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The Politics of Reproductive Healthcare |The Political Pragmatic - 0 views

thepoliticalpragmatic.blogspot.com/...f-reproductive-healthcare.html war on women contraceptives abortion pregnancy incarceration
shared by Fay Paxton on 22 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Fay Paxton on 22 Mar 14
     
    Since the 2010 elections, according to the Guttmacher Institute, Republican legislators have introduced more than 2,000 bills related to women's reproductive healthcare. The assault on women's health and freedom denies millions of women access to affordable contraception, life-saving cancer screenings, testing for H.I.V. and other sexually transmitted diseases. Some laws call for measures as drastic as imprisonment. In 2013, National Advocates for Pregnant Women, published the results of a study that examined cases in which a woman's pregnancy led to arrests and incarceration, detentions in hospitals, mental institutions, and forced medical interventions. The summary of some cases follows:
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Manfaat Kurma Dalam Islam - 0 views

muslim-academy.com/manfaat-kurma-dalam-islam manfaat kurma dunia islam manfaat kurma dalam islam kurma dalam islam nabi muhammad saw bahasa indonesia blog food health islam women youth
shared by Muslim Academy on 03 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Muslim Academy on 03 Jan 13
     
    Umat Islam pada umumnya berbuka puasa dengan memakan buah kurma. Nabi Muhammad (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) diriwayatkan bersabda: "Jika seseorang diantara kamu berpuasa, hendaklah ia berbuka dengan buah kurma. Sekiranya buah kurma tiada, bolehlah ia berbuka dengan air. Sesungguhnya air itu bersih lagi suci."
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US life expectancy lowest among industrialized countries - 0 views

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shared by Ian Schlom on 11 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Ian Schlom on 11 Jan 13
     
    This group studied 17 rich countries, and the US was the one whose life expectancy was the lowest.
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does Life Begin At Conception? - 0 views

voices.yahoo.com/begin-conception-12001052.html Abortion politics women's health
shared by D. Wayne Moore on 07 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • D. Wayne Moore on 07 Feb 13
     
    This is the single most important question in the abortion debate as far as the right-to-lifers are concerned. For them, it is a no-brainer.
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein: Urgent Action Necessary to Stop Health Insurance Corporation Greed - 0 views

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  • thinkahol * on 02 Jul 10
     
    At a time of great hardship for many Americans, it is unconscionable that a few mega-corporations can simply misplace a few decimal points and quickly rack up millions of dollars in unjust profits.
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NewsDaily: Study finds welfare cuts can cost lives - 0 views

www.newsdaily.com/...tre65n6ps-us-spending-health Study finds welfare cuts can cost lives
shared by thinkahol * on 29 Jun 10 - Cached
  • thinkahol * on 29 Jun 10
     
    LONDON, June 24, 2010 (Reuters) - Radical cuts in social welfare spending by governments intent on reducing budget deficits can cost lives as well as cause economic pain, according to a study published on Friday.
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Michael Moore Kills Capitalism with Kool-Aid - Michael W. Covel - Mises Institute - 0 views

mises.org/3751 capitalism micheal moore review
shared by Bakari Chavanu on 03 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Oh sure, in theory I would like to see everyone with their own homestead, money in their pocket for regular shopping frenzies, and no health worries despite eating at Burger King 24/7, but arriving at those goals is not exactly doable unless government robs Peter to pay Paul and/or starts up the printing press.
    • Bakari Chavanu
      Bakari Chavanu on 03 Oct 09
       
      This analysis totally overlooks where real wealth originates from: not from dollars printed by the government or even the redistribution of taxes. It originates from what working class people produce, and what capialist thugs mainly profit off of.
  • And that view of course puts me in opposition to Moore since he has no problem with government as his and our father figure. That is his utopia. He truly believes that warehouses of federal workers, in Washington, D.C., remotely running our lives is the optimal plan. He is an unapologetic socialist who really doesn't care why the poor are poor or the rich are rich, he just wants it fixed. So not surprisingly — and with some generalization as I proffer this — Democrats like Moore and Republicans don't.
    • Bakari Chavanu
      Bakari Chavanu on 03 Oct 09
       
      This is not the point he made in the movie. He makes the argument that workers should control and profite from what they produce.
  • I don't care one way or the other that he has that view and I am not knocking union workers, but Moore sees the world through a class-warfare lens resulting in a certain agenda: force wealth to be spread amongst everyone regardless of effort.
    • Bakari Chavanu
      Bakari Chavanu on 03 Oct 09
       
      So you think it's perfectly okay for individuals to have a net worth of millions and billions of dollars while the people who produce the wealth should not profit from their work?
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  • We listen to heartbreaking stories of foreclosed families across America — but we don't learn why the foreclosures happened. Did these people treat their homes as piggy banks? Was there refinancing on top of refinancing just to keep buying mall trinkets and other goodies with no respect to risk or logic? We don't find out.
    • Bakari Chavanu
      Bakari Chavanu on 03 Oct 09
       
      Yes, we do learn the source of foreclosures. It's banks raising interest rates that people can't possibly pay. It's people making huge amounts of money off the misfortunes of others.
  • $1,000 for cleaning out the house that they were just evicted from. Was it sad? Yes. But should we end capitalism due to this one family in Peoria, IL?
    • Bakari Chavanu
      Bakari Chavanu on 03 Oct 09
       
