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Monkey Turbo
Sep 8, 2001
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It appears the world favours UN reforms:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4362709.stm

Excerpt:

There is overwhelming popular support for the UN to be reformed, according to a BBC World Service poll among the citizens of 23 countries.
They favoured a more powerful UN and backed the idea of adding Germany, India, Japan and Brazil to the organisation's Security Council.

Most wanted the Security Council to be able to override the veto power of the permanent members.

Just over 23,500 people were questioned for the survey, completed in January.

The proposal to expand the UN Security Council to include new permanent members was supported by a majority in 22 of the 23 countries.
 

ALEXIS_DH

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does anybody has an argument against giving more power to UN, on the grounds of "sovereign" and stuff??

is there any difference, or reason to believe there is a difference in moving from a "national-ethnical gvmnt" to a "world or bigger chunk of the world gvmt".. than say moving from feudalism into nationalism??? :think:
 

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Monkey Turbo
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And in other, not totally-unrelated, news:

Europe a Positive Force for the World...


Europe - and France in particular - are seen as benevolent forces in a world largely scornful of US influence, a poll taken in 23 countries suggests.
The survey found that, on average, 58% of people want Europe to play a bigger role than the US in world affairs.

France emerged as the single country with the best reputation abroad.

The survey was carried out by polling group GlobeScan and the University of Maryland with some questions provided by the BBC World Service.

Of the 23,518 people polled, 47% said the US had a negative effect on the world, with US neighbours and allied countries being among its biggest critics.

Overall, 15 of the 23 countries surveyed said the US had a negative influence in the world.
 

ohio

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fluff said:
France emerged as the single country with the best reputation abroad.
You have to admit, that one's kind of funny.

I would like to see a more powerful UN, but first I'd like to see a UN that actually notices when people are killing each other (Rwanda, Sudan), instead of squabbling over individual members that hurt their feelings.
 

fluff

Monkey Turbo
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ohio said:
You have to admit, that one's kind of funny.

I would like to see a more powerful UN, but first I'd like to see a UN that actually notices when people are killing each other (Rwanda, Sudan), instead of squabbling over individual members that hurt their feelings.
I agree, both about France and the UN.

Going back to the UN reform issue however I would like to see the following:

No Vetoes
Troops and equipment seconded to the UN on a regular basis (as an effective standing army)
Enlarged security council
Individual nation's regimes excluded from votes regarding their human rights violations

These would go some way to preventing the inaction.
 

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Sep 10, 2001
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ALEXIS_DH said:
does anybody has an argument against giving more power to UN, on the grounds of "sovereign" and stuff??

is there any difference, or reason to believe there is a difference in moving from a "national-ethnical gvmnt" to a "world or bigger chunk of the world gvmt".. than say moving from feudalism into nationalism??? :think:
IMO that opens the door to wholesale redistribution of wealth.
 

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the UN should be reinforced in a way that some countrys dont over run its desitions and even with the UN's disaproval still go and fight other countrys for oil and such...
 

Changleen

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fluff said:
Careful, you might start a trend.
Not again! I can barely get a new haircut these days without people copying me... Seriously, I get a haircut, within a month, like everyone I know gets ther haircut too!
 

fluff

Monkey Turbo
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Changleen said:
Not again! I can barely get a new haircut these days without people copying me... Seriously, I get a haircut, within a month, like everyone I know gets ther haircut too!
Is everyone in NZ sporting Burberry caps now then?
 

RhinofromWA

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Is everyone in NZ sporting Burberry caps now then?
What the hell is Burberry? Other than plaid? :confused: I have a buddy and he is giddy with his f'n Burberry hat? I don't get it? He isn't a lumber jack....and he aint Irish.....what is the big deal?

:D
 

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Monkey Pimp
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fluff said:
And that would be a bad thing?

I s'pose that depends on if you live in a country that produces wealth or merely consumes that of others.

