Tuesday, March 01, 2016
Kohl's Makes Major Announcement About Future... This Is Obama's America
Kohl's Makes Major Announcement About Future... This Is Obama's America:
"Though President Barack Obama and his liberal allies in the media would have us believe that the U.S. economy is strong and doing well, most Americans have realized that it is in fact rather weak and vulnerable.
More proof of that sad but realistic assessment was released on Thursday, when the Kohl’s department store chain announced that it will soon be closing 18 retail locations, according to Yahoo! Finance.
The announced closings coincide with a Kohl’s report that profits dropped 20 percent in the fourth quarter of the last fiscal year, along with its expectation that sales will remain flat this year."
"Though President Barack Obama and his liberal allies in the media would have us believe that the U.S. economy is strong and doing well, most Americans have realized that it is in fact rather weak and vulnerable.More proof of that sad but realistic assessment was released on Thursday, when the Kohl’s department store chain announced that it will soon be closing 18 retail locations, according to Yahoo! Finance.
The announced closings coincide with a Kohl’s report that profits dropped 20 percent in the fourth quarter of the last fiscal year, along with its expectation that sales will remain flat this year."
Indiana University student: Laughing at me on a bike is a microaggression
Indiana University student: Laughing at me on a bike is a microaggression - The College Fix:
The threshold for showing racial animus against college students continues to plunge, with the Indiana Daily Student at Indiana University-Bloomington reporting on the troubles faced by its black students.
What can cure these hard-to-pin-down slights of a possible racial nature? More money!
The threshold for showing racial animus against college students continues to plunge, with the Indiana Daily Student at Indiana University-Bloomington reporting on the troubles faced by its black students.
Among them: getting laughed at while riding a bike.
The story starts with a real racial grievance: Dorian Davis claimed that he was a victim of a drive-by drink thrower and N-word yeller, by all accounts a rare incident in the university town, yet one that the police department took seriously.
Then he and black student activist Luqmann Ruth go digging for other slights:
Ruth said he was laughed at by students on the lawn of a fraternity while he rode past them on his bike. Ruth also said students turned their backs on him when he walked into a party full of primarily white students. Davis said four of his friends were called monkeys and told to go back to the zoo while walking home from Dunnkirk.It can’t be proven these things were racially motivated, Davis said. But he said it often feels like a deliberate effort to make black students feel out of place.Other instances of racially-motivated hate crime are difficult for officers to pursue, [Indiana University Police Department Capt. Andy] Stephenson said, such as derogatory graffiti or crimes where the suspect doesn’t explicitly use hateful language.
Ruth said he thinks creating a closer black community on campus would be a good first step toward a more positive experience for black students. Increased verbal and financial support for the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, the Black Student Union and movements like the Black IUnity March would show a vested interest in the college experience of minority students, Ruth said.
Cash is the currency of freedom
Glenn Reynolds: Cash is the currency of freedom:
As Fed inflates away dollar's value, government gains more control to manipulate taxpayers and savers.
Former Treasury secretary Larry Summers wants to get rid of the $100 bill.
But I think he has it exactly backward.
I think we need to restore the $500 and $1000 bills.
And the reason is that people like Larry Summers have done a horrible job.
Summers wrote recently in The Washington Post that the $100 bill needs to go.
The reason, he says, is that it’s a favorite of criminals, along with the 500 euro note, which is likely to be discontinued.
The New York Times editorialized in agreement, writing:
“Getting rid of big bills will make it harder for criminals to do business and make it easier for law enforcement to detect illicit activity. ... There is no need for large-denomination currency.
Britain’s top bill is the 50-pound note ($72), which has been perfectly sufficient.
The United States stopped distributing $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills in 1969.
There are now so many ways to pay for things, and eliminating big bills should create few problems.”
Reading this got me to thinking:
What is a $100 bill worth now, compared to 1969?
According to the U.S. Inflation Calculator online, a $100 bill today has the equivalent purchasing power of $15.49 in 1969 dollars.
Likewise, in 1969, a $100 bill had the equivalent purchasing power of $645.55 in today’s dollars.
So even if we brought back the discontinued $500 bill, it wouldn’t have the purchasing power today that a $100 bill had in 1969, when larger denominations were discontinued.
And carrying around a $100 bill today is basically like carrying around a $20 in 1969.
