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An underground movement that calls itself People to People distributed, or rather littered, Harare’s streets with flyers over the weekend carrying a message rebuking the Reserve Bank Governor for printing substandard bank notes in the form of the new $20 000.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/business/story/226799.html Wachovia faced a ‘silent’ bank run; FDIC forced sale Fearing a loss of funding over the weekend, the FDIC forced the sale. By Rick Rothacker and Kerry Hall CharlotteObserver.com Business Posted: Thursday, Oct.

Are we going nuts over India’s inflation touching 11.5%? Think about a country where the inflation is 2.2 million percent. Yes, that’s right Zimbabwe’s inflation has risen from 165,000% in February to whooping 2.2 million. Can you imagine that. The prices of goods double or even triple in a day ! Now here is another surprise..

The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has emerged as the first leader in the world who seems to have understood the implications of the looming food crisis and taken a practical step. Brown has issued a clarion call to his countrymen to wake up and stop wasting food.

The world will have a Billion millionriers by 2025 Forecast #1: The world will have a billion millionaires by 2025. Globalization and technological innovation are driving this increased prosperity. But challenges to prosperity will also become more acute, such as water shortages that will affect two-thirds of world population by 2025.

What Has Soaring Food and Fuel Prices Got to Do with Human Rights? Whose fault is it If the poor can’t afford food? Give them more money and you create a bigger problem: Inflation. It’s not the job of your government to control these things you know, they have more important things to do: National

What Has Soaring Food and Fuel Prices Got to Do with Human Rights? Whose fault is it If the poor can’t afford food? Give them more money and you create a bigger problem: Inflation. It’s not the job of your government to control these things you know, they have more important things to do: National

See Main Entry: We Need Food!

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TOKYO (AFP) - Japan announced Friday it will give 560 million dollars to help fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria as it seeks to make aid to Africa a major theme of its chairmanship of the G8 group. Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said the fresh assistance would be channelled through the Geneva-based Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.