In 2002, 53 million people in the world lived in households in receipt of US$200 purchasing power parity (PPP) per day. Of these high earners, 58% lived in the United States. Western Europe and South America are also home to quite large populations of high earners. Within Western Europe the most very high [...]
George W. Bush is upping the ante towards a war with Iran. And a number of prominent Democrats seem to be telling the President to go all in. Take one recent example: John Edwards.During a speech via satellite at a security conference last week in Herzliya, Israel, Edwards joined the chorus of those [...]
“Activists intent on disrupting Japan’s annual whale hunt have offered a $25,000 reward for information that leads them to the whaling fleet. … The Japanese crews are on a mission to kill about 850 minke whales and 10 fin whales. Commercial hunting was outlawed in the 1980s, [...]
“Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. boasted yesterday about the appearance of an electric power plant it had built for the Cuban government on a new issue of the 10-peso convertible peso note. Cuba has two currencies, one non-convertable and the other linked to the U.S. dollar.
Cuba has stressed the importance of increasing [...]
A Korean newspaper responds to a foreigners survey on living in Korea:
Foreigners say that it is very uncomfortable to live in Korea. Since the domestic economy is dismal, people are not friendly and foreigners are frequently ripped off. When the Consumer Protection Board polled foreigners residing in Korea for more than three months (excluding [...]
Preliminary US government findings that Israel violated agreements with the United States by its use of cluster munitions in Lebanon last summer should lead to an immediate cutoff of all US cluster munitions sales to Israel, Human Rights Watch said today. The Bush administration is expected to report to Congress today on a State Department [...]
BANGKOK, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Thailand’s army appointed government said on Monday it had approved a cheap, copycat heart disease drug, the first time a developing country has ignored an international patent for such a treatment.As well as the “compulsory licence” of Plavix, made by U.S. and European pharmaceutical giants Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi-Aventis [...]
PARIS (Reuters) - Lumps of oil mixed in with packets of biscuits that may have come from a ship grounded off the southern English coast have washed up on beaches in western France, a local official said on Sunday. The pollution could equally have come from a ship that decided to take advantage [...]
Last week I wrote on Emily Bazelon and David Plotz’s junket to Israel, which was paid for by an AIPAC sister organization. On the January 26, 2007, Gabfest podcast, Plotz and Bazelon apologize for their “unvarnished” “advertisement for the state of Israel”, with Bazelon saying that it was “below our standards”, “we agree with [...]
Model and travel writer Paulina Porizkova gives an interview to World Hum and it doesn’t matter much what she says … because she is a stunner.
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