Jank03 and guests discuss Tuesday's big event.

Everyone ready to vote? This week is election week!

The U.S. election between John McCain and Barack Obama is in its final stages. In the last week the pair have visited several states in hopes to gain a final influence on voters. The final vote will of course be made this week! So have their campaigns been successful? Have they got what it takes to be the next American President? All will be revealed in this article!

This week our panel has slightly changed. Holiday50 had to step out for this week because she is a Canadian and doesn't feel she has the knowledge to express an opinion on the situation. Ooooopppp has also stepped aside this week due to lack of time. Ferrari5x has replaced the both of them for this week.

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Pinkscunk writes about a serious problem.

Today a girl I admire, Georgia, was competing against other students at my school to move into the next round of "Australia's Young Person of the Year" award.

The students were asked a question they had never heard before and were given 2 minutes to answer it. They then had to present a prepared 5-minute speech on a topic they deemed worthy. Georgia spoke of Fair Trade chocolate and how children are forced to work in the cocoa bean fields for minimal pay, or as slaves, enduring abuse, snake/bug bites, injuries, and malnutrition.

She then went on to say that World Vision is supporting Fair Trade chocolate, so that companies who buy other farmers' cocoa beans will lose money. They hope this will become an incentive for all companies to buy Fair Trade chocolate, and for the other farmers to convert to Fair Trade through government funding. This, hopefully, will create more Fair Trade and eliminate the use of slaves and minimal pay workers in fields.

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