 1,600 kg of cocaine was discovered by customs officials in the party bananas, which came from Costa Rica. In connection with this case, …
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Products Russian citizen tried to import from Finland “At the customs post MAPP cranberry on entry into Russia from Finland arrived the vehicle of the brand “SAAB” under control of the citizen of the Russian Federation. The man tried to smuggle into the territory of Russia is prohibited to import …
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“Help” the deer failed. In the town of Walnut Cove of the U.S. state of North Carolina recently there was an amusing incident involving wild deer. The animal entered the store and made it a mess in an attempt to free his “friend”, whom were put up for sale a …
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