President Obama announced a Patient’s Bill of Rights that will be made possible under new health reform. Essentially, the bill would create a basic set of consumer protections that end some of the health insurance companies’ abuses and establish a sense of fairness for the consumer. Some highlights: Prevents insurance companies from denying coverage to [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Current events'
A new plan for American healthcare: A Patient’s Bill of Rights
July 9th, 2010 · 1:38 am
Tags: health care
A Visualization On How Much Oil BP Has Really Spilled In The Gulf
June 26th, 2010 · 8:20 am
It is hard to imagine really how much oil is leaking into the Gulf from the BP oil spill. This video is a visualization of that amount of oil using mass physics — simulating 25,000 barrels. The video was created by Elude (youtube.com/user/Elude87) and was rendered using the UDK Unreal Engine 3. 25,000 barrels – [...]
Tags: analysis
Fox Is Not The News
June 13th, 2010 · 11:12 pm
John Steward has a great delivery–both entertaining and serious. In this episode, the Daily Show outlines the opinion-as-news approach to Fox News.
Tags: communications
US Politics Page Launched By Facebook
June 3rd, 2010 · 5:20 pm
Facebook has launched a new page devoted to US politics (Facebook.com/USpolitics). The page will monitor how US politicians, political campaigns and elected officials use Facebook to connect with citizens. Facebook and other forms of social media have become vital places for politics, political support and interest, and building connection between users, campaigns and political figures. [...]
Tags: government, social, web
Facebook Restored In Pakistan
June 1st, 2010 · 6:00 am
Pakistan issued a ban on the social networking website, Facebook, due to the posting of a contest that solicited images of the Prophet Muhammad. According to most Muslims, images of the Prophet Muhammad are blasphemous. Since, Facebook has blocked access to that particular content for Pakistan only and issued an apology. A Pakistani court in [...]
Tags: government, islam, law, middle east
DOD Allows Social Media On NIPRNET
February 28th, 2010 · 12:41 am
The US Department of Defense will now allow social networking and Web 2.0 social tools access within it’s Non-Classified Internet Protocol Router Network (NIPRNET). A statement “Responsible and Effective Use of Internet-based Capabilities” (DTM 09-026) was released on February 25th to formally allow social networking use within the non-classified network–unifying the policy across military branches [...]
Tags: government, military, social, web
US Job Loss From Dec 2007 To Jan 2010, Bush To Obama
February 17th, 2010 · 4:25 am
This graph represents US job loss from December 2007 through January 2010. This graph shows job loss from the Bush Presidency through January 2010 of the Obama Presidency. The source of the data is the Bureau of Labor Statistics, US, 02/12/2010.
Tags: economy, government
Blue Cross Raises Premiums At Time Of Record Profit
February 12th, 2010 · 8:02 pm
Blue Cross has decided to raise premiums by as much as 39% even though they recently set record profit levels up to $4.7 billion dollars last year. In addition, the insurer has refused to provide reason for the huge increase in premiums. As a result, Congress and state insurance regulators are planning to investigate the [...]
Tags: health care
US State Dept To Formally Protest To China Regarding Hacking Attacks
January 18th, 2010 · 10:20 am
Following the Google investigation of recent hacking attacks, which resulted in the discovery of potential Chinese government involvement or acceptance, the US State Department will formally protest to the Chinese Government demanding an explanation. “We will be issuing a formal demarche to the Chinese government in Beijing on this issue in the coming days,” said [...]
Tags: government, privacy, security, software, web
Oct 15th Americans Must Declare All Overseas Accounts
October 13th, 2009 · 2:52 am
On October 15th, Americans are required to declare all off-shore bank accounts. Some estimates suggest that there may be as much as tens of billions of dollars hidden in the off-shore accounts of private citizens. Many wealthy citizens have already announced their hidden accounts. Approximately 4,000 clients of UBS and other private banks have come [...]
Tags: government, law, tax
