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TONIGHT ON THE TERRORDOME: Muhammad Yunus on Creating a World Without

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CJSR FM88 www.cjsr.com 6 PM Mountain Time The global economic imbalance of wealth is based on taking the resources away from the many—at the business end of weapons, when necessary—to be given to the very few. Some of those weapons were pointed 500 years ago; others are being pointed today. Even if the wealthy accumulated their riches through inheritance, if the inheritance accrued from a crime, the crime itself is inherited along with its fruits. There is no moral statute of limitations on the plunders of imperialism. According to Global Issues.org : about half the world — nearly three billion people — lives on less than two dollars a day the GDP of the poorest 48 nations is less than the wealth of the world’s three ri chest individuals combined every child in the world could have gone to school by the year 2000 if only 1% of global military spending had been diverted to education the wealthiest fifth of humanity consumes 86% of the wor...