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No human being on Earth has truly felt what is happening in Palestine and Gaza. Sometimes, it feels as if humanity no longer exists. Life is unbearable here

You have food, fans, air conditioners, houses, and apartments! Yet the children and residents of Gaza are homeless, sitting and sleeping in the open. The children of Gaza have no food or water, and they suffer from many illnesses, from lack of sleep and extreme hunger.

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Its kind of fucking insane to me how the us can kidnapp someone not even in their country and thats just viewed as acceptable by the majority of westerners but if china arrest a westerner who commited a crime in china irs viewed as over stepping their bounda and authoritarian

Coffee is the second most valuable primary commodity in the world, only below oil. The industry generates 60 billion dollars annually, but of that, only 10% ends up in the hands of the peasants who grow the coffee. Also in the cocoa market, producers in Ivory Coast and Ghana, who supply nearly half of world output, habitually obtain less than 10% and even less than 5% of the final sale price. In fact, while the proportion of total income received by producers has been declining for decades, the European countries that re-export this same cocoa enjoy, by contrast, growing profits: between 1965 and 1989, African producers earned 34% less per kilogram exported than European re-exporters; between 2000 and 2010, this gap had already grown to 76%. Likewise, between the 1970s and the 2000s, the markup on African coffee re-exported from Europe rises from 50% to 300%, allowing European firms to re-export each kilo of coffee with an average markup of 4.11 dollars over its import price. According to a report issued by the International Coffee Organization (ICO), this commodity contributed, in 2009, some 31 billion dollars to the economy of the nine principal importers, a figure that doubles the total export earnings obtained by the 40 producing countries registered with the ICO.

This disparity affects not only primary commodities, but also the industrial exports of dependent countries. The 30GB iPod Video, launched by Apple in 2005, constitutes a classic example. The final sale price of this iPod model reaches 299 dollars. A large part of the value added, around 140 dollars, is captured by producers of parts and components, among which Japan, the United States and South Korea stand out. Distribution and retail sectors in the United States add another 75 dollars, while Apple captures a gross margin of 80 dollars per unit. By contrast, the share of value captured by China, where the assembly of components takes place through the exploitation of tens of thousands of workers, amounts to only about 4 dollars of the final sale price. Studies on the value chain of the iPhone 4, launched in 2010, offer the same results. South Korea produces around 50% of the components; American, German and French firms produce the rest of the parts. Despite China's manufacturing contribution, assembly costs, around 6.54 dollars, represent about 1% of the final sale price and less than 3.5% of the factory price. Apple, for its part, captures a margin of 270 dollars per unit. The same holds in the Nokia N95 chain, where assembly represents only 2% of the retail price. These cases confirm that the country of final assembly captures a small portion of the commercial value of the product, while component manufacturing, distribution and the lead firm, Apple or Nokia, concentrate the greatest part of the value added along the chain.

Corporate and state accounting reasons in terms of "value added", defined as the additional economic value acquired by goods and services when transformed during the productive process. This definition fuses into an indistinct unity the immanent measure of the value of commodities (labour time) and its phenomenal form (price, or the money form), thereby conflating the processes of production and realisation of value. This means that, from the standpoint of capital, all economic activities that result in an increase of realised value are "productive", even where they generate no new value in production. Hence, for example, the extravagances that result from official GDP statistics, according to which workers serving cocktails on the beaches of Bermuda produce a value added per capita ten times greater than that of their neighbours employed in the export free zones of the Dominican Republic. For this reason, the only international transfers of wealth visible to conventional econometrics are those effected through a redistribution of value already realised in money form. Their principal channels are profit repatriation, debt payment, capital flight, intellectual property income and, in general, all financial mechanisms that modify the distribution of already realised profit among the different fractions of capital. Nevertheless, despite the magnitude of this type of transfer, which is on the order of trillions of dollars annually, indirect transfers of wealth through the international price structure constitute the true basis of the economic parasitism of the rich countries over the rest of the world.

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just a few hours ago our daughter peed blood so any help getting her to a doctor would be very very VERY appreciated, thank you

My little nephew is dying; I feel like he's taking his last breaths. I will never forgive anyone who ignores this.

Please, we urgently need €700 for emergency surgery for my nephew. His health has deteriorated significantly; he is now in a coma and unconscious, suffering greatly. Time is running out, and every moment is crucial for him.

My nephew is his parents' only child. He lost his father in this genocide in the Gaza Strip and suffered multiple traumas during this war. He has already had one operation and now needs another. Please don't leave him alone. Donate towards his operation. I don't want to lose him like I lost my mother and brother. Please donate, donate!

Someone has donated €20, but we still need €680 to afford the surgery for my nephew. I swear we need your help; my nephew is suffering terribly right now. Please, every moment of delay could cost him his life. This is a life-or-death surgery—please don't let him die. You are our only hope. Please, please donate. 💔😭

Everyone, we still need 550 euros. Please don't let us down; a young child's life needs to be saved. Please donate—don't let me or my nephew down. We urgently need your help to get the surgery done for him. Please, please donate. 💔😭

Someone has donated €50, but we still need €500. Please, everyone—we are getting closer to our goal of funding my nephew's surgery. Please don't let us down; please donate. Every delay could cost my nephew his life. If we raise the funds today, the surgery can be performed tomorrow. Please, please donate. 😭💔

Everyone, we still need 450 euros to go ahead with the surgery tomorrow—it is the last possible day for the procedure. Please, don't let us down; our goal is so close. Please, don't let me down—donate, donate so my nephew doesn't die. Please donate. 💔😭

Everyone, we have only 14 hours left to book my nephew's surgery for tomorrow, and we still need 430 euros. Everyone keeps ignoring me. Please donate! Please donate! We cannot postpone his surgery. If we don't raise the money, he won't be able to have the procedure anytime soon, and it won't be successful. Please donate! 💔😭

Please, every moment of delay could cost him his life. This is a life-or-death surgery—please don't let him die. You are our only hope. Please, please donate💔

Oh God, time is running out fast; only 10 hours remain until the surgery, and we still need 423 euros. Please, please donate—don't abandon us. 😭💔

Oh God, oh God, there are only 7 hours left—I can't sleep, I just can't. We still need 400 euros for the surgery. Please donate, please do it now; please donate so we can get the surgery done for my nephew. Please donate, please donate. 😭💔

Don't donate to World Central Kitchen because even after their members were murdered by Israel, the founder Jose Andreas still collaborated with Israel and recently they served displaced Israeli settlers bombed by Iran and Hezbollah

genuinely asking but um. is there any hope? like at all?

between 2018 and 2025, Cuba's infant mortality rate increased by 148 percent under tougher US sanctions. that's 2.5 times as many dead babies before this year's clampdown on Cuba's ability to receive oil. this is the US empire in action, killing babies to secure future profits for its corporations