Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Arizona: Three Hour Emergency Room Visit for Scorpion Sting Cost $83,046
September 6th, 2012Identical treatment in Mexico: $200. Via: Arizona Republic: Her symptoms subsided after she received two doses of the drug Anascorp through an IV, and she was discharged from the hospital in about three hours. Weeks later, she received a bill for $83,046 from Chandler Regional Medical Center. The hospital, owned by Dignity Health, charged her […]
Not The Onion: Eurozone Demands Six-Day Work Week for Greece
September 5th, 2012Via: Guardian: Greece’s eurozone creditors are demanding that the government in Athens introduce a six-day working week as part of the stiff terms for the country’s second bailout. The demand is contained in a leaked letter from the “troika” of the country’s lenders, the European commission, European Central Bank, and International Monetary Fund. In the […]
Estonia to Teach Programming in Schools from Age 6
September 5th, 2012Via: Geek.com: With the launch of the Raspberry Pi, computers are becoming affordable again for the younger generations. Now what we need is kids learning about computers in greater detail, including what the hardware is inside the box, and how to create rather than just use software. Estonia looks to be the pace setter in […]
Depression, Suicides Rise as Euro Debt Crisis Intensifies
September 5th, 2012Just hand more billions of euros to criminal bankers and tax the victims to pay for it. Brilliant plan. Via: CNBC: Europe is approaching a crisis as the region’s debt crisis and austerity measures increase the rates of depression, suicide and psychological problems – just as governments cut healthcare spending by up to 50 percent, […]
A Virus That Kills Cancer
September 4th, 2012Via: Telegraph: Sitting in a refrigerator in a Swedish laboratory is what promises to be a cheap and effective cancer treatment. So why are the trials to bring it to market not going ahead? … ‘Lack of how much money? Give me a figure,’ I pressed. ‘What sort of price are we talking about to […]
Simplicity Parenting
September 3rd, 2012Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids by Kim John Payne with Lisa M. Ross
Wal-Mart Tests iPhone App Checkout Feature
September 1st, 2012Wow! Bonus points to Wal-Mart for getting their own employees to test a system that will be used to lay them off. Via: Reuters: Wal-Mart Stores Inc is testing a system that would allow shoppers to scan items using their iPhones and then pay at a self-checkout counter, a move that could trim checkout times […]
Gates Foundation Funds ‘Anti-Vaccine Surveillance and Alert System’ and ‘On-Demand Vaccine Delivery via Low-Cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicles’
August 29th, 2012Via: TechNet21: An anti-vaccine surveillance and alert system Seth Kalichman of the http://www.uconn.edu/ in the USA will establish an Internet-based global monitoring and rapid alert system for finding, analysing, and counteracting communication campaigns containing misinformation regarding vaccines to support global immunization efforts. … On-demand vaccine delivery via low-cost unmanned aerial vehicles George Barbastathis of the […]
Water Shortages Could Force World Into Vegetarianism
August 27th, 2012Soy dogs and free vaccinations for all! Note the following if you click through to the link. Here’s a screenshot: The earliest, strategic decisions that Becky and I made about where we were going to live were driven by factors related to freshwater availability. If we didn’t have sufficient water for gardens and livestock, we […]
Lesson from Iceland: Let Bondholders Eat Losses
August 24th, 2012I’m surprised that these admissions came from the IMF, which routinely promotes the types of absurd policies that lead to the economic crisis in the first place. If investors want to roll the dice on some country’s sovereign debt, and that stuff blows up, in any sane world they should take the hit and not […]
