21 Graphic Depictions of US Health Costs Compared to Other Nations + Health Fraud RECAP
03 Economy, 06 Family, 07 Health, 11 Society, Commerce, Corruption, Government21 graphs that show America’s health-care prices are ludicrous
Every year, the International Federation of Health Plans — a global insurance trade association that includes more than 100 insurers in 25 countries — releases survey data showing the prices that insurers are actually paying for different drugs, devices, and medical services in different countries. And every year, the data is shocking.
The IFHP just released the data for 2012. And yes, once again, the numbers are shocking.
Chuck Spinney: BIll Moyer on Incestuous Amplification
Corruption, Government, Idiocy, IO Deeds of War, Media, Military
Inside the Decider's Head II
For a case study in incestuous amplification and a detailed description of how it infects an entire culture, watch this video, which first aired in 2007.
Continue reading “Chuck Spinney: BIll Moyer on Incestuous Amplification”
Winslow Wheeler: Marine Corps and the F-35 — Outright Lies, Deception, and a Total Lack of Intelligence with Integrity
Corruption, Idiocy, Military
Marine F-35 Jump-Jet PR: Caveataxpayer Emptor
By Winslow Wheeler March 27, 2013
The Marines issued a flashy press release last week: “first operational F-35B conducts initial Vertical Landing.” It was an amateurish, somewhat slimy piece of hype.In one important way, the press release contradicted itself, and in another it inadvertently revealed one of the many reasons why the Marines' Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing (STOVL) version of the F-35 – that's the F-35B – will never be the battlefield-based close-combat support bomber the Marines like to advertise it as.
The corps' headquarters' release repeatedly described the “operational” nature of “the first STOVL flight for an F-35B outside of the test environment.” It also characterized the event as “another milestone” toward “revolutionizing expeditionary Marines air-ground combat power,” that perhaps-the press released tried hard to imply-would be available for combat use as soon as “late 2013.”
The press release, which was formatted as if it were some sort of news article, inadvertently cued alert readers to the fact that this “first” “operational” “STOVL flight for an F-35B outside of the test environment” was flown by a test pilot.
Note Special Pad, Cannot Land on Normal Surfaces
His name is Maj. Richard Rusnok, as the press release says, and as a different Marine Corps press exercise reveals, he has been flying for 13 years.
In the world of F-35-double-talk, it is apparently reasonable to announce flights as operational when they are flown by test pilots.
The term “operational” was stretched even further in a second respect in the press release, which featured the photograph above showing the F-35B landing vertically with its lift fan doors open and its flaps deflected. Note the area below the aircraft; note that same area in the later stages of a video at YouTube also released by the Marines' PR team.
Eagle: One Compilation of Negative Public Opinion About the Department of Homeland Security
Corruption, Government, Idiocy, IO Deeds of War, Law Enforcement
Worth reading — trends totally negative, but provides a feeling in the fingertips for the growing anger, especially west of the Mississippi.
Big Flak For Big Sis and Homeland Security
Preston James
Veterans Today, 24 March 2013
Yep, finally there’s “incoming” over at Homeland Security, the New American Gestapo.
And it’s long overdue.
These folks have been out of control spying on and harassing law abiding Americans ever since the NeoCons created this “New American Gestapo”.
And DHS is one of the most grotesque USG agencies ever conceived, certainly a “house of horrors”.
Their illegitimate step child the TSA has been sexually molesting and harassing air travelers and needlessly destroying the domestic and international travel business.
And as if this wasn’t enough, it has been reported that serious sexual harassment has also occurred deep in the inner bowels of DHS.
According to the claims of recent major lawsuit (1) top DHS Management has sexually harassed male staff and temporarily moved their offices into the men’s lavatory.
Mini-Me: Fukushima – Japan’s 911 Israel’s Follow-Up to US 911 — Plus Comment on Need for Global Inspector General with Counterintelligence Mandate
07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War
Huh?
The following is a condensed version of the very excellent information contained on jimstonefreelance.com based on official records and evidence which cannot be silenced. The fact that even a large proportion of the truth movement has shunned this report proves how deep the conspiracy goes.
1. Photographs of Fukushima show Reactor 3 is completely missing, which means the press and anyone who has claimed anything about pressures, temperatures, containment, etc., at reactor 3 after March 14 is lying. Pictures of the destroyed facility of the vanished reactor prove that there was no actual quake damage to Japan and the original Japanese seismic charts prove there was no 9.0. The linked public records prove that the very real tsunami which destroyed everything in it's path could not have been natural.
Winslow Wheeler: GAO (A Legislative Entity) Plays Courtesan to Lockheed, DoD, and the Congressional Recipients of Lockheed Largesse + F-35 RECAP
Commerce, Corruption, Government, Ineptitude, MilitaryDOD is circling the wagons to keep the F-35 propped up in the declining Pentagon budget. Importantly, as noted by a prime Lockheed mouthpiece offering his thankfulness for it, GAO's newest report on the F-35 offers a conclusion that the F-35 is on track for improvement–the data notwithstanding. In point of fact, what the GAO conclusion does show is that some long term negative–and management induced–trends have gone viral in the investigatory agency where I once worked. As a result, DOD has been allowed unseen influence on a GAO report. Skeptical? The latter half of a new piece at Foreign Policy explains.
The magazine's title for my article only off-handedly hints at the nature of the problem; it is not so much a “conspiracy” as the effects of an equal relationship between GAO and DOD. The piece is available at http://www.foreignpolicy.com/
Foreign Policy
Is there a government conspiracy to save the F-35?
BY WINSLOW WHEELER | MARCH 22, 2013
Until recently, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter had been having a pretty rough time.
In 2012, its estimated average “program acquisition unit cost” was reported to have doubled, from the $81 million per copy anticipated in 2001 to $161 million, flight tests revealed deficiencies in achieving the F-35's modest performance requirements, and scheduled full-rate production was delayed to 2019.
