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https://www.yahoo.com/news/southwest...184017140.html

Blessed are the animals, for they are true innocents. Blessed are those who protect and care for those animals. :clap

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That's awesome thank's for posting. I would have loved to be on that plane.

I thought about making the long drive to help the animals, but I have 9 dogs at my house and 35 at our sanctuary now. Unfortunately that is more than we are supposed to have, at both locations.

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Cousins who live on the outskirts of the Houston area, but came out of it relatively unscathed, have 3 dogs, 1 cow and 1 Bull, several goats, chickens, unknown number of cats, have taken in another dozen or so critters in temporarily. In addition to gutting out the insides of my 92 year old Aunt's house which was flooded during Harvey.

I won't tell about yer overage of critters, if you don't. :)

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Georgia Man Holds Cookout For Florida Evacuees Near Highway: 'It Was Beautiful'

:thumbsup

https://s20.postimg.org/b4zuqf3sd/AAr_Cvf_D.jpg

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Warms the heart amid all this destruction.


A thirsty deer in Florida Keys receives hurricane relief; video | GrindTV.com

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all God's creatures need looking after :clap

if only we could remember that in good weather too :thumbsup

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True.... :thumbsup, and humans are also children of God.. We failed our self.

Man kind choose from the earliest of civilizations, cities, to go with a society set up for gains.. Profits. Ideas became businesses. And a profit driven economy started.

Which works best, if run fairly...........

In stead of communal type sharing, communities where bartering is part of life.

The idea being :no body is above any other.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/06/o...y-poverty.html

why 2017 Was the Best Year in Human History

We all know that the world is going to hell. Given the rising risk of nuclear war with North Korea, the paralysis in Congress, warfare in Yemen and Syria, atrocities in Myanmar and a president who may be going cuckoo, you might think 2017 was the worst year ever.

But you’d be wrong. In fact, 2017 was probably the very best year in the long history of humanity.

A smaller share of the world’s people were hungry, impoverished or illiterate than at any time before. A smaller proportion of children died than ever before. The proportion disfigured by leprosy, blinded by diseases like trachoma or suffering from other ailments also fell.

We need some perspective as we watch the circus in Washington, hands over our mouths in horror. We journalists focus on bad news — we cover planes that crash, not those that take off — but the backdrop of global progress may be the most important development in our lifetime.

Every day, the number of people around the world living in extreme poverty (less than about $2 a day) goes down by 217,000, according to calculations by Max Roser, an Oxford University economist who runs a website called Our World in Data. Every day, 325,000 more people gain access to electricity. And 300,000 more gain access to clean drinking water.

Readers often assume that because I cover war, poverty and human rights abuses, I must be gloomy, an Eeyore with a pen. But I’m actually upbeat, because I’ve witnessed transformational change.
As recently as the 1960s, a majority of humans had always been illiterate and lived in extreme poverty. Now fewer than 15 percent are illiterate, and fewer than 10 percent live in extreme poverty. In another 15 years, illiteracy and extreme poverty will be mostly gone. After thousands of generations, they are pretty much disappearing on our watch.

Just since 1990, the lives of more than 100 million children have been saved by vaccinations, diarrhea treatment, breast-feeding promotion and other simple steps.

Steven Pinker, the Harvard psychology professor, explores the gains in a terrific book due out next month, “Enlightenment Now,” in which he recounts the progress across a broad array of metrics, from health to wars, the environment to happiness, equal rights to quality of life...."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/06/o...y-poverty.html

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I haven't yet checked the numbers given above as that many over all these years. That's a lot of people... Just how many people are living below the poverty level?

https://ourworldindata.org/

Quite a percentage I bet, of the total. Heck India has close to a billion living on the bottom rung of the ladder alone. That is 1/8th of the total in one country.

And of the some 290+ Nations some never heard a thing about. Many are quit
poor except some top brass in the armed services and for sure some entrenched politicians.

aww :hammer auto type.. :gunner Messing with every post now. :(