Situation In Pakistan Exceedingly Dangerous

The very dangerous situation in Pakistan grows worse by the day. There are currently nine nations with nuclear weapons, but this one is on the verge of collapse... anything can happen.

Working in the journalism field has become one of the most dangerous of occupations. Many journalists put their life on the line every day when reporting stories that those powerful do not want known... CPJ - Reported Deaths

In Iran alone, according to the international media group Reporters Without Borders, between 2009-2010 at least 170 journalists and bloggers were arrested in Iran with sentences totaling more than 135 years. The group has ranked Iran alongside China as the worlds biggest prison for journalists. Other Iranian writers and journalists living in exile have received death threats from intelligence agencies. The government has even sentenced those who have sent text messages to their friends.

In Pakistan, Asia Times Pakistan Bureau Chief and The Real News Network contributor Syed Saleem Shahzad was found murdered in Islamabad on Tuesday. Shahzad just recently reporting on splits in the Pakistan military over support for al Qaeda. This last report from just a few days ago in all probability was the reason for his murder. 

Despite the prevention of free press by governments, journalists throughout the world are still striving to report objective news. But it is becoming exceedingly more difficult and dangerous for them, and the use of traditional media has resultingly begun to take a back seat to alternative methods of journalism such as blogging. 

This is an important and huge loss for the world, as voices like Shahzad's are increasingly and desperately needed in the world today, and every time one is silenced, the world takes another  step closer towards darkness.

-Follow up TRNN report on Shahazd's murder.

Splits in Pakistan's Military Over New Agreement to Cooperate with US

New 3-D Map of the Universe

Currently the most exact map of our universe up to a distance of 380 million light-years away from Earth. At Space.com, the map shows all visible structures out to about 380 million light-years, which includes about 45,000 of our neighboring galaxies.
The diameter of the observable universe is at least 93 billion light years or 8.80×1026.  The diameter of the Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years across.

The universe is commonly defined as the totality of everything that exists, including all physical matter and energy, the planets, stars, galaxies, and the contents of intergalactic space.
According to general relativity, space can expand faster than the speed of light, although we can view only a small portion of the universe due to the limitation imposed by light speed. Since we cannot observe space beyond the limitations of light (or any electromagnetic radiation), it is uncertain whether the size of the universe is finite or infinite.

The 3-D map, constructed with the help of U.S. and Chilean telescopes, 

represents 10 years of research by the scientists.

click to enlarge

There are more than 170 billion (1.7 × 10¹¹) galaxies in the observable universe. Most galaxies are 1,000 to 100,000 parsecs (a parsec is 3.26 light years) in diameter and are usually separated by distances on the order of millions of parsecs (or megaparsecs).
Although it is not yet well understood, dark matter appears to account for around 90% of the mass of most galaxies.

Typical galaxies range from dwarfs with as few as ten million (10⁷) stars, up to giants with a hundred trillion (10¹⁴) stars, all orbiting the galaxy's center of mass. Galaxies may contain many star systems, star clusters, and various interstellar clouds.
The Sun is one of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy; the Solar System includes the Earth and all the other objects that orbit the Sun.

Puts it in perspective doesn't it... kinda lets us know how really inconsequential in the scheme of things we are.



New 3-D map of the universe revealed | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Year Five...

"The largest corporations and richest citizens long ago learned if you want to sustain an extremely unequal distribution of wealth and income, you need an equally unequal distribution of political power. Those corporations use their profits to pay huge salaries and bonuses to executives, to pay big dividends to major shareholders, and to “contribute” to politics. The corporations, top executives, and the major shareholders whom they enrich all regularly finance the political campaigns and politicians who perform that sustaining function. An increasingly unequal capitalist economy pays for the increasingly undemocratic politics it needs.