And although inflation isn’t running very high at the moment, this trend will only continue.
If the next few decades are like the last few, paper money in current denominations will become basically useless.
Of course, as CATO Institute analyst Daniel J. Mitchell writes, to our ruling class this isn’t a bug, but a feature.
Governments want to get rid of cash for two reasons.
First, it gives them more control over citizens:
They justify it in the name of fighting terrorists and organized crime, but what they really care about is making sure that nobody escapes their scrutiny, for purposes of taxes, regulation and political finagling.
Second, if you’re stuck putting your money in a bank, they can force you to spend it (and thus “stimulate” the economy) by subjecting you to negative interest rates, in which money that just sits in the bank shrinks away, providing an incentive to spend.
The Federal Reserve and various other financial regulatory bodies were sold politically in no small part as protections against inflation.
But inflation has run rampant.
According to the inflation calculator, today’s $100 bill is worth only as much as $4.18 in 1913, the year the Federal Reserve was established.
When you realize that inflation helps debtors and that governments are the world’s biggest debtors, this makes a certain amount of sense — for them.
But at a time when, almost no matter where you look in the world, the parts of it controlled by the experts and technocrats (like Larry Summers) seem to be doing badly, it seems reasonable to ask: Why give them still more control over the economy?
What reason is there to think that they’ll use that control fairly, or even competently?
Their track record isn’t very impressive.
Cash has a lot of virtues.
One of them is that it allows people to engage in voluntary transactions without the knowledge or permission of anyone else.
Governments call this suspicious, but the rest of us call it something else: Freedom.
As Fed inflates away dollar's value, government gains more control to manipulate taxpayers and savers.
Former Treasury secretary Larry Summers wants to get rid of the $100 bill.
But I think he has it exactly backward.
I think we need to restore the $500 and $1000 bills.
And the reason is that people like Larry Summers have done a horrible job.
Summers wrote recently in The Washington Post that the $100 bill needs to go.
The reason, he says, is that it’s a favorite of criminals, along with the 500 euro note, which is likely to be discontinued.
The New York Times editorialized in agreement, writing:
“Getting rid of big bills will make it harder for criminals to do business and make it easier for law enforcement to detect illicit activity. ... There is no need for large-denomination currency.
Britain’s top bill is the 50-pound note ($72), which has been perfectly sufficient.
The United States stopped distributing $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills in 1969.
There are now so many ways to pay for things, and eliminating big bills should create few problems.”
Reading this got me to thinking:
What is a $100 bill worth now, compared to 1969?
According to the U.S. Inflation Calculator online, a $100 bill today has the equivalent purchasing power of $15.49 in 1969 dollars.
Likewise, in 1969, a $100 bill had the equivalent purchasing power of $645.55 in today’s dollars.
So even if we brought back the discontinued $500 bill, it wouldn’t have the purchasing power today that a $100 bill had in 1969, when larger denominations were discontinued.
And carrying around a $100 bill today is basically like carrying around a $20 in 1969.
And although inflation isn’t running very high at the moment, this trend will only continue.
If the next few decades are like the last few, paper money in current denominations will become basically useless.
Of course, as CATO Institute analyst Daniel J. Mitchell writes, to our ruling class this isn’t a bug, but a feature.Governments want to get rid of cash for two reasons.
First, it gives them more control over citizens:
They justify it in the name of fighting terrorists and organized crime, but what they really care about is making sure that nobody escapes their scrutiny, for purposes of taxes, regulation and political finagling.
Second, if you’re stuck putting your money in a bank, they can force you to spend it (and thus “stimulate” the economy) by subjecting you to negative interest rates, in which money that just sits in the bank shrinks away, providing an incentive to spend.
The Federal Reserve and various other financial regulatory bodies were sold politically in no small part as protections against inflation.
But inflation has run rampant.
According to the inflation calculator, today’s $100 bill is worth only as much as $4.18 in 1913, the year the Federal Reserve was established.
When you realize that inflation helps debtors and that governments are the world’s biggest debtors, this makes a certain amount of sense — for them.
But at a time when, almost no matter where you look in the world, the parts of it controlled by the experts and technocrats (like Larry Summers) seem to be doing badly, it seems reasonable to ask: Why give them still more control over the economy?
What reason is there to think that they’ll use that control fairly, or even competently?
Their track record isn’t very impressive.
Cash has a lot of virtues.
