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Chelsea Wirth

European Union Intensifies Sanctions on Iran - 1 views

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    This article talks about how the European Union disapproves of Iran's nuclear probram. The European Union banned trade in many basic industries such as natural gas so to cause greater difficulties for iran. Iran has also experienced a tough economic climate amidst a world suffering from a great economic depression. For example, Iran has had extreme inflation that has been extremely damaging towards its economy and its power in the world.
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    Very cool!
Rachel Bachman

European Union Intensifies Sanction on Iran - 0 views

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    The European Union has toughened sanctions against Iran over its disputed nuclear program, banning trade in industries like finance, metals and natural gas, and making other business transactions far more cumbersome, expressing "serious and deepening concerns over Iran's nuclear program." Iran is now suffering acute inflammation, further lowering is credit and ability to sell oil.
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    It is interesting to consider the dangers that sanctions on states like Iran pose to the international system. Generally, we have been approaching Iran as an "immature" state that does not have the right to have a nuclear program. This sort of attitude alienates Iran and produces resentment against the Western world.
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    Iran is suffering inflammation??? Or inflation??? :^)
petertimpane

Amazon workers in Alabama will get another shot to unionise | Workers' Rights News | Al... - 3 views

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    After a previous failed vote, the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union charged Amazon with illegal misconduct and called for a do-over. A hearing officer from the National Labor Relations Board confirmed the decision.
caroliner0che

British Trade Union Conference Evacuated Over Bomb Threat - The New York Times - 0 views

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    A meeting of the British Trade Union Congress in the Grand Hotel in Brighton (the same hotel where the IRA had previously bombed a Conservative Party conference) was evacuated due to an anonymous call saying there was a bomb in the building.
audreybandel

This victory of Starbucks employees in Buffalo will reverberate across America | Robert... - 3 views

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    The current shift in labor attitudes in the US is fascinating. What does this say about our culture as a whole? How does this compare to the cultural dynamics around work in other countries?
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    This is a really interesting article as I had not considered the larger context this unionization was taking place in. The shift in attitude when it comes to labor in the US seems largely due to the pandemic and it will be interesting to see how labor dynamics and unions will continue to evolve as we hopefully head out of the pandemic.
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    I'm interested to see how this progresses. It seems like we're in the middle of a really important labor shift that was somewhat catalyzed by the pandemic.
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    Its interesting to see if this shift in unionizing and labor laws will make any different in unemployment rates, seeing how they have peaked during the pandemic.
arjunk2022

African Union health watchdog CDC appeals for calm over Omicron - 1 views

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    This article is essentially about the African Union Health Minister saying that there are methods to soften the blow of the Omicron Variant that warrant some optimism. We generally see bad news around COVID, especially with Omicron, so this is good to see.
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    I agree with Arjun's comment, and the criticism of richer nations' booster shots is super valid.
Kay Bradley

Africa's Scramble for Europe - The New York Times - 0 views

  • But mostly Calais highlights two major differences between the immigration issue in America and Europe, two ways in which migration — from Africa, above all — is poised to divide and reshape the European continent in ways that go far beyond anything the United States is likely to experience.
  • it poses a major dilemma for the European Union, which allows free movement across its internal borders, but which is composed of nation-states that still want sovereignty over their respective immigration policies.
  • America has a mild version of this tension: Witness the recent debate over “sanctuary cities,” or state-federal conflicts over immigration enforcement.
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  • Witness the recent debate over “sanctuary cities,” or state-federal conflicts over immigration enforcement.
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      Discuss sanctuary cities in US, murder of San Francisco woman by illegal immigrant this summer, etc.
  • the desire for real national control over immigration policy may be as dangerous to the E.U. project in the long run as the already-evident folly of expanding the common currency to Greece.
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      Two issues to discuss here: EU nations' desire for a an independent immigration policy; expanding common currency to a nation like Greece
  • “Brexit” from the European Union.
  • It’s behind the rise of the National Front in France, and Euroskeptical parties the continent over.
  • Europe’s already-significant north-south divisions
  • the scale of the migration that may be coming to Europe over the next fifty years.
  • 300 million people in the United States and just under 600 million in all the countries to our south
  • In 2050, according to the latest U.N. projections, Europe’s population will have dipped to (an aging) 707 million, while Africa’s population will be 2.4 billion
  • By 2100
  • 4.4 billion Africans
  • Europe’s population will be just 646 million.
  • northward migration – a kind of African “scramble for Europe”
  • Desperation might drive it, but so might rising expectations, the connections forged by growth and globalization.
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    population Africa Europe
dredd15