Any serious effort to change the basic situation, functions and direction of government policy must change the answer our society now gives to this basic question: who gets and disposes of the profits of producing goods and services in the US economy?
So long as the answer remains corporations’ boards of directors and major shareholders (the status quo), current trends will continue until bigger economic collapses bring the system to self-destruction. Then we will have graduated from a crisis with banks “too big to fail” to a crisis that is itself “too big to overcome.”

Does our economic system, capitalism, serve our needs sufficiently; does it need basic changes; or might a change to another economic system be best? Instead of a debate over alternative answers to such questions, we permitted little beyond self-congratulatory cheer-leading for capitalism. Seriously questioning capitalism (let alone challenging it) remain taboo, an activity to keep repressed. That repression encourages an unquestioned and unchecked US capitalism to become ever more unequal, delivering more “bads” than “goods” to ever larger majorities of people.
This unsustainable situation is being strained toward the breaking point by the crisis that now enters Year Five."


The Crisis Enters Year Five

99ers and Long-term Unemployed... Elephants in the Economic Recovery Room

Irrespective of what we presently hear from mainstream media and most politicians... we really don't turn the corner until meaningful reductions take place in the ranks of the long term unemployed.

• Only 66.8% of American men had a job last year.  That was the lowest level that has ever been recorded in all of U.S. history.

• According to the Wall Street Journal, there are 5.5 million Americans that are currently unemployed and yet are not receiving unemployment benefits.

• The number of "low income jobs" in the U.S. has risen steadily over the past 30 years and they now account for 41 percent of all jobs in the United States.

• According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, an average of about 5 million Americans were being hired every single month during 2006.  Today, an average of about 3.5 million Americans are being hired every single month.

• When 2007 began, there were about 26 million Americans on food stamps.  Today, there are over 44 million on food stamps, and one out of every four American children is on food stamps.

• 59 percent of all Americans now receive money from the federal government in one form or another.

I just recently came across 'The Layoff List' blog-site. Started to highlight the employment picture and to list layoff announcements, but evolved to include personal stories of the unemployed, government employment data and economic commentary.

It's designed to be informative about the plight of the unemployed, especially the long-term unemployed... and for 2.5 years it has been dedicated to those who have suffered the most during this Great Recession.

You can subscribe and receive updates, and all support will help it continue its work for the jobless and disadvantaged.

99ers and the Long-term Unemployed - Elephants in the Economic Recovery Room

Reality Show Sponsored by Wall Street - GS Lies to Customers & Congress

There are three videos posted here. What they present reflects a very daunting challenge for our country and the world.

Take the time to watch them, altogether less than an hour in length.

- Reality Show Sponsored by Wall Street

 

- Roundtable on Sustainable Development

 

- The World As It Is

We have in this country the ability to get back on the right track, but do we have the popular will & support essential to do so.

Maybe it will happen as more people respond and take to the streets, but we now live with a different opposition than in times past, and there are many more formidable obstacles to overcome.

All we must know is that it will not happen until a much larger percentage of the population awakens and begins to realize what is truly happening... and what will be needed to enact meaningful change.



Reality Show Sponsored by Wall Street - GS Lies to Customers & Congress

DU Deformed Babies in Fallujah

"2 1/2 million pounds of depleted uranium weaponry was used to bomb Fallujah, causing beyond alarming numbers of deformed babies, miscarriages, and cancer, in a place where there are scant medical supplies and no new hospitals since 1986. Some U.S. soldiers who served in Fallujah also reported having deformed infants...  AN UNDER-REPORTED TERRIBLE CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY."

How is it possible any government can ignore, rationalize, and justify this... 
... dropping 'WMM's"** on innocent people... uranium dust which emits alpha radiation and has a half life of over four billion years!
Especially one claiming moral high ground, and extolling democratic superiority... 

... once again... it's ALL ABOUT THE MONEY...  "...price of DU increased 10-fold, creating a huge multi-billion dollar industry."

The US is the largest single user of depleted uranium (DU) weaponry... and it is also the largest seller and exporter of DU weapon technology in the world.

