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To: miraje who wrote (524367)11/24/2012 4:38:29 PM
From: miraje2 Recommendations  Respond to of 793927
 
My vision of the future now is: "look at Europe."

Look what's happening there now..

10,000 march in Dublin against next Irish budget...

"The government can't be given a free hand to cut whatever they like. You have to be willing to get out on the streets and do something," said Lizzy Stringer, a 26-year-old school assistant who marched in a hand-made protest suit emblazoned with words summarizing the personal despair behind Ireland's debt crisis: hunger, depression, suicide...

...Unemployment sits near a 17-year high of 14.8 percent, a figure that would be far worse were it not for Ireland's tradition of emigrating worldwide for jobs...

news.yahoo.com

Rapid action needed to halt malaria in Greece, say scientists

LONDON (Reuters) - Greek authorities must urgently step up control of mosquitoes and surveillance of infected people to stop malaria from re-establishing itself in the crisis-hit country, scientists said on Friday...

...Greece has established populations of potentially malarial mosquito species, and last year, 40 cases of locally-acquired malaria were reported, mainly in Lakonia and Attica. Between January 1 and October 22 this year Greece reported 75 cases in total, 16 of which were locally acquired.

Other mosquito-borne diseases, including West Nile virus carried by Culex modestus mosquitoes, also occur in Greece...

news.yahoo.com

Etc, etc, etc... Third world problems coming to your neighborhood soon. When will we learn??