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Until now, BT has claimed that ex-directory customers had been contacted due to a computer glitch, and that no one had been addressed by his or her name. However, the most recent cases involved tele-marketing by name, according to copies of the statements seen by the Independent.
According to one statement from an ex-directory customer, the individual arrived home to a message from a BT salesperson, who used the customer's name and asked that the call be returned. "Then I rang them back and said, 'I've never been on BT. What are you on about? And by the way, where have you got my number from?' They answered cable."
In another statement, the cable customer asked how the BT tele-marketer had got the phone number. The individual claims to have been told that the cable company had provided it, but that it was for emergency services only. "I've never been on BT," the customer claims to have said. "The operator then apologised."
In a third case, a cable customer contacted directly by the Independent said she had been called by BT and asked to consider switching back. She said last night that the BT employee had addressed her by her last name.
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Stocktake of District Health Boards' Telehealth Activity
The full report and its website summary identify how District Health Boards are managing and supporting telehealth initiatives.
Executive summary
Telehealth is one of the enabling technologies that will underpin the changes we need to make in the delivery of healthcare to the New Zealand public, and the government is committed to increasing its effective and sustainable use. With this in mind, the National Health IT Board has commissioned the NZ Telehealth Forum to undertake a stocktake to provide a better understanding of the current uptake of telehealth technologies.
This report presents the results of Phase 1 of the stocktake, which has surveyed telehealth activity in New Zealand's twenty District Health Boards (DHBs). Phase 2, is a survey of Primary Health Organisations and Non-Government Organisations.
The stocktake provides a baseline from which to measure progress, and an information resource to enable new investment in telehealth to be more effectively deployed. It will also help to build a network of telehealth expertise, and to identify the barriers to further progress.
The principal conclusions that we can draw from Phase 1 (and early responses to Phase 2) are:
- New Zealand appears to be close to a tipping point in terms of the uptake of telehealth enabled practices, particularly in relation to videoconferencing. The last 3-4 years has seen all DHBs utilise these technologies to at least some degree, and the appearance of telehealth specific governance groups and the appointment of telehealth leaders are further manifestations of the increasingly important role telehealth is playing in the delivery of sustainable services.
- Although this progress is encouraging, it is by no means indicative of a momentum that reflects the true potential of telehealth. In most cases telehealth services are introduced as a way of making an existing service model more efficient. Only rarely is it considered as providing a strategic opportunity to reshape the way patients receive care or are empowered to take responsibility for their own care. This tactical response arises from the lack of understanding and buy-in at the managerial and clinical policy levels of DHBs, and denotes a need for more leadership in this area.
- Although there is an increasing acceptance of telehealth by individual clinicians, there remains embedded resistance to adopting these technologies, resistance that is bolstered by a lack of nationally agreed approaches to aligning its use with appropriate remuneration frameworks. In the case of videoconferencing there is a residual concern about utility and especially integration that is only slowly being dispelled, notwithstanding the excellent progress that has been made by the National Health IT Board and the NZ Telehealth Forum in agreeing and implementing standards.
- If greater progress is to be made in the adoption of telehealth, it is vital that there is real investment in carrying out credible evaluations of the healthcare and financial benefits that arise from its effective use. This will enable the investment cases to be made on hard data rather than merely through the aspirational thinking and leadership of individuals.
- If, as this stocktake suggests, there is a burgeoning uptake in the use of telehealth, then New Zealand has a moment in time opportunity to 'do it right'. This will require not just the effective efforts of individuals, clinical teams and DHB managements, but the ongoing involvement of national bodies such as the National Health IT Board, the New Zealand Telehealth Forum and the Medical Council to ensure a coordinated approach, where lessons are learnt and communicated, and where investments are made based on experience and knowledge.
Summary of results
For the purposes of the stocktake, telehealth is defined as meaning any technology enabled healthcare intervention where people are connected remotely. Specifically, the categories of telehealth include:
- Telemedicine: the use of interactive videoconferencing (VC) and store-and-forward technologies for remote consultations, diagnosis and treatment, including multi-disciplinary team meetings for shared care and health care related education, research and evaluation. Examples of store-and-forward include teleradiology and teledermatology.