This sort of thing amounts to little more than the creation of a welfare system for underachiving nations.

GDP-PPP (calculated in millions of Int' dollars)

1 United States 11,784,781
2 People's Republic of China 7,592,286
3 Japan 3,727,949
4 India 3,334,923
5 Germany 2,408,867
6 France 1,745,946
7 United Kingdom 1,739,572
8 Italy 1,653,289
9 Brazil 1,525,721
10 Russia 1,456,964
11 Canada 1,067,786
12 Mexico 1,026,465
13 Spain 989,427
14 Korea 951,457
15 Indonesia 820,543
16 Australia 613,888
17 Republic of China (Taiwan) 603,390
18 Iran 530,161
19 Turkey 523,661
20 Thailand 514,236
21 South Africa 510,333
22 Netherlands 487,211
23 Poland 473,813
24 Argentina 469,447
25 Philippines 391,849
26 Pakistan 368,025
27 Colombia 310,882
28 Belgium 308,447
29 Bangladesh 294,645
30 Saudi Arabia 290,742
31 Ukraine 285,938
32 Egypt 282,934
33 Malaysia 271,167
34 Sweden 267,494
35 Austria 262,295
36 Switzerland 226,290
37 Greece 225,077
38 Vietnam 222,345
39 Algeria 220,258
40 Hong Kong 205,329
41 Portugal 197,713
42 Norway 188,322
43 Denmark 179,797
44 Chile 178,770
45 Romania 176,502
46 Czech Republic 175,202
47 Hungary 159,466
48 Peru 157,979
49 Ireland 154,050
50 Finland 152,097
51 Israel 145,189
52 Nigeria 140,561
53 Morocco 134,492
54 Venezuela 124,894
55 Kazakhstan 116,918
56 Singapore 111,507
57 United Arab Emirates 91,726
58 New Zealand 91,313
59 Sri Lanka 84,386
60 Myanmar 81,283
61 Tunisia 80,965
62 Slovakia 80,461
63 Sudan 78,521
64 Syria 69,196
65 Bulgaria 69,087
66 Belarus 62,040
67 Dominican Republic 58,615
68 Libya 56,959
69 Ecuador 56,339
70 Guatemala 55,537
71 Ethiopia 54,725
72 Croatia 53,064
73 Ghana 50,715
74 Uzbekistan 45,489
75 Lithuania 44,400
76 Uruguay 43,531
77 Serbia and Montenegro 43,065
78 Slovenia 43,045
79 Costa Rica 40,735
80 Oman 40,655
81 Uganda 40,358
82 Angola 40,196
83 Democratic Republic of the Congo 38,398
84 Kuwait 37,398
85 Nepal 37,352
86 Azerbaijan 36,331
