It used to be that the most pressing issue amongst the nations corporate Chief Financial Officers was the cost of healthcare for their employees. Not any more, the major concern is the cost of fuel, which has risen for fleets by ~23% recently. Well, I’m glad we got that healthcare issue resolved. Since this pesky problem is no longer #1, we can finally move on to other issues.
Network Traffic Violation Ticket
Too funny, the Network Traffic Violation Ticket. You’d probably get exhausted from handing these out at work.
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HIV/AIDS pandemic threatens Africa's stability, security, and America's interests
With HIV/AIDS having a severe impact on Africa, eyebrows are now finally being raised to it regional and global impact, and to American interests here in the states and abroad, specifically to security (and war on terror), along with the economics of oil itself. Now that we’re “waking up” to this pandemic and it’s ramifications, will our current administration take notice, especially with it’s potential to affect our security, and most importantly…the economy of oil?
A reprint oddly enough, from Janes Defense Weekly …
The UN AIDS Programme (UNAIDS) has estimated that more than three million people will die of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the disease that leads to it, in 2005. As many as 80 per cent of these cases will be in sub-Saharan Africa. The continent has long presented many serious challenges, whether derived internally or externally, to the stability and security of its states, but Africa now faces a potentially cataclysmic threat that endangers the very viability of several of its constituent countries.
The impact this pandemic will have on the security and stability of Africa’s states is not yet fully known. Nevertheless, it is clear that AIDS is already having a severely detrimental effect on numerous key sectors %u2014 governance, food supply, infrastructure support and development %u2014 and on the socio-economic fabric of African society itself.
This comes at a time when Africa has taken on a new significance for the US, both in terms of the links between the %u2018war on terrorism%u2019 and state stability and collapse, and the continent’s rich oil potential. The effects of HIV/AIDS in terms of state stability and collapse should be at the forefront of any consideration of the potential for Africa to become more ungoverned and, therefore, open to exploitation by terrorists.
According to the UN, at the end of 2004, approximately 60 million people worldwide were living with HIV/AIDS %u2014 divided roughly between 40 million with HIV and 20 million with AIDS. In that year, HIV/AIDS claimed an estimated 3.1 million lives, while 4.9 million were infected with HIV %u2014 14,000 per day more new infections than in any other year. This means more people continue to contract the disease than die from it, leading to this continuing worldwide climb in infection.
HIV/AIDS pandemic threatens Africa’s stability and security
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A Quicktime video of Boeing’s Small Diameter Bomb, pretty accurate, off by no more than four feet adn penetrating ~15 feet of concrete.
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Patriot Missile Sales for Egypt ?!?!?!
I didn’t know we were that friendly and trusting. I hope we’re only shipping pre-1991 software with this, and not hte GEM+ upgrades.
It’s amazing who our friends are these days as long as they have money. With such instability in Egypt, and a growing fundamentalist movement that has recently gained more seats in Parliment, have we not learned from 1979 Iran?
Garner is moving on up !!!
Hey, my town made the front page of Monday’s N&O. We may not have a Starbucks, but hey, we have two independents that taste much better, and we have better home builders too, that live right in the neighborhood.
newsobserver.com | A Front
The BIOS Optimization Guide
Ever wondered what all those settings are for in your bios, that have no explaination?
Adrian’s Rojak Pot
'Inadequate, Insufficient And Insulting'
Praise to Andrew Cohen for a nice piece written about G.W. Bush and his selection of Harriet Myers
cbs4denver.com: ‘Inadequate, Insufficient And Insulting’ I3 says it all.
Bloomberg.com: U.S.
Bloomberg.com: U.S.
The 4,600 members of the Transit Workers Union Local 234 rejected a contract that raised salaries and had them pay 5 percent of their health-insurance premiums. The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, which runs the city’s transit system, says its health-care costs climbed 15 percent the past three years and will rise 19 percent this year.
The union failed to gain public support with a $70,000 television advertising campaign. The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News, the city’s two biggest newspapers, published editorials criticizing the strike. Comments on local Web sites ripped the union for inconveniencing SEPTA’s 400,000 riders.
Have unionized workers that work for municipalities and the federal goverment become so compalcent and disconnected with the rest of working society that they have absurd demands such as 100% healthcare? Stay tuned for my upcoming healthcare rant in another post.
An American Test
Salt Lake City, Utah, a city which is about 1% black, is accomidating many Katrina victims, most of which are black from New Orleans. Now these folks want to make Salt Lake home and there are a lot of politics around it. Stay tuned for this one as it’s going to be an interesting story or a sad state of affairs.
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