After stops in Japan, Singapore and China, and a final stop in South Korea today, President Obama is nearing the end of his first official trip to Asia.
Yesterday, President Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao announced a far-reaching package of measures to strengthen cooperation between the United States and China on clean energy. The White House blog posted a good round up of the six new clean energy measures:
The U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center will facilitate joint research and development of clean energy technologies by teams of scientists and engineers from the United States and China, as well as serve as a clearinghouse to help researchers in each country. The U.S.-China Electric Vehicles Initiative will include joint standards development, demonstration projects in more than a dozen cities, technical roadmapping and public education projects, all aimed at eventual deployment of electric vehicles to reduce oil dependence.The U.S. China Energy Efficiency Action Plan will allow the two countries to work together to improve the energy efficiency of buildings, industrial facilities, and consumer appliances, culminating with an annual U.S.-China Energy Efficiency Forum, rotating between the two countries.The U.S. China Renewable Energy Partnership will facilitate development of roadmaps for wide-spread renewable energy deployment. A new Advanced Grid Working Group made up of American and Chinese developers and strategists will help plan for grid modernization in both countries, and a new U.S.-China Renewable Energy Forum will be held annually, rotating between the two countries.A 21st Century Coal Initiative, for which the two Presidents pledged to promote cooperation on cleaner uses of coal, will include large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration projects. A Shale Gas Initiative, will allow the U.S. and China to use experience gained in the United States to assess China’s shale gas potential, promote environmentally-sustainable development of shale gas resources, conduct joint technical studies to accelerate development of shale gas resources in China, and promote shale gas investment in China through the U.S.-China Oil and Gas Industry Forum, study tours, and workshops.The U.S. China Energy Cooperation Program will leverage private sector resources for project development work in China across a broad array of clean energy projects, to the benefit of both nations.
The U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center will facilitate joint research and development of clean energy technologies by teams of scientists and engineers from the United States and China, as well as serve as a clearinghouse to help researchers in each country.
The U.S.-China Electric Vehicles Initiative will include joint standards development, demonstration projects in more than a dozen cities, technical roadmapping and public education projects, all aimed at eventual deployment of electric vehicles to reduce oil dependence.
The U.S. China Energy Efficiency Action Plan will allow the two countries to work together to improve the energy efficiency of buildings, industrial facilities, and consumer appliances, culminating with an annual U.S.-China Energy Efficiency Forum, rotating between the two countries.
The U.S. China Renewable Energy Partnership will facilitate development of roadmaps for wide-spread renewable energy deployment. A new Advanced Grid Working Group made up of American and Chinese developers and strategists will help plan for grid modernization in both countries, and a new U.S.-China Renewable Energy Forum will be held annually, rotating between the two countries.
A 21st Century Coal Initiative, for which the two Presidents pledged to promote cooperation on cleaner uses of coal, will include large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration projects.
A Shale Gas Initiative, will allow the U.S. and China to use experience gained in the United States to assess China’s shale gas potential, promote environmentally-sustainable development of shale gas resources, conduct joint technical studies to accelerate development of shale gas resources in China, and promote shale gas investment in China through the U.S.-China Oil and Gas Industry Forum, study tours, and workshops.
The U.S. China Energy Cooperation Program will leverage private sector resources for project development work in China across a broad array of clean energy projects, to the benefit of both nations.
I say hang'em!
It is human, silent and unobtrusive. I say, ban the mow-blow-and-go "gardeners"- they are not. One of the special pleasures of travel in Central America are the old fashioned loundry rituals. There, it is not question of choice. Laundry is done by women's hands and is hang outside, watched carefuly, hastily carried inside when rain comes. For many women it is the only source of income. These women, I once thought, should also be awarded all those big green prizes that go to somebody else.
