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Neo-Nazism and Islamophobia among the ‘gravest threats’ facing the world, Freeland tells UN

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White supremacism and Islamophobia are among “the gravest threats” facing the world, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland told the United Nations Thursday.

Mosquito-spread diseases may endanger millions in new places due to climate change

duh!!! but top people are not listening – they think they will have a pass and will not be among the dead!

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Study finds that places where people have never had the diseases could see bad outbreaks if they aren’t prepared

Half a billion more people could be at risk from mosquito-transmitted diseases within 30 years as a result of the warming climate, according to a new study.

Canada and parts of northern Europe could be newly exposed to the threat. People there could come into contact with yellow fever, Zika, dengue and chikungunya, as well as other emerging diseases.

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Thursday Open Thread | The Administration Continues to Attack Education

Denizcan Grimes (@MrFilmkritik) Tweeted:
Can’t imagine being someone like Betsy DeVos. She’s worth billions of dollars. She could retire forever on an island somewhere. But she chose to go through a grueling public humiliation just for the opportunity to take education away from poor kids.
Imagine being that depraved. https://twitter.com/MrFilmkritik/status/1110650532987699200?s=17

This Administration is nothing but a cesspool of corruption, and anything that has been done to protect the consumer, they are trying to get rid of it.

Trump proposal to cap student loans would deepen inequality in higher ed

No need to bribe your kid’s way into school if those pesky poors can’t even afford to apply anymore.

ALAN PYKE

MAR 19, 2019, 3:16 PM

A week after federal prosecutors revealed just how brazenly rich families cheat to get their kids into elite colleges, the White House proposed changes to higher education laws that would further widen the college access gap between people born into money and those less fortunate.

On Monday, President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced that they want Congress to cap the amounts that students and families can borrow for post-secondary schooling. Though the proposal markets the lending caps as a path to reducing the tuition colleges charge, higher ed experts warned it would actually just make it harder for working-class families to compete with their richer peers on schooling.

If there’s one thing that last week’s bribery scandal — which led to dozens of arrests and thousands of tweets from outraged internet rubberneckers — threw into stark relief, it was that the upper crust is willing and able to spend huge amounts of money to burnish their children’s educational credentials.

“The fact that we have a two-track system for graduate and undergraduate education shows that we treat higher education as a commodity, and the borrowers as consumers, and that’s not how we should treat them,” Student Debt Crisis executive director Natalia Abrams told ThinkProgress. “I think with this whole college bribery scandal, we’re seeing that colleges are brands in their own right. When people are paying an extra million dollars to send their kids to a college on top of the yearly costs,” she said, it’s evidence that government should step in somehow.

They aren’t doing this out of concern for the students. They are doing this because, yes, they want to attack the access to education for non-Whites and non-Rich students.

And, because they want to force students to PRIVATE Borrowers – which President Obama’s Administration had cut down on. And, if they can’t get the money from Private borrowers, then, guess what….they are SOL, and can’t go to school…which, is the entire point. There is absolutely nothing relating to education where the unqualfied Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has done that would consider being beneficial to students. She has done everything she could to harm non-rich, non-White students.

Because…THAT is who they are.

 

And, stopping people from getting an education wasn’t enough for Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.

We got this information from them on Tuesday:

Betsy DeVos defends Special Olympics budget cuts: ‘We had to make some difficult decisions’

BY OWEN DAUGHERTY – 03/26/19 04:29 PM EDT

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos defended budget cuts to programs including the Special Olympics on Tuesday.

Appearing before a House subcommittee Tuesday to review the department’s proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year, DeVos said, “We had to make some difficult decisions.”

DeVos’s remarks came in response to questions from Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), who pressed her on the amount of kids the budget cut would impact.

“I don’t know the number of kids,” DeVos said before Pocan answered that 272,000 kids would be impacted.

“I think Special Olympics is an awesome organization, one that is well supported by the philanthropic sector as well,” DeVos said.

Of course, her stupid azz didn’t even know the number of kids that would be affected by the cuts. These folks have a pattern…they don’t seem to know the number of people affected by their cruelty. They can’t be bothered to know…that’s beneath them.

The cuts were difficult decisions?

There are no difficult decisions when it comes to the evil with this group. They can find any reason in the world to blow a hole in the budget deficit to give TRILLIONS to the top 1%, but, can’t find the money for the Special Olympics and cutting $51 million from Autism research?

Phuck Outta Here

Max Burns (@themaxburns) Tweeted:

@SpecialOlympics @realDonaldTrump DeVos wants private charity to make up for the elimination of federal support.

But the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 actually *discourages* charitable giving over prior years.

@TaxPolicyCenter lays it out: https://t.co/NBicrf5HHY https://twitter.com/themaxburns/status/1110715853249675264?s=17

Of course..the answer to everything from Republicans when cutting services….let private charity make up for it.

