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- About 1 billion adult human beings are illiterate. (There are only about 7 billion human beings in the world.)
- Daily, about 16,000 children die from starvation.
- Iran -- the nation whose leading export is terrorism -- continues to develop a nuclear weapon, which it insists it will use to destroy Israel.
- North Korea -- the nation whose leading export is nuclear weapons technology -- continues to illicitly sell military material and to launch long-range missiles, in violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions.
- According to figures from 2005, about 1.4 billion people are in poverty and are forced to live on about $1.25 per day.
- The most severe economic contraction since World War II is underway and raging, making some of the above figures worse by the day.
- Shortages in electricity, oil and other energy sources are emerging and becoming more severe. In days to come, this will only grow more serious.
- Cuba holds hundreds of people prisoner for political differences. Some other countries in the world are worse.
I guess truth really is stranger than fiction.
1 comment:
1) I'll give you some credibility in the illiteracy debate when you stop making moronic claims that public schools are over-funded.
2) If you think climate change (drought, etc.) doesn't influence the starvation rate than there really isn't anything I can do for you.
3) I'd love any evidence at all that any Iran's "leading export is terrorism" and that any Iranian official has "insisted" they would use a nuclear weapon to "destroy israel." Editorializing is okay will, but this is just blatantly inflammatory speculation.
4) Sad how North Korea was a member of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty but withdrew in 2003 (The good old Bush years), citing the failure of the United States to fulfill its end of the Agreed Framework. I guess that's what happens when you start referring to them as the Axis of Evil. Dictators tend to respond poorly to that sort of thing.
5) I guess it's a good thing you Republican's love paving the way for US companies to outsource. Since they are so good at paying proper wages. Oh, wait. You guys deregulate so corporations can pay slave wages. But hey, that's a free market!
6) Hmm... I wonder where all of our money and resources are going? http://costofwar.com/
7) So, we're running out of oil? Because we use a lot? Maybe even enough to harm the environment? We could actually invest in other technologies like the stimulus you oppose. Or encourage it through the cap and trade you oppose. But your answer is always Drill Baby Drill.
Brilliant strategy.
Really a game-changer.
8) Wait, you're all broken up about political prisoners? Didn't a large number of republican's just support the military coup in Honduras? So if you just forcibly oust him and threaten his death upon return it's ok, but if you take him prisoner it's a big no? You people are kings of logical consistency.
But you know what, it doesn't really matter that your logic is hypocritical at best, and bullshit at worst. Because you fail to understand the most basic of scientific consensus's concerning climate change and the impact it has. If you did there would be no question as to the importance it plays in the survival of the earth. Or the impact it will have on global poverty and economics. Until you wake up and realize it's not a partisan topic to score political points from your base with, you'll be your own (and probably everyone else's) undoing.
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