SENATOR Amerika Syarikat: MARI Kita BOM IRAQ (sekali lagi . . .) !!!

Shakir Wahib (dariKiri), Abu Wahib, seorang pemimpin Negara Islam Iraq dan Levant (ISIL) berdiri di sebelah kereta yang terbakar, di lokasi yang tidak didedahkan di Iraq (Shakir Wahib (L), Abu Wahib, a leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) standing next to burning cars, at an undisclosed location in Iraq (AFP Photo/HO)

Srikandi גבורה - Kemajuan penuh kegilaan militan ISIS di Iraq tlh mendorong beberapa senator Amerika Syarikat untuk memanggil untuk kempen pengeboman baru terhadap jihad dan untuk kerajaan Iraq Perdana Menteri Nouri al-Maliki meletak jawatan.

Senator Amerika Dianne Feinstein dan John McCain menyeru untuk Amerika Syarikat untuk campur tangan sekali lagi, kali ini untuk mengebom kumpulan pengganas ISIS yang telah menawan 'captured' satu siri bandar-bandar Iraq berturut-turut pesat dan membunuh semua orang 'kill everyone' yg mereka anggap sebagai risiko keselamatan.

Menurut laporan baru oleh Pusat Kemajuan Amerika (CAP), Amerika Syarikat perlu "bersedia untuk operasi counterterrorism terhad terhadap ISIS, termasuk serangan udara mungkin."

Serangan oleh Al-Qaeda cabang ISIS di Iraq (Offensive by Al-Qaeda offshoot ISIS in Iraq)

"Saya rasa yang paling penting ialah kita mengambil tindakan langsung kini terhadap ISIS, berarak ke Baghdad, dan menghalang mereka dari masuk ke Baghdad," kata Feinstein (D-CAL), pengerusi Jawatankuasa Perisikan Senat.

Arizona Senator John McCain juga menyokong idea serangan udara. Selepas Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama mengumumkan penghantaran kerahan 'deployment' 275 anggota tentera ke Iraq untuk menyediakan keselamatan untuk Kedutaan Amerika Syarikat di Baghdad terhadap pemberontak Sunni, McCain berkata kebimbangan beliau adalah "sama ada kita akan berbuat apa-apa selain menghantar beberapa marin tam-bahan, yang memenangi membuat apa-apa, "katanya.

Kedua-dua Feinstein dan McCain juga mempertahankan keperluan perubahan rejim di Baghdad, menuduh kerajaan pemangku PM Nouri al-Maliki daripada ketidakupayaan untuk membendung pemberontakan Islam di negara ini.

US SENATORs: Let’s bomb IRAQ (again . . .)!!!

The frenzied advance of ISIS militants in Iraq has prompted some US senators to call for a new bombing campaign against the jihadists and for the Iraqi government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to step down.

American senators Dianne Feinstein and John McCain are calling for the US to step in again, this time to bomb the groups of ISIS terrorists who have captured a series of Iraqi cities in rapid succession and to kill everyone they regard as a security risk.

According to a new report by the Center for American Progress (CAP), the US should “prepare for limited counterterrorism operations against ISIS, including possible air strikes.”

Offensive by Al-Qaeda offshoot ISIS in Iraq

“I think most important is that we take direct action now against ISIS, marching down to Baghdad, and prevent them from getting into Baghdad,” said Feinstein (D-CAL), the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Arizona Senator John McCain also supports the idea of air strikes. After US President Barack Obama announced the deployment of 275 troops to Iraq to provide security for the US Embassy in Baghdad against Sunni insurgents, McCain said that his concern is “whether we’re going to do anything besides send a few extra marines, which won’t do anything," he said.

Both Feinstein and McCain also defend the necessity of regime change in Baghdad, accusing the acting government of PM Nouri al-Maliki of an inability to curb the Islamist insurgency in the country.

US Senator John McCain (R-AZ) (L) dan Amerika Syarikat Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) (U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) (L) and U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) (Reuters/Win McNamee)

Parlimen Iraq meluluskan al-Maliki untuk masa jawatan kedua sebagai bermastautin Perdana Menteri pada Disember 2010. Sekarang Feinstein mahukan beliau meletak jawatan, diganti dengan "perdamaian" kerajaan.

