Global+Problems+-+Economic+Concerns





__Drug Trade__
media type="youtube" key="bFLFihL6JNk" height="344" width="425"          ===__U.S Dependency on Oil__      === <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">
 * **<span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 255, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The illegal drug market in the U.S is one of the most profitable in the world **
 * **<span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 255, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">According to the U.S Customs Service, 60 million people enter the U.S on more than 675,000 private flights **
 * **<span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 255, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Another 6 million come by sea and 370 million by land **
 * **<span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 255, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Drug traffickers hide marijuana,cocaine, and heroin in the 400 million tons of cargo that enter the Unite States **
 * **<span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 255, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Criminal groups from South America have been smuggling drugs into the U.S since the 1970's, along with their distribution to the mid-western part of the country, they are attempting to expand into the eastern U.S markets **
 * **<span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 255, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Southeast and Southwest Asia smuggle heroin into the U.S, and use New York City as a major port of distribution **
 * **<span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 255, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Today Mexico's drug traffickers are the center of this hemispheres drug trade, and the center of the trading has switched from Columbia to the United States **
 * <span style="font-size: 150%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 255, 0);">**This picture breaks down how the drug trade works, Mexico receives illegal guns, and then export illegal drugs, and are paid**
 * <span style="font-size: 150%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 255, 0);">**The U.N estimates that the drug lords are in control of a $142 billion a __year__ business in cocaine, heroin, marijuana and other illegal drugs**
 * <span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(0, 255, 0);">** The new power of the cartels developing in Mexico has cause a great increase in violence around the U.S-Mexico border, where cartels attack both Mexican and U.S authorities ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; color: rgb(0, 255, 0);">[[image:drugspeopleuse.gif]]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; color: rgb(0, 255, 0);">**<span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(0, 255, 0);">This chart shows the use, and trade of illicit drugs coming into the U.S **
 * === <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The United States is the largest oil importer in the world, bringing in 12.1 million barrels    ===

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media type="youtube" key="_4UkMVSJo5Y" height="344" width="425"<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">**<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: center; display: block;"> __Interdependence__ ** <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center; display: block;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); text-align: center; display: block;">**__Globalization and Multinational Corporations__** <span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> __**Globalization-**__ <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">to make a company or business publicly accessible to the hole world
 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The united states hold 5% of the worlds population and has 25% of the world’s oil consumption
 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> The oil extraction rate is reaching nearly 1,000 barrels per second
 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> America spends more than $200,000 per minute on foreign oil and nearly 13 million per hour
 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Alternative energy sources are too expensive, and not very cost effective, some ideas of solutions are decades away
 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The use of pure ethanol is not practical because 11 acres of corn is only enough for one automobile per year
 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">If we wanted to use ethanol in all vehicles, we would have to cover about 97% of our land with corn
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Interdependent- mutually dependent; depending on each other
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today, China and the United States see each other as the strongest to their power in the 21st century
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Both China and the U.S have had an increase of economic interdependence in the past 25 years
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">U.S influence has decreased in the Middle East, Latin America, Asia, and Africa due to the interdependent relationship with China
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">China has gained an advantage in economic power in recent years, due to the U.S's purchase of Chinese exports and expanding private business ties

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">
 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Globalization is the interaction of people, companies, and governments of different nations that is driven by international trade and investment
 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">The process of globalization has many different effects including environment, culture, and political systems
 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">The idea of globalization has been around for a while, one of the first hints of globalization was in 1914 during the first world war
 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Today's wave of globalization is driven by policies that have opened economies both domestically and internationally
 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Technology is another principal in today's globalization, advancements have transformed economic life dramatically

<span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 128); font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**__Multinational Corporations__**- a corporation that manages production or delivers services in more then one country. <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 128); font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 128); font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">
 * <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 128); font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">For Example- Wall-Mart, Exxon mobil, General motors, Toyota motors, Chevron
 * <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 128); font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Supporters of multinational corporations say they create jobs and increase wealth and technology in countries that need such development