Arizona Burn Scars Seen From Space

NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory - Arizona Burn Scars Seen From Space

Health Care...waste mgmt, what a crock

Estimated waste in American health-care spending

AMERICA has a talent for wasting money on health care. It has devised many ingenious ways to do this. A patient may see many skilled specialists, none of whom co-ordinate with one another. Payment systems are unfathomably complex and highly variable. Doctors order duplicative or unnecessary tests. The country excels at treating sick people and does a horrible job keeping them from getting sick in the first place. All these problems, however, are due to a simple, structural failing: the more services a hospital provides, the more it is paid. Note the *total waste in billions...

Now, now, there's plenty for everyone...

An Unspeakable Word Is the Word That Has to Be Spoken

Warning: This essay does not include the single most reprehensible, shocking, forbidden expletive in the language. Maybe it should.


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/22/magazine/an-unspeakable-word-is-the-word-that-has-to-be-spoken.html

The Necessity Of Resisting Financial Tyranny

STARVE THE BEAST...

Guest Post: The Necessity Of Resisting Financial Tyranny

Fǎ Kè Yóu ......Wall Street....dǎ fēi jī

Disaster Capitalism at it's finest...

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http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/images/USDebt.png

The World Needs A Good Plague...

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/05/world_population&fsrc=nwl

Empire of Ilusion

We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other—the majority—is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. To this majority—which crosses social class lines, though the poor are overwhelmingly affected—presidential debate and political rhetoric is pitched at a sixth-grade reading level. In this “other America,” serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins of society.

Thoughts on the CTS & Courtesy runners & Tuesday...

"The People Vs. Goldman Sachs" - Taibbi's Magnum Opus

"The People Vs. Goldman Sachs" - Taibbi's Magnum Opus

Chart Of The Day: Currency Devaluation, Old School Style

Chart Of The Day: Currency Devaluation, Old School Style

What can you buy for $2.00???

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/05/poor_economics&fsrc=nwl

Essentially, we have no inflation in the USA, less than 2%, unless you happen to be one of those people who eat food, or drive in cars

NOTE: While the commonly accepted explanation for hyperinflation is government printing too much money, the real explanation is a concerted attack on a country's currency by foreign speculators and/or foreign governments...gee, wouldn't that be the same as speculation in commodities by the TBTF group???

Dodd-Frank...what a joke

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/geithner-nixed-dodd-frank