July 30, 2012

Romney outrages Palestinians by saying Jewish culture helps make Israel more successful

Source: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/election-2012/rom

JERUSALEM - Mitt Romney told Jewish donors Monday that their culture is part of what has allowed them to be more economically successful than the nearby Palestinians, outraging Palestinian leaders who called his comments racist and out of touch.

``As you come here and you see the GDP per capita, for instance, in Israel which is about $21,000 dollars, and compare that with the GDP per capita just across the areas managed by the Palestinian Authority, which is more like $10,000 per capita, you notice such a dramatically stark difference in economic vitality,'' the Republican presidential candidate told about 40 wealthy donors who breakfasted around a U-shaped table at the luxurious King David Hotel.

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Romney, in comparing the Israeli and Palestinian economies, made no mention of the fact that Israel has controlled the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem since capturing them in the 1967 war. Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, but continues to control access, and has enforced a crippling border blockade since the Islamic militant Hamas seized the territory in 2007.

Read more: Daily News/ AP

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Where to start? To hell with Goodwin, this is the kind of thought that justified all sorts of historic atrocities.

July 27, 2012

GOP Says Coverage For The Uninsured Is No Longer The Priority

Source: NPR



For decades, the primary goal of those who would fix the U.S. health system has been to help people without insurance get coverage. Now, it seems, all that may be changing. At least some top Republicans are trying to steer the health debate away from the problem of the uninsured.

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"Your goal should be reducing costs, and expanding individual liberty," said Dean Clancy,
[legislative counsel for Freedomworks]

"People need to have the freedom not to have insurance if the marketplace is to function properly, he says. "Because if they don't have freedom, if the government is requiring them to purchase health insurance either from a private company or the government, then the government gets to define what health insurance is, and that stifles a lot of innovation in the health insurance and health care delivery markets, and we're suffering under that sort of regulation right now," he says.

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"Every once in a while, the Republicans have rare moments of honesty. And so when they say that they don't want to expand coverage, this is one of those rare moments," says Ethan Rome, who runs Health Care for America Now, an advocacy group working to promote and defend the health care law.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/07/27/157439331/gop-says-coverage-for-the-uninsured-is-no-longer-the-priority?ps=cprs

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But why do they want to prevent so many Americans from receiving health care?

July 11, 2012

DNA found at Occupy Wall Street protest linked to unsolved murder

Source: Yahoo News

Investigators in New York say they may have stumbled into a break in the unsolved murder case of Sarah Fox, a Juilliard student who was dead in a Manhattan park in 2004.

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DNA samples collected from a chain left behind a March 28 protest in Brooklyn matches the DNA found on a pink CD player found near Fox's body, the law enforcement official told the New York Post.

According to the Associated Press, the DNA on the chain--used by activists to hold a subway's emergency exit open--has not been matched to any one person at the protest, and another law enforcement source told the Post that while "it's an important piece of evidence" police are "a long way from solving the case."

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/occupy-wall-street-dna-unsolved-murder-132043253.html

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They tested the chain for DNA? There are mass murders in New York with DNA untested.