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Long-Term & Nursing Home Costs in U.S. Continue to Rise, According to New Survey

Nursing home, assisted living and adult day services all increased 4.4% or more.

(WESTPORT, Ct.) - Costs continue to rise for those requiring long-term care in the U.S. According to the newly released 2011 MetLife Market Survey of Nursing Home, Assisted Living, Adult Day Services, and Home Care Costs, conducted by the MetLife Mature Market Institute, national average rates for a private nursing home room increased 4.4% to $239 daily or $87,235 annually, in 2011.

Assisted living base rates rose by 5.6% to $3,477 monthly or $41,724 annually.

Alcohol Abuse Generates More Problems Than Drugs Do

Alcohol abuse generates more problems than drugs do. The Spanish government has destined more than 22 million Euros to programs against drugs and alcohol.

(MADRID) - British actor, Anthony Hopkins, is considered to be one of the most talented actors in the world today.

Among his most important movies are: The Elephant Man, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Remains of the Day, Howards End, The Mask of Zorro, The World's Fastest Indian, Hearts in Atlantis, as well as Nixon and Fracture. In 2003, Hopkins was awarded a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.

Heidi Vogel-The Wandering Who-Book Review

"As Atzmon delves deep into the roots and causes of Zionism and modern day Jewish Identity, he explores some biblical interpretations, as well as many other writers whom Atzmon refers to in great detail" - Heidi Vogel

(LONDON) - Gilad Atzmon's "The Wandering WHO?" provides a fascinating and complex look into the many facets of this subject Atzmon calls "Jewish identity politics".

The book gives a glimpse into Atzmon's early life in Israel as an aspiring jazz musician and how he became the inspiring thinker and, as Atzmon says, "Humanist", he is today.

Diplomatic Immunity could be tested for war crimes: expert

Professor Rothwell says the challenge will be to overcome the significant protections offered by diplomatic immunity.

(CANBERRA, Aust.) - Moves to bring war crimes charges in Australia against the Sri Lankan President and High Commissioner face the significant challenge of proving to an Australian Court that serious war crimes can overrule diplomatic immunity, according to an ANU International Law expert.

Prof. Donald Rothwell of the ANU College of Law says suggestions that Sri Lankan leaders may be subject to war crimes charges under Australian law highlight the growing reach of Australian criminal law in war crimes cases...

Libya Dispatch: Revulsion, resistance & angry words from Tripoli University

"We are very angry but not really surprised by what Sanad did. He’s a stupid guy"

(TRIPOLI UNIVERSITY) - The people I had hoped most to be able to find upon returning to Libya were eight students from Fatah University (now renamed Tripoli University) who became my friends during three months in Libya this summer.

Cut: Slicing Through the Myths of Circumcision Debuts in Portland

Jewish Intactivist Eli Ungar-Sargon is doing a showing of his film tomorrow night in Portland.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Cut: Slicing Through the Myths of Circumcision is a powerful film.

It takes a critical look at circumcision, and specifically at how it's viewed within the Jewish community. It explores the conflict between personal ethics and what some people have been told is a religious obligation. Below, you can watch a one hour abridged version of this film to get a sense of how it can open people's eyes.

The Free Market Fallacy

For you supporters of less government and more free-market, you're barking up the wrong tree.

(CALGARY, Alberta) - We’ve been seeing the warnings at the start of VHS/DVD movies for so long, that we don’t even notice them anymore, except to be irritated that we have to endure them because we can’t fast forward past them.

Lingering Questions Haunt Old Border Smelter

The legacy of lead, arsenic and other metals contamination in a tri-state region traced to Asarco has long been documented, but questions linger over the complete nature and extent of the pollution.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - In a few months, the skyline of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez is set for a dramatic transformation.

For generations the smokestacks of the American Smelting and Refining Company (Asarco) have towered hundreds of feet over the Rio Grande, first exemplifying and then symbolizing a bygone industrial economy powered by mineral and metals production.

Gaddafi, Settler Occupation and Sitting Bull

Gaddafi died much like Sitting Bull died in the era after the Seventh Cavalry got their revenge at Wounded Knee for its defeat at Little Big Horn.

(LETHBRIDGE, Alberta) - As I see it the failure of most US citizens to come to terms with their own country's origins holds the key to their ongoing collective inability to appreciate the full horror of the oppressive dynamics governing their formal and informal empires.

It holds an important key to their conceptual limitations in understanding their own extended worldwide system of "reservations" where the wretched of the earth are caged in captive penury through brutal proxy regimes of indirect rule.

The Things That Will Send Christians to Hell

The Ten Commandments, unlike the amendments of the U.S. Constitution, are fixed, or should be.

(SALEM, Ore.) - There are two things actually that I believe define what is wrong with religion in politics: one is rooting for violence, and the other is living your life 'right' out of fear that you will spend your eternity in hell.

Some people are not troubled by these perceptions, they are shallow and could care less, obviously, and some go so far as to openly embrace evil and dark things, as if daring God, or defying his presence.