... Among the most viewed Arabic satellite networks is Rotana, which airs movies and music videos. It is owned by Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, a billionaire businessman and member of the royal family whom Forbes ranks as the world's 13th-richest person. Al-Lihedan sparked controversy in the past by issuing a decree that Saudis can join jihadists to fight U.S. troops in Iraq. Source: Morning Intel News Brief via Internal Company News Wire

... had amassed a huge army on the Saudi border in 1990). Just the fact that the administration blamed a group in Afghanistan for the attacks and then invaded a different country -- with some of the world's richest oil reserves -- would have been enough to create suspicion around the world. And no satisfactory explanation has ever been given for why the Bush administration didn't step up airline security in the face of repeated warnings -- ...

... that when the financial bubble burst, the state still had a steady source of funds. By 1988, when the economy had stabilized and was growing rapidly, 45 percent of the population had fallen below the poverty line. The richest 10 percent of Chileans, however, had seen their incomes increase by 83 percent. Even in 2007, Chile remained one of the most unequal societies in the world--out of 123 countries in which the United Nations tracks ...

... suffer accordingly. A country which embraces free trade benefits from it accordingly even if it is not reciprocated. England unilaterally adopted free trade in the 19th Cent. and it became the richest country on earth as a result. Fred Weiss -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See fred, we agree on more areas than we disagree with, and yet you think I'm too dumb to argue with. <...

... up every mis-named free trade agreement struck by the US... We don't need "free trade agreements". We just need free trade - unilateral if necessary. Let those who don't have free trade suffer accordingly. A country which embraces free trade benefits from it accordingly even if it is not reciprocated. England unilaterally adopted free trade in the 19th Cent. and it became the richest country on earth as a result. Fred Weiss

... to the trial will be given. And by and by the gates of heaven will be thrown open to admit God's children, and from the lips of the King of glory the benediction will fall on their 126 ears like richest music, "Come, ye blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." Matthew 25:34. Then the redeemed will be welcomed to the home that Jesus is preparing for them. There their ...

... you'd like to see an end to protectionism, import tariffs, and internal market subsidies? England did, btw, for a period in the 19th Cent. as I'm sure you know. The result was that it became the richest country in the world. That however has been forgotten. England of course at the time had the intellectual ammunition of the greatest thinkers of all time in economics, most of whom advocated free trade (centered on abolishing the Corn Laws...

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...—was off the right edge of the political spectrum three decades ago. The ground has shifted very far under our feet, and its manifestations are everywhere. In 1979, the highest-earning one-tenth of 1 percent of all taxpayers—the richest of the rich—took home only 3 percent of the national income. Today they take home 10 percent. And over that same span, their average tax rate has dropped from 32 to 23 percent. The minimum wage has lost ...

... for colonizing the continent in 1884. Imperialism is the better description for Europe's relationship before then. Then there is this totally invalid comparison: "Colonialism cannot explain Third World poverty. Some of today's richest countries are former colonies, such as the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. Some of today's poorest countries were never colonies, such as Ethiopia, Liberia, Tibet, Nepal and...