- Telemonitoring: patients using simple medical devices in their domestic settings to inform their care providers about their condition.
- mHealth: the use of mobile communications technology (such as smartphones) to deliver healthcare and healthy lifestyle services.
- Interactive portals: the use of websites, social networks and supporting triage/consulting services to interact with patients.
The Chief Executive of each DHB was asked to nominate an individual to be responsible for completing the survey, and the questionnaires were sent to the nominees. Survey questions addressed governance, the use of videoconferencing for current and planned clinical services, the supporting technical infrastructure, and other technologies being used or planned. Questions were also asked about evaluations, barriers to uptake, and what support the NZ Telehealth Forum and the National Health IT Board should offer DHBs to enable them to increase their use of telehealth.
All twenty DHBs responded to the survey. The results in this report are predominantly as received in the survey responses, with some clarifications and updates made following direct contact with respondents. The level of detail in responses varied and we appreciate that in some cases the respondents may not have been aware of all of the operational or planned activities in different departments and services, since few DHBs have a readily accessible telehealth "knowledge hub". We are also aware that new developments have taken place between conducting the survey and preparation of the report, and therefore will not be included.
Almost all of the DHBs are making use of telehealth technology to some degree with Northland, West Coast and Canterbury most active in using telehealth technologies for clinical services involving care of patients. Others that are providing some regular patient services, or are conducting or planning to conduct trials, include Auckland, Waitemata, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Lakes, MidCentral, Hawkes Bay, Nelson Marlborough and Southern.
The dominant telehealth technology being used for patient interactions and for clinical networks is videoconferencing, hence the focus on its use in this report. Store and forward image transmission for radiology and pathology is an inherent part of video-based Multi-Disciplinary Meetings and patient consultations. Dermatology, particularly in Waikato DHB's Virtual Lesion Clinics, has been a pioneer in providing store and forward image-based diagnosis services for General Practitioner referrals.
Other technologies and applications are emerging, such as the use of mHealth / smartphone applications, the use of email consultations, and devices for remote telemonitoring.
This report identified how each DHB provides governance of telehealth activities.
There are three column headings identified, DHBs with Telehealth Strategies, DHBs with Clinical Leaders and DHBs with Programme Managers / Facilitators. More explanation about this chart is given in the text that follows.
In 2011 three DHBs had documented telehealth strategies or procedures (Northland, Canterbury and West Coast) and only two had an appointed Telehealth Clinical Leader and a Telehealth Facilitator (Canterbury and West Coast shared).
In 2014 ten DHBs have strategies either in place or being developed. Most are individual strategies, the exception being the Midland Region, where Waikato DHB's strategy has been adapted as a regional strategy. There are now ten DHBs with appointed telehealth clinical leaders, although their roles vary widely in scope. Six DHBs now have full time telehealth programme manager or facilitator positions and one has a small part time position.
Thirteen DHBs have a Governance Group that provides oversight of telehealth investment. In most cases these are the Groups that oversee overall ICT governance. Four DHBs require approval of the Governance Group for equipment and other purchases. Some handle their equipment investments out of normal operating budgets.
Northland DHB also has an active senior management and clinical leadership Steering Group. Waikato DHB has a clinically-led Telehealth User Group, and there is now also a Midland Region Telehealth User Group. Its terms of reference include telehealth promotion, advising senior management on strategy, ensuring the adoption of standards and guidelines for the effective use of telehealth, and liaising with interested parties from other DHBs to promote collaboration.
Five DHBs have formal documentation for telehealth protocols, primarily for videoconferencing interactions. Two other DHBs are in the process of developing protocols.
While some DHBs have made good progress in terms of telehealth governance, some still lack formal governance structures. Amongst those DHBs which do have governance structures there is wide variance in the scope and responsibilities of those involved. Many DHBs also still lack protocols to govern the introduction and use of telehealth services into their organisations.
