The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power--Daniel Webster
Mortality rates for cardiovascular diseases are approximately 30 percent higher among black adults than among white adults. Cervical cancer rates are almost five times higher among Vietnamese women in the U.S. than among white women. Prostate cancer is nearly twice as common among black men as it is among white men. So is vigilance in these subsets regarding these individual diseases profiling and should it be abandoned?
Emerging markets are now over half the world economy. The low interest rates in the U.S. have encouraged emerging market investment in dollars. The rising dollar will make those investments more expensive. The yield spread between high grade emerging markets and US AAA-rated corporate debt has jumped, almost doubling in less than three weeks to the highest level since mid-2012.
Mortality rates for cardiovascular diseases are approximately 30 percent higher among black adults than among white adults. Cervical cancer rates are almost five times higher among Vietnamese women in the U.S. than among white women. Prostate cancer is nearly twice as common among black men as it is among white men. So is vigilance in these subsets regarding these individual diseases profiling and should it be abandoned?
Emerging markets are now over half the world economy. The low interest rates in the U.S. have encouraged emerging market investment in dollars. The rising dollar will make those investments more expensive. The yield spread between high grade emerging markets and US AAA-rated corporate debt has jumped, almost doubling in less than three weeks to the highest level since mid-2012.
James Patterson the novelist announced he has donated about $437,000 to 81 independent bookstores — a gift that completes his plan to donate $1 million of his own money to support independent booksellers.
A real life Death on the Nile is Harry N. MacLean's Edgar-winning true crime tale In Broad Daylight: A Murder in Skidmore. It is an incredible story of a Missouri town's vigilante uprising against a local, violent man who committed crime after crime (including child molestation) but always escaping serious jail time. Ken Rex McElroy's murder took place (as the MacLean book's title suggests) in the middle of the day, in the middle of town. MacLean suggests that those who were involved have upheld a code of secrecy that's been kept for over 30 years.
Who is....Mandy Rice-Davies?
"Putinism" is the new buzzword. Fareed Zakaria lists as the crucial elements of Putinism " .... nationalism, religion, social conservatism, state capitalism and government domination of the media. They are all, in some way or another, different from and hostile to modern Western values of individual rights, tolerance, cosmopolitanism and internationalism.” Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan, Xi Jinping in China, Turkish President Recep Tayyip are all variations of this theme. Erdogan Narendra Modi, leader of the Hindu nationalist party who was denied entry into the United States for a decade for complicity in or toleration of a massacre of Muslims, is now prime minister of India. Hungary's Viktor Orban has said he sees in Russia a model for his own “illiberal state.” The National Front's Marine Le Pen wants to bring France into a new Gaullist Europe, stretching “from the Atlantic to the Urals,” with France seceding from the EU superstate.
“Of the 24 right-wing populist parties that took about a quarter of the European Parliament seats in May elections, Political Capital lists 15 as ‘committed' to Russia,” writes the AP. and they “share key views — advocacy of traditional family values, belief in authoritarian leadership, a distrust of the U.S., and support for strong law and order measures.”
So, Buchanan asks, "if America is a better country today than she has ever been, why are so many, East and West, recoiling from what we offer now?" (From Pat Buchanan)
Science fiction writer Neal Stephenson announced that he will be joining the startup Magic Leap as the company's "chief futurist." While the company itself remains something of a mystery, the Wall Street Journal reports that "the startup is developing its own eyeglasses-like device, different from Google Glass, designed to project computer-generated images over a real-life setting."
Golden oldie:
The Cuomo administration announced Wednesday that it would ban hydraulic fracturing in New York State, ending years of uncertainty by concluding that the controversial method of extracting gas from deep underground could contaminate the state’s air and water and pose inestimable public-health risks. "controversial." "contaminate....air and water?" "public-health risks?" All opinions must be heard. The democracy allows all beliefs.
Pamela Porter, the wife of accused former executive director of the McGill University Health Centre Dr. Arthur Porter, has pleaded guilty to two counts of money laundering in a fraud case involving a new Montreal hospital complex. She was extradited from Panama.
Porter was sentenced today to 33 months minus time served, meaning she has two years left in her sentence. Her time behind bars will be followed by a year of probation and 240 hours of community service.
The charges are tied to what police have described as the largest fraud in Canadian history, an alleged bribery scheme involving a $22.5 million payment from executives at construction firm SNC-Lavalin in order to obtain the contract to build the McGill University Health Centre superhospital.
The esteemed Dr. Porter is still in Panama fighting extradition.
Porter was sentenced today to 33 months minus time served, meaning she has two years left in her sentence. Her time behind bars will be followed by a year of probation and 240 hours of community service.
The charges are tied to what police have described as the largest fraud in Canadian history, an alleged bribery scheme involving a $22.5 million payment from executives at construction firm SNC-Lavalin in order to obtain the contract to build the McGill University Health Centre superhospital.
The esteemed Dr. Porter is still in Panama fighting extradition.
Orangutan is a word from the Malay and Indonesian languages that means "forest man."