87 Kenya 35,713
88 Cameroon 33,711
89 Turkmenistan 31,101
90 El Salvador 30,703
91 Luxembourg 29,952
92 Côte d'Ivoire 28,143
93 Bosnia and Herzegovina 27,572
94 Zimbabwe 26,672
95 Mozambique 26,554
96 Paraguay 26,273
97 Latvia 26,266
98 Jordan 25,824
99 Cambodia 25,648
100 Tanzania 25,188
101 Bolivia 24,842
102 Equatorial Guinea 24,487
103 Qatar 22,585
104 Lebanon 21,909
105 Panama 20,957
106 Estonia 19,603
107 Senegal 19,532
108 Honduras 19,400
109 Guinea 19,307
110 Yemen 18,267
111 Botswana 16,468
112 Cyprus 16,326
113 Albania 16,297
114 Burkina Faso 15,832
115 Trinidad and Tobago 15,829
116 Chad 15,741
117 Mauritius 15,639
118 Republic of Macedonia 15,353
119 Madagascar 15,183
120 Nicaragua 14,917
121 Haiti 14,404
122 Bahrain 14,132
123 Namibia 14,128
124 Georgia 13,809
125 Papua New Guinea 13,137
126 Rwanda 12,262
127 Laos 11,832
128 Armenia 11,718
129 Mali 11,681
130 Jamaica 11,098
131 Niger 10,760
132 Zambia 10,369
133 Kyrgyzstan 9,885
134 Iceland 9,708
135 Gabon 8,731
136 Benin 8,705
137 Malta 8,378
138 Togo 8,013
139 Moldova 7,860
140 Malawi 7,704
141 Tajikistan 7,339
142 Mauritania 6,086
143 The Bahamas 5,861
144 Brunei 5,658
145 Burundi 5,407
146 Lesotho 5,357
147 Swaziland 5,349
148 Fiji 5,221
149 Central African Republic 5,149
150 Mongolia 4,982
151 Eritrea 4,895
152 Barbados 4,394
153 Netherlands Antilles 4,011
154 Republic of the Congo 3,803
155 Guyana 3,495
156 Sierra Leone 3,425
157 The Gambia 2,895
158 Bhutan 2,877
159 Suriname 2,740
160 Cape Verde 2,708
161 Maldives 2,346
162 Belize 1,786
163 Djibouti 1,564
164 Samoa 1,122
165 Guinea-Bissau 1,117
166 Comoros 1,106
167 Seychelles 987
168 Saint Lucia 929
169 Grenada 851
170 Solomon Islands 846
171 Antigua and Barbuda 826
172 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 741
173 Tonga 701
174 Vanuatu 666
175 Saint Kitts and Nevis 585
176 Dominica 425
177 São Tomé and Príncipe 255
178 Kiribati 236
179 East Timor 0