Videoconferencing (VC) usage
Nineteen DHBs currently use VC for administrative / management meetings and clinical education (South Canterbury was the only DHB that indicated no current usage.)
Sixteen DHBs reported that they are using VC for direct clinician-patient interactions, although only twelve reported specific services in the survey template. The range of services has grown significantly since a telehealth survey taken in 2005/06, when the only services identified were for telepaediatrics, telepsychiatry, teledermatology, and teleradiology. Today, a wide range of services using VC are provided across the spectrum of Adult and Emergency, Ambulatory and Allied Health, Paediatrics, and Mental Health services. DHBs are using VC for follow-up visits, some first specialist assessments, acute assessments, ward rounds and nurse-led clinics. Most involve services between secondary/tertiary sites and smaller regional sites. A few services are provided directly to patients in their home.
All of the DHBs are using videoconferencing for multi-site Multi-Disciplinary Meetings or Multi-Disciplinary Team Meetings, or are in the process of establishing fit-for-purpose rooms for these meetings. Sixteen DHBs have MDM Co-ordinators and twelve indicated that they either have or are developing protocols for multi-site VC meetings. (Most of the MDM Co-ordinators and MDM protocols relate to the Cancer Networks.)
Other uses directly related to delivery of health services include discharge planning meetings, chart based ward rounds (usually for patients with long term or complex conditions), remote medication monitoring of patients in homes, supervision, and peer support.
Fifteen DHBs are planning on new telehealth services to be added in the next twelve months. These include extending current services to new sites and adding new services.
Reporting of telehealth events
Despite the breadth of VC usage for patient interactions noted above, there has been little progress in the ability to track usage for patient consultations since a 2005/06 New Zealand Telehealth survey noted: "Usage statistics are hard to come by as there is no consistent method of tracking usage and the level of detail varies considerably from region to region and across services."
Only five of the DHBs reported having a method of counting telehealth consultations either within, or outside of, their Patient Administration Systems, and one of those is only being done as part of a current international trial. This capability is essential for telehealth consultations to become mainstream; credible data is necessary for evaluations, for relating the use of telehealth tools to health outcomes, and for appropriate recognition in contract matters and re-imbursement policies.
An important development with regard to reporting is that the Ministry of Health is implementing a change in the National Non-Admitted Patient collection that will allow for accurate counting of telehealth consultation as reported by DHBs. It is likely that this change will help to improve the quality of data being collected in the future, but its effectiveness will depend on the ability of the DHBs to accurately capture the information at source.
Technical infrastructure
Only five DHBS said that their VC capacity either met or mostly met the demand. Eight of the remaining fifteen DHBs have, or are developing investment plans to meet unmet demand.
Twelve of the DHBs have centralised booking systems. Most respondents weren't sure if their VC systems met current HISO standards for interoperability and interconnectivity; this demonstrates a need for wider communication to users, as it is understood that all recently implemented systems do comply. Three VC network providers, Vivid Solutions Ltd, Gen-i and Dimension Data, are currently the main VC network providers for DHBs. These companies are also active members of the Telehealth Forum's VC Working Group, which has as its main goal the achievement of seamless and cost effective interconnectivity across networks.
Responses to questions about help desk and technical support indicated a need for clarification of the roles of internal IT departments and VC network providers. The lack of adequate support was also cited as a barrier to uptake.
The majority of VC systems are still hardware-based, but there is a trend toward software-based systems. A few DHBs have started providing VC clients on desktops and mobile devices that allow for secure connectivity to enterprise networks.
Other telehealth technologies
Three DHBs are providing remote telemonitoring support for patients and five others are planning to provide or considering this type of support.
One DHB (Waitemata) is deploying mHealth and smartphone technologies in programmes for diabetes support, pregnant women and families of young children, and community alcohol and drugs service. DHBs are also using text messaging tools for communications between health professionals and for appointment reminders. Two DHBs have provided VC links for GPs to participate in teleconsultations with specialist services and two are planning to provide links.
