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Finland's government collapses under strain of socialized healthcare

Mac Slavo
SHTFplan.com
Mon, 11 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC

Finland's government has collapsed just weeks before the general election. New socialist and communist reforms have failed due to the rising costs of healthcare.

Healthcare costs, which are high because of governments, have caused the collapse of the Finnish government. Prime Minister Juha Sipila and the rest of the cabinet resigned after the governing coalition failed to pass reforms in parliament to the country's regional government and health services, the Wall Street Journal reports. Finland, like much of the developed world, faces an aging population, with around 26 percent of its citizens expected to be over 65 by the year 2030, an increase of 5 percent from today. The strain on the socialized medical system is impossible to ignore, and cannot be fixed by more government interference.

And the problems with socialism continue, as money is taken from some and given to others, eventually, the takers will outnumber the makers.

British vegan hippie falls to her death after fasting for days, hiking naked up volcano in Guatemala

RT
Wed, 13 Mar 2019 16:33 UTC

Catherine Shaw

British backpacker Catherine Shaw is believed to have stripped naked while hiking on a Guatemalan volcano to watch the sunrise before a fatal fall.

The 23-year-old from Witney, Oxfordshire was reported missing on March 5 after she left Hotel Mayachik, near Lake Atitlan in Guatemala. The search and rescue mission came to an end on Monday after police discovered her body 60ft from the top of the Indian Nose hiking trail.

Leaked photos purportedly from the scene showed evidence of blows to Shaw's body, sparking rumors of murder. These were intensified by Guatemalan authorities, who said there would be a "criminal probe" into her death. Post mortem results revealed Shaw had died four to six days before she was found of haemorrhaging resulting from a traumatic brain injury.

Comment: It's tragic of course. Our title is not intended to suggest she deserved that fate.

But there's certainly a lesson for others somewhere in this story.

See ya: Indonesia's Lion Air planning Airbus order switch after second Boeing 737 Max crash in 5 months

Bloomberg
Tue, 12 Mar 2019 15:17 UTC

© Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images
Search and rescue personnel examine debris from Lion Air flight 610 in Jakarta on Oct. 30, 2018

Indonesia's Lion Air plans to drop a $22 billion order for Boeing Co. 737 Max jetliners and switch to rival aircraft from Airbus SE as a rift between the companies widens following this week's crash in Ethiopia, a person with knowledge of the proposal said.

Lion Air was already looking at scrapping the Boeing deal after one of its own Max planes came down on Oct. 29, killing 189 people, and the African tragedy has made co-founder Rusdi Kirana more determined to cancel the contract, according to the person, who asked not to be named as the plans are private.

The move provides the first evidence of Boeing's order book being hurt following Sunday's crash, in which 157 people died when an Ethiopian Airlines 737 plunged to the ground six minutes after takeoff. The incident bore similarities to the Lion Air tragedy, and countries including China, Australia and Singapore, as well as Ethiopia and Indonesia, have banned the aircraft.

Lies, more lies, and STEM statistics

Sean Welsh
Quillette
Sat, 02 Mar 2019 10:21 UTC

Concerns about the number of women in STEM are misplaced for three reasons. First, the definition of the "T" is STEM is narrow and arbitrary (a lie); second, the definition of the "S" in STEM is narrow, arbitrary, and flagrantly wrong (a damned lie); and, third, while the causal attribution of sexism to explain low numbers of women in STEM (narrowly defined) is undoubtedly true in particular cases, it is unconvincing as a general explanation of the relative low numbers of women in some broad fields of PhD study. Better explanations for these disparities are readily available.

Victory for Women in US PhD Awards Nine Years Running

In the US, women have earned more PhDs than men for the past nine years. The most recent figures are shown in Table 1. Based on the data, I have added a column labelled "Parity." A broad field is classified as having parity if the female percentage figure is in the range 40-60. If the female percentage figure is greater than 60 it is classified as female majority. If the male percentage figure is greater than 60 it is classified as male majority.

Of the 11 broad fields, four have parity, four are female majority and three are male majority.

I found these figures in an article published by the World Economic Forum. Read in a straightforward way, they show women are doing better than men in terms of acquiring PhDs.

More global carriers are grounding Boeing's newest 737 after another deadly crash - UPDATE: Boeing to roll out "software upgrade"

RT
Mon, 11 Mar 2019 12:38 UTC

The second deadly crash of a Boeing 737 MAX 8 since October has forced a number of global airlines to ground the latest version of one of the world's most popular passenger jets.

