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Oh, and that infant mortality statistic is complete B.S. In Cuba, they just let the premature babies die and it never counts as a live birth to mess up the statistics. In the U.S. they bend over backwards to save babies but since they aren't always successful, the statistics get skewed.

Proof: http://www.nationalreview.com/...

Nothing in that article says that Cuba measures its infant mortality differently than the WHO standard, or even mentions Cuba.

So the fact remains that the Cuban infant mortality rate is lower than the U.S., by any standard measurement.

The main reason for that is the lack of access to health care, and health care doesn't do much good without access to nutrition, housing and basic living standards, which the poor don't have in the U.S. That's why we have so many premature infants. True, it's not just Cuba's health care system, it's also their nutrition programs. I concede that the poor in the U.S. have worse nutrition too, which contributes to their higher infant mortality.

Every honest doctor who follows international health statistics knows this, in contrast to guys like Scott Atlas who cherry-picks his statistics and publishes them in the National Review.

Let me know when you find something in a peer-reviewed journal that says Cuba's infant mortality statistics use definitions that distort them to make them better. I'm not holding my breath. There was an exchange of letters about this in Science, and the anti-Castro people couldn't come up with anything, so I don't think you will.

The CIA factbook usually just relists the numbers as reported by the countries in question. So, yes, if nations of liars (like Cuba or China) report false numbers, they get propagated.

And comparing infant mortality rates of any other nation on earth to the US is an excellent example. See, in the US, a birth counts as a live birth if the child makes a motion, breath, cry, or *anything* at all that might indicate life. This is determined regardless of the age of the child - 40 weeks or 14, no difference.
Most other nations don't even count any birth before 20 weeks. Some nations don't count till 28 or later, or if the child lives at least a few hours, or weighs enough.

As a result, try this number: At 20 weeks, a premature child in the US has an over 40% chance of survival. In Cuba? No one knows - they don't bother to record it. In Europe, the rate is less than 20%. Usually less than 10%.

Try this article for a better understanding of why you are spewing BS.

So what your saying is that if we took all the illegal -- uh "undocumented" immigrants from third-world countries that Obama lets in and dump them into the socialist paradise of Cuba that America's healthcare statistics will look massively better than Cuba's.

Oh, and that infant mortality statistic is complete B.S. In Cuba, they just let the premature babies die and it never counts as a live birth to mess up the statistics. In the U.S. they bend over backwards to save babies but since they aren't always successful, the statistics get skewed.

Proof: http://www.nationalreview.com/...

Anyone who counts the Nazis as leftists has just invalidated everything they have to say, much like seriously supporting the tooth fairy. News from the real world - Hitler lied! Guess you didn't know that.

There may be a gap or two in your knowledge. Maybe three .

If you like your insurance you can keep your insurance.
If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor.
If you like your privacy you can keep your privacy.
If you like your freedom ...

Thank You, Jonathan Gruber

Obamistas believe they had to lie to pass Obamacare because Americans are stupid.

You don't seem to have a good source for what contemporary American conservativsm is concerned with. Try these instead:

Weekly Standard
National Review

Obviously the Republitards are going to side with big cable

Must you make this partisan? Comcast bought *everybody* off. http://www.nationalreview.com/...

The noted gun rights advocate John Lott, Jr. makes a point here.

... consider the advice from PoliceOne, whose 450,000 members make it the largest private organization of active and retired law-enforcement officers in the U.S. It surveyed its members last March and asked, “What would help most in preventing large scale shootings in public?” Their No. 1 answer: “More permissive concealed carry policies for civilians.” (It was followed by “More aggressive institutionalization for mentally ill persons.”)

There you have it, folks: proof that cold fjord is so goddamn stupid he can't tell the difference between getting medical treatment and talking to investigators!

Remember this statement of yours?

No. Nobody fucking did! Why? Because there weren't any! If there were, he would have gone to the fucking ambulance and had them treat him instead of standing around.

You claimed that there were no injuries suffered by Wilson in the attack. You're wrong about that. Are you also trying to make the ridiculous claim that the investigators wouldn't have checked Wilson's treatment records? You're not going to get an award for insight here.

Video that had no bearing whatsoever on the officer's actions, since he hadn't seen it or heard of it.

