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Tag Archives: poverty
The Inhuman Condition
Calling 911 will cost you money in this town. “they will be charged $300 if they make a call for help. ” How many people will not call 911 now ? Let’s say you were going down the road and see a wreck. Or a burglary ? Or an assault ? Will you pay to [...]
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China Must Lead
A perceptive article from China, graciously translated by our friends at the European Tribune. The West bears responsibility for the last two hundred years worth of accumulated carbon emissions in the air. But the West can wait, for they will feel less pain from the coming changes, and the developing nations will bear the brunt [...]
Posted in environment, International, Law Also tagged adaptation, climate change, economy, environment, global warming Leave a comment
Elections or Bombs ?
This world is not painted in black and white. Are imperfect elections better than no elections ? Either is better than bombing villagers. “There is nobody, I mean nobody, stepping up to the plate to fund elections without root and branch reform of the electoral system. Our public back home simply won’t accept it,” Money [...]
Hope for the Hopeless
People like these two women reinforce my hopes for society. “The Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP) was founded 30 years ago by Valerie Taylor, a physiotherapist. Sreepur Village, a shelter for abandoned women and children, established by a former British Airways stewardess Pat Kerr, has just celebrated its 20th birthday. ” Of [...]
Sorry ‘Bout That
Kill most everybody, pay off the rest. Worked for a few centuries. Here’s a couple bucks, we cool now, right ? Steal the Land, Kill the people, Go USA
Oil and Blood
The next time you fill up the car, remember who you are paying. “It was another election in which the voters had a gun held to their heads – literally, in the case of one opposition official, who had a pistol applied to his temple to encourage him to sign off on rigged returns.” “The [...]
GlaxoSmithKline Going Opensource? A Good World Citizen?
by WorldCitizen.net The head of drug giant Glaxo SmithKline, Andrew Witty, announced the company plans a couple major policy changes. One change will be to slash prices of drugs to developing countries by 75%. With the remaining profits from these countries, they would help develop the healthcare infrastructure. The other major change will be to [...]
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