I can’t even begin to explain how much I loathe these people.

Travis Akers (@travisakers) Tweeted:

President Trump and the GOP gave a massive tax cut to the top 1% most wealthy Americans, but cannot provide funding for Autism programs and the Special Olympics.

Key facts:

-Autism impacts 1 in 40 children.

-Over 5 million athletes participate in the Special Olympics. https://twitter.com/travisakers/status/1110635432121958402?s=17

That they could think that they could find an explanation that’s plausible for cutting these programs….

Just loathesome people.

Denizcan Grimes (@MrFilmkritik) Tweeted:

Can’t imagine being someone like Betsy DeVos. She’s worth billions of dollars. She could retire forever on an island somewhere. But she chose to go through a grueling public humiliation just for the opportunity to take education away from poor kids.

Imagine being that depraved. https://twitter.com/MrFilmkritik/status/1110650532987699200?s=17

Britain rebukes Huawei over security failings, discloses more flaws

May’s Tory part, whose lapdogs? Britain publicly chastised China’s Huawei Technologies for failing to fix long-standing security flaws in its mobile network equipment and revealed new “significant technical issues,” increasing pressure on the company as it battles Western allegations that Beijing could use its gear for spying.

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Aumentan los Casos de Sarampión en los Estados Unidos

Por Dr. Carlos Cruz

Mario A. Cortez | La Prensa San Diego

De acuerdo a las información suministrada por el CDC (Centro de Control y Prevención de Enfermedades de los Estados Unidos, por sus siglas en inglés) en su portal web las confirmaciones de diagnóstico por sarampión en éste primer trimestre del año alcanzan la cifra de 268 casos lo cual en nuestra opinión personal debe preocupar ya que en todo el año 2018 registraron un total de 372 casos.

Es decir que en lo que va de año ya se alcanzó el 72.04 por ciento del 2018 y los estados en donde se han reportado estos diagnósticos son Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Hampshire, Nueva Jersey, Nueva York, Oregón, Texas y Washington.

Recordemos que el sarampión es una enfermedad infecciosa de origen viral que generalmente aparece en la infancia que puede ser mortal en algunas ocasiones sino se toman las medidas preventivas necesarias.

Esta enfermedad una vez contagiada tiene un período de aproximadamente entre 10 a 14 días cuando comienzan a aparecer los síntomas que se traducen en fiebre, tos seca, síntomas de resfriado, dolor de garganta y a nivel de los ojos puede presentarse conjuntivitis. Dentro de la boca se pueden observar dos pequeñas manchas de color blanco alrededor de la salida del conducto de la glándula salival y que se le conoce como manchas de Koplik y un sarpullido en la piel. Esta erupción aparece primero en la cara y luego se extiende a los brazos, tronco, muslo, piernas y pie y en éste momento la fiebre también lo hace llegando a la temperatura de 40 a 41 grados centígrados que son de 104 a 105.8 grados Fahrenheit.

¿Cuándo puede ser contagioso el Sarampión?

Se ha determinado que el Sarampión se hace contagioso por un período aproximado de 8 días que van desde 4 días antes de que aparezca la erupción hasta 4 días durante la erupción por lo que hay que estar muy pendiente de este evento si en su entorno tienen personas que jamás han sido vacunadas.

El Sarampión puede desarrollar complicaciones tales como: Bronquitis, Laringitis, Neumonía, Otitis, Encefalitis y problemas en el embarazo. Por ello sus diagnóstico clínico y laboratorio son muy importantes para el manejo del paciente y la prevención.

¿Cómo podemos hacer prevención con el Sarampión?

En la etapa de contagio lo fundamental es el aislamiento y en la prevención primaria la vacunación que de acuerdo al CDC se hace de la siguiente manera:

“Las personas de 6 meses de edad o más deben estar protegidas contra el sarampión antes de viajar al extranjero.

Los bebés de 6 a 11 meses de edad deben recibir 1 dosis de la vacuna contra el sarampión. Los bebés que hayan recibido 1 dosis de la vacuna contra el sarampión antes de su primer cumpleaños deben recibir otras dos dosis (una entre los 12 y 15 meses de edad, y la otra al menos 28 días después).

Los niños de 12 meses de edad o más deben recibir dos dosis con una diferencia de al menos 28 días.”

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El Dr. Carlos Cruz es columnista del semanario El Planeta en Massachusetts, La Tribuna Hispana USA en Nueva York y Nueva Jersey, El Venezolano en Florida y La Voz Hispana en Connecticut. También es productor y moderador de programas para radio y televisión. Puede escuchar su programa, Mente, Cuerpo y Alma, por la Radio WTC.NET, Canal 2 todos los viernes a las 9:00 a.m. Hora del Este.

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