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If Mr. Narendra Modi has ambitions to become the Prime Minister of India, then he and his supporters need to go back to the drawing board and begin planning for the next election cycle.
Even though huge crowds are showing up at his rallies for his oratorical skills, it will not likely to translate into votes. Modi represents a small percentage of Indians who have everything to gain from the business deals including the short-sighted industrialists, but ultimately all the gains will be lost if the cohesive structure of the society remains busted.
What good is the prosperity when fellow Gujaratis live in apprehension and fear of the other? What good was the prosperity of Germany when everything collapsed anyway? Like Modi; they focused on growth rather than the social structure.
Pope Francis is the one who can bring sense to the world. His speech applies directly to India, development without inclusion is doomed to fail hurting everyone in the long haul.
Continued at http://www.opednews.com/articles/Narendra-Modi-s-Nakshatras-by-Mike-Ghouse-Anti-christian_Bharatiya-Janata-Party_Business_Congress-131227-999.html
Pope Francis’s address works for Modi, the correct title
of his speech is, “Pope Francis Urges Davos Elite At World Economic Forum To
Serve Humanity With Wealth” which I modified to the above title, as it seems to
apply to Narendra Modi.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/21/pope-francis-davos-_n_4638542.html?ref=topbar
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Pope Francis challenged business leaders assembled in Davos on Tuesday to put their wealth at the service of humanity instead of leaving most of the world's population in poverty and insecurity.
In a message to more than 2,500 participants at the annual World Economic Forum, the pontiff urged industrialists and bankers to promote inclusive prosperity, but stopped short of chiding them for excesses laid bare by the global financial crisis.
"I ask you to ensure that humanity is served by wealth and not ruled by it," Pope Francis said in the message read at the opening ceremony by Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Peace and Justice.
The Argentinian pope, who has identified strongly with the poor since his election last year and severely criticized capitalism, acknowledged that business had helped lift millions out of poverty, even if it had led to widespread social exclusion.
"The growth of equality demands something more than economic growth, even though it presupposes it. It demands first of all 'a transcendent vision of the person'," he said in the message.
"It also calls for decisions, mechanisms and processes directed to a better distribution of wealth, the creation of sources of employment and an integral promotion of the poor which goes beyond a simple welfare mentality."
Rising income disparity and attendant social unrest were flagged as the biggest threat to the world in the WEF's annual "Global Risks 2014" report last week.
Inequality has been widening since the 1980s but the issue has risen up the agenda since the financial crisis that erupted in 2008.
A new generation of young people coming of age in the 2010s, who lack jobs and hope of social improvement, is fueling pent-up frustration, with a wave of protests from Thailand to Brazil.
The richest 85 people in the world now have as much wealth as the bottom half of the world's population, or some 3.5 billion people, according to a report from the charity Oxfam this week.
Oxfam said there a need for some economic inequality to reward those with talent, skills and ambition but the current extreme situation was "damaging and worrying". (Reporting by Philip Pullella and Ben Hirschler; Editing by Paul Taylor and Andrew Heavens)
Continued at http://www.opednews.com/articles/Narendra-Modi-s-Nakshatras-by-Mike-Ghouse-Anti-christian_Bharatiya-Janata-Party_Business_Congress-131227-999.html
Pope Francis’s address works for Modi, the correct title of his speech is, “Pope Francis Urges Davos Elite At World Economic Forum To Serve Humanity With Wealth” which I modified to the above title.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/21/pope-francis-davos-_n_4638542.html?ref=topbar
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Pope Francis challenged business leaders assembled in Davos on Tuesday to put their wealth at the service of humanity instead of leaving most of the world's population in poverty and insecurity.
In a message to more than 2,500 participants at the annual World Economic Forum, the pontiff urged industrialists and bankers to promote inclusive prosperity, but stopped short of chiding them for excesses laid bare by the global financial crisis.
"I ask you to ensure that humanity is served by wealth and not ruled by it," Pope Francis said in the message read at the opening ceremony by Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Peace and Justice.
The Argentinian pope, who has identified strongly with the poor since his election last year and severely criticized capitalism, acknowledged that business had helped lift millions out of poverty, even if it had led to widespread social exclusion.
"The growth of equality demands something more than economic growth, even though it presupposes it. It demands first of all 'a transcendent vision of the person'," he said in the message.
"It also calls for decisions, mechanisms and processes directed to a better distribution of wealth, the creation of sources of employment and an integral promotion of the poor which goes beyond a simple welfare mentality."
Rising income disparity and attendant social unrest were flagged as the biggest threat to the world in the WEF's annual "Global Risks 2014" report last week.
Inequality has been widening since the 1980s but the issue has risen up the agenda since the financial crisis that erupted in 2008.
A new generation of young people coming of age in the 2010s, who lack jobs and hope of social improvement, is fueling pent-up frustration, with a wave of protests from Thailand to Brazil.
The richest 85 people in the world now have as much wealth as the bottom half of the world's population, or some 3.5 billion people, according to a report from the charity Oxfam this week.
Oxfam said there a need for some economic inequality to reward those with talent, skills and ambition but the current extreme situation was "damaging and worrying". (Reporting by Philip Pullella and Ben Hirschler; Editing by Paul Taylor and Andrew Heavens)
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