"Saya fikir ia adalah yang paling penting bahawa kerajaan Maliki diganti, dan yang termasuk Encik Maliki, dgn kerajaan perdamaian," kata Feinstein, sambil menambah: "Berdasarkan kepada semua yang saya dengar, baca dan tahu, Encik Maliki tidak dapat untuk membawa perdamaian di negara itu. "

Pentadbiran Obama perlu menghantar wakil-wakil ke Baghdad untuk "bekerja dengan Maliki dan beritahu dia dia mendapat ke langkah ke bawah dan mempunyai kerajaan campuran," kata McCain, bersetuju dengan idea al-Maliki meletak jawatan.

Pusat pagar untuk Kemajuan Amerika, sebuah organisasi dengan hubungan rapat dengan Rumah Putih, telah menggesa pentadbiran Obama untuk melindungi Iraq dari kehancuran dan melancarkan kempen ketenteraan terhadap ISIS dan kumpulan pelampau lain.

Garis keras diambil oleh ahli parlimen Amerika agresif muncul bertepatan dengan talian sama-sama keras yang sedang diusahakan oleh kerajaan Arab Saudi. Monarki mutlak Sunni di Riyadh sentiasa menjadi lawan terbesar semua rejim Syiah Islam di Timur Tengah, dari Syria Bashar Assad, atau Iraq al-Maliki.

Itulah sebabnya Riyadh kekal sebagai penaja utama bukan sahaja kumpulan jihad ISIS, tetapi ramai kumpulan jihad radikal lain dalam kedua-dua yang dilanda perang Iraq dan Syria.

Namun tidak semua ahli parlimen Amerika untuk menerapkan idea dari yang ke-3 kempen ketenteraan Amerika Syarikat di Iraq.

Maine Republikan Senator Susan Collins mempersoalkan bahawa "serangan udara akan bekerja," menyatakan idea umum bahawa jika NATO adalah di Iraq, ISIS tidak akan menjadi masalah di sana.

Bekas Ahli Kongres Ron Paul mengutuk ‘condemned’ dasar luar White House semasa, letupan Presiden Barack Obama lebih campur tangan Amerika Syarikat mungkin di Iraq.

"Mereka tidak boleh mengakui mereka salah tentang serangan orang menjadi 'cakewalk' yang akan membayar untuk dirinya sendiri, jadi mereka mahu menyalahkan peristiwa minggu lepas pada 2011 pengeluaran Amerika Syarikat dari Iraq. Tetapi masalah ini bermula dengan serangan 2003 itu sendiri, bukan 2011 pengeluaran tentera. Sesiapa yang memahami sebab dan akibat daripada memahaminya, "Paul menulis.

Minggu lepas, Menteri Luar Rusia Sergey Lavrov berkata ‘said’ Iraq semakin meningkat di luar kawalan adalah hasil daripada pencerobohan yang dilakukan oleh Amerika Syarikat dan United Kingdom pada tahun 2003.

Lavrov berkata bahawa 11 tahun lalu, selepas Presiden Amerika Syarikat George Bush mengumumkan kemenangan demokrasi di Iraq, "keadaan telah merosot dlm perkem-bangan geometri."

"Perpaduan Iraq telah dipersoalkan," kata Lavrov. "The keganasan berleluasa sedang berlaku kerana bahawa pasukan pendudukan tdk membayar apa-apa perhatian kepada proses politik dalaman, tdk membantu dialog nasional, & hanya mengejar kepentingan mereka sendiri."

Iraq’s parliament approved al-Maliki for a second term as prime minister resident in December 2010. Now Feinstein wants him to step down, to be replaced with a “reconciliation” government.

“I think it’s most important that the Maliki government be replaced, and that includes Mr. Maliki, with a reconciliation government,” Feinstein said, adding: “Based on all I’ve heard, read and know, Mr. Maliki is not able to bring about reconciliation in that country.”

The Obama administration should send representatives to Baghdad to “work with Maliki and tell him he’s got to step down and have a coalition government,” McCain said, agreeing with the idea of al-Maliki stepping down.

The centrist Center for American Progress, an organization with close ties to the White House, has urged the Obama administration to protect Iraq from disintegration and to mount a military campaign against ISIS and other extremist groups.

The hard line taken by hawkish American lawmakers appears to coincide with an equally hard line being pursued by the Saudi Arabian government. The Sunni absolute monarchy in Riyadh has always been the biggest opponent of all Shia Muslim regimes in the Middle East, from Bashar Assad’s Syria or al-Maliki’s Iraq.

