National Health Expenditures 2014 Highlights

In 2014, U.S. health care spending increased 5.3 percent following growth of 2.9 percent in 2013 to reach $3.0 trillion, or $9,523 per person. The faster growth experienced in 2014 was primarily due to the major coverage expansions under the Affordable Care Act, particularly for Medicaid and private health insurance. The share of the economy devoted to health care spending was 17.5 percent, up from 17.3 percent in 2013

https://www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/statistics-trends-and-reports/nationalhealthexpenddata/downloads/highlights.pdf

The Engine of Inequality: Privilege

We have seen that whenever ownership of the engines of wealth creation is concentrated in the hands of a few, the inevitable result is poverty. And if the State has unlimited power to expropriate private income streams, the result is highly unequal distribution of wealth as the State’s insiders scoop up the wealth.

http://www.oftwominds.com/blognov16/inequality11-16.html

Reported STDs at Unprecedented High in the U.S.

There were more than 1.5 million chlamydia cases reported (1,526,658), nearly 400,000 cases of gonorrhea (395,216), and nearly 24,000 cases of primary and secondary (P&S) syphilis (23,872) – the most infectious stages of the disease. The largest increase in cases reported from 2014 to 2015 occurred in P&S syphilis (19 percent), followed by gonorrhea (12.8 percent) and chlamydia (5.9 percent). Chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis are the three most commonly reported conditions in the nation and have reached a record high level....

  • Men who have sex with men (MSM) accounted for the majority of new gonorrhea and P&S syphilis cases (82 percent of male cases with known gender of sex partner). Antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea may be higher among MSM.

Current Contraceptive Use in the United States, 2006–2010, and Changes in Patterns of Use Since 1995

Results—Sixty-two percent of women of reproductive age are currently using contraception. Of women using a contraceptive method in the month of the interview, the most common methods used are the pill (28%, or 10.6 million women) and female sterilization (27%, or 10.2 million women)

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr060.pdf

ASHA Report: States Spend Billions to Treat STDs

States spend nearly 15 billion dollars each year to treat new cases of sexually transmitted diseases (STD), and a new study by ASHA finds much more can be done to stem the epidemic.


U.S. Federal Funding for HIV/AIDS: Trends Over Time

President Obama’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 federal budget request, released on February 9, 2016, includes an estimated $34.0 billion for combined domestic and global HIV efforts.1  Domestic HIV is funded at $27.5 billion and global at $6.6 billion in the request.2  The FY 2017 request represents a 3.1% increase ($1.0 billion) over the FY 2016 enacted level, which totaled $33.0 billion.  Detailed data for FY 2011-FY 2017 are provided in Tables 1-2.

http://kff.org/global-health-policy/fact-sheet/u-s-federal-funding-for-hivaids-trends-over-time/

Judge Suspends Rule Expanding Overtime for Millions of Workers

... making large employers potentially sympathetic to an overtime compromise that would effectively extend the salary increase to some of their smaller rivals.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/business/obama-rule-to-expand-overtime-eligibility-is-suspended-by-judge.html

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

THE TRUE HISTORY OF CHEMOTHERAPY & THE PHARMACEUTICAL MONOPOLY

Over a century ago, the Carnegie and Rockefeller foundations started to engineer the curriculum. They put their money into drug-based research and made that the main focus of “healthcare”. Since then, the Rockefeller’s and banking elite have been able to control and profit from the drug industry. The AMA – which is the largest association of physicians in the U.S. – enforces the drug-treatment paradigm by heavily lobbying Congress and publishing one of the most influential journals, JAMA, which is largely funded by pharmaceutical advertisers. 

The Triumph of the Empty Gesture

You want a more progressive economy and culture? Turn off the mainstream media, start working on ways to extricate yourself from the state/cartel matrix, get out of debt, stop taking on more debt, start growing your own food (if you have no yard, in a community garden), use less of everything, starting with energy in all its forms, focus on DeGrowth, build your own networks of transparency, shared practical knowledge and reciprocity, start using decentralized crypto-currencies--and most importantly, just do the work, don't make empty gestures as a substitute for action that requires time, effort, money and risk.

http://www.oftwominds.com/blognov16/triumph-empty11-16.html

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

11 Very Depressing Economic Realities That Donald Trump Will Inherit From Barack Obama

Either Donald Trump will continue to borrow money recklessly, or we will go into a major league economic downturn.
It really is that simple.
But when our politicians borrow money, they are literally destroying the future of this country.  So the choice is pain in the short-term or greater pain in the long-term.
There is a way out, and that would involve shutting down the Federal Reserve and going to a completely debt-free form of money, but that is a topic for another article.

