Bandar Paling Kotor Di Dunia Penuh Sampah

Setinggan Manshyiat Naser, di pinggir Kaherah, sering dirujuk sebagai "Bandar Sampah" kerana kuantiti  sampah yang dihantar ke sini dari di seluruh ibu kota Mesir.

 Manshyiat Naser adalah tempat yang sebenar, di mana hidup mereka bergantung daripada sampah. rumah-rumah atau pangsapuri  dan semua orang di sini bergantung kepada sampah. Penduduk daripada Manshyiat Naser (dipanggil Zabbaleen) membawa sampah ke bandar,diankut oleh trak, troli, atau apa-apa cara lain yang perlu, dan menyusun apa-apa sisa yang boleh dikitar semula atau berguna.

Setiap jalan dan setiap bangunan di Manshyiat Naser disusun dengan sampah, anda akan melihat lelaki, wanita dan kanak-kanak mencari sesuatu yang boleh dijual. Walaupun ia mungkin kelihatan seperti sistem lapuk pengendalian sampah, Zabbaleen melakukan pekerjaan yang jauh lebih baik daripada mana-mana sistem pengendalian sisa dunia moden. Sekitar 80% daripada sampah dikitar semula dan dijual semula, manakala selebihnya dibakar untuk bahan api.

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Top 10 Negara Yang Memiliki Hutang Paling Tinggi Di Dunia

The nation's debt to GDP ratio exceeds 100%. So what does that mean? It means that all of the goods and services produced in one year still wouldn't be enough to pay off nation's debt. And that's not healthy.

With data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), here are the top 10 industrialized world countries that are drowning in federal debt based on their gross national debt to GDP ratios.

Japan
Debt equals 229.8% of GDP
GDP: $5.879 trillion
Government Debt (Gross): $13.509 trillion

Imagine a country that carries nearly the same amount of debt as America ($13.5 trillion) yet has an economy that produces less than half as much. That's debt-laden Japan.

After a stock market crash and banking crisis that happened nearly 20 years ago, Japan's economy has been mostly stagnant, and tax revenues simply haven't kept pace with government spending.

Criticizing Japan for being too "leisurely" in controlling its debt, the Fitch Ratings agency recently downgraded Japan's credit rating to A+, from the original AA and AA- for long-term foreign and local currency issuer default ratings, respectively.

Though its situation may seem more dire, Japan is actually in better shape than Greece in some respects. Japan's economy (measured in GDP) is on track to grow 4.1% for 2012 -- twice as fast as the U.S. this year -- which may help increase tax revenues and shrink the country's deficit.

In addition, the CIA reports that less than 10% of Japan's federal debt is held by foreign countries and the vast majority is held by Japan's citizens through treasury bonds -- helping to protect the country from the political strife that's found between Greece and its neighboring euro-zone countries.

Greece
Debt equals 160.8% of GDP
GDP: 217.81 billion Euros ($306.48 billion)
Government Debt (Gross): 350.26 billion Euros ($492.83 billion)

Anyone who has been paying attention to the euro-zone crisis is aware of Greece's dire financial situation.

Greece's expensive social entitlement programs (including healthcare and pension systems), the 2008 financial crisis and an economy that has been shrinking for the past four years have resulted in plummeting tax revenues and sky-high government deficits.

Greece's budget deficit peaked in 2009, amounting to a massive 15% of the country's GDP. Since then, Greece's government has taken action, but despite passing politically toxic and unpopular austerity measures -- draconian cuts in the federal budget, for example -- government budget shortfalls amounted to a still elevated 9% of GDP in 2011.

To help them cover those kinds of budget shortfalls and give the country more time to shore up its debt, the IMF and the EU granted Greece a second $169 billion bailout if the country promised more spending cuts and increased taxes. Greece can expect a painfully slow economic recovery -- expect the federal debt here to get worse before it gets much better.

Italy
Debt equals 120.1% of GDP
GDP: 1,580.22 billion Euros ($2.22 trillion)
Government Debt (Gross): 1,897.95 billion Euros ($2.67 trillion)

Italy's sizable economy (the third largest in the European Union) may not have been threatened by a real estate bust like many others, but that hasn't stopped it from racking up serious public debt.

Italy's inability to solve its debt and deficit problems stems from its shrinking economy. To this day, Italy's GDP is still 5% below its 2007 pre-crisis levels, and growth has been virtually stagnant for the past three years -- 0.4% in 2011, 1.3% in 2010 and -5.2% in 2009.

Adding to its long-term challenges, Italy's low fertility rate and strict immigration policies will cause headwinds against future economic growth, meaning its public debt will likely stay around for a while

Portugal
Debt equals 106.8% of GDP
GDP: 171.68 billion Euros ($241.57 billion)
Government Debt (Gross): 183.33 billion Euros ($257.96 billion)

Weak or even negative economic growth in the past three years has kept Portugal from climbing out of its debt hole. Adding to the problem, Portugal's lack of a competitive labor force may keep the country's economy from growing much at all in the future.

