Thank you

 

 

 

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The Alliance for Clean Energy New York also supports the increase in funding for solar photovoltaic,

 

 

By Steven Thomma, McClatchy Newspapers

Wed Apr 1, 12:17 pm ET

LONDON -  President Barack Obama will travel to Moscow in July, part of what he and his

Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev , are calling a "fresh start" in strained relations between the nuclear powers.

 

 

 

"Over the last several years the relationship between our two countries has been allowed to drift," Obama said

after meeting with Medvedev for the first time. "And what I believe we've begun today is a very constructive dialogue

that will allow us to work on issues of mutual interest."

 

article here-
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/3202755

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Obama tells Europe to pick up strain in Afghanistan

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By Caren Bohan and Matt Spetalnick
1 hr 42 mins ago

 

 

STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama told Europe on Friday it

 

must do more to help the United States win the war in Afghanistan, looking to leverage his

 

huge popularity here to wring concessions from NATO allies.

 

 

Article here-

 

 

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This above is the Junk that Google Translate

 

now passes off as a translation.

 

Suddenly  there is a replacement of SO SO arabic translation... to this mess.

 

Why?  Why should we not know?

 

It's a sad day ....when Google hooks up with government (just needs to know our

 

keywords)..... waters down so so translation to nothing.   I'm feeling in China today :/

 

 

 

 

 

May. 5, 2009

Now the folks working on wonder drugs are coming down with swine flu.

 
AP Photo
By Scott Hensley

Drug giant Pfizer confirmed a man employed at one of its research labs in Connecticut tested positive for the H1N1 virus.

article here-
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2009/05/tk.html

 

 

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 http://eastoregonian.com/main.asp?SectionID=13&SubSectionID=48&ArticleID=92438

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Compare New yorks flu season to that of Utah

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State Flu Reports - Utah

 

 

 

 

Girls targeted in 'Taliban gas attack'

Militants blamed after 90 pupils poisoned in third attack on girls' school in three weeks

By Jerome Starkey in Kabul

Journalist Ahmed Rashid suggests that the devastation and hardship of the war against the Soviet Union and the civil war that followed was another factor influencing the ideology of the Taliban.^[51] The young rank and file Taliban were Koranic students in Afghan refugee camps whose teachers were often "barely literate," and did not include scholars learned in the finer points of Islamic law and history.

In such an environment, war meant employment, peace unemployment. Domination of women was an affirmation of manhood. For their leadership rigid fundamentalism was a matter not merely of principle, but of political survival. Taliban leaders "repeatedly told" Rashid "that if they gave women greater freedom or a chance to go to school, they would lose the support of their rank and file."^[52]

 

 

 

In the 18th century the Wahhabi movement took hold

in Saudi Arabia.

 

Relations with Pakistan

For a period of seven years since their origin, Pakistan's government had been the Taliban's main sponsor. It provided military equipment, recruiting assistance, training and tactical advice that enabled the band of village mullahs and their adherents to take control of Afghanistan.^[80]

Officially Pakistan denied it was supporting the Taliban,

 

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You love to fly... step up for a pat down...or

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By Jessica Ravitz
CNN
    
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Privacy advocates plan to call on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to suspend use of "whole-body imaging," the airport security technology that critics say performs "a virtual strip search" and produces "naked" pictures of passengers, CNN has learned.

 

 

 

 

 

15, which revealed that Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh had warned US president

 

Barack Obama that Pakistan's nuclear sites in North West Frontier Province areas that are

 

Taliban-al Qaeda strongholds are already partly in the hands of Islamic extremists. He told

 

Obama: "Pakistan is lost."

 

 

 

article here-

 

 

 

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Some Samples Are Stored and Used For Research Without Parents' Consent

 

By Rob Stein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 30, 2009

 

Matthew Brzica and his wife hardly noticed when the hospital took a few drops of blood from each of their four newborn children for routine genetic testing. But then they discovered that the state had kept the dried blood samples ever since -- and was making them available to scientists for medical research.

"They're just taking DNA from young kids right out of the womb and putting it into a warehouse," said Brzica, of Victoria, Minn. "DNA is what makes us who we are.

