The Trans Buddy Program’s mission statement reads:
"The Trans Buddy Program’s goal is to increase access to care and improve healthcare outcomes for transgender people by providing emotional support to transgender patients during healthcare visits. We emphasize a patient-centered approach, with the goal of empowering the patient to make informed healthcare decisions. Trans Buddy recognizes the importance of intersectionality to our direct care practice, and we therefore aim to work with people of all identities with compassion and respect."
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They long ago past asking for tolerance and now demand submission. When you tell the majority to 'f' off, its not a republic or democracy. It's all about power.
[An Nahar] Around 34,000 homes could be inundated or isolated in Victoria state as a flood emergency continues across parts of Australia's southeast, an official said Monday.
Victoria is the worst-affected state with some towns experiencing the highest river peaks in decades. The states of New South Wales and Tasmania were also experiencing flooding in an emergency that began last week.
Federal Emergency Management Minister Murray Watt said Victoria faced "some serious flooding" with more rain forecast for late this week.
"It's quite likely we'll see a flood peak happen and waters recede, followed by another peak, as different river systems come together," Watt told Australian Broadcasting Corp.
"So this is a very serious situation and the reports I'm getting is we ... could be looking at up to 9,000 homes inundated in northern Victoria and potentially close to about 34,000 homes in Victoria either inundated or isolated," Watt added.
Two people drowned and two were reported missing in Victoria and New South Wales in the past week.
The latest fatality was a 71-year-old man found dead Saturday in floodwaters in the backyard of his home in Rochester, a central Victorian town about 180 kilometers (110 miles) north of the state capital Melbourne.
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Good thing they got those Covid shots, or it would b worse.
Lord knows, Public donations and Congressional claims of spending $$$ Millions of Taxpayers to fix this.
In fact, some may remember the White House (Clinton) Somalia / Feed Africa PR stunt during his Impeachment investigation and hearings and the cost US Military lives.
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Sounds like Nigerias problem to me. Let them handle it.
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Isn't Nigeria a large oil exporter? And isn't the price of oil quite high right now? So shouldn't Nigeria be rolling in dough and able to feed its people?
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Tom, we'll have none of that disgusting right wing logic here.
The U.K.'s new Treasury chief ripped up the government's economic plan on Monday, dramatically reversing most of the tax cuts and spending plans that Prime Minister Liz Truss announced less than a month ago and raising new questions about how long the beleaguered British leader can stay in office.
In a televised address, Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt said he was scrapping "almost all" of Truss' tax cuts, along with her flagship energy policy and her promise — repeated just last week — that there will be no public spending cuts.
While the reversal of policy calmed financial markets and helped restore the government's economic credibility, it further undermined the prime minister's rapidly crumbling authority and fueled calls for her to step down before her despairing Conservative Party forces her out.
Truss' front man said the prime minister and Hunt had jointly agreed on the changes. But Hunt told Conservative politicians that Truss "backed him to the hilt in making difficult decisions" — suggesting he has a free hand to make policy.
Scrapping Truss' plan to reduce the basic rate of income tax by 1 percentage point, Hunt said "it is a deeply held Conservative value — a value that I share — that people should keep more of the money that they earn."
"But at a time when markets are rightly demanding commitments to sustainable public finances, it is not right to borrow to fund this tax cut."
Such major policy announcements are normally made first in the House of Commons. However, the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... after an agreement with the speaker of the House, it was left to Hunt — rather than Truss — to deliver the calming message to the markets, weeks earlier than he had planned.
Hunt was appointed Friday after Truss fired his predecessor Kwasi Kwarteng, who spent less than six weeks in the Treasury job. Truss and Kwarteng jointly came up with a Sept. 23 announcement of 45 billion pounds ($50 billion) in unfunded tax cuts that spooked financial markets, sent the pound to record lows and forced the Bank of England to take emergency action.
Over the weekend, Hunt has been dismantling that economic plan. The government had already ditched parts of its tax-cutting plan and announced it would make a medium-term fiscal statement on Oct. 31.
On Monday he went further. He scaled back a cap on energy prices designed to help households pay their bills. It will now be reviewed in April rather than lasting two years — sweeping away one of Truss' signature plans.
