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TIGblogs are TakingITGlobal's online space for you to reflect on events, talk about your travels, comment on the news, or just chat about your day! Below you can read about what's new at TakingITGlobal in our staff group blog, check out the featured TIGblog, or browse through TIGblog entries from the last 24 hours. Did you miss something important? Check out the most popular entries this week on the right hand side of the page.
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Peter Levine , from Tufts University, mentioned TIG in his latest blog post on youth civic engagement. He asks a really pertinent question:
"I wondered why these other groups couldn't... (read more)
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The Karoo town of Beaufort West has dumped its controversial mayor, Truman Prince, after he was accused him of "hooliganism". Or maybe it hasn't. (read more)
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Canada Helps in Poverty Alleviation Through Trade
The Canadian Government has a program to help 48 of the Least Developed Countries of the World alleviate Poverty through Trade with Canada.
You can get more information on this program by visiting the following link:
http://www.intracen.org/pact/programme/AAGuide_En.pdf
Trade has been recognized as a primary vehicle for Poverty... (read more)
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poverty as a threat on human rights
most people who kill when stiling money or other commodities are ussualy very poor.
they fiil a lot of bitterness as they think why should you be driving a car, live in a good house and yet i have to struglle, because of the bitternes they end up bitting you badly or they kill you as most of them are under the influens of drugs. join the BLOG... (read more)
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Bush’s Iraq chickens come home to roost
Bush’s Iraq chickens come home to roost
By Naomi Wolf
Background The First Brigade of the Third Infantry Division, three to four thousand soldiers, has been deployed in the United States as of October 1. Their stated mission is the form of crowd control they practised in Iraq, subduing "unruly individuals", and the management of a... (read more)
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Animal Rights and Care
Animals should have the right to live their life like we do and to enjoy it without being killed for meat or losing their mum for meat or other purposes. I think i speak out for all the animals in the world, animals were never supposed to be a food source but now they are a way of life for us. It should stop!!! (read more)
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POVERTY-POEM
Day in day out I am always suffering
No permanent place to sleep
Hunger, hunger my stomach complains
The mouth always dry
Bins are the sources of my food
Clothes are tattered and torn
When I cry for help , no one come to my rescue
Everyday I am always shouting
Begging in the city centre streets
Where the riches do their shopping
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A SILENT LOVE
From the very Begining, the girl's family objected strongly on her dating this guy. Saying that it has got to do with family background & that the girl will have to suffer for the rest of her life if she were to be with him.
Due to family's pressure, the couple quarrel very often. Though the girl love the guy deeply, but she always ask him:... (read more)
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Ugh?
I was mulling over issues I consider important for most budding and aspiring young economists, at least for myself.
When is can you call yourself an "economist"? Is it right after you get your esteemed and long-awaited bachelor's diploma in economics? Or after you finish your MA or PhD? Maybe when you land as a faculty member in one of the... (read more)
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Happy Oktoberfest !!
G'Day All --
As you probably know, in Germany Oktoberfest is now celebrated during September, in order to increase the likelihood of favorable weather. So the greeting provided below -- coming to you in October -- is a little late.
Nevertheless, I hope you'll enjoy it. I try to include quite a few "bells and whistles" on... (read more)
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MOTIVATING COMMUNITIES TO ECONOMIC DRIVE
ENDING TO TOTAL UNEMPLOYMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
I am working on an idea which will definitely result in the total end to poverty. This idea is developed from my 3rd objective in an NGO in Ghana – called NEED FOR FULL PEACE of which I am the founder.
I need resource assistance, contacts and networks to make this work and to be heard... (read more)
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Everyone is entitled to their beliefs...
Differences are as old as the saints:
By KARAN MINNIS, Guardian Lifestyles Reporter -
Nassau, Bahamas:
In a country with over 200 churches and 15 denominations it is sometimes hard to understand and appreciate the beliefs of others. As a result, some may find it hard to understand why one church preaches from the Bible while another may... (read more)
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hpt.2
Les hommes ont oublié cette vérité, dit le renard. Mais tu ne dois pas l’oublier. Tu deviens responsable pour toujours de ce que tu as apprivoisé.
(You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.)
TO YOU..
Whoever you are, I fear you are walking the walks of dreams,
I fear these supposed realities are to melt from under... (read more)
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