Israel will slowly move toward China and hope for the best.
China is moving into the Middle East and nobody from here on out is going to make a move without considering the consequences in relation to China.
China sees Sudan as a platform from which to launch its involvement in the Middle East oil sector as a whole. #msg-3824481
Egypt welcomes Chinese investment, and Chinese enterprises could see Egypt as a springboard for expanding their businesses in Africa, the Middle East and Europe, the prime minister said. #msg- 3824776
CT, take a look, way too early to call it a trend but nevertheless an intriguing facet has been introduced.
Remember Bush has a $417-billion defense bill, if he wanted to improve health and infant mortality rates he could take a few bucks away from defense or something else and do just that. #msg-3813073
US Health Improvements Slowing - Alarm at High Infant Mortality Rates and Obesity 09 Nov 2004
Another factor that has slowed improvement is the U.S. infant mortality rate, which last year rose for the first time in 40 years from 6.9 deaths to seven deaths in the first year of life for every 1,000 live births, according to the report.
Overall, infant mortality in the United States has fallen 31% since 1990. The United States now ranks 28th worldwide in infant mortality rates (Washington Post, 11/8). The report also identifies high rates of uninsured, declining high school graduation rates and increased child poverty as factors that are slowing health progress nationwide (USA Today, 11/8). http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=16099
Infant mortality—a prime indicator of how well health care services are distributed in a society—is another area where the United States lags sadly behind its industrialized rivals. The CDC rankings of selected countries showed the United States at 28th out of 37 countries. http://progressivetrail.org/articles/040921Goozner.shtml
Who is Bush killing? This is interesting, the poor, uneducated and surprise, the CRW.
Who fell below us in safe and healthy childbirths and infant care through the first year of life? Virtually all the laggards (other than the United States) are countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. How can it be that we not much better off than Romania in this vital statistic? It's not middle-class moms in suburban hospitals losing babies. It's poor mothers without prenatal care. It's teenagers who hide their pregnancies, deliver low birth weight babies and have few support systems to help them care for their newborns.
The health effects of race and class are America's hidden health care story. Low-wage work leads to lousy diets because the foods that are plentiful and cheap happen to be the worst for you. Fear of unemployment and economic decline defines America's large lower middle class today and this produces tremendous psychic stress —an unreported epidemic. We spend billions on drugs to lower blood pressure, reduce cholesterol and treat diabetes, but almost nothing on social programs to offset the income-related lifestyles that lead to these conditions.[/] http://progressivetrail.org/articles/040921Goozner.shtml
Longman contemplates the future with trepidation:
... Where will the children of the future come from? They will come disproportionately from people who are at odds with the modern environment ... or who, out of fundamentalist or chauvinistic conviction, reject the game altogether. And again: This much is sure: The uneducated have far more children than the educated, and the religiously minded generally have bigger families than do secularists. In the United States, for example, fully 47% of people who attend church weekly say that the ideal family size is three or more children, as opposed to only 27% of those who seldom attend church.
Longman is right about the correlation between faith and fertility, but wrong about the cause. Mortal existence is intolerable without the promise of immortality. Animals breed and foster their young out of instinct; humankind does so in the hope that something of our mortal existence will survive us in the continuation of our culture and the remembrance of our children. Longman believes that the religious continue to reproduce because the Bible or Koran so instructs them. Religion in the broad sense means hope of immortality. By reducing culture to a hedonist's shopping basket of amusements, modernity destroys the individual's hope for immortality, and with it his incentive to create a new generation of humans. #msg-3980657
If the flu vaccine was a manipulated shortage you can put the elderly in with the poor, uneducated and CRW or Bush is weeding out the weak, those that hold America back. And why not, soldiers are expendable. #msg-4309318
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