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The Shocking Truth About What It Would Cost Walmart If It Paid a Living Wage.

In two minutes, economist Robert Reich completely destroys every possible excuse for Walmart’s low wages…

Click on the link: http://tinyurl.com/qaksn92

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Nigerian gold mining: farmers choose death by lead poisoning over poverty

Unregulated mining in rural northern Nigeria is causing blindness and paralysis among children and making adults infertile

A stone crusher in Bagega's mining area breaks the rock into pieces to feed to the stone grinder. Dust clys the eyes, nose and mouth. Photograph: Monica Mark

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/mar/17/nigeria-gold-mining-farmers-lead-poisoning-poverty
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British gold mining firm agrees settlement over deaths of Tanzanian villagers

Acacia Mining – formerly African Barrick Gold – has agreed an undisclosed payout over claims that hired police and security guards killed and injured villagers at its North Mara mine in Tanzania

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Acacia Mining’s (formerly African Barrick Gold) North Mara mine in Tanzania where villagers were killed and injured at an incident involving police and security guards in 2008. Photograph: Trevor Snapp/Getty Images

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/feb/10/british-gold-mining-settlement-deaths-tanzanian-villagers

Hundreds of migrants feared dead in Mediterranean this week

UN refugee agency estimates 300 people may have died trying to reach Italy from Libya in bad weather

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/11/migrants-missing-boats-sink-mediterranean

The Haiti earthquake five years on - then and now

On 12 January 2010, a 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti with more than 50 aftershocks following over the next 12 days. The disaster left more than 220,000 people dead and over 300,000 injured and resulted in a humanitarian crisis

• Click each image to show the same location, five years on

http://tinyurl.com/Haiti-5-years-ago

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This Is What A World Map Looks Like When Scaled According To Population Size

February 1, 2015 | by Kristy Hamilton

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http://www.iflscience.com/environment/world-map-scaled-population-size  

Where in the world did Australia go?! A new cartogram by Redditer TeaDranks rescales the world’s countries according to population size instead of geographic area.