Denmark is a very special country with incredible people, but based on Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s comments, that she would have no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland, I will be postponing our meeting scheduled in two weeks for another time….
Stephan: It is amazing to observe how in less than three years Donald Trump has reduced America's international stature from world leader to disrespected bully and buffoon. We have a president in name only. In fact, we have a psychotic 13-year-old boy with bleached hair in a badly tailored suit and an overlong red tie.
“Denmark is a very special country with incredible people, but based on Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s comments, that she would have no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland, I will be postponing our meeting scheduled in two weeks for another time,” Trump Tweeted.
“The Prime Minister was able to save a great deal of expense and effort for both the United States and Denmark by being so direct. I thank her for that and look forward to rescheduling sometime in the future,” Trump added.
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Stephan: Thanks to Moscow Mitch the $15 per hour minimum wage, a bill that passed the House, is going nowhere in the Senate. So thanks to all those low-income voters in Kentucky, who elect Moscow Mitch every six years when he runs for re-election. How could they be that stupid? I actually don't know.
Workers and labor activists urge Congress to pass the Raise the Wage Act on July 18, 2019, in Washington, DC.
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It’s official: The Senate has no plans to raise the federal minimum wage anytime soon.
A spokesperson for Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), who chairs the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, told Vox that the committee is not considering a bill that would raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, or any other increase, for that matter.
Republican opposition to the Raise the Wage Act in the Senate was expected, but the news essentially ends — for now — a years-long campaign to raise wages for millions of workers by lifting the current $7.25 minimum hourly wage.
Judy Conti, director of government affairs for the National Employment Law Project, said that blocking the bill will end up hurt Republican senators.
“Even the Chamber of Commerce acknowledges that it’s time to raise the federal minimum wage,” Conti wrote in an email to Vox. “[Alexander] may be retiring […]
More than three dozen violent or threatening criminal cases linked to people who cited Trump: report
Stephan: I was having lunch the other day with a middle-aged gay friend, and we were talking about the changes in gender perception we had both observed in the U.S. particularly how Millennials have very different views from Baby Boomers; they are far more accepting. We laughed that there were now even transgender television stars.
Suddenly an overweight angry White Trumper came over and said with threatening venom in his voice, "Why don't you just shut up, people are complaining, we're complaining." With a very nasty look he and his wife, who hadn't yet ordered, got up and stomped out of the restaurant. Our waitress, who had witnessed this exchange just rolled her eyes and shook her head. What struck me was not so much what he said, but that he felt it was okay to get up and say it in a public restaurant.
This little episode, in my view, occurred because we have a racist president, who several times a week in dog whistles and explicitly tells his followers that racist hate is fine with him, go for it. And my little experience is just one example of a growing trend. This report presents data confirming what I am saying. Is this the world you want to live in?
Trump at one of his racist rallies.
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A new report reveals that more than three dozen violent or threatening criminal cases have been linked to individuals who cited President Donald Trump as at least part of the reason for their actions.
In total, at least 36 cases have been found in which Trump’s name was invoked during acts of violence, threats of violence or accusations of assault, according to ABC News.
These included ten cases where the perpetrators either cheered or defended Trump while taunting or threatening others. On another ten occasions, defendants defended their violent or threatening behavior in court by citing the president and his rhetoric. In nine other cases, Trump was hailed by perpetrators either during or after physically attacking innocent victims.
“The perpetrators and suspects identified in the 36 cases are mostly white men — as young as teenagers and as old as 75 — while the victims largely represent an array of minority groups — African-Americans, Latinos, Muslims and gay men,” the report said.
This […]
Stephan: Unlike other developed nations which see universal healthcare as not only a personal right but, also, as a policy to produce societal wellbeing to the benefit of all, the United States sees healthcare as a kind of giant government-sanctioned grift. We don't have a healthcare system we have an illness profit system that is increasingly failing the people of America, particularly in rural areas, exactly the areas that voted for Trump. And yet I'll bet they vote for him again.
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SWEET SPRINGS, MISSOURI — The money was so good in the beginning, and it seemed it might gush forever, right through tiny country hospitals in Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee and into the coffers of companies controlled by Jorge A. Perez, his family and business partners.
It was his “secret sauce,” the rotund Miami entrepreneur would smilingly tell people in their no-stoplight towns. The money-making ventures he proposed sounded complicated, sure, but he said they would bring in enough cash to save their hospital and dozens, even hundreds, of good jobs in rural towns where gainful employment is hard to come by.
And, in town after town, the people believed him. He offered what they could not resist: hope, and the promise of survival.
Then a few major health insurance companies got suspicious, as did some government officials. How could Unionville, Missouri—a town of 1,790—generate $92 million in hospital lab fees for blood and urine samples in just six months? Why had lab billings at a 25-bed hospital […]
Stephan: Here is some very interesting good news, a datapoint in my view of an important positive trend.
From left to right: Asu Ozdalgar, head of MITEECS, or Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Paula Hammond, head of MITChemE, or Chemical Engineering; Anne White, head of Nuclear Science and Engineering; Angela Belcher, head of MITDeptofBE, or the Department of Biological Engineering; and Evelyn Wang, head of MITMechE, or Mechanical Engineering.
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For the first time in the history of the university, the majority of engineering department heads at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are women.
The university recently reported that, of the eight department head positions within MIT’s School of Engineering, five are now occupied by female faculty members. Those faculty members include Asu Ozdalgar, head of MITEECS, or Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Paula Hammond, head of MITChemE, or Chemical Engineering; Anne White, head of Nuclear Science and Engineering; Angela Belcher, head of MITDeptofBE, or the Department of Biological Engineering; and Evelyn Wang, head of MITMechE, or Mechanical Engineering.
Because engineering is a predominantly male-led profession, MIT’s news is significant in light of current worldwide efforts to […]
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