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发帖数: 19713 | 1 When Tim Pawlenty said the science was "in dispute” about whether being gay
is genetic, that sure came as surprise to molecular biologist Dean Hamer.
By Dr. Dean Hamer, op-ed contributor
In a recent interview, Tim Pawlenty was asked “Is being gay a choice?” The
presidential hopeful replied that “the science in that regard is in
dispute.”
As a working molecular biologist, that was certainly a surprise to me.
In fact, the scientific community has long regarded sexual orientation –
whether gay, str... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 2 Rick Perry's "Texas Miracle" Con Job
Posted: 8/12/11 03:51 PM ET React Important
Texas governor and reported GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry is the
nation's greatest political con artist. His so called "Texas Miracle" has
been totally debunked as a fraud. Yet Perry, with generous help from
conservative business leaders, tea party acolytes, and suddenly revved up
evangelicals will keep the con very much alive. The so-called miracle that
Perry and his backers peddle is of course that Texas i... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 3 Posted on Advocate.com August 15, 2011 09:40:00 AM ET
The Most Important LGBT Group You’ve Never Heard Of
By Andrew Harmon
How to conduct an accurate count of the American population — an estimate
that controls congressional seat allocation and the disbursement of billions
in federal dollars to cash-strapped states and municipalities — is a
reliable flashpoint of controversy when the U.S. Census rolls around every
10 years.
What seems to have drawn little controversy in the release of the 2010
C... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 4 Posted on Advocate.com December 02, 2011 10:12:30 AM ET
Australian Labor Party Expected to Endorse Gay Marriage Rights
By Andrew Harmon
AUSTRALIA MAP X390 (GETTY) | ADVOCATE.COM
The Australian Labor Party is poised to adopt marriage equality as part of
its platform, despite Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s stated opposition to
marriage rights for same-sex couples.
In a saving-face maneuver, however, Labor MPs will be allowed to take a
conscience vote on the issue during the party’s national confer... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 5 http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/19/politics/virginia-personhood-bill
Richmond, Virginia (CNN) -- In the Virginia House of Delegates, Republican
Robert Marshall is a longtime abortion opponent who has tried repeatedly to
pass legislation in his state that would give rights to the unborn.
This year, on his third try, Marshall just might get his wish, and that has
advocates for women's reproductive rights concerned.
The House of Delegates passed a so-called "personhood" bill Tuesday
sponsored by Marshal... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2153 | 6 (Reuters) - The steadily increasing stream of states and countries
legalizing gay marriage has dramatically changed the lives of LGBT people
and their loved ones in recent years.
In honour of the growing number of places to celebrate lesbian, gay,
bisexual and transgender nuptials, online travel adviser Cheapflights (www.
cheapflights.com) has come up with its top 10 list of gay wedding
destinations. Reuters has not endorsed this list:
1. Washington, D.C. USA
Although gay marriage was only first... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3365 | 7 支持Gingrich
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/perry-to-end-bid-
11:45 a.m. | Updated NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Gov. Rick Perry of Texas
dropped out of the Republican presidential race here on Thursday and
announced his endorsement for the candidacy of Newt Gingrich, a man he
called a “conservative visionary.”
In South Carolina
Reporting on the candidates and voters in the Palmetto State.
“I’ve never believed that the cause of conservatism is embodied by one
individual,” Mr. Perry said ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 113 | 8 Admire!
To me those photos are not a surprise as I ever saw 还要贫困一些的 people
in China. The living conditions of 贫困地区 have been improved steadily. But
the gap between rural and urban areas is becoming larger.
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发帖数: 28502 | 9 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
sonic (sonic) 于 (Mon Jun 6 21:38:04 2005) 提到:
Admire!
To me those photos are not a surprise as I ever saw 还要贫困一些的 people
in China. The living conditions of 贫困地区 have been improved steadily. But
the gap between rural and urban areas is becoming larger.
people
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hguo (Who+am+I?) 于 (Tue Jun 7 12:35:23 2005) 提到:
By searching for "OCEF" on this board, you'll be able to find quite some posts
about Overseas Chi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3096 | 10 http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/22-facts-about-the-
22 Facts About The Coming Demographic Tsunami That Could Destroy Our Economy
All By Itself
US economy is steadily declining.
1. Right now, there are somewhere around 40 million senior citizens in the
United States. By 2050 that number is projected to skyrocket to 89 million.
