Poverty | -A Hungry Child Can’t Wait-

Guest Blogger: Sarah Lenssen from #Ask5for5 Family photos by Mike Fiechtner Photography Thank you Raise the Risk and nearly 150 other bloggers from around the world for allowing me to share a story with you today, during Social Media Week. A hungry child in East Africa can’t wait. Her hunger consumes her while we decide [...]

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Economy | -Mayor Bloomberg predicts riots in the streets if economy doesn’t create more jobs-

Mayor Bloomberg predicts riots in the streets if economy doesn't create more jobs. The future is looking bleak. Dissatisfaction and desperation may be the fuel that ignites civil dissobediance in the U.S. … Read More via Tribulation 05/15/2011

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Poverty | -The Millennium Development Goals – Heading towards 2015-

In the year 2000, all the world’s countries came together and agreed to make a commitment to ending poverty and improving the well-being of the poor and marginalized around the world. They decided on a set of 8 goals, which they hoped would be achieved over 15 years, by 2015. These goals are: Goal 1: [...]

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Poverty | -How Food is Being Used as a Weapon-

How food is being used as a weapon. naturalnews.com Originally published August 17 2011 How food is being used as a weapon by Anthony Gucciardi (NaturalNews) When people begin to starve, instinctive primal triggers lead to a desire to do absolutely anything for food. Those with food, whether it is the government or a nearby [...]

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Hunger | -Horn of Africa-

My regularly scheduled content will return next post. I am not letting go of the Horn of Africa disaster just yet. I understand money is tight. An easy action any reader can do is to sign this petition asking world leaders to provide full funding to the U.N. to help Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya where [...]

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Stress|-scientists find stress appetite link-

Researchers have uncovered a mechanism by which stress increases food drive in rats. This new discovery, published online in the journal Neuron, could provide important insight into why stress is thought to be one of the underlying contributors to obesity. Normally, the brain produces neurotransmitters (chemicals responsible for how cells communicate in the brain), called [...]

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Africa|-consumed by hunger-

As drought, famine and war ravage the Horn of Africa, nearly 29,000 children aged below five have already died. Even as it battles the worst drought in 60 years, Somalia can barely lick the wounds inflicted by civil strife, which has plagued the beleaguered nation for two decades. Impoverished refugees fleeing the country to aid [...]

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Famine|-it’s a small world, after all.-

I am reminded daily just how small our world can be. Most recently, an earthquake on the other side of the globe could have contaminated the fish I eat for dinner or the California coastal water I swim in. Japanese trading delays affected the lines of iPad impatience outside our local Apple stores—providing a front [...]

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