Just a few questions

How long would a dog live if 6,787,257,817 flees were living on it?
Every second: 4.2 flees are born.
Every second: 1.8 flees die.

Would your garden survive if 6,787,257,817 ants were living in it?
Every second: 4.2 ants are born.
Every second: 1.8 ants die.

How would you feel if 6,787,257,817 mice were living in your house?
Every second: 4.2 mice are born.
Every second: 1.8 mice die.

What would you do if you find out that in your bed are living 6,787,257,817 bedbugs?
Every second: 4.2 bedbugs are born.
Every second: 1.8 bedbugs die.

Would you feel o.k. with 6,787,257,817 snakes living under your house?
Every second: 4.2 snakes are born.
Every second: 1.8 snakes die.

How about 6,787,257,817 cockroaches living in your kitchen?
Every second: 4.2 cockroaches are born.
Every second: 1.8 cockroaches die.

Or 6,787,257,817 wild dogs living in your neighborhood?
Every second: 4.2 dogs are born.
Every second: 1.8 dogs die.

How long would any environment would be able to survive if 6,787,257,817 members of one specific species predominates above all the other species.?
Every second: 4.2 are born.
Every second: 1.8 die.

How can we solve the problems caused due to the overpopulation of a specific specie on a specific environment?
This specific specie will modify the environment to it's very own needs, ignoring the needs of any other species who also live in such environment but with slightly different needs. It will claim ownership over the territory and its resources, it will consume everything that it finds useful, with out any restrains, as a result it will reproduce faster than other species and it will need more territory and it will keep expanding and modifying the environment to meet its needs and so on and so forth.

It is about Us:
How long will the planet you live in will survive when 6,787,257,817 (real numbers) member of the human specie (you, me, us) predominates above all other species? Right now... end of year 2009: 6,787,257,817 registered humans... are living in planet earth.
Every second: 4.2 humans are born.
Every second: 1.8 humans die.

At which point did we thought we were immune to all the natural laws that apply to all living creatures?
How and when did we made nature our enemy? When and how did we broke the food chain?
When did we stopped being food and started eating every body and everything else?
The planet is not growing in size and it is shrinking in resources, because we, humans... are taking and taking and taking... and taking.

When and how did we got the idea and rationalized, that we humans are above all living creatures and that they were put here for our very own personal use? Who convinced us of that?
We are more advanced, evolved, smart, intelligent, call it what ever you want... than 15,000 years ago, but not better, we never got better, in terms of understanding about our place here, on planet hearth, we are very much the same, we know common sense just by the word but not by its application. It seams that we never got the point, we lost the path, we made ourselves precious, The concept we have of ourselves is completely delusional.

How are we going to solve the human problem. In terms of; humans are the problem?
When not wars, famines, disses, natural disasters, extreme poverty or genocides manage to bring balance to our environment... How are WE ALL living in this planet going to survive? How is the planet going to survive?
It is obvious... over studied, over experimented, over explained:
When a specific environment is dominated by a specific living form, everything else dies, including the dominant living form and its environment.

Are we at the point of no return? or should we say... had we hit the wall?
Do we still have time to understand that we took the wrong path?
Can we go back or go in a different direction?
Are we doomed? That is the way I understand it when visualizing the big picture, from outside, let's say...from the moon...

Now... to look at the human problem close, to see it from inside... to look at it from a human point of view, when I am the problem... well... it is not easy.
The dynamics among the dominating specie... humans... is way to complex to even try to talk about it. The way humans deal with other humans it is beyond most of us understanding.
We should know that something is wrong in the way we rationalize our selves when we see, as normal human behavior: Putting food behind locked doors. Accumulating more than we can use, eat or spend. Owning other humans, land, rivers, even genes. Accepting that males are superior to females in every sense.
Dividing human in races and believing that some are better than others.

Seeing, accepting as normal that now days 1% of the world population owns 94% of the world wealth/resources... is simply sick. Sick because if we see it as normal, is because that 94% will do what ever it takes to be part of that 1%... the other 5% is almost there, so they do not have to do much but to make sure that 94% stays where it is... a big mass of wishing, wining, blind, confuse humans.
What we don't get is that for all humans to be part of that 1% we would need a couple more dozen planets like this.

Think about this:
We invented God!!! We created our creator. Are we mad or what?!?!?!
We need to understand that we are part of everything else... Pain is unavoidable the same as suffering... but when that becomes the everyday meal for the majority of living creatures in this planet... and humans are the cause for most of the pain...
Well... isn't it obvious? We need to change the way we see, conceive, rationalize, think, realize, educate, reproduce ourselves. We need to really understand that being part of that 1% of privileged humans is wrong but having the desire to be part of that 1% .... well THAT is the real problem.
We probably have some time left. Or probably not. This planet is so pleasant to live on... Still.
My heart hurts.

Los encabezados...

En un mundo sin cabeza...
Salvese el que pueda...
El que no pueda...
Mi mas sincero pesame...
Y vemos el temblor y seguimos de pie...

