So, the news today is NK has responded with an explicit thr...See MoreSo Trump has told North Korea, stop issuing threats, or there will be "fire and fury the likes of which the world has never seen." Which is ironic, because it's a threat. And quite clearly, he's saying that the US will nuke NK. (Trump's threat cannot be interpreted any other way).
So, the news today is NK has responded with an explicit threat:
"North Korea responded with vitriol. In a statement, its Korean People's Army threatened to 'turn the U.S. mainland into the theater of a nuclear war...'"
Remember when Trump mocked Obama for failing to act on his "red line"? Trump has zero options here that are "good," but the prospect of the US starting an unprovoked nuclear war (remember, Trump has HIMSELF been threatening NK the whole time) is unthinkable. So Trump's only sane option is to back down.
Now, "Trump" and "sane" don't really go in the same sentence often, without some form of negation betwixt. If Trump escalates (out of embarrassment and desperation) from talk to any form of conventional attack, he will have just started what is unlikely to end without a nuclear exchange, or at the very least hundreds of thousands of dead.
Only problem. It was readily available for anyone who wanted to view it (in draft form). And the deadline to approve it has not passed. Good for scientists standing up against "fake" news.
Isn't there a "new" Russia story for the NYT or HuffPo to cover?
https://www.washingtonpos...See MoreYep, new story is up on the Trump campaign connection to Russia. Try to keep up, even though it's hard these days between the threats being issued to NK and Trumps tweets blasting a Senator.
BTW, the NYT issued a correction to that story. News sources have to do that occasionally, i.e. Fox News retraction of the Seth Rich story that Hannity pushed.
EasTexSteveI didn't use an iPhone or a laptop. And, I didn't drive an electric car to get to my computer, either. And, I don't tout electric cars as the savior of mankind. Evidently, they don't do much saving for slave children in Africa.
That's right, cobalt is just the new thing, a...See MoreFrankly, I found the article stupid. Not the tragedy of the child, mind you. That should not happen. The stupid part is thinking that the problem is the need for cobalt. Yet, you are given a clue in the article with this line, "Goldman Sachs, the merchant bank, calls cobalt 'the new gasoline'!"
That's right, cobalt is just the new thing, and capitalism is extracting it the way capitalism always does. While the workers get little to nothing, except sick and dead, you can bet the institutions like Goldman Sachs are taking the lion's share of the wealth generated.
This should be no surprise. Exploitation is what capitalism does! For example, America would like to return to the days of using child labor - as former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich called child labor laws "truly stupid."
Or alternately, look at the slave labor capitalism uses in the US prison system. It is all about not paying the worker regardless of whether that worker is in the Democratic Republic of Congo or the United States of America.
Two years after Congress scrapped federal formulas for fixing troubled schools, states for the most part are producing only the vaguest of plans to address persistent educational failure.
So far, 16 states and the District of Columbia have submitted proposals for holding schools accountable under the 2015 law known as the Every Student Succeeds Act. With few exceptions, the blueprints offer none of the detailed prescriptions for intervention, such as mass teacher firings or charter-school conversions, that were once standard elements of school reform.
Many in the education world, from state superintendents to teachers unions, applaud this hands-off trend....
The people in your country that do not have such a ba...See MoreI have no objection to someone being a "plumber, electrician, or other. However, even plumbers et al. need to have a liberal arts background that includes literature, philosophy, mathematics, history, and social and physical sciences as distinct from professional and technical subjects.
The people in your country that do not have such a background tend to be poorly informed, have trouble understanding complex issues, and generally make a group comprised of what many would call "poor citizens."
Regarding a plan for schools, start by funding all of them so this does not happen!
KathleenTim wrote: "I don't know if he has committed these awful acts or not, and if he has, I hope he goes away for a long time. But I have seen the lives of too many falsely accused become irreparably damaged by false accusations." That is tragically true. We agree on this.
EasTexSteveSo, you think he is doing this to be a nice guy take a pay cut? Members of his assembled legal team (and, no doubt himself included) work at a billing rate of $1,500/hr or better. No wonder all of his lawyer buddies are signing up to ride this gravy train.
Be it Obamacare or Medicare for All, healthcare will first destroy economic growth and then bankrupt the country, and here is why! Dr. Lustig, endocrinologist and researcher, had this to say about our future.
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There won't be health care (in the future), because Medicare will be broke by 2026 unless we turn chronic disease around. Think of it this way, the food industry grosses 1.46 trillion dollars per year - of which 45% is gross profit. That's 657 billion dollars per year in gross profit.
But health care cost 3.2 trillion dollars per year - of which 75% is chronic metabolic disease - of which 75% of that is preventable if we changed our diet. So 75% of 75% of 3.2 trillion, that's 1.8 trillion dollars wasted, down a rat hole.
We lose triple what the food industry makes!!! That is unsustainable! Something has to give!
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(Quote from the article "Metabolic syndrome continues to climb in the U.S.")
In a study reported last year in the same journal, researchers estimated that by 2034, the number of Americans with diabetes will nearly double -- from 24 million to 44 million -- and direct medical costs for the disease will triple.
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Americans have long believed that your freedom stops when you are injuring another - in this case, the whole society is being injured for the sake of corporate profits.
If you do not understand the science and want a simple way to know if you are eating right, than only eat foods that your great grandparents would recognize as food they ate. That is, eat real food!
EasTexSteveMany people, including myself, are waiting for this to happen. I know the technology works, it just needs to become more efficient and cost-effective.
Tim FinneganLTL, it is great that prices are coming down and that in a few years we may see affordable solar options. But it must be done now, before the point of no return that we will soon reach.
Hope they are successful.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/08/ignore-our-crazy-president-u-s-tells-north-korea.html