thirty pages reading thing

The two columnists-
Irrelevence of sovereignty  - Basically she saying that powerful nations in the world do not respect the rights of smaller nations. She points out libya. Her opinion is that it was wrong to invade and we should not be the world police.
Gaza Missles Threat to Israel sovereignty - Israels sovereignty from past history is threatened that is nothing new. This article is points out that israel has the right to protect itself from attacks against it's sovereighnty. The opinion of the the article is israel should attack targets in other nations to protect itself.

8 Articles-
US - NATO Threats to Libyan Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity - Gives highlights on what sovereignty is and how it the west does not respect it.
In Quite a state- Gives important information on what makes a country a country. Part of this is the right to exclusively punish people in the land.
Nation Building- Harvard source, What makes a good nation a nation. How can we help failed states Afganistan and somalia work again.
Syria Must be Respected- China has long taken the stance that all nations with any form of government are sovereign and foreign nations should not attempt to impede on their rights. (part of this is due to prevent war i.e. south korea vietnam)
Pakistani Sovereignty- As we saw in the killing of Osama bin laden, the us disregarded pakistan's right as a sovereign nation. This prompts the question when is it ok, which i Hope to answer in my research. The PM of pakistan condemned the actions.
Forfeit Sovereignty- It is ok to forfeit sovereignty when a government cannot provide basic needs of it's people or commits atrocities against them. What should the world do/ should they do anything at all argument included.
Iraq Sovereign?- So this article shows the steps Iraq took to become sovereign and how it needs to gain or gained power.
Sanctions- The question that was made was whether or not sanctions or embargo's impeded on a nations status as sovereign. At one time, one hopes to harm the government. Iran is a perfect example, as a sovereign state they have all rights to build a nuclear plant. But the morality is questioned which has lead to sanctions. These sanctions hope to undermine the government which does not constitute due to iran not having forfeited it's sovereignty.

Project 3

Us patent laws are messed up. According to the Huffingtonpost apple cannot be claim it's property rights and destroy andriod. This means that although apple created all the software and ideas they cannot claim it. If they do all the hardware manufactures will not sell any components. which will result in no ipads or iphones. As bad as this sounds it highlights the cause for changes in us patent law to promote innovation and global competitiveness.  One world law code is needed to protect the rights of inventors who would no longer create if they could not create money off there inventions.

Project 2

Class inequality has always been a topic society has discussed. Cynthia Tucker makes an interesting point in here column As I See It. To quickly summarize Tucker thinks that $374,327 is a lot of money. That amount represents how much is needed to be part of the 1% tax bracket. She displays here political beliefs as well by attacking Romney by when he said that tax inequality should only be discussed in "in quiet rooms." Lastly she makes a point saying America is not as rich as it used to be. My opinion on the issue is that $374,327 does not make a person rich. $2.5 million and above should be considered the rich. I am not denying that $374,327 is a good sum of cash but for most people to earn that amount they have to work hard. People who make that amount are usually in senior positions of a company having worked there for a minimum of 20 years but started out earning the average wage of $50,000. They had to work hard for this amount so why are people so quick to take away there years of dedication, handwork and passion. Now if we look at people who earn 2.5 mil or above, the American public is literally just giving there cash away. To put it into perspective people who earn so much need to make over $6500 a day. To stereotype them, these people usually do nothing sitting in a chair all day letting the $374,327 do there hardwork for them as they rack in the rewards. These are the people we need to target not the bottom 1%.


Romney never said that it needed to be "discussed" "in quiet rooms." he did however say that the discussion is meant for quiet rooms because there is nothing to talk about making a boring a dull conversation. This is because the rich already get taxed enough so leave them the hell alone. This debate has been going long enough and only the same old idea's are being represented. Let's take a break and wait for new points to arise.


Lastly, America is much richer then it used to be. Just look at the GDP which is adjusted for inflation. It is easy to see that the nation has grown. The per capita GDP is also better. Complaining that factories have shipped to China? Well do you want to work in one. Or do you prefer a desk job that is more comfortable. Make up your mind Tucker. A service based economy is much more peaceful then a manufacturing one. It is silly to say that the America was better when we produced all of our own stuff. Now we get others to make it, add polish and resell it for 1/100 the work but twice the profit. Problem? I don't see one.

