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"Socio-Capitalism" Is This the new order world wants?

Both Capitalism and Socialism all over the world have failed bringing down poverty level. World economic environment has destabilised by disturbing rise of Unemployment (DW news) and poverty (poverty in America CNN). Bank failures have created havoc among citizens. Fear of...

Medically Accurate Sex Education - It's for the public good

          Many Texans mistakenly view sexual education, and moreover, teaching it to public school children, as a threat to family values and the idea of abstinence. However, this view is erroneous. As with all information-based education,...

Detroit: One Of Our Greatest Cities Has Become A Desolate Wastela

Detroit: One Of Our Greatest Cities Has Become A Desolate Wasteland Where The Lawless Reign Once upon a time, Detroit was one of the greatest cities in the entire world.  Today, it has become a desolate wasteland where the lawless reign.  Once upon a time,...

Child benefit: would someone give IDS a brain scan and quickly?

I would like to volunteer to be shrunk and placed inside Iain Duncan Smith's brain. I'm reluctant (who wouldn't be?), but after his declaration that poor unemployed people with more than two children should lose...

The Bigger Question: Poverty

In this quintessential election year the American public faces a most daunting reality. From this summers massive devastation of harvestable food crops, the ongoing financial crisis here and in Europe, with mounting tensions in Iran, and the ever persistent civil war in...

Woman Shaping Africa's Tech Revolution

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/24/world/marieme-jamme-africa-technology/index.html?iref=obinsite (CNN) -- Senegalese-born Marieme Jamme is at the forefront of the technology revolution that is slowly transforming Africa. As chief executive of Spot One...

The euro now equals poverty and deflation says Daniel Hannan.

To grasp the sheer unfairness of the euro system, consider Slovakia. For a few days last October, this nation of five million defied the might of Brussels. Its MPs refused to approve the bail-out fund,...

Slaves for sale: young, sturdy, cheap, disposable!

"There's a land that is fairer than day, And by faith we shall see it afar.  For the Father waits over the way, To prepare us a dwelling place there.  In the sweet by and by, we shall meet on that...

Help Support SFHomeless and James the Advocate May 2012 Goal

Hello!      My name is James Leonard, co-Founder of the original SFHomeless Yahoo group designed about six years ago to empower our SF homeless shelter residents, staff and policy makers;...

The future is brighter than you think

By Peter Diamandis, Special to CNN (CNN) -- I've been talking to corporate groups a lot lately about the idea that the future is going to be better than many of us think -- that we will live in a world of abundance made possible by new technology. Repeatedly,...

Impoverished

With the world's population having reached 7 billion despite declining birth rates in some countries the global population rate will only continue to increase. The most population growth will be in poorer countries. It has been proven that those countries where illiteracy...

Changing Attitudes Toward the Less Wealthy

A Russian writer wrote that in Russia, there are two kinds of people: Smart and mean; and stupid and kind. In America the situation is fairly more complex. There are plenty of stupid and mean people, such as the majority of skinheads, gangsters and Nascar Republicans;...

The archbishop of Canterbury warns of more riots

The archbishop of Canterbury has warned that England risks a repeat of the riots that spread across England this summer unless the government and civil society do more to "rescue those who think they have...

What's Wrong With Africa, that Makes Me Sick!

I have written a hard-hitting analytic research article on Kenya, a country with a GDP of more than US$66 billion, a population of more than 41 million, with per capita GDP of just about US$1,600, unemployment rate at more than 40%, and the percentage of the population living...

Sharp rise in demand for food handouts from poverty-stricken

Food charity FareShare sees a 20% rise in demand, much of it from people hit by unemployment and benefit changes. Britain has seen a sharp increase in the number of people unable to afford to feed themselves at...

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