Monday, December 3, 2007

New Obama website tracks Clinton's criticisms

***When I first read this I almost died laughing. Looks like now that Obama has taken the lead in the polls, he has figured out how to potray Hillary as though she is running a very negative campaign. Even if you don't like Obama, you have to respect the brilliance of his political stratagy. Karl Rove would be proud***

New Obama Web site on Clinton criticism


Thursday, November 1, 2007

Scrap metal exports banned in Jamaica

I was suprised to see that Jamaica has gotten tired of people stealing their infastructure and has decided to temporarily ban all metal exports. Man, I'm telling you, this problem is huge and only getting worse.

Monday, October 29, 2007

Copper and the poor

There is an interesting phenomenon going on in the world that very few people are talking about. People are stealing copper left and right. They usually sell them to a scrap dealer. Appearently due to the increased demand for copper from China, the price of copper has almost doubled, leading more and more people finding it worth it to take the risk of trying to steal copper from anywhere they can including potentially deadly electrical substations. In places like the Dominican Republic, they are shipping out more copper than they buy every year. Over a year ago, there was a huge warehouse fire in New York that was caused by two homeless men trying to burn the plastic covering off of a copper wire. This is a problem that will only increase as the prices rise.




Tuesday, October 16, 2007

New World Water

Atlanta is suffering from a serious drought. Water could be the next political hot button topic in the next few years.

Atlanta's drought

Iran's nukes

This post on craigslist was an interesting twist on how to deal with Russia not opposing nuclear weapons in Iran.


Dear President George Bush





Brazilian Politics

I found great website for Brazilian Politics. I believe it's mostly opinions but it's still good to read about the comings and goings of Brazil.

Brazzil