Writer Elisabeth Rosenthal has worked as a physician and says it’s far more lucrative in the U.S. health system to provide a lifetime of treatments than a cure. Her new book is An American Sickness. Health care is a trillion-dollar industry in America, but are we getting what we pay for? Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal, a… Read More »
DAYTON, Ohio (WKEF/WRGT) – A day care in Texas has a simple message for parents: “Get off your phone.”One of the day care’s parents, Juliana Farris Mazurkewicz, shared a photo of a sign posted on the center’s front door on her Facebook page, and it’s gaini Source: Texas day care has message for parents: ‘Get… Read More »
Some stupid person wants to kick their straight A daughter out of the house when she turns 18 while she is still in high school. What a piece of _______ . Listen up Shawn you foolish idiot. That tiny little man that is running your life is going to drop you like a turd when… Read More »
The ads started popping up about a decade ago on social media. Instead of selling alcohol with sex and romance, these ads had an edgier theme: Harried mothers chugging wine to cope with everyday stress. Women embracing quart-sized bottles of whiskey, and bellying up to bars to knock back vodka shots with men. In this… Read More »
Financial companies have NOT paid at least $164 billion in more than 100 mortgage-related settlements since 2009 the headlines have been lying to you: Where Does the Mortgage Settlement Money Go? By Dealbook Image In 2014, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. led a news conference about Bank of America’s $16 billion settlement. It was… Read More »
The mis information begins with a study that has no causation links to anything just much innuendo and misdirection from facts. Source: Not to shave? In life (and TV), pubic hair is staying on
February 13, 2013 Shocking Alien Fears Force Pope From Office By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers A stunning Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) report prepared for President Putin, which is circulating in the Kremlin today, states that Pope Benedict XVI was forced to resign this past week over Catholic Church… Read More »
According to Daniel Sheehan, the Catholic Church is now actively preparing for the discovery of Alien contact with highly a advanced alien species. Speaking at contact in the desert, he told of a what will be a historic papal encyclical decree calling for nothing less than the disassembly of the power structures that are destroying… Read More »
1. Your partner shows up unannounced Showing up at work unexpectedly is one of the signs your partner doesn’t respect you Surprising you with flowers on a random Wednesday is a welcome treat; showing up unannounced when you’re clearly busy or have a lot going on is not. If you find your partner repeatedly popping… Read More »
“Remember, our nonviolent ETI from the contiguous universe are helping us bring zero point energy to Earth,” Podesta was told. “They will not tolerate any forms of military violence on Earth or in space.” The reference to ETI – extraterrestrial intelligence – set off alarm bells. So did mention of zero point energy, which its… Read More »
Solar Physicists finally get the message: Landscheidt was right after all Posted: June 14, 2011 by tallbloke in Astrophysics, climate, Solar physics, solar system dynamics After years of pooh poohing Theodor Landscheidt’s methods, work and predictions, mainstream solar physics has made an announcement of the strong possibility of a protracted solar minimum with consequences for… Read More »
Human-made climate change is, by its nature, difficult for the average person to witness since it is a fabricated lie by the ultra rich as a method to tax and corral the unwashed masses. Even if you lived for a century, you may not physically notice two extra degrees of warmth or have the capacity… Read More »
Let insiders easily cash in stock options, as Enron did, and you risk seeing executives abandon a failing company. Encourage contractors to sacrifice quality to cut costs and you might cause problems like those that led the U.S. Justice Department to phase out privately run prisons. Source: For Showing How Contracts Work Best, 2 Economists… Read More »
Two officers were killed and a third was injured responding to a reported disturbance at a residence in Palm Springs a city in the desert in California. Police said Felix fired through a closed door without provocation as Palm Springs officers attempted to resolve a domestic disturbance call Saturday. Two officers — one a new… Read More »
She was proud to be a vegan and wanted her son to live like she did. But her family members said she took her food choices too far — her diet became a danger, in their eyes, something closer to an obsession than a healthy lifestyle. “She was going to live on water and sunlight,”… Read More »
Anyone who has spent any time on the gridiron — even at a young age — likely knows the typical punishments a coach will dole out if his rules aren’t followed. There are “suicides,” a grueling running exercise in which participants have to run to the 20-yard line, touch it, then run back to the… Read More »
Psychologists say being unable to find a job can change your personality Some eyebrow-raising research presented at a recent conference suggests that young men without college degrees are staying out of the workforce for one major reason: They can live with Mom and Dad and play video games all day. According to the research, which… Read More »