That’s why Riyadh remains the main sponsor of not only the ISIS jihadist group, but many other radical jihadist groups in both war-torn Iraq and Syria.

Yet not all American lawmakers are ready to embrace the idea of a third US military campaign in Iraq.

Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins questioned that “air strikes would work,” expressing the general idea that if NATO was in Iraq, ISIS would not be a problem there.

Former Congressman Ron Paul condemned the current White House’s foreign policy, blasting President Barack Obama over a possible US intervention in Iraq.

“They cannot admit they were wrong about the invasion being a ‘cakewalk’ that would pay for itself, so they want to blame last week’s events on the 2011 US withdrawal from Iraq. But the trouble started with the 2003 invasion itself, not the 2011 troop withdrawal. Anyone who understands cause and effect should understand this,” Paul wrote.

Last week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Iraq spiraling out of control is the result of the invasion carried out by the US and the UK in 2003.

Lavrov noted that 11 years ago, after US President George Bush announced the victory of democracy in Iraq, “the situation has deteriorated in geometrical progression.”

“The unity of Iraq has been called into question,” Lavrov said. “The rampant terrorism is taking place due to the fact that the occupation troops didn’t pay any attention to the interior political processes, didn’t help the national dialogue, and only pursued their own interests.”

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PBB: 356 terbunuh, termasuk 257 Orang AWAM, dalam KEMPEN Ketenteraan Timur UKRAINE . . .

Lelaki bersenjata berjalan dengan 30 keranda disediakan untuk pengebumian pemberontak anti-kerajaan terbunuh dalam pertempuran berat di lapangan terbang Donetsk pada 26 Mei, di luar rumah mayat Donetsk 29 Mei 2014 (A gunman walks by thirty coffins prepared for the funerals of anti-goverment rebels killed during heavy fighting at Donetsk airport on May 26, outside a Donetsk morgue May 29, 2014 (Reuters/Yannis Behrakis)

Srikandi גבורה - Sekurang-kurangnya 356 orang, termasuk 257 orang awam, terbunuh sejak permulaan "anti-pengganas" operasi di kawasan-kawasan timur Ukraine dari-pada Lugansk dan Donetsk, menurut pengiraan PBB. Terdapat 14 kanak-kanak di antara orang mati.

Berdarah kempen Ukraine timur LIVE Terkini KIEV (Kiev's bloody eastern Ukraine campaign LIVE UPDATES)

Keputusan yg disediakan oleh suruhanjaya khas PBB di Ukraine tlh dipersembahkan oleh Gianni Magazzeni, ketua Eropah Jabatan Pejabat Pesuruhjaya Tinggi Hak Asasi Manusia.

Menurut Magazzeni, kiraan mayat-mayat akhir termasuk 257 orang awam (14 daripada mereka kanak-kanak), 11 lagi mati di Mariupol campur 2 ahli kakitangan syarikat Voda Donbassa. Baki 86 mangsa adalah anggota perkhidmatan tentera Ukraine, termasuk beberapa pasukan payung terjun sedozen dan 9 anak kapal Ilyushin-76 yang mati dalam nahas kapal terbang baru-baru ini tidak jauh dari lapangan terbang Lugansk.

Keputusan yang disediakan oleh Suruhanjaya Khas PBB di Ukraine tlh dipersembahkan oleh Gianni Magazzeni, Ketua Jabatan Eropah Pejabat Pesuruhjaya Tinggi Hak Asasi Manusia.

UN: 356 killed, incl 257 civilians, in E. Ukraine 

Military CAMPAIGN . . .

At least 356 people, including 257 civilians, have died since the beginning of the “anti-terrorist” operation in Ukraine’s eastern regions of Lugansk and Donetsk, according to UN calculations. There were 14 children among the dead.

Kiev's bloody eastern Ukraine campaign LIVE UPDATES

The results prepared by the UN special commission in Ukraine have been presented by Gianni Magazzeni, head of European Department of the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights.

According to Magazzeni, the final body count includes 257 civilians (of them 14 children), 11 more died in Mariupol plus two staff members of Voda Donbassa company . The remaining 86 victims are the servicemen of Ukrainian army, including several dozen paratroopers and nine crew members of Ilyushin-76 who died in the recent plane crash not far from Lugansk airport.