While the government is planning to boost exports and improve its citizen's skills to improve economic growth, you can expect Portugal's tax revenues to remain depressed -- and its public debt levels high -- until those improvements actually come to fruition.

Ireland
Debt equals 104.95% of GDP
GDP: 156.44 billion Euros ($220.12 billion)
Government Debt (Gross): 164.184 Euros ($231.02 billion)

Ireland hasn't had much luck in curbing its debt problem in recent years. The 2008 financial crisis brought on a devastating housing market bust (prices plummeted 47%), along with a series of large bank collapses.

Despite making severe cuts in federal spending, the government's obligation to fund its flailing banking sector in 2010 gave Ireland the largest federal budget deficit in the world that year -- amounting to a whopping 32.4% of GDP.

The bailout and the resulting budget deficit was so large, Ireland had to take out a $112 billion loan package from the European Union (EU) and IMF just to avoid defaulting altogether on its sovereign debt.

In 2011, Ireland faced a reduced-but-still-high budget deficit worth 10.1% of its GDP. As the country slowly heals, Ireland's debt continues to be watched closely by the European Union to prevent more complications in the euro-zone debt crisis.

United States
Debt equals 102.9% of GDP 
GDP: $15.094 trillion
Government Debt (Gross): $15.537 trillion

With the federal debt surpassing $15.5 trillion in 2011, the United States government holds the largest absolute amount of public debt in the entire world.

While some big-ticket items have certainly padded the debt load (including $900 billion on war spending and the $787 billion in stimulus spending in recent years, according to the CIA), it's the ongoing spending that\'s the main driver of the national debt.

According to a report by the Congressional Budget Office, the three largest federal program expenditures in the 2011 U.S. federal budget were: Social Security ($725 billion), defense ($700 billion) and Medicare ($480 billion).

In 2011, an astounding $227 billion (1.5% of GDP) in federal spending went toward the public debt\'s interest payments alone.

With an aging population, skyrocketing healthcare costs and dampened tax revenues from slow economic growth, the United States faces some real future challenges in reducing its federal debt and deficit if changes aren't made.

Singapore
Debt equals 100.8% of GDP
GDP: 326.832 billion Singapore dollars ($264.86 billion)
Government Debt (Gross): 331.118 billion Singapore dollars ($268.33 billion)

Singapore may rank seventh on this list, but not for the same reasons as other countries. In fact, it may surprise you that Singapore is actually considered a highly responsible country when it comes to fiscal matters.

Because the federal-debt-to-GDP ratio only takes into account the liabilities of a country and not that country's assets, Singapore is misrepresented as a debtor country.

It works like this: Singapore sells Treasury-bill-like debt securities to its citizens (called Singapore Government Securities or SGS) to raise cash. Instead of using that cash for spending, the government invests the capital in land and other safe investments, which is held in its Central Provident Fund (CPF) -- a pension fund for its citizens.

Singapore's safely held investment assets are more than enough to pay its obligations. This is why the Standard and Poor's (S&P) Rating Services has given Singapore a coveted AAA-credit rating on its ability to repay its long-term government debt.

Iceland
Debt equals 98.2% of GDP
GDP: 1,630.15 billion Icelandic Kronurs ($13.85 billion)
Government Debt (Gross): 1,616.89 billion Icelandic Kronurs ($13.74 billion)

Iceland may already be known for its lush green landscapes, but the country is quickly becoming known for being in the red.

In 2008, Iceland's banks held an enormous amount of foreign assets and loans, totaling more than 10 times the country's GDP.

After an unsustainable amount of bad loans and assets caused three of Iceland's largest banks to collapse, the country was forced to borrow $10 billion (nearly the size of its GDP) in loans from the IMF and other countries to bail out its financial sector, ensure that foreign deposits were guaranteed in the future and stabilize its currency.

Belgium
Debt equals 98.5% of GDP
GDP: 368.98 billion Euros ($519 billion)
Government Debt (Gross): 363.46 billion Euros ($511 billion)

The 2008 financial crisis wasn't cheap for Belgium. Like in the United States, Belgium's government was forced to provide its own expensive financial bailout, injecting capital into three of the country\'s major troubled banks.

Things have been looking up in the country over the past year, however. Unemployment fell from 8.3% to 7.7% in 2011. Also, GDP grew 2.0%, and the federal deficit decreased from 6% in 2009 to 4.2% of GDP in 2011.

Nonetheless, with a debt-to-GDP ratio nearing 100%, many investors believe Belgium may be vulnerable in the short term to growing debt problems in the European Union.

Belgium also faces two other major problems -- an increasingly aging population and rising social program costs -- that will cause headwinds when it comes to chipping away at its national debt.

France
Debt equals 86.3% of GDP
GDP: 1,995.34 billion Euros ($2.81 trillion)
Government Debt (Gross): 1,721.23 billion Euros ($2.42 trillion)

Even if the country is home to the lovely city of Paris, France's debt situation is far from romantic.

