EU Fascism Embraced: Over 20 Highly Revealing Videos Highlight US and EU Support for Fascist Pro-Nazi Military Battalions in Ukraine
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EU Fascism Embraced: Over 20 Highly Revealing Videos Highlight US and EU Support for Fascist Pro-Nazi Military Battalions in Ukraine
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Oxfam report says Australian billionaires and world's richest men have doubled wealth during pandemic
With the world struggling with lockdowns, supply-chain problems and economic chaos, 99 per cent of humanity is worse off due to COVID-19, but "billionaires have had a terrific pandemic", according to a new report.
Key points:
A new Oxfam report reveals inequality has worsened during the pandemic
The charity says the World Bank has projected that COVID-19 has pushed over 160m people into poverty
Oxfam is calling on governments to consider a one-off, 99 per cent wealth tax on COVID-19 windfall gains
Over the past two years, the wealth of Australia's 47 billionaires has doubled to $255 billion.
That is more wealth in the hands of 47 people than about 7.7 million Australians.
Globally, the world's 10 richest men have more than doubled their fortunes to $1.9 trillion, at a rate of $1.6 billion a day.
These are some of the many eye-catching figures from Oxfam's latest report, Inequality Kills, which has been released as global business leaders meet virtually this week for the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland.
"We have a situation where 10 men hold more wealth than that of two-thirds of humanity," Lyn Morgain, chief executive of Oxfam Australia, told ABC's RN program.
Not only that, but that bottom 40 per cent are hanging on by a thread."
The report highlights what the charity says are "unprecedented" levels of global inequality as COVID-19 sharpens the divide between the "haves and have nots".
Best year on record for super rich
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-17/oxfam-report-covid-pandemic-billionaires-increase-fortune/100760968
Ukraine's former president Petro Poroshenko returns home to face treason charges
Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has returned to Ukraine to face court on treason charges he says are politically motivated.
Key points:
Mr Poroshenko is being investigated for alleged treason linked to the financing of Russian-backed separatist fighters through illegal coal sales
He arrived back in Kyiv on Monday
The former president faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted
At the Kyiv airport, where he arrived on a flight from Warsaw on Monday morning, Mr Poroshenko was greeted by several thousand cheering supporters. Some carried banners reading "We need democracy" and "Stop repressions".
From the airport, Mr Poroshenko is expected to head straight to court, which will rule on whether to remand him in custody pending an investigation and trial.
A prosecutor has alleged that Mr Poroshenko, owner of the Roshen confectionery empire and one of Ukraine's richest businessmen, was involved in the sale of large amounts of coal that helped finance Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine in 2014-15.
Mr Poroshenko's assets have been frozen as part of authorities' investigation into the allegations of high treason. The former leader faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.
Mr Poroshenko insists he is innocent. He accuses his successor, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, of seeking to discredit him politically to distract from Ukraine's widespread problems, including economic woes and rising deaths from COVID-19.
The charges are the latest in a string of accusations levelled against Mr Poroshenko since his electoral defeat to Mr Zelenskiy in 2019.
The allegations have generated concerns of undemocratic score-settling in Ukraine and have also alarmed Ukraine's allies.
They come as Russia has built up troops along the Ukraine border and the United States has voiced concerns that Russian President Vladimir Putin might be planning an invasion of Ukraine.
Mr Poroshenko was defeated by voters following a corruption scandal and a mixed record on reforms, but he emerged with strong patriotic credentials for his work rebuilding the Ukrainian army as it fought Russian-backed insurgent fighters in the east.
Mr Poroshenko has been out of Ukraine for weeks, meeting with leaders in Brussels, Berlin and other European capitals.
His supporters view charges against him as politically motivated. "It is a revenge of the authorities and an attempt by Zelenskiy to eliminate his biggest rival in Ukraine's politics," Anton Ivashchenko, 42, told The Associated Press at the airport.
"Persecution of Poroshenko sows animosity and discord among those who push for … Ukraine's closer ties with the West."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-17/poroshenko-ukraine-zelinskiy-kyiv-treason/100762514