25 julio, 2019
por Felipe Sahagún
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25 julio, 2019
por Felipe Sahagún
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Why are homeless people so rare in Madrid and so common in San Francisco when here GDP per capita is half?
Why is the murder rate 500% higher in California than in Spain?
Why is health care free even for tourists in Spain paid for by Spanish taxpayers as a human right and so incredibly expensive and cumbersome in California? Our son fell in the bathtub and we had a $12k bill for a few stitches at Stanford University emergency room.
Why are universities in Spain free and there is no student debt while in the USA there is more student debt than the GDP of Spain?
Why are there in the USA more people in jail/parole than there are inhabitants in Madrid the third largest city in Europe?
Why is litigation so common in the USA and so rare in Spain?
Why is inequality in the USA twice as high as that of Spain?
Why does Spain who borders Africa and has a much bigger illegal immigration problem than the USA provides amnesties for those who work for three years and USA separates parents from kids and conducts violent raids? Has 11 million hard working people who it refuses to legalize.
Why do people live 4 more years in Spain than US while Spain spends 70% less per person in health care?
Spain is not perfect, housing costs are high, good jobs are tougher to find, half of Catalonians want out, political corruption is unacceptable, universities produce no Nobel prizes.
But here cancer does not mean bankruptcy, pregnancies come with maternity leave, long vacations available to all, gun deaths, opium deaths are almost unheard of and in 09 when unemployment shot up crime surprisingly went down.
Spain has the fastest growing large economy of Europe. It is a welcoming democracy loved by the millions of foreigners who live here. Looking for an alternative country to live in? Consider Spain.
USA is amazing at solving intricate science and technology problems that no other country has solved but struggles at solving every day life challenges that all other developed nations have solved.
European nominal GDP and USA GDP is coincidentally the same, both around $19 trillion. surprises Europeans who can’t believe Europe is so high and shocks Americans who can’t believe it’s so low.
GDP per capita is higher in the USA but per capita measures are deceiving as inequality is much higher in the USA, Jeff Bezos is worth over $100bn makes those who make little seem rich on average measures. Gini coefficient explains this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality
A better way to rank countries is by quality of life and as you can see this index is dominated by European countries, USA ranks well at 13th best, but not as high as with GDP per capita https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/rankings_by_country.jsp
Maybe the best way to rank countries would be which countries have the richest poor people in the world (bottom 20% of earnings). Because if your poor do better than anyone else’s poor then the rest are obviously better off. But I have not been able to find such index.
24 julio, 2019
por Felipe Sahagún
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FRONTLINE✔@frontlinepbs
On the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’s moon landing, watch @AmExperiencePBS’ «Chasing the Moon,» which recounts the million steps it took to make one giant leap. https://to.pbs.org/2Lr9apn
Embedded video 12:52 AM – Jul 21, 2019
24 julio, 2019
por Felipe Sahagún
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Jesús Maraña@jesusmarana
Prepublicación: extracto de ‘El enemigo del pueblo’, la crónica de Jim Acosta sobre la conflictiva relación de #Trump con los periodistas y con la verdad
‘El enemigo del pueblo’, de Jim Acosta
infoLibre publica un extracto del libro de Jim Acosta, corresponsal jefe de la Casa Blanca para la cadena CNN, donde da cuenta de la conflictiva relación de Donald Trump con los medios de comunicac… 10:56 AM – Jul 21, 2019
17 julio, 2019
por Felipe Sahagún
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Russia’s grand aspirational objective is to bring back what is deemed in Moscow to be a more natural state of play for the Balkans: multipolarity. But what is the Russian modus operandi in the region? Is it confined only to coercion, as the headlines suggest, or is there a softer side to Russia’s power?
16 julio, 2019
por Felipe Sahagún
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Within hours of the massacre at the mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, last week, government officials began calling for censorship of the media. The New Zealand police were first. In reference to copies of the killer’s live-streamed video of the shooting, they tweeted, «We would strongly urge that the link not be shared. We are working to have any footage removed.»
That immediately posed a problem for the media trying to make sense of the event. The video showed the killer’s face clearly. It was imperative for reporters to be able to correctly identify that the man in the video was the same man whose Facebook account was taken offline that day, and that he was the same man who published on Twitter a racist manifesto justifying the killings.
The price for misidentifying a killer is high: That happened in the Boston Marathon bombing in 2015, when idiots on Reddit — as part of a «crowd-sourced investigation» — decided that Sunil Tripathi, a completely innocent man who had disappeared the month before the bombing, was a prime suspect. In fact, Tripathi had died some time before the bombing. In the meantime, however, his family was targeted by an online lynch mob. The Tripathi family received hundreds of threatening, racist, and Islamaphobic messages until the truth came out.
