some blessings, of course, but the real work remains …

thanks for your part.

enjoy, gregory

“By leaving people in poverty, at risk of their lives due to lack of basic living essentials, we have stepped across the boundary of civilization. We have conceded that these people do not matter, are not important. Allowing them to starve to death, freeze to death, die from deprivation, or simply shooting them, is in the end exactly the same thing. Inflicting or allowing poverty on a group of people or an entire country is a formula for disaster.

The greatest initial social and economic risk of the Information Age is in creating two distinctly different classes of people: the technological haves and have-nots. Those who have access to information and information technology have a reasonable expectation to survive and prosper. Those with limited or no access will be left out. This holds true for individuals as well as nations. The key to the future is access to free flow of information. To the extent that the free flow of information is restricted or diminished, people will be left to endure diminished prospects of prosperity and even survival.”

By chance it was in Russia where our poverty reduction efforts began in practical terms and that led to being marked as a threat to national security and no longer welcome to enter their territory. A fate shared with venture capitalist Bill Browder, whose influence gave rise to the Magnitski Act.

We lost a founder just over a year ago. He didn’t take his own life, he was in fact trying to save many others when his own poverty caught up with him.

http://world.maidanua.org/2012/putins-orphans