Living the life of a pious Muslim can be difficult is especially true when living in a majority non-Muslim societies like those in the West. Cultural practices, ideological viewpoints and everyday life at one point or another will contradict the teachings of Islam. [Read More]
A report written by Unicef has slammed UK for failing its children due to parent’s obsession with materialism, who are paying more attention on buying their children products rather than spending quality time with them . The report comes in the same week the massive new Westfield Stratford City shopping centre opened at the 2012 Olympics site and Christmas products started appearing in stores up and down the country.
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Photos shows Ewald Nowotny, Governor of Austrian National Bank (OeNB), talks during the Alpbacher financial market symposium in Alpbach, Austria. It kind of sums up the head in hands feeling surrounding the global financial markets at the moment.
The News of the World saga rumbles on and will soon reach the proportions of a Hollywood epic, this hasn’t stopped the Murdoch’s trying to interfere with the inquires into their dealings as reported in the New York TImes. The Murdoch’s are making a farce out of the game of charades that government enquries always are.
Today was the day the world ended, not the actual world because then you wouldn’t be reading this; but instead it was the end for the News of the World (NOTW). Although from all the fallout from the sudden departure from our staple Sunday breakfast reading, you could have been mistaken for thinking it was the former. One can only imagine what the NOTW headline would have been on a day such as this.
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The table above shows the change in earnings for the top 0.1% in the USA compared with that of the bottom 90%. It clearly shows how the very top elite (0.1%) have seen a an increase in the overall earnings of 385%. However the bottom 90% which represents the ordinary people have seen a 1% decrease in earnings between 1970 and 2008. This is even before the banking crisis had truly hit home across the globe, as the capitalists say the numbers never lie.
“What does fashion actually do? It sells you a suit made of a material that could last five years, and as soon as you have bought it tells you that you can’t wear it any longer because a newer one has already been created. The same principle can be used to sell anything. The motto of styling is ‘It’s Out’. As soon as one thing is sold they must invent another to supersede it” . Bruno Munari, Design as Art
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