One of them is that it allows people to engage in voluntary transactions without the knowledge or permission of anyone else.
Governments call this suspicious, but the rest of us call it something else: Freedom.
Government Grossly Overstates the Benefits to U.S. Citizens of Actions to Fight Climate Change
Government Grossly Overstates the Benefits to U.S. Citizens of Actions to Fight Climate Change | Somewhat Reasonable:
"A distinguished group of scholars from a diverse group of organizations has produced a new report stating when considering domestic action to reduce the impacts of climate change, U.S. agencies should limit their estimates to the domestic benefits, not benefits to the world.
The Obama administration does just the opposite, using global estimates of “social cost of carbon” (SCC) and the social value of reduced climate damages from regulations that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
The scholars point out,
Use of a global SCC as the sole summary measure of the value of reducing GHG emissions through federal rulemaking lacks transparency and leaves such actions at odds with the expressed intent of authorizing statutes passed by Congress and long-standing federal regulatory policy.
[F]ederal agencies – operating under laws directing them to protect national interests – are now issuing regulations with significant costs to U.S. residents and citizens based on a finding that benefits, including substantial benefits to foreigners, “justify” those costs.
The difference between global and domestic benefits is huge, with global SCC four to 14 times greater than estimated domestic SCC.
By using the global SCC, federal agencies are hiding the fact climate regulations impose substantial costs on Americans to produce benefits for residents of foreign countries."
"A distinguished group of scholars from a diverse group of organizations has produced a new report stating when considering domestic action to reduce the impacts of climate change, U.S. agencies should limit their estimates to the domestic benefits, not benefits to the world.
The Obama administration does just the opposite, using global estimates of “social cost of carbon” (SCC) and the social value of reduced climate damages from regulations that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
The scholars point out,Use of a global SCC as the sole summary measure of the value of reducing GHG emissions through federal rulemaking lacks transparency and leaves such actions at odds with the expressed intent of authorizing statutes passed by Congress and long-standing federal regulatory policy.
[F]ederal agencies – operating under laws directing them to protect national interests – are now issuing regulations with significant costs to U.S. residents and citizens based on a finding that benefits, including substantial benefits to foreigners, “justify” those costs.
The difference between global and domestic benefits is huge, with global SCC four to 14 times greater than estimated domestic SCC.
By using the global SCC, federal agencies are hiding the fact climate regulations impose substantial costs on Americans to produce benefits for residents of foreign countries."
Trey Gowdy DESTROYS Obama In Best Way Possible | The Federalist Papers
Trey Gowdy DESTROYS Obama In Best Way Possible | The Federalist Papers:
“Particularly where we’re dealing with a jurisdiction that is not prone to honoring ICE detainers…our policy is going to be that ICE will instead have the first detainer and that individual will go into ICE custody and deportation,” Lynch told the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies.
“We have in the past deferred because…we work with our state and local colleagues and we want to make sure that they can in fact adjudicate their cases as well,” Lynch added.
Republicans on the committee were pleased with the new policy. Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) is chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee and said he’s glad the administration and Republicans are “headed in the same direction.”
“Particularly where we’re dealing with a jurisdiction that is not prone to honoring ICE detainers…our policy is going to be that ICE will instead have the first detainer and that individual will go into ICE custody and deportation,” Lynch told the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies.
“We have in the past deferred because…we work with our state and local colleagues and we want to make sure that they can in fact adjudicate their cases as well,” Lynch added.
Republicans on the committee were pleased with the new policy. Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) is chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee and said he’s glad the administration and Republicans are “headed in the same direction.”
Nitwits of the Round Table
Nitwits of the Round Table :: SteynOnline:
"...I've spent the last fortnight in a country where on illegal immigration everyone electorally viable is a hard-ass.
That's to say, there's a bipartisan consensus that anyone attempting to enter the country without authorization should be warehoused in a detention camp – not in Australia but offshore, either on Nauru, a pile of guano that fancies itself a nation-state, or on Manos Island, which belongs to Papua New Guinea.
It's the equivalent of Trump imprisoning Mexicans in a camp in the Dominican Republic.
After years in detention, the migrants are generally either returned whence they came or resettled in a third country.
Whatever squeamishness the Aussie Labor Party might feel about this is subject to the compelling political arithmetic that the voters are overwhelmingly at ease with it.
