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March 19, 2010
William Black, author of “Best way to rob a bank is to own one” talks about deliberate fraud on Wall St.
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Democracy Now!: Cindy Sheehan Sets Up “Camp OUT NOW” in Antiwar Protest
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with Cindy Sheehan
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Democracy Now!
March 19, 2010
Cindy Sheehan Sets Up “Camp OUT NOW” in Antiwar Protest
We go to Washington, DC to speak with antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan, founder of the group Peace of the Action, who has set up a camp near the Washington Monument calling on President Obama to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sheehan’s son Casey was killed while serving in Iraq on April 4, 2004. Continue reading
The Current Iteration of Representative Democracy is Doomed, and Humanity Aint Looking No Much Better by Daniel N. White
by Daniel N. White
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March 19, 2010
I liked living in Portland some. It had its good parts–a living downtown, the remains of an industrial background to where you could get things useful done, but I didn’t care much for its inhabitants, far too many of whom were mentally constipated white people who were happy to do retarded white people things. Like pass their own property tax limitation measure in ’96, a knockoff of California’s Prop. 13, fully aware by then of how badly Prop.13 had crippled California’s schools and economic future, and had inflicted gross tax inequalities on the young at the benefit of their parents’ generation. Didn’t matter to those bozos. Portland is still coasting on its Tom McCall reputation from the ’70’s, and the longer I lived in the state the more I wondered how a progressive Republican ever managed to get political power there and do all the worthwhile things he did in his day. With its severe drawbacks (shitty weather and unpleasant inhabitants) I can’t recommend it as a place to live for very long. Oregonians are near as full of themselves and their state as Texans are, for a lot less reason. One of the state’s great drawbacks, one that isn’t apparent or ever talked about by the residents there, is how much the timber industry still runs that state. This despite the gross decline of the timber industry in size, employment, you name the measure timber is bad sick.
Defiant Slogans Drive Rightwing Mission – Where’s the Obama Mission – or Slogans? By Robert S. Becker
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March 19, 2010
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Like pre-tested, pre-packaged junk food, rightwing slogans ooze from 24/7 media, cable and wireless spigots. What salt, sugar, and fat do for snacks, the GOP smear machine does to the addicted body politic, driving the country rightward, reigning in legislation, blocking appointments, and framing what gets debated and how. Imagine if Republicans won. Oh, we did that.
Where are President Obama’s fetching slogans that grab media eyeballs? And, more importantly, where’s the winning Obama mission for his presidency and the country? The definition of a one-term president: no clear mission, no identifying slogans, and no collective enthusiasm to shake the status quo. Yes, we can — do what? Emphasis on the “do.”
Bernie Sanders: We Must Have Medicare Based Single-Payer Health Care!
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March 18, 2010
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On Thinner Ice – Melting Glaciers on the Roof of the World
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asiasociety
March 18, 2010
Global warming is melting the 18,000 Himalayan glaciers, the largest concentration of glaciers outside the polar ice sheets. Their melting spells trouble for not only 2 billion Asians, but the whole world.
Mountaineer David Breashears, leader of the Glacier Research Imaging Project (GRIP), has traveled to the Himalaya many times to recreate photographs of glaciers taken on expeditions nearly 100 years ago. Together these “Then & Now” photos provide dramatic evidence of the effects of global warming, in some cases the glaciers have lost more than 400 vertical feet of ice!
Visit http://asiasociety.org/onthinnerice for more information and to explore our multimedia presentation on melting Himalayan glaciers for yourself.
Kucinich backs Obama, II by Michael Carmichael
by Michael Carmichael
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PlanetaryMovement.org
March 19, 2010
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The American people have invested a huge amount of political capital in health care reform.
Now ranked 37th by the World Health Organization, America’s highly vaunted health care system is plummeting downward in a deepening spiral. Costs escalate catastrophically, while longevity slides down the scale – and America is now below Cuba in the key statistic: life expectancy where the USA now ranks 42nd.
While the costs of American health accelerate out of control – and the performance of American medicine falls off a cliff – profits for health care corporations from hospitals, nursing homes and big pharma skyrocket to supersonic velocities into a limitless expanse of open skies now escaping the earth’s orbit and soaring beyond the forces of economic gravity.
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