The 1% net worth is way above 2.8m each. More like 2.8bn each
When I can be arsed I'll do some research.
When I can be arsed I'll do some research.
The 1% net worth is way above 2.8m each. More like 2.8bn each
When I can be arsed I'll do some research.![]()
No idea , read my second sentence.So there as somewhere around 72. Million people in the world that each have a fortune of almost 3 billion . really?
Extra terrestrials.Obviously, OLM is their leader, but I don't know who the other 99 are.
Anyone with a net worth of at least £2.8 million. So anyone with a really nice house and a six figure salary would count. Upper-middle class, usually.
Americans are led to believe by their politicians that their military involvement around the world is a moral crusade to spread democracy, freedom and western liberalism. However noble some of them may find that, it's fictitious. The US can't have the world's largest military expenditure without having conflicts to engage in; there would be no justification for it. They need to have an enemy to justify conflicts which in turn justifies the largest military expenditure - the military industrial complex. A term coined no less by a former five-star general and Republican president in his outgoing presidential speech. It started off during WWII when the American government reluctantly entered the war but the arms manufacturers were rubbing their hands at the prospect of military mobilisation and selling weapons to the Allies. After the war, the communists were the 'enemy' used to justify the military expenditure, after the Cold War it was post-revolutionary Iran, after the Iran-Iraq War it was Middle Eastern tyrants like Saddam Hussein when he invaded Kuwait and after 9/11 the War on Terror was started to fight the jihadi threat. The common theme is that the US supported or were allies with the new enemy when they were fighting the old enemy. Allies with the Soviets against the Axis, supported jihadis against communists, supported Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq War etc. They need an enemy to justify the military expenditure and that will continue so long as the US government and DoD is in cohorts with weapons manufacturers. It's the same reason why we're allied to Saudi Arabia, because they have oil and the Iranians won't play ball with the West after we deposed Mosaddegh. Saudi Arabia would look like sub-Saharan Africa if we didn't purchase their oil and sell them our guns to kill Yemenis.
Anyone with a net worth of at least £2.8 million. So anyone with a really nice house and a six figure salary would count. Upper-middle class, usually.
If I may intrude on everyone's cosy chat here, I'd like to know about people's experiences with solicitors. In particular, has anyone tried to hire a solicitor for a particular purpose, only to find the legal profession won't touch the case with a barge pole.I have a matter right now that puts not only a Local Authority in a very bad light, but also the Registrar at a County Court. But try as I might, no solicitor I have approached is willing to take the case on. My impression is they fear being ostracized.
I thought the UK was supposed to have an independent judiciary and universal access to justice. Perhaps I need to revise my ideas a bit.
If I may intrude on everyone's cosy chat here, I'd like to know about people's experiences with solicitors. In particular, has anyone tried to hire a solicitor for a particular purpose, only to find the legal profession won't touch the case with a barge pole.I have a matter right now that puts not only a Local Authority in a very bad light, but also the Registrar at a County Court. But try as I might, no solicitor I have approached is willing to take the case on. My impression is they fear being ostracized.
I thought the UK was supposed to have an independent judiciary and universal access to justice. Perhaps I need to revise my ideas a bit.
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Yes, only the US has ever done anything bad. Only the US have allied with anyone dodgy. Only the US have invaded or occupied anywhere. In your world anyway. Their military expenditure may be the highest but that is because they use high tech equipment, too high tech in many instances, and pay all their military personnel a relatively decent wages.
Other countries spend a higher proportion of their GDP on their military and have conscription keep their spending down. Won't name any as it will have you in a state of high dudgeon again.
The reason I'd hire a solicitor is because I live overseas, and to bring it to completion requires a judge's decision. It would be convenient to have a legal professional do the necessary leg-work bringing it to court, and I could just jump on a plane to smile at the judge. But otherwise I don't need a solicitor. The case involves the law as it stood fifty yeas ago, not as it is today, and in the meantime the law has been changed drastically. I doubt young solicitors would know anything about it other than historically.Do you actually need a solicitor?
So Tony Benn, Bono, Billy Bragg and a lot of Labour Party MPs are amongst them?
Yes, only the US has ever done anything bad. Only the US have allied with anyone dodgy. Only the US have invaded or occupied anywhere. In your world anyway. Their military expenditure may be the highest but that is because they use high tech equipment, too high tech in many instances, and pay all their military personnel a relatively decent wages.
Other countries spend a higher proportion of their GDP on their military and have conscription keep their spending down. Won't name any as it will have you in a state of high dudgeon again.
Yes, only the US has ever done anything bad. Only the US have allied with anyone dodgy. Only the US have invaded or occupied anywhere. In your world anyway. Their military expenditure may be the highest but that is because they use high tech equipment, too high tech in many instances, and pay all their military personnel a relatively decent wages.
Other countries spend a higher proportion of their GDP on their military and have conscription keep their spending down. Won't name any as it will have you in a state of high dudgeon again.