They are honest enough to point out that $1 dollar buys a lot more in poor countries than in the USA, but the really startling part of the article is this graph on what percentage of the world's population live on less than $1.25 a day, and that a lot of these people are farmers who grow their own food, which doesn't go into the calculations: They just don't have much cash...
Yes, this is thanks to the evils of capitalism, making folks richer one family at a time.
Even those who point out the income gap fail to realize that it's not that the poor are poorer, but that they have not yet become more prosperous; They are still as poor as their ancestors, not poorer than they were 50 years ago. Except now they probably have cellphones.
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Did you know Spain just elected a conservative president? Check David Warren's discussion of the economic problems faced by that country.
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Preparing for "the Big One": The "Balikatan" exercize next month will not do wargames but on how the military will respond to a major earthquake in Manila.
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This BBC article highlights "indigenous groups protesting" against mining in Ecuador, with the report of "hundreds of protesters" but a photo only showing less than a score...
but if you read down the article toward the end, you will see that the President of Ecuador held his own counter protest:
hmmm...looks like more than a couple hundred protesters here...
And guess who owns the mining company? China...
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The big impeachment trial of the Supreme court ex justice is still going on here, and the latest kerfuffle is about who released the bank accounts that seems mysteriously full of cash. Like a soap opera, it is primetime viewing for many...
And Miriam is now "trending" ...
Like a widely watched telenovela, the trial begins its Season 2 as it were, with the defense panel’s turn to present its rebuttal following the prosecution’s sudden decision to rest its case.
As of Sunday afternoon, Santiago’s Twitter followers have reached 132,663, while her Facebook fans have generated 102,000 “friends.”
The highly charged hearing on February 29—during which lawyer Vitaliano Aguirre incurred the ire of the feisty senator for covering his ears while she was lambasting the prosecution’s handling of the case—went exactly like a cliffhanger season-ender. The audience lapped it all up.
One priest overdid a sermon, claiming she should go to hell for her escapades, resulted in this tongue in cheek essay in the Inquirer about hell's residents being upset she might disturb the place when she gets there...
(a reference to Corona's alleged protection of our lovely ex president Gloria)Father Catalino Arevalo declared in a homily that Sen. Miriam Santiago deserved “the fires of Hell” for calling prosecutors fools for their mishandling of their accusations. The priest’s pronouncement immediately sent shivers to residents of the Hellfire and Brimstone neighborhoods of Hell.
“We’re okay with the eternal scorching and scalding, but adding nonstop, high-decibel diatribes to that would be intolerable,” complained Lucrezia Borgia, who hurriedly packed her exotic poisons to evacuate to a truly violent but quieter neighborhood, Circle Seven.
Panicked residents like Borgia learned of the looming crisis triggered by Santiago’s possible arrival when the piped-in music system abruptly stopped playing “Unchained Melody” and began airing ominous choral passages from “Carmina Burana,” which were made famous by horror movies....
Before Satan retreated into the Inner Mouth of Hell, which reporters thought was just a big pothole on EDSA courtesy of the Department of Public Works, he clarified that he did not have the power to determine any government official’s ultimate fate, contrary to popular belief.
“I can’t stop Ms. Santiago or any Filipino public official. Let’s make one thing clear, people. I’m just the Prince of Darkness, not Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.”
Miriam has a degree in theology and claims Vatican II did away with "hell", but she might want to check out the Bible on how the deity feels about those who pretend to be religious and take bribes and cheat the poor.
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The Hollywood Press association is sending some funds to the UN to help the kids affected by Sendong...so the Golden Globes do have a silver lining.
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