A Bitter Spitzer Now Claims His 'Rod' Got a Raw Deal

Universal Health Care.

It's yours if you want it.

We did it.
So can you.

Get up and demand it!

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Looks like we killed six Afghan cops. One extremely lucky feline. [Some material in that latter article may be too intense for some readers.] Stone wants to make a Hugo Chavez documentary. Executions and death sentences are on the decline in America. Thanks for helping Obama, Rod.

G-Rod isn't the only one using pay to play. It's the old timers way of doing business. The Attorney General collected the history making 1.5 million to buy the job. A former Senator brought cheap land a year later selling the property near Prairie Parkway. This former Senator made big bucks with the help of G-Rod. It's interesting that the same way of business that G-Rod used was used by the White House for 8 years with no problem. G-Rod was pay to play as Bush/Cheney used the pay to play to get bailout money. G-Rod has criminals friends in both Republican and Democratic Parties he's an equal opportunity crook. Let's hope the people of Illinois look for a candidate who hasn't been around long enough to know the way things are done by the old Law Makers. After reading the history of the former convicted Illinois Govenors all followed the same plan as G-Rod and most of this with ties to older Law Makers are taught the same thing. As some buy their way in office even without experience for the job but money talks. Maybe an honest candidate will use the plan Obama used and go right to the people and leave the big business/rich/kick back donors out of it.

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I just did some research into the state of the world, and our future. Here's what I discovered:

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7i...

[Sorry for the long post, if it's too long the sitemonitor can chop it down...]

Today and yesterday I've been thinking about the state of our world. I did some research. You will need the ability to read between the lines and a good understanding of how these following items are very tightly interconnected to get a real grasp of the issue.

These are the things I've found out, divided into categories:

Population

* Over one billion people (one-sixth of the global population, or one-third of the global urban population) live in shanty towns with poor or no sanitation.
* The human population will exceed 8 billion in 12-15 years, and 11-12 billion by 2050. This population growth will be entirely in developing countries, already suffering from over-population.
*Conversely, developed countries are experiencing rapid population decline. These include: Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Georgia, Armenia, Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, and Italy. Countries rapidly approaching population decline include Greece, Spain, Cuba, Uruguay, Iceland, Denmark, Finland, Austria and Lesotho. Japan is expected to experience rapid population decline by 2014.
* Over half of the world's population is currently under 25 years old. Roughly 27% of the world's population is below 15 years old.
* There are over 10 million people currently incarcerated in prisons around the world. This is the equivalent of the entire population of Greece or the Czech Republic - or Scotland twice.
* The human population currently consumes 25% more natural resources than the earth can produce.
* Once the human population exceeds 9 billion people, it will be using the biological equivalent of two Earths.
* Environmental refugees (water and food shortages) exceed 25 million. Within the next 10 years, this will increase to 60 million, and will move towards Northern Africa, the Mediterranean, and Europe,

Economy

* The world is free-falling into economic collapse. Denmark and Iceland went into official recession in the first quarter of 2008.
* Estonia, Latvia, Ireland and New Zealand in the second quarter.
* In the third quarter: Japan, Sweden, Hong Kong, Singapore, Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain.
* The United States and Britain in the fourth quarter.
* China is expected to announce recession in 2009.
* Over 27 major countries are now considered to be in economic crisis.
* By the end of 2009, global unemployment in developed countries (see above) will exceed 200 million.
* In 2008, the world's financial firms had lost $2.8 trillion in an effort to prevent a worldwide financial catastrophe.
* Globally, taxpayers have paid over $8 trillion to save the banking system.
* The economic situation is not yet considered to be effecting 'the real economy'.

Water

* 70% of all global water is used in agriculture. A further 47% (17% more than is available) will be required by 2020 in order to grow enough crops to maintain current food consumption.
* One in five people has no access to safe drinking water. One in two (half the world's population, or just over 3 billion people) lack safe water sanitation.
* More than 30,000 children under 5 years old die every day from dehydration or starvation.
* In 10 years, the average water supply available for each person globally will be at least a third less than it is now (assuming present distribution).
* By 2025, more than a billion humans will be facing 'absolute water scarcity', ie. no water at all. One-sixth of the world's population will die of dehydration.
* Present distribution of water suggests that approximately half of the world's population will have no access to safe drinking water by 2025.