2. According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, 46 percent of all
American workers have less than $10,000 saved for retirement, and 29 percent
of all A... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3205 | 11 是我以前教过的学生，刚刚毕业，是个二代，父母是老挝人，这边出生长大。理工学生
，感觉对大势的认识判断很清楚。平时真小看他们了，觉得他们就是吃喝玩乐的主。
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It's been a while since we last spoke and I am not sure if you have been
privy to the news but many analysts predict another economic collapse that
will be more devastating than the one in '08 judging by the current
situation in Europe and the U.S. They haven't concretely addressed any of
the issues that led to the financial collapse and neither major party has
proposed solution... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1055 | 12 "It's like giving everyone free bus passes, but there are only two buses,"
Dr. Ted Epperly, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians,
told the Associated Press.
Hope for a surge in new doctors may be misplaced. A recent study from the
Association of American Medical Colleges found steadily declining enrollment
in medical schools since 1980.
The study found that, just with current patient demand, the U.S. will have
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发帖数: 1085 | 13 california crashed around 89. And in 93, the price started to firm and
steadily went up. Then, in 03-06, it did a spike up. Prices started to
fall in 07. It has been 3 yrs. More or less, the price reset is over. Yes
, it can go down 20%. But it could go up 20% too. You cant time it. At
the peak, the risk is high, whereas at the trough, its low.
When mortgage is $5000, mortgage rate goes from 6 to 7.5% (20% increase),
you will need 9000 more a year. When mortgage is $2500 (low home pri |
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发帖数: 10233 | 14 【 以下文字转载自 SanFrancisco 讨论区 】
发信人: gjq (who am i?), 信区: SanFrancisco
标 题: 1 in 3 San Francisco employees earned $100,000
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Apr 26 18:27:47 2010, 美东)
More than 1 in 3 of San Francisco's nearly 27,000 city workers earned $100,
000 or more last year - a number that has been growing steadily for the past
decade.
The number of city workers paid at least $100,000 in base salary totaled 6,
449 last year. When such extras as overtime are included, the number jumped
to 9,487 workers, ne |
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发帖数: 29846 | 15 政府雇员还有比一般人好的多的退休金贴和医疗保险
More than 1 in 3 of San Francisco's nearly 27,000 city workers earned $100,
000 or more last year - a number that has been growing steadily for the past
decade.
The number of city workers paid at least $100,000 in base salary totaled 6,
449 last year. When such extras as overtime are included, the number jumped
to 9,487 workers, nearly eight times the number from a decade ago. And that
calculation doesn't include the cost of often-generous city benefits such as
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发帖数: 897 | 16 WASHINGTON -- For a guy who insists that federal bureaucrats make too much
money, incoming House Majority Leader Eric Cantor sure doesn't mind handing
out handsome government raises of his own.
Cantor, the Virginia Republican who has led the GOP charge this year to
freeze federal salaries, has boosted his congressional office's payroll by
81 percent since coming to Congress in 2001 - about 8 percent per year
through 2009. When he became minority whip last year, the office's personnel
expenses we... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 17 by Mike Piccione
01/04/2011
Here is a sampling of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” responses I received
from my editorial last week. There was only one nasty name calling liberal
and I challenged him to write an article expressing his point. He has failed
to respond with nothing but name calling.
Mike P.
Army Warrant Officer
I enlisted in 1964 and retired in 2006. This gives me a fair amount of
exposure to military life including multiple tours in RVN, Korea, Japan and
the Philippines.(Purple Hearts... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 18 I usually find the quarterly homeowner vacancy and homeownership report from
Census pretty lackluster, but the latest one released this morning was
anything but.
Strawberry Mill Valley
America's home ownership rate, after holding steady for a while, took a
pretty big plunge in Q4, from 66.9 percent to 66.5 percent. That's down from
the 2004 peak of 69.2 percent and the lowest level since 1998.
Homeownership is falling at an alarming pace, despite the fact that home
prices have fallen, affordabil... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 19 By Howard Richman, Raymond Richman, and Jesse Richman
The latest house price data (the S&P Case-Shiller index) shows a clear
downward trend for the most recent six months, as shown in the graph below:
The next graph shows how this year's data fits in with the long-term trend.
It is clear that the house price bubble, which began in 1997 and peaked in
2006, has not yet finished popping:
How We Got Here
The black stars in the above graph highlight 1951 and 1997, the two years
when Congress changed ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 20 By Victor Volsky
The rogues' gallery of the far left is enormously spacious, and it doesn't
take much to be eligible for inclusion; any conservative worth his or her
salt automatically qualifies. But with the possible exception of that
eternal bogeyman, Richard Nixon, nobody is hated by the left with such
abandon; nobody is more vilified; nobody is targeted with such volcanic
eruptions of insane hatred and vitriol as former Vice President Dick Cheney.