And it begins once again... in the name of 'protecting civilians' in Libya. 

How are civilians being 'protected' by dusting them with DU? 


How can we continue to accept this being done to any population, by the government's declaration it is someway justifiable.. 
...and exculpating those in charge, who so readily acquiesce to these extreme injustices, possibly by believing them somehow reformable?

...  we must honestly ask ourselves... 

...how would we feel about America, if this were our country...

**WMM - Weapons of Mass Mutilation... depleted uranium (DU*), and white phosphorous munitions.

* The DU name is conveniently misleading. According to the military, DU is a “mild health risk” outside of the human body... this is what soldiers and pilots are told. What is generally ignored, however, is what happens when the dust enters the body. By drinking, eating or breathing it in, DU radiation severely damages bone marrow and cellular chromosomes by internally emitting sub-atomic “bullets” known as alpha particles. This causes lung, lymph and brain cancers as well as mutagenic effects such as unusually high rates of leukemia and fetal radiation damage that cause grotesque birth defects. Uranium contamination also permanently impairs kidney, heart and liver function.

Deformed babies in Fallujah Iraq - Fighting for Liberty

Fukushima's Apocalyptic Threat

After two months of all-out effort, four reactors and at least that many spent fuel pools remain at risk. Levels of radiation in Tokyo, nearly 200 miles away, have risen... fallout has been detected in North America and throughout Europe.

Radiation continues pouring into the sea and is spreading worldwide.
Yet the Obama Administration has announced it will NOT be radiation monitoring of seafood in the Pacific... and is not providing reliable, systematic radiological or medical data on fallout coming to the United States.

We may all be in unprecedented danger.
But true to corporate loyalties, our media blackout is virtually complete... out of sight, out of mind appears to be the strategy for an industry desperate for federal loan guarantees and continued operation of a rickety fleet of decaying old reactors. Critical valve failures that contributed to the Fukushima disaster are likely at numerous US reactors.

For a brief but terrifying overview, consult Dr. Chris Busby as interviewed by RT/TV.

Our survival depends on stopping Fukushima from further irradiating us all.
ALL the world's governments must now go beyond denial, to focus on somehow bringing Fukushima under control.
With all needed resources, it's time for the world's best scientists and engineers to take charge...

... even then the outcome is most disturbingly unclear.

Fukushima's Apocalyptic Threat Demands Immediate Global Action | Common Dreams

Extreme Inequality A Clear And Present Danger To Middle Class And Country

America and the World's biggest cancer... and getting worse.

We're Not Broke, Just Twisted: Extreme Wealth Inequality 

Inequality In America Is Worse Than In Egypt, Tunisia Or Yemen

Egyptian, Tunisian and Yemeni protesters all say that inequality is one of the main reasons they're protesting.
However, the U.S. actually has much greater inequality than in any of those countries.
Specifically, the "Gini Coefficient" - the figure economists use to measure inequality - is higher in the U.S.

'Americans vastly underestimate the degree of wealth inequality 
in America, and believe distribution should be 
far more equitable than it actually is.'


inequality.org
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Political Truths: America’s Extreme Inequality A Clear And Present Danger To Middle Class And Country

Double-Digit Trillions and Counting

 A PBS Frontline special from 2009.. still worth watching.

Ten Trillion two years ago... now over 14 Trillion...

...(just shy of the entire US GDP!!... $130k per taxpayer!!)

A program that everyone needs to see if the search for solutions is ever going to get beyond simplistic, accusatory catchphrases at times passing for economic policy debate in government.

Yea, Obama inherited lots of it... the federal government had already been borrowing huge numbers, and now, as the only entity big enough to revive the gasping economy, it has had to borrow much more.
The “starve the beast” economic philosophy, keep taxes low so government spending will automatically be kept low for lack of money, was a disaster, and ran off the rails.
And Bush took things an unprecedented step further by cutting taxes while simultaneously going to war...
... borrowing money from China while giving tax cuts to the most well-off people in the country... leaving the kids & gk's an outrageous bill for a war he and his cabal chose to fight.

