Inside look @ Portugal

It's intriguing that each nation has bailed out it's banks in order to put itself at risk of deficit spending. Pushing the private liabilities onto the public balance sheets. Why? I'll speculate why, because the governments of the world rely on those banking infrastructures for their day to day operations. State, Local, and especially National governments cannot rely on it's people alone.. but on the international markets to provide funding for itself.

Why else would it be in the interest of governments to save banks? To avoid what?

GOOD talk on the China / US relationship.. economic and political

My feelings EXACTLY on what the US wants from China.. and Chinese interests in greater high tech goods.

More testimony on how abrupt and suprising China's moves have been

Contest Entry for Audrey's Startup - Ballerinies

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Fight hunger in Chad

Severe food shortages in western Chad lead to rising malnutrition in children

MAO, Chad, 24 March 2010 – Adam Abdulai is just over a year old, but he can barely move, let alone stand up and walk. He and a dozen other emaciated children lie on mattresses at a feeding centre in Mao, western Chad, with their mothers and grandmothers watching over them helplessly.