I think more hanging laundry would make our USA neighborhoods safer. Perhaps the sight of children playing ouside would return with it. fib
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November 18, 2009 | 1 comments
U.S. residents fight for the right to hang laundry
Carin Froehlich has help from her granddaughter Ava as they hang some laundry in the front yard of her residence in Perkasie, Pennsylvania, November 12, 2009. REUTERS/Tim Shaffer
PERKASIE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Carin Froehlich pegs her laundry to three clotheslines strung between trees outside her 18th-century farmhouse, knowing that her actions annoy local officials who have asked her to stop.
Froehlich is among the growing number of people across America fighting for the right to dry their laundry outside against a rising tide of housing associations who oppose the practice despite its energy-saving green appeal.
Although there are no formal laws in this southeast Pennsylvania town against drying laundry outside, a town official called Froehlich to ask her to stop drying clothes in the sun. And she received two anonymous notes from neighbors saying they did not want to see her underwear flapping about.
"They said it made the place look like trailer trash," she said, in her yard across the street from a row of neat, suburban houses. "They said they didn't want to look at my 'unmentionables.'"
Froehlich says she hangs her underwear inside. The effervescent 54-year-old is one of a growing number of Americans demanding the right to dry laundry on clotheslines despite local rules and a culture that frowns on it.
Their interests are represented by Project Laundry List, a group that argues people can save money and reduce carbon emissions by not using their electric or gas dryers, according to the group's executive director, Alexander Lee.
Widespread adoption of clotheslines could significantly reduce U.S. energy consumption, argued Lee, who said dryer use accounts for about 6 percent of U.S. residential electricity use.
Florida, Utah, Maine, Vermont, Colorado, and Hawaii have passed laws restricting the rights of local authorities to stop residents using clotheslines. Another five states are considering similar measures, said Lee, 35, a former lawyer who quit to run the non-profit group.
'RIGHT TO HANG'
His principal opponents are the housing associations such as condominiums and townhouse communities that are home to an estimated 60 million Americans, or about 20 percent of the population. About half of those organizations have 'no hanging' rules, Lee said, and enforce them with fines.
Carl Weiner, a lawyer for about 50 homeowners associations in suburban Philadelphia, said the no-hanging rules are usually included by the communities' developers along with regulations such as a ban on sheds or commercial vehicles.
The no-hanging rules are an aesthetic issue, Weiner said.
"The consensus in most communities is that people don't want to see everybody else's laundry."
He said opposition to clotheslines may ease as more people understand it can save energy and reduce greenhouse gases.
"There is more awareness of impact on the environment," he said. "I would not be surprised to see people questioning these restrictions."
For Froehlich, the "right to hang" is the embodiment of the American tradition of freedom.
"If my husband has a right to have guns in the house, I have a right to hang laundry," said Froehlich, who is writing a book on the subject.
Besides, it saves money. Line-drying laundry for a family of five saves $83 a month in electric bills, she said.
Kevin Firth, who owns a two-bedroom condominium in a Dublin, Pennsylvania housing association, said he was fined $100 by the association for putting up a clothesline in a common area.
"It made me angry and upset," said Firth, a 27-year-old carpenter. "I like having the laundry drying in the sun. It's something I have always done since I was a little kid."
(Editing by Mark Egan and Paul Simao)
Sez Me at 05:41 PM on 11/18/09
Some time ago we said good bye to Duston who told us he would be going back to Kabul. So he went. Usually when incidents like the most recent Kabul bombing happen, one thinks of one's friends that could be there, in danger. And so I did as well, thinking he must be well anyway, most likely. Kabul is big (I thought). Not so. It is a small world after all. This is what came yesterday. fib
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Hibiscus Tea and Honey in Berlin
"Dear Friends,
At first, I should offer a quick explanation of this letter: I have not yet read any email replies you may have sent me since my last correspondence back around mid October or so. I am currently drinking Hibiscus Tea sweetened with a little honey in an Army Hospital in Berlin Germany. My Laptop Computer has not had internet for two weeks:
October 28th, 2009 began with a loud bang at exactly 6 AM Kabul time. Actually an explosion at the front gate to the Guesthouse where I was living. I don’t know if it was an RPG or Suicide Bomber, and will truly never know for a fact which one it was. The first explosion was followed by machine gun firing and then an RPG hit the front of the building. The Taleban killed the exterior gate residence guards, entered the front house and proceeded to kill as many UN Election Employees as possible before the Police arrived. A long and intense gun-battle ensued over the next hour and a half and the attackers were eventually killed around 7:30 AM. Some of my friends, and some employees, of the Guesthouse were also killed and many wounded during this incident.
