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Here is a tempting invite from the UN Department of Public Information... The Secretariat of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues is pleased to invite you to “The Mayan Cosmovision: Is 2012 the end of the world?” Wednesday, 24 October 1:30 pm Room S-2726, 27th...
Global Dashboard, November 2011: But let’s go back to the poverty MDG. In 1990, there were 1.8 billion poor people (in a world of 5.3bn people). If the IMF/Bank projections pan out, by 2015, there’ll be 882.7m poor people left (in a world of 7.3bn). That represents...
The FT's Gillian Tett reports today on a conference presentation given by historical sociologist Dennis Smith, who's been working on the question of how humiliation operates at the cultural / collective psychological level - and what this means for the Eurozone....