- after a while you (when you examine politics, economics, history, etc...) you come across very similar themes. I didn't realise how similar our way of life was across centuries/millennia. Given context it makes sense that social mobility is the same from Roman Empire to now, that people eat similar food across similar classes, that segregation is still present, etc... We'll examine some of these issues in this post:
The Interview - Same same speech
The Interview: We Are Same-Same, But Different
The New Age of Empire: How Colonialism and Racism Still Rule The World (Prof. Kehinde Andrews)
Debate - Is The West Fundamentally Racist With Kehinde Andrews and Jeremy Black
How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World, with Kehinde Andrews and Imarn Ayton
Kehinde Andrews with Russell Brand - How Racism & Colonialism Still Rule the World
Whiteness Psychosis _ Russell Brand Podcast
Kehinde Andrews, Ryan Grim & Matt Bruenig _ The Nomiki Show 09-15-21
Neither Settler Nor Native - How Western Empires Doomed People in Colonised States (Mahmood Mamdani)
‘Africa’s Che Guevara’ - Thomas Sankara- A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa Who Fought Neocolonialism
African Book Talk Series - 'Neither Settler or Native' by Mahmood Mamdani
Justice Not Revenge - Examining the Concept of Revolutionary Justice, Mahmood Mamdani (2017)
Mahmood Mamdani, 'State Formation and Conflict'
Ask Prof Wolff - Class Analysis and Classism
Wolff Responds - Reform and Revolution
Wolff Responds - The Curse of Billionaires
Should 'Critical Race Theory' be taught to US students _ The Bottom Line
UN: Cost of food rises at fastest pace in over a decade
gdp per capita ppp by country
critical race theory
Critical race theory (CRT) is an academic movement of civil rights scholars and activists in the United States who seek to critically examine the law as it intersects with issues of race and to challenge mainstream liberal approaches to racial justice.[1] Critical race theory examines social, cultural and legal issues as they relate to race and racism.[2][3]
Critical race theory originated in the mid-1970s in the writings of several American legal scholars, including Derrick Bell, Alan Freeman, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Richard Delgado, Cheryl Harris, Charles R. Lawrence III, Mari Matsuda, and Patricia J. Williams.[1] It emerged as a movement by the 1980s, reworking theories of critical legal studies (CLS) with more focus on race.[4] Both critical race theory and critical legal studies are rooted in critical theory, which argues that social problems are influenced and created more by societal structures and cultural assumptions than by individual and psychological factors.[5]
Critical race theory is loosely unified by two common themes: first, that white supremacy, with its societal or structural racism, exists and maintains power through the law;[6] and second, that transforming the relationship between law and racial power, and also achieving racial emancipation and anti-subordination more broadly, is possible.[7]
Critics of critical race theory argue that it relies on social constructionism, elevates storytelling over evidence and reason, rejects the concepts of truth and merit, and opposes liberalism.[8][9][10]
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- amazing how similar the structure is. If you just change the titles the roles that they are playing are largely the same? Monarchs are now heads of state, lords are now managers/executives, knights are now special forces, spies are still spies, slaves are now employees, outcasts are still outcasts, etc... The lords/managers/executives ran/run foreign policy still (except it's laundered via donations in so called democracies though)?
Honest Government Ad | Hung Parliament
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The Empire Files - Ralph Nader & Abby Martin on the Corporate Elections
Ralph Nader & Abby Martin on Rigged Corporate Elections, Clinton Criminals
what did knights do
Often, a knight was a vassal who served as an elite fighter, a bodyguard or a mercenary for a lord, with payment in the form of land holdings. The lords trusted the knights, who were skilled in battle on horseback.
what did lords do
Lords and Knights - The lords ran the local manors. They also were the king's knights and could be called into battle at any moment by their Baron. The lords owned everything on their land including the peasants, crops, and village. Most of the people living in the Middle Ages were peasants.
What was the role of a lord?
Lord is an appellation for a person or deity who has authority, control, or power over others, acting as a master, a chief, or a ruler. The appellation can also denote certain persons who hold a title of the peerage in the United Kingdom, or are entitled to courtesy titles.
what did ladies do
how were kings selected
how were lords selected
What makes someone a Lord?
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Lord is an appellation for a person or deity who has authority, control, or power over others, acting as a master, a chief, or a ruler. The appellation can also denote certain persons who hold a title of the peerage in the United Kingdom, or are entitled to courtesy titles.
how did lords make money
Ask Prof Wolff - The Conservative Libertarian Hustle
how successful are government lobbyists
political donor list
101 Ways To Get Free $$$ From The Government By Grace Johnston
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A 10-year analysis of these statistics is significant; in 2011 and 2012 the Gillard government implemented key changes to welfare policy, particularly around single parent payments and disability support pension eligibility, which bumped hundreds of thousands of people on to lower jobseeker payments. Howard government changes to the way the payments are indexed mean jobseeker payments have not kept pace with pension payments, or the general cost of living, even considering the government's $50 a fortnight increase in March. The base rate of the dole is $45 a day. Depending on which measure you use, it's either $20 or about $35 a day below the poverty line.
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Kristen O'Connell at the Anti-Poverty Centre is similarly forthright: "Food banks should not exist, because it's the government's responsibility to meet people's needs and we have a right to have our needs met," she says.
"There's a very simple solution to people not being able to afford to eat, and that's giving people money. The government showed last year that it can do this overnight and they are making a political choice not to do it now."
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"We very much used to think about the sort of 'entitled poor', in that we didn't want people to become too reliant on our services, without looking at the full picture – which is that they're reliant on our services because there isn't enough money in their lives. It's not the other way around," Horsburgh says.
"We realised the equation was actually really simple: if you're on Centrelink, you probably don't have very much money," he says. "And that's long been the case."
Wolf Of Wallstreet Matthew McConaughey [FULL SCENE] [HD]
Wolf of Wall Street Lunch Scene on How to Stay Focused
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For Olivia Sidhu, having a job that pays a proper wage is the "greatest achievement" of her life.
The 22-year-old Sydney woman lives with Down syndrome and has begun working part-time for an inner-city architecture firm.
"Having a job gives me independence and a sense of purpose," Ms Sidhu said.
"I wasn't nervous on my first day, I felt very confident."
While Ms Sidhu is settling into her administration job, many other people with disability remain unemployed.
The disability royal commission has heard 53.4 per cent of people with disability of working age were unemployed in 2018.
Former disability discrimination commissioner Graeme Innes, who is blind, told the hearing on Monday there'd been no improvement in employment figures for decades.
"I've described the performance of employers, in terms of employing people with disabilities, as abysmal," Dr Innes said.
"We've been employed at a rate of approximately 30 per cent less than the general population during the last 30 years."
Dr Innes reflected on his own experience of trying to find work after graduating from law school.
He applied for 30 jobs without success before settling on a role reading out Lotto numbers.
"I used to joke in that job that I was the only clerical assistant in the NSW public service with a law degree," Dr Innes said.
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disabled people financial statistics
Income
41% of people with disability aged 15–64 have income from wages or salary, compared with 73% without disability.
44% of people with disability aged 15–64 receive a government payment, compared with 12% without disability.
Almost half (45%) of single-parent families where the parent has disability have a low income.
Demographics
Over 4.4 million people in Australia have some form of disability. That's 1 in 5 people.
17.8% of females and 17.6% of males in Australia have disability.
The likelihood of living with disability increases with age. 2 in 5 people with disability are 65 years or older.
Of all people with disability, 1.9 million are aged 65 and over, representing almost half (44.5%) of all people with disability. This reflects both an ageing population and increasing life expectancy of Australians.
2.1 million Australians of working age (15-64 years) have disability.
35.9% of Australia's 8.9 million households include a person with disability. [1]
The candidates have been selected from a diverse range of high unemployment groups in Australian society whose lack of opportunity has nothing to do with being less deserving and everything to do with marginalisation.
But who exactly are these groups?
For starters, Indigenous unemployment rates are 3.6 times higher than non-indigenous in Australia. This figure becomes more shocking in remote areas where the Indigenous unemployment rate rises to above 40%.
How long might it take for refugees to gain employment once arrived in Australia?
Well, after being here for 18 months, 43% still find themselves jobless. For those emigrating from the Middle East, the unemployment rate is six times higher than the Australian average. The picture is not much better for those Australians with disabilities who now have less representation in the workforce than what they did 20 years ago.
According to a 2014 study, the majority of former prisoners are homeless and/or unemployed within 6 months after their release; one in three single parents are unemployed ; 140,000 unemployed Australians are aged between 50-64; youth unemployment is double that of the rest of the population and as high as 28% in some rural communities; transgender women make up an astonishing 12% of those living in homeless shelters while 60% of LGBTI people report homophobic verbal abuse in the workplace.
All candidates come from at least one of these categories and bring extraordinary emotional stories of challenge and sometimes trauma. And to top it all off they face the most employer discrimination and marginalisation in Australia.
Health care
Buffett described the health care reform under President Barack Obama as insufficient to deal with the costs of health care in the US, though he supports its aim of expanding health insurance coverage.[174] Buffett compared health care costs to a tapeworm, saying that they compromise US economic competitiveness by increasing manufacturing costs.[174] Buffett thinks health care costs should head towards 13 to 14% of GDP.[175] Buffett said "If you want the very best, I mean if you want to spend a million dollars to prolong your life 3 months in a coma or something then the US is probably the best", but he also said that other countries spend much less and receive much more in health care value (visits, hospital beds, doctors and nurses per capita).[176]
Buffett faults the incentives in the United States medical industry, that payers reimburse doctors for procedures (fee-for-service) leading to unnecessary care (overutilization), instead of paying for results.[177] He cited Atul Gawande's 2009 article in the New Yorker[178] as a useful consideration of US health care, with its documentation of unwarranted variation in Medicare expenditures between McAllen, Texas and El Paso, Texas.[177] Buffett raised the problem of lobbying by the medical industry, saying that they are very focused on maintaining their income.[179]
- the fascinating thing about indoctrination as education is that you're basically cheering on your own doom? Most people either never figure out or figure out too late how/why the system seems stacked against them or works so heavily in their favour? How on is everyone genuinely helping one another a bad thing? Why is it so wrong for us to think about something different?
Rep. Katie Porter Exposes How Big Oil Cheats Taxpayers
The black agenda
Lenin's Question for China - State Capitalism or Socialism
Economic Update - Imagining a Different Economy
Free meals for street cleaners in China
Feeding The Dream: Street Food From Dharavi, Mumbai | Slumfood Millionaire | India
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-29/new-report-details-australias-public-housing-crisis/100654622
Tesla CEO and billionaire Elon Musk asked his Twitter followers over the weekend if he should sell 10% of his Tesla holdings, and they said yes, but media reports claim he has to sell the stock soon regardless of the rhetoric.
According to a report by CNBC, Musk faces a $15 billion tax bill on stock options expiring next year, which is likely the real reason he considered selling 10% of his Tesla stock in the first place.
As Musk himself declared, he doesn't take a salary or cash bonus from Tesla, thus his taxable wealth comes from stock awards and the gains in the company's share price. Musk was awarded Tesla's stock options back in 2012, which allows him to buy 22.86 million Tesla shares at the fixed price of only $6.24 each. As the company's shares closed at $1,222.09 apiece last week, his gain on these options now totals just under $28 billion.
Musk's stock options expire in August 2022, but in order to use them, he has to pay the income tax on the gain at a combined rate of 54.1%. Simple math shows that at the current price, his tax bill is around $15 billion.
Musk himself indicated that he will start selling Tesla stocks to gain on expiring options at the Code Conference in September, saying: "I have a bunch of options that are expiring early next year, so... a huge block of options will sell in [the fourth quarter] – because I have to or they'll expire."
The Twitter community has been divided on Musk's poll. While some fretted that their Tesla holdings will drop when Musk starts selling, some said it's high time billionaires paid their due. Musk himself said, "much is made lately of unrealized gains being a means of tax avoidance," referring to plans proposed by the Democratic Party in the US Senate, who want billionaires to be taxed on their stock gains when the price of their shares goes up, even if they do not sell their stocks.
winner takes all capitalism
Is the World Economic Forum, the organization I work for, part of an "elite charade"? Is its real impact to do well for itself and its members, rather than "to improve the state of the world" as it claims? It is, with a bit of a stretch, the premise of a new book by Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World. He asserts that the global elite do more harm than good, even if they think otherwise.
He isn't the only one to make the claim. Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, in a New York Times review of his book agreed there is "an elite that, rather than pushing for systemic change, only reinforces our lopsided economic reality — all while hobnobbing on the conference circuit." Are they making a fair assessment? Before jumping to conclusions, let's review their analysis.
In his book, Giridharadas starts with a somber observation. The world our youth grows up in, he writes, is one where the appeal of working for McKinsey or Goldman Sachs is greater than that of working for an NGO or government – even when your goal in life is to change the world. Their parents would stand on the barricades against war or capitalism; the new generation is more compliant.
As an example, he points to Hilary Cohen, a recent graduate from Georgetown University, who in college did develop a sense of wanting to do good in her life and career. But if in the past, a socially involved person like her would most likely end up joining the ranks of government, a religious organization, or an NGO, she instead chose to work for McKinsey.
winner take all society
- to genuinely fix society you need to bring the conversation deeper/earlier in people's lives? Think of all possible alternatives and don't be afraid to experiment?
Can we Fix Capitalism Yanis Varoufakis vs Gillian Tett
Ten Years On - The Financial Crisis and the State of Modern Capitalism
Philip Giraldi - Is Israel a U.S. ally?
National Summit to Reassess the U.S.-Israel "Special Relationship"
Papantonio - Big Pharma Uses Humans As Guinea Pigs - The Ring Of Fire
What is Ayn Rand's philosophy?
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The core of Rand's philosophy — which also constitutes the overarching theme of her novels — is that unfettered self-interest is good and altruism is destructive. This, she believed, is the ultimate expression of human nature, the guiding principle by which one ought to live one's life.
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- fascinating how they they segregate, classify, condition/indoctrinate, etc... based on personality, talents, family, race, etc? It feels like similar techniques that they use in marketing? Notice that method of indoctrination is very similar in globally? Things can get pretty bizarre at the top? Just like the Royal Courts of yesteryear you're being judged based on your utility to the elite whose values can often vary but are often based around money? The funny thing is that using capitalism as our way of life sort of encapsulates racism, phrenology, shadeism, elitism, feudalism, royalty, hereditary rule, etc... into our pricing/system. Outight segregation is now called "gentrification"? Lots of "systemic abberations" in the system? That's why the Cold War was fought with such ferocity and was so important? There are aspects of the Yalta Conference/Accord that are still classified but I suspect if you read through the rest of this post and history regarding the leadup to the Russian/Bolshevik Revolution things will make more sense?
But there was one thing he missed out on; a powerful social network. "The people who go to these private schools, like it or not, are the decision-makers of the future," he said. "That's the benefit - the network. I've never seen anything like it."
One of Sydney's favourite questions has long been, "Where did you go to school?" In such a sprawling, flashy and, some say, superficial city, a new acquaintance's school is considered a snapshot of their social capital, networks and values.
It may also hint at their character. A graduate of a regional public school at the top of their game, such as Macquarie University vice-chancellor and Dubbo High graduate Bruce Dowton, is likely to have got there with less support and fewer resources.
But there was one thing he missed out on; a powerful social network. "The people who go to these private schools, like it or not, are the decision-makers of the future," he said. "That's the benefit - the network. I've never seen anything like it."
One of Sydney's favourite questions has long been, "Where did you go to school?" In such a sprawling, flashy and, some say, superficial city, a new acquaintance's school is considered a snapshot of their social capital, networks and values.
It may also hint at their character. A graduate of a regional public school at the top of their game, such as Macquarie University vice-chancellor and Dubbo High graduate Bruce Dowton, is likely to have got there with less support and fewer resources.
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But there was one thing he missed out on; a powerful social network. "The people who go to these private schools, like it or not, are the decision-makers of the future," he said. "That's the benefit - the network. I've never seen anything like it."
One of Sydney's favourite questions has long been, "Where did you go to school?" In such a sprawling, flashy and, some say, superficial city, a new acquaintance's school is considered a snapshot of their social capital, networks and values.
It may also hint at their character. A graduate of a regional public school at the top of their game, such as Macquarie University vice-chancellor and Dubbo High graduate Bruce Dowton, is likely to have got there with less support and fewer resources.
This is a list of Old Melburnians, who are notable former students of Melbourne Grammar School in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Alumni of Melbourne Grammar are known as Old Melburnians (abbreviated to OM, followed by the year of graduation), and automatically become members of the school's alumni association, the Old Melburnians' Society.[1]
Notable alumni include one Governor-General, three Prime Ministers, four State Premiers, three Lord Mayors, three Australians of the Year, two Victoria Cross recipients, ten Supreme Court Justices, fourteen AFL premiership players, forty-two Olympians, four Australian Open champions, and many prominent scientists and entertainers.
millionaires from from ivy league statistics
how many people degrees and occupation correlation
What percent of college grads have a job related to their major?
27 percent
In fact, it is a national pattern. According to a 2013 study conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, only 27 percent of college graduates landed a job closely related to their majors.
In response to concern over diversity and equality of access and opportunity, top firms including Ernst & Young and Penguin Random House have recently abandoned degree requirements altogether.
Ernst & Young got rid of all degree requirements in 2015, explaining that a candidate's degree had no correlation to their future job performance.
A year later, Penguin Random House followed suit, citing the need to hire applicants from more diverse backgrounds.
PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Ogilvy Group, Apple and Google have all relaxed their degree requirements in recent years, lowering required grades or targeting poor performing and non-college students.
The idea is to hire people based on merit, rather than credentials, often by assessing candidates with psychometric testing or other performance-based tests.
Instead of abandoning degree requirements altogether, some firms, including professional services firm Deloitte, have chosen to hide which university an applicant graduated from.
The aim is to limit the "prestige" associated with an institution, so as to more accurately test the abilities of the applicant.
What matters in both this and the broader debate is a refocus on ability over credentials.
That some companies are relaxing degree requirements raises new questions about the value of a university education.
The question is whether these few companies are outliers or the forerunners of a new trend of preferencing merit over qualifications.
If the trend does persist, then the job market of the future may have as little barriers to entry as the job market of the 1970s.
The top career findings for each major track were the expected ones. For example, engineering grads were mostly likely to work in industrial and mechanical engineering for their first job (20 percent), followed by software development (13 percent). Language and philosophy grads went into education first (17 percent) and journalism and writing (10 percent).
After those jobs, however, the report starts to look more like the findings from a study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which found that only 27 percent of college graduates work in a field related to their major.
how many people degrees and profession match
ivy league graduate destination
Intoday's society, there is a well-established prestige pathway. If you attend a high-ranking university, it's very likely you'll end up with a job in consulting and/or investment banking.
In 2017, nearly 40 percent of Harvard graduates took consulting or finance jobs. That statistic remains equal or higher across other Ivy League universities. Most of these graduates end up at the so-called top firms. In consulting, that's McKinsey, Bain, BCG; in finance, it's Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan.
This means thousands of bright, hardworking (and privileged) young adults are going to work for only a handful of firms every year. That's a ridiculously high percentage of graduates concentrated in a couple of industries.
Over decades, these firms have thoroughly and meticulously infiltrated and transformed the culture of these universities, resulting in a staggeringly high conversion rate of graduates into their ranks. As a result, fewer candidates are left for other fields that need them, such as healthcare, education, energy, and environmental science. It's a very real — and very damaging — brain drain.
Even worse, most of these students have no idea what they're getting into. They're doing it because of the prestige; landing one of these jobs is seen as the pinnacle of a status culture in which they've been immersed. Although many leave after about two years, driven away by the long hours and cutthroat culture, some stay far longer. Eventually, they realize that prestige and overachievement are no longer as important as when they were younger — but by then, they're trapped.
The Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin suggested that "imperialism was the highest form of capitalism, claiming that imperialism developed after colonialism, and was distinguished from colonialism by monopoly capitalism".[9]: 116 This idea from Lenin stresses how important new political world order has become in the modern era. Geopolitics now focuses on states becoming major economic players in the market; some states today are viewed as empires due to their political and economic authority over other nations.
European expansion caused the world to be divided by how developed and developing nations are portrayed through the world systems theory. The two main regions are the core and the periphery. The core consists of areas of high income and profit; the periphery is on the opposing side of the spectrum consisting of areas of low income and profit. These critical theories of geo-politics have led to increased discussion of the meaning and impact of imperialism on the modern post-colonial world.
Ask Prof Wolff - Capitalism and Racism
did slaves get medical help
The health of slaves on American plantations was a matter of concern to both slaves and their owners. Slavery had associated with it the health problems commonly associated with poverty. It was to the economic advantage of owners to keep their working slaves healthy. Those who could not work because of illness or age were sometimes abandoned by their owners, expelled from plantations, and left to fend for themselves.
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Life expectancy
A broad and common measure of the health of a population is its life expectancy. The life expectancy in 1850 of a white person in the United States was forty; for a slave, thirty-six.[1] Mortality statistics for whites were calculated from census data; statistics for slaves were based on small sample-sizes.[1]
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Slave diet
There are contrasting views on slave's diets and access to food. Some portray slaves as having plenty to eat, while others portray "the fare of the plantation [as] coarse and scanty".[2] For the most part, slaves' diet consisted of a form of fatty pork and corn or rice.[2] Historian U.B. Phillips found that slaves received the following standard, with little or no deviation: "a quart of cornmeal and half pound of salt pork per day for each adult and proportionally for children, commuted or supplemented with sweet potatoes, field peas, syrup, rice, fruit, and 'garden sass' [vegetables]".[2] Scholars came to realize that the slave's diets were quantitatively satisfactory, but not qualitatively sufficient.[2] The poor quality of food led to slaves that were either "physically impaired or chronically ill"
Antebellum plantations had a larger population of hogs than cows, therefore producing more pork than beef.[2] There are a few reasons behind having more pigs than cows: a stereotype that slaves preferred pork over beef, beef was harder to preserve so it was typically only served fresh (which happened more often in the winter because the cold slowed spoiling), a fear of fresh meat because it was believed that it caused disease among blacks (which it was probably not that fresh), and the planters' conviction that "hog was the only proper meat for laborers".[2]
life expectancy by wage united states
First, higher income was associated with greater longevity throughout the income distribution. The gap in life expectancy between the richest 1% and poorest 1% of individuals was 14.6 years (95% CI, 14.4 to 14.8 years) for men and 10.1 years (95% CI, 9.9 to 10.3 years) for women.
The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001–2014
Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States
Power, Protests and Parliament - Q+A Season Finale _ Q+A Highlights
The black agenda
Rich people things
Renegade Inc _ Lions Led by Donkeys
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Interview with Martin Luther King Jr.'s Daughter Bernice King on Militarism, Economic Justice, BLM
9 Flashback Moses Meets Hegep Exodus Gods And Kings 2014
gated communities
"The ATAR is forcing kids to drop languages," said Professor Ken Cruickshank, the chair in languages at the University of Sydney. "UAC has its hands tied. Someone higher up has to say, 'let's work out another way'."
To rank students applying for university, UAC works out the overall ability of students doing one HSC subject by looking at their performances in all their other subjects, then scales their raw mark up if they are among a strong cohort, and down if they are not.
Professor Cruickshank said the process disadvantages community languages. Students who do Arabic continuers, for example, are often in disadvantaged schools with fewer resources, and those who study French are often from advantaged schools.
Subjects studied in advantaged schools tend to be scaled up, and those studied by disadvantaged students down. "French, Latin and [ancient] Greek get high ATARs, but if you do a subject like Japanese or Arabic it's going to get a low ATAR," he said.
The letter suggested returning to the pre-2000 system in which all languages were ranked according to the two most popular ones, which would now be French and Japanese, or look at different ways to rank languages cohorts.
what did the pharaohs think of jews
Does Egyptian history mention Moses?
No contemporary Egyptian sources mention Moses or the events of Exodus–Deuteronomy, nor has any archaeological evidence been discovered in Egypt or the Sinai wilderness to support the story in which he is the central figure.
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royal court
A royal court is an extended royal household in a monarchy, including all those who regularly attend on a monarch, or another central figure. Hence the word court may also be applied to the coterie of a senior member of the nobility. Royal courts may have their seat in a designated place, several specific places, or be a mobile, itinerant court.
In the largest courts, the royal households, many thousands of individuals comprised the court. These courtiers included the monarch or noble's camarilla and retinue, household, nobility, those with court appointments, bodyguard, and may also include emissaries from other kingdoms or visitors to the court. Foreign princes and foreign nobility in exile may also seek refuge at a court.
Near Eastern and Eastern courts often included the harem and concubines as well as eunuchs who fulfilled a variety of functions. At times, the harem was walled off and separate from the rest of the residence of the monarch. In Asia, concubines were often a more visible part of the court. Lower ranking servants and bodyguards were not properly called courtiers, though they might be included as part of the court or royal household in the broadest definition. Entertainers and others may have been counted as part of the court.
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Patronage and courtly culture
A royal household is the highest-ranking example of patronage. A regent or viceroy may hold court during the minority or absence of the hereditary ruler, and even an elected head of state may develop a court-like entourage of unofficial, personally-chosen advisers and "companions". The French word compagnon and its English derivation "companion" literally connote a "sharer of the bread" at table, and a court is an extension of the great individual's household. Wherever members of the household and bureaucrats of the administration overlap in personnel, it is reasonable to speak of a "court", for example in Achaemenid Persia, Ming China, Norman Sicily, the papacy before 1870 (see papal household), and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. A group of individuals dependent on the patronage of a great man, classically in ancient Rome, forms part of the system of "clientage" that is discussed under vassal.
Individual rulers differed greatly in tastes and interests, as well as in political skills and in constitutional situations. Accordingly, some founded elaborate courts based on new palaces, only to have their successors retreat to remote castles or to practical administrative centers. Personal retreats might arise far away from official court centres.
Etiquette and hierarchy flourish in highly structured court settings, and may leave conservative traces over generations. Most courts featured a strict order of precedence, often involving royal and noble ranks, orders of chivalry, and nobility. Some courts even featured court uniforms. One of the major markers of a court is ceremony. Most monarchal courts included ceremonies concerning the investiture or coronation of the monarch and audiences with the monarch. Some courts had ceremonies around the waking and the sleeping of the monarch, called a levée. Orders of chivalry as honorific orders became an important part of court culture starting in the 15th century.[1] They were the right of the monarch, as the fount of honour, to create and grant.
royal courts
The 'in' crowd
People of high social standing were expected to attend court and participate as courtiers. Maintaining a position at court was an expensive business, but the rewards were high if you remained among the monarch's favourites. However, being Tudor courtier was not always easy, particularly under Henry VIII, who as an older man was notoriously easy to enrage.
The King's household, the royal court was the political and cultural centre of the nation, and despite the risks, anyone who was anyone wanted to be there. At court, patronage and favour was given to those who pleased the monarch, and taken away from those who did not.
- the encapsulation of feudalism, slavery, racism, monarchy, supremacy, etc... into capitalism is critical because it means you can segment, target, re-direct people, etc... into various paths in life without their knowledge? Observant people will notice that they'll generally meet very similar clumps/types of people going into various tiers of society (for instance, people going into military, politics, crime, etc...). Everything also has a value but ownership structures feels remarkable similar to invisible/laundered feudalism? Corporatocracy is a former of shell structure that facilitates largely the same game? Technically, capitalism doesn't really reward the best and brightest. It rewards those that play the game the best? Those who play the game best are actually those who study money rather then bring about genuinely good change in the world? So much is similar between capitalism and feudalism? Instead of fief it's called capital?
Once this review has been completed satisfactorily the prospectus can be issued to prospective investors who can then form their view on whether they wish to invest in the company and, after a review of the assessed risk, the price they would be prepared to pay for the shares. Simultaneously, but separately, a report may be produced by the lead bank which gives its own assessment of the company and the worth of investing in it. It is necessary for this report to be prepared by a unit of the lead bank which is independent of the team that is marketing the shares to investors to avoid the risk that the coverage in the credit report becomes biased towards engineering a successful IPO. Indeed, in recent years some investment banks in the USA have been accused of producing unduly favourable reports to support company IPOs.
Once this review has been completed satisfactorily the prospectus can be issued to prospective investors who can then form their view on whether they wish to invest in the company and, after a review of the assessed risk, the price they would be prepared to pay for the shares. Simultaneously, but separately, a report may be produced by the lead bank which gives its own assessment of the company and the worth of investing in it. It is necessary for this report to be prepared by a unit of the lead bank which is independent of the team that is marketing the shares to investors to avoid the risk that the coverage in the credit report becomes biased towards engineering a successful IPO. Indeed, in recent years some investment banks in the USA have been accused of producing unduly favourable reports to support company IPOs.
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Underpricing is evidenced by the price of shares rising (often sharply) in the immediate aftermath of the launch. Many traders known as 'stags' try to take advantage of this common phenomenon.
The fixed price method may encourage the banks leading the deals to set the offer price at a level where they are confident that all the shares will be sold to investors. This will mean that those underwriting the issue are not left to purchase a large proportion of the offer. With the book building method, investors – knowing that the lead banks want to see a successful launch – may indicate a 'low' price to the lead banks to force the issue price down as far as possible. Both methods thus often result in unmet demand at the final offer price with the resultant surge in the traded share price after launch.
The use of a when-issued market in forthcoming share offers (also known as the 'grey market') helps to limit underpricing. This is because the trade in a when-issued market establishes a pre-launch indication of what the post-launch price of the shares will be. Alternatively, a 'Dutch auction' could ensure that shares are not underpriced at launch – but this method is not without flaws: see Case Study 3 (later in this section) on Google's IPO.
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So how well do those managing new share issues perform in judging when to list? Evidence compiled by Henderson et al. (2003) indicates considerable success in this regard. They found 'that firms successfully time their equity issues when the stock market appears to be overvalued' and 'that stock market returns are abnormally low following periods of high equity issues'. The authors acknowledge the role in this successful judgement of agency factors: companies may not necessarily have expertise to predict future movements in equity prices; they will, however, have sufficient knowledge – including an inside view of the robustness of their profit forecasts – to assess when their company is being fully valued or overvalued by the market.
This analysis of IPOs leads to the conclusion that while companies may not get the highest price possible at the point they go public due to the vagaries of the price-setting process, they have a tendency to 'get it right' with the timing of their issue due to their informed position about the performance of the company.
Interestingly, Corwin (2003) found that like IPOs, SEOs are often underpriced. His research found underpricing by an average of 2.2 per cent during the 1980s and 1990s. Corwin provided a number of reasons for this finding – including 'temporary price pressure' (perhaps attributable to investors trying to influence the offer price ahead of the SEO) and the tendency of the lead banks to round down the offer price to the nearest dollar or $0.25.
Underpricing relative to the prevailing market price is always going to be likely, given that the company making the issue normally has to offer some incentive to the investors.
So far in this section we have looked at the various forms share issues can take; in the next section we will examine why a company may want to list its shares on more than one stock exchange.
Keiser Report | Laundering Feudalism | E1546
who wrote laws under feudalism
Feudalism as practised in the Kingdom of England during the medieval period was a state of human society that organized political and military leadership and force around a stratified formal structure based on land tenure. As a military defense and socio-economic paradigm designed to direct the wealth of the land to the king while it levied military troops to his causes, feudal society was ordered around relationships derived from the holding of land. Such landholdings are termed fiefdoms, traders, fiefs, or fees.
social security under feudalism
Security under feudalism
Classical medieval feudalism depended on overlapping, complex, hierarchical relationships. There were oaths and obligations: a series of rights and privileges. A critical aspect of this system was protection: vassals would pledge their allegiance to a lord, and in return, that lord would protect them from harm.
A feudal society has three distinct social classes: a king, a noble class (which could include nobles, priests, and princes) and a peasant class. ... The nobles, in turn, rented out their land to peasants. The peasants paid the nobles in produce and military service; the nobles, in turn, paid the king.
What are the 4 levels of feudalism?
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The hierarchies were formed up of 4 main parts: Monarchs, Lords/Ladies (Nobles), Knights, and Peasants/Serfs. Each of the levels depended on each other on their everyday lives.
Gentlemen were (nominally, at least) amateurs, playing for the thrill and of sufficient personal wealth not to need remuneration for missing work — although expenses were still paid for travel.
The professionals, or Players, were those most unconscionable individuals who went against the Corinthian spirit that Victorian sport was built on by requesting payment for their time so as to make a living from their sport.
Generally speaking, Players were bowlers and lower class, while the Gentlemen were batsmen and of the educated middle or upper class.
A casual look at England's earliest Test captains (all batsmen) illustrates the social class from which they came, with two Knights of the Realm, two Lords and an Earl represented before the outbreak of World War I.
Symptomatic of this discrimination is former England skipper Mike Brearley's assertion of what it takes to be a captain in his book, The Art of Captaincy.
"In England, charisma and leadership have traditionally been associated with the upper class; with that social strata that gives its members what [writer and poet] Kingsley Amis called 'the voice accustomed to command'," he wrote.
Not until 1952 did a professional get the nod to captain England — Yorkshire's Len Hutton breaking the class barrier and going on to captain 23 Tests, winning 11 and drawing 8.
lord to peasant ratio
Did peasants have lords?
The lords owned everything on their land including the peasants, crops, and village. Most of the people living in the Middle Ages were peasants. ... They owned nothing and were pledged to their local lord. They worked long days, 6 days a week, and often barely had enough food to survive.
average hours worked
Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without. And this is the nature of the universe. We struggle against it. We fight to deny it, but it is of course pretense.
The Merovingian Restaurant Scene.
1.1 Slavery – a historical perspective
Slavery existed for millennia until it was abolished in the nineteenth century. It was particularly common in ancient times, when it was a generally accepted practice, both socially and legally. For Aristotle, slavery was natural: 'That one should command and another obey is both necessary and expedient. Indeed some things are so divided right from birth, some to rule, some to be ruled' (1981, p. 67).
The earliest forms of slavery can be traced back to ancient Mesopotamia in the sixty-ninth century BC. Slavery was closely connected to building empires in the ancient world. It was a common feature among ancient societies and superpowers such as Babylon, Egypt and the Roman Empire, which made intensive use of slaves in achieving political and economic expansion. Captives were often taken from conquered nations as booty in wars, and subsequently deprived of their freedom and forced into labour. For example, 'The city of Rome contained a slave population of nearly 40% in the 1st century CE' (Weissbrodt, 2007). The slave in the Roman Empire had no legal status as a person. They were treated as chattels and had no individual rights. The masters exercised full control and ownership over their slaves. This included the right to seek a legal remedy if another person injured or killed their slave(s).
The displaced Palestinians were later denied the right to return, so the mizrahim stayed and named their new home Givat Amal Bet. Unlike other villages that were absorbed into the municipality as Tel Aviv grew, however, the 40 or so working-class families living there were never allowed to purchase the land on which their homes were built. Despite paying city taxes, they have had irregular access to services such as water and electricity and were banned from altering or upgrading their homes.
The community is still fighting a decades-long legal battle for compensation with development companies, the state and the Tel Aviv municipality, but the last of the neighbourhood’s residents were forcibly evicted from their homes last month.
“When my parents came from Damascus we were asked to settle here to help the state,” said Yossi Cohen, 68, who in November was dragged by police out of the house in which he was born. Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, had “promised that we would be rewarded, that we would keep our homes”, he said. But during the eviction, most of the contents of his house were dumped outside, and a fence now stops anyone from going in.
“We have fought discrimination from the Ashkenazi [Jews of European heritage] our whole lives. We live on some of the most expensive land in Tel Aviv, so they try force us off, the same way they do with the Arabs.”
- most people don't know how to read markets? For a long time I thought that companies/corporations made their money via legitimate means but it's obvious they're good at playing the game of capitalism/profiteering rather then producing good results (notice how your bill always increases faster then inflation?). Tragic that they're so worried about the present and near future they that they forget about the medium to long term future?
Ask Prof Wolff - Credit Cards as Refunds - Another Profit Hustle
utility bill increase statistics
We hear a lot about power prices in Australia: the electricity market is "broken" and needs a "laser-like focus" to fix. But was it always this way?
Throughout the 1980s, '90s, and most of the 2000s, electricity prices tracked fairly closely to general consumer price trends.
In the past decade, however, electricity has shot off the charts. Since 2008 power prices have risen 117 per cent, more than four times the average price increase across sectors.
There was only one brief reprieve in 2014 after the carbon tax was repealed, but that hip pocket relief was short-lived.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-16/thousands-of-australians-asking-for-energy-bill-help/12754032
the number book
insurance bill increase statistics
It's the tsunami facing Australian homeowners.
After two years of a string of some of the worst natural disasters the country has ever faced, home insurance premiums are skyrocketing.
Fires, floods, cyclones and hail storms have taken a toll and homeowners are receiving bills with premium hikes of 10-20 per cent on last year, some even higher.
A poor year of return on investments and the higher costs of reinsurance in Australia and abroad have resulted in a triple whammy that has caused many households to face bills of hundreds of dollars more than what they paid just 12 months ago.
Compare the Market spokesman Simon Downes said many insurers are willing to take advantage of consumer complacency.
"The insurance companies bank on the fact that a certain number of customers won't challenge the price increase," he said.
"For you as a consumer, the challenge is to push back and resist that price increase."
He said it is inevitable insurers are looking to recoup costs.
And those costs have been enormous.