The Sunday tragedy, which occurred six minutes after a takeoff from the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa en route to Nairobi, Kenya, claimed the lives of 157 people.

The crash came less than five months after another brand new 737 MAX 8, belonging to Indonesian airline Lion Air, fell into the Java Sea just 13 minutes after takeoff from Jakarta, killing all 189 on board.

On Monday, the Indonesian Transport Ministry called for the temporary grounding of all Boeing 737 Max 8 planes operated by the country's air carriers.

The step comes shortly after the China's Civil Aviation Administration ordered Chinese carriers to take the planes out of service.

Comment: Is it a design flaw? A manufacturing failure? Sabotage? Whatever the definitive answer, the current outlook does not bode well for Boeing. While many countries are playing it safe by canceling flights, Boeing is waffling whether or not it should ground the planes globally.

China grounded its 737 MAX fleet, emphasizing its zero-tolerance principle on safety hazards and offered the following observation:

"Given that two accidents both involved newly delivered Boeing 737-8 planes and happened during take-off phase, they have some degree of similarity," the Civil Aviation Administration of China said Monday.

While Boeing has sent an investigative team to get to the bottom of the tragedy, Swedish flight-tracking website flightradar24 said the jet displayed an "unstable vertical speed" during its takeoff.

Ethiopian Airlines also grounded its fleet:

The Ethiopian Airlines Group has four 737 MAX planes left in its fleet, and orders for an additional 25 placed with Boeing. The decision to ground the fleet until further notice came after Flight 302 crashed on Sunday morning, minutes after takeoff, killing everyone on board.

Hold the champagne! Back home at Boeing, answers to the dilemma of sudden crashes and faulty operation systems have taken precedence over celebratory festivities. Not a good time to debut Boeing's new 777x wide body aircraft!

From RT, 3/11/2019: Boeing cancels 777X launch event after Ethiopian Airlines' MAX 8 crash

Not only are countries all over the world reassessing Boeing company's safety records, its stock has been negatively affected as investors parachute to financial safety. RT reports it was the worst selloff in Boeing shares since 2001 following the 9/11 attacks and the current outlook is approaching dismal:

The latest crash of a Boeing 737 MAX 8 operated by Ethiopian Airlines has sent shares of the world's largest aerospace group plummeting 12 percent after the opening bell on Wall Street. The shares bounced back to trade at $390.18 at 14:20 GMT, still marking a significant drop of nearly 8 percent.

The latest stock plunge wiped out over $28 billion from Boeing's market value, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 140 points during early trading in New York.

See also: Ethiopian Airlines brand new Boeing 737 MAX crashes on way to Kenya with 157 people on board - UPDATE

UPDATE: 13th March 2019 at 11:00

RT reports that so far 346 people have died in 2 deadly crashes in just 5 months 2018. Although the investigation has just begun, the incidents are worringly similar and there is speculation it could be due to a new design which was intended to compete with the new model from Airbus, or that it could be due to a lack of training following a software update:

US aviation agency gives nod to the 737 MAX as Boeing struggles to contain Ethiopia crash fallout

© REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri
Wreckage is seen at the site of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302 plane crash, near the town of Bishoftu, southeast of Addis Ababa,Ethiopia March 11, 2019.
The US Federal Aviation Administration has reaffirmed the airworthiness of the Boeing 737 MAX in the wake of the Ethiopian Airlines crash that killed 157 people. It comes after several countries and airlines grounded the aircraft.

There have been mounting concerns about whether Boeing's best-selling single-aisle airliner is safe to fly, after crashes in Indonesia last October and in Ethiopia last week that dealt a heavy blow to its reputation. In a statement on Monday, the FAA said that, while "external reports are drawing similarities" between the accidents, which killed 346 people in total, it's too early to judge if a common issue is to blame.

"This investigation has just begun and to date we have not been provided data to draw any conclusions or take any actions," the agency said.

The FAA gave Boeing until April to update its software and the maneuvering system, as well as training requirements and flight crew manuals, to reflect the changes. In a separate statement on Monday, Boeing gave an assurance it would unveil a flight control software upgrade in the "coming weeks."

While the FAA opted to proceed with caution, aviation authorities in China, Indonesia and Ethiopia, have rushed to ground their respective fleets of the US aircraft manufacturer's most popular plane, as a precaution.

Stock markets have also been reacting to Boeing's woes, its shares sliding more than 5 percent on Monday.

With no definite conclusions reached from last October's Lion Air crash yet, let alone last week's Ethiopian Airlines disaster, speculation has been rife, with some experts suggesting that a common technical fault had doomed both planes.

