The Henry Raines Show
August 30, 2009 03:14 PM PDT
On a very special edition of “The Henry Raines Show”, Brad Friedman discusses the testimony of Sibel Edmonds.
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Day: August 30, 2009
Sibel Edmonds: Lost in Translation: ‘State Secrets’ and 9/11 (2004)
By David Kohn
60 Minutes – CBS News
Aug. 8, 2004
(CBS) This is the story of hundreds, if not thousands, of foreign language documents that the FBI neglected to translate before and after the Sept. 11 attacks — documents that detailed what the FBI heard on wiretaps and learned during interrogations of suspected terrorists.
Sibel Edmonds, a translator who worked at the FBI’s language division, says the documents weren’t translated because the division was riddled with incompetence and corruption.
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Former Jasper County Republican Chairman on Single Payer: Beware health-industrial complex
Posted by Don McCanne MD
PNHP’s Official Blog
Aug 28, 2009
This entry is from Dr. McCanne’s Quote of the Day, a daily health policy update on the single-payer health care reform movement. The QotD is archived on PNHP’s website.
Beware health-industrial complex
By Jack Bernard
Ledger-Enquirer
August 23, 2009I am a Republican, former chairman of the Republican Party in Jasper County, Ga., and chair of that county commission. Under our two-party system, it is easy to see why we Republicans oppose Democratic Party reform proposals. We are the opposition party and do not want them to get the political credit for solving a nasty problem.
Since the Democrats are in the driver’s seat, it is up to them to lead and bring their stragglers in line. However, the Democrats are fighting internally, failing to articulate a straightforward vision of the future or even one bill (Obamacare, if you will).
Republican pundits are sitting back and chuckling, as they always do when reform is mentioned, and repeating the same self-serving platitudes.
What amazes me is that no one is calling these individuals to account. In my view, it is unpatriotic to continue to lie to the American public about the situation facing us. Over the last 10 years, wages have gone up by about one-fourth. Health insurance premiums have gone up well over 100 percent. We cannot continue along this path to fiscal destruction. Inaction is not an option.
It is also against American values to mislead the public into believing that everyone can get good care even if they do not have insurance. The mark of a great nation is not how well it treats its privileged, but rather how well it treats its downtrodden. On this measure, we fail miserably; strange for a nation that prides itself on being the most religious democracy in the world.
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via Former Jasper County Republican Chairman on Single Payer – PNHP’s Official Blog
h/t: Dr. Connie
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Blackwater Founder Erik Prince Accused in U.S. District Court of Intent to Kill
By Jerry Markon
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, August 29, 2009
The founder of Blackwater USA deliberately caused the deaths of innocent civilians in a series of shootings in Iraq, attorneys for Iraqis suing the security contractor told a federal judge Friday.
The attorneys singled out Erik Prince, a former Navy SEAL who is the company’s owner, for blame in the deaths of more than 20 Iraqis between 2005 and 2007. Six former Blackwater guards were criminally charged in 14 of the shootings, and family members and victims’ estates sued Prince, Blackwater now called Xe Services LLC and a group of related companies.
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CIA Hired Private Military Firm Blackwater for Secret Assassination Program
Exclusive: The Slow Demise of Social Security by Gary Sudborough
by Gary Sudborough
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Aug 30, 2009
Image by Dandelion Salad via Flickr
It has been often claimed that Social Security was the third rail of American politics. No one dared touch it because it affected old people so much and their wrath was something not to be desired. Tip O’Neill, the Speaker of the House for many years, coined the phrase when he was fighting Ronald Reagan’s attempts to privatize Social Security. Well, they are touching it in a big way now and making many American seniors a lot poorer, although in a camouflaged way. They have frozen cost of living increases for two years and are increasing the amounts taken out of checks for Part B and Part D of Medicare. If one is already down at the $700 to $800 dollar a month range in monthly Social Security checks, this puts one, after rent and medicine are paid, down at the hay eating level. It reminds me of the old Joe Hill song: “Work and pray, Live on hay, You’ll get pie in the sky when you die, That’s a lie.”
Front Groups – The Hidden Persuaders
TheLeftLibertarian
August 30, 2009
If you’re interested in learning more, check out the websites below. They have excellent resources and news on the latest PR, front group, and think tank offensives. Front groups do not stay around for long. They pop up like mushrooms, do their job, and then disappear. They do this so the public and media don’t catch on.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?…
http://www.prwatch.org/You might like my videos if you like: Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Ralph Nader, Sheldon Rampton, John Stauber, Matt Taibbi, Michael Albert, Bakunin, Proudhon, Amy Goodman, John Pilger, Mike Gravel, Naomi Klein.
Subjects: Edward Bernays, Propaganda, Edward Herman, Public Relations, Front Groups, Think Tanks, Consumerism, Taylorism, Left-Libertarianism, Sheldon Rampton, John Stauber.
Real Time: Bill Moyers on Health Care as a Human Right
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Honduran resistance goes it alone
TheRealNews
August 26, 2009
60 days of anti-coup protests show persistence in civil disobedience and little faith in int’l community
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