Project #1

Paul Krugman of the new york times says that the government does not run like a corporation. This is easy too see because a corporations focus is to gain money for there investors. So what is exactly so bad if the government becomes a corporation. They shall make money and it will pay off to the investors or citizens of that nation. He makes an interesting point of saying that money is continuously flowing out of america with no new money coming in. This is because corporations attempt to go after the biggest target market, in this case america has the largest economy so they are everyone's target meaning that american companies and foreign companies both target the american consumer but american companies at the same time do not create exports. Krugman also makes a point that the government cannot slash the budget, "Consider what happens when a business engages in ruthless cost-cutting. From the point of view of the firm’s owners (though not its workers), the more costs that are cut, the better. Any dollars taken off the cost side of the balance sheet are added to the bottom line." This is powerful as when a government tries to save costs people rebel saying they take away services, but in the end this will help them more then the service taken away. 


It seems as though the best option for the government is to become business oriented so they can gain much more control of there nation and bring the reins down upon spending as well as increase spending. 

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These are each part of a sector whether they be retail, health care or finance. As you can see they all took a hit and are expected to go down further.

Synthesize- Roader

To summarize Roader posts this it seems that the economy is improving. This is indicated by growth of small caps and office space being leased and built. He also says that this is a prime time to invest. I agree completely as the forecasts for the next 12 months are all green. For more economic indicaters we can looks at china and it's boom as well as us intrests rates which if kept low for the next quarter are garunteed to ensure growth. Banks are also lending more and industries are starting to produce more. This leads to a greater money multiplier and the economy will self correct. My personal thoughts are that this is a good turn of events. I hope soceity will realize there mistake and what lead to the economic crisis and at the same time not repeat it.

What just happened?

According to Roader and his newest column says that the most unexpected companies are leading in profits and earning per share. This typically does not happen but it does occur. Also I would like to make an observation of my own. All the stocks mentioned are smallcap and focused towards growth. Small caps usually lead the way before larger corporations can take hold of the market as they specialize in certain departments. If this is true, it is a very good sign that the economy is picking up it's pace and we can expect a good upcoming quarter. 

Roader also in his final moments makes a comment on how the economy jobs reports show that people are gaining more and more jobs. This is especially good as it shows companies are starting to higher and the mmc will be intiated leading to a high industry growth.

Building and the Economy #2

Once again Roader has made an insight way to measure how well the economy is doing in his Article. It seems that things are picking up and that companies are finally starting to expand. Roader shows and easy way to measure this expansion, which is when companies expand they need more space so they lease and buy more buildings for there employees. This is makes perfect and it is happening so we can expect growth this year as corporations are feeling confident and willing to invest and expand. Some information Roader provides is that industrials and food manufacturers are doing best right now. It can be expected that heavy growth will occur and I for one bet my money on it

Misleading Markets #1

According to David Roader and the article he wrote. It seems as though the economy still has a long way to go but things are looking up. He makes an interesting claim that when markets start to pick up everyone says this is an "investors market" just so they will invest into mutual funds. This is problematic because the markets are not really doing that well but they are abusing the power of social media to make everyone think they are alright.
Roader also mentions that investors have no real place to turn to as everything is risky or has not potential to gain. If this is true it is best to short the risky investments and therefore create some gain.

Animal testing #3

Last week we looked at my point and it is fairly clear to see that i am right but i think i will humor the opposition and disprove them once again and no i am not being cocky as i am always right. Anyway this time we have website which states hat animal testing is wrong because the tests do not properly correlate to actual effects on humans. The authors points out the example that chickens cannot get the cold while humans can and yet we test cold medicines on chickens for our own amusements just to see what will happen.

First let me say off that i don't care if we test a medicine on chickens, dogs or even rocks for that matter. The point is that the scientists are being amused and that they are enjoying themselves. Second the scientists are not checking whether the chickens imaginary cold will be gone or not instead they are checking what effect the drug has on the chickens heart lungs and livers. They are making sure that the drug is not lethal or does not cause any ill effects. They are not doing this for fun but they can if they want to instead they actually have a purpose which the author of the article totally wrongly misunderstood and therefore he has shown how little knowledge he has and now is not credible. So once again I am proven correct.

Animal testing #2

( insert witty introduction ), animal testing which you all know i am a strong proponent off. Since last week i discussed the cons of it i think it is fair that i discuss the pro's this time. On this website it discusses how animals should not be treated as humans or even slightly lumped in the category with them. This is because animals are not humans and should not be treated as such. Another opinion is that animals are on the planet for our enjoyment and we should use them as we please. 

