The Vital New Class for the Trump Era: Calling Bullshit — Syllabus

http://callingbullshit.org/syllabus.html

A goal for Salem's Strategic Planning effort

Salem provides transportation options and systems that are diverse and robust enough to provide all her residents — including the old, the young, the physically able or otherwise, the economically challenged or otherwise — with the ability to participate fully in social, civic, economic, and religious life in the city and this region without requiring ownership or access to use of a car.

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Corrected - WORD: Why Trump prefers relatives

A Harrowing Story of Survival Tickets, Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 6:30 PM | Eventbrite

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-harrowing-story-of-survival-tickets-34096861631

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Dr. Jacob Eisenbach is a 93 year old holocaust survivor from Poland. He emigrated to the United States with his wife and first-born child in 1950. He has practiced dentistry for 60 years until his retirement in 2015. Today he will be talking about his astonishing life while in the grip of Hitler's Third Reich for 5 years, and how hatred, discrimination and intolerance have led directly to the Jewish holocaust. He is the sole survivor of a loving family of about 100. Torture and mass murders of numerous ethnic groups through thousands of years have scarred mankind's history. It has been and continues to be Dr. Eisenbach's mission to eliminate the scourge of all genocides from the human race.

Come touch history in person and hear this amazing story of survival and success.

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Oregon Public Empowerment News (OregonPEN.org)

Big Pharma, Market Failure: FREE Special film, Wednesday June 7th, Salem Public Library

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Oregon Public Empowerment News (OregonPEN.org)

One night only screening of the documentary 

Big Pharma, Market Failure

Wednesday, June 7th, 6:30 -- 8:30 PM

Doors open at 6:00

Special Location:

Salem Public Library's Loucks Auditorium

585 Liberty St. SE, Salem

...Big Pharma is a powerful new documentary film on the impact of out-of-control drug prices on businesses

and the U.S. economy, Congress' failure to deal with the crisis and how we might fix it.

The film takes an in-depth look at how our dysfunctional pharmaceutical industry

and how it is damaging our economy, hurting our businesses and negatively impacting the nation's health.

Guest Speakers include:

Richard Master, CEO of MCS Industries and producer of Big Pharma: Market Failure, (and his previous film Fix It: Healthcare at the Tipping Point) will screen and discuss his new documentary.

There will be a discussion following the film with Mr. Master,

elected officials,

health professionals

and local health care advocates with time for audience participation.

For more information contact: 

Lee Mercer 831-818-5247, lee@mainstreetalliance.org

Sponsors: Health Care For All Oregon,

Main Street Alliance of Oregon,

Business Leaders Transforming Healthcare,

American Sustainable Business Council,

Physicians for a National Health Program-Oregon,

Oregonians for Affordable Drug Prices Now,

Salem Progressive Film Series

 

This event is free however, 

donations accepted.

How this 30-year-old book predicted todays’ politics. - Vox

https://www.vox.com/conversations/2017/5/8/15440292/neil-postman-donald-trump-politics-culture-television-media

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Menu for the Trump Era

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A must-read: Spices at Penzeys

https://www.penzeys.com/cook/themes/affordable-care-act/kristen-moore/


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Expanding our definition of smart | Sir Ken Robinson + Amanda Palmer - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8awctnozMdo

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‘How dare you work on whites’: Professors under fire for research on white mortality - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/04/06/how-dare-you-work-on-whites-professors-under-fire-for-research-on-white-mortality/?

Guo: Absolutely. That's one point that I made a week ago when I wrote about this. It's not just a lot of these death rates are rising, but that a huge chasm has now opened up between us and Europe.

Deaton: The obvious difference is that the safety net is enormously more generous in Europe. And lot of people in their 50s who lose their jobs can go on retirement. You get a doctor's certificate and you get paid pretty much your salary until you die.

There's one other policy recommendation that I've been pushing. We're spending about three trillion dollars a year on health care. And our life expectancy is going down. Whereas all these other countries are spending way less, and their life expectancy is going up. For me the implication is if we implemented single payer, we'd get rid of a lot of these costs. Not without screaming and yelling, of course, and not without goring a lot of oxen.

But the crucial thing is recognizing the extent to which these rising health care costs are responsible, at least in part, for the stagnant wages for people without a college degrees. If they've got an employer and they've got health care, their wages are getting pushed down by the employer paying for that health care. People don't even realize this. They think it's for free.

I'm not a left-wing nut pushing for single-payer! It's not because I like socialized medicine. It's just because I think this is eating capitalism alive, and if we want a healthy capitalist society in America, we've got to get rid of this monster.

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