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Friday, September 26, 2008

Just to Put Things in Perspective

[via Washington Post]
[W]orld leaders declared what experts just two years ago considered virtually impossible: They believe the number of deaths caused by malaria can fall from more than 1 million annually to zero by 2015…. pledg[ing] on Thursday an unprecedented sum -- more than $3 billion -- for malaria programs.

I love that, "an unprecedented sum… $3 billion" …to save a million people a year from death by malaria! While we spend hundreds of billions bailing out Billionaires Behaving Badly or endlessly extending illegal, immoral, unpopular wars and occupations based on lies and benefiting nobody.

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