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Tuesday, January 28, 2014
The Super Rich are mad as hell - and doing great
1) Income for the rich is way up.
Income for the top 1% grew an estimated 31.4% from 2009 to 2012. The bottom 99% saw a gain of 0.4%.
2) The stock market is way up
The Dow has roughly doubled since January 2009. The middle class benefit somewhat from the gains, but it's the rich that benefit the most.
3) Tax rates on the rich are not way up
The rich have undoubtedly been subject to a fair amount of tax hikes recently.
Households with income above $250,000 will pay a 0.9% surtax for Medicare, plus an additional 3.8% on at least some of their investment income. Some of their deductions have also been reduced.
Households making above $400,000 ($450,000 if married) now pay a top income tax rate of 39.6%, up from 35% under Bush, but the same as during the Clinton years.
Those same high earners have to pay 20% on dividends and capital gains, up from 15%.
Meanwhile, the exemption on the federal estate tax stands at a generous $5 million per person.
But the rich crying class warfare need to think about what could have been if the far left had their way:
Nationalizing the banks: If that had happened, JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon would not have just gotten a $20 million payday.
Dividends taxed at ordinary income rates: That would have meant a rate of 39.6%, which would have hit wealthy investors much harder than the current structure.
Higher carried interest tax rates for private equity investors: This is the tax Schwarzman was worried about. Some fees paid to investment managers are taxed as investments, but many think their fees are just ordinary income and should be taxed at the much higher income rates.
The "Buffett Rule:" That would have ensured that millionaires paid a minimum of 30% of their taxable income to the federal government. Fact is, even with the increase in the top tax rate, most wealthy people pay an "effective rate" of far less.
One of the things the Super Rich complain about is the harsh language directed toward them. But while Obama referred to "fat cat" bankers on 60 minutes back in 2009, in general, "he dares not offend," as David Remnick wrote in the New Yorker last week. 
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
UN Launches Appeal for Typhoon-ravaged Philippines
MANILA — International humanitarian officials are grappling with the challenges of trying to get help into typhoon-ravaged central Philippines while people on the ground grow more desperate for food, clean water and medicine. The United Nations is appealing for $301 million, saying the greatest needs are food, water, shelter, medicine and clearing up debris.
As many as 10,000 people are feared dead. ButPresident Benigno Aquino was quoted on CNN as saying the initial death projection was "too much," and that the final accounting would more likely be around 2,000 to 2,500.
In Manila Tuesday, U.N. Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos said the magnitude of this crisis is “at the very top” of the U.N.’s scale for measuring the impact of emergencies.
“It’s been extremely difficult even to get a sense of what the immediate needs are because it’s been very difficult to get to some of the areas affected," Amos said.
Electricity in some provinces remains completely out. In others it is only partially restored. Communications links are slowly improving but many are still trying to reach loved ones on the phones.
There have been reports of aid trucks being stopped before they can get to their designated locations, grocery stores and malls have been looted. On Tuesday, a mob of about 3,000 people broke through the fence of the airport in Tacloban to meet a military plane delivering provisions.
The U.N. appeal is for its action plan which includes 15 projects that support the government’s civil defense, health and social services.
The other challenge of trying to give aid has been coordination among those doing the giving.
The U.N. is urging aid agencies to go through a logistics briefing once they arrive at the airport in Tacloban, one of the hardest hit cities. The interior minister told a local news outlet people arriving at the airport and wanting to bring aid have at times ended up waiting to find out where and how they can help.
More than two dozen governments have offered support in the form of funding, humanitarian aid as well as military assets. Philippines presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said the support of the international community has been tremendous.
“Certainly it gives us comfort that we are not alone in this fight- in rehabilitating in the affected areas and in providing relief goods. Therefore we are very thankful for the countries who have pledged assistance to us,” he said.
Aid agencies say efforts are “scaling up” as scores of countries pledge money, resources and personnel to help deal with the crisis. But getting the aid to those who need it most remains the biggest hurdle.
As many as 10,000 people are feared dead. ButPresident Benigno Aquino was quoted on CNN as saying the initial death projection was "too much," and that the final accounting would more likely be around 2,000 to 2,500.
In Manila Tuesday, U.N. Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos said the magnitude of this crisis is “at the very top” of the U.N.’s scale for measuring the impact of emergencies.
“It’s been extremely difficult even to get a sense of what the immediate needs are because it’s been very difficult to get to some of the areas affected," Amos said.
Electricity in some provinces remains completely out. In others it is only partially restored. Communications links are slowly improving but many are still trying to reach loved ones on the phones.