The international dollar is a hypothetical unit of currency that has the same purchasing power that the U.S. dollar has in the United States at a given point in time. It shows how much a local currency unit is worth within the country's borders. Conversions to international dollars are calculated using purchasing power parities (PPP). It is comparisons both between countries and over time. For example, comparing per capita gross domestic product (GDP) of various countries in international dollars, rather than based simply on exchange rates, provides a more valid measure to compare standards of living.

Figures expressed in international dollars cannot be converted to another country's currency using current market exchange rates; instead they must be converted using the country's PPP exchange rate used in the study.
 

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Monkey Pimp
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Something just occured to me. Does GDP take into account multi-national corporations?
I mean, does the revenue and consumption net from the BMW plant in VA go toward Germany or the US? Conversly if a US company manufactures in China does stuff go toward China or the US? ...and since New Zeland produces jack-sh$t what are they good for anyway? :nuts:

I dunno.
 

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Monkey Pimp
Sep 10, 2001
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Here is the same Data per-capita.
Way to go Peru! No wonder Alex is in favor of redistribution.

1 Luxembourg $ 55,100 2003 est.
2 Norway $ 37,800 2003 est.
3 United States $ 37,800 2003 est.
4 Bermuda $ 36,000 2003 est.
5 Cayman Islands $ 35,000 2002 est.
6 San Marino $ 34,600 2001 est.
7 Switzerland $ 32,700 2003 est.
8 Denmark $ 31,100 2003 est.
9 Iceland $ 30,900 2003 est.
10 Austria $ 30,000 2003 est.
11 Canada $ 29,800 2003 est.
12 Ireland $ 29,600 2003 est.
13 Belgium $ 29,100 2003 est.
14 Australia $ 29,000 2003 est.
15 Hong Kong $ 28,800 2003 est.
16 Netherlands $ 28,600 2003 est.
17 Japan $ 28,200 2003 est.
18 Aruba $ 28,000 2002 est.
19 United Kingdom $ 27,700 2003 est.
20 France $ 27,600 2003 est.
21 Germany $ 27,600 2003 est.
22 Finland $ 27,400 2003 est.
23 Monaco $ 27,000 1999 est.
24 Sweden $ 26,800 2003 est.
25 Italy $ 26,700 2003 est.
26 European Union $ 25,700 2004 est.
27 Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) $ 25,000 2002 est.
28 Liechtenstein $ 25,000 1999 est.
29 Jersey $ 24,800 1999 est.
30 Singapore $ 23,700 2003 est.
31 Taiwan $ 23,400 2003 est.
32 United Arab Emirates $ 23,200 2003 est.
33 Faroe Islands $ 22,000 2001 est.
34 Spain $ 22,000 2003 est.
35 New Zealand $ 21,600 2003 est.
36 Qatar $ 21,500 2003 est.
37 Guam $ 21,000 2000 est.
38 Man, Isle of $ 21,000 2001 est.
39 Guernsey $ 20,000 1999 est.
40 Greenland $ 20,000 2001 est.
41 Greece $ 20,000 2003 est.
42 Israel $ 19,800 2003 est.
43 Macau $ 19,400 2003 est.
44 Cyprus $ 19,200 2003 est.
45 Andorra $ 19,000 2000 est.
46 Slovenia $ 19,000 2003 est.
