"March 5, 2009"
http://www.spaceweather.com/
"Daily Sun: 05 Mar 09 The sun is blank--no sunspots. Sunspot number: 0"
"Far side of the Sun: This holographic image reveals no sunspots on the far
side of the sun."
"Planetary K-index
Now: Kp= 0 quiet"

The face of the Sun is without blemish:
http://www.spaceweather.com/images20...mhuek4kl eg03

Please visit:
http://blog.nj.com/southjersey_impac...SolarCycle.jpg

The right panel shows the face of the Sun as it looked on a good day during
the late Modern Warm Period. Sunspots are the apparent size of craters on
the moon. The left panel shows a spotless Sun as it looks today.

Please write to Al Gore so that Al knows that the Sun is not living up to
his religious expectations. Al Gore is a divinity school dropout. George
Carlin had a better grasp of the true nature of God's creation, than does Al
Gore.

Please visit:
http://www.co-intelligence.org/newsl...es/sun-etc.jpg
which shows the relative sizes of the Sun and planets. Compared to the Sun,
Jupiter is the size of a pea, earth is the size of a grain of sand.

Global jobless ranks to swell by 20% in 2009: ILO
Last Updated: Thursday, March 5, 2009 | 11:35 AM ET
CBC News

The number of men and women without work could rise in 2009 by 38 million,
or a number greater than Canada's entire population, according to a study
released Thursday.

The International Labour Office said the ranks of the world's jobless could
swell to 231 million in the current year compared to 193 million in 2008,
depending upon how much the global economy slows.

If correct, the result would be a rise in the global jobless population by
one-fifth, the office said.

The ILO, which is a United Nations organization concerned with labour
standards and other types of employment issues, released the report as part
of International Women's Day.

No growth
In its forecast, the agency predicted that the world's gross domestic
product will barely expand at all in 2009, up only 0.5 per cent for the
year.

"The labour market scenario for 2009 shows a deterioration in global labour
markets for both men and women," the ILO said.

Slowing growth, combined with improved productivity, often leads to fewer
employed men and women, especially in developing regions where the potential
for labour-saving innovations is more pronounced, economists said.

By sex
Breaking down the changes by gender, the ILO said that the number of females
without work will rise by 16 million, reaching 97 million by the end of
2009. The jobless percentage for women will increase by more than one
percentage point in the same year, reaching 7.4 per cent by the start of
2010.

The unemployment rate for men will rise in the 12-month period as well,
hitting 7.1 per cent, up from 6.0 per cent in 2008.

In terms of absolute numbers, the number of male jobless will spike to 134
million in 2009, up from 112 million one year earlier, according to the ILO.