You're trying to change the subject. The issue was, "who is a thug"? Brown was shown to be a thug in the video. It's actually a pity that Wilson didn't see the video. If he had known that he was confronting two thugs that had just committed a strong arm robbery he would have been on his guard and not treated them as ordinary jay walkers. Brown certainly knew what he had just done and that is probably what led to him attacking Wilson. He probably thought Wilson was arresting him for the robbery.

You're the most famous Fascist on Slashdot, you stupid, deluded fool!

No, only the ignorant claim I'm a fascist. In truth fascism has nothing to do with my philosophy. It is almost certainly much closer to yours. Please educate yourself. (You can do some cribbing here.)

Now fuck off and die, for the good of humanity

For the good of humanity I'll continue to post and contribute here as long as I care to so that poor deluded souls such as yourself have at least an occasional glimpse of the truth and sanity.

The only reason why he is "not qualified" is that NRA decided they will "Score" this vote. Congress critters are afraid to tarnish their 100% NRA approved record. *sigh*

Although it may be appealing in some respects to accept at face value your claim that the Democrats running the Senate are adverse to being held accountable, as they have previously demonstrated, it turns out there is more to it. The "nominee" isn't up to standard to be considered for the office.

The Left, Hoping the Lack of a Surgeon General Becomes a Huge Issue

Today on Ronan Farrow’s MSNBC program, the host invited former surgeon general Richard Carmona, who served under President Bush, on the program. The former surgeon general offered a bluntly harsh assessment that Murthy was “a young man who has great potential, but just a few years out of training, with no public health training or experience” and “a resume that only stands out because he was the co-founder of Doctors for Obama.” Carmona made similar comments on Fox News a few days ago.

“So substantive objections as well as well as partisan ones,” Farrow said quickly, moving on from the interview.

I think this was unintentionally revealing. It's the feeling of safety and security that Facebook is frantic to defend. Actual safety and security? Well, that's... complicated.

Dealing with the sensibilities of Facebook seems to be like that.

Facebook Finally Deletes the ‘Kill Kendall Jones’ Page

Background: Facebook pulled down the hunting photos of Kendall Jones citing a violation of the social-media site's "community standards," but they allowed the page titled "Kill Kendall Jones" to remain stating that it did not violate their policies. A tad hypocritical, to say the least.

You gotta vote for people who will make it so

Oh, I am voting for such people alright. But the last couple of elections I was overruled by the inane majority, who consider the color of a candidate's skin more important, than his qualifications.

Our "affirmative action" President plays golf with big cable CEO(s), and the rest of his party is in the big media's pocket as well.

Meanwhile, the rank-and-file partisans are encouraged to hate the Kochs brothers...

Do you honestly believe that someone would be allowed to run for president of the USA who wasn't in big media's pocket?

You gotta vote for people who will make it so

Oh, I am voting for such people alright. But the last couple of elections I was overruled by the inane majority, who consider the color of a candidate's skin more important, than his qualifications.

Our "affirmative action" President plays golf with big cable CEO(s), and the rest of his party is in the big media's pocket as well.

Meanwhile, the rank-and-file partisans are encouraged to hate the Kochs brothers...

http://www.nationalreview.com/...

http://www.nationalreview.com/...

You just have to be on the "politically correct" side for Facebook to act.

Facebook Finally Deletes the ‘Kill Kendall Jones’ Page

Background: Facebook pulled down the hunting photos of Kendall Jones citing a violation of the social-media site's "community standards," but they allowed the page titled "Kill Kendall Jones" to remain stating that it did not violate their policies. A tad hypocritical, to say the least.

This article is another example of somebody pulling out the straw man argument to claim that science is not what we think it is. There was the stupid Kirk vs Spock atheists article. And what's up with all that Niel deGrasse Tyson bashing?

I fail to understand why Sotomayor's opinions are news when they are not fundamentally different from high school book reports written all over the US.

Maybe because she's one of only NINE people in the United States who potentially have the direct power to constrain a surveillance state, since it's clear that our Executive and Legislative branches have "sold out" and have effectively rendered many clauses of the Fourth Amendment meaningless.

Note that the Supreme Court has UNANIMOUSLY overruled the Obama administration's stance at least 13 times in the past two years, in a number of those cases protecting privacy and related freedoms.