47 Kuwait $ 19,000 2003 est.
48 Brunei $ 18,600 2002 est.
49 Portugal $ 18,000 2003 est.
50 Korea, South $ 17,800 2003 est.
51 Malta $ 17,700 2003 est.
52 French Polynesia $ 17,500 2001 est.
53 Gibraltar $ 17,500 1997 est.
54 Virgin Islands $ 17,200 2002 est.
55 Bahrain $ 16,900 2003 est.
56 Puerto Rico $ 16,800 2003 est.
57 Bahamas, The $ 16,700 2003 est.
58 British Virgin Islands $ 16,000 2002 est.
59 Barbados $ 15,700 2003 est.
60 Czech Republic $ 15,700 2003 est.
61 New Caledonia $ 15,000 2001 est.
62 Martinique $ 14,400 2001 est.
63 Hungary $ 13,900 2003 est.
64 Slovakia $ 13,300 2003 est.
65 Oman $ 13,100 2003 est.
66 Uruguay $ 12,800 2003 est.
67 Northern Mariana Islands $ 12,500 2000 est.
68 Estonia $ 12,300 2003 est.
69 Saudi Arabia $ 11,800 2003 est.
70 Lithuania $ 11,400 2003 est.
71 Mauritius $ 11,400 2003 est.
72 Netherlands Antilles $ 11,400 2003 est.
73 Argentina $ 11,200 2003 est.
74 Poland $ 11,100 2003 est.
75 Antigua and Barbuda $ 11,000 2002 est.
76 South Africa $ 10,700 2003 est.
77 Croatia $ 10,600 2003 est.
78 Latvia $ 10,200 2003 est.
79 Chile $ 9,900 2003 est.
80 Turks and Caicos Islands $ 9,600 2000 est.
81 Trinidad and Tobago $ 9,500 2003 est.
82 Costa Rica $ 9,100 2003 est.
83 Botswana $ 9,000 2003 est.
84 Mexico $ 9,000 2003 est.
85 Palau $ 9,000 2001 est.
86 Malaysia $ 9,000 2003 est.
87 Russia $ 8,900 2003 est.
88 Saint Kitts and Nevis $ 8,800 2002 est.
89 Anguilla $ 8,600 2001 est.
90 French Guiana $ 8,300 2001 est.
91 World $ 8,200 2003 est.
92 American Samoa $ 8,000 2000 est.
93 Guadeloupe $ 8,000 2001 est.
94 Seychelles $ 7,800 2002 est.
95 Brazil $ 7,600 2003 est.
96 Bulgaria $ 7,600 2003 est.
97 Thailand $ 7,400 2003 est.
98 Namibia $ 7,200 2003 est.
99 Iran $ 7,000 2003 est.
100 Romania $ 7,000 2003 est.
101 Saint Pierre and Miquelon $ 6,900 2001 est.
102 Tunisia $ 6,900 2003 est.
103 Macedonia $ 6,700 2003 est.
104 Turkey $ 6,700 2003 est.
105 Libya $ 6,400 2003 est.
106 Colombia $ 6,300 2003 est.
107 Kazakhstan $ 6,300 2003 est.
108 Panama $ 6,300 2003 est.
109 Bosnia and Herzegovina $ 6,100 2003 est.
110 Belarus $ 6,100 2003 est.
111 Algeria $ 6,000 2003 est.
112 Dominican Republic $ 6,000 2003 est.
113 Fiji $ 5,800 2003 est.
114 Turkmenistan $ 5,800 2003 est.
115 Reunion $ 5,800 2001 est.
116 Cyprus $ 5,600 2003 est.
117 Samoa $ 5,600 2002 est.
118 Gabon $ 5,500 2003 est.
119 Dominica $ 5,400 2002 est.
120 Saint Lucia $ 5,400 2002 est.
121 Ukraine $ 5,400 2003 est.
122 Peru $ 5,100 2003 est.
123 China $ 5,000 2003 est.
124 Cook Islands $ 5,000 2001 est.
125 Nauru $ 5,000 2001 est.
126 Grenada $ 5,000 2002 est.
127 Belize $ 4,900 2002 est.
128 Swaziland $ 4,900 2003 est.
129 El Salvador $ 4,800 2003 est.
130 Venezuela $ 4,800 2003 est.
131 Lebanon $ 4,800 2003 est.
132 Paraguay $ 4,700 2003 est.
133 Philippines $ 4,600 2003 est.
134 Albania $ 4,500 2003 est.
135 Jordan $ 4,300 2003 est.
136 Guatemala $ 4,100 2003 est.
137 Egypt $ 4,000 2003 est.
138 Guyana $ 4,000 2003 est.
139 Morocco $ 4,000 2003 est.