The program just starts to scratch the surface on how we now have Obama following along this exact same path (led by most of the same group a guys got us there to begin with), and adding to the numbers... big time.

We have lived way beyond our means and we’re going to have to pay for it by spending much less on benefits, and we're going to have to collect more taxes.
A hard message to sell when unemployment is low and everybody’s feeling good... it’s impossible when people are frightened they’re going to lose their houses, their jobs, and their kids are going to be out of work.

And while we're still debating... the...

'Debt Clock' Keeps Ticking

(check out these staggering numbers)

“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. 
No longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and vote of majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.” 
– President Woodrow Wilson


Netflix: Frontline: Ten Trillion and Counting

Preparing for Economic Turmoil...

... same laws... but still it happened... laws are written by men, not some greater power... existing laws are simply rewritten, or ignored altogether....
... you still have to survive.... every single person wishes they could go back in time...
...you can’t guess the future, all you can do is estimate what can happen and play the odds in your favor...
... our belief is that it cannot happen... really, it's just a wish that it doesn't...

After many years of apathy in Argentina, the insurrection exploded... spontaneous revolt of “faceless” people... all the way to the city’s vital centers.

What happened to Argentina? ... how was it possible that in so rich a country so many people were hungry? 

The country had been ransacked by a new form of aggression, committed in time of peace and in a democracy. A daily and silent violence caused greater social disruption, more emigration and death than the terrorism of the dictatorship and the Falklands War.

Ever since independence, 200 years ago, Argentina’s foreign debt has been a source of impoverishment and corruption, and the biggest scandals. Since the first loan negotiated in 1824 with the British Bank Baring Brothers, the debt was used to enrich Argentinean financiers, to control the finances and empty the country of its wealth.

This foreign debt always went hand in hand with big business, and with the complicity of nearly every government. The unending policy of indebtedness gave rise to generations of technocrats and bureaucrats, who favored banks and international corporations over their own country. Educated at Harvard, Chicago, Oxford, or other elite schools, their portraits hang in the official galleries of all government buildings.... 

... sound familiar?        ... but no way it can happen here... can it?

Argentina's Economic Collapse (Full Version)

Documentary on the events that led to the economic collapse of Argentina in 2001 which wiped out the middle class and raised the level of poverty to 57.5%. Central to the collapse was the implementation of neo-liberal policies which enabled the swindle of billions of dollars by foreign banks and corporations. The dollar was on par with the Argentine Peso... it was the Argentine equivalent of the roaring twenties...then chaos broke out as overnight the money left the country and the banks took the peoples money. The streets exploded and the government went through a succession of presidents in a few days. The film amazing as it shows just how easy it is for a country to go down the tubes by letting politicians worry about their interests more than those of the people. Many of Argentina's assets and resources were shamefully plundered. Its financial system was even used for money laundering by Citibank, Credit Suisse, and JP Morgan. The net result was massive wealth transfers and the impoverishment of society which culminated in many deaths due to oppression and malnutrition.   If you want to help prevent the same thing from possibly happening here, and it is starting to happen, right now,... join the revolution at the Kick Them All Out Project.

(side note - check out precious metal prices - less than 1% of the population owns any... 

...what happens when the REAL crisis arrives)

Preparing for Economic Collapse | The Matrix Sentry

The Face of Special Interest Money.

An important eight part video series exposes the Koch Brothers’ control over your job, your life, and your well-being.
You can be listed as a Producer for the Koch Brothers Exposed video series.

This project involved 4 months of hard work and MUST get finished and out to the world to educate the public.
It’s $40 billion of Koch money vs us!

Donate to become a Producer on this project.


What do Walmart, FOX News, and Koch Brothers have in common?

Government Should Not Have To....

 .... 'Continue To Take Care Of Us When We Repeatedly Insist On Doing Dumb Things.'