So, yeah, this person is one of the few who are close to our only hope in stopping the continuous march toward government surveillance, intrusions into privacy, and complete dismissal of Fourth Amendment protections.

THAT'S why her opinion is news.

Right, as opposed to the previous guy, who went into Iraq to settle his daddy's score

His daddy has kicked Saddam's ass so bad, there were no score left to settle. But let's not change the subject, Ok?

blunder around with pointy objects in the dark making a lot of noise and hoping everyone swoons over your manliness

Oh, I guess, you just can't help it, can you?

the country you did invade is falling into civil war.

Had we withdrawn from Germany in 1955, that country would've fallen into a "civil war" as well... Whatever you blame Bush for, the rise of ISIS in Syria and Iraq are squarely Obama's doing. As is the emboldened Russia, to bring us back on topic.

The US can't afford to perform any surgeries.

Of course, we can. Obama's economy may be weak, but it is still greater than that of Russia and Ukraine combined. Many times greater.

We don't need to send "boots on the ground" — just help Ukrainian defenders with weapons. Like, for example, precise ground-to-ground missiles to let them destroy a Russian "Grad" parked behind an apartment building without hitting the building too. Or all that surplus equipment, that Pentagon has been sending to police departments nation-wide, militarizing them against fellow citizens . But the charlatan-in-chief would not even send Ukrainians the perfectly defensive helmets and body armor...

pissing it all away invading Afghanistan and Iraq?

We pissed nothing away invading those two. We pissed it away by withdrawing prematurely.

Actually, the CBO report is a lot more rosy than the GAO report (GAO being generally more reliable):

http://www.nationalreview.com/...

I wonder if the CBO report counts as astroturfing? :)

So, if the ACA reduces the deficit, but we build programs that spend that extra money and *more*, are we really reducing the deficit? :)

Compare the GAO report to the CBO report:

http://www.nationalreview.com/...

Here, the last-mile providers are acting like Marxists.

They certainly are — thanks to the monopoly-power once given to them by the government.

The solution to this, however, is not creating more rules for them to follow (with more boards and commissions to — ineffectively — ensure compliance) — these only make it harder for a would-be newcomers to appear — but to make this market properly competitive.

So screw the Koch Brothers and their idiot shilling.

While the public anger is (somewhat clumsily, but still effectively) once again redirected against the Koch Brothers, "Big Cable" donates to the ruling party en masse, CEOs play golf with the President and otherwise do the ruling party's bidding. Is it likely, that further monopolization will be blocked?

What "we" are worried about is the rich cultural and political elite losing their seaside mansions ...

Well said, sir. (I already commented in the article so couldn't mod that up. I had to settle for "friend"ing you. B-) )

Also: In the spirit of "Never letting a crisis go to waste", it's also an opportunity for the 1% to incrase their power over the 99%, and find ways to rip them off. (Carbon taxes. Government mandated carbon credit exchange schemes, with markets provided, and billions in transaction fees raked in, by "entrepenuers" like Al Gore and Barak Obama.)

Except that the site was NOT required. Most states did NOT implement their own site, and either default to the federal site or formed a regional partnership.

In order to qualify legally for the subsidies under the law each state had to set up its own exchange. If the state is going to have an exchange then people need to have a way to access it. How are you going to do that without a web site? Snail mail? Telephone? Currier?

Obamacare’s Architect Agreed That Only State Exchanges Could Offer Subsidies

There are many states where people are not legally eligible for subsidies. They have been illegally receiving them, but they shouldn't count on that to last..

All three are Republicans that claim to want "small government"

At least, we know of their party-affiliation from the article. Had the gentlemen been Democrats, the affiliation would've been omitted.

insist that private contractors abide by the same rules that government agencies do

This is not, in itself outrageous or even stupid. Should an orbit-bound rocket lose control, for example, the results may well be far more disastrous than 9/11...

even when the contractors are cheaper and safer than than the government agencies last attempt.

Perhaps, they borrowed the illogic from the Labor Unions? You know, the guys, who insist, foreign manufacturing be following the same procedures and workers be paid the same as in here?

http://www.nationalreview.com/...

Great, you want to judge both sides impartially by international law, let's judge them by international law.

If you want to go that way you should be prepared for the possibility that international law won't be on your side. (Which I'm not sure you are.)

Are the Settlements Illegal?

