A freight train hauling coal away from a Wyoming coal mine.
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I read the June 28 “National View” column in the News Tribune, “Americans support shoring up strained U.S. power grid,” with considerable amusement. The column used the inarguable fact that we all want the electrical grid in the U.S. to provide dependable electrical service as cover for a very sinister turn of events in the history of American energy markets and liberty.
The real story is one of crony capitalism.
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump met with Bob Murray of Murray Coal, who was furious about the decline of coal to generate electricity. The culprits were several, including energy efficiency that displaced twice as much electricity as wind and solar. But the biggest culprit was the rise of cheap, fracked natural gas — and Mr. Murray was having none of it. In his now-familiar, gut-level approach to decision-making, now-President Donald Trump turned to his advisors and told them to give Murray whatever he wanted. […]
Edwin Alsina, in the bed, arrived at Norwegian American Hospital in Chicago with a racing heart. The staff normally would have administered a drug used to steady an abnormal heart rate, but it wasn’t in stock, and when its replacements didn’t work, he was admitted overnight.
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CHICAGO — George Vander Linde tapped a code into the emergency room’s automated medicine cabinet. A drawer slid open and he flipped the lid, but found nothing inside.
Mr. Vander Linde, a nurse, tried three other compartments that would normally contain vials of morphine or another painkiller, hydromorphone. Empty. Empty. Empty.
The staff was bracing for a busy weekend. Temperatures were forecast for the 90s and summer is a busy time for hospital emergency departments — the time of year when injuries rise from bike accidents, car crashes, broken bottles and gunshots.
At Norwegian American Hospital and other emergency departments around the country, doctors and nurses have been struggling for months without crucial […]
A Brooklyn mother unable to nurse fed her child donated breast milk. The $70 billion infant formula industry has seen sales flatten in wealthy countries in recent years.
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A resolution to encourage breast-feeding was expected to be approved quickly and easily by the hundreds of government delegates who gathered this spring in Geneva for the United Nations-affiliated World Health Assembly.
Based on decades of research, the resolution says that mother’s milk is healthiest for children and countries should strive to limit the inaccurate or misleading marketing of breast milk substitutes.
Then the United States delegation, embracing the interests of infant formula manufacturers, upended the deliberations.
American officials sought to water down the resolution by removing language that called on governments to “protect, promote and support breast-feeding” and another passage that called on policymakers to restrict the promotion of food products that many experts say can have deleterious effects on young children.
When that failed, they turned to […]
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A 14-month-old baby boy separated from his parents by U.S. officials at the Mexican border was finally returned to his mother dirty and covered with lice 85 days later, according to one of several chilling accounts in documents filed in a lawsuit motion. The suit, filed last week by 17 states and the District of Columbia against President Donald Trump and federal agencies, calls for migrant children and parents to be reunited.
The boy’s mother, Olivia Caceras, is quoted as saying that it didn’t appear that the baby had been bathed during his nearly three-month stay in federal custody as part of Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy on separating undocumented immigrants from their children.
The baby “continued to cry when we got home and would hold on to my […]
The federal government forms for applying for health coverage are seen at a rally held by supporters of the Affordable Care Act, widely referred to as “Obamacare”, outside the Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center in Jackson, Mississippi, U.S. on October 4, 2013.
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WASHINGTON. DC — Health insurers warn that a move by the Trump administration on Saturday to temporarily suspend a program that was set to pay out $10.4 billion to insurers for covering high-risk individuals last year could drive up premium costs and create marketplace uncertainty.
The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) “risk adjustment” program is intended to incentivize health insurers to cover individuals with pre-existing and chronic conditions by collecting money from insurers with relatively healthy enrollees to offset the costs of other insurers with sicker enrollees.
Remote Viewing the Year 2060
