Current Events: A World of Hate

Can you believe it? The end of October is drawing near and in no time, the end of the year will be approaching. The older we get, the faster time seems to fly.
The big day is coming near! I’m casting in my vote for the 2008 presidential election! o geez! Let’s hope our country can [...]

Current Events: Sichuan Earthquake

UPDATE: May 16, 2008
Myanmar: Myanmar cyclone death toll nearly 78,000

“The cyclone’s official death toll has nearly doubled to almost 78,000 and another 56,000 people remain missing two weeks after the devastating storm, state television reported Friday.”
The Red Cross fears the toll may be as high as 128,000; the U.N. estimates more than 100,000 died. The [...]

A jumbo of stuff

Since I don’t feel like writing 3 separate blogs, I will combine these 3 completely different topics into 1:
1. I’ve told several people this after didi informed me about it! So my apologies for being repetitive but here is some news:
Fox News: Yale Student Insists ‘Abortion Art’ Project is Real, Despite University’s Claims of ‘Creative [...]

Current Events: Lunar Eclipse 2008

I’m a fanatic when it comes to the solar system, so this is quite exciting! Please be on alert! On Wednesday, February 20th, 2008, starting at 5:43 PM PST, there will be a Lunar Eclipse! Check this website by clicking >Here< for further details.

I’m very-much-so looking forward to this =) I can’t think of [...]

Current Events: China’s Pollution

It’s been awhile since I have done a blog in relevance to current events, so here we go!
Below is data from 2004 (link).

Rank
Country
Annual CO2 emissions
in thousands of metric tons
Percentage of total emissions[4]

-
World
27,245,758
100.0 %

1
United States [5]
6,049,435
22.2 %

2
China
5,010,170
18.4 %

-
European Union
3,115,125
11.4 %

3
Russia
1,524,993
5.6 %

4
India
1,342,962
4.9 %

5
Japan
1,257,963
4.6 %

6
Germany
808,767
3.0 %

7
Canada
639,403
2.3 %

8
United Kingdom
587,261
2.2 [...]