"Shocking’ revelation finds $5.3tn subsidy estimate for 2015 is greater than the total health spending of all the world’s governments"
That's just simply, wow!
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"Shocking’ revelation finds $5.3tn subsidy estimate for 2015 is greater than the total health spending of all the world’s governments"
To put it simply, a vast swath of the Eurasian landmass (understood to be Europe and Asia together) is in political, military and economic disarray. Europe and China are struggling with the consequences of the 2008 crisis, which left not only economic but institutional challenges. Russia is undergoing a geopolitical crisis in Ukraine and an economic problem at home. The Arab world, from the Levant to Iran, from the Turkish border through the Arabian Peninsula, is embroiled in politically destabilizing warfare. The Western Hemisphere is relatively stable, as is the Asian Archipelago. But Eurasia is destabilizing in multiple dimensions.
We can do an infinite regression to try to understand the cause, but let's begin with the last systemic shift the world experienced: the end of the Cold War.
Amsterhammer said:Highly recommended.
A Net Assessment of the World
a country whose military budget nearly equals the rest of the world and that has military bases in 130 nations limits its global exposure ???...Except when a regional hegemon is trying to dominate Europe, the United States limits its global exposure.
TheGreenMonkey said:It seems Ireland has voted to make another act of godless amorality legal.
Bustedknuckle said:TheGreenMonkey said:It seems Ireland has voted to make another act of godless amorality legal.
Don't tell me..they decided to abandon the 19th century discrimination of 10% of their population?
Welcome to the 21st century. If ya don't like it, don't marry another green monkey.
Maaaaaaaarten said:Ehh? I didn't follow this at all, but I always thought Ireland was a conservative Roman Catholic country when it came to this sort of stuff. Too bad for them I guess.....
blutto said:Bustedknuckle said:TheGreenMonkey said:It seems Ireland has voted to make another act of godless amorality legal.
Don't tell me..they decided to abandon the 19th century discrimination of 10% of their population?
Welcome to the 21st century. If ya don't like it, don't marry another green monkey.
....gosh darn it don't ya know the lord works in mysterious ways....I mean if he hadn't sanctified what you so casually dismiss as a "19th century discrimination" we could well be soon over-run by hordes of green monkeys....and as we all know there is absolutely nothing worse than hordes of green monkeys ( I mean just think of the havoc they would create at your bird feeder, stealing all yer seeds, chasing away the pretty birdies....they would be much more worse than squirrels, much much more most worse...)
...find below another example of them thar mysterious ways....here the good lord, working in close conjunction with one of his local "corporate" franchises, is doing sacred work as God the Real-estate Agent, providing cover for one of his earliest official franchised flocks from another version of the dreaded green monkey hordes....
" Israel’s new deputy foreign minister on Thursday delivered a defiant message to the international community, saying that Israel owes no apologies for its policies in the Holy Land and citing religious texts to back her belief that it belongs to the Jewish people."
....and...
"“We need to return to the basic truth of our rights to this country,” she said. “This land is ours. All of it is ours. We did not come here to apologise for that.”
Hotovely, an Orthodox Jew, laced her speech with biblical commentaries in which God promised the land of Israel to the Jews. Speaking later in English, she signalled that she would try to rally global recognition for West Bank settlements, which are widely opposed.
“We expect as a matter of principle of the international community to recognise Israel’s right to build homes for Jews in their homeland, everywhere,” she said.
Hotovely will manage the ministry’s day-to-day functions, but Netanyahu will remain in charge of foreign policy."
...ya see, this way, God's franchisees, errr, Chosen People (TM) can get rid of non-franchisees ( read green monkey hordes who don't have an official franchise and all the God-given "rights" the franchise agreement carries ) and operate as the perfect religious democracy ( which in regular secular reality makes absolutely no sense but when ya get The Big Spaghetti Monster involved becomes just another one of those mystery thingees ) as God apparently originally intended because like they got a sacred deed in black and white and so on and so forth....
