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- Planned Parenthood’s Annual Report: Got $487.4M in Tax Money, Did 329,445 Abortions
- US Closes 2011 With Record $15.22 Trillion In Debt, Officially At 100.3% Debt/GDP, $14 Billion From Breaching Debt Ceiling
- Iowa Results: Did the GOP establishment sabotage Ron Paul as it vowed to do?
- 2011 medication shortages set new record at 267
- Palin: ‘Worst thing’ GOP can do is marginalize Ron Paul supporters
- Ron Paul May Have Secretly Won The Iowa Caucuses
| Planned Parenthood’s Annual Report: Got $487.4M in Tax Money, Did 329,445 Abortions Posted: 04 Jan 2012 03:18 PM PST By Penny Starr, cnsnews.com According to its latest annual report, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) received $487.4 million in tax dollars over a twelve-month period and performed 329,455 abortions. In addition, the number of adoption referrals made by the organization continued to decline. The latest annual report covers the period from July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010, the PPFA's fiscal year. The report states that the organization received "government health services grants and reimbursements" totaling $487.4 million. Previous Planned Parenthood annual reports showed total funding from "government grants and contracts" (which were $363.2 million in 2009), while this year's report also accounts for payments from Medicaid managed care plans among the payments the group receives from government . When compared with previous annual reports, the latest one shows an almost steady increase in the number of abortions performed at its clinics: In 2006, Planned Parenthood did 289,750 abortions; in 2007, it did 305,310; in 2009, it did 331,796; and, in 2010, it did 329,445–a small decrease from the previous year. The annual report for fiscal year 2008-2009 does not include abortion or adoption figures, but a PPFA Fact Sheet posted on its Web site and said to be current as of September 2010, states that 324,008 abortions were performed at Planned Parenthood clinics around the country in 2008. To read more, visit: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/planned-parenthood-s-annual-report-got-4874m-tax-money-did-329445-abortions |
| Posted: 04 Jan 2012 03:15 PM PST Submitted by Tyler Durden, ZeroHedge.com While not news to Zero Hedge readers who knew about the final debt settlement of US debt about 10 days ahead of schedule, it is now official: according to the US Treasury, America has closed the books on 2011 with debt at an all time record $15,222,940,045,451.09. And, as was observed here first in all of the press, US debt to GDP is now officially over 100%, or 100.3% to be specific, a fact which the US government decided to delay exposing until the very end of the calendar year. We wonder, rhetorically, just how prominent of a talking point this historic event will be in any upcoming GOP primary debates. And yes, technically this number is greater than the debt ceiling but it excludes various accounting gimmicks. When accounting for those, the US has a debt ceiling buffer of… $14 billion, or one third the size of a typical bond auction. To read more, visit: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/us-closes-2011-record-1522-trillion-debt-officially-1003-debtgdp |
| Iowa Results: Did the GOP establishment sabotage Ron Paul as it vowed to do? Posted: 04 Jan 2012 03:11 PM PST
UPDATE 1:46 AM CENTRAL: Mitt Romney has now been announced as the winner of the Iowa caucus, dramatically leading Rick Santorum by only 8 votes. The two candidates have wrestled back-and-forth for first as various locales checked in with GOP officials– who moved today to meet at an undisclosed location to count the votes in secret after the hacker collective Anonymous issued threats to disrupt the caucus. Ron Paul at a close third with 21%, conceded the race calling himself 'one of the three winners,' and dubbed his performance 'nothing to be ashamed of'. After all, he led polls for months leading into the contest, under heavy fire from media hacks aligned with the GOP establishment ever-eager to dismiss his viability. Paul vowed to fight on, continue raising funds and fighting for victory in what he termed a movement, rather than a campaign. Santorum's surprise last-minute surge coincides with announcements that the vote in Iowa would be counted at a secret location– yes, vague threats from hacker collective Anonymous gave the pretext to count the votes in secret– and also coincided with statements from top GOP officials strategizing how to effectively take out Ron Paul and diminish his significance. It is no secret that all the stops have been pulled to minimize Paul's media visibility throughout the campaign trail, with many top GOP figures and media commentators going so far as to pre-script a plan to ignore Iowa in the event that Ron Paul won the caucuses, in order to prevent the Congressman from dominating the national stage. Did the GOP establishment succeed in sabotaging Ron Paul in the Iowa caucus vote as it vowed to do? What accounts for Santorum's swift rise to the top of polls in Iowa only days out from the contest when he barely showed a pulse in ANY state, let alone Iowa, among the crowded GOP field at any time in the weeks and months before? To read more, visit: http://www.infowars.com/did-the-gop-establishment-sabotage-ron-paul-as-it-vowed-to-do/ |