But why? What did Cheney do to deserve suc... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 21 Top 10 Inconvenient Truths about Global Warming
by Human Events
12/10/2011
Global warming alarmists are getting a chilly reception these days as the
public is starting to catch on to something that we have been yelling about
for years: The whole thing is a scam. And here are the reasons why: The
Top 10 Inconvenient Truths about Global Warming.
1. Climategate, Part 2: A second, massive batch of damaging e-mails has
been released that casts into question the scientific integrity of climate
re... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10233 | 22 he amount of money the federal government hands out in direct payments to
individuals steadily increased over the past four decades, but shot up under
Obama, climbing by almost $600 billion — a 32% increase — in his first
three years.
According to the Census Bureau 49% now live in homes where at least one
person gets a federal benefit — Social Security, workers comp, unemployment
, subsidized housing, and the like. That's up from 44% the year before Obama
took office,
This year, more than 46 mil... 阅读全帖 |
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y****t
发帖数: 10233 | 23 这下土共真要高兴死了,
正愁找不到理由搞这些猴子.
还怕岛上的猴子不接招...
Having dispatched Libya's Gadhafi to another place and realizing he can't
start another topple-the-dictator war with Syria just 40 weeks before his
reelection, President Obama is steadily repositioning American military
forces to contain China.
Some people have noticed China's aggressive new space and satellite program.
With the aimlessness of the manned U.S. space program that no longer has
its own space vehicle, China announced last month it intended to ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 24 By JAMES R. HAGERTY and CAROLINE VAN HASSELT
LONDON, Ontario—Outside a rail locomotive factory owned by Caterpillar Inc.
here, locked-out workers have set up a trailer and a wooden shack to keep
warm between bouts of waving union flags and shouting slogans. In a high-
profile test of union clout in Canada, they are digging in for what looks
like a long struggle.
The workers, who are resisting a new labor contract that would slash their
wages by about 50%, hope Caterpillar will soften its demands... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 25 奥巴马带来的改变：美国大众对廉政政府的依赖程度2年上升23%，6,700万人某种程度
上依赖联邦福利项目
he American public's dependence on the federal government shot up 23% in
just two years under President Obama, with 67 million now relying on some
federal program, according to a newly released study by the Heritage
Foundation.
The conservative think tank's annual Index of Dependence on Government
tracks money spent on housing, health, welfare, education subsidies and
other federal programs that were "traditionally provided to needy people by
... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 26 May 14, 2012 By Steve Young
Mexico’s drug cartels have been battling each other in a furious, violent,
and bloody war that has been going on for the past decade. After a lull in
the fighting during the late 1990s, the violence has steadily worsened since
2000.
The violence is at its worst right along Mexico’s northern border with the
United States where drug cartels are at war in efforts to try to secure
control to safe routes to the U.S. The increased level of violence and
lawlessness even pre... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 27 On the evening of January 11, 1996, while Mitt Romney was in the final years
of his run as the head of Bain Capital, Barack Obama formally joined the
New Party, which was deeply hostile to the mainstream of the Democratic
party and even to American capitalism. In 2008, candidate Obama deceived the
American public about his potentially damaging tie to this third party. The
issue remains as fresh as today’s headlines, as Romney argues that Obama
is trying to move the United States toward European-... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 28 By CHARLES FORELLE And DAVID ENRICH
LONDON—Investors fled from Spanish government debt on Monday, an immediate
rejection of the country's planned bank bailout by the constituency it most
desperately needs to impress: the buyers of its own government bonds.
The market rout puts Spain and the euro zone in a dire position. The bailout
plan—in which Spain agreed to accept up to €100 billion ($125
billion) to recapitalize banks—was hatched to alleviate the concern that
Spain itself could be d... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 29 By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER, Associated Press
July 2, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. manufacturing shrank in June for the first time in
nearly three years, adding to signs that economic growth is weakening.
Production declined, and the number of new orders plunged, according to a
monthly report released Monday by the Institute for Supply Management.
The slowdown comes as U.S. employers have scaled back hiring, consumers have
turned more cautious, Europe faces a recession and manufacturing has slowe... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 30 LANSINGERLAND, Netherlands (Reuters) - The euro zone crisis is washing over
the walls of one of the region's safest havens.
So far the Netherlands, a founding member of the European Union and fiscal
hawk along with neighboring Germany, has been spared the dramatic collapse
of property prices associated with southern European countries such as Spain.
Housing prices have fallen roughly 15 percent since 2008, compared with up
to 30 percent in Spain since the crisis began.
Now, though, four years af... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 31 Tenants Feel Pinch of Rising Rents
By CONOR DOUGHERTY
Record-low mortgage rates mean that homeowners have a smaller financial
burden for their residences than at any time since the early 1980s.
