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Today I hope you will take a minute to
remember everyone you’ve helped this year.
It may have been a stranger, a friend, a family member or a
neighbor. Your empathy and caring helped
to embody the spirit of season and I hope it carries over into the New Year
where it may be needed the most…
I leave you the best of myself!
Yours for a brighter
season,
Bruce ‘the Poor Man!’
Final Notes…
Contributors and subscribers enable the Poor Man Survivor to post 150+ free essays annually. It is for this reason they are Heroes and Heroines of New Media. Without your financial support, the free content would disappear for the simple reason that I cannot keep body and soul together on my meager book sales & ecommerce alone.
Fed policymakers now expect to raise rates just twice next year,
instead of their previous forecast of three increases. In its latest policy
statement, the Fed's rate-setting body said it will "continue to monitor
global economic and financial developments and assess their implications for
the economic outlook."
Even by Los Angeles standards, Noelle spends a lot of time
worrying about parking. A writers room production assistant for a major
streamer and script reader for a premium cable network, Noelle wakes up at 6
a.m. on weekdays to secure a spot close to her jobs in West L.A. After work,
she moves her white, unassuming Ford Transit to another spot, carefully chosen
to be located in a non-residentially zoned area without nightly parking
restrictions and far away from any schools, daycare facilities or parks. She is
constantly rotating these "day spots" and "night spots," as
she calls them, so as not to annoy neighbors or attract too much attention.
These days, Noelle jokes, she's more worried about a cop knocking on her window
than getting "murdered or attacked."
Studies of media reports show that justified homicides by
non-police are reported in the media at least five times more often than are
recorded in the UCR. There are numerous structural reasons for this disparity.
The UCR has a very restrictive definition of justified homicide. Recording data
in the UCR is voluntary, for starters.
With such a staggering rate, it's no wonder Venezuelans like Diaz
have rushed to spend money before prices continue their increase. Last month,
after Maduro announced its sixth minimum wage increase in 2018, the price of a
cup of coffee went up 285,614 percent—which is equivalent to 400 sovereign
bolivars or $0.76—and the black market exchange rate, considered the real
measure to know real costs in Venezuela, dropped to 526 bolivars per dollar
from the previous 460, Bloomberg's Cafe Con Leche Index reported early this
month. Pan de jamón, a bread filled with raisins and ham (a staple food for
Venezuelans during Christmas) increased 52 percent in late November, Bloomberg
added.
How a
World Order Ends (tmn)
But if the end of every order is inevitable, the timing and the
manner of its ending are not. Nor is what comes in its wake. Orders tend to expire
in a prolonged deterioration rather than a sudden collapse. And just as
maintaining the order depends on effective statecraft and effective action,
good policy and proactive diplomacy can help determine how that deterioration
unfolds and what it brings. Yet for that to happen, something else must come
first: recognition that the old order is never coming back and that efforts to
resurrect it will be in vain. As with any ending, acceptance must come before
one can move on.
Gun
Death Numbers in US Reach New Highs/Many by Suicide – Facts
Obscured by Leftovers in Place from the Clinton Admin. – Fail to Address Bigger
Issues Such As:
Firearm deaths in the data include gun deaths by homicide and
suicide, unintentional deaths, deaths in war or legal interventions, and deaths
that are undetermined.
When the data are analyzed by race and gender, they show that
white men made up 23,927 of the total 39,773 firearm deaths last year,
including suicides.
>42K killed in traffic accidents annually [in large part
due to distracted driving]
>71,000 killed in 2018 due to the Opioid crisis
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1 comment:
Wishing you the best as well AND a big thank you for what you've done for homeless veterans!
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