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

World-Famous Scientist: God Created the Universe

“I have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence,” Kaku said, as quoted by the Geophilosophical Association of Anthropological and Cultural Studies. “To me it is clear that we exist in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a universal intelligence and not by chance.”

http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/world-famous-scientist-god-created-universe

The New Nobility Uses Political Correctness to Fragment the Precariats

http://www.oftwominds.com/blognov16/PC-serfs11-16.html

I have long held that our economy is, stripped of propaganda, nothing but an updated version of feudalism, i.e. neofeudal: a vast class of precarious laborers (i.e. precariats--precarious proletariats) who own little to no wealth-producing capital ruled by a New Nobility/Oligarchy that owns the vast majority of wealth-producing capital and control of the political system.

Common Core Catastrophe

Developed by a select group of consultants and bankrolled by the Gates Foundation, Common Core was aggressively promoted by the Obama administration beginning in 2010. Within eighteen months, forty-six states adopted it, 90 percent of them egged on by a chance to snag federal dollars in the form of “Race to the Top” funds....  President-elect Donald Trump regularly denounced Common Core on the primary campaign trail, beginning with his speech to CPAC in 2015....  Had she prevailed last Tuesday, Common Core would have been safe in the hands of Clinton constituencies who brought it to life, especially the public education establishment and the business oligarchs who want shovel-ready workers.


http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2016/11/18243/

election-results-leave-plano-east-students-with-tension

News 8 spoke with the Muslim student, senior Amar Alhakim, and she confirms she had her hijab pulled while walking from one building to another Wednesday.
"All of a sudden I feel like a hand on my bun in the back. He tries to pull it. I just push him. And I ran inside. I was really scared. I didn't know what to do," she said.

The uprising of the scorned

Of course it doesn’t seem to occur to such commentators that while sounding the alarm over hateful attitudes and the specter of fascism they are themselves promoting hatred of ordinary people and flirting with tyranny.

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/As-I-see-it-The-uprising-of-the-scorned-472326

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

PRAYER FOR A NEW BISHOP

ALMIGHTY GOD, Eternal shepherd and guide. In your love for us, grant to the Catholic Diocese of Dallas a shepherd who will lead us to be Christ’s heart of mercy, voice of hope, and hands of justice. Help him to fill our minds and hearts with the truth of the Gospel, the power of the sacraments, and the desire to build up your holy Church.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen

America's Ruling Elite Has Failed and Deserves to Be Fired

If you think this chart of soaring student loan debt is a sign of "success," you are 1) delusional 2) protected from the dire consequences of this failure 3) getting your paycheck from this failed system. That in a nutshell is the state of the nation: those who are protected from the consequences of failure are loyal to the Establishment, as are the millions drawing a paycheck from systems they know are irredeemable failures.

http://www.oftwominds.com/blognov16/fired11-16.html

Student, Auto Loans Hit New All Time High Of $2.5 Trillion As Consumer Credit Jumps By $19 Billion

More importantly, with the Fed releasing its quarterly update on both auto and student loans, we have two new records: a new all time high in both car loans at $1.098 trillion, and a record for student loans, which just hit $1.396 trillion.

Finally, there were also no surprises as to who the primary source of consumer credit remains: the US government.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-07/student-auto-loans-hit-new-all-time-high-25-trillion-consumer-credit-jumpes

Surviving a Hillary-pocalypse

Ask yourself this question: how do you increase sales at stores who sell food, clothing, shoes, medicines, cell phones, etc. without even trying?  Easy: You invite a bunch of new friends into the country, and you give them money to spend.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/11/surviving_a_hillarypocalypse.html#ixzz4PKpBiAng
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Tuesday, November 1, 2016

GacoFlex S-2000 White

TOXICITY: Not for use in contact with edible substances or potable water.

https://www.loghomemaintenanceandsupply.com/GacoFlex-S-2000-White/