Thursday, March 28, 2019

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Stewart And Cramer Face Off

A Wave of Green Jobs Can Lift All Boats

How Federal Disaster Money Favors The Rich

A Large Study Provides More Evidence That MMR Vaccines Don't Cause Autism

FDA Approves Esketamine Nasal Spray For Hard-To-Treat Depression

'Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie: How a farcical series of events in the 1880s produced an enduring and controversial legal precedent

Trump budget proposal for Social Security shrinks disability insurance, extends wait times
The disability insurance system will pay out $84 billion less over the next decade if the White House gets its way.

Several Boeing 737 Max 8 pilots in U.S. complained about suspected safety flaw

Trump administration proposes $7.1 billion funding cut to Education Department

A Surprise Winner From the U.S.-China Trade Spat: Russian Soybean Farmers: Commercial conflict has choked American soy exports to the bean’s biggest market, China, providing Russian farmers an opportunity

ResMed S9 Setup

Stroke has a new indicator

Donald Trump’s record $4.75trn budget: The president sets the stage for a new battle over his border wall

Is modern monetary theory nutty or essential?  Some eminent economists think the former

Marxism 101: How Capitalism is Killing Itself with Dr. Richard Wolff

The biggest lesson from Michael Cohen's explosive testimony

‘Oldest democracy’ in action - John Vassallo

We now know the great prize of Brexit: becoming Trump’s prey: The US would give us a great trade deal, we were told. This week the president has shown how volatile and untrustworthy he is

Once again, Theresa May tries to claim victory – but the EU has conceded next to nothing: Now all eyes will be on the Brexiters whose minds May needs to change before they cast their votes tonight

Britain’s reality right now: we have no functioning government: The Tory party is so divided and consumed by a mismanaged Brexit, it has no energy for anything else

Opioids claiming more African-American lives as overdoses spread from Rust Belt to East Coast: African-Americans had been spared because they were less likely than whites to be prescribed opioids, but heroin is the deadly equalizer.

Working long hours linked to depression in women

Workism Is Making Americans Miserable: For the college-educated elite, work has morphed into a religious identity—promising transcendence and community, but failing to deliver.

People fought for time off from work, so stop working so much: Don’t eat lunch at your desk. Stop fetishizing being busy. Unplug not just from your screen–but from the clock.

A 4.30am start and three-minute toilet breaks: are you ready for microscheduling? It’s easy to feel swamped by work and succumb to stress, so some people have decided the answer lies in scheduling their day, minute by minute

America's Professional Elite: Wealthy, Successful and Miserable - The upper echelon is hoarding money and privilege to a degree not seen in decades. But that doesn’t make them happy at work.

Americans Worry About Retirement, But Not as Much as Europeans: Anxiety about retirement is a global phenomenon, a new survey finds.

Reimagining Capitalism: How The Greatest System Ever Conceived (And Its Billionaires) Need To Change

Trump’s budget request slashes retirement benefits for 2 million federal workers: Each federal worker would lose about $75,000 in retirement savings.

Trump Proposes Civilian Pay Freeze for Second Consecutive Year

How the rich really play, “Who want to be an Ivy-Leaguer?”

Britain pleads to extend Article 50: This is one of our darkest hours

Government ordered to end secrecy over Jacob Rees-Mogg’s ‘hard’ Brexit ERG lobby group: Information Commissioner rules that Brexit department must release names of European Research Group MPs, following openDemocracy Freedom of Information appeal.

Public Citizen Applauds Medicare-for-All Legislation: The People Demand a Reliable, Affordable Health Care System, and a Plan Has Arrived

Consumer Carnage: How Federal Enforcement of Consumer-Protection Laws Has Declined
Under Trump

Press Briefing: Senators, Coalition Call for Sweeping National Digital Privacy Legislation.  Experts to Demand Federal Action to Combat Growing Digital Consumer and Civil Rights Threats

Large Blues health insurer pockets $1.7 billion tax refund

Inherited Trauma Shapes Your Health: A new study on Civil War prisoners adds to the evidence suggesting that our parents’—and even grandparents’—experiences might affect our DNA.

Ending HIV In Mississippi Means Cutting Through Racism, Poverty And Homophobia

New alternative to Trump's wall would create jobs, renewable energy, and increase border security: A consortium of scientists and engineers have proposed that the U.S. and Mexico build a series of guarded solar, wind, natural gas and desalination facilities along the entirety of the border.

Trump’s budget would eviscerate the social safety net but provide welfare for the rich

Establishment Democrats Are Undermining Medicare for All

The Prime Minister of Humiliation: Despite facing one embarrassment after the other, British Prime Minister Theresa May continues to plow ahead, seemingly undeterred. It's becoming increasingly clear that she is the main impediment to solving the Brexit mess.

DeVos Illegally Delayed Special Education Rule, Judge Says: Betsy DeVos, the education secretary, delayed a rule requiring states to address racial disparities in special education in 2018.

Bercow detonates May's third vote with dramatic Brexit intervention

Trump renews call to pull arts, PBS funding

Macron cuts short ski trip to attend emergency meeting of French ministers as Yellow Vest violence explodes in Paris and 'stretched' police arrest 25 rioters after cars are torched and shops are trashed

We’re Losing the War on Corruption: Paul Manafort and Felicity Huffman are twin avatars of an elite that still acts with impunity.

New OFAC CAPTA List Targets Foreign Banks

Politician who opposes mandatory chickenpox vaccinations contracts chickenpox

The Unexpected Side Effects of Trump’s Trade War: Farm income is down, and equipment prices are sky-high.

