President Barack Obama presenting Maya Angelou with the Presidential Medal of Freedom Source: Wikipedia Alone Lying, thinking Last night How to find my soul a home Where water is not thirsty And bread loaf is not stone I came up with one thing And I don’t believe I’m wrong That nobody, But nobody Can make …

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  Beside the ungathered rice he lay, His sickle in his hand; His breast was bare, his matted hair Was buried in the sand. Again, in the mist and shadow of sleep, He saw his Native Land. Wide through the landscape of his dreams The lordly Niger flowed; Beneath the palm-trees on the plain Once …

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Is water a free and basic human right, or should all the water on the planet belong to major corporations and be treated as a product? Should the poor who cannot afford to pay these said corporations suffer from starvation due to their lack of financial wealth? According to the former CEO and now Chairman …

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  Below is a copy of the email I received from PETA regarding seal-fur imports: Today, PETA is pleased to report that the World Trade Organization (WTO) upheld a ruling that allows the EU to ban seal-fur imports on moral grounds. This decision is a major win for baby seals, who are shot or bludgeoned to death …

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Thirty-five years ago, a female chimpanzee—identified only as “4X0139″—was intentionally infected with the hepatitis B virus by experimenters. She was then infected with HIV, hepatitis C, and other illnesses and has been imprisoned in a laboratory for use in traumatic experiments in the decades since. Recently, in an experiment at the notoriousTexas Biomedical Research Institute, she was injected …

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