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Obama's Brother Lives In A Slum In Nairobi

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:52:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Now, the Italian press discovered Barack Obama's younger brother George in a slum hut in Nairobi. He is the son of Barack Obama Sr. and Jael.

. Half brother George is not pictured and was the son of Barack's father and an unknown Kenyan woman.

Obama's younger brother George was discovered in Kenya living in a hut.
He says last year during elections 6 people were hacked to death in his neighborhood.
The Telegraph reported:

The Italian edition of Vanity Fair said that it had found George Hussein Onyango Obama living in a hut in a ramshackle town of Huruma on the outskirts of Nairobi.

Mr Obama, 26, the youngest of the presidential candidate's half-brothers, spoke for the first time about his life, which could not be more different than that of the Democratic contender.

"No-one knows who I am," he told the magazine, before claiming: "I live here on less than a dollar a month."

According to Italy's Vanity Fair his two metre by three metre shack.

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Barack Obama's Brother Lives In A Slum.
Obama asked how many houses McCain had. But Obama's half brother lives in a hut.
Barack Obama's little-known haft brother lives in a slum in Nairobi.

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The British media was able to track down Barack's brother Mark Ndesandjo the son of Barack Obama’s late father and his third wife, an American woman named Ruth Nidesand. Mark ran an illegal firm in China.

Now, the Italian press discovered Barack Obama's younger brother George in a slum hut in Nairobi. He is the son of Barack Obama Sr. and Jael.

THE OBAMA FAMILY-- back row from left: Unknown, Barack Obama, half-brother Malik (Obongo or Roy), unknown, half-brother Abo, Bernard. Front: Half-sister Auma, stepmum Kezia, stepgrandma Sarah, unknown. Half brother George is not pictured and was the son of Barack's father and an unknown Kenyan woman.

Obama's younger brother George was discovered in Kenya living in a hut.
He says last year during elections 6 people were hacked to death in his neighborhood.

Tags: barack obama's half brother, george obama, huruma nairobi slum

George Obama

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:56:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A glimpse into Obama's father's side of the family.

Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Life is good in my Nairobi slum, says Barack Obama's younger brother

George Obama, half-brother of Barack, hopes to become a car mechanic

The muddy lanes and rickety shacks of Huruma slum are known for their poverty, disease and outbreaks of gang violence — but for Barack Obama’s half-brother it is the place he calls home.

Yesterday, as the Democratic nominee moved ever closer to the White House, George Hussein Onyango Obama, the youngest of his halfsiblings, responded to claims that his family had abandoned him by insisting that he was content with life in a simple wooden hut.

“Life in Huruma is good. In other places you must lock yourself in to keep yourself safe,” he told The Times. “Here I am surrounded by friends and family and feel safe and secure.”

That means the half-brothers and sisters, and the countless cousins, uncles and aunts that make up the Obama family will have to get used to being in the media spotlight.

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The Waste-Pickers of Delhi

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:53:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The original Delhi recyclers have turned garbage into cash for decades. Now, a carbon-credit-generating incinerator may put them out of business.

Clip Source: www.motherjones.com

India's waste-pickers—often women and children—join free-ranging cows and other less sacred animals in a daily forage through the garbage of the streets. They've been recycling trash for decades, since long before recycling became fashionable in the West, and in Delhi, a 13-million-person metropolis, the waste-pickers number in the tens of thousands. For slum-dwellers, such recycling of plastic, paper, and metals—anything that can be turned into cash—is often the only source of income.

Bharati Chaturvedi, the director and cofounder of Chintan, a small Indian NGO that provides education to waste-pickers, claims that more than 1 percent of Delhi's population sifts through garbage, recycling as much as 59 percent of the city's waste. "These waste-pickers are providing a public service—for free," she says.

Tags: india, recycle, environment

Extreme Rich-Poor Divides

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:25:57 GMT

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Clip Source: deputy-dog.com

here’s a quick selection of shocking photos / google maps links to start the day. they all illustrate an extreme degree of wealth divide in different parts of the world.

1. paraisópolis favela, morumbi, sao paulo

the shantytown area in the photo is called paraisópolis favela, which bizarrely translates as ‘paradise city’.

you can see the area on google maps hither.

2. caracas, venezuela

caracas is the capital of venezuela - the shacks on the left are called ranchos and most of the hillsides in the area are inhabited by the poorer population (a whopping 80% of the entire population of caracas) in similar housing.

the area on google maps is shown below. map link here.

3. dharavi, mumbai

dharavi is one of the largest slums in the world, home to over 1 million people. due to the location of the slum, the ground below it is actually worth a huge amount of money and the government apparently has plans to transform the area in the near future.

below is the slum on google maps. direct link here.

Tags: wealth, poverty

Mugtada al-Sadr keeps the truce for now....

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:41:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Cont....

Such tales abound. Sudani said she'd heard of troops bursting into a woman's home and arresting her four sons, as a soldier threw the mother to the ground and put his boot on her head. Iraqi troops are said to have seized gasoline canisters from a Sadr City resident and distributed them to others, claiming they were from the government.

