moving to cheaper southern states, and then to the Caribbean and Mexico, and finally Asia. — BC
There are a lot of workers who can not afford to buy the goods and services they produce. — BC
And now a ski lift has collapsed in Northern Spain. Hey, wait: Don't blame Spain. It might very well be the fault of the French or the Germans. — BC
You should be thanking Israel for eliminating them. — BitconnectCarlos
Spain could buy he high tech machines from the Netherlands, just up the coast a ways, who have a lock on the premier fabrication technology (so I have read). — BC
It's just damn hard to compete with cheap labor of the sort that Asia has in abundance. (Not that your average Asian likes being cheap labor on behalf of Foxconn, Apple, et al.). — BC
What a total disaster it has been. — Tzeentch
Spain does have a tourist industry, which means service employees, and sadly they don't get paid a lot. — BC
Spain also produces quite a lot of agricultural products--essential to everyone who likes to eat, but the big money is in processing and marketing food, not in growing it. BTW, I have a bottle of Spanish olive oil in the kitchen. So... — BC
Spain also produces ceramics and flamingo dresses. — BC
My advice: keep digging. — BC
Has Spain considered more manufacturing? There's a big demand these days for military drones, for instance. — BC
From the 1960's on until 1990, my grandmother went to Spain every year for three months for her winter holiday. — Tom Storm
In the 1970's my mum and dad sometimes talked about the transition to democracy and hoped that Spain would make the journey from Franco to freedom. I would have thought the reforms and advancements were worth it. — Tom Storm
But if you are suspicious of government and consider your democracy to be flawed and shameful, then you would be like every second young person in any Western country on earth who is convinced their country's government is shit and that no one tells the truth. — Tom Storm
That said, I have no idea why Spain strikes him as more repressive than other parts of Europe, and what he thinks the Islamic history has to do with that. — Jamal
A doubling of the average income over 50 years isn't terribly good, unless you compare it to the growth in wages between, say, 500 a.d. and 1400 a.d. when wages didn't grow at all. But working people in many countries have suffered from slowly rising income over the last 50 years. So welcome to our oppression by capitalist scum! — BC
Spain has always struck me as a more rigid repressive society than other places in Europe. I think that’s partly because of its history of Islamic culture and partly because of Franco and Spanish Civil War. And then there is the Spanish inquisition, which none of us expect. — T Clark
What comes to my mind is the stereotypical cultural studies student, who is fascinated about cultures and traditions of all people except his or her own. — ssu
They are not at all laughing at him, but smiling and in the following video you can see people clapping their hands. — ssu
And especially since Yukio hadn't himself served... — ssu
Weren't you Spanish? I think that you will find it in your history too. — ssu
Think about. What would we think about a writer that would be an ardent patriot like Mishima if he would be German? He would be the jingoist ultra-nationalist and people would just try to find hints of nazism, white supremacy and racism in his writings. How would a German who would favour Prussian militarism look like today? — ssu
Above all, remember how the Japanese soldiers of the new Self-Defence forces reacted to Mishima. They started to hiss and jeer. — ssu
just like the story of the last Hiro Onoda, the last Japanese soldier to surrender in the Phillipines in 1974. Well, he too was disappointed about post-WW2 when he finally got back to Japan.
Hiro Onoda surrendering in 1974. — ssu
I wonder what Mishima would have written about Onoda — ssu
we don't have this instant recoil that we would have if Mishima would have been a German, an Englishman or an American. This tells something about us, not of the Japanese or their culture. — ssu
which includes an in-the-moment appreciation of beauty, sort of like being lucky to be there in the moment? — Dawnstorm
I'm hardly an expert in Japanese culture, but I'm certainly not used to have this concept be accompanied by such violent language. I'd guess it's an expression of passion? — Dawnstorm
:fire:True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.
:sparkle:Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.
:broken:I still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line...
Labor’s approach to national security is weak, as shown by cuts to important defence spending (now under 2 per cent of GDP) and the significant shift in Australia’s foreign policy position towards our ally Israel.
The bastards will have to negotiate. — Banno
this is an example of what I think about when I think about Oceanic Continentalism: — Arcane Sandwich
Wait a minute, in the context of science as well as the world of lawyers, evidence does indeed constitute proof if certain conditions are met. Or do you disagree with that? — Arcane Sandwich
But I don't think that there's an "elite mafia" running the world. We (as in, the people who are not part of the criminal world) would have destroyed them by now. Or do you disagree with that? — Arcane Sandwich
Ok. Is there at least one example? One person that belongs to that group? — Arcane Sandwich
What evidence do we have that there are people doing that (pulling the strings in the dark)? Isn't that just a conspiracy theory? — Arcane Sandwich
I mean, where do you place the Royalty and the nobility in that analysis? Are they "the people"? Are they "the enterprises"? — Arcane Sandwich
Where would one place the Pope in the classic battle between people and enterprises? — Arcane Sandwich
Where would one place religions like Hinduism or Buddhism in the "we and them, masses and the elite" battle? — Arcane Sandwich
All I'm saying is that the reality of politics cannot be reduced to the "mass vs the elite" battle, IMHO. I mean, some musicians (i.e., the Rolling Stones) and some athletes (i.e., Lionel Messi) are millionaires. Does that automatically turn them into oppressors of the poor? I don't think so. — Arcane Sandwich
citizens government ownership economics set in a democratic political state. — kazan
Age, property and god are conservative, while the educated tend to the left. — Banno
Australians do have a preference for socialist policy, quite a difference to the US. — Banno