The results prepared by the UN Special Commission in Ukraine have been presented by Gianni Magazzeni, head of the European Department of the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights.

Pengebumian untuk hospital Slavyansk jururawat yang mati waktu serang hospital 16 Jun 2014 (The funeral for Slavyansk hospital nurse who died during the shelling of the hospital 16 June, 2014 (RIA Novosti/Andrey Stenin)

Menurut Magazzeni, kiraan badan termasuk 257 orang awam (dan di antara mereka, 14 kanak-kanak), manakala 11 lagi meninggal dunia di Mariupol, ditambah dua orang anggota kakitangan Voda Donbassa (Donbass Air) syarikat. Baki 86 mangsa adalah askar daripada tentera Ukraine, termasuk beberapa pasukan payung sedozen dan sembilan anak kapal Ilyushin-76 yang meninggal dunia dalam nahas kapal terbang baru-baru ini tidak jauh dari lapangan terbang Lugansk itu.

According to Magazzeni, the body count includes 257 civilians (and among them, 14 children), while 11 more died in Mariupol, plus two staff members of the Voda Donbassa (Donbass Water) company . The remaining 86 victims are the servicemen from the Ukrainian army, including several dozen paratroopers and nine crew members of Ilyushin-76 who died in the recent plane crash not far from the Lugansk airport.

Terdahulu Rabu, Jawatankuasa Siasatan ‘Investigative Committee’ Rusia berkata lebih 100 orang awam terbunuh, 200 cedera dan beratus-ratus rumah musnah dalam kempen ketenteraan Kiev di timur Ukraine.

Jawatankuasa Siasatan berhasrat melancarkan siasatan terhadap Gabenor Dnepro-petrovsk, Igor Kolomoysky, dan Menteri Dalam Negeri Ukraine, Arsen Avakov.

Earlier Wednesday, Russia’s Investigative Committee said that over 100 civilians have been killed, 200 injured and hundreds of homes destroyed in Kiev’s military campaign in eastern Ukraine.

The Investigative Committee intends to launch an investigation against the governor of Dnepropetrovsk, Igor Kolomoysky, and the Ukrainian interior minister, Arsen Avakov.

Menurut maklumat Jawatankuasa Siasatan yang bermula dari 12 April, Avakov dan Kolomoysky ditubuh dan diuruskan operasi ketenteraan yang dijalankan oleh tentera Ukraine, Pengawal Kebangsaan dan Sektor Hak pejuang tentera, dan kuasa-kuasa khas Dnepr Ukraine Interior Kementerian, mencipta dan dibiayai oleh Kolomoysky.

According to the Investigative Committee’s information, starting from April 12, Avakov and Kolomoysky organized and managed the military operation carried out by the Ukrainian military, the National Guard and Right Sector armed fighters, and the Dnepr special forces of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, created and financed by Kolomoysky.

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JUMLAH HUTANG Amerika Syarikat MELONJAK kpd HAMPIR $ 60 TRILLION, Ramalan RECESSION yg BARU , , ,

Reuters/Lee Jae-Won

Srikandi גבורה - Amerika - kerajaan, perniagaan, & orang - hutang hampir $60 trillion, menurut data ekonomi terbaru dari theThe St Louis Rizab Persekutuan. Dan hutang swasta - bukan pinjaman kerajaan - adalah sebab terbesar defisit yang besar.

Jumlah hutang Amerika Syarikat pada akhir suku pertama 2014, pada 31 Mac berjumlah hampir $59.4 trillion - sehingga hampir $ 500 bilion daripada akhir suku keempat 2013, menurut data. Jumlah hutang (gabungan kerajaan, perniagaan, gadai janji, dan hutang pengguna) adalah $2.2 trillion 40 tahun lalu.

"Dalam 50 tahun yang singkat, hutang telah pergi daripada menjadi mewah untuk beberapa untuk satu kemudahan bagi ramai untuk ketagihan bagi kebanyakan penyakit untuk semua," James Butler menulis dalam sebuah Bebas Pengundi-pengundi Network (IVN) op-ed. "Ia adalah virus yang telah merebak ke setiap aspek ekonomi kita, daripada pengguna yang menggunakan kad kredit untuk membeli gula-gula bar $ 0,75 dalam mesin layan diri untuk kerajaan meminjam $17 trillion untuk menjaga lampu."