Three DHBs will be implementing email patient consultations as part of the Shared Care planning initiatives (Waitemata, Hawkes Bay and Auckland). In all DHBs, email and telephone calls are most likely already being used for some consultations follow-ups, but as this activity is not counted it would be very difficult to quantify.
Telehealth evaluation
Four DHBs have conducted evaluations of an operational service or pilot (Northland, Auckland, Waikato, West Coast), and an evaluation of a tele-stroke pilot at MidCentral is underway. Although not specifically reported in this survey, we are aware of other evaluations, for example for the Te Whiringa Ora telemonitoring service managed by Healthcare of New Zealand, and a 2011 report on a small telemonitoring trial in Lakes DHB.
Anecdotal information on services and events is also available, and business cases for investment have typically forecast benefits regarding increased access for patients, reduced clinical risk, and more efficient use of health provider resources. Yet there is a lack of documentation on benefits realisation and health outcomes that would help to justify the level of investment necessary to ensure that telehealth tools become part of mainstream health service delivery.
Barriers to uptake and priorities for NHITB and Telehealth Forum support
The barriers to uptake cited by almost all DHBs are videoconferencing interconnectivity (across provider networks), infrastructure investment (including facilities, technology, and support staff) and adequate technical support.
Half of the DHBs cited the following factors as barriers to uptake: the lack of appropriate re-imbursement models, protocols and guidelines for care pathways, quality of video/audio, and clinical support. Only three DHBs cited patient acceptance as a barrier.
Respondents felt that the most beneficial support the National Health IT Board and the Telehealth Forum could offer was the provision of generic guidelines and case studies, and telehealth advocacy at local, regional, and national levels.
The survey results, particularly the indications of planned growth in services and networks, are very encouraging for telehealth uptake. The survey shows that the most active DHBs are those that have addressed at least some of the success criteria for sustainable telehealth services. Agreed strategies, clinical champions, senior management sponsorship, dedicated resources (for programme management, facilitation, and technical support), protocols and guidelines, and appropriate investment in the ICT infrastructure, are absolutely essential to promote uptake.
Progress is certainly being made, but we have a long way to go to realise the full potential for telehealth technologies to improve access for patients, to reduce clinical risk, and to make more efficient use of clinical and administrative resources. For example, very few organisations are either providing or considering the use of remote monitoring technologies for management of chronic disease. In addition, more organisations need to be fully committed to making video teleconsultations a mainstream activity in the delivery of outpatient and acute services.
By its very nature, telehealth relies on effective and efficient clinical and technical networks. However, along with the growth in telehealth activity, there are signs of fragmentation that will constrain uptake, if not locally, then at inter-DHB and cross-region levels. There is also the risk that if the total cost of ownership in providing a telehealth-enabled service isn't adequately planned for, isn't clinically supported, and isn't appropriately resourced, it won't be sustainable.
Clinical collaboration and seamless technical interconnectivity between health providers is paramount. The stocktake shows that there are many opportunities for DHBs to share lessons learned regarding governance, equipment configurations, protocols and procedures used, technical support, and IT systems support. This collaboration should contribute to increased and sustainable uptake, and reduce unnecessary duplication.
Next steps
This report is intended to be a baseline that can be periodically updated. The results can be used by DHBs to identify sources for collaboration when planning telehealth services, and to share lessons learned. A high level set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) will also be used by the National Health IT Board and the Telehealth Forum to track progress on telehealth uptake. The KPIs will initially focus on governance (as shown above in Governance, Figure 1), the capacity to enable uptake, and the services offered. As the sector matures, there will be increased focus on capturing more evidence of telehealth's risks and benefits, with the goal of relating these to improved health outcomes.
There are many signposts that can be pursued to take advantage of the progress made. With the support of the National Health IT Board, the Telehealth Forum will continue, via its working groups and its advocacy role, to respond to the priorities cited in this survey, and to focus on promoting sustainable telehealth services.