140 Suriname $ 4,000 2003 est.
141 Jamaica $ 3,900 2003 est.
142 Maldives $ 3,900 2002 est.
143 Sri Lanka $ 3,700 2003 est.
144 Wallis and Futuna $ 3,700 2001 est.
145 Niue $ 3,600 2000 est.
146 Armenia $ 3,500 2003 est.
147 Azerbaijan $ 3,400 2003 est.
148 Montserrat $ 3,400 2002 est.
149 Ecuador $ 3,300 2003 est.
150 Syria $ 3,300 2003 est.
151 Indonesia $ 3,200 2003 est.
152 Lesotho $ 3,000 2003 est.
153 Cuba $ 2,900 2003 est.
154 Vanuatu $ 2,900 2002 est.
155 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines $ 2,900 2002 est.
156 India $ 2,900 2003 est.
157 Equatorial Guinea $ 2,700 2002 est.
158 Honduras $ 2,600 2003 est.
159 Mayotte $ 2,600 1998 est.
160 Georgia $ 2,500 2003 est.
161 Vietnam $ 2,500 2003 est.
162 Saint Helena $ 2,500 1998 est.
163 Bolivia $ 2,400 2003 est.
164 Nicaragua $ 2,300 2003 est.
165 Ghana $ 2,200 2003 est.
166 Papua New Guinea $ 2,200 2003 est.
167 Serbia and Montenegro $ 2,200 2003 est.
168 Tonga $ 2,200 2001 est.
169 Guinea $ 2,100 2003 est.
170 Pakistan $ 2,100 2003 est.
171 Micronesia, Federated States of $ 2,000 2002 est.
172 Angola $ 1,900 2003 est.
173 Zimbabwe $ 1,900 2003 est.
174 Sudan $ 1,900 2003 est.
175 Cambodia $ 1,900 2003 est.
176 Bangladesh $ 1,900 2003 est.
177 Burma $ 1,800 2003 est.
178 Mauritania $ 1,800 2003 est.
179 Mongolia $ 1,800 2003 est.
180 Moldova $ 1,800 2003 est.
181 Cameroon $ 1,800 2003 est.
182 Solomon Islands $ 1,700 2001 est.
183 Uzbekistan $ 1,700 2003 est.
184 Gambia, The $ 1,700 2003 est.
185 Laos $ 1,700 2003 est.
186 Haiti $ 1,600 2003 est.
187 Kyrgyzstan $ 1,600 2003 est.
188 Marshall Islands $ 1,600 2001 est.
189 Senegal $ 1,600 2003 est.
190 Iraq $ 1,500 2003 est.
191 Togo $ 1,500 2003 est.
192 Cape Verde $ 1,400 2002 est.
193 Uganda $ 1,400 2003 est.
194 Nepal $ 1,400 2003 est.
195 Cote d'Ivoire $ 1,400 2003 est.
196 Bhutan $ 1,300 2002 est.
197 Rwanda $ 1,300 2003 est.
198 Korea, North $ 1,300 2003 est.
199 Djibouti $ 1,300 2002 est.
200 Chad $ 1,200 2003 est.
201 Sao Tome and Principe $ 1,200 2003 est.
202 Mozambique $ 1,200 2003 est.
203 Benin $ 1,100 2003 est.
204 Tuvalu $ 1,100 2000 est.
205 Burkina Faso $ 1,100 2003 est.
206 Central African Republic $ 1,100 2003 est.
207 Kenya $ 1,000 2003 est.
208 Tokelau $ 1,000 1993 est.
209 Tajikistan $ 1,000 2003 est.
210 Liberia $ 1,000 2003 est.
211 Mali $ 900 2003 est.
212 Nigeria $ 900 2003 est.
213 Kiribati $ 800 2001 est.
214 Zambia $ 800 2003 est.
215 Guinea-Bissau $ 800 2003 est.
216 Madagascar $ 800 2003 est.
217 Yemen $ 800 2003 est.
218 West Bank $ 800 2002 est.
219 Niger $ 800 2003 est.
220 Afghanistan $ 700 2003 est.
221 Ethiopia $ 700 2003 est.
222 Eritrea $ 700 2002 est.
223 Comoros $ 700 2002 est.
224 Congo, Democratic Republic of the $ 700 2003 est.
225 Congo, Republic of the $ 700 2003 est.
226 Burundi $ 600 2003 est.
227 Tanzania $ 600 2003 est.
228 Malawi $ 600 2003 est.
229 Gaza Strip $ 600 2003 est.
230 Sierra Leone $ 500 2003 est.
231 Somalia $ 500 2003 est.
232 East Timor $ 500 2001 est
 