Total US debt soars to NEARLY $60 trn, foreshadows 

new recession . . .

America - its government, businesses, and people - are nearly $60 trillion in debt, according to the latest economic data from thethe St. Louis Federal Reserve. And private debt - not government borrowing - is the biggest reason for the huge deficit.

Total US debt at the end of the first quarter of 2014, on March 31 totaled almost $59.4 trillion - up nearly $500 billion from the end of the fourth quarter of 2013, according to the data. Total debt (the combination of government, business, mortgage, and consumer debt) was $2.2 trillion 40 years ago.

“In 50 short years, debt has gone from being a luxury for a few to a convenience for many to an addiction for most to a disease for all,” James Butler wrote in an Independent Voters Network (IVN) op-ed. “It is a virus that has spread to every aspect of our economy, from a consumer using a credit card to buy a $0.75 candy bar in a vending machine to a government borrowing $17 trillion to keep the lights on.”

Menurut kajian 2012 yang disiarkan dlm Economist, pertumbuhan pesat dalam hutang swasta adalah peramal yang lebih baik daripada kemelesetan daripada peningkatan hutang awam, pertumbuhan dlm bekalan wang, atau ketidakseimbangan perdagangan.

Kredit pengguna di Amerika Syarikat meningkat sebanyak 22 % peratus dalam tempoh 3 tahun kebelakangan ini, mencapai rekod tinggi $3.18 trillion pada bulan April, Fed melaporkan pada hari Jumaat.

Menggunakan kad kredit (atau pusingan kredit) meningkat sebanyak $8.8 billion, manakala kredit bukan pusingan seperti pinjaman kereta dan pinjaman pelajar yang dibuat oleh kerajaan melonjak sehingga sebanyak $ 18 bilion pada bulan April. Kredit bukan pusingan melonjak sebanyak 8.2 % peratus berbanding tahun lepas, manakala kredit pusingan hanya meningkat 2.2 % peratus berbanding tempoh masa yang sama.

"Untuk sementara selepas kemelesetan ia adalah bergaya untuk memotong kad kredit anda dan keluar dari hutang," Michael Snyder menulis dalam sebuah InfoWars op-ed. "Tetapi trend yang memakai off dengan cepat, tidak ia?"

According to a 2012 study published in the Economist, rapid growth in private debt is a better predictor of recessions than increases in public debt, growth in money supply, or trade imbalances. Consumer credit in the US rose by 22 percent over the last three years, reaching a record-high $3.18 trillion in April, the Fed reported on Friday.

Credit card use (or revolving credit) rose by $8.8 billion, while non-revolving credit like auto loans and student loans made by the government surged up by $18 billion in April. Non-revolving credit jumped by 8.2 percent over the last year, while revolving credit only rose 2.2 percent over the same time period.

“For a while after the recession it was trendy to cut up your credit cards and get out of debt,” Michael Snyder wrote in an InfoWars op-ed. “But that fad wore off rather quickly, didn’t it?”

Snyder berkata 56 % peratus daripada semua rakyat Amerika mempunyai penarafan kredit subprima, dan bahawa bayaran kereta bulanan purata di Amerika Syarikat adalah $ 474. Beliau menambah bahawa 52 % peratus daripada pemilik rumah overextended gadai janji mereka dan "walaupun tidak mampu rumah yg mereka hidup dalam sekarang."

Hutang mencederakan yang palingnya orang dewasa muda. Millennials berkata mereka menghabiskan sekurang-kurangnya separuh paychecks bulanan mereka membayar hutang, satu tinjauan baru-baru ini Wells Fargo ditemui.

Dan 2 tahun daripada kolej, separuh daripada semua graduan masih bergantung kepada ibu bapa mereka atau ahli keluarga yang lain untuk beberapa jenis bantuan kewangan, menurut University of Arizona kajian, yang juga mendapati bahawa hanya 49 % peratus daripada graduan bekerja sepenuh masa .

"Sama ada pasaran buruh yang lemah semakin meningkat keperluan untuk sokongan antara generasi - pemandu mungkin dalam ekonomi hari ini - data kami jelas menunjukkan bahawa ramai orang dewasa muda hari ini mungkin tidak memperolehi cukup untuk membuat ia sendiri, walaupun bekerja sepenuh masa, "laporan itu.

