All prisons should implement prisoner reform through dancing and other arts. ~ DS
byronfgarcia on Jun 27, 2009
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A tribute performed by 1,500 CPDRC Inmates on June 27, 2009 in memory of Michael Jackson. Completed in 10 hours after receiving word that the King of Pop passed away. May he always be remembered. “Ben” and “I’ll be there” were sung by Michael when he was still younger! “We are the World” was composed and organized by MJ.
By Paul Craig Roberts
July 29, 2009 “ICH”
Last week on NPR a professor in the Sloan School of Management at MIT explained that what is really at stake in the health care bill is the US government’s ability to borrow. In other words, the bill is about cutting health care costs, not about providing hard-pressed Americans with health care.
The professor said that if we didn’t get health care costs under control, in 30 years the US government would not be able to sell Treasury bonds.
SenatorSanders
July 29, 2009
Sen. Sanders appeared on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show to discuss health insurance reform efforts and the public option.
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Richard Wolff: Health care reform getting “meager”
The Truth about Socialized Medicine By Audrey Mayer
Weiner Attacks Republican Opponents of Health Reform + Luetkemeyer
by Rick Rozoff
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Stop NATO
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato/message/40948
July 29, 2009
More than half a year after the departure of the George W. Bush administration the United States is embroiled in its largest combat operation since the second attack on Fallujah in November of 2004 and the most extensive and lengthy offensive in its nearly eight-year-old war in Afghanistan.
It has also announced plans to intensify its involvement in the 45-year counterinsurgency war in Colombia with deployments of 1,400 additional soldiers and contractors to five more military bases there.
The qualitative escalations of counterinsurgency wars in Afghanistan and Colombia are, first of all, integrally related and, second, both part of far broader regional strategies. The current Obama administration has continued and accelerated the expansion of the Afghan war into neighboring Pakistan, with almost six times the population of its neighbor and nuclear weapons; and its enhanced role in Colombia, a nation that launched a military assault into Ecuador in March of last year and has been installing bases and deploying troops on its border with Venezuela, can also drag the entire Andean region into the vortex of armed confrontation and eventual war.
TheRealNews
July 29, 2009
Richard Wolff: Obama must create the support needed to reform health care
The Daily Show
July 27, 2009
Bill Kristol Extended Interview
Bill Kristol bets that Sarah Palin will come on The Daily Show and admits the government can provide first-class health care.
via The Daily Show
American Civil Liberties Union
7/28/2009
Court Found Inadequate Case Against ACLU Client Mohammed Jawad
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org
NEW YORK – Guantánamo detainee Mohammed Jawad should be sent home to Afghanistan immediately, according to an American Civil Liberties Union filing today on behalf of Jawad, who has been illegally detained by the U.S. for almost seven years. The Afghan government has indicated that it is prepared to receive Jawad immediately and unconditionally, and that the repatriation could be done without any cost to the U.S.
Despite having admitted that Jawad was tortured and illegally imprisoned, the Obama administration last week asked for permission to continue to hold him while it decides whether to pursue a criminal case against him. The government’s request, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, came after U.S. District Court Judge Ellen S. Huvelle had berated government lawyers the previous week for their inadequate case against Jawad. A copy of a transcript from that hearing can be found online at: www.aclu.org/safefree/detention/40450lgl20090716.html
stimulator
July 28, 2009
This week:
1. Obama’s Grades
2. Military Industrial Reach Around
3. No Hope for Transparency
4. Futuristic Justice
5. If there was oil in Honduras
6. He ain’t got your back
7. Public Enemy
8. Derrick Jensen
By Audrey Mayer
ICH
July 28, 2009 “Commondreams”
I have been hearing a lot of pundits and politicians bemoan “socialized medicine” and its supposed inefficiencies and inequities. These horror stories are never accompanied by data, just hearsay and anecdotes from “a friend of a friend” in Canada or the United Kingdom. Rarely have I heard from people who have themselves experienced a universal public health care system. As one of those people, I thought I should speak up.
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