In 1980, many States agreed to use 0.7% of their GDP to develop the Third World. Only four of these States have achieved this objective and Spain, as you might suppose, is not one of them.
Anyway, the only purpose of this measure is to pretend the governments of 1st World are worried about the problems of developing countries. Besides, most of these developing countries are governed by corrupt dictators. I think giving money to them is the worst way to help people who live in these States. And, honestly, I cannot believe our politicians think in the other direction.
On the one hand, our governments give money (our money) to these dictators telling us it's to develop the Third World. On the other hand, they put duties taxing every product from the developing countries and "they" give (actually, it's our money what they give) edowment to our agriculture.
In my opinion, the only way to help these countries is to let them develop themselves. And it will only be possible if the First World removes those duties and subventions. I know it would mean the unemployment of most of our farmers, but it's the only way to let their products become competitive in our market and, besides, it would improve the efficiency and benefit consumers.
After all, I think it's stupid to invest most of the budget of the European Union in subsidizing agricultural products that are going to be burnt. But it's another question we will talk about in the future.
James Wilkinson
The blog's party has taken place so... now it's the time to reveal my real identity. The course has finished, but I'd like to use this blog to give everybody news from Stockholm next year. Then, you can keep on reading it if you want.
Since I started my studies at the university, I've hesitated to go abroad to finish my studies or not. When everything pointed to my stay in Barcelona, I decided to take the plunge: next year I will study at KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm). I've no idea of Swedish, but the courses are given in English and it seems that Swedes speak really good this language. So, I hope I'll improve my English once and for all. I'm scared of leaving everybody here for a year, but I think "everything's gonna be alright".
I haven't studied physics and I know most of you haven't either. Then, I'll try to tell that as simply as I could.
If the velocities we are talking about are both small compared to the speed of the light c, then the answer is approximately the same as the non-relativistic theory. But if, for example, we are moving (let's suppose it's possible) at 0.25c and we are overtaken by an object moving at 0.75c, we will see this object as it was moving at 0.61c (and not 0.50c).
Gran Scala is a huge project to build a city of leisure on 2700 hectares in the desert of Los Monegros. This project was made public by a consortium called IDL (International Leisure Development) two years ago. But anybody thought it would be built until, some weeks ago, IDL started the buying of the lands they needed to place Gran Scala. It was near Otiñena, in the province of Huesca.
In 1980, many States agreed to use 0.7% of their GDP to develop the Third World. Only four of these States have achieved this objective and Spain, as you might suppose, is not one of them.
In Spain, inflation is plummeting. If nothing changes, everything points to deflation next months.
I'm sorry I haven't post anything since November. Other tasks I cannot disclose (in order not to show you who I am) took up my whole time. Anyway, let's resume the blog again.