Acknowledgments for help with the report:
- National Telehealth Leadership Group members for input to survey design and testing, and for review of the draft report.
- National Health IT Board for support in survey distribution and recording responses.
- DHB respondents for their time in completing the surveys, and for their interest in telehealth.
- Terri Hawke, Telehealth Forum Project Coordinator, for data and report formatting and graphics.
Further information
To get copies of the full report prepared for the Ministry of Health by Pat Kerr, Principal Consultant, NZ Telehealth Forum, please email: email@example.com
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Money And Popularity In The Final Weeks Of The Race For San Diego Mayor
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Aired 11/5/13 on KPBS Midday Edition.
Carl Luna, professor, political science, Mesa College
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There are only two weeks to go until the special election for San Diego mayor.
A poll out Sunday seems to be good news for Republican Kevin Faulconer.
Democrat Nathan Fletcher came forward with a personal story about suffering abuse in childhood.
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It may not be news that the cyber domain is perhaps the most vulnerable point for U.S. defenses, but when the former top commander in Afghanistan says we're not ready for cyber war, it reinforces the quandary facing the U.S. military, civilian agencies and the private sector alike.
Military-wise, it is hard to tell how prepared the Pentagon is for cyber war – information is tightly locked down under high-level classifications – but there are a wide array of other mitigating factors that contribute to vulnerability, according to Gen. Stanley McChrystal, former commander of U.S. and international forces-Afghanistan.
"I don't think we're prepared for the future because I think it's almost impossible to be," McChrystal said Oct. 29 at an event held by SAP National Security Services in Falls Church, Va. "In the case of cyberspace, I think our big problem is that we are going to try to balance the amazing capacity to monitor and control, with the desire of people to have privacy, freedom of action, freedom of communication. That's going to be a very careful balance, and we're going to get stuck a few times."
When asked about his thoughts on cyber warfare, McChrystal did not specifically mention the National Security Agency or its chief, Gen. Keith Alexander, but he alluded to ongoing controversy over NSA surveillance activities and pointed out that successfully weighing civil liberties against the terror threat is a pressing challenge happening in real time.
"Al Qaeda used the Internet incredibly effectively against us, and the more open it is, the more they'll do that. But there's that balance to find between what you're able to do and what people are willing to accept," he said. "We're seeing that play out in the papers today."
A day later Alexander spoke at a Bloomberg Government event Washington, and while most of his time was spent discussing the NSA, he also emphasized what he characterized as priorities in U.S. cyber defense. Among them were calls for a more defensible architecture, better threat-sharing information and continued transition to "a thin, virtual cloud" that allows rapid response to potential threats.
"A mistake in cyberspace means that the adversary has a chance of getting into our networks," Alexander said. Action "can't be at the speed of people; it has to be at the speed of the network."
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According to information we are told (from the government of course), the Chineese have access to any CAC computer on the NIPRNET (connected to the world wide web). I would say, no, we are not. Also, I would suspect that the other side's Snaowden's would not see the light of day too long after they did what he did. Difference in perceived freedoms, although we are headed that way fast as can be seen by recent financial debates in the presidency and congress.
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mvcConf 2 - Eric Sowell: Evolving Practices in Using jQuery and Ajax in ASP.NET MVC Applications
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Since ASP.NET MVC was released, many of us have found that Ajax-rich applications are easier than ever to build on the ASP.NET platform. Over time I have learned some techniques and better practices through trial-and-error and the advice of smart developers. In this session I will show you things I have learned and practices I have started using more consistently in my own projects, at work and on the side, to build better, more consistent and more re-usable ajax functionality into my sites.
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Fantastic presentation. I will definitely be adopting some of these practices and using them in my next project!
Instead of using Fiddler is much easier to use a real browser that offers good debugging tools like FireFox with FireBug or Google Chrome that has incorporated Developer Tools and on NET tab you can see every request with all data that you need.
