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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. ~Pearl S. Buck |
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HRF's Inner Department of Peace Project A special ministry, one initiated by John Brown, has been embraced by the ministers and the board -- an Inner Department of Peace Project. It's a friendly reminder to say, "The earth is our home" - all six billion, nine hundred million plus of us humans, and trillions more of all the animals, reptiles, fishes, birds, plants and trees.
Thousands of scientists agree that as global warming continues at its current rate, the polar bears, among other endangered species, will be extinct by the year 2100. Regarding people who have died in wars: In the 20th century, 108 million. In this century, numbers keep growing . In January of 2009, International Press reports suggest the number of Iraqi deaths due to the U.S. invasion is over one million, three hundred thousand; U.S. military is over four thousand, two hundred; close to twenty thousand civilians have died in Afghanistan; and as of this moment, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza is taking hundreds of civilian lives with imminent threats of many more deaths there, around the world, and here in the U.S.
Reported by digitaljournal.com in December, 2008: An estimated 2 million child-slaves in The Congo work from sunrise to sunset to dig coltan by hand. Colton is used in consumer electronics products such as cell phones, DVD players, and computers and is traded on the black market for US $400 a pound... and on and on and on. |
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