An issue we are going to have to soon address... in our new climate changed world we are going to have more and increasing dramatic weather related events.
How are we going to keep paying for them?
As storms increase in intensity and frequency, more and more individuals are going to be affected... in some areas, over and over again.

Like it or not, the endless pot of money is just not there to provide for each and every time disaster is going to strike... at some point the system has to reflect this fact, and it will keep breaking down until it does.
People are going to have to realize they will have to leave some of these more susceptible areas in order to survive. In many instances government didn't do its job... letting them be there in the first place.

Like it or not, the new reality will have to set in... otherwise the situation only becomes that much worse and completely unwieldy.
It will become an ever increasing conflicting issue, as costs continue escalating... eventually spiraling totally out of control.

ThinkProgress » Ron Paul: ‘Why Not?’ Abolish FEMA, Government Should Not ‘Take Care Of Us When We Do Dumb Things’

The Audacity of Genetically Modified Foods.

... consumers are largely unaware that 70 to 80 % of the processed foods we buy contain GM-Genetically Modified ingredients.

... we are 'largely unaware' because these foods are not labeled they contain GM ingredients.. even through 90% of consumers continuously state they want them so labeled.

... regulatory bodies and government are staffed with pro-GM people, a veritable revolving door from government to industry... a very serious issue that must be confronted and resolved.

... there are by design minimal requirements for independent testing of GM crops and foods.

... there is significant correlation between the increase in incidence of serious health problems and the introduction of various GM crops into our foods.

... more drastic are the cases of animals dying following their consumption of GM crops... not only lab test animals but farm animals.

... Monsanto and the biotech industry are well on their way to controlling the world`s seed markets.

... favorite fruits, vegetables and grains are being readied for the GM market that views us as guinea pigs.

This is an extremely serious issue... the real discussion should be about the audacity and illegitimate way GM crops have been forced on a reluctant United States and world.. and the money, corruption, politics and obfuscation characterizing its' rise to dominance.

The discussion should focus on how GM crops have taken over our food supply with little concern for safety or our right to choose, and our government's direct hand and continued complicity in support of corporate interests.

There are several truly important films dealing with this subject that you should watch...
...'The Future of Food'... 'Food Inc.'... 'The Future of Food.'  Additional information regarding them can be found under the heading 'FilmsYouShouldSee' on the blog's Home bar.


The audacity of genetically modified foods - Boulder Daily Camera

Sunspot Cycle 2012 Predictions

The Sun is more active currently than at any time in the past 11,000 years.

Potent enough CME's (Corona Mass Ejections) can knock out grids, satellites, microchip circuitry, as well as thousands of pole transformers... all in a single blow. And once this equipment fails, most of it will require more than an overnight service call to fix.

For a significant event, the radiation will send electrical current downward in an arc and triggered a cascading failure of power grids across the world.
An ejection can pack the wallop of a billion hydrogen bombs. In 1989, a small one struck Quebec, Canada, causing a 9-hour electricity blackout for six million customers.

A NASA-funded study published in 2009 went so far as to suggest electric power and communications to tens of millions of people in the industrialized world could disappear for months.
With communications satellites disabled and the power grid inoperative, everything from the water supply to public transit would go out of service. Gasoline could no longer be pumped from underground tanks, stoplights would fail, consumers couldn't buy groceries, hospitals would become inaccessible and law enforcement personnel would have no way to communicate with each other.

In February 2010, NASA launched the Solar Dynamics Observatory, to join the army of space probes monitoring the situation. But like the others, this one can do nothing to thwart the impact of a CME, only watch. 

The Previous Doomsday of 12,950 BC: what was it like?

Recent data shows that dramatic and potentially deadly effects can result from solar flares and coronal mass ejections. Substantial data suggests that an event, similar to the one anticipated in the 2012 'doomsday' scenario, occurred about 14,950 years ago and was recorded by ancient humans.
This event appears to have lasted for several years in duration and was responsible for the abrupt end of the last ice age.

