I highly recommend watching Malala's extended interview with Jon Stewart. In addition to her awe-inspiring courage and wisdom, which is far beyond her age (she is only sixteen), she speaks English...
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I highly recommend watching Malala's extended interview with Jon Stewart. In addition to her awe-inspiring courage and wisdom, which is far beyond her age (she is only sixteen), she speaks English...
Back on topic - here is one person who I think truly deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. Malala Yousafzai, whose amazing courage has triumphed over experiences so harrowing it is hard to imagine.
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Some of what you say is true, but not all. As regards televisions in the 1980's, my apartment and my neighbors' apartments each had two, and it was not so uncommon. There was a TV in the living...
It depends on the area you are talking about in any country, I suppose. I've visited some of the places where I grew up and the biggest changes I noticed were 1) the population increase/number of...
But we would all have to live here in Spokanistan? There would not be any real difference between now and 40 years ago! LOL
It would depend on which of my friends were there :)
Because more than my country, or any specific time, I love my friends.
Monsanto up for Nobel Prize – Disaster! (Video)
Meanwhile, in related news, controversial food giant Monsanto has also been nominated for the Nobel World Food Prize.
This despite growing...
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I completely agree!
Yes. Clearly the conversation becomes so much less civilized when we edit out such profound and intellectual statements as:
"You are a moron"
"You are stupid"
"The person who liked your...
The same could be said for people in the US right now.
Perestroika was actually a very difficult time. The economy was in ruins. But I talked with enough Russians to actually form a very clear picture of what their lives were like in the 70's and 80's....
Tag teaming it, eh? :)
I am familiar with that quote. And having lived in the Soviet Union, I can attest that not everything about it was wrong. It was not paradise, but it was not the evil empire Reagan said it was,...
Being one of those *cough, cough* westerners myself, I rather like Gorbachev. ))
But I would tend to agree that there are a lot of politics involved with who is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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http://rt.com/politics/putin-nobel-peace-prize-587/
Putin’s Syria role deserving of Nobel Peace Prize
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