- study politics, acting, trades, science, arts, etc... and do a metadata analysis of things you'll realise that there is a royal court system/segregation/class/heriditary effect in place? The boundaries/segregation are extremely noticeable as you move through the system but I only confirmed this via sustained data analysis
The Key To Understanding America's Red-Blue Split _ The Mehdi Hasan Show
Nepotism is rife in the Biden White House!
what did it require to get a royal audience
lying flat movement
royal families wikipedia
- this encapsulation has been noticed by many people besides me. Whether it's Apartheid, White Supremacy, Colonialism, Imperialisim, Feudalism, Royalty, etc... once you have the system in place and enforce it temporarily and have people accept it then there will be imbalances and systemic abberations
then you have capitalism which is like a points based system which maintains it
An old boy network (also known as old boys' network, ol' boys club, old boys' club, or old boys' society) can refer to social and business connections among former pupils of male-only elite schools. The term originated from much of the British upper-class having attended certain public schools as boys, thus former pupils are "old boys".
This can apply to the network between the graduates of a single school regardless of their gender. It is also known as an old boys' society and is similar to an alumni association. It can also mean a network of social and business connections among the alumni of various prestigious schools. In popular language, old boy network or old boys' society has come to be used in reference to the preservation of social elites in general; such connections within the British Civil Service formed a primary theme in the British Broadcasting Corporation's satirical comedy series Yes Minister. The phrase "It's not what you know, it's who you know" is associated with this tradition.
Mostly in the Southern United States, the term good ol' boy has a slightly different meaning—a friendly white man who embodies the stereotype of the folksy culture of the South. A good old boys network has the connotation of this sort of personality combined with cronyism.
This southern term also refers to the personal and friendly relationship between common citizens and local authorities usually resulting in lenient or sometimes no punishments for crimes committed by friends of law enforcement.
- there are so many interesting pricing abberations within our social systems. I think many people have thought superficially looked at the nature of society but not too deeply. That said, it's obvious that many people have reflected on the rediculous nature of compensation at times? Professional sports people, celebrities, etc... can often get paid heaps more then people in life saving and more critical occupations? What's fascinating for me are those who straddled the line between complete failure and success. Enimem was a step between remaining white trash and a globally recognised artist, Chris Gardner was homeless but made something of himself, Einstein struggled to get a job and wasn't as great a student as you would have thought, Newton/Darwin weren't the greatest students, Tesla died poor but whose name lives on via the Tesla car company, Ramanujan was cruely rejected by those in the West before he got lucky, etc... For those of you who honestly believe that the system is good ask yourself whether you want your kids to have to sell their bodies to get through school or life?
Have footballers become too expensive _ Inside Story
Economic Update - A US Left Rises to Remake the World
How Joe Biden Made His Millions
How Kamala Harris Made Her Millions
- a lot of kids and people say they want to make the world a better place. The key thing that a lot of people don't ask is how they're going to achieve it. Classic empires basically externalise and suppress issues elsewhere whatever problems they may have. I think one of the keys is overcoming the "NARF problem" (namely, do you have realistic plan to try and take over the world that will hold and make people happy. In the "Pinky and The Brain" series the meaning of NARF is never really explained by I'd like to confer the following abbreviation to it, Not A Realistic Plan for Trying to Take Over the World. Obviously, it's not perfect but I think it best describes what NARF may actually, truly mean)?
The Same Thing We Do Every Night... - A Pinky and The Brain Compilation
Pinky & The Brain Theme Song
Pinky and the Brain - Just Say Narf
Pinky and The Brain - Pinky - Just say Narf
NARF! Pinky Hilarious Moments Classic Cartoon
- some people/organisations say detecting fraud and money laundering is difficult but what I'm learning is that normally, when someone is making excess/abnormal profits or something seems abnormally cheap there is normally something off/wrong? For instance, we know that backpackers normally take low skilled jobs such as fruit picking, tax evasion, union breaking, certain types of visas push wages down, unacknowledged illegal immigration pushes wages down and worker rights, the impact of slavery/colonialism still exists around the world, animal labour is more common then you think, if it's not hormone induced growth of chickens it's genetically modified chicken which is not just different?, etc... As I mentioned previously it's like they've simply managed to move poor and wealthy people around on a global level? Involvement of organised crime and sabotage more common then you think in capital markets?
The Sacklers, Opioids and the Sickening of America with Patrick Radden Keefe
Super Size Me 2 - Holy Chicken! (sub ITA)
h1b push wages down
coconut monkey labour
primate prostitution
industries which depend on human trafficking
Industries that are at highest risk for human trafficking globally include agriculture, construction, electronics manufacturing, mining, fishing, forestry, hospitality, housekeeping and janitorial services, textile and apparel manufacturing, transportation, and warehousing.
Controversies
According to The Wall Street Journal in May 2009, Simons was questioned by investors on the dramatic performance gap of Renaissance Technologies' portfolios. The Medallion Fund, which has been available exclusively to current and past employees and their families, surged 80% in 2008 in spite of hefty fees; the Renaissance Institutional Equities Fund (RIEF), owned by outsiders, lost money in both 2008 and 2009; RIEF declined 16% in 2008.[46]
On July 22, 2014, Simons was subject to bipartisan condemnation by the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations for the use of complex basket options to shield day-to-day trading (usually subject to higher ordinary income tax rates) as long-term capital gains. "Renaissance Technologies was able to avoid paying more than $6 billion in taxes by disguising its day-to-day stock trades as long term investments," said Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.), the committee's ranking Republican, in his opening statement.[47]
An article published in The New York Times in 2015 said that Simons was involved in one of the biggest tax battles of the year, with Renaissance Technologies being "under review by the I.R.S. over a loophole that saved their fund an estimated $6.8 billion in taxes over roughly a decade."[48]
Globalization
Further information: The Lexus and the Olive Tree, The World Is Flat, and Longitudes and Attitudes
Friedman first discussed his views on globalization in the book The Lexus and the Olive Tree (1999). In 2004, visits to Bangalore, India, and Dalian, China, led Friedman to write a follow-up analysis, The World Is Flat (2005). The book was on the New York Times Best Seller list from its April 2005 publication until May 2007.
Friedman believes that individual countries must sacrifice some degree of economic sovereignty to global institutions (such as capital markets and multinational corporations), a situation he has termed the "golden straitjacket".[31]
He has also expressed concern about the United States' lack of energy independence. He has stated, "First rule of oil—addicts never tell the truth to their pushers. We are the addicts, the oil producers are the pushers—we've never had an honest conversation with the Saudis."[32]
In 2007, Friedman viewed American immigration laws as too restrictive and damaging to U.S. economic output: "It is pure idiocy that Congress will not open our borders—as wide as possible—to attract and keep the world's first-round intellectual draft choices in an age when everyone increasingly has the same innovation tools and the key differentiator is human talent."[33]
After visiting the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego, California in early April 2019, Friedman wrote, "The whole day left me more certain than ever that we have a real immigration crisis and that the solution is a high wall with a big gate — but a smart gate."[34][35]
Why a Trump insider is heading to prison over an Australian drug company _ Four Corners
A trade in Fake Orphans is being driven by western donations _ Foreign Correspondent
Top Glove, the world's largest manufacturer of rubber gloves, has been banned from exporting its products from Malaysia to the United States after the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) made a finding that its products are made using forced and indentured labour.
Rubber medical gloves from a Malaysian manufacturer will be seized if they enter the US due to "conclusive evidence" they are being made by workers under conditions of modern slavery, the CBP said.
Last year the Guardian found that gloves from Top Glove had been supplied to NHS hospitals, although the NHS Supply Chain, an organisation that manages the sourcing, delivery and supply of healthcare products for the NHS, stated that it no longer had a contract with the company.
"CBP will not tolerate foreign companies' exploitation of vulnerable workers to sell cheap, unethically-made goods to American consumers," Troy Miller, a senior CBP official, said in a statement. The ruling marks an escalation in measures against the company after the agency first imposed sanctions on it last July.
The majority of workers at Top Glove are migrants from Nepal and Bangladesh. Many were forced to pay high fees to recruitment agents to secure their jobs, leaving them vulnerable to debt bondage. Workers have alleged they are put to work for 12-hour shifts six days a week – with some earning as little as £7 a day – and live in squalid dormitories shared by more than 20 workers. Top Glove has denied all the allegations.
The shadow minister for international trade, Labour's Bill Esterson, expressed concern at the conditions Top Glove workers had been subjected to and called on the British government to "make sure commercial interests are not put above human suffering". He said the government should guarantee that no personal protective equipment was bought for the UK from companies that faced such allegations of exploitation.
In the last financial year, Top Glove's profits rose by 417% over the previous year, as demand soared for rubber medical gloves to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
Andy Hall, a British specialist in migrant workers' rights, said that some progress had been made at Top Glove, including repaying the recruitment fees incurred by the workers. However, he added: "Top Glove remains an unethical company which prioritises profits and production efficiency over the welfare and basic rights of its workers."
- fascinating how others perceive you and how you see yourself? The Chinese disappear/jail dodgy elites, Russians kill/jail dodgy elites, US/UK mostly let them off, others exile dodgy elites, etc?
The KGB circle of accountability - HBO Chernobyl 2019
HBO Chernobyl (2019) Chairman Charkov "Trust, but verify" [S1E3]
Every Lie We Tell Incurs a Debt to the Truth - Quote from Chernobyl (Without Context)
Chernobyl (2019) - the result of lies
The TRUTH according the CIA | MESSIAH | NETFLIX
Putin Tells Anecdote From His KGB Days: Luckily, I Didn't End up in GULAG!
- fake news and fake history go hand in hand? The third world (including China/India) didn't become poor because of communism. It was likely imperialism/corporatism. The major powers of the world been doing this for hundreds/thousands of years. Basically, the so called "Great Powers"/Imperial/Colonial (such as US, UK, China, Russia, France, etc...) used coercian (most of the time threat of war via Gunboat diplomacy or simply bio-weapons such as Smallpox)/PSYOPS to change and control foreign governments (effectively all other parts of the world) and then take whatever wealth is in the target country using whatever means necessary. Most of the time and much of the funding into the target country loops back to contractors from the intervening country. Only a small amount genuinely goes to locals. In fact, in part the UK/US partly helped communists in China and the USSR for their own purposes. I suspect that few people know or are genuinely interested in why the certain individuals and/or US/West are so much wealthier then other countries and why other countries seem to work so much harder, longer hours, etc... but still remain poor? which is the reason why they're able to get away with it? It's also the reason why the rise of China is such a problem. Thus far, the US/West has basically been getting away with their luck in avoiding most of the carnage of World War II. On top of that, others have taken the brunt of any economic downturn. The US/West have effectively pushed down to maintain their way of life instead of demanding more from their elite and if you read between the lines I think they realise it now? This time things may be a little different as well. Since China and India have nuclear weapons and more potential allies/countries on their side this time around it's harder to coerce them and they may retake their mantles at the top of the global order instead of having to take the fall to help the US/West maintain their share of global GDP?
shock therapy economics
global gdp share history
The 19th century appears to be the key juncture when China and India declined and the West rose. Imperialism appears to be the most obvious answer given that before China was 'opened' in 1842 in the first Opium war, it had its greatest share of world wealth. Within a century of these interventions China went from 32% of the world's GDP to just under 5%.
In the graphic below, the area for each country represents the share of the world's wealth. The rise in the share of wealth by the US and Europe is of similar proportion to the decline in wealth of India and China. The total area shown represents the amount of wealth that the seven selected countries have collectively. Note the decline of collective wealth in the last century as the rest of the world has begun to take a greater share of the global economy.
Anti-war veterans explain how US lost Afghanistan while leaders lied, profited
Ghana President Disses Macron Says African Diaspora to Bring Back Wealth Stolen by Europe
Gyude Moore - "China in Africa - An African Perspective"
This African Leader Challenged the West So Bad They are Hoping He Never Becomes President
- a lot of people wonder why they can't make money but they're considered "smart" in relative terms. It's a whole bunch of factors but in reality I doubt they understands how the system genuinely works. The definition of intelligence in society is awkward and what I've found is that it has more to do with subservience, compliance, dogma, and hypocrisy to a semi-dodgy elite rather then the genuine ability to fix problems. We often misconstrue wealth for intelligence and intelligence for wisdom and it becomes more apparent the more you think and it's blindingly obvious to me that people are subject to this same thinking. Examine how the system filters. If you listen in carefully and drill down on everything that the elite are saying then you realise that the elite are generally limited in ability and talent. You can pick a lot of them apart given enough background knowledge (pick any random billionaire, politician, scientist, doctor, physicist, academic, economist, etc...). People always wonder why smart people weren't automatically rich. It's because of how the system filters people. I study people as I move between groups and classes. Most people serve the elite but can't become one of them and a lot of the time it's because of the way they grew up and think. They think in a narrow band that isn't enough to counter the Machiavellian, Satanic figures, and Demons of this world. If you want to genuinely understand how to make money only think in terms of how to make/find money in an economy and nothing else. Only then will you understand why some people say that many wealthy people are only self serving assholes. Examine the structure of trade deals (poor countries aren't allowed to intrude on the existing territory of major powers), history (the structure of businesses nowadays), society (the people who are allowed to have savings/money and access to important centres of power), wars and the battles between secret services and, etc... and it becomes obvious how much co-ercian plays a role in economics and politics
Chile's 9_11 - The Augusto Pinochet Coup- How The USA Brought Neoliberal Fascism To Chile
- watch the correlation between share price of contractors and GDP of an intervening country and the timeline of war/conflict. This feels identical to the behaviour of colonialism/imperialism? Most military personnel don't really make much money and often come from lower demographics. The officers and contractors are generally of higher demographics just as in yesteryear. The fact that the value of things can be variable allows for this type of extractive/destructive behaviour and the more you understand how it fits together the more you realise how rigged and easy it is for some people to continually make money. Societal hierarchy effectively determines who can be corrupt and enrich themselves at the expense of others? Trade/controlled is managed by the US/West often in their own favour but you must be willing to dig deep to figure it out. It's ironic that most people aren't even pure capitalist. They think that universal healthcare is a good idea but that's socialism, public roads/libraries/swimming pools are more communal/communist ideas, etc...
The Pentagon Is A Money-Laundering Scheme!
war is a racket
profiteers afghanistan
IF YOU PURCHASED $10,000 of stock evenly divided among America's top five defense contractors on September 18, 2001 — the day President George W. Bush signed the Authorization for Use of Military Force in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks — and faithfully reinvested all dividends, it would now be worth $97,295.
This is a far greater return than was available in the overall stock market over the same period. $10,000 invested in an S&P 500 index fund on September 18, 2001, would now be worth $61,613.
That is, defense stocks outperformed the stock market overall by 58 percent during the Afghanistan War.
Moreover, given that the top five biggest defense contractors — Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and General Dynamics — are of course part of the S&P 500, the remaining firms had lower returns than the overall S&P returns.
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afghanistan contractors
Who are US contractors in Afghanistan?
Five of the top defense companies, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, General Dynamics, and Northrop Grumman, spent a combined $34.2 million in lobbying in the first half of 2021 compared to about $33 million in the same period of 2020. Raytheon spent the most on lobbying with $8.23 million so far in 2021.
- genuinely remarkable how much things have remained the same. Land ownership was bad long ago and now for lower demographic groups?
land ownership slavery
Background. The institution of slavery in the United States deprived multiple generations of the opportunity to own land. Legally slaves could not own anything, but in practice they did acquire capital, although they were considered the lowest-ranking members of the capitalist system.
slave land ownership
Of all private U.S. agricultural land, Whites account for 96 percent of the owners, 97 percent of the value, and 98 percent of the acres. Nonetheless, four minority groups (Blacks, American Indians, Asians, and Hispanics) own over 25 million acres of agricultural land, valued at over $44 billion, which has wide-ranging consequences for the social, economic, cultural, and political life of minority communities in rural America. This article presents the most recent national data available on the racial and ethnic dimensions of agricultural land ownership in the United States, based largely on USDA's Agricultural Economics and Land Ownership Survey of 1999.
Who Owns the Land?
Agricultural Land Ownership by Race/Ethnicity
Finally, section three specifies the allocation of land: " … each family shall have a plot of not more than (40) acres of tillable ground, and when it borders on some water channel, with not more than 800 feet water front, in the possession of which land the military authorities will afford them protection, until such time as they can protect themselves, or until Congress shall regulate their title."
With this Order, 400,000 acres of land — "a strip of coastline stretching from Charleston, South Carolina, to the St. John's River in Florida, including Georgia's Sea Islands and the mainland thirty miles in from the coast," as Barton Myers reports — would be redistributed to the newly freed slaves. The extent of this Order and its larger implications are mind-boggling, actually.
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And what happened to this astonishingly visionary program, which would have fundamentally altered the course of American race relations? Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's successor and a sympathizer with the South, overturned the Order in the fall of 1865, and, as Barton Myers sadly concludes, "returned the land along the South Carolina, Georgia and Florida coasts to the planters who had originally owned it" — to the very people who had declared war on the United States of America.
slave worth 3/5 constitution
Three-fifths compromise, compromise agreement between delegates from the Northern and the Southern states at the United States Constitutional Convention (1787) that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.
average net worth black vs white american
In 2019 the median white household held $188,200 in wealth—7.8 times that of the typical Black household ($24,100; figure 1)
Born Ages
Gen Z 1997 – 2012 9 – 24
Millennials 1981 – 1996 25 – 40
Gen X 1965 – 1980 41 – 56
Boomers II 1955 – 1964 57 – 66
- under the system as is basically the top countries take what they want and the rest are left to fend for themselves? Basically, the Great Powers metaphorically beat one another up or initimidate one another into getting what they want. That's why national security can mean something "far away" from a country's own shores? They're basically shifting, wealth, healthcare, good and bad things around? Same themes over and over again. Africans and South Americans in trouble. Most progress coming from China and United States only?
Eswatini is a developing country with a small economy. With a GDP per capita of $4,145.97, it is classified as a country with a lower-middle income.[22] As a member of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), its main local trading partner is South Africa; in order to ensure economic stability, Eswatini's currency, the lilangeni, is pegged to the South African rand. Eswatini's major overseas trading partners are the United States[23] and the European Union.[24] The majority of the country's employment is provided by its agricultural and manufacturing sectors. Eswatini is a member of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union, the Commonwealth of Nations, and the United Nations.
The Swazi population faces major health issues: HIV/AIDS and (to a lesser extent) tuberculosis are widespread.[25][26] It is estimated that 26% of the adult population is HIV-positive. As of 2018, Eswatini has the 12th-lowest life expectancy in the world, at 58 years.[27] The population of Eswatini is young, with a median age of 20.5 years and people aged 14 years or younger constituting 37.5% of the country's total population.[28] The present population growth rate is 1.2%.
Hollande supported the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen,[67] re-supplying the Saudi military.[68] France authorised $18 billion (€16 billion) in arms sales to Saudi Arabia in 2015.[69] [check quotation syntax] In 2014, French bank BNP Paribas agreed to pay an $8.9 billion fine, the largest ever for violating U.S. sanctions against Iran at that time.[70] In October 2016, Hollande said: "When the (European) Commission goes after Google or digital giants which do not pay the taxes they should in Europe, America takes offence. And yet, they quite shamelessly demand 8 billion from BNP or 5 billion from Deutsche Bank."[71]
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how did ancient greeks live so long
Contrary to the commonly held belief that in antiquity and as late as 1700 A.D. normal lifespan was about 35 years, there are indications that the ancient Greeks lived longer. In a study of all men of renown, living in the 5th and 4th century in Greece, we identified 83 whose date of birth and death have been recorded with certainty. Their mean +/- SD and median lengths of life were found to be 71.3+/-13.4 and 70 years, respectively. Although this cohort cannot be considered as representative of the general population, it is however indicative of a long length of life in classical Greece. Good living conditions and a mild climate at the time of intellectual and artistic excellence, the use of slaves for hard work, an animated social life in which the aged actively participated and, not least of all, the respect that aged people were accorded by the younger, all favored a longer length of life and eugeria (happy aging) or eulongevity in classical Greece.
The length of life and eugeria in classical Greece
People could very easily reach the age 60–70. Some lived even more. For example Sophocles, an ancient play writer, lived to see himself become 93 years old. People don't know or seem to forget that Ancient Greeks were also pioneers in medical fields, with biggest of them all Hippocrates "Father of Medicine" whose practices are still applied today.
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How The Richest 1% Are Fuelling Climate Change & Myths On China Being The Worst Polluter-_7QHv0eaM2w
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Total Water Use per capita by Country
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Natural gas consumption per capita - World
Natural gas consumption per capita
- if you look at where people have unusual diets it's normally a pretty good indication of desperate circumstances (animal rights activists are not seeing the full picture?)? If you try eating like that you'll realise how lucky/unlucky some people are in various parts of the world? One interesting thing is how much less meat people in poorer parts of the world eat?
- the US/West are "classic empires". Drag in the best bits and leave the rest. Fascinating that they take many of the best sportsmen, scientists, skilled migrants from former colonies, etc? One thing I didn't realise was how many immigrants were able to do so well? Then I dug down and realised that many of them were elite or minions from other allied countries? This is particularly the case for fallen allies? Rare that the dirt poor can move upwards? Note something else really interesting? Many of families remain in the same position? Another strange thing that I can summise from this is that most education systems are relatively useless? I thought it was the job of the education system to produce individuals like Aristotle, Einstein, Ramanujan, Newton, etc... whose accomplishments often remain in human history for hundreds/thousands of years (unlike business leaders, politicians, or even doctors, etc... who mostly just follow orders or are implementers of particular ideologies). In reality, they're often the result of events that occur outside of the education system (if you look at most education systems you'll realise that they promote fairly shallow analysis and understanding of the subject areas of interest and generally don't prepare people adequately for the rigours and challenges faced by society). They seemed to succeed in spite of the system not because of it? If you read through their biographies and histories most of their "great work" was actually done during their spare time away from the formal education and employment system and they were often rejected by society
The Vietnamese people in France (Vietnamese: Người Pháp gốc Việt, French: Diaspora vietnamienne en France) consists of people of Vietnamese ancestry who were born in or immigrated to France. Their population was about 400,000 as of 2017, making them one of the largest Asian communities in the country.
Unlike other overseas Vietnamese communities in the West, the Vietnamese population in France had already been well-established before the Fall of Saigon and the resulting diaspora. They make up over half of the Vietnamese population in Europe.[2]
uefa champions league player demographic
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Countries of origin of expatriates
Just over 40% of expatriate players are from countries that are not affiliated to UEFA. This proportion has remained stable since 2003.
The proportion of Latin Americans among expatriates has increased by 5.7%, while that of Africans has diminished by 5.2%. The relative presence of Western European players has also increased (3.4%), while that for Eastern Europeans has declined (3.3%). In absolute terms, the number of expatriates has increased for all the zones of origin, except Africa (-27).
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Areas of international recruitment, by league
The geographical areas of international recruitment vary according to leagues. Eastern European countries tend to import players from neighbouring nations. The same observation holds for Western European countries. Some exceptions, however, exist. The principal area of recruitment for Portuguese, Spanish and Italian clubs is Latin America.
Nine leagues stand out for having the most geographically diverse recruitment. None of them import more than 40% of expatriate footballers from the same zone of origin.
skilled immigrant demographics united states
Table 1. Percent Low, Middle, and High-Skilled Immigrants in the United States, 1980–2010
Low Skilled Middle Skilled High Skilled
1980 39.5 41.5 19.0
1990 36.8 40.7 22.5
2000 30.4 42.7 26.9
2010 27.8 42.6 29.6
Source: Authors' analysis of 1980, 1990 and 2000 decennial census data and 2010 Current Population Survey
how many nobel laureates were immigrants
Immigrants and ex-pats have a history of winning physics, chemistry, medicine and economics Nobel prizes.
Of the 281 Nobel laureates representing U.S. institutions in these categories, 87 have been born abroad.
The high percentage is mainly due to research institutions attracting scientists from across the world
These statistics date from 1969, when the economics prize was added.
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Since 1969 (the year the economics prize was added), a majority share of Nobel Prizes in the science categories have gone to U.S. institutions. But the scientists carrying out the cutting-edge research there have for a long time come from all over the world. Out of the 281 laureates that were exclusively affiliated with U.S. institutions, 87 had been born abroad, according to the Nobel Prize Foundation website.
The trend is the same for other countries. Top UK institutions host just as many immigrants and foreign scientists, with 15 out of 45 laureates since 1969 having been born abroad. The biggest share of foreign laureates can be found in Switzerland (Eight foreign-born laureates opposite seven Swiss-born laureates). Here, top scientific research institutions like the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich attracted many foreign researchers.
Countries whose institutions made the top 10 without the help of any immigrant scientists are Japan, with 15 homegrown laureates, as well as Sweden (8 laureates).
Immigrants have been awarded nearly 40% of the Nobel Prizes won by Americans in Chemistry, Medicine and Physics since 2000. In 2019, two immigrants earned Nobel Prizes, one in chemistry and one in physics. That is consistent with recent history and shows how immigrants also make important noneconomic contributions to America, according to new research from the National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP).
how many top researchers are immigrants
Scientist immigration by the numbers
34.5
Percentage of doctoral-degree chemists who were naturalized or non-US citizens in 2017a
53.1
Percentage of doctoral-degree chemical engineers who were naturalized or non-US citizens in 2017a
75.6
Percentage of foreign-born recipients of US science and engineering doctoral degrees in 2015 who planned to stay in the USb
24
Percentage of US patents with at least one non-US citizen inventor in 2007c
2008
Year the number of immigrants from Asia to the US overtook immigration from Latin Americad
78
Percentage of US adults who believe the country should encourage immigration of high-skilled workerse
Sources: aNSF, Survey of Earned Doctorates, 2017. b National Science Board,"Immigration and the S&E Workforce," in Science and Engineering Indicators 2018. cWilliam Kerr, "International Migration and US Innovation," in Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies, 2015. dNational Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, "Ten Things You Probably Didn't Know about Immigrants." ePew Research Center, Spring 2018 Global Attitudes Survey.
china talent program
In November 2019, the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held an open hearing on the China's Talent Recruitment Plans, including the TTP, and called the programs a threat to national security.[32][33] The report from the hearing cited TTP contracts as violating research values, TTP members willfully failing to disclose their membership to their home institutions, and cited numerous cases against TTP members for theft of intellectual property and fraud.[32] One TTP member stole proprietary defense information on U.S. military jet engines.[32] The reported indicated that "TTP targets U.S.-based researchers and scientists, regardless of ethnicity or citizenship, who focus on or have access to cutting-edge research and technology."[32]
- the absolute tragedy for many empires is that they don't realise that they're in trouble until it's too late. If you parse through various statements, you'll realise that Neoliberalism and Thatcherism effectively admits that those at the top can't do any better. That they're unwilling or incapable of producing enough for people internal to the system in question. If you don't believe me it's obvious that the US has been steadily and gradually weakening since the end of WWII (with respect to global share of GDP). The obvious question is whether the US Empire blows up violently/suddenly or bows gradually like the UK and USSR did. The obvious difference between the US and other countries is the size and level of control that the military industrial complex has over the population which (means I suspect that it will likely go the way of the UK and gradually bow out)? The Occupy movement and many other groups were successfully neutralised relatively peacefully? That said, if you watch South American or Russian backed media you'll realise they may have simply moved their activities elsewhere? Even if white supremacy was true it feels like so much is taken away from the edges into the US/Western core away from other parts of the world? The whole premise was supposed to be that white people were somehow superior/more civil and that things would be better for everyone? It hasn't really worked out that way? You can often tell by the types of moves/styles of policies whether a government or company is in need of cash. Tesla's Bitcoin move and some of the attempts at getting people on welfare into trading is really strange? Several of the US's allies are struggling as well. This includes UK, Europe, etc... Part of the reason for experimentation with cryptocurrency and funding into Fintechs (such as BNPL) is to serve as a backup to the financial system in case it fails again
Renegade Inc _ The Great NHS Heist
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America Is DONE*
Revolt Or Collapse: Pick One*
trick down theory
Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy—what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: 'If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.'
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Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.[28]
Social Security
Shortly after being reelected in 2004, President George W. Bush claimed a mandate for an ambitious second-term agenda and proposed reforming Social Security by allowing workers to redirect a portion of their Social Security withholding into stock and bond investments.[49] Pelosi strongly opposed the plan, saying there was no crisis, and as minority leader she imposed intense party discipline on her caucus, leading them to near-unanimous opposition to the proposal, which was defeated.[50][51]
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Pelosi opposed the welfare reform President Bush proposed as well as reforms proposed and passed under President Clinton.[145] She also opposed the tax reform signed by Trump in December 2017, calling it "probably one of the worst bills in the history of the United States of America ... It robs from the future [and] it rewards the rich ... and corporations at the expense of tens of millions of working middle-class families in our country."[146] She said "this is Armageddon" and argued that the tax bill increased the debt in a way that would adversely impact social insurance spending.[147] In January 2018, shortly after the tax bill passed, a reporter asked Pelosi to respond to statements by companies crediting the tax cuts with allowing them to raise wages and give bonuses. She said that, given the benefits corporations received from the tax bill, the benefits workers got were "crumbs".[148][149] Most companies that awarded bonuses gave out payments of hundreds of dollars, while some gave bonuses significantly over $1,000.[150]
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Pelosi has voted to increase Medicare and Medicaid benefits.[166] She does not endorse Senator Bernie Sanders's bill for single-payer healthcare.[167][168]
how many people get off work for the dole
Academic and media commentary
Judith Bessant, in "Civil Conscription or Reciprocal Obligation: The Ethics of 'Work for the Dole'", queried the Government's justifications for the scheme, which centred on providing a means for young people to get back into the workforce by improving their work ethic as a misunderstanding of the causes of youth unemployment. Bessant went on to say there is no evidence that poor attitudes towards work, disorganisation or other personal deficits are the primary source of youth unemployment, rather it is the result of globalisation, the exportation of unskilled labour and increased application of labour-saving technologies in industry.[13]
From an economic perspective, Anne Hawke in "'Work for the Dole' - A Cheap Labour Market Program? An Economist's Perspective", praised the scheme for its potential, but noted that it was not fully voluntary; this would make it difficult for employers to establish whether a person had the positive workplace characteristics associated with voluntary participation, or the less desirable characteristics associated with compulsory participation.[14]
Several academics have pointed out that Work for the Dole is the embodiment of a paradigm shift in which welfare support is no longer being considered a "right", but rather "conditional support" in which unemployed people are expected to undertake their "mutual obligation". Shaver suggests this violates the assumption that all citizens are equal in the status, dignity and worth that are necessary for full participation in democratic society.[15]
Subsequent studies have investigated the impact of Work for the Dole in Australian society and found that because it compels or contracts individuals to contribute, it "may actually weaken their long-term commitment to society",[16] while another has suggested it may be discriminatory because it was found to benefit men but not women.[17] A 2013 examination of Department of Employment data revealed the program is one of the least effective ways to help people find jobs.[18] Work for the Dole has also been criticised by the Australian Council for Social Services. The Australian Greens do not support the program, describing it as cruel and punitive.[19]
In 2015, ahead of reforms to the scheme which were implemented in July, Prime Minister Tony Abbott was criticised by sections of the media and other politicians for characterising the Work for the Dole scheme as an opportunity for employers to "try before they buy".[20]
The 2016 ANU's Social Research Centre review found that 2% of participants had gained employment since the latest iteration of the scheme was implemented.[11][12] The Welfare Rights Centre and the Australian Council of Social Service both responded that the scheme was expensive and failed to deliver value for money.[21]
17. Let Me See His Western Nose - Miss Saigon Original West End Cast
Burgess was a strong influence on the Dunning School of Reconstruction. Burgess "agreed with the scholarly consensus that blacks were inferior,"[3] and wrote that "black skin means membership in a race of men which has never of itself succeeded in subjecting passion to reason, has never, therefore, created any civilization of any kind."[4]
My Big Fat Greek Wedding- Give me any word and I show you the greek root
My Big fat greek wedding - Give me any word, and I show you how the root is greek...
- in the battle betweens angels and demons some interesting events have transpired. Certain members of the human elite believe that certain people are inherently better and that people should be ruled while others believe that we should do our best to serve one another in whatever way we should? The tragedy that I find with the perspective of the former is how they've setup the system as is. Many humans believe that simply making money is a means to end and will get everything you want in life but I know that deep down that if we had more Einsteins, Newtons, Teslas, Borlaugs, Ramanujans, Gandhis, Mandellas, etc... we would look more foolish more often but we would be better off. Like Stiglitz such people are far more likely create a larger share of the pie for everyone then financiers who make probability bets on particular events occurring in life?
Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without. And this is the nature of the universe. We struggle against it. We fight to deny it, but it is of course pretense.
The Merovingian Restaurant Scene.
- the following point outlines the "White Trash Predicament" (the West reverts to being poor while the East rises to it's former state). The context of colonialisation/imperialism makes no sense unless you look at global GDP share figures and timing overlap with colonialism/imperialism. Basically, economic figures were previously completely flipped/completely inverted? I can not fathom that situation. If that was the impetus for colonialism/imperialism (they thought the East was too greedy) things are making more sense? It also puts into context the danger of some sort of conflict if China/US can not come to agreement of some sort?
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colonial period
Colonial period (a period in a country's history where it was subject to management by a colonial power) may refer to: Spanish conquest of Guatemala. Viceroyalty of Peru. Colonial history of the United States. British Raj, British colonial rule in India, 1858 to 1947.
economic history of country wikipedia
GNP (PPP) in billions of US dollars
Year 1960 dollars 1990 dollars
Third World[A] First World[B] Third World[A] First World[B]
1750 112 35 495 155
1800 137 47 605 208
1830 150 67 662 296
1860 159 118 702 521
1900 184 297 813 1,312
1913 217 430 958 1,899
1928 252 568 1,113 2,508
1938 293 678 1,294 2,994
1950 338 889 1,493 3,926
1970 810 2,450 3,577 10,820
1980 1,280 3,400 5,653 15,015
1990 1,730 4,350 7,640 19,210
A ^ Third World refers to Asia (excluding Japan), Africa, and Latin America.
B ^ First World refers to Europe, Russia, the United States, Canada, and Japan.
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colonial period
Colonial period (a period in a country's history where it was subject to management by a colonial power) may refer to: Spanish conquest of Guatemala. Viceroyalty of Peru. Colonial history of the United States. British Raj, British colonial rule in India, 1858 to 1947.
economic history of country wikipedia
GNP (PPP) in billions of US dollars
Year 1960 dollars 1990 dollars
Third World[A] First World[B] Third World[A] First World[B]
1750 112 35 495 155
1800 137 47 605 208
1830 150 67 662 296
1860 159 118 702 521
1900 184 297 813 1,312
1913 217 430 958 1,899
1928 252 568 1,113 2,508
1938 293 678 1,294 2,994
1950 338 889 1,493 3,926
1970 810 2,450 3,577 10,820
1980 1,280 3,400 5,653 15,015
1990 1,730 4,350 7,640 19,210
A ^ Third World refers to Asia (excluding Japan), Africa, and Latin America.
B ^ First World refers to Europe, Russia, the United States, Canada, and Japan.
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economic history of country wikipedia
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The 19th century appears to be the key juncture when China and India declined and the West rose. Imperialism appears to be the most obvious answer given that before China was 'opened' in 1842 in the first Opium war, it had its greatest share of world wealth. Within a century of these interventions China went from 32% of the world's GDP to just under 5%.
In the graphic below, the area for each country represents the share of the world's wealth. The rise in the share of wealth by the US and Europe is of similar proportion to the decline in wealth of India and China. The total area shown represents the amount of wealth that the seven selected countries have collectively. Note the decline of collective wealth in the last century as the rest of the world has begun to take a greater share of the global economy.
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The New Age of Empire - How Colonialism and Racism Still Rule The World (Prof. Kehinde Andrews)
Are Enlightenment values still relevant _ Kehinde Andrews, Myriam Francois, Raymond Tallis
Did Colonialism Ever End _ Footnotes with Kehinde Andrews
How to decolonise your mind _ Kehinde Andrews
How to stay radical within an institution
Kehinde Andrews with Russell Brand - How Racism & Colonialism Still Rule the World
'The West is built on racism' - DISCUSSION - BBC Newsnight
Danny Archer : Sometimes I wonder... will God ever forgive us for what we've done to each other? Then I look around and I realize... God left this place a long time ago.
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Danny Archer : So you think because your intentions are good, they'll spare you, huh?
Benjamin Kapanay : My heart always told me that people are inherently good. My experience suggests otherwise. But what about you, Mr. Archer? In your long career as a journalist, would you say that people are mostly good?
Danny Archer : No. I'd say they're just people.
Benjamin Kapanay : Exactly. It is what they do that makes them good or bad. A moment of love, even in a bad man, can give meaning to a life. None of us knows whose path will lead us to God.
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Danny Archer : Let me tell you something. You sell blood diamonds too.
Maddy Bowen : Really?
Danny Archer : Yeah.
Maddy Bowen : Tell me, how is that?
Danny Archer : Who do you think buys the stones that I bring out? Dreamy American girls who all want a storybook wedding and a big, shiny rock like the ones in the advertisements of your politically-correct magazines. So, please, don't come here and make judgments on me, all right?
The mountain was once named after the American president who claimed God spoke to him in a dream and told him to colonize the Philippines.
It's now known by the name it's been called for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years: Denali. It was renamed Mount McKinley in early 20th century to boost the presidential candidacy of William McKinley who never visited Alaska and who played a key role in turning the Philippines into an American colony.
