Salam 2 all.
Firman Allah dalam Surah At-Takasur 102, 'bermegah-megah (dengan harta dan kedudukan duniawi) telah melalaikan kamu sehinggalah tanah masuk ke dalam mulut mu (masuk dalam kubur)'.
Rasulullah saw pernah bersabda, 'Ketika hari kiamat hampir terjadi, tidak bertambah manusia kecuali tamak haloba, rakus akan harta benda, dan mereka tidak bertambah dekat dengan Allah, kecuali akan bertambah jauh daripada Allah' - hadis riwayat Thabrani.
Dalam satu lagi sabda Baginda, Rasulullah saw berkata, 'apabila akhir zaman, adalah kekuatan manusia terletak pada dinar dan dirham (iaitu harta kekayaannya)'.
Artikel dibawah yang dikirim oleh seorang sahabat saya daripada Capetown, Afrika Selatan membuktikan firman Allah swt dan Hadis Rasulullah saw itu adalah benar!
Hayati dan insafilah pendedahan yang dibuat itu.
Wallahua'lam dan wassalam.
Adios amigos, grasias.
Zulkifli Bin Noordin
Sabtu
08 Rabi'ul Akhir 1435
08 Feb 2014
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Top 1% Has 65 Times More Wealth Than The Bottom Half And The Global Elite Like It That Way
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 01/22/2014 21:34 -0500
As we
previously noted, the 85 richest people in the world have
about as much wealth as the poorest 50% of the entire global
population does. In other words, 85 extremely wealthy
individuals have about as much wealth as the poorest
3,500,000,000 do. This shocking statistic comes from a
new report on global poverty by Oxfam. And actually Oxfam's
report probably significantly underestimates the true scope of the
problem, because Oxfam relies on publicly reported numbers.
As Michael Snyder examines, the rot goes deeper...
Submitted by Michael Snyder of The
Economic Collapse blog,
At the very top of the food chain, the global elite are
masters at hiding their wealth. In fact, as I have
written about previously, the global elite have approximately 32
trillion dollars (that we know about) stashed in offshore
banks around the world. That would be about enough to pay off
the entire U.S. national debt and buy every good and service
produced in the United States for an entire year. These
elitists live on an entirely different planet than the rest of
us do. In fact, according to Oxfam, the richest one
percent of the global population has 65 times
more wealth than the bottom half of the global population
combined.
There is certainly nothing wrong with making money.
In fact, the founders of the United States intended for this
nation to be a place where free markets thrived and where
everyone could pursue their dreams. Unfortunately, this country
(along with the rest of the world) has moved very much in the
opposite direction. Today, we have a debt-based global
financial system which is dominated by gigantic predator
corporations and big banks. Working together with national
governments, these corporations and banks have constructed a
system that I like to call "Corporatism" in which the percentage
of all global wealth that is being funneled to the very top of
the pyramid steadily grows over time.
The Founding Fathers were very correct to be very
suspicious of large concentrations of power.
In the
early days of the United States, the federal government was very
small and the size and scope of corporations was greatly
limited. Our nation thrived and a huge middle class blossomed.
Sadly, over the past several decades the pendulum has
completely swung in the other direction. Today, our society is
completely and totally dominated by big banks, big corporations and big government.
And of course this is also happening in virtually every
other nation on the face of the planet. The global
elite have rigged the game to send just about all of the rewards
their way, and it is working. The following are facts taken directly
from Oxfam's latest report...
•Almost half of the world’s wealth is now owned by just one
percent of the population.
•The wealth of the one percent richest people in the world
amounts to $110 trillion. That’s 65 times the total wealth of
the bottom half of the world’s population.
•The bottom half of the world’s population owns the same as the
richest 85 people in the world.
•Seven out of ten people live in countries where economic
inequality has increased in the last 30 years.
•The richest one percent increased their share of income in 24
out of 26 countries for which we have data between 1980 and
2012.
•In the US, the wealthiest one percent captured 95 percent of
post-financial crisis growth since 2009, while the bottom 90
percent became poorer.
