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Chavez & Putin Russian warships to help Chavez’s anti-U.S. drive CARACAS (Reuters) – Russian warships will sail into the Caribbean later this year, helping Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to fend off perceived U.S. aggression and weaken Washington’s influence in its traditional backyard. Evoking Cold War memories, Russia said this week it would send the missile-laden, nuclear-powered cruiser [...] The Great Depression – 2008 The market was 500 trades away from Armageddon on Thursday, September 18. 2008. Had the Treasury and Fed not quickly stepped in with a quick $105 billion injection of liquidity, the Dow could have collapsed to the 8,300-level – a 22 percent decline! According to traders, who spoke on the condition of [...] The Crash, Just a quickie for tonight. Lehman Bros now bankrupt…Merrill Lynch is no more, absorbed into Bank of America…AIG (insurance) seeks a $40 billion loan from the FED to survive…Dow Futures are plummeting – currently predicting that the Dow will open 360 points down. Banks are bracing for the short sellers to come in, especially the [...] Sarah Palin Laura Chase, the campaign manager during Ms. Palin’s first run for mayor in 1996, recalled the night the two women chatted about her ambitions. “I said, ‘You know, Sarah, within 10 years you could be governor,’ ” Ms. Chase recalled. “She replied, ‘I want to be president.’ ” White Man “There is such a thing as a black Republican, but they have been all but invisible at the party’s national convention which is hardly representative of America’s diverse population. “Among the party’s 2,380 delegates gathered in St. Paul only 36 are African Americans and very few other visible minorities were to be found on [...] |
US healthcare worst, and most expensive.
Japan’s health-insurance system covers everybody, including illegal aliens. It pays for physical, mental, dental, and long-term care. Japanese are the world’s most prodigious consumers of medical care; they see the doctor about 15 times per year, three times the U.S. norm. They get twice as many prescriptions per capita and three times as many MRI scans. The average hospital stay is 20 nights—four times the U.S. average. Cost: And yet Japan produces all that high-quality care at bargain-basement prices. The aging nation spends about $3,500 per person on health care each year; America burns through $7,400 per person and still leaves millions without coverage. Canadians live three years longer and are healthier than Americans, and the lack of universal health care in the United States may be a factor, researchers say.
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