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Daily we read of the disasters, crises, wars, hunger, homeless, and more.
There is always hope for a better world. Each of us can contribute. No matter how small the contribution, it makes a difference.
Every living being needs and deserves hope.
There is always hope for a better world. Each of us can contribute. No matter how small the contribution, it makes a difference.
Every living being needs and deserves hope.
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etown : e-chievement awards : recent winnersAiring the week of 11/25/09 #0948 Annie Wignall, The Care Bags Foundation: Annie founded the nonprofit Care Bags Foundation in 2000 as an 11-year old. She and hundreds of volunteers gather donated age-appropriate personal care products, books, and toys, package them in lovingly handmade cloth ...
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Purdue Newsroom — New theory on fairness in economics targets CEO payChief executives in 35 of the top Fortune 500 companies were overpaid by about 129 times their "ideal salaries" in 2008, according to a new type of theoretical analysis proposed by a Purdue University researcher to determine fair CEO compensation. "One of the most pressing economic and ...
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Katrina negligence ruling could cost feds - Crime & courts- msnbc.comThe federal government could be vulnerable to billions of dollars in claims after a judge ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in Hurricane Katrina. U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval on Wednesday awarded seven ...
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Climate Change About National Security, Not Just Hugging Trees -- Sphere News, Opinion and AnalysisThe United States is in "a defensive crouch" on climate change that threatens its national security and must go on the offense by signing an agreement to combat global warming at an international conference in Copenhagen next month, reporters were told here. "Climate change would act as a ...
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What Does True Eternal Equity Look Like and How Much Is A Human Life Worth?"One sixth of the world’s population lives on a dollar a day. Another sixth lives on two dollars a day. The global middle class lives on $3,000 to $5,000 per year. What would it feel like to be a person who lives on a dollar a day – or three thousand dollars a year?
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1Purdue Newsroom — New theory on fairness in economics targets CEO payFat chance on any "rational" theory guiding - or rather restraining - the sociopathic personal and corporate greed that has developed. That would take something like real application of anti-trust and anti-corruption laws, to the tune of breaking up many of the Fortune 500 and sending most of ...JDP added 3 days ago
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1Katrina negligence ruling could cost feds - Crime & courts- msnbc.comOf course, "on appeal" may shunt the case up to the more "conservative" courts (including the "supreme" one), where there is a history of overturning any "niggling" judgments for reimbursing "we the people" for BOTH corporate and governmental negligence.JDP added 3 days ago
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1Climate Change About National Security, Not Just Hugging Trees -- Sphere News, Opinion and AnalysisDUH! Mainly Repbulicans (but also many Democrats) serving their corporate energy company masters have for years "buried their heads in the sand" about this. If we had reduced or eliminated our dependence on foreign oil as Jimmy Carter urged and attempted to implement (torpedoed by the Saudi's ...JDP added 9 days ago
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1Senators debate requiring sick leave for flu - Yahoo! NewsNah - make all those sickee's go to work and infect everyone else. How dare the government try and look after public health at the expense of employers.JDP added 12 days ago
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1US Senate Democrats push through climate bill - Yahoo! NewsThe party of "NO" (I love my oil and coal company sugar daddies) will continue to delay until we are all roasting and breathing tar.JDP added 2 weeks ago
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