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Veteran's Admin recruiting new doctors by increasing pay scales

Kellie Lunney
Government Executive
Wed, 17 Sep 2014 00:00 UTC
VA hospital
© Samantha SaisThe Veterans Affairs medical center in Phoenix. An acute shortage of doctors is at the heart of the falsified data here and possibly many other veterans hospitals.
The Veterans Affairs Department wants to increase the annual salaries of new physicians and dentists by up to $35,000 as part of a nationwide recruitment effort to hire more doctors and improve veterans' access to care.

The change, which the department announced Wednesday, would update existing pay tables for several categories of physicians in the Veterans Health Administration, enabling newly hired doctors to potentially earn between $20,000 and $35,000 more than the current salary ranges. The pay ranges for physicians who serve in leadership roles, including department undersecretaries and VA medical center directors, would not change. The notice outlining the new policy will be published Thursday in the Federal Register and will take effect on Nov. 30.

"We are committed to hiring more medical professionals across the country to better serve veterans and expand their access to timely, high-quality care," said VA Secretary Bob McDonald, in a statement.

Comment: If this recruitment effort does anything to improve the abysmal level of 'care' that our veterans have been receiving, then it will be worthwhile. However, that is questionable. The government seems to be good at throwing money around, while generally achieving little to improve the lives of those who have given all in support of the US psychopathic wars of terror.

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Another bison slaughter: Yellowstone park officials to reduce herd by one-fifth, largest cull in seven years


RT
Thu, 18 Sep 2014 09:50 UTC
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The bison population in Yellowstone National Park will be significantly reduced this winter, as park officials have announced a plan to cull up to 900 animals that attempt to leave or drift away from the park.

The park's famous bison population currently stands at roughly 4,900, meaning it could be reduced by about one-fifth.

According to Reuters, the cull announced Tuesday by Yellowstone's science and research branch would be the largest in seven years.

However, it would still leave the herd's numbers significantly higher than what both state and federal wildlife officials have established as the target goal - a population of somewhere between 3,000 and 3,500.

"It will not get us close to the goal of 3,000, but it will stabilize the population and bring it down somewhat," David Hallac, chief of the park's science and research branch, told Reuters.

Although Yellowstone's bison compose the only remaining herd of free-ranging buffalo in the United States, officials want to keep the population from growing too large, out of fear that drifting animals will spread a bacterial disease known as brucellosis to cattle that also graze in Montana's fields.
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Do as we say, not as we do: White House vending machines full of sugary snacks, while school students face empty machines


Progressive Today
Wed, 17 Sep 2014 22:42 UTC
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© Twitter: Taylor Lutz @TtimeLutzF$%king Michelle Obama
It has been widely reported that Michelle Obama's fight against childhood obesity in America's schools has reached past the lunchroom into bake sales and even the vending machines.

The First Lady's new standards remove any sugary snacks over 200 calories from the machines. Sometimes machines are emptied all together leaving students upset and hungry.

Comment: Perhaps White House staffers would revolt if forced to give up their treats; no doubt many of them have to put up with enough grief as it is. Many school districts are revolting as well:

Michelle Obama's disgusting, cheap school lunch rations leave student's fed up
While some are gluttons for poor health and misery, more schools dump Michelle Obama's lunch rules

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US marriage rate is lowest since 1920, including same sex couples

Paul Bedard
Washington Examiner
Thu, 18 Sep 2014 16:12 UTC
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US marriage rate has dropped to 93 year low
The Census Bureau reported Thursday that the nation's marriage rate is the lowest since 1920, and the first-time inclusion of same sex married couples did little to reverse the decline.

According to Pew Research Center analysis, the marriage rate of Americans 18 and older hit a bottom of 50.3 percent in 2013, down from 50.5 percent in 2012. In 1920, the first year mentioned, 65 percent were married, and the marriage rate hit a high of 72.2 percent in 1960.

Comment: This is a continuing trend in the developed world, as marriage rates have been on the decline for decades. Since the world is controlled by psychopaths who have inculcated their values on society, it is not particularly surprising. Psychopaths are not able to make any long-term commitments and are incapable of forming relationships based on love and trust, because they have no capacity for either. Many people who care deeply about being in a loving relationship, have often found themselves caught in a relationship with someone psychopathic, as they are quite adept at charming their prey. After escaping from such ordeals, many people understandably shy away from commitment.

All you need is Love!