In fact, he said God told him to do it.
Amid raging debates at the dawn of the 20th century on whether the US should claim the Philippines, on whether it is right for a nation that prides itself on being the land of the free to be colonizing other nations, McKinley said the answer came to him while praying in the White House.
"One night late it came to me this way—I don't know how it was, but it came: that we could not leave them to themselves—they were unfit for self-government—and they would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain's was; and that there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them."
And so it was that the Philippines, then the most predominantly Christian nation in Asia, was "Christianized" by the United States. The "Christianization" process was completed after a long war in which US forces used un-Christian-like tactics (like water cure, now known as waterboarding.)
- some covert activities make a lot more sense now? How/why terrorist groups, nations, covert intelligence activities, organised crime, etc... have linked up? Watch the flow and it's interesting how things have changed. It used to be the West that sold most of the drugs but now it's the East? More unsavoury activity was in the West versus East as well? Really obvious that a lot of countries engage in illicit covert activity to pay the bills? It leads back to the classical question, do people lie, cheat, steal because they are poor or because they are dodgy? Which comes first? If people simply lie, cheat, steal because they're poor and economic inequality is high then obviously you should try to solve this first? If that's the case the research of particular individuals and groups makes a lot of sense. Interest in alchemy to produce natural resources, experimentation with social systems, etc... Crime and corruption have always been integral to the world economy?
'Today's US 'terrorist' can be US ally tomorrow' – Former Pakistani intel chief
US 'do more' mantra no longer works with us, we won't take dictation from them - Pakistani minister
Are aid agencies helping Haiti or making things worse _ UpFront
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So effective was Woodman in winning access and influence that IBAC heard he had made Casey councillors his "puppets" and a group of sitting and aspiring state MPs effectively part of his "team".
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While the Andrews government introduced laws from November 2018 capping all donations at $1000 a year (it is now $1040), there is no cap on donations at the local or federal level, providing loopholes for highly motivated people on both sides of the donation to exploit.
Dr Yee-Fui Ng, a political finance specialist and Monash University law lecturer, described Australia's donation laws as a "big mess". The only thing that would fix it would be uniform and strict regulation across the country and at all levels of government.
She also backed a total ban on developer donations and called for a cap on campaign spending to reduce the "arms race" between the political parties.
The yakuza mafia was long tolerated in Japan as a necessary evil for ensuring order on the streets and getting things done quickly, however dubious the means.
But in recent decades, stiffer anti-gang regulations, waning social tolerance and a weak economy have resulted in steadily falling yakuza memberships.
Nomura was found guilty of ordering the fatal 1998 shooting of an ex-boss of a fisheries cooperative who exerted influence over port construction projects, large media outlets said.
He was also behind a 2014 attack on a relative of the murder victim and a 2013 knife attack against a nurse at a clinic where Nomura was seeking treatment, the court reportedly said.
The 2012 shooting of a former police officer who had investigated the Kudo-kai was also deemed Nomura's responsibility.
The official survived with serious injuries to his waist and legs, media said.
inequality vs prostitution rate
Prostitution is a symptom of structural inequalities | The BMJ
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finance sector assassinations
The official in charge of cleaning up Russia's crime-ridden banking system died today after being ambushed by gunmen who shot him in the head and chest.
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Since becoming first deputy chairman at the Central Bank four years ago, Mr Kozlov had made many enemies with an ambitious scheme to fight criminality and increase transparency in the banking system. Many of Russia's 1,200 banks are used by criminal organizations for money laundering and other financial crimes. Interfax reported that Mr Kozlov's department has withdrawn the licences of 44 banks so far this year.
Gentrification is the process of changing the character of a neighborhood through the influx of more affluent residents and businesses. Because it tends to change the character of said neighborhood, it is a common and controversial topic in politics and in urban planning.
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Assistant Commissioner Smith said there could be hundreds or even thousands of people involved, from South American coca plant farmers receiving $2 a day, to international drug traffickers.
"Obviously it's a very lucrative business … by the time it's gone through an international syndicate's hands and it hits the streets of Sydney, it's worth $400 a gram.
"Along the way, continual money is made in the transaction — the most being the individuals we arrested yesterday."
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- heaps of what I call junk jobs, junk/white elephant projects, pointless work, etc... going back for who knows how long? It's like a lot of people don't realise how corrupt the system is, are just fine with it the way it is, etc? In politics I have to wonder why they wouldn't want to make it cleaner but then I've come to realise that a lot of them are often power or ideologically driven, not solution driven? They need to be willing to change/challenge/collapse the system to make it better but they're not willing to or don't understand it, etc?
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KEY TAKEAWAYS
Pork barrel politics refer to the practice of politicians trading favors with constituents or special interest groups in exchange for political support.
Pork barrel politics benefits just one group of people, even though it's almost always funded by the larger community.
Typically, the practice relates to crony capitalism where the relationships between businessmen and the government are what determine success.
Pork barrel projects peaked in 2006 with about 14,000 projects receiving about $30 billion in funding between 1991 and 2014.
Alaska's proposed Gravina Island bridge and Boston's Big Dig are examples of pork barrel spending.
The New South Wales premier, Gladys Berejiklian, has conceded that $140m in grants to councils that were approved in the nine months before the last state election amounted to pork barrelling, but said there was nothing illegal about it.
"It's not something the community likes ... but it's an accusation I will wear," she said. It's not unique to our government," Berejiklian said.
"It's not an illegal practice. Unfortunately it does happen from time to time by every government," she said.
Labor and the Greens seized on documents forensically recovered from databases, which they claim show Berejiklian was directly involved in the approval process. Berejiklian denies she was involved in the approval.
"I was consulted and I was provided advice, so were other ministers. But the Office of Local Government was responsible for getting the dollars to councils," Berejiklian said.
The grants from the $252m Stronger Communities fund went overwhelmingly to Coalition-held seats and the documents show only Coalition MPs were consulted.
One undated, unsigned memo prepared by staffer Sarah Lau for the premier, recovered by computer experts, lists seven projects, all in Coalition seats. They were recommended by Coalition MPs.
"The PLO [parliamentary liaison officer] team has consulted with local members and has pulled together the list of open space projects in Table 1 for your approval," the memo says.
Her signature is not on this recovered version but it will raise further questions about the process used to allocate $252m in taxpayer funds. Paper copies of the document were shredded.
The man who oversaw the controversial $250 million government fund at the centre of a pork barrelling inquiry has left his job.
- they've pre-biased the system in favour of those thought to be more important? So called, "Civilising mission" didn't apply to ancient India/China because they were in actual fact largest/most advanced economies in world in past? You can tell by lower school rankings that they technically are harder working and achieving races? Capitalism falls apart as a model in so many different ways? If their population and GDP ratios relative to the world were stable things would have be better for other parts of the world then under US/Western leadership? The cost will obviously be to the US/West? How big of a cost is dependent on how good/badly they perceieve US/Western leadership?
house of lords numbers trend over time
lord origin
Lord is an appellation for a person or deity who has authority, control, or power over others, acting like a master, a chief, or a ruler.[1][2] The appellation can also denote certain persons who hold a title of the peerage in the United Kingdom, or are entitled to courtesy titles. The collective "Lords" can refer to a group or body of peers.
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Etymology
The Old English word 'hlaford' evolved into 'lord'
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, the etymology of the word can be traced back to the Old English word hlāford which originated from hlāfweard meaning "loaf-ward" or "bread-keeper", reflecting the Germanic tribal custom of a chieftain providing food for his followers.[3] The appellation "lord" is primarily applied to men, while for women the appellation "lady" is used. This is no longer universal: the Lord of Mann, a title held by the Queen of the United Kingdom, and female Lords Mayor are examples of women who are styled as "Lord".[citation needed]
origin lady
The word lady is a term of respect for a girl or woman, the equivalent of gentleman. Once used to describe only women of a high social class or status, the female equivalent of lord, now it may refer to any adult woman. Informal use of this word is sometimes euphemistic ("lady of the night" for a prostitute) or, in American slang, condescending (equivalent to "mister" or "man").
"Lady" is also a formal title in the United Kingdom. "Lady" is used before the family name of a woman with a title of nobility or honorary title suo jure (in her own right), or the wife of a lord, a baronet, Scottish feudal baron, laird, or a knight, and also before the first name of the daughter of a duke, marquess, or earl.
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Etymology
The word comes from Old English hlǣfdige; the first part of the word is a mutated form of hlāf, "loaf, bread", also seen in the corresponding hlāford, "lord". The second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, "to knead", seen also in dough; the sense development from bread-kneader, or bread-maker, or bread-shaper, to the ordinary meaning, though not clearly to be traced historically, may be illustrated by that of "lord".[1]
The primary meaning of "mistress of a household" is now mostly obsolete,[1] save for the term landlady and in set phrases such as "the lady of the house." This meaning is retained in the southern states of the United States. The term is also used in titles such as First Lady and Lady Mayoress, the wives of elected or appointed officials. In many European languages the equivalent term serves as a general form of address equivalent to the English Mrs (French Madame, Spanish Señora, Italian Signora, German Frau, Polish Pani, etc.). In those languages it is correct to address a woman whose name is unknown as Madame, Señora, etc., but in polite English usage "lady" has for centuries only normally been a "term of address" in the plural,[2] which is also the case for "gentleman". The singular vocative use was once common but has become mostly confined to poetry.[2] In some dialects it may still be used to address an unknown woman in a brusque manner, often in an imperative or interrogatory context, analogous to "mister" for an unknown male: e.g., "Hey, lady, you aren't allowed in here!"[3] In this usage, the word "lady" is very seldom capitalized when written. The usual English term for politely addressing a woman is Madam or Ma'am.
born to rule
- if democracy is an iteration of royalty/feudalism as alluded by others it makes sense because a lot of titles, customs, structures, etc... have been retained?
Who is Joe Manchin and what does he want _ Planet America
Ask Prof Wolff - Transitions between Capitalism & Feudalism
Yanis Varoufakis: Capitalism has become 'techno-feudalism' | UpFront
Technofeudalism: Explaining to Slavoj Zizek why I think capitalism has evolved into something worse
(Keynote) Yanis Varoufakis: Postcapitalism - its present, two possible futures & a story in between
Renegade Inc - No Man's Land
Renegade Inc _ Trespass - Get Off My Land!
- what I didn't realise is that the elite weren't/aren't that as brilliant I thought they may be (it's starting to make sense why some journalists, spies, etc... get so frustrated with some of our elite now)? If people wait around the top will take forever to figure out solutions to humanity's problems (neo-liberalist/trickle down style). A good example is how colonialism and slavery ended. If you examine the history of it then you'll realise that the practice didn't really end because the elite suddenly decided it was the right thing to do. It sort of ended because the economics didn't work out? This was somewhat similar with colonialism when their were violent revolts against the Major Imperial/Great Powers? The Cold War ended because the USSR blew up. The US Empire has strong indications that it will blow up after it's Middle Eastern adventures and ironically it played right into Osama bin Laden's and it's enemy's plans?
how did slavery end
What caused end slavery?
Since profits were the main cause of starting a trade, it has been suggested, a decline of profits must have brought about abolition because: The slave trade ceased to be profitable. The slave trade was overtaken by a more profitable use of ships. Wage labour became more profitable than slave labour.
Reasons for the success of the abolitionist campaign in 1807
how did feudalism end
Most of the military aspects of feudalism effectively ended by about 1500. This was partly since the military shifted from armies consisting of the nobility to professional fighters thus reducing the nobility's claim on power, but also because the Black Death reduced the nobility's hold over the lower classes.
why did colonialism end
Why did colonialism come to an end?
The end of colonialism came about after India's independence from Britain. "Because India had fought for its independence, Africa wanted to fight too," said Dowden. "Britain was completely broke after World War II and couldn't invest in its colonies.
looming tower
Renegade Inc _ The Graveyard of Empires
- the overlap between individual, group, national, regional, international policy is fascinating. I sort of understand the economic model and why Asia and the non-Western allied parts of the world are poor now. It's not a pretty story... Basically, most (~80-90%) of the natives were wiped out (using primitive bio-warfare, chemical warfare, physical warfare, etc...). The rest were enslaved/converted (~10-20%). They couldn't do as much to China and India because they were more advanced and had larger populations? It's during this period that unfair laws/frameworks were enforced upon some sections of the community (slavery has been around for thousands of years but it's the stuff that I can still see that I'm more interested in)? Ironically, conceptually the Nazis seemed to have a similar perspective of the Jews during the Holocaust according to some people? The funny thing the way economics seems to work is similar nowadays. The old colonial companies used the same tactics that modern corporates use. It's very obvious that many people don't understand the model. Basically, you create trade deals (such as TPP, NAFTA, RCEP, etc...) which make it very difficult for the target country's natives to make money (this means that they can only work on stuff that makes little money but the Great Powers work on the stuff that makes more money) using whatever means at your disposal including military force, assasination, blackmail/extortion, etc... One of the few ways you can break out of this is to do what Deng Xiaoping did. Basically, you need a strong defense force to reduce the chance of military force/coercian being used but you also need to accrue raw foreign currency by working hard for very little you get an increased share of GDP. It's brutal but China seems to have figured a way out? The reason why most people go along with this is because most of them don't or won't think critically? If you listen carefully what they say you'll realise that they're likely more indoctrinated and that's why there are massive disjunctions/contradictions in what they say about stuff like capitalism, religion, history, etc... They're not really equipped to take on the elite? If they genuinely thought about how the elite thought then they'd understand how and where the system is rigged. Once done, it can often give you "a license to print money" which is why many of the elite are so secretive and why some people are so much richer then others?
warren buffett moat
large cap
IN FULL - Paul Keating addresses National Press Club of Australia
Eric Li - China's Meteoric Rise Impossible Without Achievements of Mao Era
global gdp share history
The 19th century appears to be the key juncture when China and India declined and the West rose. Imperialism appears to be the most obvious answer given that before China was 'opened' in 1842 in the first Opium war, it had its greatest share of world wealth. Within a century of these interventions China went from 32% of the world's GDP to just under 5%.
In the graphic below, the area for each country represents the share of the world's wealth. The rise in the share of wealth by the US and Europe is of similar proportion to the decline in wealth of India and China. The total area shown represents the amount of wealth that the seven selected countries have collectively. Note the decline of collective wealth in the last century as the rest of the world has begun to take a greater share of the global economy.
Who were the Richest Tycoons in America?
Keiser Report | Return of the Robber Barons | E1760
Keiser Report _ It's A Rip Off, but Blame the People! _ E1785
Keiser Report _ The Global Stilling In Money _ E1786
super imperialism
smallpox clothes colonisation
small pox colonial weapon
- as the primary Great Power of the world all others are supposed to subjugate themselves to the US, it's corporate power, and profits. I didn't really know this until I started looking at how foreign policy is linked to how financial markets work and how money flows. The same things have been happening for hundreds of years and is unlikely to change unless the US empire falls? I suspect that's part of the reason why whistleblowers like Assange get into so much trouble?
- just like other fields a lot of finance has it's structure rooted in history? Wages for each class of people are similar when compared from past to present? It's like a lot of the mechanisms used to maintain control people financially via debt are still present just more subtle and seperated out. Max Keiser calls it interest rate apartheid because those at the top get cheap debt while those at the bottom get more expensive debt which makes it difficult to extricate themselves from their station in life?
Keiser Report _ The $1200 Stimulus in Bitcoin _ E1659-CWdIbSHzieU
reasons for war
how much would a slave cost in ancient egypt in today's terms
how much does a slave cost
Modern Slaves Are Cheap and Disposable
The Rise of Modern Slavery
Slavery has existed for thousands of years, but economic and social forces have enabled its alarming resurgence in the past few decades by increasing people's vulnerability.
Population: A population explosion has tripled the number of people in the world, mostly in developing countries. In many places, the population has grown faster than the economy, leaving many people economically vulnerable. A fire, flood, drought, or medical emergency places them in the hands of ruthless moneylenders who enslave them.
Migration: Millions are on the move from impoverished rural areas to cities, and from poorer countries to wealthier ones, in search of work. Traffickers are able to trick them by posing as legitimate labor recruiters. Migrants are especially vulnerable—they are often very far from home, don't speak the local language, have no funds to return home, and have no friends or family to rely on.
Corruption: Global government corruption often allows slavery to go unpunished. Many law enforcement officials aren't even aware that bonded labor, where someone is enslaved to work off a loan, is illegal. In many places, those in slavery have no police protection from predatory traffickers.
Discrimination: Social inequality creates widespread economic and social vulnerability based on factors such as gender, race, tribe, or caste.
Modern Slaves Are Cheap and Disposable
New slavery has two chief characteristics—it's cheap and it's disposable. Slaves today are cheaper than ever. In 1850, an average slave in the American South cost the equivalent of $40,000 in today's money. Today a slave costs about $90 on average worldwide. (Source: Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy. See all Free the Slaves books.)
Modern slaves are not considered investments worth maintaining. In the 19th century it was difficult to capture slaves and transport them to the United States. But today, when someone in slavery gets sick or injured, they are simply dumped or killed.
I don't see here a cost breakdown based on skills, so here's a chart I made for a class a few years ago:
Average cost of a slave (of any age, sex, or condition) in 1850 = $ 400 ($11,300 in 2009 dollars)
Average cost of a slave (of any age, sex, or condition) in 1860 = $ 800 (#21,300 in 2009 dollars)
Cost of a prime field hand (18-30 year-old man) in 1850 = $ 1,200 ($34,000 in 2009 dollars)
Cost of a skilled slave (e.g. a blacksmith) in 1850 = $ 2,000 ($56,700 in 2009 dollars)
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/8gjzij/if_a_single_slave_cost_the_equivalent_of_57k/
debt servitude
Overview
Definition
Though the Forced Labour Convention of 1930 by the International Labour Organization, which included 187 parties, sought to bring organised attention to eradicating slavery through forms of forced labor, formal opposition to debt bondage in particular came at the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery in 1956.[1][2] The convention in 1956[2] defined debt bondage under Article 1, section (a):
"Debt bondage, that is to say, the status or condition arising from a pledge by a debtor of his personal services or of those of a person under his control as security for a debt if the value of those services as reasonably assessed is not applied towards the liquidation of the debt or the length and nature of those services are not respectively limited and defined;"[2]
When a pledge to provide services to pay off debt is made by an individual, the employer often illegally inflates interest rates at an unreasonable amount, making it impossible for the individual to leave bonded labour.[8] When the bonded labourer dies, debts are often passed on to children.[8][9]
Usage of term
See also: Human trafficking
Although debt bondage, forced labour, and human trafficking are all defined as forms or variations of slavery, each term is distinct.[1][10][11] Debt bondage differs from forced labour and human trafficking in that a person consciously pledges to work as a means of repayment of debt without being placed into labor against will.[1][10]
Debt bondage only applies to individuals who have no hopes of leaving the labor due to inability to ever pay debt back.[1][8] Those who offer their services to repay a debt and the employer reduces the debt accordingly at a rate commensurate with the value of labor performed are not in debt bondage.[1][8]
Indentured servitude is a form of labor, sometimes involuntary, in which a person who took out a loan (an indenture) agrees to work without salary for the lender for a specific number of years. Historically it was used to pay for apprenticeships—an apprentice agreed to work for free for a master to learn a trade (similar to a modern internship, but for a fixed length of time usually seven years). Later it was also used as a way for a person, to pay the cost of transportation to colonies in the Americas.
Like any loan, an indenture could be sold; most employers had to depend on middlemen to recruit and transport the workers, so indentures (indentured workers) were commonly bought and sold when they arrived at their destinations. Like prices of the enslaved, their price went up or down depending on supply and demand. When the indenture (loan) was paid off, the worker was free. Sometimes they might be given a plot of land.
While the transportation of indentured workers across the Atlantic was not pleasant for them, it was far safer and more comfortable than the treatment given to enslaved (captured) black people. They were passengers, not property. They had rights and, at least theoretically, access to the legal system. Mortality was far lower and bodies were not thrown overboard.
In contrast with the enslaved, indentured workers could usually marry, move about locally as long as the work got done, read whatever they wanted, and take classes.
king solomon wealth in todays
Heshen – peak net worth: $132 billion (£94bn)
Bill Gates – peak net worth: $144 billion (£102bn)
William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey – peak net worth: $146 billion (£104bn)
John Jacob Astor – peak net worth: $168 billion (£119bn)
Alan Rufus, 1st Lord of Richmond – peak net worth: $195 billion (£138bn)
Henry Ford – peak net worth: $200 billion (£142bn)
Cornelius Vanderbilt – peak net worth: $202 billion (£143bn)
Muammar Gaddafi – peak net worth: $212 billion (£150bn)
William the Conqueror – peak net worth: $228 billion (£162bn)
Jakob Fugger – peak net worth: $277 billion (£196bn)
Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII– peak net worth: $230 billion (£163bn)
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia – peak net worth: $300 billion (£213bn)
Andrew Carnegie – peak net worth: $337 billion (£239bn)
John D. Rockefeller – peak net worth: $367 billion (£260bn)
Mansa Musa I of Mali – peak net worth: $415 billion (£294bn)
King Solomon of Israel – peak net worth: $2 trillion (£1.42trn)
Augustus Caesar – peak net worth: $4.63 trillion (£3.28trn)
Akbar I – peak net worth: $21 trillion (£14.9trn)
Emperor Shenzong of Song – peak net worth: $30+ trillion (£21+trn)
Genghis Khan – peak net worth: $100s trillions (£100s of trillions)
- note how many of the ratios are very similar over time?
Renegade Inc _ The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists in 2020
how much was a lord paid in 1600
40 shillings 1600 to now
Jadakiss - Why (Official Uncut Version) ft. Anthony Hamilton
Jadakiss - Why ft. Anthony Hamilton
why anthony hamlton judakiss lyrics
- same theme of maintaining a system from long ago? Competition downstream, monopoly upstream to maintain power disparity?
From Monopoly Capitalism to Monopsony Capitalism - Is There Any Hope For Workers (Dr. Ashok Kumar)
Super Size Me 2 - Holy Chicken! (sub ITA)
- one interesting for me is that if some analysts are right the the US is running some form of super imperialism then many of the financial funds out there aren't what they genuinely seem? Empired was involved in improper bidding processes, Tesla has been involved in environmental destruction and unethical processing via Lithium mining, Microsoft has always been a dodgy company from the start and so has Facebook? It feels like the entire system is infected by "dirty money"?
CIA Stories - The CIA is Born
ethical fund
Empired Ltd
Tesla Inc
Microsoft Corporation
Facebook, Inc. Class A
Nomi Prins, Max Keiser, Thomas M Engelhart, Lauren Lyster, Gerald Celente, Paul Craig Roberts, Stacy Herbert, David Stockman, Rebecca Harrell Tickell, Peter Fonda, Tim Robbins
betashares ethical fund
- common theme of foreign intervention is that foreign funding mainly (~80-90%) goes mainly to contractors from the intervening country (unless they are rejected by the country in question. The funding can relate to anything whether medical care, aide, military, education, etc...)? Notice how weapons contracts often go to the intervening country (whether via fair negotiation or coercian?)? Classic empire/imperialism?
Looting is the act of stealing, or the taking of goods by force, in the midst of a military, political, or other social crisis, such as war, natural disasters, or rioting. The proceeds of all these activities can be described as booty, loot, plunder, spoils, or pillage.
libya foreign contractors
syria foreign contractors
- the entire global supply chain is infected? The so called developed countries have more complex/diverse economies while those lower down the chain are less complex/diverse. Less developed countries are generally those that suffered as a consequence of the colonial/imperial period... Anybody who is slightly curious will look around and notice contradictions/issues everywhere? We still technically do have slave labour, if you look at how the workload is spread across the globe, the types/styles economies (which may reflect politically forced trade agreements? This may explain issues between China and US?), etc...
"The Australia Paradox: The Harvard data exposes the paradox of the Australian economy: the eighth-richest nation in the study has the export profile of Angola. ~70 per cent of products sold to foreign buyers, on a net basis, are minerals and energy."
economic complexity index
On China and the plight of the Uyghur ethnic minority, Baerbock said Europe must ensure that "products from forced labor do not come onto our market."
Baerbock was referring to recent controversy over the sourcing of cotton from China's Xinjiang region, which human rights groups say is harvested using Uyghur slave labor.
She says while Benin's chiefs signed treaties with the British, the Oba wouldn't even touch the pen, as he was considered to be descended from God.
Benin was attractive to the British because it had resources like ivory, palm oil, and rubber.
"The British wanted to be able to trade with the Oba and the Benin kingdom, and the Oba would, whenever it suited him, decide, 'Nobody is trading. I am shutting down trade. If you want me to reopen trade, you will have to bring me gifts'," Nwando says.
A brass sculpture of a figure holding a long horn to their mouth. The figure wears a skirt with a leopard pattern.
The Brits weren't happy.
They wanted the Oba taken out.
A brass statue of the head of a King, around their neck are beaded rings.
An empire razed to the ground
In 1897 British captain John Phillips tries to pay the Oba a visit under the pretence of discussing trade.
He actually wants to depose him.
But with a religious festival underway, the Oba declines.
"Captain Phillips didn't care … and he decides to visit anyway. Accompanying him are eight other Europeans and 250 African carriers," Nwando says.
"They get to Benin and they are considered an invading force. As a result, they were ambushed."
Only one European escaped alive.
Captain Phillips was dead and the fate of Benin was sealed.
"Britain decided to launch a punitive expedition on the empire of Benin … with 1,500 soldiers who carried with them maxim machine guns and rockets," Nwando says.
"They essentially razed the empire to the ground."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-30/benin-bronzes-stuff-the-british-stole-museum-history/12837940
gdp africa vs world
Africa accounts for 20% of the world's population but only 3% of global GDP.
Last month, 130 countries had yet to administer a single dose of vaccine. Meanwhile the US has enough for three times its population
share of global gdp by country
share of global population by country
Some people argue that these diplomats' tours are all staged and do not reflect the real situation. Ambassador Fariz said he thinks such an opinion is not respectful. "One should not believe that diplomats are so naive that they could be maneuvered to take and buy anything," he argued, adding "the diplomats are not part of a conspiracy, that they would justify something against what they had seen."
I know it's not a very British example, but let's get a measure of this. One study broke down the cost of a $300 iPod. Now, most of the price goes to the retailer, and for the people who supply all the components that go inside.
But on the back it says, "Designed by Apple, assembled in China." Well, for the design, Apple get about $80. For the assembly, China gets less than five. That is the value of creativity and branding.
chocolate slave labour
A major study of the issue, published in Fortune magazine in the U.S. in March 2016, concluded that approximately 2.1 million children in West Africa "still do the dangerous and physically taxing work of harvesting cocoa". The report was doubtful as to whether the situation can be improved significantly.[8]
gold mining slave labour
economic complexity harvard study
what was life of a slave like
How was the life of slaves?
Life on the fields meant working sunup to sundown six days a week and having food sometimes not suitable for an animal to eat. Plantation slaves lived in small shacks with a dirt floor and little or no furniture. Life on large plantations with a cruel overseer was oftentimes the worst.
27b. Slave Life and Slave Codes - USHistory.org
Nestlé, Cargill, Barry Callebaut, Mars, Olam, Hershey and Mondelēz have been named as defendants in a lawsuit filed in Washington DC by the human rights firm International Rights Advocates (IRA), on behalf of eight former child slaves who say they were forced to work without pay on cocoa plantations in the west African country.
The plaintiffs, all of whom are originally from Mali and are now young adults, are seeking damages for forced labour and further compensation for unjust enrichment, negligent supervision and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
It is the first time that a class action of this kind has been filed against the cocoa industry in a US court. Citing research by the US state department, the International Labour Organization and Unicef, among others, the court documents allege that the plaintiffs' experience of child slavery is mirrored by that of thousands of other minors.
Ivory Coast produces about 45% of the global supply of cocoa, a core ingredient in chocolate. The production of cocoa in west Africa has long been linked to human rights abuses, structural poverty, low pay and child labour.
Why Did Europeans Enslave Africans
The Racist Origins of U.S. Law
desmond tutu colonialism quote
"When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land."
― Desmond Tutu
united states share of global gdp trend
global share of gdp by country
global share of population by country
global share of gdp ppp by country
- as I said previously there's a royal court style effect. Previously, viceroys/regents/admininstators/(compliant) heads of state often handled administrative duties such as finance. These have now been taken over by venture capital, bankers, financiers, executives, politcians, etc...
'I Am A Monster' Ep. 2 Official Clip | Billions | Season 5
BE AM A MONSTER - AXE MOTIVATION - BOBBY AXELROD BILLIONS MOTIVATION
define regent
A regent is a person appointed to govern a state pro tempore because the regnant monarch is a minor, is absent, abdicated the throne, is incapacitated or dead, or unable to discharge the powers and duties of the monarchy. The rule of a regent or regents is called a regency.
define viceroy
A viceroy is an official who runs a polity in the name of and as the representative of the monarch of the territory. The term derives from the Latin prefix vice-, meaning "in the place of" and the French word roy, meaning "king".
define lord
Lord is an appellation for a person or deity who has authority, control, or power over others, acting as a master, a chief, or a ruler.
IB Economics - The Cantillon Effect
What is the Cantillon effect? Explained simple.
Keiser Report | Cantillon Monopoly | E1555
Keiser Report | Thucydides & Cantillon Get Real | E1676
Keiser Report | QE Cantillon Confirmed | E1665
Keiser Report: Cantillon Effect (E1212)
Keiser Report: Yellow Vests and the Cantillon Effect (E1313)
Keiser Report | Billionaires re-gifting Some of the Fed's free money | E1507
who creates money
Who creates money in an economy?
Most of the money in our economy is created by banks, in the form of bank deposits – the numbers that appear in your account. Banks create new money whenever they make loans. 97% of the money in the economy today exists as bank deposits, whilst just 3% is physical cash.
Cantillon effect
- information/PSYOPS/education/indoctrination still being used to control society... The vessel has changed from prophets to journalists, thinktanks, spies, influencers, etc?
define prophet
In religion, a prophet is an individual who is regarded as being in contact with a divine being and is said to speak on behalf of that being, serving as an intermediary with humanity by delivering messages or teachings from the supernatural source to other people.
- once you understand that not much has changed over time then you begin to better understand how the world works. The major powers try not to get in each others ways which leads to joint ventures/ownership structures such as the share market and joint stock companies. In the old days monarchs granted individuals and companies exclusive rights on trade. This seems to be replicated via Robber Baron style industrialist style which seems to continue in the Big Tech and Corporate era? Very similar style of people getting promoted in society? A short while back I looked at how unicorns (such as FAANG) made their money. The tactics/strategies that they use aren't much different to the Robber Barons of yesteryear. It feels like capital/money is being used as a means of destroying competitors nowadays. If you think of capitalism like a game of Super Mario the guys who have financial backing "have more lives" or use powerups/cheats (like tax avoidance, union busting, political interference/lobbying, better access to funding, etc...) to destroy opponents. This means that you need more capital/powerups/time to destroy one another and eventually get profits. On average, FAANG took ~10 years before they could destroy their competitors and figure out a way to turn a profit. This is all made all the more awkward due to the follow on effects of the 2008 GFC.
John Andrew Henry Forrest AO (born 5 July 1961), nicknamed Twiggy, is an Australian businessman. He is best known as the former CEO (and current non-executive chairman) of Fortescue Metals Group (FMG), and has other interests in the mining industry and in cattle stations.
With an assessed net worth of A$23.00 billion according to the Financial Review 2020 Rich List, Forrest was ranked as the second richest Australian.[7] According to the Financial Review, Forrest was the richest person in Australia in 2008.[8][9] Forbes assessed Forrest's net worth as US$4.30 billion on the 2019 list of Australia's 50 richest people.[3]
In 2013, Andrew and Nicola Forrest, his wife, were the first Australian billionaires to pledge the majority of their wealth to charity in their lifetimes.[10] He had earlier stepped down as CEO of Fortescue Metals in 2011.[11] Much of the Forrest's philanthropy has been through either the Minderoo Foundation (focusing on education and Indigenous Australians) or the Walk Free Foundation (focusing on ending modern slavery), both of which he established. Forrest has been accused of avoiding paying company tax, having revealed in 2011 that Fortescue had never paid company tax.[12]
A chartered company is an association with investors or shareholders that is incorporated and granted rights (often exclusive rights) by royal charter (or similar instrument of government) for the purpose of trade, exploration, and/or colonization.[1]
A joint-stock company is a business entity in which shares of the company's stock can be bought & sold by shareholders. Each shareholder owns company stock in proportion, evidenced by their shares (certificates of ownership).[1] Shareholders are able to transfer their shares to others without any effects to the continued existence of the company.[2]
In modern-day corporate law, the existence of a joint-stock company is often synonymous with incorporation (possession of legal personality separate from shareholders) and limited liability (shareholders are liable for the company's debts only to the value of the money they have invested in the company). Therefore, joint-stock companies are commonly known as corporations or limited companies.
Some jurisdictions still provide the possibility of registering joint-stock companies without limited liability. In the United Kingdom and in other countries that have adopted its model of company law, they are known as unlimited companies. In the United States, they are known simply as joint-stock companies.
steve jobs quotes
steve jobs quote make a dent in the universe
It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new." – "We're here to put a dent in the universe."
andy tryba
His preference for anonymity is no surprise. Liemandt's metamorphosis has transformed him from every dorm-room coder's hero to an ominous force in tech as his expanding global cloud-force pushes down wages and turns computer programming into factory work.
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Liemandt and Trilogy's other founders developed their software as undergraduates at Stanford. The young Liemandt seemed destined for business success. His father, Gregory, worked directly under legendary GE executive Jack Welch, and the Liemandts vacationed with the Welches. After his father left GE to be CEO of a mainframe software company in Dallas in 1983, Liemandt began programming but also took a strong interest in entrepreneurship, frequently reading the business plans his father brought home. As a Stanford economics major, he was determined to create the kind of business that either Jack Welch or his father would want to buy.
ESW Capital
review crossover recruitment
First thing, someone had a very bright idea that it would be good to place a hard goal of achieving 35 in a CCAT early in the hiring process. If you don't get the 35, the hiring process ends and you are banned from reapplying to the position for 6 months.
If you pass the initial trials and tribulations, you go to the interview and get an offer. After that you enter in what they call a remote university, sort of an induction into their "work culture".
But before you even start the remoteu, you have to take ANOTHER ccat and YOU HAVE TO score 35 AGAIN, else you will be terminated and whatever time you invested WILL NOT BE PAYED.
If you make it past, then you start the training that will last 4 weeks(payed). They use Payoneer as their pay company.
Once you finish the training, you will be assigned to a team and the world of pain will begin.
You will be constantly HARRASSED by the Quality team, which will practically breathe down your neck reviewing EVERYTHING you do, and if it doesnt meet their absurd criteria, it will be flagged as failure and your metrics will be affected.
I.E, if you pick a ticket and you send a reply to the customer, the QA team will review the reply before is actually send to the customer. The current status(as of last week) is all agents are AFRAID of picking tickets because they dont want to be hit with a failure.
If you manage to stay alive in this gladiatorial game for 6 months, you will have to face AGAIN another CCAT, and if you dont score 35, you will be fired without any consideration, even if you are a top performer.
I urge everyone DO NOT apply to this company, and urge even more those inside the company to resign, your mental health is not worth what they are paying. Resigning and leaving them without good qualified people is the only way to poke them where it hurts and try to steer the ship in a different way.
- once you understand how the mentality of those at the top then you realise that the psychology required to do is what they do is radically different. It feels like they're just shifting/manipulating value (push down worker wages so that executives can be paid more, force unfair trade agreements on one another, etc...)? It's literally rewarding some people for being psychopaths/sociopaths? When you understand the process of making/extracting money it makes a lot of sense why such people are so successful. You literally need to overcome many of your own internal empathetic tendencies though...
psychopath occupation statistics
So what jobs are most attractive to psychopaths? Here's the list, originally published online by Eric Barker:
1. CEO
2. Lawyer
3. Media (Television/Radio)
4. Salesperson
5. Surgeon
6. Journalist
7. Police officer
8. Clergy person
9. Chef
10. Civil servant
And for those looking to potentially avoid working with the least number of psychopaths, here's the list of occupations with the lowest rates of psychopathy:
1. Care aide
2. Nurse
3. Therapist
4. Craftsperson
5. Beautician/Stylist
6. Charity worker
7. Teacher
8. Creative artist
9. Doctor
10. Accountant
The presence of psychopathy in the workplace—although psychopaths typically represent a relatively small percentage of workplace staff—can do enormous damage when in senior management roles.[1] Psychopaths are usually most common at higher levels of corporate organizations and their actions often cause a ripple effect throughout an organization, setting the tone for an entire corporate culture. Examples of detrimental effects are increased bullying, conflict, stress, staff turnover and absenteeism; reduction in productivity and in social responsibility.[2] Ethical standards of entire organisations can be badly damaged if a corporate psychopath is in charge.[3] A 2017 UK study found that companies with leaders who show "psychopathic characteristics" destroy shareholder value, tending to have poor future returns on equity.[4]
Academics refer to psychopaths in the workplace individually variously as workplace psychopaths, executive psychopaths, corporate psychopaths, business psychopaths, successful psychopaths, office psychopaths, white-collar psychopaths, industrial psychopaths, organizational psychopaths or occupational psychopaths.[5] Criminal psychologist Robert D. Hare coined the term "Snakes in Suits" as a synonym for workplace psychopaths.[6]
- interesting that some people are saying that loopholes are left in? Politicians are smart enough to create bulletproof/contracts policies?
