How 401(k)s Make Many Americans Poorer
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The fighting words from Syria’s President Bashar Assad, who vowed on Tuesday to hold on to power and crush his opponents with “an iron fist,” were optimistically interpreted by some as the bluster of a doomed man In 1967, the millionaire’s son turned military man broke away from Nigeria with the state of Biafra and, as the new age of televised news covered the resulting civil war, began the stereotype of a bereft and besieged Africa Image: Lee Jordan via flickr Interesting news from The Guardian this week: oil giant Shell worked with the Nigerian military and with mobile police to suppress protests against its oil activities in the 1990s, according to court documents that were held secret for years. Most of the resistance came from Ogoniland in the Niger Delta, homeland of the famous activist Ken Saro-Wiwa , who was Moving beyond issues like income inequality, protesters are railing against the National Defense Authorization Act and supporting Nigeria’s own “Occupy” movement. After India’s Bollywood, Nigeria produces the most movies on the planet per year. However, producers have big business drama: only one in ten DVDs is sold legally as piracy runs rampant Crude oil futures are tickling $75 a barrel on geopolitical worries after fresh attacks on Iraqi pipelines and renewed violence in Nigeria, Bloomberg reports . The world’s biggest oil producers in OPEC turned out to be among the quietest of the several hundreds of groups attending Copenhagen. What happened to public demands for many billions of dollars in financial compensation from consumer nations for using less oil down the road, a possibility prior to the conference |
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