 

It's just not right."

cont. here-
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/29/AR2009062903118_pf.html

 

 

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Much talk little substance...  What did he say?

 

...and the next video is on Healthcare :(  

 

 

 MANDATE EVERYONE MUST GET HEALTHCARE

 

Gov. doesn't want to subsidize it...  )

 

How can the poor afford it? 

                                                                                           

They don't have enough to survive let alone...................... buy healthcare

 

 

 

 

 

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There oughtta be a law for her too.

 

 

 

 

Over 250 Massachusetts doctors have signed an open letter to the country warning that the health reform model enacted by Massachusetts is failing and that a single payer program is the only alternative.

An Open Letter to the Nation from Massachusetts Physicians: Early Outcomes from Massachusetts' Health Care Reform

We write to alert colleagues and the nation to the disturbing early outcomes of Massachusetts' widely-heralded approach to health care reform. Although we wish that the current reform could secure health insurance for all, its failings reinforce our conviction that only a single payer program can assure patients the care they need.

In 2006, our state enacted a law designed to extend health coverage to virtually all state residents. Political leaders in other states as well as several Democratic presidential candidates have embraced this model - Massachusetts' law mandates that uninsured individuals must purchase private insurance or pay a fine. The law established a new state agency to ensure that affordable plans were available; offered low income residents subsidies to help them buy coverage; and expanded Medicaid coverage for the very poor. (Immigrants are mostly excluded from these subsidized programs.) Moneys that previously funded free care for the uninsured were shifted to the new insurance program, along with revenues from new fines on employers who fail to offer health benefits to their workers. In addition, the federal government provided extra funds for the program's first two years.

Starting January 1, 2008 Massachusetts residents face fines if they cannot offer proof of insurance. Yet as of December 1, 2007 only 37% of the 657,000 uninsured had gained coverage under the new program. These individuals often feel well served by the reform in that they now have health insurance. However, 79% of these newly insured individuals are very poor people enrolled in Medicaid or similar free plans. Virtually all of them were previously eligible for completely free care funded by the state, but face co-payments under the new plan. In effect, public funds for care of the poor that previously flowed directly to hospitals and clinics now flow through insurers with their higher administrative costs.

Among the near poor uninsured (who are eligible for partial premium subsidies) only 16% had enrolled in the new coverage. And barely 7% of the uninsured individuals with incomes too high to qualify for subsidies had enrolled according to the official state figures. Few can afford premiums for even the skimpiest coverage; the lowest cost plan offered for a couple in their fifties costs $8,200 annually, and carries a $2,000 per person deductible.

Moreover, the state's cost for subsidies is running $147 million over the $472 million budgeted for fiscal year 2007. Meanwhile, collections from fines on employers who fail to provide coverage are 80% below the original projections. The funding gap will widen in future years as health care costs escalate and insurers raise premiums. Already, state officials speak of making up the shortfall by forcing patients to pay sharply higher co-pays and deductibles, and by slashing funds promised to safety net hospitals.

While patients, the state and safety net providers struggle, private insurers have prospered under the new law, and the costs of bureaucracy have risen. Blue Cross, the state's largest insurer, is reaping a surplus of more than $1 million each day, and awarded its chairman a $16.4 million retirement bonus even as he continues to draw a $3 million salary. All of the major insurers in our state continue to charge overhead costs five times higher than Medicare and eleven-fold higher than Canada's single payer system. Moreover, the new state agency that brokers private coverage adds its own surcharge of 4.5% to each policy it sells.

A single payer program could save Massachusetts more than $9 billion annually on health care bureaucracy, making universal coverage affordable. But because the 2006 law deepened our dependence on private insurance, it can only add coverage by adding costs. Though politically feasible, this approach is already proving fiscally unsustainable. The next economic downturn will push up the number of uninsured just as the tax revenues needed to fund subsidies fall.
The lesson from Massachusetts is that we still need real health care reform: single payer, non-profit national health insurance.

CONTACT: Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) Dr. Rachel Nardin, 617.667.4382 Dr. David Himmelstein, 617.665.1032 Todd Main, 312.782.6006

 

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