Eshkol went ahead to create the settlement anyway, and therefore set the conditions which began the Movement for Greater Israel and Israel's settlement enterprise.

"Movement for Greater Israel"? They kind of shot that to hell when they returned Sinai to Egypt, didn't they? (How much land was that compared to the territory of Israel proper?)

2. Killing non-combatants

From the Goldstone Report:

http://www2.ohchr.org/english/...

The "Goldsone Report"?

Goldstone: You Cannot Undo a Slander

Richard Goldstone, the formerly respected South African jurist who disgraced himself by lending his name to a sinister and libelous U.N. report condemning Israel for war crimes, has now issued a very public retraction. “If I had known then what I know now,” he wrote in the Washington Post, “the Goldstone Report would have been a different document.” New information has persuaded him, he said, “that civilians were not intentionally targeted as a matter of policy” by Israel. ......

For the better part of four years, Israel suffered more than 10,000 missile attacks against its civilians from Gaza. When it finally used military force to stop the attacks, Israel, in the words of British colonel Richard Kemp, former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, “did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare. Israel did so while facing an enemy that deliberately positioned its military capability behind the human shield of the civilian population.”

All of this was not just knowable when Goldstone signed on as front man for the U.N. lynch mob, it was known. The Goldstone Report was intended, and has since been employed, to stigmatize any Israeli self-defense as a war crime.

By Robert Zubrin: If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we put a man on the moon?

It's about more than just "abortifacients".

http://www.nationalreview.com/...

Except, the four methods Hobby Lobby objected to are not "abortifacients".

http://www.newrepublic.com/art...

But I guess, if their faith tells them they're abortifacients, then abortifacients they shall be. Isn't that the whole point of the decision of the five (male) Supreme Court justices?

And we already have cases being brought to use the Hobby Lobby precedent to allow all sorts of civil rights violations, nullification of laws, and even special exemption from taxation based on religious faith. It's going to be a few interesting years until Hobby Lobby is overturned, which it almost certainly will be,

Hobby Lobby is the 21st century's Plessy v. Ferguson. But that's the whole point, right?

It's not their faith telling them they are abortifacients, It is the US Government Department of Health and Human Services. HHS says the 2 IUDs in question and the morning/week after pills in question keep a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus. Their faith says that life begins at conception, so being force to pay for something that keeps that life from implanting in the uterus is a violation of their religious belief.

The courts found that since this is a valid religious belief AND the government could provide the 4 questioned contraceptives through other means, that they could not force the owners of Hobby Lobby to violate their religious belief.

It's about more than just "abortifacients". http://www.nationalreview.com/... Except, the four methods Hobby Lobby objected to are not "abortifacients". http://www.newrepublic.com/art... But I guess, if their faith tells them they're abortifacients, then abortifacients they shall be. Isn't that the whole point of the decision of the five (male) Supreme Court justices? And we already have cases being brought to use the Hobby Lobby precedent to allow all sorts of civil rights violations, nullification of laws, and even special exemption from taxation based on religious faith. It's going to be a few interesting years until Hobby Lobby is overturned, which it almost certainly will be, Hobby Lobby is the 21st century's Plessy v. Ferguson. But that's the whole point, right?

This.

As Charles C. W. Cooke wrote:

Government, by definition, has no competition, which means that those who staff it can lie and spin and cover up mistakes not just with impunity but with the full force of the state at their back. [Emphasis in original.]

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/378509/dont-nationalize-vas-failures-charles-c-w-cooke

He was writing about health care, but the principle applies in any field. When it is the government doing it, not only are you given no option but to do things the way the government orders, but the government workers are in a tempting position to use the power of government to hide any mistakes or outright corruption.

Remember Solyndra? The Bush administration looked at it and concluded that it was a bad choice for a loan. But the Obama administration was friends with people in Solyndra, so they got a loan deal. The US taxpayers will never get that money back; in reality it wasn't a loan, it was just flinging money around carelessly.

When business can sell solar power stuff at a profit, solar power will take off with no need for the government to push it.

This is why I believe government should be small and do little.

However, I *also* think that it is ethically bankrupt for me to impose my will on the mother.

Funding abortions with tax revenue likewise imposes pro-choice advocates' will on taxpayers. Thus it is ethically bankrupt to require employers to pay for abortifacient means of birth control if they already pay for other, non-abortifacient means. And as I understand it, Hobby Lobby was paying for condoms, diaphragms, the pill, the patch, vasectomies, and more.

