See here: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fot3m7kyLn4[/youtube] Skip to around 0:50 if your inpatient.
The total cost of heart disease in the US in just 2008 was estimated at $300 billion. the World Health Organization has estimated that ending world hunger would cost approximately $195 billion.
The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes take off, could throw a pickup truck over a mile.
Keanu Reeves made $114m for the first Matrix movie. He gave $100m of that away to the SFX crew. Overall he has made $260m from just the trilogy.
Because of their very large prison population and the prison rape culture that is celebrated in popular culture. Prison rape in Australia rising for the same reason - popular culture, and American culture in particular. In the movie 'The Godfather' the soldiers are shown kissing the Don's ring a la papal devotion. This was a literary invention by Puzo, faithfully filmed by Coppola. After the popularity of the film, the tradition of 'kissing the ring' gradually arose in the mafia.
They already have a border fortification system built to stop Saddams' tank battalions from invading too. That's if Saddams' tanks were well maintained enough to get near the border.... So this is just updating their border fortifications from a conventional warfare threat to counter the new asymmetrical warfare threat. Saudi Arabia also has constructed their own security wall inside Yemen to stop terrorists from crossing and killing their citizens. Internationally this goes unreported and unremarked upon. But when Israel did the same thing on a small scale only then because it is The Joooos that it is apparently a bad thing.
The Andamanese are believed to be descended from the migrations which, about 60,000 years ago, brought the first modern humans out of Africa to the Andaman Islands. Besides the aboriginal people of Tasmania, the Andamanese were the only people who in the nineteenth century knew no method of making fire. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andamanese_people
Not quite the same thing, the Saudi wall doesn't cut communities in half or stop people from getting to work or prevent people from bringing in basic necessities like food and construction materials. I believe in a strong and safe Israel and maybe they needed the wall, I know enough about it to know I don't know enough to make a comment on it's merits vs it's costs but I do know it's a lot more serious a deal than a wall across barren desert. The wall in Israel also has much broader political implications for the region and whether you think they are trumped up cynical claims to gain arab sympathy or genuine issues they have a much broader impact and are therefore worthy of discussion on the media.
Where there will no more Palestinian land any more, then international community my recognize Palestine as a state...
