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The dollar is plunging. Detroit's car dominance is history. London claims to be outfinancing Wall Street. So maybe it's time to ask whether the era of US dominance is over for good.

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By Ernest Beck, MSN Money

Forbes magazine's annual list of the world's richest people is eagerly anticipated as a barometer of wealth and power. And each year the mighty U.S., whose economy is often described as the envy of the world, has dominated the rankings.

Until now, that is.

In its most recent survey, the Forbes billionaire list changed dramatically: The United States made only four appearances in the top 20, compared with 10 names two years ago. India, by contrast, posted an astonishing four in the top 10, twice as many as the U.S. While America still leads the overall list, Russia, the new nation of raging capitalism, ranked second. Its 87 billionaires pushed aside Germany, the former runner-up. Is Wall Street's dominance over?

Many Americans are still rich, of course; many more are comfortably middle class. And the economy, though weak, is nowhere near collapse. But the shift in the billionaire allotment reflects broader trends. While globalization is indeed producing fabulous wealth in countries that were once considered basket cases, many are asking whether the U.S. is losing its competitive edge and surrendering its long-held leadership positions in business, finance and innovation to foreign competitors.

"The U.S. was always No. 1 and assumed it would be No. 1 and acted accordingly," says Doug Rediker, a former investment banker and a co-director of the Global Strategic Finance Initiative at the New America Foundation, a Washington, D.C., think tank. "Now other nations are catching up. There are competitors fighting for market share in every industry. The U.S. is under pressure."

Consider the sinking value of the dollar: The greenback is still the world's reserve currency, but its continuing erosion carries a symbolic value, telling the world that the U.S. doesn't have its financial house in order. At home, that means higher prices for food and fuel; it also means more-expensive vacations for Americans traveling abroad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frCwh7h68lU New American family transportation system.( shopping carts) Cars will be abandoned as gas price increases. Americans will become healthier as they walk everywhere. Big Guts and Colossal Bottoms will become rare items. Americans will start to look like Europeans again.

-- Between 1962 and the year 2000, the number of obese Americans grew from 13% to an alarming 31% of the population. -- 63% of Americans are overweight with a Body Mass Index (BMI) in excess of 25.0. -- 31% are obese with a BMI in excess of 30.0. -- Childhood obesity in the United States has more than tripled in the past two decades. -- According to the U.S. Surgeon General report obesity is responsible for 300,000 deaths every year. ******************************************* WHY ARE AMERICAN WOMEN FAT? American women become fat on purpose, so as to ensure their husbands are adequately turned off of intercourse. Many American men have bizarre sexual fetishes, so it can be assumed that for every fat American lady you see, there is at least one perverted sexual deviant

This man is obese but he is not an obese lesbian. I tried to get pictures of obese lesbians but none wanted to pose for the shot. (Ric)

LESBIANS are twice as likely as heterosexual women to be overweight or obese, which puts them at greater risk for obesity-related health problems and death, US researchers said.

The report, published in the American Journal of Public Health, is one of the first large studies to look at obesity among lesbians.

Ulrike Boehmer of the Boston University School of Public Health and colleagues looked at a 2002 national survey of almost 6000 women, and found that lesbians were 2.69 times more likely to be overweight and 2.47 times more likely to be obese.

“Lesbians have more than twice the odds of (being) overweight,” the authors wrote. This would put them at a higher risk for diabetes and heart disease, among other ailments.

“Our findings indicate that lesbian sexual identity is linked to a greater prevalence of overweight and obesity,” the authors wrote in the study, released this week

Continued: "Why are American women fat?

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Why are American women so fat and ugly?

American diet! The book FATLAND concludes that it is high fructose corn syrup in everything that is most responsible. The stupid stuff is in everything. It's sweet, keeps things moist, is a preservative and is cheap. A Twinkie has a shelf life of 7 years! Even Diet soda will make you fat before it has this wretched liquid sugar in it. It's the only sugar your liver can't process so it dumps it right into your bloodstream to beef you up. Second reason is hydrogenated fats. They are fading out of foods, but only slightly. Food companies just figured out how to keep it off the label. It's still there. For instance, many times it will say "No trans fats" or "No hydrogenated fats". But the FDA allows you to say "FAT FREE" or "NO FAT" if it has less than 1/2 mg or less PER SERVING. So food companies just say it has more "Servings". Then, because it says no fat or fat free, you eat more than you usually would, and end up getting the same or more. Then of course, there are all those stupid diet fads so big on talkshow America...the harder you try to lose weight, the more you spend, the fatter you get, so the more you have to spend. That's the American way. No carb diet. What a joke. If you don't have carbs you'll die. No matter what you deprive yourself of, you can't fool Mother Nature. As long as you don't eat nutritious food your body needs, your survival instinct will keep eating everything it can get down your throat till it gets the right nutrient. Unfortunately, by the time it gets real food to feed your cells, you are so fat there's a hole in the bathroom where the scale used to be, and when you take a walk at night, you create an eclipse of the moon.

