Monday, August 15, 2016

17 August - Surfing Notes

Why Another Big Insurer Is Bailing On Obamacare

Monday night, Aetna announced that it will stop offering health coverage through the Affordable Care Act's marketplaces in most of the states where it currently does so

 

Senior citizens aren’t dumb for falling prey to cyberscams. They just don’t have the info they need.

. The problem isn’t that seniors can’t learn. It’s that no one is there to teach them in the first place.

 

When big pharma blocks essential HIV/AIDS medication to the third world, it is the poor who suffer.

The Summer of the Shill

Campaign 2016 won't just have lasting implications for American politics. It's obliterated what was left of our news media.

PREVIEW: "Trump is considered so dangerous that many journalists are beginning to be concerned that admitting the truth of negative reports of any kind about the Democrats might make them complicit in the election of the American Hitler."

Years ago, when I was an exchange student in the Soviet Union, a Russian friend explained how he got his news.

"For news about Russia, Radio Liberty," he said. "For news about America, Soviet newspapers." He smiled. "Countries lie about themselves, tell truth about others."

American media consumers are fast approaching the same absurd binary reality. 



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Conservative rah-rah for murder abroad in the name of fighting 'terrorism' - a job certainly not accomplished with airborne bombs and missiles... with no guarantee of success even troops were fighting door to door. Not very original - recycled Support our Troops - a good way to know it's spin from those who forget troops after they come home.

At least 2,250 veterans homeless in Canada, study finds | National Observer

At least 2,250 veterans homeless in Canada, ... the federal government has estimated how many of Canada's homeless are former soldiers — but the department that ...
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http://www.soldiersoffthestreet.org/  UK
http://nchv.org/index.php/news/media/background_and_statistics  US

War and Homelessness

Coalition for the Homeless War and Homelessness Page 2 With the advent of the Vietnam War, however, the link between homelessness and military veterans finally

Why Are So Many Veterans Homeless? | BrainLine Military

More than half of the newly homeless diagnosed with mental ... in his article "Why Are So Many Veterans Homeless?" his first-hand ... SOLDIERS, AND MARINES A ...
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Richard Van Abbe Stephen Harper's disastrous term in office robbed the Conservatives of any legitimacy or moral authority to comment on Canadian foreign or defence policies. Perhaps, in two or three decades, if the party manages to recruit any impressive people, Canadians will feel sufficiently forgiving to listen to what they have to say. Until then, let them moil in the political wilderness where they belong.


Katrina Cristoff You mean the fight against insurgents created by NATO and the USA when they decided to topple the elected governments of Syria and Libya ? No I absolutely do not want to "continue the fight" in your military industrial make work project.

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