Pandora Papers Expose Elite Shadow Economy
- everyone's desperate for money? If you strip out the money for the major corporates how much avoidance is occurring?
The people who are supposed to regulate aren't doing their job? Instead they're benefiting from conflicts of interest?
Pandora Papers - Massive Leak Exposes How Elite Shield Their Wealth & Avoid Taxes in Colonial Legacy
Pandora Papers - The Trillion Dollar Offshore Shadow Economy Exposed- ICIJ's Fergus Shiel
Many of leaders who promised to fight corruption are themselves knee-deep in it – Richard Wolff
The Pandora Papers - How the world of offshore finance is still flourishing _ Four Corners
The Pandora Papers - The Wealthy Don't Pay Taxes Because The Working Class Lets Them Get Away With It
how much tax do billionaires pay
US super-rich 'pay almost no income tax'
- lots of money laundering options, cash/black market, launder via third parties such as tax havens/dodgy banks
Orome1 writes
"In Russia, most cell phone SIM cards are prepaid. One of the major Russian operators offers a legal service that allows anyone to transfer the prepaid amount of money from a SIM card to a bank account, a credit card, another cell phone number (via a text message) or to express money transfer service Unistream. This particular service is heavily misused by cyber crooks who use it to launder money collected through ransomware campaigns, mobile malware and SMS scam campaigns. Kaspersky Lab's Denis Maslennikov takes us though the steps of each of these types of scams and shares insights into the shady economy that has sprung up due to cyber criminals' need to get their hand on the collected money without leaving a direct trail."
- money laundering and tax havens often go hand in hand based on what I'm seeing? Obvious, that
A more advanced version of my script/program such as my Wikipedia List Scanner running over data like this would be interesting? Normally, when you tug on a string it ends up becoming much longer?
Owning offshore companies and conducting financial transactions through these tax havens are perfectly legal in many countries— but the practice has come under scrutiny.
People who use these companies say they are needed to operate their businesses. Critics, however, say tax havens and offshore operations must be monitored more closely to fight corruption, money laundering and global inequality.
According to Gabriel Zucman, an expert on tax havens and associate professor of economics at the University of Berkeley in California, the equivalent of 10% of the world's total GDP is held in tax havens globally.
Lakshmi Kumar, policy director at Global Financial Integrity, told ICIJ and affiliated news outlets that when the rich hide money through tax evasion, it has a direct impact on the lives of people.
"It affects your child's access to education, access to health, and access to a home," she said.
panama papers
tax havens
- tax haven occured 1920s/1930s. Reaction to income taxes in Europe/US. 1950s/1960s secondary birth of Cayman Islands/Bahamas as tax havens. Reaction to Anti-Colonial movement much like money/assets is shifted out of war zones? Mauritius used since 1990s to hide money from sub-saharan Africa. Note strange drop in GDP for Hong Kong prior to British exit?
are tax havens former colonies
tax haven by size
1 Cayman Islands Caribbean
2 United States North America
3 Switzerland Europe
4 Hong Kong East Asia
5 Singapore Southeast Asia
6 Luxembourg Europe
7 Japan East Asia
8 Netherlands Europe
9 British Virgin Islands Caribbean
10 United Arab Emirates Middle East
15. Seychelles
14. Cyprus
13. Nauru
12. Luxembourg
11. Mauritius
8. Curacao
7. Liechtenstein
6. Samoa
5. Cayman Islands
4. Bermuda
3. Jersey
2. Taiwan
1. British Virgin Islands
- echo of monarchy via heads of states who appoint judges. You can buy the result that you want?
bail correlation income
How does bail affect the poor?
A separate study in the Quarterly Journal of Economics showed that while the cash-bail system penalizes poor people, it also discriminates against African-Americans, who tend to be treated more severely than white people by judges who set bail, regardless of the judge's race.
did monarch appoint judges
A real ordeal
Justice for the Anglo-Saxons and even after the Norman invasion of 1066 was a combination of local and royal government. Local courts were presided over by a lord or one of his stewards. The King's court – the Curia Regis – was, initially at least, presided over by the King himself.
Today, going on trial in an English and Welsh court is not exactly a comfortable experience. But it's far better than trial by ordeal, used until almost the end of the 12th century to determine guilt or innocence in criminal cases.
who appoints judges
How judges are appointed. Supreme Court judges are appointed by the Governor of Victoria. To be eligible for appointment as a judge of the Supreme Court, a person must be, or have been: a judge of the High Court of Australia, or of a Court created by the Parliament of the Commonwealth.
who appoints judges in france
The judges are appointed by the President of the Republic on a recommendation of the Higher Council of the Judiciary. They are divided into six different chambers: First Civil Chamber, Second Civil Chamber, Third Civil Chamber, Labour Chamber, Commercial Chamber, and Criminal Division.
who appoints judges in united states
Supreme Court justices, court of appeals judges, and district court judges are nominated by the President and confirmed by the United States Senate, as stated in the Constitution.
who appoints judges in japan
The justices are appointed by the Cabinet (the chief justice by the emperor upon designation by the Cabinet). At least two-thirds must have considerable experience as lawyers, prosecutors, law professors, or members of high courts.
who appoints judges in nigeria
Judges of the Federal High Court are appointed by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and must have been qualified as legal practitioners for at least 10 years. Appointments are on the recommendation of the National Judicial Council.
who appoints judges in spain
According to Section 123, the President is nominated by the General Council of the Judiciary and appointed by the Monarch.
When the High Court was created in 1903, it comprised three judges. Over the past 120 years, the size of the bench has expanded to seven. Following a referendum in 1977, a mandatory retirement age of 70 was introduced.
However, the Constitution and subsequent legislation are conspicuously silent on the process to be followed in appointing judges. Section 72 of the Constitution says only
The justices of the High Court […] shall be appointed by the governor-general in council.
In practice, this means judges are nominated by the prime minster following advice of the cabinet, with significant weight given to the recommendation of the attorney-general.
The Constitution does not mention qualifications for High Court judges. The High Court of Australia Act 1979 does require appointees to have been either a judge of an Australian court or enrolled as a legal practitioner for at least five years. This minimal threshold provides a very low bar for eligibility.
Similarly, the requirements for vetting judges are scarce. The High Court of Australia Act provides a minimum role for consultation with the states:
Where there is a vacancy in an office of justice, the attorney-general shall, before an appointment is made to the vacant office, consult with the attorneys-general of the states in relation to the appointment.
Such consultations occur in private. There is no requirement for how extensive they must be, nor do they need to factor into the final decision at all. A five-minute session at the end of a National Cabinet video conference would suffice.
In practice, these provisions grant huge discretion to the cabinet to appoint almost any lawyer they wish.
Fortunately, the country has organically developed some strong political conventions to guide the process, including commitments to make appointments based on merit, as well as geographic and (more recently) gender diversity. Unlike in the US, a judge's political leanings are not overtly taken into account.
While a handful of judges have been former politicians, by and large we have been blessed with an apolitical bench populated by the most eminent judges and lawyers in Australia.
However, both the Trump administration in the US and the Johnson government in the UK have shown just how brittle political conventions can be. Once those conventions shatter, the social legitimacy of public institutions — including courts — can quickly evaporate.
- one strange thing is that inequality has increased over tens of thousands/thousands of years (from Gini coefficient of ~0.3-0.4 to ~0.6-0.7)? Technology and globalisation has increased the ability of individuals/groups to horde wealth?
global wealth inequality over thousands of years
Time Is Money
Comparing the size of dwellings at archaeological ruins, researchers found increasing wealth inequality over thousands of years. Technology accelerates the trend, first in the Old World and then in the New. For each site the experts calculated the Gini coefficient, a standard measure of wealth distribution. The gap between rich and poor in the United States is shown for reference.
- if you know enough about the military industrial defense complex then you'll realise that stuff gets stolen and bad things happen often. A way to avoid this is to hide wealth. What's suprising for me is that the techniques used by large companies to avoid tax are the exact same techniques that criminals use to hide/launder money as well (it explains how criminals/spies gained the skill to do this and who taught them? It sort of reminds me the overlap in skillset in military and intelligence in state and terrorist capablity in organised crime? Tax havens mostly started as a consequence of colonialism/imperialism when they attempted to consolidate/hide their wealth from confiscation during the end of that formal era. If Wall St did teach organised crime how to hide money surely it's easier to ask them then to work with criminals?). Unfortunately, it's like a massive Jenga tower now. If you take the money back the world economy collapses? Technically not fraud because the elite don't know what they're doing? Wonder how much money they could save by plugging up leaky spending, corruption, fraud, efficiency issues, etc? Despite what people say money laundering plays a huge part in global finance and sometimes it feels like governments/banks will just take money from anyone/anywhere?
In commenting on this, the website MacroBusiness wrote: "It feels like Groundhog Day. Fifteen years ago, the Australian Government agreed to implement the Tranche 2 global AML [anti-money laundering] rules for lawyers, accountants and real estate agents in a bid to prevent laundering of illicit funds, especially into Australian property.
"However, these reforms have been continually postponed amid fierce lobbying by shadowy 'vested interests' negatively impacted by the reforms. This has led to Australia having the weakest AML rules in the world pertaining to lawyers, accountants and real estate agents."
Back in 2019, experts warned that Australia was lagging behind the rest of the developed world when it came to combating the flow of illicit money entering the housing market.
An SBS report said: "Money from international drug trafficking and other crimes is flowing into the Australian housing market and potentially distorting prices for everyday Australians looking to buy a house, they [experts] say.
"While it is difficult to say how much dirty money is distorting the housing market, experts say the flows are 'significant' and new laws and regulations are needed to combat the issue."
The ABC's Long mentioned low interest rates, government incentives, including negative gearing and low taxes on capital gains, and numerous other possible reasons for house prices continuing to stay high and unaffordable for many prospective young buyers who are looking to break into the market.
The Austrac report said: "Serious and organised crime groups can use real estate as an investment or as a lifestyle benefit to integrate the proceeds of crime into the legitimate economy.
"The sale and purchase of real estate presents particular appeal to money launderers looking to conceal large sums of money in few transactions, or who use corporate vehicles and trusts to disguise beneficial ownership.
"Real estate purchases made with loan products may also offer protection from losses in the event of law enforcement confiscation proceedings; for example, if a partner agency restrains a property encumbered by a loan, criminals only stand to lose the value of the deposit, interest and loan repayments made."
Wolff Responds - Pandora Papers' Lessons
The Pandora Papers - How the world of offshore finance is still flourishing _ Four Corners
Frank Abagnale | Catch Me If You Can | Talks at Google
how did tax havens start
Executive Summary
This paper examines the historical development of tax havens. The case for regulating tax havens has become an increasingly prominent issue for policy makers worldwide, especially in light of the current financial crisis.
Modern tax havens can be organized into three groups: UK-based or British Empire- based tax havens, European havens, and thirdly new tax havens from the transitional economies in South America and Africa.
Tax haven strategy developed piece by piece in different locations, often for reasons which had little to do with their ultimate use. Tax havens are a distinctly modern phenomenon, whose origins lie at the earliest in the late nineteenth century. Only during the second phase of their development, from the end of the First World War, did countries begin to develop comprehensive policies to become a tax haven.
Since then, tax havens can be viewed as a distinct developmental state strategy that could have evolved only in the context of a robust international system of statehood, respectful of the sovereign right of states to write their own laws and within an integrated world market.
Statistics suggest that tax havens have an extremely prominent role in the global financial system. They have become an important instrument of tax evasion worldwide and constitute the single largest drain on developing countries' economies.
Today, the key issue regarding tax havens is their lack of transparency. Tax havens need to be regulated by an internationally agreed code of conduct that ensures the transparency of ownership and traceability of assets to their ultimate owners.
Introduction
Tax havens are increasingly attracting attention today because of the sheer size of the phenomenon. Although reliable data on tax havens is still difficult to come by, the Bank of International Settlement (BIS) quarterly statistics showed that since the early 1980s about half of all international banking assets and liabilities were routed through offshore financial centres (OFCs). About a third of all multinational corporations' Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) go through tax havens. Estimates of gross tax avoidance perpetrated through tax havens are difficult to ascertain. There are no reliable figures on corporate tax avoidance which is presumably the principal reason why so much FDI is routed through tax havens. Individual tax avoidance and evasion is estimated conservatively to be somewhere between $US 800 billion to a trillion a year. Tax havens are also used as the principal route through which laundered money escapes developing countries.
how much money is in tax havens
How much US money is hidden in tax havens?
The money needed to pay for the pandemic is actually close at hand, hidden away in offshore financial centers (OFCs), more commonly known as tax havens. OFCs are estimated to hold up to $36 trillion in cash, gold, and securities, not including tangible assets such as real estate, art, and jewels.
HMRC estimates that £1.7 billion was lost from tax avoidance and £5.2 billion from tax evasion in 2015/16 (but it believes that the total amount of tax that was uncollected that year - the 'tax gap' – was £34 billion). Other estimates of the tax gap, such as research carried out by Richard Murphy in 2014, suggest that the real figure is more like £119 billion, while HMRC themselves have admitted that last year large companies underpaid £5.8 billion in corporation tax, according to the ICAEW, and research by the economist Gabriel Zucman suggests that corporate tax avoidance via tax havens costs the UK about £11 billion per year.
Increasing HMRC's budget to crack down on tax avoidance by large companies would yield £97 for every £1 extra spent, according to its own figures.
Tax avoidance can only be fixed in the long term by reforming the global financial system (at the centre of which are many of the UK's institutions). Many organisations based in the UK are undermining the current system, exploiting loopholes to reduce their (or their clients') tax bills, with negative consequences for tax revenues and public services in the UK and across the world. These include the big accountancy firms as well as many global banks, law firms and other financial services providers.
tax avoidance industry history
The ratio of German assets in tax havens in relation to the total German GDP, 1996–2008.[3] The "Big 7" shown are Hong Kong, Ireland, Lebanon, Liberia, Panama, Singapore, and Switzerland.
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Tax campaigner Richard Murphy's estimate of the ten countries with the largest absolute levels of tax evasion. He estimated that global tax evasion amounts to 5 percent of the global economy.[10]
Since 2012, Optiver has seen the share of income being generated outside the European Union grow over 50%, as the firm increased its presence in Asia through its Australian branch. However, the company opened an office in Shanghai early in 2013 and, like hundreds of foreign hedge funds, Optiver has been working in a regulatory grey area, finding legal ways to bet on Chinese securities while avoiding formal investment channels. Despite the consensual "grey area" Optiver and others are playing at, none of these firms are accused of any wrongdoing.
define fraud
define corruption
define malfeasance
mens rea
Mens rea (/ˈmɛnz ˈreɪə/; Law Latin for "guilty mind") is the mental element of a person's intention to commit a crime; or knowledge that one's action or lack of action would cause a crime to be committed. It is a necessary element of many crimes.
Key points:
In August 2020, the Health Department signed a $660,000 contract with McKinsey Pacific Rim for vaccine strategy advice
The only document provided by the department was an eight-page summary of global vaccine development based on publicly available information, prepared by McKinsey
This year, McKinsey Pacific Rim has received a $3.8m contract to provide vaccine rollout support services and a $2.2m contract for vaccine manufacturing advice
tax avoidance statistics
How much does the US lose to tax avoidance?
The United States is losing approximately $1 trillion in unpaid taxes every year, Charles Rettig, the Internal Revenue Service commissioner, estimated on Tuesday, arguing that the agency lacks the resources to catch tax cheats.
Governments around the world are losing $427 billion each year to tax avoidance and evasion as companies and wealthy individuals shift their money to tax havens, according to a comprehensive new report that urges an overhaul of the "broken" tax system.
The United States government is the single biggest loser in absolute terms, missing out on about $90 billion in tax revenue a year, according to the report, which offers the first detailed breakdown of losses at the country level.
Poorer countries, meanwhile, are losing a larger share of their total tax revenue to the abusive practices — about 5.8 percent vs. 2.5 percent in high-income countries, according to the report, which analyzed data from 2016 and 2017.
Tax Evasion Statistics (Editor's Choice)
The USA loses nearly $190 billion to tax evasion every year.
The annual cost of tax evasion in European countries is over €823 billion.
Switzerland is a haven for about $2.4 trillion of foreign personal wealth.
The world's wealthiest keep $21-$32 trillion of personal assets in offshore tax havens.
More than 80% of US taxpayers report and pay taxes on time.
Over 68% of tax offenders in the USA are men.
American corporations underreport approximately $41 billion per year.
money laundering techniques
Method 1 – Use of third parties
Method 2 – Use of loans and mortgages
Method 3 – Manipulation of property values
Method 4 – Structuring of cash deposits to buy real estate
Method 5 – Rental income to legitimise illicit funds
Method 6 – Purchase of real estate to facilitate other criminal activity
Method 7 – Renovations and improvements to property
Method 8 – Use of front companies, shell companies, trust and company structures
Method 9 – Use of professional facilitators or 'gatekeepers'
Method 10 – Overseas-based criminals investing in Australian real estate
Methods
List of methods
Money laundering can take several forms, although most methodologies can be categorized into one of a few types. These include "bank methods, smurfing [also known as structuring], currency exchanges, and double-invoicing".[13]
Structuring: Often known as smurfing, is a method of placement whereby cash is broken into smaller deposits of money, used to defeat suspicion of money laundering and to avoid anti-money laundering reporting requirements. A sub-component of this is to use smaller amounts of cash to purchase bearer instruments, such as money orders, and then ultimately deposit those, again in small amounts.[14]
Bulk cash smuggling: This involves physically smuggling cash to another jurisdiction and depositing it in a financial institution, such as an offshore bank, that offers greater bank secrecy or less rigorous money laundering enforcement.[15]
Cash-intensive businesses: In this method, a business typically expected to receive a large proportion of its revenue as cash uses its accounts to deposit criminally derived cash. Such enterprises often operate openly and in doing so generate cash revenue from incidental legitimate business in addition to the illicit cash. In such cases the business will usually claim all cash received as legitimate earnings. Service businesses are best suited to this method, as such enterprises have little or no variable costs and/or a large ratio between revenue and variable costs, which makes it difficult to detect discrepancies between revenues and costs. Examples are parking structures, strip clubs, tanning salons, car washes, arcades, bars, restaurants, and casinos.
Trade-based laundering: This method is one of the newest and most complex forms of money laundering.[16] This involves under- or over-valuing invoices to disguise the movement of money.[17] For example, the art market has been accused of being an ideal vehicle for money laundering due to several unique aspects of art such as the subjective value of art works as well as the secrecy of auction houses about the identity of the buyer and seller.[18]
Shell companies and trusts: Trusts and shell companies disguise the true owners of money. Trusts and corporate vehicles, depending on the jurisdiction, need not disclose their true owner. Sometimes referred to by the slang term rathole, though that term usually refers to a person acting as the fictitious owner rather than the business entity.[19][20]
Round-tripping: Here, money is deposited in a controlled foreign corporation offshore, preferably in a tax haven where minimal records are kept, and then shipped back as a foreign direct investment, exempt from taxation. A variant on this is to transfer money to a law firm or similar organization as funds on account of fees, then to cancel the retainer and, when the money is remitted, represent the sums received from the lawyers as a legacy under a will or proceeds of litigation.[20]
Bank capture: In this case, money launderers or criminals buy a controlling interest in a bank, preferably in a jurisdiction with weak money laundering controls, and then move money through the bank without scrutiny.
Casinos: In this method, an individual walks into a casino and buys chips with illicit cash. The individual will then play for a relatively short time. When the person cashes in the chips, they will expect to take payment in a check, or at least get a receipt so they can claim the proceeds as gambling winnings.[15]
Other gambling: Money is spent on gambling, preferably on high odds games. One way to minimize risk with this method is to bet on every possible outcome of some event that has many possible outcomes, so no outcome(s) have short odds, and the bettor will lose only the vigorish and will have one or more winning bets that can be shown as the source of money. The losing bets will remain hidden.
Black salaries: A company may have unregistered employees without written contracts and pay them cash salaries. Dirty money might be used to pay them.[21]
Tax amnesties: For example, those that legalize unreported assets and cash in tax havens.[22]
Transaction Laundering: When a merchant unknowingly processes illicit credit card transactions for another business.[23] It is a growing problem[24][25] and recognised as distinct from traditional money laundering in using the payments ecosystem to hide that the transaction even occurred[26] (e.g. the use of fake front websites[27]). Also known as "undisclosed aggregation" or "factoring".[28][29]
Digital electronic money
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Reverse money laundering
money laundering list
SCORES AND RANKING
The top 10 countries with the highest AML risk are Afghanistan (8.16), Haiti (8.15), Myanmar (7.86), Laos (7.82), Mozambique (7.82), Cayman Islands (7.64), Sierra Leone (7.51), Senegal (7.30), Kenya (7.18), Yemen (7.12).
The top 10 countries with the lowest AML risks are Estonia (2.36), Andorra (2.83), Finland (2.97), Bulgaria (3.12), Cook Islands (3.13), Norway (3.19), New Zealand (3.24), Sweden (3.32), Slovenia (3.35), Denmark (3.46)
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south vietnam site:cia.gov
south vietnam penetration site:cia.gov
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol40no5/pdf/v40i5a10p.pdf
list vietnam war crimes
politicians who have gone to jail
Today, people's democracy in China is a three-pronged institutional arrangement comprising: (i) the Party's leadership, (ii) the people as the masters of the country, and (iii) rule of law. The purpose of this arrangement is to establish the people as the masters of the country, while the other two serve as a double guarantee for that.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) plays a leadership role as it represents the overall interests of the people, originating from China's long tradition of a "unified ruling entity" since the country's first unification in 221 B.C., and a leadership structure based on a meritocratic system of "selecting and electing" the best and the most competent to govern the country.
In today's politics, the Party's leadership effectively forestalls simple-minded populism, monetized politics or Western attempts to stage a "color revolution" in China. It is naive to assume that the people can rule a country without any organization providing leadership. Elections need to be organized, procedures established and external interference forestalled. All these tasks are performed by the CPC, a political institution of over 90 million members, larger than the German population, with broad representation and popular support, and committed to the public good.
As for rule of law, it requires first of all strict observance of the Constitution. The Chinese Constitution stipulates that the state shall serve the people and "uphold a fundamental economic system under which public ownership is the mainstay and diverse forms of ownership develop together." It adds that the state shall protect both public property rights and private property rights. Over 90 percent of Chinese households today own properties, a remarkable achievement by itself.
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In many ways, China's success is due to the quality of its decision-making process and efficiency of policy execution, which make the Chinese state far more responsive to the needs of the people than the Western model, as shown clearly in China's resolute fight against COVID-19. The Chinese model has ensured that most Chinese are beneficiaries of China's dramatic rise, and the country has witnessed the fastest improvement in people's living standards in human history.
The Chinese model is not perfect, but it indeed outperforms American democracy in many ways. For one thing, China's top legislature, as well as the local people's congresses, address issues of direct concern to the general public, from medical insurance to pension to education and environmental protection without the intervention of lobby groups as in the U.S. Congress.
Little wonder then that the Ipsos surveys over the past few years have repeatedly shown that around 90 percent of Chinese think their country is on the right track, more than double the number of Americans or British who think the same about their country.
The Democracy Perception Index 2020 released by Dalia Research showed that 73 percent of Chinese believed their country is a democracy while only 49 percent of Americans believed the United States is a democracy. What an interesting and changing time!
- breakdowns of spending in a lot of places are fascinating. The biggest problems are generally caused by a tiny few? Lack of oversight and leaky spending everywhere? Why bother with expensive commissioned reports if they don't listen to the final recommendations? The ability to waste money is genuinely remarkable? The breakdown of each economy of each country is really interesting. It tells you the priorities of each country, what they believe in, how believe they can make life better, their relative level of corruption, their wisdom/character/perspective/psychology, etc...
private sector blowout statistics
Public service wages in Victoria have grown faster than any state and territory since the Andrews Labor government took power six years ago, putting more pressure on the state's finances.
Victorian public servants are paid more than their counterparts around the country, except for federal public servants in the Australian Capital Territory, an analysis by The Australian Financial Review of Australian Bureau of Statistics wage data shows.
Full-time adult weekly cash earnings for Victorian public sector workers was $2083 in November 2020, $333 a week higher than the state's private sector workers.
The state's public servants earn more than $4800 a year above their counterparts in NSW, which has a higher cost of living due to higher property prices.
Victoria's public sector workforce, including public entity businesses, grew to 322,605 in 2020, according to the Victorian Public Sector Commission. That represents an increase of 44,988 people over five years. Public servant numbers have increased 32 per cent to 50,032.
Robert Carling, senior fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies and a former official at the Commonwealth and NSW treasury departments, said the growth in the cost of Victoria's public service had weakened the state's finances and contributed to the loss of its AAA credit rating.
"An increasing proportion of the Victorian workforce is bottled up in inefficient public sector activities," Mr Carling said.
"The extremely high growth in the state's public payroll pre-COVID is leading to a deterioration in the state's finances."
list white elephant projects
The expressions "white elephant" and "gift of a white elephant" came into common use in the middle of the nineteenth century.[6] The phrase was attached to "white elephant swaps" and "white elephant sales" in the early twentieth century.[7] Many church bazaars held "white elephant sales" where donors could unload unwanted bric-à-brac, generating profit from the phenomenon that "one man's trash is another man's treasure" and the term has continued to be used in this context.[8]
In modern usage, the term now often refers in addition to an extremely expensive building project that fails to deliver on its function or becomes very costly to maintain.[9][10] Examples include prestigious but uneconomic infrastructure projects such as airports,[11] dams,[12] bridges,[13][14] shopping malls[15] and football stadiums built for the FIFA World Cup.[16][17] The American Oakland Athletics baseball team has used a white elephant as a symbol and usually its main or alternate logo since 1902, originally in sarcastic defiance of John McGraw's 1902 characterization of the new team as a "white elephant".[18]
The term has also been applied to outdated or underperforming military projects like the U.S. Navy's Alaska-class cruiser.[19][20] In Austria, the term "white elephant" means workers who have little or no use, but are not terminable.[21][circular reference]
building occupancy rate statistics
list failed government projects
list government grants
unused government grant money statistics
How Silicon Valley swindles America
Pollution May Shrink Your Penis (If You Have One)
Queensland LNP MP George Christensen has announced he will retire at the next federal election and will not contest his seat.
Mr Christensen told the Courier-Mail that "the time was right" to retire and said it had always been his intention to serve three terms.
But the controversial MP declared he would continue to be vocal about politics which he claimed was "broken" and "dominated by an activist mainstream media along with other leftist cultural institutions".
Mr Christensen has represented the seat of Dawson for the past 11 years and has regularly courted controversy.
He rejected climate change as a "conspiracy", was a supporter of Donald Trump and opposed same sex marriage.
He was derided as the "member for Manila" after it was revealed he took 28 trips to the Philippines in just four years, spending nearly 300 days in total in the country, and was alleged to have been a regular at strip clubs there.
successful legislation statistics
Between its inception in January 2017 and its final day on Jan. 3, the GOP-led 115th Congress enacted 442 public laws, the most since the 110th Congress (2007-09). Of those laws, 69% were substantive (as judged by our deliberately generous criteria) – not much different from the 71% substantive share achieved by the 114th Congress, in which the Republican-controlled House and Senate faced off against Democratic President Barack Obama. (The 114th Congress passed 329 laws in total.)
Nearly a third of the laws passed by the 115th Congress were ceremonial in nature; it was the third Congress in a row in which the ceremonial share increased. Those ceremonial measures include 109 that renamed post offices, courthouses and the like – a fourth of the Congress' total legislative output.
In our regular assessments of Congress' legislative productivity, we've cast a wide net regarding what makes a law "substantive." Basically, anything that makes a change in federal law (however tiny) or authorizes the spending of taxpayer dollars (however few) makes the cut. Besides the measures referred to above on building-renamings, we count laws as "ceremonial" if they award medals, designate special days, authorize commemorative coins or otherwise memorialize historic events. (We exclude entirely "private laws," which typically exempt a single person from a single provision of general law.)
Three decades of legislative productivity in U.S. CongressLooking back over the past 30 years, the 101st Congress (1989-1991) passed the most laws in total (650) and had the lowest percentage of substantive laws (63%). That's because it, like many Congresses before, passed dozens of laws designating special observances – National Tap Dance Day, National Quarter Horse Week, National Library Card Sign-Up Month and the like. That practice diminished over the next few years and was largely ended by the 104th Congress in the mid-1990s.
Since then, only one Congress has chalked up a lower share of substantive legislation than the just-ended 115th. That was the 110th, held after Democrats retook the House and Senate in the 2006 midterms during Republican George W. Bush's final two years as president. Only 64% of the laws enacted by that Congress were substantive, by our reckoning.
hayne royal commision
But, by some counts, barely one-third of Commissioner Kenneth Hayne's 76 recommendations have passed through to become law. Some have been abandoned. And the very first recommendation — to leave existing responsible lending laws unchanged — is set to be shredded, along with those laws.
"The average person out there thinks everything's been solved. 'Oh, we had a royal commission. Oh, they charged dead people'. There was all this 'oohing' and 'aahing'," said consumer advocate Lena Anderson.
"Now (people) think, 'Well, the Government's looked after it'."
cost royal commission
How much are royal commissioners paid?
Log in , register or subscribe to save articles for later. The man heading the royal commission into the building industry is paid $660,000 a year, making him the highest paid public servant in Australia, Labor said today.
accuracy intelligence community statistics
how much research is useless
While brilliant and progressive research continues apace here and there, the amount of redundant, inconsequential, and outright poor research has swelled in recent decades, filling countless pages in journals and monographs. Consider this tally from Science two decades ago: Only 45 percent of the articles published in the 4,500 top scientific journals were cited within the first five years after publication. In recent years, the figure seems to have dropped further. In a 2009 article in Online Information Review, Péter Jacsó found that 40.6 percent of the articles published in the top science and social-science journals (the figures do not include the humanities) were cited in the period 2002 to 2006.
As a result, instead of contributing to knowledge in various disciplines, the increasing number of low-cited publications only adds to the bulk of words and numbers to be reviewed. Even if read, many articles that are not cited by anyone would seem to contain little useful information...
As reported in a recent paper, the rate of growth of cited (ie somewhat influential) scientific publications has risen from less than 1% before the middle of the 18th century to 2-3% in the first half of the 20th century, and 8-9% today. That last figure is equivalent to a greater than doubling of scientific output every decade. What better testament to human intellectual progress and the power of the scientific method?
Not so fast. For a start, not every publication is equal. When the author Theodore Sturgeon first invoked his famous law ("90% of everything is crap") he was talking about science fiction, but he could equally well have been talking about science. Estimates vary wildly, but probably between a quarter and a third of all research papers in the natural sciences go uncited. A much larger proportion is cited only by their own authors or by one or two others.
This is not necessarily a sign of inadequate or wasteful research, but it should give us pause. It is at least partly a result of the imperative for researchers to publish in order to continue to secure funding and employment, and the accompanying incentive to salami-slice research results so as to secure the maximum number of publications from any given piece of work. This in turn leads to the bane of every scientist's existence: far too many papers to read in far too little time.
nasa mission success rate
Small-Satellite Mission Failure Rates
The purpose of this report is to determine the failure rate of small-satellite missions launched between the years 2000 and 2016. This analysis considers the rates of both partial and total mission failure, as well as the failures attributable to failure of the launch vehicle. This study observed that between the years of 2000 to 2016, 41.3% of all small satellites launched failed or partially failed. Of these small satellite missions, 24.2% were total mission failures, another 11% were partial mission failures, and 6.1% were launch vehicle failures. The small satellite failure data reveals an increase in the failure rate as the yearly launch rate has increased. The period 2000 to 2008 averaged 15 launches per year, during which 28.6% of the small satellite missions failed or partially failed. The period from 2009 to 2016 averaged 48 launches per year, during which 42.6% of the small satellite missions failed or partially failed. The launch vehicle failure rate for both periods was the same at around 6.1%. The implication is that for modern small satellite missions, almost one out of every two small satellite missions will result in either a total or a partial mission failure. Counting the partial mission successes as "successful missions" reduces the failure rate, but only to 38.2% for the period 2009 to 2016.
Small-Satellite Mission Failure Rates
nasa project delay statistics
NASA: Assessments of Major Projects
Some of the Australian military's key weapons systems are out of action for more than half of every year, as concerns mount about Defence failing to meet its benchmarks for keeping its assets operational.
The Navy's major combat helicopter flew only two thirds of the hours planned over the past five years, leading the federal Opposition to claim the sustainability of Defence's weapons systems "continues to be a basket case".
An analysis of the last five portfolio budget statements shows the Navy's major ships have been out of action for more than half of every year - 44 more days than projected. The Anzac frigates, Air Warfare Destroyers and the Collins-class submarines were not in use for an average of 190 days per year over the past five years, an 11 per cent shortfall on what was planned.
Amphibious ships were only available for 77 per cent of days of what was projected, while helicopters and planes are flying hours 30 per cent lower than projected.
The biggest underperformers include the APH Tiger helicopters, which flew 39 per cent fewer hours than budgeted, and the MRH-90 helicopters, getting in the air 29 per cent less than expected.
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets, which were delivered in 2018, were last year projected to fly 8200 hours, but only reached 5250 hours.
Defence's spending on sustaining its key military assets has blown out by almost $5 billion - or 9.8 per cent - over the same period.
The Opposition's assistant spokesman for defence, Pat Conroy, said the underperformance pre-dated the COVID-19 pandemic and the government needed to explain the shortfalls.
royal commission ineffective
Key points:
The final report of the Banking Royal Commission was released two years ago
Of its 76 recommendations, only about one-third have come into law
Some key protections have been downgraded or abandoned
It's taxpayer's money
The theory in media circles is that the banking royal commission was big news because "everyone has a bank account". There seems to be no corresponding extrapolation for aged care — "everyone grows old".
More truthful perhaps would be an admission that aged care isn't "sexy": it's thought not to sell papers or attract younger readers online.
But this ignores the crucial role the media plays in political and social outcomes. So when almost $20 billion goes into aged care each year, isn't that worth similar journalistic scrutiny to the banks?
As the interim report says: "The aged care sector prides itself in being an 'industry' and it behaves like one. This masks the fact that 80 per cent of its funding comes directly from Government coffers."
Yet when the new Minister for Aged Care, Richard Colbeck, fronted up to face the media last Thursday afternoon, there was just a handful of reporters in the room.
Others probably watched via videolink, but that means they missed the opportunity to grill the minister.
gonski education royal commission implementation
The disparity is the result of decades of patchy, inconsistent school funding policy, which for many years favoured middle-tier independent schools such as Mount St Benedict, nearby Oakhill College and Northern Beaches Christian School. The Gonski reforms, initiated in 2012, were supposed to fix this. They recommended governments reduce excessive payments to schools that didn't need them, and redirect funds to those that did. Seven years later, that still hasn't happened.
When it comes to education funding reform, Australia's greatest achievement in the past decade has been to unite behind the principle of needs-based funding. Its failure has been an inability to implement it.
As the Herald and Age reported this week, government funding boosts to private schools outstripped increases to public schools in the decade to 2017, despite Gonski. There are many reasons - power games, political expediency, and a level of policy complexity that stymies community engagement - but the bottom line is that "we have failed to live up to what we have promised ourselves," says Peter Goss, school education program director at the Grattan Institute. "This whole time we've been talking about moving towards needs-based funding, we have been heading in the opposite direction."
The Morrison government will face a battle in the Senate to pass environmental protection legislation amendments, with critics accusing it of resurrecting a maligned Abbott-era "one-stop shop approval" system that will "fast-track extinctions".
The government has not yet formally responded to the Graeme Samuel-led review into the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Act, which made 38 recommendations to address two decades of failure in environmental protection law, despite receiving it nearly a year ago.
