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  Third World Politics in America
  Arianna Huffington: a new left voice
  by aldussault / on Oct 21, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “third world”

 

• Lee Kuan Yew: Singapore must not be a Third World country

  
  pressrun.net — Authority: 108
  Lee Kuan Yew is quoted less often since he ceased to be Singapore’s Minister Mentor after the parliamentary elections  in May last year when the opposition won six seats for the first time.  But he can still speak and write with such authority.  I read his letter on ministers’ salaries which appeared in Today ...
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• Restraint & Seclusion "Scream Rooms"... The National Disgrace in Special Education Across America

  
  Blogs — Authority: 146
  So I am left wondering, “What exactly needs to happen to our children with autism before America says enough is enough?” In order to get this bill passed, exactly how many kids need to be traumatized? How many kids need to die? I am pleading for America to wake up and end the civil rights injustices that happen ...
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• Consuming Dirty H2O

  
  4myp - Custom Promotional Calendars — Authority: 138
  Dispelling one or two fables about water contamination “When the well’s dry, we all know the worth of water.” – Benjamin Franklin,. ‘Oh well,’ you are saying. ‘I should’ve brought a water purifier but I did not, so I assume I could just have to drink from this creek. It has run off the rocks ...
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• Hand Powered XO 3 Tablets

  
  Keetsa Mattress Store - Keetsa! Blog - Eco-Friendly and Green News — Authority: 120
  Kids are slowly being exposed to the wonder of technology for learning purposes and thankfully a lot of them carry some eco-friendly initiative too. This has to do with the XO 3 Tablets, hand-powered and solar powered computers developed by OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) for third world countries. The XO 3 tablets come ...
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• Abi Ferrin & The Freedom Project

  
  For Those About To Shop — Authority: 106
  Up-and-coming designer Abi Ferrin built her fashion label around a good cause, instead of adding it on later like many designers. The Freedom Project works to eradicate poverty by rescuing and rehabilitating women from the sex trade. By building her business around The Freedom Project, Abi commissions toggles, ...
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• First World Problems Are Sometimes Third World Successes

  
  FunnyReign.com — Authority: 116
  Sometimes, it’s sad to be aware of first world problems torturing way too many rich people. Let’s just take comfort in the fact that some of those problems are considered great successes in the third world. Context is our friend.
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• World Bank Predicts Slower Growth and Urges Precautions

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 163
  http://www.nytimes.com/ World Bank Predicts Slower Growth and Urges Precautions The bank lowered its growth forecasts for high-income and low-income countries to 2.5 percent in 2012, down from about 2.7 percent in 2011. published date:Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:48:11 GMT
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• World Bank Predicts Slower Growth and Urges Precautions

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 865
  The bank lowered its growth forecasts for high-income and low-income countries to 2.5 percent in 2012, down from about 2.7 percent in 2011.
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• WHY CORRUPTION IN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY MUST BE ROOTED OUT?

  
  InvestmentWatch: Emerging markets, Real Estate, Personal finance, Business management, Politics, Economics — Authority: 148
  By Farid A. Khavari PART ONE Corruption is the worst plague of an economy and a society. Unfortunately, it has infested Miami-Dade County. For this county to prosper, the corruption must be rooted out completely for the good of all her residents, and even for those who benefit from it. The consequences of corruption ...
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• Unborn Artists Raise Funds for Togo

  
  Osocio Weblog — Authority: 488
  This is one of the strangest fundraising campaigns I ever saw. Pregnant Belgium women use their belly to make paintings for SOS Children’s Villages (SOS Kinderdorpen). Infant and child mortality in Togo is very high. As early as the pregnancy, mothers have to fight for their unborn child’s chances of survival. ...
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• MLK day festivities kick off with beating of white grandmother

  
  JAMES EDWARDS — Authority: 493
  - As I’ve said over and over and over again, white people should stay away from Chuck E. Cheese restaurants, as blacks regularly brawl at these places. We’ve all seen the videos, and you’d think that even white people who don’t read my blog would’ve figure it out by now. But they haven’t. So let [...]
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• Eurozone downgrades: Where’s the Third World now?

  
  The Edge — Authority: 104
  The latest downgrade of eurozone countries’ debt should make us ask just who are the world’s economic powerhouses. There are developed nations whose borrowings are now ranked as junk but emerging market countries with debt that is investment grade. Three of the G7 countries have lost their treble-A credit ...
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• Infographic: Success Of The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

  
  WindowsObserver.com — Authority: 471
  Microsoft’s founder and former CEO Bill Gates created the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in the effort in raising money and awareness for charities supported by the foundation. The foundation has given $28 Billion to charity since 2007, which is 48% of his net-worth. The Gates Foundation is focused on real ...
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• Wednesday Link List – Saturday Edition

  
  Thinking Out Loud — Authority: 112
  Weekend List Lynx The link list bucket is overflowing and needs to be emptied a few days early… We’ll start out serious. Here’s a scorecard, so to speak, of how your persecuted brothers and sisters in other parts of the world made out over the holidays.  “Because the persecution of Christians in ...
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• How music can ruin a campaign

  
  Osocio Weblog — Authority: 488
  Not a stunning campaign video, visually speaken. Although the call to action is a little complicated, the visuals are alright. But what a terrible music. Is it stock music or is it made with the cheapest keyboard in town? This isn’t what we used to see and hear from Save the Children. We know they a can do a lot ...
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• Op-Ed Contributor: Empowering Citizen Cartographers

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 865
  
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• Durban Debacle: What the Third World ought to do!

  
  Foreign Affairs Journal — Authority: 118
  The recently concluded UN Conference on Climate Change in Durban failed to produce a consensus. The conference attendees simply agreed to engage in more talks in order to arrive at some kind of legally binding instruments ensuring imposition of emission curbs in all countries by 2020. The fact that it is already too ...
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• Austerity Kills Patients in Greek Hospitals

  
  Keep Talking Greece — Authority: 499
  Austerity translated into ”medical personnel shortage” started to formally kill patients in the Greek public hospitals where conditions resemble more and more those of a Third-World country and human lives are sacrificed on the altar of the economic crisis. The tragic incident occurred in the state hospital in ...
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• Vagabond Tales: Lunch on Guilty Beach, Cambodia

  
  Gadling — Authority: 599
  Filed under: Activism , Stories , Asia , Cambodia Lunch on Guilty Beach was a tough meal to swallow. If you look on a map of Sihanoukville, Cambodia , youll find beaches such as Victory Beach and Independence Beach, but youll find no such place as Guilty Beach. Regardless of what a map might say, unofficially, ...
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• Small guitar, big sound

  
  jambayan — Authority: 79
  As a worship leader, I have specific requirements for an acoustic guitar. One, it must sound great; two, it must play well; and three, it must be a snap to use – no fussy setups or a lot of additional gadgets just to make it sound decent. As a family man who needs to carry a little girl to church, however, I must ...
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