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Corruption of science: When scientists give up

Richard Harris
Npr.org
Tue, 09 Sep 2014 16:27 UTC
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Randen Patterson left a research career in physiology at U.C. Davis when funding got too tight. He now owns a grocery store in Guinda, Calif.
Ian Glomski thought he was going to make a difference in the fight to protect people from deadly anthrax germs. He had done everything right - attended one top university, landed an assistant professorship at another.

But Glomski ran head-on into an unpleasant reality: These days, the scramble for money to conduct research has become stultifying.

So, he's giving up on science.

And he's not alone. Federal funding for biomedical research has declined by more than 20 percent in the past decade. There are far more scientists competing for grants than there is money to support them.

That crunch is forcing some people out of science altogether, either because they can't get research funding at all or, in Glomski's case, because the rat race has simply become too unpleasant.

"My lab was well-funded until, basically, the moment I decided I wasn't going to work there anymore," he says during an interview on the porch swing of his home in Charlottesville, Va. "And I probably could have scraped through there for the rest of my career, as I had been doing, but I would have had regrets."

Glomski's problem was that he could only get funding to do very predictable, unexciting research. When money gets tight, often only the most risk-averse ideas get funded, he and others say.

Comment: See also: The Corruption of Science in America

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In the U.S. the 'terrorists' all too often are the police

Linn Washington
Thiscantbehappening.net
Thu, 18 Sep 2014 19:19 UTC
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© Popularresistance.org
Two acts of ugly terrorism occurred in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963.

One act was widely abhorred. The other act ignored.

Many across America know about the 9/15/63 Birmingham murders of four little girls slain in the bombing of a black Baptist church 18-days after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his stirring "I Have A Dream" speech.

However, few know about the Birmingham murder of Johnny Robinson, a 16-year-old shot in the back by a policeman hours after that church bombing.

If the deaths of those four children inside that Birmingham church catalyzed the 1960s-era Civil Rights Movement contributing to the racial progress America now praises itself for achieving, the death of Johnny Robinson represents yet another instance of the regression across America on the issue of effectively addressing lawlessness by law enforcers - lawlessness that most often evades legal accountability.

Historically, America has a history of downplaying brutal behavior by police.

Police abuses - from fatal shootings through false arrests to the gratuitous use of foul or threatening language - are dismissed as isolated acts of a 'few bad apples' instead of as an endemic scourge historically impacting minorities and increasing impacting non-minorities. Top policy-makers and even much of the public embrace this dismissal dynamic.

Comment: As in Nazi Germany, the police do not serve public interest. They serve the State.
  • The U.S. has become a worse Police State than Orwell could imagine


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The United States has the largest prison population in the world - And it's growing

Nicole Flatow
thinkprogress.org
Thu, 18 Sep 2014 20:09 UTC
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© AP/Kiichiro Sato
Both in raw numbers and by percentage of the population, the United States has the most prisoners of any developed country in the world - and it has the largest total prison population of any nation. That didn't change in 2013. After several years in which the prison population dropped slightly, the raw number of inmates in United States custody went up again in 2013.

More than 1.57 million inmates sat behind bars in federal, state, and county prisons and jails around the country as of December 31, 2013. In the federal prisons, more than half of those sentenced to a stints of a year or longer are still there for drug crimes. In states including Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, and Georgia, at least 1 percent of male residents were in prison on December 31. And across the country, racial disparities persist. Black men are six times more likely than white men to be in prison. Hispanic men are 2.4 times more likely, according to a Sentencing Project analysis of the data.

This doesn't pain the full picture of the U.S. incarceration system. Many have estimated the total number of U.S. incarceration to be more than 2.4 million. This is in part because another estimated 12 million individuals cycle through the county jail systems in a given year for periods of less than a year, and are therefore not factored into a snapshot on December 31. There are also other mechanisms of incarceration not factored into this figure, including immigration detention, civil commitment, and Indian Country facilities, according to a Prison Policy Initiative briefing.
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U.S. Census Bureau: Noncitizen income rose 15 times faster than income of native workers in 2013

Pete Kasperowicz
Theblaze.com
Tue, 16 Sep 2014 13:45 UTC
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© AFP/Saul LoebChildren who have had their fathers deported attend a protest in response to US President Barack Obama’s delay on immigration reform in front of the White House in Washington, DC. Democrats have supported easing immigration rules and some have criticized Obama for the delay. Republicans say more immigration would lead to depressed wages for U.S. workers, which was backed up in a new Census Bureau report released Tuesday.
The U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday that household income for noncitizens working in the United States rose 6.0 percent between 2012 and 2013, 15 times more than the paltry 0.4 percent increase for households led by native-born U.S. workers.

