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mick: got it brian, and also from Chris - thanks. about 1 year ago

brian: in the meantime you can replace the ones you have by adding another. we only show 2. about 1 year ago

brian: mick, we will add the ability to remove a featured graph soon. it was our mistake. about 1 year ago

swoodie: hey mickeywho about 1 year ago

About Me

numbers like memories help reveal the realities around us ========= check this site and wonder if intel has improved much in 65 years: http://www.scc.ms.unimelb.edu.au/whatisstatistics/gtanks.html

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Male and Female Life Expectancy at Birth by Country for 2005

table is only europe and ex USSR countires - icelandic men and japanese women live longest

Refugees by Region/Country of asylum

Australia's government has argued for over 5 years that asylum seekers desperate enough to board leaky boats and ply the ocean to our shores are "queue jumpers." Our media has been complicit in this lie by not asking for details of the (implied) legitimate queues and where/how to join them. Meanwhile refugees from the two countries we have helped the US and the UN invade in the last five years, Afghanistan and Iraq, make up some of the numbers of refugees in the two countries reported to have the world's greatest numbers of refugees, Pakistan and Iran. While Bush et al like to blow things up as a means to calm things down, refugees need and deserve recognition and assistance. Logistics of aid may parallel some complexities of war, but cost far less and reap greater rewards. We ignore most of the world's refugees out of inhumanity, and many at our future peril.

Featured Data Sets

	Commercial space launches 1989-March 2006. A returning satellite came so close to a Lan Chile flight between Auckland and Santiago, 26 march 2007, that eyewitnesses on the flight reported hearing a rumble above the jet engines of their plane. Oooh.
	Total Foods and Organic Foods Consumer Sales and Penetration, (1997-2005)

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GDP per hour worked
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mick: In 2003 an Irish farmer told me that he sold calves to Italy for €1500 each. He also told me that the EU subsidised the sale euro for euro. If so, he received €3000 for each calf he sold. His main expenditure was fuel for his tractor - he owned his own farm and spent nothing on capital improvements. He lived comfortably by raising between 5 and 8 calves a year - so he told me. I wonder what the Spaniards thought of that! (about 1 year ago)

: I think that the Common Agrarian Policy is an ugly monster, in political and economic terms. It harms everybody (poor farmers in developing countries, taxpayers here, and consumers elsewhere) and there are not good reasons to keep it. We stopped mining when mines were unprofittable. We have to stop farming in the EU if they are unprofitable. Farmers that are not efficient should be compensate and trained in other skills, or financed to run their own business in any other activity (think on the rising countryside tourism, country hotels; think on IT business; think yourself). :-) Thanks for the link, by the way! (about 1 year ago)

Humanitarians:
Victims of Violenc..

mick: Thanks for that Natalie. Just thinking about your words after watching the floods in Asia. Not much coverage in Australia of those floods and those there without food. Two and a half years after the big tsunami, i suspect many people feel that we did our bit for the wider world and until a fickle media draws our attention to human crises, we shall focus mainly on the little worlds around us. Much like infrastructure that is let be, until it falls down... It's taken me a while to realise that this really is the way of the world - that only when people, like you in this case, draw attention to issues left alone by big media outlets, is there impetus to respond and to maybe get governments to help out. When the 'global village' responds as one to serious issues, we will be in a much better place. For now it seems to be ad hoc. Cheers, Mick. ps for those looking for the exact site source see: http://www.nyu.edu/pages/cic/internationalsecurity/docs/aidworkers_final.pdf (about 1 year ago)

Male and Female Life
Expectancy at Birt..

mick: When the Beatles sang - "those Ukraine girls really knock me out", it seems they spoke for Ukraine men quite literally, though it looks like Russian vodka does a better job (of knocking men out). The divergence between western Asia and the wealthier European countries is quite marked - if it's the cold rather than the vodka in Russia, it's ironic that Icelandic men have the longest life expectancy on Earth. see: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070813/lf_afp/lifestylejapansenior_070813141651 This article is on the death of the Japanese woman who had been the oldest woman in the world since January. The article notes that she died a few months after celebrating with a western style meal. Harsh! Japanese women are recorded as having the longest life expectancy on Earth. Perhaps someone could expand the above table to include African, American and Asian countries also. Ciao. see also http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070812/ap_on_he_me/life_expectancy_8 (about 1 year ago)