Kebanyakan hutang yg remaja hadapi ialah hutang pinjaman pelajar, yg berjumlah lebih daripada $1.2 trillion, menurut Federal Reserve. Hutang itu, kira-kira $124 billion adalah lebih daripada 90 hari yang bermasalah.

"Apa yang kita lakukan utk anak2 muda kita adalah yang keji. Kita tlh menggalakkan mereka untuk mendaftar untuk sepanjang hayat perhambaan hutang sebelum mereka memahami adalah tentang apa itu hidup, "Snyder menulis.

Pejabat Anggaran Kongres meramalkan bahawa ekonomi negara akan gerai pada 2017 kerana rakyat Amerika akan terus berbelanja, tetapi gaji dan kekayaan tidak akan naik - yang membawa kepada peningkatan ketidaksamaan pendapatan di negara ini, Guardian dilaporkan.

"Itu jurang yang semakin meningkat antara pendapatan dan penggunaan telah diisi oleh peminjam," kata Guardian. "Ini adalah dinamik hutang dalam memimpin-up untuk kemelesetan. Tetapi mereka juga adalah dinamik yang membawa keluar dari krisis, dan berterusan hari ini dengan akhir tiada di sisi. "

Ahli ekonomi tidak bersetuju mengenai cara untuk menghindari krisis yang akan berlaku. Namun ketagihan Amerika untuk perbelanjaan kredit tidak akan membantu.

"Masalahnya ialah, hutang menyaksikan lebih banyak, pendapatan lebih masa depan mesti digunakan untuk membayar hutang dan faedah, yang mengurangkan wang yang kita perlu menghabiskan pada sesuatu. Kerja-kerja ini utk memperlahankan ekonomi, "Butler menulis.

"Akhirnya, kesan negatif beban hutang menjadi lebih kuat daripada kesan positif perbelanjaan ditambah dan kemelesetan adalah dicetuskan. Atau lebih teruk lagi"

Snyder noted that 56 percent of all Americans have a subprime credit rating, and that the average monthly car payment in the US is $474. He added that 52 percent of homeowners are overextended on their mortgages and “cannot even afford the house that they are living in right now.”

Debt is hurting young adults the most. Millennials say they are spending at least half their monthly paychecks on paying off debt, a recent Wells Fargo survey found. And two years out of college, half of all graduates are still relying on their parents or other family members for some sort of financial help, according to a University of Arizona study, which also found that only 49 percent of graduates are working full-time.

"Whether or not a weak labor market is increasing the need for intergenerational support -- a likely driver in today's economy -- our data clearly showed that many young adults today may not be earning enough to make it on their own, even when working full time," the report stated.

Most of the debt that young adults face is student loan debt, which totals more than $1.2 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve. Of that debt, approximately $124 billion is more than 90 days delinquent.

“What we have done to our young people is shameful. We have encouraged them to sign up for a lifetime of debt slavery before they even understand what life is all about,” Snyder wrote.

The Congressional Budget Office predicts that the economy will stall by 2017 because Americans will continue spending, but wages and wealth won’t be going up - leading to increased income inequality in the country, the Guardian reported.

“That ever-increasing gap between income and consumption has been filled by borrowing,” the Guardian said. “These were the debt dynamics in the lead-up to the recession. But they are also the dynamics leading out of the crisis, and continuing today with no end in sight.”

Economists have not agreed on how to stave off the impending crisis. But Americans’ addiction to spending on credit will not help.

“The problem is, the more debt we have, the more future income must be used to pay the debt and its interest, which reduces the money we have to spend on things. This works to slow the economy,” Butler wrote.

“Eventually, the negative effect of the debt load becomes stronger than the positive effect of the added spending and a recession is triggered — or worse.”

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1% KeEMASan: Britain MISKIN TERUK berbanding SEBELUM INI . . .

Reuters/Toby Melville

Srikandi גבורה - Termiskin 20 % peratus daripada isi rumah di UK mendapat hanya $ 9,530 setiap tahun, kadar yang mendadak lebih rendah daripada di negara-negara lain dengan pendapatan purata yang sama, menurut kajian baru.