In America, by contrast, there is a cozy bipartisan consensus between the Democrat Party and the Donor Party that untrammeled mass unskilled immigration now and forever is a good thing.
The Dems get voters, the Donors get cheap labor.
The Dems have the better deal, but over on the GOP side the Stupid Party is too stupid to realize that suicide in slow motion leads to the same place as one swift sure slice from Isis.
So it was obvious that the moment someone proposed to rupture this corrupt and squalid arrangement that there would be takers for it – particularly among America's downwardly mobile lower middle class who, as a price for supporting the Donor Party, are supposed to put up with stagnant wages and diminished economic opportunity as a permanent feature of life..."
"...I've spent the last fortnight in a country where on illegal immigration everyone electorally viable is a hard-ass.
That's to say, there's a bipartisan consensus that anyone attempting to enter the country without authorization should be warehoused in a detention camp – not in Australia but offshore, either on Nauru, a pile of guano that fancies itself a nation-state, or on Manos Island, which belongs to Papua New Guinea.
It's the equivalent of Trump imprisoning Mexicans in a camp in the Dominican Republic.
After years in detention, the migrants are generally either returned whence they came or resettled in a third country.Whatever squeamishness the Aussie Labor Party might feel about this is subject to the compelling political arithmetic that the voters are overwhelmingly at ease with it.
In America, by contrast, there is a cozy bipartisan consensus between the Democrat Party and the Donor Party that untrammeled mass unskilled immigration now and forever is a good thing.
The Dems get voters, the Donors get cheap labor.
The Dems have the better deal, but over on the GOP side the Stupid Party is too stupid to realize that suicide in slow motion leads to the same place as one swift sure slice from Isis.
So it was obvious that the moment someone proposed to rupture this corrupt and squalid arrangement that there would be takers for it – particularly among America's downwardly mobile lower middle class who, as a price for supporting the Donor Party, are supposed to put up with stagnant wages and diminished economic opportunity as a permanent feature of life..."
History for March 1
History for March 1 - On-This-Day.com:
Glenn Miller 1904 - Bandleader, David Niven 1910 - Actor ("The Guns of the Navarone"), William Gaines 1922 - Publisher ("MAD Magazine")
Deke (Donald) Slayton 1924 - Astronaut, Ron Howard 1954 - Producer, actor ("The Andy Griffith Show", "Happy Days"), Timothy Daly 1956 - Actor ("Diner", "Wings", "The Fugitive")
1692 - In Salem Village, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Salem witch trials began. Four women were the first to be charged.
1784 - In Great Britain, E. Kidner opened the first cooking school.
1872 - The U.S. Congress authorized the creation of Yellowstone National Park. It was the world's first national park.
1873 - E. Remington and Sons of Ilion, NY, began the manufacturing the first practical typewriter.
1912 - Captain Albert Berry made the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
1932 - The 22-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was kidnapped. The child was found dead in May.
1941 - FM Radio began in Nashville, TN, when station W47NV began operations.
1954 - Five U.S. congressmen were wounded when four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Glenn Miller 1904 - Bandleader, David Niven 1910 - Actor ("The Guns of the Navarone"), William Gaines 1922 - Publisher ("MAD Magazine")
Deke (Donald) Slayton 1924 - Astronaut, Ron Howard 1954 - Producer, actor ("The Andy Griffith Show", "Happy Days"), Timothy Daly 1956 - Actor ("Diner", "Wings", "The Fugitive")
1692 - In Salem Village, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Salem witch trials began. Four women were the first to be charged.
1784 - In Great Britain, E. Kidner opened the first cooking school.
1872 - The U.S. Congress authorized the creation of Yellowstone National Park. It was the world's first national park.
1873 - E. Remington and Sons of Ilion, NY, began the manufacturing the first practical typewriter.
1912 - Captain Albert Berry made the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
1932 - The 22-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was kidnapped. The child was found dead in May.
1941 - FM Radio began in Nashville, TN, when station W47NV began operations.
1954 - Five U.S. congressmen were wounded when four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Monday, February 29, 2016
Mass Muslim Marriage in Gaza
Mass Muslim Marriage in Gaza:
"The International Center for Research on Women now estimates that there are 51 million child brides now living on planet Earth and almost all in Muslim countries.
Twenty-nine percent of these child brides are regularly beaten and molested by their husbands in Egypt; twenty six percent receive similar abuse in Jordan.