- I thought that the guys who ran the finance world were somehow different/special. If you drill down on global capital allocation (whether via governments, bonds, debt, mutual funds, ETFs, index funds, REITs, etc...) you'll realise that there isn't much genuine diversity and some of the asset allocations just doesn't make much sense. It's lazy investing. A lot of companies are just "selling crap". Much invesment is obviously allocated to the US (over half in a lot of the funds that I've look at) in a self referential cycle. Capital goes there because growth is high which is the reason why capital goes there...
super imperialism
nomi prins
- a lot investment/trading scams involve selling the dream rather then trading. A lot of these guys are good at analysing the past rather then genuinely predicting forward. Most traders can't beat index. Monopoly/platform companies are easy trades
The ONLY Stock Investing video you need to watch (as a millionaire)-pwv-63qplpc
Criticism
In 2007, the Ohio state Division of Real Estate and Professional Licensing issued a statement warning people against some of the illegal methods preached by Kiyosaki in his books and seminars.[40][41] In 2010, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation did an exposé on scams that were being perpetuated by Kiyosaki's company in Canada in the guise of seminars. Upon tracking the success claims of "Rich Dad" seminar organizers, they discovered that these claims were not true. Investments in trailers and trailer parks, which were being propagated as "successful" by seminar teachers, were found to actually be barren pieces of land that no one was using.[42]
From 1990 to 1995, Kiyosaki used Amway to promote his book with multi-level marketing. He was sued by his fellow author Sharon Lechter in 2007 for not keeping to the terms of their agreement.[43]
Kiyosaki's advice has been criticized for emphasizing anecdotes and containing nothing in the way of concrete advice on how readers should proceed or work.[44] He replies that his material is meant to be a motivational tool to get readers thinking about money rather than a guide to wealth, that "rich dad" was a fictional character,[45] and that the books are supposed to be "interesting" rather than involve a lot of technical material.[46] According to John Reed, a real estate advisor, Kiyosaki's books often advise practices such as the illegal use of insider tips from rich friends (insider trading), as well as vulture real estate purchases and taking more debt on credit cards than one can handle and declaring bankruptcy whenever one's plans go awry.[47]
In an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, he admitted that he partnered with a real estate firm to promote their business through his seminars. He also admitted that since the Rich Dad seminars were franchisees that functioned independent of him, he had little control over their content. Kiyosaki has been criticized for being anti-education, advocating for people to drop out of school and for unfolding the idea of higher education being superfluous for financial success.[48] He has ridiculed people who are highly educated and academically successful and has said "the best way to get even with A-grade students was to make them employees of mine". He has described people who go to college as "suckers" and PhD holders as people who are "poor, helpless, and desperate", alluding to Kiyosaki's own father, who became poor and unemployed during the last years of his life despite having a PhD.[49]
In 2006 and 2007, Kiyosaki's Rich Dad seminars continued to promote real estate as a sound investment, just before their prices came crashing down.[50]
In 2010, Allan Roth of CBS News documented what occurred when he attended one of Rich Dad's free seminars and dissected some of the tactics employed.[51] The Marketplace exposé on his seminars in Canada showed what occurred in $450 seminars through a hidden camera including Kiyosaki's response to them.[3]
- it's fascinating how the wealthiest people in society make money. Much like in the old days it's a very narrow band/group of people who can become wealthy. What's suprised me is how they acheive this, how society is optimised for this, how easy that style/methoology is due to the help that accrue from other parts of society, etc... Being a manager is a form of rentier capitalism? You just need to rank and force people to work harder (extract value downwards rather then upwards) while you get most of the rewards? The brilliant thing about using debt to control things it that basically everyone stores their money at the bank. The bank and credit agencies have most data regarding default rates and probability of people being able to repay. Ironically, if they debtor fails to repay their debt the bank gets to foreclose on the loan, repossess the item in question, and recoup whatever is leftover using whatever means they want (the irony is that legal system sort of aides this process as well). No matter what the bank wins (and whoever owns the bank) unless they do something really dumb?
Economic Update - Class Struggles in the US Today
rentier capitalism
Rentier capitalism is a term currently used to describe the belief in economic practices of monopolization of access to any kind of property and gaining significant amounts of profit without contribution to society.
Class, Assets and Work in Rentier Capitalism in - Brill
Many people are feeling that they have to work harder and longer just to stand still. There always seems to be an economic headwind denying them a fair return on the hours they put in. So what is this formless force that pushes against us? And why is it such a different story for people who work in the financial industries who, after such collective failure in 2008, are – once again – squeezing Main Street for every penny…
Host Ross Ashcroft is joined by author and journalist Rana Foroohar.
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Makers v Takers
Renegade Inc - You Are Not A Loan
It was the German philosopher and economist Karl Marx who said that "There must be something rotten at the very core of a social system which increases it wealth without diminishing its misery."
Today there is no doubt that our social core is not in great shape - but where did the rot set in?
So as so many of us now have to take on debt to survive is it actually the case that in a rotten system the 1% always need an indebted 99% to fund their unearned lifestyles?
Host Ross Ashcroft is joined by author, social activist and analyst Andrew Ross to discuss the relationship between debt, humans and how we chose to live as a society.
RT UK is a channel based in London covering British news and politics, protests and interviews with people who make a difference.
Renegade Inc - You Are Not A Loan
creditocracy
student debt default rate
10 states with the lowest three-year default rates
Vermont (5.9%)
Massachusetts (6.1%)
North Dakota (6.2%)
Rhode Island (6.5%)
South Carolina (7.0%)
Nebraska (7.9%)
Minnesota (8.1%)
Utah (8.3%)
District of Columbia (8.5%)
New York (8.5%)
10 states with the highest three-year default rates
West Virginia (17.7%)
New Mexico (16.2%)
Nevada (15.3%)
Kentucky (14.3%)
Indiana (14.2%)
Mississippi (14.1%)
Arizona (13.1%)
Alabama (12.9%)
South Dakota (12.9%)
Oregon (12.8%)
https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-looming-student-loan-default-crisis-is-worse-than-we-thought/
forgive debt movement
Does your race really determine your property value?
Australian Border Force approved travel exemptions from Britain and the US during COVID spikes while rejecting them at a far higher rate from places where the virus was barely circulating.
The new government data, which covers applications from August 2020 to March 31, has led to accusations of a racial bias in assessments of people's applications to travel in Australia. Tens of thousands of people with family, business or study ties to Australia have been turned away because they could not get an exemption to enter the country.
slave rights
Slaves had few legal rights: in court their testimony was inadmissible in any litigation involving whites; they could make no contract, nor could they own property; even if attacked, they could not strike a white person. ... Obedience to the slave codes was exacted in a variety of ways.
origin bounty hunter
A slave catcher was a person employed to track down and return escaped slaves to their enslavers. The first slave catchers in the Americas were active in European colonies in the West Indies during the sixteenth century. In colonial Virginia and Carolina, slave catchers (as part of the slave patrol system) were recruited by Southern planters beginning in the eighteenth century to return fugitive slaves; the concept quickly spread to the rest of the Thirteen Colonies.[citation needed] After the establishment of the United States, slave catchers continued to be employed in addition to being active in other countries which had not abolished slavery, such as Brazil. The activities of slave catchers from the American South became at the center of a major controversy in the lead up to the American Civil War; the Fugitive Slave Act required those living in the Northern United States to assist slave catchers. Slave catchers in the United States ceased to be active with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.
We are not a democracy'
Jeremy McInerney, Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, says the Assembly voted on everything from raising taxes to building the Parthenon.
That made their political culture very different from today's "representative" democracies.
"They didn't delegate it to a group of representatives," McInerney told National Geographic's TV mini-series "The Greeks" (2016).
"If you had a time machine and an Athenian dropped into the US, the Athenian would say 'well, you're not a democracy. You know, you yourself didn't vote on the latest tax increase or Obamacare or anything like that, that was decided for you,'" he said.
Archaeology professor John R. Hale, from the University of Louisville, made similar remarks in the same series.
"We could be a democracy but we're not," he said.
"We like to call ourselves that, [but] we are not a democracy. It's not power to the people, it's power to a chosen set of leaders who the people, yes, have chosen, but then have to put up with once they are in the corrupting position of being in power."
A thought experiment
As a thought experiment, think about Australia's modern economic policies.
Australia's economic policy settings are controlled by a small group of elites drawn from politics and the bureaucracy and 'independent' bodies such as the Reserve Bank.
Since the 1980s, their policy settings have been built around a particular view of the world.
That view of the world, broadly speaking, has focused on the "supply-side" of the economy.
It's considered budget surpluses to be an inherently good thing.
It hasn't prioritised genuine "full employment," settling instead for a level of unemployment that suppresses wage growth and pacifies workers.
It hasn't prioritised eradicating poverty, even though it's within the government's power to lift hundreds of thousands of households out of poverty by increasing social security payments (as the federal government did for a few months last year, during the pandemic, before sending those households back into poverty).
It's accepted a large increase in wealth inequality, and the emergence of a phenomenon called unemployment "scarring" (which refers to the scars left on individuals and communities from long-term unemployment).
It's overseen a situation in which Australian house prices have become some of the most expensive in the world.
The public's had little control over that policy platform.
Keiser Report _ Disorder Will Come _ E1683
Usury is the practice of making unethical or immoral monetary loans that unfairly enrich the lender. The term may be used in a moral sense—condemning, taking advantage of others' misfortunes—or in a legal sense, where an interest rate is charged in excess of the maximum rate that is allowed by law.
Saule Omarova has advocated for ending banking "as we know it" — and she is now in contention to oversee the country's banks.
Late last month, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Omarova, a Cornell University law professor, to be comptroller of the currency. Her nomination is expected to generate fierce opposition from Republicans and could be derailed by just one centrist Democrat's vote.
Omarova was born in Soviet-controlled Kazakhstan and attended Moscow State University on the Lenin Personal Academic Scholarship, graduating in 1989. In a recent paper titled "The People's Ledger: How to Democratize Money and Finance the Economy," Omarova offers a blueprint for "radically reshaping the basic architecture and dynamics of modern finance."
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"Banks, in other words, will not be 'special' anymore," Omarova wrote. "By separating their lending function from their monetary function, the proposed reform will effectively 'end banking,' as we know it."
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, she also raised the idea of a National Investment Authority, a new government bureaucracy that would act directly in financial markets to allocate "both public and private capital" to fight inequality, climate change, and other societal ills.
Remarks Omarova has made on Twitter about the USSR also generated waves following the announcement of her forthcoming nomination.
"Until I came to the US, I couldn't imagine that things like gender pay gap still existed in today's world. Say what you will about old USSR, there was no gender pay gap there. Market doesn't always 'know best,'" she wrote .
- fascinating how centralised the world economy is? Bizarre that the banks have always run the bailouts are run by the Central Bank? Blackrock, Vanguard, Statestreet control $15 trillion USD/~70% of US economy? If the finance sector collapses the whole US economy collapses?
The Western banks enabling big oil to exploit the Arctic _ Counting the Cost
BlackRock - The Company that Owns the World
Laurence Douglas Fink (born November 2, 1952) is an American billionaire businessman. He is the chairman and CEO of BlackRock, an American multinational investment management corporation.[2] BlackRock is the largest money-management firm in the world with more than US$9 trillion in assets under management,[3] giving the firm enormous power over the global financial system.[4] In April 2018, Fink's net worth was estimated at US$1 billion.[1] He sits on the boards of the influential Council on Foreign Relations and World Economic Forum.[5][6]
blackrock bailout
Christian Marth I think you're overestimating the abilities of those at the top? I did research on FAANG, other major companies, and a lot of other successful individuals and companies and they tend to have strong correlation points. If you've ever worked in or researched a variety of companies then you'll come to realise that sometimes there isn't much to separate them in terms of ability but a lot in terms of access to finance. FAANG (and Uber) used access to finance in order to fund their rise in the hopes of scooping up all profits afterwards. Most of them took ~10 years before they could make a profit (Uber and Tesla are obviously still struggling) by pushing down prices via financing and pushing competitors out and finally scooping up profits in the end. The irony here is that technically this model has failed. The US/Western share of global GDP has been reducing steadily over time and US/Western banks were and are still in trouble (from the GFC). Without QE/Central bank aide not only are their banks but also their companies are in trouble and wouldn't be able to complete on the world stage. The reason for this is due to how concentrated their economy is. To put things in perspective Blackrock, Vanguard, Statestreet control $15 trillion USD/~70% of US economy and yet they were also in charge of their own bailouts? https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=blackstone+doc
BlackRock - The Company that Owns the World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n4zkdfKUAE The Western banks enabling big oil to exploit the Arctic _ Counting the Cost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGhRyFOFko0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robber_baron_(industrialist) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robber_baron_(feudalism) http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/09/wikipedia-list-data-scan-pack-random.html http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/02/living-without-google-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-big-5-us-it-firms-arent-unbeatable.html https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/06/05/blackrock-is-bailing-out-its-etfs-with-fed-money-and-taxpayers-eating-losses-its-also-the-sole-manager-for-335-billion-of-federal-employees-retirement-funds/
- politicians only care about share market (which is mostly owned by already wealthy individuals and organisations) and not real economy? Commodities, cryptocurrencies undervalued. Stock market overvalued? Like I said previously, if you consider the current system an evolution of colonialism, slavery, and monarchy it makes a lot of sense how it currently functions. The elite train the general population to serve their needs, take those best trained to serve them into their "corporations" (whose functionality remain remarkebly similar to the colonial era). Much like the Lord/Feudal era the Lords are expected to make the most money (via externalisation/nationalism/regionalism/militarism), this money then goes into social services but for the most part most people are left to fend for themselves? This system runs on money not idealism though so trickle down theory doesn't work and you have a doom loop whereby many wealthy people sort of do what they like and don't really care about the rest of the population? In spite of many countries being called democracies they sort of acts like a one party state/de-facto monarchy and do what they like a lot of the time?
Keiser Report _ China Overtakes the US (Yet Again) _ E1662
Most of Britain's Parliament is not elected... Meet THE LORDS
Fake Fake News Is a Danger to Our Fake Democracy
The Empire Files - Ralph Nader & Abby Martin on the Corporate Elections
Ralph Nader & Abby Martin on Rigged Corporate Elections, Clinton Criminals
Renegade Inc _ Rafe Hubris MA Oxon Tory Party Special Adviser
why I don't help people...(as a millionaire)
Horatio Hornblower - 8-Part Series (HD)
James Bones
Economic Update - U.S. Labor Crisis Deepens
Chris Hedges - Americans face a 'one-choice election'
Leo: Alexander Hamilton didn't think we should have political parties. Neither did John Adams. He thought political parties led to divisiveness.
Following the sleep-out protest, hundreds are expected to participate in a "march on billionaires" that will end at Cuomo's Manhattan office on Friday.
The AOC-sponsored bill is aimed at taxing the unrealized capital gains of the state's 119 billionaires to help make up for some of the state's $13 billion budget shortfall and free up funds to help those most-impacted by the pandemic.
It is just one of three 'Robin Hood' bills to take from the rich and give to the poor to be presented in a rare July sitting of the state legislature on Monday.
Cuomo and his budget director, Robert Mujica, said such measures would drive out the city and the state's wealthy and severely impact the tax base. New York already has among the highest tax rates for the wealthy, with the top two percent of high earners picking up half of the state's tax liability.
Key points:
The G7 nations agreed to back a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15 per cent
Representatives agreed to make companies better declare their environmental impact
Britain's finance minister said the deal was a "huge prize" for taxpayers
- note how many of the former colonies sort of haved retained their status (officially they were de-colonialised. Unofficially, not really?)? Check FOREX rates, asset allocations, and economic setups/layouts of various countries then you realise why the things are the way they are. If I'm right the major countries/Great Powers sort of treat other countries as underlings and use them for cheap labour and resources? That's why when you examine global supply chains poor countries are stuck being poor and work on really basic stuff while developed countries work on more advanced and service type stuff? Like I said previsouly neo-liberalism seems to shift bad stuff into places you don't want while maintaing a "good core"? That's why life expectancy and wealth are good in good in powerful countries
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Ambassador to the UN
The new President of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, named Long the Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the United Nations in Geneva. Long's stint at the head of the diplomatic mission is mostly marked by his leadership of the working group on the elaboration of a treaty on transnational corporations and human rights, a subject on which he is actively involved.[38]
In January 2018, Long resigned from his position in a public letter to Moreno, in which he denounces the new government unconstitutional measures and its betrayal of the ideals and program of the Citizen's Revolution on which the new government was elected.[39]
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The true scale of Britain's involvement in the slave trade has been laid bare in documents revealing how the country's wealthiest families received the modern equivalent of billions of pounds in compensation after slavery was abolished.
The previously unseen records show exactly who received what in payouts from the Government when slave ownership was abolished by Britain – much to the potential embarrassment of their descendants. Dr Nick Draper from University College London, who has studied the compensation papers, says as many as one-fifth of wealthy Victorian Britons derived all or part of their fortunes from the slave economy.
As a result, there are now wealthy families all around the UK still indirectly enjoying the proceeds of slavery where it has been passed on to them. Dr Draper said: "There was a feeding frenzy around the compensation." A John Austin, for instance, owned 415 slaves, and got compensation of £20,511, a sum worth nearly £17m today. And there were many who received far more.
Academics from UCL, including Dr Draper, spent three years drawing together 46,000 records of compensation given to British slave-owners into an internet database to be launched for public use on Wednesday. But he emphasised that the claims set to be unveiled were not just from rich families but included many "very ordinary men and women" and covered the entire spectrum of society.
Dr Draper added that the database's findings may have implications for the "reparations debate". Barbados is currently leading the way in calling for reparations from former colonial powers for the injustices suffered by slaves and their families.
Among those revealed to have benefited from slavery are ancestors of the Prime Minister, David Cameron, former minister Douglas Hogg, authors Graham Greene and George Orwell, poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and the new chairman of the Arts Council, Peter Bazalgette. Other prominent names which feature in the records include scions of one of the nation's oldest banking families, the Barings, and the second Earl of Harewood, Henry Lascelles, an ancestor of the Queen's cousin. Some families used the money to invest in the railways and other aspects of the industrial revolution; others bought or maintained their country houses, and some used the money for philanthropy. George Orwell's great-grandfather, Charles Blair, received £4,442, equal to £3m today, for the 218 slaves he owned.
The British government paid out £20m to compensate some 3,000 families that owned slaves for the loss of their "property" when slave-ownership was abolished in Britain's colonies in 1833. This figure represented a staggering 40 per cent of the Treasury's annual spending budget and, in today's terms, calculated as wage values, equates to around £16.5bn.
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interested in the life span of slaves after they were given a full task. the average age at death was 41.8 years, while of those dying during I890- 19I4 the average age at death was 50.2 years".
Slaves suffered extremely high mortality. Half of all slave infants died during their first year of life, twice the rate of white babies. And while the death rate declined for those who survived their first year, it remained twice the white rate through age 14. As a result of this high infant and childhood death rate, the average life expectancy of a slave at birth was just 21 or 22 years, compared to 40 to 43 years for antebellum whites. Compared to whites, relatively few slaves lived into old age.
A major contributor to the high infant and child death rate was chronic undernourishment. Slaveowners showed surprisingly little concern for slave mothers' health or diet during pregnancy, providing pregnant women with no extra rations and employing them in intensive field work even in the last week before they gave birth. Not surprisingly, slave mothers suffered high rates of spontaneous abortions, stillbirths, and deaths shortly after birth. Half of all slave infants weighed less than 5.5 pounds at birth, or what we would today consider to be severely underweight.
Infants and children were badly malnourished. Most infants were weaned early, within three or four months of birth, and then fed gruel or porridge made of cornmeal. Around the age of three, they began to eat vegetables, soups, potatoes, molasses, grits, hominy, and cornbread. This diet lacked protein, thiamine, niacin, calcium, magnesium, and vitamin D, and as a result, slave children often suffered from night blindness, abdominal swellings, swollen muscles, bowed legs, skin lesions, and convulsions.
how much does a recruiter get paid per hire
A standard, percentage-based recruitment fee is charged to employers, usually 15-30% of a candidate's remuneration package. While you'll often find the average fee sitting around the 15% mark, this is highly dependent on the industry and role.
A recruiter works a search for an automation engineer. The salary for the position is $70,000. As per the agreement that the recruiter has with their client, they will be paid 20% of the candidate's first-year salary. So . . . 20% of $70,000 is $14,000. Once the recruiter places that candidate, their client will send them $14,000. Not right away, though. It usually takes 30, 60, or 90 days.
Thinking about my last 12 months in recruitment, my commission would have averaged out at about 8% of the revenue I generated, which when added to my base salary, meant that I'd have earned, before tax, a total of maybe 25-30% of my revenue.
how much were slave traders paid
Compensated emancipation was a method of ending slavery, under which the enslaved person's owner received compensation in exchange for manumitting them. This could be monetary, or it could be a period of labor, an indenture.[1] Cash compensation rarely was equal to the slave's market value.
An indenture was seen as a compromise between slavery and outright emancipation, an intermediate step. However, a characteristic of compensated emancipation was that no one was very happy with it. Owners complained that their compensation was small compared with their loss; they were paid less, often much less, than what the slaveowner could have sold the enslaved person for (the market value). Governments and non-slaveowning citizens complained about the financial burden of compensating the owners, while for the formerly enslaved it seemed ludicrous that those who had all along benefited from slavery should now receive additional compensation, while its victims received no compensation whatsoever.
To be sure, the indentures system represented for the formerly enslaved an improvement over slavery itself; those indentured could not be forcibly relocated, children and other family members could not be taken away by force, and they could no longer be whipped or raped. However, they were still not free.[1]
Contents
1 Transition away from slavery
1.1 United States
2 Nations and empires that ended slavery through some form of compensated emancipation
3 See also
4 References
Transition away from slavery
Compensated emancipation was typically enacted as part of an act that outlawed slavery outright or established a scheme whereby slavery would eventually be phased out. It frequently was accompanied or preceded by laws which approached gradual emancipation by granting freedom to those born to slaves after a given date. Among the European powers, slavery was primarily an issue with their overseas colonies. The British Empire enacted a policy of compensated emancipation (about 40%[2]) for its colonies in 1833, followed by France in 1848, Denmark, in 1849, and the Netherlands in 1863. Most South American and Caribbean nations emancipated slavery through compensated schemes in the 1850s and 1860s, while Brazil passed a plan for gradual, compensated emancipation in 1871, and Cuba followed in 1880 after having enacted freedom at birth a decade earlier.[1]
United States
In the United States, the regulation of slavery was predominantly a state function. Northern states followed a course of gradual emancipation. During the Civil War, in November 1861, President Lincoln drafted an act to be introduced before the legislature of Delaware, one of the four non-free states that remained loyal (the others being Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri), for compensated emancipation.[3] However this was narrowly defeated. Lincoln also was behind national legislation towards the same end, but the Southern states, which regarded themselves as having seceded from the Union, ignored the proposals.[4][5]
Only in the District of Columbia, which fell under direct Federal auspices, was compensated emancipation enacted. On April 16, 1862, President Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act. This law prohibited slavery in the District, forcing its 900-odd slaveholders to free their slaves, with the federal government paying owners an average of about $300 (equivalent to $8,000 in 2019) for each. In 1863, state legislation towards compensated emancipation in Maryland failed to pass, as did an attempt to include it in a newly written Missouri constitution.[1][6][7][8]
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Discussions about life expectancy often involve how it has improved over time. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, life expectancy for men in 1907 was 45.6 years; by 1957 it rose to 66.4; in 2007 it reached 75.5. Unlike the most recent increase in life expectancy (which was attributable largely to a decline in half of the leading causes of death including heart disease, homicide, and influenza), the increase in life expectancy between 1907 and 2007 was largely due to a decreasing infant mortality rate, which was 9.99 percent in 1907; 2.63 percent in 1957; and 0.68 percent in 2007.
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Again, the high infant mortality rate skews the "life expectancy" dramatically downward. If a couple has two children and one of them dies in childbirth while the other lives to be 90, stating that on average the couple's children lived to be 45 is statistically accurate but meaningless. Claiming a low average age of death due to high infant mortality is not the same as claiming that the average person in that population will die at that age.
Of course, infant mortality is only one of many factors that influence life expectancy, including medicine, crime, and workplace safety. But when it is calculated in, it often creates confusion and myths.
When Socrates died at the age of 70 around 399 B.C., he did not die of old age but instead by execution. It is ironic that ancient Greeks lived into their 70s and older, while more than 2,000 years later modern Americans aren't living much longer.
The age structure of ancient populations is a matter of great interest within anthropology and archaeology. Some think we can draw many conclusions from skeletal samples; others are more cautious in their application of models to the past. But there's no doubt that Romans, Egyptians, and Greeks were dropping dead at age 30, 40, 50 and 60 – at much higher age-specific mortality rates than today. Estimating the overall age profile is difficult and requires models. But testing the "Bad Science" assertion is much easier – if human lifespan had really not changed in 2000 years, then 35-year-olds shouldn't have left their skeletons very often in the Roman catacombs. Unfortunately (for them), we find those 35-year-old bodies. A rough estimate (gleaned from tomb inscriptions that give ages) is that half of Romans who lived to age 15 – and therefore escaped juvenile mortality – were dead before age 45.
That leaves us with one remaining issue – the maximum lifespan. This statistic really hasn't changed very much in the last 50 years – the oldest-living humans in 1960 were between 110 and 115; that's how old the record-holders are today. Only a handful of people have, to our knowledge, ever lived longer.
So in this respect, it may seem reasonable to say that the human lifespan has been fairly constant. But I would challenge even that assertion. For one thing, the maximum lifespan just isn't very relevant to the population. Only a tiny fraction of people today survive to age 100. That maximum lifespan may tell us something about human biological systems, but what really matters to demography are age-specific mortality rates across adulthood – the full range of times when most people die.
More important, we don't have a clue what the maximum lifespan may have been 200, 500, or 2000 years ago. Such a tiny fraction of people make it above age 100 today that we could hardly expect to find any of them at all from skeletal samples. Nor can we expect accurate ages from historical records – Methuseleh, anyone? It seems reasonable to say that the maximum lifespan, at some point in human history, was increased by sedentism, nursing care, stable food availability, and other cultural innovations. With higher infant, juvenile, and adult mortality, even those with perfect genes would be a lot less likely to get the chance to live to extreme ages. But in skeletal terms, at least, the hypothesis may not be testable.
In every way we can measure, human lifespans are longer today than in the immediate past, and longer today than they were 2000 years ago. Infant and juvenile mortality do make a difference – especially if we use "life expectancy at birth" as the statistic – but age-specific mortality rates in adults really have reduced substantially.
That's a good thing!
how did ancient greeks live so long
Contrary to the commonly held belief that in antiquity and as late as 1700 A.D. normal lifespan was about 35 years, there are indications that the ancient Greeks lived longer. In a study of all men of renown, living in the 5th and 4th century in Greece, we identified 83 whose date of birth and death have been recorded with certainty. Their mean +/- SD and median lengths of life were found to be 71.3+/-13.4 and 70 years, respectively. Although this cohort cannot be considered as representative of the general population, it is however indicative of a long length of life in classical Greece. Good living conditions and a mild climate at the time of intellectual and artistic excellence, the use of slaves for hard work, an animated social life in which the aged actively participated and, not least of all, the respect that aged people were accorded by the younger, all favored a longer length of life and eugeria (happy aging) or eulongevity in classical Greece.
The length of life and eugeria in classical Greece
People could very easily reach the age 60–70. Some lived even more. For example Sophocles, an ancient play writer, lived to see himself become 93 years old. People don't know or seem to forget that Ancient Greeks were also pioneers in medical fields, with biggest of them all Hippocrates "Father of Medicine" whose practices are still applied today.
- note that most of the trade flows are geo-politically based? Alliances and trade agreements have a huge impact on how life works out in countries. That's why so much time is spent on negotiating them?
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- in the era of monarchies were a lot easier to understand. The Monarch and Lords would do things which would in some way help themselves and the people. Obviously, not a lot has changed but if measuring the status of affairs was simplified because humans were incapable of travelling great distances. That meant you could tell whether a Monarch or Lord was achieving/serving their duties by the methods through which he achieved. The concept of looting, colonialism on a global level doesn't make sense to me (and probably a lot of people in the modern world) because it seems so distant to what happens now/locally. Why is this important? It's how it fits into the concept of value and money. Any financial analyst will tell you it can be very difficult to know when a asset price is going to move up or down. However, predicting relative movement is easy if you're able to use hybrid and/or normal warfare methods (ransack or destablise a country or region to get what you want cheaply). Notice how external interventions from major powers are always into areas where there are often strategic assets?
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- if co-ercian is critical to global politics then defense/weapons/covert operations crucial? Note how posture, weapons choice, and weapons platforms are closely tailored to/for foreign policy? I always wondered how they were able to predict things in financial markets so easily and accurately time over time. In reality, it's likely they're using co-ercive measures to force a particular outcome in the real world and in financial markets. They double up the gains they make via financial instruments. The cost of weapons must be low to make it work over the long term though which is why expensive weapons platforms (such as F-35 JSF, F-22 Raptor, B-2 Spirit Bomber, etc... are so problematic)? If the US/West doubles down on co-ercian weapons and others can catch them in defensive capability their issues will show up supply chain issues and certain critical financial indicators such as inflation and shortages of goods (much like the USSR). Ironically, if China/India become the world's largest economies and maintain their attitude/don't become lazy/complacent they'll likely stay ahead? You can see that they are almost par with the US/West (maybe even ahead) in military capability in some areas? Note how most national/regional media personalities often perpetuate a particular ideology that's linked to the foreign policy of countries in question? Similar with television/film actors/actresses and their choice of movies sometimes? Active operations or genuinely interested?
Bin Laden's overall strategy for achieving his goals against much larger enemies such as the Soviet Union and United States was to lure them into a long war of attrition in Muslim countries, attracting large numbers of jihadists who would never surrender. He believed this would lead to economic collapse of the enemy countries, by "bleeding" them dry.[84] Al-Qaeda manuals express this strategy. In a 2004 tape broadcast by Al Jazeera, bin Laden spoke of "bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy".[85]
Decolonisation and decline (1945–1997)
Though Britain and the empire emerged victorious from the Second World War, the effects of the conflict were profound, both at home and abroad. Much of Europe, a continent that had dominated the world for several centuries, was in ruins, and host to the armies of the United States and the Soviet Union, who now held the balance of global power.[182] Britain was left essentially bankrupt, with insolvency only averted in 1946 after the negotiation of a $US 4.33 billion loan from the United States,[183] the last installment of which was repaid in 2006.[184] At the same time, anti-colonial movements were on the rise in the colonies of European nations. The situation was complicated further by the increasing Cold War rivalry of the United States and the Soviet Union. In principle, both nations were opposed to European colonialism. In practice, American anti-communism prevailed over anti-imperialism, and therefore the United States supported the continued existence of the British Empire to keep Communist expansion in check.[185] At first British politicians believed it would be possible to maintain Britain's role as a world power at the head of a re-imagined Commonwealth,[186] but by 1960 they were forced to recognise that there was an irresistible "wind of change" blowing. Their priorities changed to maintaining an extensive zone of British influence[187] and ensuring that stable, non-Communist governments were established in former colonies. In this context, while other European powers such as France and Portugal[188] waged costly and unsuccessful wars to keep their empires intact, Britain generally adopted a policy of peaceful disengagement from its colonies. In reality, this was rarely peaceable or altruistic. Between 1945 and 1965, the number of people under British rule outside the UK itself fell from 700 million to 5 million, 3 million of whom were in Hong Kong.[189]
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Speaking on the ABC's AM program, Flanagan said he'd been motivated to write his new book, Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry, because of the "slow destruction" of the environment near his Bruny Island shack from where he had written all of his previous books.
"The spur was that the water started dying, the fish started vanishing, slime and algae started appearing," Flanagan said.
"I thought I would write something about this, just a short article, and then I started talking to scientists, to people in other communities and I discovered one story of horror after another, after another," he said.
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Flanagan said a salmon processor he had spoken to had stressed that the levels of ethoxyquin — a stabiliser used in salmon feed — in Tasmanian salmon were well within the European limits of 150 milligrams per kilogram of feed.
"But what if there are no safe levels and why is this being kept so secret?" he said.
Flanagan also said fish meal was being used less by the industry, and replaced by plant-based and animal product: "Processed industrial chicken."
Flanagan said he wanted to "see this industry survive" but added he believed it to be a "very small employer in Tasmania" with around "1,500 jobs".
"They [producers] should be going to land-based, that's what's happening around the world.
"The industry is very good at silencing its critics and the book details a long history of threats, intimidation and the use of legal ploys such as non-disclosure agreements to silence any criticism escaping," he said.
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In the Perrault version, the girl is surprised to see what her "grandmother" looks like without her clothes. "What big eyes you have!" she cries. "The better to see you with!" the wolf responds. The dialogue continues, with the child remarking upon other body parts until she notes the wolf's big teeth. "What big teeth you have!" she cries. "The better to eat you with!" the wolf responds.
In international politics, gunboat diplomacy (or Big Stick ideology in U.S. history) refers to the pursuit of foreign policy objectives with the aid of conspicuous displays of naval power, implying or constituting a direct threat of warfare should terms not be agreeable to the superior force.
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Si vis pacem, para bellum (Classical Latin: [siː wiːs ˈpaːkẽː ˈpara ˈbɛllũː]) is a Latin adage translated as "If you want peace, prepare for war".
- previously I said it's possible to compete against the style of capitalism that the elite (such as FAANG). In reality, it's a ruthless form of capitalism that leaves gaps but often creates carnage for those that attempt to directly compete against it. If you examine the bad investment list for a lot of the wealthiest people in the world you'll understand that they sometimes don't genuinely understand what they're investing in, understand how they achieved what they did, and that sometimes they use strategies reminescent of or Robber Barons. They take enormous bets to swamp an entire sector and then figure out how to make profits later. The strange thing for me is that our society is completely optimised for neo-liberal capitalism and not many people seems to question for it? Religion obviously has it's screws and people got over it but capitalism seems to be just as flawed?
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- one of the things where I differe with religions is that I don't believe in "spoiling kids" overly and that from the moment that they're born to the moment of their birth and into any potential Afterlife/Ascension they will stay bonded with their parents, family, friends, society, etc... People's judgement are often clouded by inherent character flaws, lack of time, lack of curiosity to pursue further research, experience, pride, etc... I see this same issue/flaw with many parents and in reality I worry that people spoiling their kids means that the cycle of inherent/natural reciprocation is broken? Young toddlers/children and animals will often try to feed, guard, and protect their guardians from a young age. Often these bonds revolve around happy, solid, good, non-coercive relationships. More often such parents, managers, friends, relatives, etc... will be more of their friend and guardian then their teacher and disciplinatarian (though they'll be happy to learn lots of stuff from guardians)? There are obvious accounts of such reciprocation occur between animals and kids. The frustrating and difficult thing is that it's very difficult to rebond people once their initial bond is broken? It's obvious the opposite of what some religions say about selflessness but it helps to ensure a "reciprocation cycle" that hopefully perpetuates itself into life as well and makes you less susceptible to being used. Techniques which seemed to be used similarly in the family, intelligence, corporate, etc... worlds. I don't think people understand their own religions? The intention was/is for people to master their sins (such as greed, lust, gluttony, wrath, etc...)? I think the religions sort of tried to research this as well and I suspect that spirit may refer to the psyche of a person? The religious texts are a record of what they tried (it actually makes more sense that it's just a battle between good and evil and it's just a jumble or truth, lies, mistakes, triumphs, and just random stuff)? They're basically waiting until an individual or group can figure out the rest?
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Weiss says that what's most important to him about this project is what it says about the tradecraft of human intelligence. He says the KGB was masterful at understanding the pressure points, vulnerabilities and vices that went into running spies and agents: "A KGB case officer was a combination of a priest, a therapist, a best friend and also a mortal enemy. He was somebody who was trying to get you to do things that would ultimately destroy yourself whether professionally or personally."
- it feels like almost all of the top people in finance almost always engage in questionable activity (insider trading allegations, dodgy trades, general ethical issues, etc...)? Insider trading really common on Wall St? Bad behaviour supported by capital markets? Money used for bribes to push product in medical. Interesting that their philantropic spending patterns interesting because they're not entirely random? Some thought put into it? Just like trickle-down theory and colonialism/imperialism often a fraction makes it back down once it's gone up?
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Philanthropy
In October 2009, Griffin and his wife founded the Kenneth and Anne Griffin Foundation. The foundation is particularly focused on donations to public schools and libraries.[6]
The Griffins have previously worked with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in the promotion of charter schools in the US.[7] The couple have worked with University of Chicago economics professor John A. List to test whether investment in teachers or in parents produces better student performance outcomes.[67]
At the beginning of 2014, Griffin made a $150 million donation to the financial aid program at Harvard University, his alma mater, the largest single donation ever made to the institution at the time.[68]
In 2014, he was elected to a five-year term on the University of Chicago's board of trustees. He is also a member of a number of organizations including the Economic Club of Chicago, and the civic committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago.[69] Griffin is the vice chairman of the Chicago Public Education Fund.[68]
In November 2017, the Kenneth C. Griffin Charitable Fund announced that it intends to make a new $125 million gift to support the Department of Economics of the University of Chicago, which will be renamed the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics.[70]
Museums
With total donations totalling $21.5 million the Field Museum of Natural History renamed their Griffin funded dinosaur exhibit the Griffin Dinosaur Experience. And opened in the Griffin Halls an exhibit titled Evolving Planet that chronicles the earth's history from its beginnings.[71]
In October 2019, the Kenneth C. Griffin Charitable fund announced a $125 million gift to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, the largest gift in the museum's history.
