absolutely. the guaranteed minimum, the standard of decency -- but it isn't decent if it isn't generalised. "common environmental regs" within the EU or N Am don't do diddly if "the rest of the world" is made a sacrifice zone for industrial vandalism... and this point is not "merely" moral, but pragmatic: it's a small planet, and the destruction being wrought in "lesser nations" will, and does, impact health and happiness worldwide. the world is one, the climate is one, the oceans are one. the wind doesn't stop blowing at an arbitrary human property line.
the gated-community model is guaranteed to exacerbate, outside its boundary, whatever miseries or abuses its inhabitants seek to escape. or so I believe, having watched the model in action. The difference between theory and practise in practise ...
NATO: An Alliance for Freedom.
This was published in 2006 by Spain's Fundacion por el Analisis y los Estudios Sociales (FAES, English Foundation for the Analysis and Study of Social Studies), I suspect that the Heritage Foundation played some real here.
I like this here. First, Letonia is the Spanish for Lithuania. And apparently someone doesn't know the difference between India and Sri Lanka. And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg
Just color the map to put Sakhalin in NATO, and surely those Russian airbases will happily take their orders from NORAD!
;) The Fates are kind.
Africa = 30m sq. km Greenland = 2.2m sq.km In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
Note also the inclusion of Sakhalin island in the area corresponding to Japan. And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg
