The voters feel they have no alternative. They’ve tried the traditional left and the traditional right and both parties failed them.
Take El Salvador. They elected a fascist in 2019. He’s turned the nation into a police state and locked up tens of thousands of young men without a trial. But his approval rating is currently 80% … the highest in Latin America. The reason ? When he took office in 2019 the homicide rate was 51 per 100k people. It’s now 8. People can walk down the street without fear. Gangs no longer harass young girls and extort protection money from local businesses.
If we want people to reject fascists we need to give them alternatives that actually work.
“Jab” got adopted in the US when the disinformation memes and stuff started flooding into social media. The creators of the memes learned British English, so they used British slang.
Aug 14 (Reuters) - India and the United Arab Emirates have started settling bilateral trade in their local currencies with India’s top refiner making payment in rupees for purchase of a million barrels of oil from the Middle Eastern nation, the Indian government said on Monday.
Indian Oil Corp (IOC.NS) made payment to Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), according to a statement issued by Indian embassy in UAE.
The transaction comes after one involving the sale of 25 kg gold from a UAE gold exporter to a buyer in India at about 128.4 million rupees ($1.54 million).
India in July signed an agreement with the UAE allowing it to settle trade in rupees instead of dollars, boosting India’s efforts to cut transaction costs by eliminating dollar conversions.
During a visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the UAE, the two countries also agreed to set up a real-time payment link to facilitate easier cross-border money transfers.
India is keen to push similar local currency arrangements with other countries, as it looks to boost exports amid slowing global trade.
That’s what I did last year, got it done about a month before a plane trip I had coming. I still got sick despite wearing an N95 on both flights, but it tested negative for covid.
Now how the heck do I get the booster without having to sign up on a website and agree to an arbitration clause? Because hell no, I’m not going to agree to that.
I’ve usually just walked into a local pharmacy and asked if they have the booster. My local pharmacy just has a standard paper form for all vaccination (flu, shingles, covid, etc) walk ins, there is no website or arbitration clause or even specific covid form. You might want to try a different pharmacy if that has been your experience.
I just hope they don’t cost an exorbitant price now that the national health emergency has ended here. It was really nice being able to get them for free because I am poor.
I bet it’ll be the same as flu shots. It’s not like those are actually “free.” Someone is paying for them, whether it’s insurance, the hospital/clinic itself, or more typically a governmental agency (usually state or local). I’ve paid a small co-pay for a flu shot before, but most times it’s “free” because my insurance covers it.
Only time I’ve really paid for a vaccination was right before I travelled overseas. Needed a couple specialized immunizations and think that was like $75 total.
One of the biggest failings in Western economics is the prevalence for across the board percentage pay rises. People getting paid £40k get double those on £20k when both get an equal amount in pay percentage increase. This has been part of the reason why top bands in large companies have gained such huge pay scales. Percentage rises are nothing like an equal pay rise. It is way past time unions recognised this.
Kind of Kudos to the Chinese for this. I hope they see fit to roll it out among some of the more powerful families in China also, and not just use it to claw back some money from the middle class.
The other half of the problem is if a CEO ever said “We’re going to have lower profits this quarter because we started paying everyone more” that CEO will be locked out and that’s if the people making those decisions aren’t sued first by the board
I haven’t gotten a booster in awhile and no one I know wear a mask anymore where I live. Plus kids are back in school and my eldest niece and nephew live with me; they are walking plague carriers.
They will argue. Pay rise for everyone. Will nject huge amounts of money into the econ. Raising inflation. While this means the low earners gain or lose little. Amd the rich lose much.
It will totally destroy those that cannot work or earn at all. IE retired poor or unemployed.
One. Lets face it. No econ can handle such a huge raise in income. Without it seriously effecting the internal market.
And that huge increase will slowly if at all move to those not currently earning. IE retired or disabled etc.
But even if the econ could manage it. By for example borrowing to raise unemployed incomes while things settle.
Those making the decisions will worry more about the effect on their econ and currency compared to other nations. Not doing the same thing.
In genral governments tend to ( to some extent rightly) value their currencies buying power with other nations. More then the internal markets.
At this time in history. No nation is truly 100% self sufficient. Mainly most nations over the last 50 years have not tried to be. So it can be seen as governments own choice.
But huge changes in the value of a currency has a huge negative effect on the ability for any nations citizen’s to thrive.
This not only effects the poor drematically. But often more to the worry of governments. The rich and government spending power overall.
The later is a death blow for democratic nations. But even more so for a nation that has been using its buying power to position itself in the world for decades. Such as China.
Did you even read the article? The article says the plan includes raises for the lower and middle paid employees that is being paid for by cuts to the upper executives. So they’re doing exactly what you proposed
Under the plan, the salary package for employees below mid-level managers was raised by about 10% to 15%, and salaries for higher-level managers were reduced by a similar range, a second source said.
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