Arts, poverty, and health
In 2010, Griffin contributed to Chicago Symphony Orchestra's productions at Millennium Park.[6] He supported the University of Chicago's Center for Urban School Improvement, a program encouraging the construction of an inner-city charter high school.[6] That same year, Griffin contributed to the Chicago Children's Memorial Hospital.[72]
In 2017, Griffin contributed $15 million to the Robin Hood Foundation.[73]
In March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 epidemic, Griffin contributed $2.5 million to "the fund to support food services for Chicago Public School families". $1 million of that donation went to CPS and the rest was directed to the Greater Chicago Food Depository.[74]
Philanthropy
Cohen serves on the board of trustees of the New York-based Robin Hood Foundation.[46]
Via the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation, the Cohens have donated to projects involved in health, education, arts and culture, and the New York community.[47] In 2014, the Cohen Foundation provided funding, via the New York University Langone Center, for the study of post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury.[48] The foundation gave a grant in excess of $100,000 to the Bruce Museum of Arts and Science in 2014.[49] In 2019, the foundation contributed $50 million of the more than $400 million raised for the New York Museum of Modern Art. The museum announced in 2017 that MoMA's largest contiguous gallery will be called the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions. Cohen is on the board of the MoMa and LA MOCA.[50]
In April 2016, Cohen announced the creation and a commitment of $275 million to the Cohen Veterans Network.[51] The CVN's goal is to establish mental health centers for veterans and their families throughout the U.S.[51] The goal is the establishment of 20-25 centers by 2020.[51]
Cohen Veterans Bioscience, also funded by Cohen, conducts research into the effects of posttraumatic stress disorder on combat veterans.[51]
Philanthropy
In May 2019, she signed the Giving Pledge, a charitable giving campaign in which she willingly committed to give away most of her wealth to charity over her lifetime or in her will, though her pledge is legally non-binding.[28]
In a July 2020 Medium post, Scott announced she had donated $1.7 billion to 116 non-profit organizations, with a focus on racial equality, LGBTQ+ equality, democracy, and climate change.[29] Her gifts to HBCUs, Hispanic-serving institutions, Tribal colleges and universities and other colleges surpass $800 million.[30][31]
In December 2020, less than six months later, Scott stated that she had donated a further $4.15 billion in the previous four months to 384 organizations, with a focus on providing support to people affected by the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and addressing long-term systemic inequities.[32] She noted that after July, she wanted her advisory team to give her wealth away faster as the United States struggled with the unprecedented impact of COVID-19 while billionaires' wealth continued to climb. Her team's focus was on "identifying organizations with strong leadership teams and results, with special attention to those operating in communities facing high projected food insecurity, high measures of racial inequity, high local poverty rates, and low access to philanthropic capital."[33]
Altogether, her 2020 charitable giving totalled $5.8 billion, one of the biggest annual distributions by a private individual to working charities.[34][6]
Philanthropy
Bezos funded the retrieval of these F-1 engine parts from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in 2015, eventually donating them to the Seattle Museum of Flight. They are from Apollo 16 (above) and Apollo 12 (below).
Bezos donated to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center several times between 2009 and 2017.[258] In 2013, he pledged $500,000 to Worldreader, a non-profit founded by a former Amazon employee.[259]
In September 2018, Business Insider reported that Bezos was the only one of the top five billionaires in the world who had not signed the Giving Pledge, an initiative created by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett that encourages wealthy people to give away a majority of their wealth.[260] That same month, Janet Camarena, director of transparency initiatives at Foundation Center, was quoted by CNBC as having questions about Bezos's new fund, including the fund's structure and how exactly it will be funded.[261]
In May 2017, Bezos gave $1 million to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, which provides pro bono legal services for American journalists.[262] On June 15, 2017, he posted a message on Twitter asking for ideas for philanthropy: "I'm thinking about a philanthropy strategy that is the opposite of how I mostly spend my time—working on the long term".[26] At the time of the post, Bezos's lifetime spending on charitable causes was estimated to be $100 million.[26] Multiple opinion columnists responded by asking Bezos to pay higher wages to Amazon warehouse workers.[263][264] A year later in June, he tweeted that he would announce two philanthropic foci by the end of summer 2018.[265] Bezos announced in September 2018 that he would commit approximately $2 billion to a fund to deal with American homelessness and establish a network of non-profit preschools for low income communities.[266] As part of this announcement, he committed to establishing the "Day 1 Families Fund" to finance "night shelters and day care centers for homeless families" and the "Day 1 Academies Fund" for early childhood education.[267][268]
In January 2018, Bezos made a $33 million donation to TheDream.US, a college scholarship fund for undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as minors.[269] In June 2018, Bezos donated to Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a private philanthropic fund founded by Bill Gates aimed at promoting emissions-free energy.[270] In September 2018, Bezos donated $10 million to With Honor, a nonpartisan organization that works to increase the number of veterans in political office.[271]
In February 2020, Bezos pledged $10 billion to combat climate change through the Bezos Earth Fund.[272][273][274] Bezos also donated $100 million to food banks through Feeding America during the COVID-19 pandemic.[12][275][276]
Philanthropy
In May 2019, she signed the Giving Pledge, a charitable giving campaign in which she willingly committed to give away most of her wealth to charity over her lifetime or in her will, though her pledge is legally non-binding.[28]
In a July 2020 Medium post, Scott announced she had donated $1.7 billion to 116 non-profit organizations, with a focus on racial equality, LGBTQ+ equality, democracy, and climate change.[29] Her gifts to HBCUs, Hispanic-serving institutions, Tribal colleges and universities and other colleges surpass $800 million.[30][31]
In December 2020, less than six months later, Scott stated that she had donated a further $4.15 billion in the previous four months to 384 organizations, with a focus on providing support to people affected by the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and addressing long-term systemic inequities.[32] She noted that after July, she wanted her advisory team to give her wealth away faster as the United States struggled with the unprecedented impact of COVID-19 while billionaires' wealth continued to climb. Her team's focus was on "identifying organizations with strong leadership teams and results, with special attention to those operating in communities facing high projected food insecurity, high measures of racial inequity, high local poverty rates, and low access to philanthropic capital."[33]
Altogether, her 2020 charitable giving totalled $5.8 billion, one of the biggest annual distributions by a private individual to working charities.[34][6]
Wealth and philanthropy
Further information on George Soros's philanthropy: List of projects supported by George Soros
As of March 2020, Forbes magazine listed Soros as the 162nd richest person in the world, with a net worth of $8.3 billion.[276] He has also donated 64% of his original fortune, making him the most generous giver (when measured as a percentage of net worth), and distributed more than $15 billion through his Open Society Foundations (an international grantmaking network that supports advancing justice, education, public health and independent media).[15]
Soros has been active as a philanthropist since the 1970s, when he began providing funds to help black students attend the University of Cape Town in apartheid South Africa,[118] and began funding dissident movements behind the Iron Curtain.
Soros's philanthropic funding includes efforts to promote non-violent democratization in the post-Soviet states. These efforts, mostly in Central and Eastern Europe, occur primarily through the Open Society Foundations (originally Open Society Institute or OSI) and national Soros Foundations, which sometimes go under other names (such as the Stefan Batory Foundation in Poland). As of 2003, PBS estimated that he had given away a total of $4 billion.[84] The OSI says it has spent about $500 million annually in recent years.
In 2003, former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker wrote in the foreword of Soros's book The Alchemy of Finance:
George Soros has made his mark as an enormously successful speculator, wise enough to largely withdraw when still way ahead of the game. The bulk of his enormous winnings is now devoted to encouraging transitional and emerging nations to become "open societies", open not only in the sense of freedom of commerce but—more important—tolerant of new ideas and different modes of thinking and behavior.[277]
Time magazine in 2007 cited two specific projects—$100 million toward Internet infrastructure for regional Russian universities, and $50 million for the Millennium Promise to eradicate extreme poverty in Africa—noting that Soros had given $742 million to projects in the U.S., and given away a total of more than $7 billion.[278]
Other notable projects have included aid to scientists and universities throughout central and eastern Europe, help to civilians during the siege of Sarajevo, and Transparency International. Soros also pledged an endowment of €420 million to the Central European University (CEU).
According to National Review Online[279] the Open Society Institute gave $20,000 in September 2002 to the Defense Committee of Lynne Stewart, the lawyer who has defended controversial, poor, and often unpopular defendants in court and was sentenced to 2 years in prison for "providing material support for a terrorist conspiracy" via a press conference for a client. An OSI spokeswoman said "it appeared to us at that time that there was a right-to-counsel issue worthy of our support" but claimed later requests for support were declined.[citation needed]
In September 2006, Soros pledged $50 million to the Millennium Promise, led by economist Jeffrey Sachs to provide educational, agricultural, and medical aid to help villages in Africa enduring poverty. The New York Times termed this endeavor a "departure" for Soros whose philanthropic focus had been on fostering democracy and good government, but Soros noted that most poverty resulted from bad governance.[280]
Soros played a role in the peaceful transition from communism to democracy in Hungary (1984–89)[23] and provided a substantial endowment to Central European University in Budapest.[281] The Open Society Foundations has active programs in more than 60 countries around the world with total expenditures currently averaging approximately $600 million a year.[3][282]
On October 17, 2017, it was announced that Soros had transferred $18 billion to the Open Society Foundations.[283]
In October 2018, Soros donated $2 million to the Wikimedia Foundation via the Wikimedia Endowment program.[284]
In July 2020, Soros's Foundations announced plans to give $220 million in grants for racial justice groups, criminal justice reform and civic engagement.[285]
- in the past, slaves were stopped from getting an education. Now most people receive a bad education that doesn't really prepare or serve them beyond being good servants to corporations that make money? It's indoctrination gone mad (is Don, is Good style education?) and doesn't really serve individuals or groups well? I'd prefer at focus on developing genuine spiritual/religous polymaths like yesteryear. With the heart of Jesus, Buddha, Muhummad, etc... and the mind of Newton, Einstein, Galileo, etc... it's more likely that societies problems will be fixed successfully in an honest way, be able to see through traps, and it's far less likely that people will be "left behind". They'll likely know where to look for those in trouble then needing to be told to look. Even if it is still in a capitalist setting assett allocation will at least be better (even the best traders only admit that they're hitting ~50% at best?). If they're doing mass surveillance already they can run a program such as my Wikipedia List Scanner script to look for potential candidates? Lot of people too focused on the KPIs, GDPs rather then focusing on end results? Ironic that a lot of the anti-Soviet era arguments against communist Apparatchiks are being thrown against capitalism/neo-liberalism now?
The Empire Files - Ralph Nader & Abby Martin on the Corporate Elections
Ralph Nader & Abby Martin on Rigged Corporate Elections, Clinton Criminals
On the Asian stereotype of Asian parents wanting their kids to be doctors
Shit Asian Dads Say
Shit Asian Moms Say
When Your Mom Asks If You Stupid Or What?
ban slaves from writing
In April 1831, Virginia declared that any meetings to teach free African Americans to read or write was illegal. New codes also outlawed teaching enslaved people.
Why were slaves not allowed to read or write?
DINSMORE DOCUMENTATION, CLASSICS ON AMERICAN SLAVERY. Fearing that black literacy would prove a threat to the slave system -- which relied on slaves' dependence on masters -- whites in many colonies instituted laws forbidding slaves to learn to read or write and making it a crime for others to teach them.
Is Don Is Good ad
Is Don Is Good 'Mild'
Don Strassburg (Australian ad) 1991
Is Don is Good: AFL-themed Ad (1999)
Good Will Hunting - Genius builds bridges but envious professor burns bridges.
best scene in any movie ever in this history of the world
Good Will Hunting | 'My Boy's Wicked Smart' (HD) - Matt Damon, Ben Affleck | MIRAMAX
Was college worth it?
Dropouts And Graduates: Is College Worth It? | Middle Ground
Why Hedge Funds are the Ultimate Talent Business (w_ Dr. Gio Valiante)
Renegade Inc _ Competition Is Killing Us
Renegade Inc _ Rafe Hubris MA Oxon Tory Party Special Adviser
sanna marin polling
Democratic Prime Minister Sanna Marin, who took office 18 months ago shortly before the pandemic and whose party is behind in the polls.
jacinda ardern polling
obama naive
Makers v Takers
poker on wall st
What this Millionaire Thinks of Poverty Will Make Your Blood Boil | Heroes & Villains
The people living on the street suffer from serious addiction, this person said. "During the first point in time count [census of homeless population] in 2007, one-third had a disability, mental illness, or addiction, while last time, it was over two-thirds. The population fundamentally changed, whether from the drugs, or the time on the street. It doesn't matter because a lot of the problems on the street are drugs-related. Neither San Francisco nor any other municipality can solve the housing policy without changing federal policy."
An apparatchik was a full-time, professional functionary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union or the Soviet government apparat, someone who held any position of bureaucratic or political responsibility, with the exception of the higher ranks of management called nomenklatura.
COrrupt management teams
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The challenges
Incompetent managers all they focus on is Stats
Cutting red tape in agriculture - Hon. Christian Porter MP
joseph stiglitz gdp is a bad way to measure progress
The Usual Suspects (7/10) Movie CLIP - Keyser Soze (1995) HD
- conflicts of interest everywhere. The Royal Court effect and the style of people being promoted means that they're more susecptible to this type of behaviour?
[In 2010 BAE Systems, a military equipment producer, was taken to court regarding] a relatively small accounting offence admitted by BAE in relation to one contract in one country – a £28m radar deal in Tanzania in 2002.
A judge has declared he was "astonished" at claims that BAE Systems, Britain's biggest arms firm, had not acted corruptly when its executives made illicit payments to land an export contract.
Mr Justice Bean said it was "naive in the extreme" to believe that a "shady" middleman who handed out the covert payments was simply a well-paid lobbyist.
The judge concluded that BAE had concealed the payments so that the middleman had free rein to give them "to such people as he thought fit" to secure the contract for the company. BAE did not want to know the details, he added.
Corruption allegations have swirled around the overpriced radar deal since it was signed in 2001, with former Labour [government] minister Clare Short saying: "It was always obvious that this useless project was corrupt."
(Source: Adapted from Evans and Leigh, 2010)
Major General Ibrahim Nasser Al Alawi, commander of the UAE Air Force and Air Defence, said in a statement on state news agency WAM late on Saturday that the Rafale jets would replace the UAE's French-built Mirage 2000 fleet.
"This deal is not considered as an alternative for the forthcoming F-35 deal, it is rather a complementary deal … as we develop our air force capabilities," Alawi said, adding the UAE had for some time been looking to replace its Mirage fleet.
The sale of 50 F-35 warplanes made by Lockheed Martin to the UAE has slowed amid concerns in Washington over Abu Dhabi's relationship with China, including use of Huawei 5G technology in the country.
Last month, a U.S. official said the United States intends to move forward with the sale but that there must be a clear understanding of "Emirati obligations."
The United States under then-President Donald Trump agreed to sell the jets after the UAE last year established ties with Israel. President Joe Biden's administration has said this year it would proceed with the sale.
average net worth politician
why are congressmen wealthy
They get their money from all over the place.
Darrell Issa made his money through managing his company, but he has since moved most of his wealth into the bond market. Others, like Senator Jay Rockefeller and Representative Joseph Kennedy III, are heirs to significant family fortunes. California Representative Gary Miller's real-estate portfolio accounts for 94 percent of his wealth. McCaul's wealth is entirely connected to his wife's family fortune—he does not have a single asset listed in his name in his financial disclosure. Senators John McCain and Claire McCaskill also draw more than 94 percent of their wealth from spouse-owned assets.
Congressional wealth comes from many different places, but one thing links it together: These lawmakers, unlike most of their constituents, do not draw the bulk of their income from a paycheck. In 2010, more than 150 lawmakers reported earning more from outside investments than from the congressional salary, which for a rank-and-file House or Senate member is $174,000. (In 2012, the median U.S. household income was $51,017, and the median household net worth was $56,335.) That discrepancy between the public and lawmakers may distort the congressional debate on topics like the capital-gains tax and the mortgage-interest deduction, which affect members more than they do most of their constituents.
It's a bipartisan, mostly male, and heavily white bunch.
Some members of Congress have attempted to address the gender pay gap, or the fact that, according to Pew Research Center, women earn 84 percent as much as their male counterparts. In Congress's rich club, men and women are represented proportionately, as women make up nine of the top 50—similar to the 18.8 percent of Congress they comprise, a record high.
Of the top 50, 20 are Democrats and 30 are Republicans, although Democrats occupy spots 3 through 11. (Sometimes portrayed as the party of the rich, Republicans actually represent districts with less income inequality than do Democrats, largely because Democrats do better in urban areas.)
If the party breakdown is relatively even, the race breakdown is anything but. This Congress, the most diverse in history, is 82 percent white. All of the 50 wealthiest lawmakers are white. Unfortunately, even in a club of top earners like this, one might expect elected black men and women to lag behind whites: For every dollar owned by a white household in the U.S., black households own around a nickel.
Americans may not have much faith in their representatives, but you can say this for them: The people Americans elect are pretty good at choosing what to do with their own money. Investments range from the mundane (Johnny Isakson, Bank of America) to the trendy (Jared Polis, Uber) to the wacky (Alan Grayson, memorabilia authentication). Who will top next year's list? It's too soon to tell, but Darrell Issa has a commanding lead. And as any member can tell you, incumbency is a powerful advantage.
Making money in Congress
Once a candidate actually makes it into Congress, he's presented with new opportunities to increase his wealth -- some that are unmatched in the corporate world.
There are some ethics restrictions in place that limit the income congressional members can take in; for instance, they're not allowed to take in outside income (from sources like speaking fees) that amounts to more than 15 percent of their salary (the base pay for a member of Congress is $174,000).
And like everyone else, members of Congress are subject to current insider trading laws. However, current insider trading laws do not apply to nonpublic information about current or upcoming congressional activity -- that's because members of Congress aren't technically obligated to keep that information confidential.
Congressmen can get away with "the type of insider trading that would send Martha Stewart to prison," Holman said. "They go into hearings and confidential meetings with business interests, understanding new legislation is going to come out next week," and are free to trade on that information.
So, for instance, if a lawmaker learns an upcoming bill will grant a company a large government contract, which could boost that company's stock, he or she is free to buy that stock ahead of the bill's public introduction.
A report released last month by four universities found that on average, stock portfolios held by House members from 1985 to 2001 beat the market average by approximately 6 percent annually. In 2004, the same group of professors found that the average stock portfolios held by members of the Senate beat the market average by about 10 percent.
Officially, House ethics rules say it would "impractical or unreasonable" to ask members of Congress to divest from industries over which they have jurisdiction, in part because a congressman may have been elected to represent a "common interest" he shares with his constituents. Thus, the rules say, if asked to divest in that industry, the member of Congress may be "ineffective in representing the real interests of the constituents."
House ethics rules dictate that a lawmaker should "never use any information coming to him confidentially in the performance of governmental duties as a means for making a private profit." House rules, however, are only enforced on an internal basis, and breaches of the rules are often lightly punished, if at all.
- elites often don't think as deeply and often aren't as smart as they think are (I also found the converse was also true. So called dumb kids often don't realise they're capable of far more then they realise)? If you dig down deeply into what they're saying there are often holes everywhere. They're often more concerned about winning arguments then they are about finding solutions and you can see how this flaw pans out later in life. They're very limited in what they can do given the toolset that they've been provided. Even the so called best and brightest amongst people like this admit this although way too late... They believe that they're elite but are often minions
Despicable Me Mini Movie BANANA
Minions Banana Song Full Song)
Minion- ''Banana''
inexperienced politicians list
- it's a pity genuine contests between systems have never been really been fair. The USSR had 1/4 GDP of US when the Cold War started. Wonder what life in many countries would be like if they were allowed to develop on their own terms? Unfortunately, ideology and national pride precludes that? Pick any company or entity, it's really interesting what their spending breakdown is? Cheaper to take care of people then not? It doesn't matter where the debate/country is held the talking points behind wealhy inequality are fascinating? Is it more efficient to make money and give away or to simply pay taxes?
Should Billionaires be Taxed out of Existence
Yanis Varoufakis - Capitalist Nations Bailed Out Banks While Skimping on Funds to Vaccinate Humanit
IN FULL: Paul Keating addresses National Press Club of Australia
Slavoj Zizek on Liberalism's Failure, Capitalism Restricting Freedom, & US' Ideological Civil War
Chile's 9_11 - The Augusto Pinochet Coup- How The USA Brought Neoliberal Fascism To Chile
Tribal People Rate British Snacks
Tribal People React to Mr Bean for the first time
Tribal People Try Fried Fish Fillet
Rohingya Cultural Memory Centre
David Rockefeller's Sixth Heart Transplant Successful at Age 99?
Billionaire David Rockefeller did not receive multiple heart transplants, including one performed just before he reached the century mark.
Ten Years Ago - Defense Spending [10th Anniversary of Economic Update with Richard Wolff]
Here's proof Wall Street owns US politicians (FULL SHOW)
Open Source model allows you opportunities
Open up the game for prospective kids to understand government. Make sure they're not as green going in?
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Major Melbourne councils have been slammed as "out of touch" for spending more than half their revenue on staff salaries and ignoring essential services like roads, parks and footpaths.
A 9News budget analysis of 27 major councils has revealed Moonee Valley is spending the most on staffing costs: 52 per cent of its revenue went towards employees.
By comparison, just 4 per cent of revenue was used for roads and 2 per cent for parks.
- the moves that are currently at play and asset allocations make more sense? The US is a "classic empire" which means it takes more then it gives. That's why it's share of global GDP has collapsed over time and on a consistent basis (from 40% to 24% at the end of WWII to now). The Chinese (I suspect it's not just them) have raised the issue of a potential Bancor which means that tracing the fairness of state of the world may be easier. Despite my lack of belief in using GDP as a measure of societal progress it's obvious that the disjoint nature/disparity between population and GDP is what many people are getting at when they're not keen on US/Western foreign policy? This can result in awkward meetings, antipathy, hatred, covert action, etc?
united states share of global gdp trend
global share of gdp by country
global share of population by country
global share of gdp ppp by country
bancor
The bancor was a supranational currency that John Maynard Keynes and E. F. Schumacher[1] conceptualised in the years 1940–1942 and which the United Kingdom proposed to introduce after World War II. The name was inspired by the French banque or ('bank gold').[2] This newly created supranational currency would then be used in international trade as a unit of account within a multilateral clearing system—the International Clearing Union—which would also have to be founded.
- people at the top know that the system is flawed but they go along with it anyhow? Intellectually boxed? The numbers make it difficult to gain a better picture of what's going on? The models often don't make sense? Why support inflation over full employment?
Free Julian Assange - Snowden, Varoufakis, Corbyn & Tariq Ali Speak Out Ahead of Extradition Hearing
Economic Update - Cornel West on 'Black Prophetic Fire'
Death of a statesman and Assange's moment of truth _ Planet America
Anti-Capitalist Chronicles, Part 1
Anti-Capitalist Chronicles - How Are We 'Ruled by Abstractions'
Anti-Capitalist Chronicles - The Primary Abstractions of Capital
Capitalism is Ruled By The System's Own Abstractions- David Harvey
- most countries have mechanisms to keep resource consumption in growth. Wouldn't be surprised if religion, fashion/fads (thin girls are presented as desireable. Intresting juxtaposition is that larger girls were previously more attractive), etc... were part of this? In reality, we've had these systems/policies in place for many years...
war effort rationing
Did rationing support the war effort?
Rationing was not only one of those ways, but it was a way Americans contributed to the war effort. ... Supplies such as gasoline, butter, sugar and canned milk were rationed because they needed to be diverted to the war effort. War also disrupted trade, limiting the availability of some goods.
What is war rationing?
War ration books and tokens were issued to each American family, dictating how much gasoline, tires, sugar, meat, silk, shoes, nylon and other items any one person could buy. View a listing of all rationed items. Across the country 8000 rationing boards were created to administer these restrictions.
- the transition from slave music into modern hip hop, RnB, etc... is really obvious?
what did slaves sing about
Singing in Slavery: Songs of Survival, Songs of Freedom
African American Spirituals
Songs in Slave Society
Overview:
The music of slavery refutes two common assumptions: first, that the Middle Passage stripped slaves of their African traditions; and second, that slaves were so powerless that they had little influence on American culture at large.
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Also, as in Africa, slaves used music for a wide variety of purposes. Music was incorporated into religious ceremonies and celebrations. It helped coordinate work. And music was used to comment on slave masters.
Slave music took diverse forms. Although the Negro spirituals are the best known form of slave music, in fact secular music was as common as sacred music. There were field hollers, sung by individuals, work songs, sung by groups of laborers, and satirical songs. Interestingly, there are no pre-Civil War references to narrative songs among slaves, suggesting that the blues ballad was a post-Civil War innovation.
Above all, there was a rich religious music. Shouts fused dance, percussion, and song and might last for hours. Singers formed a ring around which they shuffled. But it was the "sorrow songs" that were the most influential form of musical expression under slavery. Some slave songs were joyous and exuberant. Others were sorrowful. All were deeply expressive. Frederick Douglass would observe:
I have often been utterly astonished, since I came to the north, to find persons who could speak of the singing among slaves, as evidence of their contentment and happiness. It is impossible to conceive of a greater mistake. Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart… At least, such is my experience.
Northern whites were largely unaware of the sorrow songs before the Civil War. But early in the war, after the Union army had captured some areas in Virginia and off the South Carolina coast, Northerners had a chance to hear this songs first-hand. In 1861, the Reverend Lewis C. Lockwood, who was in Fortress Monroe, Virginia, described one of the sorrow songs:
They have a prime deliverance melody, that runs in this style, 'Go down to Egypt—Tell Pharaoh/Thus saith my servant, Moses--/Let my people go.' Accent on the last syllable, with repetition of the chorus, that seems every hour to ring like a warning note to the ear of despotism.
- same effective banking for thousands of years? The conspiracy theorists regarding the financial system are really interesting. If you understand how the whole system works, it's really interesting to see why some groups get locked into position in spite of the system being called "free market capitalism", etc... The way people get filtered into position, how they're educated, what they actually do, etc... Moreover, when people actually have savings they store store money at the bank and people at the bank are generally better paid and able to use the money at the bank to reinvest then it's easy to see why the top just get even wealthier? Not certain how many of the elite know how the system fits together? Even if there was there was an "evil genius" of some sort behind all of this (and you hate him) you have to sort of semi-congratulate him at times?
Renegade Inc _ Medici Money
bank history
do homeless people have bank accounts
In a US bank, you need at minimum a state issued ID card and a Social Security card. Most homeless people don't have either one, and without proof of address, you will not be able to get a state ID. ... There are no free bank accounts available to the poor.
who owns banks
Fractional-reserve banking, the most common form of banking practiced by commercial banks worldwide,[1][2] involves banks accepting deposits from customers and making loans to borrowers while holding in reserve an amount equal to only a fraction of the bank's deposit liabilities.[3] Bank reserves are held as cash in the bank or as balances in the bank's account at a central bank. The country's central bank determines the minimum amount that banks must hold in liquid assets, called the "reserve requirement" or "reserve ratio". Banks usually hold more than this minimum amount, keeping excess reserves.[citation needed]
Where are the Rothschilds today? Now in its seventh generation, their European banking business remains intact. By design, nobody really knows how much the family is worth. As the Financial Times has put it, "The family empire is divided among a web of descendants and a few external shareholders. The ownership structure is opaque, which makes it hard to estimate the family wealth, although it is one of the richest in the world." That 2004 Independent piece cites "industry insiders" estimating the Rothschild kitty as countable "not in billions but in trillions." So basically the family continues to do what it's always done best, which is to make money hand over fist, and that's probably the long and short of it. Greed's a pretty ecumenical value.
giabo
GIABO: The Global Insurrection against banker occupation. People taking back their freedom through non participation in the FIAT monetary experiment which is Failing. See Keynesian economics.
GIABO is: The 99% of humanity who are being suppressed by the Elite Global Money Changers (Bankers). Movements: "End The Fed" and "Occupy Wall Street" circa October 2011
what do banks do
Looking after your money, lending money and helping you pay for things are the main ways that people use banks in their daily lives. Banks do other things too. Most investment banks, for example, trade shares, foreign currencies and commodities (like oil or gold) in financial markets on behalf of their clients.
who do us banks loan to
Banking in the United States began in the late 1790s along with the country's founding and has developed into highly influential and complex system of banking and financial services. Anchored by New York City and Wall Street, it is centered on various financial services namely private banking, asset management, and deposit security.
The beginnings of the banking industry can be traced to 1790 when the Bank of Pennsylvania was founded to fund the American Revolutionary War. After merchants in the Thirteen Colonies needed a currency as a medium of exchange, the Bank of North America was opened to facilitate more advanced financial transactions.
As of 2018, the largest banks the United States were JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, and Goldman Sachs. It is estimated that banking assets were equal to 56 percent of the U.S. economy. As of December 31, 2019, there were 5,177 commercial banks and savings institutions in the U.S.[1]
Assets and Liabilities of Commercial Banks in the United States - H.8
who owns african banks
- people will put up with wealth/power as long as they're popular or they're perception has been changed, the elite have become better at manipulating people into accepting the situation as is, the elite have better hidden/obfuscated what they've done, etc?
Prof Wolff's Critique of Obscene Wealth - Economic Update
Across Europe, there are many royal families who have occupied the throne for hundreds of years.
While they don't often receive as much attention in Australia as the British royals do, the key players are some of the most fascinating — and stylish — royals on the world stage.
From Denmark to Spain, to the Netherlands and Sweden, here's a guide to who will be next in line to the throne in a region where monarchies dominate over republics.
Monaco
Denmark
Spain
The Netherlands
Sweden
Norway
Belgium
Renegade Inc _ The Social Distance Between Us
Let's put them out of their self-induced misery, and use the removal of their birthright to be our heads of state to really build back a better Britain – one that's more democratic, fairer and more equal.
It's time to get rid of the royal family. I'm not calling for a Bolshevik-style solution – no one wants to see Prince Charles in a basement in his night dress, but what's needed is a real solution to the problem of the British class system. It cannot be solved or even seriously challenged unless the strata of aristocracy at the very top of it is gone.
I am in favour of completely defunding them, and stopping the drain on us taxpayers to fund their lavish lifestyles. I mean they've got 26 homes – castles, palaces, estates – and vast tracts of land they call their own, but which are ours really. Does anyone really think the recently announced plan by Prince Tired-Of-Waiting-To-Be-King, aka Charles, Prince of Wales, to open up royal residences like Buckingham Palace, Kensington Palace, Windsor Castle, Balmoral, etcetera, from 'private spaces to public places', is about altruism and reform? Blah, it's a simple make-more-money scheme – he's going to charge us £60 a head for the privilege of visiting buildings we already own. The brazen Prince of Plunder, anyone?
- US leadership is strange? There's always carrot/sticks everywhere? If you don't buy their weapons countries are sanctioned. The banks are a proxy. The responsible arbiter and allocator for capital? US/West allowed to subsidise their own industries but other countries aren't? That's why system seems rigged for US/West for other countries?
11_4 What is Neoliberalism Primer
Alexander Cockburn On Thomas Friedman, Neoliberalism & NAFTA (TMBS 109)
Bad - Buttigieg Admits Neoliberalism Is A Problem, But He Doesn't Have Any Solutions (TMBS 107)
Debunk - Ben Burgis Debates Neoliberalism (TMBS 113)
Debunk - Vox Can't Define Neoliberalism or Be Honest About Obama Admin's Failures ft. Ben Burgis
How Pseudo Woke Neoliberalism Undermines Movements ft. Brandon Sutton (TMBS 91)
We Are Living Through Neoliberalism's Chernobyl (TMBS 131)
Keiser Report _ Quantitative Hardening _ E1524
What Was The Soviet Union ft. Richard Wolff (TMBS 114)
Pepe Escobar's Multi-Polar World Aventure
- the lower classes have always been forced into high risk, low wage, low probability jobs? There are often in a trap between welfare and low income jobs is that there is no point in working? Education are economically related? Lack of opportunities down low while there are too many at the top? No jobs in particular areas (such as Port Kembler) Community programs/experiences are only options for food and social contact. Chinese/USSR model of life making more sense now? Centralised control/management (when used well) can force change (and even good things) to happen when market forces aren't working so well. Technically, regulators/governments are supposed to step in when/if there is a problem but they're not functioning in the way they're supposed to?
criminal record income level correlation
Does crime increase with income?
Various studies conducted have revealed that there exists a direct relationship between income and crime. In the World Bank economists study, it was found that the crime rates and income inequality are positively correlated.
What is the correlation between poverty and crime?
Poverty and crime often occur simultaneously. However, analyses show that crime is not driven by poverty alone, but rather by inequality. Countries with high overall levels of poverty do not necessarily have higher levels of crime.
Several academics have pointed out that Work for the Dole is the embodiment of a paradigm shift in which welfare support is no longer being considered a "right", but rather "conditional support" in which unemployed people are expected to undertake their "mutual obligation". Shaver suggests this violates the assumption that all citizens are equal in the status, dignity and worth that are necessary for full participation in democratic society.[15]
Subsequent studies have investigated the impact of Work for the Dole in Australian society and found that because it compels or contracts individuals to contribute, it "may actually weaken their long-term commitment to society",[16] while another has suggested it may be discriminatory because it was found to benefit men but not women.[17] A 2013 examination of Department of Employment data revealed the program is one of the least effective ways to help people find jobs.[18] Work for the Dole has also been criticised by the Australian Council for Social Services. The Australian Greens do not support the program, describing it as cruel and punitive.[19]
In 2015, ahead of reforms to the scheme which were implemented in July, Prime Minister Tony Abbott was criticised by sections of the media and other politicians for characterising the Work for the Dole scheme as an opportunity for employers to "try before they buy".[20]
The 2016 ANU's Social Research Centre review found that 2% of participants had gained employment since the latest iteration of the scheme was implemented.[11][12] The Welfare Rights Centre and the Australian Council of Social Service both responded that the scheme was expensive and failed to deliver value for money.[21]
footballer salary by country of origin
how much to watch gladiator battles ancient rome
how much did a gladiator cost in ancient rome
Your estimated value as a gladiator
Imperial decree has divided the Gladiator Games into four classes (based on expense) and set the maximum prices that the editor financing the games must pay to reimburse the lanista for any of his gladiators killed in the arena (from Class 8 beginner, up to Class 1 champion) as follows:
I. Spectacular, 200,000 sestertii or more. Class 1 (15,000), 2 (12,000), 3 (9,000), 4 (7,000), 5 (6,000) gladiator cost.
II. Magnificent, up to 150,000 sestertii. Class 2 (12,000), 3 (10,000), 4 (8,000), 5 (6,000), 6 (5,000) gladiator cost.
III. Good, up to 100,000 sestertii. Class 4 (8,000), 5 (6,000), 6 (5,000) gladiator cost.
IV. Cheap, up to 60,000 sestertii. Class 6 (5,000), 7 (4,000), 8 (3,000) gladiator cost.
The slave-gladiators get paid 20% of their appearance fee, and the auctoratii (if you have any sense) should have negotiated for more. Remember, about half of all gladiators get killed in their first year, so you have 50-50 odds. Not bad.
- one thing some you never quiet figure out why certain schools are held in such high esteem (pure marketing?)? This is particularly the case if you have a "broader/diverse education". You come to realise the differences that exist at different parts and spectrums of the system. You also come to realise that what many come to call education is actually parroting of facts. That's why it's very easy for some students to become disillusioned with the system, why some kids just can't be bothered or don't see the point of it all, why so many of our elite seem to make so many mistakes whether this may pertain to science, politics, biology, medicine, law, archaeology, etc?
naive politicians
Another cause was highlighted in a recent story about a Bush‐Obama education program: politicians are excessively optimistic and hopelessly naïve about their ability to solve society's problems top‐down from Washington.
julia gillard fawning obama
how long does an average politician serve for
What is the average term for a senator?
A senator's term of office is six years and approximately one-third of the total membership of the Senate is elected every two years. Look up brief biographies of Senators from 1774 to the present in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
Average Years of Service for Members of the Senate and House of Representatives, 1st - 111th Congresses
- one thing which has fascinated me for a while is how many great minds get filtered out of our system (such as Da Vinci (as a scientist), Newton, Einstein, Ramanujan, etc...). Once you understand how they filter and the system which is in operation so much becomes clearer. Note how the entire system is about following procedures and orders from above? Education system, workplace, etc... The people who don't believe in it are filtered out or filter themselves out continuously? If we're honest with ourselves, capitalism, life, education, etc... (as it currently stands) operates in fairly meaningless way? For the most part you're just a cog in a machine where ever you may operate. Those at the top basically screw each other in a more polite way while those at the bottom are often far more open about it. You look at many areas and it feels like we're at a standstill? The US would have been done by now had it not been for several new arrangements? The only way it continues is if others basically susidise them or take the hit for them? Whether others want that or have a genuine say in that is up to them?
- capitalism, communism, religion, etc... were supposed to condition us to slowly condition us to serve one another. In reality, most system that we've tried have been comically corrupt, have failed, and aren't solving our problems quickly enough?
united states share of global gdp trend
hospital ownership breakdown
school ownership breakdown
- huge amount of money is spent on trying to gain and maintain power? I suspect that the US/Western empire spends so much on defense because of how it's achieved it? Due to the fact that it's a "classical empire" (it takes more then it gives) and rose in an often violent way it has probably made a lot of enemies (in spite of it's popular culture)? Possible that they have reluctant allies (would make sense in the cases of a Asian and African countries if you understand they were brought into globalisation?)? The same techniques used to control things have been in use across thousands of years of civilisation? Worst case possibility is that 3/4 of the world is possibly against US/West leadership?
how much money does a political party need
Big money improves the chances of influence. But it also matters to election outcomes.
Looking back at the past five federal elections, an interesting correlation is evident: the party with the biggest war chest tends to form government.
More than $100m donated to political parties from hidden sources in election year
The Coalition hid about 40% of its income over two decades and Labor about 28%, the Centre for Public Integrity says
Economic Update - A Green 3rd Party for the U.S.