A prominent local media executive fired from Yahoo last year has filed a lawsuit alleging the firm’s CEO Marissa Mayer led a campaign to purge male employees and replace them with women. Misandry at work by the man haters again! A prominent local media executive fired from Yahoo last year has filed a lawsuit accusing CEO… Read More »
The Costs of Teacher Collective BargainingBy Rick Hess on October 4, 2016 9:10 AMChicago’s teachers are on the verge of striking—for the third time since 2012. Median teacher pay in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is over $78,000 a year. CPS spends another $27,500 per teacher on benefits. And CPS is offering its teachers an 8.7… Read More »
Drug deaths over the past 15 years have been rising so rapidly that experts say they’ve rarely, if ever, seen anything like it. This is America on drugs: A visual guide By Jen Christensen and Sergio Hernandez, CNN Updated 11:28 AM ET, Fri September 23, 2016 In modern history, few things have caused such a… Read More »
The opinions voiced in this material are for general information only and are not intended to provide specific advice or recommendations to any individual. For your individual planning and investing needs, please see your investment professional. Jonathan DeYoe has been a financial advisor in San Francisco for the past two decades, giving him a first-row… Read More »
Jim Clifton, Chairman and CEO at Gallup, who presides over endless surveys of American consumers and businesses and knows a thing or two about them, has a message for the media and the political establishment that seem to be clueless: this meme about the recovering economy – “It was even trumpeted on Page 1 of… Read More »
Not that most Americans have a choice in the matter. America is one of the few developed industrial nations that does not guarantee paid sick leave by law because they want to be like China. Eligible workers in the USA are allowed to take up to 12 weeks off for illnesses or a new baby… Read More »
If a restaurant charged you $40 for coffee. Surely you’d be upset. But you let hospitals do it to you all the time. It turns out that hospitals inflate specific prices in ways that aren’t transparent to the patient, according to a new study that appeared Sept. 7 2016 in the journal Health Affairs. Researchers… Read More »
Some of the infections could be tied to increasing antibiotic resistance. The vast majority of what may be preventable infections, however, could be controlled with targeted disinfection and better surveillance of water systems, say researchers involved with the study. Source: Infections linked to water supply increasing healthcare costs, study says – UPI.com
A group of six Gulf Arab countries expressed “deep concern” Monday over a bill passed by the U.S. Congress that would allow families of Sept. 11 victims to sue the government of Saudi Arabia over the attacks. Israel was not included as one of the states that could be sued. The head of the Saudi-dominated… Read More »
Dietary supplements are not regulated the same way as medications nor promoted for huge profits and force fed to the public. This lack of greed in the market helps consumers! Edited from the original bullshit published. SHARES 2.4K Calvin Jimmy Lee-White was tiny. He was born on Oct. 3, 2014, two months premature, weighing about… Read More »
Just what is SEX? The internet got hot and bothered earlier this week following media reports of research that revealed millennials, the so-called “hook up” generation, aren’t having all that much sex after all. “Millennials are having less sex than any generation in 60 years. Here’s why it matters,” the Los Angeles Times blared, among… Read More »
Euthanasia is on it’s way Treating a seriously ill patient who suffers from multiple chronic conditions can be difficult and expensive. These so-called high-need, high-cost (HNHC), or “complex care” patients make up about 5 percent of the U.S. population, but by some estimates, account for 50 percent of healthcare spending. In other words, someone with three or four… Read More »
On the off-chance you’re alive in 150 years, you could be in for a very bad day, when the asteroid Bennu collides with Earth, unleashing a blast 200 times more powerful than that of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. OK, the odds are pretty good you won’t be around in 150 years, and they’re only… Read More »
There are big “no trespassing” signs affixed to most of our electronics. If you own a gaming console, laptop, or computer, it’s likely you’ve seen one of these warnings in the form of a sticker placed over a screw or a seam: “Warranty void if removed.” In addition, big manufacturers such as Sony, Microsoft, and… Read More »
It was 23 years ago that Charl Van Wyk was sitting peacefully in the congregation at St. James Church in Cape Town, South Africa, when terror struck. As Van Wyk has told WND, “The moment of chaos and carnage unfurled is forever etched in my mind.” On July 25, 1993, while young people were singing… Read More »
The thousand-hour life span of the modern incandescent dates to 1924, when representatives from the world’s largest lighting companies—including such familiar names as Philips, Osram, and General Electric (which took over Shelby Electric circa 1912)—met in Switzerland to form Phoebus, arguably the first cartel with global reach. The bulbs’ life spans had by then increased… Read More »