French Cabinet is Dissolved, a victim of austerity battles - 0 views

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    Political instability is evident in France as the cabinet fell apart over questions regarding the financial crisis of France and the overall economic downslide of the euro over the last 5 years. The Prime Minister Manuel Vall called for the dissolvement of the cabinet after President Hallonde made changes to economic regulations based on the urges of the European Union, German leaders to be specific. The big question regarding the European economy is whether government budget cuts and deficit financing is more important or finding a way to get cash flowing and creating jobs for citizens is more important. Many of the nations of the eurozone initially bought into the policies of austerity policies that Angel Merkel, the German chancellor, advocated, but now they're pulling back their restrictions and some economic growth is occurring. France and Germany, the largest economies in Europe are at odds and France's shift towards the right-wing National Front. France, as a part of the European Union, has pressure to do follow orders and maintain relationships with other European powers rather than do what's exactly right for their citizens. Political instability of France, unemployment, budget cuts, and debt-financing.
dredd15

BBC News- France country profile - 0 views

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    France took big hits in WWI and WWII from human and economic standpoints, so following WWII they became big proponents of European integration to build from the ground up. The Franco-German alliance has been a key to the integration of European nations since the 90's, but more recently they have been at odds over the austerity policies regarding France's recent economic recession. The French push for integration is quite ironic given France has more than 26 regions with several territories from its colonial past still belonging to France. Even with a rather diverse population, the majority of the French government is quite centralized with very little devolution of power. The voting turnout has not been very high because average French citizens feel like the power is in the hands of only the French elite. The French social and governmental hierarchy dampens the democratic institutions of France. Furthermore, the French don't only have a strong centralized government, they also have a powerful military and the second largest economy in the eurozone. Though the French struck down the proposed constitution of the European Union in 2005, current socialist President Hollande remains faithful to the European Union and German Chancellor Angel Merkel.
Kay Bradley

Moaning Moguls | The New Yorker - 0 views

  • In the past year, the venture capitalist Tom Perkins and Kenneth Langone, the co-founder of Home Depot, both compared populist attacks on the wealthy to the Nazis’ attacks on the Jews.
  • recent work by the economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty showed that ninety-five per cent of income gains in the first three years of the recovery went to the top one per cent—a lot of them believe that they’re a persecuted minority.
  • Business leaders were upset at the criticism that followed the financial crisis and, for many of them, it’s an article of faith that people succeed or fail because that’s what they deserve.
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  • If you believe that net worth is a reflection of merit, then any attempt to curb inequality looks unfair.
  • as a classic analysis by the historian James Weinstein showed, the reforms were intended to co-opt public pressure and avert more radical measures
  • they sprang from a pragmatic belief that the robustness of capitalism as a whole depended on wide distribution of the fruits of the system.
  • Committee for Economic Development, which played a central role in the forging of postwar consensus politics, accepting strong unions, bigger government, and the rise of the welfare state.
  • The C.E.D. called for tax increases to pay for the Korean War and it supported some of L.B.J.’s Great Society
  • As Mizruchi put it, “They believed that in order to maintain their privileges, they had to insure that ordinary Americans were having their needs met
  • That all changed beginning in the seventies, when the business community, wrestling with shrinking profits and tougher foreign competition, lurched to the right
  • Today, there are no centrist business organizations with any real political clout, and the only business lobbies that matter in Washington are those pushing an agenda of lower taxes and less regulation. Corporate profits and C.E.O. salaries have in recent years reached record levels, but there’s no sign of a return to the corporate statesmanship of the past (the occasional outlier like Warren Buffett notwithstanding)
  • In the postwar years, American companies depended largely on American consumers. Globalization has changed that—foreign sales account for almost half the revenue of the S&P 500—as has the rise of financial services (where the most important clients are the wealthy and other corporations). The well-being of the American middle class just doesn’t matter as much to companies’ bottom lines
  • Early in the past century, there was a true socialist movement in the United States, and in the postwar years the Soviet Union seemed to offer the possibility of a meaningful alternative to capitalism. Small wonder that the tycoons of those days were so eager to channel populist agitation into reform
  • Today, by contrast, corporate chieftains have little to fear, other than mildly higher taxes and the complaints of people who have read Thomas Piketty. Moguls complain about their feelings because that’s all anyone can really threaten
agnesg22