Ali Jassim, 30, another resident, said his cousin's phone rang at a checkpoint with a ringtone containing a chant about Sadr. When soldiers heard it, they slapped him, he said.

Sadr's militia, the Mahdi Army, has suffered a series of setbacks since last spring. It lost control of Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, and the southern city of Amara after Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki ordered his forces to retake those areas. Many charge that Maliki is waging a political war against his former allies in time for fall's provincial elections.

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BAGHDAD — Under sweltering heat Friday, the prayer leader urged the crowd of thousands to show forbearance and not to retaliate for what he called daily humiliations at the hands of the Iraqi army.

The plea has become a weekly ritual. Baghdad's Sadr City district after Friday prayers is a massive slum seething with unrest, which backers of firebrand cleric Muqtada al Sadr are managing to control, but only just.

"There is anger inside our people. There is a volcano that wants to erupt. But we are obedient to Sayed Muqtada," said Nadhil al Sudani, a Sadr City resident and the chief of security for the women's section of Friday prayers, referring to Sadr with an honorific.

"It is only Muqtada's orders that are stopping us. The Iraqi army knows that they would become hostages within hours," one worshipper told a McClatchy reporter after Friday's sermon.

Tags: iraq, sadr, baghdad, war, tension, army, surge, truce

7 Bizarre Unsolved Mysteries

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:45:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Interesting list...

Clip Source: ty.rannosaur.us

1 ) The Lead Masks Case

crazy shit happens in Brazil, there are parts of Rio de Janeiro where pilots refuse to fly over out of fears that slum lords will shoot them down

On August 20, 1966, in Niteroi, the bodies of two healthy men in their 30s were found on a hilltop. Both men were wearing half-masks made of lead

2 ) The Max Headroom Signal Piracy Incident

on November 22, 1987, someone wearing a Max Headroom mask managed to hijack a broadcast signal twice - once CBS and once PBS.

3 ) The May Day Mystery

Every May 1st since 1981, a cryptic ad has been placed in the Arizona Daily Wildcat.

4 ) The Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 Hijacking

November 24, 1971, a man that resembled Michael Douglas’ character in Falling Down sat down and requested a bourbon with soda.

D.B. Cooper

passed

a note saying that he’ll detonate a bomb

5 ) The Dyatlov Pass Accident

6 ) The Dancing Mania of Aachen

craze that swept across Europe

people started dancing

7 ) The Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter

August 21, 1955

Tags: mysteries, suspense, crime, aliens, bizarre

24/7 party people: ever more exclusive events mean A-listers no longer need to slum it

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:14:02 GMT

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Clip Source: www.independent.co.uk

Economic crisis? Where? Not on the new-look summer circuit, where ever more exclusive events mean A-listers no longer need to slum it at Ascot and Henley. Rachel Shields on the invitations very few of us will get

Gloomy weather and still gloomier economic forecasts may be dampening spirits across the country but, for the lucky few, the summer season got off to a roaring start last week. Celebrities and the metropolitan elite turned out in droves for the Gorbachev Foundation Ball, the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition party, and billionaire Arpad Busson's Ark charity auction.

While these events were strictly A-list, some traditional staples of the summer season, such as Glyndebourne, Ascot and Henley, have now become so popular with the masses that they are in danger of dropping off the society radar altogether.

Keen to avoid the fake-tanned, wannabe-WAG crowd, the metropolitan champagne train is being forced to chart a different course this year

Female Workers Break Stereotypes in Karachi

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:05:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Pakistan

Clip Source: www.npr.org

On a narrow, unpaved Karachi street that has never had water service, a handful of men were digging a trench recently. They were digging it for their own water line, at their own expense.

For this part of Karachi, that's normal. But surprisingly, for this part of the world, a woman was supervising the men.

Sabra Khadun has a cold, steady gaze and a stud in her nose. She explains that everybody on the street is donating money for the water line.

She lives in a tiny house, in a settlement that you could call a slum. The living room is painted pastel blue. And there's a cushioned wood couch, big enough to hold a few of her 11 children — four sons and seven daughters. Every child's name begins with the letter "S," just like hers.

It's not unusual to find women in leading roles in Karachi's development. At the city's public universities, female students vastly outnumber the men in key fields like architecture.

People aren't sure why, but it's happening.

Tags: female, women, pakistan

Rice price rise

Sun, 25 May 2008 23:16:32 GMT

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Clip Source: www.latimes.com

Rice price rise takes toll in Manila slum

A staple moves out of reach for the poor amid expectations of shortages, increasing potential for unrest.

Until last week, Imelda Torreras had been able to count on peddling small bags of rice to her neighbors in the putrid streets of Manila's Tondo district, a way to supplement her family's meager income as garbage brokers.

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's government says it has enough rice to meet domestic needs for the next two months and dismisses warnings from some that higher rice prices could lead to riots. But the government acknowledges that it must secure 2.1 million tons of new orders by July.

The problem in Tondo is not a rice shortage. Rice is visible in shops. And it is still boiled and sold by food vendors to the ragged tribe of children and adults who spend their days tearing apart garbage heaps in search of anything of value. The problem is higher prices.

24 hours in pictures - May 19

Mon, 19 May 2008 20:02:51 GMT

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