I escaped physically unharmed within 90 seconds of the first sound of the attack.
The media incorrectly portrayed the building as the “UN Guesthouse” whereas technically it was a privately run guesthouse, and I referred to it in earlier email to you as the “Zoo”, because it had lots of animals and birds on the property. I do not know who survived other than I have a “story” of the massacre as I experienced it. I ended up with a large group of UN Election Employees who also survived as we hid together in the neighboring courtyard while the Taleban shot it out with the surviving guards, burned down the place and then shot it out again with the Police.
Around 7:40 AM , I was transferred by the Police to a temporary safe location, and then the Bank security man found me and I was taken to the big famous Hotel ( The Serena ) which is heavily guarded in downtown Kabul. Immediately after I arrived, I was standing in the Hotel Lobby , on the cell phone, calling the Germans who I work for, when a mortar round or RPG hit the Lobby. The glass exploded , and once again, I was not injured and everyone ran to the Hotel bunker to wait for the All Clear sign. The Hotel suffered nothing but broken glass and some jittered nerves, but for me, it was the second attack in less than two hours and I withdrew into my own little brain…..telling myself that no place was safe as it seemed like the terror was following me around that morning in Kabul.
Since then, I have stayed in German Army Hospitals except for the plane rides to Germany where I am now. I am receiving treatment for Psychological Trauma and am getting better quickly. I hope to be released to Outpatient within about 4 days. And then about a month more of Outpatient therapy and then final release back into the employment world when I will be able to totally navigate on my own. The goal is to prevent and reduce the long term possibility or impact of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ( “PTSB”) which we all heard of with the Korean and Vietnam War Veterans and other traumatic incident survivors.
I shall not assign my survival that day to my training, skills, experience and quick thinking ( although I am told by many that it was a critical part of my actions and movement within the first minute of the attack ). I have been given yet another chance on the Planet by my Higher Power. I am no more “religious” today than I was a minute before 6 AM on October 28th; however I have grown substantially. My spirituality is stronger now than ever; and I am convinced that God has a Plan for me, I just need to follow the Steps and listen for His guidance on a daily basis.
Only once since then have I wanted or seriously thought of taking a drink, and I asked to be relieved of that notion, and it was granted. I take some light weight sleeping medication and hope to reduce the strength soon, then be totally free of it within two more weeks or so depending on what the Doctors say. I am receiving excellent medical care here in Germany, with three Doctors and a bevy of Nurses. I see a Trauma Specialist MD every other day and I am recuperating well.
My employment contracts ends in February so money is temporarily not a problem, and I have good insurance for the hospital expenses. So, for today, all I ask for is another chance to be free of my Weaknesses and Character Defects and look for the next path I am to take.
I totally and unconditionally TRUST.
Work the Steps. Turn it over to God. Clean House. Help Others.
With ALL my Love,
Duston"
Time Out ! OK now try to pay attention.
Rush Limbaugh is bent completely out of shape :) because he claims he was once misquoted. Perhaps.
Rush, when you go on radio, which YOU insist on having on video each day, and openly make fun of those suffering from Parkinson’s - you gave up any right to complain about anything. So just waddle over to the mirror and you will see a poor excuse for a human.
My Aunt has had Parkinson’s for several years, and daily fights the battle. She, as did millions, saw and heard your rant about Parkinson's. You Rush, are responsible for sending her into a deep depression. AND neither you not any defender can deny what you said and how you threw your body around - imitating a Parkinson's patient.
