U.S. healthcare spending per capita is almost twice the average of other wealthy countries Healthcare Costs per Capita ($) United States $12,742 Switzerland $9,044 Germany $8,541 Netherlands $7,277 Sweden $7,009 Belgium $6,994 France $6,924 Average $6,850 Canada $6,845 Australia $6,807 Ireland $6,730 United Kingdom $5,867 Japan $5,424 Italy $4,736 Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Embed Download image Notes: Data are for 2022. Average does not include the United States. The five countries with the largest economies and those with both an abov
Malcolm Turnbull has accused Rupert Murdoch's News Corp of eroding democracy in the US and Australia by dividing people and undermining institutions with lies and populist rightwing ideology. read more
Elon Musk lived in apartheid South Africa until he was 17. David Sacks, the venture capitalist who has become a fundraiser for Donald Trump and a troll of Ukraine, left aged five, and grew up in a South African diaspora family in Tennessee. Peter Thiel spent years of childhood in South Africa and Namibia, where his father was involved in uranium mining as part of the apartheid regime's clandestine drive to acquire nuclear weapons. And Paul Furber, an obscure South African software developer and tech journalist living near Johannesburg, has been identified by two teams of forensic linguists ... read more
The cost of imprisonment -- including who benefits and who pays -- is a major part of the national discussion around criminal justice policy. But prisons and jails are just one piece of the criminal justice system and the amount of media and policy attention that the various players get is not necessarily proportional to their influence. In this first-of-its-kind report, we find that the system of mass incarceration costs the government and families of justice-involved people at least $182 billion every year. read more
The influence of Christianity has declined in America in recent years, but a Gallup poll published in March showed that 68% of Americans still identify as Christian. In 2020, 71% of white Americans who attended church regularly voted for Trump. In 2016, white evangelicals made up one fifth of all voters ' and they overwhelmingly supported Trump over Hillary Clinton (77% to 16%). According to the Pew Research Center, 85% of white evangelicals favor the GOP in 2024. In recent years, many evangelical voters have moved from backing a particular candidate or party into Christian nationalism. (Christianity Today defines Christian nationalism as the "belief that the American nation is defined by Christianity, and that the government should take active steps to keep it that way.") But God, Trump and the Republican Party are not synonymous. North Carolina event, Guillermo Maldonado, a pastor from Miami and longtime Trump ally, told attendees this election wasn't just about American politics. read more
OK? How about concert tickets and I don't thin they have even realized the potential of AI....yet!!!
"American buyers will soon face higher prices for foreign-made goods if President-elect Donald Trump carries out expected hikes in US import tariffs. On the campaign trail, Trump promised tariffs on all imports from 10 to 20 percent, with a special rate of 60 percent on all imports from China. Goods likely to see the largest proportional price increases are those facing currently low applied tariff rates and those that are sourced disproportionately from China."
Any wonder whu Xi ain't coming?
Don't expect Trudeau or Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo to ttend either;
"US President-elect Donald Trump has said one of his first acts will be to slap 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, a move which would cause havoc for two of America's key economic partners."
US President-elect Donald Trump has said one of his first acts will be to slap 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, a move which would cause havoc for two of America's key economic partners
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I just have one question? I thought Trump wanted to discourage illegal immigration from all three of those countries. Just how will harming businesses in thos countries and thereby causing unemployment to rise there decrease the desperation that causes people to risk everything to get to the United States in search for work? Seems to me his plan will fuel new waves of immigrants to come here as their jobs are lost in their home countries as tariffs reduce the market for their products here by increasing the costs to consumers. But I dom't expect Trump to understand basic common sense because he is basically stupid.
Wouldn't be surprised if Xi takes a lesson from Castro's decision to allow or even encourage a huge exodus of Cubans to Miami' then multiply it times 100 that could start pouring in from China! Trump is playing a very stupid game with Zi by threayening 60% tariffs! And it is a game America will lose badly! When Mariel happened Americans were advised to learn Spanish; If Trump imposes those taeiffs on China you probably netter learn Chinese!
"One dinner at Mar a lago and now they are criminals. LOL"
The rediculousness of that stupid comment is off the scale of stupitity on this site. Shadow President Musk had more than a dinner' I'd say he f**ked Orange Hitler but Putin has nuclear weapons and there is nothing worse than an angry dictator who discovers that his bitch is cheating on him!