They almost state my opinion almost perfectly in that animals do not deserve humane treatment because 'human'e is only meant for humans. Animals must be used to advance the human condition and solely for the pleasures of humanity. 

Animal testing #1

First off let me clearly state my position on the issue of animal testing and you can quote me on this "Animals are only here on the planet for humans, humans first animals second." Now that is my own opinion but i thought it my be better to start out with one that does follow my own mindset in order to understand my opponents view points. So as i began searching i thought to myself what is a die hard animal rights group and PETA came to my mind. Here is the opnion Website. Their main arguement is that the testing is inhumane because it causes pain to animals and that animals must die for no good reason. They propose that animals have rights equal to that of humans and should be treated fairly.

In my opinion PETA is asking for sensible things. Let's not hurt and kill stuff just because we can is part of my identity also. But PETA fails to recognize that the testing on the animals is tests for cancer curing drugs and for each animals they save the further we will be further from a cure. And because the cure takes longer to find people die. And so by transversal property PETA is killing humans. Yes readers PETA is killing their own kind as they give importance to animals over humans. I personally think we should care more about our family over the dog but hey that's just me. Humans first animals second.

Editorial

No idea what I am supposed to do or even if i was supposed to make a blog this week but here it is... Greece this cannot end well!. Since i am not sure what i am supposed to do i will summarize then speak my mind about it. To begin Greece is the weak link in the European Union and is bringing down the price of the Euro by not having enough cash and taking some major loans which they are unable to pay back. This leads Germany to get mad at Greece. Also because the European Union is getting bankrupted this basically defeats the point of the E.U. and may lead to no more E.U.. 

Now here's the fun part, my own thoughts are that Germany may get angry enough because they bear all the burden that they will declare WW3 ( not having learned from there previous wars of course) will invade all the countries that are unable to pay them back and forcibly seize properties of other nations. hmmm.... That sounds a lot like the banksand what they do to people in America but that's for later. Anyway Germany goes into a hissefit and now other nations start to worry and state that if they invade 1 more nation that they will go to war. 

Here comes the irony... Germany soon realizes that all the lands they control look more like a real centralized European Union then what was at the time the E.U. and decide to just finish the job. And so they decide to just invade the rest of Europe...

Anyway if that does happen i am on Germany's side, so long as they don't have an evil dictator again, because i am sick and tired of all the bickering in europe and just want it to stop. 

Government Protecting themselves

in an ARTICLE about raising gas prices that crippled the daily life of citizens in Bangladesh I found this image 

I found many things interesting about this image and it's argument which I believe is that the government does is not involved with it's citizens

1) they have riot police on the streets just to make sure no riots happen or peaceful protests against the government

2) There is a man in the middle who represents the government, he is surrounded by his guards to protect him from anything which he may be at fault for.

3) That man in the center is not also experiencing the common citizens pains and as of such is disconnected. 

4) The wall of policemen indicate that the man in the center is not approachable and therefore no real change can occur nor does it indicate that the government is listening to the public

5) This one is just a big extra but i think cnn is advertising Nokia because the blue bag is just randomly there and is a different color from everything else. Clever advertising if it is.

USPS Nearing Bankruptcy

According to the Chicago Tribune the USPS is nearing bankruptcy and would need to be bailed out at the end of next year. This is due to price control by the government, normal companies can raise prices but the USPS being a government agency must jump through bureaucratic hoops in order to increase the price of a stamp of package deliveries. The Tribune also says that this is unacceptable in America as companies should be entitled to use free enterprise to not go bankrupt. A simply solution to this problem would be to let the mail market become laissez faire and let customers chose who they want. Let's hope they fix this because i enjoy getting post cards and the occasional christmas card

Windows is slowly dieing

According to msnbc, windows is slowly becoming obsolete due to the rise of tablets like the ipad which are not only cheaper then many laptops but do everything you need. In response Microsoft is expected to release a new operating system, Windows 8. Windows 8 is based of off the windows phone and will be a more touch screen/trackpad based operating system. I personally believe that the days of windows is over as over 90% of users do not use computers for anything more then to surf, type document and plays games. they do no longer need Microsoft's complex structure of one operating system fits all but a one system fits three perfectly.