9th August 2011, 03:54 PM
(This post was last modified: 9th August 2011, 04:03 PM by GnomeKing.)
i think it is quite clear how current economic, political and social events affect us all, and especially the climate in which commercial archaeologists are seeking to operate.
eg: http://www.pakalertpress.com/2011/08/07/...nk-of-war/
There is also a clear connection between war expenditure and national debt.
Eg:
"The Assembly will also be making the link between the vast expenditure on these war policies and the savage cuts in public services we are told are necessary to pay off the national debt. Afghanistan and Libya are costing around ?6bn a year, on top of the ?26bn annual defence budget. Maintaining the Trident nuclear missile system costs another ?2.2bn a year, and ?100bn is planned for its renewal. It's not hard to do the maths for how the national debt of around ?70bn could be paid off without wiping out whole sections of our health, education and social services."
"the outlook for the economies of Old Capitalism is particularly bleak. Their political leaderships have no real solutions. All that is being offered is austerity – the brazen attempt to foist the immense costs of the bankers’ crisis onto workers and the rest of society. It is already creating immense hardship for millions, and as it clamps down on spending, it will simply worsen the recession. The Europe Against Austerity Conference, taking place in London on 1 October, will be an important first step in pulling together a Europe-wide resistance to austerity and the crash. It is vital, as the deepest spending cuts for a generation or more begin to bite, that we start to assemble a mass movement of all those opposing austerity, continent-wide, offering an alternative to the rule of finance.
http://www.europeagainstausterity.org/ca.../articles/
http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-...-end-riots
" Brutal austerity measures, spending cuts to every public service, rising unemployment, attacks on education, police tactics on demonstrations and the increased use of stop and search has meant that anger towards this government has heated up to boiling point."
"we will understand nothing of these events if we ignore the history and the context in which they occur"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/...ndon-riots
http://www.womensviewsonnews.org/2011/08...don-riots/
eg: http://www.pakalertpress.com/2011/08/07/...nk-of-war/
There is also a clear connection between war expenditure and national debt.
Eg:
"The Assembly will also be making the link between the vast expenditure on these war policies and the savage cuts in public services we are told are necessary to pay off the national debt. Afghanistan and Libya are costing around ?6bn a year, on top of the ?26bn annual defence budget. Maintaining the Trident nuclear missile system costs another ?2.2bn a year, and ?100bn is planned for its renewal. It's not hard to do the maths for how the national debt of around ?70bn could be paid off without wiping out whole sections of our health, education and social services."
"the outlook for the economies of Old Capitalism is particularly bleak. Their political leaderships have no real solutions. All that is being offered is austerity – the brazen attempt to foist the immense costs of the bankers’ crisis onto workers and the rest of society. It is already creating immense hardship for millions, and as it clamps down on spending, it will simply worsen the recession. The Europe Against Austerity Conference, taking place in London on 1 October, will be an important first step in pulling together a Europe-wide resistance to austerity and the crash. It is vital, as the deepest spending cuts for a generation or more begin to bite, that we start to assemble a mass movement of all those opposing austerity, continent-wide, offering an alternative to the rule of finance.
http://www.europeagainstausterity.org/ca.../articles/
http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-...-end-riots
" Brutal austerity measures, spending cuts to every public service, rising unemployment, attacks on education, police tactics on demonstrations and the increased use of stop and search has meant that anger towards this government has heated up to boiling point."
"we will understand nothing of these events if we ignore the history and the context in which they occur"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/...ndon-riots
http://www.womensviewsonnews.org/2011/08...don-riots/