Now someone claims you made a statement about slavery. You say you never said it. FINE Rush. I don’t need anything other than the Parkinson’s incident to dislike you on every level. I heard and saw it. This one you will never deny. You are a pathetic excuse for a human.
As for the St. Louis Rams - I could not care less. I lived in STL for 30 years. They deserve you.
Robert Boseley
No comment. fib
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Leading Cuban dissidents cheer Obama's Nobel prize (AP) – 8 hours ago HAVANA
— Many of the 75 activists jailed in a 2003 Cuban government crackdown on political dissent are congratulating Barack Obama for winning the Nobel Peace Prize. In a letter released Monday to international journalists, 29 of those imprisoned six years ago said Obama "has become a global symbol, especially for us who, under difficult conditions, are defending Cubans' right to democracy."
In another letter, 21 of their wives, mothers and other female relatives also cheered Obama. Fifty-four dissidents remain imprisoned on allegations they conspired with the U.S. to topple Cuba's government. Those freed were granted medical parole or forced into exile in Spain. One was released after completing a six-year sentence.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jOSU7Ew6j4vlEn0d_L0eXG0A1w1gD9B9M09G0
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Zimbabwe News.Net
Sunday 11th October, 2009
Former Cuban president, Fidel Castro, has said he was obliged to acknowledge the Nobel Prize given to US President, Barack Obama, was a "positive measure," and especially important considering the "genocidal policies" of some former US presidents. He also said the decision was good compensation for the fact that the US had been defeated in Copenhagen when Rio de Janeiro was picked as a site for 2016 Olympic Games. In an article titled "Reflections," published on the Internet, 83-year-old Castro said while he did not always share the views of those who award the Nobel, Obama’s prize was "an appeal for peace and a search for solutions that lead to the survival of species." In his comments, he said: "Many will say that Obama has not yet earned the right to receive such a distinction. We prefer to see the decision as not so much a prize for the president of the US, but as a criticism of the genocidal policies pursued by a few presidents of that country, who led the world to the crossroads it is at today."
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http://www.zimbabwenews.net/story/553184
THIS IS MOTHER EARTH WITH A MESSAGE TO SOME FOLKS LIVING ON MY PLANET.
Hello? Anyone awake? Anyone putting their brains to work? Message:
Your President - Barack Obama DID NOT ASK FOR THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE !!!!! HE DID NOT EVEN KNOW OF THE NOMINATION. WHY THEN, WOULD ANY OF YOU CRITICIZE HIM FOR RECEIVING IT???
As Master of my Planet, I have overlooked some of your recent behavior. If anyone is upset with the Nobel committee - then book a flight to Norway and speak to them. Otherwise close your pie holes.
The next thing you will criticize is the number of times per day your President moves his bowels.
Hush. Support your leader. Stop standing in the way of any progress on any front.
Mom
By the way - I AM GETTING WARMER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In reacting to the news this morning that he had won the Nobel Peace Prize, the President struck a note of humility and recognized that the award was a nod to a vision of what is to come:
I am both surprised and deeply humbled by the decision of the Nobel Committee. Let me be clear: I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments, but rather as an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nationsTo be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who've been honored by this prize -- men and women who've inspired me and inspired the entire world through their courageous pursuit of peace.But I also know that this prize reflects the kind of world that those men and women, and all Americans, want to build -- a world that gives life to the promise of our founding documents. And I know that throughout history, the Nobel Peace Prize has not just been used to honor specific achievement; it's also been used as a means to give momentum to a set of causes. And that is why I will accept this award as a call to action -- a call for all nations to confront the common challenges of the 21st century.
The right has really proven - were there ever a doubt - just how unthinking they are. Criticize the President for winning the Nobel prize???? He had nothing at all to do with the process. Yet according to the wing-nuts - President Obama should be impeached for winning. There is dumb and dumber - and now dumbest. I thank my God daily that I was not made a right winger. One positive thing, aside from the actual winning of the prize, is that it makes the point forever solid: “The right-wing nuts are right-wing nuts.”
