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Africa plundered by secret mining deals

May 10th, 2013

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Tax avoidance, secret mining deals and financial transfers are depriving Africa of the benefits of its resources boom, ex-UN chief Kofi Annan has said.

Firms that shift profits to lower tax jurisdictions cost Africa $38bn (£25bn) a year, says a report produced by a panel he heads.

“Africa loses twice as much money through these loopholes as it gets from donors,” Mr Annan told the BBC.

It was like taking food off the tables of the poor, he said.

The Africa Progress Report is released every May - produced by a panel of 10 prominent figures, including former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and Graca Machel, the wife of South African ex-President Nelson Mandela.

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Angela Davis and Assata Shakurs Lawyer

May 6th, 2013

Reason or sound judgment.

Slavery - Crash Course US History

May 4th, 2013

Message.

Rasputin vs Stalin

April 30th, 2013

FuNnY StUfF

U.S. Food Stamp Program for Illegal Aliens

April 26th, 2013

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The promotion of the food stamp program, now known as “SNAP” (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), includes a Spanish-language flyer provided to the Mexican Embassy by the USDA with a statement advising Mexicans in the U.S. that they do not need to declare their immigration status in order to receive financial assistance. Emphasized in bold and underlined, the statement reads, “You need not divulge information regarding your immigration status in seeking this benefit for your children.”

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Richie Havens, Folk Icon, Dead at 72

April 24th, 2013

One of the greatest, who died on “Earth Day”.

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Black Woman With College Degree Pretends To Be White

April 12th, 2013

despite a having a decade’s worth of experience in the insurance industry, and a college degree. Spivey wrote in Techyville that as an experiment, she first started “declining to state” her ethnicity on Monster.Com’s Diversity Questionnaire, but that had no effect.

Crime Stats Show D.C. Leads Nation In Per Capita Marijuana Arrests

April 11th, 2013

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The vast majority of people arrested on pot charges are black. Why?

What’s clear from studying the stats and the arrest patterns is that who gets busted on marijuana charges basically comes down to where police are putting patrols, serving papers or making traffic stops—and who they’re stopping. Smoke a joint in the privacy of your Chevy Chase home, and the chances of a cop showing up to cuff you for it are practically zero. Spark a blunt while strolling down the street in Ivy City, though, and an officer who’s already in the area may well spot you.

Part of the discrepancy also comes from the way black and white Washingtonians buy, and use, weed. There aren’t any open-air drug markets in the city’s predominantly white neighborhoods, so people who live in, say, Forest Hills tend to buy pot from someone they know, behind closed door

Indians obsessed with fairness

April 8th, 2013

This self hate is global!

Withnail actor Richard Griffiths dies at 65

March 29th, 2013

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Goodbye Uncle Monty

Actor Richard Griffiths, who starred in the Harry Potter films and Withnail and I, has died at the age of 65 after complications following heart surgery.

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