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Our purpose is to expose and discuss important global issues. Please join us as we try to understand the atrocities and injustices faced by humans today in this hostile and increasingly impersonal modern world, and learn what we can do to help.

Please post links to your favorite charities or any cause you feel needs more attention right now. "Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little." "You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you."

North-Koreans are starving, they get shot for saying things, that Kims are not ok with. The propaganda makes many of them believe that their nation is the world's strongest, best developed, and no one has such a good ruler. Those who realise the truth try escaping from that place, but most of them get shot trying to cross the well-guarded boarder. What is there that that they can do to live freely?

Have you ever been to Dubai? I have not. But I've heard that it is an incredible city. Built in the middle of an Asian desert, participating in the race for the world's highest building. Pulling in tourists from the whole world. Great city, right? This is one of the two faces. And the second face? That would be not the sight of enormous buildings, but thousands of human faces. Faces from India, Bangladesch, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Faces in which you see; tiredness, resignation, frustration... They are the faces of people, who came here, so that their wives and children could eat. Maybe they hoped for much more than that. A nice rich life like the Europeans have. Now those people work the whole day for 200 dollars per month, they sleep eleven people in one litlle room. The contract was different, but what do their managers care about some contract? If they try to protest, they are being threatend with deportation, or worse. Dubai si often compared to the egyptian phyramids. The mighty, rich pharaons took the common folk to do their dirty work, most of them came back to their homes barely alive. Now the workers in Dubai more or less share their fate.

Friday, 23/Dec/2016: "The United Nations Security Council on Friday passed a resolution condemning Israel's settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The United States abstained on the resolution, allowing it to pass, rather than vetoing it -- as it usually does with resolutions it sees as overly critical of Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu summoned the US ambassador and launched a scathing attack Sunday on the Obama administration...." see the following for the full article:- http://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/26/politics/understanding-unsc-resolution/ Interestingly, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the action of the US in this as 'immoral', even though they merely abstained in the vote. What do people think of the morality of any state settling its own citizens on land taken in conflict? Such activity has been proscribed by international convention & law for some time but in the past, the USA consistently vetoed any attempt to condemn Israel within the UNSC. What hope do dispossessed Palestinians have in ever achieving justice in this matter?

Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre)

I believe that sharing is power and only through sharing can we achieve justice. Justice for me is above all giving our children a better world than we have inherited. We need to destroy the old because it hasnt worked and build a new world. Hope everyone can at least post ONE thought to share that can help build new bricks for our children.