“But despite UN appeals, the foreign assets of Afghanistan to the tune of $9.6 billion remain frozen.”
Come on. The agentless passive. Really? Who, I wonder, would be so morbid as to encourage mass starvation and poverty on a people who defeated them after years of being bombed and attacked. Who would do such a thing? Certainly not a leading liberal democracy. Agentless passives. Pulease.
Why should I care if religious bigots find this bigotries don't lead to success? Why don't their militaries reduce in size and shift priorities from so-called 'defence' to environmental improvements? Where are their billionaires? Shopping in London and Paris or sipping champagne on various rivieras. Are their governments, so-called holy men, and leading citizens calling for unity and wise actions? No they are leading religious genocides. Do they demand proper compensation for their people's labours or the countries resources? No, they sell for pennies so that they can pretend to be western.
Simone Weil: “Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring.”
Robert Mitchum was making a movie in Trinidad with John Huston. Mitchum walked around a lobby corner and found Huston masturbating the hotel's pet monkey. Mitchum asked, 'Why? Why do you do this, John?' 'The monkey likes it', said Huston, 'He really likes it!’
Lyndon B. Johnson: “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best coloured man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, 1933: “We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.”
"God's Work" (perhaps with assistance from Lloyd Blankfein) has been done, and it is good.
"I believe that Americans in 1980 are every bit as committed to that vision of a shining city on a hill, as were those long ago settlers ... These visitors to that city on the Potomac do not come as white or black, red or yellow; they are not Jews or Christians; conservatives or liberals; or Democrats or Republicans. They are Americans awed by what has gone before, proud of what for them is still… a shining city on a hill"--Ronald Reagan.
The only responsibility the US has is to crush the Iranian regime which is a huge threat to world peace. Unfortunately Trump realized it. Biden doesn't.
“But despite UN appeals, the foreign assets of Afghanistan to the tune of $9.6 billion remain frozen.”
Come on. The agentless passive. Really? Who, I wonder, would be so morbid as to encourage mass starvation and poverty on a people who defeated them after years of being bombed and attacked. Who would do such a thing? Certainly not a leading liberal democracy. Agentless passives. Pulease.
Why should I care if religious bigots find this bigotries don't lead to success? Why don't their militaries reduce in size and shift priorities from so-called 'defence' to environmental improvements? Where are their billionaires? Shopping in London and Paris or sipping champagne on various rivieras. Are their governments, so-called holy men, and leading citizens calling for unity and wise actions? No they are leading religious genocides. Do they demand proper compensation for their people's labours or the countries resources? No, they sell for pennies so that they can pretend to be western.
Simone Weil: “Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring.”
Robert Mitchum was making a movie in Trinidad with John Huston. Mitchum walked around a lobby corner and found Huston masturbating the hotel's pet monkey. Mitchum asked, 'Why? Why do you do this, John?' 'The monkey likes it', said Huston, 'He really likes it!’
Lyndon B. Johnson: “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best coloured man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, 1933: “We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.”
UN report says more than 50 pc indians have nothing. And says 9 out of 10 afghans poor this year. Why not UN give billion 200$ to India?
Devastating on all levels.
Knowing the Turkish economy and its problems a bit, I think PPP-adjusted GDP per capita estimates highly distort the standard of living in the country. For the problems associated with PPP adjustment see Jayati Ghosh's piece: https://rwer.wordpress.com/2021/08/13/ppp-exchange-rates-are-riddled-with-problems/
Worse than the *sum* of its parts
"God's Work" (perhaps with assistance from Lloyd Blankfein) has been done, and it is good.
"I believe that Americans in 1980 are every bit as committed to that vision of a shining city on a hill, as were those long ago settlers ... These visitors to that city on the Potomac do not come as white or black, red or yellow; they are not Jews or Christians; conservatives or liberals; or Democrats or Republicans. They are Americans awed by what has gone before, proud of what for them is still… a shining city on a hill"--Ronald Reagan.
The only responsibility the US has is to crush the Iranian regime which is a huge threat to world peace. Unfortunately Trump realized it. Biden doesn't.