Immigration or Takeover?…hmmmmm
Besides management vs labor… this looks like WAR…
Archive for April, 2010
100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare (text list)…
1. Barack Obama, President of the United States, Washington
2. Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary, HHS, Washington
3. Nancy-Ann DeParle, Director, White House Office of Health Reform, Washington
4. Max Baucus, U.S. senator (D-Mont.) chairman, Senate Finance Committee, Washington
5. Chuck Grassley, U.S. senator (R-Iowa), ranking member, Senate Finance Committee, Washington
6. David Blumenthal, National coordinator for health Information technology, Washington
7. Carolyn Clancy, Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Md.
8. Barry Straube, Director and chief clinical officer, CMS, Washington
9. Peter Orszag, Director, White House Office of Management and Budget, Washington
10. Andy Stern, President, Service Employees International Union, Washington
Personalized Medicine: The Next Big Thing
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BY: Andrew Mickey
Andrew Grove once said:
“I’m a great believer in particularly being alert to changes that change something, anything, by an order of magnitude.”
Grove [former chairman of Intel] has been widely credited with Intel’s (INTC) stunning growth over the years. His unwavering focus on “the next big thing” has allowed Intel to stay one step ahead of competitors for decades. In a period of rapid technological advancement between 1978 and 2004, that was no easy feat.
Needless to say, Grove knows a thing or two about change. And I agree with him completely about keeping a close eye on change too. After all, the rewards for catching onto a major sweeping change early on, and investing in it, are tremendous.
The change we’ll look at today is going to be a very big change. When I say big – I mean big. We’ll be looking at a change which has the potential to turn the $500 billion pharmaceutical industry completely upside down.
A Pledge of Nonviolence…
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Equal Justice versus Social Justice
BY @davegj
April 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment
As the Progressive Movement continues marching us toward Socialism it seems an appropriate time to explain where this road ends. Americans are spoiled by their freedom and have lost perspective on where it comes from and why it is so important.
The single best example of what sets America apart from the rest of the world are the founding principles which are laid out in both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
Our system of government begins with a foundation of individual rights and is based on the principle of “equal justice.” Under our system, individuals are in control of their lives. Our liberty begins with the concept that an individual’s rights are inherent to his nature, that man’s rights are unalienable, that each person is independent, and that justice must be dispensed equally.
From the Declaration of Independence: “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
They’re Taking the ‘Happy’ Out of Happy Meals For Your Own Good
By Bruce McQuain
QandO.net
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The Nanny State never rests. In Santa Clara county, California (surprise, surprise) county supervisors are proposing a ban on toys in fast food meals:
Convinced that Happy Meals and other food promotions aimed at children could make kids fat as well as happy, county officials in Silicon Valley are poised to outlaw the little toys that often come with high-calorie offerings.
The proposed ban is the latest in a growing string of efforts to change the types of foods aimed at youngsters and the way they are cooked and sold. Across the nation, cities, states and school boards have taken aim at excessive sugar, salt and certain types of fats.
Believed to be the first of its kind in the nation, the proposal would forbid the inclusion of a toy in any restaurant meal that has more than 485 calories, more than 600 mg of salt or high amounts of sugar or fat. In the case of McDonald’s, the limits would include all of the chain’s Happy Meals — even those that include apple sticks instead of French fries.
Because Nanny knows best, one size fits all, and besides you parents out there are just incompetent.
The Bankruptcy of The United States…..1933…yessss
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United States Congressional Record, March 17, 1993 Vol. 33, page H-1303
THIS IS IMPORTANT!!!!
Speaker-Rep. James Traficant, Jr. (Ohio) addressing the House:
“Mr. Speaker, we are here now in chapter 11.. Members of Congress are
official trustees presiding over the greatest reorganization of any Bankrupt
entity in world history, the U.S. Government. We are setting forth
hopefully, a blueprint for our future. There are some who say it is a
coroner’s report that will lead to our demise.
It is an established fact that the United States Federal Government has been dissolved by the Emergency Banking Act, March 9, 1933, 48 Stat. 1, Public Law 89-719; declared by President Roosevelt, being bankrupt and
insolvent. H.J.R. 192, 73rd Congress m session June 5, 1933 – Joint Resolution To Suspend The Gold Standard and Abrogate The Gold Clause dissolved the Sovereign Authority of the United States and the official capacities of all United States Governmental Offices, Officers, and Departments and is further evidence that the United States Federal Government exists today in name only.
Layoff Notices Sent to Thousands of US Teachers….just the beginning…
By Andrea Peters
Global Research, April 23, 2010
World Socialist Web Site – 2010-04-22
Hundreds of thousands of public school teachers across the United States are facing possible layoffs this coming academic year.
Confronting massive budget deficits, school districts throughout the country have been sending out notices (“pink slips”) to employees this spring, warning them that they are unlikely to have a job in the fall. The bloodletting is worst in California, Illinois, New York, Michigan, and New Jersey, but nearly every region in the country is affected.
Pink slips were sent out to 22,000 teachers in California, 17,000 in Illinois, and 15,000 in New York. The jobs of 8,000 school employees in Michigan, 6,000 in New Jersey, and 5,000 in Oklahoma may also be axed.
Greece, Out of Ideas, Requests Global Aid…with the IMF’s help?…sunk
By NIKI KITSANTONIS and MATTHEW SALTMARSH
Published: April 23, 2010
ATHENS — Describing his country’s economy as “a sinking ship,” Greece’s prime minister formally requested an international bailout on Friday, creating the biggest test so far to the European monetary union.
“We drew up a plan, we took difficult and painful measures,” Prime Minister George A. Papandreou said in a nationally televised address. “But the markets did not respond.”
Greece was forced to make the request after investors shunned the country’s bond offerings because of concern about its runaway debt. Those worries intensified Thursday when the European statistics agency raised its estimate for Greece’s debt above the government’s most recent figures, pushing the yield on Greek bonds to nearly 9 percent.
At that point, the need for international funds seemed a certainty, and Mr. Papandreou made the request while on a visit to Kastellorizo, an island in the Aegean Sea.
The financing will come from an emergency aid package arranged two weeks ago in Brussels in which Greece’s euro zone partners pledged up to 30 billion euros ($40 billion) in loans to Greece. The International Monetary Fund is expected to provide an additional 15 billion euros.
Markets did not react significantly to the announcement because investors had already factored in an expectation that Greece would seek the financing.
The prospects of a Greek bailout has strained the solidarity of the euro zone — the 16 countries that use the euro — with strong resistance coming from some countries, especially Germany. It has also raised concern that other struggling economies, like Spain and Portugal, might need a financial rescue.
Are you ok with a police strike?…hmmmm well?
You see, Senator Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are already resorting to the same underhanded tactics they used to pass President Obama’s Healthcare Nationalization Scheme into law. Why? They know if the American people understand what’s in S. 3194, the so-called “Public Employer-Employee Cooperation Act,” you’ll agree it stinks to high heaven. So, they know they have to move fast. You see, the Police and Firefighter Monopoly Bargaining Bill is designed to force every firefighter and police officer in the country under union boss control.
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