But here's the bad news: Rising rents are squeezing many families and
leaving them with less to spend.
Several factors have pushed rents up. Rental and apartment housing is in
short supply but demand has grown after several years of foreclosures and
population growth.
Across the U.S., "effective" monthly ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 32 By SARAH PORTLOCK And ERIC MORATH
The number of new unemployment claims increased last week, but the amount of
workers drawing benefits on a continuing basis dropped to its lowest level
since before the financial crisis took hold.
Initial jobless claims rose by 4,000 to a seasonally adjusted 371,000 in the
week ended Jan. 5, the Labor Department said Thursday.
The data showed the number of continuing unemployment benefit claims—those
drawn by workers for more than a week—dropped by 127,000 to 3,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3299 | 33 You could lie to fit your agenda. But there is not many who have a brain
will believe this B.
In reality, average wealth drops 40%, around $50,000.
The reason, average house value drops $70,000.
Excluding house, the value of other assets, such as 401k, increases $20,000
from 2008 to 2010, and improves steadily in 2011 and 2012.
The house bubble has nothing to do with Obama.
Don't assume that others are stupid at least not that stupid.
American are smarter than you thought. Otherwise, this countr... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 34 How Obama Betrayed America
A policy of appeasement and intervention abets our enemies.
By David Horowitz
“If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the
indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see farther into the future.”
— Madeleine Albright, secretary of state (1997–2001), Clinton
administration
It is a judgment on Barack Obama’s timorous, apologetic, and irresponsible
conduct of foreign affairs that Madeleine Albright’s words, spoken little
more than 15 years ago, now sou... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 94 | 35 Is Egypt On The Verge Of Engineered Civil War?
by Tyler Durden
From: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-03/egypt-verge-engineered-civil-war
For thousands of years, Egypt has been one of the primary pillars of the
Eastern world. When Egypt falls into turmoil, a shockwave is felt by all
other nations that heralds great change and perhaps even great catastrophe.
The West's longtime interest in maintaining a solid foothold in Egypt is
based on this reality; even in our modern age, when Egypt is i... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 36 By Michael Snyder, on August 20th, 2013
Obama Follow MeBarack Obama has been running around the country taking
credit for an "economic recovery", but the truth is that things have not
gotten better under Obama. Compared to when he first took office, a smaller
percentage of the working age population is employed, the quality of our
jobs has declined substantially and the middle class has been absolutely
shredded. If we are really in the middle of an "economic recovery", why is
the homeownership... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 37 Obama: ‘Forces Have Conspired – For Decades – Against Working Americans’
»
by Jammie
Left unexplained are who these mysterious “forces” are. The hapless
community organizer, before coming out for his bizarre Syria speech and
hitting the links Saturday, gave an incoherent address about the middle
class or something Saturday morning.
President Obama on Saturday called for “bold steps” to help U.S.
workers, remarks that arrive two days before Labor Day and ahead of the fall
’s fiscal poli... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4150 | 38 The Congressional Budget Office warned policy makers on Tuesday not to
become too comfortable with shrinking budget deficits.
The aging U.S. population, federal health-care costs, and expanded subsidies
for health care will push government spending to a much larger level as a
share of the economy than any period since World War II.
CBO, which provides budget estimates for Congress, said deficit is expected
to continue shrinking over the next few years but will eventually climb
again, “mainly bec... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8800 | 39 Net: 为了所谓的绿色能源，2007，在左派推动下，立法要求在汽油里加入ethanol。
O8大力推动种植玉米生产ethanol。仅仅6年，后果已经在那里了。
大面积的原始植被/湿地变成玉米地，水土流失，被化肥污染的水进入水系，甚至影响
到饮用水,流入的污染水在墨西哥湾造成大面积的死亡区，水体生物灭绝。
最有意思的地方在于，生产ethanol的前期后期要花费的能量比生产出的ethanol能产生
的能量多。
AP Investigation: Obama's green energy drive comes with an unadvertised
environmental cost
http://news.yahoo.com/secret-dirty-cost-obamas-green-051200204.
CORYDON, Iowa (AP) -- The hills of southern Iowa bear the scars of America's
push for green energy: The brown gashes where rain has washed ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 40 By
Eric Morath
Updated Dec. 19, 2013 9:46 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON—The number of people filing for initial unemployment benefits
rose for the second consecutive week, a potentially concerning sign for a
labor market that had been strengthening.
Initial claims for jobless benefits, a measure of layoffs, increased by 10,
000 to a seasonally adjusted 379,000 in the week ended Dec. 14, the Labor
Department said Thursday. That is the highest level since March and well
above the 345,000 new claims economi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 41 Americans have overwhelmingly supported Barack Obama in two presidential
elections, but they have fallen further behind during his term in office,
losing ground in measures of income, employment, and education.
