If you’re going to lie,
you should try not to be obvious about it.
Parse This: The US, responding to charges that it
tortured many more than the three individuals so far acknowledged to have been
waterboarded, said that “only three were waterboarded in American custody.” Define, please, 'custody'. If CIA goons dragged someone to our friend
Gaddafi's cellars or Assad's dungeons, said “Here, go to it.” were they no longer 'in American custody'?
Over There: The NYPD, having failed to find any Muslim
terrorists in New Jersey after six years of indiscriminate spying, are opening
an office in Israel, apparently to take notes and learn from the masters.
Plot Lines: Along with elderly Americans, small investors
and the unwary, it now seems that Citigroup defrauded Abu Dhabi out of $4
billion? And 'Citigroup' is here defined as including Sandy Weill, the man
“most responsible” for the repeal of Glass-Stegall. The story also has subterfuge, high finance
subterfuge, broken deals, and death by glider.
Soon to be a major motion picture.
Cowadice:
That’s the word to describe the gutless Democrats’ parroting the
Republican party line that Jerusalem should be the capital of Israel.
Charades: Best I can tell, the new Draghi plan is to
loudly trumpet that the ECB is here to save the day by making “unlimited bond
purchases of 1 – 3 year bonds, without setting a maximum interest rate, without
the protection of imposed seniority, but requiring “strict conditionality” -
which would seem to mean austerity. I'm
having a hard time seeing how imposing austerity while letting governments go
deeper into debt is going to solve anything, but then I'm not a central banker or an economist or con man and I
don't see where the actual money is going to come from. Germany? Hah.
Clip & Save: A Goldman Sachs memo predicts that “Spain
will request a bailout on September 14th” Maybe that should read “has
instructed Spain to request...:
Another Argument For A Single Payer National Heath
System: The Institute of
Medicine reports that 30 cents of every dollar the US spends on health care is
wasted. Actually, their word was
'squandered' “through unneeded care, byzantine paperwork, fraud, fragmentation,
and other wasteful practices”, to the tune of $750 billion a year – a number
that may sound vaguely familiar.
The Parting Shot:
2 comments:
Re: Another Argument For A Single Payer National Health System
I took a health economics course once and read dozens of papers showing the same "squandered" healthcare expenditures. Prof at the time summed it up nicely, "Healthcare is incidental in the US, the goal is profit, one persons cost is another persons income"
Beautifull photos and great blog!
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