Every year, three million Muslim girls are subjected to genital mutilation, according to UNICEF. This practice has not been outlawed in many parts of America.
The Islamic practice of pedophilia dates back to the prophet Muhammad, who amassed eleven wives and many concubines after the death of his first wife Khadijah in 619 A.D."
"The International Center for Research on Women now estimates that there are 51 million child brides now living on planet Earth and almost all in Muslim countries.
Twenty-nine percent of these child brides are regularly beaten and molested by their husbands in Egypt; twenty six percent receive similar abuse in Jordan.Every year, three million Muslim girls are subjected to genital mutilation, according to UNICEF. This practice has not been outlawed in many parts of America.
The Islamic practice of pedophilia dates back to the prophet Muhammad, who amassed eleven wives and many concubines after the death of his first wife Khadijah in 619 A.D."
Blog: American Caesarism
Blog: American Caesarism:
"...From the day that the legendary Cincinnatus put down his title as military dictator to return to the life of a farmer and allow the republic to function as designed to the day of the Rubicon crossing, there were three and a half centuries of nobility in self-government – a glittering record of human accomplishment and overcoming.
It has been roughly two and a half centuries since George Washington refused the title of king and returned to his farm, marking the beginning of the most impressive episode in human history of virtuous self-government.
During that span we have witnessed the development and the decay of our government institutions as the warnings of the founders have been ignored concerning the sanctity of the Constitution and the need for the separation of powers.
By the time Barack Obama was sworn in on a platform of fundamental transformation, the once proud institutions of government, the legislature, and the judiciary had ceased to be a check on the executive power.
The vast executive bureaucracy and its agencies had usurped the role of the once noble branches of a divided government.
The Roman people welcomed Caesar as a liberator just as our urban populations cheered the ascendance of a man who promised a chicken in every pot and a cell phone in every hand.
Soon we will go through the motions of electing a new president, but make no mistake.
This will not be an election as much as it will be a coronation of the next Caesar."
"...From the day that the legendary Cincinnatus put down his title as military dictator to return to the life of a farmer and allow the republic to function as designed to the day of the Rubicon crossing, there were three and a half centuries of nobility in self-government – a glittering record of human accomplishment and overcoming.
It has been roughly two and a half centuries since George Washington refused the title of king and returned to his farm, marking the beginning of the most impressive episode in human history of virtuous self-government.
During that span we have witnessed the development and the decay of our government institutions as the warnings of the founders have been ignored concerning the sanctity of the Constitution and the need for the separation of powers. By the time Barack Obama was sworn in on a platform of fundamental transformation, the once proud institutions of government, the legislature, and the judiciary had ceased to be a check on the executive power.
The vast executive bureaucracy and its agencies had usurped the role of the once noble branches of a divided government.
The Roman people welcomed Caesar as a liberator just as our urban populations cheered the ascendance of a man who promised a chicken in every pot and a cell phone in every hand.
Soon we will go through the motions of electing a new president, but make no mistake.
This will not be an election as much as it will be a coronation of the next Caesar."
How to Watch Tuesday's Returns Like a Data Geek
How to Watch Tuesday's Returns Like a Data Geek | RealClearPolitics:
Watching primary and caucus results roll in on Tuesday night is going to feel like drinking from a firehose.
Nearly a dozen states ranging from Vermont to Alaska (with the greatest concentration in the South) will hold contests for both parties.
If you’re not a veteran political journalist or a data geek, it might be tough to digest that cascade of information.
That’s why RealClearPolitics has put together these tips to help you understand the results on Super Tuesday – think of it as the data geek’s guide to watching the returns.
On the Republican Side:
Watch the thresholds.
In order to win the GOP nomination, a candidate has to win a majority (1,237) of the delegates to the Republican convention in Cleveland.
Each state basically sets its own rules on how primary results translate into delegate counts, and on Tuesday those rules generally point towards two key numbers – 15 percent and 20 percent.
Most Super Tuesday states allocate their delegates proportionally with a threshold of either 15 percent (Arkansas, Oklahoma) or 20 percent (Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Vermont) of the vote.
In other words, the state divides up its delegates proportionally between the candidates who surpass the threshold.
Article Continues Below...
Read on!
Watching primary and caucus results roll in on Tuesday night is going to feel like drinking from a firehose.