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The Hollow Crown, the current series of Shakespeare history plays brilliantly adapted for television, has been rightly praised.
And it appears that the adaptations may unintentionally have made broadcasting history. For in a small but highly significant story after the appointment of George Entwistle as the new BBC director-general, the chairman of the BBC Trust Lord Patten revealed that it was The Hollow Crown that may have helped get him the job.
Entwistle as head of BBC TV, or BBC Vision as the corporation pompously calls it, was responsible for commissioning and scheduling the series. The first of the series, Richard II starring Ben Whishaw, was on the weekend before Entwistle's final interview by the Trust. Lord Patten went on the record to state, "As reviewers have said, it was probably the best televised Shakespeare there has ever been," adding that this was a real positive for Entwistle, outweighing his own negative reviews for the Jubilee coverage, which he also masterminded.
All of which gives cause for a certain amount of reflection. First, it is wonderful, if true, that a Shakespeare play on the BBC may have tipped the balance in favour of a particular candidate for director-general. It is wonderful that the chair of the governors notices such things and considers them important. He is effectively saluting Entwistle's decision to broadcast culturally upmarket fare, and is saying that is the sort of DG he wants to run the show.
So far so good. Let us be generous and not make too much of the fact that before The Hollow Crown, the BBC has been pretty much a wilderness in recent years as far as Shakespeare is concerned – less than a handful of play broadcast in literally decades. I, and I'm sure many others, have argued over a long period for the national broadcaster to show the national playwright, but with little success. Perhaps Mr Entwistle could give us the statistics on how many Shakespeare plays have been broadcast per year under his watch.
Still, let's not be too churlish. He is committed to the Bard now, and that's good news. But classical drama does not begin and end with Shakespeare. Perhaps Chris Patten should delve a little deeper before he and Mr Entwistle become too self-satisfied. How often has Ibsen been on BBC TV in the last 20 years. Has Lord Patten asked when last a Chekhov play was broadcast? He needn't bother. I have done it for him. No one at the BBC could tell me. It was so long ago that no one can remember.
Nor do we have to look just to the past or just abroad. Pinter, Stoppard, Caryl Churchill, Michael Frayn and so many other key names of the 20th- and 21st-century stage are rarely if ever given airtime. The young, mainly female, playwrights lighting up the stage at present are also unknown to TV audiences.
Mr Entwistle has started well, but he and Lord Patten should realise, that if the new DG is to live up to his chairman's commendation, he has to radically reform the state of BBC drama and give the next generation of viewers regular doses of both the classics and the great contemporary playwrights that the last few generations have been deprived of by television controllers. Mr Entwistle has a way to go. Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.
No golden moments for Gilbert and Sullivan
The people who run the Cultural Olympiad haven't been shy of sticking their logo on all manner of arts events that are already happening. The Proms, for example, are now part of the Cultural Olympiad, even though they have been going for quite a few years now. So I'm surprised to hear from Bernard Lockett from the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival, which takes place in Buxton and Harrogate later this summer, that all his overtures to the Cultural Olympiad to have G&S included have fallen on deaf ears. I wonder why. Are Gilbert and Sullivan too unfashionable for matters Olympic? They're part of England's cultural and theatrical heritage, surely. Perhaps Danny Boyle will surprise Mr Lockett and all of us by having his green and pleasant land setting for the Opening Ceremony populated by G&S characters singing, "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-general".
Jokers always seem to be geniuses
Reading the reports of the death of Eric Sykes and the subsequent tributes, I was struck, as I am always struck when a great comedian dies, that the use of one particular word is de rigueur in such circumstances: genius. When great comics, with sufficient longevity, die they are always geniuses. It seems to have become mandatory, the words comic and genius inseparable. Yet strangely this rarely happens in any other art form. Pavarotti was not called a singing genius, Margot Fonteyn was not labelled a dancing genius,nor Lucian Freud a painting genius. But funny men and women are geniuses plain and simple. There should be more equality among the art forms here.
