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A Children’s Treasury Of Poverty Iconography

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:43:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The Comics Curmudgeon is Josh Fruhlinger, whose daily blog at http://joshreads.com/ offers snarly commentary from Josh and his readers on the comic strips you love to hate. He also comments on editorial and political cartoons at Wonkette, the DC Gossip.

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By the Comics Curmudgeon
So apparently 60 percent of you think that we are on the verge of a new Great Depression! Hopefully those of your who believe this are preparing yourself for the coming crisis, by putting your money in low-yield, low-risk investments, stocking up on canned food and ammo, and drinking heavily. But there aren’t just practical preparations to be made; you’ve got to get ready aesthetically, too, to understand the common visual language of total social and economic collapse. Get ready for the symbols of our new lives!

Hobos.

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Barrel-based wardrobes.

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Fat rich dudes smoking cigars.

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MONOPOLY, from Parker Brothers!

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Terrifying jawless tentacled Cthulhu-beasts, bursting up through the Earth’s surface from their unspeakable lairs deep in the bowels of hell.

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Tags: depression, poverty, icons, editorial cartoons, comics curmudgeon, josh fruhlinger, politics, economy

Carbon Credits = Global Tax

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:22:54 GMT

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Barack Obama’s Global Tax Proposal

AIM Report | By Jonathon Moseley | August 14, 2008

The Hidden Agenda

Obama’s Global Poverty Act is in fact a stunning and sweeping step toward socialism and one-world government. When we look beyond the seductive title, and read the actual contents, we discover that Obama and Biden are setting America up for imposition of a global tax, controlled by the United Nations. For the first time, the U.S. could be forced to adopt a global tax at the behest of an international body. The planned amount is 0.7% of America’s Gross National Product (GNP) or $65 billion per year, in addition to America’s current foreign aid budget.

The Savagery of a Surge That Failed

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:08:15 GMT

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He didn't scream. Instead, the sight induced a sort of catatonia; he picked up the head, cradled it in his arms, and started walking aimlessly. He carried on like this for days, until tribal elders pried the head from his hands and convinced him to deal with his loss more constructively. He decided he would get revenge by becoming a suicide bomber and inflicting a loss on some American family as painful as the one he had just suffered.

The Taliban are as uninterested in social services and human rights as the Karzai government or the international forces, but they know how to turn a world of poverty, insecurity, and death from laser-guided missiles to their advantage.

Washington spends about $100 million a day on this war - close to $36 billion a year - but only five cents of every dollar goes towards aid. From this paltry sum, [..] "a staggering 40% has returned to donor countries in corporate profits and salaries".

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Surging in Afghanistan

When, decades from now, historians compile the record of this Afghan war, they will date the Afghan version of the "surge"

to sometime in early 2007.

a growing insurgency was causing visible problems for US and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces

In response, the international forces retaliated with massive aerial bombing campaigns and large-scale house raids. The number of civilians killed in the process skyrocketed.

During the same period

the rising civilian death toll and the decaying economy proved a profitable recipe for the Taliban, who recruited significant numbers of new fighters.

They also won the sympathy of Afghans

This last surge, little noted by the media, failed miserably, but Washington is now planning another one, even as Afghanistan slips away. More boots on the ground, though, will do little to address the real causes of this country's unfolding tragedy.

Ending Poverty

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:10:53 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Blog Action Day

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21st Century Financial Prostitution

Demand is based on confidence and confidence can be manipulated.

How will this decline help the modern world regain its foothold and be redeemed of an everlasting bliss beyond 2012 when poverty is supposedly to cease ?

This post is part of Blog Action Day 08 - Poverty

Employing paper to create wealth is not true wealth – Real money has intrinsic values whilst artificial currencies have none – the only value conferred upon it is by market forces, controlled by the wealthy through politics and manipulations. Its market value will last only for as long as, there is public confidence and demand for it in the market.

Tags: poverty, usury, solution, economy, business

GLOBAL CRISIS AND WORLD POVERTY

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:45:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Displaced by conflicts, driven by environmental catastrophes and punished by greed

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Global Crises Compound Refugees' Woes: UN

WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (OneWorld) - The global financial, food, and fuel crises and the negative impacts of climate change pose a severe threat to the world's 37 million uprooted people, and will likely increase their numbers, warned the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Monday.

"Competition for scarce resources has become an increasingly important factor in provoking and perpetuating violence," said Antonio Guterres, addressing delegates from the UNHCR's 76-nation governing committee. As a result, the number of people forced to flee their homes is on the rise

At the end of 2007, 11.4 million people were living as refugees and 26 million were displaced within their own country -- known as internally displaced people, or IDPs.

These latest figures mark the second straight year of increases after a five-year decline in the number of uprooted people around the world.

