This week I think much of our attention should be on the amazing events in the Middle East. Simply put poverty and state-level corruption throughout the area have cause sufficient popular anger that it has boiled over in a widespread revolution that has taken EVERYONE by surprise. The fact that the desperation of one single very poor and supposedly insignificant individual triggered this revolution in several nations shows that each and every one of us can have an impact on world events if we are determined enough...though I hope generally through less drastic measures as the self-immolation that started this series of events.
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