Stephan: Here is a very creative approach to healthcare insurance, and one that would be of benefit to hundreds of thousands of people. This may even address your situation.
Health insurance for freelancers can be expensive. When employed by a company, health insurance is generally covered, but strike out on your own and you find yourself paying several hundred dollars or more per month for minimal coverage. As freelancers are expected to make up fifty percent of the U.S. workforce by 2020, one can’t help but think there has to be a better way—and there is.
The Coworking Health Insurance Plan (COHIP) is a progressive program in Ontario, Canada that offers health and dental insurance, term life insurance, disability insurance, travel insurance and more to freelancers. To be eligible for coverage, you simply need to be a member of a coworking space that is part of Coworking Ontario, a collective of coworking spaces from across the province of Ontario.
Created in 2013, COHIP is the first of its kind in the world and was born of a personal experience of its creator, Ashley Proctor, who, among other things, is founder of Creative Blueprint and Foundery, two coworking spaces in Toronto, and executive producer of the Global Coworking Unconference […]
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Alex Henderson, - The Raw Story
Stephan: I was very glad to see this article because, as regular readers know I am far more concerned about Christian domestic terrorism than I am Muslim. If you look at the massacres that occur in the U.S. with regularity the perpetrators are overwhelmingly Christian white men. This report spells it out.
Why are we tolerating this?
A rogue’s gallery of some of America’s most notorious domestic terrorists
When white males of the far right carry out violent attacks, neocons and Republicans typically describe them as lone-wolf extremists rather than people who are part of terrorist networks or well-organized terrorist movements. Yet many of the terrorist attacks in the United States have been carried out by people who had long histories of networking with other terrorists. In fact, most of the terrorist activity occurring in the United States in recent years has not come from Muslims, but from a combination of radical Christianists, white supremacists and far-right militia groups.
Below are 10 of the worst examples of non-Islamic terrorism that have occurred in the United States in the last 30 years.
1. Wisconsin Sikh Temple massacre, Aug. 5, 2012. The virulent, neocon-fueled Islamophobia that has plagued post-9/11 America has not only posed a threat to Muslims, it has had deadly consequences for people of other faiths, including Sikhs. Sikhs are not […]
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Arturo Garcia, - The Raw Story
Stephan: The people of the 10th District of Georgia should be ashamed of themselves. Jody Hice is a Republican of course. Because of what is happening in that Party people like Jody Hice are pushed forward as candidates. But the people of 10th District Georgia elected this moron. What he is saying is beyond delusion, it is species of toxic willful ignorance.
Congressman Jody Hice railed against the separation of church and state in a video statement screened at a San Diego Christian conference, Right Wing Watch reported.
“Somehow we have bought into that false belief that our Constitution forbids us from being involved because of the so-called separation of church and state,” the Georgia Republican said in a video prepared for the Future Conference in San Diego. “I’m sure you’re aware of the fact that that’s not in our constitution. But it’s been said so many times that many Christians believe that we ought not be involved.”
While the exact phrase “separation of church and state” is not used in the Constitution, Hice did not mention that Thomas Jefferson used it to explain the First Amendment’s stance guaranteeing freedom of religion.
“I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their ‘legislature’ should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between church and State,” Jefferson wrote in his 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists in Connecticut. “Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf […]
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Thursday, June 18th, 2015
Mike Adams, - The Watchers
Stephan: It seems I am not the only person talking about a real estate collapse because of drought. Although it is a bit flippant, I agree with most of this essay, and believe this is going to be a huge issue within the next five years.
Water shut-offs have now begun in California, where government-ordered restrictions are starting to leave large communities high and dry. As CBS News is now reporting, the Mountain House community of 15,000 residents will run out of water in just a matter of days.
“The community’s sole source of water, the Byron-Bethany Irrigation District, was one of 114 senior water rights holders cut off by a curtailment notice from the state on Friday,” reports CBS.
And just like that, the property values of millions of dollars worth of homes belonging to 15,000 residents nosedives toward zero.
After all, what’s the value of a home that has no running water? California isn’t Africa… yet… so the idea of carrying your own buckets of water for bathing isn’t widely accepted.
Get ready for a real estate collapse in Collapsifornia
As Natural News readers know, I saw all this coming. In a May 7th article entitled Why the California water crisis will lead to a housing collapse, municipal bankruptcies and a mass exodus of climate refugees, I wrote:
How many California homes and businesses are headed […]
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Thursday, June 18th, 2015
Richard Kirby, Royal Society University Research Fellow - The Real News
Stephan: This is an excellent interview with a top tier scientist explaining what is going on in the world ocean as a result of climate change. It is stories such as this one that leads me to thinking of people like Senator James Inhofe as committing crimes against humanity. Their obstructionism is going to exact a horrifying price on human society and the Earth itself.
SHARMINI PERIES, EXEC PRODUCER: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Sharmini Peries coming to you from Baltimore.A recent study published in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change reveals that climate change, particularly global warming, is disrupting marine ecosystems on a scale that hasn’t been seen in 3 million years. Global warming of the earth is causing its waters to warm, and this could be causing the species to migrate to cooler waters, triggering drastic changes in ocean biodiversity. However, the authors of the study say that the effects on marine life can be curtailed with a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.Here to discuss this is Richard Kirby. Dr. Richard Kirby is joining us from Plymouth, UK. He’s a plankton scientist and associate fellow of the Marine Biological Association. He’s the author of this research report. Welcome to The Real News Network,
Richard.RICHARD KIRBY, ASSOCIATE FELLOW, MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: Hello.PERIES: So Richard, let’s start with you explaining to us the findings and how you came to the conclusions about the future impact of climate change on marine animals.
KIRBY: I’ll begin by saying something that people are probably very familiar with. […]
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Health insurance for freelancers can be expensive. When employed by a company, health insurance is generally covered, but strike out on your own and you find yourself paying several hundred dollars or more per month for minimal coverage. As freelancers are expected to make up fifty percent of the U.S. workforce by 2020, one can’t help but think there has to be a better way—and there is.
