31 Maps Mocking National Stereotypes Around the World. Psykiateren som politimand. Most minimum wage workers are adults who work for large corporations. May 10, 2013 One of the major arguments that comes up whenever there’s some talk about raising the minimum wage is “What about small businesses!”
And “What about teenagers! Who is going to hire teenagers if they have to pay them anything close to a living wage?” Are you a liberal imperialist? - by Stephen M. Walt. Are you a liberal imperialist?
Liberal imperialists are like kinder, gentler neoconservatives: Like neocons, they believe it’s America’s responsibility to right political and humanitarian wrongs around the world, and they’re comfortable with the idea of the United States deciding who will run countries such as Libya, Syria, or Afghanistan. Unlike neocons, liberal imperialists embrace and support international institutions (like the United Nations), and they are driven more by concern for human rights than they are by blind nationalism or protecting the U.S. -Israel special relationship. Still, like the neocons, liberal imperialists are eager proponents for using American hard power, even in situations where it might easily do more harm than good.
International Relations as Depicted by Cats. Gelly-matos asked: Have you guys heard of the Turkish government blaming election outages on a cat? And the subsequent twitter and meme storm that has erupted? FUCK YEAH YOUNG STALIN. Ta-Nehisi Coates - Authors. 386 - My Kingdom for a Beer? Heineken's "Eurotopia" Freddy Heineken (1923-2002), the Dutch tycoon who made his beer into a global brand, also was a dedicated Europhile.
Towards the end of his life, he proposed reshuffling Europe’s national borders to strengthen the supranational project whose stated goal is an “ever closer union”. Heineken collaborated with two historians to produce a booklet entitled “The United States of Europe, A Eurotopia?” The idea was timely, for two reasons. Eastern Europe was experiencing a period of turmoil, following the collapse of communism. Game of Thrones as Theory. Commentary by foreign policy analysts on the first season of HBO's Game of Thrones stressed its supposed underlying theme of political realism.
Thus one writer claimed that the TV show and the George R.R. Martin novels on which it is based "clearly demonstrate the power of might over right," and another agreed: "In this kind of harsh relative gains world, realpolitik should be the expected pattern of behavior. " But a closer look of Game of Thrones suggests a different take. Givers take all: The hidden dimension of corporate culture - McKinsey Quarterly - Organization - Talent. After the tragic events of 9/11, a team of Harvard psychologists quietly “invaded” the US intelligence system.
The team, led by Richard Hackman, wanted to determine what makes intelligence units effective.
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Many naturally concluded that prejudice was not a major factor against a black presidential candidate in modern America. Apartheid stortrives i det københavnske natteliv. Father Doesn’t Know Best. Your parents spill a few secrets as they get older.
One night at dinner with my mom, I ventured that the rhythm method had worked well for her, given that there were six years between my sister Peggy and my brother Kevin, and six more between Kevin and me. She arched an eyebrow. “Well, sometimes your father used something,” she said. My parents were the most devout Catholics I’ve ever known. But my dad came from a family of 16 in County Clare in Ireland, and my mom’s mother came from a family of 13 in County Mayo.
After their first three kids, they sagely decided family planning was not soul-staining. In the social mind size becomes equal to importance. 19 Maps That Will Help You Put The United States In Perspective. Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before. Creative Mapping.
A surprising map of the countries that are most and least welcoming to foreigners. Click to enlarge.
(Max Fisher/Washington Post) Buried several hundred pages into a new World Economic Forum report on global tourism, past the sections on air travel infrastructure and physician density (by which they mean the number of physicians per capita, not the mass-per-cubic-meter of individual doctors), are some very interesting numbers. The WEF has compiled survey data from 140 countries estimating the attitude of each countries' population toward foreign visitors. The results, mapped out above, seem significant beyond just tourism. Red countries are less welcoming to foreign visitors, according to the data; blue countries are more welcoming.
The WEF gathered the data from late 2011 through late 2012 by asking respondents, "How welcome are foreign visitors in your country? " Who Won the Iraq War? China - Matt Schiavenza. But the spoils of victory aren't going to last.
A Chinese construction worker looks on as locals cross a construction site near Luanda, Angola (Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters) On March 20th, 2003, one day after the United States and a "Coalition of the Willing" began its military assault of Iraq, China's Foreign Ministry released a statement condemning the war. "The Chinese government appeals to the relevant countries to stop military actions and return to the right path of seeking a political solution to the Iraq question. " Four years later, as a vicious anti-occupation insurgency in Iraq erupted into a full-blown civil war, China again expressed its displeasure with the operation, blasting the U.S. for "flagrant abuses of human rights" and "violation of sovereignty" in the country. Peters Projection. Great Political Blogs. Popular Political Blogs.
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There are well over 550,000+ apps that are used on Facebook and millions of pages with everything from personal information, home-made videos and advertisements. With over seventy percent of their 1 billion users engaging with apps every month, it is not wonder that there are well over two million app developers. Zynga, Facebook’s top application developer, made $250 million in 2009 and continue to be profitable. Of that amount, $80-$150 million is estimated to be profit, more net profit than Facebook itself made.
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