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  A comment on Talk: Melinda Gates: Let's put birth control back on the agenda

  May 1 2012: Most children die because of hunger and hunger related diseases. Why? Because West stole all their resources and destroyed their land. So solution is don't make more babies instead of let's help them (meaning give them back what we stole)? For thousands of years they lived happily, and after invention of vaccines they are all sick... Hmm, wonder why...

• A comment on Talk: Melinda French Gates: What nonprofits can learn from Coca-Cola

  May 1 2012: Learn to put carcinogenic substances in drinking liquids? Maybe that one...

• A comment on Conversation: What is the most overstated / understated topic from or about your country.

  Dec 9 2011: Serbia:
  Overstated: Everyone is bad and poor in Serbia
  Understated: History
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  A comment on Conversation: If everyone in the world did one altruistic thing or helped one person everyday, that would be over 7 billion good acts done in a day.

  Nov 29 2011: It should be like that that, because it would make a chain of good things, not to say happiness for the moment or longer. I know i always feel better as a human even with helping someone to pick up a pen they dropped, not to mention something bigger. People have walls around them, everyone are taught to be selfish. This is one of the ways to wake up the goodness in people that has been sleeping in for too long.

• A comment on Conversation: Do you believe that the truth will set you free? (Even if telling the truth may hurt another person(s)?

  Nov 29 2011: I think lying about small things is found everywhere. Although i try to be frank with my friends. For example looks; that is one of biggest deals for women :) But I try to smooth it, making it not their fault and not being too serious. Who better to tell you that you don't look your best than your friends? I think truth is best, but always try to wrap is up in some jokes and advices, but always keep in mind with no to appear as you are criticizing and that you above them. Like: you had the same or similar problem and this is how you solved it.
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  A comment on Conversation: What's your favourite lyric from your favourite song from your favourite album by your favourite band?

  Nov 29 2011: There is a Serbian rapper Marchelo, whose lyrics strike really hard. He raps about everything that's going on with this world, about wars, love, friends, life... One of his song that always makes me sad is about war in Bosnia called Suze (Tears). And he made this song with a rapper from Bosnia. And they are of those trying to make people to forget that war and hate. Even though I was 5 during the war, and i was far from it, it has a great power over me. Here is a part on Serbian and English translation:
  
  Svi veliki filozofi-utopisti - hvala,
  Al' mene ne teši ta spika o patriotizmu, dogme i lažne nauke.
  Ja znam da mrtvi plaču, jer srcem čujem jauke!
  Jecaju i kunu... pitaju "zašto?"... "jel bilo vredno?"
  Jel bilo vredno? reci to majci sto je izgubila jedino čedo!
  ...a mi i dalje živimo bedno i u očaju...
  Suze za raju u starom kraju. celom svetu! nek znaju!
  Nek znaju da se ovde pucalo i plakalo iz istog očaja!
  Nek znaju da ni dan danas ne znamo ni razloga ni značaja!
  Rokao sam mikrofon u Tuzli, primili su me kao brata...
  Pa svima je dosta rata! mržnja nije naša, već nam je data!
  O tata, reci zar danas treba da mrzim hrvata ili muslimana?
  
  To all great philosophers - utopists : thank you,
  but that talk about patriotism, dogma and false science doesn't console me.
  I know that dead are crying, because i hear moaning with my heart!
  They moan and curse... ask 'why?'...'was it worth it?'
  Was it worth it? Tell that to the mother that lost her only child!
  ... and we still live in misery and despair,
  Tears for the people in old neighborhood. In the whole world! Let them know!
  Let them know that here was shot and cried for the same despair,
  Let them know that still today we don't know the reason or the meaning,
  I rapped in Tuzla, they accepted me as a brother...
  We are all fed up with war! Hate is not ours, it has been given to us!
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  A comment on Conversation: If you don't achieve your dreams to change the world, would you blame your guardians or yourself?

  Nov 29 2011: I think one shouldn't blame anyone, but take that experience as a lesson. Obstacles are there for us to learn, to find others ways, to train our mind and soul. If something doesn't work, for whatever or whoever, take something from that and move on, try another approach using everything you have learned. And keep trying whole your life, and if, at the end, you don't succeed, there is someone with the same goals that can learn from you, your mistakes and your achievements. There will always be someone trying to make it difficult, but as long as you try and be open minded, i believe dreams will be a reality.

• A comment on Talk: Ben Goldacre: Battling bad science

  Nov 21 2011: All those big pharmaceutical companies withhold these data, all for profit and it can't be changed. No matter how many supervisors we put where, they can all be bought. All we can do, is to try to avoid chemicals as much as we can.

• A reply on Conversation: how can we - humans - achieve a world with no money, poverty, wars over resources, and abundance for all? - the answer may surprise you :)

  Feb 23 2011: Omg, you are actually comparing miners in usa and nepal. did you compare the prices too? do u know how hard is to get medical treatment in usa? for anyone? unless they have 100 000 a year salary? what about firemen who got killed for helping at 9 11? they can't get treatment, it's not government's job. and soldiers who have high suicide rate? and poor education? did u google that from 30 oecd, usa in 25th place in education.ccc....
  and 20 times more is actually barely a minimum wage in usa, plus they get ill from that job and of course no money for medicine. Go be a gold miner or firemen there and see how that works for you, if it's so great.

• A reply on Conversation: how can we - humans - achieve a world with no money, poverty, wars over resources, and abundance for all? - the answer may surprise you :)

  Feb 23 2011: Concerning your last comment : If you don't know about some society it doesn't mean you have to refuse it. Democracy is same as any other -ism and gives you false feeling that you have a choice.
  And my circle is the same as anywhere in the world, no one can escape it. People have to be bad to survive here and that is not a good thing. And don't pretend this is not going on. You are just one of many people that won't admit there is a big elephant in the room and being selfish, looking no one but youself and focusing to get rich while stomping on poor people.