... in automotive, airline, aerospace, electrical components, electronics and steel industry control 50 percent of the whole business. • Third world debt amounts to 1.8 trillion dollars. • Only 358 billionaires have a total income of 760 billion dollars which is equivalent to the total income of 2.5 billion people. • 20 percent of the world's richest people receive 82.7 percent of the world's total income ... while the 20 percent poorest receive 1.4 percent of the total world's income.[2] Our current system now wallows in hard contradictions that seem hard to resolve. Many of those wh...

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... five firms in automotive, airline, aerospace, electrical components, electronics and steel industry control 50 percent of the whole business. - Third world debt amounts to 1.8 trillion dollars. - Only 358 billionaires have a total income of 760 billion dollars which is equivalent to the total income of 2.5 billion people. - 20 percent of the world's richest people receive 82.7 percent of the world's total income while ... the 20 percent poorest receive 1.4 percent of the total world's income.[2] Our current system now wallows in hard contradictions that seem hard to resolve. Many of tho...

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Although protestors around the world, particularly in Syria and Egypt, vowed to temporarily forego their demonstrations in honor of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the Syrian government carried out brutal attacks on its people the entire month. The United Nations recently reported the death toll to be at 2,200 people. Like the rest of the world, Turkey was appalled and outraged at the utter violence taking place in Syria. However, Turkey took a special interest because of their recent investments in Syria and stepped in to resolve the current conflicts between the Syrian government and its p...

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... , however, that the USA cannot stay neutral. The army appears from nowhere demonstrating its power to frighten the other countries, then it tries to make profit from others sufferings, and, worst of all, it tries to weaken other nations. The United States is just playing with its power. Every time when the ... America arrives somewhere, it is celebrated all over the world. The government of the United States makes facts look a bit better, or sometimes worse just to prove that the army can control every case. For this, the USA not only uses its army, but its political power too. The army m...

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... ineffective in its peacekeeping tasks on some occasions. This is because of the limitations that the UN faces. It is true that the Un sends its "blue helmet" peacekeeping force to troubled areas. This international force comes from member contries. Consent from the UN members and the countries in the conflict must be given before the peacekeeping force can be sent ... . Sometimes the countries concerned to not welcome the UN's help and so when persmission is finally granted, may lives would have been lost and much destruction caused. The peacekeeping force also cannot side with any ... ...

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... , however, that the USA cannot stay neutral. The army appears from nowhere demonstrating its power to frighten the other countries, then it tries to make profit from others sufferings, and, worst of all, it tries to weaken other nations. The United States is just playing with its power. Every time when the ... America arrives somewhere, it is celebrated all over the world. The government of the United States makes facts look a bit better, or sometimes worse just to prove that the army can control every case. For this, the USA not only uses its army, but its political power too. The army m...

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... right under the United States" (and the rest of the world) nose. Not until recently have nations begun to notice. September 11, 2001, and events following, has opened everybody's eyes to the very real threat of terrorism. The US and other countries have built up tremendous nuclear arsenals, but is it ... attack or war? All decisions about nuclear weapons have been made largely in secrecy with little involvement from the public (Cadlicott 9) Taxpayer money needs to go into strengthening the economy and helping those who are most in need. Disarmament should free up resources and create con...

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... act. On top of this, the U.N has also suggested its concern in saying that, "It would not be in our national interest, however to take action in Korea which would involve substantial risk of general war" (National Security Council, Sept. 1950). The U.N's security council is claiming ... the very moment with America driving the invasion force of the North out of the South that the U.S can contain the North. This containment could lead to a Korea, "We could eventually tolerate for a certain period of time provided this state of affairs were brought about gradually and not too conspicuously...

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... on May 28th, 1945, just twenty days after his proposal of an "Unconditional surrender." On May 8th the president gave a much more precise definition to the phrase unconditional surrender. Our blows will not cease until Japanese military and naval forces lay down their arms in unconditional surrender. Just what does unconditional ... the Japanese people? It means the end of the war. It means the termination of the influence of the military leaders who have brought Japan to the present disaster....Unconditional surrender does not mean the extermination or enslavement of Japanese people. Jap...

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"How successful was the League in the 1920's?" Order of the Leagues objectives: • to improve the living and working conditions of people in all parts of the world • to encourage nations to disarm • to discourage aggression from any nation • to encourage countries to co-operate, especially in business and trade During the 1920's the League of Nations was thought of as a relative success. ... that a treaty through the League might be passed. In 1923, the leagues first attempt at a disarmament treaty was rejected by Britain, acting in their personal interests. The league also tried to ar...

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... Adolf Hitler came into power because of the Enabling Act. The Enabling Act granted the government the right to decree laws for the following four years. The Enabling Act gave the regime free rein to pursue its politics through terror and compulsion. In addition, the Enabling Act also gave the regime full ... power over the government states. Also, the boycott of all the Jewish owned stores helped Hitler in his gain of power. They used these powers to destroy the other political parties. Hitler claimed the German people only needed one party. Hitler violated a few things while he was in p...

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... roughly $22,000USD (Econ.). There are many who say that this is based on averages where all of the money belongs to only a handful, to the super rich; elites such as Bill Gates or Donald Trump. If that were true it would be much more than ... deforestation results from population growth. The typical American enjoys a steady $22,000 annual income, an abundant food supply , health and dental care, a free kindergarten to high school education, a nice home, public and personal transportation, paved roads, all the utilities, a democratic government, capitalistic economical system, as well as...

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... Bob Hartman based on the true life of a young boy in Mali, that illustrates how that happens. The book is about a young boy named Chaga whose parents sell him to a man to go work at a cocoa plantation (or the "chocolate factory") This book touches base on certain circumstances of human trafficking that people often don't realize. Not all children, or anyone for that ... who died from what is probably a mixture of dehydration, malnutrition, and exhaustion, while in captivity. This is another affect of child labor. This may seem like a dark sort of a children's book but I like the author'...