Iraq: At least 13 killed in anither bloody day of US occupation:
11 Dead After Car Bomb Strikes Baghdad Market
Sadrist vows to support Amarah security crackdown
Democrats to back down on Iraq war conditions:
'No immunity' for Iraq contractors
Iran insists nuclear suspension a 'red line':
Full Text of 5+1 package to Iran:
Iran withdraws $75bn from Europe:
Iran denies withdrawal of assets worth $75 bln from Europe:
Iranian general warns any aggressor of "doomed-fate":
Threats to strike Iran concern Israel:
Israelis: Eat a Pistachio, Make an Iranian A-Bomb:
Israeli attacks kill six in Gaza Strip:
Israel-Hamas truce 'reached'
Israelis ignore weak US regime:
30 insurgents killed in occupied Afghanistan:
Governor hits out at US over civilian deaths:
Afghanistan: NATO warns residents to leave villages ahead of offensive:
Taliban destroy bridges, plant mines:
Afghan Warlord Threatens U.S. :
Don't look, don't tell, troops told:
Pakistan militants 'suspend' deal:
Oil at record near $140 a barrel:

The Greatest Story Never Told

Finally, the U.S. Mega-Bases in Iraq Make the News

Girls who feel unpopular may gain weigh

By CARLA K. JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 31 minutes ago

CHICAGO - Where a teenage girl sees herself on her school's social ladder may sway her future weight, a study of more than 4,000 girls finds. Those who believed they were unpopular gained more weight over a two-year period than girls who viewed themselves as more popular. Researchers said the study showed how a girl's view of her social status has broader health consequences.

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The girls in the study were still growing — their average age was 15 — and all of them gained some weight. However, those who rated themselves low in popularity were 69 percent more likely than other girls to increase their body mass index by two units, the equivalent of gaining about 11 excess pounds. (The body mass index, or BMI, is a calculation based on height and weight.)

Girls who put themselves on the higher rungs of popularity also gained some excess weight, but less — about 6 1/2 pounds.

Both groups, on average, fell within ranges considered normal. But a gain of two BMI units over two years is more than the typical weight gain for adolescent girls, the researchers said.

"How girls feel about themselves should be part of all obesity prevention strategies," said the study's lead author, Adina Lemeshow, who began the study as a Harvard School of Public Health graduate student. She now works at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

The research, appearing in January's Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, used data from an ongoing study used frequently by scientists studying childhood obesity.

Weight and height data were reported by the girls themselves rather than getting weighed and measured by doctors; that's a weakness in the study that the researchers acknowledged.

The researchers took into account the girls' weight and BMI at the start of the study, along with their diet, household income, race/ethnicity and whether they'd reached puberty — and still found the link.

In the study, perceived popularity was measured in 1999 by how the girls reacted to a question next to a picture of a 10-rung ladder: "At the top of the ladder are the people in your school with the most respect and the highest standing. At the bottom are the people who no one respects and no one wants to hang around with. Where would you place yourself on the ladder?"

The researchers put the girls into two groups: the 4,264 who said they were on rung 5 or above, and the 182 who said they were on rung 4 or below. The weight gain link was based on those two groups.

Clea McNeely of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health called the study strong. She said she wanted to know more about the 4 percent of girls who rated themselves below average in popularity, particularly whether they already were gaining weight faster before they rated themselves as unpopular.

"The reason this paper is so important is it has broader implications beyond weight gain," said McNeely, who was not involved in the research but wrote an accompanying editorial. "Subjective social status is not just an uncomfortable experience you grow out of, but can have important health consequences."

Experts know little about how to intervene in teenagers' peer groups to improve health, McNeely said, but when adults set standards in schools, students treat one another with more respect.

Teenagers may give grown-ups "bored looks," she said, but "adults are still the most important influential figures in their lives."

The study was supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health.

Stupid News

America's biggest threat comes from within

August 19, 2007

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Paul Craig Roberts is a Republican who served as undersecretary of the treasury under Ronald Reagan and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, so he's no kook or Commie. He warns, "Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the United States could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran."

Roberts warns us that Bush has put into place all the necessary measures for dictatorship in the form of executive orders that are triggered whenever Bush declares a national emergency.

Ask yourself: Would a government that has lied us into Iraq and is working to lie us into an attack on Iran shrink from staging terrorist attacks in order to remove opposition to its agenda? Bush already ignores public opinion and laws he doesn't like. His secret spying network is in place.

He has politicized all levels of government, appointing cronies who are loyal to him rather than competent officials. Has he been setting the groundwork for dictatorship?

Adolf Hitler, who never achieved majority support in a German election, used the Reichstag fire to fan hysteria and push through the Enabling Act, which made him dictator. Determined tyrants never require majority support in order to overthrow democratic constitutions. They declare "national emergencies." A series of staged or permitted terrorist attacks would accomplish that.

On a recent radio show, Roberts said, "Americans think their danger is terrorists. They don't understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution.... The terrorists are not anything like the threat we face from our own government in the name of fighting terrorism."

Is Roberts - Republican, Reagan appointee, conservative newspaper editor - far out when he warns, "The American constitutional system is near to being overthrown"? One certainly hopes so.

- William Stosine,
Iowa City.

El sacrilegio

Bartolome Colon hermano y lugarteninte de Cristobal Colon, asiste al incendio de carne humana.
Seis hombrese estrenan el quemadero de Haiti. El humo hace toser. Los seis estan ardiendo por castigo y escarmiento: han hundido bajo tierra las imagenes de Cristo y la Virgen que fray Ramon Pane les habia dejado para su proteccion y consuelo. Fray Ramon les habia ensenado a orar de rodillas, a decir Avemarias y Padres Nuestros y a invocar el nombere de jesus ante la tentacion, la lastimadura y la muerte.
Nadie les ha preguntado por que enterraron las imagenes. Ellos esperaban que los nuevos dioses fecundaran las siembras de maiz, yuca, boniatos y frijoles.
El fuego agrega calor al calor humedo, pegajoso, anunciador de lluvia fuerte.
Memoria del fuego
Los Nacimientos
E. Galeano