Starting on Wednesday, several thousand members of the global
elite will gather for the World Economic Forum meetings in
Davos, Switzerland. The following is how USA Today described this
conference.
For several days at the end of January, presidents, prime ministers, monarchs and corporate titans jostle with actors, rock stars and major influencers for top billing at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. The confab takes place in the Alpine village of Davos, about 90 miles southeast of Zurich, and for a brief spell each year the pristine ski resort half-sheds its Graubünden roots and becomes a ground zero for the political and business elite.
Unless you are independently wealthy, you can forget about
going to this conference. A ticket to Davos is going to cost
you about $30,000, and
that is on top of the $55,000 that it costs to
join the organization.
Needless to say, it is an organization of the elite, by
the elite and for the elite.
This year, the theme of the meeting is "The Reshaping
of the World: Consequences for Society, Politics and Business".
And the founder of the World Economic Forum says that the time
has come to
press the "reset" button for the global economy...
It's time to press the "reset" button on the world, the founder of the World Economic Forum said Wednesday, addressing media ahead of the WEF's much ballyhooed annual meeting in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, that gets underway in a week's time.
"The world is complex, it's fast-moving, it's interconnected, and we in Davos want to provide a mirror to the world as it is. It is not a meeting devoted to one set of issues. It's a meeting that address the complexity of our world," said Klaus Schwab, the WEF's founder and executive chairman.
At first glance, that sounds pretty good.
Personally, I would love to hit a "reset" button for
the global economy.
But what the elite mean by "reset" is much different
from what most of the rest of us would mean.
The following is an excerpt from the
executive summary for the agenda for the 2014 World
Economic Forum...
"At an international level, the formal architecture for global governance was not designed for the interdisciplinary challenges and collective action problems of today. As a result, international cooperation has yet to fully enter the information age and capture its associated productivity gains."
For the global elite, the answers to our problems always
involve more centralization and more "global governance". In
other words, the answers to our problems always involve giving
them more control and more power.
The elite never actually want the pendulum to swing
back in the direction of the "little guy". The elite
are generally pleased with how the game is being played because
they are winning.
Most people don't even realize that they are participants in a
debt-based neo-feudalist system in which money is being used as a form of social
control.
As I have written about previously, there is about 190
trillion dollars of debt in the world, but global GDP
is only about 70 trillion dollars.
There is no way that all of this debt could ever be paid off at
one time. It is mathematically impossible. Over time, all of
this debt transfers the wealth of the planet away from us and to
the global elite. If this game was allowed to go on long
enough, eventually they would have nearly all of it.
And some would argue that we are already getting close to that
point. A study by the World Institute for Development Economics
Research discovered that the bottom half of the global
population only owns approximately
1 percent of all wealth, and at this point about a billion people
throughout the world go to bed hungry every night.
This is one of the reasons why I am so adamant about the fact
that the Federal
Reserve needs to be shut down. It is at the very heart of
the debt-based system that we have in the United States, and over the past 100 years it
has brought us to the brink of economic Armageddon.
Sadly, most Americans do not understand any of these
things. They just assume that the debt-fueled
prosperity that we have been enjoying will be able to go on
indefinitely.
So is there any hope for the "little guy"?
Well, you could try to win the one billion dollar NCAA tournament bracket
contest that Warren Buffett is backing.
Or you could go out and try to win the lottery or try to date a
famous professional athlete.
But the odds of any of those things actually happening are so
low that they aren't even worth mentioning.
Personally, I would rather spend my time trying to wake
people up and help them understand how our global
system really works.
I believe that a "great awakening" is coming.
I believe that millions of people are going to start
breaking out of the "matrix of control" that has such a tight
grip on their lives and are going to start thinking for
themselves.
I believe that as the darkness gets even darker that
the light is going to get even brighter. I believe that we
are going to see "renewal" on a whole bunch of different
levels.
Yes, a great economic collapse is coming.
Yes, there is going to be a tremendous amount of pain.
But it won't all be bad news.
The times ahead are going to be full of adventure and
excitement for those who are willing to embrace it.
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