| 2011 medication shortages set new record at 267 Posted: 04 Jan 2012 03:05 PM PST By LINDA A. JOHNSON, Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The number of new prescription drug shortages in 2011 shot up to 267, well above the prior record and about four times the number of medication shortages in the middle of the last decade. Figures just released by the University of Utah Drug Information Service, which tracks national drug shortages, show there were 56 more newly reported drug shortages in the U.S. last year than in 2010, when there were 211. By contrast, there were only 58 drug shortages reported in 2004. As the drug shortages worsen, so does their impact on patient care, particularly in hospitals. The inability to get crucial medicines has disrupted chemotherapy, surgery and care for patients with infections and pain. At least 15 deaths since 2010 have been blamed on the shortages, which have set a record high in each of the last five years. “At the beginning of the year, we were on a pace of about a shortage every day,” Erin R. Fox, manager of the service, told The Associated Press. “Luckily, that pace has definitely diminished.” She noted the Food and Drug Administration has said it has prevented more than 100 new shortages in 2011. That’s partly because of an executive order President Obama issued on Oct. 31 to address the shortages, with provisions requiring more manufacturers to report potential shortages in advance to the FDA. But Fox is still worried because many of the current shortages won’t be resolved anytime soon, based on reports from several key manufacturers that have had to shut down production because of contamination or other quality problems. For some medicines, there may be only one other manufacturer, which doesn’t have the capacity to fill the gap immediately or completely. To read more, visit: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_DRUG_SHORTAGES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-01-03-18-27-31 |
| Palin: ‘Worst thing’ GOP can do is marginalize Ron Paul supporters Posted: 04 Jan 2012 03:02 PM PST By Felicia Sonmez, WashingtonPost.com Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin (R) said Tuesday night that Republicans who would marginalize Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) are making a big mistake. "Here's the deal," Palin told Fox Business Network's Neil Cavuto. "The GOP would be so remiss to marginalize Ron Paul and his supporters as we come out of Iowa tonight and move down the road to New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida, et cetera. If we marginalize these supporters who have been touched by Ron Paul and what he believed in over these years, well, then, through a third party run of Ron Paul's or the Democrats capturing those independents and these libertarians who supported what Ron Paul's been talking about, well, then the GOP is going to lose. And then there will be no light at the end of the tunnel." "So, the worst thing that the GOP machine can do is marginalize Ron Paul and his supporters," she added. Palin said that while she disagrees with Paul on foreign policy, the Texas Republican "does have good ideas when it comes to the austerity measures that domestically we must engage in in order to be secure, in order to be solvent as a nation." "The supporters of Ron Paul, they hear that. They have been touched by that," she said. As results from the Iowa caucuses were coming in Tuesday night, Paul was in a tight three-way race with former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. In interviews on the campaign trail in recent days, backers of both Santorum and Romney have sharply criticized Paul and his supporters, and Santorum himself Tuesday morning called Paul "disgusting." To read more, visit: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/palin-worst-thing-gop-can-do-is-marginalize-ron-paul-supporters/2012/01/03/gIQAtH1QZP_blog.html |
| Ron Paul May Have Secretly Won The Iowa Caucuses Posted: 04 Jan 2012 02:59 PM PST By: Grace Wyler, BusinessInsider.com DES MOINES — Ron Paul may have officially come in third tonight, but if the campaign’s caucus strategy went off as planned, then Paul may actually be the real winner of the first Republican voting contest. That’s because Paul’s massive organizational push in Iowa focused on both winning votes, and also on making sure that Paul supporters stuck around after the vote to make sure they were selected as county delegates — the first step towards being elected as a delegate to the Republican National Convention. That’s because Iowa’s Republican caucuses are non-binding — they are technically just a straw poll, so once selected, delegates are free to vote for whichever presidential candidate they choose. “Part of what we’ve been training the Ron Paul people to do is not to leave after the vote,” Dan Godzich, a senior campaign advisor, told BI. “Stay and get elected to the conventions and get us those delegates.” Godzich and Sydney Hay, another Paul advisor, crisscrossed Iowa in the weeks leading up to the caucuses, making sure precinct leaders knew what to do and organizing slates of delegates that would ensure Paul walked away with a strong majority, even if he lost the caucus’ straw poll vote. By the eve of Election Day, Hay said she was confident that Paul would come away from Iowa with a strong majority of the state’s delegates. It’s a good first step toward making sure that Paul has a strong presence on the floor in Tampa this summer — something that his supporters believe will help force the Republican party to start reckoning with their Movement. |
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