Moving

I am moving this over to my new site, Amanda's Scribble

Thank you for reading me here, I hope you like the new site, which is a work in progress.

Online Game Robbed!

Nothing should surprise me, I was looking for a light headline, do to being tired and I found this. An Australia computer person stole money from the on-line game: Eve on-line.

I read this here:

Billions stolen in online robbery

We have a lot of problems in the real world, and now the on-line world is mimicking real life.  The money he stole was virtual money, totally over a billion dollars.

I guess if you can't steal a billion in real life, you might as well try in the virtual life, right? 

India Economic Growth

One Billion people need jobs, in India.  They are willing to work for a lower wages, longer hours. This is so tempting to companies, which profit is king.


I just read this article:

Indian growth of 7% 'is possible'

This mean 7% growth in the Indian economy.

This is a reality check, industry might not come back to America. If growth of the economy continues in place like China and India, it means those jobs have to come from somewhere.  More people, lower wages, lower expectations for standard of living, what CEO or board would not like that.

It is not a bad thing for those countries, but we live on a globe, unless there is more innovation there is only a finite amount of work to go around.  Nobody wins in the end, even the companies. 

Grants

Wow, I know other people know about this site, but again wow.  I went looking at the grants offered and well, we are offering grants to improve jobs in Pakistan, and clean water for China.

This is the government grant website.

This is an interesting site, other things offered is assistance for elderly to go into nursing homes, substance abuse grants, and stuff that a state government can apply for to help with the unemployment.

Our government is trying to help everything, I think that is good and bad.  Good because if the US does not help who will, bad because we are broke as a country.

Vegetarians Beat Cancer, At least some forms.

This is not an easy diet to follow, but worth it.  To avoid Chemo therapy should be the goal of everybody, you can read the findings of the new study here:

Vegetarians 'avoid more cancers'

Cancer is not a pretty disease, it hurts.  It kills.  Simply put the disease sucks.  I have watched people with Cancer fight for their lives.  Heroic fights that sometimes end in Death.  

If eating more veggies and less meat gets rid of the chance for some Cancers, then let's all do this. I understand there is a lot of money in advertising for the meat industry.  So this will be fought by huge amounts of money, but maybe those meat producers need  to think about the health of their loved ones, the cost of medical care and over all health of their customers.  Because a dead customer can not buy the product.

Greenpeace Goodwill at Cook Islands

The pacific islands greet Greenpeace warmly.  Greenpeace is on a tour to explain the affects of global warming to the Cook Islands. You can read the article here:

Greenpeace goodwill visit receives enthusiastic response 

I wanted to read light news this morning, this caught my attention.  The world is not a huge place and even the Cook Islands are affected by what happens in New York.  I know a Greenpeace boat has nothing to do with New York.  Well, the pollution produced by cars get trapped in the atmosphere.  You know the rest.  

The people of the islands went on the tour.  Greenpeace will be stopping at other islands in the pacific all summer. 

Innocents Die In Africa

African politics are dicey, and sometimes for myself not understood.  But innocent people were killed in this attack on the Presidential Palace:

Somalia: Five Killed As Mortars Target Presidential Palace

Living without this kind of violence should be a goal.  The people in Somalia have lived in a state of civil war for about a decade.  This is just another headline of fire, killing five and wounding fourteen.  

This needs to end somehow.  

I don't have any suggestions, but this needs to be reported on,  it is news.

Australian Scandal

Australia has its own scandal.  From what I read, a fake e-mail was contrived to make the Prime Minister look bad.  You can read the article here:

Police question Malcolm Turnbull over email

This seems to be the case of the not so smart criminal.  With how technology is today,  you can find the IP address of anybody.  The man, Malcolm Turnbull, is of the opposite party of the Prime Minister, and he is one person in this scandal.

Here in America we make a big deal over our politicians.  One last week had an affair, SC governor Mark Sanford, the kicker about that is he was one who pointed the "no no" finger at our former President Clinton.  That was during the White house BJ scandal.  

Every country has their share of crooked politicians.  I will follow this story to see its conclusion.