Census said income households led by foreign-born workers, which includes noncitizens and naturalized citizens, rose 1.7 percent over the same period of time. That's still about four times higher than the 0.4 percent increase for native born workers.

Republicans have argued for months that the effort by Democrats to ease immigration rules would make it easier for noncitizens to find jobs, at the expense of U.S. citizens. The Census report seems to indicate that may already be happening, as it shows native U.S. household income was almost flat between 2012 and 2013, while income for foreign born residents rose much more.

Census stressed that its estimates were just that - estimates. But its 90 percent confidence intervals still indicate a wide difference between income for citizen and non-citizen income - it also indicates that the income of some households led by native U.S. workers actually declined between 2012 and 2013.

Census released its report on the same day that the Congressional Research Service released a memo that said enacting the Senate's comprehensive immigration legislation would increase the population of foreign-born U.S. residents by 10 million above normal growth rates over the next eight years.

Comment:
  • Slave nation: Forty percent Of U.S. workers made less than $20,000 last year

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Casualties of US Pathocracy: Over 700 refugees from the Middle East and Africa feared dead

Bill Van Auken
wsws.org
Tue, 16 Sep 2014 14:09 UTC
Over 700 refugees from the Middle East and Africa are feared dead in a pair of catastrophic shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea over the past week, the world's main international migration agency reported Monday.
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© Photo: UNHCR/L.BoldriniA boat carrying refugees in the Mediterranean
This tragic loss of life is directly bound up with the series of military interventions carried out by US imperialism and its allies, which have plunged the Middle East and much of Africa into chaos, turning millions into homeless refugees.

The worst of these maritime disasters became known over the weekend from the accounts of two Palestinian refugees who were pulled from the sea after clinging to flotation devices for a day and a half. They reported that their ship, carrying some 500 migrants from the Palestinian territories, Syria, Egypt and Sudan, had gone down last Wednesday after a violent confrontation with human traffickers who deliberately rammed the vessel.

Meanwhile, a boat carrying over 250 other refugees capsized off the coast of Libya on Sunday, with only 36 survivors rescued from the sea. The rest of the passengers are believed to have drowned.

The confrontation that led to the 500 migrant deaths reportedly erupted after the traffickers attempted to force the refugees to abandon the ship that they had embarked upon from the Egyptian port of Damietta for an even less seaworthy boat off the coast of Malta. When the migrants resisted, their ship was rammed and sunk.

The Palestinians were rescued by a Panamanian-registered container ship, while seven other survivors were pulled from the sea by the Maltese navy and other vessels. The same Panamanian-flagged ship that rescued the Palestinians managed to save another 380 refugees whose boat had also sunk in the Mediterranean over the past week.

"If this story, which the police are investigating, should be confirmed, it would be the gravest case of recent years, since it was not an accident, but a mass murder perpetrated by criminals without scruples or respect for human life," the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a statement Monday.

Comment: Forced out of their homes and countries, not welcome anywhere else, more and more people are becoming expendable due to the pathocratic system that destroys everything it touches.

It's devolution baby! Destination nowhere under the stewardship of psychopaths

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Americans seeing a glimmer of reality? Trust in MSM returns to low of 40%

Justin McCarthy
Gallup Politics
Thu, 18 Sep 2014 03:54 UTC
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After registering slightly higher trust last year, Americans' confidence in the media's ability to report "the news fully, accurately, and fairly" has returned to its previous all-time low of 40%. Americans' trust in mass media has generally been edging downward from higher levels in the late 1990s and the early 2000s.

Prior to 2004, Americans placed more trust in mass media than they do now, with slim majorities saying they had a "great deal" or "fair amount" of trust. But over the course of former President George W. Bush's re-election season, the level of trust fell significantly, from 54% in 2003 to 44% in 2004. Although trust levels rebounded to 50% in 2005, they have failed to reach a full majority since.

Americans' trust in the media in recent years has dropped slightly in election years, including 2008, 2010, 2012, and again this year -- only to edge its way back up again in the following odd-numbered years. Although the differences between the drops and the recoveries are not large, they suggest that something about national elections triggers skepticism about the accuracy of the news media's reporting.

Comment: It is slightly encouraging that some people are open and inquisitive enough to question the mouthpieces of their 'masters'. It would be heartening if more people were that courageous as certainly most people realize that things are fairly horrific on the BBM, yet a still sizable majority keep believing the tired excuses the psychopaths keep spewing. What a difference it could make if enough people were informed with the truth.

Lament for Babylon

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