As aid groups struggle to deliver food, water and medicine to the some 600,000 people displaced by the crisis, reports from areas in the disaster zone say the situation is getting desperate.
The U.N. appeal is for its action plan which includes 15 projects that support the government’s civil defense, health and social services.
The other challenge of trying to give aid has been coordination among those doing the giving.
The U.N. is urging aid agencies to go through a logistics briefing once they arrive at the airport in Tacloban, one of the hardest hit cities. The interior minister told a local news outlet people arriving at the airport and wanting to bring aid have at times ended up waiting to find out where and how they can help.
More than two dozen governments have offered support in the form of funding, humanitarian aid as well as military assets. Philippines presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said the support of the international community has been tremendous.
“Certainly it gives us comfort that we are not alone in this fight- in rehabilitating in the affected areas and in providing relief goods. Therefore we are very thankful for the countries who have pledged assistance to us,” he said.
Aid agencies say efforts are “scaling up” as scores of countries pledge money, resources and personnel to help deal with the crisis. But getting the aid to those who need it most remains the biggest hurdle.
Saturday, September 7, 2013
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Rumored iPhone 5S Packaging Shows Silver Ring 'Fingerprint Sensor' Around Home Button
We're just days away from Apple's September 10th iPhone event, and the last minute leaks appear to be starting. Chinese site C Technology has published photos of what is claimed to be the iPhone 5S packaging. Although the photos appear to confirm the iPhone 5S name, and similar design to the iPhone 5, they also depict a mysterious silver ring around the traditional home button. Fox News anchor Clayton Morris previously claimed that the upcoming iPhone 5S would "have a silver ring around it" in an interview last month, while also noting the button is convex to make way for an embedded fingerprint sensor.
An iPhone 5S fingerprint reader has long been rumored, and alleged images of the sensor leaked earlier this week. The images appear to show an iPhone home button with metal parts around the edges. Apple's own September 10th iPhone invite also includes likely hints at a fingerprint sensor. An image accompanying the invite includes colorful circles and several silver rings. It's still not confirmed that the next iPhone will include a fingerprint sensor on the home button, but it's looking increasingly likely. Stay tuned toThe Verge on September 10th to follow along live as we learn more about the iPhone 5S and any other additional announcements.
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The real story behind The Conjuring and four other horror movies 'based on a true story'
Based on a true story'
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ast weekend, James Wan's paranormal thriller The Conjuring scared both moviegoers and its box-office competition with a hefty $41 million gross in the middle of summer — a time when we're all supposed to be watching movies about superheroes and giant robots. Made on a relatively thrifty budget of $20 million, The Conjuring outgrossed its far more expensive rivals likeR.I.P.D. and Turbo on a marketing campaign that can be boiled down to five words: "Based on a true story."
It's a familiar promise to horror fans, who have been inundated with ghost stories making similar claims to veracity. But how much truth can there really be in stories about poltergeists and demonic possessions? Here, we fact-check The Conjuring and four other "based on a true story" horror movies:
1. The Conjuring
The movie:A family is beset by a series of wrathful wraiths after they move into a colonial farmhouse. When the ghosts begin to target their young daughters, they hire a pair of paranormal investigators to end the haunting once and for all.
The true story:The Conjuring's poster boldly proclaims that it's "based on the true case files of the Warrens." So who are the Warrens, anyway? The real-life couple, Ed and Lorraine (played in the film by Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson), were American paranormal investigators that founded the New England Society for Psychic Research in 1952.
The Warrens' 10,000-plus career cases include the alleged haunting depicted in The Conjuring. In 1971, Roger and Carolyn Perron moved into a colonial farmhouse in Harrisville, R.I., with their five daughters, and quickly began experiencing what they described as both haunting and spiritual possessions. They invited the Warrens to the farmhouse to investigate. Over the nine years they lived in the house, the Perrons described spirits, both harmless and angry, that "stunk of rotting flesh" and routinely arrived at 5:15 a.m. to levitate their beds.
So how much of that is true? The real-life Perron family swears by their story, throwing their full weight behind the film and even appearing in some of The Conjuring's marketing materials. "Because I was the youngest and the most vulnerable, I was approached more than anyone, and I actually had a relationship with that [ghostly] boy," said April Perron in a trailer promoting the film.
Of course, there are plenty of people who doubt the story. Steven Novella, the president of the New England Skeptical Society, told USA Today that "there is absolutely no reason to believe there is any legitimacy" to the Warrens' reports on the Perron haunting — or, for that matter, to any of the Warrens' cases.
