Care varied slightly for the two groups. American doctors ordered chemotherapy more often than the Canadian doctors did, but that may have been because […]
Ruchir Sharma, - The New York Times
Stephan: It is always interesting watching the trends of people who have enough money they can functionally do whatever they like, as log it is legal. Here is one aspect illustrating what I mean.
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Tracking the rich has become a voyeuristic global industry, a form of celebrity worship. But it can also provide serious clues about where countries are headed.
When a country begins to fall into economic and political difficulty, wealthy people are often the first to ship their money to safer havens abroad. The rich don’t always emigrate along with their money, but when they do, it is an even more telling sign of trouble.
Since 2013, New World Wealth, a research outfit based in South Africa, has been tracking millionaire migrations by culling property records, visa programs, news media reports and information from travel agents and others who cater to the wealthy. In a global population of 15 million people each worth more than $1 million in net assets, nearly 100,000 changed their country of residence last year.
In most countries it is fair to assume that any millionaire exodus is composed mainly of locals, and not foreign investors, […]
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David Taylor, - The Guardian (U.K.)
Stephan: The swamp of corruption that is the Trump administration is so vast and complex that whole other chapters of what is going on in the U.S. just just get lost. Here for instance is the very active and well-funded Project Blitz attempt by the christofascists to get control of the government.
Pastors from the Las Vegas area pray with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during the election campaign in 2016.
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK — The emboldened religious right has unleashed a wave of legislation across the Unit ed States since Donald Trump became president, as part of an organised bid to impose hardline Christian values across American society.
A playbook known as Project Blitz, developed by a collection of Christian groups, has provided state politicians with a set of off-the-shelf pro-Christian “model bills”.
Some legislation uses verbatim language from the “model bills” created by a group called the Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation (CPCF), set up by a former Republican congressman which has a stated aim to “protect religious freedom, preserve America’s Judeo-Christian heritage and promote prayer”.
At least 75 bills have been brought forward in more than 20 states during 2017 and 2018 which appear to be modelled on or have similar objectives to the playbook, according to Americans United for Separation of Church and State, […]
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Sarah Okeson, - DC Report
Stephan: The American gun industry is about violent death, both here and abroad. That's how they make their money, death or the potential for death. Hunting and sport shooting are the industry's cover.
In the U.S. particularly the gun industry relies on fear. That's why there are thousands of men and women in America wandering around carrying concealed weapons. They may look physically capable, but inside they feel little and powerless and are haunted by fear. Here's a some current data to explain what is going on under the Trump administration.
At least 41 people have been killed so far this year with guns at our nation’s schools, more than three times the number of American military deaths in combat zones, but Trump is working to increase American gun sales overseas.
The weapons covered by a proposed rule, which would transfer authority to license U.S. gun manufacturer sales overseas from the State Department to the Commerce Department, include assault-style rifles, high-capacity pistols and armor-piercing sniper rifles.
“Sound policy would not make it easier for U.S. gun manufacturers who made the assault weapons used in the mass shootings at Sandy Hook, Pulse nightclub, Las Vegas, and Parkland to sell them to international buyers,” said Kristen Rand, legislative director at the Violence Policy Center.
The rule would also end the practice of notifying Congress of commercial arms sales above $1 million. Congressional outrage blocked the sale of assault rifles to Philippines police in 2016 and blocked the sale of arms to the Turkish president’s security guards in 2017.
“The Trump administration is once again caving to the gun lobby,” said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) “Making it easier for gun manufacturers to sell more weapons of […]
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Americans paid twice as much as Canadians for health care, but they didn’t get twice the benefit, according to a new study of patients with advanced colorectal cancer who lived, in some cases, mere miles from each other.
