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Learning from Europe
An article worth reading which dismisses many beliefs held about Europe, its economy and social blanket. Check Mr Krugman's article in New York Times.
Women and their treatment in the US, writing in progress
I get tired of reading of the plight of women in Afghanistan, when I don't hear about their plight in the US.
Women are subjected to the violence of men, often their husbands. They are raped by them, they are battered.
And in the best of circumstances they suffer a lower social status and a lower median income for the same jobs.
Women are living in a culture which shows 13 year olds girls bikini models in Sports Illustrated magazines.
Big bonuses for the bailed out bankers
We must stop the bleeding. The middle class does not have any more savings, they have been stollen; now they loose their jobs and their homes. Stop the thieves, stop the bankers. How can these private banks have the interests of our nation in mind? Impose an "embargo" on bonuses until the wealth is redistributed more equitably and let's consider de-privatizing banks.
Keeping Urban chicken
A great video to encourage having chicken for organic eggs. Check it in the Guardian.
Maine to consider warnings on Cell Phones
Like cigarettes, cell phones must be banned from public places, and you must be 18 or older to own one. Cell phones micro-waves are dangerous and possibly cumulative when in enclosed public places. Several studies have been publish one more recently in israel which show the connection between brain tumors and cell phone usage. Maine is in the lead we should all follow. The story is in the New York Times.
Readability
Readability is a wonderful gadget which is free and let's you get rid of the clutter; it is easy to install and it works.
Get it here: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ I found the information in the New York Times article which discussed the gadgets of 2009. For the whole story here is the link http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/technology/personaltech/31pogue.html?hpw
Grow new teeth
A cool dental procedure to grow teeth, it works in Mice and thus could work in humans. Check the article in the Guardian.
US has been violating Pakistan sovereignty
Can you imagine what we would do to a country which would lunch some operations on US soil?
Video games and Art
Check the article in the Guardian. I think it is a good story for parents of kids who spend a lot of time playing computer games.
Euros become currency of drug cartels
We must wonder what will the effect on the US economy will be if any? See the story on the Guardian
Questioning a $30,000-a-Month Cancer Drug
80% of the cost of the drugs will be covered by medicare but since only the wealthy will afford the $3,000 per month the drug will still cost, we have a system of welfare and health care for the rich only; yet the drug companies are passing the cost to all tax payers including the ones who won't afford the treatments. The drug companies are raising their prices with the development of our new health care system, taking advantage of the lack of price regulation for the pharmaceutical products. The drug companies will bankrupt the system. Check the article in the NY Times story.
Unemployment drops to 17.2%
Check the whole story. The official unemployment does not take some numbers into account. This is the truer unemployment rate; the story is in this Washington Post blog.
Study questions Safety of Mammograms in Young Women at high Risk of Cancer
It is obvious that all radiations have negative effects. The story in the NY Times discusses mammograms and their dangers. See the story. I am waiting for stories in the overuse of dental routine x-rays.
Iraq inquiry's game-changing evidence
The war monger politicians persuaded the public to sacrifice their children and money with lies. The Guardian is covering the story of the inquiry into the Iraq war.
Car crashed victim trapped in a coma for 23 years was conscious
Check this incredible story, in the Guardian.
Chavez Says Israelis Must Reject "genocidal' Leaders
The best quote ever, one that tells all: "The State of Israel has become a murderous lackey at the service of imperialism."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/05/world/middleeast/05briefs-Syriabrf.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/05/world/middleeast/05briefs-Syriabrf.html
U.S. Still Using Security Firm It Broke With
$400 million in contracts to protect diplomats; while our soldiers are dying doing the same jobs for a lot less. The U.S. contracts Blackwater because the contractors are not controlled by the public. They have impunity to do things that our soldiers would be court marshaled for. It is scandalous. Check the whole story: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/22/us/22intel.html
Afghanistan + More Troops = Catastrophe (Full Video)
I liked the video until the end, when it was said that Pakistan was "the most dangerous country" because it suggested that we should move our troops to Pakistan.
Right now the most dangerous countries are Russia, United States, Europe and Israel. We have displaced millions, killed millions, and injured millions. We are not better than the torturers in Congo and Sudan, we act the same: we terrorize populations.
If there was a place to send troops to protect populations against aggressors would be: Palestine, Congo and Sudan. But we ignore the atrocities because they do not have resources we want, or their corrupt government gives them to us.
Troops should only be deployed to prevent populations from an aggressor.
Which troops can protect their population against us?
Medical Papers by Ghostwriters Pushed Therapy
It is scandalous, but not surprising. We need to regulate pharmaceutical sale technics, from software used by doctors to decide which drugs to give patients based on symptoms entered in the diagnostic software; to the companies giving doctors incentive to push their brands.
We also need the FDA to do its job and not permit the release of drugs before the drugs are tested sufficiently.