Encinitas in 2013 passed Proposition A, which mandates that voters must weigh in on any land-use changes in the city. Meanwhile, every city in California is required to update its housing element, a plan that shows how it will meet the growing demand for housing, every four years But now AGENDA 21 is coming to… Read More »
Israel has admitted for the first time that it has been giving Ethiopian Jewish immigrants birth-control injections, often without their knowledge or consent. The government had previously denied the practice but the Israeli Health Ministry’s director-general has now ordered gynaecologists to stop administering the drugs. According a report in Haaretz, suspicions were first raised by… Read More »
Monday, January 28, 2013 Elder of Ziyon Did Israelis force contraception on Ethiopian women? (UPDATE x2) This troubling story has been all over the place, all from this Ha’aretz article claiming that Israeli officials admit to giving contraceptive injections to Ethiopian women without their permission. But what does the article actually say? A government official… Read More »
Carl Smith Provides the Rosetta Stone of Solar Science? Posted Thu, 07/23/2009 – 22:24 by Geoff Sharp Carl is no longer with us, but he has certainly left us with a legacy. Back in 1965 Paul Jose was one of the first to link solar modulation with planetary movements. He discovered that the planets roughly… Read More »
A Supreme Court order issued today closes the book on (or perhaps merely ends this chapter of) more than a decade of legal warfare between Google and the Authors Guild over the legality of the former’s scanning without permission of millions of copyrighted books. And the final word is: it’s fair use The order is… Read More »
This paper is a manually-entered copy of the complete published text of the 1979paper. The author thanks the editors of erstwhile Perceptual and Motor Skillsfor thisspecial permission. The published text pagination has been preserver, except thathyphenated words and REFERENCES crossing page boundaries have been gathered tothe page on which they were begun.In addition to this… Read More »
The prohibition of MDMA and hallucinogenic mushrooms restricts “cognitive liberty,” according to some activists. By the time drug-policy lawyer Charlotte Walsh took to the stage on the final day of the recent Horizons Psychedelic Conference, we had already heard several persuasive talks on the benefits of psychedelic substances. Rick Doblin had spoken about the successful… Read More »
Scientists clarify the recent confusion The global warming “hiatus,” a controversy that spawned congressional hearings and thousands of skeptical blog posts before being curbed last year, is back. The “hiatus” refers to the observation that global warming has slowed in the past 15 years. The planet is still warming, but just not as quickly as… Read More »
Japan has officially stated to the UN that it did not force Asian women to become sex slaves during World War II. This comes despite the Japanese government signing a landmark deal with South Korea, settling the issue of “comfort women” a month ago. Japan has officially stated to the UN that it did not… Read More »
Source: Police charge Florence City School nurse with sex crime against student | WHNT.com The Florence Police Department has arrested and charged a Florence City School staff nurse Tuesday with two felonies for having a sexual relationship with a student. Lorie Gean Earwood, 45, surrendered to police Tuesday. Florence Police Chief Ron Tyler said Earwood… Read More »
Last December, the United States joined 194 other countries in signing the first ever agreement to address climate change. While the delegates in Paris were tinking wine glasses over the 12-page agreement, politicians in Washington were grumbling about how bad the deal was for America. Those grumbles continued today in a hearing of the House… Read More »
A comprehensive review, which has sifted through data from 70 trials of the most popular drugs for the treatment of depression, shows that antidepressants may up risk of suicide, aggression. Study authors also found that big pharmas often fail to report critical side-effects of their products along with drug-related deaths. The review found that antidepressants… Read More »
The advice changes all the time The advice changes all the time Are the official dietary guidelines useful to average Americans? I’m not so sure. Every five years, numerous dietary experts are tasked with putting together a summary of the most up-to-date nutritional science. Their end product is intended to be a series of dietary… Read More »
Six Cleveland police officers have been fired in connection with a November 2012 car chase that ended with officers firing 137 bullets at a car, killing Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams, said Detective Steve Loomis, president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association. Loomis identified the officers as Wilfredo Diaz, Brian Sabolik, Erin O’Donnell, Michael Farley,… Read More »
Balcony Scene (Or Unseen) Atop the World; Episode at Trade Center Assumes Mythic Qualities By SHAILA K. DEWAN Published: August 18, 2001 The affair of the balcony ended, if indeed it ever began, with the appearance in July of a slender book of curious title, obtainable in very few places, one of them being an art… Read More »
Now Source: There are six quintillion gallons of water hiding in the Earth’s crust – LA Times
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