The Empire Strikes Back • Darth Vader's Theme_The Imperial March • John Williams
how much money is spent on lobbying
Pharmaceuticals/Health Products: $4,450,373,773
Insurance: $2,973,247,470
Electric Utilities: $2,567,713,347
Electronics Manufacturing and Equipment: $2,501,822,021
Business Associations: $2,454,165,598
Oil & Gas: $2,317,233,106
Miscellaneous Manufacturing and Distributing: $1,878,785,962
Hospitals/ Nursing Homes: $1,794,639,211
Education: $1,772,523,038
global defense spending of gdp
The Thucydides Trap, also referred to as Thucydides' Trap, is a term popularized by American political scientist Graham T. Allison to describe an apparent tendency towards war when an emerging power threatens to displace an existing great power as a regional or international hegemon.[1] It was coined and is primarily used to describe a potential conflict between the United States and the People's Republic of China.[2]
The term is based on a quote by ancient Athenian historian and military general Thucydides, which posited that the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta had been inevitable because of Spartan fears of the growth of Athenian power.[3][4]
A great power is a sovereign state that is recognized as having the ability and expertise to exert its influence on a global scale. Great powers characteristically possess military and economic strength, as well as diplomatic and soft power influence, which may cause middle or small powers to consider the great powers' opinions before taking actions of their own. International relations theorists have posited that great power status can be characterized into power capabilities, spatial aspects, and status dimensions.[2]
While some nations are widely considered to be great powers, there is no definitive list of them. Sometimes the status of great powers is formally recognized in conferences such as the Congress of Vienna[1][3][4] or the United Nations Security Council.[1][5][6] Accordingly, the status of great powers has also been formally and informally recognized in forums such as the Group of Seven (G7).[7][8][9][10]
The term "great power" was first used to represent the most important powers in Europe during the post-Napoleonic era. The "Great Powers" constituted the "Concert of Europe" and claimed the right to joint enforcement of the postwar treaties.[11] The formalization of the division between small powers[12] and great powers came about with the signing of the Treaty of Chaumont in 1814. Since then, the international balance of power has shifted numerous times, most dramatically during World War I and World War II. In literature, alternative terms for great power are often world power[13] or major power.[14]
Banfield's student James Quinn Wilson became the godfather of the "broken windows" approach. The smallest infraction – loitering, drinking, jaywalking – should, he insisted, be aggressively restrained. The police must target not just criminals but also "disreputable or obstreperous or unpredictable people". This became the heart of the "zero tolerance" policy of police chiefs such as New York's William Bratton. Meanwhile, presidents from Ronald Reagan to Bill Clinton and beyond sought to turn social issues into matters of law and order. It was less a case of combating crime than of managing the disruptive effects of the social inequalities.
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Inevitably, in a nation in which fault lines of race run so deep, the policing of the "lower orders" has become racialised. African Americans form 13% of the population and 39% of prisoners. Apologists for the system suggest that this is the result of black people committing more crime. But look at the issue of drugs. Study after study shows similar rates of illicit drug use among black and white people. The former, however, are far more likely to be arrested, charged and convicted. The justice system itself creates the racial disproportionalities in drug crime.
While racial biases are clear, studies suggest poverty and class best correlate with police killings and mass incarceration. African Americans, more likely to be working class and poor, are also more likely to be imprisoned and killed. It is, however, an issue confronting all "lower-class" people.
Many policing reforms are urgently required, from demilitarisation to greater community oversight. But until the police stop seeing themselves, and being seen, as "an armed force to repress" the poor, until they stop being used as a means of managing inequality, and that inequality is challenged at its roots, little is likely to change.
The dynasty reached its high point in the late 18th century, then gradually declined in the face of challenges from abroad, internal revolts, population growth, disruption of the economy, corruption, and the reluctance of ruling elites to change their mindsets. The population rose to some 400 million, but taxes and government revenues were fixed at a low rate, leading to fiscal crisis. Following the Opium Wars, European powers led by Great Britain imposed "unequal treaties", free trade, extraterritoriality and treaty ports under foreign control. The Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864) and the Dungan Revolt (1862–1877) in Central Asia led to the death of some 20 million people, due to famine, disease, and war. In spite of these disasters, in the Tongzhi Restoration of the 1860s, Han Chinese elites rallied to the defense of the Confucian order and the Manchu rulers. The initial gains in the Self-Strengthening Movement were lost in the First Sino-Japanese War of 1895, in which the Qing lost its influence over Korea and the possession of Taiwan. New Armies were organized, but the ambitious Hundred Days' Reform of 1898 was turned back in a coup by the conservative Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908), who had been the dominant voice in the national government (with one interruption) after 1861. When the Juye Incident by foreign powers triggered the violently anti-foreign and anti-imperialist "Boxers" in 1900, with many foreigners and Christians killed, the foreign powers invaded China. Cixi sided with the Boxers and was decisively defeated by the eight invading powers, leading to the flight of the Imperial Court to Xi'an.
After agreeing to sign the Boxer Protocol, the government initiated unprecedented fiscal and administrative reforms, including elections, a new legal code, and abolition of the examination system. Sun Yat-sen and other revolutionaries competed with constitutional monarchists such as Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao to transform the Qing Empire into a modern nation. After the deaths of the Guangxu Emperor and Cixi in 1908, the hardline Manchu court alienated reformers and local elites alike by obstructing social reform. The Wuchang Uprising on 10 October 1911 led to the Xinhai Revolution. General Yuan Shikai negotiated the abdication of Puyi, the last emperor, on 12 February 1912, bringing the dynasty to an end.
Education
A portrait bust of Rhodes on the first floor of No. 6 King Edward Street marks the place of his residence whilst in Oxford.
In 1876, Rhodes left his farm field in the care of his business partner, Rudd, and sailed for England to study at university. He was admitted to Oriel College, Oxford, but stayed for only one term in 1874. He returned to South Africa and did not return for his second term at Oxford until 1876. He was greatly influenced by John Ruskin's inaugural lecture at Oxford, which reinforced his own attachment to the cause of British imperialism.
Among his Oxford associates were James Rochfort Maguire, later a fellow of All Souls College and a director of the British South Africa Company, and Charles Metcalfe.[citation needed] Due to his university career, Rhodes admired the Oxford "system". Eventually, he was inspired to develop his scholarship scheme: "Wherever you turn your eye—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree".[21]
While attending Oriel College, Rhodes became a Freemason in the Apollo University Lodge. Although initially he did not approve of the organisation, he continued to be a South African Freemason until his death in 1902. The shortcomings of the Freemasons, in his opinion, later caused him to envisage his own secret society with the goal of bringing the entire world under British rule.[22][page needed]
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Rhodes and the Imperial Factor
Rhodes used his wealth and that of his business partner Alfred Beit and other investors to pursue his dream of creating a British Empire in new territories to the north by obtaining mineral concessions from the most powerful indigenous chiefs. Rhodes' competitive advantage over other mineral prospecting companies was his combination of wealth and astute political instincts, also called the "imperial factor," as he often collaborated with the British Government. He befriended its local representatives, the British Commissioners, and through them organized British protectorates over the mineral concession areas via separate but related treaties. In this way he obtained both legality and security for mining operations. He could then attract more investors. Imperial expansion and capital investment went hand in hand.[35][36]
The imperial factor was a double-edged sword: Rhodes did not want the bureaucrats of the Colonial Office in London to interfere in the Empire in Africa. He wanted British settlers and local politicians and governors to run it. This put him on a collision course with many in Britain, as well as with British missionaries, who favoured what they saw as the more ethical direct rule from London. Rhodes prevailed because he would pay the cost of administering the territories to the north of South Africa against his future mining profits. The Colonial Office did not have enough funding for this. Rhodes promoted his business interests as in the strategic interest of Britain: preventing the Portuguese, the Germans or the Boers from moving into south-central Africa. Rhodes's companies and agents cemented these advantages by obtaining many mining concessions, as exemplified by the Rudd and Lochner Concessions.[35]
political lobbying share price correlation
Abstract
Prior research provides mixed evidence on whether corporate lobbying activities increase or decrease shareholder value. In this study we use detailed data on corporate lobbying expenditures to investigate which factors influence the returns to corporate lobbying activities. Specifically, we examine whether the returns vary by lobbying issue (e.g., tax-, defense-, or healthcare-related), by the severity of agency problems, by the lobbying approach employed, and by the potential benefits to be gained lobbying. Our results suggest that although the association between abnormal stock returns and total lobbying expenditures is generally positive and significant, the returns to lobbying vary substantially depending on the issue being lobbied. While investors expect lobbying on tax-, defense-, trade-, and federal budget-related issues to generate significant economic benefits for firms, they expect the returns to environment-related lobbying to actually decrease shareholder value. We also provide evidence that the returns to lobbying are more positive for firms with low free cash flows, for firms that adopt a relational approach to lobbying, and for firms with the largest potential benefits to be gained from lobbying. Overall, our research suggests that corporate lobbying activities represent strategic political investments that generate future economic benefits, not agency problems as asserted by some prior studies.
Influencing Profits: The Differential Impact of Lobbying on Corporate Stock Returns
- track the original meaning of everything and the history of hate and supremacy and the way things are make a lot more sense? Regardless of whether Jews are good are bad they had no choice but to move into the financial sector because they weren't allowed to own property. The other obvious irony is
Maximus and Commodus Epic Scene - Gladiator
shake down artist
czech we will bury you
History
While addressing the Western Bloc at the embassy on November 18, 1956, in the presence of communist Polish statesman Władysław Gomułka, First Secretary Khrushchev said: "About the capitalist states, it doesn't depend on you whether or not we exist. If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations, and don't invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!"[5] The speech prompted the envoys from twelve NATO nations and Israel to leave the room.[5]
During Khrushchev's visit to the United States in 1959, the Los Angeles mayor Norris Poulson in his address to Khrushchev stated: "We do not agree with your widely quoted phrase 'We shall bury you.' You shall not bury us and we shall not bury you. We are happy with our way of life. We recognize its shortcomings and are always trying to improve it. But if challenged, we shall fight to the death to preserve it".[6] Many Americans meanwhile interpreted Khrushchev's quote as a nuclear threat.[7]
In another public speech Khrushchev declared: "We must take a shovel and dig a deep grave, and bury colonialism as deep as we can".[8] In a 1961 speech at the Institute of Marxism–Leninism in Moscow, Khrushchev said that "peaceful coexistence" for the Soviet Union means "intense, economic, political and ideological struggle between the proletariat and the aggressive forces of imperialism in the world arena".[9] Later, on August 24, 1963, Khrushchev remarked in his speech in Yugoslavia, "I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you,"[10] a reference to the Marxist saying, "The proletariat is the undertaker of capitalism" (in the Russian translation of Marx, the word "undertaker" is translated as a "grave digger," Russian: могильщик,) based on the concluding statement in Chapter 1 of the Communist Manifesto: "What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable". In his memoirs, Khrushchev stated that "enemy propaganda picked up the slogan and blew it all out of proportion".[11]
In his book We Will Bury You, Šejna gave an insight into Soviet Cold War strategies, quoting Konstantin Katushev, secretary of the Soviet Central Committee: "If we can impose on the U.S.A. the external restraints proposed in our Plan, and seriously disrupt the American economy, the working and the lower middle classes will suffer the consequences and they will turn on the society that has failed them. They will be ready for revolution."
- doom loop over and over again. No savings, leads to more debt. You can't use non-usury globally due to resource consumption. A lot of technology on Earth is very inefficient if you understand and dig into it? If you want to genuinely improve circumstances for everyone it has to be via science not finance?
solar technology max efficiency
While solar panel efficiency is generally around 15-20%, solar cell efficiency can reach 42% in some cases. However, unless otherwise stated, the performance of solar cells is measured under laboratory conditions.
petrol engine efficiency
Gasoline (petrol) engines
Modern gasoline engines have a maximum thermal efficiency of more than 50%, but road legal cars are only about 20% to 35% when used to power a car.
levis 10000 litres water
How many Litres of water make a pair of jeans?
10000 liters
It takes up to 10000 liters of water to make a pair of jeans. Did you know? It takes an incredible amount of water (up to 10,000L / 2600 gallons) to produce a single pair of blue jeans.
finding untapped markets
2 tonnes dirt to mine 1 kg gold
How much gold is in a ton of mined rock?
And for every kilogram of gold (2.2 pounds), they must mine 1,250 metric tons of rock (@ 80% recovery). Compare that to mines just 50 years ago that might have 1/2 Troy ounce of gold per ton of rock, (15.55 g per ton).
gold mining efficiency
Is Gold Mining good for the environment?
Gold mining is one of the most destructive industries in the world. It can displace communities, contaminate drinking water, hurt workers, and destroy pristine environments. It pollutes water and land with mercury and cyanide, endangering the health of people and ecosystems.
lithium mining efficiency
How bad is lithium mining for the environment?
The lithium extraction process uses a lot of water—approximately 500,000 gallons per metric ton of lithium. To extract lithium, miners drill a hole in salt flats and pump salty, mineral-rich brine to the surface. ... Lithium extraction harms the soil and causes air contamination.
Indonesia coral reef partially restored in extensive project
Large‐scale coral reef rehabilitation after blast fishing in Indonesia
Blast fishing, Fish Bombing, or dynamite fishing is a destructive fishing practice using explosives to stun or kill schools of fish for easy collection. This often illegal practice is extremely destructive to the surrounding ecosystem, as the explosion often destroys the underlying habitat that supports the fish.
Indonesia
Blast fishing in Indonesia has been around for over fifty years and continues to transform its one-of-a-kind coral reefs into desolate gray moonscapes, as fishermen continue to use explosives or cyanide to kill or stun their prey. Dive operators and conservationists say Indonesia is not doing enough to protect the waters off the Komodo Islands. They say enforcement declined following the exit of a U.S.-based conservation group that helped fight destructive fishing practices. Coral Gardens that were among Asia's most spectacular dive sites, were the latest victim of bomb blasting despite being located inside the Komodo National Park, a 500,000-acre reserve and U.N. World Heritage Site.[21] The use of bombs made with kerosene and fertilizer is very popular in the region. While previously Komodo was relatively protected by a cooperative undertaking with TNC (The Nature Conservancy) since the Indonesian government has assumed responsibility for park protection, there has been an upsurge in bombing. During a recent visit to Crystal Bommie, it was found to be 60% destroyed, with freshly overturned coral tables proving recent bombing.[22] In the market in the city of Makassar, an estimated 10 to 40 percent of the fish are caught in this manner. The local fishermen find the technique to be easier and more productive than traditional methods. The goal for the country has been to implement stricter policies and fisheries management programs to limit the killing of the fish as well as the destruction of the marine ecosystem. Forty years ago, blast fishing was practiced with dynamite which was in plentiful supply after World War II. Today, fishermen mostly use homemade bombs that are made from bottles filled with an explosive mixture; weights are also added to make the bottle sink faster underwater. After the bomb explodes, the fish killed or stunned by the shock wave from the explosion are collected.[23]
Philippines
A 1987 study concluded that blast fishing was then very widespread in the Philippines, estimating that 25% of all municipal fish landings (equivalent to 250,000 metric tons per year) were from blast fishing.[24] Most of the blast fishing is however done in the south, near Palawan and the South China Sea.[25] A study conducted in 2002 reported that destructive fishing methods had caused the degradation of about 70% of Philippine coral reefs and reduced annual fisheries production by about 177,500 metric tons in the 1990s.[26]
In 2010, mayor Nino Rey Boniel of Bien Unido town in the province of Bohol, Philippines, built an underwater grotto along the Danajon reef which deteriorated due to excessive dynamite and cyanide use. Through the help of Sea Knights and Boholano divers, two 14-foot statues of Mother Mary and Santo Nino (Spanish for Holy Child) were placed on 8 September and 18 October 2010 respectively, 60 feet below sea level in order to discourage fishermen from using illegal and destructive methods in fishing and hopefully remind everyone that the sea and its inhabitants are gifts from God that deserves to be treasured and taken care of.[27][28]
In 2012, the director of the Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources declared an "all-out war" against dynamite fishing and other illegal fishing practices.[29]
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Inefficiency
Besides the effectiveness in killing or stunning the fish, another problem with blast fishing is the inefficiency of retrieval. For every ten fish killed, only one or two float to the surface due to damage caused to the internal air bladders of the fish. The rest sink to the bottom.[33]
- note style of capitalism practiced by those at the bottom (need to fail fast and create a profitable business from the outset) are radically different to that practiced at the top (Robber Baron style)? The interesting thing is how they filter. Everything seems very similar for thousands/tend of thousands of years. Basically, the same process in life. Gain access to the royal courts/schools/halls of power, gain patronage/serve, move up through ranks/become more corrupt, retire, etc...
1/3 failure in first year for most businesses?
correlation small cap vs large cap
patronage
Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows on another. In the history of art, arts patronage refers to the support that kings, popes, and the wealthy have provided to artists such as musicians, painters, and sculptors. It can also refer to the right of bestowing offices or church benefices, the business given to a store by a regular customer, and the guardianship of saints. The word "patron" derives from the Latin: patronus ("patron"), one who gives benefits to his clients (see Patronage in ancient Rome).
In some countries the term is used to describe political patronage, which is the use of state resources to reward individuals for their electoral support. Some patronage systems are legal, as in the Canadian tradition of the Prime Minister to appoint senators and the heads of a number of commissions and agencies; in many cases, these appointments go to people who have supported the political party of the Prime Minister. As well, the term may refer to a type of corruption or favoritism in which a party in power rewards groups, families, or ethnicities for their electoral support using illegal gifts or fraudulently awarded appointments or government contracts.[1]
In many Latin American countries, patronage developed as a means of population control, concentrating economic and political power in a small minority which held privileges that the majority of the population did not.[2] In this system, the patrón holds authority and influence over a less powerful person, whom he protects by granting favors in exchange for loyalty and allegiance. With roots in feudalism, the system was designed to maintain an inexpensive, subservient labor force, which could be utilized to limit production costs and allow wealth and its privileges to be monopolized by a small elite.[3] Long after slavery, and other forms of bondage like the encomienda and repartimiento systems were abolished, patronage was used to maintain rigid class structures.[3][4] With the rise of a labor class, traditional patronage changed in the 20th century to allow some participation in power structures, but many systems still favor a small powerful elite, who distributes economic and political favors in exchange for benefits to the lower classes.[2]
government backed ventures success rate
Gates is certainly correct about the hit rate for venture capital. For every massive success, like Sequoia Capital's investment in WhatsApp, there are many deals that go nowhere. The Kauffman Foundation has been investing in VC firms for more than 20 years. In 2012, it looked at the returns and found that in the long run, firms returned 1.31 times what was invested. When a few exceptional performers are stripped out, the return rate is even worse. That's despite billions of dollars invested.
As many as three-quarters of venture-backed startups fail outright.
On the other hand, 2.5 billion people worldwide lack safe sanitation and access to toilets. Food and water contaminated with fecal matter causes as many as 1.5 million child deaths a year.
Plenty of development projects don't have the impact that they should, but even the failures or seemingly minor successes can have a real impact.
This study addresses the survival of Belgian venture capital (VC) backed companies, compared to companies that did not receive VC. Survival analysis techniques are used to analyse the survival of a sample of 565 Belgian VC backed companies and 565 comparable non-VC backed companies. A distinction between different types of venture capitalists is made. Contrary to commom wisdom, VC backed companies do not have a higher probability of surviving than comparable non-VC backed companies. Companies, backed by the two oldest government venture capitalists, however, have a higher survival rate and companies, backed by other government venture capitalists have a lower survival rate and a higher probability of going bankrupt. Our results confirm previous studies in that it is shown that receiving VC from the right backer is perhaps more important than receiving VC per se.
The survival of venture capital backed companies
- the wealthiest guys in the world aren't that special? They almost always come from decent backgrounds? If you understand how they've made their money and how they came into being then you'll realise how/why they became what they are. They were interested from an early age. The mark of a good trader is whether they can pick good trades without using leverage, speed of execution, flexibility, ability to make money in any conditions, without fraud/insider trading, etc... If they can do it without this on a consistent basis (above 60%) then they're worth taking a look at. These guys clearly had "a lot of help". Many gaming the system. They have no real desire/belief that they owe something to society? Wealth defense industry? 90K tax/estate people in US to help wealthy stay wealthy? 200K help Amazon and other corporates reduce taxes. Society for wealth and estate planners. ~27K worldwide? For every $1 a billionaire gives to charity normal people contribute $0.74 for lost taxes. Wealth tax. The people who least likely to help are those who had the most difficult time or those who don't see how they fit back into the system?
Renegade Inc _ Capitalism Closed for Business
Winners Take All _ Anand Giridharadas _ Talks at Google
The vilification of billionaires makes no sense to me - Cooperman
The Global Power Elite - A Transnational Class
define monopoly
hereditary billionaires
How many billionaires are inherited?
Number of billionaires around the world in 2019, by wealth source
Source of wealth Number of billionaires
Self-made 1,639
Inherited / self-made 836
Inherited 350
hereditary millionaire
How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Wealth
Patriotic Millionaires is a nonpartisan organization of Americans with high net worth who promote the restructuring of the American tax system so that wealthy people pay a greater share of their income in taxes. Patriotic Millionaires was founded in 2010 by Erica Payne to advocate for expiration of the Bush tax cuts. Qualification for membership requires either $1 million in annual income, or more than $5 million in assets.[1][2][3][4]
Some notable members include Lawrence Lessig, Jeffrey Gural, Roberta Kaplan, Chuck Collins, George Zimmer, Norman Lear, and Abigail Disney.[2][3][5][6]
The Buffett Rule is part of a tax plan which would require millionaires and billionaires to pay the same tax rate as middle class families and working people.[1] It was proposed by President Barack Obama in 2011.[2] The tax plan proposed would apply a minimum tax rate of 30 percent on individuals making more than one million dollars a year.[3][4] According to a White House official, the new tax rate would directly affect 0.3 percent of taxpayers.[2]
division of light and power
Lowy was appointed a Director of the Reserve Bank of Australia in 1995, was reappointed in 2000 and 2003, and concluded his term in 2005.[25] In 2008 Lowy and related interests were mentioned in documents stolen from the LGT Bank of Liechtenstein by a former employee. A subsequent US Senate probe and an Australian Taxation Office audit investigated Lowy and his sons, David and Steven, on their involvement with financial institutions in tax havens located in Liechtenstein and Switzerland. Lowy maintained he had not done anything wrong, the matter was settled with the ATO, and no action was taken.[26][27][28][29]
After turning 80 in October 2010, Lowy officially stood down as Executive Chairman of the Westfield Group effective May 2011, taking on the role of non-executive chairman. Sons, Steven and Peter, became joint chief executives.[30] In October 2015, Lowy stepped down as the chairman of the Scentre Group, a role that he had held for 55 years.[31]
Business career
Holmes à Court entered the corporate stage by accident in 1970, when his law firm was asked to act as administrative receiver of a small publicly listed company, Western Australian Worsted & Woollen Mills (later Albany Woollen Mills, also known as AWM or WA Wool). The company was the single largest employer in the regional city of Albany. In what he later described as his most challenging "takeover", probably because it was his first, he found a way to invest $500,000 in the ailing business, on the proviso that the state Minister for Industry, Sir Charles Court, would persuade the Government of Western Australia to forgive the $500,000 in loans they had made.
The source of funds for his initial investment in WA Wool were never made clear, since the $75,000 deposit for the purchase price of WA Wool shares came from a bank account that he shared with the partners in his law firm at the time, and his partners asked for these funds to be repaid.[7] Nevertheless, since Holmes à Court had no other apparent source of income at the time, a possibility is that his mother Ethnee financed his first foray into business, since she had stood to inherit from her mother Florence, who in turn had stood to inherit from her second husband H.R. Cumming, a wealthy Rhodesian landowner, businessman and colleague of Cecil Rhodes. Cumming had helped raise Ethnee during her childhood on his estate outside Gweru. As an adult and while living in Rhodesia and South Africa, Ethnee had also established and sold both a riding school and a game lodge in Chobe, and eventually sold several properties that she owned as investments giving the funds to Robert to manage on her migration to Australia in 1967.[8]
After acquiring WA Wool, Holmes à Court made it more competitive by reducing production costs, mainly by installing the latest wool milling and weaving machinery. This was acquired on favourable terms from a leading Belgian equipment manufacturer, which was keen to enter the Australian market at that time. He now controlled a company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, and from there he began to gain control of a string of small businesses, including Westate Electrical Industries.
Leadership style
Bezos used what he called a "regret-minimization framework" while he worked at D. E. Shaw and again during the early years of Amazon. He described this life philosophy by stating: "When I'm 80, am I going to regret leaving Wall Street? No. Will I regret missing the beginning of the Internet? Yes."[157] During the 1990s and early 2000s at Amazon, he was characterized as trying to quantify all aspects of running the company, often listing employees on spreadsheets and basing executive decisions on data.[37] To push Amazon forward, Bezos developed the mantra "Get Big Fast", establishing the company's need to scale its operations to produce market dominance.[48] He favored diverting Amazon profits back into the company in lieu of allocating it amongst shareholders in the form of dividends.[132]
Bezos uses the term "work–life harmony" instead of the more standard "work–life balance" because he believes balance implies that you can have one and not the other. He believes that work and home life are interconnected, informing and calibrating each other.[158] Journalist Walt Mossberg dubbed the idea that someone who cannot tolerate criticism or critique shouldn't do anything new or interesting "The Bezos Principle".[159] Bezos does not schedule early morning meetings and enforces a two-pizza rule—a preference that meetings are small enough for two pizzas to feed everyone in the board room.[160] When interviewing candidates for jobs at Amazon he has stated he considers three inquiries: can he admire the person, can the person raise the common standard, and under what circumstances could the person become exemplary.[161]
He meets with Amazon investors for a total of only six hours a year.[160] Instead of using presentation slides, Bezos requires high-level employees to present information with six-page narratives.[162] Starting in 1998, Bezos publishes an annual letter for Amazon shareholders wherein he frequently refers to five principles: focus on customers not competitors, take risks for market leadership, facilitate staff morale, build a company culture, and empower people.[163][164] Bezos maintains the email address jeff@amazon.com[165] as an outlet for customers to reach out to him and the company. Although he does not respond to the emails, he forwards some of them with a question mark in the subject line to executives who attempt to address the issues.[166] Bezos has cited Jeff Immelt (of New Enterprise Associates),[167] Warren Buffett (of Berkshire Hathaway), Jamie Dimon (of JPMorgan Chase), and Bob Iger (of Walt Disney) as major influences on his leadership style.[167][168]
Bezos is known for creating an adversarial environment at Amazon, as well as insulting and verbally abusing his employees. As journalist Brad Stone revealed in his book The Everything Store, Bezos issued remarks to his employees such as "I'm sorry, did I take my stupid pills today?", "Are you lazy or just incompetent?", and "Why are you ruining my life?".[138] Additionally, Bezos reportedly pitted Amazon teams against each other, and once declined to give Amazon employees city bus passes in order to discourage them from leaving the office.[citation needed]
Early life and education
Buffett was born in 1930 in Omaha, Nebraska, the second of three children and the only son of Leila (née Stahl) and Congressman Howard Buffett.[14] He began his education at Rose Hill Elementary School. In 1942, his father was elected to the first of four terms in the United States Congress, and after moving with his family to Washington, D.C., Warren finished elementary school, attended Alice Deal Junior High School and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1947, where his senior yearbook picture reads: "likes math; a future stockbroker."[15] After finishing high school and finding success with his side entrepreneurial and investment ventures, Buffett wanted to skip college to go directly into business but was overruled by his father.[16][17]
Buffett displayed an interest in business and investing at a young age. He was inspired by a book he borrowed from the Omaha public library at age seven, One Thousand Ways to Make $1000.[18] Much of Buffett's early childhood years were enlivened with entrepreneurial ventures. In one of his first business ventures, Buffett sold chewing gum, Coca-Cola bottles, and weekly magazines door to door. He worked in his grandfather's grocery store. While still in high school, he made money delivering newspapers, selling golf balls and stamps, and detailing cars, among other means. On his first income tax return in 1944, Buffett took a $35 deduction for the use of his bicycle and watch on his paper route.[19] In 1945, as a high school sophomore, Buffett and a friend spent $25 to purchase a used pinball machine, which they placed in the local barber shop. Within months, they owned several machines in three different barber shops across Omaha. They sold the business later in the year for $1,200 to a war veteran.[20]
Buffett's interest in the stock market and investing dated to schoolboy days he spent in the customers' lounge of a regional stock brokerage near his father's own brokerage office. On a trip to New York City at age ten, he made a point to visit the New York Stock Exchange. At 11, he bought three shares of Cities Service Preferred for himself, and three for his sister Doris Buffett (who also became a philanthropist).[21][22][23] At 15, Warren made more than $175 monthly delivering Washington Post newspapers. In high school, he invested in a business owned by his father and bought a 40-acre farm worked by a tenant farmer. He bought the land when he was 14 years old with $1,200 of his savings. By the time he finished college, Buffett had accumulated $9,800 in savings (about $105,000 today).[20][24]
In 1947, Buffett entered the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He would have preferred to focus on his business ventures, but his father pressured him to enroll.[20] Warren studied there for two years and joined the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity.[25] He then transferred to the University of Nebraska where at 19, he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. After being rejected by Harvard Business School, Buffett enrolled at Columbia Business School of Columbia University upon learning that Benjamin Graham taught there. He earned a Master of Science in Economics from Columbia in 1951. After graduating, Buffett attended the New York Institute of Finance.[26]
The basic ideas of investing are to look at stocks as business, use the market's fluctuations to your advantage, and seek a margin of safety. That's what Ben Graham taught us. A hundred years from now they will still be the cornerstones of investing.[27][28][29]
— Warren Buffett
- trickdown theory reminds of of colonialism, imperialism, foreign aide, vaccines, charity, philantropy, etc... For some strange reason it's always ~10-20% that ends up trickling down in the end to the bottom? Affirmative actions and diversity programs don't actually do all that much. Particular groups of people are still stuck in the same places that they were for thousands of years?
Renegade Inc _ The Real Looters of South Africa
diversity programs silicon valley
diversity programs
affirmative action program success rate
What are the outcomes of affirmative action?
Overall, affirmative action redistributes jobs and student slots towards minorities and females, though these effects are not very large. Minorities who benefit from affirmative action often have weaker credentials, but there is fairly little solid evidence that their labor market performance is weaker.
affirmative action
aboriginal mining jobs
social progress index
- this is where trickle down economics completely falls apart? If you look at how/where most funding comes from you'll realise that most of the important things to society are most often fulfilled by the government? Moreover, corporatism as practised has nothing to do with it's original intent and meaning (they were supposed to be an extension of government not a replacement for it)? The term "public service" only begins to make sense given this context (the public service has a bad name because it just does dumb/silly stuff that blows up in the media periodically?). You have to wonder whether the terms "state based" are simply used as a pejoratively in PSYOPS style operations because the government clearly plays a huge role in most economies?
The vilification of billionaires makes no sense to me - Cooperman
who funds charities
Charities receive income from a variety of sources. Half of all charity sector revenue is from sales, member fees and user-pays services, with the next largest source of revenue being government grants (43%).
who funds hospitals
How are Australian hospitals funded?
Public hospitals are funded by the state and territory and Australian governments, but are largely owned and managed by the state and territory governments. ... The state and territory governments provide most of the funding for community health services.
Who funds hospitals in America?
Health care facilities are largely owned and operated by private sector businesses. 58% of community hospitals in the United States are non-profit, 21% are government-owned, and 21% are for-profit.
Hospital Financing in the United States
breakdown tax revenue
Q.What are the sources of revenue for the federal government?
A.About 50 percent of federal revenue comes from individual income taxes, 7 percent from corporate income taxes, and another 36 percent from payroll taxes that fund social insurance programs (figure 1). The rest comes from a mix of sources.
who funds aged care
The Australian Government
The Australian Government is the primary funder and regulator of the system. Total government expenditure on aged care services was around $15.8 billion in 2014–15, with the Australian Government providing approximately 95 percent of this funding.
who funds education
Who funds the education system?
Most of the funding for K–12 education comes from the state. In 2018–19, California public schools received a total of $97.2 billion in funding from three sources: the state (58%), property taxes and other local sources (32%), and the federal government (9%). These shares vary across school districts.
Most of the money comes from the states
The majority of funding for Australian schools — in fact, about three-quarters of it — comes from the state and territory governments.
"The Big Scary "S" Word", a film about the history of socialism in America that features Richard D. Wolff and is due for a theatrical release Friday September 3rd.
"Featuring new and archival interviews with Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cornel West, and Naomi Klein, The Big Scary "S" Word explores the rich history of the American socialist movement. Weaving together hidden episodes of history and verité footage, the film shows that, contrary to popular belief, socialism is in fact deeply American and led to popular government programs such as public schools and Medicare. Activists and journalists explain how the 2008 financial crisis, the Wall Street bailout, the Occupy Movement, and the ascension of politicians like Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez have pushed a new generation to embrace the language of socialism."
For more about the movie, visit their website at https://www.socialismmovie.com/
job subsidy program
Jobs Victoria wage subsidies of up to $20,000 are available for eligible employers who hire eligible jobseekers. ... The Jobs Victoria Fund financially supports these priority jobseekers into work: women aged over 45 years. jobseekers who are long-term unemployed (unemployed for six months or more)
Who is eligible for a wage subsidy?
Through the jobactive initiative, wage subsidies may be available to businesses employing job seekers through our service, including mature age, youth, parents, long-term unemployed and Indigenous jobseekers. Employers may be able to receive up to $10,000 (GST inclusive) over 6 months.
The Jobs Victoria Fund is providing $250 million in wage subsidies to assist Victorian businesses to employ at least 10,000 people who are looking for work.
"There is greater suspicion about billionaires and about wealth and accumulation of wealth, because people are asking for the first time, excuse me, how did you become a billionaire exactly, because I just lost my house?" Lewis says.
"That's an interesting transitional point [but] having said that, I think there will always remain a certain rock and roll element to the guy with the money and the fast car and I think that is more prevalent here [in the United States]."
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- really strange demographic breakdowns and outcomes at McDonalds (not what you'd expect. Hispanics then Asian then White then Black)? The reason why are many leaders have psychopathic tendencies is because this system is an extension/continuation of slavery (It rewards similar behaviour (within bounds))? Breakdown in technology companies tend to be strongly in favour of males? Breakdown of Silicon Valley seems almost rigged in favour of diversity at times (strangely even split between Latin, Asian, and White people with Black people and other minorities last?)?
~341~ A Quick History of McDonald's Exploitation of Workers-vJNcCvhfaw8
mcdonalds staff demographics
kfc staff demographics
congress staff demographics
silicon valley demographics
employee demographic ibm
The staff at IBM come from unusually diverse demographic backgrounds. The company is 30.3% female and 45.5% ethnic minorities. Despite its diversity in other areas, IBM employees are noticeably lacking in political diversity. It has an unusually high proportion of employees who are members of the Democratic Party, at 70.0%. Employees seem to enjoy working in an otherwise diverse workplace that is dominated by members of the Democratic Party. IBM has great employee retention with staff members usually staying with the company for 6.9 years. The average employee at IBM makes $84,424 per year. Pay at IBM is significantly lower than some of its highest paying competitors, like Microsoft, Salesforce, and Nvidia, which pay $124,653, $120,566, and $118,360, respectively.
The staff at Microsoft come from unusually diverse demographic backgrounds. The company is 31.4% female and 43.8% ethnic minorities. Despite its diversity in other areas, Microsoft employees are noticeably lacking in political diversity. It has an unusually high proportion of employees who are members of the Democratic Party, at 83.0%. Employees seem to enjoy working in an otherwise diverse workplace that is dominated by members of the Democratic Party. Microsoft has great employee retention with staff members usually staying with the company for 5.0 years. The average employee at Microsoft makes $124,653 per year, which is competitive for its industry and location. Some of its highest paying competitors, VMware, LinkedIn, and Salesforce, pay $124,868, $122,814, and $120,566, respectively.
The staff at VMware come from unusually diverse demographic backgrounds. The company is 29.1% female and 53.3% ethnic minorities. Despite its diversity in other areas, VMware employees are noticeably lacking in political diversity. It has an unusually high proportion of employees who are members of the Democratic Party, at 84.0%. Employees seem to enjoy working in an otherwise diverse workplace that is dominated by members of the Democratic Party. VMware has great employee retention with staff members usually staying with the company for 4.0 years. The average employee at VMware makes $124,868 per year, which is competitive for its industry and location. Some of its highest paying competitors, Tintri, Microsoft, and Nutanix, pay $127,650, $124,653, and $122,942, respectively.
The staff at LinkedIn come from unusually diverse demographic backgrounds. The company is 40.5% female and 47.3% ethnic minorities. Despite its diversity in other areas, LinkedIn employees are noticeably lacking in political diversity. It has an unusually high proportion of employees who are members of the Democratic Party, at 94.0%. Employees seem to enjoy working in an otherwise diverse workplace that is dominated by members of the Democratic Party. LinkedIn has great employee retention with staff members usually staying with the company for 3.8 years. The average employee at LinkedIn makes $122,814 per year, which is competitive for its industry and location. Some of its highest paying competitors, Twitter, Facebook, and BigCommerce, pay $125,658, $114,943, and $106,915, respectively.
- fascinating how the system has been maintained. They use fake history, fake facts, etc... to create an alternative version of history. It's about how to maintain the same system without maintaining "formal colonialism". Same core system over many years. No genuine development as in Asia, Africa, South America, etc... which means they are dependent on foreign income/aide.
Their leaders are trained in the US/West which means they think can use the system methods to get out of their circumstances but in reality it's the wrong thing to do due to indoctrination? Only genuinely successful countries under this system (especially of late) have clearly been China and the US?
