MooPig Financial Trends :: "Global Wealth Inequality"

Impartial Disparity? I don't think So.
Gathered by Pat Darnell  |  May 30, 2013  |  Bryan TX

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The New York Times states: "The distribution of the world’s wealth — things like stocks, bonds or physical assets like land — has become even more narrowly concentrated than income, according to a new report by the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University."

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~ In 2000, the top 1 percent of the world’s population — some 37 million adults with a net worth of at least $515,000 — accounted for about 40 percent of the world’s total net worth, according to the report.
~ The bottom half of the population owned merely 1.1 percent of the globe’s wealth. The net worth of the world’s typical person — whose wealth was above that of half the world’s population and below that of the other half —was under $2,200.

In rummaging through pages on this subject, it looks like AlterNet has replaced NewsWeek and Time magazines as a place to go get juicy stories about current events. I have half heartedly looked for the source and origins of AlterNet... [Maybe someone can help with that]. I am, after all, just another lazy blogger.

About Alternet: " ... Since its inception in 1998, AlterNet.org has grown dramatically to keep pace with the public demand for independent news. We provide free online content to millions of readers, serving as a reliable filter, keeping our vast audience well-informed and engaged, helping them to navigate a culture of information overload and providing an alternative to the commercial media onslaught. Our aim is to stimulate, inform, and instigate. (LINK) ... "

This story from yesterday has been brewing since agencies released some information about wealth distribution around the globe. AlterNet's article has some key points about that.

The World's Richest 8% Earn Half of All Planetary Income | Alternet: EXCERPT  |  "For example, the World Bank's list of "GDP per capita (current US$)" shows that in 2011 this annual-income figure ranged from $231 in Democratic Republic of Congo at the Equator, to $171,465 in Monaco within Europe. The second-poorest and second-richest countries respectively were $271 in Burundi at the Equator, and $114,232 in Luxembourg within Europe. For comparisons, the U.S. was $48,112, and China was $5,445. Those few examples indicate how widely per-capita income ranges between nations, and how more heat means more poverty." (Eric Zuesse. May 28, 2013. LINK ) ... "

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That means when you divide all living people into five equal groups:

1. Poorest
2. Second
3. Third
4. Fourth
5. Richest

... Eighty percent of the world's people don't have any wealth. The "Richest" control 94% of the wealth. Sources are from the UN says the author. (Jason Hickel. 2 Apr 2013. LINK ) The groups are far from equal when measuring wealth.

Why does the wealth gap increase over the years? For example rich countries give every year about $130 Billion in aid to poorer countries. However, corporations take about $900 Billion out of poor countries every year. And the poorer 80% pay $600 Billion in debt service to its richer neighbors. Poorer countries provide resources and cheap labor. $900 + $600 Billion is $1.5 Trillion each year flowing out of the poorer countries.

Enough people asking the right questions will help to illuminate this inequality. But the methods of usurping poorer countries through unfair trade rules, and exploitation of labor forces have to be changed. Wrestling the wealth out of the hands of the 2% who now control trillions is not a simple task.

CONCLUSION
Changing the rules of wealth exploitation is not going to be an easy task any way you look at it. (LINK) If you can't screw it, or throw money at it, most rich folks won't even consider it.

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http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/worlds-richest-8-earn-half-all-planetary-income
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/indiaatlse/2013/04/11/global-wealth-inequality-what-you-never-knew-you-never-knew/
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/06/business/worldbusiness/06wealth.html?_r=0
http://www.gfmag.com/tools/global-database/economic-data/11944-wealth-distribution-income-inequality.html#axzz2UilO78bV
http://makewealthhistory.org/2013/04/16/global-wealth-inequality/
https://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/04/09
http://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/16/05/2013/global-wealth-inequality-%E2%80%93-what-you-never-knew-you-never-knew
http://www.therules.org/
http://www.conferenceboard.ca/hcp/hot-topics/worldinequality.aspx
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/united_nations/index.html?inline=nyt-org
http://sdpeacejustice.wordpress.com/2013/01/13/does-inequality-hurt-the-rich-too/
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/03/21/rising-wealth-inequality-should-we-care

MooPig Clandestine Operations Department :: "International Man of Mystery Running for Public Office?

Just Google "173%, Romney, Panama ..." 
Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Jan 19, 2013 | Bryan TX

[Picture LINK] It is up to us to figure out who the culprits are, and what their methods are, who ruined our beloved country. We the people are responsible to end all corruption.

Bernie Madoff was thrown in jail, right? Bernie Madoff made 10.5% on his bogus returns... and got caught when he couldn't produce the cash to investors.

Why then is Romney free today after skimming his 173% returns on investments while heading up his company Bain Capital? That is why he wouldn't "release" his tax returns; because he usurped funds from secret operations, putting skimmed profits into foreign accounts, writing checks to his thug bosses, and chopping up company's in corporate hit-man fashion.

Who are the thug bosses -- start with the Bush's. How many of the jokers are loose today via CIA clandestine operations? Most of them aren't running for public office ... I don't think. That is how Robmoney got his mission in life twisted around.

Hey, Mitt, you can't be the International Man of Mystery and also run for Prez ... and that is why we make Mitt Robmoney the Dumbass of the 21st Century, before the century even gets started.

