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Jolie, Pitt give U.N. agency $1 million

World Jun. 19, 2009 - 04:58AM JST ( 7 )

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cow76Jun. 19, 2009 - 09:55AM JST

So they'll improve their image, get more fans, more people will see their movies and they'll make more than their outlay. If they really cared they would donate a lot more than a paltry mil.
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womanforwomenJun. 19, 2009 - 10:15AM JST

Jolie, Pitt could give anyone anything but no need to let the whole world know. Aiwazovsky a blind artist said that when you give, don't wait to even hear a thank you just move on. Now that is being generous I guess.
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ppayneJun. 19, 2009 - 12:00PM JST

Jolie and Pitt > Cow76.
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HonestDictatorJun. 19, 2009 - 01:07PM JST

blame the media Womanforwomen. Jolie and Pitt are famous celeberties, so the gossipers are going to be following them around like hounds and report everything they think they see just because they can. Jolie has been rather generous well before Pitt joined the game... not that I care much, but Jolie has done a lot more out of consideration for others than us poor lot put together.
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rajakumarJun. 20, 2009 - 08:02AM JST

Another million given out by the 2 of them,they just gave a million to a hospital in USA,a a week ago.

Time for rich people who have more than enough money, to do more charity,I say.

Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, top list via their 35,000 million USD charity aid foundation via gatesfoundation.

The world has been hit by economic scams and subprime scams.

More rich people should help the 100 million more poor people , made poor by the temporary economic woes of 2000s.

All wealth belongs to all god's people and should be shared. The rich should help do this.

Bill gates and warren buffet doing the most in this respect.
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Helter_SkelterJun. 20, 2009 - 12:17PM JST

I commend them for donating money, but to the U.N.? Dumb.
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jhkJun. 20, 2009 - 05:44PM JST

Theoretically, there should be no poverty. 60 Trillion World GDP divided by 6B World Population equals 10k per capita per year. Of course GDP doesn't include ownership of assets like land, buildings, and capital.

Half the world is able to live on less than 10k per capita. Nigeria was ranked the happiest nation in the world.

If everybody donated 10% of their income on poverty, there would be no poverty.

A ten percent reduction in the world's wealthiest, would save at least ten percent of the world's poorest.

Forget about this capitalism, socialism, communism, or for that matter ideology or politics, its a crime against humanity if we don't. And we will pay for it, if we are not already.

Corporations used to be factories that gave us jobs and produced our products. Now they sell us things we actually don't even want or need, fire us, and we have to fight each other to work for them. In the meantime unemployement is about to surpass 10%, and it is estimated that there are 1BN people in poverty around the world. The days of the corporation and shareholders are numbered. They are psychopathic, and their behavior will be modified, if they do not collapse already.

Of course, we can't afford abrupt distruption to our infrastructure, especially in large cities like Tokyo, so the only way to stop the bleeding, is to target the wealthiest, to help the poorest first.

However, we have other major problems to fix as well:

The US (47k per capita), Australia (47k), Canada (40k), Japan (34k), and Western Europe(30k), should donate 10% of GDP to the rest of the world, not 0.14% or 0.7%, it should be at least 10%. We are way too spoiled. Paranoid, Schizophrenic, Psychopathic.

And now we are thinking of messing in the affairs of North Korea (1k), and Iran (4k). No wonder they are creating nuclear arms to defend themselves, because they know that we are crazy.

And if we truly believe in God, as 80% of us supposedly do, then we should be paying this fast before Jesus arrives, or before North Korea and all of the other countries that hate us, declares war on us.

The days of the billionaire are over. There is no such thing as a "good" billionaire, unless they give most of their money away. Ridiculous.

So the world will be watching Obama (the leader of one of the wealthiest, most powerful nations in the world 47k) who has just labelled the people of North Korea (one of the poorest, most isolated countries in the world 1k) "a grave threat".

If we gave them and the rest of the poor nations 10% of our GDP, (which, any individual or company could easily figure out how to do), we would not be having this problem with North Korea, we would not be seeing homelessness, or poverty, or the 95% bad news in the newspapers, and we wouldn't be so selfish, paranoid, schizophrenic, or psychopathic.

We already have enough problems on our hands, why make it more complicated, and why make it worse.