Beberapa rakyat Britain mungkin akan bersetuju dengan pemerhatian bahawa "hidup ini lebih buruk (di UK) daripada ia adalah untuk yang ke-5 termiskin di hampir setiap negara lain Eropah barat laut," tetapi ini adalah yang sebenarnya kesimpulan Pusat Bayar Tinggi, sebuah ‘independent British think-tank’, telah dibuat dalam kajian yang baru dikeluarkan.

Menggunakan angka dari OECD Indeks Kehidupan yang lebih baik, laporan itu menun-jukkan bahawa purata pendapatan isi rumah UK $ 53,785, yang membentuk 20 % peratus terkaya di UK, menduduki tempat yg ke-3 di negara-negara Kesatuan Eropah, ketinggalan di belakang Jerman dan Perancis.

Tetapi itu adalah di mana persamaan ekonomi antara UK dan EU terhenti menjerit.

OECD menganggarkan pendapatan purata 20 % peratus bahagian bawah isi rumah UK pada hanya $ 9530, yang jauh lebih rendah daripada 20 % peratus yang paling miskin di Perancis ($ 12,653), Jerman ($ 13,381), Belgium ($ 12,350), Belanda ($ 11,274) dan Denmark ($ 12,183).

Laporan tersebut mendedahkan penurunan pesat Britain dari kesaksamaan ekonomi dalam hanya beberapa dekad.

"Sejak 1960, Britain telah pergi daripada menjadi lebih menjimatkan sama daripada Sweden untuk menjadi salah satu negara yang paling tidak sama rata di negara maju," menurut Pusat Bayar Tinggi. "Daripada 32 anggota Pertubuhan bagi Kerjasama Eko-nomi dan Pembangunan (OECD) hanya Portugal, Israel, Amerika Syarikat, Turki, Mexico dan Chile lebih tidak sama rata daripada United Kingdom."

The GOLDEN 1%: Britain's POOR Worse than EVER . . .

The poorest 20 percent of UK households earn just $9,530 annually, a dramatically lower rate than in other countries with a similar average income, according to new research.

Few Britons would probably agree with the observation that “life is much worse (in the UK) than it is for the poorest fifth in virtually every other northwest European country,” but that is exactly the conclusion the High Pay Centre, an independent British think-tank, has made in a newly released study.

Using figures from the OECD Better Life Index, the report shows that average UK household incomes of $53,785, which makes up the wealthiest 20 percent in the UK, ranked third in EU countries, lagging behind Germany and France.

But that is where the economic similarities between the UK and the EU come to a screeching halt.

The OECD estimates the average income of the bottom 20 percent of UK households at just $9,530, which is significantly lower than the poorest 20 percent in France ($12,653), Germany ($13,381), Belgium ($12,350), the Netherlands ($11,274) and Denmark ($12,183).

The report revealed Britain’s rapid decline from economic equality in just a few decades.

“Since 1960, Britain has gone from being more economically equal than Sweden to being one of the most unequal countries in the developed world,” according to the High Pay Centre. “Of the 32 members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) only Portugal, Israel, the United States, Turkey, Mexico and Chile are more unequal than the UK.”

Source: High Pay Centre study

Malah, kata ‘the think-tank’ tersebut taraf hidup UK terpinggir adalah lebih dekat kepada orang-orang negara-negara bekas blok Timur, seperti Slovenia dan Republik Czech.

Laporan itu menyatakan bahawa "ketidaksamaan tidak berlaku secara kebetulan," tetapi timbul daripada pilihan politik, sosial dan budaya yang sengaja dalam bidang seperti "cukai, perbelanjaan awam, perhubungan perusahaan, toleransi awam gaji yang tinggi dan yang rendah."

"Angka-angka cadangkan kita perlu lebih prihatin tentang ketidaksamaan dan bagai-mana kemakmuran dikongsi, dan juga pendapatan purata atau langkah2 agregat seperti KDNK," seperti Financial Times memetik Deborah Hargreaves, pengarah Pusat Bayar Tinggi. "Hakikat bahawa yang kaya lebih kaya di UK daripada banyak negara lain menyembunyikan fakta bahawa golongan miskin lebih miskin."

Ia harus diperhatikan bahawa kajian2 lain tlh menunjukkan bahawa tahap kemiskinan UK adalah kira-kira setanding dengan atas negara-negara EU.