A Vaccine Success in Europe That Sinks in the East - The New York Times - 0 views

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    "Partly because of skepticism about shots, Bulgaria has fully inoculated only 20 percent of adults, and Romania 32 percent, well below the European Union average of 70 percent."
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    I'd be interested to compare how anti-vax sentiments compare in America and in Eastern Europe. It's sad to see how availability is no longer a limiting factor for the vaccine, but it's people's willingness to get the vaccine. Though, I was glad to hear about the higher vaccination rates in most of the EU. Also, I had never seen the term "glass ceiling" used in a context that wasn't about sexism.
anonymous

Kaiser Permanente Reaches Tentative Deal With Unions, Averting Strike - 1 views

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    Interesting to see the amount of strikes that have arose towards the end of the pandemic.
lauran5556555

Hundreds of Google Employees Unionize, Culminating Years of Activism - The New York Times - 1 views

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    Hopefully, groups like this will help tech employees to get better pay and more reasonable work load.
Kay Bradley

EU Talks Over Russian Oil Price Cap Drag On - The New York Times - 0 views

  • Fearing a global oil crunch, the United States championed the price cap policy, which would permit European tankers and insurers to continue facilitating Russian oil exports as long as the oil they are transporting or insuring is sold at or below the capped price.
  • Russian oil, also known as Urals crude
  • trading at a significant discount to other types of oil.
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    "A near-total embargo on Russian oil comes into force on Dec. 5 in the European Union. E.U. insurers and tankers - which comprise half the global fleet - would no longer be allowed to offer their services to transport Russian oil. It would not apply to buyers of Russian oil, like China and India, if they ship and insure the cargoes with companies from countries outside of the group imposing the cap."
Lex Nunno

EU plans to introduce harshest sanctions yet against Iran - 1 views

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    Article detailing the European Unions planned sanctions on Iran, if Iran does not back down from nuclear development. The sanctions to be imposed by the EU show a policy change from past sanctions which targeted specific people and companies.
quinnlewis

Merkel Links Turkey's E.U. Hopes to Stemming Flow of Refugees - 0 views

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    Interesting to build off the article Sam posted previously on Merkel. Some of the initial buzz seems to have quieted down; however, the problem is still very real. Angela Merkel of Germany on Sunday explicitly linked accelerating Turkey's effort to join the European Union to Turkish cooperation in clamping down on the flow of refugees from Turkey to Europe.
milesburton

Europe and Central Asia - 2 views

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    This article details the World Bank's activities in Europe and Central Asia. I found it interesting that the vast majority of their efforts focus on the former Soviet Union, where economies are troubled and immigration from North Africa poses a huge problem.
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    Things are not going well: "Significant poverty reduction over the past decade is reversing, and the sharing of prosperity is stalled in many countries. About 14 percent of the region's population-more than 66 million people-live in poverty, including almost 19 million who live on less than $2.50 a day, the extreme poverty line for the region."
Alex Sommer

German and Italian Leaders to Meet on Euro Crisis - 0 views

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    BERLIN - The top leaders of Germany and Italy plan to meet Wednesday as part of an intense round of shuttle diplomacy before several critical decisions that face Europe. The region's leaders are struggling to appease voters questioning the price of unity in the euro currency union after three years of financial turmoil.
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    I find European economics very fascinating, personally. Germany has been saving much of the Euro economy for three years since the economic crash began, but is not facing its own fiscal issues. In addition, the article discusses the actions of Italy's Prime Minister Mario Monti, who has been frantically attending meetings and important "coffees" with other European heads of states to prevent their country's growing national debt--already at 123% GDP!!!
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    What are Germany's own economic issues? It has seemed like the bulwark of Europe for the last five years! Are there things that are being ignored, e.g. migrant labor, cost of universal health insurance and old age pensions? Is Angela Merkel still popular? Who might succeed her? What are her party's politics?
Nora Sheeder

India: a fascinating story - 1 views

I learned that India has around 400 main languages and 22 dialects along with English, that are all spoken in parliament. Around 70% of the Indian population speaks some language in the Indo-Aryan ...

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