Read all about it! Some of the days news-
1)In today's New York Times (F 7-25-14), on p. A10:
The 85 richest people in the world have as much money as the bottom 3.5 Billion!
also
12% of humanity (842 Million) suffer from chronic hunger
aside
1.while 30% of humanity -almost a third- are overweight.
2.and, in america, almost 40% ($165 Billion/year) of food goes uneaten/to waste.
3.in the world, about a quarter -24%- of the annual 4 billion tons of food (6 quadrillion calories) produced goes wasted or lost.
This is mind-blowing, in my opinion.
:-)
2)In the Berkeley Tri-City Post (weekly edition, July 16-22, 2014):
Capitol Punishment was ruled unconstitutional by California's state supreme court in 1976, but was reinstated by the legislature the following year. Since then, 13 inmates have been executed here, most recently Clarence Ray Allen in 2006. An analysis by the Los Angeles Times found that
California spent $308 Million on each execution.
The article, taken from the Huffington Post, is about the good news, in my view, that a Federal Judge has ruled California's death penalty unconstitutional. He struck it down because the system is arbitrary and in violation of the Constitution's 8th Amendment.
aside (from wikipedia)
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, in 2011, world military expenditure for the world amounted to 1.735 trillion US$.[1]
news summary:
world news-
85, 3.5B,
California news-
$308M
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