Kajian Luxembourg Pendapatan Pangkalan Data, sebagai contoh, yang menunjukkan bahawa peratusan ke-20 UK dan isi rumah Perancis mempunyai pendapatan yg sama. Dan kedua-duanya adalah hanya sedikit kurang teruk berbanding dengan isi rumah yang sama di Jerman.

Namun kedua-dua kajian menunjukkan bahawa yang miskin di UK mempunyai taraf hidup yg lebih rendah daripada golongan miskin di Belanda, Sweden, Norway, Finland dan Denmark.

In fact, the think-tank said marginalized UK living standards are much closer to those of former Eastern bloc countries, such as Slovenia and the Czech Republic.

The report noted that “inequality does not happen by chance,” but arises from deliberate political, social and cultural choices in areas like “taxation, public spending, industrial relations and public tolerance of high and low pay.”

“These figures suggest we need to be more concerned about inequality and how prosperity is shared, as well as average incomes or aggregate measures like GDP,” as the Financial Times quotes Deborah Hargreaves, director of the High Pay Centre. “The fact that the rich are richer in the UK than many other countries hides the fact that the poor are poorer.”

It should be noted that other studies have shown that UK poverty levels are about on par with the top EU economies.

The Luxembourg Income Study Database, for example, suggests that the 20th percentile of UK and French households have very similar incomes. And both are only slightly less worse off than equivalent households in Germany.

Yet both studies show that the impoverished in the UK have lower living standards than the poor in the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark.

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"KEEMASAN 1 % Peratus"

Ketidaksamaan pendapatan telah terbukti mempunyai kesan langsung ke atas jumlah pendapatan persentil yang paling rendah bagi isi rumah.

Di UK, 1 %  peratus terkaya mengambil 13 % peratus daripada jumlah pendapatan, iaitu nisbah lebih besar daripada di negara-negara Eropah Barat yang lain.

Top Pendapatan Pangkalan Data DUNIA melaporkan jumlah pendapatan di UK pada tahun 2011 (tahun yang paling baru-baru ini untuk rekod yang ada) pada £ 1 trilion. Oleh itu, bahagian 13 % peratus yg diambil oleh yang kaya 1 % peratus yg bersamaan dengan kira-kira £ 130 billion setahun.

"Jika bahagian yang ditangkap oleh 1 % peratus itu adalah sama seperti di Belanda dan Denmark, ia akan menjadi bernilai £ 60 bilion," laporan itu menekankan. " £ 70 billion perbezaan diedarkan di seluruh baki 99 % peratus di UK akan meletakkan tambahan £ 2,700 di dalam poket setiap isi rumah."

Bahagian 6 % peratus daripada jumlah pendapatan meraih oleh golongan kaya 1 % peratus di Belanda dan Denmark adalah yang paling rendah yang dicatatkan oleh DUNIA pangkalan data pendapatan atas; Walau bagaimanapun, bahagian di negara-negara lain seperti Sweden (7 % peratus), Norway (8 % peratus) dan Perancis (8 % peratus) juga jauh lebih rendah daripada tahap UK.

Jika jumlah pendapatan di antara 99 % peratus dan 1 % peratus daripada penduduk UK telah terbelah dengan cara yang sama seperti di negara2 Eropah dan Scandinavia, 99 % peratus itu akan menjadi "beribu-ribu pound lebih baik setiap tahun," kata laporan itu.

The "GOLDEN ONE Percent"

Income inequality has been proven to have a direct effect on the total earnings of the lowest percentile of households.

In the UK, the wealthiest one percent takes 13 percent of total income, which is much greater ratio than in other Western European countries.

The World Top Incomes Database reported total incomes in the UK in 2011 (the most recent year for which records are available) at £1 trillion. Thus, the 13 percent share taken by the richest one percent equates to about £130 billion per year.

“If the share captured by the one percent were the same as in the Netherlands and Denmark, it would be worth £60 billion,” the report emphasized. “The £70 billion difference distributed across the remaining 99 percent of the UK would put an extra £2,700 in the pockets of every household.”

The 6 percent share of total incomes grabbed by the richest one percent in the Netherlands and Denmark is the lowest recorded by the world top incomes database; however, the share in other countries such as Sweden (seven percent), Norway (eight percent) and France (eight percent) is also much lower than UK levels.

If total income between the 99 percent and the one percent of UK’s population was split up in the same way as in European and Scandinavian countries, the 99 percent would be “thousands of pounds better off each year,” the report said.

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