ARMS TRADE, POVERTY AND CONFLICT

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:34:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Fuel for the World Wide Conflicts

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Unchecked Arms Trade Fuelling Conflict, Poverty

UNITED NATIONS - With 1.3 trillion dollars spent every year on the world's militaries, countries enmeshed in conflict are often flooded by weapons which are then turned against helpless civilian populations, say human rights organisations pushing for an international treaty to closely regulate arms sales.

If a country is likely to be involved in warfare, then it is unjustifiable to sell arms. There must be regulation or control of arms -- especially when the countries that are buying them are involved in a conflict,"

"I saw people being killed by aerial bombings and I saw villages burnt to ashes," he told IPS. "I witnessed one of the incidents when a mother was killed and her young child was trying to breastfeed on the dead mother. At that time, I was wondering about one thing: who was supplying all these arms for war and conflict?"

The international arms trade is also considered to be one of the three most corrupt businesses in the world,

Cost of Global Warming equivalent to solving ALL the major problems in the world 3x over

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:40:00 GMT

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To make a simple comparison, the UN estimates that for about £40 billion annually, we could solve all major basic problems in the world - we could give clean drinking water, sanitation, basic education and healthcare to every person in the world.

efforts to reduce the speed of global warming will cost huge sums of money and have a pitifully tiny effect

global warming's total cost will be only about one half of 1 per cent of the net worth of the 21st century; that is the current worth of all the wealth projected to be generated in this century.

£100 billion annually for the rest of the century.

best-case scenario

temperature at the end of the century would be 2.4532342C. The effect is a difference of about 0.00038C - or about one three-thousandth of a degree in a hundred years.

This is the equivalent of delaying the temperature increase by the end of the century by a little less than a week.

But instead we are spending a fortune achieving almost nothing.

we have to come to our senses.

Tags: global warming, poverty, climate change

America, Love It or Leave It

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:11:44 GMT

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Wherever that is, there will probably be a few American tanks and some bombers and things, but at least you won't be keeping the rest of us awake with your shrill cries over phantoms of lost liberty. There may be other countries with higher standards of living, with better governments more responsive to the wishes of their electorate. Sure, there may be countries where freedom and human rights are more than just catchphrases to be tossed out the window the minute it's inconvenient, such as I admit does happen in the United States now and then (especially now).
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Indeed, with poverty, racism, inequality, a disintegrating infrastructure, corporate control of the government, and the spiralling degradation of the environment, some crybabies could claim that America is no longer the greatest nation in the world.
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If you look on the bright side of things, if you see the ass as half-full instead of half-empty, you realize we've never had it so good.

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America, Love It or Leave It

It Probably Won't Leave You

So okay, the USA is having little fascisty moments, but let's not go nuts. Many countries torture their prisoners

And who doesn't imprison people without charges or trial? I mean besides the rest of the developed world.

Are any of these countries engaging in surveillance of their entire population? Not as such, but

At least we have phones.

Or how about all you heathen devils across the Pacific?

I'd like to hear a word of gratitude from Europe

Because America probably has troops in your immediate area, and we will not hesitate to kick your ass.

we're having a little case of police-stateitis here in the US,

why should everybody get upset

I'd appreciate it if all you peaceniks would just back off and go exercise your human rights somewhere else.

America is still the greatest country in the world, and if you don't like it, you are free to move somewhere else.

The Banker or the Fetus, Who Would You Save?

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:58:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT POINT!!!
This is not a long read and you'll see other benefits beyond his points as well. Kind of a paradigm like shift in perspective.

*Make sure all your so called republican christian friends get a hold of this article.

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According to the most up to date estimates available from the National Right to Life, there were 1,287,000 abortions performed in the United States in 2004.

I personally found this number to be appalling, especially considering that three-quarters of women who had aborted a fetus stated that the reason they were getting an abortion was because they could not afford a child. This means that money, the lack of financial security, is the reason for 75% of all abortions performed in the United States. For 2004, that’s equivalent to 965,250 lives being extinguished for fear of poverty.

The solution is simple, instead of giving $700 billion to rich bankers for their crimes, we could provide financial assistance to all expecting mothers.

I hope that all those Pro-lifers and Conservatives who think voting into office the same people who are robbing the nation and causing all these abortions get to see these numbers.

Who would you save, the banker or the fetus?

Calamities of Genius

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:57:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield was sold for a trifle to save him from the gripe of the law; Fielding lies in the burying-ground of the English factory at Lisbon, without a stone to mark the spot; Savage died in prison at Bristol, where he was confined for a debt of eight pounds; Butler lived in penury, and died poor; Chatterton, the child of genius and misfortune, destroyed himself.