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Before I get into the heart of this post, I want to reiterate that I do not support either major party candidate for the presidency. In fact, after researching all of the announced candidates, not a one of them passed my muster. Ergo, I have no partisan angle to offer in what I'm about to say.
It's been an interesting week watching the media promote John McCain and Caribou Barbie as if only these two were running in a Soviet-style election. I'm sure that McCain would love a 99.9% vote total!
But tonight wasn't about McCain. It was Obama's night with the presentation of his infomercial and the termination of a relatively quiet period in this campaign. Both Obama and Biden now have to regain the media coverage they surrendered in what has to have been a mistaken strategy to boost their sagging polling numbers relative to McCain.
This isn't to say that Obama is in the process of losing. But as has been the case for most of the presidential elections since Reagan's reelection, the polling numbers are being reported as closing. Whether they are or not will remain for the historians to determine.
If Obama's team was hoping for a knockout punch coming from the infomercial, they miscalculated badly. I didn't see or hear anything I haven't prior to tonight's presentation, and certainly nothing to put paid to McCain's efforts. It's as if Obama's team is back to the place they were toward the close of the primary – unable to "close the deal". If enough people come to this conclusion as I have, then McCain is the beneficiary of tonight's program.
But there is this certain problem which both candidates share in my mind. Neither one has demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt that they deserve selection as president by the people of this nation. Neither one is fielding a winning team, just OK ones. Considering the problems facing this nation, mediocre isn't going to cut the mustard much less the deficit. And – considering the likely medical problems McCain faces – neither can Palin when she takes over as she likely will.
Anyone paying attention to the world's reaction to the recent raid into Syria knows that America has lost the assumption to leadership. No – thrown it away is more truthful. We have lost the trust of the world that we will do the right thing, so they are vying among themselves to rise to the top. Nicholas Sarkozy has scored some points in the EU dealing with the current economic crash prior to George Bush attempting to steal his thunder. China is waging a public relations assault on the image of the dollar, and Russia is slowly seeking to supplant the US as the dominant military power.
This isn't to say that any of these examples will prove successful, just that they would have been unthinkable prior to December of 2000. Who would ever consider taking on the nation which fought two major wars simultaneously half a world apart from each other while also supplying all of their allies with the tools of destruction? Oh, wait. That was sixty years ago. What have we done lately? What have we shown the world? A nation led by wise men, or what used to be a nation led by wise guys? The richest nation in the world, or the most profligate? The most moral nation, or the most hypocritical? The strongest nation, or the one whose rotting stench is becoming strongly unbearable?
You won't get the answers from our domestic media, and few of you have bothered to check out what the world is saying for yourselves. I'm not going to go into it for you tonight (although I'm considering it later this week), so if you really want to know, get off your Googly data stream and look it up. It isn't going to be hard to find, especially if you look first at Iraq. Or Pakistan. Or Afghanistan. But I digress.
I don't yet know who the American people are going to choose – or who will be chosen in our stead by those who count the votes. But whichever of these two becomes the leader of this land, very little of what they have been blathering about will ever become reality. The bulk of their efforts will be expended keeping the rest of the world from toppling us in an economic struggle. You will know well how costly this effort will be, because you are going to pay this bill along with the bank bailout and the other fiascos attacking We, the People and our future security en echelon.
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World Trade Organization: First-Year U.S. Efforts to Monitor China's Compliance
GAO-03-461: Published: Mar 31, 2003. Publicly Released: Mar 31, 2003.
China's December 2001 membership in the World Trade Organization created substantial opportunities for U.S. companies seeking to expand into China's vast market, and for significant reforms within China at all levels of government. However, the benefits of China's membership in the World Trade Organization are contingent on China's successful implementation of its commitments. In recognizing this...
World Trade Organization: Analysis of China's Commitments to Other Members
GAO-03-4: Published: Oct 3, 2002. Publicly Released: Oct 3, 2002.