A damaging combination of high unemployment (9.1% in 2011), lower than expected economic growth, depressed tax revenues and continuously heavy social spending has led to sharp increases in France's public debt.

According to the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) World Factbook, these factors have caused France's gross-national-debt-to-GDP ratio to skyrocket from 68% in 2008 to 86% in 2011. As economic headwinds persist, don't expect France's debt problems to go away anytime soon. [Source]

Berapa pula hutang Malaysia?

Hutang negara kita ialah 51.77% (2011) dari pendapatan negara kasar. Maksudnya, pendapatan negara pada tahun 2011 ialah RM881 bilion manakala hutang negara pada tahun tersebut ialah RM456 bilion.

Dan agak mengejutkan negara jiran kita, Singapura memiliki hutang yang sangat tinggi! 100.8%!

Paling menarik apabila Lee Kuan Yew pernah menyindir Malaysia tak pandai urus ekonomi dan memuji Anwar kononnya bijak dalam ekonomi. 

Kalau Malaysia tak pandai urus ekonomi, LKY patut salahkan anak dia sebab lagi teruk urus hutang yang sudah lebih 100% dari GDP.

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Sea Monsters Are Eating Somalian Pirates

There have been reports of missing Somali Pirates off the coast of the Horn of Africa. Many news sources over look this story but Somali pirates are disappearing, or to say when they set sail, not all of them return.

Tales of ghastly evil creatures lurking below devour their tiny boats and some use ammo too quickly which then can anger those slimy beasts whatever they are.

Perhaps its a submarine, but more likely a living breathing squid like giant sea serpent monster that lurks in the oceans below.

Even the Somali Pirates are scared of the unknown when large vein like tentacles wraps itself around the person leaning over the edge and his team mates can not kill the bizarre beast!

Underwater submarines won’t even tell the general public whats down at those or any depths of the sea. As long as the crew in the submarine keeps provoking those creature things to come up to the surface, its a perfect Somali Pirate deterrant. Its much an easier way to use the beasts of the sea to attack the enemy instead of using regular man power and search and rescue resources need not wasted.

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Wanita paling kerdil di dunia

Jyoti bersama rakan sekelas

New York: Ketika bulan terakhir kehamilan Ranjana Amge, dia bimbang tidak mampu mendakap bayinya itu selepas doktor menjangkakan ada sesuatu yang tidak kena pada janinnya.

Selepas 20 tahun kemudian Ranjana mempunyai sebab untuk berbangga apabila anak perempuannya itu hidup sihat, gembira dan dikenali di seluruh dunia.


Kata Ranjana, semua kebimbangannya kini menjadi sejarah.

“Apa yang ada adalah kegembiraan dan kami berasa sangat bertuah,” katanya. Dengan ketinggian cuma 63.5 sentimeter dan berat 5.4 kilogram, Jyoti Amge adalah wanita paling kerdil di dunia.


Berasal dari Nagpur, India, Jyoti memasuki kolej dan bercita-cita menjadi pelakon.


Walaupun di kalangan orang kerdil, Jyoti memang lebih kerdil.

Keadaan itu diakui menyukarkan hidupnya pada ketika tertentu.


“Saya susah mencapai barang, tetapi nasib baik saya ada adik-beradik lain untuk membantu,” katanya. Dalam lawatan pertamanya ke New York, Jyoti dibawa melawat Statue of Liberty sebelum menghadiri pelancaran Rekod Dunia Guinness edisi 2014 serta sidang media di puncak Bangunan Empire State.

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Kerusi Terbesar Di Dunia

Ini bukanlah photoshop, ia adalah gambar sebenar kerusi terbesar di dunia 

terletak di Piazza Of Manzano Italy 

sebuah bandar membuat kerusi dimana ianya dicipta...

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Unik ! Escalator Terpanjang di Dunia Berada di Colombia

Hidup di salah satu bandar yang paling berbahaya di dunia, Medellin, Colombia adalah sangat sukar.Walaupun kehidupan dibayangi oleh kemiskinan dan geng mafia, namun ada kemudahan untukpenduduk bandar. 

 Escalator outdoor dengan panjang mencapai 384 meter ini terletak di salah satu daerah termiskin dibandar kedua terbesar di Colombia bernama Medelin, tempat tinggal Pablo Escobar. 

 Escalator terpanjang di dunia  ini membuat kehidupan penduduknya jauh lebih mudah, lebihmenjimatkan masa untuk mendaki bukit dari 32 minit menjadi hanya 6 minit sahaja. Escalatorterpanjang ini selesai dibina pada tahun 2011, sedangkan penutup bahagian atas baru saja dipasang. 

Escalator dibahagikan kepada enam bahagian sehingga orang yang tinggal pada semua bahagianlereng bukit mempunyai akses mudah untuk menggunakan escalator. Diperlukan lebih dari 4 juta Eurountuk membina escalator ini.

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