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  1. The world's first mega-city, comprised of Hong Kong, Shenhzen and Guangzhou, home to about 120 million people. Photograph: Nasa The world's mega-cities are merging to form vast "mega-regions" which may stretch hundreds of kilometres across countries and be home to more than 100 million people, according to a major new UN report. The phenomenon of the so-called "endless city" could be one of the most significant developments - and problems - in the way people live and economies grow in the next 50 years, says UN-Habitat, the agency for human settlements, which identifies the trend of developing mega-regions in its biannual State of World Cities report. The largest of these, says the report - launched today at the World Urban Forum in Rio de Janeiro - is the Hong Kong-Shenhzen-Guangzhou region in China, home to about 120 million people. Other mega-regions have formed in Japan and Brazil and are developing in India, west Africa and elsewhere. The trend helped the world pass a tipping point in the last year, with more than half the world's people now living in cities. The UN said that urbanisation is now "unstoppable". Anna Tibaijuka, outgoing director of UN-Habitat, said: "Just over half the world now lives in cities but by 2050, over 70% of the world will be urban dwellers. By then, only 14% of people in rich countries will live outside cities, and 33% in poor countries." The development of mega-regions is regarded as generally positive, said the report's co-author Eduardo Lopez Moreno: "They [mega-regions], rather than countries, are now driving wealth." "Research shows that the world's largest 40 mega-regions cover only a tiny fraction of the habitable surface of our planet and are home to fewer than 18% of the world's population [but] account for 66% of all economic activity and about 85% of technological and scientific innovation," said Moreno. "The top 25 cities in the world account for more than half of the world's wealth," he added. "And the five largest cities in India and China now account for 50% of those countries' wealth." The migration to cities, while making economic sense, is affecting the rural economy too: "Most of the wealth in rural areas already comes from people in urban areas sending money back," Moreno said. The growth of mega-regions and cities is also leading to unprecedented urban sprawl, new slums, unbalanced development and income inequalities as more and more people move to satellite or dormitory cities. "Cities like Los Angeles grew 45% in numbers between 1975-1990, but tripled their surface area in the same time. This sprawl is now increasingly happening in developing countries as real estate developers promote the image of a 'world-class lifestyle' outside the traditional city," say the authors. Urban sprawl, they say, is the symptom of a divided, dysfunctional city. "It is not only wasteful, it adds to transport costs, increases energy consumption, requires more resources, and causes the loss of prime farmland." "The more unequal that cities become, the higher the risk that economic disparities will result in social and political tension. The likelihood of urban unrest in unequal cities is high. The cities that are prospering the most are generally those that are reducing inequalities," said Moreno. In a sample survey of world cities, the UN found the most unequal were in South Africa. Johannesburg was the least equal in the world, only marginally ahead of East London, Bloemfontein, and Pretoria. Latin American, Asian and African cities were generally more equal, but mainly because they were uniformly poor, with a high level of slums and little sanitation. Some of the most the most egalitarian cities were found to be Dhaka and Chittagong in Bangladesh. The US emerged as one of the most unequal societies with cities like New York, Chicago and Washington less equal than places like Brazzaville in Congo-Brazzaville, Managua in Nicaragua and Davao City in the Phillippines. "The marginalisation and segregation of specific groups [in the US] creates a city within a city. The richest 1% of households now earns more than 72 times the average income of the poorest 20% of the population. In the 'other America', poor black families are clustered in ghettoes lacking access to quality education, secure tenure, lucrative work and political power," says the report.
  2. Leave this music forever and don't poison the mind with this filth. When this sickness spreads in the body it can cause fatal damage and death of the soul. To awaken the soul you must play with fire and see for yourself.
  3. It's not that simple. Maya was created for a reason - to destroy everything to be made again by Brahma. But what happened in India was that Hindus forgot the creator and went to Hari or Siva. There are thousands of temples for them where people worship really Maya. Gurbani says the illness is Tregun Maya and the cure is going back to the creator Akaal. Unless everyone becomes Gurmukh enlightened the Maya will trap people and reincarnate them many times. Only the complete Guru can solve this puzzle.
  4. Is there any point in learning the meanings of gurbani? because the word comes to life and starts to talk to you?
  5. Maybe you are sick, take some medicine. Will you fanatics stop behaving like Muslims and look at reality. Just because she is modeling you throw her out of Sikhism.
  6. Does Darshan Lal wear a Kirpan or a Janeo?
  7. You are right - the Sant Samaj is not the same anymore. Too many bogus sants focusing on the original sant (with most naam kamai). This is a mistake Hindus have been doing for centuries - rotating around sri krishan but not becoming hari roop.
  8. The disease is coming mostly from the Paki ghettos in UK. Their langauge resembles a afro-carribean talking. Maybe they're so bored that they talk to themselves rather than approaching a Sikh.
