China!

The earthquake that hit China was 7.9. So many people are dead and thousands are missing. The world seems like its just sitting back and watching as China goes through mourning of the lose of their people. Chine really needs help from everyone.

Genetic Discrimination

A bill was just passed in the House of Represenative 414 to 1. The only opposed was Ron Paul. The bill states employers and insurance companies that they may not use the results of genetic tests in choosing their employees and customers. The most important reason for this bill is to keep fairness in the workplace. Obviously you shouldnt be able to not get a job because you have a high risk at cancer, thats discriminating just like employers used to discriminate against black people, and women.

The long view

Although Israel was founded 60 years ago it does not seem any easier. Israelis have had to deal with terrorism all their life including 60 years ago when the Arabs vowed to "take over where the Nazis left off". Israel still has to worry just as much as they did 60 years ago about nuclear attacks, missiles, the Gaza strip, and suicide bombers in their cities.

Why the world can't afford food

There isn’t just one reason food prices are rising it’s actually a number of factors. One reason is poor harvests and restrictive trade policies. There has been droughts and bad weather that affects a lot of exporting regions. Since stocks have lowered some countries put export restrictions just to protect their countries supplies. The 2nd factor is increasing oil prices. The reason this has to do with food is when oil goes up the cost of running a farm goes up and we get most of our food from farms. The 3rd factor is Diversion of crops for biofuels. Since the price of oil is going up people are trying to find a alternative, aka biofuels. This is made from corn or other farm plants. The last factor is increasing demand, especially in China. The people in China and India are buying more expensive food like fruit and meat and less of rice. The price of food is not expected to go down anytime soon.

Burma's Second Agony

The people of Burma suffered from a cyclone in early May, and the Burma government failed too many of their duties. For example the government did not warn their people about the cyclone they had to learn from outside sources. After all of that and not having enough time to prepare for the cyclone the government refused help! Their people are dieing and they could help prevent more casualties but refuse? That doesn’t sound like a great government. Finally the Burma government accepted one ship of relief supplies that will be sent to help the people of Burma. I believe that the Burma government failed their citizens and i hope more people do not die because of their mistake.

The Oroqen

The Oroqen are a group in China who are being assimiated into China. It seemed like it was peacefully. Until the Olympics have came around. We have seen a lot of violenec everywhere in the world. And it seems like no one is happy about where the Olympics are being placed.

Act now eat later

As most of us know the cost of everything is going up. It seemed like it was just gas but recently we now see our food prices rising. Corn has gone up a lot because of biofuel. The US is using a lot of biofuel because we are trying to lean off of oil.But i think that maybe we should slow the process down a little.