China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) on December 11, 2001, represented a major step in the reform efforts of the U.S.'s fourth largest trading partner. When implemented, these reforms will liberalize and modernize China's economy and trading activities, including its industrial, services, and agricultural sectors. However, understanding the implications of China's accession depend...
World Trade Organization: Selected U.S. Company Views about China's Membership
GAO-02-1056: Published: Sep 23, 2002. Publicly Released: Sep 23, 2002.
China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) on December 11, 2001, brought the world's seventh largest economy under global trade liberalizing rules. If implemented, China's commitments will open China's economy and reform its trading activities, thereby expanding U.S. companies' opportunities for investing in China and for exporting goods, agricultural products, and services to China. Un...
World Trade Organization: Early Decisions Are Vital to Progress in Ongoing Negotiations
GAO-02-879: Published: Sep 4, 2002. Publicly Released: Sep 18, 2002.
In November 2001, the World Trade Organization launched a new set of multilateral negotiations at its ministerial conference in Doha, Qatar. The ministerial conference was important because it laid out an ambitious agenda for a broad set of new multilateral trade negotiations, set forth in the Doha Ministerial Declaration. The declaration calls for a continuation of discussions on liberalizing tra...
World Trade Organization: Observations on China's Rule of Law Reforms
GAO-02-812T: Published: Jun 6, 2002. Publicly Released: Jun 6, 2002.
This testimony describes China's development of rule of law practices related to the commitments China made to the World Trade Organization (WTO), which it joined in November 2001. When China joined the WTO, it agreed that its legal measures would be consistent with its WTO obligations. GAO found 60 commitments that specifically obligate China to enact, repeal, or modify trade-related laws or regu...
International Trade: Comparison of U.S. and European Union Preference Programs
GAO-01-647: Published: Jun 8, 2001. Publicly Released: Jun 8, 2001.
Both the United States and the European Union (EU) began providing trade preferences to eligible developing countries in the early 1970s. These trade preferences, which reduced tariffs and product quotas, are "nonreciprocal," meaning that beneficiaries need not reciprocate with lower tariffs for donor export countries. This report discusses (1) the volume of U.S. and EU nonreciprocal preferential...
Free Trade Area of the Americas: Negotiations at Key Juncture on Eve of April Meetings
GAO-01-552: Published: Mar 30, 2001. Publicly Released: Apr 2, 2001.
The negotiations to establish a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), which would eliminate tariffs and create common trade and investment rules within the 34 democratic nations of the Western Hemisphere, are among the most significant ongoing multilateral trade negotiations for the United States. Two meetings held in April 2001 offer opportunities to inject momentum and set an ambitious pace fo...
World Trade Organization: Issues in Dispute Settlement
NSIAD-00-210: Published: Aug 9, 2000. Publicly Released: Aug 9, 2000.
Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the World Trade Organization's (WTO) dispute settlement system, focusing on the: (1) outcome and commercial impact of completed cases involving the United States; and (2) major issues that have emerged in using the system.GAO noted that: (1) overall, the results of the WTO's dispute settlement process have been positive for the United States; (2) G...
World Trade Organization: U.S. Experience in Dispute Settlement System: The First Five Years
T-NSIAD/OGC-00-202: Published: Jun 20, 2000. Publicly Released: Jun 20, 2000.
Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the World Trade Organization's (WTO) dispute settlement system, focusing on: (1) how WTO members have used the new dispute settlement system; and (2) the impact of these cases on foreign trade practices and U.S. laws and regulations, and their overall commercial effects.GAO noted that: (1) WTO member countries have actively used the dispute settle...
World Trade Organization: U.S. Experience to Date in Dispute Settlement System
NSIAD/OGC-00-196BR: Published: Jun 14, 2000. Publicly Released: Jun 14, 2000.
Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the World Trade Organization's (WTO) dispute settlement system, focusing on: (1) how WTO members have used the new system, primarily on cases involving the United States; and (2) the impact of these cases on foreign trade practices and U.S. laws and regulations, and their overall commercial effects.GAO noted that: (1) WTO member coun...