Nearly a dozen states ranging from Vermont to Alaska (with the greatest concentration in the South) will hold contests for both parties.
If you’re not a veteran political journalist or a data geek, it might be tough to digest that cascade of information.
That’s why RealClearPolitics has put together these tips to help you understand the results on Super Tuesday – think of it as the data geek’s guide to watching the returns.
Watch the thresholds.
In order to win the GOP nomination, a candidate has to win a majority (1,237) of the delegates to the Republican convention in Cleveland.
Each state basically sets its own rules on how primary results translate into delegate counts, and on Tuesday those rules generally point towards two key numbers – 15 percent and 20 percent.
Most Super Tuesday states allocate their delegates proportionally with a threshold of either 15 percent (Arkansas, Oklahoma) or 20 percent (Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Vermont) of the vote.
In other words, the state divides up its delegates proportionally between the candidates who surpass the threshold.
Article Continues Below...
Read on!
Bob Barr: Absolutely No Policy Has Come Out of Trump's Mouth Thus Far - Breitbart
Bob Barr: Absolutely No Policy Has Come Out of Trump's Mouth Thus Far - Breitbart:“People need to know more about him, because if he were to win the nomination, and, yet, still amass all of the details of his life and his policies, we go into the general election not knowing who we have as a candidate,” he said."
New Leftist Canadian Gov to Restore Citizenship of Muslim Terrorists
New Leftist Canadian Gov to Restore Citizenship of Muslim Terrorists | Frontpage Mag:
With Trudeau, Canada has its own Obama and the results are exactly what you would expect.
The federal Liberals are getting started on repealing some of the previous government’s sweeping — and controversial — changes to how people get or lose Canadian citizenship.
But the Liberal plan promises to be controversial in its own right, since it would, if passed, restore the Canadian citizenship of Zakaria Amara — sentenced in 2010 for his role as a member of the so-called Toronto 18.
Immigration Minister John McCallum introduced a new bill Thursday that, if passed, would remove terrorism or other crimes against the national interest as grounds for revoking citizenship from dual nationals.
That's certainly good news for ISIS members.
Citizenship can still be removed from those who’ve obtained it via fraudulent means or misrepresentation.
So lying on an immigration application is now more serious than Islamic terrorism.
With Trudeau, Canada has its own Obama and the results are exactly what you would expect.
The federal Liberals are getting started on repealing some of the previous government’s sweeping — and controversial — changes to how people get or lose Canadian citizenship.
But the Liberal plan promises to be controversial in its own right, since it would, if passed, restore the Canadian citizenship of Zakaria Amara — sentenced in 2010 for his role as a member of the so-called Toronto 18.
Immigration Minister John McCallum introduced a new bill Thursday that, if passed, would remove terrorism or other crimes against the national interest as grounds for revoking citizenship from dual nationals.
That's certainly good news for ISIS members.
Citizenship can still be removed from those who’ve obtained it via fraudulent means or misrepresentation.
So lying on an immigration application is now more serious than Islamic terrorism.
Why Cranes Keep Falling
Why Cranes Keep Falling:
"Statistics from the United States Dept. of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the United States suffers nearly 90 crane-related deaths per year.
But crane collapses and their consequences—everything from property damage and lost time on a project all the way up to injury and death—aren't new to the modern-day crane, of course, with data showing a fairly consistent pattern.
What's changed is the size of the machines..."
But crane collapses and their consequences—everything from property damage and lost time on a project all the way up to injury and death—aren't new to the modern-day crane, of course, with data showing a fairly consistent pattern.
What's changed is the size of the machines..."
They Told Him To Take Down His American Flag, So He Did THIS Instead
They Told Him To Take Down His American Flag, So He Did THIS Instead:"When this Florida man felt his freedom of expression was being limited by local code enforcement officials, he decided to take matters into his own hands."
NHS: UK now has one of the worst healthcare systems in the developed world, according to OECD report
NHS: UK now has one of the worst healthcare systems in the developed world, according to OECD report | Health News | Lifestyle | The Independent: "
"Hospitals so underequipped that people are dying needlessly because of a chronic lack of investment"
The UK has one of the worst healthcare systems in the developed world according to a damning new report which said the nation has an “outstandingly poor” record of preventing ill health.
Hospitals are now so short-staffed and underequipped that people are also dying needlessly because of a chronic lack of investment.