The extreme solar event corresponded to powerful radiation coming from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy and was associated with gamma rays and cosmic dust. Recent observations have shown a dramatic increase in gamma ray energy in the Galaxy's equator which will be in maximum alignment with our solar system on December 12, 2012.
The past records in ice cores (strata from 13,880 to 13,785 BCE) suggest that intense radiation from this last event could have lasted many years.
It seems highly likely this alignment will cause another extreme solar event, since other factors precipitating a 'solar maximum' also converge on this exact same date...
...we have up until that time to prepare.

Sunspot Cycle 2012 Predictions: Effects on the Power Grid and beyond - Solar flares, Corona Mass Ejections and NASA

Close the 'School of the Americas'

Ask yourself a couple of questions... one...what, if anything, do you know about the 'School of the Americas'? You might not realize it, but it is having a dramatic and profound effect on all our lives, and those of  millions of others in various regions all over the world.

The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC or WHINSEC), formerly the School of the Americas (SOA; Spanish: Escuela de las Américas) is a United States Department of Defense facility at Fort Benning near Columbus, Georgia in the United States.

All in Latin America have ample experience with US terrorist tactics. In South America alone 90,000 people disappeared as a direct result of the operation of the School of the Americas and US "counterinsurgency" policies  (30 times more than the victims of the World Trade Center).
It is estimated that the 64,000 Latin American troops trained at SOA since the 1960's have been involved in around 75,000 murders in El Salvador, 200,000 in Guatemala, and thousands more in other violence-torn countries such as Columbia. 

According to the Center for International Policy, "The School of the Americas had been questioned for years, as it trained many military personnel before and during the years of the 'national security doctrine'... the dirty war years in the Southern Cone and the civil war years in Central America, in which the armed forces within several Latin American countries ruled or had disproportionate government influence and committed serious human rights violations in those countries."

And the next question... what is 'the second 9/11'? (Ours was not the first of dramatic importance.)
U.S. terrorism is far worse because we are a powerful state. Take what happened on 9/11, it was a serious terrorist act. In Latin America, they often call it 'the second 9/11'... because there was another one, namely September 11th, 1973  (the original 9/11... giving rise to increased hatred of the U.S. for it's role in the incident).

"Suppose that al Qaeda had not just blown up the World Trade Center, but suppose they’d bombed the White House, killed the president, established a military dictatorship, killed maybe fifty to a hundred thousand people, tortured seven hundred thousand, instituted a major international terrorist center in Washington, which was overthrowing governments around the world and installing malicious dictatorships, assassinating people, and brought in a bunch of economists who drove the economy into its' worst disaster maybe in history. Well, that would be worse than what we call 9/11... and it did happen... namely on 9/11/1973." 

Remembering September 11 1973 

Were the lives of those killed at the World Trade Center more valuable than the innocents murdered in Chile's U.S. backed coup.

SOA and WHINSEC graduates continue to surface in news reports regarding both current human rights cases and new reports.

Journalist and documentarian John Pilger focuses on the role played by the U.S. in promoting Latin American democracy, suggesting American leaders have often favored oppressive regimes over more democratic alternatives. Pilger, in his film 'The War On Democracy,' outlines the last five decades of political manipulation by the CIA and other U.S. agencies, focusing in particular on recent efforts to unseat the populist Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.

THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY

It flies in the face of the false realities being promulgated by media and powers with vested interests in the area. This is an important film you really should take the time to watch to better understand the continuing international policies of the American government throughout the world, and their effect on how the world population views the interventionist role of our government. It's truly a 'must see' film.

SOA Watch: Close the School of the Americas

Ice-bound wonderlands.

Having been to the Antarctic just a few months back had to post a link for this TED video I came across recently.

Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world

TED is a great site... if you're not familiar with it, sign on to their subscription feed.
They send out an email once a week showing new presentations.
All are well done and always interesting.
(You can unsubscribe at any time).

