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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or to sign up for email alerts.One of the things I wanted to do with this blog was to call attention to things and events that might help change the world, if even just a little bit. I looked at the debut [...]

It is funny how actual news can almost seem unreal. I just did a post on Yahoo!’s caving in and settling over the Chinese dissidents affair, and now I find news that Chiquita Bananas is being sued for even more ghastly allegations. The suit against Chiquita Brands International was field today alleging that the company [...]

Today the U.N.’s climate panel is meeting in Valencia, Spain to devise an emergency action plan to combat global warming. The Nobel Prize winning team of scientists and experts had previously warned governments that time is short if we are to save the world from an ecological disaster. So, this is the unplugged news [...]

Today I read an news article about a fundraiser called Freerice.com, which is an online effort to help the United Nations World Food Programme. The site is the idea of John Breen – a notable fundraiser – and it is the sister site to Poverty.com – another world poverty initiative. The Freerice site has only [...]

Today it is crucial that we turn our eyes toward Finland and a great tragedy that happened there on Wednesday. At Jokela High School in Tuusula, an 18 year old student killed seven classmates and a teacher - only hours after uploading a preemptive video on YouTube.
Five boys, two girls and the school principal were [...]