[Link] New York City’s Billionaires’ Row Just Got Its Very Own Homeless Shelter

Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com

Residents of Manhattan’s so-called Billionaires’ Row—a smattering of ultra-posh, super-expensive skyscrapers abutting Central Park—just might have to encounter poor people after all.

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[Link] Man Gets Double Life Sentence For Killing His Wife With a Cobra

Read: 17/10/2021 www.vice.com

According to prosecution lawyers, Sooraj Kumar killed his wife, Uthra, for her gold jewellery and wanted to marry another woman. This was Kumar’s third attempt to murder his wife, they said. In March last year, Kumar allegedly set a viper to bite Uthra while she was staying with her in-laws.

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[Link] Wealthy people calling for a tougher lockdown got what they wanted, at no cost to them

Read: 22/8/2021 www.smh.com.au

I live in a local government area “of concern”. The news from Friday’s press conference ricocheted around my community like a bullet. There were tears, disbelief, anger.

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[Link] Around the world, the disadvantaged have been left behind by politicians of all hues

Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

Given the steep rise in economic inequality in many parts of the world since the 1980s, one might have expected to see increasing political demands for the redistribution of wealth and the return of class-based politics. This didn’t quite happen – or at least not straightforwardly.

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