The Clovis people entered North America 12 to 11 thousand years B.C. and are the direct ancestors of roughly 80% of all living Native American populations, with the remainder having entered afterwards. It is likely they were destroyed in the changes of The Younger Dryas stadial. (For reference, carbon dating data supports a date of death for Kennewick Man between 8340 and 9200 years before the present.)
Allegations emerged last summer from Anders Fogh Rasmussen, secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and former prime minister of Denmark, that Russia was secretly funding the anti-fracking movement.
Speaking at the United Kingdom's Royal Institute for International Affairs, Rasmussen said: "I have met with allies who can report that Russia, as part of their sophisticated information and disinformation operations, engaged actively with so-called non-government organizations (NGOs) — environmental organizations working against shale gas — to maintain European dependence on imported Russian gas."
For years Russian "reporters" have been following American accusations about fracking and reporting them in European papers in an effort to keep Europe disinterested in the technology to maintain European dependence on imported Russian gas.
The Swiss National Bank has introduced negative interest rates.
There were almost 61,000 cyber attacks and security breaches across the entire federal government last year according to a recent Obama administration report. The number of cyber incidents involving government agencies has jumped 35 percent between 2010 and 2013, from roughly 34,000 to about 46,000, according to another recent report by the Government Accountability Office. One particular incident occurred last January when hackers hit the Army Corps of Engineers and took sensitive information about the nation's 85,000 dams. That data included their location, condition and potential for fatalities if the dams were to be breached, according to a report by Sen. Tom Coburn, the ranking Republican on the Senate Homeland Security Committee.
Allegations emerged last summer from Anders Fogh Rasmussen, secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and former prime minister of Denmark, that Russia was secretly funding the anti-fracking movement.
Speaking at the United Kingdom's Royal Institute for International Affairs, Rasmussen said: "I have met with allies who can report that Russia, as part of their sophisticated information and disinformation operations, engaged actively with so-called non-government organizations (NGOs) — environmental organizations working against shale gas — to maintain European dependence on imported Russian gas."
For years Russian "reporters" have been following American accusations about fracking and reporting them in European papers in an effort to keep Europe disinterested in the technology to maintain European dependence on imported Russian gas.
The Swiss National Bank has introduced negative interest rates.
There were almost 61,000 cyber attacks and security breaches across the entire federal government last year according to a recent Obama administration report. The number of cyber incidents involving government agencies has jumped 35 percent between 2010 and 2013, from roughly 34,000 to about 46,000, according to another recent report by the Government Accountability Office. One particular incident occurred last January when hackers hit the Army Corps of Engineers and took sensitive information about the nation's 85,000 dams. That data included their location, condition and potential for fatalities if the dams were to be breached, according to a report by Sen. Tom Coburn, the ranking Republican on the Senate Homeland Security Committee.
Hares and rabbits are in the same family, Leporidae, but they are different species, like sheep and goats. Among many distinctions, rabbits live underground, hares do not.
"The National Homeownership Strategy Partners in the American Dream" was a document that was put together by HUD and some other private and public characters at the request of President Clinton back in 1995. It really should be read as an historical creation that tried to offer ideas that defied economic gravity: "For many potential homebuyers, the lack of cash available to accumulate the required downpayment and closing costs is the major impediment to purchasing a home. Other households do not have sufficient available income to to make the monthly payments on mortgages financed at market interest rates for standard loan terms. Financing strategies, fueled by the creativity and resources of the private and public sectors, should address both of these financial barriers to homeownership."
"The National Homeownership Strategy Partners in the American Dream" was a document that was put together by HUD and some other private and public characters at the request of President Clinton back in 1995. It really should be read as an historical creation that tried to offer ideas that defied economic gravity: "For many potential homebuyers, the lack of cash available to accumulate the required downpayment and closing costs is the major impediment to purchasing a home. Other households do not have sufficient available income to to make the monthly payments on mortgages financed at market interest rates for standard loan terms. Financing strategies, fueled by the creativity and resources of the private and public sectors, should address both of these financial barriers to homeownership."
Grownups put their signatures to that.
Numbers from the Bureau of Justice Statistics show that the rate of campus rape nationally is 6.1 in 1,000. The noncampus national rape rate is 7.6 in 1,000.
“It is not the right time for Vermont” to pass a single-payer system, Vermont Gov. Shumlin acknowledged in a public statement ending his signature initiative. He concluded the 11.5 percent payroll assessments on businesses and sliding premiums up to 9.5 percent of individuals’ income “might hurt our economy.” So he thinks that a new 11.5% in gross taxation on production and an additional 9.5% in personal taxes might, might hurt the economy.
To survive, nationalized health plans must control costs first. That is, they must limit access. If increased costs do not limit access then it must be done legislatively.
“It is not the right time for Vermont” to pass a single-payer system, Vermont Gov. Shumlin acknowledged in a public statement ending his signature initiative. He concluded the 11.5 percent payroll assessments on businesses and sliding premiums up to 9.5 percent of individuals’ income “might hurt our economy.” So he thinks that a new 11.5% in gross taxation on production and an additional 9.5% in personal taxes might, might hurt the economy.
To survive, nationalized health plans must control costs first. That is, they must limit access. If increased costs do not limit access then it must be done legislatively.
AAAAAAaaaaaaannnnnnddddddd......a picture of one of our nature friends:
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