The pharmaceutical companies are responsible for millions of deaths. In 2004 in the US 7,500 deaths were due to pain killers, deaths due to prescription opiods like oxycodone, methadone and hydroxycodone. http://www.hhs.gov/asl/testify/2007/10/t20071024a.html In 2005 more than 12,000 deaths were due to prescription drugs and represented more deaths than deaths resulting from illegal drugs. http://www.cdc.gov/Features/PoisonPrevention/
We also need the FDA to do its job and not permit the release of drugs before the drugs are tested sufficiently.
The pharmaceutical companies are responsible for millions of deaths. In 2004 in the US 7,500 deaths were due to pain killers, deaths due to prescription opiods like oxycodone, methadone and hydroxycodone. http://www.hhs.gov/asl/testify/2007/10/t20071024a.html In 2005 more than 12,000 deaths were due to prescription drugs and represented more deaths than deaths resulting from illegal drugs. http://www.cdc.gov/Features/PoisonPrevention/
UN says road kills as many as AIDS
Between 2000 and 2015 road accidents would cause 20 million deaths and 200 million serious injuries. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/23/unitednations.transport
Deaths by car accidents have dropped 17.5 percent in Europe because people are driving less due to the economic recession. Telegraph,22 July 2009. The conclusion is clear: humans must not be allowed to drive.
Deaths by car accidents have dropped 17.5 percent in Europe because people are driving less due to the economic recession. Telegraph,22 July 2009. The conclusion is clear: humans must not be allowed to drive.
Infectious Diseases Study Site Questioned
How crazy is this? It is like Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant in New York which is built on a fault. Our leaders are insane. It reminds me of the painting by the Dutch painter Brugel entitled, "The Blind Leading The Blind".
With our lack of survival intelligence, we can predict that humans are doomed to extinction.
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Wall St. Jacks Up Pay After Bailouts
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/22/AR2009072203687.html?hpid=topnews
There won't be any changes until we, the People, decide it is time to fight for our rights. We don't have to accept what happens to us. It is not God who emptied our 401k and robbed us of our savings. It is the wealthy, whose 1% make 20% of the total income.
Capitalism is socialism for the wealthy. We bail them out, they increase their salaries; and fire their workers, and ship those jobs to Mexico, India or China.
There is no more labor in the US, the Labor is unemployed. And the wealthy are getting wealthier. In the past five years the oil companies have reported huge profits, profits which came out of the American workers' wallets.
We demand: health care for all; de-privatize the oil, gas, coal companies; protect our industry; taxes on luxury items; caps on upper salaries; jobs and education.
The people can bring about changes, but the people must want to make it happen.
Poppies and Legal Drugs
Some legal drugs and even over the counter drugs contain Poppy derivatives. The derivatives are used in legal narcotics such as oxycodone, hydroxycodone, codeine, morphine; and other drugs including drugs used for erectile dysfunction, ADHD, depressions and colds.
The US has moved into Helmand Province in Afghanistan to protect the poppy (Papaver somniferum) fields of licensed farmers who sell their crops to pharmaceutical companies.
The US is leading world consumption of morphine with 55 mg/year/capita, Europe consumes 25 mg and Japan about 1 mg. The profits to be made on such dependence are in billions of dollars; for every 29 kg (70 pounds) of morphine a profit of $8800 is made (Poppy for Medecine).
The shortage and demand for poppies make for high profits. http://www.poppyformedicine.net/
Our soldiers are fighting the wrong wars; they are being exploited by the wealthy in the interests of the wealthy.
They should refuse to die, and they should refuse to kill.
Should the Rich Pay for The Uninsured?
http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/should-the-rich-pay-for-the-uninsured/
The Cost of Bailing out the wealthy is around $23.7 trillions, the wealthy 1% who make 20 % of all Income, can give back $200 millions.
The people, including the uninsured, pay taxes (Property Taxes, State taxes, Sale Taxes and Federal Taxes); and proportionally they pay a much higher percent of their income than the 5.4% the wealthy would have to give from their unsheltered money,
the left over after they donate money to non-for profit organizations, ran by family members or after they invest their money in real estate or stocks.
In fact, 5.4% is not enough. I would add a tax on luxury items such as: jewelry, fur coats, luxury cars, yachts, sailboats....
Greaser, friend of the Clintons, forced to step down Obama's cabinet
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/business/14rattner.html
Obama's Auto adviser is forced to step down. He greased "politically connected" middlemen to obtain state pension business. His wife was Hillary's finance co-chairwoman. Is the Obama's cabinet ran by the Clintons and Co.?
Hillary was going to offer this crooked individual the Treasury, if she had won the election, to thank him for his support. Is Hillary one of the "politically connected' individual?
Cluster Bombs: A Weapon out of Control - Human Rights Watch
It is great for Obama to want to control Nuclear weapons, but cluster bombs are right now worst because they are being used.
Why did we Invade Afghanistan?
The Taliban had banned the production of poppies or Papaver somniferum; we did not like this because we need our morphine and codeine. Since we invaded Afghanistan the production went back up and in 2008 Afghani farmers were licensed to grow and sell their poppy crops to pharmaceutical companies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium
Can anyone give a better reason to be there, to kill and be killed, than to protect production of our needed Morphine and codeine?
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