  9. Hindu nationalism copied from the British. The Brahmin will never accept the Khatri, farmer or untouchable. Groups like RSS don't accept Muslims, Christians and Khalsa Sikhs. The dalits and biharis feel 'safe' in punjab yet go to these imposters (ashutosh) and moan about india being a rat whole - why dont they go to delhi and complain about india being a <banned word filter activated> hole.
  10. Your so filled with caste Funjabi garbage, you can't see right left and center. Most of the White areas outside of Birmingham are BNP voting people. They get drunk and on the way back shout terrible racist abuse.
  11. Stupid thread if the person posting is a Sikh he would know the message was universal by the Sikh Gurus. Muhammad preached nothing new but Arab culture, Arabic mixed with ideas borrowed from Christians and Jews. Guru Hargobind Sahib Ji was not executed by the Mughals. Was the beheading of 900 Jews in Medina also a miracle for Muslims? Muhammad died in 632 A.D. He died as a result of being poisoned following his attack upon and conquest of the Jewish settlement of Khaibar. About 2 month before his attack on Khaibar Muhammad failed in an attempt to go to Mecca. This failure resulted in the Treaty of Hudaybiyya with the Meccans. He returned humiliated in the eyes of the Meccans and in the minds of his people. To lift their defeated spirit, Muhammad told his followers that the events at Hudaybiyya were really a victory. In fact, another convenient "revelation" was given to Muhammad as proof that it really was a victory (Sura 48:1). However, Allah was not able to deliver the Meccan's goods as booty, so Muhammad told his followers that they were going to attack and plunder the weaker Jewish settlement of Khaibar. About 6 weeks later Muhammad led his army and attacked the Jews while they were on their way to work on their date palms. Khaibar was a settlement defended by a number of forts spread apart from each other. One by one Muhammad's army took the forts. Finally, the last few surrendered to him. Muhammad had several of the leaders of the Jewish settlement beheaded, one leader (Kinana) was tortured to reveal where buried treasure was hidden. Then when Kinana was near death, Muhammad commanded that he be beheaded. Many of the women and children were enslaved. Muhammad even took the most beautiful woman for himself and married her (Safiyah). Some of Khaibar's residents made a deal with Muhammad. Instead of enslaving them, which would leave the rich orchards of Khaibar to go untended and unproductive, the Jews would give Muhammad and the Muslims 1/2 of all of what they produced. Muhammad accepted the deal, with the stipulation that they could be expelled at his slightest whim. Years later, Umar expelled the last remaining Jews from Khaibar. Immediately following the conquest of Khaibar, a Jewish woman prepared a dinner for Muhammad and some of his men. Unknown to the Muslims was that she had put a poison into the lamb (some say goat) that was served at dinner. Muhammad ate some of the poisoned lamb and died as a result three years later.
  12. It's simple - in my area Sikhs are checking out Muslims and befriending these sworn enemies. There's a caste based Gurdwara where Sikhs get together and have heated debates about the 'lost youth'. If they have no Jeewan they will make the cat feel shy.
  13. This is something alot of deluded Punjabi Sikh youth say. Guru Gobind Singh Jee said "Raaj Karega Khalsa Akee Rehe Na Koee". Because the Khalsa is the very image of VaheGuru himself nothing can stop it. When the Khanda of Naam will strike we will see people become Amritdharis in lakhs and crores. It only takes one Gurmukh Sant Brahmgiani Khalsa to do alot of Naam Simran and baptise thousands.
  14. The problem is getting worse because Sikh girls want some random patit mona on the street. I have seen Gursikh families openly accepting hair cut people but not alcoholics. What's the difference?
  15. If Hindustan remained united the Musla population could have been controlled better. The former Hindu kingdoms of Indonesia and Malaysia, proves how they can grow from 50% to near to 90%. Also they were quick to support the British Christians in their mission to conquer India. Then this Muslim demand came for Pakistan but many did not go there. In India they have grown from 8% to 14%. Guru Gobind Singh Ji did not trust them when they sweared on the Quran and was against the Pahari Rajas for marrying their daughters to the Turks. Although Allah is mentioned in Gurbani but one needs be warned about the Allah preached in the revelation: "The Jews call 'Uzair a son of God, and the Christians call Christ the son of God. That is but a saying from their mouth; (in this) they but imitate what the unbelievers of old used to say. God's curse be on them; how they are deluded away from the Truth! They take their priests and their anchorites to be their lords in derogation of God, and (they take as their Lord) Christ the son of Mary. Yet they were commanded to worship but One God: there is no god but He. Praise and glory to Him! (Far is He) from having the partners they associate (with Him)" (9:30-31).
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