The world’s 100 richest people earned a stunning total of $240 billion in 2012 – enough money to end extreme poverty worldwide four times over, Oxfam has revealed, adding that the global economic crisis is further enriching the super-rich. “The richest 1 percent has increased its income by 60 percent in the last 20 years with the financial crisis accelerating rather than slowing the process,” while the income of the top 0.01 percent has seen even greater growth, a new Oxfam report said. For example, the luxury goods market has seen double-digit growth every year since the crisis hit, the report stated. And while the world’s 100 richest people earned $240 billion last year, people in ”extreme poverty” lived on less than $1.25 a day.
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This article was published on Martin Luther King Day in January 2009, a few days prior to Barack Obama’s first term inauguration. As the title suggest, Obama betrayed the Legacy of Dr. King from the…
1. Canadian passports found on badly burned bodies of two insurgents 2. One Frenchman among the terrorists, say Algerian judicial sources 3. Algerian PM says 37 foreign hostages from eight countries had died 4. Total…
Who is behind the terrorist group which attacked the BP -Statoil-Sonatrach In Amenas Gas Field Complex located on the Libyan border in South Eastern Algeria? (see map below) The operation was coordinated by Mokhtar Belmokhtar, leader of the Al Qaeda affiliated Islamist al-Mulathameen (Masked) Brigade, or “Those who Sign with Blood.” Belmokhtar’s organization has been involved in the drug trade, smuggling as well kidnapping operations of foreigners in North Africa. While his whereabouts are known, French intelligence has dubbed Belmokhtar “the uncatchable”. Belmokhtar took responsibility on behalf of Al Qaeda for the kidnapping of 41 Western hostages including 7 Americans at the BP In Amenas Gas Field Complex. Belmokhtar, however, was not directly involved in the actual attack. The field commander of the operation was Abdul Rahman al-Nigeri, a veteran jihadist fighter from Niger, who joined Algeria’s Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) in 2005. (Albawaba, January 17, 2013)
The scandal over the «scientific team from the USA» broke out, despite attempts by the U.S. Embassy in Bolivia to kill it off. In June 2012, a team of team of specialists numbering 50 people came to the country, ostensibly to study the adverse effects of high altitude on humans and their capacity for rapid recovery of their fighting ability. To avoid attracting attention, the Americans used tourist visas and passed through border control in small groups. One group of these specialists went to the Yungas area, and another group to the slopes of Mount Chacaltaya. «Tourist» trails have been laid in the border areas with Peru and Chile.
Meet The “Intelligence and Security Command” Last week we reported that in the aftermath of the so far disastrous French campaign to eradicate “rebels” in the north of Mali, because of their implied…
The unilateral ceasefire which had been declared by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia, FARC two months ago, ended on Sunday 20 January 2013, after the failure of the Columbian government of Juan…
“Political Program to Resolve Crisis Is Integral” The Syrian Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Walid al-Moallem, stated in an interview with the Syrian TV on Saturday, that the political program for solving the crisis…
The Press office of the Russian Ministry of Defense informed that Russia has begun large-scale naval and anti-terrorism exercises in the Mediterranean and Black Seas. The exercises, which last until 29 January, involve warships from…
France has deployed approximately 2,000 troops to carry out its war in the West African state of Mali. At least another 500 military personnel from the government of President Francois Hollande are reported to be…