Second reason is hydrogenated fats. They are fading out of foods, but only slightly. Food companies just figured out how to keep it off the label. It's still there. For instance, many times it will say "No trans fats" or "No hydrogenated fats". But the FDA allows you to say "FAT FREE" or "NO FAT" if it has less than 1/2 mg or less PER SERVING. So food companies just say it has more "Servings". Then, because it says no fat or fat free, you eat more than you usually would, and end up getting the same or more. Then of course, there are all those stupid diet fads so big on talkshow America...the harder you try to lose weight, the more you spend, the fatter you get, so the more you have to spend. That's the American way. No carb diet. What a joke. If you don't have carbs you'll die. No matter what you deprive yourself of, you can't fool Mother Nature. As long as you don't eat nutritious food your body needs, your survival instinct will keep eating everything it can get down your throat till it gets the right nutrient. Unfortunately, by the time it gets real food to feed your cells, you are so fat there's a hole in the bathroom where the scale used to be, and when you take a walk at night, you create an eclipse of the moon.

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UK Daily View: Inflation surge triggers letter from Bank

Chris Giles on dovish public explanation from Mervyn King after inflation hits 3.3%

U.S. Dollar in Sharp Decline. Dump it now. Later it will be worth less. It is propped up artificially and it is due for a fast decline. The U.S. economy is teetering on bankruptcy. First it will be more savings and loans go down. House prices will fall. Real wages will buy less and overseas trips will be out of the question. The days of the dominant U.S. is over. Maybe the currency will be worth more than wallpaper, but not by much. Stocks and bonds will follow suit and gradually the U.S.A. will decline to that of a lesser world monetary power.

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Welcome Honorable Chinese Dragon. Here is your visa to Canada. Come gobble us Up. We don't mind! The 8th day of the 8th month, 2008. A day of great significance for Chinese, who consider 8 a lucky number and three 8s very lucky. That is why the Games starts today. So it is an unlucky day for the non-Chinese, who see the celestials taking over the world. Are the rest of us to be squeezed out? As I live in the Vancouver area, I see it already happening with great rapidity. If I voice my objections to it happening, there are now laws in this country that inhibit me. Therefore I must welcome them. Hello, welcome Mr Hong, Mr Wang. Mr Chow, Mr Lee, Mr Wing, Mr Chou, Mr Hang, Mr Yew and your many millions of relatives in China waiting for visas to Canada. No I don't mind you squeezing me out, taking the jobs and the places in colleges and universities. No I don't mind my fellows being homeless, collecting cans to eke out inadequate welfare payments. No I don't mind more and more signs in Chinese and fewer in English. No I don't mind going into a store and Chinese being served before me (if ever.) Here is a knife . I don't mind you cutting off my head while I am sitting in a bus. Please do it. It will be quicker for you to take over Canada and the world. Be my guest. You may even use me for body parts like your government does in China to those who get in the way of the great world mongoloid takeover. Let the Games begin.

Are you Watching your Butt?

We are being observed by GOD even when we do private things, like scratching our rear ends or picking our prognoses. HE or maybe SHE has nothing better to do than monitor six and a half billion human beings and their sins as well as attending to the animals and birds and make every little mosquito whir its wings.What utter crap!! That is why I am a free-thinker and reject all that religious B.S. they tried so hard to make me believe, when my mind was young and vulnerable. DID THEY GET YOU?

The revolution will be streamed online

The revolution will be streamed online

BY BUZZ BISHOP

When Leo Laporte's TV show, The Lab with Leo, was cancelled earlier this year by Rogers Television, he didn't get on the phone and try to shop it to another network. Instead, he rented out a second floor of his workspace and created his own network - online.Such is broadcasting in 2008. You don't need a traditional network to get your message out. Leo spent $30,000 on equipment for his studio and created his own. Digg creator, Kevin Rose, did the same thing. When TechTV moved away from technology and the web to focus on gaming, he left the traditional network and created his own, Revision3. In 2007, Revision3 distributed 25 million copies of their 17 shows, many of them starring old TechTV personalities.They used to say the revolution will be televised. We'll have to update the battle cry a bit - the revolution is being streamed.Video is not the next frontier for the web, it's the current frontier. Bloggers no longer write their entries, they tape them and post them as video blogs, or vlogs.You don't have to spend 30 grand to get your own video empire on the Internet. As little as $100 can get you the new Creative Vado, a handheld video camera no bigger than your cell phone. It has easy one-button access for shooting video, and is primed to get your content online instantly. Along the bottom, a simple USB plug slides out so you can hook up to your computer easily and with one click get your project on YouTube.Grab a webcam and visit a website like Ustream, or StickCam and you can have a live show where you can interact with viewers in a chatroom. StickCam is what Leo uses for his TWiT Live Network, I use Ustream and the built in iSight in my MacBook to stream live from the 95Crave studios each afternoon.Robert Scoble is, arguably, the most prolific blogger on the web. He has embraced video as part of something he calls "the world wide talk show." He uses a Nokia N95 cellphone and Qik.com to stream video from his phone live to the internet.Scoble interviews many of the leading web innovators on a daily basis, some of them unscheduled. He famously approached Henry Kissinger at a conference in Switzerland and startled his subject with "Hello! You're live on the Internet." While Scoble is streaming with his phone, he can interact with viewers on the screen of his phone through a chat room.Stephen Jagger from Reachd runs seminars helping small business maximize their websites, which includes adding video."Get a camera, any camera," Stephen urges. "You're the expert, educate your customers. Just do something."

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