That only half of men are OK with a woman in charge is perhaps not surprising in the U.S., where a misogynist sits in the White House, a woman has never been president and there are still very few female governors. However, it is notable heading into an election where four women are vying for the Democratic nomination […]
Thursday, November 21st, 2019
MOHAMED YOUNIS, - The Gallup Organization
Stephan: If you listened to the impeachment hearings today then it should be obvious and undeniable to you that Donald Trump is, in the most fundamental way possible, a crook who should be removed from office immediately. He is damaging the nation and the stability of the world in ways that may take a generation or more to repair.
I say it should be obvious but, in fact, it is not. The factual reality is that the christofascist racist cult that is the Republican party is completely unmoved. This give us the clearest evidence one could have that the Great Schism Trend is not tearing, but has torn, the country apart at a level not seen since 1864.
More than anything else, in my opinion, racism, guns, male dominance, and "Christian" fundamentalism are the real issues in America today. Few will say it out loud, but the facts don't lie, and they tell us the problem with America is Americans.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- President Donald Trump’s approval has risen back to 43%
- Disapproval of Trump has fallen to 54%
- Trump’s handling of the economy remains his strongest area
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Despite days of focus by national and international news media on the impeachment proceedings currently underway in the House of Representatives, President Donald Trump’s job approval rating remains statistically similar to where it has been for weeks. Gallup’s latest poll, fielded Nov. 1-14, failed to show a noticeable impact of the impeachment hearings in Congress on presidential approval. In fact, the last time the president’s approval rating was 43% was in mid-September, just before news outlets began to report that a whistleblower complaint had been filed regarding a call between Trump and the president of Ukraine.
This relative stability in approval rating contrasts with President Richard Nixon’s job approval trajectory, which took a noticeable dip as a potential impeachment inquiry came into focus in the early 1970s.
Trump Approval Remains Strong Among Republicans
As President Trump battles the impeachment inquiry, 90% of Republicans approve of his job performance, while 10% disapprove. These assessments by his fellow Republicans […]
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Thursday, November 21st, 2019
Mark Anthony Karam, - AME info
Stephan: This, potentially, is some extraordinarily good medical news. This new technology is about to go into human trials and, if it pans out, as seems likely, it holds profound implications for future medical care.
We’ve covered news of a longevity fund that hopes to extend human lives past a hundred years. We’ve explored the concept of remote surgery, where a doctor miles away operates on a patient through the use of mixed reality technology.
Now, a UK company called Medisieve literally wants to use magnets to pull out diseases out of the bloodstream. Yes, you heard that right.
How magnets birthed Medisieve
Think to how you are asked to drink a Barium solution before an MRI or X-Ray. While obviously not exactly the same, the concept is in fact similar. The same way magnetic nanoparticles can be made to bind to cells in the body, the man behind the idea, Dr. George Frodsham, believes they could also be made to bind with threatening foreign bodies like bacteria or viruses – potentially even cancer.
In an interview with The Telegraph where he represented his company Medisieve, he went into details about his technology. He explained how foreign objects in the blood could be sucked out of the blood after being bound to magnetic […]
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The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) expansion of Medicaid to low-income adults is preventing thousands of premature deaths each year, a landmark study finds.[1] It saved the lives of at least 19,200 adults aged 55 to 64 over the four-year period from 2014 to 2017. Conversely, 15,600 older adults died prematurely because of state decisions not to expand Medicaid. (See Figure 1; see Table 1 for state-by-state estimates.) The lifesaving impacts of Medicaid expansion are large: an estimated 39 to 64 percent reduction in annual mortality rates for older adults gaining coverage.
The number of Americans in the workforce who are over 64 years old has tripled over the past 30 years.
Only 49% of American men say they would feel very comfortable with a woman as head of the government, according to a study released Tuesday morning of attitudes toward women and men in 11 countries. (emphasis added)