What do the incidents have in common?

Desmond Ross, aviation security expert, former pilot and CEO of DRA consultancy, told RT that, although a complete set of data is not available on either of the crashes, "they do look very similar."

There have been damning reports that the Ethiopian jet had experienced a violent nosedive shortly after departing from Addis Ababa airport this week, and that this incident was "possibly caused by similar issues to that of the ... Lion Air crash."

The brand-new jet is marketed as more fuel-efficient and technically superior to its direct competitor, the Airbus A320neo family. To beat the European jet, Boeing had installed larger engines that were moved a bit further forward, tilting the balance of the aircraft. To compensate for this, the company altered on-board software and the flight control system, Ross explained.

What makes the 737 MAX particularly (un)safe?

The MAX-series jet has not yet become the world's most dangerous plane to fly. Other models, like the de Havilland Comet, the first commercial plane, or Tupolev Tu-154, the working horse of Soviet civil aviation, had poorer safety records. But allegations quickly spread that the Lion Air crash last year could have been prevented had Boeing tackled the technical glitch.

Nevertheless, shortly after the incident Boeing released an update to pilots flying the 737 MAX airliner, warning of the issue. But it could be that some pilots "have not been properly briefed or properly trained," Ross speculated.

Boeing goes into damage control

[...]

In the letter to employees that circulated on social media shortly after the FAA announcement, Muilenburg argued that "speculating about the cause of the accident or discussing it without the necessary facts is not appropriate and could compromise the integrity of the investigation," while highlighting the company's vast output and its impressive track record of having delivered "more than 370 737 MAX airplanes to 47 customers."
[...]

RT further reports on Boeing's plan for an update rollout, and hints at why the possible technical fault that caused the crash in Indonesia:

Boeing pledges to roll out software upgrade for 737 MAX in 'coming weeks' after FAA push

[...]

The US-based aerospace company has said that it had been developing "the flight control software enhancement" for several months since an identical Boeing model had plunged into the Java Sea off the cost of Indonesia in October, killing 189 passengers and crew.

[...]

While reaffirming 737 MAX's airworthiness, the FAA demanded Boeing make mandatory improvements to its flight control software, which is alleged to have malfunctioned and become the ultimate cause of the Lion Air Flight 610 crash on October, 29. According to a preliminary report into that tragedy, pilots failed to tackle the automatic anti-stall system due to it receiving erroneous readings from a sensor that measures the angle between the wing and the oncoming air flow, which forced the plane into a nosedive.

It was reported back in November that Boeing was ready to unveil a software fix within six to eight weeks.

Airlive.net reports that Ethiopia is unable to read the black box and it will "probably" have to be sent to Boeing in the US:

The growing MSM irrelevancy: Joe Rogan is the Walter Cronkite of Our Era

Konstantin Kisin
Quillette
Tue, 12 Mar 2019 00:01 UTC

It is always tempting to believe that we live in historic times. It strokes the ego to think that decades from now, people will look back on current events as the starting point of some dramatic, epochal change. As a comedian, professionally cynical and distrustful of epic narratives, I usually dismiss such notions as the delusions of grandeur of an increasingly narcissistic generation. Yet as I sat glued to my computer last week, watching Joe Rogan and Tim Pool interrogate Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and the company's global lead for legal, policy, and trust and safety-Vijaya Gadde-I could not shake the feeling that I was witnessing a historic moment.

Comment: It's truly excellent that independent long-form discussions have picked up the slack left by the increasingly dumbed-down mainstream media. Yet for how long will this continue? Many platforms are engaging in censorship of these independent voices, no-doubt feeling the pressure from mainstream sources who aren't comfortable with this threat to their monopoly on opinion-forming discourse.

See also:

Former Olympian Sharron Davies on the transgender sports row: 'How can this be fair to women?'

Guy Kelly
The Telegraph
Sun, 10 Mar 2019 08:00 UTC

Sharron Davies was stopped by strangers in the street half a dozen times this week. The former Great Britain swimmer - she won a silver medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympics and two Commonwealth golds - is used to being recognised every now and then, but as she walked around Bath on Tuesday, the interactions were of a different kind.

"It was all parents who were just saying to me, 'Thank you. Thank you for speaking out on this,'" she recalls when we meet at her home near the city. "People didn't realise what was going on."