– The Terrific Register, 1825

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Homer was a beggar; Plautus turned a mill; Terence was a slave; Boethius died in gaol; Paul Borghese had fourteen trades, and yet starved with them all; Tasso was often distressed for five shillings; Bentivoglio was refused admittance into an hospital he had himself erected; Cervantes died of hunger; Camoens, the celebrated writer of the Lusiad, ended his days in an alms house; and Vaugelas left his body to the surgeons, to pay his debts as far as it would go. In our own country, Bacon lived a life of meanness and distress; Sir Walter Raleigh died on a scaffold. Spencer, the charming Spencer, died forsaken, and in want; and the death of Collins came through neglect, first causing mental derangement. Milton sold his copy-right of Paradise Lost for fifteen pounds, at three payments, and finished his life in obscurity; Dryden lived in poverty and distress; Otway died prematurely, and through hunger; Lee died in the streets;

Steele lived a life of perfect warfare with bailiffs

Niki Raapana: Globalist Totalitarian Takeover

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:07:17 GMT

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Niki Raapana: Globalist Totalitarian Takeover

There is an old social theory that in order to create a healthier planet, people everywhere must learn the value of collectivism. Its many proponents insist that individual rights and liberties pose a real threat to the health and safety of the “community at large. If we will just put the community before self-centered concerns, mankind can eliminate war and poverty. To many, it is our evolutionary destiny and our moral duty to comply with the spirit of community.

Communitarianism was embraced by leaders in every nation after it was financed by the international banking elite. Today the theory of community influences all aspects of life: news, science, money, law, land use, health, education, policing and employment, not to mention the arts, fashion, fundraising, causes and entertainment.

Greed and Inhumanity Shame Us All

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:02:00 GMT

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Forestry Company Held in Contempt for Misconduct in SPLC Lawsuit

COLUMBIA, Tenn. — An Arkansas forestry company accused of cheating its foreign guestworkers out of their wages has been held in contempt of court for allowing supervisors to threaten workers and spread misinformation about a class action lawsuit filed on the workers' behalf by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

U.S. District Judge William J. Haynes Jr. ordered Superior Forestry Service Inc. to pay for television and radio announcements informing workers of their right to join the case without suffering any retaliation from their employer.

Tags: migrant workers, human rights

Confusing - This Economic Crises - Isn't It?

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:40:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I f documented and undocumented migrant workers in US send less money back to their families and relatives at home, then their relatives can't buy exported US goods and the American economic crisis gets worse.

So, we need a bailout plan or economic stimulus plan to get more money into migrant workers' hands so they can send more money home, so they can buy US exports?

And all this time, fright mongers were telling us that migrant workers were costing us?

See it's confusing and not as simple as the simple minded have been telling us - eh?

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Sharp drop in migrants’ money transfers from the US

by Martijn van Tol*

06-10-2008

The US credit crisis is also claiming victims far away from home. Latin American migrants in the US are sending far less money home than expected. The migrants and their families in their countries of origin are the victims of a faltering US economy. The double threat of job insecurity and inflation means that poverty is now a serious risk.

Tags: globalism, migrant workers, human rights, economics, bush league

Poverty

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:22:15 GMT

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The only people I ever heard talk about my Lady Poverty
were rich people, or people who imagined themselves rich.
Saint Francis himself was a rich and spoiled young man.
Being born among the working people
I know that poverty is a hard old hag,
and a monster, when you're pinched for actual necessities.
And whoever says she isn't, is a liar.
I don't want to be poor, it means I am pinched.
But neither do I want to be rich.
When I look at this pine-tree near the sea,
that grows out of rock, and plumes forth, plumes forth,
I see it has natural abundance.
With its roots it has a grand grip on its daily bread,
and its plumes look like green cups held up to the sun and air
and full of wine.
I want to be like that, to have a natural abundance
and plume forth, and be splendid.

Poverty

(D.H. Lawrence)

The more you pay, the better you feel

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:14:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If the numbers confuse you, it basically means that the power of suggestion (which is what a placebo is; believing that taking the pill will help you) has created consumers that believe generic or lower-priced medicines are inferior to the more expensive or name-brand medicines.
AKA More profits for private companies and higher barriers for those who live in poverty.

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Commercial Features of Placebo and Therapeutic Efficacy

In the regular-pricegroup, 85.4% (95% confidence interval [CI], 74.6%-96.2%) ofthe participants experienced a mean pain reduction after takingthe pill, vs 61.0% (95% CI, 46.1%-75.9%) in the low-price (discounted)group (P = .02). Similar results occurred when analyzingonly the 50% most painful shocks for each participant

82 healthy paid volunteers in Boston, Massachusetts, using an online advertisement. Each participant was informedby brochure about a (purported) new opioid analgesic approvedby the Food and Drug Administration; it was described as similarto codeine with faster onset time, but it was actually a placebopill. After randomization, half of the participants were informedthat the drug had a regular price of $2.50 per pill and halfthat the price had been discounted to $0.10 per pill (no reasonfor the discount was mentioned). All participants received identicalplacebo pills and were paid $30.

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