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Inequality!

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Why it’s unfair to blame the poor!

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Need http://www.deepermind.com/20maslow.htm Behind everything thing we do is a need that wants to be satisfied. We have instincts that keep us alive and continue our species.  But there are other needs that go beyond our body’s instincts. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs starts at the basic physiological needs we need just to stay […]

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Why the world is like a real-life game of global domination

http://www.theguardian.com Paul Mason 7th December 2014 Putin gives a speech and the rouble falls. Europe’s central bank boss gives a speech and the stock markets fall. Opec meets in Vienna and the oil price plummets. Japan’s prime minister calls a snap election and the yen’s slide against the dollar accelerates. All these things in the […]

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Be thankful…

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Why Didn’t the US Interview CIA Torture Victims?

Why Didn’t the US Interview CIA Torture Victims? http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/11/14 November 14, 2014         By Laura Pitter The United States came under fire this week for failing to conduct a meaningful investigation into acts of torture committed under the administration of George W. Bush. The issue came up at a session of the United Nations Committee Against […]

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What Is Social Justice

“Social justice is about equality and fairness between human beings. It works on the universal principles that guide people in knowing what is right and what is wrong. This is also about keeping a balance between groups of people in a society or a community. Social justice is an underlying principle for peaceful and prosperous […]

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Hunger kills more than Ebola…

Hunger kills more than Ebola but is not viewed as a threat because the rich don’t die from it!

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Poverty now is unlike that of any other..

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.  Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied…but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has […]

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Where Is The Outrage Over Corporate Welfare?

http://www.forbes.com David Brunori , Contributor 13/3/2014 I recently read the February 24 Good Jobs First report, “Subsidizing the Corporate One Percent,” by Philip Mattera, a respected thought leader in our business.  It says that three-quarters of all state economic development subsidies went to just 965 corporations since the beginning of the study in 1976. The […]

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Corporate Welfare – Corporate Crime

http://www.globalissues.org Corporate Welfare Corporations and corporate-funded think tanks, media and other institutions are often the ones that loudly cry at the shame of welfare and the sin of living off the government and how various social programs should be cut back due to their costs. What is less discussed though is the amount of welfare […]

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Things To Stop Being Distracted By When A Black Person Gets Murdered By Police

08/12/14 Mike Brown by Mia McKenzie A Black person is murdered by cops, security guards or self-appointed vigilantes every 28 hours in the U.S. The killing of an unarmed Black teenager named Mike Brown in Ferguson, MO, which has resulted in protests in that town and harsh police push-back and brutality against even more of […]

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Aussie strugglers living beyond means, says Australian Bureau of Statistics

news.com.au  12 Sept 2012 ONE in seven Australian households is spending more than it earns, as the working poor struggle with monster mortgages and surging power bills. Nearly 8 per cent of the nation’s richest households were living on credit, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported yesterday. Of the top 20 per cent of households […]

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Our big spend on private schools

National Times  Date  September 12, 2012 http://www.theage.com.au/ Australia spends a higher proportion of public money on private schools than other developed countries except Chile and Belgium, according to the latest global education snapshot. The report also found that while Australian graduate teachers are paid relatively well, their salaries slump compared with teachers in other OECD […]

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Warren Buffett – A Breath of Fresh Air

Rueters US edition   11 Jan 2012 Warren Buffet willing to put his money where his mouth is Warren Buffett is willing to put his money where his mouth is, if only congressional Republicans would join him. The billionaire investor, in the new issue of Time magazine, says he will donate $1 to paying down the […]

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Millionaires earn billions in federal benefits, report says

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/    By Ed O’Keefe     14 Nov 2011 As the congressional super-committee struggles to develop comprehensive plans to address the nation’s fiscal woes, a Republican senator is suggesting they look at the billions of dollars in federal benefits collected annually by the nation’s millionaires. On average, Americans earning more than $1 million annually receive a combined […]

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