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Antarctic Ozone Hole Reaches Record Size The United Nations" weather organization came out with a report about the hole in the ozone layer. The hole in the ozone layer has now increased to its record size of 10.8 million square miles set only three tears ago. The World Meteorological Organization have also taken measurements over and near ... year than in any previous years and is now the same size as it was in 2000. They also claimed that the hole could also continue to grow to its largest size ever in the span of about two weeks, but it can also suddenly decrease in that same amount of time...

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... whole world may be destroyed because two nations didn't get along. If I could invent something that could just swallow up an atom bomb and make it disappear without any harm to anything on the earth, the whole world would be a better place. I would invent this because, everybody in the world lives in fear. Fear of being blown up every time some ... swallow it up. Thus saving many lives and making it so there is less tension in the world. The United States in particular wouldn't have to worry about infuriating these small terrorist groups that would do anything to destroy our freedoms. T...

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... the name of a notorious prison in the capital which is home for torture and human rights abuse on prisoners. In its recent report, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has placed Ethiopia the third worst country in Africa for journalists. This report came about as the government arrested a group of political bloggers named "Zone 9 bloggers" on charges of terrorism. Recently, many ... award winning journalists have had their freedom confiscated to write and were put behind bars to hush their voices. These arrests show that Ethiopian writers are systematically silenced by ... terro...

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... they World Bank states, " "pockets of poverty" are common in all countries." From Bangladesh to the United States no matter how well-off some may be, there are those who struggle to have enough to eat or to have a roof over their head. The New York Times quoted a 2001 U.S. Census Bureau report indicating that the gap between rich and poor in the United States has continued ... to grow. "The most affluent fifth of the population received half of all household income last ... year . . . The poorest fifth received 3.5 percent." The situation is the same or worse in scores of other countri...

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... for bringing about political change. All terrorists commit violent acts. A freedom fighter is one who seeks political change for their people and use violence only as an agitator. So how can we know we really are the criminals? The Armed Revolucionary Forces of Colombia- Peoples" Army (FARC-EP) is a revolutionary group that came about in the 1940's ... of the Colombian population in obtaining better rights and resources. On the one hand, FARC-EP has done some things that can be considered noteworthy. They have worked to the save social security and benefits for the labour union, teachers,...

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... the Council, it usually first asks the parties to reach agreement by peaceful means. The Council may undertake mediation or set forth principles for a settlement. It may request the Secretary-General to investigate and report on a situation. If fighting breaks out, the Council tries to secure a cease-fire. It may send peace-keeping missions to troubled areas, with the consent of the ... parties involved, to reduce tension and keep opposing forces apart. It may deploy peace-keepers ... the gap between rich and poor countries. The Assembly is now elaborating a blueprint for action to prom...

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... "Farm work is the most dangerous work open to children in this country. U.S. laws should be changed to protect the health, safety and education of all children" said Lois Whitman, Executive Director of the Children's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch. Http://www.hrw.org/press/2000/06/farmwrk0619.htm. The report, "Fingers to the Bone," indicates many injustices that have occurred ... to children under the age of sixteen within the U.S. ... Agriculture Department. "Juvenile farm workers are routinely exposed to dangerous pesticides, suffering rashes, headaches, dizziness, nausea and v...

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... its allies. We need to realize that we are not going to stop terrorist by military force. We cannot hunt down every terrorist in the world. We need to stop terrorist by giving them a reason not to hate us. The State Department's own annual report Patterns of Global Terrorism ... 2001 presented no evidence of any current Iraqi support for active terrorist groups. A United States invasion of Iraq would be a clear violation of international and US law. The US is bound by federal law to ... abide by the UN Charter, and therefore is subject to ... UN Charter forbids "the threat or use of for...

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... since the Internet came out. Hackers can cause many problems through computers, and are dangerous. Hackers do not use violence, but do strike terror to the victims they hit and as in the movie "Hackers" we can see that a hacker can cause deaths, some hackers are not terrorists, depends ... on the hacker. Webster's defines terrorists as someone who uses terror and violence to intimidate. Most hackers do not use violence but do strike terror into their victims. When a hacker changes someone's web site around or infects someone with ... hack into other departments and cause havoc. However...

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... history. There is no reason a person like this should be able to posses a nuclear weapon let alone want to be able to continue to build these weapons. United States intelligence knows that he has the capability to produce these weapons. The Senate Committee Report of 1994 states that private American suppliers had shipped biological materials to Iraq. These materials that were shipped were not weakened and can ... be reproduced. The weapons inspectors had found that materials in Iraq's biological warfare program were identical to the ones that were shipped from the United ... States. F...

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... U.N.'s works are effective like the Rwandan Genocide, the U.N. has had vital success in fulfilling its charter so far and the U.N. seems to be the best organization to solve global issues like peacekeeping, regional equality and fighting AIDS. Firstly, the U.N. can prevent wars and promote the world peace. One significant ... . In many countries around the world, significantly less public resources are used to educate children in the poorest 20 per cent of society than their counterparts in the most affluent 20 per cent, according to a new report issued today by UNICEF. However, the numb...

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... why the war we must fight is one of vigilance. By vigilance, I mean that we must be patient and constantly alert. We cannot afford to fall back asleep when our vulnerability has been spotlighted. America has had a long time of relative peace since the end of the cold war. ... Kelley. There is no doubt that more lives will be lost in this new war. On the other hand, how many lives will be lost if terrorists are allowed to unleash their terror on anyone they feel has wronged them? The terrorists in this attack gave their lives for the ... to be prepared for circumstances like the one fac...

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