OXFAM reported that during Obama’s terms, 95% of the wealth created went to the top 1% of the world’s wealthy.
SOARING POVERTY AND DRUG ADDICTION UNDER
OBAMA
"These figures present a scathing
indictment of the social order that prevails in America, the world’s wealthiest
country, whose government proclaims itself to be the globe’s leading democracy.
They are just one manifestation of the human toll taken by the vast and
all-pervasive inequality and mass poverty.
SOARING POVERTY AND DRUG ADDICTION UNDER OBAMA
OPIOID ADDICTION
IN AMERICA:
OBAMA AND HIS
CRONIES IN BIG PHARMA AT WORK!
BOOK:
…………………..TRAGIC!
THE DEATH GAP: INEQUALITY IS KILLING AMERICA!
CALL IT OBAMA-CLINTONOMICS OR TRUMPERNOMICS FOR THE SUPER
RICH!
Global Hunger Index
highlights South Asia’s social misery
By
Saman Gunadasa
3 November 2017
The 2017 Global Hunger Index (GHI), released last month by the
International Food Policy Research Institute, reported that “millions of
people” worldwide are “experiencing chronic hunger” and “many places are
suffering acute food crises and even famine.”
The report singled out South Asia and African countries south of
the Sahara as the regions worst affected. Their overall GHI scores, which
measure total undernourishment and stunting, wasting and mortality among
children under five years of age, were 30.9 and 29.4 respectively.
A score of 100 indicates complete food insecurity across a
population, while zero would show food security. GHI figures above 20 point to
“serious” food shortages. Scores of more than 35 indicate an “alarming” food
situation, and readings over 50 demonstrate an “extremely alarming” crisis.
The Central African Republic was in the extremely alarming range.
Other African countries, including Chad, Liberia, Madagascar, Sierra Leone,
Sudan, and Zambia, were in the alarming range.
India, which accounts for three quarters of the South Asian
population, ranked 100 out of 119 countries for food security. Pakistan was
106, while Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka ranked 107, 88 and 84
respectively.
Child undernutrition in South Asia, measured by child stunting and
child wasting, was higher than in the worst-hit areas of Africa.
India’s GHI score was 31.4, at the high end of the serious
category. Some 38 percent of Indian children suffered from stunting, where
height growth is limited by insufficient caloric intake.
The report cited recent survey findings showing that only 9.6
percent of Indian infants aged 6-23 months receive an adequate diet. Just 42.7
percent of babies are introduced to the complementary food they require after
breast feeding. Only 48.4 percent of all households have access to sufficient
sanitation facilities.
The figures underscore the poverty-stricken living conditions of
the vast majority of the population, comprised of sweatshop workers, low-paid
contract employees and the oppressed rural masses. Some 800 million people
subsist on less than $2 a day.
Their plight contrasts with the unprecedented riches gorged by the
top end of Indian society.
According to Forbes’ 2017
global wealth rankings, there are 100 Indian billionaires. Only the United
States, China and Russia are home to a greater number. India’s richest 1
percent own a staggering 58.4 percent of the country’s wealth, according to
2016 figures from the Credit Suisse Research Institute.
That data also indicated that 80 percent of adults in India and
Africa are in the bottom half of global wealth distribution. The poorest half
of the world’s population owns less than 1 percent of total wealth, compared to
the top 10 percent, which controls 89 percent.
The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) fiscal affairs director,
Victor Gaspar, told reporters last month: “If we look at inequality country by
country, we realise that most people around the world live in countries where
inequality has increased. It is important to emphasise that inequality has
increased in the largest countries in the world: China, India and the United
States.”
The Indian government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is imposing
a deeply-unpopular program that is exacerbating the wealth divide. Its
demonetisation scheme, introduced at the end of last year, has driven down the
incomes of workers and the poor. A new Goods and Services Tax is further
eroding the wages of the most exploited workers.
Sri Lanka’s score in the global hunger index increased from 24.2
in 2008 to 25.5 this year. Undernourishment, child stunting and child mortality
registered minimal declines. Child wasting, however, where physical weight is
limited by insufficient food intake, soared from 13.3 percent in 2006-2010, to
21.4 percent in 2012-2016.
According to the latest 2016 statistics, poverty has increased
sharply in the war-ravaged northern and eastern provinces of Sri Lanka. The
percentage of the population living in poverty in Trincomalee, Batticaloa,
Mullaithivu and Kilinochchi districts was 10, 11.3, 12.7 and 18.2 percent
respectively.
The Sri Lankan government of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe
is imposing IMF demands for the privatisation of state-owned enterprises, a
dramatic reduction in government spending and stepped-up attacks on the working
class.
Pakistan registered the second-highest GHI figure in South Asia,
at 32.6, while the figure for Afghanistan, devastated by a 16-year US military
occupation, was 33.3. Figures for child stunting in Pakistan have risen by 5
percent since 2010, to 45 percent in total. One-fifth of the entire population
is undernourished.
Elsewhere in the region, the food situation in Bangladesh is
“serious,” with a GHI reading of 26.4.
In Nepal, 8.1 percent of the population is undernourished. Some
37.4 percent of children under five are stunted. The mortality rate for
children in that age group is 3.6 percent.
While the vast majority of South Asia’s people are suffering
malnutrition or food insecurity, governments throughout the region are
allocating billions of dollars to their armed forces. This is in preparation to
suppress social opposition and participate in mounting geo-political conflicts.
India, which is playing a central role in the US-led plans for war
against China, increased its military spending by 10 percent this year, to an
annual total of 2.74 trillion Indian rupees ($US42 billion). Pakistan’s 2017-18
military budget is 7 percent higher than the previous year, at 920.2 billion
Pakistan rupees ($US8.7 billion).
According to the World Bank, India spends 2.5 percent of its gross
domestic product on the military, Pakistan 3.6 percent and Sri Lanka 2.4
percent. In other words, the region’s governments can find money for war, but
have no solution to the social misery afflicting the masses.
OPERATION OBOMB:
DESTABALIZE AMERICA TO LAY
GROUNDS FOR A MUSLIM-STYLE DICTATORSHIP
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/seth-barron-obama-and-building-of.html
“Obama’s
new home in Washington has been described as the “nerve center” of the
anti-Trump opposition. Former attorney general Eric Holder has said
that Obama is “ready to roll” and has aligned himself with the
“resistance.” Former high-level Obama campaign staffers now work with a
variety of groups organizing direct action against
Trump’s initiatives. “Resistance School,” for example, features
lectures by former campaign executive Sara El-Amine, author of the Obama Organizing .”
OBAMA’S CRONY BANKSTERISM destroyed a TRILLION DOLLARS
in home equity… and they’re still plundering us!
Barack Obama created
more debt for the middle class than any president in US
history, and also
had the only huge QE programs: $4.2 Trillion.
OXFAM reported that during Obama’s
terms, 95% of the wealth created went to the top 1% of the world’s wealthy.
TRUMP OFFERS VICTIMS OF HARVEY AND IRMA $15 BILLION or
about HALF of what California hands their Mexican welfare state!
IS IT YET TIME TO REBUILD AMERICAN AND END THE
BUILDING AND REBUILDING OF MUSLIM DICTATORSHIPS OVER THERE?
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