....from... http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/22/israels-new-deputy-foreign-minister-this-land-is-ours-all-of-it-is-ours
Cheers
TheGreenMonkey said:blutto said:Bustedknuckle said:TheGreenMonkey said:It seems Ireland has voted to make another act of godless amorality legal.
Don't tell me..they decided to abandon the 19th century discrimination of 10% of their population?
Welcome to the 21st century. If ya don't like it, don't marry another green monkey.
....gosh darn it don't ya know the lord works in mysterious ways....I mean if he hadn't sanctified what you so casually dismiss as a "19th century discrimination" we could well be soon over-run by hordes of green monkeys....and as we all know there is absolutely nothing worse than hordes of green monkeys ( I mean just think of the havoc they would create at your bird feeder, stealing all yer seeds, chasing away the pretty birdies....they would be much more worse than squirrels, much much more most worse...)
...find below another example of them thar mysterious ways....here the good lord, working in close conjunction with one of his local "corporate" franchises, is doing sacred work as God the Real-estate Agent, providing cover for one of his earliest official franchised flocks from another version of the dreaded green monkey hordes....
" Israel’s new deputy foreign minister on Thursday delivered a defiant message to the international community, saying that Israel owes no apologies for its policies in the Holy Land and citing religious texts to back her belief that it belongs to the Jewish people."
....and...
"“We need to return to the basic truth of our rights to this country,” she said. “This land is ours. All of it is ours. We did not come here to apologise for that.”
Hotovely, an Orthodox Jew, laced her speech with biblical commentaries in which God promised the land of Israel to the Jews. Speaking later in English, she signalled that she would try to rally global recognition for West Bank settlements, which are widely opposed.
“We expect as a matter of principle of the international community to recognise Israel’s right to build homes for Jews in their homeland, everywhere,” she said.
Hotovely will manage the ministry’s day-to-day functions, but Netanyahu will remain in charge of foreign policy."
...ya see, this way, God's franchisees, errr, Chosen People (TM) can get rid of non-franchisees ( read green monkey hordes who don't have an official franchise and all the God-given "rights" the franchise agreement carries ) and operate as the perfect religious democracy ( which in regular secular reality makes absolutely no sense but when ya get The Big Spaghetti Monster involved becomes just another one of those mystery thingees ) as God apparently originally intended because like they got a sacred deed in black and white and so on and so forth....
....from... http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/22/israels-new-deputy-foreign-minister-this-land-is-ours-all-of-it-is-ours
Cheers
What they all fail to recognize is the land is all God's land, nobody has any really claim on it, God owns it, owns everything.
Maaaaaaaarten said:Ehh? I didn't follow this at all, but I always thought Ireland was a conservative Roman Catholic country when it came to this sort of stuff. Too bad for them I guess.....
Jagartrott said:If you look at the map of Europe and gay rights, it's quite easy to see this is actually an indicator of development.
I'm glad Ireland did not choose to side with the likes of Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, etc.
Maaaaaaaarten said:Jagartrott said:If you look at the map of Europe and gay rights, it's quite easy to see this is actually an indicator of development.
I'm glad Ireland did not choose to side with the likes of Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, etc.
Too bad this one only works inside of Europe though. I'd be happy if my country sided with South Korea, Japan etc.
Lal. Yeah right.gooner said:I voted No. I'm not anti-gay but [...]
what an obnoxious post ..The Hitch said:Maaaaaaaarten said:Jagartrott said:If you look at the map of Europe and gay rights, it's quite easy to see this is actually an indicator of development.
I'm glad Ireland did not choose to side with the likes of Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, etc.
Too bad this one only works inside of Europe though. I'd be happy if my country sided with South Korea, Japan etc.
Wait, you are against gay marriage?
WTF business is it of yours if people you don't know want to get married
hrotha said:Lal. Yeah right.
Anyway, while I'm glad that Yes won by a wide margin, it's still troubling at some level that an issue of simple equality and human rights can be put to the vote instead of being approved as a matter of fact.