they lie even when they ask a question
How long does it take journalists to understand what the Greeks knew already and Rudyard Kipling put into these words: “Truth is the First Victim of War”? In Budapest everybody knows about politicians that they lie even when they ask a question.
It has taken two months and a half for the American politicians to realize that the Georgian politicians are no exception:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,578273,00.html
hundreds of billions for the banks, less than one billion euros for the starving
I don’t even feel like commenting on this. Read the facts and judge for yourself about what kind of a world we are living in and then maybe start thinking about the possibilities of changing it. (Don’t forget the Max-Neef’s needs-based model.)
A dramatic increase in food prices over the last year has pushed nearly a billion people to the brink of starvation….. According to a new study released on Thursday by the international aid organization Oxfam, the world hunger crisis threatens to slip entirely under the radar as developed countries grow more and more obsessed with the turmoil in financial markets….. Last May, the prospects for fighting world hunger looked much brighter. At a conference held in Rome, industrialized nations pledged $12.3 billion to help combat the problem. So far, though, only $1 billion has been paid out. To put these figures in perspective, German Chancellor Angela Merkel that would commit up to €500 billion ($669 billion) to help bailout German banks and financial institutions…. The United Nations estimates it would require between $25 billion and $40 billion to effectively respond to the world hunger crisis…. Several big multinational corporations linked to agriculture are having banner years. Nestle’s revenues were up nine percent in the first half of 2008, while sales at British supermarket giant Tesco climbed 10 percent. The biggest winner of all might be agribusiness giant Monsanto: Its profits for the first quarter amounted to $3.6 billion, a 26 percent spike over last year.
read the whole article here:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,584512,00.html
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