The verdict, from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), will make embarrassing reading for David Cameron who denied the cash-strapped NHS is heading for its worst winter crisis.
Staff are too rushed to improve levels of care that have in many areas fallen below countries such as Turkey, Portugal and Poland.
Almost 75,000 more doctors and nurses are needed to match standards in similar countries the OECD said in its annual Health at a Glance study comparing the quality of healthcare across 34 countries..."
"Hospitals so underequipped that people are dying needlessly because of a chronic lack of investment"
The UK has one of the worst healthcare systems in the developed world according to a damning new report which said the nation has an “outstandingly poor” record of preventing ill health.
Hospitals are now so short-staffed and underequipped that people are also dying needlessly because of a chronic lack of investment.The verdict, from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), will make embarrassing reading for David Cameron who denied the cash-strapped NHS is heading for its worst winter crisis.
Staff are too rushed to improve levels of care that have in many areas fallen below countries such as Turkey, Portugal and Poland.
Almost 75,000 more doctors and nurses are needed to match standards in similar countries the OECD said in its annual Health at a Glance study comparing the quality of healthcare across 34 countries..."
The Oscars’ swag bag is more decadent than ever. How did we get here?
The Oscars’ swag bag is more decadent than ever. How did we get here?
"I’m talking about the swag bags.
This year’s purported thank-you package for Oscars presenters and prominent nominees, a basket containing goodies worth an estimated $230,000, is causing a furor.
First, activists opposed to Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories urged a boycott of the costliest item, a $55,000, 10-day jaunt to Israel including first class airline tickets and luxury accommodations.
Then the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences stepped up with a lawsuit.
That gift bag?
Has nothing to do with them, no way, no how.
Instead, the academy would like Distinctive Assets, the promotional and product-placement company that’s distributing the things to the 25 nominees in the directing and acting categories and host Chris Rock, to cease advertising its giveaway as the “14th Annual ‘Everyone Wins’ Nominee Gift Bags in honor of the Academy Awards®.”
Specifically, the academy is alleging trademark infringement.
Why is the academy ticked off?
It’s not because someone asked, “Hey, why does Leonardo DiCaprio (estimated 2015 earnings: $29 million) need a free round of laser skin tightening treatment valued at $5,500, a $45,000 junket to Japan, and a $275 roll of Swiss toilet paper?”
Surely he’ll show up to the Oscars anyway.
The academy is angry because of the combination of almost obscene luxury—$230,000!—and family-unfriendly freebies like a $250 vibrator and something called a Vampire Breast Lift ($1,900) that apparently besmirches the Oscars’ good name.
“Press about the 2016 gift bags has focused on both the less-than-wholesome nature of some of the products,” reads the complaint, which goes on to mourn “the unseemliness of giving such high value gifts … to an elite group of celebrities."...
"I’m talking about the swag bags.
This year’s purported thank-you package for Oscars presenters and prominent nominees, a basket containing goodies worth an estimated $230,000, is causing a furor.
First, activists opposed to Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories urged a boycott of the costliest item, a $55,000, 10-day jaunt to Israel including first class airline tickets and luxury accommodations.
Then the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences stepped up with a lawsuit.
That gift bag?Has nothing to do with them, no way, no how.
Instead, the academy would like Distinctive Assets, the promotional and product-placement company that’s distributing the things to the 25 nominees in the directing and acting categories and host Chris Rock, to cease advertising its giveaway as the “14th Annual ‘Everyone Wins’ Nominee Gift Bags in honor of the Academy Awards®.”
Specifically, the academy is alleging trademark infringement.
Why is the academy ticked off?
It’s not because someone asked, “Hey, why does Leonardo DiCaprio (estimated 2015 earnings: $29 million) need a free round of laser skin tightening treatment valued at $5,500, a $45,000 junket to Japan, and a $275 roll of Swiss toilet paper?”
Surely he’ll show up to the Oscars anyway.
The academy is angry because of the combination of almost obscene luxury—$230,000!—and family-unfriendly freebies like a $250 vibrator and something called a Vampire Breast Lift ($1,900) that apparently besmirches the Oscars’ good name.
“Press about the 2016 gift bags has focused on both the less-than-wholesome nature of some of the products,” reads the complaint, which goes on to mourn “the unseemliness of giving such high value gifts … to an elite group of celebrities."...
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