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Written by New York Times/Jaun Cole
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Saturday, 27 November 2010 |
The announcement by the New York Times that one of the supposedly prominent Taliban with whom the Karzai government has been negotiating turns out to be an impostor is only the latest depressing indication that the whole Afghanistan boondoggle is shot through with flimflammery. The US gave a man claiming to be Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansur, Mullah Omar’s number two, “a lot of money” to engage in talks. He also was flown to Kabul to consult with President Hamid Karzai at the presidential palace (Karzai, terrified of looking like a laughingstock, denied the meeting).
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Written by Anup Shah
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Thursday, 26 August 2010 |
- Almost half the world — over 3 billion people — live on less than $2.50 a day.
- The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the 41 Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (567 million people) is less than the wealth of the world’s 7 richest people combined.
- Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.
- Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn’t happen.
- 1 billion children live in poverty (1 in 2 children in the world). 640 million live without adequate shelter, 400 million have no access to safe water, 270 million have no access to health services. 10.6 million died in 2003 before they reached the age of 5 (or roughly 29,000 children per day).
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Written by GO Staff
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Friday, 01 January 2010 |
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Happy New Year Readers. 2010 So... do we call it Twenty Ten or Two Thousand and Ten ? |
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North Adams, MA. Developer Announces Another Wal-Mart Superstore Plan |
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Written by Al Morman
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Friday, 11 December 2009 |
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Louis J. Ceruzzi likes making money selling land for Wal-Mart supercenters.For more than three years, the developer from Connecticut has been trying to win approval for a 160,000 s.f. big box store in Greenfield, Massachusetts that he refuses to identify. Opponents of the Greenfield project have said since the beginning that the big box store is Wal-Mart, but Ceruzzi Properties of Fairfield, Connecticut insists that a tenant for the project is still not selected since he began marketing the project in 2007. |
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