Hope you enjoy.

Paul Nicklen: Tales of ice-bound wonderlands | Video on TED.com

Time to stand up... or give up.

Following the writings of individuals 'close to the ground' on these issues for some time... this is one of the most succinct I've recently come across.
Not only does Ronnie Cummins unflinchingly lay out the 'way it is' now... he does what many do not do... informing us of what we need do to 'get through' to our future.

Not wanting to believe it is going to happen is fast becoming a non-option...
... critical issue now is devising a survivable path & workable strategy for the kids & gk's to follow.
Cummins' perpends in his well written piece..."I’m horrified to ponder the thought my teenage son may have to struggle for sheer survival in a brutal, ecologically devastated, martial law state."... 

... we all have to be. 


The Xtremes... Recipes for Catastrophic Times | Common Dreams

Global Corporate Crime Wave

The world is drowning in corporate fraud,... money talks, and it is corrupting politics and markets all over the world.

There is scant accountability... two years after the biggest financial crisis in history, fueled by biggest banks unscrupulous behavior, not a single financial leader has faced jail.

Corruption pays in American politics as well... most corporate crimes go un-noticed... and politicians often look the other way when corporate behavior crosses the line.

Close connections of wealth and power with the law, make reining in corporate crime an enormous struggle. Politicians must emancipate themselves from corporate donations, to regain the ability to control corporate abuses.

This is a very tough challenge.. but how much longer can we continue on. The system is severely straining with the weight of all the many enormous issues burdening it, yet the powers that be would appear to have a very definite plan, with no indication they are willing in any way to relinquish even one iota of their control.

The Global Economy’s Corporate Crime Wave by Jeffrey D. Sachs - Project Syndicate

Seas rise up to 5 feet by ??

2100 is as good a guess as any... and seems a long way off.
But that date is not fixed, and undoubtedly will change and shorten again in the very near future...(and remember of course no way is 63" a 'set in stone' maximum).

The question no one wants to tackle is when will we actually start to notice the dramatic sea level rise that most surely will come. As soon as that time comes, it is going to get very crazy in our world, as such a huge percentage of the world's major infrastructure and expanded population are in precarious proximity to shorelines and low lying areas.

Just set your mind to imagining the changes that the world will have to undergo are mind-boggling...(think New Orleans spread over the entire planet... and it's permanent).
Even if we began a crash program starting tomorrow (which of course there seems little likelihood of us doing).. there would, in all probability, not be enough time to counter the extreme catastrophe looming in our future.

one meter rise

Seas could rise up to 1.6 meters by 2100: study | Reuters

Beyond Retaliation | Voices for Creative Nonviolence

... 850 children die there every day...

...it is termed the worst country in the world into which a child can be born... where average life expectancy is 42 years of age... 7.4 million live with hunger and fear of starvation... millions more rely on food help... 20% of children die before the age of five....

... 6000+ US Soldiers killed... trillions of dollars wasted.... hundreds of thousands of civilians killed... tens of thousands imprisoned... torture as part of foreign policy...

...and each week taxpayers in the US continue spend two billion dollars to continue a senseless war...

..this is Afghanistan.... we must end this war.

Atrocities in Afghanistan: A Troubling Timetable

Beyond Retaliation | Voices for Creative Nonviolence

Sanders Interview on Daily Show

Sanders saying LOTS that makes sense... thinkin maybe he should change his mind, and at run for President...
...if only to get some of what the other guys are not talkin bout into the debate.

Daily Show: Bernie Sanders Interview Pt. 1

Daily Show: Bernie Sanders Interview Pt..2

In this unedited, extended interview, Bernie Sanders believes the Republican plan to cut social programs while extending tax cuts for the wealthy is insane.

Exclusive - Bernie Sanders Extended Interview Pt. 1 - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 04/27/11 - Video Clip | Comedy Central