It is just one of many expose's of the retardation of the International Man of Mystery, Mitt Romney... and we can now say this type of crap is the mode of operations for most of our leadership in Washington... headed up by the venomous Bush's.

Corruption Mitt Romney: International Man of Mystery: "a decade of 173% yearly returns, Bain Capital, BrasscheckTV, Cocaine, Dick Cheney, George Bush Sr., Iran-Contra, Mitt Romney, money-laundering, narco-trafficking, Panama, The Bain Game, The Bush-Romney Connection"

Mitt Romney is a pitiful case ...

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ForbiddenKnowledgeTV
Alexandra Bruce
October 19, 2012
" ...  This clip makes it pretty clear as to what Bain Capital and its CEO were up to throughout the 1990s and it explains the real source of Mitt Romney's phenomenal success as an asset manager.
So much of this information is publicly available, it is shocking that it's never previously been presented so clearly.

Firstly, Mitt Romney's close relationship with George Bush Sr. and Dick Cheney are newsworthy -- and it's also newsworthy that these close ties have NOT been in the news.

Secondly, the "Bain Game" played by Romney: when he left the management consulting firm, Bain and Company in 1989 to form his own company, of which he was the President, CEO and the sole stockholder, the name of his new company was "Bain Capital."

What? He left Bain and Company to form Bain Capital, a corporation with no legal ties to his former boss, Bill Bain?

As the President, CEO and sole stockholder of Bain Capital, Romney could write checks, contracts, audits -- he could do anything without ever having to explain anything to anyone about what went on at that company.

He had specifically set up Bain Capital in such a way that he could operate in complete secrecy. Why?

On July 19, 2012, the Los Angeles Times reported that Mitt Romney's super-secret Bain Capital had managed to pay out the staggeringly unreal average yearly return of 173% to its investors -- for over a decade!

Most of the funds which investors put into Bain Capital were channeled through corporations set up in Panama, long known to be a haven of secretive banking -- and of cocaine money laundering.

The State Department officially refers to Panama as the "Primary repository and conduit for Colombian and Mexican narco-trafficking cartels." Watch [the above] clip and don't let your jaw break when it hits the floor!

It is just one of many expose's of the retardation of the International Man of Mystery, Mitt Romney... and we can now say this type of crap is the mode of operations for most of our leadership in Washington...


______________________Reference
http://youtu.be/iKjzvcAhRPc
http://revolutionpac.com/articles/the-panama-connection
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/19/nation/la-na-bain-creation-20120719
http://rense.com/general95/romdark.html
http://dougwead.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/how-mitt-romney-cheated-his-way-to-the-gop-nomination/
http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/la-times-romneys-a-drug-money-launderer-veterans-today/
http://www.shoah.org.uk/2012/10/22/la-times-romneys-a-drug-money-launderer/
http://exopermaculture.com/2012/10/18/iswas-romney-a-drug-money-launderer-if-so-are-we-surprised/
https://lunaticoutpost.com/Topic-Romney-s-Bain-Capital-earned-average-173-ANNUALLY-FOR-TEN-YEARS?page=2
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?392895-Breaking-Romney%92s-%93Bain-Capital%94-Drug-Front-For-Bush-Cartel-(Video)/page2
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/21/1076442/-Mitt-Romney-s-Etch-A-Sketch-Strategy

NEXT WEEK :: LANCE ARMSTRONG ... International DUMBASS of the WEEK

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THURSDAY'S Just When it seemed not another cliche could be Uttered ... Part TWO

A man walks into a restaurant with a full-grown ostrich behind him...


The waitress asks them for their orders.


The man says, "A hamburger, fries and a coke," and turns to the ostrich, "What's yours?"
"I'll have the same," says the ostrich.

A short time later the waitress returns with the order. "That will be $9.40 please." The man reaches into his pocket and, pulls out the exact change for payment.


The next day, the man and the ostrich come again and the man says, "A hamburger, fries and a coke."
The ostrich says, "I'll have the same."

Again the man reaches into his pocket and pays with exact change.

This becomes routine until the two enter again. "The usual?" Asks the waitress.

"No, this is Friday night, so I will have a steak, baked potato and a salad," says the man.

"Same," says the ostrich.


Shortly the waitress brings the order and says, "That will be $32.62."

Once again the man pulls the exact change out of his pocket and Places it on the table.


The waitress cannot hold back her curiosity any longer. "Excuse me, Sir. How do you manage to always come up with the exact change in your pocket every time?"

"Well," says the man, "several years ago I was cleaning the attic and Found an old lamp. When I rubbed it, a Genie appeared and offered Me two wishes. My first wish was that if I ever had to pay for anything, I would just put my hand in my pocket and the right amount of money Would always be there."


"That's brilliant!" says the waitress. "Most people would ask for a Million dollars or something, but you'll always be as rich as you want For as long as you live!"


"That's right..Whether it's a gallon of milk or a Rolls Royce, the exact Money is always there," says the man.


The waitress asks, "What's with the ostrich?"

The man sighs, pauses and answers, "My second wish was for a tall chick with a big butt and long legs who agrees with everything I say.."