ohio

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Damn True said:
I s'pose that depends on if you live in a country that produces wealth or merely consumes that of others.
Hmmm. Explain what it means to "consume wealth."

Explain the connection between per capita income and this hypothetical consumption.

Then explain subsistence farming to me.


When you're done with that, think about the trade deficit for awhile.
 

ohio

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Damn True said:
Its simple. The difference is the same as the difference between you (someone who produces wealth) and someone on welfare (someone who consumes wealth....yours).
No, no it's not. The above example is picking a specific subset of the wealthy and the poor. We could easily pick another subset of the wealthy and the poor that behave quite the opposite.

If a subsistence farmer has an annual income of $100, from whom is he/she consuming wealth? If a CEO gets a $10M bonus while his pensioners watch their savings disappear, who is consuming wealth from whom?

Being wealthy doesn't automatically mean your supporting others, and being poor doesn't automatically mean you need support.
 

ALEXIS_DH

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Damn True said:
Its simple. The difference is the same as the difference between you (someone who produces wealth) and someone on welfare (someone who consumes wealth....yours).

yo wait.. i think you are assuming things that are not supossed to be assumed.

firstable, the GDP is the product of every company inside its borders, be it foreign owned or national owned.

2nd able, your idea of "wealth consumption" kinda relies on the "fact" that the needy "consume" others wealth, which is not necesarily truth.

3rd able.. how does "wealth distribution" gets to play in this "giving more power to UN", and where is the link?? that was my question...
i just talk about giving more power to the UN, so we switch from a nation based system, into a world gvmt based system.. just like the switch from feudalism to nationalism, to broaden the decition-making universe to include the voices of those who get "taxation without representation"...

and about peru, yeeeeahhh!! 5100 bucks a year of percapita.. thats pretty good considering 10 years ago it was like 3000. bwhahahaha... the only problem with SouthAmerica and its per capitas, is that SA has the worst income distribution and wealth distribution in the universe.... so if 5100 a year is the average, that kinda means that 5% make about 25k a year, and the rest like 1000 a year...

a better index of wealth and overall wealth is the gini index....

and another thing that kinda amazes me... is the fact that peru, as poor as it is, its around the top 50% of the world... so that means around half the other countries live in poorer conditions... :eek:
and that mexico (the poorest place in the world according to the US population), is in fact quite high up the mankinds ladder of wealth...
 

Changleen

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RhinofromWA said:
What the hell is Burberry? Other than plaid? :confused: I have a buddy and he is giddy with his f'n Burberry hat? I don't get it? He isn't a lumber jack....and he aint Irish.....what is the big deal?

:D
It's a brand of clothing that used to be real exclusive, sort of thing trust fund babies or Paris Hilton might wear but then for some unknown reason, in England, it was worn by a couple of P Diddy style rappers then became a fashion brand briefly for FHM reading males then took the plunge to becoming the aparel of choice of the common townie/chav/bogan/fluff (choose your epithet) and on the way they dropped their prices. Now their trademark 'Burberry' disgusting check is the colour of 1,000,000 little mobile phone toating illiterate 14 year old c**ts who roam the town centers and mall of the UK.
 

ALEXIS_DH

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Changleen said:
It's a brand of clothing that used to be real exclusive, sort of thing trust fund babies or Paris Hilton might wear but then for some unknown reason, in England, it was worn by a couple of P Diddy style rappers then became a fashion brand briefly for FHM reading males then took the plunge to becoming the aparel of choice of the common townie/chav/bogan/fluff (choose your epithet) and on the way they dropped their prices. Now their trademark 'Burberry' disgusting check is the colour of 1,000,000 little mobile phone toating illiterate 14 year old c**ts who roam the town centers and mall of the UK.

uhh, like tommy hilfiger in this side of the pond?? currently ghettowear?
 

RhinofromWA

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Changleen said:
It's a brand of clothing that used to be real exclusive, sort of thing trust fund babies or Paris Hilton might wear but then for some unknown reason, in England, it was worn by a couple of P Diddy style rappers then became a fashion brand briefly for FHM reading males then took the plunge to becoming the aparel of choice of the common townie/chav/bogan/fluff (choose your epithet) and on the way they dropped their prices. Now their trademark 'Burberry' disgusting check is the colour of 1,000,000 little mobile phone toating illiterate 14 year old c**ts who roam the town centers and mall of the UK.
I am wearing plaid right now....but it aint Burberry. :D

I guess that explains it. My buddy is a poser Ghetto wanna be (though funny to me) so he must have seen it in the local mall.

He went through his Hilfiger phase too. Too funny.

Is there masculine and feminine Burberry patterns? Because I saw Madana's spawn with a skirt in the same pattern/color as my buddy's hat. :)
 

ALEXIS_DH

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RhinofromWA said:
I am wearing plaid right now....but it aint Burberry. :D

I guess that explains it. My buddy is a poser Ghetto wanna be (though funny to me) so he must have seen it in the local mall.

He went through his Hilfiger phase too. Too funny.

Is there masculine and feminine Burberry patterns? Because I saw Madana's spawn with a skirt in the same pattern/color as my buddy's hat. :)
like this??? :love: