I don't really watch or read the news. So I don't keep up with politics. Nor do I keep tabs on foreign news. It is good that I am taking this class, because now I will be able to do both of those things. Hopefully discussing and debating about politics and foreign policies two times a week will allow me to become interested enough in a topic so that I can keep up with it. So I wouldn't say this class is boring, but to me it is mostly new.
My thoughts more on the rice shortage and problem. I think the two main people who will be effected by the rice shortage will be the Hispanics and the Asians; Rice is such a major part or staple in their food and culture. It was always readily available and cheap so everyone could afford to feed their families and stretch meals. Now that prices have gone up and there's a limit on it, people with lower income who depend on rice will have to find a new cheap resource to feed there families. I don't really think the rice shortage will effect anyone with higher income other then they will have to pay more or they will just go with out rice and miss it. Restaurants will have the same problems depending on how dependent the menu is on rice. If the restaurant only has like one or two rice dishes they could just easily switch them out or suck up the prices, but if the restaurant has a rice dependent menu they would have to ether suck up the prices also or do major renovations to there menu. Restaurants who do choose to keep their rice dishes might even have to fix their increase in supply prices by cutting jobs or wadges which in turn cause effects to the employees. I think eventually people will find a replacement for rice in till the everything is stable again. My guess for what will replace rice is potatoes. The potato's nutrient value is close to rice and is a cheap easy way to feed the family. I'm not coming up with these ideas from nothing. I'm basing them from when I was growing up and also from my father, who immigrated here from Cuba. He always talks about what it was like when he was young and how him and his family had no money. When he would talk about what they ate, every dish had ether rice or potatoes and he said it was because those two were so easy to come by and cheap you could mix them with anything a stretch a meal. When ever they didn't have potatoes on hand they would cook rice and when they didn't have rice they would cook potatoes. So based on that, that's why I think potatoes will become the new rice and not only when it comes to lower income families but for everyone.
Journal 1 Global Issues, section 1  Section one of the global issues books contains a synopsis on U.S. foreign policy. This section presents many issues that pertain to the current state of U.S. foreign Policy, however the main focus was on the American involvement in the Iraq war and the associated political issues. The section also presented statistics showing the american public’s approval of various foreign policy issues. The section’s opening statement mentions “rising casualties in the Iraq war”, while this is a true statement it also indicative of the negative bias present among todays media and immediately begins to discredit the author’s neutrality as a source. The viewpoint many americans have of the Iraq war is based upon the negative perception of the American media. While no war is good and any casualties are unfortunate, this is the nature of human conflict as it has been throughout history. The American public has been made out of touch and overly sensitive in regard to the loss of human life. Many people in the U.S. oppose war on principle and while this ideal works in theory, the human race has proved that utopia simply isn’t feasible. The rights and beliefs our founding fathers believed in were won through blood. Human sacrifice during warfare is inevitable, however I feel the current administration should be praised for keeping the loss of life to a minimum. I would like to offer a statistic of my own; according to icasualties.org 4050 american lives have been lost in the Iraq war. During the construction of the Panama Canal, over 5000 lives were lost. I feel this is indicative of the value being placed on our soldiers and the governments commitment to seeing them return home safely.
"Royal Blood" Classicism can be distilled into it's two most basic elements, the haves and have nots. The difference today is that it is easier to get into the club.
I saw in the news today that a former GTMO detainee committed a suicide attack. He was repatriated back to Kuwait in 2005, released on bail, acquitted by a Kuwaiti court and on Weds it was reported that he blew himself up in Mosul. (sure, this didn't happen on day 2, but I don't remember that far back) Now, why exactly he was in GTMO is probably classified and the less you know about the people being held down there, the better. I know of two former detainees that have been blown up since their release from GTMO, one by his own hand and another by what I hope was a laser guided bomb released from an F/A 18. What's the point? I'm tired of everybody badmouthing the US and GTMO especially when the only basis for their criticism is based on rumors that the media reports as fact. The people down there are there for a reason and they being treated well within the Geneva convention. If you haven't been there and seen it first hand, shut up, you don't know what you are talking about.
It all depends on who you ask the pros will say yes the con will say no. It is effective if there is a agenda to be preformed. If life and death is the objective and the information is need then you would say yes if not then no. I say by all means necessary
Could Terrorists get Nuclear Weapons? P. 57 It seems to be very feasible that terrorists could get nuclear weapons, r that materials needed to construct them. Osama bin Laden has expressed interest in their acquisition for “the defense of Muslims.” There also seems to be plenty of nuclear material unguarded or for sale as well, mainly in Russia and the other former states of the Soviet Union. According to reports by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), there have been about “630 incidents of trafficking of nuclear and other radioactive material, with 17 cases involving plutonium and highly enriched uranium (HUE).” This was in 1993 and definitely proves that the trafficking of, at least, the materials for creating nuclear weapons has, and probably still does, occur. Whether they have the capacity to build a nuclear weapon or not is still apparently doubtful, or unknown. However, according to the article, it does seem to be feasible.
I believe that there is fast becoming a shortage in everything around the world. Gas, jobs, food, safe medicines and a thriving economy are all falling fast and hard. The sad thing is that instead of finding valuable solutions to these legitimate problems, most of the worlds political stage leaders and officials are too busy pointing the fingers, spinning their own wheels or just completely being a Bush-like politician. A politician who has no real connection to the people that they represent.
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I don't really watch or read the news. So I don't keep up with politics. Nor do I keep tabs on foreign news. It is good that I am taking this class, because now I will be able to do both of those things. Hopefully discussing and debating about politics and foreign policies two times a week will allow me to become interested enough in a topic so that I can keep up with it. So I wouldn't say this class is boring, but to me it is mostly new.
Journal 2
My thoughts more on the rice shortage and problem. I think the two main people who will be effected by the rice shortage will be the Hispanics and the Asians; Rice is such a major part or staple in their food and culture. It was always readily available and cheap so everyone could afford to feed their families and stretch meals. Now that prices have gone up and there's a limit on it, people with lower income who depend on rice will have to find a new cheap resource to feed there families. I don't really think the rice shortage will effect anyone with higher income other then they will have to pay more or they will just go with out rice and miss it. Restaurants will have the same problems depending on how dependent the menu is on rice. If the restaurant only has like one or two rice dishes they could just easily switch them out or suck up the prices, but if the restaurant has a rice dependent menu they would have to ether suck up the prices also or do major renovations to there menu. Restaurants who do choose to keep their rice dishes might even have to fix their increase in supply prices by cutting jobs or wadges which in turn cause effects to the employees. I think eventually people will find a replacement for rice in till the everything is stable again. My guess for what will replace rice is potatoes. The potato's nutrient value is close to rice and is a cheap easy way to feed the family. I'm not coming up with these ideas from nothing. I'm basing them from when I was growing up and also from my father, who immigrated here from Cuba. He always talks about what it was like when he was young and how him and his family had no money. When he would talk about what they ate, every dish had ether rice or potatoes and he said it was because those two were so easy to come by and cheap you could mix them with anything a stretch a meal. When ever they didn't have potatoes on hand they would cook rice and when they didn't have rice they would cook potatoes. So based on that, that's why I think potatoes will become the new rice and not only when it comes to lower income families but for everyone.
Journal 1
Global Issues, section 1

Section one of the global issues books contains a synopsis on U.S. foreign policy. This section presents many issues that pertain to the current state of U.S. foreign Policy, however the main focus was on the American involvement in the Iraq war and the associated political issues. The section also presented statistics showing the american public’s approval of various foreign policy issues. The section’s opening statement mentions “rising casualties in the Iraq war”, while this is a true statement it also indicative of the negative bias present among todays media and immediately begins to discredit the author’s neutrality as a source. The viewpoint many americans have of the Iraq war is based upon the negative perception of the American media. While no war is good and any casualties are unfortunate, this is the nature of human conflict as it has been throughout history. The American public has been made out of touch and overly sensitive in regard to the loss of human life. Many people in the U.S. oppose war on principle and while this ideal works in theory, the human race has proved that utopia simply isn’t feasible. The rights and beliefs our founding fathers believed in were won through blood. Human sacrifice during warfare is inevitable, however I feel the current administration should be praised for keeping the loss of life to a minimum. I would like to offer a statistic of my own; according to icasualties.org 4050 american lives have been lost in the Iraq war. During the construction of the Panama Canal, over 5000 lives were lost. I feel this is indicative of the value being placed on our soldiers and the governments commitment to seeing them return home safely.
"Royal Blood"
Classicism can be distilled into it's two most basic elements, the haves and have nots. The difference today is that it is easier to get into the club.
I saw in the news today that a former GTMO detainee committed a suicide attack. He was repatriated back to Kuwait in 2005, released on bail, acquitted by a Kuwaiti court and on Weds it was reported that he blew himself up in Mosul. (sure, this didn't happen on day 2, but I don't remember that far back)
Now, why exactly he was in GTMO is probably classified and the less you know about the people being held down there, the better. I know of two former detainees that have been blown up since their release from GTMO, one by his own hand and another by what I hope was a laser guided bomb released from an F/A 18.
What's the point? I'm tired of everybody badmouthing the US and GTMO especially when the only basis for their criticism is based on rumors that the media reports as fact. The people down there are there for a reason and they being treated well within the Geneva convention. If you haven't been there and seen it first hand, shut up, you don't know what you are talking about.
I agree, J.C. We all need to be more grateful for our military.....
Chapter 6 Torture Debate
(2) Is Torture Effective?
It all depends on who you ask the pros will say yes the con will say no. It is effective if there is a agenda to be preformed. If life and death is the objective and the information is need then you would say yes if not then no. I say by all means necessary
Could Terrorists get Nuclear Weapons? P. 57
It seems to be very feasible that terrorists could get nuclear weapons, r that materials needed to construct them. Osama bin Laden has expressed interest in their acquisition for “the defense of Muslims.” There also seems to be plenty of nuclear material unguarded or for sale as well, mainly in Russia and the other former states of the Soviet Union. According to reports by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), there have been about “630 incidents of trafficking of nuclear and other radioactive material, with 17 cases involving plutonium and highly enriched uranium (HUE).” This was in 1993 and definitely proves that the trafficking of, at least, the materials for creating nuclear weapons has, and probably still does, occur. Whether they have the capacity to build a nuclear weapon or not is still apparently doubtful, or unknown. However, according to the article, it does seem to be feasible.
This is Brad not Ms. Khofheimer...
I believe that there is fast becoming a shortage in everything around the world. Gas, jobs, food, safe medicines and a thriving economy are all falling fast and hard. The sad thing is that instead of finding valuable solutions to these legitimate problems, most of the worlds political stage leaders and officials are too busy pointing the fingers, spinning their own wheels or just completely being a Bush-like politician. A politician who has no real connection to the people that they represent.
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