Congratulations Mr. President!
I pray for all Honduran people and for the just peace in Central America. fib
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The Road to Zelaya’s Return: Money, Guns and Social Movements in Honduras
Written by Benjamin Dangl
Monday, 21 September 2009
Capitalism: A Love Story
(Documentary) An Overture Films release of a Paramount Vantage, Overture Films presentation in association with the Weinstein Co., of a Dog Eat Dog production. (International sales: Paramount Vantage, Los Angeles.) Produced by Michael Moore, Anne Moore. Executive producers, Kathleen Glynn, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein. Co-producers, Rod Birleson, John Hardesty. Directed, written by Michael Moore. With: Michael Moore, Frank Moore. By LESLIE FELPERIN
By returning to his roots, professional gadfly Michael Moore turns in one of his best films with "Capitalism: A Love Story." Pic’s target is less capitalism qua capitalism than the banking industry, which Moore skewers ruthlessly, explaining last year’s economic meltdown in terms a sixth-grader could understand. That said, there’s still plenty here to annoy right-wingers, as well as those who, however much they agree with Moore’s politics, just can’t stomach his oversimplification, on-the-nose sentimentality and goofball japery. Whether "Capitalism" matches "Fahrenheit 9/11" or underperforms like Sicko" will depend on how much workers of the world are ready to unite behind the message.
Pic reaped mostly ecstatic applause at its first press screening in Venice — no great surprise, given the largely leftist persuasion of film-fest auds, especially in Europe. Still, "Capitalism’s" worldview is resolutely U.S.-centric, apart from the odd approving mention of some foreign nation. Nevertheless, pic is likely to make considerably more offshore, where "socialism" isn’t considered a cuss word, than at home.(...)"
Michele Bachman. Rush Limbaugh. Glen Beck. And many others. Leaders of the Republican party? I presume so - but there is another group they lead. I call them “The Haters”. Everyone of us knows that somewhere around 30% of the people in this country are quite simply mad as hell because we have a Black President and Black First Lady. Most of them are non-voters. Too much trouble. Much easier to run the mouth.
Virtually all the haters identify themselves as Christians. Perhaps they are. I am not permitted to judge. One minister said from the pulpit “ I hope Obama gets brain cancer and dies like Kennedy”. Yes I suppose that is the new face of Christians. Rush hopes Obama fails which means he hopes America fails. Beck is trying to convince the haters that Obama’s health plan calls for death boards.
Haters. Down in life. Not much to exist for. They blame everyone but themselves. Always hated Blacks and here is a golden opportunity to “get them”. Many tote guns around. The official position of the GOP is to destroy the president - at any cost. They have put it in those exact terms.
Not being a hater, I can not imagine what life is like for them. Get up in the morning - eat a pound of bacon - then begin ranting. Rush will be along at noon to help them along. They hate every single person on Earth who is not a clone of themselves. They hate Catholics and Jews, They hate blacks. They hate people who have a dime. I know them. I was born in a state where they are the majority. At 18, I was gone from that horrible place. But I remember the haters - Oh how I remember.
Where is the outrage? Everyday we here something more terrible than the day before. “I hope Obama gets brain cancer? We hear it. What else do we do? Sit back and watch and listen? What simply amazes me is that mainstream Republicans embrace the haters. Christians embrace them. Where is that “famous” Texas minister - the one who purchased a stadium. Why is he not on TV blasting the haters? Because he is one of them?
Does the Secret Service have a new policy with regard to Obama? Sure seems so. Even if it might be legal to run around playing cowboy - with a gun strapped to the hip - it has always been unacceptable for a gun to be within just yards of the president. The yell “GUN” was sounded and the potential assassin was removed. Haters in the Secret Service?
God grant us peace.