The debate Davies has been congratulated for partaking in is one that's slowly consumed women's sport for much of the past month: whether transgender competitors should be allowed to enter female competitions. It is a notoriously thorny and misunderstood issue, but it was inflamed three weeks ago when 18-time tennis Grand Slam singles champion Martina Navratilova wrote that it was "cheating" to allow transgender women to compete in female competitions because of the potential unfair physical advantages. Navratilova, accused at best of expressing herself clumsily and at worst of being deliberately transphobic, later apologised for using the word "cheat", but not before Athlete Ally - a US-based organisation that campaigns for LGBT sportspeople - cut ties with her.

Comment: Once again, people being called bigots and 'phobes' for pointing out the obvious. This is the circus that is modern life on planet earth.

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"Syria is truly a country of love and peace" - Celebrity turned war reporter with a conscience, Carla Ortiz

Carla Ortiz, Richard Galustian, and Basma Qaddour
Global Research
Wed, 06 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC

Forward by Richard Galustian

Carla Ortiz is one of the most unique people of our times, a real hero; a woman who is braver than the most seasoned war reporter. She has spent considerable time in the Syrian war zones where the fighting between the Syrian Army and Al Qaeda and its affiliates was at its most bloody and intense, especially in and around Aleppo.; a city where for centuries Christians, though dominant in the area nevertheless, lived as one community with Muslims.

Quoting from a Reuters article written in July 2017 mostly describing the world renowned famous Baron Hotel, located in West Aleppo, where some of the most famous people of the 20th Century including T.E.Lawrence and Agatha Christie, were frequent visitors.

Again quoting from the Reuters article

"In the upstairs room she (Christie) always stayed during her frequent stays to Aleppo stands the glass-topped wooden desk where she wrote part of Murder on the Orient Express."

EU's mandatory national biometric ID card to affect privacy of 512 million people

MassPrivateI
Tue, 12 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC

A recent European Union (EU) announcement about national ID's will destroy millions of people's privacy and create a near global biometric database.

An article in State Watch News revealed that the EU has agreed to create a MANDATORY national biometric ID card.

"Measures being negotiated as part of the EU's 'Security Union' are moving ahead swiftly, with the Council and Parliament reaching provisional agreements on new rules for immigration liaison officers, the EU's Visa Code and the introduction of mandatory biometric national identity cards; and the Council agreeing its negotiating position on the new Frontex Regulation."

Earlier this week the Nepal government announced their plans to roll-out a national biometric ID card that will affect 30 million people.

Last month, I wrote an article warning people about the global effort to restrict everyone's right to travel. But what is happening across Europe and Asia should send chills down everyone's back.

Finding a place of your own in the decimated middle-class of America

James Howard Kunstler
Clusterfuck Nation
Fri, 08 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC

Do you know your place? In these days of hysterical Wokesterism, the question would surely provoke a riot of cowbell-clanging Antifa cadres, fainting spells in the congressional black caucus, and gravely equivocal op-eds from David Brooks of The New York Times. Yet it's a central, unacknowledged quandary of our time that so many Americans have no place and suffer terribly from it.

Human beings need a place in the social order, in the economic order, and in actual geography in order to function optimally in a life fraught with the normal challenges and difficulties that reality presents. Let's take these places in reverse order.

It's a fact that most Americans live in everyday environments that are, at best, not worth caring about, and at worst actively punishing to human neurology. Have you taken a good look at the American landscape and townscape lately? How do you feel venturing down the six-lane commercial boulevards lined with cartoon architecture? Either anxious or numb, would be my guess. Or a Main Street of empty storefronts? Or an avenue of looming, despotic glass skyscrapers? Or a vast subdivision of identical McHouses where the buffalo once roamed? Is it any wonder that Americans require more antidepressant medication than people in other lands? Or, that failing to find treatment, they self-medicate with alcohol, opiates, sugary snacks, and anything else that takes them out of the soul-crushing reality of their surroundings.

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Society's Child

Finland's government collapses under strain of socialized healthcare

British vegan hippie falls to her death after fasting for days, hiking naked up volcano in Guatemala

See ya: Indonesia's Lion Air planning Airbus order switch after second Boeing 737 Max crash in 5 months

Lies, more lies, and STEM statistics

More global carriers are grounding Boeing's newest 737 after another deadly crash - UPDATE: Boeing to roll out "software upgrade"

The growing MSM irrelevancy: Joe Rogan is the Walter Cronkite of Our Era

Former Olympian Sharron Davies on the transgender sports row: 'How can this be fair to women?'

"Syria is truly a country of love and peace" - Celebrity turned war reporter with a conscience, Carla Ortiz

EU's mandatory national biometric ID card to affect privacy of 512 million people

Finding a place of your own in the decimated middle-class of America

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