I agree whole heartedly!  I cannot believe that people are actually buying into Pailin; i'm sure everyones heard this rant (so i won't)...  But everytime i see TIME or news week, it makes me sick.  =X

Ah, I don;t feel like reading your bickering

but i did find this amusing.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/18/AR2008091803052.html?wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter

YES!  I am not crazy!  Free trade parallels the idea of free markets, which we all know cannot exist.

FREE TRADE IS NOT FAIR TRADE!!!!!! AHHH!!!

FREE TRADE WILL NOT ALLEVIATE POVERTY in developing countries; it will only hinder.  Correct me if I'm wrong, (seriously), free trade is the eliminating of tariffs and trade barriers yes?  So, the reasoning behind free trade is the idea that it will create a comparative advantage for those producers that are able to provide at lowest cost?  Wouldn't that just drive a further wedge between the rich and poor?  Wouldn't the small farmers of Nigeria be better off, if they didn't have to compete with outside competition from the developing countries?  The small farmer is more vulnerable to market price no?  Thus not weeping the advantages of free-trade as a developed country would.  right?  Free trade would only lead to further exploitation.

Look into "fair trade," which is a movement focused on creating security and economic self-sufficiency, for those in developing countries.  (which on a side note is much like a subsidy). *ironic*


Fair trade are what your precious ngo's are striving to achieve.  I personally don't believe in ngo's they are very limited in their efficiencies and abilities!!  I am all about the shared corporation between International Governmental Organizations such as the UN, EU, WTO, and NGO's such as OxFam. 



 

Ah well darling,

think of it this way: if something is worth doing, it is only worth doing well.  This failure, will only lead to a different road toward success. 

... No?

I firmly believe that genocide is a tool used by government or whom ever is trying to gain power.  It is a way of creating or differentiating those who "belong" and the outsiders.  Thus, strengthening things like nationalism in a time of crisis and political instability.  Obviously genocide is in no way a good thing, don't get me wrong, it's just an extreme.

wow...  that is pretty terrible.  I actually used to like him.  He's probably trying to be publicity because he was trying to land his own show for years.  Fucking bastard.

No national banks!  That's a terrible idea, it works in the Nordic countries, because they have a different economy!  We mainly provide services, ie. financial services, thus, we're a global power... muahaha.  Though the FED needs to regulate, and I'm still on the fence about the Bear bail out.  As for the fed having more power, eh, there will always be market inefficiencies.  That's how you make money... off of other's stupidity.

Battle Cruisers and have cloaked ghosts to nuke.

Where's Gojira?!  I'm waiting for him to go off on his subsidized farmers rant.

I wondered this myself.  America throughout the decades have seen many waves of immigration from the Irish to the Chinese all for the same reasons, to escape oppression and to preserve their livelihood.  I think partly to blame is *drum rolls *....capitalism. Multinational corporations in the 90's flourished because of NAFTA and international trade, and firms in the industry, are always trying to produce at lowest cost and maximize profit, manufactured there, then later moved somewhere cheaper.  Thus, unemployment rose and national income in Mexico declined.  The government had basically whored themselves and these corporations took advantage of the cheap labor.  Not to mention polluted and left their land in ungodly conditions riddled with rotting warehouses and toxic landfills.  I believe that was the tipping point for the wave of immigrants.  In order to survive they had to find work, why not just go north and find a job and earn a wage in USD and convert to peso which at the time worth less than toilet paper.  Don't believe me look at the unilateral transfers abroad.  It seems that more money is sent back to Mexico than remains here, but then again...  there's the under the table stuff. 

Basically, it's because of the poverty in their own nation that drives them here.  Clam down with that scrutinizing illegals, yes i think that it causes A LOT of problems like bankrupt hospitals, increased disease and crime rates, but these are just effects of supply shock.   Rather than try to stop the problem, why not think of a way to adjust, and benefit from the "problem."  Everyone has a place in the economy.

sounds like a black sheep.  everyone has one or two in the family.  it happens, because of no convictions and no regard for anyone else, it's a very selfish life.  sorry.  but just keep faith and just love her or ignore her, whatever, your conscience allows.

Take down the Union Jack, it clashes with the sunset
And put it in the attic with the emperors old clothes
When did it fall apart? Sometime in the 80s
When the Great and the Good gave way to the greedy and the mean
Britain isn't cool you know, its really not that great
It's not a proper country, it doesn't even have a patron saint
It's just an economic union that's passed its sell-by date

Take down the Union Jack, it clashes with the sunset
And ask our Scottish neighbours if independence looks any good
'Cos they just might understand how to take an abstract notion
Of personal identity and turn it into nationhood
Is this the 19th century that I'm watching on tv?
The dear old Queen of England handing out those MBEs
Member of the British Empire - that doesn't sound too good to me

Gilbert and George are taking the piss aren't they?
Gilbert and George are taking the piss.
What could be more British than here's a picture of my bum?
Gilbert and George are taking the piss

Take down the Union Jack, it clashes with the sunset
And pile all those history books, but don't throw them away
They just might have some clues about what it really means
To be an Anglo hyphen Saxon in England.co.uk


bbillllyyyyy bragggggg....

(disclaimer:  I didn't read the post, but i caught a glimpse of a bit on Scottish independence?  anyway catchy song..)

haha, i took IR my freshman year, best professor! 

Anyway, i can see how the realist perspective may seem explain a lot of history, but as we are increasingly becoming interdependent economically the muscle that was once needed for protection has softened into a power of cultural and idealogical influences.  If you look at Globalization as it were an ungoverned entity by nature, and it is the pursuit of self-interest that propels it.  But if you think about it it is the liberalism that perpetuates the idea that we are not citizens defined by the boundaries of out state, however we are citizens of the world, because in the end we all just want the same things. 

Also take into consideration there exists liberal realism and constructivism.  (there may be some overlay.)

I'd say everyone should just respect sovereignty and let's all live as one race, the human race... *hug me*

I'm going to steal the show, sorry!