OFA
President Obama needs more supporters on Facebook. The republicans there have started using the polling function and have made a significant number of anti-Obama polls and voted overwhemingly against President Obama making him trying to make him look unpopular there. OFA needs to try and get more Obama people on Facebook to vote in the polling functions there or create better poll's themselves. Maybe Facebook needs 1 million new Democrats to join it, so we can all vote in the polls there and change them. I think the press does look at the social networking sites when considering all the "popularity" articles they write, and the GOP has become "hip" enough to understand this. So Facebook is being bombarded by the GOP with propaganda and new users.
Thanks
John
Can private insurance companies complete on a level field with a government sponsored program? Now any question about it. Out there in the real world, not-for-profits compete against for-profits every day - very successfully.
I will go out on a limb here ( I used to work out on those very limbs for 30 years) and tell you that not-for-profit hospitals “make more money” than for-profits. The term “make more money is complex. I know personally of many NFP’s whose retained earnings make the FP across the street look like a piggy bank. 501(c)(3) hospitals are “required” to accept a % of CHARITY PATIENTS each year. What they do is simply write-off the uncollectible as charity. It is hardly charity when you have done everything legal and illegal to collect, but cannot.
In many parts of the country, the most popular watering holes are exempt clubs like Moose, VFW, KOC, and many country clubs. Yet the for profits seem to do their share.
Just a s point of clarification - not-for-profit has to do with motive - not what actually comes into the till.
BC/BS can compete very well against the government. Most companies now sell Medicare Advantage accounts - which actually replaces Medicare as primary. I listened to a rep from BC/BS sell my elderly Dad such a policy - and he could not give a single “advantage”. But he sold the policy - because my Dad is 96 and not fully aware.
SO, if some of you believe that competing against the government is unfair - a bit of homework is in order.
With the current coalition in place - it’s now or never for healthcare reform. And if it turns out Not - remember there will be no Medicare. Should make all those anti Socialist’s happy. (As they dig through garbage for a bite to eat).
I found this article on a trail of reads that started with CR's post below on the First Family Western touring.That's web browsing for you! Doug, thank you for your passionate posts advocating for the bottom 4% of US to get health insurance too. Here we learn about the TOP "decile". fib
"Though income inequality has been growing for some time, the paper paints a stark, disturbing portrait of wealth distribution in America. Saez calculates that in 2007 the top .01 percent of American earners took home 6 percent of total U.S. wages, a figure that has nearly doubled since 2000. "
huffingtonpost.com — Income inequality in the United States is at an all-time high, surpassing even levels seen during the Great Depression, according to a recently updated paper by University of California, Berkeley Professor Emmanuel Saez. The paper, which covers data through 2007, points to a staggering, unprecedented disparity in American incomes.
http://digg.com/politics/Income_Inequality_Is_At_An_All_Time_High_STUDY
Howdy. I’m Luke from the hills. Rooster crowed bout 5. Got me some r’s ta kill fore Rush gits on my radio. Oh I love that thar man. Thar ain’t nuttin he don’t know.
Me n’ my buds are mighty upset by this Omaber guy - who weren't even born in hour country. They got proof on that. I seen it on the TV. So he ain’t even liggal. I seen on TV he wants ta git shut a folks over 50. They gonna come round ta yer trailer and make ya sign up fer killin. Rush said its fact.
Enough. I can’t go on with that. Were it all a joke - perhaps - but it’s all true.
Along with so many of you, I worked very hard on the Obama campaign for at least two years. As we gained momentum, and eventually won - this voice told me the anti-Black sentiment in this country would not go away. Just like the dude in the first two paragraphs - we have hundreds of thousands just like him. They feed on Rush - then take desert from Glen and snacks from Sean and Laura. By the end of the day, this group is so worked-up by the end of the day - they will do and say anything.
I mention race, because my reading and observation, convince me that a very large portion of the Health Care Plan opposition has nothing to do with the Plan. Are we to believe anyone (including about 2/3 of congress have not read it”) For Rush and company to turn the Living Will provisions into mandatory death is aimed directly at two groups. 1) The X% of whites who were never going to accept being governed by an African-American, and 2) the unfortunate huge number of Americans who simply have no clue about anything having to to with health care insurance.
