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Cheryl Livingstone, "Fears for patient care in Highland shake-up", Aberdeen Press and Journal, October 10, 2011, p. 1

Excerpt: ... Director of the Royal College of Nursing in Scotland, Theresa Fyffe, spoke out
against the speed of plans to merge health and social care in the region.

NHS Highland has agreed to take control of adult community care, which could
include community nursing, day, respite, home and social work community care,
while Highland Council has agreed to oversee children's services, including
school nurses, early-years health visitors, educational psychologists, primary
mental health workers, children in care and children and families' social work.

Ms Fyffe said the move was ill-thought-out, rushed and ignored other options
that could soon be put on the table by the Scottish Government.

... Ms Fyffe said: "This process involves a structural change which we feel is
unnecessary. We are concerned that staff will spend more time worrying about
what will happen to them and where they will be moved to, and patient care will
be affected.

"There is clear evidence that, if the health and wellbeing of staff is impacted,
it will have an effect on patient care."

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NYU professor Paul Light estimated that during the Bush Administration, the federal contract workforce jumped nearly 75 percent, from 4.4 million to 7.6 million. More than two years into the Obama administration, Light still puts the headcount at approximately 7.5 million.

Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president of the Professional Services Council, which represents businesses that contract with the federal government, said his group regards Light’s figures as “astronomically high” and inflated by a methodology that counts the indirect as well as direct economic impact of federal contracts.

But there are currently no official numbers on the size of the contract workforce; the Office of Management and Budget is moving to comply with recent congressional mandates that such figures be maintained. And overall size is scarcely the only controversy surrounding the mushrooming contract workforce in recent years.

Approximately $320 billion – or about 60 percent of all federal dollars spent on contracts for goods and services – went to support the contract workforce in fiscal 2010, according to the OMB. To put that figure in perspective, it is about 40 percent higher than the total compensation paid to in-house federal civilian employees last year.

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According to Daniel Sheehan, while serving as the General Counsel to the United States Jesuit National Headquarters in Washington, DC in 1997, he was approached by the then-Director of the Library of Congress' Science and Technology Division, Marcia Smith, to help with a UFO research project. He says that during the course of his participation with Smith, she had told him that President-elect Jimmy Carter had requested that George Bush, who was Director of the CIA at the time, brief him on the UFO situation. Bush refused, telling Carter that he did not have the need to know. Smith, Bush, nor Carter have confirmed this claim.

The p.2 article is titled "Money talks in $enate race"

Excerpt: Mullah Zaeef has memorably said: “Pakistan … is so famous for treachery that it is said they can get milk from a bull. They have two tongues in one mouth, and two faces on one head so they can speak everybody’s language; they use everybody, deceive everybody.”

[note: Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, a founder of the Taliban in 1994, author of book titled "My Life with the Taliban", was the Afghan ambassador to Pakistan before the US invasion of Afghanistan]

Obama administration pummeled companies such as Deere, Caterpillar, Verizon and AT&T for speaking out about the cost implications and financial burdens of Obamacare -- and then cheered from the sidelines while Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman attempted to haul the firms up for a congressional witch-hunt inquisition.

Obama administration seized Gibson Guitars' instruments

Obama administration has threatened whistleblowers who exposed bloody corruption and incompetence behind the Operation Fast and Furious gun-walking racket.

Obama administration has clamped down on mainstream media reporters, too.

The Pleasanton (CA) Weekly was bullied by the White House press shop over a benign article that irked the administration because it made Michelle Obama look snooty.

The San Francisco Chronicle was punished by the White House because a print pool reporter used a cellphone to record video of protesters at an Obama Bay Area fundraiser.

A WFAA-TV Texas reporter was dressed down by the president for having the audacity to interrupt.

The Boston Herald was spanked by the White House for running a front-page op-ed by GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

Source:
Michelle Malkin, "Our White House Bully Problem", TownHall.com, Sept 28, 2011 -- http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin...ly_problem