February 2012
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Sometimes, all you want to do is meet a stranger...
mikaylashea asked: Your blog is the best I've seen on tumblr. I hope you don't mind reblogs too much because I'm about to spam my dashboard with your posts.
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I often wonder what would happen if we all let go...
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UN Declares End of Somalia Famine - but the crisis...
Nasteho Hassan Mohyadin, 3, and her mother Farhid Ali Mohamed sit outside their small makeshift tent in a camp for those displaced by last year’s famine or by conflict in Mogadishu, Somalia, January 19th 2012.
The United Nations has announced the famine in southern Somalia is officially over, but warns that millions of people are still in crisis. The head of the U.N. Food and Agriculture...
A brief 3-question survey about American foreign... →
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January 2012
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Click here to stop the newest threat to Internet... →
A new global treaty could allow corporations to police what we do on the Internet. Last week we successfully pushed back the US censorship bills — if we act now, we can get the EU Parliament to bury this new threat — add your voice now!
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Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t...
– Muhammad Ali (boxer)
If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in...
– George Monbiot
(via thenonviolentcommunist)
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There are 22 million women in the world who spend...
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20% of the world's population live on less than $1...
It would cost $1 billion to eradicate malaria. The...
December 2011
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Be honorable and respectable. Do the right things...
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There are hundreds of languages in the world but a smile speaks them all :)
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Kim Jong-il, North Korean leader dies aged 69 →
Kim Jong-il, the “dear leader” still venerated by many in North Korea but reviled abroad, has died aged 69, state media announced on Monday morning. The North Korean leader suffered a heart attack on Saturday due to physical and mental over-work, KCNA reported. He was on his train, travelling to offer “field guidance” to workers, when he died.
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After nearly nine years and $800 billion, Obama... →
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A speech made by Princess Haya bint El Hussein to IFAD Governing Council on 19th February 2011, regarding the world hunger crisis. I’d recommend watching it. (It’s in English).
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Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed,...
November 2011
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Stay at home and face starvation. Or, go out to the fields for food and be...
– Fiona Lloyd-Davies, award-winning documentary filmmaker on why eastern DR Congo is the “rape capital of the world.” (via goodneighborsusa)
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Each day is a gift and not a given right.
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We could feed a starving world with all we throw away, but all we serve are...
– When We Stand Together - Nickelback.
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Do not seek confrontation with your enemies, but when it happens, be steadfast.
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Cutting a flower does not stop the spring ~
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Sarkozy: I cannot stand him. He is a liar. Obama: You’re fed up with him but I...
– An exchange between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and President Barack Obama about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The conversation was overheard by reporters at the G20 summit last week. The White House has declined to comment on the exchange. (h/t Mother Jones)
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Eid Mubarak!
As we end another Eid and children run to me for Eid money, I remember those families unable to eat even a grain of rice or drink a drop of water. Every Eid I spend some time in contemplation for all those people around the world who are either hungry, thirsty, homeless or oppressed, and it saddens me much that in all the abundance of everything we have, many of us forget to stop and be thankful...
October 2011
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When you see a person who has been given more than...
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What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed...
– Bukhari - Hadith