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Choose Your Own World

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Molly takes us through a “choose your own adventure” scheme, in which you are the un-named ruler of a third world country. Can’t you make the right choices?! Click here for show notes. Follow us on Twitter: @rocketboom Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/rocketboom Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Rocketboom Discovery Date : 13/04/2011 02:09 Number of articles : 2

Choose Your Own World

Arianna: There’s the Super-Rich, and Then ‘The Rest of Us’

The Toronto Globe and Mail profiled Arianna Huffington as she prepares to keynote the Canada's Most Famous Women summit, and D.C.-based writer Konrad Yakabuski underlines that the Huffington Post founder is mysteriously aligning herself outside the bubble of the super-rich with her book Third World America: Ms. Huffington's 13th book is a cri de coeur bemoaning the evisceration of the U.S. middle class and America's slide toward Third World status. As she describes it to me, “that's really a country where there are the super-rich, who live behind gates with guards protecting their kids from kidnapping, and the rest of us.” The rest of us? read more

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10 Signs the US is Becoming a Third World Country

The United States by every measure is hanging on by a thread to its First World status. Saddled by debt, engaged in wars on multiple fronts with a rising police state at home, declining economic productivity, and wild currency fluctuations all threaten America’s future. The general designations of the ranking system for world status date back to the 1950s, and have included countries at various stages of economic development. Since the Cold War, the definition has come to be synonymous with repressive countries where a wealthy class of ruling elites segment society into the haves and have-nots, many times capitalizing on the conditions that follow an economic crisis or war. While much of the world is still mired in poverty, the reduced cost of innovative tools such as computing and connectivity ironically puts traditional Third World countries at the forefront of a new lean-and-mean economy that is based on ideas of empowerment for the disenfranchised. For better or worse, the world is leveling due to Globalism. However, America and other over-leveraged countries face this re-balancing of the globe at a time when they have dwindling resources. We can speculate about who and what is to blame for America’s fantastic fall, but for the purposes of this article we shall focus on the obvious signs that the United States is beginning to resemble a Third World country. 1. Rising unemployment and poverty: 2. Economic dependence: 3. Declining civil rights: 4. Increasing political corruption: 5. Military patrolling the streets: 6. Failing infrastructure: 7. Disappearing middle class: 8. Devalued currency: 9. Controlling the media: 10. Capital Controls: explanations and more at link… What a shame! If people only knew the Truth about 9/11 and the New World Order, then we might have a chance to save this country. added by: rodstradamus

Schultz Warns America: Pay More Welfare Or Become ‘Third-World Country’

The time-temp clock down at the bus station here read 104 degrees this afternoon. We can’t offer readers cooler weather, but perhaps they’ll settle for some comic relief . . . On his MSNBC show this evening, Ed Schultz warned that unless the US pays out more in welfare, we risk becoming a “Third-World country.”  Schultz said it twice, so apparently it wasn’t a bizarre one-time brain camp. Ed’s on a crusade to have unemployment insurance payments extended.  Note: unemployment “insurance.”  So once payments are extended beyond what’s provided for, it’s no longer insurance: it’s welfare. But that didn’t stop Schultz from suggesting that paying more welfare is all that stands between America becoming the next Zimbabwe . . . ED SCHULTZ: It’s unconscionable what we are putting these Americans through.  And I will tell you this: this is how Third World countries get started. A bit later, Schultz floated his cockamamie theory to a “union political consultant,” who was only too happy to agree. SCHULTZ: This is going down the road of a Third World country. This is the issue: what we’re going to do with the unemployed? Tell me if I’m wrong. CHUCK ROCHA: You’re exactly right, Ed.

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Paris Hilton and Dejdia picture

Paris Hilton and her friend Dejdia at the World Cup in South Africa . Bringing an illegal narcotic into a Third World country with crazy laws and an unfamiliar justice system? Gee, what could possibly go wrong? From TMZ: TMZ has learned Paris Hilton was detained by cops in South Africa … because they suspect someone in her entourage was smoking marijuana. We#39;re told Paris is still being detained. Cops confronted her and her peeps at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium. Someone close to the si

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Goh Keng Swee pass away

Dr Goh Keng Swee, who was also a former Finance Minister, was 91. Dr Goh Keng Swee will be remembered, above all, for his role as one of the prime architects of Singapore#39;s economic success. Many of the key milestones in Singapore#39;s journey from Third World backwater to globalised, First-World city can be found in the story of his life, vividly portrayed in the new book Goh Keng Swee: A Portrait by his daughter-in-law Tan Siok Sun. Former Deputy Prime Minister Goh Keng Swee died early Fr

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