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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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The New Republican Contract on America Released |
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Written by Ole Ole Olson
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Saturday, 28 November 2009 |
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The final stroke in the Republican master plan to retake congress has just been released. It involves a purity list of 10 resolutions that candidates pledge to fulfill, in a mirror of the Contract on America in 1994. According to the New York Times, “The battle among Republicans over what the party should stand for — and how much it should accommodate dissenting views on important issues — is probably going to move from the states to the Republican National Committee when it holds its winter meeting this January in Honolulu.” This is the final piece of the puzzle from a playbook that has been identical to the one the Republicans used in 1993-94. This playbook was instrumental in convincing voters in 1994 to give the GOP a chance to pass some major pieces of legislation. The pattern leading up to this announcement was identical at that time to today, and includes the following steps: |
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