...For some time, the Left has been selling the public and the courts on the notion that somehow the act of forming a corporation and opening for business operates as an effective waiver of your most basic liberties, including free speech, free exercise of religion, and virtually the entire panoply of property rights. In effect, your business is not “your” business at all, but instead all aspects of its operations exist at the whim of the state, and if the state wants to draft you into its child-killing abortion crusade — or wants to muzzle you during political campaigns – then you best salute and fall in line

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H1B is merging with the us labor force, not replacing. The overwhelming H1B workers I know have either become citizens or are eager to do so.

No, immigrants are replacing native workers. The Center For Immigration Studies just released a report showing that all employment growth since 2000 has gone to immigrants, legal and illegal. There is no general labor shortage.

Showing 1 example misses the whole point. How about here, or any of the other thousands of examples of simply bad problems and examples? How about reading the unredacted book on Common Core which is no longer available to the public?

Wow. IRS targets conservative groups during run-up to Presidential election when Democrat President is incumbent and it's the GOP that doing "mouth-breathing bullshit" and their efforts to investigate are slimy and empty? What facts would constitute evidence of wrongdoing?

• How about the fact that the IRS admitted to wrongdoing?
• How about the fact that Lerner took the 5th because her actions in the matter may incriminate her criminally?
• How about her coordination with the DOJ and FTC to target these same conservative groups?
• How about her planting a question in the audience at an unrelated event in order to sell her cover story before the scandal broke with the press?
• How about the bullshit story that the targeting was only done by a couple of "rogue employees" in Cincinnati?
• How about the fact that the IRS conveniently cannot recover her emails to the White House, the DOJ and the FTC (the very organizations which the investigation was looking into)?
• How about the fact that the IRS is now reporting that it can also not locate the emails for six more employees at the center of the investigation?

This administration's dissimulation and lies are only making this story worse. Their stories are regularly changing, they're claiming the "dog ate my emails" and the trail of this scandal keeps going up higher and higher in the chain of command in this administration.

This is merely empty mouth-breathing bullshit and slimy political posturing? Would you be so glib about this if these things happened during a Republican administration? If you wouldn't mind illuminating everyone, could you please tell us what criminal actions you would be worthy of investigation? How much evidence is necessary to show corruption? Do you need to have Obama smoking a joint rolled in the printed emails? Does he have to be caught with his hand feeding the shredder or sneaking down the halls of the IRS with a huge degausser wiping hard drives?

Republicans at least had the decency to ask Nixon to step down when 18 minutes turned up missing from the tapes. Democrats blow off every scandal and criminal act they commit as "political theater."

And the National Review is calling it McCarthyism.

Sorry, but refusing to provide a public forum for crackpots is not a witch-hunt, or McCarthyism. It's science. The journal didn't publish the paper because the referee said it was an unsalvageable piece of crap, which is precisely how peer review is supposed to work.

...one of my favorite infotainers rush limbaugh was talking about this very meme yesterday on his show.

it was an idea based on an article here that postulates that super wealthy individuals propose liberal ideas not because they really believe them, but to shield themselves from criticisms from the media.

so it's basically a 100% political act, which really makes a ton of economic sense for this guy...it's not like these tax increases are gonna affect his life in anyway.

i must say...due to the timing it would seem that mr. kaiser is a rush fan.

Of course they're cozy with the governing party.

And if the other party takes control they'll be cozy with them.

You are implying sheer cynicism and I wish, it were this simple. It is not — the media-holdings of both companies are, quite (in)famously Illiberal. The National Review article I linked to has the detail. The sole Democrat fighting the merger is a clown...

If the idea of Comcast buying out Time Warner Cable to become the largest cable company in America wasn't enough to make you worry

That idea is very worrying — because it is about two competitors merging. However, with both of them being very-very cozy with the governing party, the merger is all but decided, unfortunately.

If it were to happen, it would give the combined company something on the order of 26 million TV subscribers

That's a lot, but less than the other combo and, more importantly, TV is not primary line of business for AT&T...

That said, with Internet-speeds continuing to rise — net-neutrality or not — it will only become easier to deliver content over it. Netflix may have made a special deal with Verizon, but smaller IPTV providers (like KartinaTV used by my relatives to watch channels from the former USSR and Israel) are doing just fine without any special arrangements.