Is Capitalism Actually Reducing Poverty (with Richard Wolff)
Prof. Kehinde Andrews - Why the British Empire and its horrors aren't a thing of the past
CIA Stories - The CIA is Born
Communist Party USA (Soviet Anthem In English)
"Ain't I Right" American Anti Communist Song
Soviet Anthem + Libertarianism = THIS
The Empire Files - Ralph Nader & Abby Martin on the Corporate Elections
Ralph Nader & Abby Martin on Rigged Corporate Elections, Clinton Criminals
In 1987, Hewson was elected to the House of Representatives. He was appointed to the shadow cabinet in 1988, serving under John Howard and Andrew Peacock. After Peacock lost the 1990 election, Hewson was elected leader of the Liberal Party in his place, thus becoming Leader of the Opposition. In 1991, he launched the Fightback! policy manifesto, which proposed a series of major economic reforms with a goods and services tax (GST) as its centrepiece.
Political platforms in the 1993 federal election focused mainly on economic policy, especially on how Australia should respond to the early 1990s recession. The Labor Party – led by Paul Keating – had been in power for 10 years at that point, but many polls suggested a Coalition victory. However, Labor was able to mount a successful countercampaign, with the party's net increase in seats allowing Keating to remain prime minister. Hewson continued on as Liberal leader for another year, losing a leadership spill to Alexander Downer in 1994. He left parliament the following year. Since then, Hewson has continued to be a public expert in business and political commentary. He resigned his Liberal Party membership in 2019, having been a critic of its policy direction for a number of years, particularly on climate change.
In 1987, Hewson was elected to the House of Representatives. He was appointed to the shadow cabinet in 1988, serving under John Howard and Andrew Peacock. After Peacock lost the 1990 election, Hewson was elected leader of the Liberal Party in his place, thus becoming Leader of the Opposition. In 1991, he launched the Fightback! policy manifesto, which proposed a series of major economic reforms with a goods and services tax (GST) as its centrepiece.
From 1997, Howard spearheaded the Coalition push to introduce a Goods and Services Tax (GST) at the 1998 election. Before winning the Prime Ministership, Howard said that he considered the Coalition's defeat in 1993 to be a rejection of the GST, and as a result it would "never ever" be part of Coalition policy.[66] A long-held conviction of Howard's, his tax reform package was credited with "breaking the circuit" of party morale—boosting his confidence and direction, which had appeared to wane early in the Government's second term.[67] The 1998 election was dubbed a "referendum on the GST", and the tax changes—including the GST—were implemented in the government's second term after amendments to the legislation were negotiated with the Australian Democrats to ensure its passage through the Senate.
How Economics Became a Cult
The Leftist Case Against Censorship ft. Ben Burgis (TMBS 143)
The Zealots were a political movement in 1st-century Second Temple Judaism which sought to incite the people of Judea Province to rebel against the Roman Empire and expel it from the Holy Land by force of arms, most notably during the First Jewish–Roman War (66–70). Zealotry was the term used by Josephus for a "fourth sect" or "fourth Jewish philosophy" during this period.
Etymology
The term zealot, the common translation of the Hebrew kanai (קנאי, frequently used in plural form, קנאים, kana'im), means one who is zealous on behalf of God. The term derives from Greek ζηλωτής (zelotes), "emulator, zealous admirer or follower".[1][2]
CrossTalk _ Quarantine Edition _ Permanent Inequality
minksy software
- education and religions are about pacification. British Empire was way more destructive then the Nazis, killed tens of millions of people over hundreds of years. Can't talk about it because there may be calls for reperations. Enlightenment was more about explaining what had happened then being a hypothesis for how the world was?
The New Age of Empire with Kehinde Andrews
- things have progressed but life between now and the slave era feels remarkebly familiar? Sales of slaves feel similar to modern job boards? Jumps in salaries as they become better slaves/employees similar? If slaves had surveys back in their times you have to wonder whether they would match up against modern Glassdoors rankings?
life of a slave
The Slave Coast was the main slave trading area in Africa, located in West Africa between the Senegal River and the Congo River. Each of the major slave trading nations would keep 'factories' where captured slaves were kept prisoner until a ship could come to take them across the ocean. Slaves would be purchased from African slave-traders or captured there and then packed on boats for the voyage to other parts of the world.
Conditions on the passage to America were terrible. Sometimes half the cargo would die from starvation, dehydration, or simply from suicide. At times the slave merchants would throw sick slaves overboard, because their insurance would pay for slaves lost at sea, but if brought to land alive they would be sold for less than the cost of carrying them. In one famous case a British court agreed that this was a perfectly legal and acceptable practice.
Enslaving Indians was also common, but the practice was declining in the Americas by the time of the Revolution. Indian slaves could escape and return to their people, but Africans could hardly swim home across the ocean. Without somewhere to escape, they had little choice but to remain in slavery. In addition, many slave owners considered African slaves to be better workers than Indians.
Upon arrival in America, sick slaves would be sold first. Most people who bought these 'junk slaves' received them at a reduced rate and tried to nurse them back to health. If they succeeded they could sell them at a large profit. Certain slave traders in the south specialized in this sort of 'recycling'.
Sometimes slaves would be sold at a negotiated price, often through newspaper ads. On other occasions, the slaves would be inspected and put up for auction with the highest bidder receiving the slave.
Once the slaves were purchased they were the absolute property of the slave owner. They were assigned to any work their owner decided upon. Many worked at hard field labour while others worked as domestic servants or were trained in skilled professions. Sometimes masters with skilled slaves would rent out their slaves to others and keep the wages for themselves.
Slaves had no right to education, health care, or religious instruction. They could be beaten any way their master saw fit. It was common for them to be whipped until their skin was raw and have salt rubbed into their wounds. Some developed other methods of torture, and a few thought that slaves could be made more docile and co-operative by treating them gently. Slaves had no right to traditional family ties, as their spouses and kin could be sold to another owner at any time.
Near the beginning of the American Revolution, slave labour had become central to the economy in many places. Most whites in the southern colonies owned slaves for their cheap labour, and the large plantations we know from Civil War era America were becoming established. This caused great concern since some places had more slaves than white citizens. There was constant fear of an uprising. This threat was so strong that North Carolina placed a tax on importing slaves in hope of slowing the population growth.
By the 1770's there were probably about 350 000 African slaves in the American Colonies, about ¾ of which were in the southern colonies of Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia.
years of experience vs salary trend
Those very new to the tech industry, with less than a year of experience, can expect to earn $50,321 (a year-over-year increase of 9.8 percent). After a year or two, that average salary jumps to $62,517 (a whooping 24.3 percent increase, year-over-year).
Spend three to five years, and the average leaps yet again, to $68,040 (a 6.3 percent increase). Between six and ten years in the industry, salaries hit $83,143 (a rise of 6.8 percent).
Breaking the ten-year mark translates into big bucks. Those with 11 to 15 years of experience could expect to pull down $96,792 (a 3.8 percent increase over last year), while those with more than 15 years average $115,399 (a 6 percent increase).
The successive leaps in pay are unsurprising, considering how more experienced tech pros can rack up salaries, bonuses, and perks commensurate with their skill-sets and importance to their respective organizations. Once workers pass the ten-year mark, they also tend to land in management and executive positions that come with higher pay, bending the salary curve even more sharply.
glassdoors average ratings
What is considered a good rating on Glassdoor?
Boosting employee satisfaction by one Glassdoor rating point raises the market value of a company by 7.9%. The average rating for a company on the Glassdoor Best Places to Work 2017 U.S. Large list is 4.3 on a 5.0 scale. The average overall rating for Glassdoor companies is 3.3.
The company's own site stats updated Q1 2017 show 41 million unique users and 5,800 paying employer clients or partners. The statistics showed that the average company rating is 3.3, on a 5-point scale where 1.0 is very dissatisfied; 72% of employees rate their job/company 'ok' and average CEO approval rating is 67%.[22]
- notice near perfect overlay? Still roughly about 2/3?
black slave worth us constitution
This agreement set the census value of a slave as 60 percent of the value of a free person. Even after the 13th Amendment neutralized the political (and moral) compromise by abolishing slavery, Jim Crow laws, which contravened the 14th Amendment's guarantee of equality, stopped blacks from voting.
black wage vs average
In white supremacist circles, a ghost skin is a white supremacist who refrains from openly displaying his racist beliefs for the purpose of blending into wider society and surreptitiously furthering his agenda. The term has been used in particular to refer to the entryism of racist activists in law enforcement.
Key points:
Britain drew on troops from around its Empire as it fought WWI
Troops primarily from Egypt and East Africa were found not to have been commemorated by name, or at all
The report comes weeks after a UK Government report claimed it was not institutionally racist
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-30/benin-bronzes-stuff-the-british-stole-museum-history/12837940
- the essence of labour markets are the same? rely on cheap labour such as backpackers and migrants to do the difficult jobs? In old Nordic folk songs people would sing about how if there were no opportunities at home they would sail East. Even in Muppet songs they allude to the cruelty of the Vikings and Nordic countries?
Muppet Show In The Navy
The African diaspora: An archaeological perspective
Introduction
The African diaspora, in its broadest terms, is the dispersal of people of African descent from Africa to other parts of the world – particularly Europe, America and Southwest Asia. The process has been occurring over much of the past 2,000 years in various ways, with different cultures and societies involved.
Through much of this time, slavery has been the driving force behind the diaspora. The Roman Empire drew some of its slaves from sub-Saharan Africa. Arab slave traders drew slaves from northern sub-Saharan Africa and East Africa for more than 1,000 years, taking them to Southwest Asia. Slaves were taken from Africa by Christian slave traders to work in the Americas from soon after the time it was visited by Columbus (sometimes called the post-Columbian period) to the middle of the nineteenth century, when the trade was finally eradicated.
Renegade Inc _ Don't Believe the Hype - Less Really Is More
Ask Prof Wolff - Transitions between Capitalism & Feudalism
Economic Update - A Story of War
For social scientists, comparison is an important tool for investigating the social world. By comparing how two or more societies have developed a particular way of doing something – in this case drinking coffee – it is possible to learn a great deal about the organisation of that society and the nature of that practice. What seems like a matter of individual choice is revealed to be part of a much wider interconnected web of collective forces. For example, the style of coffee you are used to drinking is very likely linked to:
the systems of coffee provision in your country – the supermarkets, coffee shops, coffee machines and technologies that offer and prepare the coffee you regularly consume
your country's historical trading partnership with colonies that produce particular types of coffee beans
public policy and legislative systems that regulate things such as the temperature of hot drinks, the levels of caffeine for a drink to be labelled as 'decaffeinated' or the prices that can be charged for basic goods
the ways different types of coffee experiences are advertised to you through the media, reinforced by cultural references such as popular TV programmes, and influenced by your friends and family.
These commercial, technological, economic, regulatory and sociocultural contexts together create and sustain distinctive cultures of coffee consumption within a country, which in turn shapes the value assigned to this commodity.
The earliest forms of slavery can be traced back to ancient Mesopotamia in the sixty-ninth century BC. Slavery was closely connected to building empires in the ancient world. It was a common feature among ancient societies and superpowers such as Babylon, Egypt and the Roman Empire, which made intensive use of slaves in achieving political and economic expansion. Captives were often taken from conquered nations as booty in wars, and subsequently deprived of their freedom and forced into labour. For example, 'The city of Rome contained a slave population of nearly 40% in the 1st century CE' (Weissbrodt, 2007). The slave in the Roman Empire had no legal status as a person. They were treated as chattels and had no individual rights. The masters exercised full control and ownership over their slaves. This included the right to seek a legal remedy if another person injured or killed their slave(s).
Box 1 The status of slaves in Roman law
A slave's status combined subjection with disability. As regards subjection, he or she was subject to the slave owner's orders. A slave could be sold, given as a gift, left by the owner's last will, surrendered for a wrong committed by the slave, mortgaged or pledged for the owner's debts. Slaves did not control their own way of life. They were items of property, things (res) in the legal sense. Unlike a free person, they had no rights enforceable by law. But they were nevertheless persons (…). Roman law, then, made an effort to deal with the paradox that, legally speaking, these items of property were human beings who, like free people, took part in ordinary life. They had families and friends. They could be doctors, actors, teachers, bookkeepers, bankers, agents, farmers, actuaries, philosophers. But they did not have the legal standing of free people: the capacity to have rights in law, to own property, to make contracts, marriages and wills, to sue and be sued in the civil courts.
(Allain, 2012, p. 13)
Secret Slaves of the Middle East⎜WHY WOMEN?⎜(Documentary)
The Megacity Secretly Built by Slaves
Maids for Sale: Silicon Valley's Online Slave Market - BBC News
- so many different groups vying for control for so long? Military, religious clerics, oligarchs, autocrats, criminals, politicians, etc?
Will Algeria's election make a difference _ Inside Story
The Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin suggested that "imperialism was the highest form of capitalism, claiming that imperialism developed after colonialism, and was distinguished from colonialism by monopoly capitalism".[9]:116 This idea from Lenin stresses how important new political world order has become in the modern era. Geopolitics now focuses on states becoming major economic players in the market; some states today are viewed as empires due to their political and economic authority over other nations.
European expansion caused the world to be divided by how developed and developing nation are portrayed through the world systems theory. The two main regions are the core and the periphery. The core consists of areas of high income and profit; the periphery is on the opposing side of the spectrum consisting of areas of low income and profit. These critical theories of geo-politics have led to increased discussion of the meaning and impact of imperialism on the modern post-colonial world.
- everything is reversed but the same? Capitalism effectively takes credit from the previous iterations of human social systems and provides them to the same type of people?
"Here I Am" - Meet a Descendant of One of 272 Enslaved People Sold on June 19, 1838, by Georgetown U.
Clint Smith on Juneteenth & Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
former colonial homes owned by celebrities
do politicians pay for their own meals
Politicians Get More In Daily Allowance Than One Week's Worth Of Welfare
$276 a day vs $267 a week for Centrelink.
'They should be ASHAMED!' Elderly Australians are forced to survive on just $6 of food a day while politicians enjoy $181 in daily perks - paid for by YOU
Union demands aged care support as politicians enjoy taxpayer-funded perks
Federal politicians can claim $181 a meal under a remuneration tribunal decision
The average cost for an aged care meal is $6.08, a Bond University study found
Does it pass the pub test?
While these gray areas exist, public outrage - whether or not something passes the pub or sniff test of public opinion - is often the only tool available for voters to demand accountability.
John Warhurst from Australian National University told Radio National why the system needs a good shake-up.
The culture of entitlement does exist within the political class."
"Most of the cases which fail the pub test are where business is manufactured and you can manufacture business very easily," John Warhurst said. "Any Government announced can be announced just about anywhere in the country, and ministers always have announcements to make."
In other words, there's a danger that MPs or Senators who want to attend a football match or theatre show can simply create business where they want to go, so that the cost of their trip is justifiable under the existing rules.
"Party political business should be ruled out, personal pleasure should be ruled out, and in some cases personal business - the business of yourself or your partner - that should be ruled out as well."
I'm on setanta (EP22) The boy Wayne appeals on behalf of Berba
I'm on setanta (EP23) Jose & Sven raise cash for Berba
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IOSS - The Battle for Berba
SPECIAL 1 TV (S1 EP09) The Managers on Unemployment
- as I said earlier I came up with a formula to gauage success under this system. If I had more time I break it down into it's weightings it would be really interesting? This system seems to require fraud? Basically, there is growth somewhere and then the people hype it up, a large section of community gets into financial difficulty and if it's large enough the economy collapses. Governments try to keep it going for as long as possible knowing that creating/manufacturing growth is really difficult? You can't have people who can honestly predict the market out there because that'll slow down economic growth or exacerbate economic downturns via bets against the local economy? Hence, massive PSYOPS campaigns in financial news?
success in this system = opportunity/network/environment/school + capital buildup/financial backing/savings + understanding local system/capitalism + understanding craft/skill/education + ethics and/or corruption level/communication/interpersonal skills + genetics/health/physical condition + effort/hard work/flexibility
Corruption keeps us safe and warm. Corruption is why you and I are prancing around in here instead of fighting over scraps of meat out in the streets. Corruption is why we win.
Syriana - Corruption
What's your impression of the CIA? A bumbling agency that can't protect its own spies? A rogue organization prone to covert operations and assassinations? Or a dedicated public service that advances the interests of the United States? Astute TV and movie viewers may have noticed that the CIA's image in popular media has spanned this entire range, with a decided shift to more positive portrayals in recent years. But what very few people know is that the Central Intelligence Agency has been actively engaged in shaping the content of film and television, especially since it established an entertainment industry liaison program in the mid-1990s.
The CIA in Hollywood offers the first full-scale investigation of the relationship between the Agency and the film and television industries. Tricia Jenkins draws on numerous interviews with the CIA's public affairs staff, operations officers, and historians, as well as with Hollywood technical consultants, producers, and screenwriters who have worked with the Agency, to uncover the nature of the CIA's role in Hollywood. In particular, she delves into the Agency's and its officers' involvement in the production of The Agency, In the Company of Spies, Alias, The Recruit, The Sum of All Fears, Enemy of the State, Syriana, The Good Shepherd, and more. Her research reveals the significant influence that the CIA now wields in Hollywood and raises important and troubling questions about the ethics and legality of a government agency using popular media to manipulate its public image.
Mark Baum and the risk assessors scene - The Big Short
The Big Short (2015) - Jared Vennett calls a Wrong Number [HD 1080p]
The Big Short: Dr M Burry(Christian Bale) takes a beating
The Big Short (2015) - Dr.Michael Burry closes Scion Capital (Final Letter to Investors)
The Big Short (2015) - Wall Street Pressures Scion Capital, Brownfield Fund & Front Point Partners
- people don't understand what they're betting on? They don't genuinely understand how cruel it is? It's like the fraud issue as mentioned in one of my previous points. Like financial fraud, it's so abstract that it's difficult to see a victim which makes it so easy to inflict pain on one another via financial instruments?
The Big Short (2015) - Brownfield Fund Shorts AA Tranches & Just Don't.... Dance
Big Short - Don't fucking dance scene
1% Unemploment goes up 40,000 Die ' Just don't F_ing Dance '
Baum realizing the housing bubble is real – The Big Short (2015)
The Big Short (2015) - Jared Vennett's Pitch to Front Point Partners (Jenga Blocks Scene) [HD 1080p]
The Big Short (2015) - 'Ali vs Foreman' of the Financial World [HD 1080p]
Usury (/ˈjuːʒəri/)[1][2] is the practice of making unethical or immoral monetary loans that unfairly enrich the lender. The term may be used in a moral sense—condemning, taking advantage of others' misfortunes—or in a legal sense, where an interest rate is charged in excess of the maximum rate that is allowed by law. A loan may be considered usurious because of excessive or abusive interest rates or other factors defined by a nation's laws. Someone who practices usury can be called an usurer, but in contemporary English may be called a loan shark.
In many historical societies including ancient Christian, Jewish, and many modern Islamic societies, usury meant the charging of interest of any kind and was considered wrong, or was made illegal.[3] During the Sutra period in India (7th to 2nd centuries BC) there were laws prohibiting the highest castes from practicing usury.[4] Similar condemnations are found in religious texts from Buddhism, Judaism (ribbit in Hebrew), Christianity, and Islam (riba in Arabic).[5] At times, many nations from ancient Greece to ancient Rome have outlawed loans with any interest. Though the Roman Empire eventually allowed loans with carefully restricted interest rates, the Catholic Church in medieval Europe, as well as the Reformed Churches, regarded the charging of interest at any rate as sinful (as well as charging a fee for the use of money, such as at a bureau de change).[6] Religious prohibitions on usury are predicated upon the belief that charging interest on a loan is a sin.
- part of me wonders what would be left of the major companies and well known individuals if you strip out every single cheat/powerup that isn't available to smaller companies? The obvious strange thing (for me ) is that most of them are located in US/Europe?
Apple's multi-billion dollar 'bribe' to do business in China
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15. Inter-American Water and Utility Society
13. Troika Laundromat
12. Daimler
11. Titan
10. GlaxoSmithKline
9. Lucent Technologies
8. Kellogg Brown and Root ([220]NYSE:KBR)
7. BAE Systems
6. Alcatel-Lucent SA
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-11/taylor-swift-to-face-copyright-lawsuit-shake-it-off/100692644
music plagiarism statistics
- I always thought the intelligence and law enforcement services were only ever supposed to work on core security issues not stuff like union breaking but apparently not? This has been going on for a long time? Same pattern exterminate, pacify, oppress, etc... whether at micro or macro level?
Striking Columbia Student Workers Demand Living Wage as School's Endowment Grows to $14 Billion
7 eleven underpayment
mcdonald's 15 per hour movement
union breaking
CIA Stories - The CIA is Born
German satire on the USA and the Middle East (subbed)
- I previously had greater respect for people in finance and economics because I had less of an understanding of what they did and how they made money. This respect has become significantly diminished now that I understand it in further detail. It only makes sense if you throw away everything that you learnt in school and think like "Dr Evil"? Basically, the people at the top do the exact same that people at the bottom do except there are more complex formulae involved. The value of everything on Earth is determined arbitrarily (often manipulated). Then business owners and other organisations chop, change, alter, etc... the value of an item or aggregate of items which makes valuation of that individual or aggregate of items much more complex and difficult. It's a series of time bounded probability games of valuation that they're playing all the time whether it involves raw materials, food, automobiles, aircraft, defense equipment, employees, etc... Good examples of this include buying bananas at wholesale prices and then selling them individually at a supermarket versus buying a company and then splitting it and selling it for it's components at a premium via a Leveraged Buy Out (LBO) via private equity/hedge funds, looking for similar companies with slight different qualities with unreasonable pricing differences and looking to trade on value, etc... There's so much jargon but once you cut through it you'll realise that the people Wall St aren't as special as you're led to believe
Private Equity Firms Prepare To Loot Public Utilities
American coup d'etat (part 2)
On Contact - American coup d'état
Austin Powers Group Therapy
- I was always under the impression that the people above were always smarter, fairer, more just, etc... then those beneath them. A long time ago, I literally thought that the founders of technology companies were just geniuses who built the core concept from scratch. That Elon Musk literally sat down and built rockets from scratch, that Larry Page/Sergi Brin literally did most of the core work for Google from scratch, that Bill Gates built much of Windows/DOS from scratch, that Jeff Bezos/Warren Buffet were monetary geniuses who built their companies from basically no capital all the way up to where they are now, metc... It becomes really apparent that the general public don't realise what's happening. If you listen in to a lot of conversations with these people you come to the realisation that they adopt a chattle like perspective of their fellow humans and a highly utilitarian perspective of objects as well. As long as they can perceive a discrepency in genuine value and perceeption of value for items and people they exploit this and make money from it. Over time I've come to realise that major company owners are good at finding investment/funding, analysis, common sense thinking, are able to cross particular moral/ethical lines that I'm certain only a certain minority of humanity would dare cross (if they understood what was happening), etc... Multiply this over many times and it becomes very easy to see why some people can become so much more wealthy then others...
"They're Built to be Thrown" The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
The wolf of wall street (midget throwing)
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amazon unix developer salary
The average salary for a Software Engineer with UNIX skills at Amazon.com Inc is $116500.
Goldman Sachs - Power and Peril - CNBC Documentary
Goldman Sachs and Greece's decline - VPRO documentary - 2012
history of slavery
6800 B.C.
In perusing the FreeTheSlaves website, the first fact that emerges is it was nearly 9,000 years ago that slavery first appeared, in Mesopotamia (6800 B.C.). Enemies captured in war were commonly kept by the conquering country as slaves.
The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day. Likewise, its victims have come from many different ethnicities and religious groups. The social, economic, and legal positions of slaves have differed vastly in different systems of slavery in different times and places.[1]
Slavery occurs relatively rarely among hunter-gatherer populations[2] because it develops under conditions of social stratification.[3] Slavery operated in the first civilizations (such as Sumer in Mesopotamia,[4] which dates back as far as 3500 BC). Slavery features in the Mesopotamian Code of Hammurabi (c. 1860 BCE), which refers to it as an established institution.[5] Slavery was widespread in the ancient world found in almost every ancient civilization, including the Roman Empire. It became less common throughout Europe during the Early Middle Ages, although it continued to be practiced in some areas. Both Christians and Muslims captured each other as slaves during centuries of warfare in the Mediterranean.[6] Islamic slavery encompassed mainly Western and Central Asia, Northern and Eastern Africa, India, and Europe from the 7th to the 20th century. The Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, British and a number of West African kingdoms played a prominent role in the Atlantic slave trade, especially after 1600.
Although slavery is no longer legal anywhere in the world, human trafficking remains an international problem and an estimated 25-40 million people were enslaved as of 2013, the majority in Asia.[7] During the 1983–2005 Second Sudanese Civil War people were taken into slavery.[8] Evidence emerged in the late 1990s of systematic child-slavery and trafficking on cacao plantations in West Africa.[9]
Slavery in the 21st century continues and generates $150bn in annual profits; modern transportation has made human trafficking easier.[10] Regions with armed conflict have vulnerable populations.[11] In 2019 there were an estimated 40 million people worldwide subject to some form of slavery, 25% of them children.[10] 61%[nb 1] are used for forced labor, mostly in the private sector. 38%[nb 2] live in forced marriages.[10] Other types of modern slavery are child soldiers, sex trafficking, and sexual slavery.
- capitalist/neo-liberal theory says that if you give lots of money to certain people good things will happen. Ironically, the proponents of this theory don't really seeing a clearer picture of things. Strip out every idea that isn't capitalist/neo-liberal and there's not much left over. The backbone for a lot of high yield ICT companies are basically based on a Free and Open Source (FOSS) backbone. Cisco, Fortinet, Ubiquiti, Bluecoat, Redhat/IBM and Canonical/Ubuntu, MariaDB/MySQL, LibreOffice/OpenOffice, Google, Amazon's AWS and Microsoft's Azure, Hewlett Packard, D-Link, TP-Link, Apple, Internet, etc.... Strip all lying, cheating, stealing, and all forms of coercian, etc.... (you could just easily call NASA the Nazi Aeronautical Space Administration?) and what's left over? Strip out all public libraries, public roads, healthcare, government, bailouts, etc... Most businesses operate similarly? Most of them don't create something genuinely new or useful. They stick a label on an existing idea, change it slightly, then sell it. Doesn't matter what sector what it is really?
GPL Source Code Support
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bloomberg terminal open source code
"We wouldn't have had an Apple, had I not grown up in a very open technology world," said Wozniak. "Back then, when you bought electronic thing like TV's and radios, every bit of the circuits and designs were included on paper. Total open source."
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web browser inventor
A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. It further provides for the capture or input of information which may be returned to the presenting system, then stored or processed as necessary. The method of accessing a particular page or content is achieved by entering its address, known as a Uniform Resource Identifier or URI. This may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content.[1] Hyperlinks present in resources enable users easily to navigate their browsers to related resources. A web browser can also be defined as an application software or program designed to enable users to access, retrieve and view documents and other resources on the Internet.
Precursors to the web browser emerged in the form of hyperlinked applications during the mid and late 1980s, and following these, Tim Berners-Lee is credited with developing, in 1990, both the first web server, and the first web browser, called WorldWideWeb (no spaces) and later renamed Nexus.[2] Many others were soon developed, with Marc Andreessen's 1993 Mosaic (later Netscape),[3] being particularly easy to use and install, and often credited with sparking the internet boom of the 1990s.[4] Today, the major web browsers are Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, and Edge.[5]
The explosion in popularity of the Web was triggered in September 1993 by NCSA Mosaic, a graphical browser which eventually ran on several popular office and home computers.[6] This was the first web browser aiming to bring multimedia content to non-technical users, and therefore included images and text on the same page, unlike previous browser designs;[7] its founder, Marc Andreessen, also established the company that in 1994, released Netscape Navigator, which resulted in one of the early browser wars, when it ended up in a competition for dominance (which it lost) with Microsoft's Internet Explorer (for Windows).
- if you track the history of some areas they never seem to change no matter how far you look?
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- As Europe saw the mercury rise with a heatwave sweeping much of the continent, some in Germany have been attempting to keep cool in less-than-conventional ways.
Police in the Brandenburg lander, north-east Germany, revealed on Wednesday that they had recently cautioned a man for riding on a motorbike wearing only a helmet and sandals.
In a tongue-in-cheek social media post, they joked that he must have been attempting "the Naked Man" seduction technique from the How I Met Your Mother television show. They also said when questioned about his state of undress, the man replied: "It's too hot!"
"We could not disagree with that, but asked him to put on his pants and then let him continue his ride," the Brandenburg police explained.
"In principle, naked driving is not forbidden. But if other people feel disturbed by this, there may be a complaint," they added.
They then proceeded to ask their followers to caption the pictures, using the hashtags #speechless, #heat, #safetyfirst and #livingontheedge.
Temperatures are expected to exceed 40 Celsius in many parts of the continent on Wednesday and Thursday. The German meteorology agency also announced that the 1947 heat record for June had been broken in Coschen, near the border with Poland, where 38.6 C was recorded.
- The creator, who requested to be identified as Alberto, told Vice that his brainchild uses an algorithm called the Conditional Adversarial Network (cGAN), which was trained to generate naked images after learning from a dataset of more than 10,000 nude photos of women.
"I'm not a voyeur, I'm a technology enthusiast," he was quoted as saying. "Continuing to improve the algorithm. Recently, also due to previous failures (other startups) and economic problems, I asked myself if I could have an economic return from this algorithm. That's why I created DeepNude."
"This is absolutely terrifying," said Katelyn Bowden, founder and CEO of non-profit Badass, which fights revenge porn and image abuse. "Now anyone could find themselves a victim of revenge porn, without ever having taken a nude photo. This tech should not be available to the public."
Danielle Citron, professor of law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, called the technology an "invasion of sexual privacy."
But the creator insisted that DeepNude doesn't make much of a difference and was no more harmful than Photoshop, which effectively just takes more time to achieve the same results.
Shortly after the initial report in Vice, DeepNude's Twitter said the yet-unstable website was down due to an unexpected increase in traffic. It was unavailable as of the time of writing.
- Critics pointed out that humans do not live merely as individuals. We are social beings and find our individuality and discover meaning only through others. Hence the importance to political life not just of individuals but also of communities and collectives.
In Hungary, at least, the oligarchs don't determine politics. It's the other way round: politics determine the oligarchs.
The EU cohesion fund is one of the root causes of the oligarch affliction. According to Brussels, this is how it is supposed to work: EU money helps poorer countries align their level of economic development to that of the more affluent western European countries — hence the term "cohesion." This economic convergence will then, in Brussels' view, also bolster a convergence of valuesand promote the acceptance of democracy, free markets and the rule of law.
People in central and eastern European countries, however, have taken a very close look at this strategy. It was determined that a considerable portion of those funds, which are often used for infrastructure projects, eventually ends up in pockets of western European conglomerates that have the know-how, competitiveness and capacity to win public tenders. So funds that were originally transferred to the east are, at least in part, channeled back to the west.
In this respect, the emergence of the oligarch affliction in central and eastern Europe amounts, to a certain degree, to an attempt at keeping those funds within national borders. In Hungary, at least, the government intentionally established politically loyal entrepreneurs who win public tenders with disproportionate frequency. Orban has called this "neo-mercantilism," a term from economic history referring to an era in Europe in which domestic industries were set up behind protectionist customs barriers. The scheme could also, in a manner of speaking, be called "patriotic corruption."
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- The Nanchang was launched at Shanghai's Jiangnan Changxin shipyard in June 2017. The Type 055, which is classed as a cruiser by the Pentagon, measures almost 590 feet and displaces 10,000 tons according to specifications released by China — although some naval analysts believe that figure is an underestimation. Each ship is also equipped with a total of 112 vertical launch cells that are capable of launching either surface-to-air or anti-ship missiles, and fitted with a modern sensor suite that includes phased array radars.
Speaking at a regular press briefing conducted by China's Ministry National Defense on Thursday, Senior Col. Ren Guoqiang confirmed that the Nanchang is on the verge of completing sea trials and will be officially handed over to the PLAN later this year.
In addition to the Nanchang, recent open-source satellite and aerial imagery show that seven other Type 055s are in various states of construction and fitting out at the two major Chinese naval shipyards in Shanghai and Dalian. The latter is also where China's first domestically-built carrier, which is based closely on the Liaoning, is currently being completed. Further underscoring the astonishing pace of China's ongoing naval buildup, the photos also show five other smaller Type 052D destroyers undergoing construction at Dalian with six more being built at Shanghai. The latter shipyard has four more destroyers of an unknown sub-type being put together, along with what are reportedly the modules for China's third and largest aircraft carrier.
Russian naval activity in the Mediterranean goes beyond the presence of American carriers. Revival of Russia's Black Sea Fleet — and, by extension, the old Mediterranean flotilla — was one of the key provisions of Russia's updated naval doctrine in 2015. The annexation of Crimea the year before gave Moscow unhindered access to the key naval base at Sevastopol and opened the door to modernization of that fleet, once prohibited under an agreement with Ukraine.
Crimea also enabled much of what Russia has done in Syria since its surprise intervention in that Middle Eastern conflict in late 2015. Equipment is regularly ferried from Sevastopol, on down through the Bosphorus, into the eastern Mediterranean and then delivered to the Russian naval station at Tartus on the Syrian coast. Meanwhile, Russian warships set up shop in the eastern Mediterranean and have been a regular fixture ever since.
But renewed activity by Russia's Navy extends beyond the Black Sea and eastern Mediterranean. The service as a whole has been a key beneficiary of President Vladimir Putin's military modernization efforts. New submarines — nuclear and conventionally powered — are coming online across all of Russia's major fleets, as are smaller surface platforms. Russia is again active in the north Atlantic, the Baltic and the Arctic.
"The Russian Navy has definitely modernized. They have put some of their capital into faster, leaner, more agile and smaller warships," Foggo said, referring to Russia's Admiral Grigorovich- and Admiral Gorshkov-class frigates as well as the Steregushchy-class corvettes. "And they have never stopped putting money into the undersea domain and their submarine force, which is very capable. So, to tell you the truth, I respect the Russian Navy for the capability that they have."
However, Foggo noted, nothing the Russian Navy can muster compares to the show of force assembled in the Mediterranean. "Nothing comes close to this," Foggo said, gesturing around the flag bridge of the Lincoln, "a [U.S.] carrier strike group, two at a time in the Med."
- Critics point to other frozen conflicts in former Soviet republics where Russia has granted citizenship to residents of separatist-held territory in order to choreograph demographic changes over time and justify future military operations.
In 2002, the Kremlin began granting Russian citizenship to residents of Georgia's breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia – a policy that helped raise the number of Russian passport holders there from about 20 percent to more than 85 percent of the population.
Then, when Russia went to war against Georgia in August 2008, the Kremlin justified its deployment of Russian military forces in Abkhazia and South Ossetia by saying those forces were needed to protect Russia citizens in the separatist regions.
Russian media reports say Russia also has issued its passports to nearly half of the residents of Moldova's Moscow-backed breakaway region of Transdniester.
That policy has raised concerns in Chisinau that the Kremlin may use a similar argument of defending its citizens in order to justify future Russian military operations in Transdniester.
- Poor U.S. Air Force organization and management have contributed to problems with the F-22 Raptor fighter, according to a new Government Accountability Office audit.
F-22 availability, already diminished by maintenance problems endemic to the complex and finicky stealth fighter, has been further reduced by the small size of F-22 squadrons and the practice of deploying small detachments from individual squadrons overseas. The combined effect has been to reduce F-22 availability to the point where there are neither enough planes to meet mission requirements nor to provide pilots with sufficient training for air-to-air combat, which is the Raptor's primary role
"The small size of F-22 squadrons and wings has contributed to low aircraft availability rates," according to GAO. "Further, the Air Force practice of deploying a small portion of a squadron makes it difficult for F-22 squadrons, as currently organized, to make aircraft available for their missions at home station. The Air Force would also face difficulties generating aircraft to support DOD's concepts for using distributed operations in high threat environments with its current F-22 squadron organization."
Although a U.S.-Chinese cyber-hacking truce was announced in 2015, Kazianis and others remain skeptical it will matter over the long term. He says China could have agents in other countries still doing hacking or "camouflage" such activity through various methods.
"So we don't even have a good idea if they stopped," he said. "It's obviously a huge, huge problem."
According to Kazianis, the Chinese have been able to hack into computer networks to steal designs and other information on U.S. carriers, advanced defense systems as well as the F-22 and F-35 jets.
Indeed, a federal grand jury in 2014 indicted a Chinese national for a computer hacking scheme that involved the theft of trade secrets from Boeing's C-17 military transport aircraft. The individual, who last year entered a guilty plea, also was accused of working with two co-conspirators based in China to steal military data about the F-22 and F-35 jets.
The concern is China's supersonic J-20 could one day become a threat to the F-22 and the smaller F-35 fighters.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank based in Washington, said Beijing's "J-20 has the potential to considerably enhance China's regional military strength."
For one, the J-20's could give China an advantage should it want to use the warplane in a dogfight with the U.S. or allies. Also, depending on its stealth capabilities, the J-20 could be used for strikes on Taiwan or U.S. airbases.
Then again, the J-20's design may make it susceptible to detection. It features angles that allow it to deflect radar emissions from the front but reports suggest its signature reduction falls short elsewhere. Portions of the J-20's engines also "may work against its stealth capabilities," according to CSIS.
"Almost every fighter in the world has some kind of emissions that come out with radar or communications devices just like radios that we can detect," said John "JV" Venable, a senior research fellow for defense policy at the Heritage Foundation, a Washington conservative think tank. "When we can pick those [emissions] up, then we can actually find, fix and kill that fighter."
Venable, a retired Air Force colonel, said the U.S. military's ability to "mask emissions is very good, and our ability to detect is very good. We just don't know what theirs is [with the J-20]."
