Mankind's Top Problems                                                                                                                               

Questions and Answers are cited below as "Q" and "A"

1. Q: To what do I refer as mankind's top problems?

A: Poverty and Hunger;

Hate;

Drugs and Crime;

Inevitable Natural Disasters (e.g., tsunamis, volcanic actions, earthquakes, fires, etc.) and;

Warming of the planet.

2. Q: How do we solve these top problems?

A: Poverty and Hunger: As to poverty and hunger, -beginning with our own country and extending as far as possible, using all means available to overcome poverty and hunger.

The measures to cope with poverty and hunger should be specific, adequate economically, and scientifically well founded for which there is excellent material available including studies at Harvard University. The nature and causes of hunger are examined in two articles: "12 Myths About Hunger," (www.foodfirst.org/pubs) and "World Hunger Facts 2006," (www.worldhunger.org) which identify poverty as the principle cause of hunger. Poor people's lack of resources, extremely unequal income distribution within specific countries, and military conflicts around the world all contribute to world hunger.

Most people don't vote and until the political will is there to make it a world-wide priority, hunger will not end.

"According to Federal Election statistics, in the 2000 elections, only 51.3 percent of eligible voters went to the polls, while a mere 36.4 percent took part in the 1998 Congressional elections. Sam Daley-Harris, Results' founder, has declared a crisis in democracy that will not be solved until ordinary citizens come off the sidelines and assume our role as citizen leaders. ("Results" at www.results.org/website/article)

Drugs and Crime: Is there a correlation between drugs and crime?

"A study by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University confirms what many criminologists have long known: alcohol is associated with more violent crime than any illegal drug, including crack, cocaine, and heroin. Twenty-one percent of violent felons in state prison committed their crimes while under the influence of alcohol alone. Only 3% were high on crack or powder cocaine alone and only 1% were using heroin alone."

A further interesting statistic reveals that:

"Despite the fact that alcohol consumption is a positive correlate of homicide, Prohibition and its enforcement increased the homicide rate." (Drug Wars: FACTS" www.drugwarfacts.org)

Natural Disasters: According to an article published by BBC News:

"Natural disasters are on the rise. Events including earthquakes and volcanoes, floods and droughts, storms, fires and landslides killed about 83,000 people in 2003, up from about 53,000 deaths 13 years earlier, the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) said."

ISDR attributes this rise in natural disasters partly to "global warming." ISDR director, Salvano Briceno adds: "The urban concentration, the effects of climate change and the environmental degradation are greatly increasing vulnerability."

Global Warming: This is by far the most dangerous and in some ways, imminent of the top problems of mankind.

The solution for the warming of the planet is attending forthwith to the already polluted air instead of letting the pollution drive upward to be caught in this planet's gravity and ultimately threaten the possibility of human breathing.

"The latest scientific data confirm that the earth's climate is rapidly changing. Global temperatures increased by about 1 degree Fahrenheit over the course of the last century and will likely rise even more rapidly in coming decades."

"The cause? A thickening layer of carbon dioxide pollution, mostly from power plants and automobiles, that traps heat in the atmosphere."

"Unless global warming emissions are reduced, temperatures could rise another 3 to 9 degrees by the end of the century with far-reaching effects. Sea levels will rise; flooding coastal areas. Heat waves will be more frequent and intense. Droughts and wildfires will occur more often." ("The Consequences of Global Warming," www.nrdc.org)

Hate: How do we overcome hate when the Hamas organization pose the hate with overwhelming Araby voter support accepting as irrevocable the 1988 covenant to drive Israel and the Jews into the sea and at the same time, demand interim separation into two states, viz Arab (so-called Palestinian) and Israel?

There is annexed to this Plain Talk a study and declaration by an Arab who affirms the so-called Palestinian intention, and knowing his own people, instructs that the only first answer is force. This is for the simple reason known by the writer of his own people, that they must first be dealt with by force, if there is any sane negotiation to follow.

The present course of mankind is to kill in quarrels over territory, including Arabs killing Jews for alleged intrusion in the Jews' own homeland, now advertised by the Arabs as "Palestinian territory." This is obviously stupid, besides being immoral and impractical, because the Jews only have a 10,500 sq. mi. area left of their almost undefendable territory, -reduced from a rightful 45,000 sq. mi. in a vain effort to win peace from the Arabs.

On the other hand, the Arabs have approximately 3 million sq. mi. of so-called territories, -mostly very poorly exploited, and therefore leaving huge gaps of poverty. This is calculated to encourage the Arab masses to revolution and civil war.

Summarizing:

1. Strive in utmost seriousness to overcome poverty and hunger, especially in our own country.

2. We must meet force with force, so as to assure that our interlopers get no further opportunity such as the Gaza Strip for the Arabs to claim victory for what is ceded voluntarily by the Jews, but predictably treated by the Arabs, as proof of their victory.

* * * cc: George W. Bush, President

George H.W. Bush, Former President

Richard Cheney, Vice President

John Kerry, Senator

Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State

Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense

Paul Wolfowitz, Chairman of the International Bank

Colonel Oliver North

Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Security

Alberto Gonzales, U.S. Attorney General

Tony Blair, Prime Minister of Great Britain

Jack Straw, British Foreign Secretary

Newt Gingrich, Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives

Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel

His Excellency Daniel Ayalon Ambassador of Israel

Benjamin Netanyahu, Economy Minister for the Israeli Government

Israel's "Women In Green"

National Unity Coalition for Israel

Arianna Huffington, Syndicated Columnist

Yohanan Ramati, Chairman, Jerusalem Institute for Western Defense

Gerardo Joffe, FLAME (Facts & Logic About the Middle East)

Mortimer Zuckerman, Editor in Chief - US News and World Report

Time Magazine

Washington Post - Attn: Bob Woodward

International Jerusalem Post

The Weekly Standard - Bill Kristol, Editor

The Wall Street Journal - Editorial and Op-Ed Department

The New York Times, Op-Ed Department

Los Angeles Times, Op-Ed Department

Dr. and Mrs. Jordan Phillips,

Medical Books for China International

MoveOn PAC/www.MoveonPac.Org.