Bring these two groups together - add Rush with his endless supply of gasoline and matches - and you get what we have.
What do we have? A total mess. I actually thought at one time that an exceptionally intelligent American President could calm the waters.
I must be fully honest here. While I have nothing against Leader Reid or Speaker Pelosi - they are simply not the two persons who should be running congress “at this time”. Given the tragic division over our president - Nancy Pelosi is an even more divisive figure. I admire her greatly, but she could get a fight started in a PTA meeting on selling pies or cakes. Harry Reid is one of the nicest persons to serve in the Senate. Leader? No. Not now. I don’t question God’s judgment - but it was a bad time to take Ed Kennedy out of the Senate.
So we are where we are. Even the small minded Sarah Palin has joined with Rush to expand the “death” provisions to include Down Syndrome children. I truly do not know how to fight back. I don’t know where my battle station is. Yelling back and forth just makes the fire hotter.
I am but a foot soldier. I need orders. I need suggestions, and tons of help.
This is the place to do it friends. We proved that once. Let’s get this think up and running at full pace again.
rboseley@tampabay.rr.com
rdbozz@att.blackberry.net
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© UNICEF Afghanistan/2009/Walther
A baby girl born on 1 August, the first day of the World Breastfeeding Week, in Malali Hospital, Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.
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We talk too much about health insurance and not enough about health. I know we need to settle the first issue first, and we are going to win this battle! If we help these coming weeks.
Now, about health - I think that anything that separates Mothers from their infants and babies is the scourge of the modern times, including work outside home and powdered milk. I am serious. What's good for Afghanistan is as good for the United States.
I run upon this issue today because I was also struck couple days ago by the infant mortality rates for Afghanistan (I was looking for Honduras statistics and then swayed elsewhere) - which remain cataclysmic.
here they are:
Under-5 mortality rank
2
Under-5 mortality rate, 1990
260
Under-5 mortality rate, 2007
257
Infant mortality rate (under 1), 1990
168
Infant mortality rate (under 1), 2007
165
Neonatal mortality rate, 2004
60
Total population (thousands), 2007
27145
Annual no. of births (thousands), 2007
1314
Annual no. of under-5 deaths (thousands), 2007
338
GNI per capita (US$), 2007
250
Life expectancy at birth (years), 2007
44
Total adult literacy rate (%), 2000–2007*
28
Primary school net enrolment/ attendance (%), 2000–2007*
61
% share of household income 1995–2005*, lowest 40%
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% share of household income 1995–2005*, highest 20%
Definitions and data sources
country comparison to the world: 3 male: 156.01 deaths/1,000 live births female: 147.7 deaths/1,000 live births
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_Afghanistan#Infant_mortality_rate
As predicted, Barbara Lee D-CA had already signed the letter. I have this telepathic Rep.
How about yours? fib
ps. Honduras needs your opinion! Put your e-pen where your mind and heart is.
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Rep. Grijalva is asking fellow members of Congress to sign a letter to President Obama urging him to increase the pressure on the coup regime in Honduras.
Ask your Representative to sign Rep. Grijalva's letter »
Action Spotlight
Urge Your Rep to Sign Grijalva Letter for More US Pressure on Coup Regime in Honduras
Talks between President Zelaya and the coup regime in Honduras broke down over the coup regime's refusal to accept the international demand for President Zelaya's return. The U.S. has so far failed to sufficiently pressure the coup regime.
Rep. Raul Grijalva is circulating a letter to President Obama, calling on him to denounce the repression in Honduras by the coup regime, and to freeze U.S. assets and suspend U.S. visas of coup leaders. Signers of the letter include Reps. McGovern, Conyers, and Serrano.
Urge your Representative to sign the Grijalva letter calling for more U.S. pressure on the coup regime.
