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Saudi Arabia opens its doors to tourists
Dave Frightens Me wrote:
On Tue, 23 May 2006 17:38:03 +0100, "Miss L. Toe" wrote: Also along a similar vein: "In 1999, three men - Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Warren Buffet - had a net worth greater than the combined GDP of the 41 poorest nations and their 550 million people. " http://www.foodrevolution.org/havenot.htm Damn, it makes you wanna do something about it, if only we knew what... I'd say buy a mac, but as they now run windows... -- David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk http://homepage.mac.com/davidhornecomposer http://soundjunction.org |
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Saudi Arabia opens its doors to tourists
(Martin) wrote in
news On 23 May 2006 19:45:47 GMT, Bert Hyman wrote: (Dave Frightens Me) wrote in news On Tue, 23 May 2006 17:38:03 +0100, "Miss L. Toe" wrote: Also along a similar vein: "In 1999, three men - Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Warren Buffet - had a net worth greater than the combined GDP of the 41 poorest nations and their 550 million people. " http://www.foodrevolution.org/havenot.htm Damn, it makes you wanna do something about it, if only we knew what... It would probably have something to do with ridding those 41 poorest nations of their criminal governments, don't you think? The USA could set an example and stop creating new ones. Well, we've only created one new one recently, and it just replaced an existing one. Most of the existing ones are derelict remains of old European colonies. The corrupt nations of the world do just fine without us. -- Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN | |
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Saudi Arabia opens its doors to tourists
(Dave Frightens Me) wrote in
: On 23 May 2006 20:04:20 GMT, Bert Hyman wrote: (Martin) wrote in news On 23 May 2006 19:45:47 GMT, Bert Hyman wrote: (Dave Frightens Me) wrote in news On Tue, 23 May 2006 17:38:03 +0100, "Miss L. Toe" wrote: Also along a similar vein: "In 1999, three men - Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Warren Buffet - had a net worth greater than the combined GDP of the 41 poorest nations and their 550 million people. " http://www.foodrevolution.org/havenot.htm Damn, it makes you wanna do something about it, if only we knew what... It would probably have something to do with ridding those 41 poorest nations of their criminal governments, don't you think? The USA could set an example and stop creating new ones. Well, we've only created one new one recently, and it just replaced an existing one. Most of the existing ones are derelict remains of old European colonies. They are? I would say the USA has helped more countries into chaos that Europe has in the last century. I lay all of Africa and the middle east, most of Asia and a good chunk of South America on Europe's door step. -- Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN | |
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Saudi Arabia opens its doors to tourists
(Martin) wrote in
: On 23 May 2006 20:15:00 GMT, Bert Hyman wrote: (Dave Frightens Me) wrote in : On 23 May 2006 20:04:20 GMT, Bert Hyman wrote: (Martin) wrote in news On 23 May 2006 19:45:47 GMT, Bert Hyman wrote: (Dave Frightens Me) wrote in news On Tue, 23 May 2006 17:38:03 +0100, "Miss L. Toe" wrote: Also along a similar vein: "In 1999, three men - Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Warren Buffet - had a net worth greater than the combined GDP of the 41 poorest nations and their 550 million people. " http://www.foodrevolution.org/havenot.htm Damn, it makes you wanna do something about it, if only we knew what... It would probably have something to do with ridding those 41 poorest nations of their criminal governments, don't you think? The USA could set an example and stop creating new ones. Well, we've only created one new one recently, and it just replaced an existing one. Most of the existing ones are derelict remains of old European colonies. They are? I would say the USA has helped more countries into chaos that Europe has in the last century. I lay all of Africa and the middle east, most of Asia and a good chunk of South America on Europe's door step. I hope you aren't claiming that the USA haven't been involved in all of them? Involved? Hell, everybody's "involved" everywhere. -- Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN | |
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Saudi Arabia opens its doors to tourists
Jordi writes:
Foreign workers are roughly 25% of the total population, nearly 40% of people on working age. About 35%, which is the figure I used for my calculation. In terms of available income, the figure will be very similar to that of the US, and, believe it or not, it is more evenly distributed _among Saudi citizens_ The figures I gave were adjusted for purchasing parity. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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Saudi Arabia opens its doors to tourists
Miss L. Toe writes:
US averages are more misleading than most, especially as Bill Gates has as much wealth as the poorest 47% of americans COMBINED. That would give the poorest 47% of Americans a per capita wealth of less than $400, which is obviously not the case. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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Saudi Arabia opens its doors to tourists
Miss L. Toe writes:
I cant find the recent source where I spotted that but: http://www.commondreams.org/pressrel...98/072798a.htm and : " Microsoft CEO Bill Gates has more wealth than the bottom 45 percent of American households combined. " http://www.cooperativeindividualism....ution1999.html Also along a similar vein: "In 1999, three men - Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Warren Buffet - had a net worth greater than the combined GDP of the 41 poorest nations and their 550 million people. " http://www.foodrevolution.org/havenot.htm If just citing a Web site counts, here's proof that I'm right: http://www.mxsmanic.com/proof.html -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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On 23 May 2006 20:04:20 GMT, Bert Hyman wrote:
(Martin) wrote in news On 23 May 2006 19:45:47 GMT, Bert Hyman wrote: (Dave Frightens Me) wrote in news On Tue, 23 May 2006 17:38:03 +0100, "Miss L. Toe" wrote: Also along a similar vein: "In 1999, three men - Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Warren Buffet - had a net worth greater than the combined GDP of the 41 poorest nations and their 550 million people. " http://www.foodrevolution.org/havenot.htm Damn, it makes you wanna do something about it, if only we knew what... It would probably have something to do with ridding those 41 poorest nations of their criminal governments, don't you think? The USA could set an example and stop creating new ones. Well, we've only created one new one recently, and it just replaced an existing one. Most of the existing ones are derelict remains of old European colonies. They are? I would say the USA has helped more countries into chaos that Europe has in the last century. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- -- |
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Saudi Arabia opens its doors to tourists
On 23 May 2006 20:15:00 GMT, Bert Hyman wrote:
(Dave Frightens Me) wrote in : On 23 May 2006 20:04:20 GMT, Bert Hyman wrote: (Martin) wrote in news On 23 May 2006 19:45:47 GMT, Bert Hyman wrote: (Dave Frightens Me) wrote in news On Tue, 23 May 2006 17:38:03 +0100, "Miss L. Toe" wrote: Also along a similar vein: "In 1999, three men - Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Warren Buffet - had a net worth greater than the combined GDP of the 41 poorest nations and their 550 million people. " http://www.foodrevolution.org/havenot.htm Damn, it makes you wanna do something about it, if only we knew what... It would probably have something to do with ridding those 41 poorest nations of their criminal governments, don't you think? The USA could set an example and stop creating new ones. Well, we've only created one new one recently, and it just replaced an existing one. Most of the existing ones are derelict remains of old European colonies. They are? I would say the USA has helped more countries into chaos that Europe has in the last century. I lay all of Africa and the middle east, most of Asia and a good chunk of South America on Europe's door step. Oops, I just realised I was talking to a 'real' American. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- -- |
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