The national unemployment rate has dropped to 7 percent, but the jobless
rate for blacks has hardly moved since Obama took office, declining from 12.
7 percent in 2009 to 12.5 percent, according to the latest Bureau of Labor
Statistics report.
And while the recession impacted all race and... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3809 | 42 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: beijingren (to thine own self be true), 信区: Military
标 题: 22 Facts About The Coming Demographic Tsunami
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Feb 11 22:36:16 2014, 美东)
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/22-facts-about-the-
22 Facts About The Coming Demographic Tsunami That Could Destroy Our Economy
All By Itself
US economy is steadily declining.
1. Right now, there are somewhere around 40 million senior citizens in the
United States. By 2050 that number is projected to sky... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 43 By Editorial Board, Published: March 2
FOR FIVE YEARS, President Obama has led a foreign policy based more on how
he thinks the world should operate than on reality. It was a world in which
“the tide of war is receding” and the United States could, without much
risk, radically reduce the size of its armed forces. Other leaders, in this
vision, would behave rationally and in the interest of their people and the
world. Invasions, brute force, great-power games and shifting alliances —
these were t... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 44 WASHINGTON — It’s one of those promises the president would probably like
to forget.
In vowing to make the Veterans Administration the model of national health-
care reform back in 2008, the outlook for scandal-plagued Obamacare suddenly
seems even worse.
WND has discovered that during his transition into the White House in 2008-
09, President Obama proposed in his “Obama-Biden” plan to “make the VA a
leader of national health care reform so that veterans get the best care
possible.”
However, in... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 45 By Patrick J. Michaels
This article appeared on National Review (Online) on May 30, 2014.
On June 2, the Environmental Protection Agency is going to announce new
rules for existing coal-fired power plants, most likely a 20 percent
reduction in allowable carbon dioxide emissions. The only way this will be
possible will be by upgrading almost all combustion units, and the ultimate
cost of the upgrades will make coal noncompetitive with much-less-expensive
natural gas–fired facilities.
The EPA’s pr... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 46 Antarctica sets new record for sea ice
Posted on June 29, 2014 by Harold Ambler
Antarctic sea ice has set a new all-time record maximum over the weekend of
June 28-29, 2014.
The sea ice surrounding Antarctica, which, as I reported in my book, has
been steadily increasing throughout the period of satellite measurement that
began in 1979, has hit a new all-time record high for areal coverage.
The new record anomaly for Southern Hemisphere sea ice, the ice encircling
the southernmost continent, ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 47 (CNSNews.com) - According to the 2014 version of a report that the
Department of Health and Human Services is required by law to issue annually
, the percentage of Americans on welfare in 2011 was the highest yet
calculated. The data for 2011 is the most recent in the report.
HHS has calculated the percentage of all persons in the United States who
live in families that receive “welfare” going back to fiscal 1993. It has
not calculated a percentage for years prior to that.
As defined in the repo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21396 | 48 热烈祝贺我南方大红州囊括要饭榜三甲。妈的，你们荔波肉不是要滥发Food Stamp吗？
你们只要敢发，我们南方共和党就敢拿。我们看谁狠。
http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/3-states-where-more-than-1-i
SEPTEMBER 27, 2013
3 States Where More Than 1 in 5 People Receive Food Stamps
Earlier in September, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to advance a
measure that would cut $4 billion, or 5 percent, from the food stamps
programs each year for 10 years. The cost-cutting measure comes as the U.S.
faces yet another round of debates over the fiscal budget and debt c... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 49 Number of People Filing for Unemployment Benefits Increases After Sinking
Earlier in the Month
Alan Zibel and
Jonathan House
July 31, 2014 8:34 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON—The number of U.S. workers claiming unemployment aid rose last
week after sinking to a 14-year low earlier in the month.
Initial claims for unemployment benefits increased by 23,000 to a seasonally
adjusted 302,000 in the week ended July 26, the Labor Department said
Thursday.
The figures were slightly better than expected. Economi... 阅读全帖 |
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l***l
发帖数: 1138 | 50 Similar to other Silicon Valley tech companies, Apple has a work force that
is composed mostly of men, and most of them are white.
The company on Tuesday published statistics on the makeup of its work force
of 98,000 employees in terms of race, ethnicity and sex. It said 30 percent
of its employees worldwide were women. In the United States, where Apple is
based, 55 percent of the employees are white, 15 percent are Asian, 11
percent are Hispanic and only 7 percent are black.
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