Yes, you saw this project before. But you know how sugar numbs your mind.
Time for refreshment.
Above family: United States: The Revis family of North Carolina (I hope most American families eat more fresh fruits and vegetables and less junk food than this family.)Food expenditure for one week $341.98
Below family: Chad: The Aboubakar family of Breidjing Camp
Food expenditure for one week: 685 CFA Francs or $1.23. No comment.
There’s a lot of smart ass stuff I could or would say now. But I will let you contemplate in silence.
More families here
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Child soldiers in Africa’s longest running war - Northern Uganda. For the past 23 years, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and the Government of Uganda (GoU) have been waging a war that has left nearly two million innocent civilians caught in the middle. The Government of Uganda’s attempt to protect its citizens from this rebel militia has largely failed, resulting in an entire generation of youth that has never known peace.
Turning a crisis for the banks into an opportunity for the world!
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The Robin Hood Tax
A tiny tax on bankers that would give billions to tackle poverty and climate change, here and abroad.This tax on banks – not you or I - has the power to raise hundreds of billions every year. It could give a vital boost to the NHS, our schools, and the fight against child poverty in the UK – as well as tackling poverty and climate change around the world.
Not complicated. Just brilliant.
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“According to the official FBI database, only 6% of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil from 1980 to 2005 can be attributed to Muslims. This compared to 7% for Jews and 42% for Latinos. No, not all terrorists are Muslims.”
President Abdoulaye Wade said Haitians could “return to their origin.”
Senegal’s president says he will offer free land and “repatriation” to people affected by the earthquake in Haiti.
President Abdoulaye Wade said Haitians were sons and daughters of Africa since Haiti was founded by slaves, including some thought to be from Senegal.
“The president is offering voluntary repatriation to any Haitian that wants to return to their origin,” said Mr Wade’s spokesman, Mamadou Bemba Ndiaye.
Tuesday’s earthquake killed tens of thousands and left many more homeless.
Buildings have been reduced to rubble, the distribution of aid is slow, and people have been flooding out of the devastated capital, Port-au-Prince.
“Senegal is ready to offer them parcels of land - even an entire region. It all depends on how many Haitians come,” Mr Bemba Ndiaye said.
“If it’s just a few individuals, then we will likely offer them housing or small pieces of land. If they come en masse we are ready to give them a region.”
The spokesman emphasised that if a region was given, it would be in a fertile part of the country rather than in its parched deserts, the Associated Press news agency reported.
Dirty Water Vending Machine in NY - Have a look at this artistic and amazing UNICEF campaign to make available dirt free water to children around the globe. You can select a bottle of dirty water for only one dollar between malaria, cholera, typhoid, etc. And the point is to raise awareness with people about the problems that are people dealing with. (link)
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“During the Bosnian War many women were raped on all sides. Estimates of the numbers raped range from 20,000 to 50,000. This has been referred to as mass rape, particularly with regard to the coordinated use of rape as a weapon of war. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia declared that systematic rape, and sexual enslavement in time of war was a crime against humanity, second only to the war crime of genocide.
One woman was taken by Serbian soldiers to the outdoor sport stadium in Foca. ‘There she was raped by 28 soldiers before losing consciousness. In addition the soldiers burned her body with cigarettes and cigarette lighters.”
humans.
Jobless, and Living in a Bunk - The New York Times > Business > Slide Show > Slide 6 of 11 (<—- click to see and read more…)
Long-term dwellers like Mr. Nakanishi have special permission from the local authorities to let them register their capsules as their official abode, which makes it easier to land job interviews.
Photo: Ko Sasaki for The New York Times
The Resurgence of the Hazaras - The New York Times > World > Slide Show > Slide 6 of 11 (<—- click to see and read more…)
With a new generation of Hazaras attending school in relative security and motivated by their parents’dispossession, their success could alter the country’s balance of ethnic power.
Photo: Adam Ferguson for The New York Times
Resurrecting Local Militias - The New York Times > World > Slide Show > Slide 2 of 8 (<—- click to see and read more…)
As security deteriorated in Kunduz Province, the governor and intelligence chief enlisted the help of a band of former resistance fighters, called mujahedeen. Using local militias who had fought against Soviet invaders to supplement the foreign and Afghan forces is a key element of the allied strategy for turning around the eight-year-old war.
Photo: Moises Saman for The New York Times
