Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Tuesday 20 January 2015

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Posted: 18 Jan 2015 06:34 PM PST
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As global movers and shakers head to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Oxfam is warning that an increasing wealth disparity is “leaving ordinary people voiceless and their interests uncared for.”
The collective wealth of the world’s richest 1 percent will exceed that of the other 99 percent of the global population next year, unless steps are taken to address the inequality, Oxfam warned ahead of the annual Davos meeting.
Oxfam, an anti-poverty charity, released a report titled, “Wealth: Having It All and Wanting More,” which reveals that the richest 1 percent, who had an average wealth of $2.7 million per adult in 2014, have seen their share of global wealth soar yet further, increasing from 44 percent in 2009 to 48 percent in 2014.
At this rate, the richest 1 percent, who became the focal point of public outrage during the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protests, will own more than 50 percent of the world’s wealth by 2016.
Oxfam executive director Winnie Byanyima, who will co-chair the Davos symposium, said she will draw attention to the grim fact that “one in nine people do not have enough to eat and more than a billion people still live on less than $1.25 a day,” she told The Guardian.
“Do we really want to live in a world where the 1 percent own more than the rest of us combined? The scale of global inequality is quite simply staggering and despite the issues shooting up the global agenda, the gap between the richest and the rest is widening fast.”
However, despite constant warnings that the upward curve in wealth concentration will only lead to disaster, the rich continue to gobble up a bigger and bigger share of the global wealth pie.
Last year, Oxfam reported that the world’s 85 richest people have the same wealth as the poorest 50 percent (3.5 billion people). This year, Oxfam said the reality has become even more worrisome, with just 80 people owning the same amount of wealth as more than 3.5 billion people.
In 2010, the number of individuals owning the same amount of wealth as the poorest half of the world’s population was 388.
According to Byanyima, one way of addressing the “rising tide of inequality” is to crackdown on tax-dodging by corporations, and to push for progress towards a global deal on climate change.
The statistics provided by Oxfam paint a dark portrait of the challenges facing the planet in the face of severe wealth concentration.
“Twenty percent of billionaires have interests in the financial and insurance sectors, a group which saw their cash wealth increase by 11 percent in the 12 months to March 2014,” according to the group.
These corporate sectors spent $550 million “lobbying policy makers in Washington and Brussels during 2013,” severely altering the scope of government representation originally designed for the electorate.
Meanwhile, during the 2012 US election campaign, the financial sector provided $571 million in campaign contributions, Oxfam said.
The charity said the wealth of the super-richest 80 people doubled between 2009 and 2014, and that increasingly the wealth was being used by the rich to further their own interests, usually by lobbying efforts in government.
More than one-third of the 1,645 billionaires listed by Forbes magazine inherited some or all of their riches.
Oxfam said it was calling on governments to adopt a seven-point plan to alleviate global inequality:
• Clamp down on tax dodging by corporations and rich individuals.
• Invest in universal, free public services such as health and education.
• Share the tax burden fairly, shifting taxation from labour and consumption towards capital and wealth.
• Introduce minimum wages and move toward a living wage for all workers.
• Introduce equal pay legislation and promote economic policies to give women a fair deal.
• Ensure adequate safety nets for the poorest, including a minimum income guarantee.
• Agree a global goal to tackle inequality.
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Posted: 18 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST
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New information appeared that the NSA was hacking into North Korea back in 2010. As it turns out, the White House could not have accused Pyongyang of the Sony hacks, had it not been for the spy tools already embedded in the North’s networks.
The whole affair was a chain of events that started five years ago, when the United States realized the importance of keeping checks on the North Korean nuclear program, as well as monitoring for the possibility of attacks on its own facilities in South Korea and the region.
This is the story according to former US government and foreign officials, as well as a number of computer experts who spoke to The New York Times. The information was also disclosed in a freshly declassified NSA document.
It was a very intricate hack, as the American spies had to break into Chinese networks through which North Korea connected to the world. It was aided by South Korea and other allies. Its other task was to probe Malaysian networks for channels it knew were used by North Korean hackers. That is how it gained direct access into the North’s systems.
The interviewed officials revealed that the spyware initiative had gradually grown into something much bigger. Because only in 2013 did it become clear to the White House that its target should have been North Korea’s hackers – rather than the government. The tipping point was a massive hack that North Korea they carried out against South Korean banking networks. Alarm bells began ringing in Washington.
This high alert and consequent shift in focus was instrumental in allowing Washington for the first time in history to blame such a high-profile hack on its soil directly on another state, according to those interviewed by the newspaper.
This was made possible by an “early warning radar” made of software hidden in Pyongyang’s networks. The NSA also planted “beacons” that mapped foreign computer networks. Those were instrumental in carrying out the attack on Iran’s nuclear networks a couple of years ago, and were recently revealed by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden to have been widely used to snoop on China as well.
There was much surprise when neither President Barack Obama nor the FBI gave any evidence for why they thought North Korea was responsible, but according to one military official, the president “had no doubt” this time.
A cyber-warfare expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, James A. Lewis, told the Times that determining the source of a hack as intricate as the one perpetrated on Sony is a painstakingly slow process, but that it was clear the US knew something others didn’t, owing to “the speed and certainty with which [it]made the accusation.”
A few questions remained as to why Washington refused to disclose just how it made the connection. According to officials interviewed by The NYT, the US is keeping its knowledge of North Korean dealings under wraps to afford risking disclosure about its own cyber-tactics publicly.
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Posted: 17 Jan 2015 04:57 PM PST
Biden Home Shots Fired
Multiple shots were fired Saturday night outside US Vice President Joe Biden’s house in Delaware, where the official and his wife planned to spend the weekend. They were not home at the time of the shooting.
“A vehicle drove by the vice president’s residence at a high rate of speed and fired multiple gun shots. This occurred on a public road outside the established security perimeter. The shots were heard by Secret Service personnel posted at the residence and a vehicle was observed by an agent leaving the scene at a high rate of speed,” Secret Service spokesman Robert Hoback said.
The incident happened around 8:25 p.m. local time on Saturday. Guards were unable to detain the offender. The Secret Service and local police have started searching for the shooter. A person was detained during the operation for interaction with a police officer who was patrolling the perimeter.
However, there is no information on whether he is connected to the incident, as the test for gun powder on his hands was negative, The New York Times reported.
“The Secret Service is working closely with the New Castle County Police on investigating this incident,” the agency’s statement reads.
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