      He presents this as represenetive example.
  • There is a lengthy dissertation on the evils of Goldman Sachs. He rips Robert Rubin and Hank Paulson big time, and I agree with him. In fact, I said to myself, "Moore, you should have done your whole film on Goldman Sachs!"
  • As FDR concluded and the film ended, I was shocked at the reaction. The theater of 400-plus spectators stood and cheered wildly at FDR's 1944 proposal. The questions running through my head were immediate: how does one legislate words like useful, enough, recreation, adequate, decent, and good? Who decides all of this and to what degree?
  • So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear: that there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
  • Friedman's logic was what I was remembering as a theater full of people cheered wildly for a second Bill of Rights. How did this film crowd actually think FDR's 1944 vision could be executed? Frankly, it was clear to me at that moment that capitalism is on shaky ground. From Bush "abandoning" capitalism to bailouts for everyone, to Obama gifting away the future, we seriously might be past the point of no return toward a socialization of America.
  • This film did not make me angry, but it did punch me in the gut. The people in that theater with me, including Moore, were not bad people. They just seem to all have consumed a lethal dose of Kool-Aid.
    • Bakari Chavanu
      Bakari Chavanu on 03 Oct 09
       
      What Kool-aid are you talking about? What other system is really challenging capitalism? Not even the government is the real kool-aid when you've already noted that it works on behalf of the corporate class.
  • Moore sees Reagan entering the scene as a shill for corporate-banking interests.
  • Bakari Chavanu on 03 Oct 09
     
    I include my reacations to this review in which I think Covel misleads readers about Moore's movie.
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Chris Hedges: Is America 'Yearning for Fascism'? - Chris Hedges' Columns - Truthdig - 0 views

www.truthdig.com/..._yearning_for_fascism_20100329 barack obama congress democracy democrats economy fascism government health care hedges history house Is America 'Yearning for Fascism'?
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  • thinkahol * on 07 Sep 10
     
    Fritz Stern wrote "In Germany there was a yearning for fascism before fascism was invented." It is the yearning that we now see, and it is dangerous. - 2010/03/29
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The Unnecessary Fall | The New Republic - 0 views

www.tnr.com/...populism-recession-health-care
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  • thinkahol * on 05 Sep 10
     
    A counter-history of the Obama presidency.
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Drugs in Portugal: Did Decriminalization Work? - TIME - 0 views

www.time.com/...0,8599,1893946,00.html criminal decriminalize Drugs in Portugal: Did Decriminalization Work? - TIME
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  • thinkahol * on 03 Oct 10
     
    Drugs in Portugal: Did Decriminalization Work? Pop quiz: Which European country has the most liberal drug laws? (Hint: It's not the Netherlands.) Although its capital is notorious among stoners and college kids for marijuana haze-filled "coffee shops,"
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Obama and McCain Clash Over Economy - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Levy Rivers on 08 Oct 08 - Cached
  • “Senator McCain suggests that somehow, you know, I’m green behind the ears and, you know, I’m just spouting off, and he’s somber and responsible,” he said. “Senator McCain, this is the guy who sang, ‘Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran,’ who called for the annihilation of North Korea. That I don’t think is an example of ‘speaking softly.’ 
  • Throughout the evening, when Mr. McCain spoke, Mr. Obama stood at the side of the stage, or seated on a chair, arms folded, gazing at his rival. When Mr. Obama spoke, Mr. McCain took notes, often looked the other way, or scribbled on a pad.
  • Even Mr. McCain’s use of humor — a central part of his appeal in his own town hall meetings — did not seem that effective. At one point he joked about how health care plans probably should not pay for hair transplants, a remark that did not seem to draw more than a titter.
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  • Mr. Obama nodded disapprovingly. “Now, I’ve got to correct a little bit of Senator McCain’s history, not surprisingly,” he said “Let’s, first of all, understand that the biggest problem in this whole process was the deregulation of the financial system.
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Losing just one night's sleep makes brain prone to 'sudden shutdowns'| News | This is L... - 0 views

www.thisislondon.co.uk/...article.do body brain health science sleep
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  • alex thorn on 22 May 08
     
    Apparently, all-nighters are bad.
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A job, but there's a catch: a 1,000-mile commute - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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shared by Skeptical Debunker on 22 Feb 10 - Cached
  • "I like to say I gave up an eight-minute commute for an eight-hour commute," he says wearily, running a hand though salt-and-pepper hair as he watches his two sons play basketball for the first time this season. After the aging General Motors plant where he worked for 23 years was idled about a year ago, Hanley faced a Hobson's choice: Stay with his family and search for an autoworker's salary ($28 an hour) in a county where more than 40 percent of its manufacturing jobs disappeared from 2006 to 2009. Or hang on to his GM paycheck and health insurance and follow the job, no matter where it leads. In his case, it led to Fairfax, Kan., the same place his brother and two brothers-in-law — also GM workers, and now his roommates — landed. For others, it has been Indiana or Texas. The long commute is not just a story of hard times, tough choices and a shrinking American auto industry. It's also a case study of what happens when an aging industrial town loses an anchor, when workers too old to start over and too young to retire are caught in a squeeze and when economic survival means one family, but two far-flung ZIP codes.
  • Skeptical Debunker on 22 Feb 10
     
    In the early dawn, after another week building cars, Michael Hanley leaves his job in Kansas. He quickly zips into Missouri, then heads up a ribbon of highway past grain silos and grazing deer, across the frozen fields of Iowa, over the Mississippi River and into the rolling hills of Wisconsin. Finally, he pulls into his driveway - 530 miles later. It's one heck of a haul: more than 1,000 miles roundtrip, 16-plus hours of driving, every week.
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