February 2012
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Sometimes, all you want to do is meet a stranger...
Feb 25th
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Feb 23rd
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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.
Feb 12th
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I often wonder what would happen if we all let go...
Feb 12th
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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...
Feb 3rd
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A brief 3-question survey about American foreign... →
politicaldove: I would fully appreciate if everyone could get behind this and take literally two minutes of their time out to fill this in. Thank you. Please only tick one box!
Feb 3rd
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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!
Jan 31st
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“Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t...”
– Muhammad Ali (boxer)
Jan 21st
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“If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in...”
– George Monbiot (via thenonviolentcommunist)
Jan 12th
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There are 22 million women in the world who spend...
Jan 9th
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20% of the world's population live on less than $1...
Jan 8th
It would cost $1 billion to eradicate malaria. The...
Jan 6th
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December 2011
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Dec 30th
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Dec 27th
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Be honorable and respectable. Do the right things...
Dec 27th
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Dec 23rd
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“There are hundreds of languages in the world but a smile speaks them all :)”
Dec 20th
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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. (click title for full...
Dec 19th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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After nearly nine years and $800 billion, Obama... →
Dec 13th
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Dec 11th
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Dec 11th
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Dec 11th
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WatchWatch
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).
Dec 7th
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Dec 5th
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“Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed,...”
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November 2011
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Nov 30th
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Nov 29th
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Nov 28th
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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)
Nov 28th
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“Each day is a gift and not a given right.”
Nov 26th
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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.
Nov 20th
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Nov 20th
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Nov 19th
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“Do not seek confrontation with your enemies, but when it happens, be steadfast.”
Nov 18th
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Nov 17th
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“Cutting a flower does not stop the spring ~”
Nov 16th
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Nov 11th
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Nov 11th
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Nov 8th
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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)
Nov 8th
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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...
Nov 6th
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October 2011
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Oct 26th
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When you see a person who has been given more than...
Oct 21st
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“What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed...”
– Bukhari - Hadith
Oct 21st
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