1 hour ago by Stefan Hippler

A group of mainly doctors from Berlin visited HOPE Cape Town today and it was very good to engage with them in a discussion about the situation here in South Africa and what it means to them in Germany. I hope once again to make it very clear that the HIV problem is not a charity matter but that it ...

HIV, AIDS and HOPE - stefanhippler.wordpress.com · 1 reference

1 hour ago by vedrisha

These days people from all over the world have opportunity to fulfill their life dream and reach their American dream and apply for the green card. I did the same, since I was dreaming for all of my life to come and work in States. It was always represented to me that if you want to work you can com ...

Weird Palace - weirdpalace.com · 2 references

1 hour ago by fiamme_rta

Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets... The strictures and oaths and process of the Order feel like shackles that daily grow heavier. I still believe in their cause, and their worth, but daily find myself less and less fit to push their agenda. Alys' words come back t ...

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2 hours ago by Heber Brown, III

Everyday Justice: The Global Impact Of Our Daily Choices One of the books I’m reading right now is entitled Everyday Justice: The Global Impact of our Daily Choices by Julie Clawson. I’m just a couple chapters in so far, but I already appreciate how Julie brings home the issue of justice and reveals ...

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3 hours ago by James Ridgeway

What’s left of the American pension system is a pit of unexplored corruption. Corporate management has used the pension fund as a piggy bank to make speculative investments, and cover its ass in any number of ways. The pensions themselves are supposed to be guaranteed by a government insurance fund, ...

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3 hours ago by Jesse

Progressive taxation is a good thing, on balance. But it is not unambiguously good and there are other effects that we, as a voting populace, need to consider about the tax code that we advocate, vote for, etc. First, a definition. Progressive taxes are tax rates which rise with income. Note, this i ...

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3 hours ago by editors

Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN BY JUTTA WOLF IDN-InDepthNews Service BERLIN (IDN) – The global civil society organisation Transparency International is unrelenting in the fight against corruption world wide. One of the tools at its disposal is the annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) that p ...

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3 hours ago by Ken Osterkamp

From the USDA Economic Research Service comes a new study: Household Food Security in the United States, 2008. From the tables on pages 20-21 Alaska is ranked roughly in the middle, with 11.6% of households surveyed from 2006 to 2008 reporting low or very low food security, versus 12.2% nationally. ...

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4 hours ago by Rok Spruk

Daron Acemoglu wrote a marvelous article discussing the supportive role of incentives and institutions in global poverty reduction and economic development ( link): “If we know why nations are poor, the resulting question is what can we do to help them. Our ability to impose institutions from the ou ...

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4 hours ago by markarmitage

Leo the Great For the man who loves God it is sufficient to please the one he loves; and there is no greater recompense to be sought than the loving itself; for love is from God by the very fact that God himself is love. The good and chaste soul is so happy to be filled with him that it desires to t ...

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