All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
Discussion of episodes currently airing in Un-American locations (anything that's aired in Australia is fair game), as well as anything else the Un-Americans feel like talking about or we feel like asking them. Please use the show discussion threads for any current-season discussion.
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You know how Australia pays everyone to take a year of travel before college?
Nou, I only wish this was the case! I'm not sure who the guy on the plane with you was but he certainly wasn't Victorian and I honestly cannot think of anywhere in Australia that does this, if you mean that the Govt subsidises or funds this. If Angus or John or anyone knows differently?
Yes, that article and also this one,
- J Neufeld, ‘Thinking Ethically, Thinking Critically: International Ethics as Critique’, in M Lensu and JS Fritz (eds), Value Pluralism, Normative Theory and International Relations, London, Macmillan, 2000.
All my bookmarked sites and links and references are on disk because I only upgraded my computer from 486 to Pent 133 (yeah I know not that much of an improvement) a couple of months ago.
I could provide full list of cites but considering they ran at around 165 for the last paper I think it would be a slight overkill.
I will list the internet linked cites however,
CEOs Win, Workers Lose
Rise of Corporate Global Power
Bretton Woods Project
Global HR not on PMs agenda
The effect of IMF and WB on poverty
Decline of citizenship
short history of neo-liberalism
Citizenship & Carter of Incorporation
Is globalisation civilising, destructive, or feeble?
globalisation, oxford companion to politics
the revolt of developing nations
limits to social responsibility of business
What are journalists for?
Our allegiance - Australians or global citizens?
the latte revolution
global problems culture of capitalism
has income distribution really worsened in the south?
Globalisation, growth and poverty
World's scientists issue urgent warning
UNDP HDR 1999
UN HDR 2000
UN HDR 2001
Solidarity in a global age
Women's Entrepreneurship, Development and Gender in Enterprises
Whose WTO is it anyway?
WB & UN background reports
Demonstrators overrun Seattle
WTO Turmoil
Let them eat pollution!
Poll reflects triumph of apathy
corpwatch, money and politics
corpwatch, enron facts & figures
Corporate Gobalisation Fact Sheet
Does globalisation help the poor?
NGO coalition for an ICC
global trade watch
Philippine Unity statement
Please bear with me as some are a little antiquated and may no longer work. I'll go through them and edit.
I'd love to see all the Buffistas' bookmark lists. I just swapped favourites folders with my brother last week and found some cool links. And I back mine up to disk too.
The effect of IMF and WB on poverty
Ooh, this is by William Easterly. His
Elusive Quest for Growth
was really interesting. I saved this to read this weekend.
Germany's annual military budget is 23.4 billion Euros, and is fixed until 2006. But even if Schröder were to add 1.5 billion Euros to the budget of his defense minister, Struck,
This seems like counting pennies next to the $50 billion Bush added to our $322 billion defense budget after 9/11.
Only if you ignore the scale. Don’t compare to the entire US defense budget, compare to the defense budget of one single US state for a more reasonable analogy.
What 'ZoeFinch' "thing with England"?
England is a part of my home country.
Don’t compare to the entire US defense budget, compare to the defense budget of one single US state for a more reasonable analogy.
Or compare defense spending as a proportion of GDP which is the only meaningful way.
Or defense spending as a proportion of the GDP of a single state.
Edit: It is a greater defense commitment than 'Noumenon' suggests.
America should offer everybody to spend six months in Haiti or somewhere. My friend went to Haiti for Army training and she's a lot more content with how much she earns and owns now. It's an important perspective.
Well there's the Peace Corps.
Most states don't have a seperate defense budget in the same sense as a federal defense budget, unless I'm mistaking what you mean.
What 'ZoeFinch' "thing with England"?
I'll mail ya. I thought your old username was pretty, though.
I was coming from "Let's all marvel at how much money the U.S. throws at weapons," not "Let's mock Germany for not having the world's biggest military-industrial complex." It's like comparing your salary to Bill Gates -- not to make yourself look bad, but just to marvel that your paycheck for two weeks is what he takes home in two minutes.
"Let's all marvel at how much money the U.S. throws at weapons," not "Let's mock Germany for not having the world's biggest military-industrial complex."
We're talking about those war crazy Prussians here right? {Oh they call themselves 'German' now but we all know :-P}
I understand 'Noumenon' honest. I get the squicks when people compare apples and oranges for kicks. Because if it were possible to do the math I am not sure that the US defense budget would necessarily be the larger figure. But as Heather has pointed out the math can't be done because the US doesn't keep records of defense spending as a proportion of state GDP while all European defense spending is calculated as a proportion of state's GDP.
Edit: Or so I believe.
But a "state" in US terms is totally different than a "state" in EU terms. The EU has, as we no, no unified defense spending. Member states should be compared with the total US GDP.
