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To: TobagoJack who wrote (12213)	12/6/2006 9:45:31 PM
From: Box-By-The-Riviera™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218018

parity will seek you out. THE name of the game now. good luck in thailand. or anywhere.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (12213)	12/7/2006 12:23:19 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 218018

All very fascinating data and statistics TJ. Wealth is of interest to everyone. Yet according to said study, half the world's adult population owns 1% of total wealth. I suppose in that 1%, they do not include any contribution from the idea of tradable citizenship and consider such humans mere serfs and chattels of their states. But at the other end of the wealth spectrum, 1% of the world's population has something like 40% of wealth. That obviously has major implications when there are democratic systems, as the half of the world with nothing is not likely to worry too much about the 1% with big heaps. Democracies vote themselves rich, time after time, decade after decade. I have visited Hong Kong. But never Zimbabwe. The closest to it was a couple of days shore leave in South Africa from a ship enroute to Great Britain decades ago. I'm sure life in Zimbabwe could be very nice - living via an overseas-funded debit card rather than as an employee of Mugabe and co. There is a Globalstar gateway in South Africa which will apparently be going into service after years of being held up by the authorities. It will cover Zimbabwe. So I could even use CDMA there. With total coverage! You'll never get that with terrestrial GSM or GPRS or EDGE [or 3GSM which is CDMA though they pretend it isn't]. As you can see, there's quite a gap over Africa: globalstar.com Mqurice