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Today, over 26,500 children died around the world
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by Anup ShahThis Page Last Updated Thursday, January 31, 2008
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Around the world, some 26,500 children die every day.

That is equivalent to:

1 child dying every 3 seconds
18 children dying every minute
A 2004 Asian Tsunami occurring every week
An Iraq-scale death toll every 15–36 days
Almost 10 million children dying every year
Some 60 million children dying between 2000 and 2006
The silent killers are poverty, hunger, easily preventable diseases and illnesses, and other related causes. In spite of the scale of this daily/ongoing catastrophe, it rarely manages to achieve, much less sustain, prime-time, headline coverage.

You're right of course and there are lots of attrocious happenings in the world .
Take the ongoing catastrophe which is centred in Zimbabwe or the wars being
waged across the globe. Greed seems to figure widely in many many events.

As Bill Hicks commented, if we took the money spent on waging wars ( ie profit to
the incrowd) and spent it on food for the starving and water for the dying etc we
could clear the world of those problems .....

How about those people who have hoarded billions and millions of dollars. Maybe we need to get some money from them. I don't know how people think it's fair for any one to have that much money. Money was created a solve a simple trade problem. But it has caused this amazing asymmetry in people. For instance regular people like us go to good schools and all, and then get happy to make $100K or more per year. We pay so many taxes. Most of the tax money actually comes from Payroll. As you might suspect the bonuses and other perks of rich ones are not taxed. Also from 1998-2006 many Corporations did NOT pay their due taxes, and never got prosecuted. But when you and me cannot afford to pay $1200 or so, we will be in so much trouble. What a world.

Thanks Trish, and today's news on Forbes. The wealthy just monarchs increased their total wealth from 95 to 131 billion in past year. This is just the monarchs I am talking about. The top 2% of richest people increased their share of total wealth to more than 60%, while remaining 98% fought for less than 40%. Actually this is very underestimated. It might be up to 70-75%.