A Rise In Depression Among Teens And Young Adults Could Be Linked To Social Media Use

The GOP has abandoned fiscal discipline.  Democrats shouldn’t follow suit.

Senator Warren is onto something: The best way to protect the tech industry is to break it up

Jamie Dimon says we’ve split the US economy, leaving the poor behind

Nine days from ‘Brexit day’, does anyone have a clue what’s happening?  We’re begging for an extension and seeking trade deals with the mighty Liechtenstein. Everything is fine

Trump administration withholds report justifying 'shock' auto tariffs: The Commerce Department's February finding that major tariffs on foreign cars can be justified on national security grounds has not previously been confirmed.

Farm Aid Nonprofit Arranging Hay Help for Nebraska Ranchers

Government withholds 84-year-old woman's social security, claims she owes for college

Trump Just Blamed Union Dues, Which Are Paid By Workers Not Companies, For GM’s Layoffs

Dame Margaret Beckett Accuses Theresa May Of Brexit “Blackmail”


Huge anti-Brexit march to take place outside Parliament this weekend

Charles Koch donated $500K to Ryan days after GOP tax plan passed

The Misplaced Moral Priorities in Trump's 2020 Budget Proposal

Trump proposes big cuts to health programs for poor, elderly and disabled

Letter: What do Koch Brothers want?

Last year’s food stamps battle was contentious. This year Trump upped the ante: The Trump administration budget wants food stamp recipients under 65 to have work requirements

Trump pitches plan to replace food stamps with food boxes

Six Reasons the Trump Administration’s Budget Is a Disaster for Women and Families

Exclusive: In budget, Trump to ask Congress for $8.6 billion for border wall


Government withholds 84-year-old woman's social security, claims she owes thousands for college

Why the EU referendum was flawed

The Treasure Behind the Wall: Something in the new Oscar de la Renta boutique in Paris was not what it seemed.

Press Release: Summons against the Prime Minister

7 reasons a no-deal Brexit will be good for Millennials: Flora Gill puts a positive spin on a no-deal Brexit for remain-voting millennials

Free water ice! The 10 Rita’s flavors that have lasted 25 years: The Philly-founded company has been giving away first day of spring freebies for a quarter century.

Theresa May to give MPs vote to revoke Article 50 and cancel Brexit

"I fought in the Second World War, now I am fighting for a second referendum": 96-year-old World War Two veteran Brigadier Stephen Goodall tells why he is travelling 200 miles from Devon to go on the People's Vote march

The siren songs of Brexit seduced the nation: Remainers will be proved right in the end but have failed to sell their product like the snake-oil salesmen backing Leave

‘I want a clean conscience’: meet the marchers for a people’s vote.  People tell the Guardian about their motivation for joining the march in London on Saturday

'Fromage not Farage': the best placards on the People's Vote march.  A sculpture of Theresa May spears a representation of the British economy. The Put it to the People anti-Brexit demonstration takes place in central London

Brexit: Aerial footage of massive People's Vote march. Hundreds of thousands of protesters called for a further referendum on the UK’s relationship with the European Union.

Why I am marching against Brexit today: As Britain’s institutions buckle at the prospect of Brexit, its people are finding their voices at precisely the right time

Global Capitalism: US and China - 1 Global Economy, 2 Giants [March 2019]

Donald Trump Just Picked A Laughingstock For A Huge Federal Reserve Job

Put it to the People march: a formidable sea of humanity and powerful strength of feeling: They came to London from across Britain and Europe, filled with enthusiasm for the new three Rs: revoke, remain, reform

The US is a lot more corrupt than Americans realize, and the problem goes much deeper than Trump

Report: Russian mob money helped build Trump business empire. A stunning report in The New Republic alleges that, whether Donald Trump knew it or not, for decades he made a large portion of his personal fortune from Russian mobsters & oligarchs.

Medicare for All Would Abolish Private Insurance. ‘There’s No Precedent in American History.’
Unlike Obamacare, emerging plans would sweep away the private health insurance system. What would that mean for the companies’ workers, the stock market and the cost of care?

Three decades after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Alaska’s coast faces an even bigger threat: Climate change is damaging ecosystems that never had the chance to recover.

3 museums reject donations from Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharma

IT'S CORRUPTION, NOT SOCIALISM, THAT BROUGHT DOWN VENEZUELA: Four scholars explain why the failure of Venezuela is due to corruption—not to universal health care.

Michael Heseltine speech - Peoples Vote March 23.03.2019

Why Marx Was Right

Capitalism Has Not “Lifted Billions Out of Poverty” Nor Has Economic Growth “Benefited The Environment”

Equity is still the missing piece legal marijuana retail puzzle

A real Brexit revolt' underway in UK, European Parliament's Guy Verhofstadt says: Belgian MEP highlights five-million-strong petition calling for Britain to revoke article 50

Trump administration now says entire Affordable Care Act should be struck down

1,100 economists warn that Trump is repeating one of the biggest mistakes of the Great Depression

Kamala Harris wants to give American teachers a $13,500 average raise

Congressman Boyle Questions Secretary Mnuchin About Debt Ceiling

Concern trolling Medicare for All: NYT begins by saying investors matter, patients and doctors don't

Officials in charge of sanctions 'defect' as Trump's trade war ramps up damage to the economy

Mayor’s wife can’t define the billion-dollar city mental health program under her control

Pro-Brexit group really regrets holding second referendum poll

Put It To The People March - 23 March

Brexit is the ‘will of the British people’ or maybe not if you look at this chart

BREXIT - EU's Tusk warns UK: "Do NOT BETRAY 6 million people who sign to CANCEL Brexit"

Trump wants to erase Obama by breaking the ACA

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