The Conjuring "is a fair reflection of the chaos and danger we faced at the farm," countered Andrea Perron. "There are liberties taken and a few discrepancies, but overall, it is what it claims to be — based on a true story, believe it or not." Watch Perron describe her experiences in more details here:
2. The Devil Inside
The movie:A young woman hires a film crew to follow her to Italy, where she intends to investigate a triple homicide committed by her mother during an exorcism gone wrong.
The true story:The 2012 surprise megahit turned its paltry $1 million budget into a $100 million gross on the back of a marketing campaign that claimed the movie was "based on true events." What does that mean, exactly? Star Fernanda Andrade claimed that The Devil Inside was "inspired by several real accounts of possession," but doesn't specify which ones. A search for crimes committed by someone named Maria Rossi turned up a disturbing 1993 murder case — but that was a case without claims of satanic possession, and bearing no resemblance to the film's plot. Short answer: It's probably safe to file The Devil Inside under "very, very, very loosely based on true events."
3. The Haunting in Connecticut
The movie:When a family moves closer to a hospital to receive better care for their cancer-ridden teenage son, they discover that their new home used to be a funeral home — and that the spirits of the dead aren't exactly happy they moved in.
The true story:The Haunting in Connecticut — which, like The Devil Inside, was promoted as being "based on true events" — was purportedly based on the alleged haunting of the Snedeker family in Southington, Conn., in the 1980s. After renting a new home, Carmen Snedeker discovered that the house had once been a mortuary, and that the tools used on the corpses were still in the basement. The Snedekers were beset by "strange and disturbing phenomena," which they believed to be demons. They eventually contacted our old friends Ed and Lorraine Warren to investigate, and discovered that an employee of the mortuary had been convicted of necrophilia. Before The Haunting in Connecticut, their story formed the basis for a TV documentary and a book titled In a Dark Place: The Story of a True Haunting.
Pretty creepy, right? Just one problem: The book's author, Ray Garton, has since revealed that he didn't believe the story himself. In fact, he wanted In a Dark Place to be published as fiction, but was overruled by his editor. "Elements of Carmen Snedeker's story clashed with elements of Al Snedeker's story, and it seemed everyone was having a problem keeping their stories straight," said Garton in an interview with Yahoo! News. Garton also alleges that he approached the Warrens with his concerns, and that they urged him to just "make it up and make it scary."
In short: Yes, The Haunting in Connecticut is based on a "true story" — it's just a "true story" that has since been disowned by its author.
4. The Amityville Horror
The movie:A family experiences a series of strange, paranormal events after moving into a house in which a murder was committed less than a year earlier.
The true story:The Amityville Horror is based on Jay Anson's book of the same name — a best-seller that boldly proclaims itself to be a true story on its cover. The book tells the story of the Lutz family, who moved into 112 Ocean Ave. in Long Island, N.Y., 13 months after 23-year-old Ronald DeFeo Jr. murdered his parents and siblings there. The Lutzes stayed for just 28 days, citing a wide range of frightening paranormal activity, including swarms of flies, vivid nightmares, and the appearance of cloven hoof-prints in the snow outside the house.
Creepy stuff — but in the years since The Amityville Horror was published (and adapted for film), there have also been plenty of reasons to doubt its paranormal claims. Neighbors reported that they had witnessed nothing unusual at the house, and researchers discovered that there was no snow on the ground on the day the cloven hoof-prints were alleged to have appeared.
After a series of lawsuits related to the story, a judge said that the book is largely "a work of fiction," relying mostly on suggestions by DeFeo's defense attorney William Weber. Weber later admitted that the book was a "hoax" created with the Lutzes "over many bottles of wine." (George Lutz, for his part, has consistently maintained that the story is true.)
Of course, the controversy didn't stop filmmakers from turning The Amityville Horror into a franchise, nor from marketing the 2005 remake as being "based on a true story." As for the house, the current residents report that the the only weird thing they've experienced has been "people coming by because of the book and the movie."
5. The Exorcist
The movie:Two exorcists work to exorcize a demonic force called Pazuzu from a young girl.
The true story:William Blatty based both his novel and his screenplay for The Exorcist on the real-life 1949 exorcism of a 13-year-old Maryland boy pseudonymously referred to as Roland Doe by the Catholic Church. In the days after the death of his aunt, Doe allegedly attempted to contact her with a Ouija board, which led to a series of seemingly supernatural events, including levitation. Multiple priests worked together to perform 30 exorcisms, during which Doe reportedly shied away from sacred objects and spoke in a guttural voice. One priest even reported seeing the word "hell," along with other strange markings, appear on Doe's body. At the end of the process, Doe returned to normal, and went on to have a perfectly normal life without any other supernatural behavior.