Pathogens

* HIV is currently pandemic, with infection rates exceeding 25% in Southern and Eastern Africa, and 18-20% in Asia and South-east Asia..
* AIDS death toll in africa is expected to reach 90 million by 2025. Over 30 million people are currently infected, globally.
* Dengue Fever Epidemics in Indonesia, India, Philippines, Pakistan, Cambodia, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Brazil
* Cholera Epidemics in Iraq, India, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Senegal, Angola, Ethiopia, Somalia, Chad, Zimbabwe
* Ebola Epidemics in Uganda, Congo
* Plague in Congo, Madagascar
* Colony Collapse Disorder of the western honeybee, which plays a vital role in pollination. It's extinction and population decimation would severely disrupt the food chain, leading to catastrophic crop failures worldwide.
* Drug resistance in bacterial pathogens has increased dramatically since 1990, specifically: vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) (55%), methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) (31%), third-generation cephalosporin-resistant Escherichia coli (29%), imipenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (32%), and quinolone-resistant P. aeruginosa (89%).
* Between 1983 and 1990, all 92 E.Coli strains tested were easily killed by the antibiotics. In 1993, 28 percent were resistant to all five types of fluoroquinolones.

Food

* Prices of Wheat (up 58%), soybean (up 32%), and maize (up 11%) over the year, globally.
* Food riots have recently taken place in many countries across the world: Mexico, Bolivia, Yemen, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Senegal, Mauritania, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt and Morocco seeing protests and riots in late 2007 and early 2008 over the unavailability of basic food staples.
* An epidemic of stem rust on wheat caused by Ug99 fungus is currently spreading across Africa and into Asia and is causing major concern. Ug99 can bring 100% crop loss. Up to 80% yield losses were recently recorded in Kenya. By 2007, an even more virulent strain had gone across the Red Sea into Yemen. Ug99 had now spread to major wheat-growing areas in Iran. The disease is now expected to spread over China and the Far-East within the next 5 years.
* Between the start of 2006 and 2008, the average world price for rice rose by 217%, wheat by 136%, maize by 125% and soybeans by 107%.
* 60,000 km2 of agricultural land becomes so severely degraded that it loses its productive capacity and becomes wasteland - every year.
* Northern China has almost entirely depleted it's non-renewable aquifer sources, devastating crop production.
* In 33 countries, starvation now poses a major thread to the population.
* Countries with "extremely alarming" levels of hunger include Eritrea, Burundi, Niger, and Sierra Leone, Tajikistan, Bangladesh, India, Cambodia, and Pakistan.
* By 2025, Africa will possess the capacity to feed only 25% of it's entire population. Africa's population in 2025 is expected to exceed 1.5 billion people.

Environment

* 60% of world ecosystem services have been degraded.
* Of 24 evaluated ecosystems, 15 are being damaged.
* About a quarter of the Earth's land surface is now cultivated.
* People now use between 40 percent and 50 percent of all available freshwater running off the land.
* Over a quarter of all global fish stocks have been harvested to extinction.
* Since 1980, about 35 percent of mangroves have been lost.
* 20% of all world coral has been lost, 20% severely degraded.
* Nutrient pollution has led to eutrophication of waters and coastal dead zones. Over 70,000km2 of the coastal ocean areas are now uninhabitable.
* Species extinction rates are now 100-1,000 times above the background rate
* An estimated 75% of the loss in global forests has taken place in the 20th century.

Draw your own conclusions.

Retail sales are the worst in five years. Will Arnie finally do something about global warming? Wall Street is ready for more unemployment news.

Blag's hair has the most amazing characteristics. Its a rug isn't it?

Anyone following this story?
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/1...

They've both gone from backtracking, to saying that they are willing to be talked down from their idealogical position, by the Obama administration.

Personally, I think both sides (the administration and the senators) knew that they weren't going to change the torture laws, and now there's a scramble to say "Well we wanted to, but *they* wouldn't let us."

If the administration bluffs and says "If you send it to us, we won't veto", the senators have to backtrack and not send it. On the other hand, maybe the senators can call their bluff.

Any thoughts?

US budget deficit balloons

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