Hunt's moves are aimed at restoring the government's credibility for sound fiscal policy after Truss and Kwarteng rushed out a plan for tax cuts without detailing how they would pay for them.
He spent the weekend in crisis talks with Truss, and also met with Bank of England Gov. Andrew Bailey and the head of the government's Debt Management Office.
The unfunded tax cuts fueled investor concerns about unsustainable levels of government borrowing, which pushed up government borrowing costs, raised home mortgage costs and sent the pound plummeting to an all-time low against the dollar. The Bank of England was forced to intervene to protect pension funds, which were squeezed by volatility in the bond market.
It remains to be seen whether the message will hold the line among investors.
"Fiscal credibility is hard won but easily lost. Today's announcements won't be enough by themselves to plug the gap in the government's fiscal plans,'' said Paul Johnson, the director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank. "Nor will they be enough to undo the damage caused by the debacle of the last few weeks, but they are big, welcome, clear steps in the right direction.''
The early response from the markets was positive.
The pound rose more than 1% to above $1.13 in London. That pushed the U.K. currency back above where it was trading on Sept. 22, the day before Kwarteng announced the tax cuts.
Yields on 10-year government bonds, an indicator of government borrowing costs, fell to 3.947% from 4.327% on Friday. It was 3.495% on Sept. 22. Bond yields tend to rise as the risk of a borrower defaulting increases and fall as that risk declines.
The financial fiasco has turned Truss into a lame-duck prime minister, and Conservative politicians are agonizing about whether to try to oust her. She took office just six weeks ago after winning a party election to replace Prime Minister Boris Johnson ...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies.... , who was forced out in July after serial ethics scandals ensnared his administration.
"A new fiscal broom is sweeping away the mess of the old mini-budget but it looks increasingly likely that it will also eventually wipe out the brief prime ministerial career of Liz Truss,'' said Susannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.
The Conservative Party still commands a large majority in Parliament, and — in theory — has two years until a national election must be held. Polls suggest an election would be a wipeout for the Tories, with the Labor Party winning a big majority.
Many Conservatives believe their only hope is to replace Truss — if the party can agree on a replacement.
The prime minister's front man, Max Blain, denied Truss was leader in name only and that Hunt was now in the driver's seat.
"The prime minister and the chancellor discussed these measures and agreed them over the weekend," he said.
Blain said Truss "has acknowledged we went too far, too fast with the mini-budget" — though in a statement, Downing Street pinned the blame for its U-turns on a worsening global economic picture rather than any reaction to the measures.
Morris and Lena Cohen lived in Ruislip street in North-West London and were known as Peter and Lena KrogerCouple spied for Russia with Gordon Lonsdale, Navy clerk Harry Houghton and secretary Ethel Gee
MI5 files released last week reveal photos of the objects found in the Cohens' home and further detail
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June 13, 1985. In his fourth-floor office at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, [Aldrich Ames] wrapped up five to seven pounds of secret documents and walked out of the building. He drove across the Potomac River to Washington, D.C. and entered Chadwicks restaurant, where he handed the docx to a Soviet Embassy official named Sergei Chuvakhin. The agents he betrayed that day included Oleg Gordievsky, Sergei Bokhan, and Leonid Poleshchuk.
But the CIA and FBI debriefers soon recognized a glaring anomaly... It was clear that those three agents had fallen under suspicion in May 1985—before Ames insists he handed over the documents.
Thirty Years Later, We Still Don't Truly Know Who Betrayed These Spies [despite a CIA] search for the source. That raised a possibility that remains, even today, a subject of deep concern among counterintelligence agents, a problem privately acknowledged but little discussed publicly: That the three agents may have been betrayed by a mole inside U.S. intelligence whose identity is still unknown.
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Off the "didn't wanna dignify that Russian's lurid 'golliwogs with sideways Glocks' pandering the other day" pile...
In St. Petersburg, everyone's... bright!
Gopniks pick balalaikas all night,
Gnawing barbecued bar
'Neath a giant red star
As they wait for the light, full of... fight.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies....
