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Major issues piling up on the United States for lack of true leadership

 The United States is on total decline on many levels. One of the upcoming issue is the massive caravan headed to the United States border. Here are various articles covering it: Video Player is loading. Current Time  0:00 / Duration  -:- 0 up next: Rep. Andy Levin (D-MI) on parts of the Biden agenda that have been left out FOX News Massive migrant caravan headed to US undeterred by warnings Duration: 02:35     ======================= Massive migrant caravan headed to US undeterred by warnings Wed, October 27, 2021, 7:07 PM National correspondent Griff Jenkins has the latest on a caravan comprised of at least 3,000 people journeying towards the southern border on 'Special Report.'   ===================   19,000 Migrant Caravan Headed for the US Border By  Jordan Sekulow | September 30 4 min read Immigration In the midst of the crisis at the border, the Foreign Minister of Panama expressed confusion over

PA hospitals safety and information

  New PA Hospital Safety Ratings: 62 Get 'A' Grade, 6 Get 'D' Nonprofit health care watchdog group Leapfrog recently released its newest rankings of health care facilities. See how PA facilities fared. Max Bennett , Patch Staff Posted Wed, Nov 10, 2021

Covid related restrictive policies and the "great resignation"

 There has been many consequences to the way governments imposed severe restrictions since 2020 regarding coping with Covid. One of the consequences has been the business world. Here is a great article talking about the "great resignation" Quote from the below article: "...The real takeaway is why people are leaving their jobs in the first place—rampant stress, the shift to remote work, a forced reckoning with what matters in light of the pandemic—and what resigning is leading them to do next. Taken on its surface, the Great Resignation foregrounds the language of job status, but misses a parallel, arguably bigger story: the radical realignment of values that is fueling people to confront and remake their relationship to life at home, with their families, with their friends, and in their lives outside of labor...."   How about you, did your business suffer due to resignations. Or did you resign from your job? Let's hear from you   Kathryn Hymes Ideas 11.

Solar Geoengineering

  Should we dim the sun? Why we need to talk about solar geoengineering Injecting reflective particles into the atmosphere could turn down the heat on Earth, but research has been controversial.   Quotes from above article: ".... Nature is the best geoengineer, and volcanic eruptions are their own form of solar radiation management. During an eruption, plumes of smoke filled with sulfates can dim the sun. The Pinatubo eruption, the second largest in the 20th century, dropped planetary temperatures by half a degree in 1991...." ... Moratoriums and moral hazards Paul Crutzen, a Dutch chemist and Nobel laureate, broached the idea of stratospheric aerosol injection  in an essay 15 years ago, igniting a debate over SRM that continues to this day. Even though solar geoengineering had been floated for decades already (some trace it back to US President Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1960s), scientists barely spoke about it. They certainly weren't co