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As poverty rises in NJ, cuts target aid | The Asbury Park Press | APP.com - 0 views

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As poverty rises in NJ cuts target aid | The Asbury Park Press APP.com

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  • thinkahol * on 03 Apr 11
     
    "It's really alarming," Castro said. "We are cutting assistance to low-income people at the same time we're providing hundreds of millions in tax breaks to large corporations. It's just unacceptable, and I think it would be unacceptable to the public if they understood that. And I don't think that they do."
Bakari Chavanu

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capitalism micheal moore review

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  • He believes our economic system has lost its way after decades of perversion by greedy politicians in Washington and money-minded fatcats on Wall Street and in corporate America.
  • And as the great American dream slipped further from the middle class, more consumers relied on credit cards and loans to catch it, and a system based on people buying what they need became one in which people buy what they want but often cannot afford.
  • Perhaps the film's most powerful statement is Moore's claim that 1 percent of the richest Americans own 95 percent of our nation's wealth.
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  • Capitalism: A Love Story contends that such a movement has already begun. Families being evicted from their homes by bank foreclosures refuse to leave, the film shows, even when law enforcement shows up. A successful workers' strike in Chicago proved that the power to overcome corporate greed and mishandling still rests with the people.
    • Bakari Chavanu
      Bakari Chavanu on 03 Oct 09
       
      This may be a hopeful way to look at it, but I really doubt it. Most people don't have a clue about what to do. There's very little or effective organized resistance.
  • The film isn't so much Moore piling on our battered, bruised capitalism as it is loaded commentary on what got us here. The evidence is damning, and thought-provoking to those who will give the film a chance.
  • Perhaps Capitalism: A Love Story will be the impetus we need for wholesale change. Or if change is too ambitious, given our circumstances, the film should at least spark meaningful dialogue and rigorous debate, something Moore supporters and detractors alike should welcome.
sofarso Shawn

UN reports highlight Israeli infringement of Palestinians' rights - 0 views

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Un human rights Messopotamia

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  • sofarso Shawn on 16 Nov 08
     
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has spotlighted in two new reports to the General Assembly how Israeli practices impinge upon the rights of Palestinians through the continued building of Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory and other means.
sofarso Shawn

'Critical' period ahead as Iraq gears up for upcoming polls, says UN envoy - 0 views

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UN Iraq

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  • sofarso Shawn on 16 Nov 08
     
    Iraq is entering a critical period as it prepares for upcoming provincial polls, which provide an opportunity to shape a new political landscape in the fledgling democracy, a top United Nations envoy said today, while cautioning that the potential for election-related violence and instability remains.
sofarso Shawn

Darfur: Egyptian troops arrive to boost strength of joint UN-African Union force - 0 views

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UN peacekeeping

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  • sofarso Shawn on 16 Nov 08
     
    More than 160 Egyptian personnel arrived in Darfur today as part of a large battalion that will boost the strength of the joint United Nations-African Union force deployed earlier this year in an attempt to quell the fighting and humanitarian suffering in the strife-torn Sudanese region.
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