Of course they're cozy with the governing party.

And if the other party takes control they'll be cozy with them.

You bribe whomever can do something for you in return.

And you pay something to their enemies to keep them around in case the people in power get too greedy and need replacing with someone who'll give you more bang for your bribe buck--that way the the people in power know not to get too greedy lest they kill the goose which is laying the golden eggs.

If the idea of Comcast buying out Time Warner Cable to become the largest cable company in America wasn't enough to make you worry

That idea is very worrying — because it is about two competitors merging. However, with both of them being very-very cozy with the governing party, the merger is all but decided, unfortunately.

If it were to happen, it would give the combined company something on the order of 26 million TV subscribers

That's a lot, but less than the other combo and, more importantly, TV is not primary line of business for AT&T...

That said, with Internet-speeds continuing to rise — net-neutrality or not — it will only become easier to deliver content over it. Netflix may have made a special deal with Verizon, but smaller IPTV providers (like KartinaTV used by my relatives to watch channels from the former USSR and Israel) are doing just fine without any special arrangements.

Exactly, the weapon design bureau currently known as Pivdenne, one of the largest industrial enterprises in Ukraine, with 13,000 workers is located in Dnipropetrovsk in the East...... The sooner the Americans get a conference together to organize handing over Eastern Ukraine to the Russians the better.

That is obviously backwards. It would seem that if Russia is becoming an imperialist aggressor to steal resources to make itself more powerful, some say to rebuild the Soviet Union, that the last thing the world should do is enable that. Othewise, where does it end? Until Putin says, "‘This Is the Last Territorial Demand I Have to Make in Europe’ "?

In other news, sales of low-end prepaid phones in MS strangely doubled in recent days.

The political class is adept at skirting these laws and going unpunished.

In other news, sales of low-end prepaid phones in MS strangely doubled in recent days.

The political class is adept at skirting these laws and going unpunished.

And here we see the fascist anagama continuing his campaign of lies against me.

... when the fucking straight fact is..

First you call me Nazi, now you're back to "NSA shill." More crooked words from you, more lies as you continue your assault on the truth like the fascist you are. You have to rely upon name calling instead of argument because the simple straight facts are so devastating to your position. The simple fact is that the NSA is nothing more than a US government intelligence under the Department of Defense that looks for a list of things given to it by the rest of the government. It isn't the secret police. It isn't the Stasi. It doesn't have arrest powers. Congress holds its purse strings and writes the laws it must comply with. The President appoints its leaders. It has to answer to the courts. It plays a vital role in protecting the US. And ultimately that is why you can't stand it: it protects the United States and it is part of the military. You can't stand the "status quo" and want the country moved in an extreme direction. "Omabaisaneocon"??? Really? Like many extremists you are content to use the protections of the Constitution as both shield and club to conduct "lawfare" until your faction has the power to alter things more to its liking.

General George Washington was a spy master that the head of British intelligence complained "out spied" him. Benjamin Franking opened the mail of other colonists for intelligence purposes. You ignore that history because it is inconvenient. You are against US intelligence vital to protecting the country. You are at best a self-hating American and an example of Oikophobia if not an outright anti-American, and in either case a fascist.

Well well, a visit from one of our persistent local fascists. Here to shout me down again? Or are you just here to show off a new set of jackboots?

By the way, thank you for your last visit. It isn't often that I get treated like Socrates - too dangerous and corrupting to hear, not believing in the god of state. I'm honored. I will grant you I am often the one-eyed man in the land of the blind, but your reaction is unusual: "Who does he think he is with that eye! Poke out that eye! To hell with seeing!" I guess that explains your inclination towards building a dystopia.

And don't forget this: Liberal Fascism available from Amazon.

Infant Mortality: A Deceptive Statistic

The Bulletin of WHO noted that “it has also been common practice in several countries (e.g. Belgium, France, Spain) to register as live births only those infants who survived for a specified period beyond birth”; those who did not survive were “completely ignored for registration purposes.” Since the U.S. counts as live births all babies who show “any evidence of life,” even the most premature and the smallest — the very babies who account for the majority of neonatal deaths — it necessarily has a higher neonatal-mortality rate than countries that do not.