So what happened? There are plenty of theories, but no one has definitively explained what happened to Roland Doe. Writer Mark Opsasnick interviewed the ministers involved and concluded that they'd exaggerated the more extreme supernatural elements of the case. The ministers always maintained that Doe had legitimately been possessed.
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Is obesity America’s most influential export?
Thanks to the U.S., loads of countries are hooked on fattening food
is obesity the USA main export
Anti-obesity campaigners, with First Lady Michelle Obama as their standard-bearer, might finally be making some headway. Recent studies suggest that rising U.S. obesity rates have started leveling off, as a growing number of American adults get out and exercise more.
Populations in many other countries are continuing to grow fatter at an alarming rate, however, and many nutrition experts say the U.S. is fueling the “globesity” epidemic by exporting the worst of its eating and exercise habits to once-healthy foreign cultures.
Mexico is the nearest — and one of the most glaring — recent examples. Mexico recently overtook its northern neighbor to become the world’s fattest country with a population of more than 100 million. Nutrition experts there put much of the blame on high consumption of sugary sodas, although soft-drink executives object, saying their product can be part of a healthy diet. Public-health advocates have launched an ad campaign asking Mexicans, “Would you eat 12 spoonfuls of sugar? Why do you drink soda?”
Mexicans have the world’s highest rate of soda consumption, at 43 gallons per capita annually. And U.S. agricultural polices have been a big factor in fueling their addiction, says John Norris at Foreign Policy. America’s high tariffs on sugar, coupled with its subsidies for U.S. corn farmers, created a boom in the use of cheaper, high-fructose corn syrup in everything from soft drinks to spaghetti sauce, and that coincided with a spike in U.S. obesity (research has found that rats fed corn syrup gained more weight than those eating sugar). Then, he says, we started pushing the stuff south of the border.
It is no accident that Mexico’s weight gain has coincided with increased soft-drink guzzling… The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, a Minnesota-based think tank, has shown that the country’s sharp spike in obesity and soda consumption correlates with the 1994 passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which opened Mexico to a flood of cheap junk food and soda pop: After the agreement took effect, there was a more than 1,200 percent increase in high-fructose corn syrup exports from the United States to Mexico between 1996 and 2012, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department. [Foreign Policy]
Washington’s trade policies are also being blamed for giving American Samoa the highest obesity rate in the world (75 percent). After World War II, the U.S. started dumping an unwanted product — turkey tails, which are up to 40 percent fat — on the Pacific island chain. Samoans now consume 44 pounds of the turkey butts annually, Norris says, and local officials even tried to ban further imports in 2007, until Washington strong-armed them into backing down.
But American Samoa’s weight problem, and the heart disease, diabetes, and other health problems that go with it, also stem from two other imports from its “mainland powerhouse” — high-calorie fast foods and a sedentary lifestyle, says Helen Collis at Britain’s Daily Mail. Most of the islands’ food is imported, and chain restaurants offer a reliable low-cost alternative that has decreased consumption of leaner traditional staples, such as seafood.
Globalization has spread fast-food culture all over the globe. Health experts say the result has been obesity epidemics sprouting up everywhere from China to Qatar. That oil-rich nation’s tiny native population of 250,000 has been experiencing skyrocketing obesity rates — expected to shoot from 45 percent now to nearly 70 percent in five years — as cars have made the population more sedentary and fast food and home deliveries have replaced home cooking.
“As fast as we get rid of all our traditional vectors of disease — infections, little microbes, bugs,” Bruce Neal, professor at George Institute for Global Health in Sydney, Australia, tells the Indo-Asian News Service, “we are replacing them with the new vectors of disease, which are massive transnational, national, multinational corporations selling vast amounts of salt, fat and sugar.
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Thursday, August 29, 2013
Critical Blood Shortage-Please Donate to the American Red Cross
Urgent need for platelets and types A-,B-, and O- blood
While thousands of people answered the call for blood and platelet donations issued by the American Red Cross earlier this summer, an urgent need for platelets and types O negative, A negative and B negative blood remains.
There just aren’t enough people making the time to donate, but the truth is each open blood donation slot is tied to a pint of blood that we’ve promised to a hospital. A pint of blood that the hospital is counting on to be available for patients in need. A pint of blood that a cancer patient, trauma victim or premature baby requires to help save his or her life.
We’re asking you to help spread the word about this need. If we can work together to get the message out, we may be able to avert a shortage.
Live a story. Give a story. Together, we can save lives.
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